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"title": "At Home in Africa: Design, Beauty and Pleasing Irregularity in Domestic Settings",
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"\"In the spring of 1916, Mr. F. M. Rapp, mining engineer, now at Tonopah, Nevada, returned from the Belgian Congo, Central Africa, where he has been engaged for two years in geological work along the Kasai River and its tributaries.\"
M. G. Edwards, \"Diamond-bearing gravel from Belgian Congo,\" American Mineralogist (1917) 2 (7): 88\u201389.
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