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3 unusual facts about marketplace


Marketplace

Craigslist, Pricefalls, LLC and Markets Central are other websites that allow the public to trade goods and services.

Siculiana

The Port of Call (Scalo) of Siculiana Marina was historically an important commercial emporium.

Wich town

In Anglo-Saxon England the "-wich towns" designated by the suffix -wic identified coastal trading settlements, equivalents of emporia, provisioned from outside the protected community and characterised by extensive artisanal activity and imports, which have left material traces in excavations.


Ainax

After Volvo was ordered to discontinue its ownership in Scania, the shares were placed in a separate holding company, which was then divested to the Volvo shareholders, and also traded on the NASDAQ OMX Group marketplace Nya Marknanden, today First North.

Ajuha Bazar

'Ajuha Bazar' is a famous marketplace situated in Ajuha, a town / Nagar Panchayat located in Sirathu tehsil, of Kaushambi district in Allahabad, Uttarpradesh.

American Public Media Group

Based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, American Public Media Group is ultimately a parent organization of—but distinct from—American Public Media, the distribution arm of Minnesota Public Radio that produces shows like On Being and Marketplace and distributes A Prairie Home Companion.

Antonov An-32

On 8 January 1996, an An-32 freighter crashed into a crowded marketplace in Kinshasa, Zaire, resulting in the deaths of approximately 237 people on the ground.

Armored Trunk Manufacturing Company

In 1994, after much resistance to the changing marketplace for cheap imported goods, Armored Trunk Manufacturing Company sold its trunk manufacturing production line to Seward Trunk Company.

Ayikel

Ayikel is mentioned, by its older name of "Chilga", by James Bruce, as a marketplace on the border between the Kingdom of Sennar and Ethiopia which was under their shared administration, and over which Emperor Susenyos in 1606 appointed the deposed king of Senaar, Abd al-Qadir as governor.

BloomNation

As an “Etsy-type” site for flowers, customers connect directly with local florists whose flower arrangements are highlighted in the marketplace.

Boulevard du Plateau

The increasing number of residents, was one of the reasons why retail and commercial development has exploded, similar to the likes of Barrhaven's Marketplace district as well as the Kanata Centrum and the Holy Trinity/Avalon district of Orleans.

Cafeteria Christianity

In The Marketplace of Christianity, economists Robert Ekelund, Robert Hébert and Robert Tollison equate Cafeteria Christianity with self-generated Christianity, i.e. the religion of many Christians which "matches their demand profile" and "may be Christian or based in other areas of thought."

Canadian Newcomer Magazine

Although the magazine’s philosophy has always been to offer information in the languages of the marketplace in Canada, their website also offers multilingual editions (available in .pdf format) in Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Tagalog, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, Punjabi, Russian and Korean.

Center for Investigative Reporting

Today, the organization's stories regularly appear in news outlets around the country and in California including NPR News, PBS Frontline, PBS NEWSHOUR, The Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee, The Daily Beast, Al Jazeera English and American Public Media's Marketplace.

Conformance

SNIA Conformance Testing Program, a program trying to bring third-party standards conformance to the storage networking marketplace

David R. Barker

He has also been featured on radio programs such as Marketplace, As It Happens, The Jerry Doyle Show, The Santita Jackson Show, Pratt on Texas, Iowa Public Radio and many others.

Debbie Does Dallas ... Again

On July 12, 2007, the movie became the first adult title licensed by the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) to hit the marketplace in the Blu-ray Disc format.

Earl B. Olson

He was a mainstay of the turkey industry, and a pioneer in developing new turkey products and expanding the marketplace.

Erica Johnson

Erica Johnson (born October 9, 1964, Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian broadcast journalist who hosts the TV series Marketplace on CBC Television.

Greenwashing

According to FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz, "The introduction of environmentally friendly products into the marketplace is a win for consumers who want to purchase greener products and producers who wants to sell them." Leibowitz also says the win-win can only claim if marketers' claims are straightforward and proven.

Hartley Peavey

1991: Honored by the President of the United States, George H. W. Bush, for workplace training, education and achievements in the international marketplace

Hepatitis B vaccine

It was withdrawn from the marketplace when Pablo DT Valenzuela, Research Director of Chiron Corporation succeeded in 1986 in making the antigen in yeast and invented the first recombinant vaccine.

I. L. Peretz

Peretz's 1907 play A Night in the Old Marketplace has been adapted into a multimedia theatrical presentation, with music by Frank London and book and lyrics by Glen Berger, slated to open in 2007; the CD is already on sale.

Incruit

Incruit is the first Internet recruiting marketplace site between job seekers and companies and has the first Internet Résumé made of database (June 1. 1998).

Jeremy Padawer

Padawer reinvented the WWE toy line and launched over 25 brands into the mass marketplace including Pokemon, Dragonball Z, Club Penguin, UFC, Neopets, Spongebob, Phineas & Ferb.

Kai Ryssdal

Before joining Marketplace, Ryssdal was a reporter and substitute host for The California Report, a news and information program distributed to public radio stations throughout California by KQED-FM in San Francisco.

Marco Palladino

Marco Palladino (born September 12, 1988) is a Serbian-Italian inventor, software developer and internet entrepreneur, best known for co-founding Mashape, the marketplace for Cloud APIs.

Milgram v. Orbitz

Orbitz Worldwide, LLC owned CheapTickets and operated CheapTickets Exchange, an online marketplace site similar to the TicketNetwork Exchange.

Moral Orel

All seasons of Moral Orel as well as the special are available for purchase from iTunes and the Sony PSP marketplace.

Multiperspectivalism

In his view, the marketplace of ideas is full of worldviews competing for the allegiance of each individual, and for some people, final allegiance to a system is due to sense experience, emotions, or political affiliation, while for others it is their particular religious tradition (Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Bahá'í Faith, etc.) or secular philosophy (empiricism, rationalism, Marxism, postmodernism, etc.).

Of Angels and Angles

Its title is likely an allusion to the phrase Non Angli, sed Angeli. ("Not Angles, but Angels.") In legend, this was a Latin pun allegedly said by Pope Gregory I after a response to his query regarding the identity of a group of fair-haired Anglian children whom he had observed in the marketplace.

Package management system

Ian Murdock has commented that package management is "the single biggest advancement Linux has brought to the industry", that it blurs the boundaries between operating system and applications, and that it makes it "easier to push new innovations ... into the marketplace and ... evolve the OS".

Peter Scarf

Matilda launched Newzulu, headquartered in Paris as a crowd sourced news wire, freelance journalism marketplace and citizen journalism platform, in partnership with the world's third largest news wire, Agence France-Presse.

Pride Glasgow

After the speeches, the rainbow flag was raised over Glasgow City Chambers and the party on the square began with performances from Hazell Dean Brenda Edwards Charlene Marilynn D'Angelo boyband Billiam and Uniting Nations to name a few along with the Pride Glasgow Marketplace with stalls from organisations, public sector agencies, voluntary sector organisations and commercial stalls

Psilocybe muliercula

Unable to locate this species in the field, botanist Roger Heim and mycologist Rolf Singer based their descriptions of this mushroom on dried specimens purchased from Matlatzinca Indians in the marketplace of Tenango del Valle, in the Nevado de Toluca region of the state of Mexico.

Sam Goody

However Sam Goody misjudged the marketplace and opened its store directly across the way from the slightly cheaper Our Price store, as well as nearby the successful Stockport value retailer Music Zone (Trade Direct) and HMV.

SaveRite

In November 2001, Winn-Dixie announced plans to convert nearly all of its 40-some Winn-Dixie and Winn-Dixie Marketplace brand stores in the metro Atlanta area into Save-Rites as a last-ditch effort to keep a hold on its market share, which was rapidly declining due to stiff competition from Wal-Mart, Publix, Kroger, and other similar stores.

Shadows in Bronze

Arriving in Crotone, Falco is almost immediately caught up in a brawl in the marketplace, being rescued by Laesus, a ship's captain, with whom Falco then shares a meal at the mansio.

ShipWorks

It is a multi-carrier shipping software that integrates with over 40 online sales and marketplace systems including eBay, PayPal, Amazon, and Yahoo.

Startup Princess

Founded in 2006 by Kelly King Anderson, who was at the time unsuccessfully searching for venture capital for another business venture, and recognized a gap in the marketplace.

The MarketPlace

The MarketPlace Limited is a grocery store chain in Bermuda.

Thin-film memory

In 1962, the UNIVAC 1107, intended for the civilian marketplace, used thin-film memory only for its 128-word general register stack.

Tina Hobley

On 22 April 2006, her boyfriend Oliver (Oli) Wheeler, at that time a director of Freud Communications, and now Head of Communications at ticket marketplace viagogo.com, proposed to Tina at their Cotswolds cottage.

Wally the Green Monster

Wally's Build-A-Bear Workshop isn't at Fenway Park, but at the Build-A-Bear store in the Faneuil Hall Marketplace.

Waterlooplein

The square became a marketplace when the city government decided that the Jewish merchants in the nearby Jodenbreestraat and Sint Antoniebreestraat had to move their stalls to the square.

WGGL-FM

The station's midday classical music block was cut down to 12 noon to 2 p.m., and new offerings included On Point with Tom Ashbrook, two hours of BBC Newshour, and Talk of the Nation, in addition to the already-running Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Fresh Air, and Marketplace.

Wikipedia App

The Wikimedia Foundation publishes official Wikipedia Apps for using Wikipedia on multiple mobile device operating systems, currently: Android (via Google Play), BlackBerry (via BlackBerry World), iOS (via App Store), Firefox OS (via Firefox Marketplace),and Windows 8 (via Windows Store).


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