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The New Zealand Shipping Company (NZSC) was a shipping company whose ships ran passenger and cargo services between Great Britain and New Zealand between 1873 and 1973. A group of Christchurch businessmen [ 1 ] founded the company in 1873, similar groups formed in the other main centres, to counter the dominance of the Shaw Savill line ...
The first Dubai Shopping Festival in 1996 attracted more than one and a half million people who spent over of US$500 million during the one month event. [7] These statistics have since grown, with more than three million people attending the festival and over 2 billion dollars being earned at the Dubai Shopping Festival in 2009. [ 7 ]
By 20 February 2012, the tanks in the forward part of the ship, which had held about two-thirds of the fuel, had been emptied, [146] but the following day defuelling was suspended because of poor weather conditions. [147] On 3 March 2012, salvage workers cut a hole in the ship for access to the engine room, the location of the remaining fuel. [148]
In the first weeks after the Allied invasion of Normandy, known as Operation Overlord, commenced on D-Day, 6 June 1944, [1] the Anglo-Canadian forces were maintained over the Gold, Juno and Sword Beaches, [2] and the small ports of Port-en-Bessin and Courseulles.
Map of Cockpit Point Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program.. The Battle of Cockpit Point, the Battle of Freestone Point, or the Battle of Shipping Point, took place on January 3, 1862, in Prince William County, Virginia, as part of the blockade of the Potomac River during the American Civil War.
Elizabeth Price is awarded the 2012 Turner Prize for her 2012 twenty-minute video installation The Woolworths Choir of 1979. (BBC) ( The Independent ) In Brazil , Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko , president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity , speaks to a group of World Youth Day delegates from 75 countries and 40 movements.
SS Bremen depicted on a German postage stamp. Transatlantic passenger crossings became faster, safer, and more reliable with the advent of steamships in the 19th century. The wooden-hulled, paddle-wheel SS Great Western built in 1838 is recognized as the first purpose-built transatlantic steamship, on a scheduled run back and forth from Bristol to New York City.
2011–2012 Bahraini uprising: Fears are expressed for the life of Abdulhadi Khawaja, one of the several opposition leaders sentenced to life imprisonment. (CNN) ( Los Angeles Times ) Thousands of people attend demonstrations in Mauritania calling for the resignation of President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz .