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A hike along Australia’s Great Dividing Range would reveal a series of plateaus and low mountain ranges roughly paralleling the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria. The mountain range extends some 2,300 miles (3,700 km) from the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, to the Grampians in Victoria Bass Strait between Australia and Tasmania. In Queensland, the mountains average is 2,000–3,000 feet (600–900 meters) in elevation, but they rise as high as 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) in the Bellenden Ker and McPherson ranges and the Lamington Plateau. Farther south, a segment known as the Australian Alps, near the New South Wales–Victoria border, contains Australia’s highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko (7,310 feet [2,228 meters]). Since the Great Dividing Range is not very high compared to other mountain ranges, few animals specifically adapted to mountainous environments occur there. Tree kangaroos and bird-wing butterflies occur in the rainfore
Yennayer 2971: Berber New Year in North Africa 12.01.2021 - US, United States - Rabah Arkam
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In North Africa among the Berbers, the January 12
th is the 1
st day of the year 2971 of the Amazigh (Berber) calendar which begins in 950 BC, date of the victory of the Berber king Chachnaq over the pharaoh Ramses III where the Berber king Sheshonq I was enthroned Pharaoh of Egypt and founded the XXII Dynasty which ruled Egypt until 715 BC.
By Rabah Arkam
This Berber king had succeeded in unifying Egypt and then invading the kingdom of Israel. He is said to have captured the treasures of Solomon’s temple in Jerusalem in 926 BC. This date is mentioned in the Bible and would therefore constitute the first date in Berber history on a written medium. King Sheshonq is referred to in the Bible as Sésaq and Shishaq in ancient Hebrew. This
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BONN, Jan 11 2021 (IPS) - Once a year, on 9 August, the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is commemorated, celebrating their unique culture and knowledge. This is done mostly from a distance, from our homes in (nominally) developed countries. But are we as developed as we pretend to be? On this question, I reflected for a while, still remembering a special and personal experience of having spent several days with an indigenous Berber family in Morocco.
What was the reason for this special visit to Morocco ? I had the fortune and incredible opportunity to participate in a developmental training course, known as an exposure programme. At the heart of this program was a three day stay with a family belonging to a Berber tribe in Morocco, 40 km from Essaouira, the famous city located on the Atlantic Ocean.