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Coffea arabica, from which Maraba coffee is made

Maraba coffee is grown in Maraba, an area of southern Rwanda. Maraba's coffee plants are the Bourbon variety of Coffea arabica, grown on volcanic soils on high-altitude hills. About 500,000 smallholder farmers grow the coffee plants under the cooperative Abahuzamugambi.

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Audu at the march on Versailles

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Seal of Louis VIII of France

July 14: Bastille Day in France (1789)

1223 – Louis VIII began his three-year reign as King of France.
1798 – The Sedition Act became law in the U.S.

Today's featured picture

Chandrayaan-3 is India's third lunar mission, part of the Chandrayaan programme developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The mission's spacecraft consists of Vikram, a lunar lander, and Pragyan, a lunar rover.

Photograph credit: ISRO, edited by UnpetitproleX