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In Cowen's time it was called angola and its still angola.
Politics.ie boo-boo 2010
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(Actually he is President Medvedev.) (tags: russia egypt nigeria namibia angola)
Linkspam for 30-6-2009 yhlee 2009
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Malawi is anticipated to have adequate stocks for its consumption, while tanzania would face a 750 000 maize deficit due to the drought, angola a 410 000 tonnes deficit on account of mid-season dry spell and in zambia, a 223 000 tonnes deficit due to excessive rains and lack of fertilisers.
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After delivering cases of weapons to Unita, the commander of the fifth military region in angola gave him permission to keep 14 AK-47 rifles.
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Almost every woman, however numerous her family, has a nursery of birds, an angola, and two or three lap-dogs, who share her cares with her husband and children.
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Another pays his court to a belle in her climacteric, by bringing _gimblettes_ [A sort of gingerbread.] to the favourite lap-dog, or attending, with great assiduity, the egresses and regresses of her angola, who paces slowly out of the room ten times in an hour, while the door is held open by the complaisant Frenchman with a most respectful gravity.
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Before we fell comfortably asleep on feather beds, those formidable bones which you see in our museum were flying in the air; the cup which I now hold in my hand was a portion of the clay on which you sit; the canoe with which you ran away the other day was a live seal; the hats that we wear, were running about the fields in the form of angola rabbits.
Willis the Pilot Paul Adrien
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Another pays his court to a belle in her climacteric, by bringing _gimblettes_ [A sort of gingerbread.] to the favourite lap-dog, or attending, with great assiduity, the egresses and regresses of her angola, who paces slowly out of the room ten times in an hour, while the door is held open by the complaisant Frenchman with a most respectful gravity.
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Almost every woman, however numerous her family, has a nursery of birds, an angola, and two or three lap-dogs, who share her cares with her husband and children.
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The next six cases (2-7) are filled with the varieties of the Vulture, including the American, carrion, black, and king vultures; the South African sociable vulture; the angola vulture from Congo; and, towering above all, the great condor of the Andes, with his immense breadth of wing.
How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855
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