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Hace 1 día · Jerome Alan West (May 28, 1938 – June 12, 2024) was an American basketball player and executive. He played professionally for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). His nicknames included "the Logo", in reference to his silhouette being the basis for the NBA logo; "Mr. Clutch", for his ability to make a big play in a key situation such as his famous buzzer ...
Hace 1 día · Official fear of a Western-sponsored counter-revolution, ... local workers went on strike for higher wages, paid leave, an independent elected union, and the dismissal of two members of the managerial staff. ... During a trial of ECP members on July 27, 1953, Mahmud Ghannam – the assistant secretary to the Wafd ...
Hace 1 día · Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair KG (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He was Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997 and held various shadow cabinet posts from 1987 to 1994. Blair was Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007, and was special envoy ...
Hace 1 día · Robert Peel, twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and founder of the Conservative Party Origins. Some writers trace the party's origins to the Tory Party, which it soon replaced.Other historians point to a faction, rooted in the 18th century Whig Party, that coalesced around William Pitt the Younger in the 1780s. They were known as "Independent Whigs", "Friends of Mr Pitt", or "Pittites ...
Hace 1 día · 2,000,000–4,500,000 displaced, [13] 500,000 of whom fled abroad [14] The Nigerian Civil War (6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970), also known as the Biafran War, was a civil war fought between Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra, a secessionist state which had declared its independence from Nigeria in 1967. Nigeria was led by General Yakubu Gowon ...
Hace 1 día · 1948–1953: England: 32 (3) Managerial career; 1955–1963: Ipswich Town: 1963–1974: England: 1977–1978: Birmingham City: ... and performed well enough that the club offered a professional contract on wages of £2 per match. ... when the decision was reversed for fear of a backlash from supporters, Ramsey gave two weeks' notice ...
Hace 1 día · The Bard, depiction of a travelling bard by Thomas Jones (1774). The Roman province of Britannia (which included modern day Wales) is generally considered to have had relatively low levels of literacy, by the standards of the Roman Empire, and there is little record of formal education.Writing tablets have been recovered in the Roman military fort of Isca Augusta (modern day Caerleon, Newport).
