text: near adelaide. since 2005 it was operated by the australian department of defence. from 1997 to 2004, dell enjoyed steady growth and it gained market share from competitors even during industry slumps. during the same period, rival pc vendors such as compaq, gateway, ibm, packard bell, and ast research struggled and eventually left the market or were bought out. dell surpassed compaq to become the largest pc manufacturer in 1999. operating costs made up only 10 percent of dell's $ 35 billion in revenue in 2002, compared with 21 percent of revenue at hewlett - packard, 25 percent at gateway, and 46 percent at cisco. in 2002, when compaq merged with hewlett packard ( the fourth - place pc maker ), the newly combined hewlett packard took the top spot but struggled and dell soon regained its lead. dell grew the fastest in the early 2000s. hasbro interactive acquired the merged company in 1998, and what had been spectrum holobyte ceased to exist when the development studio in alameda, california was closed in 1999. hasbro subsequently sold all the assets of the various hasbro interactive studios to infogrames, including the atari brand itself. ville saint - pierre is a small neighbourhood of the city of montreal, quebec, canada, located in the borough of lachine. it was a separate town until it merged with lachine in 1999. in 2002, the amalgamated city of lachine merged into montreal. the company produced several titles with small development teams. this proved fatal with the rising standards of full priced games. with falling sales and important figures leaving the company, software 2000 filed for bankruptcy in 2002. gjensidige nor was a norwegian bank and insurance company that was in existence between 1999 and 2003. the company was created when the two savings banks sparebanken nor ( bank ) and gjensidige ( insurance ) were merged in 1999. in 2002 norwegian savings banks were allowed to become public limited company and was listed on the oslo stock exchange. in 2003 the company was merged with den norske bank to form dnb nor, while the original insurance company gjensidige was demerged and again became a separate company in 2005. street & racing technology ( commonly called srt ) is a high - performance automobile group within fiat chrysler automobiles. srt began as ` ` team viper'' to develop the dodge viper. it later merged with ` ` team prowler'', the developers of the plymouth prowler, to become specialty vehicle
text: 1889. the new company also acquired sprague electric railway & motor company in the same year. from 1997 to 2004, dell enjoyed steady growth and it gained market share from competitors even during industry slumps. during the same period, rival pc vendors such as compaq, gateway, ibm, packard bell, and ast research struggled and eventually left the market or were bought out. dell surpassed compaq to become the largest pc manufacturer in 1999. operating costs made up only 10 percent of dell's $ 35 billion in revenue in 2002, compared with 21 percent of revenue at hewlett - packard, 25 percent at gateway, and 46 percent at cisco. in 2002, when compaq merged with hewlett packard ( the fourth - place pc maker ), the newly combined hewlett packard took the top spot but struggled and dell soon regained its lead. dell grew the fastest in the early 2000s. compaq, who had previously held the third place spot among pc manufacturers during the 1980s and early - mid 1990s, initiated a successful price war in 1994 that vaulted them to the biggest by the year end, overtaking a struggling ibm and relegating apple to third place. apple's market share further struggled due to the release of the windows 95 operating system, which unified microsoft's formerly separate ms - dos and windows products. windows 95 significantly enhanced the multimedia capability and performance of ibm pc compatible computers, and brought the capabilities of windows to parity with the mac os gui. cork city is at the heart of industry in the south of ireland. its main area of industry is pharmaceuticals, with pfizer inc. and swiss company novartis being big employers in the region. the most famous product of the cork pharmaceutical industry is viagra. cork is also the european headquarters of apple inc. where over 3, 000 staff are involved in manufacturing, r & d and customer support. logitech and emc corporation are also important it employers in the area. three hospitals are also among the top ten employers in the city ( see table below ). the original usb 1. 0 specification, which was introduced in january 1996, defined data transfer rates of 1. 5 mbit / s " low speed " and 12 mbit / s " full speed ". microsoft windows 95, osr 2. 1 provided oem support for the devices. the first widely used version of usb was 1. 1, which was released in september 1998. the 12 mbit / s data rate was intended for higher - speed
text: ##ville took place from 27 may to 4 june 1940, near abbeville during the battle of france in the second world war. on 20 may, the 2nd panzer division advanced to abbeville on the english channel, overran the 25th infantry brigade of the 50th ( northumbrian ) infantry division and captured the town at only a few british survivors managed to retreat to the south bank of the somme and at on 21 may, the iii battalion, rifle regiment 2 reached the coast, west of noyelles - sur - mer. michael ( mikko ) wilhelm erich ( 6 december 1888, turku - 28 december 1948 ) was a finnish lawyer and politician. he was a member of the parliament of finland, representing the national coalition party from 1919 to 1922 and the social democratic party of finland ( sdp ) from 1930 to 1933 and again from 1939 to 1945. he was the younger brother of rafael erich. erich zakowski ( born 25 november 1934 in east prussia ) is a german master mechanic, and the founder and longtime head of the zakspeed racing team. interest in darwin's writings continues, and scholars have generated an extensive literature, the darwin industry, about his life and work. the text of origin itself has been subject to much analysis including a variorum, detailing the changes made in every edition, first published in 1959, and a concordance, an exhaustive external index published in 1981. worldwide commemorations of the 150th anniversary of the publication of on the origin of species and the bicentenary of darwin's birth were scheduled for 2009. they celebrated the ideas which " over the last 150 years have revolutionised our understanding of nature and our place within it ". cubana de aviacion flight 1216 was a mcdonnell douglas dc - 10 that overran the runway at la aurora international airport, guatemala city, on 21 december 1999. eight passengers and eight crew members on board were killed as well as two people on the ground. lufthansa flight 2904 was an airbus a320 - 200 which overran the runway at okecie international airport on 14 september 1993. it was a flight from frankfurt, germany to warsaw, poland. vizefeldwebel erich buder ( 14 january 1896 – 24 may 1975 ) was a world war i flying ace credited with twelve aerial victories. villa wartholz was designed by heinrich von ferstel in the historicist style in the years 1870 to 1872 for archduke karl ludwig of austria. the castle - like building with towers was for recreational purposes
text: australian antarctic territory ; christmas island ; cocos ( keeling ) islands ; coral sea islands ; heard island and mcdonald islands ; and jervis bay territory, a naval base and sea port for the national capital in land that was formerly part of new south wales. the external territory of norfolk island previously exercised considerable autonomy under the norfolk island act 1979 through its own legislative assembly and an administrator to represent the queen. in 2015, the commonwealth parliament abolished self - government, integrating norfolk island into the australian tax and welfare systems and replacing its legislative assembly with a council. macquarie island is administered by tasmania, and lord howe island by new south wales. lac - matapedia is an unorganized territory in the bas - saint - laurent region of quebec, canada. it is named after and located on the northern shores of lake matapedia in the matapedia valley. gera is one of the woredas in the oromia region of ethiopia. it is named after the former kingdom of gera, whose territory was approximately the same as the modern woreda. part of the jimma zone, gera is bordered on the south by the gojeb river which separates it from the southern nations, nationalities and peoples region, on the northwest by sigmo, on the north by setema, on the northeast by gomma, and on the east by seka chekorsa. the administrative center of this woreda is chira ; other towns in gera include cheriko and dusta. minsk region or minsk voblasc or minsk oblast (, " minskaja vobłasc " ;, " minskaja oblastj " ) is one of the regions of belarus. its administrative center is minsk, although it is a separate administrative territorial entity of belarus. as of 2011, the region's population is 1, 411, 500. lesnoye sanatorium ( ) is the oldest medical institution in the city of tolyatti, russia. its main focus is tuberculosis treatment. razgrad municipality ( ) is a municipality ( " obshtina " ) in razgrad province, northeastern bulgaria, located in the ludogorie geographical region part of the danubian plain. it is named after its administrative centre - the city of razgrad which is also the capital of the province. tumaraa is a commune of french polynesia, an overseas territory of france in the pacific ocean. the commune of tumaraa is located on the island of raiatea, in the administrative subdivision of the leeward
text: several universities, commercial organisations and government bodies. the ground station is at the institute for telecommunications research, part of the university of south australia, near adelaide. since 2005 it was operated by the australian department of defence. from 1997 to 2004, dell enjoyed steady growth and it gained market share from competitors even during industry slumps. during the same period, rival pc vendors such as compaq, gateway, ibm, packard bell, and ast research struggled and eventually left the market or were bought out. dell surpassed compaq to become the largest pc manufacturer in 1999. operating costs made up only 10 percent of dell's $ 35 billion in revenue in 2002, compared with 21 percent of revenue at hewlett - packard, 25 percent at gateway, and 46 percent at cisco. in 2002, when compaq merged with hewlett packard ( the fourth - place pc maker ), the newly combined hewlett packard took the top spot but struggled and dell soon regained its lead. dell grew the fastest in the early 2000s. hasbro interactive acquired the merged company in 1998, and what had been spectrum holobyte ceased to exist when the development studio in alameda, california was closed in 1999. hasbro subsequently sold all the assets of the various hasbro interactive studios to infogrames, including the atari brand itself. ville saint - pierre is a small neighbourhood of the city of montreal, quebec, canada, located in the borough of lachine. it was a separate town until it merged with lachine in 1999. in 2002, the amalgamated city of lachine merged into montreal. the company produced several titles with small development teams. this proved fatal with the rising standards of full priced games. with falling sales and important figures leaving the company, software 2000 filed for bankruptcy in 2002. gjensidige nor was a norwegian bank and insurance company that was in existence between 1999 and 2003. the company was created when the two savings banks sparebanken nor ( bank ) and gjensidige ( insurance ) were merged in 1999. in 2002 norwegian savings banks were allowed to become public limited company and was listed on the oslo stock exchange. in 2003 the company was merged with den norske bank to form dnb nor, while the original insurance company gjensidige was demerged and again became a separate company in 2005. street & racing technology ( commonly called srt ) is a high - performance automobile group within fiat chrysler automobiles. srt began as ` ` team viper'' to develop the dodge
text: at laugh - o - gram studio in kansas city, missouri. in 1925, hugh harman drew some sketches of mice around a photograph of walt disney. these inspired ub iwerks to create a new mouse character for disney. ` ` mortimer mouse'' had been disney's original name for the character before his wife, lillian, convinced him to change it, and ultimately mickey mouse came to be. the actor mickey rooney claimed that, during his mickey mcguire days, he met cartoonist walt disney at the warner brothers studio, and that disney was inspired to name mickey mouse after him. this claim, however, has been debunked by disney historian jim korkis, since at the time of mickey mouse's development, disney studios had been located on hyperion avenue for several years, and walt disney never kept an office or other working space at warner brothers, having no professional relationship with warner brothers, as the alice comedies and oswald cartoons were distributed by universal. mickey's safari in letterland is a 1993 educational nintendo entertainment system video game starring the famous cartoon character mickey mouse. in this game, mickey must collect all of the letters of the alphabet for his museum by going to six different territories ( including places inspired by the yukon and the caribbean ). there are three levels of difficulty. the dundas shamrocks junior rugby league football club was formed in the mid - 1960s as an attachment to st patrick's marist college dundas'sports auxiliary for weekend rugby league within the balmain junior rugby league competition. in the mid - 1990s the school sports auxiliary ceased to exist and the club was rechristened the dundas shamrocks. the club has been a member of the balmain junior rugby league since its inception in the 1960s and provides teams for age groups from under 6's to a - grade. the charlotte 49ers represent the ncaa division i sports teams of the university of north carolina at charlotte. a founding member of conference usa ( c - usa ), charlotte rejoined the conference in 2013 after spending eight years as a member of the atlantic 10 conference. previously, charlotte was a charter member of the sun belt conference and was a member of the metro conference. catherine jagiellon was born in krakow as the youngest daughter of king sigismund i the old of the polish - lithuanian commonwealth and his wife bona sforza of milan. catherine became the spouse of king john iii of sweden and mother of the future sigismund iii vasa, king of poland. after the death of her father in 1548, she and
text: astro and safari, both cargo and passenger ) rivers of fire and ice, or african safari as it was alternately titled, is a crown international pictures 1969 motion picture filmed in documentary format. directed, written and produced by wildlife photographer ron shanin, the film is an account of a safari through " wildest " africa and explores africa's diversity ranging from scorching deserts to the frozen heights of mt. kilimanjaro, and the life of the continent's inhabitants. the movie culminates with the eruption of mt kilimanjaro. mickey's safari in letterland is a 1993 educational nintendo entertainment system video game starring the famous cartoon character mickey mouse. in this game, mickey must collect all of the letters of the alphabet for his museum by going to six different territories ( including places inspired by the yukon and the caribbean ). there are three levels of difficulty. mickey's big game hunt is a 1928 silent short film in larry darmour's " mickey mcguire " series starring a young mickey rooney. directed by albert herman, the two - reel short was released to theaters on december 23, 1928 by fbo. the challenge ( originally known as road rules : all stars, followed by real world / road rules challenge ) is a reality game show on mtv that is spun off from the network's two reality shows, real world and road rules. it features alumni from these two shows, in addition to first - time cast members called'fresh meat ', alumni from are you the one?, and relatives of these cast members called'bloodlines ', competing against one another for a cash prize. the challenge is currently hosted by t. j. lavin. the series premiered on june 1, 1998. the title of the show was originally road rules : all stars before it was renamed real world / road rules challenge by the show's 2nd season, then later abridged to simply the challenge by the show's 19th season. the series initially used no hosts but instead a former cast member who had been kicked off his or her season, providing assignments as ` ` mr.'' or ` ` ms. big'' ( david ` ` puck'' rainey, david edwards, and gladys sanabria served this role ). later on, however, the series began using hosts : eric nies and mark long co - hosted a season, and jonny moseley and dave mirra hosted various seasons before t. j. lavin became the show's regular host by the
text: the birth of a boy she called adam. alphonso takes the baby away shortly after his birth. celie has a second child, a girl she called olivia whom alphonso also abducts. celie's ailing mother dies after cursing celie on her deathbed. chiang hsiao - wu ( ; also known as alex chiang ; april 25, 1945 - july 1, 1991 ) was the second son of chiang ching - kuo, the president of the republic of china in taiwan from 1978 to 1988. his mother is faina ipatyevna vakhreva, also known as chiang fang - liang. he had one older brother, hsiao - wen, one older sister, hsiao - chang, and one younger brother, hsiao - yung. he also had two half - brothers, winston chang and john chiang, with whom he shared the same father. barney has three half - siblings : james ( played by wayne brady ), from his mother's side, a gay african american who is married to a man, with whom he has an adopted son and daughter ( as revealed in the season seven episode ` ` the rebound girl'' ) ; carly ( played by ashley benson ), a university student from his father's side with whom ted has a one - night stand in ` ` ring up!'', and jerome jr. ( jj ), from his father's side, who is 11. he also has a female cousin named leslie, with whom he accidentally grinds in a nightclub, as seen in the episode ` ` okay awesome''. mae yao ( ) is a " tambon " ( subdistrict ) of mueang chiang rai district, in chiang rai province, thailand. in 2005 it had a population of 19, 958 people. the " tambon " contains 18 villages. doi chiang dao (, ), also known as doi luang chiang dao (, ), is a 2, 175 m high mountain in chiang dao district of chiang mai province, thailand. it is one of the highest peaks of the daen lao range on the thai side of the border. loekman hakim was born in cianjur, west java, indonesia, on december 30, 1975, to eman sulaeman and iis martini. loekman is the third child of five siblings. his father was a teacher at smp 5 bandung. loekman married rika nurhayati and have two
text: pressure from asian pc manufacturers lenovo, asus, and acer, all of which had lower production costs and willing to accept lower profit margins. in addition, while the asian pc vendors had been improving their quality and design, for instance lenovo's thinkpad series was winning corporate customers away from dell's laptops, dell's customer service and reputation had been slipping. dell remained the second - most profitable pc vendor, as it took 13 percent of operating profits in the pc industry during q4 2012, behind apple inc.'s macintosh that took 45 percent, seven percent at hewlett packard, six percent at lenovo and asus, and one percent for acer. the macintosh, however, was expensive, which hindered its ability to be competitive in a market already dominated by the commodore 64 for consumers, as well as the ibm personal computer and its accompanying clone market for businesses. macintosh systems still found success in education and desktop publishing and kept apple as the second - largest pc manufacturer for the next decade. in the 1990s, improvements in the rival wintel platform, notably with the introduction of windows 3. 0, then windows 95, gradually took market share from the more expensive macintosh systems. the performance advantage of 68000 - based macintosh systems was eroded by intel's pentium, and in 1994 apple was relegated to third place as compaq became the top pc manufacturer. even after a transition to the superior powerpc - based power macintosh ( later renamed the powermac, in line with the powerbook series ) line in 1994, the falling prices of commodity pc components and the release of windows 95 saw the macintosh user base decline. in 1979, the launch of the visicalc spreadsheet ( initially for the apple ii ) first turned the microcomputer from a hobby for computer enthusiasts into a business tool. after the 1981 release by ibm of its ibm pc, the term personal computer became generally used for microcomputers compatible with the ibm pc architecture ( pc compatible ). in july 2008, polonia warsaw merged with dyskobolia grodzisk wielkopolski ( 3rd in the ekstraklasa in 2007 / 08 ) and took over its place in the polish top division. most of dyskobolia's players moved to warsaw to form the core of polonia's new team. several players from polonia's old squad stayed in the club too. the team managed to finish 4th at the end of the 2008 / 2009 season, and
text: obtained through the promotion on select models, such as hewlett - packard ( in the u. s. and canada on select models ), and acer ( in europe on selected ultrabook models ). during these promotions, the windows media center add - on for windows 8 pro was also offered for free. from 1997 to 2004, dell enjoyed steady growth and it gained market share from competitors even during industry slumps. during the same period, rival pc vendors such as compaq, gateway, ibm, packard bell, and ast research struggled and eventually left the market or were bought out. dell surpassed compaq to become the largest pc manufacturer in 1999. operating costs made up only 10 percent of dell's $ 35 billion in revenue in 2002, compared with 21 percent of revenue at hewlett - packard, 25 percent at gateway, and 46 percent at cisco. in 2002, when compaq merged with hewlett packard ( the fourth - place pc maker ), the newly combined hewlett packard took the top spot but struggled and dell soon regained its lead. dell grew the fastest in the early 2000s. death to spies ( ) is a stealth third - person shooter pc game set in world war ii and produced by 1c company and russian studio haggard games. the game was released on october 17, 2007 on pc and then later to valve's digital distribution system, steam, on march 12, 2008. ensign manufacturing company, founded as ensign car works in 1872, was a railroad car manufacturing company based in huntington, west virginia. in the 1880s and 1890s ensign's production of wood freight cars made the company one of the three largest sawmill operators in cabell county. in 1899, ensign and twelve other companies were merged to form american car and foundry company. gjensidige nor was a norwegian bank and insurance company that was in existence between 1999 and 2003. the company was created when the two savings banks sparebanken nor ( bank ) and gjensidige ( insurance ) were merged in 1999. in 2002 norwegian savings banks were allowed to become public limited company and was listed on the oslo stock exchange. in 2003 the company was merged with den norske bank to form dnb nor, while the original insurance company gjensidige was demerged and again became a separate company in 2005. t - mobile us traces its roots to the 1994 establishment of voicestream wireless pcs as a subsidiary of western wireless corporation. spun off from parent western wireless on may 3, 1999, voicestream
text: and a newly formed corporation decided to merge to form fuji heavy industries. these companies were : fuji kogyo, a scooter manufacturer ; coachbuilders fuji jidosha ; engine manufacturers omiya fuji kogyo ; chassis builders utsunomiya sharyo and the tokyo fuji dangyo trading company. in the shrinking pc industry, dell continued to lose market share, as it dropped below lenovo in 2011 to fall to number three in the world. dell and fellow american contemporary hewlett packard came under pressure from asian pc manufacturers lenovo, asus, and acer, all of which had lower production costs and willing to accept lower profit margins. in addition, while the asian pc vendors had been improving their quality and design, for instance lenovo's thinkpad series was winning corporate customers away from dell's laptops, dell's customer service and reputation had been slipping. dell remained the second - most profitable pc vendor, as it took 13 percent of operating profits in the pc industry during q4 2012, behind apple inc.'s macintosh that took 45 percent, seven percent at hewlett packard, six percent at lenovo and asus, and one percent for acer. the macintosh, however, was expensive, which hindered its ability to be competitive in a market already dominated by the commodore 64 for consumers, as well as the ibm personal computer and its accompanying clone market for businesses. macintosh systems still found success in education and desktop publishing and kept apple as the second - largest pc manufacturer for the next decade. in the 1990s, improvements in the rival wintel platform, notably with the introduction of windows 3. 0, then windows 95, gradually took market share from the more expensive macintosh systems. the performance advantage of 68000 - based macintosh systems was eroded by intel's pentium, and in 1994 apple was relegated to third place as compaq became the top pc manufacturer. even after a transition to the superior powerpc - based power macintosh ( later renamed the powermac, in line with the powerbook series ) line in 1994, the falling prices of commodity pc components and the release of windows 95 saw the macintosh user base decline. in 1979, the launch of the visicalc spreadsheet ( initially for the apple ii ) first turned the microcomputer from a hobby for computer enthusiasts into a business tool. after the 1981 release by ibm of its ibm pc, the term personal computer became generally used for microcomputers compatible with the ibm pc architecture ( pc
text: wireless corporation. spun off from parent western wireless on may 3, 1999, voicestream wireless was purchased by deutsche telekom ag in 2001 for $ 35 billion and renamed t - mobile usa, inc. in july, 2002. in 2013, t - mobile and metropcs finalized a merger of the two companies. the two companies began trading as t - mobile us. in 1984, the company produced the first computer of its own design - - the ` ` turbo pc'', sold for us $ 795 - - containing an intel 8088 - compatible processor running at a speed of 8 mhz. pc's limited advertised the systems in national computer magazines for sale directly to consumers, and custom assembled each ordered unit according to a selection of options. this offered buyers prices lower than those of retail brands, but with greater convenience than assembling the components themselves. although not the first company to use this model, pc's limited became one of the first to succeed with it. the company grossed more than $ 73 million in its first year of trading. during 1889, thomas edison had business interests in many electricity - related companies : edison lamp company, a lamp manufacturer in east newark, new jersey ; edison machine works, a manufacturer of dynamos and large electric motors in schenectady, new york ; bergmann & company, a manufacturer of electric lighting fixtures, sockets, and other electric lighting devices ; and edison electric light company, the patent - holding company and the financial arm backed by j. p. morgan and the vanderbilt family for edison's lighting experiments. in 1889, drexel, morgan & co., a company founded by j. p. morgan and anthony j. drexel, financed edison's research and helped merge those companies under one corporation to form edison general electric company which was incorporated in new york on april 24, 1889. the new company also acquired sprague electric railway & motor company in the same year. from 1997 to 2004, dell enjoyed steady growth and it gained market share from competitors even during industry slumps. during the same period, rival pc vendors such as compaq, gateway, ibm, packard bell, and ast research struggled and eventually left the market or were bought out. dell surpassed compaq to become the largest pc manufacturer in 1999. operating costs made up only 10 percent of dell's $ 35 billion in revenue in 2002, compared with 21 percent of revenue at hewlett - packard, 25 percent at gateway, and 46 percent at cisco.
text: ##ming practices changed during the third intermediate period and the mummified organs were placed back inside the body, an amulet of hapi would be included in the body cavity. osiris ( / oʊ ˈsaɪrɪs /, from egyptian wsjr, coptic [UNK] ) is an egyptian god, identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld, and the dead, but more appropriately as the god of transition, resurrection, and regeneration. he was classically depicted as a green - skinned deity with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy - wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive crown with two large ostrich feathers at either side, and holding a symbolic crook and flail. osiris was at times considered the oldest son of the god geb, though other sources state his father is the sun - god ra, and the sky goddess nut, as well as being brother and husband of isis, with horus being considered his posthumously begotten son. he was also associated with the epithet khenti - amentiu, meaning ` ` foremost of the westerners'', a reference to his kingship in the land of the dead. as ruler of the dead, osiris was also sometimes called ` ` king of the living'' : ancient egyptians considered the blessed dead ` ` the living ones''. through syncretism with iah, he is also the god of the moon. the earliest examples of wedding rings are from ancient egypt. western customs for wedding rings can be traced to ancient rome and greece, and were transmitted to the present through christendom in europe, which adapted the ancient customs. lake manzala ( " bahirat manzala " ), also manzaleh, is a brackish lake, sometimes called a lagoon, in northeastern egypt on the nile delta near port said and a few miles from the ancient ruins at tanis. it is the largest of the northern deltaic lakes of egypt. as of 2008 it is 47 km long and 30 km wide. in the ancient greek myths, ambrosia ( / æmˈbroʊʒə /, ancient greek : αμβροσια, ` ` immortality'' ) is sometimes the food or drink of the greek gods, often depicted as conferring longevity or immortality upon whoever consumed it. it was brought to the gods in olympus by doves. the rape of proserpina ( ) is a large baroque marble sculptural group by italian artist gia
text: . mark dismore ( born october 12, 1956 in greenfield, indiana ) is a former driver in the indy racing league and the 1990 toyota pacific champion as well as the winner of the 1993 24 hours of daytona with dan gurney's all american racers in a toyota gtp car with co - drivers rocky moran and p. j. jones. he made 3 cart starts in 1991 but was badly injured in a practice crash for the indianapolis 500, when his car veered sharply towards the entrance of pit road at the exit of turn 4 and back - ended the fence, only to careen across the pit lane and smash virtually head on at sizeable speed against the edge of pit wall ; this second impact tore off the front of the car leaving mark's legs exposed. amongst the injuries he suffered, the most severe was a broken neck. he was largely out of open wheel racing until the 1996 indy 500 where he drove for team menard though he did try to qualify in the 1992 indianapolis 500 for concept motorsports in an outdated lola / buick. in 1997 he drove a second car at the indy 500 for kelley racing and would become a full - time fixture there until the 2001 season. he returned to menard for a partial season in 2002. dismore has a single irl win coming in the fall 1999 texas motor speedway race and also finished a career - best third in points that season. among his 62 career irl starts he won four poles. he also represented the irl in the international race of champions in 2000 and 2001. sant marti d'empuries is an entity of the town of l'escala. it is located next to the ruins of empuries or emporion. ancient greeks established the settlement in the 6th century bc. it was the county seat until 1079 empuries moved to castello d'empuries place less exposed to attack. pangi territory is an administrative area in maniema province of the democratic republic of the congo. the headquarters is the town of pangi. in the u. s., the issuance of birth certificates is a function of the vital records office of the states, capital district, territories and former territories. birth in the u. s. establishes automatic eligibility for american citizenship, so a birth certificate from a local authority is commonly provided to the federal government to obtain a u. s. passport. however, the u. s. state department does issue a consular report of birth abroad for children born to u. s. citizens ( who are
text: edison's research and helped merge those companies under one corporation to form edison general electric company which was incorporated in new york on april 24, 1889. the new company also acquired sprague electric railway & motor company in the same year. from 1997 to 2004, dell enjoyed steady growth and it gained market share from competitors even during industry slumps. during the same period, rival pc vendors such as compaq, gateway, ibm, packard bell, and ast research struggled and eventually left the market or were bought out. dell surpassed compaq to become the largest pc manufacturer in 1999. operating costs made up only 10 percent of dell's $ 35 billion in revenue in 2002, compared with 21 percent of revenue at hewlett - packard, 25 percent at gateway, and 46 percent at cisco. in 2002, when compaq merged with hewlett packard ( the fourth - place pc maker ), the newly combined hewlett packard took the top spot but struggled and dell soon regained its lead. dell grew the fastest in the early 2000s. compaq, who had previously held the third place spot among pc manufacturers during the 1980s and early - mid 1990s, initiated a successful price war in 1994 that vaulted them to the biggest by the year end, overtaking a struggling ibm and relegating apple to third place. apple's market share further struggled due to the release of the windows 95 operating system, which unified microsoft's formerly separate ms - dos and windows products. windows 95 significantly enhanced the multimedia capability and performance of ibm pc compatible computers, and brought the capabilities of windows to parity with the mac os gui. cork city is at the heart of industry in the south of ireland. its main area of industry is pharmaceuticals, with pfizer inc. and swiss company novartis being big employers in the region. the most famous product of the cork pharmaceutical industry is viagra. cork is also the european headquarters of apple inc. where over 3, 000 staff are involved in manufacturing, r & d and customer support. logitech and emc corporation are also important it employers in the area. three hospitals are also among the top ten employers in the city ( see table below ). the original usb 1. 0 specification, which was introduced in january 1996, defined data transfer rates of 1. 5 mbit / s " low speed " and 12 mbit / s " full speed ". microsoft windows 95, osr 2. 1 provided oem support for the devices. the first widely used version
text: foreign territory. vera harsanyi, or vera szekely ( 12 october 1919 – 24 december 1994 ) was a hungarian freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1936 summer olympics, and then an artist. helio quaglia barbosa ( november 25, 1941 – february 1, 2008 ) was a brazilian who served on the country's superior court of justice, which is brazil's highest appellate court for non - constitutional issues. vera drake ( imelda staunton ) is devoted to her family, looking after her husband and children, her elderly mother, and a sick neighbour. her shy daughter, ethel ( alex kelly ), works in a lightbulb factory, and her son, sid ( daniel mays ), tailors men's suits. her husband, stanley ( phil davis ), is a car mechanic. although vera and her family are poor, their strong family bonds hold them together. during her working day as a house cleaner, vera performs constant small acts of kindness for the many people she encounters. hilda crosby standish ( 1902 – june 1, 2005 ) was a pioneer in the birth control movement in the state of connecticut. in 1935, she became medical director of the maternal health center in hartford, the state's first birth control clinic. dr. standish was inducted into the connecticut women's hall of fame in 1994. rodrigo barbosa tabata ( born november 19, 1980 in aracatuba, brazil ) or simply rodrigo tabata, is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for qatari club al - rayyan and the qatar national football team. the 3rd women's world chess championship took place during the 4th chess olympiad in prague between 12 - 26 july 1931. the tournament was played as a double round - robin tournament. vera menchik successfully defended her title. the final results were as follows : the u. s. constitution uses but does not define the phrase ` ` natural born citizen'', and various opinions have been offered over time regarding its precise meaning. the consensus of early 21st - century constitutional scholars, together with relevant case law, is that natural - born citizens include, subject to exceptions, those born in the united states. many scholars have also concluded that those who meet the legal requirements for u. s. citizenship ` ` at the moment of birth'', regardless of place of birth, are also natural - born citizens. every president to date was either a citizen at the adoption of the constitution in 1789 or was born in the united
text: japanese government's 1950 corporate credit rearrangement act, anti - zaibatsu legislation. between 1953 and 1955, four of these corporations and a newly formed corporation decided to merge to form fuji heavy industries. these companies were : fuji kogyo, a scooter manufacturer ; coachbuilders fuji jidosha ; engine manufacturers omiya fuji kogyo ; chassis builders utsunomiya sharyo and the tokyo fuji dangyo trading company. in the shrinking pc industry, dell continued to lose market share, as it dropped below lenovo in 2011 to fall to number three in the world. dell and fellow american contemporary hewlett packard came under pressure from asian pc manufacturers lenovo, asus, and acer, all of which had lower production costs and willing to accept lower profit margins. in addition, while the asian pc vendors had been improving their quality and design, for instance lenovo's thinkpad series was winning corporate customers away from dell's laptops, dell's customer service and reputation had been slipping. dell remained the second - most profitable pc vendor, as it took 13 percent of operating profits in the pc industry during q4 2012, behind apple inc.'s macintosh that took 45 percent, seven percent at hewlett packard, six percent at lenovo and asus, and one percent for acer. the macintosh, however, was expensive, which hindered its ability to be competitive in a market already dominated by the commodore 64 for consumers, as well as the ibm personal computer and its accompanying clone market for businesses. macintosh systems still found success in education and desktop publishing and kept apple as the second - largest pc manufacturer for the next decade. in the 1990s, improvements in the rival wintel platform, notably with the introduction of windows 3. 0, then windows 95, gradually took market share from the more expensive macintosh systems. the performance advantage of 68000 - based macintosh systems was eroded by intel's pentium, and in 1994 apple was relegated to third place as compaq became the top pc manufacturer. even after a transition to the superior powerpc - based power macintosh ( later renamed the powermac, in line with the powerbook series ) line in 1994, the falling prices of commodity pc components and the release of windows 95 saw the macintosh user base decline. in 1979, the launch of the visicalc spreadsheet ( initially for the apple ii ) first turned the microcomputer from a hobby for computer enthusiasts into a business tool. after the 1981
text: highest indian civilian award of padma shri. he died on 10 july 2010, falling to a cardiac arrest. the bharat ratna ( hindi pronunciation : ( bhaːrət rətnə ) ; jewel of india ) is the highest civilian award of the republic of india. instituted in 1954, the award is conferred ` ` in recognition of exceptional service / performance of the highest order'', without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex. the award was originally limited to achievements in the arts, literature, science, and public services, but the government expanded the criteria to include ` ` any field of human endeavour'' in december 2011. the recommendations for the bharat ratna are made by the prime minister to the president, with a maximum of three nominees being awarded per year. recipients receive a sanad ( certificate ) signed by the president and a peepal - leaf - - shaped medallion ; there is no monetary grant associated with the award. bharat ratna recipients rank seventh in the indian order of precedence. upon independence in august 1947, the title of viceroy was abolished. the representative of the british sovereign became known once again as the governor - general. c. rajagopalachari became the only indian governor - general. however, once india acquired independence, the governor - general's role became almost entirely ceremonial, with power being exercised on a day - to - day basis by the indian cabinet. after the nation became a republic in 1950, the president of india continued to perform the same functions. ashok kumar mago is an indian born american business person and the founder chairman of greater dallas indo american chamber, now known as ( us - india chamber of commerce ) who is known for his involvement of the senate india caucus. he was awarded the padma shree, the fourth highest civilian award, by the government of india, in 2014, for his services to the trade and industry. milkha singh ( birthdate, 8th oct 1935 ), also known as the flying sikh, is an indian former track and field sprinter who was introduced to the sport while serving in the indian army. he was the only indian athlete to win an individual athletics gold medal at a commonwealth games until krishna poonia won the discus gold medal at the 2010 commonwealth games. he also won gold medals in the 1958 and 1962 asian games. he represented india in the 1956 summer olympics in melbourne, the 1960 summer olympics in rome and the 1964 summer olympics in tokyo. he was awarded the padma shri, india's fourth - highest civilian
text: margins. in addition, while the asian pc vendors had been improving their quality and design, for instance lenovo's thinkpad series was winning corporate customers away from dell's laptops, dell's customer service and reputation had been slipping. dell remained the second - most profitable pc vendor, as it took 13 percent of operating profits in the pc industry during q4 2012, behind apple inc.'s macintosh that took 45 percent, seven percent at hewlett packard, six percent at lenovo and asus, and one percent for acer. the macintosh, however, was expensive, which hindered its ability to be competitive in a market already dominated by the commodore 64 for consumers, as well as the ibm personal computer and its accompanying clone market for businesses. macintosh systems still found success in education and desktop publishing and kept apple as the second - largest pc manufacturer for the next decade. in the 1990s, improvements in the rival wintel platform, notably with the introduction of windows 3. 0, then windows 95, gradually took market share from the more expensive macintosh systems. the performance advantage of 68000 - based macintosh systems was eroded by intel's pentium, and in 1994 apple was relegated to third place as compaq became the top pc manufacturer. even after a transition to the superior powerpc - based power macintosh ( later renamed the powermac, in line with the powerbook series ) line in 1994, the falling prices of commodity pc components and the release of windows 95 saw the macintosh user base decline. in 1979, the launch of the visicalc spreadsheet ( initially for the apple ii ) first turned the microcomputer from a hobby for computer enthusiasts into a business tool. after the 1981 release by ibm of its ibm pc, the term personal computer became generally used for microcomputers compatible with the ibm pc architecture ( pc compatible ). in july 2008, polonia warsaw merged with dyskobolia grodzisk wielkopolski ( 3rd in the ekstraklasa in 2007 / 08 ) and took over its place in the polish top division. most of dyskobolia's players moved to warsaw to form the core of polonia's new team. several players from polonia's old squad stayed in the club too. the team managed to finish 4th at the end of the 2008 / 2009 season, and subsequently reached the 3rd qualification round of the europa league. after beating buducnost podgorica and thrashing juvenes / dog
text: . born south - west of balgo, western australia, in the 1950s susie bootja bootja married artist mick gill tjakamarra, with whom she had a son, matthew gill tjupurrula ( also an artist ). the film stars rosalind russell, jack hawkins, richard beymer, maximilian schell, and annette gorman, with an early screen appearance from lana wood, the sister of natalie wood. the ` ` miracle on ice'' refers to a medal - round game during the men's ice hockey tournament at the 1980 winter olympics in lake placid, new york, played between the hosting united states, and the four - time defending gold medalists, the soviet union. bit parts are often significant in the story line and sometimes pivotal, as in jack albertson's role as a postal worker in the 1947 feature film miracle on 34th street. some characters with bit parts attract significant attention. constantin stanislavski remarked that ` ` there are no small parts, only small actors.'' mara elizabeth wilson ( born july 24, 1987 ) is an american writer and former child actress. she is known for playing natalie hillard in mrs. doubtfire ( 1993 ), susan walker in miracle on 34th street ( 1994 ), matilda wormwood in matilda ( 1996 ) and lily stone in thomas and the magic railroad ( 2000 ). since retiring from film acting, wilson has focused on writing. the miracle child ( french : l'enfant du miracle ) is a 1932 french science fiction film based on a play of the same name by robert charvay and paul gavault. the plot of the film centers around a widow named blanche montel who endeavours to find a man with whom to produce a child so that she can pretend that the child was her late husband's and so inherit a fortune. in a scene which has been cited as particularly humorous, a few characters interrupt a spiritualist seance and are subsequently believed to be ghosts. ginette leclerc's minor role in " the miracle child " was one of her first acting roles in a long and successful career. miracle of the white stallions is a 1963 film released by walt disney starring robert taylor ( playing alois podhajsky ), lilli palmer, and eddie albert. it is the story of the evacuation of the lipizzaner horses from the spanish riding school in vienna during world war ii. mr. noodle and his siblings - - mr. noodle's brother mister noodle,

Question: In 2002, what company merged with the top PC manufacturer from 1994?
Answer: Hewlett Packard