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18 hours ago · Lord William Lennox, MP for King's Lynn 1831–1834, who lost the sight of one eye in a horse riding accident in 1815. William Ewart Gladstone , MP for Newark 1832–1845, Oxford University 1847–1865, South Lancashire 1865–1868, Greenwich 1868–1880, and Midlothian 1880–1895, four times prime minister between 1868 and 1894, who lost the forefinger of his left hand in a shotgun accident ...
18 hours ago · The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, [15] is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party. It is the main opposition party, as it lost the 2024 general election, having previously governed the country from 2010 to 2024.
18 hours ago · The Internet (or internet) [a] is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) [b] to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of ...
18 hours ago · Episode of the Belgian Revolution of 1830, Egide Charles Gustave Wappers (1834), in the Musée d'Art Ancien, Brussels Main article: Belgian Revolution The Belgian Revolution broke out in August 1830 when crowds, stirred by a performance of Auber's La Muette de Portici at the Brussels opera house of La Monnaie , spilled out onto the streets singing patriotic songs.
