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  2. Columbus Marion Joiner - Wikipedia

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    Beginning in 1930, Joiner began to drill eight miles west of Henderson, Texas, on the farm of Daisy Bradford. Using a flimsy pine rig and battered tools, his first two wells were unsuccessful. Eventually, at 8 p.m. on October 3, 1930, the Daisy Bradford Number 3 struck oil. The ensuing gusher sent the area into a frenzy.

  3. Daisyworld - Wikipedia

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    Daisyworld (originally "Daisy World" [1] [2]), a term of reference in evolutionary and population ecology, derives from research on aspects of "coupling" between an ecosphere's biota and its planetary environment, in particular via mathematical modeling and computer simulation, research dating to a series of 1982-1983 symposia presentations and primary research reports by James E. Lovelock and ...

  4. Quizlet - Wikipedia

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    Quizlet's primary products include digital flash cards, matching games, practice electronic assessments, and live quizzes. In 2017, 1 in 2 high school students used Quizlet. [ 4 ] As of December 2021, Quizlet has over 500 million user-generated flashcard sets and more than 60 million active users.

  5. Daisy - Wikipedia

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    Daisy Outdoor Products, known primarily as Daisy, an American air gun manufacturer Daisy Systems (disambiguation) , several companies The Daisy, a Rodeo Drive nightclub in Beverly Hills, California, U.S.

  6. Daisy (advertisement) - Wikipedia

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    Before 1964, campaign ads were almost always positive. The opposing candidate or their policies were rarely mentioned. [20] In mid-June, John P. Roche, president of Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), a progressive advocacy group, wrote a letter to Bill Moyers, Johnson's press secretary, which said that Johnson was in a "wonderful strategic position", and that they could run a "savage ...

  7. Bellis perennis - Wikipedia

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    Bellis perennis (/ ˈ b ɛ l ə s p ə ˈ r ɛ n ə s /), [2] [3] the daisy, is a European species of the family Asteraceae, often considered the archetypal species of the name daisy. To distinguish this species from other plants known as daisies, it is sometimes qualified or known as common daisy , lawn daisy or English daisy .

  8. Quiz Show (film) - Wikipedia

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    Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical mystery-drama film [3] [4] directed and produced by Robert Redford. Dramatizing the Twenty-One quiz show scandals of the 1950s, the screenplay by Paul Attanasio [ 5 ] adapts the memoirs of Richard N. Goodwin , a U.S. Congressional lawyer who investigated the accusations of game-fixing by show producers. [ 6 ]

  9. Luther Burbank - Wikipedia

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    Burbank's most successful strains and varieties included the Shasta daisy, the fire poppy (note possible confusion with the California wildflower, Papaver californicum, which is also called a "fire poppy"), the "July Elberta" peach, the "Santa Rosa" plum, the "Flaming Gold" nectarine, the "Wickson" plum (named after the agronomist Edward J ...