Ghana long ago dammed the River Volta, Egypt the Nile, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique the Zambezi.

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His first event was the Volta Show, a satellite Swiss production attached to the 2005 Art Basel show.

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At the screening, part of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, Pacino was awarded the Volta Festival Tribute Award.

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At least 120 people are thought to have drowned after a passenger boat capsized on Lake Volta in Ghana .

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Short battery history lesson: in 1800, the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta invented the voltaic pile which is recognized as the first chemical battery.

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"It is a singular honour for me to present the Festival Tribute Award, a Volta Award, to one of the true icons of world cinema, " he said.

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While the Volta has since closed, today the Irish have the highest per-capita cinema attendance in the world, according to the most current international data, compiled by The Economist.

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Born in 1922 in Toma (Upper-Volta) and deceased in 2006 in Ouagadougou at 84 years old, Joseph Ki-Zerbo was a lifelong humanist, ceaselessly fighting for the respect of human and universal values.

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What would Volta think about that?

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Applying an electric current and getting a muscle to jump is easy. (Alessandro Volta jolted a frog's legs 218 years ago.) Peckham is harvesting the body's own electrical signals to control muscles that have been cut off from the nervous system, a process called functional electrical stimulation, or FES. Peckham runs a group called the Cleveland FES Center, a collaboration among Case Western Reserve and two Cleveland hospitals.

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