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Groblersdal is a farming town situated 32 km north of the 178 million m³ Loskop Dam in the Sekhukhune District of Limpopo. The town is South Africa 's second largest irrigation settlement.
Louisa Gould A plaque commemorating Louisa Gould's resistance to Nazi occupying forces in Jersey during World War II. Louisa Mary Gould (née Le Druillenec, 7 October 1891 – 13 February 1945) [1] was a Jersey shopkeeper and a member of the resistance in the Channel Islands during World War II.
He circumnavigated Iceland, thus the first to establish that the landmass was an island. He stayed for one winter in Skjálfandi. He praised the new land and called it Garðarshólmi (lit. Garðar's Islet). [citation needed] <870
Pettersson did however find a gold deposit [citation needed] on Simberi Island which he kept secret for years. Today, the Tabar Group of islands has one of the world's largest gold deposits. [citation needed] His fortunes having changed, he decided to leave the island. His wife Jessie traveled ahead to Australia for medical treatment and then ...
Operation Grapple was a set of four series of British nuclear weapons tests of early atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs carried out in 1957 and 1958 at Malden Island and Kiritimati (Christmas Island) in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in the Pacific Ocean (modern Kiribati) as part of the British hydrogen bomb programme.
Frisland was shown as a roughly rectangular island, with three triangular promontories on its western coast. In some mappings, it is identified as "Fixland". [4] (Matteo Prunes map of 1553, from Library of Congress, see upper right of map; see also, [5] page 88 for other clearer source; see also Catalan map of 1480 showing "Fixland"; [6] original source map copied in this article, page 64.
What really happened on Epstein’s island? That is the subject of multiple ongoing court cases, but the accusations are shocking. According to a lawsuit filed by Prince Andrew’s accuser, ...
The Alderney camps were camps built and operated by Nazi Germany on the island of Alderney during its World War II occupation of the Channel Islands. [1] Alderney had four forced/slave labour sites, including Lager Sylt , the only Nazi concentration camp on British soil during the wartime occupation.