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 | | The Pre-independence Belgian Congo | | by balisunset, Aug 29, 2008 | | A enormous territory of the sub-Saharan African interior conforming to the shape of the Congo River Basin and a Belgian colony from 1908 to 1960. It had hitherto been under the personal rule of the Belgian King, Leopold II (1835–1909), as the Congo Free State. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Aborigines and Australian Frontier War | | by balisunset, Aug 24, 2008 | | A series of frontier wars waged by Australian Aborigines against British settlers, soldiers, and police from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century for control of what is now Australia. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Australia in 19th Century | | by balisunset, Aug 24, 2008 | | Originally Terra Australis Incognita, or the unknown southern continent, Australia was first claimed for Britain by Captain James Cook on August 22, 1770. Although the Dutch navigator Tasman had first explored what is now Tasmania in the seventeenth century, and the French were active in eighteenth century Pacific exploration, the British claim to Australia and many adjacent islands was within a short number of decades widely accepted. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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