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1 giorno fa · The East India Company ( EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia ), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of the Indian ...
- 31 December 1600; 422 years ago
1 giorno fa · Hamlet. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet ( / ˈhæmlɪt / ), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his attempts to exact revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's ...
1 giorno fa · Huaynaputina ( / ˌwaɪnəpʊˈtiːnə / WY-nə-puu-TEE-nə; Spanish: [wajnapuˈtina]) is a volcano in a volcanic high plateau in southern Peru. Lying in the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes, it was formed by the subduction of the oceanic Nazca Plate under the continental South American Plate. Huaynaputina is a large volcanic crater, lacking ...
1 giorno fa · Website. www .hbc .com. The Hudson's Bay Company ( HBC; French: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, it became the largest and oldest corporation in Canada, and now owns and operates retail stores across the country. [2] [3] The company's namesake business division ...
1 giorno fa · A decade after Ellin wrote “The Brooklyn Brand Goes Global,” Williamsburg and Fort Greene continued to emerge as creative hubs, and the competition with Manhattan was such that the New York Times co-opted Brooklyn's transformations to draw attention back to Manhattan’s waning creative culture, a process of “catch up” that Joseph Giovannini was already noting in the Architectural ...
1 giorno fa · Spacecraft components. The 3.7 m (12 ft) diameter high gain dish antenna used on the Voyager craft. Voyager 1 was built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It has 16 hydrazine thrusters, three-axis stabilization gyroscopes, and referencing instruments to keep the probe's radio antenna pointed toward Earth.
4 ore fa · 1959 in art – Birth of Caio Fonseca, Death of Frank Lloyd Wright, Sir Jacob Epstein. 1958 in art – Frank Stella begins black pinstripe paintings; Birth of Brian O'Connor (artist) and Don Yeomans. 1957 in art – Death of David Bomberg, Diego Rivera, Jack Butler Yeats; Birth of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun.
