Cameroon
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Cameroon Kamerun, French Cameroun The Republic of Cameroon (République du Cameroun) since 1984. Previously the United Republic of Cameroon (1972–84); the Federal Republic of Cameroon (1961–72) when the British UN Trust Territory of the Southern Cameroons joined the Republic of Cameroon (1960–1) which gained its independence from France in 1960. From 1946 to 1959 French Cameroun was a UN Trust Territory administered by the French, having been a French League of Nations mandate since 1922. The arrangements for the British Southern and Northern Cameroons (the North joined Nigeria in 1961) mirrored those for French Cameroun. Between 1884 and 1916 the Germans ruled the larger part of Cameroon as the Protectorate of Kamerun. Sailing into the Wouri River estuary at the end of the 15th century, Portuguese explorers found plentiful supplies of prawns and thus named the area
Rio dos Camarões ‘River of Prawns’, which was later Anglicized to Cameroons River. There is also a Mount Cameroon.
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Obituary: Thomas Firbank
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/11/2000; ; 700+ words
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A boy's best correspondent is his mother
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 1/26/2002; ; 700+ words
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The Triumph of Frivolity
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/16/1990; ; 700+ words
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Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 10/26/2008; ; 550 words
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Caprice. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Studies in Short Fiction; 3/22/1994; ; 700+ words
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NEW IN PAPERBACK
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/2/1996; 700+ words
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Building a library: Haiti
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 1/11/2004; ; 700+ words
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Gay inscriptions
Magazine article from: Novel; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
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Ronald Firbank
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Firbank, (Arthur Annesley) Ronald
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Hollinghurst, Alan
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Wilson, A(ndrew) N(orman)
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
...English middle and upper middle classes, as represented primarily by Oxbridge graduates, London intellectuals, and Anglican clergymen. To some extent, his technique resembles the satire and black comedy of Evelyn Waugh and Ronald Firbank b
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Moorcock, Michael
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...central character, Jerry Cornelius, was described by Brian Aldiss as the meeting-point of ‘the world of Ronald Firbank and Ian Fleming ’. The Colonel Pyat books (beginning with Byzantium Endures , 1981) explore the development...
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