- Timbuktu, a trading city in central Mali, is still referred to as the most isolated remote location in the world.
- Timbuktu started as a summer encampment for nomadic tribes of the region.
- During World War II Timbuktu was used to house prisoners of war.
- Today Timbuktu is very, very poor.
- Both droughts and floods consistently threaten the city. Flooding happens because the city doesn’t have an adequate drainage system to keep rainwater from building up.
- The movement of salt from the mines in the middle of the Sahara desert through Timbuktu to the Niger River is what Timbuktu depends on for its survival.
- Rice is the predominant crop grown in the area.
- It is about 15 km north of the Niger River.
- In the 14th Century it became the commercial, religious and cultural center of the West African empires of Mali and Songhai.
- Timbuktu’s greatest contribution to Islam and world civilization was its scholarship. By the 14th Century important books were written and copied in Timbuktu.
Yes, this is true. This is named as a speech that incites (makes people commit) imminent lawless action - that is, speech that incites violence or breaking the law.
Another exceptions to the rule of free speech are obscenity,- which is a quite controversial exception.
Usually yes. But the form of government and control that the US has is different, so they manage to manage these differences in order to be able to do their duty well in a coordinated manner.
