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The Giant Company (formerly known as Giant Food Stores) is an American regional supermarket chain that operates in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia under the Giant and Martin's brands. It is a subsidiary of Ahold Delhaize, and headquartered in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. As of September 2020, the company operated 190 stores, 133 ...
Seal Island (formerly known as Witte Klip, meaning "White Rock") is a small land mass located 5.7 kilometres (3.5 miles) off the northern beaches of False Bay, near Cape Town in South Africa. The island is so named because of the great number of Cape fur seals that occupy it. It is 5 acres (2.0 hectares) in area and home to 64,000 cape fur ...
Tencent's ultimate largest controlling corporate shareholder, Naspers, is headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa. [140] On March 8, 2022, UMG suspended all its operations in Russia, following the country's invasion of Ukraine. [141] In 2023, UMG announced its expansion with its new office in Casablanca, Morocco. [142] [143] [144] [145]
In his debut appearance, King K. Rool is depicted as a large obese crocodile with a red cape, golden wristbands, a golden belly plate, large crown and a large bloodshot eye. He was designed by Steve Mayles, an artist who worked at Rare and brother of Donkey Kong Country designer Gregg Mayles. In later appearances, K. Rool's attire changes ...
The Archdiocese of Cape Town has a rich history that dates back to its establishment as the Apostolic Vicariate of Cape of Good Hope (and adjacent territories) on June 18, 1818, by Pope Pius VII. It was formed by splitting off territories from the then- Territorial Prelature of Mozambique and the Diocese of Tomé.
The University of Cape Town was founded at a meeting in the Groote Kerk in 1829 as the South African College, a high school for young men. The college had a small tertiary-education facility, introduced in 1874 [9] that grew substantially after 1880, when the discovery of gold and diamonds in the north – and the resulting demand for skills in mining – gave it the financial boost it needed ...
The Cape genet (Genetta tigrina), also known as the South African large-spotted genet, is a genet species endemic to South Africa. As it is common and not threatened, it is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List . [ 1 ]
This species is widespread in the Eastern Cape and south-western KwaZulu-Natal provinces of South Africa. It favours sites near the coast including open scrub, steep rocky slopes, evergreen forests in valleys [7] and river banks. It also occurs inland at a higher altitude in isolated sites in the Amatola Mountains. [1]