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Addis Housewares (also known as Addis or Addis Brush Company) is a British supplier and manufacturer of domestic and commercial products. [1] Originally founded in 1780, [ 2 ] the company was owned by the Addis family, to whom the first modern toothbrush is credited.
Addis Ababa is a highly developed [9] and important cultural, artistic, financial and administrative center of Ethiopia. It is widely known as one of Africa's major capitals. [10] The founding history of Addis Ababa dates back to the late 19th century by Menelik II, Negus of Shewa, in 1886 after finding Mount Entoto unpleasant two years prior. [11]
The Addis Ababa City Corridor Project, also known as Smart City Project, [1] is an ongoing urban planning project in the city of Addis Ababa initiated by the Addis Ababa City Administration in December 2022 to upgrade key routes and improve connectivity among the corridors. Due in 2025, the project aims to expand metropolis that incorporates ...
A DNA studies shows from 1,000 people that humans began migrating from Addis Ababa vicinity around the globe for 100,000 years. [1] [better source needed] Other studies confirmed that Africans have more diverse gene than other continents, but new research indicated genetic diversity declination steadily happens while ancestors travelled to Addis Ababa, which roughly a site of exiting "out of ...
In 1930 a British-based Addis Housewares Company created the first artificial Christmas tree made from brush bristles. [7] The trees were made from the same animal-hair bristles used in toilet brushes, save they were dyed green. [2]
The Lion of Judah at the obelisk to the fallen of Battle of Dogali in Rome, Italy. At the end of the so-called March of the Iron Will (Italian: marcia della ferrea volontà) (during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War) that led to the occupation of Addis Ababa by the Royal Italian Army, the statue was transported to Rome, Italy in 1936 at the end of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.
William Addis (1734–1808) was an English entrepreneur believed to have produced the first mass-produced toothbrush in 1780. [1] [2] Addis was born in 1734 in England, most likely in Clerkenwell, [note 1] London. [3] In 1770, Addis was imprisoned in Newgate prison for causing a riot in Spitalfields. [4]
Sir John Mansfield Addis (1914–1983), who was a diplomat and died unmarried. [10] Richard Graham Addis (1916–1944), who married Gillian Dearmer, daughter of Rev. Percy Dearmer, in 1941 and was killed in action, at the age of 27, on the destroyer H.M.S. Laforey, off Anzio. [10] Addis died on 14 December 1945. [10] Lady Addis died on 17 April ...