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George Maxwell Alagiah OBE (/ ˌ æ l ə ˈ ɡ aɪ ə /; 22 November 1955 – 24 July 2023) was a British newsreader, journalist and television presenter, and one of BBC News's chief presenters. From 2007 until 2022, he was the presenter of the BBC News at Six , and also the main presenter of GMT on BBC World News from its launch in 2010 until ...
George Alagiah, the "fearless" and "kind" BBC reporter and author, has died of cancer aged 67.
The back-to-Africa movement was a political movement in the 19th and 20th centuries advocating for a return of the descendants of African American slaves to the African continent. The movement originated from a widespread belief among some European Americans in the 18th and 19th century United States that African Americans would want to return ...
President George W. Bush signs into law the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) of 2004 in the Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building Tuesday, July 13, 2004. The African Growth and Opportunity Act , or AGOA (Title I, Trade and Development Act of 2000; P.L. 106–200) [ 2 ] is a piece of legislation that was approved by the U.S ...
LC Class. PR6069.T417 P6x 1982. The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. is a 1981 literary and philosophical novella by George Steiner. The story is about Jewish Nazi hunters who find a fictional Adolf Hitler (A.H.) alive in the Amazon jungle thirty years after the end of World War II. The book was controversial, particularly among reviewers and ...
The United States President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is a United States governmental initiative to address the global HIV/AIDS epidemic and help save the lives of those suffering from the disease. Launched by U.S. President George W. Bush in 2003, as of May 2020, PEPFAR has provided about $90 billion in cumulative funding for ...
Igbo women, photographed in Nigeria, early 20th century. Igbo Landing (also called Ibo Landing, Ebo Landing, or Ebos Landing) is a historic site at Dunbar Creek on St. Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia. It was the setting of a mass suicide in 1803 by captive Igbo people who had taken control of the slave ship they were on, and refused to ...
Just one day later, on the couple's wedding anniversary, Aug. 25, Dominic McNulty died at the age of 40, according to his wife. "We thought it was just a stomach bug," Karen McNulty said of her ...