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Interesting Place Names and History of South Africa - Scribd  the Union of South Africa, which, from the day of its birth, was dominated by its white ... The first Dutch fleet arrived in 1595, and like the English before ..... Real and present danger was apparent from October, when the Volksfront allied .... (which it called 'locations'), leaving the rest of the colony available for white settlement.
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Colored People of South Africa - Dictionary definition of Colored ...  Definition of Colored People of South Africa  Our online dictionary has Colored People ... ALTERNATE NAMES: Coloureds, Coloreds, Brown People ... The dominant subgroup is the so-called Cape Coloreds who are, as was .... On their 21st birthday, many young adults in South Africa receive a symbolic key to adulthood.
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16 Day South Africa Executive - Pilgrim Tours  For the past 20yrs Sabi Sabi has been building a name for itself with a sophisticated ... Park of nearly 2 million hectares is unrivalled in the diversity of its animal life. ... After breakfast, we'll continue on to visit Hluhluwe, South Africa's oldest game ... We'll drive through the stunning passes of Bloukrans and Groot River to the...
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Road Travel Africa | Southern Africa Tour Operator  Situated in the northwest corner of South Africa, you will find the ... the largest river in South Africa, the Orange River, winds along its northern border. ... The Grootslang was featured in a The Secret Saturdays episode called ... Enjoy a walking tour through the colorful Bo Kaap, stopping at the Spice Market, before going...
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Jeopary Questions page 1542 - ARTISTS - TriviaBistro.com  WORD ORIGINS: The name of this tiny, 1-celled organism is from the Greek for "oblong", because of its shape  MEDICINE: ... EAGLE HODGEPODGE: Young eagles are called eyases or these  COMPANY ... AROUND THE WORLD: Before it received its present name, this "colorful" South African river was called the Groot.
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Since its former rulers were defeated, it's been known as a ...  Jul 8, 2016 ... This Chinese river is really long since its alternate name, Chang Jiang, means # Quiz # ... Since 1905 it's been dying, dying-still fluttering-dead!
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Origin of African Country Names - Words We Speak - GaiaNews  The Origins of African Country Names or What They Mean ... The name is derived from Rio de Camares (the River of Prawns) the name given ... Central African Republic - It's in Central Africa! ... Portuguese references refered to it as Gabon after the Portuguese word .... But self comes in and we hug the chains that bind us.
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Yangzi River - SACU  Background on the Yangzi River. ... the mighty Yangzi (Yangtse) River taken from SACU's China Now magazine, ... one another by this huge river, treacherous for its floods and the vast amount ... Later it came to be known as Da Jiang 'Great River', or Chang Jiang 'Long River'. ... So how did the European name originate?
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Rivers | Texas Almanac  The name Rio Grande was first given the stream apparently by the explorer Juan de .... Crossing Texas in 1691, Tern de los Rios named the river San Diego. ... The San Antonio River has at its source large springs within and near the city limits of ... It passes through a picturesque series of canyons until it issues from the...
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Voyage of the Beagle: Chapter 7 - Kellscraft Studio  I found in the stomachs of two which I opened the remains of mice, and I one ... This river is also called the Saladillo, and it deserves the name, for the water is brackish. ... We passed through Corunda, which, from the luxuriance of its gardens, was ... into the bed of a muddy estuary, into which floating carcasses were swept.
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Three stages in the history of land reclamation in the Netherlands  Over many centuries the Dutch have fought against this loss of land. ... Around 3000 BC the rate of sea level rise slowed, allowing the coastal dunes to form. ... In the area just north of the city of Amsterdam peat was drained in parallel ..... sluices in the dam, the Zuiderzee would turn into a freshwater lake  to be called the...
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Orange Free State - Wikipedia  The Orange Free State was an independent Boer sovereign republic in southern Africa during ... The new republic incorporated both the Orange River Sovereignty and the ... its former name, along with the Cape Province, Natal, and the Transvaal. ... Europeans first visited the country north of the Orange River towards the...
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The Names and the Naming of Durban - eThekwini Municipality  This paper looks at various names for the South African coastal city of Durban. Three ... the bustling lively holiday city of today's youth. These are just .... that vast land-locked lagoon which the Portuguese called the Rio de Natal; for ..... alternative meaning for the word itheku is 'the one-testicled thing', suggesting that Shaka's.
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Battle of Blood River - Wikipedia  The Battle of Blood River is the name given for the battle fought between 470 Voortrekkers ("Pioneers"), led by Andries Pretorius, and an estimated 15,00021,000 Zulu attackers on the bank of the Ncome River on 16 December 1838, in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. ... Casualties amounted to 3,000 of king Dingane's soldiers dead, including two...
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Jeopary Questions page 1636 - HOT SPOTS OF THE '80s ...  A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT: Columbus first sighted this Venezuelan river in 1498, but it wasn't explored until 33 years later  FIRST NAMES: A mighty warrior,...
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History | South African Government  South Africa's history starts more than 100 000 years ago when the first modern ..... of the Gariep (Orange River), then being incorporated into the Cape Colony, ... both the current Lesotho and Swaziland escaped the rule of local white regimes. .... the leadership of Clements Kadalie, was (despite its name) the first populist,...
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List of rivers of South Africa - Wikipedia  This is a list of rivers of South Africa. It is quite common to find the Afrikaans word -rivier as part ... Amanzimtoti River, (Manzimtoti River) (Toti River), U7, KwaZulu-Natal, Amanzimtoti .... Boesmanspruit (or Boesman Spruit), Mpumalanga, South of Secunda  Waterval ... Chalumna River (or Tyolomnqa River), R4, Eastern Cape.
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10 Words You Can Pronounce if You're from Louisiana  Jul 2, 2015 ... There is a rich and colorful history rooted in the culture of Louisiana. ... the most prevalent, in the colorful names of many cities, towns, rivers and even swamps. ... It runs through the central business district and was formerly ... Tangipahoa Parish and initially flows southward; the river is used to define part of...
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The Rhine in Holland - Bicycle Germany  Jul 6, 2011 ... The main estuarial rivers are the Waal, the Nederrijn/Lek, and the IJssel. ... but regardless of how it is spelled, it sounds the same; in Dutch is Rijn, .... The name itself, Amsterdam, means dam on the Amstel River, and the word...
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jeopardy/1877_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR | Boer voortrekkers who attempted to cross this desert in the late 19th century called it the "Thirstland" | Kalahari. right: Matt. Wrong:.
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Topical Bible: Nile - Bible Hub  Nile. (blue, dark), the great river of Egypt. The word Nile nowhere occurs in the .... It consists of two rivers, the White Nile, which takes its rise in the Victoria Nyanza, .... The cause of the failure in the water of inundation is now believed to be not so .... Exodus 2:3 And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made...