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- 281: History Of The Hot Dog
- ... birthday of the hot dog in that city. It's said that the frankfurter was developed there in 1484, five years before Christopher Columbus set sail for the new world. However, the people of Vienna, Austria, point to the term "wiener" to prove their claim as the birthplace of the hot dog. As it turns out, it is likely that the North American hot dog comes from a common European sausage ...
- 282: Dell Computer
- ... Ireland. In 1992 Xerox agreed to sell Dell machines in 19 Latin American countries. That year Dell sold a new line of PCs through Price Club (now Price/Costco). Dell opened subsidiaries in Japan and Austria in 1993 and began selling PCs through Best Buy stores in 16 US states. The computer maker abandoned retail stores in 1994 to refocus on its mail-order origins. The company took a $40 million ...
- 283: Aristotle On Virtue
- ... staff and build new plants.‘¦ Most foreign direct investment since 1990 has come from Germany, the Czech Republic‘¦s largest neighbor. The Netherlands and the USA ranked second and third followed by Switzerland, France and Austria (see also Appendix I). The year of 1997 saw a growing interest among Asian companies to invest in the Czech Republic. Euronova Euronova began its operations in the Czech Republic in 1991 when the first ...
- 284: European Union
- ... big loser is Germany. The host government tried to get its EU payments reduced by 3bn euros, but for the talks to succeed the Germans had to settle for a cut of just 700m euros. Austria, Sweden and the Netherlands are the other big contributors to the EU's coffers and they did not achieve the big cuts they hoped for either. Italy could soon become one of the big spenders ...
- 285: Ahold In The Czech Republic
- ... staff and build new plants. Most foreign direct investment since 1990 has come from Germany, the Czech Republic s largest neighbor. The Netherlands and the USA ranked second and third followed by Switzerland, France and Austria (see also Appendix I). The year of 1997 saw a growing interest among Asian companies to invest in the Czech Republic. Euronova Euronova began its operations in the Czech Republic in 1991 when the first ...
- 286: Emile Durkheim & Anomie Or Strain Theory
- ... because of the fact that we have no national religion uniting the population under a shared system of beliefs and practices (p.626). He gone on to say that countries with a national religion, like Austria, Denmark, and Sweden, should have lower suicides (Stack, 1983: 626) Stack (1983) has a second criticism, when he says the relationships may be spurious, because the study omitted control variables from their model that are ...
- 287: The Turks And Mongols
- ... amalgamation of these two types took place in Mongolia, and not in Europe. Also, the presence of numerous interme-diate forms attests this freedom of intercourse. Individual Hunnish skulls found as far afield as Lower Austria and France may be easily identified with the crania from Hungary, and belong in known cases to type B.12 A further light upon the physical characteristics of the Huns is shown by a study ...
- 288: Monroe Doctrine
- ... After Napoleon went down, the monarchy in Spain regained power ("Monroe Doctrine" 617). The Spanish had felt embarrassed after losing their colonies to independence. In 1815 Tsar Alexander I of Russia and the monarchs of Austria and Prussia formed the Holy Alliance. This alliance was a group set out to maintain autocracy (Migill 594). Spain then demanded the return of its colonies of the New World (Migill 594). With the possibility ...
- 289: JFK
- ... to contribute to the ransom. On December 25, 1962, "1113 prisoners were released in exchange for food and medical supplies valued at a total of approximately $53 million."6 On June 3, 1961, in Vienna, Austria, Kennedy and USSR leader Nikata Khrushchev met and reviewed relationships between the U. S. and the USSR, as well as other questions of interest to the two states. Two incidents contributed to hostility at the ...
- 290: German Immigration To The Midwest
- ... the 1860's and the poverty that almost always follows war. In one 20 year span in the late 1800's Germany went to war at least 7 times taking on neighboring countries such as: Austria, France, Belgium and Russia. Like I said, much money was spent on the war effort in Germany. People were taxed heavily just to buy bullets for the army. Through all this, word was spread like ...
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