The finance giant acquired the equipment to aid the King Center's digitization project and was "excited to provide this technology to enable families in the New York area to salvage family photos that would otherwise have been lost forever, " Chief Information Officer Guy Chiarello said in a statement.

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It describes how Cyrus was able to defeat the Babylonian king Nabonidus with the aid of the Babylonian god Marduk, who had run out of patience with Nabonidus and his shortcomings.

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Western aid money, reduced after the king's coup last year, should now flood back in, though Nepalis will hope that donors perform better than in the past, when billions were spent to little effect.

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The king's huge package of extra aid, which included household-debt relief, bigger housing loans and a 15% raise for state workers, was a standard response to public pressure.

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Tea first became popular in Paris in the 1660s, when King Louis XIV took it to aid his digestion.

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Despite Jay's efforts in Spain, the king refused to recognise the United States and provided minimal financial aid.

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In 1675, the foundation stone of the Royal Observatory was laid at Greenwich in south London by order of King Charles II, to improve knowledge of the positions of stars and thus aid navigation.

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In Mankato Troop 76 alone, amongst the scant few athletes and Honor Roll-ees, there was the Goth kid who collected illegal butterfly knives, the pale basement dweller whose shoulders blistered in the sun, the Magic the Gathering player with a perma-Kool-Aid-stache, the compulsive liar, and the chain smoker who came to meetings still dressed in his Burger King uniform.

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