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The Haya are an ethnic and linguistic tribe based in the Bukoba District, Muleba District and Karagwe District of Kagera Region in northwestern Tanzania, East Africa. In 1991 the Haya population was estimated to number 1,200,000. They speak the Haya language.

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Hi. I sometimes like a nice warm bath in the winter.  After a while, the bath gets colder.  I know there are a few ways that the bath can lose heat, but does a thick layer of bubbles on the top make

After a sleepless night, Hahn took the card, placed it inside a pink change purse and attached a typewritten note. The two men's lives collided sometime after midnight on Feb. 28, 2005, in the darkness of a messy studio apartment. Both the responding police…

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The opossum is many things, but did you know that it was a voracious tick eater?

The High Court of Justice was the court established by the Rump Parliament to try King Charles I of England. This was an ad hoc tribunal created specifically for the purpose of trying the king, although the name was used for subsequent courts.

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Why a restaurant that's closed on Sundays makes more per restaurant than any other fast food restaurant in the country.

plot device in which dramatic tension is left unresolved at the end of an episode of serialized fiction to entice the audience to return

A reef in Hawaii's Kāne’ohe Bay bounced back despite development, dredging, sewage and rising water temperatures, leading scientists to dub it a supercoral.

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Certain French companies have traditionally allowed employees to donate some of their leave to colleagues with seriously ill children. This tradition is sometimes implemented informally and sometimes enshrined in a company-level labour agreement. The French…

For all of his books about futuristic flight, he was terrified of heights and flying.

People who are more narcissistic are more likely to be compulsive Facebook users, suggests a new study published in the scientific journal PLOS One. ...

The Labeled Release experiment on the Viking mission reported positive results, although most have dismissed them as inorganic chemical reactions

The worst ever case of electoral malpractice was witnessed in Liberia

Actually, it does. The story of artificial banana flavoring is, well, bananas.

JRR Tolkien was passed over for the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature after his storytelling in The Lord of the Rings was described as second rate, papers reveal.

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