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A Burnt-Out Case

A Burnt-Out Case (1960) is a novel by English author Graham Greene, set in a leproserie on the upper reaches of a tributary of the Congo River in Africa.

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AB Landsverk

Landsverk (AB Landsverk) was founded in 1872 as Firman Petterson & Ohlsen.

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Aba roundleaf bat

The Aba roundleaf bat (Hipposideros abae), also known as the Aba leaf-nosed bat is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae.

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ABAKO

The Alliance of Bakongo (Alliance des Bakongo, ABAKO) was a Congolese political party, headed by Joseph Kasa-Vubu, which emerged in the late 1950s as vocal opponent of Belgian colonial rule in what today is the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Abeti Masikini

Abeti Masikini (9 November 1954, Stanleyville, Belgian Congo – 28 September 1994, Villejuif, France) was a singer from the Belgian Congo who was active in France from 1971 until her death in 1994 at the age of 39.

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ACAZ C.2

The ACAZ C.2, Ateliers de Construction Aeronautique de Zeebruge, was a prototype Belgian biplane fighter aircraft built in the 1920s.

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Achel Abbey

The Trappist Abbey of Achel or Saint Benedictus-Abbey or also Achelse Kluis (which means hermitage of Achel), which belongs to the Cistercians of Strict Observance, is located in Achel in the Campine region of the province of Limburg (Flanders, Belgium).

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Adam Bombolé

Adam Bombolé Intole (born 18 March 1957 in Coquilhatville, Belgian Congo) is a politician in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and was a candidate in the 2011 presidential election.

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Adolphe Muzito

Adolphe Muzito (born 1957, AFP, 10 October 2008.) is a Congolese politician who was Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2008 to 2012.

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African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance

The African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) program, formerly the African Crisis Response Initiative (ACRI), is a United States program to train military trainers and equip African national militaries to conduct peace support operations and humanitarian relief.

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African French

African French (français africain) is the generic name of the varieties of a French language spoken by an estimated 120 million people in Africa spread across 24 francophone countries.

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African theatre of World War I

The African Theatre of World War I describes campaigns in North Africa instigated by the German and Ottoman empires, local rebellions against European colonial rule and Allied campaigns against the German colonies of Kamerun, Togoland, German South West Africa and German East Africa which were fought by German Schutztruppe, local resistance movements and forces of the British Empire, France, Belgium and Portugal.

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African trypanosomiasis

African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness, is an insect-borne parasitic disease of humans and other animals.

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Agadir Crisis

The Agadir Crisis or Second Moroccan Crisis (also known as the Panthersprung in German) was a brief international crisis sparked by the deployment of a substantial force of French troops in the interior of Morocco in April 1911.

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Agathe Uwilingiyimana

Agathe Uwilingiyimana (23 May 1953 – 7 April 1994), sometimes known as Madame Agathe, was a Rwandan political figure.

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Ahmadiyya in the United States

Ahmadiyya is an Islamic branch in the United States.

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Aie a Mwana

"Aie a Mwana" is the best-known title of a song originally written by the French-Belgian writing and production team of Daniel Vangarde and Jean Kluger.

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Air Brousse

Air Brousse was a Congolese airline.

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Air Force of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Congolese Air Force (Force Aérienne Congolaise, or FAC) is the air force branch of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa).

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Albert I of Belgium

Albert I (8 April 1875 – 17 February 1934) reigned as the third King of the Belgians from 1909 to 1934.

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Albert Kalonji

Albert Kalonji Ditunga (6 June 1929 – 20 April 2015) was a Congolese politician best known as the leader of the short-lived secessionist state of South Kasai (Sud-Kasaï) during the Congo Crisis.

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Albert Kanta Kambala

Albert Kanta Kambala (25 May 1958 – 10 July 2008) was a Zaire international footballer, who played as a midfielder.

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Albert Lilar

Albert Jean Julien François, Baron Lilar (21 December 1900 – 16 March 1976) was a Belgian politician of the Liberal Party and a Minister of Justice.

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Albert Ndele

Albert Ndele Bamu (born 15 August 1930) is a Congolese politician and banker.

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Albert Russo

Albert Russo (born 26 February 1943) is a Belgian bilingual (English and French) author of novels, short stories, essays and poems, as well as a photographer.

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Albert Thys

Albert Thys (28 November 1849 – 10 February 1915) was a Belgian businessman who was active in the Congo Free State.

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Alex Henshaw

Alexander Adolphus Dumfries Henshaw, (7 November 1912 – 24 February 2007) was a British air racer in the 1930s and a test pilot for Vickers Armstrong during the Second World War.

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Alfred the Gorilla

Alfred the Gorilla (– 9 March 1948) arrived in Bristol Zoo, in England, in 1930 and became a popular attraction and animal celebrity.

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Alice Seeley Harris

Alice Seeley Harris (1870–1970) was an English missionary and an early documentary photographer.

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Allan Moses

Allan Leopold Moses (1881 – 1953) was a Canadian naturalist, taxidermist, and conservationist.

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Allidina Visram

Allidina Visram (1851 - 30 June 1916) was an Indian settler, merchant, and philanthropist who played a prominent role in the development of British East Africa.

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Allied leaders of World War II

The Allied leaders of World War II listed below comprise the important political and military figures who fought for or supported the Allies during World War II.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that together opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War (1939–1945).

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Alphonse Ilunga

Alphonse Ilunga or Ilunga Dibwe Luakamanyabo (born 25 December 1931) is a Congolese politician.

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Alphonse Matoubela

Alphonse Matoubela (born 15 October 1958) is a boxer from the Republic of Congo, who competed in the lightweight (– 60 kg) division at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

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Alphonse Songolo

Alphonse Songolo (1927 – 20 February 1961) was a Congolese politician who served as the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)'s first minister of communications.

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Amber Reeves

Amber Blanco White (Reeves; 1 July 1887 – 26 December 1981) was a British feminist writer and scholar.

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Ambroise Boimbo

Ambroise Boimbo was a Congolese citizen who snatched the ceremonial sword of King Baudouin I of Belgium on June 29, 1960 in Léopoldville (now Kinshasa) on the eve of the independence of the Belgian Congo.

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Ames Project

The Ames Project was a research and development project that was part of the larger Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bombs during World War II.

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André Bo-Boliko Lokonga

André Bo-Boliko Lokonga Monse Mihambo (15 August 1934 – 30 March 2018) was a Congolese politician.

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André Lubaya

André Guillaume Lubaya (28 March 1932 – 2 May 1968) was a Congolese politician who served twice as the President of Kasai Province and later as the Minister of Economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Andrée de Jongh

Countess Andrée Eugénie Adrienne de Jongh (30 November 1916 – 13 October 2007) was a member of the Belgian Resistance during the Second World War.

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Anglo Belgian Corporation

The Anglo Belgian Corporation (ABC) is a Belgian manufacturer of medium speed diesel engines, primarily for the marine market, as well as stationary and locomotive engines.

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Angolan War of Independence

The Angolan War of Independence (1961–1974) began as an uprising against forced cotton cultivation, and it became a multi-faction struggle for the control of Portugal's overseas province of Angola among three nationalist movements and a separatist movement.

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Anicet Kashamura

Anicet Kashamura (17 December 1928 – 18 August 2004) was a Congolese politician.

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Annales Aequatoria

Annales Aequatoria is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal that covers studies on the languages, societies, and history of Central Africa in general and the Congo in particular.

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Anne Eisner Putnam

Anne Eisner Putnam (1911-1967) was an abstract and landscape painter, watercolorist, and collector of African art, originally from New York where she also died.

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Anne Vallaeys

Anne Vallaeys (born in 1951) is a French journalist and writer of Belgian origin born in Yangambi, then part of Belgian Congo.

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Anne-Sylvie Mouzon

Anne-Sylvie Mouzon (10 May 1956 – 10 September 2013) was a Belgian politician from the Socialist Party (PS).

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Annemarie Schwarzenbach

Annemarie Minna Renée Schwarzenbach (23 May 1908 – 15 November 1942) was a Swiss writer, journalist, photographer and traveler.

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Antoine Gizenga

Antoine Gizenga (born 5 October 1925) is a Congolese (DRC) politician who was Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 30 December 2006 to 10 October 2008.

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Antoine-Roger Bolamba

Antoine-Roger Bolamba (1913–2002) was a Congolese journalist, writer, and politician.

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Antwerp (province)

Antwerp (Antwerpen) is the northernmost province both of the Flemish Region, also called Flanders, and of Belgium.

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Api Elephant Domestication Center

The Api Elephant Domestication Center was a project of the Belgian Congo to tame African elephants.

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Apostolic Prefecture of Welle

The Apostolic Prefecture (or Prefecture Apostolic) of Welle was a Roman Catholic missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction, located in the extreme north of Belgian Congo, Central Africa.

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Apostolic Vicariate of Kivu

The Apostolic Vicariate of Kivu is the name that was given to two vicariates of the White Fathers, a Catholic missionary society in the Latin Roman Rite Catholic Church.

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Apostolic Vicariate of Loango

The Roman Catholic Vicariate Apostolic of Loango (Vicariatus Apostolicus de Loango) was a mission territory in Central Africa.

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Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Victoria Nyanza

The Apostolic Vicariate of Northern (Victoria) Nyanza (Vicariatus Apostolicus Victoriensis–Nyanzensis Septentrionalis) was a Roman Catholic missionary jurisdiction in present Uganda.

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April 1910

The following events occurred in April 1910.

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Archduke Simeon of Austria

Archduke Simeon Carl Eugen Joseph Leopold of Austria (born 29 June 1958 in Katana, South Kivu, Belgian Congo) is a member of the House of Habsburg.

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Archives Africaines (Belgium)

The Archives Africaines of the Belgian Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs in Brussels contains records related to colonial Congo Free State, Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi, 1885-1962.

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Arghiri Emmanuel

Arghiri Emmanuel (Αργύρης Εμμανουήλ; June 22, 1911, Patras, Greece – December 14, 2001, Paris, France) was a Greek-French Marxian economist who became known in the 1960s and 1970s for his theory of 'unequal exchange'.

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Armand Denis

Armand Georges Denis (2 December 1896 – 15 April 1971) was a Belgian-born documentary filmmaker.

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Armand Huyghé

Armand Christophe Huyghé (11 July 1871 – 2 March 1944), later knighted Armand Huyghé de Mahenge, was a Belgian career soldier.

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Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo (FARDC)) is the state organisation responsible for defending the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture and applied art, especially the decorative arts, that was most popular between 1890 and 1910.

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Arthur Benjamins

Arthur Benjamins (born June 22, 1953 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch artist who has progressed from figurative motor sport paintings to Abstract Iconography, taking on the revival of Neoplasticism.

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Arthur Hinsley

Arthur Hinsley (1865–1943) was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Arthur James Moore

Arthur James Moore (December 26, 1888 – June 30, 1974) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MECS), the Methodist Church, and the United Methodist Church, elected in 1930.

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Arthur Lewis Piper

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Askari

An askari was a local soldier serving in the armies of the European colonial powers in Africa, particularly in the African Great Lakes, Northeast Africa and Central Africa.

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Astrid of Sweden

Astrid of Sweden (17 November 1905 – 29 August 1935) was Queen of the Belgians as the first wife of King Leopold III.

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Ateliers Moës-Freres

Ateliers Moës-Freres was an engineering company based in Waremme, Belgium, specialising in engines and locomotives.

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Athénée de Luxembourg

The Athénée de Luxembourg (Luxembourg Athenaeum), is a high school situated in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg.

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Atrocities in the Congo Free State

In the period from 1885 to 1908, a number of well-documented atrocities were perpetrated in the Congo Free State (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo) which, at the time, was a colony under the personal rule of King Leopold II of Belgium.

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Attack on the twentieth convoy

The Twentieth Convoy (Vingtième convoi), also known as the Twentieth Train, was a Holocaust train and prisoner transport in Belgium organized by Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Attilio Gatti

Attilio Gatti (b. 1896 - d. 1969) was an Italian explorer, author and film-maker who travelled extensively through Africa in the first half of the 20th century.

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August 1

No description.

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August 1909

The following events occurred in August 1909.

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August 1910

The following events occurred in August 1910.

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August 1929

The following events occurred in August 1929.

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August De Schryver

August Edmond De Schryver (Ghent, 16 May 1898 – 5 March 1991) was a Belgian politician.

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Augusta Chiwy

Augusta Marie Chiwy (6 June 1921 – 23 August 2015) was a Belgian nurse who served as a volunteer during the siege of Bastogne.

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Auguste Gilliaert

Lieutenant General Auguste Gilliaert (Sint-Pieters-op-den-Dijk, 7 March 1894 - 10 May 1973) was a Belgian colonial soldier who served in both world wars, and a commander of the Force Publique in the Belgian Congo.

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Auguste Taton

Auguste Simon Taton (25 January 1914–27 October 1989) was a Belgian botanist who worked primarily in the Belgian Congo in Africa (now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

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Auguste Tilkens

Lieutenant General Auguste Tilkens (1869–1949) was a Belgian career soldier and colonial civil servant who served as Governor-General of the Belgian Congo from 1927 until 1934.

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Édouard Empain

Édouard Louis Joseph, Baron Empain (20 September 1852 – 22 July 1929), was a wealthy Belgian engineer, entrepreneur, financier and industrialist, as well as an amateur Egyptologist.

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Édouard Pecher

Édouard Gustave Charles Marie Pecher (24 November 1885 – 27 December 1926) was a Belgian lawyer and liberal politician.

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Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman

Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman (19 October 1866, Saint-Josse-ten-Noode – 1947) was a Belgian botanist and phycologist.

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Émile Janssens

Émile Robert Alphonse Hippolyte Janssens (1902-1989) was a Belgian military officer and colonial official, best known for his command of the Force Publique at the start of the Congo Crisis.

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Étienne Tshisekedi

Étienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba (14 December 1932 – 1 February 2017) was a Congolese politician and the leader of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), the main opposing political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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Évolué

Évolué ("evolved" or "developed") is a French label used during the colonial era to refer to a native African or Asian who had "evolved" by becoming Europeanised through education or assimilation and had accepted European values and patterns of behavior.

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Badri Teymourtash

Badri Teymourtash (1908-1995)(1287-1374 S.H) is considered the first female Iranian dentist and also called "Mother of Dentistry" in Iran.

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Bahá'í Faith in Chad

Though the Bahá'í Faith in Chad began after its independence in 1960 members of the religion were present in associated territories since 1953.

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Bahá'í Faith in Rwanda

The Bahá'í Faith in Rwanda begins after 1916 with a mention by `Abdu'l-Bahá, then head of the religion, that Bahá'ís should take the religion to the regions of Africa.

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Bahá'í Faith in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Bahá'í Faith in the Democratic Republic of the Congo begins after `Abdu'l-Bahá wrote letters encouraging taking the religion to Africa in 1916.

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Bank of the Republic of Burundi

The Bank of the Republic of Burundi (Banque de la République du Burundi, BRB) is the central bank of Burundi.

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Banyamulenge

Banyamulenge, sometimes called "Tutsi Congolese", is a term historically referring to the ethnic Tutsi concentrated on the High Plateau of South Kivu, in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, close to the Burundi-Congo-Rwanda border.

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Banyarwanda

The Banyarwanda (Kinyarwanda: plural: Abanyarwanda, singular: Umunyarwanda; literally "those who come from Rwanda") are the cultural and linguistic group of people who inhabit mainly Rwanda.

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Baptist Union of Norway

The Baptist Union of Norway (Det Norske Baptistsamfunn) is a national organization of Baptists in Norway.

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Barbara Lauwers

Barbara Lauwers (April 22, 1914 – August 16, 2009), later known as Barbara Lauwers Podoski, was a corporal in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) and won the Bronze Star after one of her operations led to the defection of 600 soldiers from behind Italian lines and the withdrawal of their support from the Germans.

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Barthélémy Bisengimana

Barthélémy Bisengimana Rwema (born May 12, 1935) was the head of the Bureau of the President under President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire from May 1969 to February 1977.

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Basankusu

Basankusu is a town in Équateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Batem

Luc Collin, best known by the pen name Batem (born 6 April 1960 in Kamina, Belgian Congo) is a Belgian comics artist best known as the artist successor of André Franquin of the series Marsupilami.

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Battle for Lake Tanganyika

The Battle for Lake Tanganyika was a series of naval engagements that took place between elements of the Royal Navy, Force Publique and the Kaiserliche Marine between December 1915 and July 1916, during the First World War.

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Battle of Tabora

The Battle of Tabora (Bataille de Tabora; 8–19 September 1916) was a military action which occurred around the town of Tabora in the north-west of German East Africa (modern-day Tanzania) during World War I. The combat formed part of the East Africa Campaign and was the culmination of the Tabora Offensive in which a Belgian force from the Belgian Congo crossed the border and captured the settlement of Kigoma and Tabora (the largest town in the interior of the German colony), pushing the German colonial army back.

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Baudoin Liwanga

Admiral Baudouin Liwanga Mata Nyamunyobo (born 1950), is a Congolese military figure and politician.

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Baudouin of Belgium

Baudouin (Boudewijn, Balduin; 7 September 1930 – 31 July 1993) reigned as the fifth King of the Belgians, following his father's abdication, from 1951 until his death in 1993.

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Beguines and Beghards

The Beguines and the Beghards were Christian lay religious orders that were active in Northern Europe, particularly in the Low Countries in the 13th–16th centuries.

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Belgian Air Component

The Belgian Air Component (Luchtcomponent, Composante air) is the air arm of the Belgian Armed Forces, and until January 2002 it was officially known as the Belgian Air Force (Belgische Luchtmacht; Force aérienne belge).

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Belgian aircraft registration and serials

Belgian owned and operated aircraft are identified by either registration letters or serial numbers for military aircraft.

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Belgian Armed Forces

The Belgian Armed Forces (Defensie; La Défense) is the national military of Belgium.

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Belgian chocolate

Belgian chocolate (chocolat belge, Belgische chocolade) is chocolate produced in Belgium.

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Belgian Congo general election, 1960

General elections were held in the Belgian Congo on 22 May 1960, in order to create a government to rule the country following independence, scheduled for 30 June.

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Belgian Congo in World War II

The involvement of the Belgian Congo (the modern-day Democratic Republic of Congo) in World War II began with the German invasion of Belgium in May 1940.

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Belgian cuisine

Belgian cuisine is widely varied with significant regional variations while also reflecting the cuisines of neighbouring France, Germany and the Netherlands.

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Belgian government in exile

The Belgian government in London (Gouvernement belge à Londres, Belgische regering in Londen), also known as the Pierlot IV Government, was the government in exile of Belgium between October 1940 and September 1944 during World War II.

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Belgian National Archives 2 - Joseph Cuvelier Repository

The Dépôt Joseph Cuvelier of the Belgian State Archives opened in 2011.

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Belgian nationality law

Belgian citizenship is based on a mixture of the principles of jus sanguinis and jus soli.

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Belgian Navy

The Belgian Navy, officially the Belgian Maritime Component (Marinecomponent; Composante marine; Marinekomponente) of the Belgian Armed Forces, formerly the Belgian Naval Force, is the naval service of Belgium.

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Belgian overseas colonies

Belgium controlled two colonies during its history: the Belgian Congo from 1885 to 1960 and Ruanda-Urundi from 1916 to 1962.

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Belgian Resistance

The Belgian Resistance (Résistance belge, Belgisch verzet) collectively refers to the resistance movements opposed to the German occupation of Belgium during World War II.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

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Belgium in the long nineteenth century

The history of Belgium from 1789 to 1914, the period dubbed the "Long Nineteenth Century" by the historian Eric Hobsbawm, includes the end of Austrian rule and periods of French and Dutch occupation of the region, leading to the creation of the first independent Belgian state in 1830.

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Belgium in World War I

The history of Belgium in World War I traces Belgium's role between the German invasion in 1914, through the continued military resistance and occupation of the territory by German forces, known.

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Belgium in World War II

Despite being neutral at the start of World War II, Belgium and its colonial possessions found themselves at war after the country was invaded by German forces on 10 May 1940.

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Belgo-Congolese Round Table Conference

The Belgo-Congolese Round Table Conference (Table ronde belgo-congolaise) was a meeting organized in two partsJoseph Kamanda Kimona-Mbinga, 2004 in 1960 in Brussels (January 20 – February 20Réseau documentaire international sur la Région des Grands Lacs, and April 26 – May 16 Jules Gérard-Libois, Jean Heinen, 1993) between on the one side representatives of the Congolese political class and chiefs (chefs coutumiers) and on the other side Belgian political and business leaders.

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Ben Patrick Johnson

Ben Patrick Johnson (born June 30, 1969 in Tucson, Arizona) is an American voice actor, author and blogger, Foundation Director, and human rights activist.

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Benguela Province

Benguela is a province of Angola, situated in the west of the country.

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Bernard Kettlewell

Henry Bernard Davis Kettlewell (24 February 1907 – 11 May 1979) was a British geneticist, lepidopterist and medical doctor, who performed research on the influence of industrial melanism on peppered moth (Biston betularia) coloration, showing why moths are darker in polluted areas.

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Bertin Mwamba

Bertin Mwamba or Mwamba Maleba Banze Kabombo (born 25 September 1932) is a Congolese politician who served as the third President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Bible errata

Throughout history, printers' errors and peculiar translations have appeared in Bibles published throughout the world.

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Biko Botowamungu

Ikomoniya "Biko" Botowamungu (born 22 January 1957) is a former boxer from Austria.

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Blaton family

The Blaton Family is a Belgian family, active in the construction industry since 1865.

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Bob Neal (promoter)

Bob Neal (born Robert Neal Hobgood; October 6, 1917 – May 9, 1983) was a country music promoter who managed Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Sonny James, and Tom T. Hall, among others.

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Boboto College

Boboto College (formerly Albert I College) is a Catholic school founded in 1937 by Belgian Jesuits, and now run entirely by Congolese Jesuits.

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Bodys Isek Kingelez

Bodys Isek Kingelez or Jean Baptiste (1948 – March 14, 2015) was a sculptor and artist from the Democratic Republic of Congo, mostly known for his models of fantastic cities made of cardboard.

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Bolenge

Bolenge is a village located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Boma, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Boma is a port town on the Congo River, some 100 km upstream from the Atlantic Ocean, in the Kongo Central province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Bonnie Blue Flag

The Bonnie Blue Flag was an unofficial banner of the Confederate States of America at the start of the American Civil War in 1861.

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Boris Pregel

Boris Pregel (Борис Юльевич Прегель; 24 January 1893 – 7 December 1976) was a Ukrainian-born Jewish engineer and dealer in uranium and radium.

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Boris Vilkitsky

Boris Andreyevich Vilkitsky (Борис Андреевич Вилькицкий) (22 March (3 April N.S.) 1885 – 6 March 1961) was a Russian hydrographer and surveyor.

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Boulevard du 30 Juin

The Boulevard du 30 Juin ("Boulevard of June 30th") is a major 5‑km street in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Bourse du Travail

The Bourse du Travail (French for "labour exchanges"), a French form of the labour council, were working class organizations that encouraged mutual aid, education, and self-organization amongst their members in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Brad Whitaker

Brad Whitaker is a fictional character in the James Bond film The Living Daylights.

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Bralima Brewery

Bralima (Brasseries, Limonaderies et Malteries) is a brewing company in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with six breweries, founded in 1923.

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Brarudi

Brarudi S.A., also known by its French name Brasseries et Limonaderies du Burundi, is the largest brewer and soft beverage company in the Republic of Burundi.

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Brazil and the United Nations

Federative Republic of Brazil is a founding member of the United Nations and participates in all of its specialized agencies.

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Bristol Sycamore

The Bristol Type 171 Sycamore was an early helicopter developed and built by the helicopter division of the Bristol Aeroplane Company.

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British contribution to the Manhattan Project

Britain contributed to the Manhattan Project by helping initiate the effort to build the first atomic bombs in the United States during World War II, and helped carry it through to completion in August 1945 by supplying crucial expertise.

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Broadway Brevities

Broadway Brevities are two-reel (17–21 minutes long) musical and dramatic film shorts produced by Warner Bros. between 1931 and 1943.

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Brotherhood of War

The Brotherhood of War is a series of novels written by W. E. B. Griffin, about the United States Army from the Second World War through the Vietnam War.

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Bruno De Wannemaeker

Bruno De Wannemaeker (born 19 March 1959 in Nioki, Belgian Congo), 19 March 1959) is a Belgian sports administrator.

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Bruno Tshibala

Bruno Tshibala Nzenze (born 20 February 1956) is a Congolese politician who has been Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo since May 2017.

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Buffalo Bill

William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American scout, bison hunter, and showman.

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Bury the Chains

Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves is a non-fiction book by Adam Hochschild that was first published by Houghton Mifflin on January 7, 2005.

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Bwanga Tshimen

Raymond Bwanga Tshimen (born 4 January 1949 in Élisabethville, Belgian Congo) is a former footballer from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Cabinda War

The Cabinda War is an ongoing separatist insurgency, waged by the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC) against the government of Angola.

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Cameroon national football team

The Cameroon national football team, nicknamed in French Les Lions Indomptables (The Indomitable Lions or Untameable Lions), is the national team of Cameroon.

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Camille Lembi Zaneli

Camille Lembi Zaneli (April 2, 1950July 8, 2011) was the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Isangi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Canada–Democratic Republic of the Congo relations

Canada–Democratic Republic of the Congo relations refers to the bilateral relationship between Canada and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Cangelari family

The Cangelari family (in Greek: Καγγελάρη or Καγκελάρη) is one of Cephalonia, Greece's most ancient aristocratic families.

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Cannabis in Nigeria

Cannabis in Nigeria is illegal yet the country is a major source of West African-grown cannabis, and ranked world's eight highest consumer of cannabis.

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Cape to Cairo Railway

The Cape to Cairo Railway is an uncompleted project to cross Africa from south to north by rail.

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Carl Akeley

Carl Ethan Akeley (May 19, 1864 – November 17, 1926) was a pioneering American taxidermist, sculptor, biologist, conservationist, inventor, and nature photographer, noted for his contributions to American museums, most notably to the Field Museum of Natural History and the American Museum of Natural History.

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Carl Einstein

Carl Einstein (26 April 1885 – 5 July 1940), born Karl Einstein, was an influential German Jewish writer, art historian, anarchist and critic.

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Carlo Pollonera

Carlo Pollonera (Alexandria, Egypt, March 27, 1849 - Turin, June 17, 1923) was an Italian painter, particularly of landscapes, and also an important malacologist.

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Carlson Park, Culver City, California

Carlson Park is a suburban neighborhood in central Culver City, California.

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Casement Report

The Casement Report was a 1904 document written by Roger Casement (1864–1916)—a diplomat and Irish independence fighter who was hanged on 3 August 1916 for treason, sabotage and espionage against the British Crown on the basis of collaboration with the German Empire during WWI—detailing abuses in the Congo Free State which was under the private ownership of King Leopold II of Belgium.

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Casimir Zagourski

Casimir Zagourski (in Polish Kazimierz Zagórski) (1883–1944) was a pioneering photographer of Central African peoples and customs.

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Castor oil

Castor oil is a vegetable oil obtained by pressing the seeds of the castor oil plant (Ricinus communis).

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Catholic Church in the 20th century

The Roman Catholic Church in the 20th century had to respond to the challenge of increasing secularization of Western society and persecution resulting from great social unrest and revolutions in several countries.

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Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Roman Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.

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Central African lion

The Central African lion (Panthera leo leo) occurs in Central Africa.

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Central Bank of the Congo

The Central Bank of the Congo (Banque Centrale du Congo) is the central bank of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Champion Jack Dupree

William Thomas "Champion Jack" Dupree (July 23, 1909 or July 4, 1910 – January 21, 1992) was an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist and singer.

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Charles "Buffalo" Jones

Charles Jesse Jones, known as Buffalo Jones (January 31, 1844 – October 1, 1919), was an American frontiersman, farmer, rancher, hunter, and conservationist who cofounded Garden City, Kansas.

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Charles Dekeukeleire

Charles Dekeukeleire (27 February 1905 – 2 June 1971) was a Belgian film director.

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Charles François (systems scientist)

Charles François (born September 5, 1922), is a Belgian administrator, editor and scientist in the fields of cybernetics, systems theory and systems science, internationally known for his main work the International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics.

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Charles Kisolokele

Charles Daniel Kisolokele Lukelo (1914 – 17 March 1992) was a Congolese politician and a key member of the Kimbanguist Church.

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Charles Steen

Charles Augustus Steen (December 1, 1919 – January 1, 2006), was a geologist who made and lost a fortune after discovering a rich uranium deposit in Utah during the uranium boom of the early 1950s.

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Charles Studd

Charles Thomas Studd, often known as C. T. Studd (2 December 1860 – 16 July 1931), was a British cricketer, missionary, and a contributor to The Fundamentals.

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Charles Tombeur

Lieutenant General Charles Tombeur (4 May 1867 – 2 December 1947) was a Belgian military officer and colonial civil servant.

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Charles Watson Boise

Charles Watson Boise (November 9, 1884 – November 15, 1964) was an American-born naturalised British mining engineer.

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China Clipper

China Clipper (NC14716) was the first of three Martin M-130 four-engine flying boats built for Pan American Airways and was used to inaugurate the first commercial transpacific airmail service from San Francisco to Manila in November 1935.

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China–Democratic Republic of the Congo relations

The People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have had peaceful diplomatic relations, and growing economic relations, since 1971.

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Chocolat Jacques

Chocolat Jacques is a Belgian firm which was founded in 1896 by Antoine Jacques.

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Christian Chelman

Christian Chelman is a Belgian magician born in 1957.

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Christianity in the 20th century

Christianity in the 20th century was characterized by an accelerating secularization of Western society, which had begun in the 19th century, and by the spread of Christianity to non-Western regions of the world.

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Christianity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Christianity is the majority religion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is professed by a majority of the population.

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Christophe Gbenye

Christophe Gbenye (1927 – 3 February 2015) was a Congolese politician, trade unionist, and rebel who, along with Pierre Mulele and Gaston Soumialot, led the Simba Rebellion, an anti-government insurrection in the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the Congo Crisis, between 1964 and 1965.

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Chronological list of saints and blesseds in the 20th century

A list of 20th-century saints and blesseds.

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CIA activities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Congo, short for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is a country in Africa.

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CICM Missionaries

The CICM Missionaries (Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae, or the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary), is a Roman Catholic missionary religious congregation of men established in 1862 by the Belgian Catholic priest, Theophiel Verbist (1823–1868).

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Cigars of the Pharaoh

Cigars of the Pharaoh (Les Cigares du Pharaon) is the fourth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Cinema of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Cinema of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) originated with educational and propaganda films during the colonial era of the Belgian Congo.

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Claude Volter

Claude Volter (31 January 1933 – 15 October 2002), father of actor Philippe Volter, was a Belgian comedian and theatre director.

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Claudia Gravy

Claudia Gravy (May 12, 1945–) is a Spanish nationalized actress born in Boma, Democratic Republic of the Congo when it was the Belgian Congo.

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Clémentine Nzuji

Clémentine Faik Nzuji, also known as Clémentine Faïk-Nzuji Madiya (born 21 January 1944), is a Congolese poet and writer.

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Cléophas Kamitatu

Cléophas Kamitatu Massamba (June 1931 – 12 October 2008) was a Congolese politician and leader of the Parti Solidaire Africain.

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Clinton Caldwell Boone

Reverend Clinton Caldwell Boone (9 May 1872 –1939) was an African-American minister, dentist and medical missionary in the Congo and Liberia.

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Cold War (1953–1962)

The Cold War (1953–1962) discusses the period within the Cold War from the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1953 to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

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Colin Turnbull

Colin Macmillan Turnbull (November 23, 1924 – July 28, 1994) was a British-American anthropologist who came to public attention with the popular books The Forest People (on the Mbuti Pygmies of Zaire) and The Mountain People (on the Ik people of Uganda), and one of the first anthropologists to work in the field of ethnomusicology.

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Colonial Charter on the Belgian annexation of the Congo Free State

The Colonial Charter on the Belgian annexation of the Congo Free State was approved by the Belgian parliament on 18 October 1908.

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Colonial empire

A colonial empire is a collective of territories (often called colonies), mostly overseas, settled by the population of a certain state and governed by that state.

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Colonial history of Angola

The colonial history of Angola is usually considered to run from the appearance of the Portuguese under Diogo Cão in 1482 (Congo) or 1484 (Angolan coast) until the independence of Angola in 1975.

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Colonial history of Southern Rhodesia

The territory of 'Southern Rhodesia' was originally referred to as 'South Zambezia' but the name 'Rhodesia' came into use in 1895.

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Colonialism

Colonialism is the policy of a polity seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of developing or exploiting them to the benefit of the colonizing country and of helping the colonies modernize in terms defined by the colonizers, especially in economics, religion and health.

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Colonization of the Congo

Colonization of the Congo refers to the European colonization of the Congo region of tropical Africa.

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Columba Marmion

Columba Marmion, OSB, born Joseph Aloysius Marmion (April 1, 1858 – January 30, 1923) was a Roman Catholic Benedictine Irish monk and the third Abbot of Maredsous Abbey in Belgium.

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Combined Development Agency

The Combined Development Agency (CDA), originally the Combined Development Trust (CDT), was a defense purchasing authority established in 1944 by the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Commemorative Medal of the 1914–1917 African Campaigns

The Commemorative Medal of the African Campaigns 1914–1917 (Médaille Commémorative des Campagnes d'Afrique 1914–1917, Herinneringsmedaille van de Afrikaanse Veldtochten 1914–1917) was a Belgian military war service medal established by Royal Decree on 21 February 1917 to recognise combat service on the African continent between 1914 and 1918.

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Company rule in Rhodesia

The British South Africa Company's administration of what became Rhodesia was chartered in 1889 by Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, and began with the Pioneer Column's march north-east to Mashonaland in 1890.

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Compendium of postage stamp issuers (Al–Aq)

Each "article" in this category is in fact a collection of entries about several stamp issuers, presented in alphabetical order.

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CONAKAT

The Confédération des associations tribales du Katanga, or CONAKAT, was one of the three main political parties in the Belgian Congo and was led by the pro-Western regionalist Moïse Tshombe and his interior minister, Godefroid Munongo.

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Congo

Congo may refer to either of two countries that border the Congo River in central Africa.

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Congo – A Political Tragedy

Congo – A Political Tragedy is a 2018 independent documentary story of the Democratic Republic of Congo's political history, written by Patrick Kabeya and Mina Malu.

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Congo Crisis

The Congo Crisis (Crise congolaise) was a period of political upheaval and conflict in the Republic of the Congo (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo) between 1960 and 1965.

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Congo Free State

The Congo Free State (État indépendant du Congo, "Independent State of the Congo"; Kongo-Vrijstaat) was a large state in Central Africa from 1885 to 1908.

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Congo Reform Association

The Congo Reform Association was a movement formed with the declared intention to aid the exploited and impoverished workforce of the Congo by drawing attention to their plight.

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Congo River

The Congo River (also spelled Kongo River and known as the Zaire River) is the second longest river in Africa after the Nile and the second largest river in the world by discharge volume of water (after the Amazon), and the world's deepest river with measured depths in excess of.

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Congo river steamers

The Congo River is divided into three navigable parts, by seagoing ship to Matadi, where there is a wharf and port, a rail bypassing the mighty falls for 200 miles; and then a middle section of over 1000 miles from Leopoldville (Kinshasa) to Stanleyville (Kisangani) where the Stanley Falls breaks the river.

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Congo-Balolo Mission

The Congo-Balolo Mission (CBM) was a British Baptist missionary society that was active in the Belgian Congo, the present day Democratic Republic of the Congo, from 1889 to 1915.

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Congo: The Epic History of a People

Congo: The Epic History of a People (original Dutch title: Congo. Een geschiedenis) is a 639 page non-fiction book by David Van Reybrouck, first published in 2010.

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Congolese

Congolese may refer to.

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Congolese Independence Speech

The Speech at the Ceremony of the Proclamation of the Congo's Independence was a short political speech given by Patrice Lumumba on 30 June 1960.

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Congregation of the Annunciation

The Congregation of the Annunciation (Congregatio Annuntiationis B.M.V.), formerly known as the Belgian Congregation, is a congregation of monasteries within the Benedictine Confederation.

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Constant Janssen

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Constantin Kabemba

Constantin Kabemba (born 1 June 1943) is a former Congolese cyclist.

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Copperbelt Energy Corporation

Copperbelt Energy Corporation Plc (CEC) is a Zambian electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply company with operations in Zambia and Nigeria.

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Cordon sanitaire

Cordon sanitaire is a French phrase that, literally translated, means "sanitary cordon".

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Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever

Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a viral disease.

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Crown Council of Belgium

The Crown Council of Belgium is composed of the King of the Belgians, the Ministers and the Ministers of State (mostly former ministers and other major politicians).

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Culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is extremely diverse, reflecting the great diversity and different customs which exist in the country.

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Cuprosklodowskite

Cuprosklodowskite is a secondary uranium mineral formed by alteration of earlier uranium minerals.

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Cuthbert Christy

Cuthbert Christy (1863 – 29 May 1932) was an English doctor and zoologist who undertook extensive explorations of Central Africa during the first part of the 20th century.

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Cyril Taylor (educationist)

Sir Cyril Julian Hebden Taylor (14 May 193529 January 2018) was a British educator and social entrepreneur, who founded the American Institute For Foreign Study (AIFS) in 1964.

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Cyrille Adoula

Cyrille Adoula (13 September 1921 – 24 May 1978), was a Congolese trade unionist and politician.

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D. F. Malan

Daniel François Malan (22 May 1874 – 7 February 1959), more commonly known as D. F. Malan, was a South African politician who served as Prime Minister of South Africa from 1948 to 1954.

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Dachau concentration camp

Dachau concentration camp (Konzentrationslager (KZ) Dachau) was the first of the Nazi concentration camps opened in Germany, intended to hold political prisoners.

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Dag Hammarskjöld

Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961) was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations.

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Daniel Guggenheim

Daniel Guggenheim (July 9, 1856 – September 28, 1930) was an American mining magnate and philanthropist, and a son of Meyer and Barbara Guggenheim.

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Daniel Kanza

Daniel Kinsona Kanza (1909–1990) was a prominent Congolese politician and a leading member of the Alliance des Bakongo.

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Daniel P. Biebuyck

Daniel P. Biebuyck (born 1925) is an authority on central African art with contributions to contextual African art studies, oral literature (mainly epic narratives), and the sociopolitical structure of numerous groups in DRC.

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Daughters of the Cross

The Daughters of the Cross of Liège (Filles de la Croix) are Religious Sisters in the Catholic Church who are members of a religious congregation founded in 1833 by the Blessed Marie Thérèse Haze, F.C. (1782–1876).

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David Harewood

David Harewood (born 8 December 1965) is an English actor.

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David Hillis

David Mark Hillis (born December 21, 1958 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is an American evolutionary biologist, and the Alfred W. Roark Centennial Professor of Biology at the University of Texas at Austin.

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David Norris (politician)

David Patrick Bernard Norris (born 31 July 1944) is an Irish scholar, independent Senator and civil rights activist.

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De Havilland DH.88 Comet

The de Havilland DH.88 Comet is a two-seat, twin-engined aircraft developed specifically to participate in the 1934 England-Australia MacRobertson Air Race from the United Kingdom to Australia.

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December 1915

The following events occurred in December 1915.

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December 1959

The following events occurred in December 1959.

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Declarations of war during World War II

This is a timeline of formal declarations of War during World War II.

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Decolonization

Decolonization (American English) or decolonisation (British English) is the undoing of colonialism: where a nation establishes and maintains its domination over one or more other territories.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (République démocratique du Congo), also known as DR Congo, the DRC, Congo-Kinshasa or simply the Congo, is a country located in Central Africa.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo–United Kingdom relations

Democratic Republic of the Congo–United Kingdom relations are the bilateral relations between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the United Kingdom.

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Deneys Reitz

Deneys Reitz (1882—1944), son of Francis William Reitz, was a Boer soldier who fought in the Second Boer War for the South African Republic against the British Empire.

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Derek Griffiths

Derek Griffiths (born 15 July 1946) is a British actor who appeared in numerous British children's television series in the 1960s to present and has more recently played parts in TV drama.

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Dian Fossey

Dian Fossey (January 16, 1932 – c. December 26, 1985) was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her death in 1985.

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Didier Etumba

Didier Etumba Longila (born July 15, 1955, Basankusu, Equateur province, Belgian Congo) is an Army General born the 15th of July 1955, and Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of the DRC since the 17th of November 2008.

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Dieudonné Kabongo

Dieudonné Kabongo (1950 – October 11, 2011) was a Congolese-born Belgian comedian, humorist, musician and actor.

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Diplomatic history of World War I

The Diplomatic history of World War I covers the non-military interactions among the major players during World War I. For the domestic histories see Home front during World War I. For a longer-term perspective see International relations of the Great Powers (1814–1919) and Causes of World War I. For the following era see International relations (1919–1939).

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Diplomatic history of World War II

The Diplomatic history of World War II includes the major foreign policies and interactions inside the opposing coalitions, the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Documentary photography

Documentary photography usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle events or environments both significant and relevant to history and historical events as well as everyday life.

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Donald B. Fullerton

Donald B. Fullerton (July 6, 1892 – April 9, 1985) was a Christian missionary and teacher who founded the Princeton Christian Fellowship, called the Princeton Evangelical Fellowship until 2017, and served with it from 1931 until 1980.

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Donald Duck universe

The Donald Duck universe is a fictional shared universe which is the setting of stories involving Disney cartoon character Donald Duck, as well as Daisy Duck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Scrooge McDuck, and many other characters.

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Douglas E. Moore

Douglas E. Moore (born 1928) is a Methodist minister who organized the 1957 Royal Ice Cream Sit-in in Durham, North Carolina.

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DR Congo national football team

The Democratic Republic of the Congo national football team (formerly known as Zaire, alternatively known as Congo-Kinshasa) is the national team of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is controlled by the Fédération Congolaise de Football-Association (FECOFA).

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Dragutin Lerman

Dragutin Lerman (24 August 1863 - 12 July 1918) was a Croatian explorer.

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Dunduzu Chisiza

Dunduzu Kaluli Chisiza (also known as Gladstone Chisiza) was a nationalist and early agitator for independence in Nyasaland (Malawi).

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Dutch language

The Dutch language is a West Germanic language, spoken by around 23 million people as a first language (including the population of the Netherlands where it is the official language, and about sixty percent of Belgium where it is one of the three official languages) and by another 5 million as a second language.

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E. L. Hebden Taylor

Revd Eustace (aka Stacey) Lovatt Hebden Taylor (25 July 1925 – 2006) was a Reformational Anglican vicar.

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E. R. Moon

Everard Roy "E.R." Moon was an American Christian missionary who served at Bolenge and later Mondombe in the Belgian Congo from 1908 to 1923.

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Earl Stevick

Earl Wilson Stevick /ˈstiːvɪk/ (23 October 1923 – 13 August 2013)Woodson, Daryl "Earl Stevick passed on Tuesday, Aug.

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Earnest Sevier Cox

Earnest Sevier Cox (January 24, 1880 – April 26, 1966) was an American Methodist preacher, political activist and white-supremacist.

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East African Airways

East African Airways Corporation, more commonly known as East African Airways, was an airline jointly run by Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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East African Campaign (World War I)

The East African Campaign in World War I was a series of battles and guerrilla actions, which started in German East Africa (GEA) and spread to portions of Portuguese Mozambique, Northern Rhodesia, British East Africa, the Uganda Protectorate, and the Belgian Congo.

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Economic history of Africa

The earliest humans were hunter gatherers who were living in small, family groupings.

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Economic history of World War I

The economic history of World War I covers the methods used by the First World War (1914–1918), as well as related postwar issues such as war debts and reparations.

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Edgar Sengier

Edgar Edouard Bernard Sengier (9 October 1879 – 26 July 1963) was a Belgian businessman and director of the Union Minière du Haut Katanga (UMHK) mining company that operated in Belgian Congo during World War II.

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Editions Esengo

Editions Esengo was a record studio in the Congo, which is noted for assembling to their label Rock-a-Mambo, African Jazz, and Conga Jazz, three of the great powerhouse bands of Congolese rumba.

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Edmond Thieffry

Edmond Thieffry (28 September 1892 – 11 April 1929) was a Belgian First World War air ace and aviation pioneer.

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Edouard Masengo

Edouard (Katiti) Masengo (born 1933 in Kafubu, Haut-Katanga District, Democratic Republic of the Congo - 27 March, 2003) was a Congolese guitarist.

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Edward Watkin

Sir Edward William Watkin, 1st Baronet (26 September 1819 – 13 April 1901) was a British Member of Parliament and railway entrepreneur.

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Efé people

The Efé are a group of part-time hunter-gatherer people living in the Ituri Rainforest of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Einstein–Szilárd letter

The Einstein–Szilárd letter was a letter written by Leó Szilárd and signed by Albert Einstein that was sent to the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 2, 1939.

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Eisenmann Synagogue

The Eisenmann Synagogue is an historic synagogue in Antwerp, Belgium.

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Elephant

Elephants are large mammals of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea.

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Elliot Kenan Kamwana

Elliot Kenan Kamwana Msokwa Chirwa (c. 1872–1956) was a charismatic preacher in Nyasaland (now Malawi) who sought rapid social change and who popularised the Watch Tower movement into Central Africa.

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Ellsworth Faris

Ellsworth Faris (September 30, 1874 – December 19, 1953) was an influential sociologist of the Chicago school.

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Emany Mata Likambe

Emany Mata Likambe (born 10 September 1933) is a Congolese diplomat and a former Ambassador to Poland, who came to international attention when it was discovered that he was homeless and living on the streets of Warsaw in 1994, the government of Zaire having failed to pay him for over two years.

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Emblem of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The arms of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has changed several times since 1997.

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Emil Torday

Emil Torday (22 June 1875 in Budapest, Hungary – 9 May 1931 in London, England), was a Hungarian anthropologist.

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Emile Vandervelde

Emile Vandervelde (25 January 1866 – 27 December 1938) was a Belgian socialist politician.

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Emily Hahn

Emily Hahn (Chinese: 項美麗, January 14, 1905 – February 18, 1997) was an American journalist and author.

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Emmanuel Dungia

Emmanuel Dungia (April 20, 1948 – February 1, 2006) was a diplomat of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), author of the political book: Mobutu and the money of Zaïre: the revelations of a diplomat, former Secret Services agent (Mobutu et l’argent du Zaïre: les révélations d'un diplomate, ex-agent des Services secrets).

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Emmanuel Kolini

Emmanuel Mbona Kolini (born Belgian Congo, 1945) is a Congolese-Rwandan Anglican bishop.

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Ernest Bornemann

Ernst Wilhelm Julius Bornemann (April 12, 1915 – June 4, 1995) was a German crime writer, filmmaker, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, psychoanalyst, sexologist, communist agitator, jazz musician and critic.

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist.

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Ethnic stereotypes in comics

Reflecting the changing political climate, the representation of racial and ethnic minorities in comic books have also evolved over time.

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Eugène Henry

Eugène Henry (22 December 1862 – 27 December 1930) was a Belgian civil servant and governor-general of Belgian Congo from 5 January 1916 until 30 January 1921.

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Eugène Jungers

Eugène Jungers (1888–1958) was a Belgian colonial civil servant and lawyer.

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Eugène Moke Motsüri

Eugène Moke Motsüri (March 25, 1916 – April 6, 2015) was a Democratic Republic of the Congo prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Eugene Kellersberger

Eugene Roland Kellersberger (August 6, 1888 – January 28, 1966) was an American physician who was a pioneer in the treatment of leprosy and a missionary surgeon in Africa.

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Eurafrica

Eurafrica, also known as Eurafrika (both portmanteaus of "Europe" and "Africa" in German), refers to the German idea of strategic partnership between Africa and Europe.

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Eva Monley

Eva Monley (April 29, 1923 – November 12, 2011) was a German-born Kenyan location scout, production manager and film producer.

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Evangelical Church of Congo

The Evangelical Church of Congo, Église Evangélique du Congo (EEC), is the second largest Christian denomination in the Republic of Congo after the Catholic Church.

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Evelyn Waugh

Arthur Evelyn St.

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Evoloko Jocker

Evoloko Atshuamo, best known as Evoloko Jocker (sometimes spelled Joker) or Lay Lay, is a popular congolese soukous singer.

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Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family

"Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family" is a short story in the horror fiction genre, written by American author H. P. Lovecraft in 1920.

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Faustin Munene

Faustin Munene (born 21 March 1951, Idiofa, Belgian Congo) is a Congolese military officer and politician known for his opposition to Mobutu Sese Seko, leader of Zaïre, and later President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Félicien Cattier

Félicien Cattier (1869–1946) was a very prominent Belgian banker, financier and philanthropist.

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Félix Fuchs

Félix Alexandre Fuchs (1858–1928) was a Belgian colonial civil servant and lawyer who served as Governor-General of the Belgian Congo between 1912 and 1915.

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February 1960

The following events occurred in February 1960.

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Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, also known as the Central African Federation (CAF), was a semi-independent federation of three southern African territories – the self-governing British colony of Southern Rhodesia and the British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland – between 1953 and 1963.

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Ferdinand Essandja

Ferdinand Essandja (sometimes Fernand Essendja or Ferdinand Esandja) was a Congolese politician and businessman.

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Fidèle Dirokpa

Fidèle Dirokpa Balufuga is the former Anglican Archbishop of the Province of the Anglican Church of the Congo.

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First Baptist Church (Boron, California)

The First Baptist Church of Boron was founded years ago in 1938, as the First Baptist Church of Amargo (the name of the settlement at that time), the first organized church in the community now known as Boron, California, then renamed the Community Baptist Church of Boron, then the First Baptist Church of Boron in 1955.

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First Congo War

The First Congo War (1996–1997) was a foreign invasion of Zaire led by Rwanda that replaced President Mobutu Sésé Seko with the rebel leader Laurent-Désiré Kabila.

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Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The national flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a sky blue flag, adorned with a yellow star in the upper left canton and cut diagonally by a red stripe with a yellow fimbriation.

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Floris Jespers

Floris Jespers (18 March 1889 – 16 April 1965) was a Belgian Avant-garde painter.

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FN Model 1949

The Fabrique Nationale Model 1949 (often referred to as the FN-49, SAFN or AFN) is a rifle available as both a semi-automatic rifle and as a selective fire automatic rifle designed by Dieudonné Saive and manufactured by Fabrique Nationale.

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Force Publique

The Force Publique ("Public Force"; Openbare Weermacht) was a gendarmerie and military force in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1885 (when the territory was known as the Congo Free State), through the period of Belgian colonial rule (Belgian Congo – 1908 to 1960).

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Formal wear

Formal wear, formal attire or full dress is the traditional Western dress code category for the most formal clothing, such as for weddings, christenings, funerals, Easter and Christmas traditions, formal balls and banquets with dancing, as well as certain horse racing events.

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Former place names in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

This is a list of place names of towns and cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo which were subsequently changed after the end of Belgian colonial rule.

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Forminière

The Société internationale forestière et minière du Congo or Forminière was a lumber and mining company in the Belgian Congo (modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo).

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Forrest Group

The Forrest Group (also Groupe Forrest) is a group of companies founded around the mining industry in 1922, currently active mostly in Central and East Africa.

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François Ombanzi

François Ombanzi (born 1 April 1947) is a former Congolese cyclist.

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Francis Wilford-Smith

Francis Wilford-Smith (12 March 1927 – 4 December 2009) was a British cartoonist, graphic artist, and producer and archivist of blues music.

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Francization of Brussels

The Francization (or Francisation) of Brussels (Francisation de Bruxelles, Verfransing van Brussel) refers to the transformation of Brussels, Belgium, from a majority Dutch-speaking city to one that is bilingual or even multilingual, with French as both the majority language and lingua franca.

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Franco Luambo

François Luambo Luanzo Makiadi (6 July 1938 – 12 October 1989) was a major figure in 20th-century Congolese music, and African music in general.

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Frans Hemerijckx

Frans Hemerijckx (1902-1969) was a Flemish leprologist, humanist and the founder of the Damien Foundation in Belgium, a non profit non governmental organization engaged in providing treatment and rehabilitation services to people afflicted with leprosy.

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Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns

Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns (1901-1986), known as Walter Robyns, was a Belgian botanist.

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Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi

Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, C.I.C.M. (3 December 1930, Belgian Congo – 6 January 2007, Leuven, Belgium) was Cardinal and Archbishop of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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Frédéric Kibassa Maliba

Frédéric Kibassa Maliba (28 December 1939 - 5 April 2003) was a politician in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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Freda Meissner-Blau

Freda Meissner-Blau (11 March 1927 – 22 December 2015) was an Austrian politician, activist, and prominent figurehead in the Austrian environmental movement.

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Freddy Matungulu

Mbuyamu Ilankir "Freddy" Matungulu was born in Belgian Congo (DRC) on 4 January 1955.

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Frederick Gordon Spear

Frederick Gordon Spear (often F. Gordon Spear or F.G. Spear; 1895–1980) was a British physician and researcher.

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Frederick Selous

Frederick Courteney Selous DSO (31 December 1851 – 4 January 1917) was a British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in Southeast Africa.

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Free Belgian forces

The Free Belgian forces (Forces belges libres, Vrije Belgische Strijdkrachten) were soldiers from Belgium and its colonies who fought as part of the Allied armies during World War II, after the official Belgian surrender to Nazi Germany.

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Free Republic of the Congo

The Free Republic of the Congo (République Libre du Congo), often referred to as Congo-Stanleyville, the Stanleyville government, or the Gizenga regime, was a short-lived rival government to the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Léopoldville) based in the eastern Congo and led by Antoine Gizenga.

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French Congo

The French Congo (Congo français) or Middle Congo (Moyen-Congo) was a French colony which at one time comprised the present-day area of the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and the Central African Republic.

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Friedrich Siebenrock

Friedrich Siebenrock (20 January 1853, Schörfling am Attersee – 28 January 1925, Vienna) was an Austrian herpetologist.

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Fritz Joubert Duquesne

Frederick "Fritz" Joubert Duquesne (21 September 187724 May 1956; sometimes Du Quesne) was a South African Boer and German soldier, big-game hunter, journalist, and a spy.

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Fury of the Congo

Fury of the Congo (1951) is the sixth Jungle Jim film produced by Columbia Pictures.

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Gangala-na-Bodio Elephant Domestication Center

Gangala-na-bodio was a colonial-era elephant-domestication station located near Faradje in present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Gangrene (book)

Gangrene is a 1976 book written by Flemish writer and former Assistant Direct Commissioner in the Belgian Congo Jef Geeraerts.

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Garde Civique

The Garde Civique or Burgerwacht (French and Dutch; "Civic Guard") was a Belgian paramilitary militia created in October 1830 shortly after the Belgian Revolution.

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Gargantua (gorilla)

Gargantua (1929 - November 1949) was a captive lowland gorilla famed for being exhibited by the Ringling Brothers circus.

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Gaston Eyskens

Gaston François Marie, Viscount Eyskens (1 April 1905 – 3 January 1988) was a Christian democratic politician and Prime Minister of Belgium.

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Gaston-François de Witte

Gaston-François de Witte (12 June 1897, Antwerp – 1 June 1980, Brussels) was a Belgian herpetologist who discovered and described at least 24 different species of reptiles.

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Gazet van Antwerpen

The Gazet van Antwerpen (Antwerp Gazette, popularly named De Frut, "sour head cheese") is a Belgian newspaper in Antwerp and Flanders, published by Concentra.

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Geoffrey Spicer-Simson

Captain Geoffrey Basil Spicer-Simson DSO, RN (15 January 1876 – 29 January 1947) was a Royal Navy officer.

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Geographical renaming

Geographical renaming is the changing of the name of a geographical feature or area.

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George Arthur Forrest

George Arthur Forrest (born 1940) is a Belgian entrepreneur, owner of the Forrest Group (Groupe Forrest), a group of companies founded in the Belgian Congo in 1922 and active in wind power and hydroelectric energy, construction, mines and metallurgy, biological food and aviation.

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Georges Dallemagne

Georges J.F.M.G. Dallemagne (born 17 January 1958 in Belgian Congo), is a Belgian politician and doctor.

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Georges Darlan

Georges Darlan (1920–1965) was a Central African politician.

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Gerard Walschap

Jacob Lodewijk Gerard, Baron Walschap (Londerzeel-St. Jozef, 9 July 1898 – Antwerp, 25 October 1989), was a Belgian writer.

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German East Africa

German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) (GEA) was a German colony in the African Great Lakes region, which included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, and the mainland part of Tanzania.

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German night fighter direction vessel Togo

The MS Togo was a German merchant ship that was launched in 1938. Requisitioned by Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine as Schiff 14, in April 1940 she participated in the invasion of Norway; in August 1940 was converted to a minelayer as part of the German plan to invade England; then from June 1941 she began conversion to the armed auxiliary cruiser (Hilfskreuzer) HSK Coronel. Following Coronels unsuccessful attempt in February 1943 to become the last German commerce raider of World War II, she was then used as a minesweeper (Sperrbrecher) before being recommissioned in late 1943 as NJL Togo, a night fighter direction vessel (Nachtjagdleitschiff), operating in the Baltic Sea. As NJL Togo, she was the second of the Kriegsmarines World War II radar ships, and the only one to survive the war. After the war, Togo passed through various changes of ownership, name and function before finally being wrecked off the Mexican coast in 1984.

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German occupation of Belgium during World War I

The German occupation of Belgium (Occupation allemande, Duitse bezetting) of World War I was a military occupation of Belgium by the forces of the German Empire between 1914 and 1918.

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Gilbert Dussier

Gilbert Dussier (23 December 1949 – 3 January 1979) was a footballer from Luxembourg.

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Gilbert Pongo

Gilbert-Pierre Pongo (22 April 1927 – 20 February 1961) was a Congolese politician and intelligence officer who briefly served as an inspector of the Sûreté Nationale of the fledgling Democratic Republic of the Congo and as a communications liaison.

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Glenn Close

Glenda Veronica Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress, singer and film producer.

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Glover Morrill Allen

Glover Morrill Allen (February 8, 1879 – February 14, 1942) was an American zoologist.

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Governor-general

Governor-general (plural governors-general) or governor general (plural governors general), in modern usage, is the title of an office-holder appointed to represent the monarch of a sovereign state in the governing of an independent realm.

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Grauer's broadbill

The Grauer's broadbill or African green broadbill (Pseudocalyptomena graueri) is a species of bird in the Eurylaimidae family, and is monotypic within the genus Pseudocalyptomena.

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Great War (series)

Great War is an alternate history trilogy novel by Harry Turtledove, which follows How Few Remain. It is part of Turtledove's Southern Victory series of novels. This trilogy is an alternative imaginary scenario of World War I, between 1914 and 1917, as a result of the Confederate States' victory over the United States in 1862.

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Greeks in Sudan

The Greek diaspora in Sudan is small in the number of its members (estimated at around 150 in 2015), but still a very prominent community in the country.

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Guides de la République Démocratique du Congo

Les Guides de la République Démocratique du Congo (The Guides of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, GRDC; formerly Association des Guides du Congo) is the national Guiding organization of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Guido van Gheluwe

Guido Richard van Gheluwe (3 April 1926, in Kortrijk – 1 October 2014, in Kortrijk) was a Belgian lawyer and founder of the Orde van den Prince.

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Gustaaf Hulstaert

Gustaaf Hulstaert (1900–1990) was a Belgian entomologist mainly interested in Lepidoptera.

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Gustav Adolf von Götzen

Gustav Adolf Graf von Götzen (12 May 1866 – 2 December 1910) was a German explorer and Governor of German East Africa.

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György Szapáry

György Szapáry (born 1 August 1938) is a Hungarian–Belgian economist, who served as the Hungarian Ambassador to the United States between 2011 and 2015.

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Gyrobus

A gyrobus is an electric bus that uses flywheel energy storage, not overhead wires like a trolleybus.

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Haarlem

Haarlem (predecessor of Harlem in the English language) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands.

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Harold E. Gray

Harold E. Gray (April 15, 1906–December 23, 1972) was an American pilot and executive for Pan Am who served as CEO from 1968 to 1969.

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Harold Jefferson Coolidge Jr.

Harold Jefferson Coolidge Jr. (January 15, 1904IUCN:, URL retrieved 2011-01-21. – February 15, 1985The New York Times, obituary: "", February 16, 1985. URL retrieved 2011-01-21.) was an American zoologist and a founding director of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as well as of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

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Harry Johnston

Sir Henry Hamilton Johnston (12 June 1858 – 31 July 1927), frequently known as Harry Johnston, was a British explorer who traveled widely in Africa, botanist, artist, linguist who spoke many African languages and colonial administrator.

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Harry Lewiston

Harry Lewiston (April 2, 1900 – June 1, 1965; legal name Israel Harry Jaffe) was an American showman, freak show director, and barker.

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Helene Mambu

Hélène Mambu-ma-Disu, MD, MPH (aka Helene Mambu, born February 28, 1948) is a Congolese public health expert, physician, pediatrician and United Nations diplomat.

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Hendrik Cornelis

Hendrik A. A. Cornelis (1910–1999) was a Belgian colonial civil servant who served as the last Governor-General of the Belgian Congo from 12 July 1958 until 30 June 1960.

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Henri Bowane

Henri Bowane (1926–1992) was an influential figure in the development of Congolese rumba in the Congo.

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Henri Chermezon

Henri Chermezon (12 May 1885, Paris – 15 January 1939, Strasbourg) was a French botanist.

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Henri Isingoma

Henri Kahwa Isingoma (born November 24, 1958) is a Democratic Republic of the Congo Anglican priest.

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Henri Lopès

Henri Lopès (born 12 September 1937)International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004, Europa Publications, p. 339.

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Henri Schouteden

Henri Schouteden (9 July 1881, Brussels – 15 November 1972, Brussels) was a Belgian zoologist, ornithologist and entomologist.

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Henri-Thomas Lokondo

Henri-Thomas Lokondo Yoka (born 27 July 1955) is a Congolese politician serving as a deputy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo National Assembly since 2011.

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Henry Evered Haymes

Captain and Bimbashi Henry Evered Haymes, SBStJ, MRCS LRCP (17 March 1872 – 15 March 1904), was a British surgeon in the Royal Army Medical Corps, known chiefly for his service in Egypt and the Sudan.

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Henry Fox Bourne

Henry Richard Fox Bourne (24 December 1837 – 2 February 1909) was a British social reformer and writer.

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Herbert Lang

Herbert Lang (March 24, 1879 – May 29, 1957) was a German zoologist.

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Herero and Namaqua genocide

The Herero and Nama genocide was a campaign of racial extermination and collective punishment that the German Empire undertook in German South West Africa (now Namibia) against the Ovaherero and the Nama.

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Hergé

Georges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983), known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian cartoonist.

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Herman Baltia

Baron Herman Baltia (1 September 1863 – 16 September 1938) was a Belgian military officer, the son of the Belgian General Charles Baltia (of Luxembourgish origin) and of a German mother.

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Herman Bodson

Herman Bodson (21 December 1912 Belgium – 28 December 2001 Taos, United States) was a Belgian scientist, mineralogist and member of the Belgian resistance during the Second World War.

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Herman Teirlinck

Herman Louis Cesar Teirlinck (Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, 24 February 1879 – Beersel-Lot, 4 February 1967) was a Belgian writer.

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High Explosive Research

High Explosive Research was the British project to independently develop atomic bombs after the Second World War.

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Hilary Koprowski

Hilary Koprowski (5 December 191611 April 2013) was a Polish virologist and immunologist active in the United States; inventor of the world's first effective live polio vaccine.

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Hilde De Ridder-Symoens

Hilde De Ridder-Symoens (born 1943) was Professor of Medieval History at the Free University of Amsterdam (1986-2001) and Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Ghent (2001-2008).

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Historical African place names

This is a list of historical African place names.

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History of Africa

The history of Africa begins with the emergence of hominids, archaic humans and – around 5.6 to 7.5 million years ago.

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History of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

This article discusses the history of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan during the history of Sudan from 1899 to 1955.

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History of Belgium

The history of Belgium predates the founding of the modern state of that name in 1830.

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History of HIV/AIDS

AIDS is caused by a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which originated in non-human primates in Central and West Africa.

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History of Katanga

This is a history of Katanga Province and the former independent State of Katanga, as well as the history of the region prior to colonization.

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History of Kinshasa

While the modern city of Kinshasa has its roots in the 1881 establishment of Léopoldville by Belgian settlers, human settlement in the Kinshasa area has stretched back to at least the 1st millennium BC.

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History of malaria

The history of malaria stretches from its prehistoric origin as a zoonotic disease in the primates of Africa through to the 21st century.

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History of nuclear weapons

Nuclear weapons possess enormous destructive power from nuclear fission or combined fission and fusion reactions.

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History of Sal, Cape Verde

This article is on the history of the island of Sal, Cape Verde.

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History of Sudan

The history of Sudan includes that of both the territory that composes Republic of the Sudan as well as that of a larger region known by the term "Sudan".

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History of Tanzania

The African Great Lakes nation of Tanzania dates formally from 1964, when it was formed out of the union of the much larger mainland territory of Tanganyika and the coastal archipelago of Zanzibar.

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History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The region that is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo was first settled about 80,000 years ago.

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History of the Jews in Africa

African Jewish communities include.

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History of the Jews in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The history of the Jews in the Democratic Republic of the Congo can be traced back to 1907, when the first Jewish immigrants began to arrive in the country.

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History of the Jews in Zimbabwe

The history of the Jews in Zimbabwe reaches back over one century.

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History of Uganda (1962–71)

The history of Uganda from 1962 through 1971 comprises the history of Uganda from Ugandan independence from the United Kingdom to the rise of the dictator Idi Amin.

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History of United Nations peacekeeping

The United Nations Peacekeeping began in 1948.

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History of Western civilization

Western civilization traces its roots back to Europe and the Mediterranean.

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HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that causes HIV infection and over time acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

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HIV/AIDS

Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

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HIV/AIDS in Haiti

With an estimated 150,000 people living with HIV/AIDS in 2016 (or an approximately 2.1 percent prevalence rate among adults aged 15–49), Haiti has the most overall cases of HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean and its HIV prevalence rates among the highest percentage-wise in the region.

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HMCS Winnipeg (J337)

HMCS Winnipeg was an that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War.

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HMS Aspirant (W 134)

HMS Aspirant (W 134) was a of the Royal Navy during World War II.

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HMS Fifi

HMS Fifi was an armed screw steamer, captured from the Germans by Royal Navy units during the Battle for Lake Tanganyika, and used to support Anglo-Belgian operations on the lake and its surrounding areas.

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HMS Mimi and HMS Toutou

HMS Mimi and HMS Toutou were motor launches of the Royal Navy.

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HMS Veryan Bay (K651)

HMS Veryan Bay was a anti-aircraft frigate of the British Royal Navy, named after a bay on the south coast of Cornwall.

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HMS Wrangler (R48)

HMS Wrangler was one of eight W-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy during World War II.

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HMSAS Natal

HMSAS Natal (pennant number: K10) was one of three s in the South African Navy (SAN).

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Hoity Toity (novel)

Hoity Toity (Russian: Хойти-Тойти) is a 1929 Soviet science fiction novella written by Alexander Belyayev.

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Holden Roberto

Holden Álvaro Roberto (January 12, 1923 – August 2, 2007) founded and led the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) from 1962 to 1999.

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Holland Steamship Company

The Holland Steamship Company (Dutch: Hollandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij (HSM)) was formed in Amsterdam in 1885 to run a steamship service from Amsterdam to London.

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Hotel Theresa

The Hotel Theresa, located at 2082-96 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard between West 124th and 125th Streets in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, was, in the mid-20th century, a vibrant center of African American life in the area and the city.

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Howard Mwikuta

Howard Mwikuta (20 June 1941 – 26 February 1988) was a Zambian footballer and coach who featured in the first Zambian national team at independence in October 1964.

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Huambo

Huambo, formerly Nova Lisboa (English: New Lisbon, 1928–1975), is the capital of the province of Huambo in Angola.

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Hubert Lothaire

Hubert Joseph Lothaire (Rochefort, 10 November 1865 – Elsene, 8 May 1929) was a Belgian officer who served in the Force Publique of the Congo Free State.

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Hubert Pierlot

Hubert Marie Eugène Pierlot (23 December 1883 – 13 December 1963) was a Belgian politician and 32nd Prime Minister of Belgium, serving between 1939 and 1945.

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Hugh Reid (Liberal politician)

Sir Hugh Gilzean Reid (11 August 1836 – 5 November 1911) was a Scottish journalist and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1886.

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Human zoo

Human zoos, also called ethnological expositions, were 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century public exhibitions of humans, usually in a so-called natural or primitive state.

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Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899January 14, 1957) was an American screen and stage actor.

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Hutu

The Hutu, also known as the Abahutu, are a Bantu ethnic group native to African Great Lakes region of Africa, primarily area now under Burundi and Rwanda.

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Hyperolius hutsebauti

Hyperolius hutsebauti is a species of frog in the family Hyperoliidae.

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Ian Adams

Ian Adams (born 1937) is a Canadian author of fiction and non-fiction novels, television, and movies.

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Ian Clayton Mackenzie

Ian Clayton Mackenzie CBE (1909-2009) was a British diplomat.

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Idel Ianchelevici

Idel Ianchelevici (5 May 1909 – 28 June 1994) was a Russian-born Romanian and Belgian sculptor and draughtsman.

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Ideology of Tintin

Hergé started drawing his comics series The Adventures of Tintin in 1929 for Le Petit Vingtième, the children's section of the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle, run by the Abbé Norbert Wallez, an avid supporter of social Catholicism, a right-wing movement.

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Idiofa

Idiofa is a town in Kwilu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Ignace Gata Mavita wa Lufuta

Igance Gata Mavita wa Lufuta (born 7 January 1949, Popokabaka, Belgian Congo) is a Congolese diplomat who serves as the current Permanent Representative of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the United Nations (since 2012).

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Ignace Mandjambi

Ignace Mandjambi (born 8 October 1940) is a former Congolese cyclist.

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Ilford County High School

Ilford County High School (often abbreviated to ICHS) is a selective secondary grammar school for boys located in the Barkingside area of the London Borough of Redbridge.

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Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans

Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans CMG (3 September 1879 – 16 October 1968) was a Welsh-born South African botanist.

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Immediate Reaction Cell

The Immediate Reaction Cell (IRC) is an elite fighting force in the Belgian Land Component, consisting of one parachute and one commando battalion plus several support units (one artillery battery, one anti-aircraft artillery battery, one logistics company, one engineer company, one medical company and one reconnaissance unit).

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In Koli Jean Bofane

In Koli Jean Bofane (born 24 October 1954 in Mbandaka in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) is a Congolese writer.

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In Search of a Character: Two African Journals

In Search of a Character: Two African Journals is a slim volume, part travel book, part novelist’s journal, written by English author Graham Greene and first published in 1961.

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Indépendance Cha Cha

"Indépendance Cha Cha" (French; "Independence cha cha") was a song performed by Joseph Kabasele (best known by his stage name Le Grand Kallé) from the group L'African Jazz in the popular African Rumba style.

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Index of Belgium-related articles

Articles (arranged alphabetically) related to Belgium include.

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Index of Democratic Republic of the Congo-related articles

Articles (arranged alphabetically) related to the Democratic Republic of the Congo include.

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Ingagi

Ingagi is a 1930 Pre-Code exploitation film.

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Inge Heiberg

Inge Valdemar Heiberg (11 October 1861 – 1 July 1920) was a Norwegian physician who served as director of medicine in Belgian Congo from 1911 to 1920.

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Institutions in the Southern Victory Series

The Southern Victory Series is a fan name given to a series of Harry Turtledove alternate history novels.

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Inter-Services Topographic Department

The Inter-Services Topographic Department (1940–1946) was a joint British Army and Navy organization created during World War II that was responsible for supplying topographic intelligence for all combined operations, and in particular, for preparing reports in advance of military operations overseas.

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International Radiotelegraph Convention (1912)

The International Radiotelegraph Convention (1912) established an agreement to allow the exchange of radio telegraphs (with the intention to connect this new network to wired telegraph).

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International Tin Council

The International Tin Council (ITC) was an organisation which acted on behalf of major tin producers and consumers to control the international tin market.

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International vehicle registration code

The country in which a motor vehicle's vehicle registration plate was issued may be indicated by an international licence plate country code, formerly known as an International Registration Letter or International Circulation Mark. The distinguishing sign of the country of registration must be displayed on the rear of the vehicle.

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Irene Hendriks

Irene Desiree Hélène Hendriks (born 13 April 1958 in Ngaliema, Belgian Congo) is a former Dutch field hockey player, who won the golden medal with the National Women's Team at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

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Irgun and Lehi internment in Africa

From 1944 to 1948, Irgun and Lehi men being held without trial at the Latroun concentration camp were deported by the British Mandate of Palestine authorities to internment camps in Africa, located in Sembel (near Asmara, Eritrea), Carthago, Sudan and Gilgil (north of Nairobi, Kenya).

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Isaac Kalonji

Isaac Kalonji Mutambayi (9 September 1914 – 3 August 2009) was a Congolese Protestant minister and statesman who served as the President of the Senate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1962 until 1965.

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Isaac Mulindwa

Isaac Mulindwa is a businessman and former politician in Uganda.

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Ishango bone

The Ishango bone is a bone tool, dated to the Upper Paleolithic era.

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Ishmael (novel)

Ishmael is a 1992 philosophical novel by Daniel Quinn.

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Isidore Bakanja

Blessed Isidore Bakanja (c. 1887 at Bokendela in Belgian Congo – 15 August 1909 at Busira, Belgian Congo) was beatified on 24 April 1994 by Pope John Paul II.

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Isiro

Isiro (pronounced) is the capital of Haut-Uele Province in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Islam in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Islam is a major religion within the Democratic Republic of the Congo where it is estimated that around 10 percent of the national population identifies as Muslim.

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Ituri conflict

The Ituri conflict (Guerre d'Ituri) was a major conflict between the agriculturalist Lendu and pastoralist Hema ethnic groups in the Ituri region of the north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

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Ixelles

Ixelles (Dutch: Elsene) is one of the nineteen municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium.

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Jackal (The Day of the Jackal)

The Jackal is a fictional character, the villain of the novel The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth.

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Jackie Sewell

John "Jackie" Sewell (24 January 1927 – 26 September 2016) was an England International football player.

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Jackson T. Davis

Jackson T. Davis (September 25, 1882 – April 15, 1947) was an educator and author from Virginia.

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Jacquemine Charrott Lodwidge

Jacquemine Charrott Lodwidge (born 20 July 1919) is an English writer on crime and magic who also worked as an art director in British-made films and as a bookseller.

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Jacques Borlée

Jacques Borlée (born 27 September 1957) is a former Belgian athlete, and the father and coach of athletes Olivia Borlée (b. 1986), Kevin (b. 1988), Jonathan (b. 1988) and Dylan Borlée (b. 1992).

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Jacques van Ypersele de Strihou

Jacques Marie Joseph Hubert Ghislain van Ypersele de Strihou (born 5 December 1936), was the Principal Private Secretary to the King of the Belgians (1983–2013).

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James Chapin

James Paul Chapin (July 9, 1889 – April 5, 1964) was an American ornithologist.

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James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey

James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey (October 18, 1875 – July 30, 1927) was an intellectual, missionary, and teacher.

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James H. Sutherland

James H. "Jim" Sutherland (1872–1932) was a Scottish born soldier and professional elephant hunter.

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James Riddell (skier)

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Jan Hollants Van Loocke

Jan Hollants Van Loocke is a Belgian civil servant.

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Janssen Pharmaceutica

Janssen Pharmaceutica is a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Beerse, Belgium.

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January 1918

The following events occurred in January 1918.

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January 1960

The following events occurred in January 1960.

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January 1961

The following events occurred in January 1961.

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January 1972

The following events occurred in January 1972.

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Jason Sendwe

Jason Sendwe (1917 – 19 July 1964) was a Congolese politician and a leader of the Association Générale des Baluba de Katanga (BALUBAKAT) party.

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Jasper Goes Hunting

Jasper Goes Hunting is an animated short film in the Puppetoons series, directed by George Pal and first released on July 28, 1944.

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Jean Baptiste Leopold Colin

Jean Colin (1881–1961) was a Flemish painter most known for his portraits, nudes, and still life paintings.

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Jean Barnabe

Jean Barnabe (born 3 March 1949) is a former Congolese cyclist.

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Jean Bolikango

Jean Bolikango or Bolikango Akpolokaka Gbukulu Nzete Nzube (4 February 1909 – 17 February 1982) was a Congolese educator, writer, and conservative politician.

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Jean Bosco Mwenda

Jean-Bosco Mwenda, also known as Mwenda wa Bayeke (1930 – 1990), was a pioneer of Congolese fingerstyle acoustic guitar music.

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Jean Cuvelier

Jean Cuvelier (1882–1962) was a Belgian Redemptorist missionary and bishop of Matadi in Belgian Congo from 1930 until his death in 1962.

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Jean De Bast

Jean De Bast (Brussels, 1883 – 1975) is a Belgian postage stamps draughtsman and engraver.

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Jean Gilpin

Jean Gilpin (born c.1950) is a British television actress and voice-acting specialist.

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Jean Hendriks

Jan Antoon Hubert "Jean" Hendriks (18 August 1925 – 6 January 2015) was a Dutch politician.

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Jean Hissette

Jean Hissette (30 August 1888 – 26 August 1965) was a Belgian ophthalmologist.

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Jean Kalala N'Tumba

Jean Kalala N'Tumba (born 7 January 1949) is a Congolese football forward who played for Zaire in the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

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Jean Marie Okwo Bele

Jean Marie Okwo-Bele, MD, MPH (born February 23, 1957 in Banningville, Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo)) is a Congolese physician, epidemiologist, and public health expert at the World Health Organization (WHO).

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Jean Nguza Karl-i-Bond

Jean Nguza Karl-i-Bond (August 4, 1938 – July 27, 2003) was a prominent Zairian politician.

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Jean Schramme

Jean Schramme (March 25, 1929, Bruges, Belgium – December 14, 1988, Rondonópolis, Brazil) was a Belgian mercenary and planter.

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Jean van den Bosch

Jean van den Bosch (27 January 1910 – 15 December 1985) was a Belgian diplomat.

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Jean-Baptiste Janssens

Jean-Baptiste Janssens (22 December 1889 – 5 October 1964) was the twenty-seventh Superior General of the Society of Jesus.

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Jean-Chrysostome Weregemere

Jean-Chrysostome Weregemere or Weregemere Bingwa Nyalumeke (5 September 1919 – ?) was a Congolese politician who led a faction of the Centre du Regroupement Africain.

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Jean-Marie Derscheid

Jean-Marie Eugène Derscheid (May 19, 1901, Sterrebeek – March 13, 1944) was a Belgian zoologist who focused much of his professional interest on Africa.

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Jean-Paul Harroy

Jean-Paul Harroy (4 May 1909 – 8 July 1995) was a Belgian colonial civil servant who served as the last Governor and only Resident-General of Ruanda-Urundi.

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Jean-Pierre Déricoyard

Jean-Pierre Déricoyard (21 July 1907–?) was a Congolese politician and businessman.

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Jean-Richard Geurts

Jean-Richard Geurts, perhaps better known under his pseudonym Janry (born 2 October 1957), is a comics artist.

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Jean-Santos Muntubila

Jean-Santos N'Diela Muntubila nicknamed Santos (born 20 December 1958) is a Congolese former football player and manager.

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Jeanette (singer)

Janette Anne Dimech (10 October 1951 in London), who performs under the name Jeanette, is an English-born Spanish singer who has resided in Spain since the age of 12, and sings primarily in Spanish.

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Jef Geeraerts

Jozef Adriaan Anna Geeraerts (23 February 1930 – 11 May 2015), better known as Jef Geeraerts, was a Belgian writer.

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Jef Van Bilsen

Anton Arnold Jozef "Jef" Van Bilsen, usually cited as A. A. J. Van Bilsen in his academic publications (Diest, 13 June 1913 – Kraainem, 22 July 1996), was a Belgian professor who, in December 1955, proposed a 30-year scheme (known as the "Van Bilsen Plan") for creating a self-sufficient independent state out of the Belgian Congo.

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Jinx (chimpanzee)

Jinx (1953–19??) was a performing chimpanzee, and member of the ice skating duo "Darlene and Jinx", with his owner and trainer Darlene Sellek.

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John Canaday

John Edwin Canaday (February 1, 1907 – July 19, 1985) was a leading American art critic, author and art historian.

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John Charles Phillips

John Charles Phillips (November 5, 1876 in Boston - November 14, 1938 near Exeter in southern New Hampshire) was an American hunter, zoologist, ornithologist, and environmentalist.

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John Edmond

John Edmond (born 18 November 1936) is a folk singer who became popular in the 1970s for his Rhodesian patriotic songs.

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John F. Carrington

John F. Carrington (21 March 1914 – 24 December 1985) was an English missionary who spent large part of his life in the Belgian Congo.

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John M. Janzen

John M. Janzen is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kansas.

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John McKendree Springer

John McKendree Springer (7 September 1873 – 2 December 1963) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and The Methodist Church, elected in 1936.

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John Stockwell

John R. Stockwell (born 1937) is a former CIA officer who became a critic of United States government policies after serving seven tours of duty over thirteen years.

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John Tilley (diplomat)

Sir John Anthony Cecil Tilley, GCMG, GCVO, CB, PC (January 1869 – 5 April 1952): was a British diplomat.

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John Verhoogen

John Verhoogen (born Jean Verhoogen, 1 February 1912, Brussels – 8 November 1993) was a Belgian-American geologist and geophysicist.

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Johnson & Johnson

Johnson & Johnson is an American multinational medical devices, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods manufacturing company founded in 1886.

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Joris Six

Joris Six (Vlamertinge, 20 October 1887 - Brussels, 22 November 1952) was a bishop of the titular diocese of Baliana in Algeria, and apostolic vicar of the vicariate-general Leopoldstad in Belgian Congo.

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José J. Fripiat

José J. Fripiat (1 July 1923 – 17 February 2014) was a Belgian scientist and former professor at the Universite Catholique de Louvain.

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Joseph Charles Bequaert

Joseph Charles Bequaert was an American naturalist of Belgian origin, born 24 May 1886 in Torhout (Belgium) and died on 12 January 1982 in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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Joseph Iléo

Joseph Iléo (15 September 1921 – 19 September 1994), later called Sombo Amba Iléo, was a politician in the Republic of the Congo and was prime minister for two periods.

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Joseph Kasa-Vubu

Joseph Kasa-Vubu, alternatively Joseph Kasavubu, (c. 1915 – 24 March 1969) was the first President of the Republic of the Congo (1960–65), today the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Joseph Kasongo

Joseph-Georges Kasongo (25 December 1919 – 19 October 1990) was a Tanganyikan-born Congolese lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the first President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Republic of the Congo).

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Joseph Makula

Joseph Makula (born 1929) was a photographer from the Belgian Congo.

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Joseph Malula

Joseph-Albert Malula (12 December 1917 – 14 June 1989) was a Congolese Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Joseph Midiburo

Joseph Midiburo (1930 – 13 June 2008) was a Congolese politician who served as the third President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Joseph Ngalula

Joseph Ngalula Mpandajila (born 12 December 1928) is a Congolese writer and politician.

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Joseph Okito

Joseph Okito (5 February 1910 – 17 January 1961) was a Congolese politician and close political ally to Patrice Lumumba who briefly served as First Vice-President of the Senate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Republic of the Congo).

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Jules Van den Heuvel

Jules Van den Heuvel (16 November 1854 – 22 October 1926) was a Roman Catholic politician from Ghent in Belgium.

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Julien Kialunda

Julien Kialunda (born 24 April 1940–14 September 1987) was a Congolese international footballer.

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July 1915

The following events occurred in July 1915.

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July 1931

The following events occurred in July 1931.

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July 1960

The following events occurred in July 1960.

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June 1949

The following events occurred in June 1949.

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June 1960

The following events occurred in June 1960.

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June 30

It is the last day of the first half of the year.

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Justin Kokolo

Justin Kokolo-Longo (1913 – 21 November 1960) was a Congolese military officer who briefly served as deputy chief of staff of the Armée Nationale Congolaise.

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Justin Marie Bomboko

Justin-Marie Bomboko Lokumba Is Elenge (22 September 1928 – 10 April 2014), known as Justin Marie Bomboko, was a Congolese civil servant.

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Justine Kasa-Vubu

Justine M'Poyo Kasa-Vubu (born 14 April 1951) is a Congolese politician and leader of a small political party, the Movement of the Congolese Democrats (Mouvement des démocrates congolais), for whom she stood as a Presidential candidate in the 2006 elections.

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Juvénal Habyarimana

Juvénal Habyarimana (March 8, 1937 – April 6, 1994) was the 2nd President of the Republic of Rwanda, serving longer than any other president to date, from 1973 until 1994.

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Kabasu Babo

Dominique Kabasu Babo (born 4 March 1950) is a Congolese football defender who played for Zaire in the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

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Kafula Ngoie

Kafula Ngoie (born 11 November 1945) is a Congolese football midfielder who played for Zaire in the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

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Kakoko Etepé

Emmanuel Kakoko Etepé (Born 22 November 1950) is a former Congolese football forward player who represented Zaire in 1974 FIFA World Cup.

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Kalambay Otepa

Paul-Mohamed Kalambay Otepa (born 12 November 1948) is a Congolese football goalkeeper who played for Zaire in the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

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Kamerun Campaign

The Kamerun Campaign took place in the German colony of Kamerun in the African theatre of the First World War when the British, French and Belgians invaded the German colony from August 1914 to March 1916.

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Kamunda Tshinabu

Martin Kamunda Tshinabu (born 8 May 1946) is a Congolese football midfielder who played for Zaire in the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

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Karel Jonckheere

Karel Jonckheere as Carolus Joannes Baptista Jonckheere (Ostend, 9 April 1906 – Rijmenam, 13 December 1993) was a Flemish writer.

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Karl Johanssen

Karl Christen Johanssen (12 October 1874 – 20 November 1931) was a Norwegian lawyer and journalist.

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Katakokombe

Katakokombe is a region of the Kasai region of what was formerly known as the Belgian Congo, now the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Katanga Province

Katanga was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1966 and 2015, when it was split into the Tanganyika, Haut-Lomami, Lualaba and Haut-Katanga provinces.

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Katangese Air Force

The Katangese Air Force (Force aérienne katangaise, or FAK), also known as Avikat, was a short lived mercenary air wing made up of Belgian, French, and British pilots.

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Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress.

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Kazadi Mwamba

Robert Kazadi Mwamba (March 6, 1947 – 1998) was a goalkeeper who played for TP Mazembe and Zaire.

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KBC Bank

KBC Bank N.V. is a Belgian universal multi-channel bank, focusing on private clients and small and medium-sized enterprises.

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Kembo Uba Kembo

Jean Kembo Uba-Kembo (27 December 1947 – 26 March 2007) was a Congolese football midfielder who played for Zaire in the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

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Kenneth Gandar-Dower

Kenneth Cecil Gandar-Dower (31 August 1908 – 12 February 1944) was a leading English sportsman, aviator, explorer and author.

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Kenneth Nichols

Major General Kenneth David Nichols (13 November 1907 – 21 February 2000), also known by Nick, was an army officer in the United States Army, and a civil engineer who is notable for his classified works in the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb during World War II, as Deputy District Engineer to James C. Marshall, and from 13 August 1943 as the District Engineer of the Manhattan Engineer District.

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Kibonge Mafu

Joseph Kibongé Mafu (born 12 February 1945) is a Congolese football midfielder who played for Zaire in the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

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Kidumu Mantantu

Raoul Albert Kidumu Mantantu (born 17 November 1946) is a Congolese football midfielder who played for Zaire in the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

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Kimbanguism

Kimbanguism is a new religious movement professed by the Church of Jesus Christ on Earth by His special envoy Simon Kimbangu (Église de Jésus Christ sur la Terre par son envoyé spécial Simon Kimbangu) founded by Simon Kimbangu in the Belgian Congo (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in 1921.

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Kindu atrocity

The Kindu massacre, or Kindu atrocity, took place on 11 or 12 November 1961 in Kindu Port-Émpain, in the Congo-Léopoldville (the former Belgian Congo), where thirteen Italian airmen, members of the United Nations Operation in the Congo (ONUC), sent to pacify the country ravaged by civil war, were murdered.

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King Baudouin speech: Road to independence of the Belgian Congo (13 January 1959)

On 13 January 1959, King Baudouin addressed the nation by radio and declared that Belgium would work towards the full independence of the Belgian Congo.

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King Leopold's Ghost

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998) is a best-selling popular history book by Adam Hochschild that explores the exploitation of the Congo Free State by King Leopold II of Belgium between 1885 and 1908, as well as the large-scale atrocities committed during that period.

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King Solomon's Mines (1950 film)

King Solomon's Mines is a 1950 Technicolor adventure film, the second of five film adaptations of the 1885 novel of the same name by Henry Rider Haggard.

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Kingdom of Burundi

The Kingdom of Burundi (Royaume du Burundi) or Kingdom of Urundi (Royaume d'Urundi) was a polity ruled by a traditional monarch in modern-day Republic of Burundi in the Great Lakes region of East Africa.

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Kinshasa

Kinshasa (formerly Léopoldville (Léopoldville or Dutch)) is the capital and the largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Kisangani

Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville or Stanleystad) is the capital of Tshopo province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Koffi Olomide

Antoine Christophe Agbepa Mumba (13 July 1956), known professionally as Koffi Olomide, is a Congolese soukus singer, dancer, producer, and composer.

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Konzo

Konzo is an epidemic paralytic disease occurring among hunger-stricken rural populations in Africa where a diet dominated by insufficiently processed cassava results in simultaneous malnutrition and high dietary cyanide intake.

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Korongo Airlines

Korongo Airlines sprl (after the Swahili term for large migrating birds) was an airline from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo), headquartered in Lubumbashi.

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Kristian Løken

Kristian Rikardsen Løken (31 July 1884March 1961) was a highly decorated Norwegian military officer who served in the Belgian Force Publique from 1907 to 1917, fighting German colonial forces in East Africa from 1914 to 1917, and went on to command a Norwegian Army infantry brigade during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign of the Second World War.

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Ksawery Wyrożemski

Ksawery "Big Bill" Wyrożemski ("Tso-very Veera-zhem-ski") (23 July 1915 – 15 February 1967) was an exile Polish fighter pilot who flew Hawker Hurricanes and Supermarine Spitfires as an Officer with the Polish Air Forces's 308 and 315 "City of Deblin" Fighter Squadrons from April 1942 until the end of World War II.

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La 628-E8

La 628-E8 is a novel by the French novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau, published by Fasquelle in 1907.

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Lado Enclave

The Lado Enclave was an exclave of the Congo Free State and later of Belgian Congo that existed from 1894 until 1910, situated on the west bank of the Upper Nile in what is now South Sudan and northwest Uganda.

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Lake Force

Lake Force (or Lakeforce) was a unit of the British Army stationed in the Uganda Protectorate on the west coast of Lake Victoria under the command of Brigadier-General Sir Charles Crewe in 1916, during the East African campaign of the First World War (1914–18).

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Lake Mweru

Lake Mweru (also spelled Mwelu, Mwero) is a freshwater lake on the longest arm of Africa's second-longest river, the Congo.

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Lambros Couloubaritsis

Lambros Couloubaritsis (born 1941 in Belgian Congo) is a Greek-born Belgian philosopher.

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Land Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Land Forces (Forces du Terrestres), also called the Congolese army, are the land warfare component and the largest branch of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC).

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Laura Boulton

Laura Boulton (January 4, 1899 – October 16, 1980) was an American ethnomusicologist.

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Laurence H. Snyder

Laurence Hasbrouck Snyder (July 23, 1901 – October 8, 1986) was a pioneer in human genetics and president of the University of Hawaii.

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Laurent Merchiers

Laurent Merchiers (9 June 1904 – 5 February 1986) was a Belgian liberal politician, lawyer, and a Professor at the University of Ghent.

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Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya

Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya (born 7 October 1939) is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kinshasa and de facto primate of the Democratic Republic of Congo since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007.

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Laurent-Désiré Kabila

Laurent-Désiré Kabila (November 27, 1939 – January 16, 2001), or simply Laurent Kabila (US), was a Congolese revolutionary and politician who served as the third President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from May 17, 1997, when he overthrew Mobutu Sese Seko, until his assassination by one of his bodyguards on January 16, 2001.

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Léo Pétillon

Léo Pétillon (22 May 1903 – 1 April 1996) was a Belgian colonial civil servant and lawyer who served as Governor-General of the Belgian Congo (1952–58) and, briefly, as Minister of the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi (1958).

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Léon Kengo wa Dondo

Léon Kengo wa Dondo (born Leon Lubicz, 22 May 1935) is a Congolese politician who served as the "first state commissioner" (a title equivalent to prime minister) several times under Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaïre.

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Léonard She Okitundu

Léonard She Okitundu Lundula (born 8 March 1946) is a Congolese diplomat who has served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and one of the Vice Prime Ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo since December 2016.

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Léonie Abo

Wassis Hortense Léonie Abo (born 1945) was an activist during the Kwilu Rebellion.

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Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport

Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport (Aéroport international Léopold-Sédar-Senghor) is an international airport serving Dakar, the capital of Senegal.

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Léopoldville riots

The Léopoldville riots were an outbreak of civil disorder in Léopoldville (modern-day Kinshasa) in the Belgian Congo which took place in early 1959 and which were an important moment for the Congolese independence movement.

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Le Grand Kallé

Joseph Athanase Tshamala Kabasele (16 December 1930 in Matadi, Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) – 11 February 1983 in Paris, France), popularly known as Le Grand Kallé, was a Congolese singer and bandleader, considered the father of modern Congolese music.

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Le Grand Kallé et l'African Jazz

Le Grand Kallé et l'African Jazz, often simply referred to as African Jazz, was a popular and extremely influential Congolese rumba (soukous) band from the modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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League against Imperialism

The League against Imperialism (Ligue contre l'impérialisme et l'oppression coloniale; Liga gegen Kolonialgreuel und Unterdrückung) was a transnational anti-imperialist organization in the interwar period.

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League of Nations mandate

A League of Nations mandate was a legal status for certain territories transferred from the control of one country to another following World War I, or the legal instruments that contained the internationally agreed-upon terms for administering the territory on behalf of the League of Nations.

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Lemaire

Lemaire (or LeMaire or Le Maire) is a surname.

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Leo Frobenius

Leo Viktor Frobenius (29 June 1873 – 9 August 1938) was an ethnologist and archaeologist and a major figure in German ethnography.

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Leonard Hall (Shaw University)

Leonard Hall is a historic educational building located on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Leopold II of Belgium

Leopold II (9 April 183517 December 1909) reigned as the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909 and became known for the founding and exploitation of the Congo Free State as a private venture.

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Leopold III of Belgium

Leopold III (3 November 1901 – 25 September 1983) reigned as the fourth King of the Belgians from 1934 until 1951, when he abdicated in favour of the heir apparent, his son Baudouin.

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Lepidopterology

Lepidopterology (from Ancient Greek λεπίδος (scale) and πτερόν (wing); and -λογία -logia.), is a branch of entomology concerning the scientific study of moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies.

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Les Palabres de Mboloko

Les Palabres de Mboloko were a series of short 16mm color "animated cartoons for Africans" produced in the Belgian Congo by the priest Father Alexandre Van den Heuvel during the 1950s.

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Leslie Groves

Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves Jr. (17 August 1896 – 13 July 1970) was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, a top secret research project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.

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Lever Brothers

Lever Brothers was a British manufacturing company founded in 1885 by brothers William Hesketh Lever (1851–1925) and James Darcy Lever (1854–1916).

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Leverhulme Trust

The Leverhulme Trust is a large national grant-making foundation in the United Kingdom.

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Li'l Abner

Li'l Abner is a satirical American comic strip that appeared in many newspapers in the United States, Canada and Europe, featuring a fictional clan of hillbillies in the impoverished mountain village of Dogpatch, USA.

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Liberia in World War II

Liberia did not become militarily involved in World War II until January, 1944, with the election of William Tubman, at which time the country declared war on Germany and Japan.

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Library of Congress Classification:Class D -- History, General and Old World

Class D: History, General and Old World is a classification used by the Library of Congress Classification system.

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Lieve Joris

Lieve Joris (born 1953) is a Belgian non-fiction writer on the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa.

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Ligne Aérienne du Roi Albert

Ligne Aérienne du Roi Albert (LARA) was a short-lived civilian airline in the Belgian Congo colony.

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Likulia Bolongo

Norbert Likulia Bolongo (born 8 July 1939) is a Congolese former politician and general.

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List of accidents and incidents involving the Douglas DC-4

The Douglas DC-4 is a piston-engine airliner and transport aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company from 1942 to 1947.

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List of alternative country names

Most List of sovereign states have alternative names.

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List of ambassadors of the United States to the Democratic Republic of the Congo

This is a list of Ambassadors of the United States to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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List of Australian bilateral treaties on extradition and criminal matters

Australian bilateral treaties on extradition and criminal matters are a set of Australian treaties concerning extradition, and cooperation in criminal matters.

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List of Belgian flags

This is a list of flags used in Belgium.

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List of Belgian military equipment of World War II

The following is a list of Belgian military equipment of World War II which includes artillery, vehicles and vessels.

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List of big-game hunters

This is a list of famous big-game hunters who gained fame largely or solely because of their big-game hunting exploits.

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List of Catholic dioceses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Roman Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Belgian Congo, Zaire; also known as Congo-Kinshasa) is composed only of a Latin hierarchy, united in the national Episcopal Conference of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (French Conférence Episcopale Nationale du Congo (CENCO)), comprising six ecclesiastical provinces, each under a Metropolitan Archbishop, and a total of 41 suffragan dioceses, each under a Bishop.

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List of colonial governors in 1908

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List of colonial governors in 1909

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List of colonial governors in 1910

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List of colonial governors in 1911

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List of colonial governors in 1912

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List of colonial governors in 1913

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List of colonial governors in 1914

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List of colonial governors in 1915

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List of colonial governors in 1916

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List of colonial governors in 1917

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List of colonial governors in 1918

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List of colonial governors in 1919

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List of colonial governors in 1920

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List of colonial governors in 1921

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List of colonial governors in 1922

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List of colonial governors in 1923

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List of colonial governors in 1924

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List of colonial governors in 1925

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List of colonial governors in 1926

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List of colonial governors in 1927

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List of colonial governors in 1928

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List of colonial governors in 1929

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List of colonial governors in 1930

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List of colonial governors in 1931

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List of colonial governors in 1932

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List of colonial governors in 1933

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List of colonial governors in 1934

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List of colonial governors in 1935

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List of colonial governors in 1936

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List of colonial governors in 1937

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List of colonial governors in 1938

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List of colonial governors in 1939

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List of colonial governors in 1940

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List of colonial governors in 1941

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List of colonial governors in 1942

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List of colonial governors in 1943

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List of colonial governors in 1944

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List of colonial governors in 1945

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List of colonial governors in 1946

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List of colonial governors in 1947

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List of colonial governors in 1948

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List of colonial governors in 1949

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List of colonial governors in 1950

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List of colonial governors in 1951

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List of colonial governors in 1952

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List of colonial governors in 1953

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List of colonial governors in 1954

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List of colonial governors in 1955

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List of colonial governors in 1956

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List of colonial governors in 1957

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List of colonial governors in 1958

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List of colonial governors in 1959

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List of colonial governors in 1960

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List of colonial governors of Ruanda-Urundi

This is a list of European colonial administrators responsible for the territory of Ruanda-Urundi, an area equivalent to modern-day Rwanda and Burundi.

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List of colonial governors of the Congo Free State and Belgian Congo

This is a list of European colonial administrators responsible for the territory of the Congo Free State and Belgian Congo (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

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List of country-name etymologies

This list covers English language country names with their etymologies.

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List of diasporas

History provides many examples of notable diasporas.

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List of Empire ships (Co–Cy)

The Empire ships were a series of ships in the service of the British Government.

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List of Empire ships (P)

The Empire ships were a series of ships in the service of the British Government.

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List of enclaves and exclaves

In political geography, an enclave is a piece of land which is totally surrounded by a foreign territory.

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List of films released posthumously

The following is a list of films released posthumously that either died during production or before the film's release.

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List of flags of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

This is a list of flags used by the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its antecedents.

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List of foreign football players in Super League Greece

This is a list of foreign football players in Superleague Greece.

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List of foreign Ligue 1 players: L

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List of former European colonies

This is a list of former European colonies.

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List of former sovereign states

A historical state or historical sovereign state is a state that once existed, but has since been dissolved due to conflict, war, rebellion, annexation, or uprising.

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List of governors of dependent territories in the 20th century

;Territorial governors in the 19th century – Territorial governors in the 21st century – Colonial and territorial governors by year This is a list of territorial governors in the 20th century (1901–2000) AD, such as the administrators of colonies, protectorates, or other dependencies.

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List of historical period drama films and series set in Near Eastern and Western civilization

The historical period drama is a film genre in which stories are based upon historical events and famous people.

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List of historical unrecognized states and dependencies

These lists of historical unrecognized or partially recognized states or governments give an overview of extinct geopolitical entities that wished to be recognized as sovereign states, but did not enjoy worldwide diplomatic recognition.

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List of national border changes from 1815 to 1914

The list of national border changes from 1815 to 1914, refers to the changes in international borders since the end of the Napoleonic Wars until World War I. For border changes from 1914 to present, see List of national border changes since World War I. Internationally, this period saw the fall of Spanish colonial empire to the United States and the steady progression of European colonial efforts.

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List of national border changes since World War I

List of national border changes since World War I refers to changes in borders between nations during or since 1914.

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List of predecessors of sovereign states in Africa

This is a list of all present sovereign states in Africa and their predecessors.

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List of riots

This is a chronological list of known riots.

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List of Royal Standard de Liège players

Standard Liège is a Belgian professional football team formed in 1898.

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List of rulers of the Lunda Empire

The following is a list of the Rulers of the Lunda Empire.

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List of shipwrecks in 1928

The list of shipwrecks in 1928 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1928.

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List of South African inventions and discoveries

The following is a list and timeline of innovations as well as inventions and discoveries that involved South African people or South Africa including predecessor states in the history of the formation of South Africa.

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List of sovereign states and dependencies by total fertility rate

This is a list of all sovereign states and dependencies by total fertility rate (TFR): the expected number of children born per woman in her child-bearing years.

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List of state leaders in 1960

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List of state leaders in the 20th century (1901–1950)

;State leaders in the 19th century – State leaders: 1951–2000 – State leaders by year This is a list of state leaders in the 20th century (1901–1950) AD, such as the heads of state, heads of government, and the general secretaries of single-party states.

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List of state leaders in the 20th century (1951–2000)

;State leaders: 1901–1950 – State leaders in the 21st century – State leaders by year This is a list of state leaders in the 20th century (1951–2000) AD, such as the heads of state, heads of government, and the general secretaries of single-party states.

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List of structural failures and collapses

This is a list of structural failures and collapses, including some aircraft, bridges, dams, and radio masts/towers.

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List of The Adventures of Tintin locations

These are the settings, both real and imagined, in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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List of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episodes

This is a list of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episodes.

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List of Wonder Woman episodes

This is a list of episodes for the 1970s television series Wonder Woman featuring Lynda Carter.

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List of World War I films

This is a list of World War I films.

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Livingstone, Zambia

Livingstone was, until 2012, the capital of the Southern Province of Zambia.

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Lobilo Boba

Florian Lobilo Boba (born 10 April 1950) is a Congolese football defender who played for Zaire in the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

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Lobito

Lobito is a town and municipality in Benguela Province in Angola.

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Lockheed C-130 Hercules

The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built originally by Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin).

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Lokilo

Lokilo is a community in the Opala Territory of the Tshopo Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Lokua Kanza

Lokua Kanza (born April 1958) is a singer-songwriter from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Louis Alphonse Koyagialo

Louis Alphonse Daniel Koyagialo Ngbase te Gerengbo (23 March 1947 – 14 December 2014) was a Congolese politician.

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Louis Bobozo

Louis de Gonzague Bobozo (1915 – July 1982) was a Congolese military officer who served as commander-in-chief of the Armée Nationale Congolaise from 1965 until 1972.

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Louise Celia Fleming

Louise Celia "Lulu" Fleming (1862–1899) was a medical doctor and the first African-American to graduate from the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania.

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Louise Pearce

Louise Pearce (March 5, 1885 – August 10, 1959) was an American pathologist at the Rockefeller Institute who helped develop a treatment for African sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis).

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Louise Schilthuis

Louise Schilthuis was a Belgian zoologist who was a curator at the Zoology Museum at the University of Utrecht.

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Luapula Province border dispute

This article deals with the disputed area on the borders of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia, in Luapula Province.

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Luau, Moxico Province

Luau is a municipality in Angola in the province of Moxico on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Lubumbashi

Lubumbashi (former names: (French) and (Dutch)) in the southeastern part of Democratic Republic of the Congo is the second-largest city in the country, the largest being the capital, Kinshasa.

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Luc de Heusch

Luc de Heusch (7 May 1927 – 7 August 2012) was a Belgian filmmaker, writer, and anthropologist, professor emeritus at the Free University of Brussels.

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Luc Jouret

Luc Jouret (18 October 1947 – 5 October 1994), born in Kikwit, Belgian Congo, was a Belgian religious group leader in Switzerland.

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Lucien Leon Hauman

Lucien Leon Hauman-Merck (8 July 1880 in Ixelles – 16 September 1965 in Brussels) was a Belgian botanist, who studied and collected plants in South America and Africa.

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Lunda Bululu

Vincent de Paul Lunda Bululu (born 15 October 1942) is a Congolese former politician.

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Luxembourg government in exile

The Luxembourgish government in exile (Lëtzebuerger Exil Regierung, Gouvernement en exil luxembourgeois, Luxemburgische Exilregierung), also known as the Luxembourgish government in London, was the government in exile of Luxembourg during the Second World War.

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Luzolo Bambi Lessa

Emmanuel-Janvier Luzolo Bambi Lessa (born 31 January 1958) is a politician in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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M'Pongo Love

Aimee Françoise M'Pongo Langu (27 August 1956 – 15 January 1990), known professionally as M'Pongo Love, was a Congolese singer and songwriter.

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M8 Greyhound

The M8 Light Armored Car is a 6×6 armored car produced by the Ford Motor Company during World War II.

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Mabi Mulumba

Évariste Mabi Mulumba (born 22 April 1941) is a Congolese former politician.

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Macaca (term)

Macaca (feminine) and macaco (masculine) are the Portuguese words for "monkey" (compare English macaque).

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Madilu System

Jean de Dieu Makiese (28 May 1952 - 11 August 2007), popularly known as Madilu System, was a soukous singer and songwriter, born in Léopoldville, Belgian Congo - what is today known as Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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Mahdist War

The Mahdist War (الثورة المهدية ath-Thawra al-Mahdī; 1881–99) was a British colonial war of the late 19th century which was fought between the Mahdist Sudanese of the religious leader Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah, who had proclaimed himself the "Mahdi" of Islam (the "Guided One"), and the forces of the Khedivate of Egypt, initially, and later the forces of Britain.

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Mahenge Offensive

The Mahenge Offensive (Offensive sur Mahenge); was a military action which occurred around the Morogoro Region in the east of German East Africa (modern-day Tanzania) during World War I. The combat formed part of the East Africa Campaign and ended with the capture of Mahenge by the Belgian forces on 9 October 1917.

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Maiko National Park

Maiko National Park is a national park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Malcolm Guthrie

Malcolm Guthrie (10 February 1903 – 22 November 1972) was a professor of Bantu languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London and is known primarily for his classification of Bantu languages (Guthrie 1971).

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Mana Mamuwene

Jean Mana Mamuwené (born 10 October 1947) is a Congolese football midfielder who played for Zaire in the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

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Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.

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Marc Dutroux

Marc Paul Alain Dutroux (born 6 November 1956) is a Belgian convicted child molester and murderer.

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Marcel Lihau

Marcel Antoine Lihau or Ebua Libana la Molengo Lihau (29 September 1931 – 9 April 1999) was a Congolese politician, jurist, and law professor who served as the inaugural First President of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Congo from 1968 until 1975 and was involved in the creation of two functional constitutions for the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Marcel Niedergang

Marcel Niedergang (1922-2001) was a French journalist and non-fiction author.

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Marcella Pattyn

Marcella Pattyn (born 18 August 1920 in Thysville (Belgian Congo), was the last traditional Beguine.

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March 1916

The following events occurred in March 1916.

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Marianne Duvivier

Marianne Duvivier (born March 6, 1958) is a Belgian comic book artist.

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Marie Louise De Meester

Mother Marie Louise De Meester, M.C.R.S.A. (Roeselare, Belgium, 8 April 1857 -- Heverlee, Belgium, 10 October 1928), founded the Missionary Canonesses of St.

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Marie Louise Habets

Marie Louise Habets (January 1905-May 1986) was a Belgian nurse and former religious sister whose life was fictionalised as Sister Luke (Gabrielle van der Mal) in The Nun's Story, a bestselling 1956 book by American author Kathryn Hulme.

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Marie Myriam

Marie Myriam (born Myriam Lopes, 8 May 1957, Luluabourg, Belgian Congo, now Democratic Republic of the Congo) is a French singer of Portuguese descent.

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Mario-Philippe Losembe

Mario-Philippe Losembe Batwanyele (born 29 September 1933) is a Congolese politician and diplomat.

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Mark Huntington Higgins

Mark Huntington Higgins (June 26, 1940 – July 25, 1960) was an American student employed in Lambarene, Gabon, West Africa by Albert Schweitzer from May 1959 to June 1960.

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Martin Adolf Bormann

Martin Adolf Bormann (born Adolf Martin Bormann; in Grünwald – in Herdecke) was a German theologian laicized Roman Catholic priest, the eldest of the ten children of Martin Bormann and a godson of Adolf Hitler.

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Martin and Osa Johnson

Martin Elmer Johnson (October 9, 1884 – January 13, 1937) and his wife Osa Helen Johnson (née Leighty, March 14, 1894 – January 7, 1953) were American adventurers and documentary filmmakers.

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Mary Douglas

Dame Mary Douglas, (25 March 1921 – 16 May 2007) was a British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture and symbolism, whose area of speciality was social anthropology.

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Mary Hastings Bradley

Mary Hastings Bradley (April 19, 1882 in Chicago – October 25, 1976) was a traveler and author.

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Mary Jobe Akeley

Mary Jobe Akeley (29 January, 1878 – 19 July, 1966) was an American explorer and naturalist, famous as one of the earliest woman explorers in Africa where she and her husband hunted and photographed animals during their natural history studies.

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Masauji Hachisuka

, 18th Marquess Hachisuka, was a Japanese ornithologist and aviculturist.

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Masengo Ilunga

Masengo Ilunga is a retired footballer who played as a midfielder for club sides in Zaire, Greece and Cyprus.

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MAUD Committee

The MAUD Committee was a British scientific working group formed during the Second World War.

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Maurice Beeli

Maurice Philippe Gaspard Beeli (21 October 1879, St-Gilles-lez-Bruxelles – 17 March 1957) was a Belgian mycologist.

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Maurice Lippens (politician)

Maurice Auguste Count Lippens (21 August 1875 – 12 July 1956) was a noble Belgian businessman, politician, and colonial civil servant and lawyer.

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Maurice Mpolo

Maurice Mpolo (12 September 1928 – 17 January 1961) was a Congolese politician who served as Minister of Youth and Sports of the Republic of the Congo in 1960.

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Maurice van Essche

Maurice van Essche (4 October 1906, Antwerp, Belgium – 12 June 1977, Thonon, France) was a major South African artist and art teacher who achieved national and international recognition in his lifetime.

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Max Mayunga

Maximilien-Gabriel Mayunga (born 28 October 1934) is a former football striker and manager who played professionally in Belgium.

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May 1910

The following events occurred in May 1910.

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May 1960

The following events occurred in May 1960.

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Mayanga Maku

Adelard Mayanga Maku (born 31 October 1948) is a Congolese football forward who played for Zaire in the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

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Mayumbe line

The Mayumbe line was a long gauge narrow gauge railway in the north west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between the port of Boma and Tshela.

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Mbandaka

Mbandaka, pronounced mba ˈnda ka and formerly known as Coquilhatville in French or Coquilhatstad in Flemish, is a city on the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo lying near the confluence of the Congo and Ruki Rivers.

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Mbole people

The Mbole people are an ethnic group of about 100,000 people as of 1971 living in the Orientale Province, southwest of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Mbungu Ekofa

Mbungu Ekofa (born 24 November 1948) is a Congolese football forward who played for Zaire in the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

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Medard Mulangala

Médard Mulangala Lwakabwanga (commonly known as Medard Mulangala; born 17 January 1957) is a politician from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Member states of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie

This is a list of the member states of the International Organization of the Francophonie.

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Metropolitan & Suburban 4-6-2T

The Metropolitan & Suburban 4-6-2T of 1896 was a South African steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Cape of Good Hope.

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Michael Korda

Michael Korda (born 8 October 1933) is an English-born writer and novelist who was editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster in New York City.

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Michael Wood (doctor)

Sir Michael Wood was born on the January 28, 1918 in the United Kingdom.

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Mildred Christina Akosiwor Fugar

Mildred Christina Akosiwor Fugar also known as Mildred Ankrah (12 June 1938 – 9 June 2005) was a former First Lady of Ghana and wife to Joseph Arthur Ankrah.

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Military history of Africa

The military history of Africa is one of the oldest military histories in the world.

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Military history of Canada during World War II

The military history of Canada during the Second World War begins with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939.

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Military history of Ethiopia

The military history of Ethiopia dates back to the foundation of early Ethiopian Kingdoms in 980 BC.

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Military ranks of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Military ranks of the Democratic Republic of Congo are the military insignia used by the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Mimi and Toutou Go Forth

Mimi and Toutou Go Forth: The Bizarre Battle for Lake Tanganyika is the fourth book by author Giles Foden.

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Minister of State

Minister of State is a title borne by politicians or officials in certain countries governed under a parliamentary system.

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Minister of the Colonies (Belgium)

Belgium had a colonial empire in Central Africa from 1908 to 1962, comprising the colony of the Belgian Congo (1908–60) and the international mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (1918–62).

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Ministry of Public Health (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

The Ministry of Public Health (Ministère de la Santé Publique) is the health ministry of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Mirella Ricciardi

Mirella Ricciardi (born 14 July 1931), described by one enthusiast as a "renowned creative force" is a Kenyan born photographer and author.

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Missa Luba

The Missa Luba is a setting of the Latin Mass sung in styles traditional to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to proselytize and/or perform ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

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Mittelafrika

Mittelafrika ("Middle Africa") is the name created for a geostrategic region in central and east Africa.

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Moïse Rahmani

Moïse Rahmani (August 29, 1944 – September 18, 2016) was a Belgian Sephardic author, editor, and publisher of Los Muestros (Ladino-French-English language) magazine.

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Moïse Tshombe

Moïse Kapenda Tshombe (sometimes written Tshombé) (10 November 1919 – 29 June 1969) was a Congolese businessman and politician.

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Mobutu Sese Seko

Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga (born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu; 14 October 1930 – 7 September 1997) was the military dictator and President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (which Mobutu renamed Zaire in 1971) from 1965 to 1997.

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Modern history

Modern history, the modern period or the modern era, is the linear, global, historiographical approach to the time frame after post-classical history.

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Monastère Notre-Dame-des-Sources

Monastère Notre-Dame-des-Sources, Kiswishi, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, is a Benedictine monastery of the Annunciation Congregation.

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Mongalla, South Sudan

Mongalla or Mangalla is a community in Jubek State in South Sudan, on the east side of the Bahr al Jebel or White Nile river.

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Monique de Bissy

Monique de Bissy (married Schimmelpenninck; March 13, 1923 – November 17, 2009) was a French-Belgian resistance member during World War II.

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Moru people

Moru is an ethnic group of South Sudan.

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Mouvement d'Action Civique

Mouvement d’Action Civique was a minor far right political movement in Belgium during the 1960s.

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Mouvement National Congolais

The Congolese National Movement (Mouvement national Congolais, or MNC) is a political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Mpala

Mpala is the location of an early Catholic mission in the Belgian Congo.

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Mpinga Kasenda

Mpinga Kasenda (30 August 1937 – 7 May 1994) was a political figure in Zaire under Mobutu Sese Seko.

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Mulumba Lukoji

Crispin Mulumba Lukoji (5 March 1943 – 3 March 1997), was a Congolese politician.

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Museum of Natural Sciences

The Museum of Natural Sciences of Belgium (Muséum des sciences naturelles de Belgique, Museum voor Natuurwetenschappen van België) is a museum dedicated to natural history, located in Brussels, Belgium.

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Muziki wa dansi

Muziki wa dansi (in Swahili: "dance music"), or simply dansi, is a Tanzanian music genre, derivative of Congolese soukous.

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MV Liemba

MV Liemba, formerly Graf Goetzen or Graf von Goetzen, is a passenger and cargo ferry that runs along the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika.

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Mwanza Mukombo

Albert Mwanza Mukombo (17 December 1945 - 13 October 2001) was a Congolese football defender who played for Zaire in the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

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Mwape Mialo

Mialo Mwapé Mialo (born 30 December 1951) is a Congolese football defender who played for Zaire in the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

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Mwepu Ilunga

Joseph Mwepu Ilunga (22 August 1949 – 8 May 2015) was a football defender from Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

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My Ishmael

My Ishmael is a 1997 novel by Daniel Quinn: a followup to Ishmael.

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N'Singa Udjuu

Joseph N'Singa Udjuu Ongwabeki Untubwe (born 29 September 1934) is a Congolese former politician.

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National Bank of Rwanda

The National Bank of Rwanda (Banki Nkuru Y'u Rwanda, Banque Nationale du Rwanda) is the central bank of Rwanda.

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National Institute for Agronomic Study of the Belgian Congo

The National Institute for Agronomic Study of the Belgian Congo (Institut national pour l'étude agronomique du Congo belge (INÉAC), Nationaal Instituut voor de Landbouwkunde in Belgisch-Congo (NILCO)) was a research facility established in Yangambi in the Belgian Congo, operating from 1933 to 1962.

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National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands

The National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging in Nederland,, NSB) was a Dutch fascist and later national socialist political party.

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National Union of Angolan Workers

The National Union of Angolan Workers (UNTA) is a national Trade union centre of Angola.

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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord; OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries.

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Natural resource economics

Natural resource economics deals with the supply, demand, and allocation of the Earth's natural resources.

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Ndaye Mulamba

Pierre Ndaye Mulamba (born 4 November 1948) is a former association football midfielder from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire.

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Ndombe Opetum

Ndombe Opetum (March 3, 1944 – May 24, 2012), popularly known as Pepe Ndombe, was a soukous recording artist, composer and vocalist, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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Neocolonialism

Neocolonialism, neo-colonialism or neo-imperialism is the practice of using capitalism, globalization and cultural imperialism to influence a developing country in lieu of direct military control (imperialism) or indirect political control (hegemony).

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Neptunium

Neptunium is a chemical element with symbol Np and atomic number 93.

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New Imperialism

In historical contexts, New Imperialism characterizes a period of colonial expansion by European powers, the United States, and Japan during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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New Order (Nazism)

The New Order (German: Neuordnung), or the New Order of Europe (German: Neuordnung Europas), was the political order which Nazi Germany wanted to impose on the conquered areas under its dominion.

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Ngoma (record label)

Ngoma was one of the first record labels intended to provide local African music to the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Nico Kasanda

Nicolas Kasanda wa Mikalay (7 July 1939 – 22 September 1985), popularly known as Docteur Nico, was a guitarist, composer and one of the pioneers of soukous music.

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Nicolas Bayona Ba Meya

Nicolas Abel Bayona Ba Meya or Bayona Ba Meya Muna Kimvimba (25 November 1938 – 26 August 1998) was a Congolese jurist who served as First President of the Supreme Court of Justice of Zaire from 1975 until 1983.

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Nicolas Engalicev

Nicolas Engalicev (Николай Николаевич Енгалычев, Nicola Engalicew, Nikolajs Engaličevs; born 18 February 1915 in Saint Petersburg - 1981) was a Russian origin Latvian, Italian and Canadian chess player.

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Niemba ambush

The Niemba ambush took place on 8 November 1960, when an Irish Army platoon in Congo-Léopoldville was ambushed and all of its men killed or forced to flee by Luba militia, the first time the Irish Army was embroiled in battle against a foreign nation's army since the Irish War of Independence.

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Nisi Shawl

Nisi Shawl (born 1955) is an African-American writer, editor, and journalist.

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Nkutama a mvila za makanda

Nkutama a mvila za makanda is a "Catalogue of Praise Names of Clans" in the Kikongo language compiled and edited by Father Jean Cuvelier comprising a list of about 500 Kongo clans in alphabetical order.

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Norbert Wallez

Abbé Norbert Wallez (19 October 1882 – 24 September 1952) was a Belgian priest and journalist.

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Nordstern

Nordstern (En: "North Star"), often erroneously referred to as Neu Drontheim (En: "New Trondheim"), was the Nazi plan for the creation of a new German metropolis in German-occupied Norway during World War II.

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Norman Grubb

Norman Percy Grubb MC (2 August 1895 – 15 December 1993) was a British Christian missionary, writer, and theological teacher.

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North American T-28 Trojan

The North American Aviation T-28 Trojan is a piston-engined military trainer aircraft used by the United States Air Force and United States Navy beginning in the 1950s.

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Northern Rhodesia

Northern Rhodesia was a protectorate in south central Africa, formed in 1911 by amalgamating the two earlier protectorates of Barotziland-North-Western Rhodesia and North-Eastern Rhodesia.

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Northern Rhodesia Police

The Northern Rhodesia Police was the police force of the British ruled protectorate of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia).

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November 1939

The following events occurred in November 1939.

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November 1965

The following events occurred in November 1965.

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Nuclear energy in Belgium

Belgium has two nuclear power plants operating with a net capacity of 5,761 MWe.

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Nzambi Mpungu (film)

Nzambi Mpungu is a 1928 Belgian film, directed by Ernest Genval and made as part of the Genval Cinematographic Mission.

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October 1930

The following events occurred in October 1930.

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October 1959

The following events occurred in October 1959.

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Odd Børresen

Odd Børresen (August 19, 1923 – January 22, 2010) was a Norwegian linguist, preacher, and missionary in the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he was involved with schools and education.

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Olen, Belgium

Olen is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp.

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Olivier Strelli

Olivier Strelli born Nissim Israel is a Belgian fashion designer, who put Belgium on the fashion map.

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Opika

Opika was an early record label in the Congo, which recorded and promoted African pop, guitar, and rumba - not only from the Congo, but from Cameroon and Ghana as well.

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Order of the African Star

The Order of the African Star (Orde van de Afrikaanse Ster, Ordre de l'Étoile africaine) was established by King Leopold II of the Belgians on 30 December 1888, in his capacity as ruler of the Congo Free State, and was awarded for services to Congo and for the "promotion of African civilisation in general".

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Order of the Crown (Belgium)

The Order of the Crown (Ordre de la Couronne, Kroonorde) is a national order of the Kingdom of Belgium.

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Orgaman Group

The Orgaman Group (French: Groupe Orgaman) is a food production and distribution company based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Organisation of National Ex-Servicemen

The Organisation of National Ex-Servicemen and Women (Óglaigh Náisiúnta Na hÉireann) is a support organisation for ex-service personnel of the Irish Defence Services.

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Oscar Chinn Case

The Oscar Chinn Case (Britain v. Belgium).

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OTC (band)

OTC (originally Groupe Doula Georges) was one of the first bands to emerge from the early days of the Opika label in what was then called Belgian Congo, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral, Boma

The Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre Dame de l’Assomption) also called Boma Cathedral Is the name given to a religious building affiliated with the Catholic Church which is located in the city of Boma in the province of Bas Congo in the western part of the African country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Our Lady of Wisdom Cathedral, Butare

The Our Lady of Wisdom (Cathédrale Notre-Dame de la Sagesse) or simply Cathedral of Butare, is the name given to a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and is located in the town of Butare, in the southern part of the African country of Rwanda.

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Outline of the history of Western civilization

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the history of Western civilization, a record of the development of human civilization beginning in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, and generally spreading westwards.

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Pallache family

"Pallache" – also (de) Palacio(s), Palache, Palachi, Palacci, Palaggi, and many other variations (documented below) – is the surname of a prominent, Ladino-speaking, Sephardic Jewish family from the Iberian Peninsula, who spread mostly through the Mediterranean after the Alhambra Decree of March 31, 1492, and related events.

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Pan Am Flight 151

On June 22, 1951, Pan Am Flight 151, flown by the Lockheed L-049 Constellation propliner Clipper Great Republic (registration) crashed into a West African hill at an elevation of near the village of SanoyieThe village is spelled "Sanoye" in the official CAB accident report, but four spelling variations are known to be used: Sonoyea, Sanoghie, Sanoye and, as used by both Google Maps and Bing Maps, Sanoyie.

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Paolo Ferrari (actor)

Paolo Ferrari (26 February 1929 – 6 May 2018) was an Italian actor.

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Papa Wemba

Jules Shungu Wembadio Pene Kikumba (14 June 1949 – 24 April 2016), known professionally as Papa Wemba, was a Congolese singer and musician who played Congolese rumba, soukous, and ndombolo.

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Paradox Valley

Paradox Valley is a basin located in Montrose County in the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Paranthropus

Paranthropus (from Greek παρα, para "beside"; άνθρωπος, ánthropos "human") is a genus of extinct hominins that lived between 2.6 and 1.1 million years ago.

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Parti Solidaire Africain

The Parti Solidaire Africain (African Mutual Party) or PSA was a political party active in the Belgian Congo and subsequently in the Republic of the Congo after the country received its independence.

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Pascal Nkayi

Pascal Nkayi (18 September 1911 – ?) was a Congolese politician.

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Patrice Lumumba

Patrice Émery Lumumba (alternatively styled Patrice Hemery Lumumba; 2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961) was a Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first Prime Minister of the independent Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Republic of the Congo) from June until September 1960.

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Patrick van Rensburg

Patrick van Rensburg (3 December 1931 − 23 May 2017) was a South African-born anti-apartheid activist and educator.

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Paul Bolya

Paul Bolya or Bolya Ifekwa Lobok'ete (10 October 1924–2002) was a Congolese politician and leader of a faction in the nationalist movement in the Belgian Congo before independence.

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Paul Ermens

Paul-Charles Ermens (June 8, 1884 – November 1, 1957) was a senior Force Publique officer, Vice-governor general of the Belgian Congo and Commander of the Force Publique.

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Paul Lomami-Tshibamba

Paul Lomami Tshibamba (17 July 1914 – 1985) was a Congolese journalist and author, acclaimed as "the first giant of Congolese literature".

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Paul Panda Farnana

Paul Panda Farnana M'Fumu (1888 – 12 May 1930) was a Congolese agronomist and expatriate who lived in Europe in the first decades of the 1900s.

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Paul Scherrer

Paul Hermann Scherrer (3 February 1890 – 25 September 1969) was a Swiss physicist.

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Paul Wheelahan

Paul Wheelahan is an Australian comic book writer, artist and illustrator, best known for his creations, The Panther and The Raven.

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Pépé Kallé

Pépé Kallé, sometimes written as Pepe Kalle (November 30 1951 – November 28 1998) was a soukous singer, musician and bandleader from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Peach basket hat

A peach basket hat (sometimes fruit basket hat) is a millinery design that resembles an upturned country basket of the style typically used to collect fruit.

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Pearl Primus

Pearl Eileen Primus (November 29, 1919 – October 29, 1994) was an American dancer, choreographer and anthropologist.

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Pehria

Pehria is a genus of Moth in the family Lasiocampidae.

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Pende people

The Pende people (singular: Mupende; plural: Bapende), also known as the Phende people, are an ethnic group in the south-western Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Pentecostal Foreign Mission of Norway

The Norwegian Pentecostal Church, (Norwegian: De norske pinsemenigheters ytremisjon, abbreviated PYM) is a Christian organization that conducts Mission operations but also social work in many countries.

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Peter Kemp (writer)

Peter Mant MacIntyre Kemp (Bombay, 19 August 1913 – London, 30 October 1993), known as Peter Kemp, was an English soldier and writer.

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Philadelphia Eleven

The Philadelphia Eleven are eleven women who were the first women ordained as priests in the Episcopal Church on July 29, 1974, two years before General Convention affirmed and explicitly authorized the ordination of women to the priesthood.

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Philippe Molitor

Philippe Molitor (11 June 1869 – 27 October 1952) was a Belgian military officer.

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Philippe Neerman

Philippe Neerman (1930–2011) was a Belgian industrial designer and President of Industrial Design Planning Office Philippe Neerman & Co.

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Picasso's African Period

Picasso's African Period, which was three years long, lasted from 1906 to 1909, was the period when Pablo Picasso painted in a style which was strongly influenced by African sculpture and particularly traditional African masks.

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Pied bat

The pied bat (Niumbaha superba), or badger bat, is a rare species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae.

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Pier Ruggero Piccio

Lieutenant General Count Pier Ruggero Piccio (27 September 1880 – 30 July 1965) was an Italian aviator and the founding Chief of Staff of the Italian Air Force.

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Pierre Kalala Mukendi

Pierre Kalala Mukendi (22 November 1939 – 30 June 2015) was a Congolese football forward, born in Likasi, who played internationally for Congo-Kinshasa and also played for TP Engelbert called now TP Mazembe.

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Pierre L. van den Berghe

Pierre L. van den Berghe (born 1933) is professor emeritus of sociology and anthropology at the University of Washington, where he has worked since 1965.

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Pierre Offerman

Pierre Offerman was the commandant of the Gangala-na-bodio elephant domestication center and chief warden of the conservation service of the Belgian Congo, the Service des Eaux et Forêts, Chasse et Pêche.

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Pierre Ryckmans (governor-general)

Pierre, 1st Count Ryckmans (23 November 1891 – 18 February 1959), was a Belgian peer and civil servant who served as Governor-General of Belgium's principal African colony, the Belgian Congo, between 1934 and 1946.

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Pierre Ryckmans (writer)

Pierre Ryckmans (28 September 1935 – 11 August 2014), who also used the pen-name Simon Leys, was a Roman Catholic Belgian-Australian writer, essayist and literary critic, translator, art historian, sinologist, and university professor.

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Placide Tempels

Placide Frans Tempels (18 February 1906 – 9 October 1977) was a Belgian Franciscan missionary in the Congo who became famous for his book Bantu Philosophy.

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Plasmodium berghei

Plasmodium berghei is a protozoan parasite that causes malaria in certain rodents.

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Plasmodium brodeni

Plasmodium brodeni is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Vinckeia.

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Poliomyelitis

Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus.

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Pope Pius XII foreign relations after World War II

The Church policies after World War II of Pope Pius XII focused on material aid to war-torn Europe, the internationalization of the Roman Catholic Church, its persecution in Eastern Europe, China and Vietnam, and relations with the United States and the emerging European Union.

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Popol Out West

Popol Out West (Popol et Virginie chez des Lapinos) is a comic by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, better known as the creator of The Adventures of Tintin series.

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Portuguese Angola

Portuguese Angola refers to Angola during the historic period when it was a territory under Portuguese rule in southwestern Africa.

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Postage stamps and postal history of German East Africa

This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of German East Africa.

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Postage stamps and postal history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire and the Belgian Congo.

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Powered by the Apocalypse

Powered by the Apocalypse (PbtA) is a role-playing game system developed for the 2010 game Apocalypse World and also used for Dungeon World, Monsterhearts and numerous other RPGs.

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Provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

There are currently twenty-five provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Public Force

A Public Force is a force which has a legitimate and legalised use of physical force in order to serve the public interests.

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Puppet state

A puppet state is a state that is supposedly independent but is in fact dependent upon an outside power.

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Pweto

Pweto is a town in the Haut-Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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Pyralis pictalis

Pyralis pictalis, the painted meal moth or poplar pyralis, is a snout moth (family Pyralidae).

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Racism: A History

Racism: A History is a three-part British documentary series originally broadcast on BBC Four in March 2007.

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Radio Belgique

Radio Belgique (French, "Radio Belgium"), also known in Dutch as Radio België, was a radio broadcast transmitted to Nazi-occupied Belgium from London during World War II.

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Radio Congo Belge

Radio Congo Belge (French, "Belgian Congo Radio") was a radio broadcaster in the Belgian Congo (the modern Democratic Republic of the Congo) which played an important role in the early development and popularisation of Congolese rumba music across Africa in the aftermath of World War II.

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Radio Delmare

Radio Delmare was a project by enthusiasts in 1977 to restore a Dutch radio ship, about three years after Veronica and RNI went off air.

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Radiodiffusion Nationale

Radiodiffusion Nationale (fr: national broadcasting) may refer to.

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Raoul Peck

Raoul Peck (born 1953) is a Haitian filmmaker, of both documentary and feature films, and a political activist.

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Raoul Shungu

Raoul Jean-Pierre Shungu (born 3 January 1958) is a Congolese professional football manager.

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Raoul Warocqué

Raoul Warocqué (Brussels, 4 February 1870 – Brussels, 28 May 1917), was a Belgian industrialist from Wallonia.

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Rape of Belgium

The Rape of Belgium was the German mistreatment of civilians during the invasion and subsequent occupation of Belgium during World War I. The neutrality of Belgium had been guaranteed by the Treaty of London (1839), which had been signed by Prussia.

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Ray Lema

Raymond Lema A'nsi Nzinga (born 30 March 1946), known as Ray Lema, is a Congolese (DRC) musician.

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Raymond Tshibanda

Raymond Tshibanda N'Tungammulong (born 20 November 1950, Lomela, Belgian Congo) is a Congolese diplomat and politician serving as the President of the Liberal Christian Democrats Union, a political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Reform of the United Nations Security Council

Reform of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) encompasses five key issues: categories of membership, the question of the veto held by the five permanent members, regional representation, the size of an enlarged Council and its working methods, and the Security Council-General Assembly relationship.

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Regional Center for Nuclear Studies

The Regional Center for Nuclear Studies in Kinshasa (CREN-K, Centre Régional d'Études Nucléaires de Kinshasa), prior to 1970 known as the Trico Center (Centre Trico), houses the TRICO I and TRICO II nuclear research reactors.

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Religion in Angola

Religion in Angola consists in about 1,000 religious communities in the country, most of which are Christian.

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Religion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Christianity is the majority religion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, followed by about 80% of the population.

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Religious clothing

Religious clothing is clothing which is worn in accordance with religious practice, tradition or significance to a faith group.

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Remmy Ongala

Ramazani "Remmy" Mtoro Ongala (1947 10 Feb – 13 December 2010) was a Tanzanian guitarist and singer.

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Remy Van Lierde

Colonel Remy Van Lierde (14 August 1915 – 8 June 1990) was a Belgian pilot and fighter ace who served during World War II in the Belgian and British Air Forces, shooting down six enemy aircraft and 44 V-1 flying bombs, and achieving the RAF rank of Squadron Leader.

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Renard R.30

The Renard R.30 was a prototype trimotor airliner built in Belgium in 1931.

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Renard R.35

The Renard R.35 was a prototype pressurised airliner of the 1930s built by the Belgian aircraft manufacturer Constructions Aéronautiques G. Renard.

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Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)

The Republic of the Congo (République du Congo) was a sovereign state in Central Africa that was created with the independence of the Belgian Congo in 1960.

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Resident (title)

A Resident, or in full Resident Minister, is a government official required to take up permanent residence in another country.

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Rhodesian Bush War

The Rhodesian Bush War—also known as the Second Chimurenga or the Zimbabwe War of Liberation—was a civil war that took place from July 1964 to December 1979 in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe-Rhodesia).

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Richard Carlson (actor)

Richard Dutoit Carlson (April 29, 1912 – November 25, 1977) was an American actor, television and film director, and screenwriter.

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Ritual of the Savage

Ritual of the Savage is an album by Les Baxter, released in 1951 often cited as one of the most important Exotica albums.

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Robert E. Webber

Robert Eugene Webber (November 27, 1933 – April 27, 2007) was an American theologian known for his work on worship and the early church.

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Robert Goldschmidt

Robert B. Goldschmidt (1877–1935) was a Belgian chemist, physicist, and engineer who first proposed the idea of standardized microfiche (microfilm).

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Robert Kroon

Robert L. Kroon (1924, The Hague – June 24, 2007, Genolier) was a prominent Dutch journalist who reported on conflicts and other stories as a foreign correspondent from Africa, Asia and Europe for nearly 60 years.

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Robert Rothschild

Baron Robert Rothschild (16 December 1911, in Brussels – 3 December 1998, in London) was a Belgian diplomat.

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Robert Sexé

Robert Sexé (17 November 1890–1986) was a French reporter, motorcyclist, photographer and globetrotter.

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Roger Casement

Roger David Casement (1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916), formerly known as Sir Roger Casement CMG, Between 1911 and shortly before his execution for high treason, when he was stripped of his knighthood and other honours.

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Roger Faulques

Roger "René" Faulques (14 December 1924 – 6 November 2011) was a French army Battalion Chief, a graduate of the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, and a paratrooper officer of the French Foreign Legion.

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Roland Todd

Roland Todd (14 January 1900 — 22 May 1969 (aged 69)) born in Marylebone London was an English professional middle/light heavyweight boxer of the 1910s, and 1920s, who won the National Sporting Club (NSC) (subsequently known as the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC)) British middleweight title, British Empire middleweight title, and European Boxing Union (EBU) middleweight title, his professional fighting weight varied from, i.e. middleweight to, i.e. light heavyweight, After boxing he worked on the railways until his retirement in 1965, after being knocked down by a car on 18 May 1969 close to his home in Bentley, Doncaster, he never regained consciousness, and died in Doncaster Royal Infirmary on 22 May 1969.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Izmir

The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of İzmir (Smyrna, Smirne) (Archidioecesis Smyrnensis) is a Latin archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Asian Turkey (Anatolia).

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kinshasa

The Archdiocese of Kinshasa (Latin: Archidioecesis Kinshasana; French: Archidiocèse de Kinshasa) is an archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Ronan Bennett

Ronan Bennett (born 14 January 1956) is an Irish novelist and screenwriter.

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Rosamond Carr

Rosamond Carr (née Halsey) (August 28, 1912 – September 29, 2006) was an American humanitarian and author.

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Rosslyn Noonan

Rosslyn 'Ros' Joy Noonan (née Shaw, born 1946) was a New Zealand politician and trade unionist.

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Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences

The Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences (RAOS) (French: Académie royale des sciences d'outre-mer; Dutch: Koninklijke Academie voor Overzeese Wetenschappen) is a Belgian federal academy that contributes to the progress of scientific knowledge about overseas regions.

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Royal Kituro Rugby Club

The Royal Kituro Avia Schaerbeek Rugby Club, often shortened Kituro RC, is a Belgian rugby union club currently competing in the Belgian Elite League.

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Royal Museum for Central Africa

The Royal Museum for Central Africa or RMCA (Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika or KMMA; Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale or MRAC), colloquially known as the Africa Museum, is an ethnography and natural history museum situated in Tervuren in Flemish Brabant, Belgium, just outside Brussels.

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Ruanda-Urundi

Ruanda-Urundi (in Dutch also Roeanda-Oeroendi) was a territory in the African Great Lakes region, once part of German East Africa, which was ruled by Belgium between 1916 and 1962.

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Ruanda-Urundi franc

The Ruanda-Urundi franc was a currency issued for the Belgian mandate territory of Ruanda-Urundi (modern-day Rwanda and Burundi) in East Africa between 1960 and 1964.

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Rudolf Asmis

Rudolf Albert August Wilhelm Asmis (12 June 1879 – 13 November 1945) was a German jurist, colonial official and diplomat who served as Minister to Siam and Consul-General for Australia.

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Rudolf Grauer

Rudolf Grauer (20 August 1870, Hellbrunn, Salzburg – 17 December 1927, Vienna) was an Austrian explorer and zoologist.

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Rudyerd Boulton

W.

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Ruggero Oddi

Ruggero Oddi (July 20, 1864 – March 22, 1913) was an Italian physiologist and anatomist who was a native of Perugia.

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Ruzagayura famine

The Ruzagayura famine was a major famine which occurred in the Belgian mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (modern-day Rwanda and Burundi) during World War II.

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Rwandan Revolution

The Rwandan Revolution, also known as the Social Revolution or Wind of Destruction (muyaga), was a period of ethnic violence in Rwanda from 1959 to 1961 between the Hutu and the Tutsi, two of the three ethnic groups in Rwanda.

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S-1 Executive Committee

The Uranium Committee was a committee of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) that succeeded the Advisory Committee on Uranium and later evolved into the S-1 Section of the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), when that organization absorbed the NDRC in June 1941, and the S-1 Executive Committee in June 1942.

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SABCA S.11

The SABCA S.11 or SABCA S.XI was a prototype Belgian airliner of the 1930s.

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Sabena

The Societé Anonyme Belge d'Exploitation de la Navigation Aérienne, (French; "Belgian Corporation for Air Navigation Services"), better known internationally by the acronym Sabena or SABENA, was the national airline of Belgium from 1923 to 2001, with its base at Brussels National Airport.

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Sabine de Bethune

Baroness Sabine de Bethune (born 16 July 1958) is a Belgian politician and a member of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party.

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Sam Nujoma

Samuel Shafiishuna Daniel "Sam" Nujoma, (born 12 May 1929) is a Namibian revolutionary, anti-apartheid activist and politician who served three terms as the first President of Namibia, from 1990 to 2005.

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Samuel Kibamba

Samuel Kibamba (born 15 December 1949) is a former Congolese cyclist.

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Santa Maria Saltpans

Santa Maria Saltpans (Portuguese: Salgadas de Santa Maria), also as the Santa Maria Saline Marsh is a saline marsh in the southernmost portion of the island of Sal, Cape Verde nearly surrounding the town of Santa Maria.

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Santa Maria, Cape Verde

Santa Maria (Portuguese for Saint Mary) is situated in the southern part of the island municipality of Sal, Cape Verde which has recently became a fishing and touristic city.

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SAS Good Hope

SAS Good Hope (pennant number: F432) was one of three s in the South African Navy (SAN).

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SAS Transvaal

SAS Transvaal was one of three s in the South African Navy (SAN).

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Savoia-Marchetti S.73

The Savoia-Marchetti S.73 was an Italian three-engine airliner that flew in the 1930s and early 1940s.

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Schlumberger brothers

Conrad Schlumberger (2 October 1878 in Guebwiller (Alsace) – 9 May 1936 in Stockholm) and Marcel Schlumberger (21 June 1884 in Guebwiller – 9 May 1953 in Val-Richer) were brothers from the Alsace in France.

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Schoepite

Schoepite, empirical formula (UO2)8O2(OH)12•12(H2O) is a rare alteration product of uraninite in hydrothermal uranium deposits.

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Scourmont Abbey

Scourmont Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Scourmont) is a Trappist monastery on the Scourmont plateau, in the village of Forges which is part of Chimay in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.

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Scramble for Africa

The Scramble for Africa was the occupation, division, and colonization of African territory by European powers during the period of New Imperialism, between 1881 and 1914.

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Sekenke Gold Mine

The Sekenke Gold Mine (Sachsenwald, "Saxon Forest") was an underground gold mine in the Singida Region of Tanzania.

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Service Star (Congo)

The Service Star (French Étoile de service) was a civil decoration in the Congo Free State (and later the Belgian Congo) created by a decree of the king-sovereign, Leopold II, on 16 January 1889.

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Siege of Saïo

The Siege of Saïo or Battle of Saïo took place during the East African Campaign of World War II.

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Simaro Lutumba

Simaro Massiya Lutumba Ndomanueno (born 19 March 1938), popularly known as Simaro, is a soukous rhythm guitarist, songwriter and bandleader in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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Siouxsie Sioux

Susan Janet Ballion,Paytress, mark.

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Sir Martin Lindsay, 1st Baronet

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Martin Alexander Lindsay, 1st Baronet, (22 August 1905 – 5 May 1981) was a British Army officer, polar explorer, politician and author.

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Sir Robert Williams, 1st Baronet, of Park

Sir Robert Williams, 1st Baronet, of Park (21 January 1860 – 25 April 1938) was a Scottish mining engineer, pioneering explorer of Africa, entrepreneur, and railroad developer who was chiefly responsible for the discovery of the vast copper deposits in Katanga Province (now incorporated in the Democratic Republic of Congo) and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia).

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Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary

The Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary is a Roman Catholic religious institute founded in Ghent, Belgium.

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Sisters of the Holy Family of Helmet

The Religious Sisters of the Holy Family of Helmet (Religieuses de la Sainte-Famille d'Helmet) are a congregation of women founded in Belgium to provide education to young women in most need.

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Sjambok

The sjambok or litupa is a heavy leather whip.

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Smithsonian–Roosevelt African Expedition

The Smithsonian–Roosevelt African Expedition was an expedition to Africa led by outgoing American president Theodore Roosevelt and outfitted by the Smithsonian Institution.

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SNETA

The Syndicat national d'Etude des Transports Aériens ("National Union of Study of Aerial Transport"), known by its acronym SNETA, was a Belgian airline which operated from 1919 to 1923 in order to pioneer commercial aviation in Belgium.

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Sobelair

Société Belge des Transports par Air SA, known by its short form Sobelair, was a Belgian airline from that operated from 1946 to 2004.

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Société Amicale des Originaires de l'A.E.F.

The Société Amicale des Originaires de l'Afrique Equatoriale Française was a social and political anti-colonial movement in French Equatorial Africa (A.E.F.). The association was founded by André Matsoua in Paris 1926.

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Société Générale de Belgique

The Société générale de Belgique (Generale Maatschappij van België; literally "General Company of Belgium") was a large Belgian bank and later holdings company which existed between 1822 and 2003.

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Society for German Colonization

The Society for German Colonization (Gesellschaft für Deutsche Kolonisation, GfdK) was founded on 28 March 1884 in Berlin by Carl Peters.

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Solar eclipse of February 24, 1933

An annular solar eclipse occurred on February 24, 1933.

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Solar eclipse of January 14, 1926

A total solar eclipse occurred on January 14, 1926.

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Solar eclipse of May 20, 1947

A total solar eclipse occurred on May 20, 1947.

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Solar eclipse of May 29, 1919

A total solar eclipse occurred on May 29, 1919.

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Solar eclipse of November 1, 1929

An annular solar eclipse occurred on November 1, 1929.

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Solar eclipse of November 1, 1948

A total solar eclipse occurred on November 1, 1948.

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Solar eclipse of September 1, 1951

An annular solar eclipse occurred on September 1, 1951.

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Sony Lab'ou Tansi

Sony Lab'ou Tansi (5 July 1947 - 14 June 1995), born Marcel Ntsoni, was a Congolese novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and poet.

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Sophie Kanza

Sophie Lihau-Kanza or Zala Lusibu N'Kanza (8 February 1940 – 2 April 1999) was a Congolese politician and sociologist.

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South African Katanga Mikado 2-8-2

The South African Railways Katanga Mikado 2-8-2 of 1917 was a steam locomotive.

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South African republic referendum, 1960

A referendum on becoming a republic was held in South Africa on 5 October 1960.

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South Kasai

South Kasai (Sud-Kasaï) was an unrecognised secessionist state within the Republic of the Congo (the modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo) which was semi-independent between 1960 and 1962.

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Southern African lion

The Southern African lion (Panthera leo melanochaita) is a lion subspecies in Southern Africa.

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Southern Rhodesia

The Colony of Southern Rhodesia was a self-governing British Crown colony in southern Africa from 1923 to 1980, the predecessor state of modern Zimbabwe.

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Southern Victory

The Southern Victory series or Timeline-191 are fan names given to a series of eleven alternate history novels by author Harry Turtledove, beginning with How Few Remain (1997) and published over a decade.

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Soviet atomic bomb project

The Soviet atomic bomb project (Russian: Советский проект атомной бомбы, Sovetskiy proyekt atomnoy bomby) was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II.

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Spain in Our Hearts

Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 is a non-fiction book by Adam Hochschild that was first published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on March 29, 2016.

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Spantax

Spantax S.A. was a Spanish airline that operated from 1959 to 1988.

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Special member state territories and the European Union

The special territories of the European Union are 31 territories of EU member states which, for historical, geographical, or political reasons, enjoy special status within or outside the European Union.

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Springs, Gauteng

Springs is a main place, and formerly independent town, in the east of Ekurhuleni in the Gauteng province of South Africa.

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SS Empire Comfort

SS Empire Comfort was a convoy rescue ship which was launched in 1944 as HMS York Castle a Castle-class corvette, but was renamed Empire Castle and converted for merchant service before completion.

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SS Empire Energy

Empire Energy was a cargo ship that was built in 1923 as Grete by Neptun AG, Rostock, Germany. She was sold to an Italian firm in 1932 and renamed Gabbiano. She was seized by the United Kingdom in 1940, passed to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Empire Energy. She served until 5 November 1941, when she ran aground off Cape Norman, Newfoundland, and was wrecked.

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SS Léopoldville (1929)

SS Léopoldville was a passenger liner of the Compagnie Belge Maritime du Congo.

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SS West Lashaway

SS West Lashaway was a steel–hulled cargo ship that saw service with the U.S. Navy during World War I as the auxiliary ship USS West Lashaway (ID-3700).

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Stade Cardinal Malula

Stade Cardinal Malula, formerly known as Stade 24 Novembre and before Stade Reine Astrid, is a stadium located in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Stairs Expedition to Katanga

The Stairs Expedition to Katanga of 1891−92 led by Captain William Stairs was the winner in a race between two imperial powers to claim Katanga, a vast mineral-rich territory in Central Africa for colonization, during which a local chief, (Mwenda Msiri) was killed.

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Stamp collecting

Stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps and related objects.

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Stanley George Browne

Stanley George Browne (8 December 1907 – 20 January 1986), also called "Bonganga" by the community members with whom he worked, was a British medical missionary and leprologist known for his work and his many research achievements throughout the 20th century in the Belgian Congo, Nigeria, and India including his early use of Dapsone.

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State of Katanga

The State of Katanga, also sometimes denoted as the Republic of Katanga, was a breakaway state that proclaimed its independence from the Republic of Congo-Léopoldville on 11 July 1960 under Moise Tshombe, leader of the local ''Confédération des associations tribales du Katanga'' (CONAKAT) political party (Federation of Kata).

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Stephanos of Tallinn

Metropolitan Stephanos of Tallinn and All Estonia (born 29 April 1941) is the current primate (elected in 1999) of the Orthodox Church of Estonia.

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Steve Long (soccer)

Steve Long is a retired American soccer player who played in the American Soccer League, North American Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League.

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Stewart Gore-Browne

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Stewart Gore-Browne, DSO, (3 May 1883 – 4 August 1967), called Chipembele by Zambians, was a soldier, pioneer white settler, builder, politician and supporter of independence in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia).

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Stig von Bayer

Stig Erik Otto von Bayer (born 6 July 1937) is a former Swedish Army officer, war veteran, peacemaker and writer.

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Stokes affair

The Stokes affair (L'Affair Stokes) or the Stokes-Lothaire incident was a diplomatic incident between the Congo Free State and the British government in 1895.

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Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Basankusu

The Sts.

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Studd

Studd is a family surname and may refer to.

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Sumbu Kalambay

Patrizio Sumbu Kalambay (born 10 April 1956) is an Italian former professional boxer who held the WBA middleweight championship.

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Suprafix

In linguistics, a suprafix is a type of affix that gives a suprasegmental pattern (such as tone, stress, or nasalization) to either a neutral base or a base with a preexisting suprasegmental pattern.

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Sven Nykvist

Sven Vilhem Nykvist (3 December 1922 – 20 September 2006) was a Swedish cinematographer.

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Switzerland and weapons of mass destruction

Switzerland made detailed plans to acquire and test nuclear weapons during the Cold War.

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Sydney Hobart Ball

Sydney Hobart Ball (December 11, 1877 – April 3, 1949) was an American geologist and mining engineer.

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Sylvestre Mudingayi

Sylvestre Mudingayi (11 November 1912 – ?) was a Congolese politician who served as the President of the Senate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from October 1965 until June 1967.

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TAAG Angola Airlines

TAAG Angola Airlines E.P. (TAAG Linhas Aéreas de Angola E.P.) is the state-owned national airline of Angola.

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Table Ronde

"Table Ronde" was a successful song written by Joseph Kabasele in the popular Congolese rumba style and performed by his band L'African Jazz.

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Tabora Offensive

The Tabora Offensive (April - September 1916) was an Anglo-Belgian offensive into German East Africa, which ended with the Battle of Tabora in the north-west of German East Africa (modern-day Tanzania), it was part of the East African Campaign in World War I. The forces of the Belgian Congo crossed the border with German East Africa and captured the port city of Kigoma and the city of Tabora (the largest town in the interior of the German colony).

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Tabu Ley Rochereau

Pascal-Emmanuel Sinamoyi Tabu (13 November 1937 or 1940 – 30 November 2013), better known as Tabu Ley Rochereau, was a leading African rumba singer-songwriter from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Technetium

Technetium is a chemical element with symbol Tc and atomic number 43.

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Thangata

"Thangata" is a word deriving from the Chewa language of Malawi which has changed its meaning several times, although all meanings relate to agriculture.

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Théophile de Giraud

Théophile de Giraud is a writer, philosopher.

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Théophile Wahis

Lieutenant-General Baron Théophile-Théodore Wahis (1844–1921) was a Belgian soldier and colonial civil servant who served as Governor-General of the Congo Free State and, subsequently, the Belgian Congo for two terms between 1891 and 1912.

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The Adventures of Tintin

The Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of 24 comic albums created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, who wrote under the pen name Hergé.

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The Afrika Reich

The Afrika Reich is a 2011 alternate history action thriller novel by Guy Saville.

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The Arrow Collar Man

The Arrow Collar Man was the name given to the various male models who appeared in advertisements for shirts and detachable shirt collars manufactured by Cluett Peabody & Company of Troy, New York.

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The Black Island

The Black Island (L'Île noire) is the seventh volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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The Blue Lotus

The Blue Lotus (Le Lotus bleu) is the fifth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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The British Cotton Growing Association

The British Cotton Growing Association (BCGA) was an organisation of the various bodies connected with the Lancashire cotton industry formed in 1902 to reduce that industry’s dependence on supplies of raw cotton from the United States by promoting the development of cotton growing in the British Empire.

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The Broken Ear

The Broken Ear (L'Oreille cassée), also published as Tintin and the Broken Ear, is the sixth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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The Forest People

The Forest People (1961) is Colin Turnbull's ethnographic study of the Mbuti pygmies of the then-Belgian Congo (later Zaire and now Democratic Republic of Congo).

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The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy

The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy is a historical fiction novel written by Jacopo della Quercia.

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The Lele of the Kasai

The Lele of the Kasai (1963) was the second book by the influential British anthropologist Mary Douglas and the first under her married name.

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The Madagaskar Plan

The Madagaskar Plan is a 2015 alternate history adventure novel by Guy Saville.

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The Nun's Story

The Nun's Story is a 1956 novel by Kathryn Hulme.

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The Nun's Story (film)

The Nun's Story is a 1959 American drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, and Peggy Ashcroft.

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The Poisonwood Bible

The Poisonwood Bible (1998), by Barbara Kingsolver, is a bestselling novel about a missionary family, the Prices, who in 1959 move from the U.S. state of Georgia to the village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo, close to the Kwilu River.

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The Rhinemann Exchange

The Rhinemann Exchange is a novel of suspense by Robert Ludlum, set in the middle of the Second World War.

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The Roots of Heaven (film)

The Roots of Heaven is a 1958 American adventure film in CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color made by 20th Century Fox, directed by John Huston and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck.

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The Roots of Heaven (novel)

The Roots of Heaven (Les Racines du ciel) is a 1956 novel by the Lithuanian-born French writer and WW II aviator, Romain Gary (born Roman Kacew).

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The Seven Red Berets

Sette baschi rossi also known as The Red Berets, Seven Red Berets and Congo Hell is a 1969 Italian/West German co-production about a fictional group of mercenaries filmed in Ethiopia produced and directed by screenwriter Mario Siciliano (often credited as "Marlon Sirko") in his debut as a director.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

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Thomas Alexander Barns

Thomas Alexander Barns FZS FES, also known as T. A. Barns and T. Alexander Barns, and in his private life as Alexander Barns (4 June 1881 – 4 March 1930), was an English business man, explorer, big game hunter, author, artist, naturalist and lecturer connected with the opening up of Central Africa by Europeans in the early 20th century.

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Thomas Athol Joyce

Thomas Athol Joyce OBE (4 August 1878 – 3 January 1942) was a British anthropologist.

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Thomas Kanza

Thomas Rudolphe Kanza or Nsenga Kanza (10 October 1933 – 25 October 2004) was a politician, diplomat, and one of the first Congolese nationals to graduate from a university.

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Thorianite

Thorianite is a rare thorium oxide mineral, ThO2.

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Thorleiv Røhn

Thorleiv Bugge Røhn (23 July 1881 – 20 September 1963) was a Norwegian Army officer, who as a gymnast was a member of the team that won the gold medal in the team competition at the 1906 Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.

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Timeline of Belgian history

This is a timeline of Belgian history, including important legal and territorial changes and political events in Belgium and its predecessor states.

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Timeline of Bukavu

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Timeline of Christian missions

This timeline of Christian missions chronicles the global expansion of Christianity through a listing of the most significant missionary outreach events.

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Timeline of early HIV/AIDS cases

This article is a timeline of early AIDS cases. An AIDS case is classified as "early" if the death occurred before 5 June 1981, when the AIDS epidemic was formally recognized by medical professionals in the United States.

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Timeline of historical geopolitical changes

This is a timeline of country and capital changes around the world.

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Timeline of HIV/AIDS

This is a timeline of AIDS, including AIDS cases before 1980.

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Timeline of Kinshasa

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Timeline of Kisangani

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Timeline of mining in Colorado

Colorado mining history is a chronology of precious metal mining (e.g., mining for gold and silver), fuel extraction (e.g., mining for uranium and coal), building material quarrying (iron, gypsum, marble), and rare earth mining (titanium, tellurium).

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Timeline of ornithology

The following is a timeline of ornithology events.

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Timeline of postal history

This is a partial timeline of significant events in postal history, including dates and events relating to postage stamps.

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Timeline of World War II (1941)

This is a timeline of events that stretched over the period of World War II from 1941, marked also by the beginning of Operation Barbarossa on the Eastern Front.

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Timeline of World War II (1944)

This is a timeline of events that occurred during 1944 in World War II.

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Tintin (character)

Tintin is the fictional hero of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Tintin in America

Tintin in America (Tintin en Amérique) is the third volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Tintin in the Congo

Tintin in the Congo (Tintin au Congo) is the second volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Tom Maidhc O'Flaherty

Not to be confused with the 21st-century rugby union player Tom O'Flaherty Tom Maidhc O'Flaherty (died 1936) was an Irish Communist politician in the early 20th century, a supporter of the Trotskyist James P. Cannon, and writer.

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Tommy Sylvestre

Tommy Sylvestre (born 31 August 1946) is a former Togo international football goalkeeper.

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TPOK Jazz

OK Jazz, later renamed TPOK Jazz (short for Tout Puissant Orchestre Kinshasa, "all-powerful Kinshasa orchestra"), was a soukous band from the Democratic Republic of the Congo established in 1956 and fronted by Franco.

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Trench railways

Trench railways represented military adaptation of early 20th century railway technology to the problem of keeping soldiers supplied during the static trench warfare phase of World War I. The large concentrations of soldiers and artillery at the front lines required delivery of enormous quantities of food, ammunition and fortification construction materials where transport facilities had been destroyed.

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Triffid

The triffid is a fictitious tall, mobile, prolific and highly venomous plant species, the titular antagonist in John Wyndham's 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids and Simon Clark's 2001 sequel The Night of the Triffids.

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Trogloctenus

Trogloctenus is a genus of spiders in the Ctenidae family.

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Tshibumba Kanda-Matulu

Tshibumba Kanda-Matulu (1947 in Élisabethville, Belgian Congo – 1981 in Zaire), commonly abbreviated to TKM, was a noted artist and painter from Zaire (the modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo).

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Tube Alloys

Tube Alloys was a code name of the clandestine research and development programme, authorised by the United Kingdom, with participation from Canada, to develop nuclear weapons during the Second World War.

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Tubilandu Ndimbi

Albert Tubilandu Ndimbi (born 15 March 1948) is a Congolese football goalkeeper who played for Zaire in the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

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Tylopilus suavissimus

Tylopilus suavissimus is a bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae.

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Ubangi-Shari

Ubangi-Shari (1906−1958) (Oubangui-Chari) was a French colony in central Africa, a part of French Equatorial Africa.

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Ulanga River

The Ulanga River, also known as the Kilombero River, is a river that starts in the southwest of Tanzania on the eastern slope of the East African Rift that flows northeast into the Rufiji River then to the Indian Ocean.

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Umicore

Umicore N.V..

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Une Saison au Congo

Une saison au Congo is a 1966 theatre play by Aimé Césaire.

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Unilever

Unilever () is a British-Dutch transnational consumer goods company co-headquartered in London, United Kingdom and Rotterdam, Netherlands.

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Unimog

Unimog is a range of multi-purpose all-wheel drive medium trucks produced by Daimler (formerly Daimler-Benz) and sold under the brand name Mercedes-Benz.

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Union des Banques Congolaises

The Union des Banques Congolaise was a bank based in the Belgian Congo which operated for 86 years before it became bankrupt and in 2006 was merged into the Banque Congolaise.

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Union Minière du Haut Katanga

The Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (French; "Mining Union of Upper Katanga"), often abbreviated to Union Minière or UMHK, was a Belgian mining company which operated in the former Congo Free State and Belgian Congo between 1906 and 1966.

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United Nations trust territories

United Nations trust territories were the successors of the remaining League of Nations mandates, and came into being when the League of Nations ceased to exist in 1946.

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United States Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo

This is a list of Ambassadors of the United States to the Republic of the Congo.

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United States Army Transportation Corps class S118

The United States Army Transportation Corps (USATC) S118 Class is a class of 2-8-2 steam locomotive.

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University of Kinshasa

The University of Kinshasa (Université de Kinshasa), commonly known as UNIKIN, is one of the three major universities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, together with the University of Kisangani and University of Lubumbashi.

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University of Lovanium

The University of Lovanium was a Catholic Jesuit university in Kinshasa in the Belgian Congo.

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Uranium mining

Uranium mining is the process of extraction of uranium ore from the ground.

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Uranium mining by country

The country mining the largest amount of uranium is Kazakhstan, which in 2015 produced 39% of the world's mining output.

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Uranium mining in Colorado

Uranium mining in Colorado, United States, goes back to 1872, when pitchblende ore was taken from gold mines near Central City, Colorado.

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Urbanization in Africa

The urbanization of most of Africa is moving fast forward, especially south of the Sahara.

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USS General LeRoy Eltinge (AP-154)

USS General LeRoy Eltinge (AP-154) was a for the US Navy in World War II.

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USS Valor (AM-472)

USS Valor (AM-472) was an built for the United States Navy in 1952.

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USS Whitfield County (LST-1169)

USS Whitfield County (LST-1169), previously USS LST-1169, was a United States Navy landing ship tank (LST) in commission from 1954 to 1973 which saw service in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific and saw action in the Vietnam War.

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V. Y. Mudimbe

Valentin-Yves Mudimbe (born 8 December 1941, Jadotville, Belgian Congo) is a Congolese philosopher, professor, and author of poems, novels, as well as books and articles on African culture and intellectual history.

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Valérie Bemeriki

Valérie Bemeriki (born 1955 in Rutshuru, Democratic Republic of Congo) was a presenter on the Rwandan radio station Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM), which played a significant role in promoting the Rwandan Genocide.

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Vers l'avenir

Vers l'avenir ("Towards the future"), less commonly known by its Dutch title Naar wijd en zijd, is a Belgian nationalist song which was also the national anthem of the Congo Free State.

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Victor Milner

Victor Milner, A.S.C. (December 15, 1893 – October 29, 1972) (sometimes Victor Miller) was an American cinematographer.

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Victor Nendaka Bika

Victor Nendaka Bika (7 August 1923 – 22 August 2002) was a Congolese politician from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Victor Roelens

Victor Roelens (21 July 1858 – 5 August 1947) was a Belgian priest who became Vicar Apostolic of Upper Congo in 1895, and remained the premier bishop in the Congo Free State, then the Belgian Congo, until he retired in 1941.

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Victoria Falls

Victoria Falls (Tokaleya Tonga: Mosi-oa-Tunya, "The Smoke that Thunders") is a waterfall in southern Africa on the Zambezi River at the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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Virginia Union Panthers

The Virginia Union Panthers are the athletic teams that represent Virginia Union University, located in Richmond, Virginia, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports.

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Virginia Union University

Virginia Union University (VUU) is a historically black university located in Richmond, Virginia, United States.

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Virunga National Park

The Virunga National Park (Parc National des Virunga), formerly named Albert National Park, is a National Park that stretches from the Virunga Mountains in the south to the Rwenzori Mountains in the north, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, bordering Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda and Rwenzori Mountains National Park and Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda.

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Vital Kamerhe

Vital Kamerhe (born 1959) is a Congolese politician and leader of the Union for the Congolese Nation (Union pour la Nation Congolaise, UNC), an opposition political party.

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Vivienne de Watteville

Vivienne Florence Beatrice de Watteville (1900–1957) was a British travel writer and adventurer, author of two books based on her experiences in East Africa in the 1920s, Out in the Blue (1927) and Speak to the Earth (1935).

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Volcanoes National Park

Volcanoes National Park (Parc National des Volcans Pariki y’Igihugu y’Ibirunga) lies in northwestern Rwanda and borders Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mgahinga Gorilla National Park in Uganda.

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W. D. M. Bell

Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell (1880–1954), known as Karamojo Bell, was a Scottish adventurer, big game hunter in East Africa, soldier, decorated fighter pilot, sailor, writer, and painter.

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Wacław Micuta

Wacław Micuta (pseudonym Wacek; Petrograd, Russia, December 6, 1915 – September 21, 2008, Geneva, Switzerland) was a Polish economist, World War II veteran, and United Nations functionary.

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Waldo E. Harder

Waldo Elmer Harder (1918–1976) was the sixth president of Grace University (then Grace Bible Institute) in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.

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Waldo L. Schmitt

Waldo LaSalle Schmitt (June 25, 1887 – August 5, 1977) was an American biologist born in Washington, D.C. He received his Ph.D. from George Washington University in 1922.

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Walter Russell Lambuth

Walter Russell Lambuth (November 10, 1854 – September 26, 1921) was a Chinese-born American Methodist Bishop who worked as a missionary establishing schools and hospitals in China, Korea and Japan in the 1880s.

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Water transport in Zambia

Water transport.

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Wayne M. Meyers

Wayne M. Meyers, MD, PhD is an American physician, microbiologist, chemist, humanitarian, and medical missionary.

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Waziri (fictional tribe)

The Waziri are a fictional African tribe created by Edgar Rice Burroughs in his Tarzan novels.

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Wendo Kolosoy

Antoine Wendo Kolosoy (April 25, 1925 – July 28, 2008), known as Papa Wendo, was a Congolese musician.

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West African Students' Union

The West African Students' Union (WASU), founded in London in 1925 and active into the 1960s,, The WASU Project.

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Westmalle Abbey

The Trappist Abbey of Westmalle, or Abdij van Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van het Heilig Hart (Abbey of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart) is a Cistercians of Strict Observance abbey in Westmalle in the Belgian province of Antwerp.

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White Africans of European ancestry

White Africans are people of European descent residing in, or hailing from, Africa who identify themselves as (or are identified as) white.

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White people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

White Congolese is a term which can apply to people from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who are of European descent and who do not regard themselves, or are not regarded as, being part of another racial group.

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White Pongo

White Pongo is a 1945 American film directed by Sam Newfield.

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White Witch Doctor (film)

White Witch Doctor is a 1953 Technicolor adventure film made by 20th Century Fox.

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Will Kesseler

Will Kesseler was a Luxembourgian painter, considered to be one of nation’s best Colourists.

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William Hammon

William McDowall Hammon (1904 – September 19, 1989) was an American physician and researcher, best known for his work on poliomyelitis.

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William Henry Sheppard

William Henry Sheppard (March 8, 1865 – November 25, 1927) was one of the earliest African Americans to become a missionary for the Presbyterian Church.

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William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme

William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (19 September 1851 – 7 May 1925) was an English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician.

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William Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme

William Hulme Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme, DL (25 March 1888 – 27 May 1949) was the son of William Hesketh Lever and Elizabeth Ellen, daughter of Crompton Hulme of Bolton.

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William Morrison (missionary)

William McCutchan Morrison (1867–1918) was an American Presbyterian missionary best known for his involvement with a campaign for reform in the Congo.

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William Stowell

William Stowell (March 13, 1885 – November 24, 1919) was an American silent film actor.

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William Unek

William Unek (1929-February 21, 1957) was an African police constable and mass murderer who killed a total of 57 people in two separate spree killings three years apart.

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Willy Kurant

Willy Kurant (born 15 February 1934) is a Belgian cinematographer.

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Witwatersrand Native Labour Association

The Witwatersrand Native Labour Association (WNLA), more popularly Wenela, was set up by the gold mines in South Africa as a recruiting agency for migrant workers.

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Wolseley 18/85 (1938 to 1948)

The Wolseley 18/85 is an automobile which was produced by Wolseley in the United Kingdom from 1938 to 1948.

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World Copper Agreement

The World Copper Agreement, signed March 28, 1935, was an agreement by mining companies that attempted to create a worldwide copper cartel.

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World War I casualties

The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was more than 41 million: there were over 18 million deaths and 23 million wounded, ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human history.

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World War II by country

Nearly every country in the world participated in World War II, with the exception of a few countries that remained neutral.

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Yaoundé

Yaoundé (Jaunde) is the capital of Cameroon and, with a population of approximately 2.5 million, the second largest city in the country after the port city Douala.

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Yeke Kingdom

The Yeke Kingdom (also called the Garanganze or Garenganze kingdom) of the Garanganze people in Katanga, DR Congo was short-lived, existing from about 1856 to 1891 under one king, Msiri, but it became for a while the most powerful state in south-central Africa, controlling a territory of about half a million square kilometres.

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Yuhi V of Rwanda

Yuhi Musinga (Yuhi V of Rwanda, 1883 – 13 January 1944) king of Rwanda, came to power in 1896 and collaborated with the German government to strengthen his own kingship.

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Yves Debay

Yves Debay (24 December 1954 – 17 January 2013), a veteran French-Finnish war correspondent, founded and reported for French-language magazines Raids and later Assaut (Translation: Assault), which is published out of Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France.

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Yvon Kimpiobi

Yvon Kimpiobi or Kimpiob-Ninafiding Nki-Ekundi (born 1 June 1923) is a Congolese politician who served twice as the President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Zaïre. Revue Congolaise—Congoleesch Tijdschrift

Zaïre.

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Zaire

Zaire, officially the Republic of Zaire (République du Zaïre), was the name for the Democratic Republic of the Congo that existed between 1971 and 1997 in Central Africa.

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Zappo Zap

The Zappo Zap were a group of Songye people from the eastern Kasai region in what today is the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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.30-06 Springfield

The.30-06 Springfield cartridge (pronounced "thirty-aught-six" or "thirty-oh-six"), 7.62×63mm in metric notation and called ".30 Gov't '06" by Winchester, was introduced to the United States Army in 1906 and later standardized; it remained in use until the early 1980s.

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0-4-0+0-4-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, the is an articulated locomotive of the Garratt type.

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0-6-0+0-6-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of an articulated locomotive with two separate swivelling engine units, each unit with no leading wheels, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and no trailing wheels.

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11th (East Africa) Division

The 11th (East Africa) Infantry Division was a British Empire colonial unit formed in February 1943 during World War II.

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1904 in archaeology

The year 1904 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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1906

No description.

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1908

According to NASA reports, 1908 was the coldest recorded year since 1880.

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1916

Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix.

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1916 in the United States

Events from the year 1916 in the United States.

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1920

No description.

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1920 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1920.

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1920 in science

The year 1920 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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1923 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1923.

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1925 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1925.

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1931 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1931.

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1940–1945 African War Medal

The 1940–1945 African War Medal (Médaille de la Guerre Africaine 1940-1945, Afrikaanse Oorlogsmedaille 1940-1945) was a Belgian war service medal established by royal decree of the Regent on 30 January 1947 and awarded to officers and soldiers for at least one year's service in the Force Publique between 10 May 1940 and 7 May 1945.

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1940–1945 Colonial War Effort Medal

The 1940–1945 Colonial War Effort Medal (Médaille de l'Effort de Guerre Colonial 1940-1945, Medaille voor de Koloniale Oorlogsinspanning 1940-1945) was a Belgian war service medal established by royal decree of the Regent on 30 January 1947 and awarded to government civil servants, magistrates, volunteer members of the female auxiliary service, missionaries, civilian agents of the different departments and civilians who served honourably for at least one year in the Belgian Congo or Ruanda-Urundi colonies of the Kingdom of Belgium in Africa between 10 May 1940 and 7 May 1945.

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1945 Birthday Honours

The King's Birthday Honours 1945, celebrating the official birthday of King George VI, were announced on 14 June 1945 for the United Kingdom and British Empire.

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1946 Birthday Honours

The 1946 King's Birthday Honours, celebrating the official birthday of King George VI, were announced on 13 June 1946 for the United Kingdom and British Empire.

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1950s

The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the 50s or Fifties) was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959.

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1952 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1952.

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1958

No description.

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1959

No description.

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1959 in science

The year 1959 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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1959 in the Belgian Congo

The following lists events that happened during 1959 in the Belgian Congo.

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1960

It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.

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1960 in Africa

Known as the Year of Africa, 1960 saw 17 African countries declare independence among other events.

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1960 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The following lists events that happened during 1960 in the Republic of Congo.

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1961 in Ireland

Events from the year 1961 in Ireland.

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1972 in Zaire

The following lists events that happened during 1972 in Zaire.

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19th-century Dutch literature

This article deals with literature written in Dutch during the 19th century in the Dutch-speaking regions (Netherlands, Belgium, Dutch East Indies).

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2-10-2

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels, ten powered and coupled driving wheels, and two trailing wheels.

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2-8-2

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, usually in a leading truck, eight powered and coupled driving wheels on four axles and two trailing wheels on one axle, usually in a trailing truck.

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2nd Commando Battalion (Belgium)

The 2nd Commando Battalion (2e Bataillon de Commandos) is a military formation of the Belgian Army and part of the Paracommando Regiment.

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41st Airlift Squadron

The 41st Airlift Squadron is part of the 19th Airlift Wing at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas.

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4th Commando Battalion (Belgium)

The 4th Commando Battalion (4e Bataillon Commando, 4de Bataljon Commando) was a Belgian military formation and part of the Paracommando Regiment, based in the Belgian colonies of Congo and Rwanda-Urundi between 1959 until its disbandment in 1962, following the independence of Belgium's last African colony.

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Redirects here:

Belgian Kongo, Congo belge, The Belgian Congo.

References

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