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Vor 4 Tagen · The Legacy of Cecil Rhodes in the University of Oxford – School Information System. Global History: On 9 June 2020, more than a thousand people gathered in central Oxford demanding that Oriel College remove the statue of imperialist and mining magnate, Cecil Rhodes.
Vor 4 Tagen · Sceptical of their intentions, the ruler of Matabele, King Lobengula, regularly turned away those who approached him for mining concessions. While he doubted the intention of the miners, King Lobengula trusted missionaries. In 1888, Rhodes and Rudd exploited this situation, convincing the king to sign a treaty of friendship essentially granting ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Magnate and colonist Cecil Rhodes advocated a secret society which would make Britain control the Earth. In 1890, thirteen years after "his now-famous will," Rhodes elaborated on the same idea: establishment of "England everywhere," which would "ultimately lead to the cessation of all wars, and one language throughout the world."
Vor einem Tag · The company was run by Cecil Rhodes and his brother, who established goldmines and a railway connection to Cape Town, South Africa, in 1897. Rhodes named his new territory Rhodesia. On April 18 ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Hier geht Alexander Schweitzer mit jungen Löwen spazieren und besucht das Grab von Cecil Rhodes - nach ihm wurde Rhodesien, das heutige Simbabwe, benannt. Auch die "Great Zimbabwe", eine ...
Vor 5 Tagen · This "red line" through Africa is made most famous by Cecil Rhodes. Along with Lord Milner, the British colonial minister in South Africa, Rhodes advocated such a "Cape to Cairo" empire, linking the Suez Canal to the mineral-rich Southern part of the continent by rail. Though hampered by German occupation of Tanganyika until the end ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Nor is Cecil Rhodes, who along with a whole cast of lesser figures, is introduced to us in the chapter on Lord and Lady Lugard (Flora Shaw, the most famous and influential female journalist and commentator of the Victorian era, who along with Gertrude Bell is the only female ‘kingmaker’ covered in this book).
