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    Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company in Rochester, New York, the company changed its name to the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1856 after merging...
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    Postal Telegraph Company (Postal Telegraph & Cable Corporation) was a major operator of telegraph networks in the United States prior to its consolidation...
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  • of the UK's most successful manufacturing companies. Its roots were in the Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company, which underwent several changes in name...
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    The Electric Telegraph Company (ETC) was a British telegraph company founded in 1846 by William Fothergill Cooke and John Ricardo. It was the world's...
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    African Telegraph Company (1879), and the African Direct Telegraph Company (1885). These companies were all merged into the Eastern Telegraph Company...
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    of African Unity (OAU). In July 2004, the African Union's Pan-African Parliament (PAP) was relocated to Midrand, in South Africa, but the African Commission...
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    end of the telegraph era can be associated with the fall of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Western Union was the leading telegraph provider for...
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    Telegraphy (redirect from Telegraph)
    telegraph, a device which was supposed to increase the efficiency of telegraph transmission and improve the profits of telegraph companies. Western Union...
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    500 cities in more than 45 countries in Europe, Africa, Western Asia and Latin America. The company has more than 150 million customers and more than...
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    system of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), that dominated the...
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    Daily Telegraph in both 2016 and 2023. Located on the shore of Table Bay, the City Bowl area of Cape Town is the oldest urban area in the Western Cape...
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  • relationship with telegraph company Western Union, to whom they supplied relays and other equipment. In 1875, Gray sold his interests to Western Union, including...
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    Russian–American Telegraph, also known as the Western Union Telegraph Expedition and the Collins Overland Telegraph, was an attempt by the Western Union Telegraph Company...
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    Telephone and Telegraph Company . The company was then organized in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 9, 1877,. A common law joint-stock company, the Bell Telephone...
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    Tata Group (redirect from TATA company)
    The Tata Group (/ˈtɑːtɑː/) is an Indian group of companies headquartered in Mumbai. Established in 1868, it is India's largest conglomerate, with products...
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    British, South African and other regiments on the Western Front (in Belgium and France). The Company raised exclusively Rhodesian units for African service....
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    success of the new company attracted the attention of General Anson Stager, general superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph Company. He offered to enter...
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  • as International Telephone & Telegraph. During the 1960s and 1970s, under the leadership of CEO Harold Geneen, the company rose to prominence as the archetypal...
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  • African Queens is a 2023 docudrama series focusing on female monarchs, airing on the streaming service Netflix. The series is produced and narrated by...
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    and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in the United States. In 1925, Western Electric divested itself of all foreign operations and sold International Western Electric...
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    operations in various countries in the African continent since 2017. In November 2023 it was announced that an Africa Corps was being formed as "part of a...
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    Cape to Cairo Railway (category Rail transport in Africa)
    of the East African Community in 1977, these companies operated as East African Railways, but operate today as different national companies. From Dar es...
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  • Ben Lawrence of The Telegraph gave Taboo 3 out of 5 stars, stating that Taboo's strength is that, despite borrowing from westerns, gangster flicks and...
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    Zimbabwe (category Use South African English from April 2013)
    Nations, the Southern African Development Community, the African Union, and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa. Beginning in the 9th century...
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    East Africa into the broader Internet. The company that provided this new cable was SEACOM, which is 75% owned by East African and South African investors...
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    telecommunications cables. The Atlantic Telegraph Company led by Cyrus West Field constructed the first transatlantic telegraph cable. The project began in 1854...
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    2015). "Nigeria hired South African mercenaries to wage a secret war on Africa's deadliest jihadist group". The Telegraph. No. Business Insider. Online...
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  • Spanish have resided in many African countries (mostly former colonies), including Equatorial Guinea, Western Sahara, South Africa, and Morocco. 94,000 Spaniards...
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  • Appletiser (category Elgin, Western Cape)
    the Western Cape, South Africa. Exports began in 1969 to two archipelagos: the Canary Islands (Spain) and Japan. In 1979, The Coca-Cola Company purchased...
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    Telex (category Western Union)
    telegraphy companies, collectively called IRCs: Western Union Telegraph Company developed a subsidiary named Western Union Cable System. This company was later...
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