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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?