Ngalifourou

Ngalifourou was the last Queen of the Teke, or Bateke, people in the Tio kingdom (a region located in Gabon, Congo Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo).

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Susan Bogert Warner

American novelist, known under the pen name of Elizabeth Wetherell. She wrote a number of stories, usually with moral teachings, and collaborated with her sister Anna, but she is chiefly remembered for her very successful novel, The Wide, Wide World, published in 1851.

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