At various times in the past, and as late as the 1870s, the Bahr el Ghazal Depression, which extends from the northeastern part of the lake to the Djourab, acted as an overflow canal ; since independence, climatic conditions have made overflows impossible.

Although the Portuguese arrived on Cameroon's doorstep in the 16th century, malaria prevented significant European settlement and conquest of the interior until the late 1870s, when large supplies of the malaria suppressant, quinine, became available.

By the late 1870s, however, croquet had been eclipsed by another fashionable game, tennis, and many of the newly-created croquet clubs, including the All England club at Wimbledon, converted some or all of their lawns into tennis courts.

In the late 1860s or early 1870s, Pissarro became fascinated with Japanese prints, which influenced his desire to experiment in new compositions.

Pissarro, Degas, and American impressionist Mary Cassatt self-published a journal of their original prints in the late 1870s, which contained a large group of their own fine etchings.

Esperanto was created in the late 1870s and early 1880s by Dr. Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof, an ophthalmologist of mixed cultural heritage from Bialystok, then part of the Russian Empire.

In the late 1870s Russia and the Ottoman Empire again clashed in the Balkans.

Kerosene started replacing lard oil in the 1870s and the lighthouse service was finally converted by the late 1880s.

Maxwell noted in the late 1870s that detecting motion relative to this aether should be easy enough — light traveling along with the motion of the Earth would have a different speed than light traveling backward, as they would both be moving against the unmoving aether.

In the late 1870s, Afghan Emir Sher Ali Khan escaped from Kabul to take refuge in Mazar-e Sharif, which was un-affected by the Anglo-Afghan wars of the 19th century between Afghanistan and then British India.

In the late 1870s, Furnivall and Murray met with several publishers about publishing the dictionary.

The last wild quagga was probably shot in the late 1870s, and the last specimen in captivity, a mare, died on August 12, 1883, at the Natura Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.

In the late 1860s and early 1870s, a series of mass rallies called tabori, modeled on the Irish monster meetings, were organized in support of the United Slovenia program.

The denomination in the 1870s turned to missionary work and revivals, tripling its membership to 16, 000 by 1880 and establishing a presence beyond North America during the late 19th century.

Thomas worked on the family farm in East Campbell, New York and attended the District School Number Five in the late 1870s.

In 1881 he established the Irish Coercion Act, which permitted the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to detain people for as " long as was thought necessary ", as there was much rural disturbance in Ireland owing to the agricultural depression of the late 1870s.

At first it attempted to present the género grande, but it soon yielded to the taste and economics of the time, and became the " temple " of the more populist género chico in the late 1870s.

Len L. Lewis, a horse trader and former Union Army officer, helped establish the community in the late 1870s or early 1880s.

In the late 1870s, John Warne Gates of Illinois began to promote barbed wire, now a proven product, in the lucrative markets of Texas.

During the late 1860s and early 1870s, from within his father's firm in Charing Cross and, by late 1874, from a nearby address in Craig's Court, Carte began to build an operatic, concert and lecture management agency.

In the late 1870s, the centrifugal cream separator was introduced, marketed most successfully by Swedish engineer Carl Gustaf Patrik de Laval.

The town and its environs quickly grew with the railroads, becoming a major rail terminal in the late 1860s and 1870s.

Ocean piracy, off the coasts of North America, continued as late as the 1870s.

As late as the 1870s, Half Dome was declared " perfectly inaccessible ".

Pisemsky's short stories of the late 1850s-early 1860s, which dealt primarily with rural life (" The Carpenters Cartel ", " Leshy ", " The Old Man ") again demonstrated the author's utter pessimism and skepticism towards all the most fashionable ideas of his time.

The Graham Memorial would be the campus student union honoring the late and much beloved Edward Kidder Graham, who had been president when Tom entered the university.

Other late accounts claim that Macareus had a daughter named Amphissa, beloved by Apollo.

Her books in the late 1920s included the semi-autobiographical The Fairy Caravan, a fanciful tale set in her beloved Troutbeck fells.

* West Tisbury is the island's agricultural center, and hosts the beloved MV Agricultural Fair in late August each year.

It may be located within the precinct of the Hout-ka-Ptah, as would seem to suggest several discoveries made among the ruins of the complex in the late 19th century, including a block of stone evoking the " great door " with the epithet of the goddess, and a column bearing an inscription on behalf of Rameses II declaring him " beloved of Sekhmet ".

In Hispania, Ataulf imprudently accepted into his service one of the late Sarus ' followers, unaware that the man harbored a secret desire to avenge the death of his beloved patron.

Morales and Perez would soon revive, along with actor and radio announcer Horacio Olivo, a musical group named Los Rayos Gamma, Puerto Rico's most beloved political satire troupe, which had an extremely short but popular stint in 1968 as the creative vehicle for the late satirical writer and journalist, Eddie López.

Gerald of Wales's most distinguished works are those dealing with Wales and Ireland, with his late 12th century two books in Latin on his beloved Wales the most important: Itinerarium Cambriae and Descriptio Cambriae which tell us much about Welsh history and geography.

In addition, it pokes fun at the conceits of the late 19th-century British Empire and several of the nation's beloved institutions.

The thought of God allows him no rest ; early and late He is his best beloved, and is his dearest concern.

Eight generations of Pal and his descendants portrayed the beloved collie in more than ten movies and two television series, until the late 1990s.

In the late 1970s Blackwell became an Artist-in-Residence at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. Blackwell was a beloved figure on the Wesleyan Campus until he died.

This memorial, created by sculptor Konstantin Simun, pays tribute not only to the late " beloved puppeteer ," but to all street performers that are an integral part of the square, especially during summer months.

Jackson was sympathetic to the Eatons, in part, perhaps, because his own beloved late wife, Rachel Donelson Robards, had been the subject of innuendo, as it was revealed that her first marriage had not yet been legally ended at the time of her wedding to Jackson.

Born Charlotte Mignon Crabtree in New York City to British immigrants, Lotta Crabtree would go on to become one of the wealthiest and most beloved American entertainers of the late 19th century.

* Jennifer Sharkey Worrell: Ernest's beloved and sadly late first wife.

As the name suggests it is a memorial and tribute to the late Joseph Mooney, County Councillor and townsman who did so much to promote the cause of Leitrim and his beloved town.

During the recession of the late 70s ( See Oil Crisis of 1973 ), Capoeira Mestres and dedicated practitioners amongst the populace faced great hardships to continue the practice of their beloved art.

The former was made into a tribute to Bobby, Magnuson's late beloved brother, and others lost to AIDS.

Too late for his wife to share in his happiness, Chips finally achieves his dream of becoming headmaster of Brookfield, and lives out his days at the school, beloved by his students and comforted by his happy memories.

In the late 1970s, Pugacheva became one of Russia's most beloved artists for her clear mezzosoprano and a full display of genuine emotions.

He lives for three things: his beloved chair in front of the TV, his unsuccessful racing greyhounds Repco Lad & Gae Akubra and his worshipped Holden Kingswood car ( late in the show's run Ted traded-in the Kingswood, which had gone out of production around the time the series began, for Holden's replacement mid-range family car, the Commodore ).

Emily Williams is an actress who enters the competition to honor her beloved late grandfather, an adventurer and pilot, who taught her to fly at an early age.

" For instance, he hated patent medicine, people who put on airs, late night noises ( both human and natural ), and the cats and jays that killed his beloved song birds.

For many years in the 1970's, WJAR broadcast men's basketball games of Providence College and the University of Rhode Island, with the late and beloved Chris Clark calling play-by-play.