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Who, What, Why: Why do we know Timbuktu?

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Rebels in Mali have taken the historic city of Timbuktu, a place that has become shorthand in English for anywhere far away. How did this metaphor come about?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17583772
 

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