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Straits of Tiran re-opened to Israeli shipping; Border Campaign (1956–1962) United Kingdom Irish Republican Army: British victory. IRA campaign fails First Cod War (1958–1961) United Kingdom Iceland: Icelandic victory [e] Iceland expands its territorial waters to 12 nautical miles Upper Yafa disturbances [55] (1959) British Empire. Upper ...
By 1600, trading colonies had grown up on either side of the well-travelled shipping routes: the Dutch settled along the eastern seaboard of Scotland; the Scots congregating first in Campvere—where they were allowed to land their goods duty-free and run their own affairs—and then in Rotterdam, where Scottish and Dutch Calvinism coexisted ...
Mohamed Abdel Moneim Al-Fayed [a] (/ æ l ˈ f aɪ. ɛ d /; 27 January 1929 – 30 August 2023) was an Egyptian billionaire businessman whose residence and primary business interests were in the United Kingdom from the mid-1960s.
The dol (from the Latin word for pain, dolor) is a unit of measurement for pain. James D. Hardy, Herbert G. Wolff, and Helen Goodell of Cornell University proposed the unit based on their studies of pain during the 1940s and 1950s. They defined one dol to equal a just-noticeable difference in pain. The unit never came into widespread use and ...
Åland (Swedish: ⓘ; Finnish: Ahvenanmaa) is an autonomous and demilitarised region of Finland.Receiving its autonomy by a 1920 decision of the League of Nations, [1] it is the smallest region of Finland by both area (1,580 km 2) and population (30,129), constituting 0.51% of Finland's land area and 0.54% of its population.
Alexandria (/ ˌ æ l ɪ ɡ ˈ z æ n d r i ə,-ˈ z ɑː n-/ AL-ig-ZA(H)N-dree-ə; [4] ; [a] Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρεια, [b] Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ - Rakoti or ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ) is the second largest city in Egypt and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast.
Miami Vice is an American crime drama television series created by Anthony Yerkovich and produced by Michael Mann for NBC. [1] The series stars Don Johnson as James "Sonny" Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs, two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami.