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André Melly
André Melly Anglicisation, anglicized as Andrew Melly (12 May 1802 – 19 January 1851) was a cotton merchant of Swiss-origin who settled in England and was a keen amateur entomologist, naturalist and specimen collector. He died while on a family trip to Egypt at the edge of the Nubian desert. Many insects have been described from his collections and are named after him. His collection of nearly 35000 specimens are now in the Natural History Museum of Geneva, Geneva Natural History Museum. Biography Melly was born in Geneva to Jean-Léonard Melly, a wealthy watchmaker, and Antoinette-Marguerite, née Joly. He traced his ancestry to a Jean Colombe whose son Matthieu changed his name to "Mesley ou Melly" in the 16th century. Family legends held that he was a descendant of Christopher Columbus. The family shield had a dove in a sky above a ship sailing towards the setting sun with the motto "a good name is better than a golden girdle." Melly became interested in natural history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geneva
Geneva ( , ; ) ; ; . is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland and the most populous in French-speaking Romandy. Situated in the southwest of the country, where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Canton of Geneva, Republic and Canton of Geneva, and a centre for international diplomacy. Geneva hosts the highest number of International organization, international organizations in the world, and has been referred to as the world's most compact metropolis and the "Peace Capital". Geneva is a global city, an international financial centre, and a worldwide centre for diplomacy hosting the highest number of international organizations in the world, including the headquarters of many agencies of the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, IFRC of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Red Cross. In the aftermath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panic Of 1825
The Panic of 1825 was a stock market crash that originated in the Bank of England, arising partly from speculative investments in Latin America, including the fictitious country of Poyais. The crisis was felt most acutely in Britain, where it led to the closure of twelve banks, but also affected markets in Europe, Latin America and the United States. An infusion of gold reserves from the Banque de France saved the Bank of England from collapse. The panic has been called the first modern economic crisis not attributable to an external event such as war, marking the beginning of modern economic cycles. The Napoleonic Wars had been highly profitable for all sectors of the British financial system, and the Expansionary monetary policy, expansionist monetary actions adopted during the transition from war to peace brought a surge of prosperity and speculative ventures. The stock market boom became a bubble, and banks caught in the euphoria made risky loans. Britain's financial system de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flower Chafer
Flower chafers are a group of Scarabaeidae, scarab beetles comprising the subfamily Cetoniinae. Many species are diurnal animal, diurnal and visit flowers for pollen and nectar, or to browse on the petals. Some species also feed on fruit. The group is also called fruit and flower chafers, flower beetles and flower scarabs. There are around 4,000 species, many of them still undescribed. Ten tribes are presently recognized: Cetoniini, Cremastocheilini, Diplognathini, Goliathini, Gymnetini, Phaedimini, Schizorhinini, Stenotarsiini, Taenioderini, and Xiphoscelidini. The former tribes Trichiini and Valgini were elevated in rank to subfamily. The tribe Gymnetini is the biggest of the American tribes, and Goliathini contains the largest species, and is mainly found in the rainforest regions of Africa. Description Adult flower chafers are usually brightly coloured beetles, often metallic, and somewhat flattened in shape. The insertions of the Antenna (biology), antennae are visible from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aloïs Humbert
Aloïs Humbert (22 September 1829 – 13 May 1887) was a Swiss naturalist and paleontologist who specialized in the study of myriapods. He also described new vertebrates (fishes, reptiles, mammals), molluscs and flatworms. Biography Humbert was born in Geneva on 22 September 1829, the son of Augustin Pyramus Humbert, a notary and politician, and Suzanne Charlotte Du Roveray. He studied natural sciences at the Academy of Geneva and at the University of Montpellier. In 1854, Humbert began working as a curator at the Natural History Museum of Geneva, where he worked closely with François Jules Pictet de la Rive, François Jules Pictet. He was involved in scientific missions to Ceylon and Lebanon; his work focused in particular on the fossils of Lebanon, the fauna of Ceylon, myriapods and geography. While in the Middle East, Humbert made important discoveries of fossil fishes, fossil fish. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrée Melly
Andrée Melly (15 September 1932 – 31 January 2020) was an English actress. Early life Melly was born on 15 December 1932 in Liverpool, Lancashire to Edith and Francis Melly. She made her stage début aged nine at the Little Theatre, Southport. After leaving The Belvedere Academy, Belvedere School, she attended the Swiss finishing school Mon Fertile, after which she acted in repertory theatre. Career She performed at the Old Vic in ''Romeo and Juliet'', ''The Merchant of Venice'' and T. S. Eliot, T.S. Eliot's ''Murder in the Cathedral'' in her early twenties and worked with Peter Finch and Robert Donat at the theatre. In 1958, she appeared with the Jamaican actor Lloyd Reckord in the Ted Willis, Baron Willis, Ted Willis play ''Hot Summer Night (play), Hot Summer Night'', a production which was later adapted for the ''Armchair Theatre'' series in 1959 and in which she was a participant in the earliest known First interracial kiss on television, interracial kiss on television. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Melly
Alan George Heywood Melly (17 August 1926 – 5 July 2007) was an English jazz and blues singer, critic, writer, and lecturer. From 1965 to 1973, he was a film and television critic for ''The Observer''; he also lectured on art history, with an emphasis on surrealism. Early life and career Melly was born at The Grange, St Michael's Hamlet, Toxteth, Liverpool, Lancashire, the elder son and eldest of three children of wool broker Francis Heywood Melly and (Edith) Maud, née Isaac. His mother was Jewish. Melly was a descendant of the shipowner and Liberal MP George Melly. He was also a relative of the philanthropist Emma Holt, of Sudley House Liverpool; her mother had married Melly's great-grandfather. Melly was educated at Stowe School, Buckinghamshire where he discovered his interest in modern art, jazz and blues and started coming to terms with his sexuality. Melly was an atheist. Interviewed by Nigel Farndale in 2005, Melly said: "I don't understand people panicking abou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoke-upon-Trent (UK Parliament Constituency)
Stoke-upon-Trent was a parliamentary borough in Staffordshire, which elected two Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons from 1832 until 1885, and then one member from 1885 until 1918, when the borough was enlarged, renamed Stoke-on-Trent, and split into three single-member constituencies. History Stoke-upon-Trent was established as a borough by the Great Reform Act 1832 to represent the Staffordshire Potteries, one of the most populous urban areas in England which had previously had no separate representation. The provisional contents, confirmed by the Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832, formed a contiguous area comprising the Township (England), townships of Tunstall, Staffordshire, Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Staffordshire, Hanley, Shelton, Staffordshire, Shelton, Penkhull with Boothen (containing the town of Stoke-upon-Trent), Lane End, Staffordshire, Lane End, Longton, Staffordshire, Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two Major party, major List of political parties in the United Kingdom, political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party, in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Beginning as an alliance of Whigs (British political party), Whigs, free trade–supporting Peelites, and reformist Radicals (UK), Radicals in the 1850s, by the end of the 19th century, it had formed four governments under William Ewart Gladstone. Despite being divided over the issue of Irish Home Rule, the party returned to government in 1905 and won a landslide victory in the 1906 United Kingdom general election, 1906 general election. Under Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, prime ministers Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1905–1908) and H. H. Asquith (1908–1916), the Liberal Party passed Liberal welfare reforms, reforms that created a basic welfare state. Although Asquith was the Leader of the Liberal Party (UK), party leader, its domin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahdist State
The Mahdist State, also known as Mahdist Sudan or the Sudanese Mahdiyya, was a state based on a religious and political movement launched in 1881 by Muammad Ahmad bin Abdullah, Muhammad Ahmad bin Abdullah (later Muhammad Mahdi, al-Mahdi) against the Khedivate of Egypt, which had ruled Sudan since 1821. After four years of struggle, the Mahdist rebels overthrew the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman-Egyptian administration and established their own "Islamic and national" government with its capital in Omdurman. Thus, from 1885 the Mahdist government maintained sovereignty and control over the Sudanese territories until its existence was terminated by the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian forces in 1898. Mohammed Ahmed al-Mahdi enlisted the people of Sudan in what he declared a jihad against the administration that was based in Khartoum, which was dominated by Egyptians and Turks. The Khartoum government initially dismissed the Mahdi's revolution. He defeated two expeditions sent to capture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
'Abd Al-Latif Pasha
‘Abd al-Latif Pasha ‘Abd Allah or simply Latif Pasha (c. 1805 – 1883) was a governor general of the Sudan from 1849 to 1852. He had been an admiral in the Ottoman Navy before succeeding Khalid Khusraw Pasha in Khartoum. He clashed with European powers and was recalled in 1852. Biography Latif Pasha was a Circassians born at Nusretli in the Drama district and joined the Ottoman Navy where he became a frigate captain. He was sentenced to death during his naval career for losing his ship but was saved when French officers intervened. He was then posted to Khartoum and succeeded Khalid Khusraw Pasha on 13 February 1850 to become governor general of the Sudan. He clashed with Europeans whom he distrusted and considered as “evil liars.” According to a British traveller named J. Hamilton he had misappropriated money from a European merchant. Latif Pasha was removed supposedly due to a scandal involving him. He allegedly shot his Aide-de-Camp and a Greek friend of his wife ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Petherick
John Petherick (1813 – 15 July 1882), was a Wales, Welsh traveller, trader and consul in East Central Africa. Life Petherick was born in Glamorganshire, and adopted the profession of mining engineer. In 1845 he entered the service of Mehemet Ali, and was employed in examining Upper Egypt, Nubia, the Red Sea coast and Kordofan in an unsuccessful search for coal. In 1848 Petherick left the Egyptian service and established himself at Al-Ubayyid, El Obeid, the capital of Kordofan, as a trader, dealing largely in gum arabic. He was at the same time made British consular agent for the Sudan. In 1853 he moved again to Khartoum and became an ivory trader. He travelled extensively in the Bahr el Ghazal (region of South Sudan), Bahr-el-Ghazal region, then almost unknown, exploring the Jur River, Yalo and other affluents of the Bahr el Ghazal River, Bahr el Ghazal river. In 1858 he penetrated to the Zande people#Name, Niam-Niam country. His additions to the knowledge of natural history we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khartoum Map
Khartoum or Khartum is the capital city of Sudan as well as Khartoum State. With an estimated population of 7.1 million people, Greater Khartoum is the largest urban area in Sudan. Khartoum is located at the confluence of the White Nile – flowing north from Lake Victoria – and the Blue Nile, flowing west from Lake Tana in Ethiopia. Divided by these two parts of the Nile, the Khartoum metropolitan area is a tripartite metropolis consisting of Khartoum proper and linked by bridges to Khartoum North ( ) and Omdurman ( ) to the west. The place where the two Niles meet is known as ''al-Mogran'' or ''al-Muqran'' (; English: "The Confluence"). Khartoum was founded in 1821 by Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Muhammad Ali Pasha, north of the ancient city of Soba (city), Soba. In 1882 the British Empire Anglo-Egyptian War, took control of the Egyptian government, leaving the administration of Sudan in the hands of the Egyptians. At the outbreak of the Mahdist War, the British attempted to evacu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
