Heavy rainfall or violent wave activity can cause "floods", since if a particular area that is affected by these weather conditions lacks the drainage resources necessary to reduce the water build up then it has nowhere to go.
In 1957, when the leaders of the former British colony of the Gold Coast sought an appropriate name for their newly independent state—the first black African nation to gain its independence from colonial rule—they named their new country after ancient Ghana.
The federal government was the George Washington in convention
I assume the middle ages are called the dark ages because that is when the great depression was or something im not sure