Gold Coast (British Colony)
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The Gold Coast was a British colony on the Gulf of Guinea in west Africa that became the independent nation of Ghana in 1957.
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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—For the State of Kansas, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)