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Nakahama Manjirō (中濱 万次郎, January 27, 1827 – November 12, 1898), also known as John Manjirō (or John Mung), [1] was a Japanese samurai and translator who was one of the first Japanese people to visit the United States and an important translator during the opening of Japan.
Firoze Manji was born in Kenya, to Kenya's "Biscuit Baron" Madatally Manji and his wife Fatima. [2] After obtaining a dentistry degree from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, he started his career as a dentist working as a prison dentist and part-time as an immigration advisor at the Hammersmith Law Centre, London.
Manji was born in 1968 near Kampala, Uganda. [8] Her mother is of Egyptian descent and her father of Indian heritage. [9]When Idi Amin ordered the expulsion of Asians and other non-Africans from Uganda in the early 1970s, [10] [11] Manji and her family came to Canada as refugees when she was four years old.
On 4 May [O.S. 14 May] 1607, 105 to 108 English men and boys (surviving the voyage from England) established the Jamestown Settlement for the Virginia Company of London, on a slender peninsula on the bank of the James River. It became the first long-term English settlement in North America. [1] [2]
The English diaspora consists of English people and their descendants who emigrated from England.The diaspora is concentrated in the English-speaking world in countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, South Africa, and to a lesser extent, Zimbabwe, India, Zambia and continental Europe.
Manji Cult, appeared in the 1998 PS1 video game Tenchu: Stealth Assassins; Manji, an organization in the Soulcalibur game series; Manji, a character in the role-playing game MapleStory; Manji, the main character of the manga series Blade of the Immortal by Hiroaki Samura; Tokyo Manji Gang, the main group from the manga series Tokyo Revengers by ...
They found that while 58% of white people in England described their nationality as "English", non-white people were more likely to describe themselves as "British". [33] However, in the 2021 United Kingdom census , 58.4% of respondants identified as "British" instead of "English" to 14.9%.
The first documented settlement of Europeans in the Americas was established by Norse people around 1000 AD in what is now Newfoundland, called Vinland by the Norse. Later European exploration of North America resumed with Christopher Columbus's 1492 expedition sponsored by Spain. English settlement began almost a century later.