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Habib Bourguiba
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Habib Bourguiba, former president of Tunisia
Born: 3 August, 1903, in Monastir, Tunisia Died: 6 April, 2000,
in Monastir, aged 97
HABIB Bourguiba was the architect of modern Tunisia, one of the
last of a generation of leaders to take his people from colonialism
to independence, and one of the most consistently pro-western
leaders in Africa and the Arab world. It was Bourguiba who turned
Tunisia into the most westernised Muslim nation.
But the once dynamic reformer declined in later years into a
senile, capricious ruler. After dominating the North African state
for more than three decades, he ...
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Richard Trevithick's First Steam Carriage December 24th, 1801. (Months Past).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...thirty-year-old inventor Richard Trevithick. The `giant of steam' in...one (which Anthony Burton, Trevithick's biographer, describes as...which set rival engineers free. Richard Trevithick's engine was cast at Harvey...
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Richard Trevithick: Giant of Steam
Magazine article from: Mechanical Engineering
; Richard Trevithick: Giant of Steam. Anthony Burton. Trafalgar Square Publishing...95. In 2001, railway enthusiasts celebrated the bicentenary of Richard Trevithick's "Cornish engine," the world's first self-propelled steam...
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 "Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)")
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Genius with a stature to match his mind ; Richard Trevithick was born in 1771 in a cottage a mile or so from Dolcoath Mine, where his father was a mine captain.
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
; Richard Trevithick was born in 1771 in a cottage a mile...Cornwall's tin and copper mines. Trevithick's inventive mind was never still...and for tunnelling under the Thames. Trevithick's career spanned the dawn of the...
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Richard Trevithick-Maverick Genius of Steam, Kew Bridge Steam Museum, London. (Exhibitions).
Magazine article from: The Engineer
; Richard Trevithick-Maverick Genius of Steam, Kew Bridge Steam Museum, London. Celebrating the life and work of Richard Trevithick, first to develop a self-propelled vehicle or 'car' in 1801. Until 30 Sept. 020 8568 4757, www.kbsm.org.
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Image of Cornishman's steam railway 'a fake' ; An "historic" drawing of the earliest passenger railway built by the Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick has been criticised as a forgery.
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
; ...built by the Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick has been criticised as a forgery...the only reliable images of Trevithick's railway were likely to have...Two centuries ago, genius Richard Trevithick revolutionised society with...
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 "South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)")
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Who is Richard Trevithick?(News)
Newspaper article from: South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
; n Richard Trevithick was born in 1771 in Illogan, Cornwall; n While working for the Ding Dong mine in Penzance he created a high-pressure engine...
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Bring trevithick home ; After watching the BBC's excellent programme on the Devoran to Portreath railway and its recognition of Richard Trevithick as the true founder of railways and the industrial age, I wonder how many Cornish people agree with me that it is time his earthly remains are reinterred in Truro Cathedral instead of a pauper's grave in Kent. Shall we start a campaign?
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
; After watching the BBC's excellent programme on the Devoran to Portreath railway and its recognition of Richard Trevithick as the true founder of railways and the industrial age, I wonder how many Cornish people agree with me that it...
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 "Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)")
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Trevithick's a hit with Mr Pop.(News)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
; ...tonne diesel locomotive as the Richard Trevithick, after one of his heroes from...engine designed by the Cornishman Trevithick pulled 10 tons of iron and 70...experiment to a halt. Much of Trevithick's revolutionary engine design...
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Trevithick celebrations.(News)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
; ...year's 200th anniversary of Richard Trevithick's pioneering steam locomotive...the original tram road where Trevithick's iron horse hissed and groaned...Cuneo's celebrated painting of Trevithick's journey. They were commissioned...
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Tribute as 30 steam engines follow in trevithick's tracks up Camborne hill
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
; ...the weekend to pay tribute to Richard Trevithick. A Cornish-born pioneer of the industrial revolution, Trevithick invented a high pressure steam...West Cornwall, on Saturday. Trevithick Day is held every year in the...
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