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Legacy system. In 2011, MS-DOS was still used in some enterprises to run legacy applications, such as this US Navy food service management system. In computing, a legacy system is an old method, technology, computer system, or application program, "of, relating to, or being a previous or outdated computer system", [1] yet still in use.
Legacy preference or legacy admission is a preference given by an institution or organization to certain applicants on the basis of their familial relationship to alumni of that institution. It is most controversial in college admissions, [3] where students so admitted are referred to as legacies or legacy students.
Old media, or legacy media, are the mass media institutions that dominated prior to the Information Age; particularly print media, film studios, music studios, advertising agencies, radio broadcasting, and television. Old media institutions are centralized and communicate with one-way technologies to a generally anonymous mass audience.
Legacy.com is a United States-based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
Legacy (Judd novel), a 2001 spy novel by Alan Judd. Legacy (Bujold novel), a 2007 fantasy novel in Lois McMaster Bujold's The Sharing Knife series. Legacy (novel series), a series of novels by Cayla Kluver; also the first book of the series. Legacy (novella), a 2017 novella and coloring book by Chuck Palahniuk.
A legacy sequel is a work that follows the continuity of the original work(s), but takes place further along the timeline, often focusing on new characters with the original ones still present in the plot. [8] [9] [10] Legacy sequels are sometimes also direct sequels that ignore previous installments entirely, effectively retconning preceding ...
Phoenicia. Phoenicia ( / fəˈnɪʃə, fəˈniːʃə / ), [4] or Phœnicia, was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon. [5] [6] The territory of the Phoenicians expanded and contracted throughout history, with the core ...
Classical antiquity in the Mediterranean region is commonly considered to have begun in the 8th century BC [ 5] (around the time of the earliest recorded poetry of Homer) and ended in the 6th century AD. Classical antiquity in Greece was preceded by the Greek Dark Ages ( c. 1200 – c. 800 BC ), archaeologically characterised by the ...