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unusual facts about Northwest Africa



Conference of the Birds: The Story of Peter Brook in Africa

Conference of the Birds: The Story of Peter Brook in Africa is a biographical book by John Heilpern, in which he describes a journey by theatre director Peter Brook and a group of actors, including Helen Mirren, across the Sahara in Northwest Africa.


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Aethusa cynapium

Fool's parsley, Aethusa cynapium (also known as fool's cicely or poison parsley), is an annual (rarely biennial) herb in the plant family Apiaceae, native to Europe, western Asia and northwest Africa.

Deepwater catshark

The deepwater catshark, Apristurus profundorum, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the western Atlantic from Delaware Bay and Suriname, and from the eastern Atlantic from Morocco and northwest Africa.

Spotless Starling

It is closely related to the Common Starling S. vulgaris, but has a much more restricted range, confined to the Iberian Peninsula, northwest Africa, southernmost France, and on the islands of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica.

Viburnum lantana

Viburnum lantana (Wayfaring Tree) is a species of Viburnum, native to central, southern and western Europe (north to Yorkshire in England), northwest Africa, and southwestern Asia.