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Succeeded her husband J. C. C. Davidson, 1st Viscount Davidson as MP after he became a member of the House of Lords after being raised to the peerage as Viscount Davidson. Daughter of Willoughby Dickinson, 1st Baron Dickinson. In 1963 she was created a life peer as Baroness Northchurch, of Chiswick in the County of Middlesex.
Between 1918 and 2024, a total of 693 women have been elected as Members of the House of Commons. As of July 2024 there are 263 women in the House of Commons, the highest ever. [2] This is an all-time high at 40%. The previous number was 220, set in 2019, which accounted for 35% of members elected or re-elected that year. [3]
Amazon websites are country-specific (for example, amazon.com for the U.S. and amazon.co.uk for UK) though some offer international shipping. [49] Visits to amazon.com grew from 615 million annual visitors in 2008, [50] to more than 2 billion per month in 2022. [citation needed] The e-commerce platform is the 12th most visited website in the ...
Mariah Carey earned her third number-one single with " All I Want for Christmas Is You ", which topped the UK charts in its 70th week in the top 40 in December 2020, 26 years after the song's original release. The song returned to number one in December 2022. Taylor Swift earned three number-one singles in the 2020s with " Anti-Hero ", " Is It ...
The Pale Horse is a British mystery television miniseries broadcast as two episodes in 2020. Written by Sarah Phelps, the serial is loosely based on Agatha Christie 's novel of the same name. It is Phelps' fifth adaptation of a Christie work for the BBC. Directed by Leonora Lonsdale, [1] it stars Rufus Sewell and Kaya Scodelario.
The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [ 2 ] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest . [ 3 ]
Principal Place is a 15-storey office block in Shoreditch, London, designed by Foster and Partners and completed in 2016. [1] Since 2018, it has been occupied by the internet retailer Amazon.com as its UK headquarters. It is situated at the eastern end of Worship Street, with the main entrance approached across a pedestrian piazza from ...
Amazon.com, Inc., is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994, as an online bookstore, Amazon went public after an initial public offering on May 15, 1997, during the midst of the dot-com bubble. [1] The funds gained from the IPO allowed Amazon to ...