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These records are the war diaries of the first three cavalry and the first seven infantry divisions of the British Army in the First World War.
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The digitised diaries cover activity in France and Belgium.
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"He looks more Brazilian than American."
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Brazil was settled by waves of European immigrants and millions of African slaves brought there in chains. Their descendants make up the second-largest black population in the world after Nigeria.
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there's no hiding the fact that blacks are worse off than whites.
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the new Brazil saw a former shoeshine boy and factory worker – Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva – win the presidency in 2002. Now his hand-picked successor, Dilma Rousseff, herself a former political prisoner, is president. Their dual policy of generating rapid economic growth and providing generous social programs helped lift 30 million people into the middle class.
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The symbolism of a black American president will encourage people here like nothing else,
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