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Map of Grant's world tour by J. S. Kemp, 1879. Using $25,000 (equivalent to $715,000 in 2023) from liquidating an investment in a Nevada-based mining company, the Grants set out on a world tour for approximately two and a half years. [495] [496] On May 16, Grant and his wife left for England aboard the SS Indiana. [497]
Most of these are devices that must be connected to a game console or gaming PC, [12] but some are standalone game consoles, such as the Quest 2 released by Meta Platforms. [13] Dedicated consoles are a subset of game consoles that are only able to play built-in games.
An enzyme acts as a catalyst for breaking down the gel. Sometimes pH modifiers are used to break down the crosslink at the end of a hydraulic fracturing job, since many require a pH buffer system to stay viscous. [87] At the end of the job, the well is commonly flushed with water under pressure (sometimes blended with a friction reducing chemical.)
Generation Z (often shortened to Gen Z), also known as Zoomers, [1] [2] [3] is the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha.Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1990s as starting birth years and the early 2010s as ending birth years, with the generation most frequently being defined as people born from 1997 to 2012.
When its successor, Windows 3.1, was released, sales totaled about 10 million copies, [1] and a year later the Windows series would overtake DOS as the bestselling application of all time. [ 60 ] Windows 3.0 is regarded in retrospect as a turning point in the future of Microsoft, being attributed to its later dominance in the operating system ...
Superman is a superhero who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics.The character was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, and debuted in the comic book Action Comics #1 (cover-dated June 1938 and published April 18, 1938). [1]
The Iran–Contra affair (Persian: ماجرای ایران-کنترا; Spanish: Caso Irán-Contra), often referred to as the Iran–Contra scandal and more rarely as the Iran Initiative, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan administration.
Markus Alexej Persson was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to a Finnish mother, Ritva, [18] and a Swedish father, Birger, [19] on 1 June 1979. [20] [21] [18] He has one sister.[18] [22] He grew up in Edsbyn until he was seven years old, when his family moved back to Stockholm.