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It was established in its current form in July 2007 by the merger of the Bank of New York and Mellon Financial Corporation. Through the lineage of Bank of New York, which was founded in 1784 by a group that included American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton , BNY is regarded as one of the three oldest banks in the United States and among the ...
Robert William Service (16 January 1874 – 11 September 1958) was a British born Canadian poet and writer, often called “The Poet of the Yukon" and "The Canadian Kipling". [2]
"for contributions to basic reference knowledge in chemical thermodynamics" [216] professor of chemical thermodynamics at Rice University: Glenn T. Seaborg: PhD 1937: 1991 "for his outstanding work as a chemist, scientist and teacher in the field of nuclear chemistry" [217] also listed in §Nobel laureates: Susan Solomon: M.S. 1979, Ph.D. 1981: ...
William Shakespeare [a] (c. 23 [b] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [c] was an English playwright, poet and actor.He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
IBM is nicknamed Big Blue partly due to its blue logo and color scheme, [180] [181] and also in reference to its former de facto dress code of white shirts with blue suits. [ 180 ] [ 182 ] The company logo has undergone several changes over the years, with its current "8-bar" logo designed in 1972 by graphic designer Paul Rand . [ 183 ]
The Second Coming (sometimes called the Second Advent or the Parousia) is the Christian belief that Jesus Christ will return to Earth after his ascension to Heaven (which is said to have occurred about two thousand years ago).
The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form during the time it was written that included both singing and spoken dialogue. [a] The work premiered on 30 September 1791 at Schikaneder's theatre, the Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, just two months before the composer's death. It was the last opera that Mozart composed.