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    the first Portuguese settlement on the south coast, 10 km west of Fort Dauphin. In 1508, settlers there built a tower, a small village, and a stone column...
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    Madagascar, on which Libertalia may have been based: Abraham Samuel at Port Dauphin, Adam Baldridge at Ile Ste.-Marie, and James Plaintain at Ranter Bay were...
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  • back presumably to the 15th century. When the French established Fort-Dauphin in the 17th century, they found an Arabico-Malagasy script in use, known...
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    Cocos Island (redirect from Isla de Coco)
    Journal 65 (4): 102–104. Dauphin G. 1999. Bryophytes of Cocos Island, Costa Rica: diversity, biogeography and ecology. Revista de Biología Tropical. 47:309–328...
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    in 1770. This is seen clearly in Jean Rotz's Lande of Java of 1542, the Dauphin Map or Harleian World Map of c. 1547, and in Pierre Desceliers' mappemonde...
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    Olivier Levasseur (category Executed people from Nord-Pas-de-Calais)
    secret on the Seychelles archipelago. Eventually he was captured near Fort Dauphin, Madagascar. He was then taken to Saint-Denis, Réunion, and hanged for...
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  • Francisco de Asís. Alfonso X y Murcia: El Rey y el Reino. Murcia: Consejería de Cultura de la Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia, Ayuntamiento de Murcia...
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    Jacques Cousteau (category People from Saint-André-de-Cubzac)
    (Groupement de Recherches Sous-marines, Underwater Research Group) of the French Navy in Toulon. A little later it became the GERS (Groupe d'Études et de Recherches...
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  • after the attack had been ended by armed police. A Eurocopter AS365 N3 Dauphin helicopter landed on London Bridge carrying what a Whitehall source confirmed...
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    for large sums of money. Two American ships, the schooner Maria, and the Dauphin were captured by Algerian pirates in July 1785 and the survivors forced...
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