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  2. West Indies - Wikipedia

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    West Indies. The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island countries and 19 dependencies in three archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago. [5]

  3. Italian East Africa - Wikipedia

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    Italian East Africa. Italian East Africa ( Italian: Africa Orientale Italiana, AOI) [3] was an Italian colony in the Horn of Africa. It was formed in 1936 after the Second Italo-Ethiopian War through the merger of Italian Somaliland, Italian Eritrea, and the newly occupied Ethiopian Empire. [4]

  4. Dutch East India Company - Wikipedia

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    Products. Spices, silk, porcelain, metals, livestock, tea, grain, rice, soybeans, sugarcane, wine, coffee, slaves. The "United East India Company", or "United East Indies Company" (also known by the abbreviation "VOC" in Dutch) was the brainchild of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, the leading statesman of the Dutch Republic. Amsterdam VOC headquarters.

  5. Lissachatina fulica - Wikipedia

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    Lissachatina fulica is a species of large land snail that belongs in the subfamily Achatininae of the family Achatinidae. [1] It is also known as the Giant African land snail. [2] It shares the common name "giant African snail" with other species of snails such as Achatina achatina and Archachatina marginata.

  6. Italian East African lira - Wikipedia

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    The Italian East African lira was seen as a possible bribery, and it was immediately replaced by the East African shilling in 1941, when the United Kingdom gained control of Italy's colonies, at the rate of 1 shilling = 24 lire. The banknotes retired by the British government were later used by the British Army when it occupied Italy between ...

  7. List of date formats by country - Wikipedia

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    Yes. Long formats: English: mmmm d, yyyy. DMY dates are also used occasionally, primarily by, but not limited to, government institutions such as on the data page of passports, and immigration and customs forms. Filipino: ika- d ng mmmm (,) yyyy [135] or a- d ng mmmm (,) yyyy. (Note: Month and year can be shortened.

  8. West Africa Time - Wikipedia

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    West Africa Time. a The islands of Cape Verde are to the west of the African mainland. b Mauritius and the Seychelles are to the east and north-east of Madagascar respectively. West Africa Time, or WAT, is a time zone used in west-central Africa. [1] West Africa Time is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC+01:00 ), which aligns it ...

  9. Recent African origin of modern humans - Wikipedia

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    In paleoanthropology, the recent African origin of modern humans or the " Out of Africa " theory ( OOA) [a] is the most widely accepted [1] [2] [3] model of the geographic origin and early migration of anatomically modern humans ( Homo sapiens ). It follows the early expansions of hominins out of Africa, accomplished by Homo erectus and then ...