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The oryx is a large antelope found in African deserts. They are about the size of donkeys, and both sexes carry long horns which are slightly curved in the Sudan oryx, and straight in the other species.
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The Secretary Bird (Serpentarius sagittarius or secretarius) is a crane-like African bird, found mainly in South Africa but extending north to the Sudan, which feeds on insects and reptiles. It received its name on account of pen- like tufts of feathers stuck at the back of the head. The bird has very long legs, standing more than a metre tall; the bill is short, strong and very arched; the neck is long; the tail has two greatly elongated and drooping feathers in the centre. The colouration is generally grey and black.
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The Achaeans were one of the four races into which the ancient Greeks were divided. In early times they inhabited a part of Northern Greece and of the Peloponnesus. They are represented by Homer as a brave and warlike people, and so distinguished were they that he usually calls the Greeks in general Achaeans. Latterly they were settled in the district of the Peloponnesus, called after them Achaia, and forming a narrow belt of coast on the south side of the Gulf of Corinth. From very early times a confederacy or league existed among the twelve towns of this region. After the death of Alexander the Great it was broken up, but was revived again, in 280 BC, and from this time grew in power until it spread over the whole Peloponnesus. It was finally dissolved by the Romans, in 147 BC, and after this the whole of Greece, except Thessaly, was called Achaia or Achgea. *Acholi
The Acholi are a farming and pastoral people of northern Uganda and southern Sudan.
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The Acholi are a farming and pastoral people of northern Uganda and southern Sudan.
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Sir Arthur Thomas Sloggett was a British army surgeon. He was born in 1857. He entered the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1881, became a colonel in 1903, surgeon-general in 1908, and director-general of army medical services in 1914. He was one of the most successful organisers of army medical services - though dangerously ignorant of psychological disorders such as shock, describing sufferers as 'lunatics' - a reputation he enhanced during the Great War. He served in numerous campaigns, including the Dongola Expeditionary Force of 1896, as senior medical officer during the Sudan campaign of 1897 to 1898 when he was serious wounded; and in the South African War. He was knighted in 1914 and made KCB in 1915. During the Great War he resisted attempts to treat soldiers suffering from what was subsequently realised to be shock, describing them as 'lunatics'.
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The Azande are an ethnically mixed Sudanic-speaking agricultural people found in south-west Sudan, Democratic Republic of The Congo (Zaire) and the Central African Republic. In the 18th century they were formed into a series of kingdoms by the Ambomu, led by the ruling Avongara clan. They are renowned for their elaborate system of beliefs in witchcraft, divination and magic.
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Sir Christopher Cradock was a British sailor. He was born in 1862 and died in 1914. He entered the Navy in 1875 and served in the Egyptian campaign in 1884 and the Sudan in 1891. He commanded the naval brigade at the relief of Peking in 1900 and was appointed rear-admiral in 1910. He went down on the Monmouth on November 1st 1914 whilst trying to protect southern trade routes during the Great War.
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The Dinka are a branch of the Nilotes, race of mixed Negro and Hamitic blood, inhabiting part of the Sudan. They are exceptionally tall, often reaching 7 ft, athletic and very proud.
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Douglas Haig (first earl Haig) was a British field marshal. He was born in 1861 and died in 1928. After seeing action in the Sudan in 1898 and during the South African War, he was given command of the 1st Army Corps in France in 1914 and in 1915 commanded the British Expeditionary Force in France during the Great War. Under pressure from the French commander, Joseph Joffre, he undertook the Battle of the Somme in 1916, which resulted in very heavy casualties and little territorial gain. Under the supreme command of Foch, Haig directed the final victorious assault on the Hindenburg line.
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