abstract:Great Command is a Thoroughbred racehorse who never finished further back than fifth in his career and won the New Zealand Derby in 2000, giving trainer Mike Moroney the first of his three New Zealand Derby victories to date and owner Rob McAnulty the first of his two.
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The great believers in command economics, who led much of Africa to independence, would have been dumbfounded at a recent gathering, organised by the World Economic Forum, of southern African leaders in Harare.
Similarly, his foray into geopolitics--he thinks Krakatoa contributed to the rise of modern Muslim extremism--suffers from the book's lack of endnotes, and from Winchester's occasional overconfidence in his command of this great mass of material.
The compass was also invented in China, and records exist of how a great fleet was sent under the command of Admiral Zheng He in the early 15th century to show the Chinese imperial flag in the ports of the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf, a fleet said to be the largest seen in the world up to that time.