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Electrolux factory: a page in Australia's manufacturing history that is going but never forgotten. 1  With the Electrolux factory in Orange closing in April, a photographic exhibition titled Going but never forgotten has been put together featuring images of the plant and its people in the 1950s and 60s. The factory was built in 1942 and operated until 1945 making small arms during World War II.
Six Confederate veterans from Pulaski, Tennessee created the original Ku Klux Klan on December 24, 1865, during the Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War. The name was formed by combining the Greek kyklos (ÎºÏÎºÎ»Î¿Ï, circle) with clan.The group was known for a short time as the Kuklux Clan.he first Ku Klux Klan flourished in the Southern United States in the late 1860s, then died out by the early 1870s. Members made their own, often colorful, costumes: robes, masks, and conical hats, designed to be terrifying, and to hide their identities.