of platinum‚ with around 40% of world output. The following is the timeline of Anglo American: 1917 Company founded by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer along with American J.P Morgan. Initial investment was 1 million pounds raised from various sources in UK and US. The company was headquartered in London‚ United Kingdom. 1926 AAC became the major stakeholder in the De Beers company. 1928 AAC began mining in the Zambian copper belt. 1945 AAC moved into the coal industry by acquiring Coal Estates 1957 Sir
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How far was Labour’s election victory in 1945 due to changes in social attitudes during the second world war? (24 marks) After the war had finished Labour enjoyed a political victory in 1945‚ they were now in charge of making the policies and choices that would best suite Britain at this rough time of economic depression. Their success was down to many different factors both during and after the war. factors such as the public wanting rid of the total war memories that are held within the conservative
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was Britain able to retain control over decolonisation in Africa between 1959 and 1964? By 1959 decolonisation in British Africa was well under way‚ for example‚ the Gold Coast in West Africa had become independent in 1957‚ Nigeria and Sierra Leone were well on their way to independence‚ and agitation and advances towards independence were already taking place in Kenya and Tanganyika in Eastern Africa. By 1964 this had spread throughout Britain’s African territories and many more had either become
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Why Did the USA Become Increasingly Involved in Vietnam? The Vietnam War- one of the bloodiest‚ grimmest‚ and most trying times of the Cold War. A war that many believed was fought in vain and without purpose and that “…produced no famous victories‚ no national heroes and no patriotic songs…” A war that threw the USA into public disdain for intervening where intervention was not needed; for causing bloodshed when none was called for- and all in the name of a failed policy of Containment and the
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Danielle Endler Human Resources 4050‚ Spring 2013 Semester Professor David Penkrot May 3‚ 2013 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is considered by some to be one of the most important laws in American history. (The Most Important Cases‚ Speeches‚ Laws & Documents in American History) This Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2‚ 1964 and it is a “comprehensive federal statute aimed at reducing discrimination in public accommodations and employment
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1856: Mathew Brady created what’s known as the first modern advertisement which was placed an ad in the New York Herald paper offering to produce "photographs‚ ambrotypes and daguerreotypes." 1880: George Eastman‚ age 24‚ sets up Eastman Dry Plate Company in Rochester‚ New York. First half-tone photograph appears in a daily newspaper‚ the New York Graphic. 1888: First Kodak camera‚ containing a 20-foot roll of paper‚ enough for 100 2.5-inch diameter circular pictures. 1889: Improved Kodak camera
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1866 Mendel’s paper is published: units of inheritance in pairs; dominance and recessiveness; equal segregation; independent assortment. These ideas are not recognized for 34 years. 1869 DNA (first called "nuclein") is identified by Friedrich Miescher as an acidic substance found in cell nuclei. The significance of DNA is not appreciated for over 70 years. 1900 Mendel’s experiments from 1866 are "rediscovered" and confirmed by three separate researchers (one Dutch‚ one German‚ one Austrian). A
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Factsheet briefing on gender issues in migration and urbanisation as they relate to poverty Produced by UN Women as a supplementary briefing for the Consultative Group meeting 6 December 2011 Hanoi GENDER AND MIGRATION International context and standards: Michelle Bachelet‚ Executive Director of UN Women: “The absence of legal and social protections in many countries – and failure to implement and monitor gender-sensitive labour and migration laws where they exist – makes care workers vulnerable
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Russia‚ Mongolia 1 2 1945: Russia‚ Mongolia‚ Yugoslavia‚ East Germany 1947: Russia‚ Mongolia‚ North Korea‚ Ukraine‚ Lithuania‚ Poland‚ Yugoslavia‚ Bulgaria‚ Romania‚ Albania (Many of these countries would be absorbed into the USSR.) 1949: Russia‚ Mongolia‚ China‚ North Korea‚ Ukraine‚ Lithuania‚ Poland‚ Yugoslavia‚ Bulgaria‚ Romania‚ Albania‚ Hungary‚ East Germany‚ Czechoslovakia 1954: Russia‚ Mongolia‚ China‚ North Korea‚ North Vietnam‚ Ukraine‚ Lithuania‚ Poland‚
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1920 to 1945: Determining the Role of the Federal Government and its Spheres of Influence The United States experienced vast changes between 1920 and 1945. The “Roaring Twenties” marked the flourishing of the modern mass-production/mass-consumption economy‚ which delivered fantastic profits to investors‚ while also raising the living standard of the urban middle- and working-class. Following the Great Depression‚ Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal aimed to restore some measure of dignity and prosperity
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