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Kuruman

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Kuruman is a town with just over 13,000 inhabitants in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. [1]

36 relations: Afrikaans, Black people, Cape Town, Christianity, Coloureds, David Livingstone, European exploration of Africa, Eye of Kuruman, Flash flood, Gauteng, Iron ore, Kalahari Meerkat Project, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, List of Peace Corps volunteers, London Missionary Society, Manganese, Meerkat Manor, Namibia, Northern Cape, Peace Corps, Rebellion, Riebeckite, Robert Moffat (missionary), South Africa, Springbok, Northern Cape, Stefanie DeLeo, Tiger's eye, Tswana language, Tswana people, Upington, Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, Wadi, White South Africans, Wonderwerk Cave, 1821 in South Africa, 1841 in South Africa.

Afrikaans

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and, to a lesser extent, Botswana and Zimbabwe.

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Black people

Black people is a term used in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification or of ethnicity, to describe persons who are perceived to be dark-skinned compared to other populations.

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Cape Town

Cape Town (Kaapstad,; Xhosa: iKapa) is a coastal city in South Africa.

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Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

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Coloureds

Coloureds (Kleurlinge) are a multiracial ethnic group native to Southern Africa who have ancestry from various populations inhabiting the region, including Khoisan, Bantu speakers, Afrikaners, and sometimes also Austronesians and South Asians.

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David Livingstone

David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish Christian Congregationalist, pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late-19th-century Victorian era.

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European exploration of Africa

The geography of North Africa has been reasonably well known among Europeans since classical antiquity in Greco-Roman geography.

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Eye of Kuruman

The Eye of Kuruman (Die Oog) is a spring in the town of Kuruman (part of the Ga-Segonyana Local Municipality) in the province of Northern Cape, South Africa.

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Flash flood

A flash flood is a rapid flooding of geomorphic low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and basins.

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Gauteng

Gauteng, which means "place of gold", is one of the nine provinces of South Africa.

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Iron ore

Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted.

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Kalahari Meerkat Project

The Kalahari Meerkat Project, or KMP, is a long term research project focused on studying the evolutionary causes and ecological consequences of cooperative behaviors in meerkats.

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Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park

Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is a large wildlife preserve and conservation area in southern Africa.

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List of Peace Corps volunteers

This is a list of notable persons who have been members of the United States Peace Corps, along with their terms of service.

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London Missionary Society

The London Missionary Society was a missionary society formed in England in 1795 by evangelical Anglicans and various nonconformists.

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Manganese

Manganese is a chemical element with symbol Mn and atomic number 25.

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Meerkat Manor

Meerkat Manor is a British television programme produced by Oxford Scientific Films for Animal Planet International that premiered in September 2005 and ran for four series until its cancellation in August 2008.

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Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia (German:; Republiek van Namibië), is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean.

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Northern Cape

The Northern Cape (Noord-Kaap; Kapa Bokone) is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa.

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Peace Corps

The Peace Corps is a volunteer program run by the United States government.

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Rebellion

Rebellion, uprising, or insurrection is a refusal of obedience or order.

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Riebeckite

Riebeckite is a sodium-rich member of the amphibole group of silicate minerals, chemical formula Na2(Fe2+3Fe3+2)Si8O22(OH)2.

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Robert Moffat (missionary)

Robert Moffat (21 December 1795 – 9 August 1883) was a Scottish Congregationalist missionary to Africa, father-in-law of David Livingstone, and first translator of the Bible into Setswana.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Springbok, Northern Cape

Springbok is the largest town in the Namaqualand area in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

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Stefanie DeLeo

Stefanie DeLeo (born April 22, 1982) is an American author and playwright known primarily for her published play on autism, Worth a Thousand Words published in 2010 through.

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Tiger's eye

Tiger's eye (also called tiger eye) is a chatoyant gemstone that is usually a metamorphic rock with a golden to red-brown colour and a silky lustre.

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Tswana language

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Tswana people

The Tswana (Batswana, singular Motswana) are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group who are native to Southern Africa.

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Upington

Upington is a town founded in 1884 and located in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, on the banks of the Orange River.

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Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa

Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa (born 21 July 1921) is a Zulu sangoma (traditional healer) from South Africa.

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Wadi

Wadi (wādī; ואדי), alternatively wād (وَاد), is the Arabic and Hebrew term traditionally referring to a valley.

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White South Africans

White South Africans are South Africans descended from any of the white racial groups of Europe and the Levant who regard themselves, or are not regarded as, not being part of another racial group (for example, as Coloureds).

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Wonderwerk Cave

Wonderwerk Cave is an archaeological site, formed originally as an ancient solution cavity in dolomite rocks of the Kuruman Hills, situated between Danielskuil and Kuruman in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa.

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1821 in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1821 in South Africa.

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1841 in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1841 in South Africa.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuruman

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