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... West Africa to the west . Its area is more than 100,000 square miles ( 260,000 square kilometres ) ; the part colloquially known as the desert is in central and western Botswana , north of the Molopo River , and south of the Chobe and ...
... West Africa to the west . Its area is more than 100,000 square miles ( 260,000 square kilometres ) ; the part colloquially known as the desert is in central and western Botswana , north of the Molopo River , and south of the Chobe and ...
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Rural and urban life ( 500 millimetres ) in the west to more than 40 inches in the southeast . Vegetation and animal life . Buffalo grass is native in the west and central areas of the state , bluestem around the Flint Hills , and ...
Rural and urban life ( 500 millimetres ) in the west to more than 40 inches in the southeast . Vegetation and animal life . Buffalo grass is native in the west and central areas of the state , bluestem around the Flint Hills , and ...
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... West had stimulated the upper classes , but under Nicho- las I they felt frustrated and dissatisfied . Two main groups appeared : the Westernizers and the Slavophiles . The Westernizers saw in the political institutions of the West and ...
... West had stimulated the upper classes , but under Nicho- las I they felt frustrated and dissatisfied . Two main groups appeared : the Westernizers and the Slavophiles . The Westernizers saw in the political institutions of the West and ...
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