Look at the Aztecs, the Incas, Mesopotamia, the Mongols, The Europeans, Timbuktu, China, Japan. |
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If someone tells you they're going from here to Timbuktu you probably think they're on the road to nowhere. |
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Does a moth flapping its wings in Timbuktu have any effect on a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean? |
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Coca-cola may be the world's biggest and best known brand, an icon from Troon to Timbuktu. |
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Speaking of Timbuktu, that's where my next televised adventure's going to be from, and I must dash there. |
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Some of his collection are now on display at his house, whose architectural inspiration was a mud mosque in Timbuktu. |
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While you could just write to random addresses in Timbuktu, we have a foolproof system in place. |
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Also, since you're not moving to Timbuktu or anything, you can always visit your old stomping grounds. |
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They say that if you don't shut-up and listen they'll send you to Timbuktu. |
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Once in Timbuktu, we left for one night in the Sahara, in a touareg village, by dromedary. |
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I am the djinn of Timbuktu. He that finds me has two wishes. |
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A French colony until 1960, the area that is now Mali includes Timbuktu, the legendary trading center. |
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Mali contains many historic places of interest, such as Timbuktu and Djenné. |
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In one major shipment, 15 pinnaces carrying manuscripts left Timbuktu together. |
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Timbuktu has borrowed his stage name from the city with the same name in Mali, where his father has his roots. |
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It's a photo that was taken in Niafunké, a sand dune that stretches out like a beach along the Niger River on the road to Timbuktu. |
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Her already far away eyes began to beat a swift path for Timbuktu. |
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Ouadnagim is a Tuareg community of 1500 people who live in the Sahel desert on the far side of Timbuktu. |
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In its heyday Timbuktu was a hub of learning that grew rich on duties from the trans-Saharan trade in gold, ivory, salt and slaves. |
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They will need to drive the jihadists out of cities farther north, such as Timbuktu. |
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See articleIslamist militants attacked a 15th-century mosque in Mali's ancient city of Timbuktu. |
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A retired teacher from the high-school of Timbuktu decided in fact to teach in the desert. |
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It has made it possible for the desert school in the North of Timbuktu to get school equipment and support. |
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In the region of Timbuktu, for instance, eight villages of the Niafunke district benefit from a solar pumping system. |
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In the small town of Niafunké, in the Timbuktu region, Ali Farka Touré was more than a musician. |
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Perhaps inevitably, the women of Timbuktu were singled out for special persecution. |
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Lankester said that many of his Tuareg employees have left Timbuktu, Gao, and the surrounding cities. |
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For centuries the nomadic Tuaregs of the Sahara, warned off by legends of diabolical fumes and flames, have avoided camping in the dry lake beds around Timbuktu, Mall. |
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The mayor of Timbuktu, Halle Ousmane Cissé, has for the last ten months sought refuge in Mali's capital city, Bamako, and even he only possesses second-hand information. |
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April, 1,6 2010: In partnership with Veolia and ARP Development, a field project in Mali was launched to offer better access to safe water and sanitation to the inhabitants of Timbuktu. |
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It is also believed that the ruins at Great Zimbabwe and Timbuktu may have housed an astronomical observatory. |
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Mr Sidibé began his career in global health and development when he became concerned with the health and welfare of the nomadic Tuareg people in the Timbuktu region of his native Mali. |
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Even so, I suspect the academy will balk at the intensity of Timbuktu, which leaves the field to Leviathan and Ida – and either would be a deserving winner. |
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You can try every shop from here to Timbuktu, but you won't find another one like this. |
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You can be from Australia or Timbuktu and you can fish in that fishery. |
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I persuaded another young man who had the equipment, the rucksacks, the tents and all the rest of it, to hitchhike across France into Africa and across the Sahara desert to Timbuktu. |
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We have already successfully demonstrated the potential of such linkages through the community centres in Kothmale in Sri Lanka and Timbuktu in Mali. |
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On 4 and 5 December will visit the centre of the country where he will inspect a sand invasion project in Timbuktu and a programme for the creation of small irrigated areas in the Mopti region. |
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He left the capital in February accompanied by a local Malian merchant and journeyed overland by camel to Timbuktu. |
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After a short stay in Timbuktu, Ibn Battuta journeyed down the Niger to Gao in a canoe carved from a single tree. |
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Berbers set up communities In Mauritania near the Malian imperial capital of Timbuktu. |
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The fifteen tracks on Bazar savant resume Lo'Jo's musical nomadism to date, shifting from Saint-Petersburg to Vancouver, via San Francisco and Timbuktu. |
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Samuel Sidibe, the director of Mali's national museum, has asked Ansar Dine via the Red Cross if the manuscripts could be evacuated from Timbuktu. |
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For example, Timbuktu, Mali and Agadez, Niger are found in this zone. |
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Now, my little pesky pets, you're going to travel first-class in your own private compartment all the way to Timbuktu. And this time, you'll never come back. |
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Timbuktu has been the scene of reprisal attacks by black Malians against Arab and Tuareg residents accused of supporting the Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist rebels. |
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Morocco sent troops across the Sahara and attacked Timbuktu, Gao and some other important trading centres, destroying buildings and property and exiling prominent citizens. |
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One might even speak of a sharifian mini-empire, as the Sa'dids took control of the Saharan trade in gold and slaves, for a brief time as far as Timbuktu in East Africa. |
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