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  2. Marshall Cavendish - Wikipedia

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    Marshall Cavendish is a subsidiary company of Times Publishing Group, the printing and publishing subsidiary of Singapore-based conglomerate Fraser and Neave (which in turn currently owned by ThaiBev, a Thai beverage company), and at present is a publisher of books, business directories and magazines.

  3. Colony of Singapore - Wikipedia

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    The Colony of Singapore was a Crown colony of the United Kingdom that encompassed what is modern-day Singapore from 1946 to 1958. During this period, Christmas Island, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Labuan were also administered from Singapore. Singapore had previously been established as a British colony since 1824, and had been governed as ...

  4. Operation Zipper - Wikipedia

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    Operation Zipper. Part of South-East Asian theatre of World War II. Planned by. South East Asia Command. Objective. Liberation of Malaya and Singapore. Outcome. Scaled down into Operation Tiderace for the liberation of Singapore and Operation Jurist for the liberation of Penang. During World War II, Operation Zipper was a British plan to ...

  5. Ivan Simson - Wikipedia

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    Ivan Simson. Brigadier Ivan Simson, OBE (14 August 1890 – 4 February 1971) was a British Army officer and the Chief Engineer in Malaya from August 1941 until its surrender to the Japanese in 1942. Simson was tasked with improving the defenses in Singapore in the face of possible attack by the Japanese, although Simson's defensive ...

  6. Tan Kim Seng Fountain - Wikipedia

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    The erection of the Tan Kim Seng Fountain by the British Colonial Government was in response to Tan's donation of $130,050 to the government for the construction of Singapore's Castle. The Tan Kim Seng Fountain was erected by the Municipal Commissioners to commemorate Tan's donation. However, his donation was squandered away by the Government ...

  7. Story Teller (magazine) - Wikipedia

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    Story Teller. (magazine) Story Teller was a magazine partwork published by Marshall Cavendish between 1982 and 1985. It was sold as Story Time in Australia and New Zealand; in Italy Story Teller 1 was sold as I Raccontastorie while Story Teller 2 as C'era una volta)

  8. Sang Nila Utama - Wikipedia

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    Sang Nila Utama was a prince from Palembang and is the founder of the Kingdom of Singapura in 1299. [2] [3] His official title adopted upon his coronation was Sri Tri Buana ( Sanskrit: श्री त्रि भुवन, romanized : śrī tri bhuvana ), which can be translated as "Lord of Three Worlds"; the "Three Worlds" may refer to the ...

  9. History of Singaporean Indians - Wikipedia

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    The 1915 Singapore Mutiny, also known as the 1915 Sepoy Mutiny, was an incident concerning 850 sepoys (Indian soldiers) who mutinied against the British on 15 February 1915 in Singapore, as part of the 1915 Ghadar Conspiracy (not to be mistaken for the Indian Mutiny of 1857).

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