HSBC A brief history Contents Foreword 1 Introduction 2 HSBC in the Asia-Pacific region 4 HSBC in Europe 14 HSBC in the Middle East 22 HSBC in the Americas 26 The making of the modern HSBC Group 32 Principal members of the HSBC Group 36 Further reading 37 Cover: A detail of some of the images displayed on the HSBC History Wall at the HSBC Head Office in London. A major work of art designed and built by Thomas Heatherwick Studio
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(praying five times a day facing Mecca); zakah (giving to the needy); sawm (fasting during the month of Ramadan); hajj (a pilgrimage to Mecca at some point in one’s life). These Five Pillars provide a very helpful framework for understanding Muslim worship practices‚ and I will begin to expound on Muslim history and culture by examining aspects of these five beliefs. However‚ these Pillars are not enough (by far) to encompass all that is being a Muslim. This is especially true in the modern world.
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John Grisham‚ an author from Arkansas‚ wrote a book called The Pelican Brief. John doesn’t just view his books as books. He views them as entertainment for everyone else. In The Pelican Brief‚ John shows how the brown pelican stirs conflict in court and leads to the murders of two Supreme Court Justices who both agree on one topic: the environment. The brown pelican is a “gull-like” bird that usually tops out around 11 pounds (Brown Pelican). These birds have multicolored streaks of brown‚ yellow
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Byron C Brown Melinda Rogers Introduction to Music MUS-123 February 24‚ 2013 A Brief History of the Growth of Jazz This music‚ first practiced by African Americans and Creoles‚ before being adopted also by Euro-American musicians‚ probably akin to archaic Jazz. We do‚ however‚ no documentation about it‚ other than oral testimony to writing. There is indeed a dimension of jazz that makes it both original and elusive in these crucial years between the last two centuries: improvisation. Before
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The Temperance Movement: The Attempted Removal of a Deadly Sin The Temperance Movement was an attempt to better society by ending the sale and consumption of alcohol. This movement began in the 1830’s to the 1840’s from the desire to reform society and abolishing it’s sins by the removal of slavery. Many people saw the negative effect that alcohol also had on society‚ and so they put forth an effort to convince others to refrain. The fight for prohibition originated from the church. The Protestant
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The brief history of Nikola Tesla. Nikola Tesla‚ his life and inventions.with over 700 patents to his name‚ you can thank Tesla for so many inventions that industrialized world.Tesla’s discoveries of induction lighting in the late 1800s remains one of his most significant‚ as it was his principles of electromagnetic energy to start so many of his other creative development and remains to this day‚ the essential operating principle behind all and electroless induction lighting electronics. "alternating
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Lifespan Human Development Summer 2006 A Brief History of Attachment Theory The theory of attachment was originally developed by John Bowlby (1907 - 1990)‚ a British psychoanalyst who observed intense and distressful behaviors among orphans in hospitals during and after World War II. Between 1948 and 1952 Bowlby‚ along with his employee and then colleague‚ James Robertson‚ came to realize that infants who had been separated from their parents were not able to form an attachment with a
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Today I will introduce a famous and outstanding scientist to you. A brief history of Stephen Hawking. The main contents include four aspects Stephen William Hawking is an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist‚ whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity. Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 (300 years after the death of Galileo) in Oxford‚ England. His parents’ house was in north London‚ but during the Second World War Oxford was considered
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World History Notes: Chapter One Intro In 1849‚ William Loftus founded the ruins of the city of Uruk‚ one of the first cities in the world. Loftus found this ancient city in a part of Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia was one of the first places where civilization began. The First Humans The first civilizations began in Western Asia and Egypt. The way we determine how civilization came about is through science. Archaeologists find many signs of civilization in ancient ruins. No records were contained
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A Brief History of the Chinese in the Philippines According to The History of the Sung Dynasty or Sung Shi‚ published in 1343-1374‚ China already had trade relations with the people in the Philippines as early as the tenth century (AD 982) (Miclat‚ 2000). By the time of the Sung Dynasty (860-1127)‚ Chinese colonies were already founded in some towns by the coast. During the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) ‚ colonies were already found in the hinterlands (Agoncillo‚ 1990). When the Spanish arrived
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