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Toastmasters International was incorporated under Californian law on December 19, 1932. The first international chapter was established in Vancouver, Canada, in 1932. The organization began admitting women in 1973. In 1999, Toastmasters International (TI) had 170,000 members spanning 68 countries.
Ralph C. Smedley (February 22, 1878 – September 11, 1965) was the founder of Toastmasters International, an international speaking organization with more than 352,000 members in 141 countries and more than 16,400 individual clubs. Illinois Wesleyan University recognized Smedley's service to mankind by conferring him the honorary degree of ...
The Robots of Death. The Robots of Death is the fifth serial of the 14th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 29 January to 19 February 1977. In the serial, the Fourth Doctor ( Tom Baker) and Leela ( Louise Jameson) arrive on a sandminer whose crew, from ...
de Havilland. First flight. 12 November 1932. Introduction. April 1933. Number built. 202. The de Havilland DH.84 Dragon is a successful small commercial aircraft that was designed and built by the de Havilland company.
Toastmaster. Toastmaster is a general term, prevalent in the United States in the mid-20th century, referring to a person in charge of the proceedings of a public speaking event. The toastmaster is typically charged with organization of the event, arranging the order of speakers, introducing one or more of the speakers, and keeping the event on ...
World Championship of Public Speaking. The World Championship of Public Speaking began in 1938 and has grown to over 50,000 participants in 149 countries in 2022. In its early decades, it was referred to as the Toastmasters Speech Contest. [1] By the 1990s, there were about 10,000 participants every year. [2]
Toastmaster (appliances) A Toastmaster industrial-grade toaster, capable of toasting sliced bread and bagels. One of the two old Toastmaster manufacturing facilities in Boonville, which have long been vacated. Toastmaster is a brand name for home appliances. It was originally (1921) the name of one of the world's first automatic electric pop-up ...
Saintes. (D84) HMS Saintes was a 1942 Battle-class fleet destroyer of the Royal Navy (RN). She and 15 sister ships being ordered under the 1942 defence estimates. The ship was named after the Battle of the Saintes, a Royal Navy victory over a French fleet intending to invade Jamaica in 1782. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy ...