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Há 1 dia · Through its autonomy and hard work, the U.S. became an industrial leader and home for many more freedom-seeking immigrants. But late in the 19th century, people like Cecil Rhodes and Nathaniel Rothschild decided to use their fabulous wealth derived from South African gold and diamonds to “recover America for the British Empire.”
Há 4 dias · He also writes on the politics and political history of sub-Saharan Africa, including the biography of Cecil Rhodes. Rotberg is an honorary trustee of Oberlin College. He received the A.B. degree (1955) in history from Oberlin College, and the D.Phil. at University and St. Antony’s Colleges, University of Oxford, where he was a ...
Há 1 dia · The secret society concept was passed on by Milner, Rhodes’s successor as high commissioner in South Arica, through Milner’s trainees Lionel Curtis (of the Roundtable group) and Lord Robert Cecil [originator of the League of Nations]. Curtis and Cecil both participated in the May 1919 meeting at Versailles that founded the RIIA.
Há 2 dias · In 1888 Cecil Rhodes founded De Beers to consolidate the area’s mines. The company would retain a stranglehold on supply for more than a century. "Our only risk," Rhodes later declared, "is the sudden discovery of new mines, which human nature will work recklessly to the detriment of us all." Much has changed since then.
Há 2 dias · French himself saw it as a triumph of the cavalry spirit rather than a charge with cold steel per se. French entered Kimberley at 6 pm on 15 February, and was entertained at the Sanatorium by Cecil Rhodes, who soon persuaded him to relieve Kekewich, the military commander of the town.
Há 4 dias · Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury KG GCVO PC FRS DL (/ ˈ ɡ æ s k ɔɪ n ˈ s ɪ s əl /; 3 February 1830 – 22 August 1903), known as Lord Salisbury, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times for a total of over thirteen years.
5 de dez. de 2023 · Nadine. 380 books. view quotes. Feb 26, 2011 04:09PM. Cecil Rhodes — ‘To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could;...
