Thomas George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy, PC (29 January 1909 – 22 September 1997) was a British politician who served as a member of parliament (MP) and Speaker of the House of Commons from 1976 to 1983. He was elected as a Labour MP.. Born in Port Talbot, South Wales, he initially worked as a teacher in both London and Cardiff.A MP from 1945 to 1983, he held …

In den 1960er-Jahren wuchs ANA und beschaffte sich 1960 die Vickers Viscount und 1961 die Fokker F-27.Im Oktober 1961 ging ANA an die Börse und fusionierte 1963 mit Fujita Airlines (藤田航空 Fujita Kōkū), dadurch erhöhte sich das Kapital des Unternehmens auf 4,65 Billionen Yen. 1965 stießen mit der Boeing 727 die ersten Jets zur ANA-Flotte hinzu und wurden auf der …

By the 18th century, the contemporary views of the Holy Roman Empire were far from universally positive. There was a widespread idea that the empire was "sick" in some capacity, for instance the bookseller and publisher Johann Heinrich Zedler mentions the "state illnesses of the Holy Roman Empire" in his 1745 Grosses Universal-Lexicon.This view dates back to at least the …

Vickers Viscount Type 800 Vue de l'avion. Rôle Transport de passagers Constructeur: Vickers-Armstrong: Équipage 2 Premier vol: 16 juillet 1948: Mise en service ... Le Vickers Viscount était un avion britannique moyen-courrier à turbopropulseurs lancé en 1948 par Vickers-Armstrong, ce qui en fait le pionnier du genre. Il fut l'une des plus ...

The Plymouth Fury is a model of automobile which was produced by Plymouth from 1955 to 1989. It was introduced for the 1956 model year as a sub-series of the Plymouth Belvedere, becoming a separate series one level above the contemporary Belvedere for 1959.The Fury was a full-size car from 1959 to 1961, then a mid-size car from 1962 to 1964, again, a full-size car …

MV Struma was a small ship with a long history that included a number of changes of use and many changes of name. She was built in 1867 as a British marquess's luxury steam yacht and ended up 75 years later as a Greek and Bulgarian diesel ship for carrying livestock.She was launched as Xantha, but subsequently carried the names Sölyst, Sea Maid, Kafireus, Esperos, …

Brackley is a market town and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England, bordering Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 19 miles (31 km) from Oxford and 22 miles (35 km) from Northampton.Historically a market town based on the wool and lace trade, it was built on the intersecting trade routes between London, Birmingham, the Midlands, Cambridge and Oxford.

The All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd. (全日本空輸株式会社, Zen Nippon Kūyu Kabushiki gaisha, TYO: 9202), also known as ANA (Ē-enu-ē) or Zennikkū (全日空) is an airline in Japan. Its headquarters are located in Shiodome City Center in the Shiodome area of Minato ward of Tokyo.It operates services to both domestic and international destinations and had more than 20,000 employees …

At the time, the Grumman F-14 Tomcat was the Navy's primary air superiority fighter and fleet defense interceptor. Then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney described the F-14 as 1960s technology, and drastically cut back F-14D procurement in 1989 before cancelling production altogether in 1991, in favor of the updated F/A-18E/F. The decision to replace the Tomcat with …

1983–2010: The Borough of Kirklees wards of Almondbury, Birkby, Dalton, Deighton, Newsome, and Paddock.. 2010–present: The Borough of Kirklees wards of Almondbury, Ashbrow, Dalton, Greenhead, and Newsome.. Constituency profile. This constituency covers the urban centre of the West Yorkshire town of Huddersfield, the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of …