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The Cape-Cairo Railway is an uncompleted project to cross Africa from south to north by rail. This plan was initiated at the end of the 19th century, during the time of colonial rule, largely under the vision of Cecil Rhodes, in the attempt to connect adjacent African possessions of the British Empire through a continuous line from Cape Town, South Africa, to Cairo, Egypt. While most sections of the Cape to Cairo railway are in operation, a major part is missing between Sudan and Uganda. Cape-Cairo railway - Reasons for ...

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• Cape-Cairo railway - Reasons for its construction
• Cape-Cairo railway - Why has it not been completed
• Cape-Cairo railway - Current Links
• Cape-Cairo railway - The Northern section
• Cape-Cairo railway - The Uganda railway
• Cape-Cairo railway - TAZARA link
• Cape-Cairo railway - The Southern section
• Cape-Cairo railway - Future
• Cape-Cairo railway - External link

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Broome (17°57′S 122°14′E) is a pearling and tourist town in the Kimberley in the far north of Western Australia. The year round population is approximately 14,000, but that grows to around 30,000 during the tourist season. Broome is famous for its beautiful Indian Ocean beaches and wonderful dry season climate. Being in the tropics, it has two seasons. The wet season extends from October to March and has hot and humid weather with tropical downpours. The early pearl masters used to send their families to Perth to escape the wet season and beached their lugge ...

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• Broome Western Australia - Reference

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Australopithecus africanus was an early hominid, an australopithecine, who lived between 3.3 and 2.4 million years ago in the Pliocene. In common with the older Australopithecus afarensis, A. africanus was slenderly built, or gracile, and was thought to have been a direct ancestor of modern humans. Fossil remains indicate that A. africanus was significantly more evolved than A. afarensis however, with a more human-like cranium permitting a larger brain compared to body size and more humanoid facial f ...

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• Australopithecus africanus - Mr. Ples
• Australopithecus africanus - Interpretations
• Australopithecus africanus - Physiology

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Cecil John Rhodes (July 5, 1853 – March 26, 1902) was an English businessman and the effective founder of the state of Rhodesia (which was named after him). Rhodesia (later Northern and Southern Rhodesia) eventually became Zambia and Zimbabwe. Rhodes profited greatly by exploiting Southern Africa's natural resources, proceeds of which founded the Rhodes Scholarship upon his death. Cecil Rhodes - England. Rhodes attended the grammar school at Bishop's Stortford. He fell ill shortly after leaving school, an ...

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• Cecil Rhodes - England
• Cecil Rhodes - South Africa
• Cecil Rhodes - Education
• Cecil Rhodes - Diamonds
• Cecil Rhodes - Politics
• Cecil Rhodes - Rhodesia
• Cecil Rhodes - Vision and views
• Cecil Rhodes - Rhodes' Will and the Rhodes Scholarship
• Cecil Rhodes - Notes

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Macropus robustus Macropus bernardus Macropus antilopinus A Wallaroo is any of three closely related species of moderately large macropod, intermediate in size between the kangaroos and the wallabies. The name wallaroo comes from the Eora Aboriginal tribe who were the original inhabitants of the Sydney area. In general, a large, slim-bodied macropod of the open plains is called a kangaroo; a small to medium-sized one, particularly if it is relatively thick-set, is a < ...

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A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. The term refers to situations where the internees are persons selected for their conformance to broad criteria without judicial process, rather than having been judged as individuals. Camps for prisoners of war are usually considered separately from this category, although informally (and in some other languages) they may also be ...

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• Concentration camp - The British
• Concentration camp - The United States
• Concentration camp - Canada
• Concentration camp - Austria-Hungary
• Concentration camp - Germany
• Concentration camp - Fascist Italy
• Concentration camp - Ustaša regime in Croatia
• Concentration camp - Cambodia
• Concentration camp - Serbia
• Concentration camp - Russia and the Soviet Union
• Concentration camp - People's Republic of China
• Concentration camp - Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Concentration camp - North Korea
• Concentration camp - Headline text
• Concentration camp - Sweden
• Concentration camp - Finland
• Concentration camp - France
• Concentration camp - Chile
• Concentration camp - Argentina
• Concentration camp - External links
• Concentration camp - Netherlands
• Concentration camp - Notes

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Western Australia is Australia's largest state in area, covering the western third of the mainland, and is bordered by South Australia and the Northern Territory. It is, after Yakutia in Russia, the second largest subnational entity in the world. Western Australia - Geography. Western Australia consists of several extremely old cratons which merged (probably during the Neoproterozoic) to form the Australian Craton. Because the only mountain-building since then has been of the Stirling Range with the rifting ...

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• Western Australia - People
• Western Australia - Economy
• Western Australia - Government
• Western Australia - Major population centres ranking
• Western Australia - Native species
• Western Australia - Education
• Western Australia - Media

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The Frill-necked Lizard, or Frilled Lizard also known as the Frilled Dragon, (Chlamydosaurus kingii) is so called because of the large ruff of skin which usually lies folded back against its head and neck. The frill is supported by long spines of cartilige, and when the lizard is frightened, it gapes its mouth showing a bright pink or yellow lining, and the frill flares out, displaying bright orange a ...

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The Argyle diamond mine is a diamond mine located in Australia. The Argyle mine is the largest diamond producer in the world by volume, although due to the low proportion of gem-quality diamonds, is not the leader by value. It is the only known significant source of pink diamonds, producing 90 to 95 % of the world's supply. The Argyle diamond mine is also notable for being the first commercial diamond mine exploiting a volcanic pipe of lamproite, rather than the more usual kimberlite pipe. The mine is owned by the Rio Tinto Group, a d ...

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• Argyle diamond mine - Description
• Argyle diamond mine - Location
• Argyle diamond mine - Geology
• Argyle diamond mine - Production
• Argyle diamond mine - Diamond characteristics
• Argyle diamond mine - Reserves
• Argyle diamond mine - Economics
• Argyle diamond mine - History

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The De Beers Group is a Johannesburg- and London-based diamond mining and trading corporation. It has historically held a near-total monopoly in the diamond trade, although recent Israeli interests have captured 20% of the market. In 1994 De Beers was charged by the United States Justice Department with antitrust violations for conspiring to fix prices for industrial diamonds. On 14 July 2004 De Beers pleaded guilty to the charges and paid a $10 million fine. The plea has enabled De Beers to trade directly in the United States diamond ...

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• De Beers - History
• De Beers - Marketing
• De Beers - Retail joint venture

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The Kootenays have no official boundaries, and some variation exists in terms of what areas are or are not a part. The strictest definition of the region is the drainage basin of the lower Kootenay River from its re-entry into Canada near Creston, through to its confluence with the Columbia at Castlegar. In most interpretations, however, the region also includes: an area to the east which encompasses the upper drainage basin of the Kootenay River from its rise in the Rocky Mountains to its passage into the U.S.A. at Newgate. Thi ...

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Kootenays, Kootenays - Boundaries, Kootenays - Naming and Subdivision, Kootenays - Economy

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He was born on 9th February, 1853, very early in the morning, of the Jameson family of Edinburgh, the son of R. W. Jameson, a writer to the signet, and Christian Pringle, daughter of Major General Pringle of Symington. Robert William and Christian Jameson had twelve children, of whom Leander Starr was the youngest, born at Stranraer on the West Coast of Scotland, great-nephew of Professor Robert Jameson, Regi ...

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Leander Starr Jameson, Leander Starr Jameson - Early Life and Family, Leander Starr Jameson - The Jameson Raid, Leander Starr Jameson - Later Political Career, Leander Starr Jameson - Biographies Portaits and Honours, Leander Starr Jameson - Later Historical Documents

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The city was founded in 1837 when the Voortrekkers settled on the banks of the Schoonspruit ("Clear stream"), which flows through the town. The most prominent of the first settlers was C.M. du Plooy who claimed a farm of about 160 km², called it Elandsheuwel ("Hill of the Eland"). He gave plots of land and communal grazing rights on this farm to other Voortrekkers in return for their labour in building a dam and an irrigation canal. This collection of smallholdings was later given the name of Klerksdorp in honor of the first landdrost (ma ...

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Klerksdorp, Klerksdorp - History, Klerksdorp - Klerksdorp today, Klerksdorp - Tourist attractions, Klerksdorp - Other towns in the Klerksdorp district, Klerksdorp - External link

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Quebec has no cities, instead it has "Villes" which in the French language can mean city or town Acton Vale Alma Amos Amqui Asbestos Baie-Comeau Baie-Saint-Paul Barkmere Beauceville Beauharnois Beaupré Bécancour Bedford Belleterre Beloeil Berthierville Blainville Boisbriand Bois-de-Filion Bonaventure Bromont Brownsburg-ChathamSee also:

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Types of personal nickname: Also known as pet name, shortened name, truncated name, alternate name, name derivative, associated name, hypocoristic form of a name, diminutized name, or diminuted name. Sometimes related to "alias." Nickname - Relating to given names. 1. A nickname may be a hypocoristic form of a person's first name. This is often a simple abbreviation of the name. For most English names the shortened form is taken from the first syllable e.g. Walt for Walter. However in many other languages ...

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Nickname, Nickname - Nicknames for people, Nickname - Relating to given names, Nickname - Relating to culture/nationality, Nickname - Relating to personal characteristics, Nickname - Others, Nickname - Nicknames of geographical places, Nickname - Cities, Nickname - Countries, Nickname - Regions, Nickname - Nicknames for political terms, Nickname - Nicknames for some common items, Nickname - Nicknames for professions, Nickname - Nicknames for companies, Nickname - Military nicknames, Nickname - Sports clubs and their nicknames, Nickname - Football soccer, Nickname - Australian Rules Football, Nickname - Rugby Union, Nickname - Baseball, Nickname - Basketball, Nickname - Cricket, Nickname - American Football, Nickname - Canadian Football, Nickname - Hockey, Nickname - Sport Stadiums and their nicknames, Nickname - Australia

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Both the male and female of the species are mostly white, with dark wingtips and a distinctive "collar" of dark feathers. Seen from above in flight, the birds have green bands on the tops of their wings. The female has a harsh rattle and the male has a breathy, sore-throat whistle. ...

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Radjah Shelduck, Radjah Shelduck - Appearance, Radjah Shelduck - Distribution and Habitat, Radjah Shelduck - Protection Status, Radjah Shelduck - Behavior

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1882 in South Africa - May. 9 May - Paul Kruger becomes President of South African Republic 28 May - Two ships, the Agnes (94 tonne) and the Christina (196 tonne), run ashore at Plettenberg Bay 1882 in South Africa - July. 26 July - The Stellaland republic is declared 1882 in South Africa - September. 2 September - Kimberley becomes the first town in the southern hemisph ...

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1882 in South Africa, 1882 in South Africa - Events, 1882 in South Africa - May, 1882 in South Africa - July, 1882 in South Africa - September, 1882 in South Africa - Unknown date, 1882 in South Africa - Births, 1882 in South Africa - Deaths

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The term "concentration camp" was first used by the British military during the Boer War (1899-1902). Facing attack by Boer guerrillas, British forces rounded up the Boer women and children as well as black people living on Boer land, and sent them to 31 camps scattered around South Africa. This was done as part of a scorched earth policy to deny the guerrillas access to the supplies of food and clothing they needed to continue the war. The camps were situated at Aliwal North, Balmoral, Barberton, Belfast, Bethulie, Bloemfontein, Bran ...

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Concentration camp, Concentration camp - The British, Concentration camp - The United States, Concentration camp - Canada, Concentration camp - Austria-Hungary, Concentration camp - Germany, Concentration camp - Fascist Italy, Concentration camp - Ustaša regime in Croatia, Concentration camp - Cambodia, Concentration camp - Serbia, Concentration camp - Russia and the Soviet Union, Concentration camp - People's Republic of China, Concentration camp - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Concentration camp - North Korea, Concentration camp - Headline text, Concentration camp - Sweden, Concentration camp - Finland, Concentration camp - France, Concentration camp - Chile, Concentration camp - Argentina, Concentration camp - External links, Concentration camp - Netherlands, Concentration camp - Notes

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The competition had its humble beginnings as an inter-town competition in 1884, but when the South African Rugby Board was founded in 1889 it was decided to organise a national competition that would involve representative teams from all the major unions. The participating unions were Western Province, Griqualand West, Transvaal and Eastern Province. The first tournament was held in Kimberley and was won by Western Province. As prize they received a silver cup donated by the South African Rugby Board, now displaye ...

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Currie Cup, Currie Cup - History, Currie Cup - Teams, Currie Cup - Competition format, Currie Cup - Winners, Currie Cup - Overall Winners up to 2005, Currie Cup - Records

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1899 in South Africa - May. 5 May - Sir Alfred Milner, High Commissioner of South Africa and Governor of the Cape Colony sends a telegram to Joseph Chamberlain urging him to intervene in South African Republic 1899 in South Africa - October. 11 October - The South African Republic declares war on Britain and launches the Second Boer War which only ends in 1902 14 October - ...

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1899 in South Africa, 1899 in South Africa - Events, 1899 in South Africa - May, 1899 in South Africa - October, 1899 in South Africa - Births, 1899 in South Africa - Deaths

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