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... that Armet & Davis was an architectural firm in California that designed buildings in the so-called Googie architecture style popular during the 1950s?
... that Kansas City Barbeque is a restaurant and bar in San Diego, California, made famous after scenes in Top Gun were filmed there?
... that between 1903 and 1924 Rover produced more than 10,000 motorcycles?
... that the price war started by Color Air in 1998 led to its bankruptcy after 14 months?
... that Teddy Air was the first airline to win a public service obligation in Norway?
... that British marque AJW built high-end 1000cc motorcycles in the 1920s but were producing 50cc "Fox Cubs" by the 1960s?

... that the Mechanics Bank based in Richmond, California, declined a 60 million dollar government bailout?
... that NSB Gjøvikbanen won the first, and so far only, rail transport public service obligation tender in Norway in 2005?
... that Norwegian railway company Ofotbanen went bankrupt due to the minority owner Autolink starting the competitor Cargolink?
... that Itek Corporation was formed to build image retrieval systems, but instead became a reconnaissance camera vendor after winning the contract for the CIA's CORONA satellite?
... that George Webb Restaurants locations each have two clocks that employees claim are set one minute apart to evade a local law banning businesses from being open 24 hours per day?
... that the private company Gråkallbanen reopened the Trondheim Tramway in 1990, two years after it had been permanently closed by the city council?
...that Trondhjems Omnibus Aktieselskab started the first scheduled coach route in Trondheim, Norway, in 1893?
...that the Bank of Issue in Poland, created by the Nazis to support the Nazi economy, was penetrated by the Polish resistance which used it as a source of falsified documents?
...that the 1904 Advance 2 3/4hp motorcycle displayed at the National Motorcycle Museum is thought to be the only complete Advance motorcycle in existence?
...that the Great Divide Brewery won a prestigious Great American Beer Festival award less than three months after opening?
...that the Phnom Penh Commercial Bank was Cambodia's 23rd bank and the first Japanese-financed bank in the country?
...that ships built by the Grangemouth Dockyard Company during World War II included the SS Empire Arthur and the SS Empire Clansman?
...that the Boulder Beer Company, the first microbrewery in the U.S. state of Colorado, was founded by two college professors who enjoyed homebrewing?
...that the Bat Motor Manufacturing Co. Ltd was named after founder Samuel Robert Batson but was nicknamed "Best After Tests"?
...that the Hershey Creamery Company, founded in 1894 by five brothers from the Hershey family, has actually been owned and operated by the Holder family since the 1920s?
...that Dick's Last Resort, an American bar and restaurant chain, encourages the staff to act obnoxiously towards their customers?
...that the last Silk motorcycle ever built was a 500cc model based on a prototype that was never produced and was used as a competition prize?
...that Roderigue Hortalez and Company was a fictitious front organization set up by France to help American revolutionaries fight England?
...that out of 300 entries for the Honor Award from the United States Department of Transportation and the National Endowment for the Arts, Wallace Roberts & Todd was one of eleven who won the award?
...that John W. Lambert in 1891 made the first U.S. car for sale as well as Union cars and Lambert cars using his gasoline engines and gearless transmissions for the Union car company and Lambert car company as subsidiaries of the Buckeye Manufacturing Company?
...that the Moonlight Brewing Company sells its product only in kegs because the brewmaster believes the process of bottling beer "is cruel for the beer and a logistical nightmare"?
...that it now requires 250 employees and costs US$9 million to open a new location of the six-year-old America's Incredible Pizza Company?
...that Bankrate monitors about 4,800 financial institutions throughout the United States?
...that Norwegian businessperson Anthon B. Nilsen, founder of the company of the same name, also wrote popular novels and served one term in the Norwegian Parliament?
... that in 1909, the American Brass Company manufactured two-thirds of all the brass in the United States, consumed a third of all copper produced in the U.S., and was the largest fabricator of nonferrous metal in the world?
... that Réseau de Transport d'Électricité, Europe's largest transmission system operator, manages a 100,000-kilometre (62,000 mi) network of high-voltage power lines?
... that Hitachi Zosen Corporation built the first oil tanker in Japan in 1908 per an order by Standard Oil Company?
... that the Norwegian manufacturing company Thune, started in 1815 as a blacksmith's workshop, later expanded to build agricultural machinery, turbines and locomotives?
... that the documentary series Bertie and Haughey on the lives of former taoisigh Bertie Ahern and Charles Haughey were made by Mint Productions?
... that Hanwei Group is the biggest producer of eggs in the People's Republic of China?
... that IMS Associates, Inc. became one of the earliest successful personal computing companies, before going bankrupt in 1979 after just six years?
... that the liberal film company Brave New Films has produced full-length videos and paper advertisements in addition to the viral videos for which it is known?
... that Amrutanjan Healthcare Limited, an Indian pharmaceutical company specializing in Ayurvedic balm for headaches and cold, was founded by freedom fighter Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao?
... that the Newfoundland Butter Company of Newfoundland manufactured only margarine, and was the first margarine manufacturing plant allowed in Canada?
... that all U.S. Presidents from Dwight D. Eisenhower through Ronald Reagan ordered glassware from Fostoria Glass Company of Moundsville, West Virginia?
... that MS European Stars, built in 2002, was the last new cruise ship delivered to Festival Cruises before their bankruptcy in 2004?
... that Barley Yards Brewing Company is the first brewery in the United States to brew a Riesling ale?
... that Biomedical Tissue Services was shut down after investigators discovered that it had harvested remains from 1,000 corpses without consent, including those of Alistair Cooke?
... that Controlled Demolition, Inc. was recognized with world records for its 1998 demolitions of a 1,200-foot (370 m) radio tower, the tallest structure, and a 33-floor department store, the tallest building?
... that the Oregon Nursery Company founded the town of Orenco, Oregon in 1908 to house its Hungarian immigrant workers?
... that the hair salon chain First Choice Haircutters helped launch the career of soap opera star Jacqueline MacInnes Wood?
... that Beecher's Handmade Cheese is an artisan cheese maker in Seattle, Washington that is known for mixing combinations of cheese cultures?
... that the North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company was the defendant in the first environmental lawsuit in US legal history?
... that Matsukata Kojiro, president of Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, implemented Japan's first eight-hour work day in 1919, after a strike by 30,000 workers threatened to bring down the government?
... that when the Lackawanna Steel Co. moved from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to New York in 1902, its relocation led to the founding of Lackawanna, New York?
... that the site of the first Tubby's sandwich shop was chosen after a flat tire forced its founder to stop in front of a building that was for rent?
... that Adina World Beat Beverages was founded in order to keep traditional beverage recipes in third-world countries from being replaced by multinational cola distributors?
... that after their success with the Detroit Copper Mining Company of Arizona, William E. Dodge, Jr. and his partners founded the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad?
... that the Swiss manufacturer Synthes is the largest producer of implants to mend bone fractures?
... that Drukair flights between Kathmandu, Nepal and Paro, Bhutan pass close to Mount Everest?
... that Neafie & Levy built the U.S. Navy's first submarine in 1862 and its first destroyer in 1902?
... that from October 2008, the Norwegian digital ticketing system t:kort will be valid on Kystekspressen?
... that shipping company Bastø Fosen operates the most trafficked car ferry route in Norway, from Moss to Horten?
... that Adbot, one of the first internet advertising companies, was forced to close only seven months after opening due to the fraudulent source of its start-up funding?
... that Aberdeen's Northern Co-operative Society declared a loss of £7 million in 1992, and, unable to recover, went into receivership, bringing to an end a 132-year-old business?
... that Hexaware Technologies Limited is ranked as India’s 11th top IT service provider by NASSCOM since 2005?
... that Norsk Transport has operated four railway ferries on Lake Tinnsjå in Norway?
... that the British franchisee of Domino's Pizza's almost decade-long sponsorship of The Simpsons ended with a 2007 Ofcom ban on advertising junk food to children?
... that Scotland's Lothian, Borders & Angus Co-operative Society was founded in 1839, five years before the Rochdale Pioneers?
... that WayForward Technologies developed a video game remake of the 1951 Warner Bros. cartoon Duck Amuck?
... that the oil and gas exploration company WAPET struck Australia's first flowing oil in 1953, and Western Australia's first commercial natural gas field in 1964?
... that a United States district court decision against the Omaha Horse Railway Company allowed cable car tracks to be installed in Omaha, Nebraska?
... that Vuestar Technologies in Singapore claims to own patents for hyperlinking a visual image to webpages, and plans to bill virtually all websites including Google and Microsoft for its use?
... that the US government took control of the Alaska Steamship Company's fleet during World War II?
... that Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company is the world's largest limestone quarry?
... that U.S. shipping company Sealift Incorporated has been awarded over US$400,000,000 in government contracts since the start of the 2000 fiscal year?
... that Salt Lake City-based robotics firm Sarcos is developing a military powered exoskeleton allowing wearers to easily lift 200 pounds (91 kg)?
... that Rosetta Genomics Ltd. is a molecular diagnostics company that uses micro-ribonucleic acid biomarkers to develop diagnostic tests designed to differentiate between various types of cancer?

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