An international organisation with the purpose of bringing together business and professional people, to provide humanitarian service, goodwill and peace around the world. It was formed in Chicago by Paul P. Harris, Gustave Loehr, Sylvester Schiele and Hiram E. Shorey. It was called 'rotary', as meetings took place in rotation at members' places of business.
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Rotary International
An armillary (or astrolabe) is a model comprising rings showing the positions...
Founded by Sir Thomas Vansittart Bowater. Initially intended to protect the ward's interests and enable members to meet councillors in the City of London. Now more just a social club.
A community-based social enterprise set up to develop the regeneration of the Lower Lea Valley and the surrounding area of East London.
Peter Cook said this was modelled on "those wonderful Berlin cabarets which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the outbreak of the Second World War". Lenny Bruce, Barry Humphries, ...
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone. Â On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...
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