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Sentence Examples The organization was awarded for its efforts to prevent further desertification in Africa. Boston's "Cradle of Liberty" is only steps from sites where enslaved Africans were bought and sold after traveling the Middle Passage from West Africa to North America. Individuals who suffer from Afrophobia often avoid facing this fear by ignoring Africa, its culture, and its people. The Romans regained Numidia, and Rome again received a grain supply from Africa. We had to memorize the names of all the countries in Africa. The Friends of East Africa were at one time part of a single East Africa Yearly Meeting, then the world's largest yearly meeting. Friends meet in Rwanda and Burundi, as well as new work beginning in North Africa. Small unprogrammed meetings exist also in Botswana, Ghana, Lesotho, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe. On his return to South Africa he preached a probationary sermon in the Groote Kerk, Cape Town. The Cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of Pretoria in South Africa is dedicated to Saint Alban. Sikhs also migrated to East Africa, West Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, the United Kingdom as well as United States and Australia. Children in some regions of the world, such as parts of Africa, are also vulnerable to violence related to witchcraft accusations. Both main or secondary roads might either be paved, or left unpaved, with a gravel surface, as they were in North Africa. The Palace of the Olowo, ruler of the Yoruba Owo clan of Nigeria, is acknowledged to be the largest palace in all of Africa. In Africa it is common in the architecture of traditional houses such as those of the Ashanti people. Fragments from prehistoric wattle and daub buildings have been found in Africa, Europe, Mesoamerica and North America. Some measure of celebration remains in New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. The term generally encompasses western Europe, West Africa, North and South and America and the Caribbean islands. Merguez is a red, spicy sausage from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, North Africa. In South Africa, traditional sausages are known as boerewors, or farmer's sausage. Show More Sentences There are two main brands of cider produced in South Africa, Hunters and Savanna Dry. Hunters Gold was first introduced in South Africa in 1988 as an alternative to beer. Human figures are much more common in the rock art of Africa than in Europe. Aqueducts were built to bring water to urban centers and wine and oil were imported from Hispania, Gaul and Africa. His father, however, died in South Africa of rheumatic fever before he could join them. By contrast, African workers, both in Africa and in the New World, were widely noted to sing while working. The genre of music, Maskanda, is popular in its culture of origin, South Africa. One of the genres people of Africa use for political expression is Hip hop. Although hip hop in Africa is based on the North American template, it has been remade to produce new meanings for African young people. In 1956 the orchestra visited South Africa to play at the Johannesburg Festival. The film coincided with the BBC's Africa Lives season of programming and with the global Make Poverty History campaign. However, a few examples of these medieval libraries, such as the libraries of Chinguetti in West Africa, remain intact and relatively unchanged. The sport is followed primarily in Australasia, Britain, the Indian subcontinent, southern Africa and the West Indies. South Africa was banned from international cricket from 1970 to 1992 as part of the apartheid boycott. Early exponents of the sport included Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and France. Historically, British and Irish home teams played the Southern Hemisphere teams of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, as well as France. In 1875, rugby was introduced to South Africa by British soldiers garrisoned in Cape Town. However, several types of sisal fibre are used in dartboards today, originating from East Africa, Brazil, or China. South Africa was prohibited from competing internationally from 1969 to 1994 due to apartheid. This version is played in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and England. Show More Sentences South Africa launched a new domestic competition in 2011 called Netball Grand Series. It features eight regional teams from South Africa and is aimed at increasing the amount of playing time for players. Oriental horses were imported into South Africa from the late 17th century in order to improve the local stock through crossbreeding. They also protested against the readmission of South Africa to FIFA in 1963, despite its expulsion from CAF due to the apartheid regime. He was struck down with pneumonia early in 1973 and went to South Africa to recover, playing on loan for Roy Bailey's Cape Town City. In 1912, Australian Jimmy Matthews achieved the feat twice in one game against South Africa. During this period England also played their first Test match against South Africa in 1889 at Port Elizabeth. England also lost to South Africa, with Jack Hobbs scoring his first of fifteen centuries on the tour. A nine Test triangular tournament involving England, South Africa and Australia was set up. Nine Tests provide a surfeit of cricket, and contests between Australia and South Africa are not a great attraction to the British public. After drawing to South Africa, England defeated the West Indies and New Zealand comfortably. During this period England defeated the West Indies home and away, New Zealand, and Bangladesh at home, and South Africa in South Africa. England retained the Ashes when they won the 1912 Triangular Tournament, which also featured South Africa. One notable omission was South Africa, who were banned from international cricket due to apartheid. The 2003 World Cup in South Africa was the first to sport a mascot, Dazzler the zebra. However, in May 2016, the ICC put forward the idea of having a tournament in 2018, with South Africa being the possible host. The first tournament was in 2007 in South Africa where India defeated Pakistan in the final. After South Africa in 2007, England, West Indies and Sri Lanka hosted the tournament in 2009, 2010 and 2012 respectively. In 2002, England defeated Argentina in Buenos Aires, and then a second string All Blacks, Australia, and South Africa at Twickenham. In the 2007 World Cup England played in Pool A with Samoa, Tonga, South Africa and the United States. Show More Sentences He captained the Lions to South Africa in 1997, and in 1999 was appointed captain of England. The England camp believed that Wilkinson was targeted by South Africa during the game. Carter then reclaimed the record on 30 July 2011 in the second 2011 Tri Nations Series match against South Africa. Wilkinson is widely known as a teetotaler, but broke that habit after England lost to South Africa in the 2007 Rugby World Cup Final. The final nations that bid for the right to host the 2015 Rugby World Cup were England, Japan, South Africa and Italy. That summer Martin Johnson was named as captain for the 1997 British Lions tour to South Africa. Sixteen Lions visited South Africa on the way home and played three matches against South Africa. Apart from South Africa, the only other African nation to attempt to qualify is Morocco who took part in the 2000 qualifying. He also won tournaments in Europe prior to the European Tour era, and in the United States, South America, South Africa and Australasia. In 2001 he opened the season with consecutive second place finishes in the country of his birth, South Africa. Most of the horses are imported from South Africa but some are also acquired from Australia, the United Kingdom and France. After a promising third place in the first race in South Africa, the Honda RA273 hit a series of mechanical problems. Mansell dominated the first round in South Africa, qualifying in pole position and winning the race by 24 seconds from his teammate, Patrese. The Dauphine sold well as the company expanded production and sales further abroad, including Africa and North America. Renault also backed some films set in Africa during the 1920s to promote the reliability of its products on tough conditions. Hailwood claimed to have been told by a fortune teller in South Africa that he wouldn't live to 40 and would be killed by a truck. South West Africa and certain South Pacific Islands were administered by League members under C mandates. Today, around 800 million people are native speakers worldwide, mainly in Europe, Africa and the Americas, but also elsewhere. This is especially the case for French, which is in widespread use throughout Central and West Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius and the Maghreb. In Africa it is the official language of Equatorial Guinea, but has few native speakers there. Show More Sentences French also has official status in much of Africa, but relatively few native speakers. South Sudan is a member state of the United Nations, the African Union, and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa. Denmark's large colonial aspirations were limited to a few key trading posts in Africa and India. This speech marked the start of a rapid decolonisation in Africa and the end of the British Empire. The ability to communicate in one of the official languages of South Africa is also required. Applicants must show the intention to reside in South Africa after naturalization, and they are required to make a declaration of allegiance. Across Africa nationalism drew upon the organizational skills that natives learned in the British and French and other armies in the world wars. It was a reaction mainly in Africa and Asia against being subdued by foreign powers. On 10 April 1965 at Lansdowne Road Ireland recorded their first ever win over South Africa. After a victory against South Africa and a draw against Australia, Ireland ended 2009 unbeaten. In the month of September, Ireland toured South Africa for a one match ODI series against Australia and the latter losing both the games. She has seen major constitutional changes, such as devolution in the United Kingdom, Canadian patriation, and the decolonisation of Africa. In 1947, Princess Elizabeth went on her first overseas tour, accompanying her parents through southern Africa. The 1960s and 1970s saw an acceleration in the decolonisation of Africa and the Caribbean. The Edwardian architectural style of Belfast City Hall influenced the Victoria Memorial in Calcutta, India, and Durban City Hall in South Africa. The Irish Free State was initially a British dominion like Canada and South Africa with King George V as its head of state. Vikings also attacked the coasts of North Africa and Italy and plundered all the coasts of the Baltic Sea. Continuous wars demanded frequent resupplies of fresh horses, which were imported through sea routes from Persia and Africa. In 1526, the Portuguese completed the first transatlantic slave voyage from Africa to the Americas, and other countries soon followed. Between 1600 and 1800, approximately 300,000 sailors engaged in the slave trade visited West Africa. Show More Sentences Slavery was practiced in some parts of Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas for many centuries before the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade. The Atlantic slave trade was not the only slave trade from Africa, although it was the largest in volume and intensity. While those held in slavery in their own region of Africa might hope to escape, those shipped away had little chance of returning to Africa. He argued that it was this economic trade agreement dating back to the 16th century that led to Africa being underdeveloped in his own time. The first side of the triangle was the export of goods from Europe to Africa. About 2,500 cheetahs are known to live in east africa, which includes Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. The Himba people are thought to have originally come from east africa, but have been traveling the Skeleton Coast for centuries. Caught the day before far off the coast of West Africa, they have been airfreighted to London for dinner. Anabantids are a very popular group of fish from Asia and Africa, most of which are known as gouramis. One of the rules of journalism is that news from Africa is always bad news. The brown hyena has evolved to live in desert systems throughout southern Africa, where it occurs at low densities. Once we had an old man who came to school to show us slides he took of dinosaurs in the inky jungle of somewhere in centralish Africa. Anyone who thinks the ANC will form the government of South Africa is living in cloud cuckoo-land. From the palm nut we derive palm oil, the most comestible oil in our country and in the whole of Africa. Depredation of cultivated crops by elephants is widespread in both Africa and Asia. Wallace and Drake reported that the woody-gall problem found in Peru, South Africa and Australia was related to vein enation. He spoke of Scotland's hydroelectric projects in Africa, local expertise shared with the world's poor. The femicentric nature of the family in South Africa, hinging as it does on women, reflects both the strength and weakness of the institution. The Great Desert of Africa of course puts a limit to its wanderings, and the firless plains of Egypt equally discourage its approach. Genoese and Venetian fondachi littered the coastline from North Africa to the Crimea. Show More Sentences Many game reserves are located in Africa. Most are open to the public, and tourists commonly take sightseeing safaris. He then enlisted in the air force and served as a groundling in North Africa, Sicily, and England. The Stellio, sometimes called the Hardim by the Arabs, is a well-known Lizard inhabiting Northern Africa, Syria, and Greece. The British Empire was expanded to include India, large parts of Africa and many other territories throughout the world. Since 1948 substantial immigration from Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia has been a legacy of ties forged by the British Empire. They are vital feeding grounds on migration flyways for shorebirds travelling between the Arctic and Africa. Associated offshore basaltic flows reach as far south as the Falkland Islands and South Africa. This final stage, nevertheless, coincided with or resulted in the end of continental extension in Africa. In Africa, bone artifacts and the first art appear in the archeological record. The first evidence of human fishing is also noted, from artifacts in places such as Blombos cave in South Africa. He argues that almost everywhere, whether Asia, Africa or Europe, before 50,000 years ago all the stone tools are much alike and unsophisticated. The Portuguese began systematically exploring the Atlantic coast of Africa from 1418, under the sponsorship of Prince Henry. In 1498, a Portuguese expedition commanded by Vasco da Gama reached India by sailing around Africa, opening up direct trade with Asia. The fleets visited Arabia, East Africa, India, Maritime Southeast Asia and Thailand. From the east coast, the fleet then turned eastward to resume the journey to the southern tip of Africa and India. France, the Netherlands, and England were left without a sea route to Asia, either via Africa or South America. Maize and manioc were introduced into Africa in the 16th century by the Portuguese. English was adopted in North America, India, parts of Africa, Australasia, and many other regions. These four vowels are only distinguished in RP, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The system was developed by the courts and spread with the expansion of British colonies in Southern Africa. Show More Sentences The second half of the 19th century saw a huge expansion of Britain's colonial empire, mostly in Africa. Meanwhile, the influence of European great powers waned, while the decolonisation of Asia and Africa began. Following the war, Britain gained the German colony of Tanganyika and part of Togoland in Africa. Africa is home to so many premier-league diseases that those in lower divisions are easily ignored. Between 647 and 709, Muslims swept across North Africa and established their authority over that region. Although major coups had taken off in the Arab world in Egypt in 1952, this was the first coup in the Horn or indeed in post-independence Africa. Small glaciers developed in a few favorable places in Southern Africa during the last glacial period. These mammoths lived in northern Africa and disappeared about 3 or 4 million years ago. They are claimed to be from other areas such as Myanmar, Iran, Iraq, and Africa. The family Elephantidae is known to have existed six million years ago in Africa, and includes the living elephants and the mammoths. Its southern tip is very close to the northwest coast of Africa, separated from it by the Strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean Sea. The Iberian Peninsula in an important stopover on the East Atlantic flyway for birds migrating from northern Europe to Africa. The Formative stage is equivalent to the Neolithic Revolution period in Europe, Asia, and Africa. By the following century, it included North Africa, most of the Iberian Peninsula, and what is now southern France. The war saw land battles in Sicily early on, but the theatre shifted to naval battles around Sicily and Africa. Unable to defeat Hannibal on Italian soil, the Romans boldly sent an army to Africa under Scipio Africanus to threaten the Carthaginian capital. Modified versions of Roman garden designs were adopted in Roman settlements in Africa, Gaul, and Britannia. Many remains of Roman hypocausts have survived throughout Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa. Before he was able to leave Africa, Mauri tribesmen invaded southern Spain. In 173 Severus' kinsman Gaius Septimius Severus was appointed proconsul of the Africa Province. Show More Sentences Three regional Church councils and another trial before Constantine all ruled against Donatus and the Donatism movement in North Africa. Since 1900, primarily due to conversion, Protestantism has spread rapidly in Africa, Asia, Oceania and Latin America. The magister militum in the Diocese of Africa declared for the East and stopped the supply of grain to Rome. Attalus failed to establish his control over the Diocese of Africa, and no grain arrived in Rome where the famine became even more frightful. Alaric then moved south, intending to sail to Africa, but his ships were wrecked in a storm and he shortly died of fever. Heraclianus was still in command in the diocese of Africa, the last of the clique that overthrew Stilicho to retain power. In 413 he led an invasion of Italia, lost to a subordinate of Constantius, and fled back to Africa where he was murdered by Constantius's agents. In South Africa the Boers and Cape Dutch collectively known as the Afrikaners. The losses of income from the Diocese of Africa were equivalent to the costs of nearly 40,000 infantry or over 20,000 cavalry. The Burgundians expanded their kingdom in the Rhone valley and the Vandals took the remains of the Diocese of Africa. Majorian prepared a fleet at Carthago Nova for the essential reconquest of the Diocese of Africa. In 468, at vast expense, the Eastern empire assembled an enormous force to help the West retake the Diocese of Africa. The Vandals were confirmed in their possession of the Diocese of Africa and they retook Sardinia and Sicily. Since the late 20th century, Norway has attracted immigrants from southern and central Europe, the Mideast, Africa, Asia and beyond. Between 1807 and 1865, it maintained a Blockade of Africa to counter the illegal slave trade. Naval supremacy was also essential to amphibious operations such as the invasions of Northwest Africa, Sicily, Italy, and Normandy. Adventurers such as John Lok and William Towerson sailed south in an attempt to develop links with the coast of Africa. Growth of religious orders, especially for women, is marked in certain parts of Africa. The number of Anglicans in the world is over 85 million as of 2011 The 11 provinces in Africa saw growth in the last two decades. By the 18th century, missionaries worked to establish Anglican churches in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Show More Sentences The WIC also succeeded in conquering Goree, Elmina Castle, Saint Thomas, and Luanda on the west coast of Africa. Britain, which was at war with France, soon moved to occupy Dutch colonies in Asia, South Africa and the Caribbean. During the period of Dutch colonization in South Africa, a distinctive type of architecture, known as Cape Dutch architecture, was developed. France rebuilt a new empire mostly after 1850, concentrating chiefly in Africa, as well as Indochina and the South Pacific. With the decay of the Ottoman Empire, in 1830 the French seized Algiers, thus beginning the colonization of French North Africa. Reaching into the Niger valley, Senegal became the primary French base in West Africa and a model colony. Dakar became one of the most important cities of the French Empire and of Africa. France also extended its influence in North Africa after 1870, establishing a protectorate in Tunisia in 1881 with the Bardo Treaty. On 31 December 1687 a community of French Huguenots settled in South Africa. In 1562 Elizabeth sent privateers Hawkins and Drake to seize booty from Spanish and Portuguese ships off the coast of West Africa. On the second leg, ships made the journey of the Middle Passage from Africa to the New World. New England also made rum from the Caribbean sugar and molasses, which it shipped to Africa as well as within the New World. To facilitate this trade, forts were established on the coast of West Africa, such as James Island, Accra and Bunce Island. Britain quickly invaded and occupied most of Germany's overseas colonies in Africa. British withdrawal from the southern and eastern parts of Africa was not a peaceful process. The Code influences a quarter of the world's jurisdictions such as that of in Continental Europe, the Americas and Africa. In Western Africa, the colonies of Gold Coast and Nigeria were involved in military actions against German forces from Togoland and Kamerun. Tropical Africa was only fully drawn into the colonial system at the end of the 19th century. The Oryx capensis of South Africa, or Gemsbok of the Dutch colonists, Kokama of the Bechuanas, is even more striking in its coloring. Many came from peoples of the same region of West Africa, thus concentrating their culture. Show More Sentences They imported thousands of slaves from tribes of West Africa, who spoke several different languages. At the Emperor's death, the Byzantines had control of most of Italy, North Africa, and a small foothold in southern Spain. Umayyad descendants took over the Iberian Peninsula, the Aghlabids controlled North Africa, and the Tulunids became rulers of Egypt. In 1699 Liverpool was made a parish by Act of Parliament, that same year its first slave ship, Liverpool Merchant, set sail for Africa. Paleoclimatic studies and evidence of glaciers indicate that central Africa was most likely in the polar regions during the early Paleozoic. Glaciation of Africa resulted in a major drop in sea level, killing off all life that had established along coastal Gondwana. A river of sea water, called the Atlantic North Equatorial Current, flows westward off the coast of Central Africa. According to his legend, he once worked for the Red Cross, spreading humanitarian aid in Africa. From 1808 the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron, tasked with stopping the slave trade, operated out of Portsmouth. Like elsewhere in central Africa, the likembe in Angola was an instrument of the emerging working class and, as such, it was also inter-ethnic. Variolation was also practiced throughout the latter half of the 17th century by physicians in Turkey, Persia, and Africa. Before the emergence of democracy in South Africa, the apartheid regime had brought linguistic imbalance. Some companies such as Topdeck Travel were set up to specifically use buses to drive the hippie trail or travel to places such as North Africa. Most flights that go to Terminal 4 are flights coming from Asia and North Africa, as well as a few flights to Europe. In the 19th century, most emigration from Malta was to North Africa and the Middle East, although rates of return migration to Malta were high. Significant numbers of people with at least some English ancestry also live in New Zealand, South Africa and South America. This period also saw Levallois flint tools introduced, possibly by humans arriving from Africa. The annexation of Egypt, Sicily and Tunisia in North Africa provided a continuous supply of grains. They were formed into units which fought in the campaigns in North West Europe, Italy, North Africa and the Middle East. In some places, subordinate ethnic groups may constitute a numerical majority, such as Blacks in South Africa under apartheid. Show More Sentences Afrikaans is one of the 11 official languages in South Africa and is a lingua franca of Namibia. Human migration started with the migration out of Africa into the Middle East, and then to Asia, Australia, Europe, Russia, and the Americas. This is common in countries such as India, South Africa, or Canada due to these countries having multiple official languages. These include churches that historically developed in Russia, Caucasus, the Balkans, North Eastern Africa, India and the Middle East. Concurrently, Spanish and Portuguese explorers and missionaries spread the Church's influence through Africa, Asia, and the New World. They usually believed that Charles should have focused on the Mediterranean and North Africa instead of Northern or Central Europe. Its origins lay in the recognition of the need for cooperation on the mission field in Africa, Asia and Oceania. The report also claimed that since 2007 participation has grown by 33 percent in Africa, 22 percent in South America and 18 percent in Asia and North America. The game is popular among both males and females in many parts of the world, particularly in Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Argentina. There is, after all, a great deal of demand for doctors in east africa. In 1905, the French abolished slavery in most of French West Africa. Representatives from England, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the West Indies were part of a 1960 meeting in Sri Lanka that standardised the rules for the game. French law made it easy for thousands of colons, ethnic or national French from former colonies of North and West Africa, India and Indochina to live in mainland France. On 9 July 2011 South Sudan became the 54th independent country in Africa and since 14 July 2011, South Sudan is the 193rd member of the United Nations. Spain was well established in the Americas, while Portugal, in union with Spain from 1580, had an ambitious global empire in Africa, Asia and South America. Such languages, which serve the purposes of general communication over fairly wide areas within countries, are what are referred to as the community languages of Africa. The first Englishman recorded to have taken slaves from Africa was John Lok, a London trader who, in 1555, brought to England five slaves from Guinea. The djembe has become the most recognizable drum from West Africa, with a history that can be traced to the twelfth century Mali Empire and the Mandinka people. Around 1563 Drake first sailed west to the Spanish Main, on a ship owned and commanded by John Hawkins, with a cargo of people forcibly removed from the coast of West Africa. The Jako, or gray parrot of Africa, has the capacity for speaking best developed, and the yellow-headed green parrot of Mexico stands second in the list. Show More Sentences The profits from the sale of sugar were used to purchase manufactured goods, which were then shipped to West Africa, where they were bartered for slaves. Prost won on his debut for the team in South Africa and, like Mansell, dominated the weekend, taking pole position and finishing a minute ahead of Senna, who was second. A disappointing South Africa limped through the pool, eventually capitulating to England to relegate them to a difficult quarter final against New Zealand. British attention soon turned towards Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. The European edition is distributed in continental Europe and Africa. During the 1880s and 1890s, Rhodes, with his privately owned British South Africa Company, occupied and annexed territories subsequently named after him, Rhodesia. There is evidence that enslaved people from some African states were exported to other states in Africa, Europe, and Asia prior to the European colonization of the Americas. To seek new markets and sources of raw materials, the Conservative Party under Disraeli launched a period of imperialist expansion in Egypt, South Africa, and elsewhere. In recent years, Windsor Castle has hosted visits from President Mbeki of South Africa, King Abdullah II of Jordan and President Chirac of France. Political boundaries of this kind can often be found around the states that developed out of colonial holdings, such as in Africa and the Middle East. England finished at the top of Pool D, four points ahead of South Africa. Ocean currents such as the Gulf Stream transport eel larvae from the Sargasso Sea to foraging areas in North America, Europe, and Northern Africa. The nineteen races of the 2014 Formula One season were spread over every populated continent except for Africa, with ten Grands Prix held outside Europe. Eventually, the British persuaded the Americans that a landing in France was infeasible in 1942 and they should instead focus on driving the Axis out of North Africa. The New Imperialism period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which included the scramble for Africa and the Opium Wars, marked the zenith of European colonization. After the World War I, several former German and Ottoman territories in the Middle East, Africa, and the Pacific were governed by the UK as League of Nations mandates. Shipping traffic between Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe began to soar in the 18th century, a model that was known as triangular trade, and was a rich target for piracy. By 1977 European colonial rule in mainland Africa had ended. However the black majorities in Rhodesia and South Africa were disenfranchised until 1980 in Rhodesia, which became Zimbabwe that year, and until 1994 in South Africa. However that new policy did not include proper support and for a new government, leading to a political and economic collapse in Libya and the growth of ISIL in North Africa. Show More Sentences For centuries slave and gold trade routes linking West Africa with the Mediterranean passed over the Western Sahara Desert, controlled by the Moors of North Africa. All of these things led them to suspect that manelessness was typical in some parts of Kenya and might have been widespread in Africa many decades ago. Cabral was the first captain to touch four continents, leading the first expedition that connected and united Europe, Africa, the New World, and Asia. In South Africa, the Think Bike campaign is dedicated to increasing both motorcycle safety and the awareness of motorcycles on the country's roads. The settlers kept importing slaves, which resulted in a high proportion of native Africans from West Africa, who continued to practice their culture in new surroundings. Around the beginning of the modern era, the Benin Empire was an independent trading power in West Africa, blocking the access of other inland nations to the coastal ports. In Africa labretifery is quite common, and varies from tribe to tribe. Other monarchies were established by the Visigothic Kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula, the Suebi in northwestern Iberia, and the Vandal Kingdom in North Africa. Britain also built up a large British Empire in Africa and Asia, which it ruled through a small number of administrators who supervised local elites. By translating the Arab versions of lost ancient Greek geographical works into Latin, European navigators acquired a deeper knowledge of the shape of Africa and Asia. Through a process of decolonisation following the Second World War, most of the British colonies in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean gained independence. Germany acquired a number of colonies in Africa and the Pacific, but Chancellor Otto von Bismarck succeeded in achieving general peace through his balance of power strategy. Through Genoese participation on the Crusades, Genoese colonies were established in the Middle East, in the Aegean, in Sicily and Northern Africa. After the 1957 World Cup series in Australia, Alan Prescott's team went to New Zealand and then stopped off in South Africa to play some missionary games. By the 1690s, the English were shipping the most slaves from West Africa. These climates occur near the rimlands of the Mediterranean Sea, in western Australia, in California, and in the southernmost areas of South Africa. New teams competing included Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and South Africa. From further afield, Northern England saw immigration from European countries such as Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia and Scandinavia, and from East Asia and Africa. At the same time, hundreds of thousands from depressed rural areas of the North emigrated, chiefly to the US, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. These included Australia, Barbados, British West Africa, Cyprus, Fiji, the Irish Free State, Jamaica, New Zealand, South Africa and Southern Rhodesia. Show More Sentences The Australia v South Africa match, at Lord's, was notable for a visit by King George V, the first time a reigning monarch had watched Test cricket. In 1960 alone, 17 new states joined the UN, 16 of them from Africa. In 1891, on the advice of his doctors, Kipling embarked on another sea voyage visiting South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and once again India. According to Geoffrey the rocks of Stonehenge were healing rocks, called the Giant's dance, which Giants had brought from Africa to Ireland for their healing properties. Most early processes in Europe and Africa involved smelting iron ore in a bloomery, where the temperature is kept low enough so that the iron does not melt. Ireland were knocked out of the 2010 ICC World Twenty20, hosted by South Africa in April and May, after being beaten by the West Indies and a washed out match against England. Leading his own troops, dispensing justice, an after-type of those great Arabs who sprang from the sands of Arabia and Africa, shook Europe, and flourished in Spain, a basha. The examples of Africa, Indonesia, and the Middle East show how Western pop music styles can blend with local musical traditions to create new hybrid styles. Hannibal was recalled to Africa, and defeated at the Battle of Zama. The 1980s was a period of relative mediocrity after the turmoil caused by the Rebel Tours of South Africa and the subsequent retirement of several key players. The vast majority of the routes served are within Europe, although there are some charter and scheduled routes to destinations in Northern Africa and Asia. Severus was born in Leptis Magna in the Roman province of Africa. The national airline is Air Malta, which is based at Malta International Airport and operates services to 36 destinations in Europe and North Africa. He won his first professional event, the Dunhill Championship in South Africa, in 2002, and followed this up with three further victories in that year. In late 202 Severus launched a campaign in the province of Africa. Substantial populations descended from English colonists and immigrants exist in the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. However, there are many charismatic movements that have become well established over large parts of the world, especially Africa, Latin America and Asia. Ryder suffered from poor health in later life, and spent some time in South Africa and with his elder daughter Marjorie in Rhodesia, where she had emigrated. The Vikings explored the northern islands and coasts of the North Atlantic, ventured south to North Africa and east to Russia, Constantinople, and the Middle East. The Oliviers returned to Britain in March 1943, and Leigh toured through North Africa that same year as part of a revue for the armed forces stationed in the region. Find more words! 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