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Amazon launches Free Super Saver Shipping, which allows customers to get free shipping for orders above $99. [97] 2002: March: Legal, Competition: Amazon settles its October 1999 patent infringement suit against Barnes & Noble (over its 1-Click checkout system, which it received a patent for in September 1999). It originally charged that Barnes ...
Amazon websites are country-specific (for example, amazon.com for the US and amazon.co.uk for UK) though some offer international shipping. [51] Visits to amazon.com grew from 615 million annual visitors in 2008, [52] to more than 2 billion per month in 2022. [citation needed] The e-commerce platform is the 12th most visited website in the ...
Jeffrey Preston Bezos (/ ˈ b eɪ z oʊ s / BAY-zohss; [2] né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company.
Amazon Storywriter was a free cloud-based screenwriting app [1] launched by Amazon in 2015. [2] Storywriter provided automatic formatting for screenplays on the Master Scene Standard. [ citation needed ] The app allowed original screenplays to be submitted to Amazon Studios for production consideration until April 2018 when submissions were closed.
The Amazon Queen Thalestris in the camp of Alexander the Great, Johann Georg Platzer. Amazons are also mentioned by biographers of Alexander the Great, who report of Queen Thalestris bearing him a child (a story in the Alexander Romance). [49] However, other biographers of Alexander dispute the claim, including the highly regarded Plutarch.
A story generator or plot generator is a tool that generates basic narratives or plot ideas. The generator could be in the form of a computer program, a chart with multiple columns, a book composed of panels that flip independently of one another, or a set of several adjacent reels that spin independently of one another, allowing a user to select elements of a narrative plot.
Storyland is a browser-based narrative work of electronic literature.The project is included in the first Electronic Literature Collection. [1] It was created by Nanette Wylde in 2000 and is considered a form of Combinatory Narrative or Generative Poetry which is created with the use of the computer's random function.
Previously known as Paradise Island and the Amazon Isles, it first appeared in All Star Comics #8 (October 1941). Themyscira is a homogeneous nation of women governed by Aphrodite's Law, which declared that the Amazons would be immortal as long as no man sets foot on their island. [3] [4] Men are banned from Themyscira under penalty of death. [5]