A Brazilian shanty town in or near a city is known as a favela which first appeared in the late 19th century and were built by soldiers who had nowhere to live.
Best friends Sally and Dowee feature in the 2009 French-Australian animated children’s TV series Sally Bollywood: Super Detective, who solve cases in a multicultural suburb of a big, western city, "Cosmopolis".
Built on the western banks of the River Nile, Ondurman is the largest city in the African country of Sudan and is the Sudanese national centre of commerce.
South Australian born actor Josh Helman played Jeb Oliver opposite Tom Cruise in the 2012 movie Jack Reacher after starting his acting career in the Australian TV series Home and Away.
Palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life especially fossils. The science became established in the 18th century as a result of Georges Cuvier's work on comparative anatomy, and developed rapidly in the 19th century.
Shake Hands with the Devil (2007) and Shooting Dogs (2005) are films based on the Rwandan genocide.
Ambergis a solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull grey or blackish colour produced in the digestive system of sperm whales and is used to produce perfume.
The Queensland fruit fly – Bactrocera tryoni – is native to Australia.
On 6 February 1897, Joseph Dérigoin and his men of the French Foreign Legion stormed the Malagasy fortification using a ladder during the French occupation of Madagascar and subsequently took 3,000 prisoners.
Lyttelton Harbour is located on the South Island of New Zealand providing access to a busy commercial port at Lyttelton which includes a petroleum storage facility and a modern container and cargo terminal.
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