Estimates of the number of major mass extinctions in the last 540 million years range from as few as five to more than twenty. These differences stem from the threshold chosen for describing an extinction event as major, and the data chosen to measure past diversity. 1 Major extinction events.
Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists. In 1931 Mosley founded the New Party. Supporters included John Strachey, Cyril Joad, William Joyce, Mary Richardson, John Becket and Harold Nicholson, but in the 1931 General Election none of the New Party's candidates were elected.orthing was now described as the Munich of the South. Oswald Mosley announced that Budd was the BUF Administration Officer for Sussex. On Friday 1st December 1933, the BUF held its first public meeting in Worthing in the Old Town Hall.
The British Union of Fascists was a political party in the United Kingdom formed in 1932 by Oswald Mosley.In 1936, it changed its name to the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists and in 1937 to British Union which existed until 1940 when it was proscribed. The Channel 4 television serial Mosley (1998) portrayed the career of Oswald Mosley during his years with the BUF. 2  The four-part series was based on the books Rules of the Game and Beyond the Pale, written by Mosley's son, Nicholas Mosley.