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The ISO (International Standards Organisation) assigns a two character code to each country name. These codes are used by Internet 'whois' databases (these two character abbreviations are the whois country codes) and also other applications.
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Colobus is a genus of endangered African monkeys whose members are remarkable for their silky hair and tufted tails. Colobus monkeys live in the rain forests of Liberia, Ivory Coast and Ghana in west Africa.
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The Diana Monkey (Cercopithecus diana) is an endangered species of monkey of the family Cercopithecidae found in the middle layer of tropical rain forests of Liberia, Ivory Coast and Ghana. The Diana Monkey is predominantly black with a white crescent on the forehead resembling the symbol of the goddess Diana and whence the name Diana monkey, white beard, chest, and throat; a white stripe along each thigh; and a deep reddish patch on the back. It is whitish, yellowish, or reddish on the inside of the thighs. The Diana Monkey is fast reducing in numbers due to the logging of the forests and the replanting of them with non-native species of trees.
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The Guinean N'Dama (also known as the Fouta Djallon, Fouta Jallon, Fouta Malinke, Fouta Longhorn, Futa and Malinke) is a dwarf to miniature breed of dairy and beef cattle spread over most of Guinea, over south- western Mali, Kedougou and south Senegal Oriental, Senegal. It is also found in Sierra Leone - representing the only indigenous breed, across northern Liberia, and in the north-west corner of Ivory Coast.
N'Dama cows weigh about 250 kg and bulls about 300 kg. The head is rather short and heavy but much finer in the cows. The body is deep and cylindrical and the legs are short and fine, with strong hooves. They stand about one metre in height and have crescent-shaped horns in the bulls and lyre-shaped horns in the cows, of varied length, although there are also a few polled individuals. N'Dama are two-thirds fawn to brown in colour; the rest vary from black to white or are pied. In High Guinea the size increases and the brown colour darkens, although one in ten of forest N'Dama are pied.
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The Mende are a west African people living in the rainforests of central east Sierra Leone and west Liberia. They number approximately one million. The Mende are farmers as well as hunter-gatherers, and each of their villages is led by a chief and a group of elders. The Mende language belongs to the Niger-Congo family.
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Robert Field Stockton was an American sailor. He was born in 1795 and died in 1866. The grandson of Richard Stockton, he was in the navy in the War of 1812, and was distinguished in the ensuing Algerine War. He was engaged in the establishment of Liberia and in the capture of slavers and pirates. He was the chief promoter of the Delaware and Raritan Canal. As a captain he commanded a squadron on the California coast in the Mexican War, and co-operated with Fremont in the conquest of that province. He captured Los Angeles, and organized a government. Commodore Robert Stockton left the navy in 1850 and was US Senator from New Jersey from 1851 to 1853. He was a delegate to the Peace Congress of 1861.
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LR is an abbreviation for Liberia
LR is an abbreviation for Living Room
LR is an abbreviation for Long Run
LR is an abbreviation for Low Rate
LR is an abbreviation for Lower Right
LR is an abbreviation for Long Rifle
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A flag of convenience is the national flag of a small country, such as Panama, Liberia, Honduras, or Costa Rica, flown by a ship that is registered in one of these countries, although the ship is owned by a national of another country. The practice of registering ships in these countries, and sailing them under flags of convenience, grew up in the post-war years and still continues. The object for the ship owners is to avoid taxation and the more stringent safety and humanitarian conditions imposed on ships and their crews by the larger sea-going nations.
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Mount Barclay is a hill in Liberia. It was the site of Liberia's first rubber plantation established in 1907.
Barclay is a township in Osage County, Kansas, USA.
Barclay is a township in Cass County, Minnesota, USA.
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Grain Coast is a former name of Liberia
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