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• realising the many sexual and drug pressures facing young people, a student association in Morocco encourages their youth to seek Answers, Solutions and Knowledge?
• most of the world's population of Northern Bald Ibis, an endangered species of birds, are found at Souss-Massa National Park in Morocco?
• former Moroccan prime minister Abderrahmane Youssoufi involved himself in socialist causes as early as the age of 20, by attempting to organize the Casablanca working class?
• remnants of terracotta piping used in public baths during Roman times in Morocco are on display at the Rabat Archaeological Museum?
• the Bombardment of Mogador was accomplished in 1844 by a French Navy fleet against the Moroccan city of Essaouira?
• the former featherweight world boxing champion Andre Routis spent two years in Morocco as a mechanic for the French Colonial Army?
• the career of Tiia Piili, four-time FISAF World Champion in sport aerobics, was threatened when she got food poisoning attending a competition in Morocco?
• during the mid-20th century, wine from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia accounted for nearly two-thirds of all internationally traded wine?
• despite being a widely-used garden plant on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Salvia interrupta can only be found in nature in the Atlas Mountains in the African country of Morocco?
• Mohammed bin Hadou was a Moroccan ambassador to the court of Charles II in England in 1681–82?
• mellah is a walled Jewish quarter of a city in Morocco, an analogue of the European ghetto?
• Moroccan alligator wrestler and circus strongman Tahar Douis set a world record by lifting 12 men weighing a total of 1,700 pounds on his shoulders?
• Lawrence of Arabia and Gladiator were both filmed in the ksar Aït Benhaddou in Morocco?
• Alanqa is a newly described pterosaur from Morocco which had a wingspan of up to six metres?
• an Anglo-Moroccan alliance, developed between Elizabeth I of England and the Moroccan Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur, had an influence on at least two of Shakespeare's plays?
• US abolitionist Robert Purvis had two grandparents who were English, a grandmother kidnapped at twelve from Morocco and enslaved in Charleston, and a grandfather who was German Jewish?
• Moroccan Elarbi Khattabi won five medals in team competitions at the World Cross Country Championships, including Morocco's first such medal, the silver in 1994?

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