The Wassoulou or Wassulu empire was a short-lived ( 1878 – 1898 ) empire, led by Samori Ture in the predominately Malinké area of what is now upper Guinea and southwestern Mali ( Wassoulou ).

The Wassoulou or Wassulu Empire was a short-lived ( 1878 – 1898 ) empire, led by Samori Ture in the predominately Malinké area of what is now upper Guinea and southwestern Mali ( Wassoulou ).

While the history of the Mandinka Wassoulou states remain unclear, the small kingdoms of Kenedugu and Wassulu existed from at least the 1650s CE, benefiting from gold mining and trade in the area.

Inhabitants are known as Wassulu, Wassulunka or Wassulunke.

The larger states were falling like dominoes to either Samori's Wassulu Empire or the French.

Bamana culture is centered around Segou, Sikasso, the Wassalou region, and in eastern Senegal near the border of Mali's Kayes region.

It is a lonely, rather desolate region, but full of legendary and historic associations.

Through trade and travel across the seas the American Merchant Marine is carrying out its historic mission of linking the United States of America with friendly nations across the seas ; ;

`` It is as though '', I said on the historic three-hour, coast-to-coast radio broadcast which I bought ( following Father Coughlin and pre-empting the Eddie Cantor, Manhattan Merry-go-round and Major Bowes shows ) `` That Man in the White House, like some despot of yore, insisted on reading my diary, raiding my larder and ransacking my lingerie!!

Assuming the weather is halfway decent that day, hundreds of thousands of persons will mass along this thoroughfare as President John F. Kennedy and retiring President Dwight D. Eisenhower leave Capitol Hill following the oath-taking ceremonies and ride down this historic ceremonial route.

In this historic square are several statues, but the one that stands out over the others is that of Gen. Andrew Jackson, hero of the Battle of New Orleans.

The churches of the Anglican Communion have traditionally held that ordination in the historic episcopate is a core element in the validity of clerical ordinations.

The historic Valley House is located in The Valley, near Dugort in the north-east of Achill Island.

The school is involved in a study of the prehistoric and historic landscape at Slievemore, incorporating a research excavation at a number of sites within the deserted village of Slievemore.

Arminianism is based on the theological ideas of the Dutch Reformed theologian Jacobus Arminius ( 1560 – 1609 ) and his historic supporters known as the Remonstrants and is known as a soteriological sect of Protestant Christianity.

Abbotsford is a historic house in the region of the Scottish Borders in the south of Scotland, near Melrose, on the south bank of the River Tweed.

Acapulco ’ s most historic building is the San Diego Fort, located east of the main square and originally built in 1616 to protect the city from pirate attacks.

A scholarly consensus has not yet been reached on the origin of the historic Achaeans relative to the Homeric Achaeans, and is still hotly debated.

Disclaimer: This list is primarily for historic archival purposes.

The Acropolis of Athens ( Greek: Ακρόπολη Αθηνών ) is an ancient citadel located on a high rocky outcrop above the city of Athens and containing the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historic significance, the most famous being the Parthenon.

Confessional Lutheranism rejects Apostolic succession, stating that that there's no evidence the Popes have historic succession from Peter other than their own claim that it is so.

It is also a historic Mediterranean port.

The Arc de Triomphe is the linchpin of the historic axis ( Axe historique ) – a sequence of monuments and grand thoroughfares on a route which goes from the courtyard of the Louvre, to the Grande Arche de la Défense.

Aberdour (;, ) is a scenic and historic village on the south coast of Fife, Scotland.

These draw many visitors in summer, along with the remains of the historic Abbey, and is a popular setting for weddings.

Abersychan is a settlement and community north of Pontypool in Torfaen, Wales, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire.

In the Old World, there is little data but the sites themselves ; in the New World, the sites were supplemented by ethnographic and historic data.

It is based primarily on statistics and is particularly apt for prehistoric sites where the social evidence is relatively scant compared to the historic period.

It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.

Respecting their need, one of the major focal points of our concern is the South-Asian region.

Most immediately relevant to these episodes in Goa, Katanga and Ghana, as to the Suez-Hungary crisis before them, is the belief that the main theater of the world drama is the underdeveloped region of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

It is kept in each Regional office for the small firms within the region.

A significant effect discovered during the study is the existence of Prandtl numbers reaching values of more than unity in the nitrogen dissociation region.

Another effect discovered is the large coefficient of thermal diffusion tending to separate nitrogen from the oxygen when temperature differences straddling the nitrogen dissociation region are present.

With the growing complexity of markets and intensity of competition, sales management, whether at the district, region or headquarters level, is a tough job today -- and it will be tougher in the future.

Physicochemical investigations of anionic surfactants, including the soaps, have shown that there is little polymerization or agglomeration of the chain anions below a certain region of concentration called the critical micelle concentration.

( 2 ) In the critical micelle region, there is a rapid agglomeration or polymerization to give the micelles, which have a degree of polymerization averaging around 60 - 80.

Beyond a few million kilometers from the Earth, but still in the region of the Earth's orbit, a prediction of the flux of dust is even more unreliable.

The observational data determining the concentration distribution have a range of error which is magnified in the extension into the micrometeorite region.

We assume that average total unit cost in the relevant region of operation is constant with respect to quantity produced ( the average cost curve is horizontal, and therefore is identical with the marginal cost curve ), and is the same for every firm ( and therefore for the industry ).

The pictures of Figs. 3 and 4 show the cracking and peeling types of removal where the coating is detached by failure in a region at, or close to, the interface between coating and substrate.

An electrostatic system suffers generally from image plane curvature leading to defocusing in the peripheral image region if a flat viewing screen ( or interstage coupler ) is utilized, while a magnetic system requires accurate adjustment of the solenoid, which is heavy and bulky.

This is specified by a distribution function Af such that the probability that Af lies in some region D of the stage space is Af.

And when psychology explains glibly, `` but the subconscious mind is able to produce it '' it refers to a mental region so vaguely identified that it may embrace the entire universal mind as conceivably as part of the individual mind.

Thirdly, the South is not merely an embarrassingly backward region, but a part of this country, and what happens there concerns every one of us.

Of the nation's eight million pleasure-boat owners a sizable number have learned that late autumn is one of the loveliest seasons to be afloat -- at least in that broad balmy region that lies below America's belt line.