Muammar Gaddafi

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Muammar Gaddafi

Muammar Gaddafi was born in the desert, so no specific place of birth can be listed; the BBC and other sources say it was near the town of Sirte… His son, Seif al-Islam el-Gaddafi, was widely seen as his successor before the public protests of 2011 ended Gaddafi’s rule… His Arabic name has been translated variously as Quaddafi, Qaddafi, and Khaddafi as well as Gaddafi and al-Gaddafi… He was famous for his all-female contingent of bodyguards, and for his habit of receiving visitors in a Bedouin-style tent.

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Is Your Farm A Mosquito Magnet? 5 Ways To Protect Your People And Animals

While COVID-19 remains in the front of everyone’s mind, the coming of mosquito season means that both people and livestock are vulnerable to other serious illnesses if the farm infrastructure is not

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Death of Eric Garner

On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner died in Staten Island, New York City, after a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer put him in what has been described as a chokehold for about 15 to 19 seconds while arresting him. The New York City Medical Examiners Office attributed Garners death to

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Jul

17

2014

National name: Al Jumhuriyah al Islamiyah al Muritaniyah

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John Hope Franklin

John Hope Franklin , (born Jan. 2, 1915, Rentiesville, Okla., U.S.—died March 25, 2009, Durham, N.C.), American historian and educator noted for his scholarly reappraisal of the American Civil War era and the importance of the black struggle in shaping modern American identity. He also helped

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Mar

25

2009

UN deplores attacks on Libyan hospitals

In April 2019, Eastern Libyan strongman, Khalifa Haftar, launched an offensive to seize Tripoli, where the UN-recognized Government of National Unity (GNA) is

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This Day in History - June 8

1915: Allied forces take Neuville in France from Germans in World War

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Apartheid (South African English pronunciation: /ə ˈ p ɑːr t eɪ d/; Afrikaans: [aˈpartɦəit]) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation and discrimination in South Africa between 1948 and 1991.[1] Broadly speaking, apartheid was delineated into petty apartheid, which entailed the

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Ethiopia's Mobile Camel Libraries Keep Children From Forced Labour

Keeping children learning while schools are closed due to the coronavirus pandemic is seen as key

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Prominent coronavirus deaths: Somali ambassador to Egypt dies in Kuwait

From top politicians – former presidents, prime ministers and lawmakers, to entertainment icons and top sportsmen, the virus has left in its wake prominent casualties who could hardly get the send-off they would have been accorded in “normal

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Bir Tawil: the last unclaimed land on earth

Bir Tawil is a piece of land in the middle of nowhere in Africa that no one

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Locust swarm destroys crops in Kenya as millions face hunger – Free Press of Jacksonville

A swarm of desert locusts following a poor harvest season has added to fears about a lack of food for millions in Kenya, as the country grapples with the effects of

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

Eid al-Fitr: One of the happiest times for Muslims will be a somber affair, just like the month that preceded it | The Atlanta Voice

In New York, the epicenter of the virus in the United States, Eid will be especially isolating this

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Nuruddin Farah , (born 1945, Baidoa, Italian Somaliland [now in Somalia]), Somali writer whose rich imagination and refreshing and often fortuitous use of his adopted language made him the most significant Somali writer in any European

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Cleopatra's Family Tree - Ancestry

The Ptolemic Period included several queens in Egypt named Cleopatra, the most famous and influential being Queen Cleopatra VII. Cleopatra was the daughter of Ptolemy XII (Ptolemy Auletes) and Cleopatra

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The African Union Organization

The African Union is one of the worlds most important intergovernmental organizations. It is composed of 53 countries in Africa and is loosely based on the European Union. These African countries work diplomatically with each other despite differences in geography, history, race, language, and

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Jul

28

2011

African Americans and the Manhattan Project, Richland, WA (1942-1945)

Between the years of 1942 and 1944 around fifteen thousand blacks and fifty thousand whites were recruited to the Manhattan/ Hanford Project in Richland, Washington. The federal government required government contractor, DuPont, to keep the number of black construction workers on the project

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List of topics related to the African diaspora

List of topics related to the African diaspora - Wikipedia

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The Battle of Alam Halfa in North Africa During WW II

The Battle of Alam Halfa was fought from August 30 to September 5, 1942, during World War IIs Western Desert

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Sep

5

1942

Kenya: Kiswahili Is an International Language and Native Speakers Must Live With This Reality

Sixty per cent of the total Kiswahili vocabulary count is Bantu, 30 per cent is Arabic and 10 per cent is from other languages - such as English, Portuguese, Chinese and even

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Morris Chestnut

Morris Lamont Chestnut, Jr. (born January 1, 1969) is an American actor. He first came to attention for his role in the 1991 film Boyz n the Hood. He has appeared in numerous feature films and on television series, including the starring role of pathologist Dr. Beaumont Rosewood, Jr. in the Fox TV

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Sahara səhâr´ə [key] [Arab.,=desert], worlds largest desert, c.3,500,000 sq mi (9,065,000 sq km), N Africa; the western part of a great arid zone that continues into SW Asia. Extending more than 3,000 mi (4,830 km), from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, the Sahara is bounded on the N by the

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Jena High School

Jena High School is a secondary school located in Jena, Louisiana, United States. The school, serving grades 9 through 12, is a part of the La Salle Parish School Board. As of 2006-2007, the school enrollment was 538

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Nov

20

1963

List of African-American women in medicine

African-American women have been practicing medicine informally in the contexts of midwifery and herbalism centuries, but have only been practicing medicine formally as physicians since 1864, when Rebecca Crumpler became the first African-American woman to earn a medical

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Miss Evers' Boys

Miss Evers Boys is a 1997 HBO television film starring Alfre Woodard and Laurence Fishburne, based on the true story of the decades-long Tuskegee experiment. It was directed by Joseph Sargent and adapted from the 1992 stage play written by David Feldshuh. The film was nominated for eleven Emmy

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Wallace Fard Muhammad

Wallace D. Fard aka Wallace Fard Muhammad /f ə . ˈ r ɑː d/ (born February 26, 1877[2]) was a co-founder of the Nation of Islam. He arrived in Detroit in 1930 with an obscure background and several aliases, and taught a distinctive form of Islam to members of the citys African-American

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Feb

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1877

Operation Torch: Invasion of North Africa

Operation Torch took place November 8-10, 1942, during World War II

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Ancient Egyptian Terms for Children

When children are studying ancient Egypt, they should become familiar with most of these terms, some -- like Cleopatra and King Tut -- because they are such colorful figures and part of common culture. The others should be learned and quickly because they are essentials needed for reading and

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Bond, Julian (Horace Julian Bond), 1940–2015, U.S. civil-rights leader, b. Nashville, Tenn. As a student at Morehouse College, he participated in sit-ins at segregated Atlanta restaurants. He was a founder (1960) of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, serving (1961–65) as its

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File:Thutmose III and Hatshepsut.jpg

This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown

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