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Vanish is the global stain-remover market leader in the fabric-treatment category, which is sold in more than 60 countries across the globe. Vanish started as a stain-removing laundry product launched around 1983 by a small Scottish company called Projectina Co Ltd, established by Robert G. Macfarlane in Skelmorlie, Scotland. [ 3 ]
Renuzit cleaning fluid was originally produced by Radbill Oil Co. of Philadelphia in 1932, [1] which became Renuzit Home Products Company sometime before 1947. [2] The company was acquired by Drackett in 1969 (a child company of Bristol-Myers, which merged with Squibb in 1989).
Location of Ethiopia. Ethiopia is a country located in the Horn of Africa. According to the IMF, Ethiopia was one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, registering over 10% economic growth from 2004 through 2009. [1] It was the fastest-growing non-oil-dependent African economy in the years 2007 and 2008. [2]
The 113-day streak r. PHOENIX (Reuters) -The desert city of Phoenix, Arizona, suffered a record 113 straight days with temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) this year ...
On 9 March 1894 Menelik II of Ethiopia awarded a concession to Swiss engineer Alfred Ilg to develop a railway including postal services. [1]Ilg arranged for Frenchman Leon Chefneux to contract with the engraver Louis-Eugène Mouchon to design a set of seven stamps, four depicting Menelik, and three with a heraldic lion.
of the Working People of Ethiopia: Sun [1] Addis Ababa: 1996 G.D Pub. House Ṭobiyā [1] Addis Ababa: 1993 ʼAkpāk Amharic Voice of Ethiopia [1] Addis Ababa: 1961–1969 National Patriotic Association Yäsäffiw hezb dems: 1974 Ye'Zareyitu Ethiopia / L'Ethiope d'Aujourd'hui [8] Addis Ababa: 1952 Amharic, French Yeroo: 1999–2000, 2018 ...
The Ethio-Djibouti Railway is a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) gauge railway built in 1897–1917. The line connected the new Ethiopian capital city of Addis Ababa (1886) to the Port of Djibouti in French Somaliland, providing landlocked Ethiopia with railway access to the sea.
In 2009 Ethiopia was a source country for men, women, and children subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically conditions of forced labor and forced prostitution. Girls from Ethiopia's rural areas were forced into domestic servitude and, less frequently, commercial sexual exploitation , while boys were subjected to forced labor in ...