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  • Gombo and the two administrators immediately met department heads to discuss interim strategies for the smooth adminstration of the two towns.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Referring to the now defunct Groblersdal town council, whose members strongly opposed the government moves, Gombo said he had not come to the area to fight but to implement a decision which would provide a way forward.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • It was only after many days spent in the Pineta, those pinewoods that go down to the sea at Gombo, where the silent, deserted shore, strewn with sea-shells and whispering with grass, stretches far away to the Carrara hills, that very early one morning I set out for Livorno, that port which has taken the place of the old Porto Pisano, [82] so famous through the world of old.

    Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922

  • Como and the forest of Gombo, near Pisa, and also England and the North

    The Bride of Dreams Frederik van Eeden 1896

  • Another distinguished name in letters, connected with the place, is that of Lafcadio Hearn, who was at one time a reporter on a New Orleans newspaper, and who not only wrote about the French quarter, but collected many proverbs of the Creoles in a book which he called "Gombo

    American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

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