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4 unusual facts about Antilles


Antilles

The Lucayan Archipelago (consisting of the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands), though part of the West Indies, are generally not included among the Antillean islands.

Chris Valaika

He was a member of the U.S. National Team, and won the silver medal at the U-18 Pan Am Cup in Curacao-Antilles and the gold medal at the 2004 World University Baseball Championship in Taiwan.

Expulsion of the Jews from Portugal

Most Portuguese Jews, thousands, would eventually leave the country to Amsterdam, Thessaloniki, Constantinople (Istanbul), France, Morocco, Brazil, Curaçao and the Antilles.

Not for Attribution

Stanfield visits the Antilles to check on his laundered money and gives a second, clean gift to The Greeks.


Ade Coker

A month later, he scored twice as in a 4-0 victory over the Netherlands Antilles after coming on for Chance Fry.

Anatrachyntis rileyi

It is found in much of the warm or tropical areas of the world, including northern Australia, the Galápagos Islands, Hawaii, the Antilles, and South America.

Antilles catshark

Shark expert Stewart Springer originally described the Antilles catshark as an island subspecies of G. arae, in a 1979 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Technical Report.

Calotrophon carnicolor

This specie sis distributed in the Lesser Antilles along Nevis and Barbados.

Churandy Martina

However, on 24 August, the Netherlands Antilles filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to reinstate Martina's medal, arguing that the American protest came after the 30-minute deadline for protests and appeals set by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), and also that they have their own video footage (not the official Olympic video footage) showing that Martina never left his lane.

This would have been both a national record and the second-ever Olympic medal for the Netherlands Antilles after Jan Boersma's silver in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

Doyles Room

Named for Doyle Brunson, the 10-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, the Doyle Brunson Poker Network is licensed and incorporated in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles with the website also stating "Letter of Intent from Malta Lotteries and Gaming Authority Received".

E. occidentalis

Emblemariopsis occidentalis, the flagfin blenny, blackfin blenny or redspine blenny, a fish species found around the Bahamas, Brazil and the Lesser Antilles

Édouard Placide Duchassaing de Fontbressin

Subsequently, he visited several other islands of the Antilles, eventually relocating as a physician to Santa Marta, Panama (1848), from where he studied the natural history of the isthmus, sending his plant specimens to Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers, a botanist in Berlin (these specimens later became the property of August Grisebach).

Flamingo Airport

Flamingo International Airport, located at Kralendijk, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles (IATA: BON, ICAO: TNCB)

Groupes d'Intervention de la Police Nationale

The DCSP has competency in 75 departments and within the territorial services of 7 large provincial towns (Lille, Strasbourg, Lyon, Nice, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Rennes) and overseas (La Réunion, New Caledonia and Antilles- French Guiana).

Hat Island

Sombrero, Anguilla (also known as "Hat Island"), the northernmost island of the Lesser Antilles

Hato

Ergilio Hato (1926-2003), football goalkeeper from Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles

Heteromysis actiniae

The anemone mysid is found living in association with the sea anemone Bartholomea annulata in the Bahamas, the Lesser Antilles, the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern coasts of Mexico and Panama down to a depth of a few metres (yards).

Index of Netherlands Antilles-related articles

Antillenhuis, the cabinet of the minister plenipotentiary of the Netherlands Antilles in the Hague

KVNA

Katholieke Verkenners Nederlandse Antillen KVNA, the Catholic Scouts of the Netherlands Antilles

Las Aves

Isla Aves, Aves Island, an island to the west of Guadaloupe in the Lesser Antilles

Las Aves archipelago, a group of islands to the east of Bonaire in the Netherlands Antilles

Maduro Holding


Insel Air
Insel Air Cargo
Curaçao Port Services
Curaçao Harbor Corporation
Laparkan
Maduro Airfreight Services
Maduro Transport Services
TNT Netherlands Antilles
Caribbean Shipping Agencies Limited

Marcello Pisas

Marcello "Chelo" Michelangel Anthony Pisas (born 4 September 1977 in Willemstad) is a Curaçao footballer Professional who currently plays as a Goalkeeper for Centro Social Deportivo Barber in Netherlands Antilles First League.

Martín Sessé y Lacasta

Various companies of scientists were sent to such widely separated destinations as the Pacific coast of Canada, the Greater Antilles, Yucatán, Nicaragua, and San Francisco.

Music of the Lesser Antilles

The music of the Lesser Antilles encompasses the music of this chain of small islands making up the eastern and southern portion of the West Indies.

N. nitida

Nitidella nitida, the glossy dove shell, a sea snail species found in the Red Sea and in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea and the Lesser Antilles, and from Florida to Brazil

Nanichi

Its name is derived from the original Taino language of the Greater Antilles and means "My Love or My Heart".

Oranjestad

Oranjestad, Sint Eustatius, until 10 October 2010 part of the Netherlands Antilles, now part of the Netherlands

Patrick Chamoiseau

Chamoiseau is the author of a historical work on the Antilles under the reign of Napoléon Bonaparte and several non-fiction books which include Éloge de la créolité (In Praise of Creoleness), co-authored with Jean Bernabé and Raphaël Confiant.

Radio Antilles

Like so much else in Montserrat, Radio Antilles was badly damaged by Hurricane Hugo, briefly rebuilt, and then shut down and abandoned at the start of the eruptions in 1995.

Rohan Nichol

Nichol was the original choice to play Captain Antilles, before George Lucas considered using Denis Lawson, the actor that portrayed Wedge Antilles in the original trilogy.

SS Antilles

The Flandre or the Antilles appeared as stock footage in the 1964 Perry Mason episode Nautical Knot, set near Acapulco, Mexico.

University of Baltimore Center for International and Comparative Law

He has also taught comparative media law at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, Cyber law at The University of Netherland, Antilles in Curacao, and U.S. Constitutional and copyright law at Shandong University, China.

Windward Islands

Vessels in the Atlantic slave trade departing from the African Gold Coast and Gulf of Guinea, would first encounter the southeasternmost islands of the Lesser Antilles in their west-northwesterly heading to final destinations in the Caribbean and North and Central America.


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