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12 hours ago · Ben Wallace. Defense Minister Ben Wallace is stepping down (Picture: AP) Defence Minister Ben Wallace announced last year that he would not stand at the next General Election, but he has confirmed ...
12 hours ago · e. Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was an American politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He is the only president in U.S. history to serve non-consecutive presidential terms. [b] In the years before his presidency, he served as a mayor and ...
12 hours ago · Robert Menzies. Sir Robert Gordon Menzies KT AK CH QC FAA FRS (20 December 1894 – 15 May 1978) was an Australian politician and lawyer who served as the 12th prime minister of Australia from 1939 to 1941 and 1949 to 1966. He held office as the leader of the United Australia Party (UAP) in his first term, and subsequently as the inaugural ...
12 hours ago · Shrewsbury School is a public school (English fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 13 –18) in Shrewsbury. It was founded in 1552 by Edward VI by Royal Charter, [1] to reconstitute the town's collegiate foundations of the 6th and 10th centuries which were disestablished in the reformation.
12 hours ago · This starts the Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States. The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the " Fifties " or the " '50s ") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959. Throughout the decade, the world continued its recovery from World War II ...
12 hours ago · The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. It is based in Melbourne, Victoria, and plays its home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). Melbourne is the world's oldest professional club of any ...
