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  2. OpenVMS - Wikipedia

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    The main challenge in porting VMS to a new architecture was that VMS and the VAX were designed together, meaning that VMS was dependent on certain details of the VAX architecture. [57] Furthermore, a significant amount of the VMS kernel, layered products, and customer-developed applications were implemented in VAX MACRO assembly code. [ 9 ]

  3. Alfred the Great - Wikipedia

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    Alfred was a son of Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, and his wife Osburh. [5] According to his biographer, Asser, writing in 893, "In the year of our Lord's Incarnation 849 Alfred, King of the Anglo-Saxons", was born at the royal estate called Wantage, in the district known as Berkshire [a] ("which is so called from Berroc Wood, where the box tree grows very abundantly").

  4. Dean Corll - Wikipedia

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    Dean Arnold Corll (December 24, 1939 – August 8, 1973) was an American serial killer and sex offender who abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered a minimum of twenty-eight teenage boys and young men between 1970 and 1973 in Houston and Pasadena, Texas.

  5. Hollywood Walk of Fame - Wikipedia

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    The Walk of Fame runs 1.3 miles (2.1 km) from east to west on Hollywood Boulevard, from Gower Street to the Hollywood and La Brea Gateway at La Brea Avenue in addition to a short segment on Marshfield Way that runs diagonally between Hollywood Boulevard and La Brea; and 0.4 miles (0.64 km) north to south on Vine Street between Yucca Street and Sunset Boulevard.

  6. Queen Elizabeth 2 - Wikipedia

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    Accounts that repeat the position that QE2 was not named after the reigning monarch have been published in 1991, [57] 1999, [58] 2004, [56] 2005, [42] and 2008. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] [ 61 ] In 2008, The Telegraph goes further to state the ship is named not only as the second ship named Queen Elizabeth , but is specifically named after the wife of King ...

  7. Jewels of Mary, Queen of Scots - Wikipedia

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    In various 19th-century accounts of the "Essex" and Warner rings, Mary's gift and the verses are associated incorrectly with her marriage to Darnley in 1565. [77] Elizabeth sent Mary a diamond ring in December 1563, which she "marvellously esteemed". [78] Elizabeth, at this time, was trying to assert her power over Mary's marriage plans. [79]

  8. 2024 in paleontology - Wikipedia

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    New assemblage of frog fossils, including possible brachycephaloids, odontophrynids and hemiphractids, is described from the Eocene Geste Formation by Gómez et al. (2024). [107] Description of amphibian assemblages from the late Eocene – early Oligocene strata from the Transylvanian Basin is published by Venczel et al. (2024).