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  2. History of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Side view of cast of "Lucy" in the Naturmuseum SenckenbergThe first known hominids evolved in Africa. According to paleontology, the early hominids' skull anatomy was similar to that of the gorilla and the chimpanzee, great apes that also evolved in Africa, but the hominids had adopted a bipedal locomotion which freed their hands.

  3. City University of New York - Wikipedia

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    (BA), novelist and detective for the New York City Transit Police Department: Bill Baird: 1955: Brooklyn: reproductive rights activist and co-director of the Pro Choice League Barbara Aronstein Black: 1953: Brooklyn: Dean of Columbia Law School: Barbara Levy Boxer: 1962: Brooklyn: anti-war activist, environmentalist, U.S. representative, 1982 ...

  4. Ben Gurion Airport - Wikipedia

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    Lod Airport, 1958. The building is currently the Terminal 1 building. Bust of David Ben-Gurion at Ben Gurion Airport, named in his honour. The airport began during the British Mandate for Palestine as an airstrip of two unpaved runways on the outskirts of the town of Lydda (now Lod), near the Templer colony of Wilhelma.

  5. Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Pennsylvania (/ ˌ p ɛ n s ɪ l ˈ v eɪ n i ə / ⓘ PEN-sil-VAY-nee-ə, lit. ' Penn's forest country '), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania [b] (Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsylvanie), [7] is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

  6. British Columbia - Wikipedia

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    The province's name was chosen by Queen Victoria, when the Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866), i.e., "the Mainland", became a British colony in 1858. [27] It refers to the Columbia District, the British name for the territory drained by the Columbia River, in southeastern British Columbia, which was the namesake of the pre-Oregon Treaty Columbia Department of the Hudson's Bay Company.

  7. San Diego State University - Wikipedia

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    The stadium hosted the San Diego State Aztecs football team, connected to the SDSU main campus by the San Diego State University Transit Center. The proposal, called SDSU West, was put to city voters in November 2017 where it won approval by 54%, beating out a competing commercial proposal called SoccerCity.

  8. Grand Rapids, Michigan - Wikipedia

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    After the French established territories in Michigan, Jesuit missionaries and traders traveled down Lake Michigan and its tributaries. [7]In 1806, white trader Joseph La Framboise and his Métis wife, Madeline La Framboise, traveled by canoe from Mackinac Island and established the first trading post in West Michigan in present-day Grand Rapids on the banks of the Grand River, near what is now ...