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Bratz is an American fashion doll and media franchise created by former Mattel employee Carter Bryant for MGA Entertainment, which debuted in 2001. [1]The four original 10-inch (25 cm) dolls were released on May 21, 2001 — Yasmin (Mulatta/Latina), Cloe (Caucasian), Jade (East Asian), and Sasha (African American).
Unlike the Spanish milled dollar, the Continental Congress and the Coinage Act prescribed a decimal system of units to go with the unit dollar, as follows: [15] [16] the mill, or one-thousandth of a dollar; the cent, or one-hundredth of a dollar; the dime, or one-tenth of a dollar; and the eagle, or ten dollars. The current relevance of these ...
The first products of Dow Jones & Company, the publisher of the Journal, were brief news bulletins, nicknamed flimsies, hand-delivered throughout the day to traders at the stock exchange. [15] Beginning in 1883, they were aggregated in a printed daily summary called the Customers' Afternoon Letter , sold for $1.50 per month compared to the $15 ...
Two-year old Taylor, mother Sara Sothern, and brother Howard, in 1934. Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born on 27 February 1932, at Heathwood, her family's home at 8 Wildwood Road in Hampstead Garden Suburb, northwest London, England.
Microsoft announced that it had purchased a 1.6% share of Facebook for $240 million ($364 million in 2024 dollars [31]), giving Facebook an implied value of around $15 billion ($22.7 billion in 2024 dollars [31]). Facebook focused on generating revenue through targeted advertising based on user data, a model that drove its rapid financial growth
The Philippines, [f] officially the Republic of the Philippines, [g] is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.In the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of 7,641 islands, with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
Data entry operators commonly entered 9999 into required fields for an unknown future date, (e.g., a termination date for cable television or telephone service), in order to process computer forms using CICS software. [34] Somewhat similar to this is the end-of-file code 9999, used in older programming languages. While fears arose that some ...
Mexico, [a] [b] officially the United Mexican States, [c] is a country in North America.It borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundaries with the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Caribbean Sea to the southeast, and the Gulf of Mexico to the east. [12]