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  2. Nat Mayer Shapiro - Wikipedia

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    Nat Mayer Shapiro was born in New York City, and spent his childhood and adolescence in Brooklyn, NY. At ten, he decided he would become a full-time fine arts painter and started attending the after-school programs at the Pratt Institute in New York. He was inducted in the army in 1941, and traveled with the Medical Corp to Australia and New ...

  3. Survivor (American TV series) - Wikipedia

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    The first U.S. season of Survivor followed the same general format as the Swedish series. Sixteen or more players, split between two or more "tribes", are taken to a remote isolated location (usually in a tropical climate) and are forced to live off the land with meager supplies for 39 days (42 in The Australian Outback, 26 in post-2021).

  4. Radar beacon - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Leonard Shapiro - Wikipedia

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    Career. Shapiro was an assistant professor of mathematics at University of Minnesota from 1969 to 1976 and was a visiting professor of economics from 1976 to 1977. He was the chairman of the division of mathematical sciences at North Dakota State University from 1977 to 1985. Shapiro was a visiting scholar at the computer science department at ...

  6. Gary J. Shapiro - Wikipedia

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    Gary J. Shapiro is an American author and lobbyist who is the president and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association.Shapiro is the author of the books Ninja Future: Secrets to Success in the New World of Innovation (2019), Ninja Innovation: The Ten Killer Strategies of the World’s Most Successful Businesses (William Morrow, 2013) and The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American ...

  7. Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. - Wikipedia

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    Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc. is an American music publishing company established in 1900. History [ edit ] The company was established 1900 in New York 's Tin Pan Alley by Maurice Shapiro (1872–1911), who had worked at Adelphi Music publishing company, and his brother-in-law, real-estate dealer Louis Bernstein (1873–1962) [1] (not to be ...

  8. Shapiro time delay - Wikipedia

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    The Shapiro time delay effect, or gravitational time delay effect, is one of the four classic Solar System tests of general relativity. Radar signals passing near a massive object take slightly longer to travel to a target and longer to return than they would if the mass of the object were not present. The time delay is caused by time dilation ...

  9. Bruce Shapiro - Wikipedia

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    Bruce Shapiro is an American journalist, commentator and author. He is executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, [1] a resource center and think tank for journalists who cover violence, conflict and tragedy, based at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. [2] In 2014 he received the International Society ...

  10. Free Samples - Wikipedia

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    Free Samples is a 2012 American independent comedy starring Jess Weixler and Jesse Eisenberg. It was the first film directed by Jay Gammill and the first film written by Jim Beggarly. It was the first film directed by Jay Gammill and the first film written by Jim Beggarly.

  11. M.I.A. discography - Wikipedia

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    Albums Studio albums List of studio albums, with selected chart positions, sales figures and certifications Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales Certifications UK AUS BEL (FL) CAN FRA GER [21] IRE [22] NOR [23] SWE [24] US [12] Arular Released: 22 March 2005 Label: XL Formats: CD, LP, digital download, streaming 98 — 97 — — 71 — 20 47 190 Europe: 30,000 [25] US: 129,000 [26 ...