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Tramontina is a family-run Brazilian metallurgical company founded in 1911 by italian immigrant Valentin Tramontina.The company manufactures cutlery, cookware, home appliances, and tools for agriculture, gardening, industrial work, automotive maintenance, civil construction, and electrical repair.
The company's founder William Burke Belknap the elder (1811–1884) was born in Brimfield, Massachusetts, the son of Morris Burke Belknap the elder (1780–1877) and Phoebe Locke Thompson Belknap (1788–1873) and is not to be confused with William Burke Belknap the younger (1885–1965) or William Burke Belknap Jr.
As of 2023 the heaviest synthetic diamond ever made weighs 30.18 ct (6.0 g); [2] the heaviest natural diamond ever found weighs 3167 ct (633.4 g). Numerous claims of diamond synthesis were reported between 1879 and 1928 after English chemist Smithson Tennant demonstrated that diamonds are a form of carbon in 1797; [ 3 ] most of these attempts ...
B&H Photo Video (also known as B&H Photo and B&H and B&H Foto & Electronics Corporation) is an American photo and video equipment retailer founded in 1973, based in Manhattan, New York City. [1] B&H conducts business primarily through online e-commerce consumer sales and business to business sales, as they only have one retail location.
An old pack of English Benson & Hedges cigarettes, with a UK text warning at the bottom of the pack. Benson & Hedges was founded in London in 1873 by Richard Benson and William Hedges as Benson and Hedges Ltd. Alfred Paget Hedges succeeded his father in the business in 1885, the same year which Richard Benson left the business.
Zwilling J. A. Henckels AG is a German knife-maker based in Solingen, Germany.It is one of the largest and oldest manufacturers of kitchen knives for domestic and professional use, having been founded in June 1731 by Peter Henckels.
Depiction of the Brazil nut in Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887. The Brazil nut is a large tree, reaching 50 metres (160 feet) tall, [15] and with a trunk 1 to 2 m (3 to 7 ft) in diameter, making it among the largest of trees in the Amazon rainforest.
The Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte, called Greater Belo Horizonte, is the 3rd most populous of Brazil, after only Greater São Paulo (with 19,672,582 people, first in Brazil and 5th in the world) and Greater Rio de Janeiro (with 14,387,000 people).