Earlier this week they were fighting in Mongo - some 400km east of the capital.

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The story continues that Mongo's ears perked up, and he asked the young pianist to keep playing it.

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Let me tell you a story about a gig by Mongo Santamaria in a Bronx nightclub in 1962.

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As a verb, "to mongo" is to look for and rescue such wealth.

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As a noun, mongo is sanitation slang for treasure salvaged from trash.

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With that, The Cloud has given us the ability to exponentially increase our capacity (and opportunities) at roughly the same cost as Mongo the Server.

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Growing up, McBride remembers his mother showing him dance steps by the Temptations and seeing his father, bassist Lee Smith, performing with Cuban-born percussionist Mongo Santamaria.

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That means that our relationship with FourSquare, Etsy, Kickstarter and Mongo and all of these companies that are out here today is an incredibly supportive and collaborative.

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The public never notices when a sanitation worker slips something into the mongo bin (a box attached to the side of the truck, meant to hold tools but more often used for such stash).

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As editor of a British publishing house Heinemann's African Writer Series, he edited, published and promoted early entrants into Africa's pantheon of writers: Kenya's Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ghana's Ayi Kwei Armah, Cameroon's Mongo Beti.

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