Showing 387 results

The Sun Fire Office, later Sun Insurance, was founded in London in 1710 and developed into a leading international insurance business. In 1959, Sun Insurance merged with Alliance Assurance to form Sun Alliance

Taronga Zoo is a government-run public zoo located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, in the suburb of Mosman on the shores of Sydney Harbour. Taronga is an Aboriginal word meaning 'beautiful view'. Taronga Zoo Sydney is managed by the Zoological Parks Board of New South Wales, under the trading name Taronga Conservation Society, along with its sister zoo, the Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo

Solicitors

The Tecton Group was a radical architectural group co-founded by Berthold Lubetkin, Francis Skinner, Denys Lasdun, Michael Dugdale, Anthony Chitty, Val Harding, Godfrey Samuel and Lindsay Drake in 1932, and disbanded in 1939. The group was one of the leaders in bringing continental modernism to Britain. The group's first commission was the 1932-1934 Gorilla House in London Zoo. After the complete of the gorilla house, the group designed a penguin pool for the zoo, which contained a unique double helix-shaped walkway without immediate supports for the penguins and a large swimming area. They also designed two other zoos: Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire and Dudley Zoo in West Midlands

Tel Aviv Zoo was a zoo founded in 1938 and located in central Tel Aviv. The zoo closed in 1980 and the animals were moved to the Zoological Centre of Tel Aviva-Ramat Gan

The Asiatic Society is a Government of India organisation founded during the Company rule in India to enhance and further the cause of 'Oriental research' (in this case, research into India and the surrounding regions). It was founded by the philologist William Jones in 1784 in a meeting presided over by Justice Robert Chambers in Calcutta, the then-capital of the Presidency of Fort William.