South Africa Parliament

Weather or not, here I come

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July 20th 2008
Prior to coming to Cape Town, I took summer classes at Albion, and during our summer classes, my friends and I went to Hardee’s to eat their Monster Thickburger. I had been doing a research paper on the fast food industry, and according to a nutritional chart I found, the Monster Thickburger is the fattest of all fast food burgers. I joked with my roommate about wanting to eat it, and before I k ... read more

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more