Word: baobab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tarquin Olivier, 22-year-old son of Cinemactor Sir Laurence, uncovered a graceful "D.L."-which the 19th century Kilroy had mentioned in his journal-carved in the trunk of a giant baobab tree. Doubtful at first, African scholars examined photographs of the find, agreed that the presumption was correct...
...diseases, injuries and causes of death, including 125 methods of suicide. But in those parts of the world that are not used to statistics, tabulating figures on who died of what has proved difficult. What good, for instance, is a death certificate written on the bark of a baobab tree along a branch of the upper Zambezi? So WHO decided that what it needed was something like the U.S. income-tax collector's 1040-A-a short form that nobody...