Michael Jackson & Chile
Did you know…On October 18, 1993, Michael Jackson arrived in Chile for a concert at the Estadio Nacional (several world-famous artists have had concerts there, including Madonna), located in Santiago, the capital city. It was the first and only visit by Jackson to Chile. Over 60,000 people, including several foreigners, attended the event. Chile was one of the few Latin American nations visited by Michael Jackson.
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Winston Churchill succeeded in entering parliament in 1890 as a conservative MP and proved a controversial figure with a mind very much of his own. He changed sides to the Liberals and achieved office, eventually becoming Home Secretary in 1910. In 1911 he took charge in person when anarchists were cornered in a blazing building and shooting it out with Scots Guards. Later that year, Churchill became First Lord of the Admiralty and used his great energy to spur on military reform, including naval aviation, tanks, and conversion from coal to oil. His involvement in the disastrous Gallipoli landings on the Dardanelles during World War I caused him to be demoted. He eventually resigned and rejoined the army, though still an MP, and served on the Western Front. In July 1917 Churchill became Minister of Munitions. After the war he served as Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for Air till 1921 when he was appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies. He signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, establishing the Irish Free State. In the 1922 election he lost his seat and gradually moved back towards the Conservatives, gaining a seat in 1924. He succeed in his youthful ambition, to be appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, in 1924. He was advised to return Britain to the Gold Standard, and his usual energetic pursuit of what proved to be a wrong policy resulted in deflation, unemployment, and the miners’ strike, leading to the General Strike of 1926. The Conservatives lost the 1929 election and Churchill entered what he later termed his “wilderness years”. He had difficulty accepting the decline of the British Empire and spent much of his time writing the history of his famous ancestor, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Adolf Hitler, the Facist, German leader, now entered the scene and Churchill began to realize the danger as Germany rearmed. The then British PM, Neville Chamberlain, preferred appeasement of Hitler, and Churchill was ignored. When war broke out in 1939, Churchill returned to power as First Lord of the Admiralty. His call for a preemptive occupation of the neutral Norwegian iron-ore port of Narvik and Swedish iron mines was dismissed, allowing the Germans to seize them. When France was invaded in 1940, Chamberlain resigned and Churchill became Prime Minister of an all-party government. “quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts” – Winston Churchill William Clark writes regularly on proverbs and sayings in his Power up with Proverbs Blog http://clarkscript.com/blog/index.html Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=William_Clark
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Melamine (1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triamine) is a very useful organic trimer of cyanide, with the formula C3H6N6. It is used in the resins of many glues, plastics, as a plastic pigment and in some inks. It is relatively non-toxic (with a similar lethal dose as table salt), and was for a time considered as a nitrogen supplement for livestock. Waste melamine is still given to livestock in some areas, a practice which sparked a media frenzy in the United States over melamine contamination of human food supplies and animal fodder. As a result, interest in melamine testing procedures and equipment has skyrocketed in recent months.
Melamine is a very widely used ingredient in common household plastics. It is frequently used in materials and synthetic fibers, clothing, plastic food containers, and as a major constituent of a yellow dye that is found in many plastics and inks. Melamine dinnerware and bowls are all quite common, as its use in food surfaces like plastic wrapping and counter-top surfaces. Chemically, the compound is over 60% nitrogen by weight. The effect this has is significant, as it makes the melamine plastics almost impossible to burn.
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