Mining engineer and co-founder of Rotary International. Born in Carlinville, Illinois. He moved to Chicago, where he met Paul Harris, Silvester Schiele and Hiram Shorey, and on the 23rd February 1905, hosted the first Rotary meeting.
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Gustavus Loehr
An armillary (or astrolabe) is a model comprising rings showing the positions...
First opened on 19 April 1958 at 165 Oxford Street and then in 1964 moved to 90 Wardour Street, where it stayed until 1988. It was at 105-107 Charing Cross Road (a former cinema) from August 1988 -...
An urban regeneration scheme. The aim was to develop the arts and shopping areas to generate income from people visiting the area, but locals argued money is not going to the people that need it. R...
EMAHS stands for Ealing Museum Art and History Society - they appear to be defunct now, 2017.
Freemason. Following a naval career, he was appointed a Provincial Grand Master. He instituted a national body for Templar masonry, which was made possible by an annuity obtained from King George I...
From the website "It works to provide community benefits to the Docklands part of Newham between the A13 and the River Thames."
When Czechoslovakia was occupied by the Nazis, more than two thousand Czech airmen joined the Royal Air Force to fight the Germans, and many took part in the Battle of Britain.
Group, Armed Forces, Aviation, Community / Clubs, Czechoslovakia
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