Eritrea

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. -Charles Dickens, novelist (7 Feb 1812-1870)

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Since the Supreme Court struck down previous restrictions on sports betting in 2018, 36 states have legalized it (26 of which allow mobile betting), and new ballot initiatives are proposed every year.

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Eritrea

"Occupied," on Netflix, is a Norwegian-produced series conceived by the author Jo Nesbo, originally released in 2015. It has a mixed reputation, the first two seasons is apparently of high dramatic quality, then they lost their minds and thought they could run the thing for ten years and jumped the shark. A fourth season is coming.

One actress in the show is a woman named Selome Emnetu. She is a Norwegian actress, born in 1981 in Stavanger, Norway. She studied acting for three years at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. She is of Eritrean descent.

Eritrean?

Eritrea won independence from Ethiopia in 1993 after a 30-year war

Eritrea is located in East Africa. It is bordered to the northeast and east by the Red Sea, Sudan to the west, Ethiopia to the south, and Djibouti to the southeast

Capital: Asmara

Area: 117,600 sq km

Population: 6.2 million

Languages: Tigrinya, Tigre, Arabic, English, Beja, Kunama, Saho, Bilen, Nara, Afar

Life expectancy: 64 years (men) 68 years (women)

The country has a single party and has had one leader since independence, President Isaias Afewerki, Eritrea has no legislature, no independent civil society organizations or media outlets, and no independent judiciary.

The name Eritrea is derived from the ancient Greek name for "Red," the Red Sea.

At Buya in Eritrea, one of the oldest hominids representing a possible link between Homo erectus and an archaic Homo sapiens was discovered by Eritrean and Italian scientists. Dated to over 1 million years old, it is the oldest skeletal find of its kind and provides a link between hominids and the earliest anatomically modern humans.

Around 2000 BC, parts of Eritrea were most likely part of the Land of Punt, first mentioned in the twenty-fifth century BC.

The Red Sea became important with the completion of the Suez Canal and Eritrea was taken over by The Kingdom of Italy in 1889. 

The Italians lost the area in WWll and the British took over. After insistence by Halle Salasi, Eritrea was merged in a sort of federation with Ethiopia until it was granted independence after a 30-year resistance war.