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Ivory Coast, or Côte d'Ivoire, is a country in West Africa. It shares borders with Guinea, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Burkina Faso. The Gulf of Guinea runs along its southern ...

The University of Delaware is a four-year institution of higher education. The school's sports teams are part of the Colonial Athletic Association.

William Wordsworth was one of the most prominent poets of mid-19th century British poetry. Along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge he helped form the Romantic Age and was a Poet ...

Robert Koch is the German doctor who discovered Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis. This discovery earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1902. However, Koch ...

Fax machine is used for sending and receiving hard copies of the documents. It works by converting the scanned document into electronic data and transmitting it over telephone lines. Fax ...

In 1832, the U.S. Congress commissioned Horatio Greenough to sculpt a marble statue of George Washington. Greenough based the statue on the classical Greek statue of Zeus.

Plunderathon is an annual pirate-themed festival in Portland, Oregon, United States that usually coincides with Fleet Week or the Rose Festival. Plunderathon is run by a group calling itself ...

Virtual Christmas Card is a page dedicated to bringing you information about Christmas cards, which can be designed on the Internet. Christmas is the major Christian celebration of the birth ...