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A meal voucher or luncheon voucher is a voucher for a meal given to employees as an employee benefit, allowing them to eat at outside restaurants, typically for lunch. In many countries, meal vouchers have had favorable tax treatment. Vouchers are typically in the form of paper tickets but are gradually being replaced by electronic vouchers in the form of a special payment card.
The United Kingdom home front during World War II covers the political, social and economic history during 1939–1945. The war was expensive and financed through high taxes, selling off assets, and accepting large amounts of Lend Lease from the US and Canada. The US provided $30 billion in munitions, while Canada also contributed aid.
Disneyland has a larger cumulative attendance than any other theme park in the world, with 757 million visits since it opened (as of December 2021). [3] In 2022, the park had approximately 16.9 million visits, making it the second most visited amusement park in the world that year, behind only Magic Kingdom, the very park it inspired. [4] According to a 2005 Disney report, 65,700 jobs are ...
Thomas Cook & Son was founded by Thomas Cook, a cabinet-maker and former Baptist preacher, in 1841, under the name Thomas Cook, to carry temperance supporters by railway between the cities of Leicester, Nottingham, Derby and Birmingham. [3] The company's first excursion was a one-day rail trip, from Leicester to Loughborough and back; the price of one shilling included a meal. This has been ...
Gambling for centuries has been a main recreational activity in Great Britain. [1] Horse racing has been a favourite theme for over three centuries. [2] [7] The earliest recorded races were held at Chester in 1539. [8] King Charles II was an avid sportsman who gave Newmarket its prominence – he was a jockey in 1671 and built a palace there ...
The sixth season of the American TV series American Dad! originally aired on Fox from September 27, 2009, to May 16, 2010, and consisted of nine episodes from production line four (4AJNxx) and nine from production line five (5AJNxx). The entire season was released in the Volume Five DVD box set on April 19, 2011 in Region 1; on June 27, 2008 in Region 2; and July 13, 2008 in Region 4. The ...
Napp Pharmaceuticals Limited is a private pharmaceutical company in Cambridge, United Kingdom that was founded in 1923 [3] [4] and bought by the Sackler family in 1966. [5] [6] Headquartered together with the related Napp Research Centre in the Cambridge Science Park since the 1980s, [4] it is a sister company of Purdue Pharma and Mundipharma, all of which are owned by the descendants of ...
Let time T be the number of draws needed to collect all n coupons, and let ti be the time to collect the i -th coupon after i − 1 coupons have been collected. Then . Think of T and ti as random variables. Observe that the probability of collecting a new coupon is . Therefore, has geometric distribution with expectation . By the linearity of expectations we have: