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South Africa's University of Cape Town consistently ranks as one of the best on the continent, and is globally respected along with the other African institutions of higher learning discussed herein.
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Times Higher Education ranked Oxford as Britain's leading university in 2015-2016.
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Conakry along the country's Atlantic Ocean coastline is both the capital and the largest city of Guinea.
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Times Higher Education ranked California Institute of Technology as the world's leading university in 2015-2016.
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In the 1920s, the Charleston dance, with its iconic hands-on-knees stance, took the United States by storm.
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Jitterbug dancing was popular in black and white communities alike as it took the United States by storm amidst the turmoil of the 1930s and 1940s.
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Calypso developed in the Caribbean with influences from Kaiso and other West African dances in the 18th through 20th Centuries.
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Made widely popular in 1960s America, psychedelic music attempts to replicate hallucinogenic experiences for listeners.
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The capital city of Minsk, Homyel, Mahilyow, Vitsyebsk, and Hrodna-Grodno are the five most populous cities of Belarus.
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Just as many of the world's different cultures have their own unique calendars, these calendars in turn often have their own unique start dates.
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For almost nine centuries, the Althing assembly met at Thingvellir to govern and administer Iceland.
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The late 1800s slavophile artists of Abramtsevo rejected Western European art in favor or more uniquely Russian styles.
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Music in South Korea, Japan, and China have been heavily influenced by that of the Western World since World War II.
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Bridgetown along the southwestern coast of Barbados is the capital and most populous city of the country.
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Influencing several major genres to come, Blues developed from a mix of African and European folk and religious music.
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From its late 1800s roots in Argentina and Uruguay, the social dance soon spread across much of the world.
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Spreading from its origins in African American communities in 1970s New York City, today hip hop has arrived in virtually every corner of the globe.
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10% of the population of Botswana inhabits the largest and capital city of the country, which is Gaborone.
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The capital city of Port-au-Prince's metro area population of 2.6 million accounts for 1 in every 4 Haitians.
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Virtually every corner of the world has its own folk music traditions, and the past 100 years have seen a renewed interest in the genre.
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