The monopoly position of the Bell System in the U.S. was ended on January 8, 1982, by a consent decree providing that AT&T Corporation would, as had been...
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operations of Centel. The company, as CenturyTel, had acquired some Wisconsin Bell lines from Ameritech in 1998. Qwest, a Denver-based fiber optics long-distance...
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"Ma Bell" became a term that referred generally to all AT&T companies, of which there were five major divisions: AT&T Long Lines, providing long lines to...
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13 million phone lines and is headquartered at the Campus Bell complex in the borough of Verdun in Montreal.[irrelevant citation] Bell Canada is one of...
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Party line (telephony) (redirect from Barbed wire telephone lines)
in 1878. A majority of Bell System subscribers in the mid-20th century in the United States and Canada were served by party lines, which had a discount...
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Kristen Anne Bell (born July 18, 1980) is an American actress. She began her acting career starring in stage productions, while attending the Tisch School...
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telephone lines at a speed of 110 bits per second. Bell 101 modems are no longer in use and were quickly replaced by its successor the Bell 103 modem...
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AT&T Corporation (redirect from Bell AT&T)
writing in 1875 as Bell Telephone Company. In 1880 the management of American Bell had created what would become AT&T Long Lines. The project was the...
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Glen Bell, an entrepreneur who first opened a hot dog stand called Bell's Drive-In, in San Bernardino, California, in 1948. Bell watched long lines of customers...
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Alexander Graham Bell (/ˈɡreɪ.əm/, born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and...
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waiter with three lines. The same year Bell had a small speaking role as a reporter in the drama Sophie's Choice. In the mid-1980s, Bell said "I was doing...
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descriptors may be added, such as Full Bands for Mercury dimes, Full Bell Lines (FBL) for Franklin Half Dollars, or Deep Mirror Prooflike (DMPL) for Morgan...
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open-bottomed wet bell and the closed bell, which can maintain an internal pressure greater than the external ambient. Diving bells are usually suspended...
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Arthur William Bell III (June 17, 1945 – April 13, 2018) was an American broadcaster and author. He was the founder and the original host of the paranormal-themed...
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The Bell Telephone Company was the initial corporate entity from which the Bell System originated to build a continental conglomerate and monopoly in...
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The Liberty Bell, previously called the State House Bell or Old State House Bell, is an iconic symbol of American independence located in Philadelphia...
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Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist...
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Qwest Corporation (redirect from Mountain Bell)
Mountain Bell from 1911 to 1991. In the early 2010s the Mountain Bell name was resurrected by CenturyLink, Inc. In other words, Mountain Bell Telephone...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer attached to a...
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45 m3) of cargo space in the process. A Bell executive contributed to this redesign by drawing on a sketch two lines extending the fuselage to where it meets...
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in the Shire. Lines from the poem I walked by the sea, and there came to me, as a star-beam on the wet sand, a white shell like a sea-bell; trembling it...
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33 Thomas Street (redirect from AT&T Long Lines Building)
Department became AT&T Communications in 1984 after the Bell System divestiture. The AT&T Long Lines Building is now commonly known by its street address...
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half dollar is said to have full bell lines. To qualify, the seven parallel lines making up the bottom of the bell must be fully visible, and the three...
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Verizon (redirect from Bell Atlantic)
and Bell Atlantic CEO Ivan Seidenberg. Verizon became the largest local telephone company in the United States, operating 63 million telephone lines in...
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Bell Labs is an American industrial research and development (R&D) company credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser...
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Watkins (September 25, 1952 – December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks (stylized in lowercase), was an American author, theorist, educator...
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(typically a binary 0). In North America, Bell 202 AFSK modulation is used to transmit Caller ID information over POTS lines in the public telephone network. It...
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Separation (2021 film) (category Films directed by William Brent Bell)
Separation is a 2021 American supernatural horror film directed by William Brent Bell, from a screenplay by Nick Amadeus and Josh Braun. It stars Rupert Friend...
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unconditioned telephone lines at a speed of 300 bits per second. It followed the introduction of the 110 baud Bell 101 dataset in 1958. The Bell 103 modem used...
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Ronald Nathan Bell (November 1, 1951 – September 9, 2020), also known as Khalis Bayyan, was an American composer, singer, songwriter, arranger, producer...
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