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Because of the debased values of the piastres in the Middle East, these piastres became subsidiary units for the Turkish, Lebanese, Cypriot, and Egyptian pounds. [1] Meanwhile, in Indochina, the piastre continued into the 1950s and was subsequently renamed the riel , the kip , and the dong in Cambodia , Laos and Vietnam respectively.
In 1885, Egypt went into a purely gold standard, and the Egyptian pound unit, known as the juneih, was introduced at E£1 = 7.4375 grammes of fine gold. This unit was chosen on the basis of the gold content in the British gold sovereign and maintaining the exchange value of 97.5 piastres to the pound sterling, and it replaced the Egyptian ...
Hyatt Regency Houston was a host hotel for the 1992 Republican National Convention, the 16th G7 Economic Summit in 1990, and the 1998 World Energy Congress. [8] The hotel completed a $40 million renovation in 2008 that included all 947 guestrooms, a redesigned lobby bar, 64,000 square feet (5,900 m 2 ) of meeting space, and the addition of the ...
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The Ariel Hotel is a circular hotel very close to London Heathrow Airport.. The hotel was built for J. Lyons and Co. in 1960, and designed by Russell Diplock & Associates.It was "Britain’s first significant airport hotel", [1] and the first hotel to be built at 'London Airport' (as it was known up to 1966), its completion being timed to coincide with the opening of the Oceanic Terminal (now ...
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The developer of the Houstonian Hotel was Tom Fatjo, a Houstonian who had also founded Browning-Ferris Industries (BFI). [2] The hotel opened in 1980. [3] George Alexander of the Houston Press said that the hotel was "built as a health club for business executives trying to shed pounds and rediscover their inner velociraptor".
La Colombe d'Or is a hotel and residential complex in Neartown, Houston. It includes an original building in a Beaux-Arts style, a skyscraper with 34 stories, and a bungalow property. [1] Its original building is a Texas Historic Landmark as of 1989. [2]