1860 - Diamond prospect: The DeBeer brothers buy a farm in South Africa's Northern Cape Province for just pounds 50. This farm will become the site of both the De Beers and the Kimberley Mines - source of some of the world's most beautiful diamonds.The Birmingham Post (England)...
The discovery of gold and diamonds in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, made Portugal the wealthiest country in Europe in the 18th century. This era of prosperity was reflected architecturally in beautiful buildings of a distinctively Portuguese Baroque style that incorporates azulejos, blue and wh...
The founding of De Beers A new source of diamonds was found in South Africa, including an area of land owned by two brothers called de Beer. After the initial prospectors amalgamated, De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd was founded in 1888. Diamonds in the20th Century The 20th century was a ...
South AfricaEconomyDiscoursesPrior to the discovery of diamonds and gold in South Africa there were few resources upon which to construct a capitalist economy, and so the region remained an economic backwater, overwhelmingly characterized by pastoral peasant societies. The discovery of the massive ...
South Africa isknown astheRainbow Nationbecause of the unity of multi-culturalism and the coming together of people of many different races in a country that was once strictly divided between white and black. The country is abundant withnatural resourceslikegoldanddiamonds, diverse cultures, and fa...
The discovery of diamonds in 1867 and gold nine years later brought an influx of “outlanders” into the republics and spurred Cape Colony prime minister Cecil Rhodes to plot annexation. Rhodes's scheme of sparking an “outlander” rebellion, to which an armed party under Leander Starr Jameson ...
lucidly the effects of the early dispossession on the African communities, thereby establishing a deep baseline for understanding the more extensive dispossessions and disabilities that were visited upon the majority communities after the discovery of diamonds in the late 1860s and gold in the mid-...
There were also reports of quantum teleportation in 1997 and gravitational lensing— a key test of relativity theory — in 1993, as well as the synthesis of carbon nanotubes in 1991, polymer LEDs in 1990 and artificial diamonds in 1993. ...
November 12, 2019-Dr. Christopher Nordmann To Speak On Creole Society in Antebellum Mobile at History Museum of MobilePDF FILE September 3, 2019-Special Traveling Exhibit, Diamonds, Adds Shine and Brilliance to History Museum of MobilePDF FILE ...
Interest in Aloes and other indigenous plants came after the discovery of gold and diamonds in South Africa, which resulted in tremendous economic growth. Universities were established as well as, in 1913, the National Botanical Gardens. For the first time Aloes were noticed and researched by ...