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eBay was founded as AuctionWeb in California on September 3, 1995, by French-born Iranian-American computer programmer Pierre Omidyar as a hobby to make some extra money. [2] One of the first items sold on AuctionWeb was a broken laser pointer for $14.83. Astonished, Omidyar contacted the winning bidder to ask if he understood that the laser ...
In finance, flipping is the practice of purchasing an asset and quickly reselling (or "flipping") it for profit. Within the real estate industry , the term is used by investors to describe the process of buying, rehabbing, and selling properties for profit.
Arabic is in turn traceable back to Early Byzantine Greek and thence to classical Latin praecoqua, literally "precocious" and specifically precociously ripening peaches, [48] i.e. apricots. [10] The Arabic was passed onto the late medieval Spanish albarcoque and Catalan albercoc, each meaning apricot. [49]
The Arabic 'z' here used is the 17th letter of the Arabic alphabet, an unusual letter with a difficult sound, which came to be rendered by 'd' in Low Latin." [ 4 ] The word's earliest records in the West are in 12th- and 13th-century Latin astronomy texts as nadahir and nadir , with the same meaning as the Arabic, and the earliest is in an ...
Cover letters are typically categorized according to two purposes: applying for a specific, advertised opening ('letter of application') expressing interest in an organization when the job seeker is uncertain whether there are current openings ('letter of inquiry'). [3] According to studies, a good cover letter should: be specific and up-to-date,
Arabic letter/symbol Usual romanization Letter name A–B a [a] cat in British English, only approx. in American English, could also be realised as [æ] َ a, á, e فَتْحَة (fatḥah) aː [b] not exact, longer far, could also be realised as [æː] ـَا (ى at word end) ā, â, aa, a أَلِف (ʾalif) الف مقصورة (ʾalif ...
Domain name speculation, popular as domain investing, domain flipping or domaining in professional jargon, [1] is the practice of identifying and registering or acquiring generic Internet domain names as an investment with the intent of selling them later for a profit.
Arabic is the third most widespread official language after English and French, [16] one of six official languages of the United Nations, [17] and the liturgical language of Islam. [18] Arabic is widely taught in schools and universities around the world and is used to varying degrees in workplaces, governments and the media. [18]