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    Île de Gorée (French pronunciation: [ildəɡoʁe]; "Gorée Island"; Wolof: Beer Dun) is one of the 19 communes d'arrondissement (i.e. districts) of the city...
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  • Gorée is an island in Senegal, Africa. Goree may also refer to: Goree, Texas, a city in Knox County in the US State of Texas Goeree-Overflakkee (historically...
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    established directly across from Gorée in the 17th century to service the European trading factory with food and drinking water. Gorée was captured by the United...
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    Eli Goree (born May 26, 1994) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his roles as Quincy in HBO's Ballers, Malik in Da Kink in My Hair (2007–2009)...
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  • The Goree Institute, formally The Goree Institute, Centre for Democracy, Development and Culture in Africa (French: L’Institut Gorée – Centre pour la Démocratie...
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    that Gorée played in the Atlantic slave trade, arguing that it is unlikely that many enslaved people actually walked through the door, and that Gorée itself...
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  • Union Sportive Gorée is a Senegalese football club based in Dakar. They play in the top division in Senegalese football. Their home stadium is Stade Demba...
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    The Capture of Gorée occurred in December 1758 when a British naval expedition led by Augustus Keppel against the French island of Gorée off the coast...
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  • Goree (Sinhala: ගෝරි) is a 2019 Sri Lankan Sinhala action-thriller film directed by Harsha Udakanda and produced by Nishantha Jayawardena for Hiruna Films...
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  • Goree Chester Carter or Christer Carter (December 31, 1930 – December 29, 1990), was an American singer, guitarist, drummer, and songwriter. He was also...
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  • Retour à Gorée (English: Return to Gorée) is a 2007 musical documentary road movie directed by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud, featuring singer Youssou N'Dour's...
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    The Thomas Goree Unit (GR) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice men's prison, located in Huntsville, Texas, 4 miles (6.4 km) south of downtown Huntsville...
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  • The Dakar-Gorée Swim (French: Traversée Dakar-Gorée) is an annual open water swimming event between the beach of Dakar and Gorée island. The competition...
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  • Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Goree, after the island of Gorée, and its capture by the British in 1758: HMS Goree was a 10-gun sloop launched in 1729...
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    Goree is a city in Knox County, Texas, United States. The population was 158 at the 2020 census, down from 203 at the 2010 census. Goree is located at...
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  • Cyesha Damian Goree (born August 4, 1993) is an American-Hungarian professional basketball player for the UNI Győr of the NB I/A|Nemzeti Bajnokság I/A...
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  • returned from France to Gorée on an unknown date. By birth she belonged to the privileged Afro-France signare community of Gorée: her sister Marie-Therese...
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  • 1977 : ASC Diaraf (Dakar) 1978 : US Gorée (Dakar) 1979 : AS Police (Dakar) 1980 : SEIB (Diourbel) 1981 : US Gorée (Dakar) 1982 : ASC Diaraf (Dakar) 1983 :...
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  • Roger Goree (born November 4, 1951) is an American former football player who played in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for eight seasons. Goree played...
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    Senegal into Senegambia. The British retook Gorée during the Anglo-French War; however, British possession of Gorée was brief. In 1783 the Treaty of Versailles...
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  • Plateau/Gorée Arrondissement is one of the four arrondissements of the Dakar Department in the Dakar Region of Senegal. It contains the communes d'arrondissement...
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    medallist with the Dutch eights in the 2004 Summer Olympics The island of Gorée in Senegal, notorious in the 18th century as a center for the slave trade...
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  • Seydou Sano (category US Gorée players)
    club Al-Gharafa. Sano began his senior career with the Senegalese club US Gorée. On 16 May 2023, he signed with the Portuguese club Braga on a 3-year contract...
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    Thomas Jewett Goree (November 14, 1835 – March 5, 1905) was a Confederate Captain in the First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil...
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  • and his African signare-mistress Caty de Rufisque of Gorée. Her mother was perhaps the first Gorée-signare who is documented. Louette became the signare-consort...
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  • C. P. "Roy" Goree was a college football player for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. He made All-Southern in 1911. Both his sons also played for Tech...
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    musician on the film's soundtrack. Retour à Gorée (2007) As himself, journeying from the island of Gorée to the USA and back, exploring the origins of...
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    businesswoman. She belongs to the most famous examples of the signares of Gorée, but has often been confused with her paternal aunt Anne Pépin. She was...
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    the mayor of Gorée in 2002, prominently featuring anti-erosion measures in his platform. Senghor is also the president of the US Gorée football club...
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  • and Freddie Slack (1946); Wynonie Harris' "Good Rocking Tonight" (1948); Goree Carter's "Rock Awhile" (1949); Jimmy Preston's "Rock the Joint" (1949),...
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