second given name "Ronaldo" was chosen after then-U.S. president Ronald Reagan‚ who was his father’s favourite actor. He has one older brother‚ Hugo‚ and two older sisters‚ Elma and Liliana Cátia. His great-grandmother Isabel da Piedade was from Cape Verde. How he become famous: It was through his dad’s work as an equipment manager at a boy’s club that Ronaldo was first introduced to the game of soccer. By the time he was 10 years old‚ he was already recognized as a phenomenon—a kid who ate
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Portuguese. MEMBER STATES ECOWAS has currently 15 members‚ namely: DATE COUNTRY STATUS NOTES 28 May 1975 Benin‚ Burkina Faso‚ Cote d’Ivoire‚ Gambia‚ Ghana‚ Guinea-Bissau‚ Liberia‚ Mali‚ Nigeria‚ Senegal‚ Sierra Leone‚ Togo Full members 1977 Cape Verde Full member 28 May 1975 Guinea‚ Niger Suspended members Guinea after the 2008 coup d’état. Niger after the 2009 coup d’état. BRIEF HISTORY The call for a West African community was made by President William Tubman of
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lot to fulfil this demand. Those merchants traveled and traded gold‚ slaves‚ and ivory(page 35). By the 1498‚ Portugal had already capitalised commercial empire in India‚ Indonesia‚ and China(page 35)‚ thanks to Bartolomeu Dias who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and found out that was also possible to sail to India and China (page
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Spanish rulers‚ Ferdinand and Isabella enlisted papal support to claim to the entire New World‚ and the Spanish-born pope Alexander VI set up a line of demarcation from pole to pole one-hundred leagues‚ about three-hundred twenty miles‚ west of the Cape Verde Islands‚ allowing Spain to claim the West of the demarcation line as their own‚ and gave the East to Portugal (Bown‚ 2012). This prevented Portugal from exploring in most parts of the world and using certain parts of the sea for voyages (Williams
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one of the tools that as a scientist‚ you would use aboard the HMS Challenger. Include how the instrument is used‚ and describe what types of organisms or samples were recovered using the instrument. Day 1: It is January 2‚ 1872. We just passed Cape Verde on this hot sunny day. Today I am going to begin looking more into this new type of algae I found this morning. I will use my microscope to see what unique characteristics this algae has to compare to other types. I believe this algae is nothing
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US I AP Chapter 1 Study Guide The fall of Rome and the Dark Ages The Dark Ages: * Dark Ages: the time period in Western Civilization that began after the fall of Rome to the Goths in 476 CE * Life during the Dark Ages * Violent * City life withered * Sewage systems stopped working * People lived in shacks and struggled to get food * Literacy is almost 0% * Bubonic Plague appears People and the Roman Catholic Church: * The only saving grace during this time
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European Validation of Slavery . In Jennifer L. Morgan’s article titled‚ “Some Could Suckle Over Their Shoulder”‚ the author says‚ “This article focuses on the way in which racialist discourse was deeply imbued with ideas about gender and sexual difference that‚ indeed‚ became manifest only in contact with each other.” From analyzing the article‚ we see that the author argues that even before the European travelers made any contact with Native American or African people‚ they already had the perception
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Universal Children’s Day Saturday‚ Nov. 20‚ is Universal Children’s Day‚ as declared by the United Nations‚ and a new survey of children illuminates the wants and needs of kids living in poverty. Children’s Day is celebrated on various days in many places around the world‚ to honor children globally. It was established in 1954 to protect children working long hours in dangerous circumstances and allow all children access to an education. The UN General Assembly recommended that all countries should
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There were a variety of responses on the part of African peoples to colonial rule. Supporters of colonialism in Europe claimed that the average African person welcomed colonialism. Colonialism‚ they argued‚ brought the end of slavery in East and Central Africa and brought a stop to inter-kingdom warfare in parts of West Africa. While there is some truth to the claim that colonialism brought peace to a few areas in Africa‚ and that there were some peoples who were initially thankful for an end to
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Guatemala City 27 Burundi ----> Bujumbura 67 Guinea ----> Conakry 28 Cambodia ----> Phnom Penh 68 Guinea-Bissau ----> Bissau 29 Cameroon ----> Yaounde 69 Guyana ----> Georgetown 30 Canada ----> Ottawa 70 Haiti ----> Port-au-Prince 31 Cape Verde ----> Praia 71 Honduras ----> Tegucigalpa 32 Central African Republic ----> Bangui 72 Hungary ----> Budapest 33 Chad ----> N’Djamena 73
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