• As of 2013, there were around 10,000 Somalis in Lewiston and Portland. In 2022 the number shrunk to around 6,000. In the 1990s, thousands of Somali immigrants...
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  • in Lewiston, Somalis have opened up community centers to cater to their community. In 2001, the non-profit organization United Somali Women of Maine (USWM)...
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  • resident Bantus. History of the Somalis in Maine Somali Bantu Foundation of Kansas, accessed 2012-09-12 L. Randol Barker et al., Principles of Ambulatory Medicine...
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  • helped them settle in. Somalis who had arrived earlier also assisted the more recent immigrants. Somalis in the Twin Cities and elsewhere in the United States...
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    caste" to Somalis, before they were forced to labor during slavery. Since migrating to Maine farming has become a part of life to some Somalis. Somali-American...
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  • Somalis. Among these phenotypic characteristics of the Bantu are kinky (jareer) hair, while Somalis are soft-haired (jilec). The majority of Somali Bantus...
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    Somali Americans are Americans of Somali ancestry. The first ethnic Somalis to arrive in the U.S. were sailors who came in the 1920s from British Somaliland...
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    culture and history. The East Cushitic Somali language is the shared mother tongue of ethnic Somalis, which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic...
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    The Somali diaspora or Qurbajoogta refers to Somalis who were born in Greater Somalia and reside in areas of the world that they were not born in. The...
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    Gary Gordon (category People from Lincoln, Maine)
    casualties on the Somalis, the two Delta snipers were outnumbered and outgunned. Their ammunition depleted, Gordon and Shughart were killed by Somali gunfire....
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  • when issues of immigration and refugee resettlement are once again ignited by the various wars around the world. History of Somalis in Maine Letter, The:...
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    of cruelty and violence against those Somalis who disagreed with or refused to submit to Hasan. These Somalis were "declared infidels" and Dervish soldiers...
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  • Americans Ethiopian Americans Kenyan Americans Somali Americans History of Somali Bantus in Maine South Sudanese Americans Sudanese Americans Tanzanian Americans...
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    Journal of International Affairs. Retrieved 3 February 2012. Cristian Tudor Popescu, Filmul surd în România mută: politică și propagandă în filmul românesc...
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  • The history of the area that is now the U.S. state of Louisiana, can be traced back thousands of years to when it was occupied by indigenous peoples. The...
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  • and from Cuban gentiles. Cuban Jewish history possibly begins in 1492 with the arrival of the second expedition of Christopher Columbus to the Americas...
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    The history of the Jews in France deals with Jews and Jewish communities in France since at least the Early Middle Ages. France was a centre of Jewish...
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    parallels the history of Jewish immigration to the United States. What initially brought people to these various towns around Maine was the promise of work, often...
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    Muḥammad ibn 'Abdallāh Hassan (category Articles containing Somali-language text)
    Mazie; Langellier, Kristin M.; Toner, Carol Nordstrom (7 June 2011). Somalis in Maine: Crossing Cultural Currents. North Atlantic Books. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-55643-926-1...
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    Making of Minnesota. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0816648689. Yusuf, Ahmed I. (December 15, 2012). Somalis in Minnesota (The People of Minnesota)...
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    and his shipmates captured five Wabanaki men in what is today Maine: "it was as much as five or sixe of us could doe to get them into the light horseman...
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    satellite. The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada linked Toronto and Montreal in 1853, then opened a line to Portland, Maine (which was ice-free) and lines to...
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  • for the lives of Americans living in Havana. In response, the battleship USS Maine was sent to Havana. On 15 February 1898, the Maine was destroyed by...
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  • responses. When the American battleship the USS Maine exploded for undetermined reasons in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, on 15 February 1898, the issue became...
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  • Massachusetts Bay Mosquito Coast Newfoundland New Hampshire New Ireland (Maine) New Jersey New York North Carolina North-Western Territory Pennsylvania...
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    187, which passed in 1994. In 1997, 80% of Jews supported the LAUSD school bond, then the largest such bond in history; and 71% of Jews supported Riordan...
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    Moss Side (category History of Manchester)
    at Maine Road in Moss Side between 1923 and 2003. Historically part of Lancashire, Moss Side was a rural township and chapelry within the parish of Manchester...
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  • throughout U.S. history. The extent of colonial settlements by 1800 is shown by this map from the University of Texas map collection. Maine was part of Massachusetts...
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    The angle increases in the clockwise position. North corresponds to 0°, so east is 90°, south is 180° and west is 270°. The history of the compass started...
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