Word: africa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prosperous half-century, tiny Belgium successfully ruled the vast, mineral-rich Congo with what seemed to be the most foolproof of colonial formulas: steady economic progress, combined with almost no political progress at all. But as the virus of nationalism spread across Africa and the newly autonomous republics of Charles de Gaulle's French Community sprang up throughout the continent, the Belgian Congo suddenly caught freedom fever. Early this year, after Leopoldville, capital of the Congo, exploded in the bloodiest race riots the colony had known in a decade (TIME, Jan. 19), Belgium hastily promised gradual independence "without fatal...
Nobel Peace Prizewinning Missionary-Physician Albert Schweitzer, 84, went to Copenhagen to accept a Sonning Prize (the Danish equivalent of a Nobel award and worth about $14,250), plus some $35,625 in other windfall gifts that will be applied to his famed jungle hospital in Gabon, central Africa. That evening, at a state banquet in Copenhagen's Christian-borg Castle, Dr. Schweitzer met another Nobelman, Denmark's aging (74) Atomic Physicist Niels Bohr, for the first time. Seated together, the two talked seriously, reportedly found themselves in complete agreement that nuclear test explosions should be stopped...
Albion last night began the initial course, "European Imperialism," with general comments on the migration and settlement of European peoples in the various climate regions of Africa, Asia, and the Americas...
...have been divided into distinct families labeled "A" and "B"; they crop up around the world in a variety of guises, e.g., Japanese "B" in eastern Asia; Murray Valley Fever in Australia; Mayaro and Ilheus in South and Central America; dengue in India and the West Indies; Chikungunya in Africa; Omsk hemorrhagic fever in Russia. Only a few of the forms circulate widely, even fewer represent great danger to human life. The virulent Japanese "B" variety has been spread across Asia by migrating herons, sometimes affects thousands in a summer. Some 2,800 died in Japan and Korea last year...
...futile expedition (1918-19) against the Bolsheviks at Archangel, served briefly (1939-40) as Chief of the British Imperial General Staff; of a heart attack; in London. Lord Ironside could speak 16 languages, once posed for two years (1900-02) as a Boer in the German army in Southeast Africa, so impressed his Prussian superiors that the young spy was awarded the German Military Service Medal...