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| x Audi |
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Automobile | Zwickau |
AUDI AG (Xetra: NSU) is a German company which produces cars under the Audi brand, pronounced /ˈaʊdi/. It is part of the Volkswagen Group. The name Audi is based on a Latin translation of the surname of the founder August Horch, itself the German...
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| x Adventure International |
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1978 | Video game |
Adventure International was a video game publishing company that existed from 1978 until 1985, started by Scott and Alexis Adams. Their games were notable for being the first implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system....
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| x AOL |
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1985 | Internet service provider |
In 2006, AOL shifted its strategy to build on these strengths,
making its popular e-mail and AOL software, along with other services,
available free to anyone with an Internet connection. AOL continues to
move forward on this strategy in 2007, with...
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| x Amway |
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1959 | Multi-level marketing |
Amway is a direct selling company and manufacturer that uses multi-level marketing to sell a variety of products, primarily in the health, beauty and home care markets. Amway was founded in 1959 by Jay Van Andel and Richard DeVos. Based in Ada,...
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| x Adobe Systems | Dec 1982 | Computer software | Mountain View |
Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced /əˈdoʊbiː/ ə-DOE-bee) (NASDAQ: ADBE) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. The company has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity...
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| x Atari |
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1972 | Consumer electronics | New York City |
Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. It is currently owned by Atari Interactive, a wholly owned subsidiary of the French publisher Infogrames Entertainment SA (IESA). Atari Interactive has in...
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| x Ajax Amsterdam |
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Professional Sports Clubs and Promoters |
Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax (Euronext: AJAX), also referred to as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam or simply Ajax, is a professional football club from Amsterdam, Netherlands. The club is historically one of the three clubs that dominate the Dutch...
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| x Aston Martin |
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1913 | Automobile |
Aston Martin Lagonda Limited is a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars, based in Gaydon, Warwickshire. The company name is derived from the name of one of the company's founders, Lionel Martin, and from the Aston Hill speed hillclimb near...
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| x American Airlines |
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1930 | Transportation |
American Airlines, Inc. (AA) is a major airline of the United States. It is the world's largest airline in passenger miles transported and passenger fleet size; third largest, behind FedEx Express and Delta Air Lines, in aircraft operated; and...
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| x Advanced Micro Devices |
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1969 | Semiconductor industry |
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) is a leading global provider of
innovative processing solutions in the computing, graphics and consumer
electronics markets. AMD is dedicated to driving open innovation,
choice and industry growth by delivering...
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| x Aon Corp. |
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Management consulting | Chicago |
Aon Corporation (NYSE: AON) is a provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, human capital and management consulting, and specialty insurance underwriting. It is based in the Aon Center in the Chicago Loop area of...
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| x ARY Group | Offices of Other Holding Companies |
The ARY Group or Abdul Razzaq Yaqoob Group is a Dubai-based holding company founded by a Pakistani businessman, Haji Abdul Razzak Yaqoob (ARY). Haji Abdul Razzak is the Chairman of the Group. Abdul Razzaq always offerd government of Pakistan, heavy...
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| x Arianespace |
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1980 | Aerospace |
Arianespace SA is a French company founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial space transportation company. They undertake the production, operation, and marketing of the Ariane 5 rocket launcher as part of the Ariane programme.
As of 2004,...
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| x Boeing |
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Jul 15, 1916 | Aerospace | Seattle |
The Boeing Company is a major aerospace and defense corporation, founded by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Its international headquarters has been in Chicago,...
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| x BMW | Jul 21, 1917 | Automobile | Milbertshofen-Am Hart |
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (info) (BMW), (English: Bavarian Motor Works) is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the MINI brand, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor...
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| x British Airways |
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1924 | Airline |
British Airways plc or BA (LSE: BAY) is the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom. BA has its headquarters in Waterside near its main hub at London Heathrow Airport and is the largest airline in the UK based on fleet size, international flights...
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| x Bomis |
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1996 | The Internet |
Bomis (pronounced /ˈbɒmɨs/ to rhyme with "promise") is a dot-com company founded in 1996. Its primary business is the sale of advertising on the Bomis.com search portal. It was founded by Jimmy Wales and Tim Shell, and provided support for the free...
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| x Borland |
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1983 | Computer software | Cupertino |
Borland Software Corporation (Nasdaq GM: BORL) is a world leader in platform independent software development and deployment solutions that are designed to accelerate the entire application development lifecycle. By connecting managers, testers,...
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| x BBC |
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1922 | Broadcasting | London |
The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually referred to by its abbreviation as the "BBC", is the longest established and largest broadcaster in the world. The BBC is principally funded by an annual television licence fee, which is charged to all...
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| x British Rail | Rail Transportation |
British Railways (BR), which later traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the Rail transport in Great Britain between 1948–1997. It was formed as a result of the the nationalisation of the "Big Four" British railway companies and lasted...
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| x Burroughs |
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Office Equipment |
The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment. The company was founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company and was assimilated in the 1986 merger that resulted in the creation of Unisys. The company's...
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| x Bombardier |
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Aerospace Engineering | Valcourt |
Bombardier Inc. (French pronunciation: [bɔ̃baʁdje]) is a Canadian conglomerate, founded by Joseph-Armand Bombardier as L'Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée in 1942, at Valcourt in the Eastern Townships, Quebec. Over the years it has been a large...
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| x British Steel |
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1967 | Steelmaking |
British Steel was a major British steel producer. It originated as a nationalised industry, the British Steel Corporation (BSC), formed in 1967. This was converted to a limited company, British Steel PLC, and privatised in 1988. It was once a...
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| x BT Group |
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Oct 1, 1981 | Telecommunications |
BT Group plc (formerly British Telecommunications plc, abbreviated to British Telecom, and still occasionally referred to as such) is the privatised former state telecommunications operator in the United Kingdom. It is the dominant fixed line...
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| x Blizzard Entertainment |
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1991 | Computer and video game industry | Irvine |
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher founded in February 1991 under the name Silicon & Synapse by three graduates of UCLA, Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham and Frank Pearce. Based in Irvine, California, the...
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| x Becker's Milk | Convenience Stores |
Becker's Milk is a franchised chain of convenience store in Ontario, Canada.
The assets of Becker's were acquired by Silcorp, parent company of rival Mac's Convenience Stores in November 1996. Becker's continues operation as a property owner....
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| x Birmingham Small Arms Company |
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1861 | Small Arms Manufacturing | Gun Quarter |
The Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA) is a British based airgun and shotgun manufacturer and former manufacturer of motorcycles and both sporting and military firearms.
At its peak, BSA was the largest motorcycle producer in the world. Loss of...
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| x Brisbane Broncos |
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1988 | Professional Sports Clubs and Promoters |
The Brisbane Broncos are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the city of Brisbane, the capital of the state of Queensland. The Broncos play in Australasia's elite competition, the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership....
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| x Bentley |
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Jan 18, 1919 | Automobile |
Bentley Motors Limited is a British manufacturer of automobiles founded on 18 January 1919 by Walter Owen Bentley (known as W.O. Bentley or just "W.O."). Bentley had been previously known for his range of rotary aero-engines in World War I, the most...
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| x Capcom |
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May 30, 1979 | Computer and video game industry | Osaka |
Alph Lyla, also known as Alfh Lyra or Alpha Lyla, is Capcom's "house band" composed of Capcom developers. Their best known work is most likely the soundtrack of the popular fighting-game Street Fighter II.
Some well-known members of this band are:...
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| x Channel 4 |
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Television Broadcasting |
Channel 4 is a UK public-service television broadcaster which began working on November 2, 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the station...
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| x Cessna |
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1927 | Aerospace |
The Cessna Aircraft Company is an airplane manufacturing corporation headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, USA. Their main products are general aviation aircraft. Although they are the most well-known for their small, piston-powered aircraft, they also...
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| x Conectiva |
Conectiva was a company founded on August 28, 1995, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, by a group of friends, among them Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, who was a pioneer in the distribution of Linux and open source software in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and...
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| x Chaosium |
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1975 | Role-playing game |
Chaosium is one of the longer lived publishers of role-playing games still in existence. Founded by Greg Stafford, its first game was actually a wargame, White Bear and Red Moon, which later mutated into Dragon Pass and its sequel, Nomad Gods. White...
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| x Cantor Fitzgerald L.P. |
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1945 | Investment banking |
Cantor Fitzgerald L.P. is a global financial services firm specializing in bond trading, as well as investment banking, asset management, market data and brokerage services. It was founded in 1945 by Bernard Gerald Cantor and John Fitzgerald as a...
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| x Ceres Brewery | 1856 | Malt Beverages |
The Ceres Brewery is a brewery located in Aarhus, Denmark. Today, it is part of Royal Unibrew.
It was founded by a grocer named Malthe Conrad Lottrup, with help from the chemists A. S. Aagard and Knud Redelien, as the city's seventh brewery. It was...
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| x Chrysler LLC |
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Jun 6, 1925 | Automobile |
Chrysler Group LLC is a U.S. automobile manufacturer headquartered in the Detroit suburb of Auburn Hills, Michigan. Chrysler was first organized as the Chrysler Corporation in 1925. From 1998 to 2007, Chrysler and its subsidiaries were part of the...
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| x Chick Publications |
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1961 | Publishing |
Chick Publications is an American publishing company founded and run by Jack T. Chick which produces and markets Protestant fundamentalist pamphlets, DVDs, VCDs, videos, books, and posters. Chick Publications' best-known products are Chick tracts,...
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| x Coleco |
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1932 | Video game | West Hartford |
Coleco was an American company founded in 1932 by Maurice Greenberg as "Connecticut Leather Company". It became a highly successful toy company in the 1980s, known for its mass-produced version of Cabbage Patch Kids dolls and its video game consoles...
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| x Commodore International |
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1954 | Computer hardware |
Commodore, the commonly used name for Commodore International, was a US electronics company based in West Chester, Pennsylvania which played a vital role in the development of the home–personal computer industry in the 1980s. The company is also...
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| x Central Pacific Railroad |
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Rail Transportation |
The Central Pacific Railroad was the California-to-Utah portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in North America.
Many proposals to build a transcontinental railroad failed because of the disputes over slavery in Washington; with the...
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| x Compaq |
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Feb 1982 | Computer hardware |
Compaq Computer Corporation was an American personal computer company founded in 1982. Once the largest supplier of personal computing systems in the world, Compaq existed as an independent corporation until 2002, when it merged with Hewlett-Packard...
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| x Digital Equipment Corporation |
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1957 | Computer | Maynard |
Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering American company in the computer industry. It is often referred to within the computing industry as DEC (this acronym was frequently officially used by Digital itself, but the trademark was always...
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| x Dutch West India Company |
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Dutch West India Company (Dutch: Geoctroyeerde Westindische Compagnie or GWIC; English: Chartered West India Company) was a chartered company of Dutch merchants. Among its founding fathers was Willem Usselincx (1567-1647?). On June 3, 1621, it was...
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| x Darcsyde Productions |
Darcsyde Productions is a small-scale Australian web development and publishing concern, based in Melbourne, which has specialised in creating websites and role-playing games (RPGs).
Among Darcsyde's early creations have been Trauma (out of print...
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| x DC Comics |
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Periodical Publishers |
DC Comics (founded in 1934 as National Allied Publications) is one of the largest and most popular companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing division of DC Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary...
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| x Ericsson |
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1876 | Telecom Equipment Vendor | Stockholm |
Ericsson (Telefonaktiebolaget L. M. Ericsson) (OMX: ERIC B, NASDAQ: ERIC), one of the largest Swedish companies, is a leading provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services covering a range of technologies,...
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| x Electronic Data Systems |
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1962 | Information technology | Texas |
HP Enterprise Services, is a global business and technology services company, previously known as Electronic Data Systems (EDS), headquartered in Plano, Texas that defined the outsourcing business when it was established in 1962 by Ross Perot....
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| x Eurostar |
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Rail Transportation |
Eurostar is a high-speed railway passenger service connecting London with Paris and Brussels. All its trains cross under the English Channel via the Channel Tunnel between Britain and France, owned and operated separately by Eurotunnel.
The London...
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| x Enron | Energy | Omaha |
Enron Corporation (former NYSE ticker symbol ENE) was an American energy company based in Houston, Texas. Before its bankruptcy in late 2001, Enron employed approximately 22,000 and was one of the world's leading electricity, natural gas, pulp and...
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| x Exxon Mobil |
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Nov 30, 1999 | Petroleum |
The Exxon Mobil Corporation, or ExxonMobil, is an American oil and gas corporation. It is a direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil company, and was formed on November 30, 1999, by the merger of Exxon and Mobil.
ExxonMobil is the...
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| x Epicor |
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1984 | Computer software |
Epicor (NASDAQ: EPIC) develops a range of enterprise software targeted at midmarket companies primarily in the manufacturing, distribution, retail, hospitality and services industries. The company is headquartered in Irvine, California and was...
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| x Fox Film |
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Entertainment |
The Fox Film Corporation was an American company which produced motion pictures, formed in 1915 when founder William Fox merged two companies he had established in 1913: Greater New York Film Rental, a distribution firm, which was part of the...
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| x First National |
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1917 | Film |
First National was an association of independent theater owners in the United States that expanded from exhibiting movies to distributing them, and eventually to producing them as a movie studio. It later merged with Warner Bros.
The First National...
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| x Foonly |
Foonly was the computer company formed by Dave Poole, who was one of the principal Super Foonly designers as well as one of hackerdom's more colorful personalities.
The PDP-10 successor was to have been built by the Super Foonly project at the...
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| x Ford Motor Company |
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Jun 16, 1903 | Automobile |
The Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is an American multinational corporation based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury...
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| x Fantasy Games Unlimited |
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1975 | Game Publisher |
Fantasy Games Unlimited, often referred to as just FGU, is a publishing house for both table-top and role-playing games. They have no in-house design teams and rely on submitted material from outside talent.
Founded in 1975 by Scott Bizar, the...
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| x FASA |
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1980 | Role-playing game | United States of America |
FASA Corporation was an American publisher of role-playing games, wargames and boardgames between 1980 and 2001. Originally the name FASA was an acronym for "Freedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration", a joking allusion to the Marx Brothers...
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| x General Motors |
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1908 | Automobile | Flint |
General Motors Company, also known as GM, is a United States based automaker with headquarters in Detroit, Michigan.
By sales, GM ranked as the largest U.S. automaker and the world's second largest for 2008. GM had the third highest 2008 global...
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| x Greenpeace |
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Membership Organizations, NEC |
Greenpeace is a non-governmental organization for the protection and conservation of the environment. Greenpeace uses direct action, lobbying and research to achieve its goals. Greenpeace has a worldwide presence with national and regional offices...
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