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Namib desert, Namibia.

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Secret Service Agent Listens To Earpiece

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Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.

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Thanksgiving Celebration Traditional Dinner Setting Food Concept

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Adolf Hitler (Nazi, nazism, German leader).

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

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Los Angeles Police Department wanted flyer on Elizabeth Short, aka the "Black Dahlia," who was brutally murdered in January 1947. The FBI supported the Los Angeles Police Department in the case, including by identifying Short through her fingerprints that

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Date	c. 1300 - c. 1575 • - c. 1551

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Ophir Ottoman Empire ancient Egypt Biafra Belgian Congo Mali Nubia Aksum Songhai empire Congo Free State

Ethiopia

Somalia

Fort Jesus

eastern Africa

region, Africa

Hārer

Hārer

Ethiopia

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Aḥmad Grāñ

Aḥmad Grāñ

Somalian Muslim leader