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Economy Swansea

the technium centre, 1 of first of new buildings built part of sa1 development scheme @ swansea docks part of swansea waterfront developments. swansea developed centre metals , mining, copper industry, beginning of 18th century. industry reached apogee in 1880s, when 60% of copper ores imported britain smelted in lower swansea valley. however, end of second world war these heavy industries in decline, , on post-war decades swansea shared in general trend towards post-industrial, service sector economy. of 105,900 people estimated work within city , county of swansea, on 90% employed in service sectors, relatively high shares (compared welsh , uk averages) in public administration, education & health , banking, finance & insurance, , correspondingly high proportions of employment in occupations associated service sector, including professional, administrative/secretarial , sales/customer service occupations. local authority believes pattern reflects swansea s role service centre...

Notable former pupils Ewell Castle School

george atkinson, youngest briton climb mount everest matthew kidd, olympic swimmer , silver medalist @ commonwealth games terence morgan, actor peter newbrook, cinematographer dusan popov, spy oliver reed, actor jimmy sangster, screenwriter , director steven savile, author sampha, musician fred winter, champion jockey , trainer

Modesty Blaise Enrique Badía Romero

a romero original 1 of later modesty blaise storylines romero began association writer peter o donnell s modesty blaise strip in 1970 when called in finish storyline war-lords of phoenix due artist jim holdaway s unexpected death. initially, romero intentionally imitated holdaway s style in order make changeover less noticeable, established own take on character of modesty blaise, portraying in more exotic , voluptuous style holdaway did. romero drew modesty blaise strip until 1978, , while doing episodes of andré chéret s rahan franco-belgian comics magazine pif gadget 1976, , beginning in 1978, romero collaborated donne avenell create science-fiction series axa english tabloid newspaper sun. in 1986 romero returned modesty blaise , remained strip until o donnell retired in 2001. in 2002, romero commissioned draw graphic novel adaptation of modesty blaise short story dark angels ; work published exclusively in scandinavia later reprinted in special issue of comics revue in united sta...

Biography Mihail Roller

1 biography 1.1 life, education , underground activity 1.2 rise power 1.3 program 1.4 istoria r.p.r. 1.5 documentary, writing , enforcement activities 1.6 impact on archaeology 1.7 fall grace 1.8 death , legacy biography early life, education , underground activity roller born in buhuși, commune in neamț county, jewish family; father functionary. boy completed secondary education in bacău, , became sympathizer of far left cause. date of affiliation banned romanian communist party (pcdr), later workers party (pmr), remains disputed. formerly communist writer mihai stoian gives 1926, noting coincided strike action in buhuși. other sources suggest joined in 1931. historian lucian boia writes roller, other communist men of generation, not have been card-carrying member @ stage, since have formed material proof of conspiratorial activity. more likely, roller inducted through verbal statement. a student @ berlin institute of technology , paristech between 1925 , 1931, roller joined communis...

History NUMMI

1 history 1.1 background 1.2 makeover 1.3 events closure approached 1.4 alternatives closure 1.5 end 1.6 after nummi: use of land , facility history background the fremont assembly factory nummi took on built general motors , operated them 1962 1982, when fremont employees considered worst workforce in automobile industry in united states , according united auto workers. employees drank alcohol on job, absent (enough production line couldn t started), , committed petty acts of sabotage such putting coke bottles inside door panels, d rattle , annoy customer. gm departmentalized per henry ford s division of labour, without necessary communication; management did not consider workers view of production, , quantity preferred on quality. makeover the idea of reopening plant emerged need gm had build high-quality , profitable small cars , need toyota had start building cars in united states, requirement due possibility of import restrictions u.s. congress. goal produce high quality @ low...

References Adonizedek

 this article incorporates text publication in public domain: singer, isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). adoni-zedek . jewish encyclopedia. new york: funk & wagnalls company.   this article incorporates text publication in public domain: easton, matthew george (1897). . easton s bible dictionary (new , revised ed.). t. nelson , sons. 

Biology Suppressed research in the Soviet Union

in mid-1930s, agronomist trofim lysenko started campaign against genetics , supported stalin. if field of genetics connection nazis wasn t enough, mendelian genetics particularly enraged stalin due founder gregor mendel s being catholic christian priest, fact flew in face of soviet union s official atheism , antitheism. in 1950, soviet government organized joint scientific session of ussr academy of sciences , ussr academy of medical sciences, pavlovian session . several prominent soviet physiologists (l.a. orbeli, p.k. anokhin, a.d. speransky, i.s. beritashvily) attacked deviating pavlov s teaching. consequence of pavlovian session, soviet physiologists forced accept dogmatic ideology; quality of physiological research deteriorated , soviet physiology excluded international scientific community. later soviet biologists heavily criticised lysenko s theories , pseudo-scientific methods.