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Automatic Self-Cleansing Filter Syndicate Co Ltd v Cuninghame. Automatic Self-Cleansing Filter Syndicate Co Ltd v Cuninghame [1906] 2 Ch 34 is a UK company law case, which concerns the enforceability of provisions in a company's constitution. The Court of Appeal affirmed that directors were not agents of the shareholders and so were not bound ...
Budget. $30 million [4] Box office. $150.8 million [5] Darkest Hour is a 2017 British war drama biographical film about Winston Churchill, played by Gary Oldman, in his early days as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War and the May 1940 war cabinet crisis, depicting his refusal to seek a peace treaty with Nazi ...
Plot. Marsha White, browsing for a gift for her mother in a department store, decides on a gold thimble. A crowd of people are waiting for the elevator. She notices another elevator is empty. The male elevator operator advises her that thimbles are on the ninth floor. As the elevator rises, the floor indicator shows only eight floors.
English. Budget. $34.8 million [3] Box office. $64.6 million [4] The Darkest Hour is a 2011 science fiction action film [5] directed by Chris Gorak from a screenplay by Jon Spaihts and produced by Timur Bekmambetov. The film stars Emile Hirsch, Max Minghella, Olivia Thirlby, Rachael Taylor, and Joel Kinnaman as a group of people caught in an ...
Sick leave (or paid sick days or sick pay) is paid time off from work that workers can use to stay home to address their health needs without losing pay. It differs from paid vacation time or time off work to deal with personal matters, because sick leave is intended for health-related purposes. Sick leave can include a mental health day and ...
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land, at sea, and in the air in World War I between the Entente and their last remaining opponent, Germany. Previous armistices had been agreed with Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary.
This was their finest hour. " This was their finest hour " was a speech delivered by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on 18 June 1940, just over a month after he took over as Prime Minister at the head of an all-party coalition government . It was the third of three speeches which he gave during the period of the ...
Hour of the Wolf (Swedish: Vargtimmen, lit. 'The Wolf Hour') is a 1968 Swedish psychological horror [n 1] film directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann . The story explores the disappearance of fictional painter Johan Borg (von Sydow), who lived on an island with his wife Alma (Ullmann) while plagued with ...