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Food stuff ration coupons types I–V for direct laborers and workers in Vietnam, 1976–1986. In marketing, a coupon is a ticket or document that can be redeemed for a financial discount or rebate when purchasing a product.
The Mumbai Suburban Railway is an offshoot of the first passenger railway to be built by the British East India Company, and is also the oldest railway system in Asia.The first train was run by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (now Central Railway) between Bori Bunder (now Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus) and Thane, a distance of 34 km (21 mi), on 16 April 1853 at 15:35.
Falling Free won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1988. [3]At Reactor, Jo Walton described it as "a very traditional science fiction book in many ways—the best bit is the science," noting that she did not find the romance between Silver and Leo to be "very convincing", and stated that as the book is one of Bujold's earlier works, it is less "technically accomplished" and "definitely ...
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881. [3] Based in the Greater Los Angeles area city of El Segundo since 2018, [4] it is the fifth-largest newspaper in nation and the largest in the Western United States with a print circulation of 118,760 and 500,000 online subscribers. [5]
By the ninth century, printing on paper had taken off, and the first completely surviving printed book is the Diamond Sutra (British Library) of 868, uncovered from Dunhuang. [14] By the tenth century, 400,000 copies of some sutras and pictures were printed, and the Confucian classics were in print.
Books with a previous first edition are noted as "reissue" below. The order listed for series one is the original order of publication; the price is given. Ace reissued many of these books outside of the Ace Special line with different covers and prices, and sometimes different paginations. Award winners are noted; several were nominated for ...
As part of the British honours system, Special Honours are issued at the Monarch's pleasure at any given time. The Special Honours refer to the awards made within royal prerogative, operational honours, political honours and other honours awarded outside the New Years Honours and Birthday Honours.
Linux (/ ˈ l ɪ n ʊ k s /, LIN-uuks) [11] is a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, [12] an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.