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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elephants wallowing in water. As a result of all the confusion ("I can't believe," cried Burgomaster Francois van Kinschot, "that the British ambassador would make such fun of me!"), British authorities had the very devil of a time convincing the citizens of Leiden that the Earl of Bessborough, chairman of the organizing committee, was really an earl and that visiting Lecturer Sir Charles Darwin was indeed the genuine grandson of a famed, genuine biologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

Died. Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 75, ninth Earl of Bessborough, onetime (1931-35) Governor General of Canada; in Rowlands Castle, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 19, 1956 | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...Earl of Bessborough, onetime Governor General of Canada), will put up $57.6 million through stock purchases and loans. With the money Algom will build two uranium processing mills at Quirke Lake and Nordic Lake by 1956, each with a capacity of 3,000 tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: The New Uranium King | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

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