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Yatarō Iwasaki was born on 9 January 1835 in Aki, Tosa Province (now Kōchi Prefecture) into a provincial farming family. Iwasaki's family had been members of the samurai warrior nobility, but his great great grandfather, Iwasaki Yajiemon (岩崎弥次右衛門) had sold off his family's samurai status in obligation of debts during the Great Tenmei famine. His family derived from the Iwasaki ...
Rhythm Heaven, [a] also known as Rhythm Paradise in PAL regions, is a rhythm video game series developed and published by Nintendo. In the games, players play through a collection of rhythm mini-games, each with its own set of rules. The series is mainly released on Nintendo consoles, including the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Wii and the Nintendo Switch. The original game ...
A Triumph Bonneville T100 featuring Flint from Girls und Panzer In Japan, an itasha (痛車; literally "painful" or "cringeworthy"[1][2] + "car") is a car decorated with images of characters from anime, manga, or video games (especially bishōjo games or eroge). The decorations usually involve paint schemes and stickers.
Mitsubishi Motors (Thailand) is the Thai operation of Mitsubishi Motors Corporation. It became the first Thai automobile manufacturer to export vehicles overseas in 1988, and has remained the country's largest exporter every year since.
Samuel Harris Altman was born on April 22, 1985, in Chicago to Jewish parents: [10][11] Connie Gibstine, a dermatologist, and Jerry Altman, a real estate broker. [12] His paternal great-grandfather was born in the Polish city of Płock. [13] Altman is the eldest of four siblings: Sam, Max, Jack, and Annie. [3] In 1989, the Altman family moved to Jerry's hometown of Clayton, Missouri. [14] At ...
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The Mitsubishi zaibatsu had been broken up into three companies by the US occupying forces. Automobile and truck engines were mainly built by three branches of one of these companies, Central Heavy Industries (Shin-Mitsubishi Heavy Industries from 1952). These three branches (Mizushima, Nagoya, and Kyoto Engineering Works) were established as clusters of the many small aircraft factories built ...
The Haʻikū Stairs, also known as the Stairway to Heaven or Haʻikū Ladder, is a steep, steel step structure. It provided pedestrian access to former U.S. Navy communication facilities on the island of Oʻahu, Hawaii [1] with more than 3,000 steps along O‘ahu's Ko'olau mountain range. [2]