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Bulungu

Bulungu, Kasai-Occidental, a town in the Lulua District of Kasai-Occidental province of the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo.


Bebearia zonara

It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Mayumbe, Ubangi, Mongala, Uele, Ituri, Tshopo, Equateur, Cataractes, Kasai, Sankuru and Lualaba) and Uganda (Bwamba and Toro).

Bowdoin prize

Jonathan Veitch, 1988, historian and president of Occidental College (graduate, English)

Bulungu

Bulungu, Bandundu, a community in the Kwilu District of Bandundu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Carlos Hilado Memorial State College

On November 24, 2000, Carlos Hilado Memorial State College acquired another satellite campus with the integration of the Negros Occidental School of Fisheries in Binalbagan, Negros Occidental into the state college.

Cordillera Mountains

Andes in South-America (Cordillera Oriental, Cordillera Occidental, and Chile's Cordillera de la Costa)

DCV Balder

In 1978 Occidental’s Piper Alpha was the first platform installation with a Semi Submersible Crane Vessel.

El Fuerte, Sinaloa

El Fuerte was a chief trading post for silver miners and gold seekers from the Urique and Batopilas mines in the nearby mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental and its branches.

El Occidental

El Occidental is a Mexican newspaper founded on August 5, 1942 in the city of Guadalajara.

Frank Lambert

Frank L. Lambert (born 1918), professor emeritus of chemistry at Occidental College, Los Angeles

Fuchsia Dunlop

A fluent Mandarin speaker, Dunlop was the first occidental to train as a chef at the Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine in Chengdu, Sichuan, China.

Guimaras oil spill

In the south-southeast of the spill site is located the Sulu Sea, a deep-water area frequented by commercially valued fish such as Blue marlin and the Yellowfin tuna, prized by the towns of southern Negros Occidental province as an important source of income for the communities.

Haina Occidental Port

The Haina Occidental Port is located in the Haina River, Haina, Dominican Republic.

Huachuca Mountains

Along the trails there are opportunities to see a number of rare butterflies of Arizona (see List of butterflies and moths of Arizona), as well as plants that are more commonly found in the Sierra Madre Occidental.

Humboldt Penguin

One of the 135 Humboldt penguins from Tokyo Sea Life Park (Kasai Rinkai Suizokuen) thrived in Tokyo Bay for 82 days after apparently scaling the 13 feet high wall and through the fence into the bay.

Ilebo

Ilebo, formerly known as Port-Francqui, is a town in Kasaï District, Kasaï-Occidental province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, lying at the highest navigable point of the Kasaï River.

Interlinguistics

The most prosperous were Volapük (1879, Johann Martin Schleyer), Esperanto (1887 Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof), Latino sine flexione (1903, Giuseppe Peano), Ido (1907, Louis Couturat), Occidental-Interlingue (1922, Edgar de Wahl) and Interlingua (1951, IALA and Alexander Gode), with Esperanto being the only one still gathering a considerable community of active speakers today.

Io Shirai

On October 14, 2010, Shirai, working under the ring name Biba Kasai, made her debut for International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) at an event in Naucalpan, Mexico, where she teamed with Mini Abismo Negro, Monster Clown and Yuriko to defeat El Hijo de Cien Caras, Mari Apache, Mascarita Divina and Pasión Cristal via disqualification in an eight person tag team match.

Kasai Allstars

In 2011, Kasai Allstars took part in the Congotronics vs Rockers project, a "superband" including ten Congolese and ten indie rock musicians (also including members of Deerhoof, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Konono No.1, Skeletons and Juana Molina), who collaborated to create a common repertoire and performed at 15 major festivals and venues in ten countries.

Kasaï-Occidental

The province is divided into the Kasaï and Lulua districts, with their headquarters in the towns of Luebo and Tshimbulu.

Kasaï-Oriental

Friction with Congo's other ethnic groups and encouragement by Belgian corporations hoping to keep their mining concessions led to the secession of the province of South Kasai as a separate state headed by Albert Kalonji.

Kazumba

Kazumba Territory, a territory in Kasai-Occidental province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Kazumba, Kasai-Occidental, a settlement in Kasai-Occidental province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Kelly Candaele

He has lectured at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Occidental College, and University of California, Irvine.

La Consolacion College–Bacolod

Modesto P. Sa-onoy - renowned historian of Bacolod and Negros Occidental

Li Europan lingues

Li Europan lingues is a quotation in Occidental, an international auxiliary language devised by Edgar von Wahl in

Loange River

Originating in Angola, the river flows north through the eastern part of Kwango District, then continues north along the boundary between Kwilu District and Kasaï District to its mouth on the Kasai.

Mai-Ndombe District

The Lukenie joins with the Fimi River, which drains Lake Mai-Ndombe and continues westward to form the boundary with Plateaux District and joins the Kasai at Mushie.

Mbunda people

In the southern route, to the south of the confluence of Kwilu and Kasai rivers, the fifth Mbunda Monarch, King Mwene Chinguli traveled all the way south to the now Cuando Cubango chasing the Bushmen and replacing them in the new found lands with the Mbunda descendants who were later known as the Chimbandi, the Ngonjelo, the Humbi, the Luimbi and the Nyemba.

Misamis

Ozamiz, previously known as Misamis, in Misamis Occidental

Nasreen Jalil

Her interest in learning the Occidental languages and literatures motivated her to go to Paris in 1963 and learn the French language.

Negros Occidental High School

Sometime in 1902, former leaders of the Republica de Negros, Ex-minister of Justice Antonio Ledesma Jayme and Ex-provincial Governor Melecio Severino exerted efforts for the opening of the a secondary school in Occidental Negros which they named Instituto Rizal, now Negros Occidental High School.

North Kivu

However, Wibasira was suspected of complicity with the soldiers in Goma who triggered a mutiny in Bukavu in February 2004, and on 23 January 2005 he was switched with Gabriel Amisi Kumba, at the time commander of the Fifth Military Region in Kasaï-Oriental.

Nungambakkam

Nungambakkam is also the Occidental cultural district of Chennai, being home to the Alliance Française and Max Mueller Bhavan.

ODECO

ODECO rigs continued to rack up “firsts” in the industry in the 1970s, with Ocean Viking discovering the giant Ekofisk Field for Phillips Petroleum in the North Sea, and Ocean Victory discovering the Piper and Claymore fields, also in the North Sea, for Occidental Petroleum.

Olimpia Occidental

Club Deportivo Olimpia Occidental is a Honduran soccer club based in La Entrada, Honduras.

Qassab

They are also known as Chikwa, Bare Qasai, Bakar Qasai and very often Kasai.

Ray R. Irani

Prior to working for Occidental, he was president and chief operating officer of Olin Corporation, a chemicals and metals company.

Rotuman people

This can be attributed to the high ratio of Caucasians to Rotumans in the early days of exposure to white people, when Rotuma became a haven to mutineers and stow-aways who appreciated the beauty of the island and found prosperity as the trading advisers to local chiefs when dealing with Occidental ships.

Rulers of Mbundaland

That made her brother Prince Munamwene Nkonde to become so incensed with her conduct that he led most of the Mbunda in frustration anger from Namampongwe and to re-establish the Mbunda Kingdom at the confluence of Kwilu and Kasai rivers.

The following is a complete list of rulers of the Mbunda Kingdom, established at the confluence of Kwilu and Kasai rivers in the now Democratic Republic of the Congo in the fifteenth century.

Rural Bank of Marayo

It has two other branches located at E.B. Magalona, Negros Occidental and with its acquisition of the branch of the Rural Bank of Barotac Nuevo in Banate, Iloilo.

and Banate Iloilo, Rural Bank of Marayo has helped in the development of the town of Banate in Iloilo and its home town in Pontevedra Negros Occidental.

Septentrional

The term, sometimes abbreviated to "Sep.", was used in historical astronomy to indicate the northern direction on the celestial globe, together with Meridional ("Mer.") for southern, Oriental ("Ori.") for eastern and Occidental ("Occ.") for western.

Shuwa language

Shuwa (Shoobo), or Pianga (Pyaang), once considered a dialect of Bushong, is a Bantu language of Kasai-Oriental Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Western Institute

The Western Institute in Poznań (Polish: Instytut Zachodni, German West-Institut, French: L'Institut Occidental) is a scientific research society focusing on the Western provinces of Poland - Kresy Zachodnie (including Greater Poland, Silesia, Pomerania), history, economy and politics of Germany, and the Polish-German relations in history and today.


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