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Amex Bank Award
AMEX, AmEx or Amex may refer to: *''American Experience'', a television program *American Express, a global financial services corporation **Falmer Stadium, an association football stadium in Brighton, England known for sponsorship reasons as the American Express Community Stadium, better known as The Amex *American Stock Exchange *Draft evasion in the Vietnam War#Process_of_emigration2024-01-25a1, Union of American Exiles See also * * * *Amax (other) *AMEC (other) *Mex (other) ie. ''A mex'' {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Experience
''American Experience'' is a television program airing on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States. The program airs documentaries, many of which have won awards, about important or interesting events and people in American history. The series premiered on October 4, 1988, and was originally titled ''The American Experience.'' It was shortened to ''American Experience'' during a rebrand and image update. The show has had a presence on the internet since 1995, and more than 100 ''American Experience'' programs are accompanied by their own internet websites, which provide background information on the subjects covered as well as teachers' guides and educational companion materials. The show is produced primarily by WGBH-TV in Boston, Massachusetts, though occasionally in the early seasons it was co-produced by other PBS stations such as WNET (Channel 13) in New York City. Some programs considered part of the ''American Experience'' collection were produced prior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Express
American Express Company or Amex is an American bank holding company and multinational financial services corporation that specializes in payment card industry, payment cards. It is headquartered at 200 Vesey Street, also known as American Express Tower, in the Battery Park City neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. Amex is the fourth-largest card network globally based on purchase volume, behind China UnionPay, Visa Inc., Visa, and Mastercard. 141.2 million Amex cards were in force worldwide as of December 31, 2023, with an average annual spend per card member of US$24,059. That year, Amex handled over $1.7 trillion in purchase volume on its network. Amex is list of largest banks in the United States, the 16th largest US bank, with a total of US$270 billion in assets or 1.1% of all assets insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, FDIC. It is ranked 77th on the Fortune 500, ''Fortune'' 500 and 28th on the list of the most valuable brands by ''Forbes''. In 2023, it was ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falmer Stadium
Falmer Stadium, currently known as the American Express Stadium for sponsorship reasons and more commonly referred to as the Amex, is a association football, football stadium in Falmer, Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England. With a capacity of 31,876, it is the second largest stadium in South East England, after St Mary's Stadium (Southampton), and the List of stadiums in the United Kingdom by capacity, 29th largest stadium in the United Kingdom. It serves as the home of Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion F.C., Brighton & Hove Albion, and was handed over from the developers to the club on 31 May 2011. The first competitive game played at the stadium was the 2010–11 season final of the Sussex Senior Challenge Cup, Sussex Senior Cup between Brighton and Eastbourne Borough F.C., Eastbourne Borough on 16 July 2011. The first league game was against Doncaster Rovers F.C., Doncaster Rovers, who were also the opponents in the last game played at Brighton's former stadium, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Stock Exchange
NYSE American, formerly known as the American Stock Exchange (AMEX), and more recently as NYSE MKT, is an American stock exchange situated in New York City. AMEX was previously a mutual organization, owned by its members. Until 1953, it was known as the New York Curb Exchange. NYSE Euronext acquired AMEX on October 1, 2008, with AMEX integrated with the Alternext European small-cap exchange and renamed the NYSE Alternext U.S. In March 2009, NYSE Alternext U.S. was changed to NYSE Amex Equities. On May 10, 2012, NYSE Amex Equities changed its name to NYSE MKT LLC. Following the SEC approval of competing stock exchange IEX in 2016, NYSE MKT rebranded as NYSE American and introduced a 350-microsecond delay in trading, referred to as a "speed bump", which is also present on the IEX. History The Curb market The exchange grew out of the loosely organized curb market of curbstone brokers on Broad Street in Manhattan. Efforts to organize and standardize the market started early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Draft Evasion In The Vietnam War
Draft evasion in the Vietnam War was a common practice in the United States and in Australia. Significant draft avoidance was taking place even before the United States became heavily involved in the Vietnam War. The large cohort of Baby Boom Generation, Baby Boomers and late Silent Generationers allowed for a steep increase in the number of exemptions and deferments, especially for college and graduate students. More than half of the 27 million men eligible for the draft during the Vietnam War were deferred, exempted or disqualified. Evasion in Australia In 1964 Australia enacted a draft for soldiers to send to Vietnam. From 1966 to 1968 a growing force of conscientious objectors grew in Australia and by 1967 became openly popular due to a growing protest movement. Information campaigns were carried out by organizations like Students for a Democratic Society and Save Our Sons to spread information on how to avoid the draft. Young men who were subject to the conscription lotter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amax (other)
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Amax or AMAX may refer to: *AMAX, an American radio broadcasting certification program * Amax Engineering, a defunct Australian aircraft manufacturer based in Donvale, Victoria *American Metal Company, which became AMAX in 1957 * Photosynthetic capacity (Amax) * Amax Esporte Clube, Brazilian football club See also * * * * Alpha max (other), sometimes written "α max" * AMEX (other) * Max (other) Max or MAX may refer to: Animals * Max (American dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog * Max (British dog), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of the OBE) * Max (gorilla) ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AMEC (other)
AMEC may refer to: *Amec Foster Wheeler, a global consultancy, engineering and project management company headquartered in London, United Kingdom *''Association of Mining & Exploration Companies'', the trade association for companies mining in Australia *African Methodist Episcopal Church, a predominantly African-American Methodist denomination based in the United States *Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment, an Asia-based manufacturer of microfabrication equipment for the semiconductor and adjacent industries. *''Arctic Military Environmental Cooperation'', a joint Norwegian, Russian, and American government consortium (later joined by the British) to deal with military environmental issues, mainly the decommissioning of Russian nuclear-powered vessels * Afro-Middle East Centre, a Johannesburg-based think tank with a Middle East The Middle East (term originally coined in English language) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
