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What Country Has the World’s Highest Divorce Rate?
Djibouti is a nation about the size of New Hampshire.
It is located in Africa near the entrance to the Red Sea. Formerly a colony of France, it became independent in 1977. The name of the nation was taken from the name of its capital and only large city, where more than half of Djibouti’s 250,000 [...]
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Leave a commentWhich Part Of The Horn Of Africa Is the Land of Punt?
The “Horn of Africa” is a name used for the bulge in the Eastern corner of Africa.
Most of the Horn of Africa’s coastline is within the nation of Somalia. Somalia is an L-shaped country. Its longer coast is along the Indian Ocean, and its shorter coast is along the Gulf of Aden.
With an area of [...]
What’s the Name of Africa’s Belt?
Sudan is the name of an African nation, but it’s also the name of a region that is much larger than any single country in Africa.
The word Sudan comes from an Arabic term that means “country of the blacks.” It refers to the land along the southern borders of the Sahara Desert.
The Sudan belt stretches [...]
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Leave a commentWhere Can Few People Hope to Grow Old?
A drought that began in the 1970s has brought even more poverty to the already poor nation of Somalia.
A war with neighboring Ethiopia has added to the nation’s suffering. In 1977, Somalia invaded the Ogaden, a region of Ethiopia where Somali people live. Somalia lost that war. Since then, more than 1 million people have [...]
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Leave a commentWhich Is the Largest Country in Africa?
Sudan is a nation in northeast Africa, south of Egypt. The country borders on the Red Sea and shares a border with eight other nations.
The reason Sudan borders on so many other countries is that it is the largest nation in Africa and the ninth largest on earth. Its area, 967,500 square miles, is equal [...]
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Leave a commentWhy Did Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia Use An Electric Chair As a Throne?
Menelek II, who called himself the “king of kings,” became emperor of Ethiopia in 1889.
A year later, word reached Ethiopia of the first use of an electric chair to execute a criminal, in Auburn, New York. Menelek decided that his country, too, should have an electric chair, and he ordered three of the new devices.
There [...]
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Leave a commentHow High Is the Highest Average Temperature On Earth?
There are a number of places that might claim to be the hottest on earth.
Temperatures of more than 120 degrees have been recorded in every continent. In some places, the temperature has remained at over 100 degrees for weeks at a time.
The place that can claim the highest temperature over a long period of time [...]
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Leave a commentHow Long Was the Shortest War in History?
Zanzibar is an island off the coast of Africa that now belongs to the nation of Tanzania.
In 1896, Said Khalid seized power in Zanzibar and proclaimed himself sultan. A British fleet soon arrived at the port of Zanzibar and ordered the sultan out of the royal palace.
The sultan refused to leave. At 9:02 on the [...]
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Leave a commentWhere Was the Oldest Man Made Construction on Earth Found?
Olduvai Gorge is a 350-foot-deep canyon in Tanzania that has been the source of some of the oldest human remains ever discovered.
In 1961, the archaeologists Louis and Mary Leakey found there a jawbone, skull, and other bones thought to belong to a manlike creature who lived around 1.7 million years ago!
At Olduvai Gorge, the archaeologists [...]
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