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H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB, also known as H&M Group, is a multinational clothing company based in Sweden that focuses on fast-fashion clothing. As of 23 June 2022, H&M Group operated in 75 geographical markets with 4,801 stores under the various company brands, with 107,375 [b] full-time equivalent positions.
It lies in the English Channel, about 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi) from the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy, France, and about 87 nautical miles (161 km; 100 mi) south of Great Britain. It is the largest and southernmost of the Channel Islands and part of the British Isles, with a maximum land elevation of 143 m (469 ft) above sea level.
His Majesty's Government (abbreviated to HM Government, and commonly known as the Government of the United Kingdom) is the central executive authority of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. [2] [3] The government is led by the prime minister (currently Rishi Sunak, since 25 October 2022) who selects all the other ministers ...
one Oerlikon 20 mm cannon. three .303-calibre machine guns. ten 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (four bow, two bow external, two stern, two stern external), 20 torpedoes. HMS Affray was a British Amphion -class submarine. It was the last Royal Navy submarine to be lost at sea, on 16 April 1951, with the loss of 75 lives.
The postcode area is the largest geographical unit used and forms the initial characters of the alphanumeric UK postcode. There are currently 121 geographic postcode areas in use in the UK and a further three often combined with these covering the Crown Dependencies of Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man.
17 September 1939. Sunk by U-29. HMS Glorious (77) Norwegian Sea. 8 June 1940. Sunk by naval gunfire from Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. HMS Ark Royal (91) south east of Gibraltar. 13 November 1941.
United Kingdom portal. v. t. e. The history of the United Kingdom began in the early eighteenth century with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being in 1707 with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, [1] into a new unitary state called Great Britain.
Halsewell (East Indiaman) Hired armed ship Harlequin. SS Hastier (1919) Dutch sloop Havik (1784) HMS Hawk (1803) Henry Addington (1796 EIC ship) SS Hilda. HMS Holland 5.