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2. Imelda Marcos - Wikipedia

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   On November 4, 1991, President Corazon Aquino allowed Imelda and her children to return to the Philippines so they could be formally charged in their tax fraud and corruption cases [133] [134] – part of the government's effort to convince Swiss courts to return the money in the Marcos' Swiss Bank accounts to the Philippine government. [135]

3. Irish Mercantile Marine during World War II - Wikipedia

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   Irish merchant shipping saw to it that vital imports continued to arrive and exports, mainly food supplies to Great Britain, were delivered. Irish ships sailed unarmed and usually alone, identifying themselves as neutrals with bright lights and by painting the Irish tricolour and EIRE [ note 2 ] in large letters on their sides and decks . [ 2 ]

4. Economic history of the United States - Wikipedia

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   The economic history of the United States is about characteristics of and important developments in the economy of the U.S., from the colonial era to the present. The emphasis is on productivity and economic performance and how the economy was affected by new technologies, the change of size in economic sectors and the effects of legislation and government policy.

5. Sacramento Northern Railway - Wikipedia

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   As with most interurban railroads in the US, the SN's return on initial investment was lower and its annual operating costs were higher than had been projected at conception. Interurbans, like most railroads, were very labor-intensive, particularly with the labor costs of maintaining motorized rolling stock and repairing electrical systems. [ 17 ]

6. Message in a bottle - Wikipedia

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   1973, Dean F. Bumpus, Senior Scientist Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. Floating objects may ride gyres (large circulating current systems) that are present in each ocean, and may be transferred from one ocean's gyre to another's. Further, objects may be sidetracked by wind, storms, countercurrents, and ocean current variation. Accordingly, drift bottles have traveled large distances, with ...

7. Fight Club - Wikipedia

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   —David Fincher Fincher said Fight Club was a coming of age film, like the 1967 film The Graduate but for people in their 30s. Fincher described the narrator as an "everyman"; the character is identified in the script as "Jack", but left unnamed in the film. Fincher outlined the Narrator's background, "He's tried to do everything he was taught to do, tried to fit into the world by becoming ...