• 2023, Sierra Leonean authorities detained an undetermined number of soldiers and civilians who were allegedly planning a coup in Sierra Leone between...
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  • List of Finnish utopian communities Uusi Jerusalem, Sierra Leone (1792-1792) religious enlightenment Amurinmaan yhtiö, Strelok, Russia (1868-1872), socialist...
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  • 1944 – China Dolichophorus kerteszi Lichtwardt, 1902 – Europe Dolichophorus luteoscutatus (Parent, 1936) – DR Congo, Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone...
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    23 which departed Liverpool on 24 March 1942 and arrived at Freetown, Sierra Leone on 11 April. She was in ballast and her final destination was Curaçao...
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    1941 after six weeks under sail Maid of Honour arrived at Freetown, Sierra Leone. Freetown was the agreed rendezvous for both groups, Appleyard's party...
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    Revolutionary United Front in the Sierra Leone Civil War. This brought him into conflict with the governments of Guinea and Sierra Leone who, in retaliation, began...
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     Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic  São Tomé and Príncipe  Serbia (KPVT)  Sierra Leone: Chinese QJG56 and Polish KPVT  Slovenia (KPVT)  Somalia  South Africa...
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    Mohamed Buya Turay (category Sierra Leone men's international footballers)
    Sierra Leonean professional footballer who plays as a forward for American USL Championship side Birmingham Legion FC. Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone...
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    landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War...
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  • el mio 1974: Los Leones del ring contra la Cosa Nostra 1974: Los Leones del ring 1972: The Incredible Professor Zovek 1939: Una luz en mi camino 1967:...
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  • Bayeux-Calvados Awards for war correspondents 2000 for a story on the war in Sierra Leone (Le Monde, 1999). Bayeux-Calvados Awards for war correspondents 2012...
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    The Battle of Port-en-Bessin also known as Operation Aubery took place from 7–8 June 1944, at a small fishing harbour west of Arromanches during the Normandy...
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    Africa and along the shores of the Persian Gulf. En route to her new assignment, Smalley visited Sierra Leone, Cape Town, and Mombasa (Kenya) before arriving...
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    George Wright (bishop) (category 20th-century Anglican bishops in Sierra Leone)
    to England as Vicar of Boulton. In 1923 he was consecrated Bishop of Sierra Leone and in 1936 of North Africa. He was Vicar of Templecombe from 1942 to...
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  • Freetown, Sierra Leone Jun 1940 to Jul 1940 Single convoy BD White Sea to Dikson Jul 1941 to Sep 1944 Reverse DB BEC Bristol Channel to France Oct 1944 to Dec...
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    from Sierra Leone with freckle-sized spots. Felis brachyura proposed by Johann Andreas Wagner in 1841 was also a serval skin from Sierra Leone. Felis...
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  • Deutsch They Drive by Night (1940) High Sierra (1941) Manpower (1941) Northern Pursuit (1943) Uncertain Glory (1944) Hugo Friedhofer The Man I Love (1947)...
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    Retrieved 27 February 2017. Fouché, Jean-Jacques. "ORADOUR, 10 JUIN 1944 : UN MASSACRE NAZI EN FRANCE OCCUPÉE". Violence de masse et Résistance – Réseau de recherche...
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    the Gambia announced a moratorium as a first step towards abolition. Sierra Leone abolished capital punishment in 2021, as did the Central African Republic...
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    were kept in prison until June 1945, although Gandhi was released in May 1944 because of his health. Congress, with its leaders incommunicado, played little...
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    SS Fort Stikine (category 1944 in India)
    unescorted convoy, comprising nineteen merchant ships, arrived at Freetown, Sierra Leone on 25 April. Laden with a cargo of iron ore, Fort Stikine departed with...
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     Portugal: m/43 Provisional IRA  Rhodesia  Seychelles[page needed]  Sierra Leone  South Africa  Sri Lanka: Used by Ceylon Defence Force in World War II...
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    World War II (category Conflicts in 1944)
    their initiative and forced them into strategic retreat on all fronts. In 1944, the Western Allies invaded German-occupied France, while the Soviet Union...
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  • pocket-battleship raiders. HMS Ark Royal was sent to the waters off Sierra Leone in West Africa as part of newly formed Force K to assist with providing...
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  • vote, becoming the first president to be reelected in El Salvador since 1944. February 6 – Former President of Chile Sebastián Piñera dies in a helicopter...
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    Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, United Arab Emirates, Yemen...
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    The Holocaust (category Mass murder in 1944)
    and November 1944, 90,000 Jews were deported from Budapest to the Austrian border. The transfer of prisoners from Auschwitz began in mid-1944, the gas chambers...
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    government had already transported Germans from Crimea to Central Asia. Between 1944 and 1948, millions of people, including ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche) and...
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  • Serbia Radio Belgrade / International Radio of Serbia 1935 2015 No Sierra Leone Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation 1934 2002 No Singapore Radio Singapore...
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    Tommaso Baris Le corps expéditionnaire français en Italie. Violences des « libérateurs » durant l'été 1944, Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire Numéro 2007/1...
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