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The aim is to commercialise green technologies for sale in IKEA stores within 3–4 years. [185] [186] On 17 February 2011, IKEA announced its plans to develop a wind farm in Dalarna County, Sweden, furthering its goal of using only renewable energy to fuel its operations. [187]
An IKEA Billy bookshelf. Billy (stylised as BILLY) is a bookcase sold by the Swedish furniture company IKEA. It was developed in 1979 by the Swedish designer Gillis Lundgren, and IKEA have sold over 140 million units of the bookcases worldwide. Its popularity and global spread has led to its use as a barometer of relative worldwide price levels.
Zillow Group, Inc., or simply Zillow, is an American tech real-estate marketplace company that was founded in 2006 [4] by co-executive chairmen Rich Barton [5] and Lloyd Frink, former Microsoft executives and founders of Microsoft spin-off Expedia; Spencer Rascoff, a co-founder of Hotwire.com; David Beitel, Zillow's current chief technology officer; and Kristin Acker, Zillow's current ...
The former districts not under Georgia's effective sovereignty at the moment of the local government reform of 2006 were not transformed into municipalities. Rather, the laws of Georgia include a notion that the final mode of subdivision and system of local self-government should be established after the restoration of the state jurisdiction ...
Detail of the dome and statue of Miss Freedom.. Like many U.S. state capitols, the Georgia State Capitol is designed to resemble the Neoclassical architectural style of the United States Capitol, in Washington, D.C. Former Confederate general Philip Cook was a member of the commission that oversaw planning and construction of the building.
It was designed by Georgia architect A. Thomas Bradbury and officially opened on January 1, 1968. In 1975, the mansion was heavily damaged in a tornado that struck west and then north Atlanta on the morning of March 24, [ 1 ] occurring just a week after Governor Busbee moved in after his inauguration , and necessitating a renovation .
From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress Private R. Cecil Johnson of 8th Georgia Infantry Regiment Sketch of a soldier of the 55th Georgia Infantry Regiment by war artist Alfred Waud Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform and Georgia state seal belt buckle with musket. 1st (Regular) Infantry
Plasterwork ceilings, [22] carved wood, and bold schemes of wallpaint formed a backdrop to increasingly rich collections of furniture, paintings, porcelain, mirrors, and objets d'art of all kinds. [23] Wood-panelling, very common since about 1500, fell from favour around the mid-century, and wallpaper included very expensive imports from China ...