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Orbis (Polish travel agency) Orbis is the oldest travel agency in Poland, founded in 1920 in Lwów (now: Lviv, Ukraine). [1] Currently, it is the largest hotel group in Poland and Central Europe, and parent company of Orbis S.A. Capital Group, which has nine subsidiaries. Its name comes from a Latin language word Orbis, which means world.
The hotel is located opposite the Katowice historic train station and in the 1930s it housed the Orbis travel agency, restaurants, cafes, hairdersser's studio as well as the Kaftal lottery hall. During World War II , the hotel building was taken over and managed by the Germans.
Hotel Orbis Forum, 1975. The Hotel Orbis Forum was built from 1972 to 1974, during Poland's communist era, by the state-owned travel monopoly Orbis.The hotel was designed to accommodate foreign visitors, and was managed by the budget Forum Hotels division of Pan Am's InterContinental Hotels chain.
The Everett and Monte Cristo Railway was built to transport gold and silver ores from mines in the central Cascade Mountains to a smelter in Everett, Washington.After the first mining claims were staked in 1889, entrepreneurs began exploring the possibility of building a railroad to exploit the find.
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Orbis International is an international non-profit non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to saving sight worldwide. [1] [non-primary source needed] Its programs focus on the prevention of blindness and the treatment of blinding eye diseases in developing countries through hands-on training, public health education, advocacy and local partnerships. [2]
State Route 99 (SR 99), also known as the Pacific Highway, is a state highway in the Seattle metropolitan area, part of the U.S. state of Washington. It runs 49 miles (79 km) from Fife to Everett, passing through the cities of Federal Way, SeaTac, Seattle, Shoreline, and Lynnwood. The route primarily follows arterial streets, including Aurora ...
A trifecta of bearish factors could send stocks lower by about 10% within the next few weeks, according to Renaissance Macro Research founder and technical strategist Jeff DeGraaf. In an interview ...