The country owes its former name of Upper Volta to three rivers which cross it: the Black Volta ( or Mouhoun ), the White Volta ( Nakambé ) and the Red Volta ( Nazinon ).

The Black Volta is one of the country's only two rivers which flow year-round, the other being the Komoé, which flows to the southwest.

* lowest point: Mouhoun ( Black Volta ) River 200 m

He turned north adding Techiman, Banda, Gyaaman, and Gonja, states on the Black Volta.

The river is divided into three parts — the Black Volta, White Volta, and Red Volta, which form the colors of the national flag corresponding to parts of the river.

It has three main tributaries — the Black Volta, White Volta and Red Volta.

The flag of Upper Volta was a horizontal tricolour of black, white and red which derive from the three main rivers: The Black Volta, White Volta and the Red Volta.

These colours represented the three major tributaries of the Volta River, which flows south through the country: the Black Volta, the White Volta and the Red Volta.

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Fishing communities of Dagaaba persist along the Black Volta, a de facto boundary of Dagaaba lands.

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identified with the Bulensii in certain Latin versions of Ptolemy's Geography, shown as occupying the territory along the northwest coast of Black Sea east of Axiacus River ( Southern Bug ).

The shirt was, along with Frodo's other possessions, shown to Frodo's allies at the Black Gate to falsely imply that he was captured.

The anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Kuroshitsuji ( Black Butler ) were also shown to have several parallels with the concepts from Faust.

The kingdom of Halfdan the Black is shown in red

In 2006, Australian rock band Eskimo Joe's Black Fingernails Red Wine's original video was not shown on music video channels during the day, given an MA15 + classification and restricted to night-time airplay due to its criminal themes.

The cuts shown on her face in the syncretic reproductions are matches to the surface damage on the Black Madonna's face in the original icon.

This version features a design evoking a squid attacking a whale ; the squid section, which has functional tentacles, can be detached as shown in the cross-section from Black Dossier.

Many empirical tests have shown the Black – Scholes price is “ fairly close ” to the observed prices, although there are well-known discrepancies such as the “ option smile ”.

Sauron is shown to have bred his own Uruk-hai, known as Black Uruks.

In Mayan codices, the American Black Vulture is normally connected with death or shown as a bird of prey, and its glyph is often depicted attacking humans.

Explorer Bob Ballard discovered an ancient ship wreck north west of Sinop in the Black Sea and was shown on National Geographic.

* Black Eagle tank ( prototype: cancelled ): Several Russian prototypes shown at trade shows, with a longer chassis and extra pair of road wheels, and very large turret with separate ammunition compartment.

This refers to the idea that the traditional ideas and values of the Civil Rights Movement placated to the emotions and feelings of White liberal supporters rather than Black Americans who had to consistently live with the racism and other acts of violence that was shown towards them.

These include Self-Portrait with Black Dog ( c. 1842 – 1844, accepted for exhibition at the 1844 Paris Salon ), the theatrical Self-Portrait which is also known as Desperate Man ( c. 1843 – 45 ), Lovers in the Countryside ( 1844, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon ), The Sculptor ( 1845 ), The Wounded Man ( 1844 – 1854, Musée d ' Orsay, Paris ), The Cellist, Self-Portrait ( 1847, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, shown at the 1848 Salon ), and The Man with a Pipe ( c. 1848 – 1849, Musée d ' Orsay, Paris ).

The first film publicly shown on the system was Blacksmith Scene ( aka Blacksmiths ); directed by Dickson and shot by Heise, it was produced at the new Edison moviemaking studio, known as the Black Maria.

Each side places his pieces in the positions shown below, from the perspective of Black, pointing toward the opponent.

Her principled pacifist position was vindicated somewhat when, in 1945, the Nazis ' Black Book of 2000 people to be immediately arrested in Britain after a German invasion was shown to include her name.

The excavations performed in Tanais, near the entry of the Don into the Black Sea, have shown that Tanais actually did have a population at the time of the supposed emigration of the Æsir ( sometime around 60 B. C., according to Heyerdahl's interpretation of the references to Roman expansion into the Caucasus ).

Drake was also shown falling for the female lead in the episode " The Black Book " though nothing comes of it ; this episode is also one of the only scripts to directly address Drake's loneliness in his chosen profession.

Subsequent investigations have shown that FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover was determined to prevent the formation of a cohesive Black movement in the United States.

On April 24, 2010, Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs, along with 7 other titles from the Censored Eleven was screened at the first annual TCM Film Festival as part of a special presentation hosted by film historian Donald Bogle ; the eight shorts shown were restored for that release.

In 1989 and 1990, the first eight of the novels ( excluding The Crime at Black Dudley ) were adapted over two seasons, with each story shown in two hour-long episodes.

Two juvenile birds at Chew Valley Lake, England, in September 1978 and September 1981, were also believed to be hybrids ; they showed mixed characters of the two species, specifically a combination of a dark mantle ( a feature of White-winged Black ) with dark patches on the breast-side ( a feature of Black Tern, not shown by White-winted Black ).

Judge Black, the vegetarian black snake ; ;

* 1991 – Crown Heights riot: Black groups target Hasidic Jews on the streets of Crown Heights in New York, New York during 3 days, after 2 black kids were struck by a car driven by a Hasidic man.

In the center of the helmet was a center black stripe surrounded by 2 gold stripes and 2 white stripes, These colors represented the two college rival schools in the state of Georgia ; rival schools Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets ( White and Gold ) and the Georgia Bulldogs ( Red and Black ) Although the gold was later taken out, the white remains to this day.

Black symbolizes the native black people of South Africa, green represents the land and gold represents the mineral and other natural wealth of South Africa.

Black supplanted the wonted Old English word sweart (" black, dark "), which survives as swart, swarth, and swarthy ( compare German schwarz and Dutch zwart, " black ").

Black Flag or black flag may refer to:

" Be Black, Baby " was filmed in black and white stock on 16 mm, in low-light conditions that stress the crudity of the direct cinema aesthetic.

For the black monk poltergeist haunting, see The Black Monk of Pontefract.

for a black hole of mass M. Black holes saturating this inequality are called extremal.

Surveys show that the majority of black Americans have no preference for " African American " or " Black ," although they have a slight preference for " black " in personal settings and " African-American " in more formal settings.

* In the anime Kuroshitsuji ( Japanese for Black Butler ), Ciel Phantomhive as a child had a black borzoi named Sebastian.

Black metal artists often appear dressed in black with combat boots, bullet belts, spiked wristbands and inverted crosses / pentagrams to reinforce their anti-Christian or anti-religious stance.

The term " black metal " was coined by the English band Venom with their second album Black Metal ( 1982 ).

In the 1960s and 1970s, Cuba openly supported the black nationalist and Marxist-oriented Black Panther Party of the U. S. Many members found their way into Cuba for political asylum, where Cuba welcomed them after they had been convicted of crimes in the U. S.

The support of Sharpton and other Black religious / political leaders ( e. g. Harvard's Peter Gomes, Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King ) is especially helpful for Black gays and lesbians who are negotiating the challenges of being gay in black communities.

During this season Earnhardt garnered a second nickname, " The Man in Black ", owing to the black paint scheme in which the No. 3 car was painted.

* In England and other countries the Dominicans are referred to as Black Friars because of the black cappa or cloak they wear over their white habits.

* The African Hebrew Israelites: New black civilisation in the promised land " article written by Lester Holloway, January 1, 2004, for Black Information Link

In 2008, the show was criticised for stereotyping their Asian and Black characters, by having a black single mum, Denise Wicks, and an Asian shopkeeper, Zainab Masood.

The New York Times also reported a series of jokes, including how in the coffee houses of Vienna, one could order a " Dollfuss " cup of coffee instead of a " Short Black " cup of coffee ( black being the color of the Christian Democratic political faction ).

Fifteen of the UK ’ s leaders of black film exhibition came together from Wales, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Kent, Essex, and the capital to the Film London offices to attend The New Black Training Programme.

For instance, in two studies by the American Mosaic Project, racial inequality in the United States was framed as either “ Black Disadvantage ” or “ White Privilege .” When the term “ black disadvantage ” was used to describe racial inequality, white participants felt less collectively responsible for the harm done to the out-group, which lessened collective guilt.