Did king Leopold's statue in the Congo get re-erected for good?
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In 2005 the statue of former Belgian colonial king Leopold II was re-erected in the center of the Democratic Republic of Congo capital, Kinshasa. \nThe 6m high statue was still dirty after spending 40 years in an open-air dump, it had been taken down in 1967.
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Republic of the Congo!!!\nBrazzaville
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Then in 1966, the cup disappeared while on display as part of the build-up to the World Cup in England and was only recovered, buried under a tree, by a little dog called Pickles. \n\nFinally, in 1983, it was stolen again, this time in Rio de Janeiro, and apparently melted down by the thieves. The Brazilian Football Association, who had earned the right to keep the trophy after having won it three times, ordered a replica to be made.
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No it was a rumor that was fueled because some coins contained the images of a older Queen at the same time as a younger during the same year. \n\nThis error does not exist and no one ever sold one in the market.
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Are you referring to the Statue of Zeus that was once in Olympia, Greece? it's a wonder coz it's a 40 foot statue made out of pure Gold & ivory.
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I think the statue you're looking for is somewhere on Woodward Ave. in Detroit.  It is of Colonel Limitations, famous army hero of WWII.
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Unfortunately, it's a strong possibility. :-( \n\nWorld's biggest hippo population decimated\nFriday 29 August 2003\nA shocking new census shows a 95 per cent decline in hippo populations in Virunga National Park, formerly home to the world's biggest population.\nLess than 30 years ago, over 29,000 hippos lived in this world heritage site on the eastern border of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This year's census shows that only 1,300 remain. The census was carried out by the Congolese Institute for the Conservation of Nature (ICCN), WWF, and other conservation organisations during March and August.\n\nThere is increasing international demand for hippo canine teeth in the illegal ivory trade. The census showed that armed factions are killing hippos in shockingly high numbers for their meat and teeth in response to this growing trend.\n\n"This is disastrous news for the hippo," said Dr. Susan Lieberman, Director of WWF International's Species Programme. "Unless this trade is closely controlled and poaching is stopped, hippos will be threatened with extinction. WWF urges the government to take advantage of recent peace agreements and to put into place proper planning and management of the country's natural resources."\n\nUntil this year, the Park has been at the heart of interfactional fighting, preventing ICCN and WWF from working in significant areas. WWF calls on the DRC authorities to work with conservation groups to stop poaching hippos in the Park and to conserve wildlife.\n\n"Hippos are extremely important in maintaining the ecological balance in rivers and lakes and nearby grasslands," says Marc Languy of WWF's Eastern Africa Regional Programme. "Hippo dung provides essential basic elements for the food chain, particularly for fish. The loss of more than 27,000 hippos in the past few decades is a double blow: fish catches have dwindled and the freshwater ecosystems are losing hundreds of tons of nutrients every day. Lake Edward supports over 20,000 people living around the Park who depend on fish for their livelihood."\n\nThe need for long-term protection of national parks and other valuable protected areas will be at the heart of the forthcoming 5th World Parks' Congress in Durban, South Africa (8-15 September).
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I was in Botswana for two weeks in 1992.  I really liked it a lot.  It is quite tragic how much warfare is tearing that continent apart.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo.
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When I was Hawaii recently I went to visit my favorite beach, Kahana Bay, and was very disappointed that the area was allowed to accumulate lots of garbage and floating debris was washed up all over the shore.  I would love to see this cleaned up and returned to the beautiful way I remember it.
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A lot of weird laws like that ... someone probably did it once ... and in this case I'm guessing the giraffe messed with some lines and caused damage or maybe got hurt. There may have possibly been a circus housed near there when the law was made, or something like that too.
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The entire island was bulldozed, all buildings removed down to the foundations, everything taken off the island and the whole place was abandoned and turned into a wildlife sanctuary.\n\nThey did this when the last of the chemical weapons was destroyed a couple years ago.
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It may have been 40 years since the civil rights movement, but there hasn't been any wandering around in the desert ever since, and Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't lead the non-wandering in the desert, as he was busy being dead.  So no, it isn't a copy of the exodus, and Martin Luther King was simply Martin Luther King, Jr. and not a reincarnation of Moses.\n\nAnd sure, there has been a large group of the lost tribe of Manasseh  being found in Ethopia and they're black, but they've found other groups of some of the "lost tribes" in China, Russia, etc., so its obviously not about race.  I really don't think God is racially prejudiced.
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I think you are talking about the re burials?\n\nhttp://starbulletin.com/2005/12/27/news/story02.html
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its A Palace build by Muslims in Granada its highly decorated its famous because of 12 lions statues in circle very hour one of the make sound like a real one (like a watch) they work on water\nonce while maintenance one of the lions was broken accidentally and no one could restore it
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Sgt Grit had a couple(In the search, I typed in "statue".)  If these aren't what you are looking for, you could always try Ebay.
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Definitely not. The country as a whole was not culpable for WWI, and for that matter, the leaders of Germany were not culpable. The whole thing could have been solved diplomatically, but as soon as Archduke Ferdinand was killed, Austria demanded certain things, Serbia refused, and there was a cascade of declarations of war. It's absurd to say that Germany was responsible for all of this. At the very least, Britain and France should have mediated the conflict between Austria and Serbia BEFORE it came to declarations of war.\n\nThere's also the fact that the reparations were not about keeping Germany from doing it again, they were about punishment. All they really needed to do after the war was establish monitoring systems to make sure Germany was not rebuilding a military, the one thing they didn't do.