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	List of country name etymologies - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The word 'niger' is Latin for 'fl,' and was applied to the river after either the colour of the river or the skin colour of the local people.
		It is said that the British journalist Flora Shaw coined the name Nigeria in the 1890's.
		Shaw was the then-lover of Lord Lugard, who was the colonial governor of the area.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /l/li/list_of_country_name_etymologies.html (7891 words)

	SIR FREDERICK JOHN DEALTRY LUGARD - LoveToKnow Article on SIR FREDERICK JOHN DEALTRY LUGARD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He became a colonel in 1905, and held the local rank of brigadier-general.
		He married in 1902 Flora Louise Shaw (daughter of Major-General George Shaw, C.B., R.A.), who for some years had been a distinguished writer on colonial subjects for The Times.
		Sir Frederick (then Captain) Lugard published in 1893 The Rise of our East African Empire (partly auto-biographical), and was the author of various valuable reports on Northern Nigeria issued by the Colonial Office.
	16.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LU/LUGARD_SIR_FREDERICK_JOHN_DEALTRY.htm (654 words)

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