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01 Apr 2012 11:35 #82182 by ketchim
In Guyana , I always thought this place was Fictional :

Based on older folks usage ...... ::lol:: ::lol::

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01 Apr 2012 11:37 #82183 by ketchim
The historic town of Timbuktu is one of the most famous in Mali :

                                 

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01 Apr 2012 11:38 #82184 by ketchim
Tuareg separatist rebels in Mali have moved into the historic town of Timbuktu

after a rapid advance through the north of the country.......

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01 Apr 2012 11:40 #82185 by ketchim
It appears there was no real combat in Timbuktu :


reports from Dakar in neighbouring Senegal...

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01 Apr 2012 11:41 #82186 by ketchim
Located on the southern edge of the Sahara, and just north of the River Niger ;

Timbuktu is nearly 1,000 years old....... :cool:

Famous writers have contributed to its mythical status.

The Moorish author, Leo Africanus, described how the king of Timbuktu was so rich that some of his golden objects

weighed hundreds of kilos.

The town made its fortune through trade, where salt brought in from the Sahara was worth its weight in gold.

Ivory was also traded.

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01 Apr 2012 11:44 #82187 by ketchim
With its distinctive mud mosques rising from the sand, the town is a centre for Islamic scholarship.

About 700 ancient manuscripts are held in the town's approximately 60 libraries.

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01 Apr 2012 13:28 #82189 by mapoui
it was supposed to be a very far place :shocked:    so far if tdeh sen' yu there yu not coming back

scared the hell out of kids

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01 Apr 2012 16:57 #82206 by Pauly
Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote a poem when he was a young man entitled "Timbuctoo" for a contest his father talked him into entering. He was never very proud of this particular poem, but it's at least in his body of works. He wrote it during the age of exploration by England into so many parts of the world. It really is a place.

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01 Apr 2012 17:26 #82211 by Kwami
African civisilations were advanced when Europeans were living in caves. One should study the Dahomey  kingdoms in West Africa , the Zimbabwe  ruins , Nubian dynasties  Maliwan ruins and the egyptian  Pharoaic kingdoms .
The histories are supressed and rewritten so that they can portray Africans as savages , so that  the white man can civilise them. T he white man claims that they went to africa to civilise them but it is aknown fact that th Egyptians civilised the Greeks . The greeks civilised the Romans and the romans civilised the English. Egypt is in africa and therefore  Africa civilised the british
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01 Apr 2012 17:28 #82214 by ketchim
Timbuktu has been around for 1000 years

Alfred Tennyson is Older , hence he named that place after his Poem.... :blank:

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