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Radar beacon. Racon signal as seen on a radar screen. This beacon receives using sidelobe suppression and transmits the letter "Q" in Morse code near Boston Harbor (Nahant) 17 January 1985. Radar beacon (short: racon) is – according to article 1.103 of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) ITU Radio Regulations (RR) [1 ...
A green card, known officially as a permanent resident card, is an identity document which shows that a person has permanent residency in the United States. [ 1][ 2] Green card holders are formally known as lawful permanent residents ( LPRs ). As of 2023, there are an estimated 12.7 million green card holders, of whom 9 million are eligible to ...
Footnotes / references. [1] Raycom Media, Inc.was an American televisionbroadcastingcompany based in Montgomery, Alabama. Raycom owned and/or provided services for 65 television stations and two radio stations across 44 markets in 20 states. Raycom, through its Community Newspaper Holdingssubsidiary, also owned multiple newspapers in small and ...
[88] [89] On June 25, Microsoft paid US$1.2 billion to buy the social network Yammer. [90] On July 31, they launched the Outlook.com webmail service to compete with Gmail. [91] On September 4, 2012, Microsoft released Windows Server 2012. [92] In July 2012, Microsoft sold its 50% stake in MSNBC, which it had run as a joint venture with NBC ...
EMV. EMV is a payment method based on a technical standard for smart payment cards and for payment terminals and automated teller machines which can accept them. EMV stands for " Europay, Mastercard, and Visa ", the three companies that created the standard. [ 1] EMV cards are smart cards, also called chip cards, integrated circuit cards, or IC ...
ColorChecker. The ColorChecker Color Rendition Chart (often referred to by its original name, the Macbeth ColorChecker[ 1] or simply Macbeth chart[ 2]) is a color calibration target consisting of a cardboard-framed arrangement of 24 squares of painted samples. The ColorChecker was introduced in a 1976 paper by McCamy, Marcus, and Davidson in ...
Mascara is a blessing and a curse. A swipe or two is the quickest way to make eyes pop. But clumping can (just as quickly) make you look like a hot mess. But there is a fix. And it's a good one ...
Share of the American Express Company, 1865. In 1850, American Express was started as a freight forwarding company in Buffalo, New York. [13] It was founded as a joint-stock corporation by the merger of the cash-in-transit companies owned by Henry Wells (Wells & Company), William G. Fargo (Livingston, Fargo & Company), and John Warren Butterfield (Wells, Butterfield & Company, the successor ...