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2. Port Talbot Steelworks - Wikipedia

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   Port Talbot Steelworks is a steel mill in Port Talbot, Wales.Over 4,000 people worked at the plant until the last blast furnace shut down on 1st October 2024. Around 2,000 employees remain after this time, processing imported steel slabs to produce rolled steel products.

3. 2024 in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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   15 June – Trooping the Colour, the King's birthday parade, takes place. [505] 16 June – Euro 2024: In their first game of the tournament, England win 1–0 against Serbia. [506] 17 June The actor Sir Ian McKellen is taken to hospital after falling off stage during a performance of Player Kings at London's Noël Coward Theatre. [507]

4. Sales taxes in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The sales and use taxes, taken together, "provide a uniform tax upon either the sale or the use of all tangible personal property irrespective of where it may be purchased." [15] Some states permit offset of sales taxes paid in other states on the purchased goods against use tax in the taxpayer's state. [16]

5. QR code - Wikipedia

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   The QR code system was invented in 1994, at the Denso Wave automotive products company, in Japan. [6] [7] [8] The initial alternating-square design presented by the team of researchers, headed by Masahiro Hara, was influenced by the black counters and the white counters played on a Go board; [9] the pattern of position detection was found and determined by applying the least-used ratio (1:1:3 ...

6. Languages used on the Internet - Wikipedia

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   There is debate over the most-used languages on the Internet. A 2009 UNESCO report monitoring the languages of websites for 12 years, from 1996 to 2008, found a steady year-on-year decline in the percentage of webpages in English, from 75 percent in 1998 to 45 percent in 2005. [2]

7. Income tax - Wikipedia

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   [13] [14] [15] This tax was repealed and replaced by another income tax in 1862. [16] [17] It was only in 1894 that the first peacetime income tax was passed through the Wilson-Gorman tariff. The rate was 2% on income over $4000 (equivalent to $126,000 in 2023), which meant fewer than 10% of households would pay any.