• 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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