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Akure

Akure town (city) is the capital of Ondo state, in the southwestern part of Nigeria. The Akure people are Yorubas, Akure lies “in the southern part of the forested Yoruba…

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Read more about the article Post-Independence Challenges of African States
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Post-Independence Challenges of African States

Written by Oluboyo Ayomide, a student of the Department of History and International Studies, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria. Africa after European Departure The situation in which the…

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Read more about the article Facts about Mike the Headless Chicken
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Facts about Mike the Headless Chicken

Of course, it will be surprising to know that a chicken lived for 18 months (nearly two years) after its head was chopped off. This is the story of Mike…

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Read more about the article The Dancing Plague of  1518
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The Dancing Plague of 1518

It would of course seem astonishing to know that residents of a particular place died as a result of uncontrollable dancing. In Strasbourg city of the Holy Roman Empire, in…

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Read more about the article Economic Depression: Omens, Preventions and Causes
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Economic Depression: Omens, Preventions and Causes

Economic depression is a situation where a country's economy is experiencing financial turbulence, which shows the result of a period of negative activity based on the country’s Gross Domestic Product…

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Facts about Frank Lentini, the Three-Legged Man

Who is Frank Lentini? Francesco ‘Frank’ Lentini, May 18, 1889- Sept. 21, 1966, was a Sicilian-American, a sideshow performer who was born with a parasitic twin (1); he had three…

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