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OpenTable is an online restaurant-reservation service company founded by Sid Gorham, Eric Moe and Chuck Templeton [3] on July 2, 1998, and based in San Francisco, California. In 1998, operations began with a limited selection of restaurants in San Francisco.
Toptable was founded in 2000 by entrepreneur Karen Hanton for restaurant owners to advertise their venues and book customers directly. [1] Toptable sat over 1.5 million diners in 2006 when it completed its first full year.
Andrew Scott Zimmern (born July 4, 1961) is an American chef, restaurateur, television and radio personality, director, producer, businessman, [5] food critic, and author.. Zimmern is the co-creator, host, and consulting producer of the Travel Channel television series Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, Bizarre Foods America, Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations, Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre ...
James Price (1776–1840) was a miller, businessman, banker, and railroad executive based in Wilmington, Delaware. Born to a wealthy family in Kent County, Maryland, Price moved to Wilmington in his youth. He invested in Joseph Tatnall's mills in Brandywine, Delaware. In 1802, he married Tatnall's daughter, Margaret, with whom he had four ...
Wedding Babylon (2009) explores the wedding industry. The book lifts the veil on the excesses of the wedding industry - the scams which inflate the prices of everything from flowers to cakes to marquee hire and the wedding disaster stories of high jinxing at the altar and disastrous low comedy in the speeches. [5] [6]
The fall of Babylon was the decisive event that marked the total defeat of the Neo-Babylonian Empire to the Achaemenid Empire in 539 BC. Nabonidus , the final Babylonian king and son of the Assyrian priestess Adad-guppi , [ 2 ] ascended to the throne in 556 BC, after overthrowing his predecessor Labashi-Marduk .
Lion of Babylon in 1909 Lion of Babylon from the left side Lion of Babylon is a stone sculpture, over 3,600 years old, that was found in the ancient city of Babylon , Iraq . [ 1 ] Its discovery was first documented in 1817 by Claudius Rich , although it may have been seen as early as 1790 by Joseph de Beauchamp.
Obelisks were prominent in the architecture of the ancient Egyptians, and played a vital role in their religion placing them in pairs at the entrance of the temples.The word "obelisk" as used in English today is of Greek rather than Egyptian origin because Herodotus, the Greek traveler, was one of the first classical writers to describe the objects.