Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and entrepreneur mb-code 42-18022994 A collector of second-hand satin

A collector of second-hand satin

Australia had long been a dumping-ground for the British criminal classes and Australian objections were frequent

Botanical study of Nepenthes melamphora [Nepenthes gymnamphora] a pitcher plant native to Java

Churchill - rather to the surprise of many - had been given the post of Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Salisbury's administration

he proposed that it should also be made a criminal offence to bribe voters

Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and entrepreneur mb-code 42-18022994 A collector of second-hand satinFerdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and entrepreneur, 1875. De Lesseps (1805 1894) built the Suez Canal to enable shipping to pass between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea rather than having to sail around the Cape of Good hope, completing the project in 1869. In 1880 he then went on to make the first attempt at building a canal to link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans across the Isthmus of Panama. A combination of the difficult terrain, a