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  1. 4 hours ago · During the 1900 Big Game between the California Golden Bears and the Stanford Cardinal American football teams, a large crowd of people who did not want to pay the $1 (equivalent to $37 in 2023) admission fee gathered upon the roof of a glass blowing factory to watch for free. The roof then collapsed, severing fuel pipes and causing at least 100 people to fall four stories to the factory floor ...

  2. 1 day ago · Online food deliveries began with trials in 2017. [153] In 2019, M&S paid up to £750 million (dependent on future performance) for 50% of online retailer Ocado Retail Ltd, displacing Waitrose as Ocado's retail partner. [154] Since 2020, [155] customers are directed to Ocado's website where they can order food and selected clothing items. [156]

  3. 1 day ago · Samora Machel (53), a Mozambican politician, military commander, and revolutionary, was killed on 19 October 1986 [ 172 ] in a mysterious plane crash close to the Mozambican-South African border. Cam Lyman (54–55) was a multimillionaire dog breeder from Westwood, Massachusetts who disappeared in the summer of 1987.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Nikola_TeslaNikola Tesla - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · The advantages of having Westinghouse continue to champion the motor probably seemed obvious to Tesla and he agreed to release the company from the royalty payment clause in the contract. [ 90 ] [ 91 ] Six years later Westinghouse purchased Tesla's patent for a lump sum payment of $216,000 as part of a patent-sharing agreement signed with General Electric (a company created from the 1892 ...

  5. 1 day ago · As a Cambridge graduate, the author of an enormously successful English language book of anatomy entitled Microcosmographia: a Description of the Body of Man (1615) [60] and a member of the medical department of the royal household, [n 1] he was clearly of higher social status than his city-appointed predecessors (his father was a noted preacher, and his elder brother Thomas was created a ...

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Hagia_SophiaHagia Sophia - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · Hagia Sophia (Turkish: Ayasofya; Ancient Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, romanized: Hagía Sophía; Latin: Sancta Sapientia; lit. ' Holy Wisdom '), officially the Hagia Sophia church (Turkish: Ayasofya-i Kebir Cami-i Şerifi; Greek: Μεγάλο Τζαμί της Αγίας Σοφίας), [3] is a church serving as a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey.