Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, a tea party on the Provincial Commissioner's lawn was interrupted by a wild baboon. The guests fled and he finished their pastry, picked some flowers, disappeared. Same night the pleased baboon returned, rang the doorbell hopefully, was shot...
...plan provides that the British would pay their debt in tin from South Africa, chromium from Rhodesia, tungsten and antimony from China and British Burma, and other materials. They would be kept in a government stock pile on reserve for emergency...
Whittlesey doubted whether there were great mineral deposits outside of the rich area in Northern Rhodesia...
...Winterton, lofty Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, was elected chairman.* His first job was to hear complaints from Britain's own dominions. The Northern Rhodesian Legislative Council, spokesmaned by Sir Leopold Moore, angrily protested a rumor that 500 German Jewish families would be sent to settle in Rhodesia. "Why," exploded Sir Leopold, "can we not have instead 500 British colonists who are not Jews...
...scholarships are awarded by the will of Cecil John Rhodes, who died in 1902 after establishing the British Empire throughout South Africa, and after whom the Colony of Rhodesia was named. He attended Oxford University for periods broken by poor health between 1872 and 1878, when he obtained his degree...