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After the war, the people of Worthing donated a stained glass window to the people of Timaru in thanks for their efforts. Liberated Soviet Prisoners in Worthing in 1945. Immediately post-war, Worthing expanded with the Maybridge estate, planned by Charles Cowles-Voysey. The redbrick housing estate used Prisoner of War labour, and was built ...
Worthing is served by the BBC South television studios based in Southampton, [214] [215] BBC South East from Tunbridge Wells, and by the ITV franchise Meridian Broadcasting, also with studios in Southampton. [216] Television signals come from the Rowridge or Whitehawk Hill transmitters. [217] [218] More Radio Worthing is Worthing's local ...
1856 - Worthing Intelligencer newspaper first published [12] 1861 Queen Marie Amelie of France stays in Worthing when in exile from France; The Sussex Coast Mercury (later the Worthing Mercury) newspaper is first published [12] 1862 Worthing Pier opens; C.A. Elliott uses glass from the Great Exhibition of 1851 for glass-houses to grow grapes ...
Russ Cook, endurance athlete, first person to run from the southernmost point to the northernmost point of continental Africa. John Cooper, car maker, lived in Worthing until his death in 2001. [3] Mason Crane, international cricketer, grew up in the town and attended Thomas a Becket School and Lancing College. [4]
[note 1] The recent African origin theory suggests that the anatomically modern humans outside of Africa descend from a population of Homo sapiens migrating from East Africa roughly 70–50,000 years ago and spreading along the southern coast of Asia and to Oceania by about 50,000 years ago.
In June 1951, there were 49,904 whites of French origin in French West Africa, as well as an undetermined number of Europeans of other nationalities. [96] The total number of white residents in these colonies never exceeded 0.3% of the population, and was predominantly urban: two-thirds of them lived in one of French West Africa's nine ...
The Bantu expansion constituted a major series of migrations of Bantu-speaking peoples from Central Africa to Eastern and Southern Africa and was substantial in the settling of the continent. [111] Commencing in the 2nd millennium BC, the Bantu began to migrate from Cameroon to the Congo Basin , and eastward to the Great Lakes region to form ...
The medieval Tunisian scholar Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), recounting the oral traditions prevalent in his day, sets down two popular opinions as to the origin of the Berbers: according to one opinion, they are descended from Canaan, son of Ham, and have for ancestors Berber, son of Temla, son of Mazîgh, son of Canaan, son of Ham, a son of Noah ...