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1 day ago · Imperial College London ( Imperial) is a public research university in London, England. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who envisioned a cultural area including the Royal Albert Hall, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Natural History Museum and in addition to several royal colleges.
1 day ago · Catherine of Siena. Caterina di Jacopo di Benincasa (25 March 1347 – 29 April 1380), known as Catherine of Siena ( Italian: Caterina da Siena ), was an Italian mystic and pious laywoman who engaged in papal and Italian politics through extensive letter-writing and advocacy. Canonized in 1461, she is revered as a saint and as a Doctor of the ...
1 day ago · Ramsay MacDonald. James Ramsay MacDonald FRS ( né James McDonald Ramsay; 12 October 1866 – 9 November 1937) was a British statesman [1] and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the first who belonged to the Labour Party, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 and again between 1929 and 1931. From 1931 ...
1 day ago · SHARE. Britain's blue-chip stock index opened higher on Friday, on course to log its fourth consecutive quarterly gain, after stronger-than-expected local economic growth numbers offset jitters ahead of U.S. inflation data. The FTSE 100 added 0.5%, with energy and financial stocks in the lead, and the midcap FTSE 250 was up 0.1%, as of 0716 GMT.
1 day ago · This list should not be interpreted to mean the whole of a country had television service by the specified date. For example, the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the former Soviet Union all had operational television stations and a limited number of viewers by 1939. Very few cities in each country had television service.
1 day ago · Politics portal. v. t. e. Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini [b] (17 May 1900 or 24 September 1902 [a] – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian Islamic revolutionary, politician, and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the main leader of ...
1 day ago · The Federalist Party supported Hamilton's vision of a strong centralized government and agreed with his proposals for a national bank and heavy government subsidies. In foreign affairs, they supported neutrality in the war between France and Great Britain .
