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Decoupage or découpage ( / ˌdeɪkuːˈpɑːʒ /; [ 1] French: [dekupaʒ]) is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf, and other decorative elements. Commonly, an object like a small box or an item of furniture is covered by cutouts from magazines or from ...
Simon Ateba (born 1979 or 1980) is a Cameroonian [ 1][ 2][ 3] journalist. He is the owner and sole employee of the website Today News Africa, for which he was a White House correspondent. [ 4] Following Ateba's repeated interruptions of press briefings, where he shouted at press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and complained about not being called ...
The name derives from Genkem, a brand of glues which had "become the generic name for all the glues used by glue-sniffing children" in South Africa, where the drug originated and is most popular on the African continent today. [ 8] In the book Children of AIDS: Africa's Orphan Crisis by Emma Guest, the making of jenkem is described: "fermented ...
In paleoanthropology, the recent African origin of modern humans or the " Out of Africa " theory ( OOA) [ a] is the most widely accepted [ 1][ 2][ 3] model of the geographic origin and early migration of anatomically modern humans ( Homo sapiens ). It follows the early expansions of hominins out of Africa, accomplished by Homo erectus and then ...
The San peoples (also Saan ), or Bushmen, are the members of any of the indigenous hunter-gatherer cultures of southern Africa, and the oldest surviving cultures of the region. [ 1] Their recent ancestral territories span Botswana, Namibia, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, [ 2] and South Africa .
Adhesive. Adhesive, also known as glue, cement, mucilage, or paste, [ 1] is any non-metallic substance applied to one or both surfaces of two separate items that binds them together and resists their separation. [ 2] The use of adhesives offers certain advantages over other binding techniques such as sewing, mechanical fastenings, and welding.
Sitting in the noisy dayroom of Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, Calif., as he speaks over a grainy video call, Scott Peterson looks more like a laidback surfer than a man convicted of the heinous ...
The Scramble for Africa[ a] was the conquest and colonisation of most of Africa by seven Western European powers driven by the Second Industrial Revolution during the era of "New Imperialism" (1833–1914): Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Portugal and Spain . In 1870, 10% of the continent was formally under European control.