Quathlamba


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Quathlamba

(kwɑːtˈlɑːmbɑː)
n
(Placename) the Sotho name for Drakensberg
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Dra•kens•berg

(ˈdrɑ kənzˌbɜrg)

n.
a mountain range in the E Republic of South Africa: highest peak, 10,988 ft. (3350 m). Also called Quathlamba.
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But, by my council and that of other indunas, Dingaan, bargained with the Boers that first they should attack a certain chief named Sigomyela, who had stolen some of the king's cattle, and who lived near the Quathlamba Mountains, and bring back those cattle.
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The man is the artist Frank Stella, painting his image entitled Quathlamba. During the 1960s, Frank Stella made many abstract works using lines and colored metallic paints.
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