Today we celebrate Heinrich Nordhoff’s 127th Birthday. Born on the 6th of January 1899 in Hildesheim, Germany, he built up the Volkswagen company after the 2nd World War and was the man behind the Volkswagen beetles’ success worldwide. In 1948, Nordhoff accepted a British invitation to assume the directorship of VW, which had been…
NEC Corporation is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered at the NEC Supertower in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It provides IT and network solutions, including cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT) platform, and telecommunications equipment and software to business enterprises, communications services providers and to government agencies. NEC has…
The Eiffel Tower is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower from 1887 to 1889. Locally nicknamed “La dame de fer” (French for “Iron Lady”), it was constructed as the centrepiece of the 1889…
Crime never pays but today we should remember one of the most notorious criminals of all time, Al Capone. Born on 17th of January 1899 in Brooklyn New York, Capone, or Scarface as he was known by his men became the head of organised crime in Chicago. He was convicted on tax fraud and…