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    Kingdom of Kongo (category Early modern history of Angola)
    was a kingdom in Central Africa. It was located in present-day northern Angola, the western portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Southern of...
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    group of cattle rustlers and horse thieves called the Cowboys on October 26, 1881. While lasting less than a minute, the gunfight has been the subject of books...
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    antiquity and the middle ages. Sudan was conquered by Egypt in 1821, and in 1881 the religious leader Muhammad Ahmad led a nationalist revolt and established...
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    the environment. The first International Electrical Congress took place in 1881 at the International Exposition of Electricity, held in Paris. At that time...
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    South Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea south to northwestern Zambia and western Angola. The African thrush can be found in all sorts of wooded habitats including...
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  • West Africa and Central Africa (e.g. the Dutch Gold Coast or Dutch Loango-Angola). From 1732 onwards, Moravian missionaries began visiting the Virgin Islands...
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    Cochise County Cowboys (category Conflicts in 1881)
    that year, and Virgil Earp was hired as Tombstone's city marshal in June 1881.: 54  The word cowboy did not begin to come into wider usage until the 1870s...
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    guerrillas in eastern Angola. This unit was soon augmented, becoming a group of three squadrons, known as the "Angola Dragoons". The Angola Dragoons operated...
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    doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103819468A94355784.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021. Sharpe, R. Bowdler (1881). Catalogue of the Passeriformes or Perching Birds...
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  • Mercury. No. 10530. Liverpool. 10 October 1881. "The Steamer Angola". The Times. No. 30325. London. 14 October 1881. col F, p. 3. "Greenock - Launch". Glasgow...
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