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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian liberty activist (1869–1948)
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Indian political and spiritual leader, called Mahatma ("Great Soul"). Mamatma Gandhi helped India's struggle for independence from Britain through a campaign based on nonviolence and civil disobedience. His doctrine of nonviolent action had a profound influence on Martin Luther King Jr., the leader of the civil rights movement in the U.S, and Nelson Mandela, the most prominent figure of the black opposition to apartheid in South Africa. However, Gandhi never received the Nobel Peace Prize. Once, when he was asked what he thought about western civilization, he presumably replied that he thought it would be a good idea.
"Nonviolence and truth (Satya) are inseparable and presupposes one another. There is no god higher than truth." (from True Patriotism: Some Sayings of Mahatma Gandhi, 1939, ed. by S. Hobhouse)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Poorbandar, Kathiawar, on the western coast of India. For several generations, the Gadhi's had been Prime Ministers in several Kathiawald States. Karamchand Gandhi, his father was the chief minister of Porbandar and a member of the Rajasthanik Court. He married four times. Putlibai, his last wife and Gandhi's mother, was a deeply religious Hindu. When Gandhi was sixteen, his father died - four years later he lost
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The Royal Aquarium opened by the Duke of Edinburgh
The Royal Aquarium stood on the very site of Methodist Central Hall Westminster before the Methodist Church purchased it in 1903 for the price of £4 per square foot of land. The Aquarium and the Imperial Theatre together occupied about 3 acres, a site that stretched as far back as St James’ Park tube station. Designed by Alfred Bedborough, the Royal Aquarium was highly ornamental and faced with Portland stone, being very much like that of the ‘Crystal Palace’ erected in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851 and subsequently moved to south London.
The Aquarium was opened in 1876 and had some fish but it also staged exhibits such as ‘The World’s Strongest Woman’, ‘Boxing Kangaroos’, human cannonballs, the ‘Leopard Boy.’ Its best known artist was the music hall star ‘Champagne Charlie’ - George Leybourne.
However by 1900 it had ceased to be a viable business, to the joy of many people who thought it was unsuitable for the serious location that it occupied, next to Westminster Abbey and government buildings. The Aquarium’s poor reputation earned it the nickname ‘the Devil’s acre.’ So the purchase of the premises by the Wesleyan Methodist Church was therefore amicable.