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Mervyn Allister King, Baron King of Lothbury KG, GBE, DL, FBA (born 30 March 1948) is a British economist and public servant who served as the Governor of the Bank of England from 2003 to 2013. He is a School Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. He is also the Chairman of the Philharmonia.
A special run of 1000 King Cobras was made about the same time, having the same Magna-Ported barrel and unfluted cylinder and were called the Grizzly. [6] There was an uncatalogued 5-inch (130 mm) barrel version of the Anaconda, with reportedly less than 150 made. These 5-inch (130 mm) versions command very high prices when they are encountered.
The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (Irish: an Gorta Mór [ənˠ ˈɡɔɾˠt̪ˠə ˈmˠoːɾˠ]), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, [1] [2] was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and subsequently had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole. [3]
The Texas Highway Patrol is a division of the Texas Department of Public Safety and is the largest state-level law enforcement agency in the U.S. state of Texas.The patrol's primary duties are enforcement of state traffic laws and commercial vehicle regulation, but it is a fully empowered police agency with authority to enforce criminal law anywhere in the state.
Four German submarines were interned in Spain (the SM UB-23 in La Coruña, the SM U-39 in Cartagena, the SM UC-56 in Santander and SM UB-49 in Cádiz) [12] and two others, visited Spanish ports, one of them, the aforementioned U-35, transporting to Cartagena a letter from the Kaiser to the King.
The opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on the evening of Friday, 15 September 2000 in Stadium Australia, Sydney, during which the Games were formally opened by then-Governor-General Sir William Deane.
Vajiralongkorn [c] (born 28 July 1952) is King of Thailand since 2016. He is the tenth monarch of Thailand from the Chakri dynasty, styled as Rama X.. The only son of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) and Queen Sirikit, he was made crown prince by his father in 1972, at the age of 20.
Patsy King (born 16 September 1930) [1] [5] [3] is an Australian actress and children's television presenter known for her work in theatre, radio and television.. She is known to international audiences for the cult classic television series Prisoner (known in the UK and USA as Prisoner: Cell Block H and Canada as Caged Women) as Governor Erica Davidson, the original Governess of the ...