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  2. Costco - Wikipedia

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    Original logo (used until 1993, but carried by stores until 1997) Costco Wholesale Corporation (commonly shortened to Costco) is an American multinational corporation which operates a chain of membership-only big-box warehouse club retail stores. [4] As of 2021, Costco is the third-largest retailer in the world [5] and is the world's largest ...

  3. List of countries by tax rates - Wikipedia

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    15% ( +10% in profits exceeding BR$ 20.000 + 9% Social Contribution Tax or 15% for financial institutions, insurance and capitalisation companies ) 0% [50] 47.5% (27.5% income tax rate applied to annual income exceeding BR$55,976.15 [51] + 20% top social security tax rate for self-employed workers [52] )

  4. Elephant's Foot (Chernobyl) - Wikipedia

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    The Elephant's Foot is the nickname given to a large mass of corium, composed of materials formed from molten concrete, sand, steel, uranium and zirconium. The mass formed beneath Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat, Ukraine, during the Chernobyl disaster of April 26 1986, and is notable for its extreme radioactivity.

  5. Orania - Wikipedia

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    Orania ( Afrikaans pronunciation: [ʊəˈrɑːnia]) is a white separatist [3] [4] South African town founded by Afrikaners. [5] It is located along the Orange River in the Karoo region of the Northern Cape province. [6] The town is split in two halves by the R369 road, and is 871 kilometres (541 mi) from Cape Town and approximately 680 ...

  6. Madison, Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    Madison is the capital city of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. As of the 2020 census, the population was 269,840, making it the second-most populous city in Wisconsin after Milwaukee, and the 80th-most populous in the United States. The Madison metropolitan area had a population of 680,796.

  7. Boeing 787 Dreamliner - Wikipedia

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    The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is an American wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes . After dropping its unconventional Sonic Cruiser project, Boeing announced the conventional 7E7 on January 29, 2003, which focused largely on efficiency. The program was launched on April 26, 2004, with an order for 50 aircraft ...

  8. Zero-coupon bond - Wikipedia

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    t. e. A zero-coupon bond (also discount bond or deep discount bond) is a bond in which the face value is repaid at the time of maturity. [1] Unlike regular bonds, it does not make periodic interest payments or have so-called coupons, hence the term zero-coupon bond. When the bond reaches maturity, its investor receives its par (or face) value.

  9. Vietnamese government response to the COVID-19 pandemic

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    The government of Vietnam prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic as early as the first cases in China emerged in December 2019, and pursued a zero-COVID strategy until September 2021. In January 2020, Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc ordered measures to prevent and counter the spread of the disease into Vietnam, [1] as well as to warn ...

  10. English Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    English Wikipedia (marked blue in the graph) is the most-read version of Wikipedia, accounting for 48% of the website's global traffic as of 2021. The English Wikipedia is the most edited Wikipedia's language version of all time. The English Wikipedia reached 4,000,000 registered user accounts on 1 April 2007, [23] over a year since the ...

  11. The Apprentice (American TV series) season 1 - Wikipedia

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    Summary. Season one had real estate magnate Donald Trump as the show's executive producer and host. The season started with 16 contestants, eight men and eight women from around the United States. Each had been successful in various enterprises, including real estate, restaurant management, political consulting, and sales.