Siya Kolisi ruled out of Bulls clash with hamstring strain

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Siya Kolisi ruled out of Bulls clash with hamstring strain

Bok skipper Siya Kolisi is one of the many walking wounded in the Stormers camp ahead of the match against the in-form Bulls.

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Ambassador Roy Leslie Austin spent most of his life as a university scholar before becoming a U.S. diplomat at the age of 61. When Austin was nominated by President George W. Bush to be Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago he was a sociology professor at Pennsylvania State University. After

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The Creole Case was the result of an American slave revolt in November 1841 on board the Creole, a ship involved in the United States coastwise slave trade. As a consequence of the revolt, 128 enslaved people won their freedom in the Bahamas, then a British possession. Because of the number of

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Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883) was arguably the most famous of the 19th Century black women orators. Born into slavery in New York and freed in 1827 under the state’s gradual emancipation law, she dedicated her life to abolition and equal rights for women and men. Two versions of her most noted

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Harris, Jr., Dr. Homer E. (1916- 2007 )

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Hickman, George W., Jr. (1924–2012)

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