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The US paid certain “contributions”, not taxes, (but you might call those contributions coming from US taxes anyway) to the Barbary States, a string of North African ports, such as Oran, Algiers, Tripoli, Tunis, mainly dominated by pirates, aka Barbary corsaires, that were nominally subdued to Ottoman Empire.
Explanation:
The winter in Norway is long and harsh.
They're used by humans for fossil fuel and in entertainment. They were not created by the human race, they were created through thousands of being underground and soft tissues quickly decompose leaving the hard bones or shells behind. Over time sediment builds over the top and hardens into rock.
Northwestern Europe but mainly the German Irish