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    The Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South", "The Angola Plantation" and "The Farm") is a maximum-security...
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    The Angolan War of Independence (Portuguese: Guerra de Independência de Angola; 1961–1974), known as the Luta Armada de Libertação Nacional ("Armed Struggle...
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    The Angolan Civil War (Portuguese: Guerra Civil Angolana) was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002. The...
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    Portuguese Angola refers to Angola during the historic period when it was a colony of the Portuguese Empire (1575–1951) in southwestern Africa, an Overseas...
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    Angola was first settled by San hunter-gatherer societies before the northern domains came under the rule of Bantu states such as Kongo and Ndongo. In...
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    Jonas Savimbi (category 20th century in Angola)
    was an Angolan revolutionary, politician, and rebel military leader who founded and led the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA)...
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    Liberation of Angola (MPLA) against the pro-western National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA)...
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    Agostinho Neto (category Communism in Angola)
    1922 – 10 September 1979) was an Angolan communist politician and poet. He served as the first president of Angola from 1975 to 1979, having led the...
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    in Angola, representing about 5% of Cuba's population. The Cuban intervention in Angola was envisioned as a short-term commitment, but the Angolan government...
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    Ovimbundu (category Ethnic groups in Angola)
    Social Change Among a People of Angola, London: Oxford University Press, 1962 Linda Heywood, Contested Power in Angola, 1940s to the Present, Rochester/NY:...
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  • 15 – Portugal abandons the U.N. General Assembly, due to the debate over Angola. January 16 – A military coup occurs in the Dominican Republic. January...
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    The culture of Angola is influenced by the Portuguese. Portugal occupied the coastal enclave Luanda, and later also Benguela, since the 16th/17th centuries...
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  • Maria Eugénia Neto (category First ladies of Angola)
    jailed multiple times, causing the family to move to Angola, Portugal, Cape Verde, and eventually in 1962 to orchestrate an escape on Moroccan passports to...
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  • in the final. Egypt set a new record in the 2010 tournament (hosted by Angola) by winning its third consecutive title in an unprecedented achievement...
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    Loango-Angola is the name for the possessions of the Dutch West India Company in contemporary Angola and the Republic of the Congo. Notably, the name...
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    Liberation of Angola (MPLA) during that country's lengthy civil war. The MPLA's primary opponent, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA)...
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    for power in Angola: the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), and the...
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    Portuguese Colonial War (category 1960s in Angola)
    Liberation of Angola (MPLA), and the União das Populações de Angola (UPA), which became the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) in 1962. The MPLA commenced...
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    script. Burma (Myanmar) was under the military dictatorship of Ne Win from 1962 to 1988. Ne Win and his allies in the Tatmadaw (Burmese military) overthrew...
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  • cerclealgerianiste.fr (in French). Retrieved 2017-06-18. "Victimes religieuses en Algérie". La Croix (in French). 2016-04-15. ISSN 0242-6056. Retrieved 2017-06-18...
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    guerrilla bases in Angola during the South African Border War. Other instances of napalm's use include: France during the Algerian War (1954–1962); Portuguese...
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    Zaire, and northern Angola N. m. marungensis (Schalow, 1884) – Marungu helmeted guineafowl – south Congo Basin to western Angola and Zambia N. m. meleagris...
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    T-54/T-55 (section Angola)
    Angola, 1965–1991: From Che Guevara to Cuito Cuanavale. London: Frank Cass. pp. 206–233. ISBN 0-415-35015-8. Heitman, Helmoed (1990). War in Angola:...
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    independence. The UPA was renamed the Frente Nacional de Libertação de Angola, or FNLA, in 1962. Haskin 2005, pp. 24–25. Nzongola-Ntalaja 2007, p. 101. Dorn 2016...
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    T-62 (section Angola)
    of the destruction and capture of Angolan T-54/55s during Operation Askari, the Soviet military mission in Angola committed to drastically accelerate...
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    Cuban soldiers to Angola between November 1975 and April 1976 stunned the world; ... by 1988, there were 55,000 Cuban soldiers in Angola." Gleijeses 2002...
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  • p. A10. Guerrillas of Angola's former rebel movement UNITA, long supported by Mobutu in an unsuccessful war against Angola's government, also fought...
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  • Awilo Longomba (category 1962 births)
    Louis Albert William Longomba (born May 5, 1962), known professionally as Awilo Longomba, is a Congolese soukous singer, composer, drummer, songwriter...
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    Eland armoured car (category Vehicles introduced in 1962)
    two of three Angolan factions, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA), in the...
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  • January 2023. "Angola, um país em construção, livre e soberano". "La Nación / ANR tiene más de 2.500.000 afiliados habilitados para votar en diciembre"....
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