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    Georgetown was named after King George III when the city was recaptured by the British in 1812. It is situated on the Atlantic Ocean coast at the mouth of the Demerara River and was nicknamed "Garden City of the Caribbean.". The local climate is tropical, hot and humid, and moderated by northeast trade winds. The average maximum daytime temperature year-round is 86°F (30°C).
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    Guyana, officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is the only English-speaking country in South America. It is also one of four non-Spanish-speaking countries on the continent, along with the Brazil (Portuguese) and Suriname (Dutch) and the French overseas region of French Guiana (French). Culturally it is more associated with the Caribbean than with Latin America.
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    South America is a continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the western hemisphere and mostly in the southern hemisphere. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean.North America and the Caribbean Sea lie to the northwest. The continent was named in 1507 by cartographs Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann after Amerigo Vespucci ...
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    Central America is the region of North America located between the southern border of Mexico and the northwest border of Colombia, in South America.Some geographers classify Central America as a large isthmus, and in this geographic sense it sometimes includes the portion of Mexico east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, namely the Mexican states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán and ...
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    Janet Rosalie Jagan née Rosenberg (October 20, 1920 - March 28, 2009) was the first woman President of Guyana and South America's second woman head of state, serving from December 19, 1997 to August 11, 1999. She succeeded her husband, who died on March 6, 1997. In 1950, the Jagans co-founded the People's Progressive Party (PPP) of which Janet was Secretary-General until 1970.
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    French Guiana is an overseas department of France, located on the northern coast of South America.Like the other French departments, French Guiana is an overseas region of France, one of 26 regions of France. As a part of France, French Guiana is thus part of the European Union's territory, and its currency is the euro.. Its population of 202,000, most of whom live along the coast, is very ...
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    Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university, located in Washington, DC's Georgetown neighborhood. Father John Carroll founded the school in 1789, though its roots extend back to 1634. While the school struggled financially in its early years, Georgetown expanded into a branched university after the U.S. Civil War under the leadership of university president Patrick Francis ...
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    The Cayman Islands are a largely self-governing British dependency located in the Caribbean Sea.Comprised of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, the Cayman Islands are a three-island archipelago lying between Cuba and Central America.They are located 268 km northwest of Jamaica and 240 km south of Cuba. Its geographic coordinates are 19°30 north, 80°30 west.
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    Coordinates: 16.919° N 121.059° E The Banaue Rice Terraces (Hagdan-hagdang Palayan ng Banaue), 2000 year old terraces, had been carved into the mountains of Ifugao in the Philippines by ancestors of the Batad indigenous people. The Banaue terraces constitute part of the Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras, ancient sprawling human-made structures from 2,000 to 6,000 years old.
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    The Rhodesian Bush War, also known as the Second Chimurenga or the Zimbabwe Liberation Struggle, was a war which lasted from July 1964 to 1979 and led to universal suffrage, the end of white minority-rule in Rhodesia, and the creation of the Republic of Zimbabwe.The Smith and government fought against Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union and Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's ...

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