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unusual facts about Hopkins, Belize


1942 Belize hurricane

About 90% of structures in San Pedro Town were destroyed, while Newtown was completely obliterated, causing its residents to relocate and establish the village of Hopkins.


AgustaWestland AW609

On 6 December 2002, the first ground tests of the BA609 prototype began, and the first flight took place on 6 March 2003 in Arlington, Texas, flown by test pilots Roy Hopkins and Dwayne Williams.

Atlantic history

The organization of Atlantic History as a recognized area of historiography began in the 1980s under the impetus of American historians Bernard Bailyn of Harvard University and Jack P. Greene of Johns Hopkins University, among others.

Battle of St. George's Caye

In 1783, hostilities were brought to an end by the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, which allowed the Baymen rights between the Belize and Hondo rivers; this was extended with the 1786 Convention of London to the Sibun River.

Big Creek, Belize

Big Creek is a deep-water port on the Caribbean Sea in Belize's Toledo District (just south of the boundary with Stann Creek District), constructed in the 1990s.

Bob Cessna

His domestic partner and beloved companion of 44 years is the Woodstock artist and founding member of the singing duo Twinn Connexion Gerald "Jerry" Hopkins.

Brad Hopkins

In basketball, Hopkins played power forward, and was in the same lineup as future Iowa shot-blocker and NBA first-round draft pick Acie Earl.

Chan Chich Airstrip

It is the only reasonable means of access to the luxury eco-lodge created by Sir Barry Bowen in his private game park deep in the Belize rainforest, adjacent to the Rio Bravo Conservation area.

Coccoloba diversifolia

Coccoloba diversifolia, commonly known as pigeonplum, doveplum, pigeon Seagrape or tietongue, is a species of the genus Coccoloba native to coastal areas of the Caribbean, Central America (Belize, Guatemala), southern Mexico, southern Florida (coastal regions from Cape Canaveral to the Florida Keys) and The Bahamas.

Diamonds International

Diamonds International was founded in 1986 on the island of St Thomas and currently operates 129 stores in Antigua, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cabo San Lucas, Cancun, Costa Maya, Cozumel, Grand Cayman, Juneau, Ketchikan, Key West, Mazatlán, Playa Del Carmen, Puerto Vallarta, San Jose Del Cabo, Skagway, St. Kitts, St. Maarten, St. Thomas and Turks & Caicos.

Digby Mackworth Dolben

Hopkins's biographer Robert Bernard Martin asserts that Hopkins’s meeting with Dolben, "was, quite simply, the most momentous emotional event of his undergraduate years, probably of his entire life".

Dunston Checks In

It was written by John Hopkins and Bruce Graham and directed by Ken Kwapis.

Edward M. Bernstein

The Ed Bernstein Show is a talk show that has featured such noteworthy guests as former President Bill Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, former boxing great George Foreman, actor Anthony Hopkins, CNN correspondent Wolf Blitzer, as well as a bevy of entertainers such as Kelsey Grammer, Dan Aykroyd, Robert Urich, Regis Philbin, Leslie Nielsen, and many more.

Edwin Miranda

He received his first cap on January 24, 2009 in a UNCAF Nations Cup match against Belize when he came on as a late sub for Salvador Coreas.

Football Federation of Belize

On 15 June 2011, Belize kicked-off the Road to Brazil (2014 FIFA World Cup qualification) against minnows Montserrat, winning 2-5 away in a match played in the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva, Trinidad.

Frances Anne Hopkins

In 1858, she married a Hudson's Bay Company official, Edward Hopkins, whose work took him to North America.

Frank Hopkins

Hopkins' life and the story of the race were the inspiration for the 2004 film Hidalgo, written by John Fusco, directed by Joe Johnston, and starring Viggo Mortensen.

Girl Heroes

Hopkins also explores the roles of figures such as supermodels, magical girls, Carmen Sandiego, Britney Spears, Lara Croft, Xena, the Charlie's Angels (2000s), Sabrina Spellman, Mulan, and Buffy Summers.

Gladys Dick

Dick's years at Johns Hopkins and Berlin "marked her introduction to biomedical research" and provided opportunities to study experimental cardiac surgery and blood chemistry with Harvey Cushing, W.G. MacCallum, and Milton Winternitz.

Goldson

Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport (IATA: BZE, ICAO: MZBZ), an airport that serves Belize City

Griga United

Griga United is a Belizean football team based in Dangriga in Belize.

HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean

Currently, there are five countries where the national prevalence is over 2 percent, those being the Bahamas, Belize, Guyana, Haiti, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Huerteales

Petenaeaceae consists of a singe genus and species Petenaea cordata from Southern Mexico, Guatemala and Belize.

JHU Politik

Professor Steven R. David and Professor Daniel Deudney, both of Johns Hopkins, were joined by Professor Colin Dueck of George Mason University.

John Charles Fields

Fields taught for two years at Johns Hopkins before joining the faculty of Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania.

John Christian Hopkins

John Christian Hopkins (born 1960) is a Narragansett journalist, author, poet and public speaker who resides in Tuba City, Arizona, United States.

Kathleen Butler-Hopkins

Butler-Hopkins has studied chamber music with Gilbert Kalish, Gunther Schuller, and members of the Juilliard, Guarneri, Tokyo, and Budapest String Quartets, and received a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study the string quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven with Lewis Lockwood at Harvard University.

Kosaraju

S. Rao Kosaraju (or Kosaraju Sambasiva Rao), a professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University.

Lightnin' Hopkins

In 1959, Hopkins was contacted by folklorist Mack McCormick who hoped to bring him to the attention of the broader musical audience which was caught up in the folk revival.

Love on Wheels

A daily commuter on a Green Line bus from the suburbs to Central London Fred Hopkins romantically pursues a fellow passenger Jane with the help of Briggs the bus conductor.

Maharashtra Cricket Association Cricket Stadium, Pune

The stadium is an astute addition to Hopkins Architects' already impressive portfolio: the prestigious practice also has notable work at London's Lord's and Hampshire County Cricket grounds, and the National Tennis Centre at Roehampton (completed February 2007), along with its recent London Velopark win.

Matthew Hopkins in popular culture

Sarum, the 1987 novel by Edward Rutherfurd, features Hopkins making a brief appearance in Wiltshire, where he becomes involved in a family quarrel and in an apparent attempt to frame Margaret Shockley as a witch.

Maya codices

The oldest Maya codices known have been found by archaeologists as mortuary offerings with burials in excavations in Uaxactun, Guaytán in San Agustín Acasaguastlán, and Nebaj in El Quiché, Guatemala, at Altun Ha in Belize and at Copán in Honduras.

Michigan Condensed Milk Factory

Hopkins successfully completed negotiations, and Borden constructed this creamery, designed by William D. Kyser, Superintendent of the Borden Creamery in Fairport, New York in Mount Pleasant.

Naming of military air bases

Other bases were named after the local village, or used the name of the building in which they resided, such as RAF Bentley Priory, or country (e.g. RAF Belize).

Pauline Hopkins

Hopkins's novel Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (with an introduction by Richard Yarborough) was reprinted as a part of this series.

Politics of Belize

The party system is dominated by the center-left People's United Party and the center-right United Democratic Party, although there have been other small parties that have participated at all levels of governmental elections in the past.

Pre–University of Belize tertiary-level institutions

In 1981, Belize became embroiled in the dispute over the Heads of Agreement, and in late March when riots began in the streets of Belize City, Technical students led by Socorro Bobadilla were right in the middle of it.

Ralph Fonseca

Fonseca on his return to Belize after university acted as assistant general manager of Texaco oil company in Belize.

Richard Betts

Richard Bett, professor in philosophy and classics at Johns Hopkins University

Robert Govett

Well-known members of his congregation were Evan Hopkins and Margaret Barber.

Searching For Heaven

After the single, the band, with Steve Hopkins as the only member of the line-up and Hannett rejoined on bass, released with John Cooper Clarke the album Zip Style Method, in 1982.

Sherburne Hopkins

On the one hand, American investors, especially Hopkins’ client Henry Clay Pierce, wanted to unseat oil tycoon Weetman Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray and his Científico puppets.

Sigma Nu

Sigma Nu (ΣΝ) is an undergraduate college fraternity that was founded by James Frank Hopkins, Greenfield Quarles and James McIlvaine Riley at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia shortly after Hopkins witnessed what he considered a hazing ritual by upperclassmen at the Virginia Military Institute.

STSI

Space Telescope Science Institute, NASA-sponsored institute at Johns Hopkins University

The First Gentleman

The First Gentleman is a 1948 British historical drama film directed by Alberto Cavalcanti and starring Jean-Pierre Aumont, Joan Hopkins and Cecil Parker.

The National Perspective

The National Perspective is one of Belize's five national newspapers, and the only one not to operate from Belize City, having its headquarters in Belmopan.

The Wreck of the Deutschland

The poem plays a major role in Anthony Burgess' third "Enderby" novel, The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End, in which Enderby pitches an idea for a movie adaptation of the poem and produces a script, only to be duly horrified when the resulting movie bears little resemblance to either his script or to Hopkins's poem.

Tipu

Tipu, Belize, a Mayan archaeological site near the Belize–Guatemala border

Whitridge

John Whitridge Williams (1866–1931), American obstetrician at Johns Hopkins Hospital


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