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    Benin (/bɛˈniːn/ ben-EEN, /bɪˈniːn/ bin-EEN; French: Bénin [benɛ̃] , Fon: Benɛ, Fula: Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (French: République du...
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    13th-century Benin Bronzes are in fact brass, and the 12th-century Romanesque Baptismal font at St Bartholomew's Church, Liège is sometimes described as bronze and...
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  • The Benin Basketball Super League (French: Super Ligue de Basket-ball du Bénin), for sponsorships known as the YouZou Ligue Pro, is the highest level basketball...
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    "LOI n° 2020-1673 du 24 décembre 2020 relative à la restitution de biens culturels à la République du Bénin et à la République du Sénégal (1)". 24 December...
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    Later West African cultures developed bronze casting for reliefs to decorate palaces like the famous Benin Bronzes, and very fine naturalistic royal heads...
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    art historians. West African cultures developed bronze casting for reliefs, like the famous Benin Bronzes, to decorate palaces and for highly naturalistic...
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    important phosphate mining company, the Compagnie Togolaise des Mines du Bénin (CTMB or Cotomib). His C-47 was replaced by a new presidential jet, Gulfstream...
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  • in Vitry sur Seine. He also became managing director of the Compagnie du Bénin. He successively became treasurer, vice-president and member of the office...
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  • Valentin Houinato (category Olympic judoka for Benin)
    Jeux Olympiques avec le Bénin" [Seine-et-Marne: Originally from Cesson, Valentin Houinato aims for the Olympic Games with Benin]. Actu.fr (in French)....
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    slavers (the Maison du Brésil), a Vodun python temple, an early twentieth century basilica and the Sacred Forest of Kpasse, dotted with bronze statues. The Route...
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    corpus of objects now known in modern discourse as the 'Benin Bronzes'. The Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro was the first anthropological museum in Paris...
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  • Late Ex-Army Chief of Staff Yusuf Gowon Geoffrey Alfred Hickinbottom Bénin: décès du professeur Paulin Hountondji (in French) 中国数学界第一位女院士胡和生逝世 (in Chinese)...
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    art historians. West African cultures developed bronze casting for reliefs, like the famous Benin Bronzes, to decorate palaces and for highly naturalistic...
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    Zakari (1981). "Routes de commerce et mise en place des populations du Nord du Bénin actuel". Publications de la Société française d'histoire des outre-mers...
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    (2 million), Pont du Gard (1.5 million), Arc de Triomphe (1.2 million), Mont Saint-Michel (1 million), Sainte-Chapelle (683,000), Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg...
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  • The Last Witch Country located in Western Europe. Thessalie Un Journaliste du Siècle dernier, La Tunique de Nessus (1900) Its king Carle is a lover of the...
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    repatriation. German museums joined the Benin Dialogue Group and have announced their willingness to restitute Benin Bronzes. To further cooperation with Tanzania...
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    Réseau des Chemins de Fer du Togo from 1997 to 1998. Between Hahotoé and the port of Kpémé, the Compagnie Togolaise des Mines du Bénin (CTMB) operated phosphate...
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    until independence in 1960 and 1961 respectively. The Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC) political party advocated independence but was outlawed by...
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    sénégalais de la Culture et de la Francophonie », Jeune Afrique, no 2551, du 29 novembre au 5 décembre 2009, p. 41. Jake Flanagin (22 July 2015). "These...
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    "Histoire du château" (in French). Musée archéologie nationale. Retrieved 3 April 2018. Histoire du musée – Musée. Eugène Millet – Société des Amis du Musée...
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    West Africa which make up the West African Economic and Monetary Union: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo...
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    4 January 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2018. "Ryšio kokybės žemėlapis rodo: du operatoriai lygūs, trečias – iš paskos". 15min.lt. Archived from the original...
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  • reçoit l'Afrique du 13 au 25 août". STADES (in French). Retrieved 2024-10-13. "CHAMPIONNAT D'AFRIQUE JUNIOR DE BADMINTON SENEGAL 2024:Le Bénin rentre au bercail...
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  • looted artefacts, including the Benin Bronzes. Shyllon retired from Ibadan in 2005. He was made Fellow of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University...
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  • Rwanda, Malawi, Benin, Kenya, and Afghanistan. He received numerous military decorations during his service, including the Bronze Star, National Defense...
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    similarities with the Nok terracottas, the bronze figurines of the Yoruba Ife Empire and the Bini kingdom of Benin may also be continuations of the traditions...
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    (divine king) at the palace in Benin. Among the wide range of artistic forms produced at the court were rectangular brass or bronze plaques. At least a portion...
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  • George Schmidt Wayne Schurr Peter Shapiro Leonard (Len) Michael Skowronski Bénin : L’ancienne ministre Evelyne H. Amelie Sossouhounto a tiré sa révérence...
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    L'athlète Akpovi Gbodja Agossou Cosme représente le Bénin - Bénin Monde Infos | Actualité du Bénin et du Monde en temps réel | Politique, culture, sport,...
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