‹ The template Infobox language is being considered for merging. › South Rupununi Sign Language is an indigenous village sign language used in at least seven...
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perhaps three hundred sign languages in use around the world today. The number is not known with any confidence; new sign languages emerge frequently through...
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English is the official language of Guyana, which is the only South American country with English as the official language. Guyanese Creole (an English-based...
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The Rupununi uprising was a secessionist insurrection in Guyana that began on 2 January 1969 led by cattle ranchers who sought to control 22,300 square...
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Guyana (category 1966 establishments in South America)
single-drop waterfall in the world by volume. North of the Rupununi River lies the Rupununi savannah, south of which lie the Kanuku Mountains. The four longest...
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Guyana–Venezuela territorial dispute (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
1966) and Venezuelan instigation of the Rupununi uprising (January 1969) were succeeded by an agreement signed on June 18, 1970, which provided that neither...
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Guyana–Venezuela crisis (2023–present) (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
1966) and Venezuelan instigation of the Rupununi uprising (January 1969) were succeeded by an agreement signed on June 18, 1970, which provided that neither...
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Lake Parime (category Exploration of South America)
19th century. Some explorers proposed that the seasonal flooding of the Rupununi savannah may have been misidentified as a lake. Recent geological investigations...
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and Mozambique aligned themselves with the Soviet Union, and the West and South Africa sought to contain Soviet influence by funding insurgency movements...
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List of contemporary ethnic groups (category CS1 Turkish-language sources (tr))
9 May 2023. "Government Publishes Bill to recognise British Sign Language as a language of Gibraltar - 274/2022". Government of Gibraltar. 19 April 2022...
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the Rupununi savannah in half, creating the North Rupununi Savannah that is predominantly occupied by the Macushi people, and the South Rupununi Savannah...
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Forbes Burnham (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
Afro-Guyanese in Amerindian lands was a major contributing factor in the Rupununi Uprising. Guyanese journalist Freddie Kissoon expressed the opinion that...
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Paris Arbitral Award (category 1899 in South America)
the publication of the Mallet-Prevosst memorandum. This event led to the signing of Geneva Agreement on 17 February 1966, between both parties plus the...
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Republic of Venezuela (category Articles containing Spanish-language text)
Rafael Caldera won the next election. Before he took office in 1969, the Rupununi Uprising broke out in neighboring Guyana. The border controversy was resolved...
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2023 Venezuelan referendum (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
the time. The region's status is subject to the Geneva Agreement of 1966, signed by the governments of the United Kingdom, Venezuela, and British Guiana...
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Raleigh's El Dorado expedition (category 1595 in South America)
flooding of the Rupununi savannah may have been misidentified as such. The gold mine at El Callao (Venezuela), started in 1871 a few miles south of Orinoco...
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Alexander von Humboldt (category Botanists active in South America)
Walter Raleigh's Lake Parime by proposing that the seasonal flooding of the Rupununi savannah had been misidentified as a lake. On 24 November 1800, the two...
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Astyanax bimaculatus (category CS1 Portuguese-language sources (pt))
- A. argyrimarginatus, A. clavitaeniatus, A. goyacensis, A. novae, A. rupununi, A. saltor, A. siapae, A. unitaeniatus, A. utiariti, A. validus, A. abramis...
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History of Guyana (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
government came at the beginning of January 1969, with the Rupununi Uprising. In the Rupununi region in southwest Guyana, along the Venezuelan border, white...
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Gerald Durrell (section South America)
seashore to catch freshwater wildlife in the creeks; and to a ranch on the Rupununi savannah. The collection grew to include paradoxical frogs, margays, fer-de-lance...
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Venezuelan crisis of 1895 (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
United Kingdom settle the dispute by arbitration. President Grover Cleveland signed it on February 22, 1895, after passing both houses of the United States...
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