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  2. Cartography of Africa - Wikipedia

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    The Fra Mauro map of 1459 shows a more detailed picture of Africa as a continent, including the Cape of Diab at its southernmost point, reflecting an expedition of 1420. Sebastian Münster 's Cosmographia (1545) labels the Cape of Good Hope , reached by Bartolomeu Dias in 1488, as caput bonae spei .

  3. W. D. M. Bell - Wikipedia

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    Bell convinced his family to back him for a trip to Africa, where he obtained a job shooting man-eating lions for the Uganda Railway at the age of 16. [ 9 ] [ 11 ] In 1896 Bell travelled to North America, where he spent a short time panning for gold in the Yukon gold rush [ 12 ] and earned a living by shooting game to supply Dawson City with meat.

  4. 1884 in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    15 – The Berlin Conference commences when 14 countries (Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden-Norway, Turkey, and United States of America) meet in Berlin to each claim their part of Africa. December

  5. Category:1884 in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "1884 in Africa" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bechuanaland Expedition;

  6. Berlin Conference - Wikipedia

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    The conference of Berlin, as illustrated in German newspaper Die Gartenlaube The conference of Berlin, as illustrated in Illustrirte Zeitung. The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 was a meeting of colonial powers that concluded with the signing of the General Act of Berlin, [1] an agreement regulating European colonisation and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period.

  7. American game show winnings records - Wikipedia

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    Register is the highest-earning game show contestant who has only appeared on one game show and the first woman to win more than one million dollars in a game show. 9 David Legler $1,765,000 Twenty-One, $1,765,000 [44] Legler earned $1,765,000 over six wins on the 2000 revival of Twenty-One, making him the show's biggest winner. 10 Matt Amodio

  8. Scramble for Africa - Wikipedia

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    The Scramble for Africa [a] was the conquest and colonisation of most of Africa by seven Western European powers driven by the Second Industrial Revolution during the late 19th century and early 20th century in the era of "New Imperialism": Belgium, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal and Spain.

  9. Togoland - Wikipedia

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    Togoland, officially the Togoland Protectorate (German: Schutzgebiet Togo; French: Protectorat du Togo), was a protectorate of the German Empire in West Africa from 1884 to 1914, encompassing what is now the nation of Togo and most of what is now the Volta Region of Ghana, approximately 90,400 km 2 (29,867 sq mi) in size.