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Tiny Rowland, the Glossary

Roland Walter "Tiny" Rowland (27 November 1917 – 25 July 1998) was a British businessman, corporate raider and the chief executive of the Lonrho conglomerate from 1962 to 1993.^[1]

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British mass media owners
Immigrants to Southern Rhodesia
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Adam Curtis

Adam Curtis (born 26 May 1955) is an English documentary filmmaker.

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Geographical distribution of the Bengali language Bengal (Bôṅgo) or endonym Bangla (Bāṅlā) is a historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.

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British subject

The term "British subject" has several different meanings depending on the time period.

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Churcher's College

Churcher's College is a private co-educational fee-charging day school, founded in 1722. Tiny Rowland and Churcher's College are people educated at Churcher's College.

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City of London

The City of London, also known as the City, is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the ancient centre, and constitutes, along with Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London and one of the leading financial centres of the world.

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Corporate raid

In business, a corporate raid is the process of buying a large stake in a corporation and then using shareholder voting rights to require the company to undertake novel measures designed to increase the share value, generally in opposition to the desires and practices of the corporation's current management.

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Daniel Cohen (children's writer)

Daniel Edward Cohen (March 12, 1936 – May 6, 2018) was an American non-fiction author who wrote over one hundred books on a variety of subjects, mainly for young audiences.

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Dieter Bock

Dieter Bock (3 March 1939 – 12 May 2010) was a German lawyer and tax consultant turned businessman.

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Edward Heath

Sir Edward Richard George Heath (9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005), commonly known as Ted Heath, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975.

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Eiffel Flats

Eiffel Flats is a village in the province of Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe.

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Enemy alien

In customary international law, an enemy alien is any native, citizen, denizen or subject of any foreign nation or government with which a domestic nation or government is in conflict and who is liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed.

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Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.

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Hamburg

Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated to Hants.) is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Harrods

Harrods is a British luxury department store located on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London, England.

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High Court of Justice

The High Court of Justice in London, known properly as His Majesty's High Court of Justice in England, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, are the Senior Courts of England and Wales.

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Hitler Youth

The Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend, often abbreviated as HJ) was the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany.

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House of Bond

House of Bond is an Australian two-part drama mini-series about the life of business tycoon Alan Bond which was produced in 2016 and aired on the Nine Network on 24 and 25 April 2017.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Internment

Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges.

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Isle of Man

The Isle of Man (Mannin, also Ellan Vannin) or Mann, is an island country and self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland.

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John Leahy (diplomat)

Sir John Henry Gladstone Leahy, (7 February 1928 – 17 November 2015) was a senior British diplomat.

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Jus soli

Jus soli, meaning 'right of the soil', is the right of anyone born in the territory of a state to nationality or citizenship, also commonly referred to as birthright citizenship in some Anglophone countries, is a rule defining a person's nationality based on their birth in the territory of the country.

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King (company)

King, also known as King Digital Entertainment, is a Swedish video game developer and publisher that specialises in social games.

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Knightsbridge

Knightsbridge is a residential and retail district in central London, south of Hyde Park.

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Kolkata

Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Lonhro

Lonhro (10 December 1998 – 19 April 2024), nicknamed The Black Flash, was an Australian champion racehorse.

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Lonmin

Lonmin plc, formerly Lonrho plc, was a British producer of platinum group metals operating in the Bushveld Complex of South Africa.

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Lonrho

Lonrho is a London-based conglomerate that was established in 1998 as Lonrho Africa plc.

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Mashonaland West Province

Mashonaland West is a province of Zimbabwe.

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Mohamed Al-Fayed

Mohamed Al-Fayed (27 January 192930 August 2023) was an Egyptian billionaire businessman, whose residence and primary business interests were in the United Kingdom from the mid-1960s.

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Muammar Gaddafi

Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (20 October 2011) was a Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his assassination by rebel forces in 2011.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, politician, and statesman who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

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New American Library

The New American Library (also known as NAL) is an American publisher based in New York, founded in 1948.

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Order of Good Hope

The Order of Good Hope or Order of the Cape of Good Hope is a dormant order of merit of the Republic of South Africa.

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Pan Am Flight 103

Pan Am Flight 103 (PA103/PAA103) was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via a stopover in London and another in New York City.

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Plum Sykes

Victoria Rowland (née Sykes; born 4 December 1969), known both professionally and socially as Plum Sykes, is an English-born fashion journalist, novelist, and socialite.

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Politics of Libya

The politics of Libya has been in an uncertain state since the collapse of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in 2011 and a recent civil war and various jihadists and tribal elements controlling parts of the country.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.

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Private Eye

Private Eye is a British fortnightly satirical and current affairs news magazine, founded in 1961.

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Royal Army Medical Corps

The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all Army personnel and their families, in war and in peace.

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Sam Neill

Sir Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill (born 14 September 1947) is a New Zealand actor.

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Southern Rhodesia

Southern Rhodesia was a landlocked, self-governing British Crown colony in Southern Africa, established in 1923 and consisting of British South Africa Company (BSAC) territories lying south of the Zambezi River.

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Stewart Granger

Stewart Granger (born James Lablache Stewart; 6 May 1913 – 16 August 1993) was a British film actor, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading roles.

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The Maltese Double Cross – Lockerbie

The Maltese Double Cross – Lockerbie is a documentary film about the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

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The Mayfair Set

The Mayfair Set, subtitled Four Stories about the Rise of Business and the Decline of Political Power, is a BBC television documentary series by filmmaker Adam Curtis.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Wild Geese

The Wild Geese is a 1978 war film starring an ensemble cast led by Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy Krüger.

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Tom Bower

Thomas Michael Bower (born 28 September 1946) is a British writer and former BBC journalist and television producer.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Rowland

Also known as "Tiny" Rowland, Roland Rowland.

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British mass media owners

Immigrants to Southern Rhodesia

People educated at Churcher's College

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