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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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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 Bambara are a Negroid people of west Africa living chiefly in Mali and by the headwaters of the River Niger in Guinea.
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The Dogon are inhabitants of Mali. They depend mainly on the cultivation of grain crops such as millet for their livelihood. Traditionally they lived in inaccessible villages on steep hill-sides - exhibiting famed skill as mountaineers and climbers, and this isolation encouraged the development of their remarkably intricate cosmology and mythology and more than thirty language dialects. To the Dogon, myths and symbolism are as real as the material form of things, and every aspect of social life reflects the working of the universe.
Dogon villages, for instance, are laid out in such a way as to symbolize the world egg out of which all life is believed to originate. Each district has its own spiritual leader, or hogon; nevertheless, the knowledge of myths and symbols is not confined to a priest-caste but is open to anyone who has the patience and intelligence to learn. The Dogon houses are called a ginna and are made in the shape of a human body. Each Dogon village also has a togu na or man's shelter where the men and village elders loaf around, talk and smoke, and women are barred.
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The Mandingos are a people of west Africa living in Mali, Senegal and the Ivory Coast. They speak a Sudanic language, Mandingo.
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The Songhai (Sonrhai) are a Negroid people of Mali and the Niger basin in the southern Sahara region of Africa. They are a tall, slender race, deep brown in colouration with thin lips, a straight nose and black ringlet hair. As a race they have over the years intermixed with Libyan and Arab peoples.
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The Tellem were a people of what is now Mali in West Africa. They disappeared during the 16th century
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Sajara is the Rainbow-god of the Songhai people of eastern Mali. He is represented by a forked tree where a white ram is sacrificed to him.
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Otherworld (Y Mabinogi) is a part-animated adventure starring Ioan Gruffudd, Daniel Evans, Jenny Livsey, Matthew Rhys, Sue Jones-Davies, Peter Gruffydd, Robert Gwyndaf, Mali Harries and Philip Madoc in a story based upon the Welsh myths of Y Mabinogi (The Mabinogion) about three troubled teenagers who discover a portal in the ocean and decide to try and enter it themselves and find themselves in the mythical land of Otherworld. Otherworld was directed by Derek W Hayes in 2003.
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ML is an abbreviation for Mali
ML is an abbreviation for Middle Latin
ML is an abbreviation for Materials Laboratory
ml is an abbreviation for millilitre
ml is an abbreviation for mile or miles
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