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GameStop short squeeze. In January 2021, a short squeeze of the stock of the American video game retailer GameStop and other securities took place, causing major financial consequences for certain hedge funds and large losses for short sellers. Approximately 140 percent of GameStop's public float had been sold short, and the rush to buy shares ...
The Frigg and Freyja common origin hypothesis holds that the Old Norse goddesses Frigg and Freyja descend from a common Proto-Germanic figure, as suggested by the numerous similarities found between the two deities. [1] Scholar Stephan Grundy comments that "the problem of whether Frigg or Freyja may have been a single goddess originally is a ...
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals was founded in 1977 by Gracias Saldanha [2] as a generic drug and active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturer. He named the company after his two sons. The company initially sold its products in India, Russia, and Africa. The company went public in India in 1999, and used some of the proceeds to build its first ...
The 'genealogies' also claim that many heroic families famed in Scandinavian tradition but not located in Norway were of a Finn-Kven stock, mostly sprung from Nór's great-grandson Halfdan the Old. Almost all the lineages sprung from Halfdan are then shown to reconvert in the person of Harald Fairhair, the first king of "all Norway". This ...
Ingunar-Freyr is the name given to Freyr in the Lokasenna (43) and in the Great saga of Saint Olaf . It is often assumed that Ingunar is the West-Germanic equivalent of the Scandinavian Yngvi. [1] The meaning of Ingunar remains uncertain. It could be related to the Ingaevones, a Germanic tribe. Another solution is to understand Ingunar as the ...
Fólkvangr. In Norse mythology, Fólkvangr ( Old Norse: [ˈfoːlkˌwɑŋɡz̠], "field of the host" [1] or "people-field" or "army-field" [2]) is a meadow or field ruled over by the goddess Freyja where half of those that die in combat go upon death, whilst the other half go to the god Odin in Valhalla. Others were also brought to Fólkvangr ...
Think About Things. " Think About Things " is a song by Icelandic singer Daði Freyr and his band Gagnamagnið. The song was released on 10 January 2020 with the Icelandic title " Gagnamagnið " ( lit. 'The datavolume' ), the name of the band. It was selected to represent Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands ...
The technology giant will complete a 10-for-1 stock split, lowering the price of its stock from more than $1,700 to about $170. The stock will start trading at the new price as of the market open ...