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Tunis (تونس) is the capital of Tunisia. With a population of around two million inhabitants. There are quite a few must-see attractions, especially if you include the ruins of Carthage, which are easily accessed from here, and the Punic ports are interesting, too. Tunis is an interesting mix of new […]

Colonel George Bruce MallesonCSI (8 May 1825 – 1 March 1898) was an English officer in India and author. . . . George Bruce Malleson . . . Malleson was born in Wimbledon. Educated at Winchester, he obtained a cadetship in the Bengal infantry in 1842, and served through the second […]

A barmote court (also written bergjisote, barghmote, bargemote and barmoot) is a court held in the lead mining districts of Derbyshire, England, for the purpose of determining the customs peculiar to the industry and also for the settlements of any disputes which may arise in connection with it.[1] . . […]

Fusi Yama was a compositebarque ship of roughly 556 tons, built in 1865 by Alexander Stephen & Sons at Glasgow for Killick Martin & Company, London.[1][2] Scottish composite barque Launched on the 27th June 1865 in Yard no 83 Fusi Yama was one of three vessels built by Alexander Stephen […]

View of Maputo Bay Maputo is the capital city of Mozambique. . . . Maputo . . . Maputo has been the capital of Mozambique since 1898. The city was called Lourenço Marques until the country’s independence in 1975. It is the largest city in Mozambique and the country’s most […]

Muhammad Abdul Aleem Siddiqi (3 April 1892 – 22 August 1954) was an Islamic scholar, spiritual master, author and preacher from Pakistan. He was a student of Ahmad Raza Khan. He was leader of the International Union of Islamic Propaganda, which became headquartered midway through his travels at All Malaya […]

Stephanie Sigman is a Mexican-American actress. Her breakthrough role was in the 2011 Mexican crime drama film Miss Bala. She has gone on to appear in Pioneer (2013), Spectre (2015), Going Under (2016), and Annabelle: Creation (2017). On television, Sigman starred in Narcos (2015) and S.W.A.T (2017) for the first […]

During the First World War, U-boats of the German Imperial Navy (German: Kaiserliche Marine) and the Austro-Hungarian Navy (German: Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine or K.u.K. Kriegsmarine) sank over 6,000 Allied and neutral ships totaling over 14,200,000 tons.[1] Many additional ships that are not included in those totals were damaged, but […]

Leo Quinn is a British business executive. In 2015 he became the Group Chief Executive of Balfour Beatty.[1] In October 2013, he founded The 5% Club[2] British business executive . . . Leo Quinn . . . As a young man Quinn worked at his father’s business in West London.[3] […]

The Nuclear Regulation Authority (Japanese: 原子力規制委員会, Hepburn: Genshiryoku Kisei Iinkai, NRA) is an administrative body of the Cabinet of Japan established to ensure nuclear safety in Japan as part of the Ministry of the Environment.[1] Established on September 19, 2012, its first head was Shunichi Tanaka.[2] Nuclear safety authority in […]