* Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle, by Clement K. Shorter, from Project Gutenberg

Circle K, another large company-owned convenience store chain, was founded in 1951.

These are currently being or have been rebranded to Shell gas stations / Circle K convenience stores.

* Mr. Juniata Pageant, Established: 1997 — Sponsored by Circle K, the Mr. Juniata Pageant is a tongue-in-cheek spoof of beauty pageants with men from each class competing for the coveted Mr. Juniata crown.

Two women picking microwave ready dim sum from the freezer in Circle K, Hong Kong.

Limelight Networks, LifeLock, First Solar, the Salt River Project, Circle K, Fulton Homes and Mobile Mini are also headquartered in Tempe.

After ConocoPhillips abandoned the marketing of the Mobil brand name in the Washington, DC, area, Sunoco purchased these rights, and has since been converting Maryland and Virginia Mobil stations to the Sunoco brand, bringing the A-Plus convenience store with them – prior to this, these stations had convenience stores under the Circle K or On the Run brands.

* Circle K, an international chain of convenience stores, known as OK in Hong Kong and Taiwan

The Inner Circle: Large Corporations and the Rise of Business Political Activity in the U. S. and U. K. ( 1984 )

This book won numerous awards, including the 1998 National Book Critics Circle award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the 1999 Guardian First Book Award and the George K. Polk Award for Foreign Reporting.

The company operates its corporate stores under mainly Couche-Tard, Mac's, Circle K, On the Run and also under the affiliated brands 7-jours, Dairy Mart, Daisy Mart and Winks.

After making some tentative moves in the U. S. under the Mac's brand in the early 2000s, Couche-Tard acquired the Circle K chain from ConocoPhillips in 2003, promptly rebranding its existing U. S. locations to the better-known Circle K moniker.

The Circle K brand is also franchised in Asia and elsewhere.

The partnership expanded in 2008, as Irving leased its remaining Bluecanoe and Mainway convenience stores to Couche-Tard, expanding the latter chain's reach into Atlantic Canada and New England under the Circle K brand.

This also includes 43 ExxonMobil stations in the Phoenix, Arizona market, all of which have been rebranded to Circle K.

Circle K Kawada Shop ( Higashi-Osaka Japan )

Circle K in Hong Kong

Circle K is an international chain of convenience stores, founded in 1951, in El Paso, Texas, United States.

Since the 1980s, Circle K has been the largest company-owned convenience-store chain ( i. e. of non-franchised stores ) in the U. S. It was second in overall number of U. S. stores to 7-Eleven.

However by 1989, it faced strong competition from convenience stores owned by oil companies, and Circle K declared bankruptcy in 1990.

By July 2010, Circle K had dropped to fourth rank in number of stores ( 3, 455 ), then behind BP ( 4, 730 stores ) and Shell ( 4, 630 convenience stores ).

Some Circle K stores operate gasoline pumps selling Union 76-branded motor fuels ; others sell Mobil, Marathon, ConocoPhillips, Irving, BP, Sunoco or Shell-branded fuel.

The Arctic Circle is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth.

The equivalent polar circle in the Southern Hemisphere is called the Antarctic Circle.

North of the Arctic Circle, the sun is above the horizon for 24 continuous hours at least once per year ( and therefore visible at midnight ) and below the horizon for 24 continuous hours at least once per year.

The position of the Arctic Circle is not fixed, but directly depends on the Earth's axial tilt, which fluctuates within a margin of 2 ° over a 40, 000 year period, notably due to tidal forces resulting from the orbit of the Moon.

The Arctic Circle is currently drifting northwards at a speed of about per year ; see Circle of latitude for more information.

Rovaniemi ( in Finland ), which lies slightly south of the line, has a population of approximately 58, 000, and is the largest settlement in the immediate vicinity of the Arctic Circle.

The land on the Arctic Circle is divided among eight countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the United States ( Alaska ), Canada, Denmark ( Greenland ), and Iceland ( where it passes through the small offshore island of Grímsey ).

The Antarctic continent, located in the Earth's southern hemisphere, is centered asymmetrically around the South Pole and largely south of the Antarctic Circle.

The interior of Alaska is largely underlined by discontinuous permafrost, which grades to continuous permafrost as the Arctic Circle is approached.

South of Columbus Circle, it is a one-way southbound street.

Love received critical acclaim, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, for what film critic Roger Ebert called " quite a performance ; Love proves she is not a rock star pretending to act, but a true actress ".

In Dante Alighieri's Inferno, Canto VI, the " great worm " Cerberus is found in the Third Circle of Hell, where he oversees and rends to pieces those who have succumbed to gluttony, one of the seven deadly sins.

* In six of the Castlevania games ; Circle of the Moon, Rondo of Blood, its PSP remake Dracula X Chronicles, Simon's Quest, Judgment, and Lords of Shadow ; there is a female vampire named Carmilla ( also spelled Camilla in Circle of the Moon ).

This boundary is often referred to as the Twelve-Mile Circle.

Although other countries have points extending north, virtually all of Finland is north of 60 degrees north latitude ; nearly a quarter of the land area and fully one-third of the latitudinal extent of the country lie north of the Arctic Circle.

It is located in a binary star system ( Gridlock ) within the constellation of Kasterborous ( Pyramids of Mars, Attack of the Cybermen and Voyage of the Damned ), at " galactic coordinates ten-zero-eleven-zero-zero by zero-two from galactic zero centre " ( Pyramids of Mars ( 1975 ), Full Circle ( 1980 ) and partially in " The Family of Blood " ( 2007 )), which is some 250 million light years away from Earth ( as stated in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie ).

* Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos ( ISBN 0-586-04166-4 ), written by Lin Carter in 1972, is a survey of Lovecraft's work ( along with that of other members of the Lovecraft Circle ) with considerable information on his life.

Iqaluit has a typically Arctic climate, although it is well outside the Arctic Circle, the city has cold winters and short summers that are too cool to permit the growth of trees.

Research on English as a lingua franca in the sense of " English in the Expanding Circle " is comparatively recent.

In it, he is seen by Dante and his guide Virgil being punished in Hell's Eighth Circle ( Bolgia 1 ) by being driven to march through the circle for all eternity while being whipped by devils.

In Castlevania: Circle of the Moon for Game Boy Advance, it is a DSS card that represents the power of the plants.