Algeria is a beautiful country, the power there changed often. From the control by the Romans, to the control by the Spaniards, nobody held control of the country for long enough except France which ruled it for about a century until they were kicked out.
The country is nearly three times the size of the State of Texas.
Nearly six countries border it, Morocco, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Tunisia and Libya.
Natural resources include Petrol, Uranium and others.
There are some kinds of catastrophes caused by mountains, which include mudslides, earthquakes and such.
It’s the second biggest country in Africa after Sudan.
As of 2010 the population stands over 34 million.
Most of the population is Alger Berber but there is a minority of Europeans there too.
The Berber folks want Independence from Algeria but the government is against that but they did offer to teach their language in schools.
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The expression had became a popular saying by the 18th century. Feasting wasn’t done regularly in the 18th century unlike the middle ages which it was done constantly for battles won but by the 18th century this rare tradition had become more common and even an art. The core of this event was drinking wine among many other things. The people throwing the feast would give toast to others and give them presents sometimes. When the host toasted for someone, most of the time it was for a beautiful women, if the beautiful women agreed to the toast, they would then become the toast of the town.
Now these days this expression is used for a variety of meanings, like if a director has a successful film with a film actor the media will say ” the director has made the actor into the toast of the town.
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If you believe in such superstitions you actually believe in witchcraft. For those who haven’t heard the superstition, it goes like this, if a black cat crosses your path it gives you bad luck. And if it’s done in a Friday the 13 it can give you even worse luck. The legend came to be in 1560s, in England, a father and son threw stones at a black cat who scared them in the night. The cat ran limping away inside a suspected witch’s house. The next day the suspected women was all bruised up and limping. So people actually started to believe that cats were witches and started to burn all suspected witches. Executions of innocent women continued till the 17th century.
From 1400s to the 1700s are 400,000 innocent women were murdered, executed because of this mass hysteria.
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