Corporations
THIS is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores in the United States and 23 other countries. This chain of stores has long been a part of American culture. It is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Walmart
Semaglutide is an anti-diabetic medication used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and an anti-obesity medication used for long-term weight management. What brand name of this medication has gained popularity?
Ozempic
After an all-female spaceflight a week ago, people ridiculed this singer for being over dramatic when kissing the ground after a successful landing of a Blue Origin capsule.
Katy Perry
The Great Patriotic War, in addition to the most difficult trials, gave our culture a huge number of memorable images, one of which was a letter from the front folded into this shape.
Triangle. Folding the triangle protected the letter during transportation: such sheets were less likely to wrinkle and tear. In addition, letters were checked by authorized bodies, since it was believed that a soldier should not receive too much bad news before a battle, or divulge secret information. To read such letters, there was no need to open the envelope, and after checking the contents, they were folded back.
Russians know it as an English type of behaviour; However, native English speakers know it as a French thing. They say "to take a French ...". What is it about?
To take a French leave - leave without saying goodbye
In 2018, tTHIS American company paid exactly $0 in federal taxes and received $129 million in tax credits.
Amazon, (used loopholes like R&D credits)
THIS is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine, which was conceived in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann. The doctrine of this system is called similia similibus curentur, or "like cures like" The selected substance is repeatedly diluted until the final product is chemically indistinguishable from the diluent. Often not even a single molecule of the original substance can be expected to remain in the product.
Homeopathy
SHE was an American aviation pioneer. On July 2, 1937, she disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the world.
Amelia Mary Earhart
A Florida man who was showing off his purchased Medal of Honor has been ordered by a court to write 171 letters of apology and send them to these people.
Those who were actually awarded the Medal of Honor at the time
It consists of the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
New England Region
In economics and industrial design, THIS is the concept of policies planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life or a purposely frail design, so that it becomes obsolete after a certain predetermined period of time upon which it decrementally functions or suddenly ceases to function, or might be perceived as unfashionable. General Motors popularized it in cars (1920s).
Planned obsolescence
THIS pharmaceutical company is sait to have created the first COVID-19 mRNA vaccine in 2020.
Pfizer-BioTech
“Black box” is a common term in popular use but within the industry it is generally referred to as an electronic flight data recorder. That can describe either the CVR (Cockpit Voice Recorder) or the FDR (Flight Data Recorder), or a combination of both. What color does a black box actually have?
Orange. Despite the name, the black boxes are actually orange with reflective stripes, making them easier to find after a crash.
A letter of recommendation letter from this Polish woman helped 32-year-old Albert Einstein get a chair at the University of Zurich.
Maria Sklodowska-Curie
In his youth, Leo Tolstoy was a regular there, and in Anna Karenina, through the mouth of Prince Shcherbatsky, he called it a “temple of idleness.”
The English Club
Founded on October 22, 1968, the corporation is one of the largest pharmaceutical conglomerates based in Europe. IT has officially developed and marketed a wide range of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and other derivatives such as food products. In addition, the corporation is developing biological weapons and successfully selling them to terrorist organizations, which is its main source of income. The corporation's logo consists of an octagon divided into 8 segments of red and white colors. It is a fictional company
Umbrella Corporation
Stuart Craddock, who suffered from sinusitis, said that the taste was similar to Stilton cheese. Craddock was HIS assistant.
Alexander Fleming. Stilton gets its taste from the fungus Penicillium Roquefort. Fleming tested the effectiveness and toxicity of the mold on his assistant. It didn't cure his sinusitis, but it didn't kill his colleague either.
THIS is the name given to the flight path of an aircraft (airplane, helicopter, glider) along which it descends during landing, including immediately before landing.
Glide path / Glideslope
His first letter to Liza was "tender, respectful and taken word for word from a German novel."
Herman (Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin - "The Queen of Spades")
1. c2-c4. What is this?
English opening in chess
THIS is a fictional transnational corporation from the Alien science fiction films. A manufacturer of medical equipment, military equipment, and spaceships. Actively involved in the colonization of new planets outside the Solar System. The corporation's motto is "Building Better Worlds." It is included in the list of fictional evil corporations in cinema compiled by Empire magazine.
Weyland-Yutani Corporation
THEY are an infamous Jewish Austrian-American family who owned the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma and later founded Mundipharma. Purdue Pharma, and some members of the family, have faced lawsuits regarding overprescription of addictive pharmaceutical drugs, including OxyContin. Purdue Pharma has been criticized for its role in the opioid epidemic in the United States.
The Sackler family. They have been described as the "most evil family in America", and "the worst drug dealers in history". The Sackler family has been profiled in various media, including the documentary Crime of the Century on HBO, the book Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe, the 2021 Hulu miniseries Dopesick, the 2022 Oscar-nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, and the 2023 Netflix mini-series Painkiller.
THIS is the third oldest airline company in the world, which has never had a fatal crash in its 100+ year history.
Qantas Airlines (Australia, founded in 1920) "the Flying Kangaroo"
Danes do not like the words "Thank you for everything" in letters of thanks, because in Denmark the phrase is usually found there.
Headstone, gravestone
This English artist who captured the Salisbury Cathedral did not serve in the police despite his name.
John Constable, 'Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds', 1823 landscape painting