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Macassar is a small town in South Africa, close to Strand and Somerset West, with an approximate population of 33,225. Administratively it is under City of Cape Town [ 2 ] Eastern Suburbs zone. Macassar’s history is closely tied to the Strand, whose inhabitants first settled this area.
The proposed project was to cover 24 square miles (62 km 2) and be located 4.8 miles (7.7 km) from Mashpee, Massachusetts, on the south coast of Cape Cod, and 15.8 miles (25.4 km) from the island town of Nantucket.
Pigcasso was a female pig (Sus domesticus) born in April 2016 [2] [3] [a] on an industrialised pig farm in the Winelands region of the Western Cape, South Africa.Along with her sister Rosie, [3] she was rescued from a slaughterhouse, in May, by Joanne Lefson and taken to Farm Sanctuary SA in Franschhoek, the nonprofit animal sanctuary that Lefson founded that year. [4]
The area known today as Cape Town has no written history before it was first mentioned by Portuguese explorer Bartholomeu Dias in 1488. The German anthropologist Theophilus Hahn recorded that the original name of the area was '||Hui !Gais' – a toponym in the indigenous Khoi language meaning "where clouds gather."
In March 2021, the Suez Canal was blocked for six days by the Ever Given, a container ship that had run aground in the canal. [4] The 400-metre-long (1,300 ft), 224,000-ton, 20,000 TEU vessel was buffeted by strong winds on the morning of 23 March, and ended up wedged across the waterway with its bow and stern stuck on opposite canal banks, blocking all traffic until it could be freed. [5]
Juliette Lake Lewis was born June 21, 1973, in Los Angeles, California, to actor Geoffrey Lewis and his first wife, Glenis (née Duggan) Batley, a graphic designer. [4] She has seven siblings or half-siblings, and a step-sister.
The Cape lion was a population of lions in South Africa's Natal and Cape Provinces that was extirpated in the mid-19th century. [1] [2] The type specimen originated at the Cape of Good Hope and was described in 1842. [3] Traditionally, the Cape lion was considered a distinct subspecies of lion, Panthera leo melanochaita.
Athlone is a suburb of Cape Town located to the east of the city centre on the Cape Flats, south of the N2 highway. Two of the suburb's main landmarks are Athlone Stadium and the decommissioned coal-burning Athlone Power Station. Athlone is mainly residential and is served by a railway station of the same name.