... (1926) Significant Dates: November 14, 1991: Indictments Issued for Pan Am flight 103 The United Kingdom issued indictments against two Libyans for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1989. February 7, 1991: Attack On No. 10 Downing St. During the morning of February 7, 1991, three mortar rounds were fired at No. 10 Downing Street, the London residence of British ... Party conference. The goal of the attack was to kill Prime Minister Thatcher. She escaped unharmed, but four others died in the attack. December 16, 1983: PIRA Bombing of Harrod's Harrod's department store in Londo...

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... India Company started of as a simple trading company in London. The original founders were 218 knights and merchants of London. The company received their charter from Queen Elizabeth 1st on December 31st in 1600. Queen Elizabeth's charter to the company gave them 15 years of spice trading in India with a capitol of £ 70,000. The company's ships first arrived in ... them to think of other products that they could trade to other countries. Once they had multiple products such as cotton, spices, coffee, silks, porcelain, and tea, the companies trade services increased, because different ...

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... opened during the Spring of 1990. The delay gave Rupert Murdoch's analogue service Sky Television the opportunity to build up an audience ahead of BSB's opening and eventually in December 1990, the two services "merged" under the renamed British Sky Broadcasting. In 1998 Sky digital launches, offering viewers a choice of over 140 channels. More than 100,000 digital satellite decoders are sold ... ...

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... : North American Retail, North American Delivery and European Operations. Staples' North American Retail segment consists of the Company's United States and Canadian business units that sell office products, supplies and services through 1,261 retail stores. As of February 2, 2002, Staples' European Operations consists of the Company's 175 retail stores, in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal. Every morning I try ... $10.8 billion. However this stock when I bought it at $88 a share wasn"t about to do much for me in the next few weeks. I sold it at $86 and as of Dece...

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