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all African-descended people | What would scholars like the term "Negro" to include? |
a "black" consciousness and identity. | What does this aim to stimulate? |
a wide range of multiracial people | What does the term "pardo" include? |
mestizos | What does caboclos mean? |
London | The Times is based in what major British city? |
1785 | What year did the initial incarnation of The Times start? |
The Daily Universal Register | What was the original name of The Times before changing its name? |
Times Newspapers | The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by what company? |
News Corp group | The Times, owned by News UK, is itself owned by what major corporation? |
Times Newspapers | The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by what company? |
1788 | What year did The Times change its name from The Daily Universal Register? |
1785 | What year did The Daily Universal Register initially start? |
1838 | What year did The Times of India start? |
1845 | What year did The Strait Times (Singapore) start? |
1851 | What year did The New York Times start? |
1859 | What year did the Irish Times start? |
1872 | What year did the Cape Times (South Africa) start? |
Times Roman | What major typeface font was started by The Times? |
Stanley Morison | Who was the creator of typeface font used by The Times? |
Times Modern | In November 2006, The Times changed its font to what new font typeface? |
219 years | How long was The Times printed in broadsheet format? |
2004 | In what year did The Times change its broadsheet format to a compact size? |
moderate | Traditionally, what political spectrum did The Times support? |
Labour Party | What party did The Times support in 2001 and 2005 general elections? |
394,448 | In March 2014, The Times had an average daily circulation of how many people? |
Gage Cengage | The complete historical file of the digitized paper of The Times is online and published by what publisher? |
Conservative Party | What political party has the highest readership of The Times? |
John Walter | The Times was founded by what publisher who also was the editor? |
The Daily Universal Register | The Times was known as what name before it became The Times? |
1785 | What year was the very first publication of The Times? |
libel | The first publisher and editor of The Times when to prison for what crime when printed in his newspaper? |
940 | Before the newspaper changed its name to The Times, how many editions were printed? |
5,000 | In 1815, The Times had a circulation of how many people? |
steam-driven cylinder press | Beginning in 1814, The Times was printed using what new kind of press? |
reputation | The Times used contributions from significant figures to build what? |
Friedrich Koenig | Who developed the new press type in 1814 for The Times? |
Thomas Barnes | Who was appointed general editor for The Times in 1817? |
his son | In 1817, The Times paper's printer James Lawson passed his business to which family member? |
The Thunderer | Peter Fraser and Edward Sterling, two noted The Times journalists, gained what nickname for themselves? |
steam-driven rotary printing press | What kind of printing press helped increase the circulation and influence of The Times back in 1817? |
John Thadeus Delane | Who succeeded Thomas Barnes as editor of The Times in 1841? |
war | The Times was the first newspaper to send correspondents to what kind of event? |
W. H. Russell | Who was The Times first correspondent with an army? |
Crimean War | Which war did The Times first cover using correspondents? |
Irish Potato Famine | What major event did The Times reluctantly support in the nineteenth century despite being initially opposed? |
Great Reform Bill of 1832 | The Times greatly supported what bill in 1832 which reduced corruption and increased the electorate? |
Corn Laws | Many demonstrations in the nineteenth century convinced The Times editorial board to finally support the repeal of what laws? |
wealthy classes | During the American Civil War, what classes of people did The Times support? |
the secessionists | The Times favoured which political side of the American Civil War? |
1847 | What year did the founder's grandson succeed his father as editor of The Times? |
John Walter | What is the name of the The Times founder's grandson who succeeded his father as editor? |
the penny press | In the 1850s, the Times was beginning to suffer from the rise in competition from what kind of press? |
the Foreign Office | Which agency often used The Times for continental intelligence? |
19th century | Which century was The Times first often relied upon for continental intelligence? |
official sources | Continental intelligence conveyed by The Times was often superior to what? |
Arthur Fraser Walter | Which editor nearly ruined The Times in 1890? |
Charles Frederic Moberly Bell | Which energetic editor rescued The Times from financial collapse in 1890? |
Britannica | Which encyclopedia was The Times aggressively selling to American markets? |
Horace Everett Hooper | Who was the creator of the encyclopedia that The Times was known for selling to America? |
Alfred Harmsworth | Who later bought the well-known encyclopedia from The Times in 1908? |
Wickham Steed | Who was The Times' Chief Editor in 1914? |
World War I | The Chief Editor of The Times in 1914 argued that the British Empire should enter what war? |
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion | What anti-Semitic fabrication did The Times endorse in 1920? |
the world's greatest danger | After publishing anti-Semitic editorials in 1920, what did The Times refer to Jews as being? |
The Jewish Peril, a Disturbing Pamphlet: Call for Inquiry | What was the name of the anti-Semitic article that The Time's Chief Editor published in 1914? |
The Protocols | A Constantinople correspondent of The Times exposed what anti-Semitic document as a forgery? |
Philip Graves | Who was the name of the The Times Constantinople correspondent who exposed the anti-Semitic document as a forgery? |
retracted the editorial | How did The Times respond to the exposing of anti-Semitic documents as forgery? |
John Jacob Astor | In 1922, who bought The Times? |
Northcliffe estate | In 1922, which estate sold The Times? |
German appeasement | The Times gained much notoriety in the 1930s because of its advocacy of what? |
Geoffrey Dawson | Which The Times editor was closely allied with the government who practised German appeasement? |
Neville Chamberlain | Which notable government official did The Times ally with in the 1930s whom practised German appeasement? |
Kim Philby | Who was the name of the Soviet double agent who was the correspondent for The Times in Spain in the late 1930s? |
Spanish Civil War | A Soviet double agent working for The Times in Spain was a war correspondent during what war in the late 1930s? |
MI6 | During World War II, the Soviet double agent who was corresponding for The Times in Spain in the 1930s later joined what agency? |
Soviet Union | In 1963, a notable double agent providing valuable and high-quality reporting for The Times during a war in the late 1930s eventually defected to which country? |
E.H. Carr | Between 1941 and 1946, which left-wing British historian was Assistant Editor for The Times? |
pro-Soviet | The Assistant Editor of The Times in 1941-1946 strongly supported what stance? |
Communists | Which side did The Times support in the fighting that broke out in Athens in 1944? |
Winston Churchill | Which major political figure condemned The Times in 1944 for not supporting the British Army? |
the threepenny Daily Worker | During World War II, The Times was nicknamed what in 1944? |
1966 | In what year did The Times resume printing news on the front page instead of small advertisements? |
Astor family | In 1967, what well-known family sold The Times to a Canadian publishing magnate? |
Roy Thomson | In 1967, which Canadian publishing magnate bought The Times? |
Thomson Corporation | What is the name of the corporation that bought The Times in 1967? |
The Sunday Times | Which other newspaper was brought under the same ownership as The Times in 1967 to form Times Newspapers Limited? |
Thomson Corporation | In 1979, which corporation was struggling to run The Times? |
1979 Energy Crisis | What crisis in 1979 caused near ruin to The Times? |
union demands | What kind of demands were causing ruin to The Times in 1979? |
Australian | A media magnate from which country bought The Times in the 1980s? |
Rupert Murdoch | What is the name of the media magnate that bought The Times in the 1980s? |
Thomson | Who did a media magnate in the 1980s buy The Times from? |
News International | What corporation bought The Times in 1981? |
Rupert Murdoch | Who owned the major corporation that bought The Times in 1981? |
the unions | During the acquisition of The Times in 1981, John Collier and Bill O'Neill were part of what group that did three weeks of intensive bargaining? |
William Rees-Mogg | When The Times was bought in 1982, who resigned as editor? |
14 years | How many years as an editor was editor who resigned from The Times in 1982? |
Harold Evans | In 1982, what is the name of the editor who replaced the previous editor of The Times? |
hot-metal Linotype printing process | What printing process for The Times was replaced by computers in 1982? |
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