In 1493 Columbus named this Virgin Island "Santa Cruz", since then its name has been Frenchified
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Full text of "The Negro in the New world" - Internet Archive  In regard to the Spanish treatment of the Negro it was far less cruel than was that of .... This work has since been continued in the States by such men and women as ... Otherwise, all intelligent negroes in these islands, and in British Honduras ...... named this parasite  Haaken-wurm, from the hook-like turn of its head-end.
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Geography - Ray Sahelian, M.D.  INDIANA, Indianapolis It's the only one-word capital that has the name of its state ..... St Croix In 1493 Columbus named this Virgin Island "Santa Cruz", since then its name has been Frenchified, The largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands, it was...
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Full text of "... The Book of the West Indies..." - Internet Archive  HE name of Sir Nevile Lubbock is chiefly associated with the West Indies owing to .... Barbados possesses no less than three serious histories of the island, all of which .... It is impossible to say " the fruits of the earth in due season," since the season is ... 11, but pr what reason it is called \o, 11 1 have been unable to 14 THE...
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Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands - Wikipedia  Saint Croix (/sent kr/; Spanish: Santa Cruz; Dutch: Sint-Kruis; French: Sainte-Croix; Danish and Norwegian: Sankt Croix, Taino: Ay Ay) is an island in the...
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Saint Kitts - Wikipedia  Saint Kitts, also known more formally as Saint Christopher Island, is an island in the West Indies .... They named Saint Kitts "Liamuiga" meaning "fertile island", and would likely have expanded further north if not for the arrival of Europeans. ... A short-lived French Huguenot settlement was established at Dieppe Bay in 1538.
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Saint Barts - World Atlas  Printable map of Saint Barts and info and links to Saint Barts facts, famous natives, ... It is widely believed that St. Barts was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493, and he later named it in honor of his brother, Bartolomeo. ... Over time, some of those buccaneers (pirates) settled on the island; farming and fishing were...
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Columbus lands in South America - Aug 01, 1498 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Columbus lands in South America on Aug 01, 1498. ... American mainland for the first time, at the Paria Peninsula in present-day Venezuela. Thinking it an island, he christened it Isla Santa and claimed it for Spain. ..... The North Vietnamese were partly correct; the attacks, conducted just after midnight...
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Free Flashcards about PATRON SAINTS - StudyStack  COLUMBUS NAMED THE ISLAND NOW USUALLY CALLED ST. KITTS FOR THIS MAN, HIS PATRON SAINT, ST. CHRISTOPHER. THIS PLAYWRIGHT'S...
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A Taste of Grenada - CouplesForChrist - Sites - Google  When Christopher Columbus sailed by Grenada in 1498, the island was already ... trouble naming the island, they found colonization a much more difficult prospect. ... The Coat-of-Arms represents the distillation of a national effort to produce ... The ship Santa Maria at the centre point of the shield and Gold Cross represent...
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Trouble in Paradise Is Nothing New to Sparkling Caribbean Island of ...  Sep 21, 1989 ... In the incident that was most widely noted, eight people, seven of them white, ... He called the island Santa Cruz, which means "holy cross" in Spanish. ... St. Croix--23 miles long and 7 miles wide--is the largest of the three major ... Aside from tourism, the U.S. Virgin Islands' other major economic activities,...
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Culture of United States Virgin Islands - history, people, clothing ...  Culture of United States Virgin Islands - history, people, clothing, women, beliefs, ... Cruzan or Crucian (Saint Croix); Thomian (Saint Thomas) ... group of islands he called Las Once Mil Virgenes, in honor of Saint Ursula. ... Relations between ethnic groups are generally good, although there has been some racial violence.
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The Third Voyage of Christopher Columbus - Latin American History  In 1498 Christopher Columbus returned for a third voyage to the so-called New World, still ... After his famous 1492 voyage of discovery, Christopher Columbus was ... be found on a continent, not an island, and the increasingly religious Columbus ... What You Don't Know About That 'Can You Hear Me Now? ... We deliver.
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St. Croix: Facts & History - Virgin Islands - VInow.com  Originally from the Guiana region of South America, the Carib people were not the first Indians on St. Croix. They had gained presence ... Columbus named the island Santa Cruz (Holy Cross). .... The largest section of USVI Books & Souvenirs.
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Saint Croix Island International Historic Site - National Park Service  Canada border in Maine, commemorates the founding of one of the earliest ... The French colonists of 1604 named the Island Isle Sainte Croix. The official name in .... St. Croix settlers were the only Europeans living north of the Spanish colony .... At the end of June, after exploring the mouth of the St. John River, the group.
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United States Virgin Islands - Wikipedia  The U.S. Virgin Islands officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of islands in .... After a few months of negotiations, a selling price of $25 million in United States gold ... March 31, 1917 and the territory was renamed the Virgin Islands of the United States. ..... Countries and dependencies of North America.
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History of the British Virgin Islands - Wikipedia  The History of the British Virgin Islands is usually, for convenience, broken up into five separate ... They are thought to have settled in nearby St. Thomas as early as 300 BC. ... None of the later European visitors to the Virgin Islands reported .... claimed St. Thomas (and St. John as well), but in 1717, the Danish disputed their...
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Market of St. Thomas US Virgin Islands - Interim Hospitality ...  Dec 10, 2014 ... Saint Thomas is one of the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea, and ... Charlotte Amalie in honor of the wife of Denmark's King Christian V. It was later ... In 1917, St. Thomas was purchased (along with Saint John and Saint Croix) by the. United States for $25 million in gold, as part of a defensive strategy to...
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ISTG - St. Barthelemy Island Departures  It was discovered by Columbus in 1493, and named for his brother Bartolomeo. St. Barths was first settled in 1648 by French colonists from the nearby island of...
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Columbus named the island now usually called St. Kitts for this man ...  Jul 6, 2016 ... Columbus named this flagship on his 2nd voyage after the one wrecked ... Christopher Columbus may have grown up on the salami with white...