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Ampad was founded in 1888 by Thomas W. Holley, a paper mill employee, in Holyoke, Massachusetts.At the time, Holyoke was a major papermaking center. Holley began purchasing the rejects, or "sortings", from local paper mills, cutting the paper, inscribing rules on it, and binding it into pads which he could sell at a discount.
Polistes versicolor, also known as the variegated paper wasp or yellow paper wasp [note 1], is a subtropical social wasp within Polistes, the most common genus of paper wasp. It is the most widely distributed of South American wasp species and is particularly common in the Southeastern Brazilian states. [ 3 ]
While Richard Nixon always kept a yellow writing pad full of scribbles in hand, one of his most valuable possessions was actually secretly tucked away in his Oval Office desk.
The copies were often paper of different colors (e.g., white original for customer, yellow copy for supplier's records, and other colors for subsequent copies). Stationery with carbonless copy paper can be supplied collated either in pads or books bound into sets, or as loose sets, or as continuous stationery for printers designed to use it.
The original notes' canary yellow color was chosen by chance, from the color of the scrap paper available at the lab next door to the Post-it team. [17] Fry provided 3M employees with a prototype of the product, and individuals started exchanging messages, demonstrating the product's communicative effectiveness. [13]
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The Nymphaeaceae are annual or perennial, [7] aquatic, rhizomatous herbs. [7] [8] The family is further characterized by scattered vascular bundles in the stems, and frequent presence of latex, usually with distinct, stellate-branched sclereids projecting into the air canals.