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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ns claim he could have been born in other places, from the [[Aragonese_Empire|Crown of Aragó]] to the...
5: ...is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the ...
29: ... Atlantic Ocean. The fleet came under attack by [[French privateers]] off the [[Cape of St. Vincent]],...
31: ...and]], [[Madeira]], [[Azores|the Azores]], and [[Africa]]. Columbus's brother Bartolomeo worked as a ...
33: ... to purchase sugar, and along the coasts of West Africa between [[1482]] and [[1485]], reaching the Po... - Barbados (21887 bytes)
9: ... the next few centries, the Caribs—like the Arawak and the Salodoid-Barrancoid—lived in isolat...
11: The name "Barbados" comes from a [[Portuguese colonization of the Americas|Por...
13: ...the Caribbean coast found the island uninhabited. From the arrival of the first British settlers in [[...
15: ...o work the plantations, slaves were brought from Africa; the [[slave trade]] ceased a few years before...
19: ...dos was made in [[1951]], when universal adult suffrage was introduced. This was followed by steps tow... - Guyana (12153 bytes)
41: | From the [[United Kingdom]]
62: ...n the area around 1500, Guyana was inhabited by [[Arawak]] and [[Carib]] tribes of [[Amerindian]]s. Europe...
64: ... turbulent politics. Guyana achieved independence from the United Kingdom in [[1966]] and became the [...
76: ...n on the basis of [[proportional representation]] from national lists named by the political parties. ...
107: ...ons, the first from May to mid-August, the second from mid-November to mid-January. - Jamaica (16893 bytes)
44: | <font size="1">From [[West Indies Federation]] and [[United Kingdom...
65: ...it by the original [[Arawak]] or [[Taino]] people from South America, who first settled there around t...
67: ...s achieved through the massive use of imported [[Africa]]n [[slavery|slave]] labor.
71: Jamaica slowly gained increasing independence from the [[United Kingdom]], and in [[1958]] Jamaica...
96: ...vely by the British empire in policing the empire from 1795 to 1926. Other units in the JDF heritage ... - Barbecue (24807 bytes)
6: ...g is barbecuing except when it means double-sided frying with something like a [[sandwich toaster]] or...
8: ...ooking, including grilling, as barbecue, which is frowned upon by purists in some areas. The device us...
10: ...dispersed to the sides or at significant distance from the grate. Alternately, an apparatus called a ...
23: ...g, and/or flavored in numerous ways after removed from the heat.
26: ... off to the side and almost always under a cover, frequently with added smoke for additional flavor. - Bahamas (7935 bytes)
51: | From the [[United Kingdom]]<br>[[July 10]], [[1973]]
78: ...th them. The subsequent ethnic cleansing of the [[Arawak]] peoples is believed to have been greatly facili...
80: ...the islands, custody of the chain was transferred from Spain to Britain, and the Bahama Islands were n...
82: ...73, Bahamians voted for and received independence from Britain while remaining a part of the [[Commonw...
108: ...s practiced, but almost exclusively by immigrants from [[Haiti]]. - Arrowroot (2476 bytes)
17: ...s also the name for the easy-to-digest [[starch]] from the [[rhizome]]s (rootstock) of West Indian arr...
19: ..., [[Australia]], [[Southeast Asia]], and [[South Africa]]. Because of this, Napoleon supposedly said t...
21: ...e. It has also been suggested that the name comes from arrowroot's use in treating poison arrow wounds... - Antigua and Barbuda (8199 bytes)
35: | From the [[UK]]<br>[[November 1]], [[1981]]
58: ...settlements by the [[Spain|Spanish]] and [[France|French]] were succeeded by the [[United Kingdom|Engl...
95: ...a [[labour (economics)|labour]] shortage stemming from the lure of higher wages in tourism and constru...
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