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A rare picture of George Harry Galt, a British colonial officer arriving in Ibanda in 1905. A tired Ugandan, Rutaraka later speared him to death. #SellYourself

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However, around 1837, the Emir of Zaria, Sarki Abd al-Karim ibn Abbas, seized Babban Gwani and had him executed so that no palace would ever be built to equal the one in Zaria.

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Muhammadu Durugu, also known as Babban Gwani, was a 19th-century Hausa architect who built mosques and palaces in Bauchi, Birnin Gwari, Kano, Katsina and Zaria. Babban Gwani also built the Zaria Juma’a Mosque and the palace of the Emir of Zaria (pictured).

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Vatsa was executed some hours later.

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Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, and John Pepper Clark arrive at Dodan Barracks to plead with Head of State, Major-General Ibrahim Babangida, to spare the life of a fellow poet and writer, Mamman Vatsa, On March 5, 1986.

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On January 15, 1966, Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was abducted and eventually killed in Nigeria's first military coup. The situation surrounding his death remains a mystery.

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@yemmy_18 Yes I still do, you can message me so I can resave your number

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France executed its first nuclear atomic bomb test in the Algerian Sahara desert on February 13, 1960, during its war against Algeria (1954–62). Algeria won. 25,600 French soldiers & 50,000 allies died. 65,000 were wounded. 6,000 European civilians died.

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Sir Alex Ferguson's last chewed gum as Manchester United manager, in a 5-5 scoreline with West Bromich Albion in 2013, was auctioned and sold for £390,000 (₦205.5 million). The money was donated to the Manchester United Foundation charity.

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During World War II, India produced the largest volunteer army in world history with over 2.5 million men. At least, 38 Indians received the Victoria Cross or the George Cross. Britain would have lost the war without the Indian Army.

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Lost in 1533, a shipwreck laden with $13,000,000 worth of gold coins was discovered under the Namib Desert in April 2008.
It was a Portuguese ship that went missing on its way to India. It was loaded with gold, tin...and 44,000 pounds of copper ingots when it sank.

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Indian politician, Vengalil K.K. Menon (1896-1974) holds the record of the longest-ever-delivered speech at the U.N on January 23, 1957.
Menon delivered an 8-hour speech defending India's stand on Kashmir. After his speech, he collapsed and had to be hospitalised.

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In 1806, American founding father George Wythe was poisoned by his grand-nephew, George Sweeney. Even though Wythe’s black housekeeper provided evidence against Sweeney, it was thrown out in court because a black person...

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1806, American founding father George Wythe was poisoned by his grand-nephew, George Sweeney. Even though Wythe’s black housekeeper provided evidence against Sweeney, it was thrown out in court because a black person...

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The Palace of Parliament in Romania, also known as ‘The Peoples’ House’ is the heaviest building in the world, weighing about 4,098,500,000 kilograms. It is also the most expensive administrative building in the world valued at $3.4 billion as of 2008.

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The Mbalatu women of Southern Angola and Northern Namibia are renowned for their incredibly long, braided hair which reaches to the floor.
From the age of 12, the girls' hair undergoes a special treatment to drastically speed up hair growth.

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Germany committed the first genocide in the 20th century. The killings of tens of thousands of the Nama and Herero people in German South-West Africa (now Namibia), after they rebelled against colonial rule, occurred between 1904 and 1908.