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The Rand Club of Johannesburg is the oldest private members' club in Johannesburg, South Africa, and founded in October 1887. The plan for the current, third, clubhouse was put on paper in 1902 and its construction was finished in 1904 on the design by architects Leck & Emley in the Edwardian neo-baroque style.
Johannesburg was established in 1886, [18] following the discovery of gold, on what had been a farm. Due to the extremely large gold deposits found along the Witwatersrand, [19] within ten years, the population had grown to over 100,000 inhabitants.
Meeting of the Municipal Associations of South Africa held in Johannesburg. 1907 – Redhill School was founded. 1908 – Population: 180,687. [4] 1919 – Jeppe High School for Girls was founded. 1920 – Parktown Boys' High School was founded. 1921 – Helpmekaar Kollege was founded. 1922 University of the Witwatersrand incorporated.
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.Its nine provinces are bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 miles) of coastline that stretches along the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean; [15] [16] [17] to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini ...
The suburbs of Johannesburg are officially [citation needed] demarcated areas within the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa. As in other Commonwealth countries, the term suburb refers to a "neighbourhood", although in South Africa most (but not all) "suburbs" have legally recognised borders (see legal definition of ...
The first European to see Texas was Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, who led an expedition for the governor of Jamaica, Francisco de Garay, in 1520.While searching for a passage between the Gulf of Mexico and Asia, [17] Álvarez de Pineda created the first map of the northern Gulf Coast. [18]
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Nuevo Santander (New Santander) was a region of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, covering the modern Mexican state of Tamaulipas and extending into modern-day southern Texas in the United States. [ 1 ] Nuevo Santander was named after Santander, Cantabria , Spain , and settled by Spanish American colonists in a concerted settlement campaign peaking ...