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Sir Charles Tennant was a global industrialist, with business across many continents in railways, steel, explosives, copper, sulphur and merchant banking. [4] Tennant served as President of the United Alkali Company which would become a cornerstone of Imperial Chemical Industries becoming extremely wealthy in the process while being a supporter ...
The Trafficante crime family, also known as the Tampa crime family or the Tampa Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Tampa, Florida.The most notable boss of the family was Santo Trafficante Jr. who ruled Tampa and the crime family with an iron fist. [1]
The firm's driving force as it evolved into a merchant bank was Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet (1823-1906). He had joined the St Rollox chemical works in 1843 and was the son of John Tennant and grandson of the founder of the firm, Charles Tennant. [3] The partnership took limited company status in 1907. Sir Edward P. Tennant continued as ...
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A Florida sheriff deputy was arrested Friday after he told investigators that he accidentally shot his girlfriend. Ocala Police said in a press release posted on Facebook that they responded to ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U. S. state of Florida (or in Florida prior to statehood) before 1972, when capital punishment was briefly abolished by the Supreme Court's ruling in Furman v. Georgia. For people executed by Florida after capital punishment was restored by the Supreme Court's ruling in Gregg v.
A former U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee was recently sentenced to prison after she and two co-conspirators stole checks worth over $24 million, according to the Department of Justice.. Dena J ...
Charles Tennant's St. Rollox Chemical Works in 1831. In 1800, Tennant founded a chemical works at St. Rollox, Glasgow. [6] The principal product being bleaching powder (calcium hypochlorite), which was sold worldwide. By 1815 the business was known as Charles Tennant & Co. and had expanded into other chemicals, metallurgy and explosives. The ...