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  20th century - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Apatosaurus is made the official state dinosaur of Guam.
Clockwise from top: Trenches in frontline, a British Mark I Tank crossing a trench, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible sinking after striking a mine at the battle of the Dardanelles, a Vickers machine gun crew with gas masks and a Sopwith Camel biplane.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Central Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Angola, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), and Zambia are sometimes considered a part of Central Africa.
Central Africa or Middle Africa is a term used to describe the region of Africa south the Sahara Desert, east of the Bulge of Africa, but west of the Great Rift Valley.
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 Pirate Encyclopedia: John Bartholomew "Black Bart" Roberts
He ambushed and pillaged fleets from Canada to Africa and throughout the Caribbean.
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 Houghton Mifflin Electronic Publishing - Ships Of The World by Lincoln P. Paine
It soon transpired that they were in fact HMS Africa (64 guns), the frigates Shannon, Guerriere (38s), Belvedira (36), and Aeolus (32), and the recently captured U.S. brig, Nautilus (12), under command of Captain Sir Philip Broke.
En route to join USS Essex and Hornet in the South Pacific, on December 29, 1812, Constitution was off the coast of Brazil in 13 minutes six minutes South, 31 degrees West, when she encountered HMS Java (38 guns) under Captain Henry Lambert.
She forced both ships to strike and both ships were taken as prizes, though Levant was recaptured by a British squadron on March 11.
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In 1789, crewmembers of HMS Bounty, led by Masters Mate Fletcher Christian and Midshipman Ned Young, mutinied against the command of Lt. William Bligh.
Bligh and his supporters were set adrift in the ship's launch, and against all odds, Bligh led them over 3,000 miles to safety in Batavia (now Djakarta, Indonesia).
Sierra Leone, a small nation on the western coast of Africa, has suffered a turbulent and distressing history.
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