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A two-sided market, also called a two-sided network, is an intermediary economic platform having two distinct user groups that provide each other with network benefits.
One million invitations to Barack Obama's inauguration were sent out in the first week of January 2009. Printed between December 11, 2008, and January 2, 2009, the invitations invited people to celebrate Barack Obama 's inauguration as the forty-fourth President of the United States. The invitations have kept the same basic design of a gold seal and black script since the 1949 inauguration of ...
The Ming dynasty in Inner Asia was the expansion of the Ming dynasty 's realm and influence in Inner Asia between the 14th and the 16th centuries. The Ming dynasty overthrew and succeeded the Mongol -led Yuan dynasty and sought to avert further incursions by a regime originating from Inner Asia. [1] Wars were fought against the Northern Yuan ...
The Khmelnytsky Uprising, [a] also known as the Cossack–Polish War, [1] or the Khmelnytsky insurrection, [2] was a Cossack rebellion that took place between 1648 and 1657 in the eastern territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, which led to the creation of a Cossack Hetmanate in Ukraine. Under the command of hetman Bohdan ...
Paulo Dybala. Paulo Exequiel Dybala (born 15 November 1993) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Serie A club Roma and the Argentina national team. He is noted by sports journalists for his dribbling, speed, and goal-scoring ability.
The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the Second Vatican Council or Vatican II, was the 21st and most recent ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. The council met in Saint Peter's Basilica in Vatican City for four periods (or sessions), each lasting between 8 and 12 weeks, in the autumn of each of the four years ...
Irish neutrality during World War II. The policy of neutrality was adopted by Ireland's Oireachtas at the instigation of the Taoiseach Éamon de Valera upon the outbreak of World War II in Europe. It was maintained throughout the conflict, in spite of several German air raids by aircraft that missed their intended British targets, and attacks ...
In geometry, a digon, or a 2-gon, is a polygon with two sides ( edges) and two vertices. Its construction is degenerate in a Euclidean plane because either the two sides would coincide or one or both would have to be curved; however, it can be easily visualised in elliptic space. It may also be viewed as a representation of a graph with two ...
House of Franckenstein. Armorials of Frankenstein ancient: An oblique red battle axe on Gold. These arms are still used by the Barons of Franckenstein. Arms of Franckenstein modern: complemented in 1533 by Henry IV. of Frankenstein (d.1558) by the arms of Clover, being the heir of the Lords of Cleen. The Cleens were also heirs of Praunheim and ...
The Aislers Set is an American indie pop band that formed in San Francisco in 1997, after the breakup of chief songwriter Linton's former band Henry's Dress. [1] The Aislers Set's music is often interpreted as adjacent to C86 -style British indie pop but the band's style transcends genres. The founding members were A V Linton (guitar, vocals ...