Portal:Liberia/Did you know
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- ... that Montserrado County is the smallest county in Liberia, but also the most populous?
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- ... that prior to the First Liberian Civil War the Mount Coffee Hydropower Project produced 35 percent of Liberia's electricity?
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- ... that during the Liberian Civil Wars over 5,000 artifacts were looted from the Liberian National Museum but a 250-year-old dining table given as a gift from Queen Victoria to Liberia's first President remains?
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- ... that Liberian Supreme Court Chief Justice Johnnie Lewis was rescued from an angry mob after a car he was in hit and killed a pedestrian?
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- ... that the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law at the University of Liberia in Monrovia is the only law school in the nation of Liberia?
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- ...that the University of Liberia, founded in 1862, is the oldest institute of higher learning in West Africa?
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- ... that Liberia College in the country of Liberia was authorized by the legislature in 1851, but did not start classes until 1863?
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- ...that between her marriage to Marcus Garvey and her relationship with President of Liberia William Tubman, Pan-Africanist activist Amy Ashwood Garvey ran a club on London's Carnaby Street?
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- ...that Liberian park Sapo National Park contains the second-largest tropical rainforest in West Africa after Taï National Park in neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire?
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- ...that Jeanne Labuda, a Democratic member of the Colorado House of Representatives elected in 2006, was a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia?
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- ...that the UN estimates that 150,000 people died during the Liberian Civil War, with 850,000 refugees fleeing to neighboring countries?
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- ... that the 1927 presidential election in Liberia made it into the Guinness Book of Records as the most fraudulent ever?
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- ... that McCants Stewart, the first African American lawyer in Oregon, was the son of an Associate Justice of the Liberian Supreme Court?
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- ... that over 70,000 cubic yards (54,000 m3) of sand was excavated to extricate the Liberian steamship Santa Kyriaki from a beach in the Netherlands?
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- ... that the African Methodist Episcopal University is the second largest university in Liberia?
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- ... that Leymah Gbowee organized a peace movement that ended the Second Liberian Civil War and led to the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first female president in Africa?
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- ... that the African city of Careysburg, Liberia, hosted a large transmitter for Voice of America, the official external broadcasting service of the United States federal government?
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- ...that Lake Piso, a brackish water lake in western Liberia, is the largest in the country?
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- ... that STAR radio was named Liberian radio station of the year in 2008, winning a tape deck?
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- ... that Hilary Teague served as Liberia's first Secretary of State and wrote that country's Declaration of Independence?
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- ... that Clay-Ashland, a town in Liberia, is named after American slave owner Henry Clay?
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- ... that the SS Empire Deed, a British Second World War cargo ship, ended up being sold in turn to shipping companies in Panama, Greece, Liberia and Taiwan?
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- ... that students at the Stella Maris Polytechnic university in Monrovia, Liberia, pay only US$5 tuition per credit?
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- ... that Liberia's first agricultural and vocational school is named after American educator Booker T. Washington?
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- ... that explorer Benjamin Anderson served as the Liberian treasury's comptroller and secretary from 1964 to 1966, and was charged with embezzlement of its funds?
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- ... that Izetta Wesley, a female football administrator, believes the government of Liberia is insincere in how they treat the Liberia women's national football team?
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- ... that among the wildlife of Liberia, the rarest mammal may be the Liberian mongoose?
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- ... that Liberian lawyer Alfred Brownell won the "Green Nobel" prize for his efforts to protect more than 500,000 acres (2,000 km2) of tropical forest land?
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- ... that Liberian-American author Wayétu Moore, once a war refugee, founded a nonprofit organization which publishes culturally relevant books for children in countries with low literacy rates?
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- ... that the Monrovia Church massacre was the worst single atrocity of the Liberian civil war?
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- ... that after the 1980 coup d'état that overthrew and killed Liberian President William Tolbert, the People's Redemption Council took power pending a rewrite of the country's constitution?
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