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- proper noun The African language which as the ISO code 'gol'.
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Examples
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That is why they are usually referred to “King/Queen of Gola, Mano, Kru (or whatever tribe) Gospel Music”.
Global Voices in English » Liberians Are Talking, Are You Listening? 2009
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For Gola, a 17-year-old student from Iraqi Kurdistan, it was the moment her mother and sister-in-law took her to get circumcised.
Female Circumcision Rife in Iraqi Kurdistan, Says Report 2010
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Pepela-Gola was nothing if not clean, classic, and cool.
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: (Republic of) Georgia Fashion Week Beth Arnold 2010
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"They put us in the bathroom, held our legs open and cut something," Gola, whose real name has been withheld for privacy reasons, recalls in the new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report, "'They Took Me and Told Me Nothing': Female Genital Mutilation in Iraqi Kurdistan."
Female Circumcision Rife in Iraqi Kurdistan, Says Report 2010
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At the beginning of 1942, her cousin Mire Gola arrived at the Spiner family home in the ghetto.
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Her father set a humanistic, open tone in the household, and Gola studied in Polish schools, where she was a model student, at times winning prizes.
Mire Gola. 2009
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My father, who was the son of a Gola chief, you know, was given to one family.
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Tova Draenger credits Gola with “the urge of the members of Akiva to go out and fight alongside the PPR,” though this urge was short-lived, lasting only until the Akiva members became disappointed in the PPR.
Mire Gola. 2009
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After graduating she was sent by the Yidishe Shul in Meksike to attend a one-year program of studies (1955) at the Bet-Hamidrash le-Morey ha-Gola al-shem Hayyim Grinberg (Seminar for Teachers in the Diaspora) in Jerusalem.
Chava Turniansky. 2009
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Sometimes a single woman became a leader among the surrounding men, as did Mire Gola in Cracow, Tosia Altman and Rivka Glanz.
Poland: Women Leaders in the Jewish Underground During the Holocaust. 2009
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