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Zip2 Corp. [2] was a company that provided and licensed online city guide software to newspapers. [3] The company was founded in Palo Alto, California as Global Link Information Network, Inc. on November 9, 1995, [ 4 ] by Greg Kouri and brothers Elon and Kimbal Musk.
Elon was an enthusiastic reader of books, and had attributed his success in part to having read The Lord of the Rings, the Foundation series, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. [ 11 ] [ 27 ] At age ten, he developed an interest in computing and video games, teaching himself how to program from the VIC-20 user manual. [ 28 ]
Penny Publications was founded in 1973 in Stamford, Connecticut, [1] by the husband-and-wife team of William E. "Bill" Kanter and Penny Kanter. Bill Kanter was the son of Albert Kanter (1897–1973), founder of The Gilberton Company, formerly the publisher of Classics Illustrated.
Puzzle books may contain puzzles all of simply one type like (e.g. crosswords, sudoku, or wordsearch) or a mixture of different puzzle types. Puzzle books may be aimed for either adults or children. Puzzle books can be used for many purposes such as education or purely for entertainment. The first crossword puzzle book was published in 1924 by ...
Kappa Publishing Group, Inc. is a Blue Bell, Pennsylvania-based publishing company concentrating on adult puzzle books and magazines as well as children's magazines and maps. It is a private company founded in 1955 with $11.5 million in annual sales.
In 1999, together with Universal Press Syndicate’s Uclick division, Parker founded The Puzzle Society, and is the founder and senior editor of the Universal Uclick line of crossword puzzles and games. [citation needed] On May 19, 2003, Parker became the second crossword editor of USA Today following Charles Preston.
Today's NYT Connections puzzle for Saturday, April 27, 2024. New York Times. ... Ohio State topples Notre Dame in College Football Playoff title game. Sports. Yahoo Sports.
Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books – including the first book of any kind that Simon & Schuster published (1924). [1]