1789: We want our land back!
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This country's recent history is fascinating, with one of the largest natural deep-water harbor in the world; the first country to appoint a woman as a cabinet minister within Sub-Saharan Africa, in 1962, the first country in the world to invent a self-adhesive stamp, and where women have started voting in 1792, 120 years before those in Britain, and almost 200 years before Switzerland.
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