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Bian Chiang Bank, established in 1924 in Kuching by Wee Kheng Chiang. Its primary activities were business financing and the issuance of bills of exchange. It was renamed Bank of Commerce Berhad (BCB) following its purchase by the UMNO-owned Fleet Group (then part-owner of TV3,

NSTP, and Celcom) in 1979. The CAHB group’s history can be traced back to the early 1920s, when it started out as a family bank known as Bian Chiang Bank Ltd in Kuching, Sarawak. In 1975, Fleet Group Sdn Bhd bought a 100% stake in Bian Chiang Bank, making the bank a wholly-owned

unit of the Fleet group. 

Fleet Street was established as a thoroughfare in Roman London and there is evidence that a route led west from Ludgate by 200 AD.[7] Local excavations revealed remains of a Roman amphitheatre near Ludgate on what was Fleet Prison, but other accounts

suggest the area was too marshy for regular inhabitation by the Romans.

An important landmark in Fleet Street during the late Middle Ages was a conduit that was the main water supply for the area. When Anne Boleyn was crowned queen following her marriage to Henry VIII in 1533,

the conduit flowed wine instead of water. Prince Henry's Room over the Inner Temple gate dates from 1610 and is named after Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, eldest son of James I, who did not survive to succeed his father. The site was once owned by the Templars, but after the

dissolution of the Order of St John, the building was rebuilt in 1610 and became a tavern called Prince's Arms. This coincided with the investiture of Prince Henry, son of James I, as Prince of Wales. During the 17th century, the house was known as the Fountain Inn and was

visited by Samuel Pepys on 14 October 1661. During the early 19th century a famous exhibition "Mrs Salmon's Waxworks" was held in the front part of the house, whilst the tavern continued in the rear. The house became the property of the London County Council in 1900[2] with the

aid of a contribution from the City of London Corporation. It later became a hairdressers and a plaque used to state it was once the home or palace of Henry the VIII also Cardinal Wolsey lived there. The enriched ceiling was plastered with a"P" triple plumed. Once the Management

of the Duchy of Cornwall held their sittings here in the time of Charles I, on or about 1619 (see Mrs Green's "Calendar of State Papers"). The unexceptional fireplace has a wood surround and panelling above, with an inscription above recording the connection with the diarist and

great naval administrator, Samuel Pepys. There are also fine leaded lights with coats of arms and badges, best seen from within the room. Later in 1654 or early in 1655, he entered the household of one of his father's cousins, Sir Edward Montagu, who was later dubbed the 1st Earl

of Sandwich.

Montagu was a signatory to The Several Declarations of The Company of Royal Adventurers of England Trading into Africa, a document published in 1667 which led to the expansion of the Royal Africa Company.

The Royal African Company (RAC) was an English mercantile (trading) company set up in 1660 by the royal Stuart family and City of London merchants to trade along the west coast of Africa.[1] It was led by the Duke of York, who was the brother of Charles II and later took the

throne as James II. It shipped more African slaves to the Americas than any other company in the history of the Atlantic slave trade. After becoming insolvent in 1708, it survived in a state of much reduced activity until 1752 when its assets were transferred to the new African

Company of Merchants, which lasted until 1821. In the 1680s the Company was transporting about 5,000 enslaved people a year to markets primarily in the Caribbean across the Atlantic. Many were branded with the letters "DoY", for its Governor, the Duke of York, who succeeded his

brother on the throne in 1685, becoming King James II. Other slaves were branded with the company's initials, RAC, on their chests.

The Royal Mint ceased being an executive government agency and became a state-owned limited company wholly owned by HM Treasury. In 1279, the country's numerous mints were unified under a single system whereby control was centralised to the mint within the Tower of London.

Under the patronage of Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, Isaac Newton became the mint's warden in 1696. His role, intended to be a sinecure, was taken seriously by Newton, who went about trying to combat the country's growing problems with counterfeiting.

The opportunity to oversee the Mint's refinery was taken up by Anthony de Rothschild, a descendant of the Rothschild family and heir to the multinational investment banking company N M Rothschild & Sons. Rothschild secured a lease from the government in January 1852, purchasing

equipment and premises adjacent to the Royal Mint on 19 Royal Mint Street under the name of Royal Mint Refinery. The site was sold to Jardine Matheson in 1868 and the mint machinery sold to the Japanese Mint in Osaka. When the former King Edward VIII went into exile as the

Duke of Windsor in 1936 (following his abdication), he took with him the Coronet of George, Prince of Wales, a highly controversial – and illegal – act. This coronet had been specially created for King George V, then Prince of Wales, and he wore it at his father's coronation in

1902. The traditional coronet being unavailable, and with the older Coronet of Frederick, Prince of Wales being viewed unusable due to age, a new Prince of Wales coronet was made to be used for the investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales. The Coronet of Charles,

Prince of Wales, was produced by a committee under Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, then husband of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. Prince of Wales, was produced by a committee under Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, then husband of Princess

On 17 July 1917, George appeased British nationalist feelings by issuing a royal proclamation that changed the name of the British royal house from the German-sounding House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the House of Windsor.

His cousin Prince Louis of Battenberg, who earlier in the war had been forced to resign as First Sea Lord through anti-German feeling, became Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, while Queen Mary's brothers became Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, and

Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone. Advance planning for a rescue was undertaken by MI1, a branch of the British secret service,[78] but because of the strengthening position of the Bolshevik revolutionaries and wider difficulties with the conduct of the war, the plan was

never put into operation.[79] The Tsar and his immediate family remained in Russia, where they were killed by the Bolsheviks in 1918. George wrote in his diary: "It was a foul murder. I was devoted to Nicky, who was the kindest of men and thorough gentleman: loved his country and

people."[80] The following year, Nicholas's mother, Marie Feodorovna, and other members of the extended Russian imperial family were rescued from Crimea by a British warship. In 1922, a Royal Navy ship was sent to Greece to rescue his cousins, Prince and Princess Andrew.

In contrast, he was fond of his second son, Prince Albert (later George VI), and doted on his eldest granddaughter, Princess Elizabeth; he nicknamed her "Lilibet", and she affectionately called him "Grandpa England".

In the centre of the arch is a monde (which is actually a gold-plated ping-pong ball[5]) engraved with the Prince of Wales's insignia by Malcolm Appleby, surmounted by a plain cross. In February 2003, Mr. Frazier signed a formal agreement entering into a partnership with the

Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, also known as the United Kingdom's National Museum of Arms and Armour, an ancient institution of the Tower of London that was originally founded to manufacture armor for the Kings of England. Frazier lived in a house built by his grandfather in

1910 called "The Avish" in the suburban city of Harrods Creek, Kentucky. He also owns a 400-acre (1.6 km2) farm in Shelby County, Kentucky. Bardstown is the site of My Old Kentucky Home State Park. Judge John Rowan and his wife Ann Lytle Rowan commissioned the construction of a

large mansion they named Federal Hill, which is the farm that inspired the Rowan's cousin Stephen Foster to write the song "My Old Kentucky Home". The Old Talbott Tavern was built in 1779, a year before the settlement of Salem (later renamed Bardstown)began, making it the "oldest

western stagecoach stop" still in operation.[3] According to an old map of Bardstown, the lot was originally purchased by a man named Hynes; the tavern was called the Hynes Hotel. It was strategically located near the end of the stagecoach road that once led east to Philadelphia

and Virginia. George Rogers Clark used it as a resource base during the end of the American Revolutionary War; Daniel Boone stayed here, and the exiled Louis-Philippe of France, stayed at the tavern on October 17, 1797, with a member of his entourage painting murals that were

rediscovered in the 20th century and were on display until the 1998 fire.

He had been at the school for a month when he heard the news from Paris: his father had been guillotined on 6 November 1793 after a trial before the Revolutionary Tribunal.

Famous 1831 caricature of Louis Philippe turning into a pear mirrored the deterioration of his popularity (Honoré Daumier, after Charles Philipon, who was jailed for the original)

Unlike Louis, who attempted to escape France in extravagant transportation, he instead rode in an ordinary cab under the name of "Mr. Smith." He fled to England and spent his final years incognito as the 'Comte de Neuilly'. Louis Philippe died at Claremont on 26 August 1850. He

was first buried at St. Charles Borromeo Chapel in Weybridge, Surrey. In 1876, his remains and those of his wife were taken to France and buried at the Chapelle royale de Dreux, the Orléans family necropolis his mother had built in 1816, and which he had enlarged and embellished

after her death.