Mönchengladbach
Mönchengladbach , formerly München-Gladbach , city (1994 pop. 265,312), North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany. It is the twin city of adjacent Rheydt and is a major center of the German cotton textile industry. Textile machinery, iron, paper, chemicals, leather, and petroleum are also manufactured. A road, rail, and air terminus, it is the north central European headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Mönchengladbach developed around a Benedictine abbey (founded c.972), which was rebuilt several times between the 14th and the 18th cent. and which now serves as the city hall.
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Royal odds on favourites to beat S. Thomas'
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Observer; 3/9/2009; 700+ words
; ...no doubt blazed a trail never witnessed in any sport before. From Independent Ceylon's first Prime Minister Don Stephen Senanayake (STC) to post-Independent Sri Lanka's first Executive President Junius Richard Jayewardene (Royal), to...
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Monday, October 20
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 10/13/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...1723); Arthur Rimbaud, French author (1854-1891); John Dewey, U.S. philosopher (1859-1952); Don Stephen Senanayake, first prime minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) (1884-1952); Tom Petty, U.S. singer (1950...
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Thursday, October 20
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 10/13/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...1723); Arthur Rimbaud, French author (1854-1891); John Dewey, U.S. philosopher (1859-1952); Don Stephen Senanayake, first prime minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) (1884-1952), Tom Petty, U.S. singer (1950...
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Ceylon's struggle against Indian immigrants
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 2/13/2006; 700+ words
; ...Indian line on this issue. This dichotomy existed right though the struggle on the Indian issue. In 1925, Don Stephen Senanayake of the Ceylon National Congress (CNC) who later became independent Ceylon's first Prime Minister, argued...
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Don Stephen Senanayake
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Don Stephen Senanayake , 1884-1952, prime minister (1947...as prime minister by his son Dudley Senanayake, 1911-73, who had followed his...agriculture and lands (1947-52). Dudley Senanayake served three times as a right-of...
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Senanayake, Don Stephen
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
Senanayake, Don Stephen (b. 20 Oct. 1884, d. 22 Mar. 1952). Prime Minister of Ceylon...killed in a riding accident and was succeeded by his son Dudley Shelton Senanayake, who was Prime Minister 1952–4 and again 1965–...
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