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 following day, Mosley was arrested. Over the next few days other prominent figures in the BUF were imprisoned. On the 30th May the BUF was dissolved and its publications were banned. On April 14 1940, Oswald and his wife Diana had a child, Formula One president Max Mosley.Mosley and his wife received privileged treatment while in prison. Winston Churchill granted permission for the couple to live in a small house inside Holloway Prison.n October 1927 Mosley was elected to the party's National Executive Committee. Mosley and BUF Members. When Ramsay MacDonald formed his Labour Government after the 1929 General Election, he appointed Mosley as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.