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  2. St. Regis New York - Wikipedia

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    By 2005, there were plans to convert 59 rooms [226] into up to 33 condominium apartments, [14] [227] which would be rented to guests seasonally and occupied by their owners at other times. [228] St. Regis Hotels and Resorts started offering the full-ownership condominiums for $1.5 million to $7 million at the end of 2005, [ 14 ] and it started ...

  3. History of libraries - Wikipedia

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    The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents.Topics of interest include accessibility of the collection, acquisition of materials, arrangement and finding tools, the book trade, the influence of the physical properties of the different writing materials, language distribution, role in education, rates of literacy, budgets, staffing, libraries for ...

  4. Waldorf Astoria New York - Wikipedia

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    The Waldorf Astoria New York is a luxury hotel and condominium residence in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, United States.The structure, at 301 Park Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets, is a 47-story, 625 ft (191 m) Art Deco landmark designed by architects Schultze and Weaver and completed in 1931.

  5. Google - Wikipedia

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    [69] [70] The sale of $1.67 billion gave Google a market capitalization of more than $23 billion. [73] The stock performed well after the IPO, with shares hitting $350 for the first time on October 31, 2007, [ 214 ] primarily because of strong sales and earnings in the online advertising market. [ 215 ]

  6. Android (operating system) - Wikipedia

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    Android's standard C library, Bionic, was developed by Google specifically for Android, as a derivation of the BSD's standard C library code. Bionic itself has been designed with several major features specific to the Linux kernel.

  7. Radio-frequency identification - Wikipedia

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    Active tags track high-value, or frequently moved items, and passive tags track smaller, lower cost items that only need room-level identification. [88] Medical facility rooms can collect data from transmissions of RFID badges worn by patients and employees, as well as from tags assigned to items such as mobile medical devices. [89]

  8. Truman Capote - Wikipedia

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    Truman Garcia Capote [1] (/ k ə ˈ p oʊ t i / kə-POH-tee; [2] born Truman Streckfus Persons; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor.

  9. Timeline of DOS operating systems - Wikipedia

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    [103] [104] 96 percent of the early PC owners chose DOS over CP/M or the p-System. [105] Digital Research announces Concurrent CP/M-86, aka Concurrent CP/M, a new CP/M-86-compatible single-user multitasking operating system. Concurrent CP/M allows users to go from one screen to another at the push of a key and programs to directly address up to ...