Goa Joined India After 36-Hour Operation Vijay in 1961
Goa was not part of British India and remained under Portuguese rule when India became independent in 1947. Portugal had established control there in 1510. After years of failed diplomacy and a…
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Namibia’s diamond ghost town Kolmanskop buried by sand
Kolmanskop, a former diamond mining town in the Namib desert, is now abandoned and slowly being swallowed by sand. The settlement grew rapidly after 1908, when railway worker Zacherias Lewala found diamonds…
Ivory Coast’s talking drum looted by France returns home
The Djidji Ayokwe, a sacred talking drum looted by French colonial troops in 1916, returned to its home village in Ivory Coast on Friday, the country's independence day. It was the first…
