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unusual facts about Anglo American



Churchill Falls Generating Station

In 1953 British Newfoundland Development Corporation (Brinco) was formed by the Rothschilds and six partners: two paper companies: Bowater and Anglo-Newfoundland; a manufacturer, English Electric; and mining concerns Rio Tinto, Anglo American and Frobisher.

DITTO

The company carries brands such as Ray-Ban, Persol, Chloé, TAG Heuer, and Vera Wang, as well as niche fashion and boutique brands like Jason Wu, Selima Optique, Alain Mikli, Anglo American, and John Varvatos.

Gavin Relly

Gavin Relly (1926 in Cape Town, South Africa – 10 January 1999 in Hermanus, South Africa) was a South African businessman and former chairman of Anglo American.

Piers Lea

He works in both a strategic and consultative level within LINE Communications and has developed learning and communications solutions for clients such as BP, Ford of Europe, Anglo American, BT, Nokia, Volvo Car Corporation, Department for Education and Skills, The Ministry of Defence, University for Industry, National College for School Leadership and the BBC.

Witbank

The town has grown since then from a farming community into a business destination where companies such as Anglo American, BHP Billiton, Evraz, Eskom, Exxaro, Joy, Komatsu, the Renova Group, SAB Miller, SAMANCOR, Shanduka Beverages, Xstrata and Zenith Inc amongst many others have found substantial returns on their investments.


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Ana Luísa Amaral

Ana Luísa Amaral (born Lisbon, 1956) is a Portuguese poet and a professor of Anglo-American Studies at the University of Porto.

Anglo-American Freemasonry

The Anglo-American branch has several noteworthy sub-branches, most notably Prince Hall Freemasonry (a legacy of past racial segregation in the United States, and so predominantly found in that country).

Antoine Berman

Lawrence Venuti, an American translation theorist, has used Berman's concepts to write a genealogy of translation in an Anglo-American context to introduce the "foreignizing" strategy that is normatively suppressed in mainstream translation.

Benjamin Vaughan

Vaughan was born in Jamaica to Samuel Vaughan, a British West India merchant planter, and an Anglo-American mother Sarah Hallowell.

Churchill Crocodile

British Crocodiles supported the U.S. Army in the Normandy bocage, at the Battle for Brest, and during Operation Clipper, the Anglo-American assault on Geilenkirchen.

Contemporary ethics

Heidegger's work has become increasingly translated and interpreted in the Anglo-American sphere and the wisdom of always following reason is widely questioned.

Continental Freemasonry

In Brazil, for example the largest and oldest Masonic body, the Grande Oriente do Brasil is recognised by Anglo-American jurisdictions.

Copyscape

Litterick found that some of Logan's work was taken (in most cases with permission) from Anglo-American sources, including The Heritage Foundation, the Conservative Christian Fellowship, the Institute for American Values, Digby Anderson of the Social Affairs Unit and writers Maggie Gallagher and Melanie Phillips.

Edward Partridge

His forebears also include a number of notable Anglo-American religious leaders including the Rev. John Cotton, Dean of Emmanuel College, Cambridge who was the spiritual leader of the New England colonies; Rev. Solomon Stoddard, one of the most influential colonial ministers and the grandfather of the famous Rev. Jonathan Edwards and ancestor of United States Vice President Aaron Burr.

Ejnar Mikkelsen

With Ernest de Koven Leffingwell he organized the Anglo-American polar expedition which wintered off Flaxman Island, Alaska, in 1906-07.

Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

Members of the IAG included: Azerbaijan, France, Nigeria, Norway, Peru and the United States; Anglo-American, BP, Chevron and Petrobras; the Azerbaijan EITI Coalition, Global Witness, Revenue Watch Institute, West African Catholic Bishops Conference; and F&C Asset Management.

Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop

Felipe Enrique Neri (born Nov. 23, 1759 in Paramaribo, Surinam & died 23 Feb. 1827) was a Dutch businessman and land owner known for his assistance in Anglo-American settlement of Texas.

Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas

The Anglo-American division of the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church merged with the Pentecostal Holiness Church on 30 January 1911 in Falcon, North Carolina, to form what is now known as the International Pentecostal Holiness Church.

Free Territory of Trieste municipal election, 1949

Municipal elections were held in the six municipalities of the Anglo-American occupation zone ('Zone A') of the Free Territory of Trieste in June 1949, Trieste, Duino-Aurisina, San Dorligo della Valle, Sgonico, Monrupino and Muggia.

General equilibrium theory

Anglo-American economists became more interested in general equilibrium in the late 1920s and 1930s after Piero Sraffa's demonstration that Marshallian economists cannot account for the forces thought to account for the upward-slope of the supply curve for a consumer good.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Beginning in the 1960s, Anglo-American Hegel scholarship has attempted to challenge the traditional interpretation of Hegel as offering a metaphysical system: this has also been the approach of Z.A. Pelczynski and Shlomo Avineri.

George Boughton

George Henry Boughton (1834–1905), Anglo-American landscape and genre painter, illustrator and writer

Hatonuevo

BHP Billiton and its joint venture partners, Anglo American and Glencore, became equal owners of the Cerrejon Zona Norte (CZN) coal mine in Colombia in February 2002, when they acquired International Colombia Resources Corporation (Intercor) from ExxonMobil, which held the mine's remaining 50 per cent ownership and operational interests.

Henry Pellew, 6th Viscount Exmouth

He was President of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor and of the St George Society, an Anglo-American group in New York; he also belonged to the Society for Sanitary Reform and the School Commission.

Hugh Lett

At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 he was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps and served at the Anglo-American Hospital at Wimereux in France from 1914 to 1915, the Belgian field hospital at Veurne in 1915, and then in Egypt.

James Jebusa Shannon

Sir James Jebusa Shannon (1862–1923), Anglo-American artist, was born in Auburn, New York, and at the age of eight was taken by his parents to Canada.

John Frieda

He now lives with Frances Avery Agnelli née Howe (1965), an Anglo-American architect and the widow of Fiat heir, Giovanni Alberto Agnelli (son of the Italian entrepreneur and politician, Umberto Agnelli).

John Lucaites

The first emphasis focuses on the relationship between race and "American" identity and attends to the ways in which the concept of "race" is constructed and articulates with the prevailing ideological commitments of contemporary Anglo-American versions of the liberal project (e.g., "equality," "property," "individualism," "merit," "public trust," etc.).

Julio Anguita

His son Julio Anguita Parrado was one of the two Spanish journalists who died in Iraq during the Anglo-American invasion in 2003, in his case under Iraqi fire.

Liberalism in Iran

Thanks to the recent discovery and translations of the dominant schools of liberal thought in the Anglo-American world, as found in the works of Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls and Karl Popper, and an appreciation of older liberal traditions (Kantian, Millian or Lockean), a new trend of liberalism has appeared among the younger generation of Iranian intellectuals.

Maxim Institute

Litterick found that some of Logan's work was taken (in most cases with permission) from Anglo-American sources, which include the Heritage Foundation, Institute for American Values and National Fatherhood Institute, Maggie Gallagher (a US social conservative journalist), Melanie Phillips (UK), Conservative Christian Fellowship (UK) and Digby Anderson, Social Affairs Unit (UK).

Military General Service Medal

The MGSM was approved on 1 June 1847 as a retrospective award for various military actions from 1793–1814; a period encompassing the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the Anglo-American War of 1812.

Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher

In 1879, Reginald Brett married Eleanor Van de Weyer, daughter of Belgian ambassador Sylvain Van de Weyer and granddaughter of Anglo-American financier Joshua Bates.

Reginald Fuller

Reginald H. Fuller (1915–2007), Anglo-American Biblical scholar, ecumenist, and Anglican priest

Roz Savage

In 2003, she became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and took part in an Anglo-American expedition that discovered Inca ruins in the Andean cloudforests near Machu Picchu.

Saint Paul Dispatch

Owner George Thompson, an Anglo-American banker and entrepreneur, had a Patek Philippe watch custom made for him in 1914 that was sold by Sotheby's in May 2006 for $1.54 million.

Simeon De Witt

On May 25, 2010 the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History exhibited the oldest surviving Anglo-American star map, hand-drawn in 1780 by Simeon De Witt, in its Albert H. Small Documents Gallery.

St. Joseph's Intermediate and Commercial School

The school was later renamed to Thomas Merton Academy (Thomas Merton, TMA, or Merton) in 1985 after the Anglo-American monk Thomas Merton.

Steve Foster

In January 2008 he was named as a member of an Anglo-American consortium, which includes BBC presenter Nick Owen, bidding to buy his former club Luton Town.

The Blue Mountains, Ontario

Captain Charles Stuart- Anglo-American abolitionist who helped freed slaves make their way to Ontario via the Underground Railroad

Thomas Jefferson Mayfield

Thomas Jefferson Mayfield (1843–1928) led a remarkable double life in the early decades of California statehood, living his boyhood as an adopted member of the Choinumni (Choinumne) branch of the Yokuts tribe in the San Joaquin Valley, then rejoining the dominant Anglo-American community throughout his long adulthood.

Truco

Except for the variant played in Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, in the Brazilian states of Minas Gerais, São Paulo and many others, Truco is played with a 32-card French deck - See below.

Voice of the Beehive

Voice of the Beehive was an Anglo-American alternative pop rock band formed in London in 1986 by Californian sisters Tracey Bryn and Melissa Brooke Belland, daughters of The Four Preps singer, Bruce Belland.

Wilfrid Woods

As a Vice-admiral, he was Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, from 1958 to 1960 in Norfolk, Virginia, where he cemented Anglo-American ties.

William Linton

William James Linton (1812–1897), Anglo-American author, artist and political reformer