Society

As European nations were striving to expand their empires in Africa, David Livingstone was working as a missionary and explorer throughout the continent.

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Favelas are urban slums in Brazil, with the first arising in the 19th Century. Originally built by veteran soldiers, they continue to hold great cultural importance and pose socioeconomic challenges.

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France has had 15 writers make the list, while the U.S. and U.K. are represented by 10 each.

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Suicide is the leading causes of death among the youth of India, followed by road injuries and tuberculosis.

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Bratislava, situated along the Danube River and bordering Hungary and Austria, is Slovakia's capital and most populous city.

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The United States has given the world 85 Nobel Laureate Physicists, followed by the UK and Germany at 24 each.

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Heart disease, cancer, and lower respiratory diseases are the three leading causes of death in the United States.

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Sudan is an overwhelmingly Muslim country considered fairly tolerant of different factions, although atheism is not tolerated.

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The Monégasque dialect is a dialect of Ligurian spoken in Monaco.

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84.70 % of the population of Norway practice Christianity while a significant population (10.10 %) are not affiliated to any faith.

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The embodiment of the 'new American women' at the turn of the 20th Century, Fanny Bullock Workman was a skilled climber & tireless cyclist.

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Whether as an individual or a group, to live in exile means to live away from one's home, often by force.

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The U.S., Germany, and U.K. combine to account for more than 70% of all Nobel Laureate chemists.

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HIV/AIDS kills the most people in Africa, followed by respiratory infections, diarrhea, and malaria.

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Lying along the east banks of the Buriganga River in the heart of the Bengal delta is Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.

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Established in the late 5th Century AD, Tbilisi is the capital and by far most populous Georgian city.

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The first newspaper of Africa was published by the French in the Isle de France, Mauritius in 1773.

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Although the function of an underground metro system is often simply utilitarian, what sets the Moscow metro apart is the unique beauty of its stations.

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While Germany and Ireland boast low and decreasing unemployment rates in 2015, other EU countries such as Spain and Greece tell a different story.

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Hundreds of millions of people adhere to the beliefs and doctrines of this ages-old Christian church.

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