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Land mammal: African elephants weigh up to 14,000 pounds and can eat as much as 600 pounds of food a day! Their trunks contain as many as 100,000 different muscles.
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Sierra Leone: Major Players in the Civil War The countries and people involved in the civil war by David Johnson Government of Sierra LeoneAlready the victim of one coup, President Kabbah's grip…
