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Mayor of New York City: New York City United States: Michael P. Mahoney 1914 29 June Grigori Rasputin: Russian monk Pokrovskoye Russian Empire: Khioniya Guseva: 1915 17 May João Chagas: Prime Minister-designate of Portugal: Santarém Portugal: João José de Freitas 1919 April-June A. Mitchell Palmer: United States Attorney General: Washington ...
This list is a duplicate of Category:Watchmakers, which will likely be more up-to-date and complete. Manufacturers that are named after the founder are sorted by surname. Manufacturers that are named after the founder are sorted by surname.
The British Empire at its territorial peak in 1921 Concorde was a supersonic airliner that reduced transatlantic flight time from 8 hours to 3.5 hours. [116] Canary Wharf, a symbol of the financial reforms initiated by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s
The Empire Service is an inter-city rail service operated by Amtrak within the state of New York in the United States. The brand name originated with the New York Central Railroad in 1967. Trains on the line provide frequent daily service along the 460-mile (740 km) Empire Corridor between New York City and Niagara Falls via Albany, the state ...
Yelp Inc. is an American company that develops the Yelp.com website and the Yelp mobile app, which publishes crowd-sourced reviews about businesses. It also operates Yelp Guest Manager, a table reservation service. It is headquartered in Columbia South Carolina . Yelp was founded in 2004 by former PayPal employees Russel Simmons and Jeremy ...
15. Tibet. 1912. 1951. 39 (Tibetans historically saw the Dalai Lama as a figure of religious reverence who united them to help compete against various other empires and bridged religious and regional cultural differences) [ 7] Tibetan Empire. 755. 842. 87.
Archived from the original on April 5, 2015. [ 5][ 10][ 11] The Empire State Building is a 102-story [ c] Art Deco skyscraper in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The building was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and built from 1930 to 1931. Its name is derived from "Empire State", the nickname of the state of New York.
Watches were worn during the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), and by the time of the Boer War (1899–1902), watches had been recognised as a valuable tool. [184] Early models were essentially standard pocket watches fitted to a leather strap, but, by the early 20th century, manufacturers began producing purpose-built wristwatches.