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London’s Oxford Street is
Europe’s busiest shopping
street, with about
500,000 daily visitors
The Bank of England £1
note was withdrawn from
circulationon11March1988
The Money Brothers, the sons of
During the Great Depression William Money, an early director
of the 1930s, Washington DC of the East India Company
residents wait in a soup line
Zhang Qian’s missions during the
second century BCE opened up
China to other parts of the world
More than 11 million Africans were forcibly removed
from their homes and transported across the
Atlantic as part of the transatlantic slave trade
When financial crisis hit
the US in 1907, it sparked
a panic in New York City
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One of the UK’s most successful businessmen,
Alan Sugar was made a peer in 2009 to advise
the government on enterprise issues
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