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No one will doubt that this new landscape is as much a natural part of the country's ecology as the boabab tree.
Solar Towers 2008
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No one will doubt that this new landscape is as much a natural part of the country's ecology as the boabab tree.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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The SABS in 1998 said the plates that variously depicted a rising sun, a boabab tree and other scenes from the various provinces as background to the numbering, complied with its SABS 1116 standards specification.
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The cocoanut palms cut the sunset, and the boabab trees -- the fat, lazy boababs -- looked more monstrous than ever.
African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909
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England and Constantinople more than 1000 years old, of the yew, plane, and cypress varieties; and Addison found trees of the boabab growing near the Senegal, in Africa, which, reckoning from the ascertained age of others of the same species, must have been nearly
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852 Various 1841
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Sa'eed's mirror-lined room in London is full of Arabic books in ornate script, Persian carpets, and prints of "boabab trees in Kordofan, naked girls from the tribes of the Zandi, the Nuer and the Shuluk, fields of banana and coffee on the Equator, old temples in the district of Nubia."
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