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2 unusual facts about African Company


African Company

African Company of Merchants, 18th- and 19th-century British Chartered Company in the Gold Coast of Africa

African Grove, theatre founded and operated by free African Americans in New York City in 1821


Ralph Thoresby

In 1683, he was prosecuted as a non-conformist; evidently this was not a great setback since in 1684 he "took his freedom" (joined) the Eastland and Hamburgh Companies, two of the five regulated companies for foreign commerce (the others being the Russian Company, the Turkey Company, and the African Company).


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African Grove

In addition to Shakespeare, the African Company performed original works, which included William A. Brown's now-lost play, The Drama of King Shotaway.

Bottom-blown oxygen converter

The South African company Rand Refinery Limited rebuilt its smelter in 1986, incorporating two 1.5 t TBRCs and a small static reverberatory furnace for cupellation to produce dorĂ© bullion containing gold and silver.

Nathan Kirsh

Today Issie is the chair of South African company, Primedia Ltd, which owns Radio 702, among other media outlets.

Obuasi

Operated by the Anglo Gold Ashanti (AGA), formerly the Ashanti Gold Company, it was the company's largest mine until the company's merger with the South African company AngloGold.

SS-77

Vektor SS-77, a machinegun manufactured by the South African company Vector