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unusual facts about Solitaire, Namibia



Alexander Bay, Northern Cape

The town of Oranjemund lies on the northern bank of the river, which forms the international border with Namibia.

Aloe dichotoma

Aloe dichotoma, also known as quiver tree or kokerboom, is a species of aloe indigenous to Southern Africa, specifically in the Northern Cape region of South Africa, and parts of Southern Namibia.

Aranos Constituency

Aranos Constituency is an electoral constituency in the Hardap Region of Namibia.

Argentina Jaguars

They've played alongside the full national teams of Namibia, Romania, Georgia, the United States, and Canada as well as other second national teams like Italy A, the Emerging Springboks, and the England Saxons.

Belinda Chapple

She has released two solo singles; the Olympic Games ballad "Where It All Began" in August 2004 and in April 2005 returned with "Move Together", a dance-pop collaboration with UK mix master Solitaire.

Bitis schneideri

This snake ranges from the white coastal sand dunes of Namibia, near Lüderitz, south to Hondeklip Bay, Little Namaqualand, South Africa.

Brad Fregger

He was the producer of Activision's Ghostbusters, the game Hacker, the Atari and Commodore 64 versions of Pitfall II and Shanghai (the first commercial version of Brodie Lockard's Mahjong solitaire), and he designed and produced the first commercial version of computer solitaire (Solitaire Royale, published by Spectrum Holobyte).

Central !Kung

Central !Kung (Central !Xuun), or Central Ju, is a recently distinguished variety of the !Kung dialect cluster, spoken in a small area of northern Namibia: Neitsas, in Grootfontein district, and Gaub, in Tsumeb district.

Chess puzzle

Solitaire Chess is a chess puzzle produced by ThinkFun.

Christoffel Nortje

Professor Nortje has spoken extensively in Maxillofacial Radiology scientific meetings in Hungary, Italy, USA, Brazil, Abu Dhabi, Lebanon, Bangkok, Thailand, China, Namibia and Zimbabwe.

Cosmos High School

Cosmos opened its doors on 17 January 1989 and was officially inaugurated on 30 May 1990 by the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Namibia, Dr Hage Geingob.

Elizabeth Bay

Elizabeth Bay, Namibia (formerly Elisabethbucht) is a ghost town in southern Namibia.

Elytropappus rhinocerotis

Although the Renosterveld Vegetation Type is confined to the South-Western Cape of South Africa, the Renosterbos plant is much more widespread - occurring throughout the Cape Floristic Region and further, as far east as Molteno in the Eastern Cape, and as far north as Namibia.

Fairway Solitaire

Originally designed by John Cutter of Big Fish Games, Fairway Solitaire is built in the Blitz programming environment and was initially developed by Grey Alien Games and published by Big Fish Games, before being completely redesigned by Big Fish Studios.

Gamebook

Examples of games with prolific solitaire lines were Dungeons & Dragons, GURPS, Das Schwarze Auge, DC Heroes, and Call of Cthulhu.

The second type is the role-playing game solitaire adventure (an example of this is the Tunnels and Trolls series of gamebooks), which combines the branching-plot novel with the rules of a role-playing game, allowing the game to be played without a Gamemaster but requiring the purchase of separate manuals.

Gobabis State Hospital

Gobabis State Hospital is a government-run hospital in Gobabis, Omaheke Region, Namibia.

Hans Janitschek

During his time at the United Nations, he became involved in the Bulgarian artist Mihail Simeonov’s "Cast the Sleeping Elephant Project" for which he gained the full support of the United Nations as well as the governments of Namibia, Nepal and Kenya.

Helmeted Guineafowl

N. m. papillosus (Reichenow, 1894) - Damara Helmeted Guineafowl - southern Angola to Botswana and Namibia

Herman Blaschke

He played alongside the clubs' Executive Chairman Kaizer Motaung and rose to be Namibia's greatest export.

Johan Wilhelm Heinrich Giess

His field trips ranged over most of Namibia, visiting remote regions such as the Okavango River, Brandberg, Lüderitz, Erongo Mountains and Kaokoveld.

Karasburg West

Karasburg West is an electoral constituency in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia.

Klaus Dierks

Dierks wrote a number of scientific publications including his doctorate on the development of an improved road system in Namibia and publications on history and the settlement of ǁKhauxaǃnas in the Great Karas Mountains.

Kongola Constituency

Kongola is a constituency in the Zambezi Region of Namibia near the Kwando River.

Largemouth bass fishing in Namibia

Largemouth bass fishing is popular in Namibia due to breeding programs of this alien species indigenous to North America, and many dams have aided their population with the import of this species.

Las Vegas Cool Hand

Other varieties of play for the solitaire round include Elevens, Calculation (also known as Broken Intervals), and Monte Carlo (also known as Weddings and Double and Quits).

Marang Centre for Mathematics and Science Education

In addition to South African undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate future science and mathematics teachers, would-be teachers and teacher educators come from Southern African Development Community (SADC) member nations such as Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi', Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, and other African countries.

Mittelafrika

German strategic thinking was that if the region between the colonies of German East Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania minus the island of Zanzibar), German South-West Africa (Namibia minus Walvis Bay), and Cameroon could be annexed, a contiguous entity could be created covering the breadth of the African continent from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.

Mshasho Productions

Mshasho Productions, also referred to as, Mshasho Music Productions, and, Mshasho Records is an Namibian Independent record label founded by Namibian musician and producer, Martin "The Dogg" Morocky in 2003.

Munjuku Nguvauva II

Dirk Mudge, leader of the National Party, attempted to include Nguvauva II as representative of the 1975–1977 Turnhalle Constitutional Conference in the delegation of Clemens Kapuuo, Paramount Chief of the Herero.

Namibia–Russia relations

Relations between Namibia and Russia were considered "excellent" in 2006 by then-Namibian Minister of Education Nangolo Mbumba, while Russia expressed a desire for even stronger relations, particularly in the economic field.

Namibia–United States relations

In addition to the Embassy, the Centers for Disease Control, Peace Corps, and the Defense Department have offices in Windhoek.

Niels Kopperholdt

He made two further List A appearances during the tournament, against the Netherlands and Namibia.

Ondangwa Urban

Ondangwa Urban is an electoral constituency in the Oshana Region of Namibia.

Operation Boswilger

PLAN insurgents entered South West Africa damaging a bridge between Epali and Ondangwa, sabotaging telephone poles, mortaring the Eenhana base and a bomb was detonated at the Ongwediva Teachers Training College.

Opuwo Rural

Opuwo Rural is an electoral constituency in the Kunene Region of Namibia.

Paresh Lohani

The following year, he played in a play-off match against Namibia to decide the final spot in the 2006 ICC Intercontinental Cup.

Peter Shivute

After working in now independent Namibia for four years he returned to the UK to complete the LL.M from University of Warwick in 1996.

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.

PSPACE-complete

Examples of games that are PSPACE-complete (when generalized so that they can be played on an n × n board) are the games hex and Reversi and the solitaire games Rush Hour, Mahjong, Atomix, and Sokoban.

Qonja

His work has been admired and praised by Namibia's top kwaito artists such as The Dogg, Gazza and Sunny Boy.

Rundu Secondary School

Rundu Secondary School is a government school in Rundu in the Kavango East Region of north-eastern Namibia.

SASL

Solitaire Advanced Squad Leader, a single-player variant of the World War II board wargame Advanced Squad Leader

Sekele language

A variety currently being investigated is Mangetti Dune !Kung, spoken by a resettled diaspora community of 500–1000 in Namibia and South Africa in the settlements of Mangetti Dune and Omtaku (Omatako?), east of Grootfontein, Namibia, halfway to the Botswana border; and in Schmidtsdrif, west of Kimberly, South Africa.

Themistokles Dudu Murorua

Themistokles Dudu Murorua (born 27 August 1958 in Okahandja, Otjozondjupa Region) is a Namibian politician.

Tondoro Constituency

It was created in August 2013, following a recommendation of the Fourth Delimitation Commission of Namibia, and in preparation of the 2014 general election.

Vyf Rand

Home of one of the poorest communities in Namibia, Vyf Rand camp has been the focus of various social projects: a primary school, a soup kitchen, and HIV/AIDS awareness programs.

Winfried Nachtwei

Namibia : Von der antikolonialen Revolte zum nationalen Befreiungskampf; Geschichte der ehemaligen deutschen Kolonie Südwestafrikas, Mannheim: Sendler, 1976 (Book series Nationale Befreiung; 7) ISBN 3-88048-029-X

Workers International to Rebuild the Fourth International

Led by Cliff Slaughter and Dot Gibson, it initially had support in the Workers Revolutionary Party (Namibia) and a South African section which renamed itself WIRFI and took 5,481 votes in the South African general election, 1994, as well as Michel Varga's Group of Opposition and Continuity of the Fourth International.


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