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2 unusual facts about Guinea-Bissau


Aristide Menezes

Aristide Menezes (1947 – 7 February 1994) was a political figure in Guinea-Bissau who led the Democratic Front, the first opposition party to be legalized.

Guinea-Bissau War of Independence

The PAIGC had already unilaterally proclaimed the country's independence a year before in the village of Madina do Boé, an event that had been recognized by many socialist and non-aligned member states of the United Nations.


1815 in poetry

Lord Byron, Hebrew Melodies, including "She Walks in Beauty", "The Destruction of Sennacherib" published in April with musical settings; though expensive at a cost of one guinea, over 10,000 copies sell; by summer, an edition of Byron's poems without the musical settings is published.

A Shabby Genteel Story

Unfortunately, he is not wealthy enough to support his tastes and is in Margate because he can hide from his Creditors there: "He was free of his money; would spend his last guinea for a sensual gratification; would borrow from his neediest friend; had no kind of conscience or remorse left, but believed himself to be a good-natured, devil-may-care fellow; had a good deal of wit, and indisputably good manners, and pleasing, dashing frankness in conversation with men."

A. cinnamomea

Aglaia cinnamomea, a plant species found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

Almami Moreira

Born in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, Moreira reached Boavista FC's youth ranks in 1995, but started out professionally with northern neighbours Gondomar S.C. and Gil Vicente FC, on loan.

Australian War Memorial

Notable displays on the Western side include a complete and particularly historic Lancaster bomber known as G for George, a Japanese Ko-hyoteki class midget submarine sunk during a raid on Sydney Harbour in 1942, rare German aircraft such as the Me 262 and Me 163, and a restored Japanese A6M Zero, that was flown in combat over New Guinea.

Ballamodou Conde

Ballamodou "Balla" Conde (born 18 October 1973 in Conakry) is a retired Guinean footballer, who played as a midfielder.

Bayot language

Bayot (Baiot, Baiote, Bayotte) is a language of southern Senegal, southwest of Ziguinchor in a group of villages near Nyassia, in northwestern Guinea-Bissau, along the Senegalese border, and in the Gambia.

Bernard Narokobi

In April 2009, The Guardian described him as one of Papua New Guinea's "living national icons", along with Michael Somare and Mal Michael.

Bismarck Sea

By the Northern and Northeastern coasts of the islands of New Ireland, New Hanover, the Admiralty Islands, Hermit Island, and the Ninigo Group, through Manu and Aua Islands to Wuvulu Island and thence a line to Baudissin Point in New Guinea (142°02'E).

Bolwarra

Eupomatia laurina, a shrub originating from Australia and New Guinea, providing an Australian spice.

C. major

Copiula major, a frog species found in Indonesia and possibly Papua New Guinea

C. robustum

Calophyllum robustum, a flowering plant species found only in Papua New Guinea

C17H26O3

Paradol, the active flavor constituent of the seeds of Guinea pepper

Carlos Gomes Júnior

He was a delegate to PAIGC's Fifth Congress in December 1991, and in the first multiparty elections, held in 1994, he was elected to the National People's Assembly of Guinea-Bissau from the 26th Electoral District.

Cassamá

Cipriano Cassamá, politician in Guinea-Bissau and a member of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde

Death adder

All members of the genus Acanthophis, a group of highly venomous elapids found in Australia and New Guinea

Doura

For the town in Guinea see Doura, Guinea, for the Palestinian town in Hebron, see Dura, Hebron, for the neighborhood in Baghdad, see Dora, Baghdad

Eucalypt

Eucalyptus deglupta has naturally spread the furthest from its Eucalyptus genus Australian geographic origins, as the only species known growing naturally in the nearby northern hemisphere, from New Guinea to New Britain, Sulawesi, Seram Island to Mindanao, Philippines.

Evolution of the Dutch Empire

Dutch New Guinea was retained separately until 1962, when it was transferred to Indonesia under pressure from the United States amid the escalation of the Vietnam War.

Fe'i banana

More recent genetic studies suggest they are close to M. lolodensis and M. peekelii, both from New Guinea and neighbouring islands.

Francisco Mendes

In addition to his face being featured in 500 Pesos Guineense, many schools and streets bearing his name can be seen throughout Guinea-Bissau, and Francisco Mendes International Airport in Praia, Cape Verde was named in his honour.

González Gil-Pazó GP-1

The single seat GP-2 was flown by Lorenzo Richi in March 1936 from Madrid to Bata in what was then Spanish Guinea at an average speed of 187 km/h (116 mph).

Herman van Speult

On 21 January 1623 had he prepared two ships for an expedition to islands near New Guinea, to map more of New Guinea, and to explore for "the South Land".

History of Guinea

France negotiated Guinea's present boundaries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the British for Sierra Leone, the Portuguese for their Guinea colony (now Guinea-Bissau), and Liberia.

HMAS Uralba

She was based in Brisbane as a minefield tender for a couple of years before moving to Milne Bay, New Guinea as a stores and armaments carrier.

Jamie Brazier

Jamie Brazier made his debut for Papua New Guinea in an ICC Trophy warm-up match against Scotland at the Kaiteur Cricket Club in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.

Japanese transport Oigawa Maru

She left Rabaul, New Britain on 1 March 1943, as part of Operation 81, carrying a cargo of troops, equipment, fuel, landing craft and ammunition for Lae, New Guinea.

Joseph Clemens

The couple had never had any children, and Mary spent the rest of her life, from the outbreak of war in the Pacific when she was evacuated from New Guinea, in Australia, most of it working at the Queensland Herbarium.

Justo Bolekia Boleká

His work has been studied by American professors interested in Afro-Hispanic literary production, and has been included in anthologies of poetry (Literatura de Guinea Ecuatorial, de Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo y Mbare Ngom Faye, 2000; La voz y la escritura 2006: 80 nuevas propuestas poéticas, 2006).

K. David Harrison

Harrison has done field work on endangered languages in Siberia and Mongolia Tuvan, Tsengel Tuvan, Tofa, Ös, Tuha, Monchak, Munda, and also in Paraguay, Chile, Papua New Guinea, and India.

Kay Dudman

The cavy family Caviidae includes the domestic guinea pig; and Dudman has given a home to and cared for several rescue guinea pigs over the years.

Mount Loura

1515 m (Fello Loura in the Pular language) is the northernmost point and highest peak in the Fouta Djallon in northern Guinea.

Niger Basin Authority

Nine nations which include part of the Niger Basin are members: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger and Nigeria.

Phyllocrania paradoxa

Phyllocrania paradoxa have a wide range across the African continent and its islands and can be found in Angola, South Europe, Cameroon, Cape Province, Congo basin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Transvaal, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Pila language

Maia language, a Papuan language of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea

Piqueti Djassi Brito Silva

Piqueti Djassi Brito Silva (born 12 February 1993 in Bissau), is a Guinea-Bissauan footballer who plays for Sporting Braga B as a forward.

Pre-Imperial Mali

All future mansas would have to be chosen from the Keita clan, and the city-state of Niani (in present-day Guinea) would become the federal capital.

Rudinilson Silva

Rudinilson Gomes Brito Silva (born 20 August 1994 in Bissau) aka Rudinilson Silva or Rudinilson, is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Benfica B as a defender.

S. typica

Similipepsis typica, a moth species known from Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe

Samatiguila

The French explorer René Caillié spent five days in Samatiguila in July 1827 on his journey from Boké, in present day Guinea, to Timbuktu in Mali.

Samori Ture

1830 in Manyambaladugu (in the Konyan region of what is now southeastern Guinea), the son of Dyula traders, Samore grew up in West Africa being transformed by growing contacts with the Europeans.

Siradiou Diallo

After attending the 7th World Scout Jamboree in Bad Ischl, Austria, he spent four years studying in the capital of Guinea and in 1955, he entered École normale supérieure William Ponty.

Sporting Clube Farim

Sporting Clube Farim is a Guinea-Bissauan football club based in Farim.

SS Marcus Daly

After three months operating between various ports in New Guinea and the Admiralty Islands, on October 18 the ship sailed from Hollandia, bound for Tacloban in the Philippines.

Stigmaphyllon

One species (S. bannisterioides) is also found in seashore vegetation along the Atlantic Coast from southern Mexico to northern Brazil, in the West Indies, and along the coast of western Africa (Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone).

Ten Thousand Years in a Lifetime

Kiki: Ten Thousand Years in a Lifetime is the autobiography of Albert Maori Kiki, the Papua New Guinea pathologist and politician.

The Vicar of Wakefield

I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion: I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.

Turpentine tree

Canarium australianum (Brown Cudgeree), native to Australia and Papua New Guinea

Yanga, Veracruz

Yanga, the cimarron leader after whom it is named, was an enslaved African of the Yang-Bara tribe from around present-day Guinea.

Yñigo Ortiz de Retez

Yñigo Ortiz de Retez (fl. 1545) was a 16th-century Spanish maritime explorer, who navigated the northern coastline of the Pacific - Melanesian island of New Guinea, and is credited with bestowing the island's name ("Nueva Guinea").


see also

Alberto Seidi

Alberto Adulai Seidi (born 20 November 1992) is a Guinea-Bissau-born Portuguese footballer who plays as a forward and is currently a free agent after being released by Premier League club Southampton.

Almami Moreira

Almami Samori da Silva Moreira (born 16 June 1978) is a Guinea-Bissauan professional footballer who plays for Atlético Clube de Portugal as a midfielder.

Antonio Indjai

In 2006, Indjai was promoted to Colonel as a result of his leadership in the war against a Senegalese separatist group from the Casamance who had set up camp in Guinea-Bissau.

Bafata

Bafatá, city and seat of the Bafatá Region of Guinea-Bissau

Blaise Diagne

Born from a Serer father, Niokhor Diagne and a Manjack mother originating in Guinea-Bissau, Gnagna Anthony Preira, Galaye Mbaye Diagne was born in Gorée, Senegal, he was later adopted by a Christian family who baptised him Blaise.

Eustache de la Fosse

"Tassin or Eustache de la Fosse (also spelled Delafosse) (ca. 1451 - 23 April 1523) was a Flemish-speaking French sailor and merchant from Tournai, who traveled with Spanish sailors from Palos to territories of West Africa (1479–80) in what are now Guinea-Bissau, some 12° north latitude.

Gabu

Gabú, a city and capital of Gabú Region, Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau–Russia relations

Relations between the Soviet Union and the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), led by Amílcar Cabral, began in the 50th anniversary year of the establishment of the USSR, and intensified in 1961, when training and arming of the party began.

Guinea-Bissau–United States relations

The U.S. Embassy suspended operations in Bissau on June 14, 1998, in the midst of violent conflict between forces loyal to then-President Vieira and the military-led junta.

GWP

Guinea-Bissau peso, the currency code for Guinea-Bissau’s peso from 1975 to 1997

Human trafficking in Guinea-Bissau

UNICEF estimates that 200 children are taken from Guinea-Bissau each month for this purpose, and in 2008 a study found that 30 percent of the 8,000 religious students begging on the streets of Dakar are from Guinea-Bissau.

Jorge Ferreira Chaves

Several of his major works, such as the “Pastelaria Mexicana” (cafe), the “Palissi Galvani” shop and the Hotel Florida in Lisbon, the Hotel Garbe, the Hotel da Baleeira and the Hotel Globo in the Algarve or the Chamber of Commerce of Bissau in Guinea-Bissau include conceptually integrated visual arts interventions, some created by himself.

Lassana

Lassana Camará (born 1991), Portuguese footballer of Guinea-Bissau descent

Marlon Costa

Marlon Rezende Emídio Costa (born 20 January 1995 in Bissau) is a Guinea-Bissauan footballer who plays for Vitória F.C. as a midfielder.

Mohamed Sesay

In 2007 ct Sherington call him to play for Sierra Leone, the game for qualification at African Cup of Nations, on 12 October with Benin, and on 17 October with Guinea-Bissau.

Mortu Nega

Mortu Nega (English: Death Denied or Those Whom Death Refused) is a 1988 historic film by Flora Gomes, a director from Guinea-Bissau.

Niokolo-Koba National Park

The Biosphere park itself covers some 9,130 square kilometres, in a great arc running from Upper Casamance/Kolda Region at the Guinea-Bissau border into the Tambacounda Region to within a hundred kilometers of the Guinean border near the southeast corner of Senegal.

Onésimo Silveira

However, the organization expressed its gratitude towards Silveira for his work in establishing links between Sweden and PAIGC.

Osvaldo Vieira International Airport

It was officially reopened in July 1999 when a TAP Portugal plane carrying Prime Minister Francisco Fadul, along with numerous other dignitaries from both Portugal and Guinea-Bissau, landed at Osvaldo Vieira.

Portuguese Army Commandos

On February 13, 1964, the first Mozambique Commandos Course was initiated in Namaacha (Lourenço Marques, now Maputo) and in 23 July of the same year, in Bra (Guinea-Bissau), the first Guinea Commandos Course.

Thionck Essyl

The origins of the town are connected to the kingdom of Mof-Ewi, when it was populated by defectors from Guinea-Bissau.

Tomás Dabó

Tomás Soares Dabó (born 20 October 1993 in Bissau), is a Guinea-Bissauan born Portuguese footballer who plays for Sporting Braga B as a right defender.

Twahir Muhiddin

On September 17, 2010, Harambee Stars coach Twahir Muhiddin quit as coach of the Kenya national football team following Kenya's 1-0 loss to Guinea-Bissau in the 2012 AFCON qualifiers.

United Nations Security Council election, 1993

Mr. Gambari of Nigeria then claimed that both Guinea-Bissau and Nigeria were recognised as candidates by the Council of Ministers of the Organisation of African Unity.

United States Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau

Since 2002, the U.S. ambassador to Senegal has also been commissioned as the ambassador to Guinea-Bissau, while resident in Dakar.

WAFU Nations Cup

Zone 2 also had their own tournament created, the Amílcar Cabral Cup, named after the liberator of Guinea-Bissau, Amílcar Cabral.