• The African nation of Gabon has had human inhabitants for perhaps 400,000 years. Bantu peoples settled here from the 11th century. The coastline first...
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    "La Concorde" (pronounced [la kɔ̃.kɔʁd]) is the national anthem of Gabon. Written and composed by politician Georges Aleka Damas, it was adopted upon...
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    January 1910, this administration was merged with the French Middle Congo and Gabon as the Ubangi-Shari area of French Equatorial Africa (FEA). On 12 April...
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    sent U.S. Marines into Haiti in July 1915. The USS Washington, under Rear Admiral Caperton, arrived in Port-au-Prince in an attempt to restore order...
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    2017). "Le francais dans tous ses etats au quebec et au canada". Radio-Canada. "La Charte de la langue française au Québec ou Loi 101 - Le site de l'association...
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    the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and Angola. It is a tonal language. The vast majority of present-day speakers...
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  • Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles). 1407 – Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa...
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    Standard Time, local mean time, and Eastern Standard Time (EST) before a May 1915 ordinance settled on EST and was ratified by popular vote in August 1916...
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    its population. Between 27 and 30% of soldiers conscripted from 1912 to 1915 were killed. The interbellum years were marked by intense international tensions...
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  • Virginia Abernethy (born 1934, US, nf) Jean-Baptiste Abessolo (born 1932, Gabon, f) Chris van Abkoude (1880–1960, Netherlands/US, ch) Casimiro de Abreu...
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  • Ordre Coléoptères". Voyage au Gabon. Histoire naturelle des Insectes et des Arachnides recueillis pendant un voyage fait au Gabon. Vol. 2. Paris. pp. 29–239...
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    Spain, Indo-China, Norway, Syria, Chad, Zaïre, Lebanon, Central Africa, Gabon, Kuwait, Rwanda, Djibouti, former Yugoslavia, Somalia, the Republic of Congo...
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    wote kuungana na kusherehekea pamoja) is the anthem of the African Union (AU). It was written as a poem titled "Proud to be African" by Ethiopian poet...
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    Pacific Ocean". earthquake.usgs.gov. Retrieved April 17, 2023. "M 6.2 – Gabon". earthquake.usgs.gov. Retrieved April 3, 2017. "M 6.4 – 8 km ENE of Swedru...
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  • Mbazoo-Kassa". Aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au. Retrieved 2011-11-11. "Justine Mintsa: An author from Gabon writing in French". Aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au. Retrieved 2011-11-11...
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    remained in the fort at Doha, although its numbers dwindled as men deserted. In 1915, with the presence of British gunboats in the harbour, Abdullah bin Jassim...
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    dominating this competition. The Tunisians won the 2018 African Cup in Gabon by defeating Egypt. Tunisia's national basketball team has emerged as a...
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    January 1917" (aired April 8) Simon Wincer Albert Schweitzer in wartime Gabon D 1992 US The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Austria, March 1917" (aired...
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    1912, the presidency was given to Yuan Shikai, a former Qing general who in 1915 proclaimed himself Emperor of China. In the face of popular condemnation...
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    that are RHT include Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Djibouti, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo. Rwanda and Burundi are RHT but are considering...
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    against Gabon, whose local leader supported Vichy France. The Battle of Gabon lasted from 12 October to 12 November 1940, and ended with 20 dead and Gabon in...
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    Australian Embassy in China. "Emergency Services in China". china.embassy.gov.au. Retrieved 18 January 2024. "GovHK - Use Mobile Phones to Make Emergency Calls"...
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    have suggested African origins of the names Cessette and Dumas, including Gabon or Dahomey. The two extant primary documents that state a racial identity...
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  • States. Prostitution was made illegal in almost all states between 1910 and 1915 largely due to the influence of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. On...
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  • has been removed". Reuters. Retrieved 26 July 2023. "Military officers in Gabon declare coup and place president under house arrest". CNN. Retrieved 30...
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    Wilson, J. Dover; Zimmern, Alfred E.; Greenwood, Arthur (10 January 2004) [1915], "III Germany", The War and Democracy (1st ed.), London: MacMillan, archived...
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    battle on Senegambian soil where the French decided to employ cannonball. In 1915, over 300 Senegalese came under Australian command, ahead of the taking of...
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    initial success, it was eventually overpowered by the Central Powers in 1915 and Austro-Hungarian occupation of Serbia followed. Most of its army and...
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    a major defeat at the hands of the Turkish army during the Siege of Kut (1915–1916). However, the British began to gain the upper hand, and were further...
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    Royal Navy, invaded Vichy-held Gabon. The capital, Libreville, was bombed and captured. The final Vichy troops in Gabon surrendered without any military...
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