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Definition: Belgian Congo |
Belgian CongoNoun1. A republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Belgian CongoSynonyms: Congo (n), Democratic Republic of the Congo (n), Zaire (n). (additional references) |
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 | Caption: Kazemhe, a Lunda Chief in the Belgian Congo, Speaking into an Ediphone Which Is Used by Missionaries for Language Study; Belgian Congo; Unknown Date; {29.320/214} (jpg). |  | Hopital des Congolais Coquilhatville, Belgian Congo. : Exterior view.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Economic History | Democratic Republic of Congo | In 1907, administration shifted to the Belgian Government, which renamed the country the Belgian Congo. (references) |
Brazil | It has contributed troops to UN peacekeeping efforts in the Middle East, the former Belgian Congo, Cyprus, Mozambique, Angola, and most recently East Timor. (references) | |
Democratic Republic of Congo | Following a series of riots and unrest, the Belgian Congo was granted its independence on June 30, 1960. Parliamentary elections in 1960 produced Patrice Lumumba as prime minister and Joseph Kasavubu as president of the renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo. (references) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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belgian congo | 64 |
belgian congo in | 8 |
belgian congo genocide | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-g-g-i-l-n-n-o-o" | |
-2 letters: congealing, conglobing, oceangoing. | |
-3 letters: beaconing, belonging, congenial, englobing. | |
-4 letters: angeling, binnacle, bioclean, cageling, canoeing, clanging, cleaning, coinable, congaing, conglobe, enabling, encaging, enlacing, ganglion, geologic, glaceing, glancing, gleaning, longeing, neologic. | |
-5 letters: agelong, alencon, aneling, angelic, anglice, angling, banging, beaning, begonia, binocle, bologna, bonging, cabling, cannoli, cloning, coalbin, coaling, coinage, cologne, congeal, cooling, eanling, encinal, gabling. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 6C 67 69 61 6E 43 6F 6E 67 6F |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01101100 01100111 01101001 01100001 01101110 00100000 01000011 01101111 01101110 01100111 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e l g i a n   C o n g o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 006C 0067 0069 0061 006E 0043 006F 006E 0067 006F |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3671787375678023781807381 |
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