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A. W. Lawrence

He was Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge University in the 1940s, and in the early 1950s in Accra he founded what later became the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board as well as the National Museum of Ghana.

Addoquaye Addo

Daniel Addoquaye Addo (born 23 April 1985 in Accra) is a Ghanaian football midfielder who played for Ashanti Gold SC.

Ako Adjei Interchange

The interchange is located between Ring Road Central and Independence Avenue and is along Liberation Road in Accra with links towards the 37 Military Hospital, the Police headquarters.

Alfred W. Benson

Born in Poland, Chautauqua County, New York, he moved to Jamestown, New York in 1860, and attended Jamestown and Randolph Academies.

Alpha Beta Christian College

It is located in Dansoman, Accra, Ghana, and offers the Cambridge International Programmes IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) and A-Levels.

Aquidneck Island

The Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge (1969) connects Aquidneck Island to Jamestown on nearby Conanicut Island in Narragansett Bay, and subsequently to the mainland on the western side of the bay.

Baron Annaly

He had previously represented Jamestown and County Longford in the Irish House of Commons and served as Solicitor-General for Ireland from 1760 to 1764.

Bice Osei Kuffour

He was educated at the State Experimental School (Kumasi), the Soul Clinic School (Accra), Garrisson Junior Secondary School (Burma Camp) and Mfantsipim School.

Cavendish Farms

In 2001 the company purchased a french fry processing plant in Jamestown, North Dakota.

Charles Asampong Taylor

Charles Taylor alongside Charles Allotey, Amankwaah Mireku, Joseph Ansah, Jacob Nettey, Stephen Tetteh, Ishmael Addo, Emmanuel Osei Kuffour, Sammy Adjei, Edmund Copson, and Emmanuel Adjogu were deemed as the best squad ever to be assembled by Accra Hearts of oak.

Charles Quansah

While in custody, Quansah was subsequently charged with the murder of another woman, Akua Serwaa who was found strangled near Kumasi Sports Stadium, in Kumasi on January 19, 1996 and subsequently confessed to the strangulation deaths of eight women in the capital city of Accra.

Quansah, a mechanic who lived in the Accra, Ghana neighborhood of Adenta, had been previously under police surveillance as a suspect in the killings.

Cuper's Cove

Given the failure of Walter Raleigh to establish a colony at Roanoke Island in 1584 and the successful settlement at Jamestown in 1607 and on learning that Samuel de Champlain had sailed into the St. Lawrence to initiate the settlement of New France, pressure was mounting to lay claim to the resource rich New World.

Dark Enough to See the Stars in a Jamestown Sky

Dark Enough to See the Stars in a Jamestown Sky is a historical fiction novel by Connie Lapallo.

Dunkonaa

Dunkonaa is suburb of Accra in Ghana.

East Ridge, Accra

Originally planned as an extension to the historic Victoriaborg district, East Ridge is being transformed into a commercial and leisure district of Accra with the siting of the National Theatre and Efua Sutherland Children's park in the district.

Emmanuel Gyimah Labi

Emmanuel Gyimah Labi (born 27 September 1950 in Accra) is a Ghanaian composer, conductor, and music professor.

Fair Trials International

Ghana Girls: In July 2007, two 16-year-old girls, Yetunde Diya and Yasemin Vatansever, were arrested for possession of 6 kilograms of cocaine at Accra airport in Ghana.

Fred Mertz

The Fred Mertz character, the actor who portrayed him (William Frawley), and some of their costumes are memorialized in the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center in Jamestown, New York (Lucille Ball's real-life hometown).

Ghana Oil Company

However, the main distribution points for fuels are Liaison Office, Central Depot, and the Accra Plains Depot all within the Tema catchment area, and the Takoradi Depot.

Global Fleet Group

# Energy Bank - Accra, Ghana - A new commercial bank in Ghana, started operations in February 2011

Global spread of H5N1 in 2007

May 3, 2007:"Ghana's first case of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed in sick chickens by local laboratories and a US naval laboratory in Egypt, a World Health Organisation official said overnight. Some 1600 birds had already been incinerated as part of efforts to control the outbreak on a farm 20km east of Ghana's capital Accra, near the port of Tema".

Institute of International Education

Current REACs are located in the following cities around the world: Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Budapest, Kyiv, Bratislava, Amman, Accra, Johannesburg, Lahore, Delhi, Beijing, Tokyo, and Kuala Lumpur.

Jacob Kwakye-Maafo

He served as a medical officer and then as a senior medical officer in many hospitals, namely, the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, the Mampong Maternity Hospital, and the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra.

Jamestown Bridge

On April 18, 2006, the main span of the Jamestown Bridge was brought down by 75 pounds of RDX explosives and 350 shaped charges.

Jamestown, Elkhart County, Indiana

The community's schools are operated by the Baugo Community Schools district and include Jimtown High School.

Jamestown, Indiana

Davey Hamilton, American racecar driver who competed in the Indianapolis 500

Jamestown, Rhode Island

Portions of the films Wind, Me, Myself and Irene, American General, Evening, Dan in Real Life and Moonrise Kingdom were filmed in Jamestown, as well as in various nearby Aquidneck Island towns, such as Middletown and Newport.

Jamestown/Usshertown, Accra

Located directly east of the Korle Lagoon, Jamestown and Usshertown are the oldest districts in the city of Accra, Ghana and emerged as communities around the 17th century British James Fort and Ussher Fort on the Gulf of Guinea coast.

Jamestowne Society

Jamestowne Society is an organization founded in 1936 by George Craghead Gregory for descendants of stockholders in the Virginia Company of London and the descendants of those who owned land or who had domiciles in Jamestown or on Jamestown Island prior to the year 1700.

Japanese cruiser Chitose

From 1 April-16 November 1907, Chitose made a round-the-world voyage, first stopping in the United States to attend the Jamestown Exposition of 1907, the 300th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the Jamestown Colony, and continuing onwards to Europe.

Japheth J. Omojuwa

Omojuwa has graced speaking platforms on universities and in cities across Nigeria and around the world from Washington to London, Lagos, Accra, Cape Town, Abuja, Rio de Janeiro, Berlin, New York, Cologne, Dortmund and other cities.

KAAY

Its nighttime signal extended well beyond Little Rock and Arkansas, covering much of the Great Plains, North Central, and mid-south regions of the United States, leading to its sobriquet "The Mighty Ten Ninety." KAAY could be heard clearly at night in Key West, Florida, and as far to the northwest as Jamestown, North Dakota.

Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Her 2007 interpretation of the settlement of early Virginia, The Jamestown Project, argues that the activity of the Virginia Company and the establishment of Jamestown, Virginia must be viewed within the broader context of English expansionary efforts, and that the structure of a functional colony was evolved through trial and error.

Kieler

Kieler, Wisconsin, unincorporated community in the Town of Jamestown in Grant County, Wisconsin

Lyle Ashton Harris

He currently divides his time between his home and studio in New York and Accra, Ghana.

Mustapha Tettey Addy

Mustapha Tettey Addy (born 1942 in Avenor, Accra, Ghana) is a Ghanaian drummer and ethnomusicologist.

North Ridge, Accra

Originally planned as a neighborhood for civil servants and businessmen in the colonial era, North Ridge remains one of the better residential neighborhoods in Accra.

Noumérat – Moufdi Zakaria Airport

On 6 February 2010 at 04:48, a Ghana International Airlines Boeing 757 flying from Accra, Ghana to London Gatwick, United Kingdom with 125 passengers and 8 crew made a precautionary landing at Moufdi Zakaria Airport following indications of possible irregularities with the hydraulics system.

Robert Graeme Galbraith

He lived with the people and as well as exploring the country he did some voluntary work for the art gallery at the National Museum of Ghana in Accra, and some part-time teaching at one of the state primary schools.

Roberts International Airport

In the late 1970s and into the early 1980s, the airport became Pan Am's principal African hub, with a non-stop service from New York JFK connecting at Robertsfield to such destinations as Dakar, Accra, Abidjan, Lagos, and Conakry, among others, and continuing on to Nairobi and even at times Johannesburg, so that for many years virtually every Pan Am passenger to Africa passed through Robertsfield.

Roderick Rose

Roderick Rose (born Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada May 15, 1838; died Jamestown, North Dakota, September 10, 1903) was a Canadian-born American educator, lawyer, politician, and judge.

Samuel Mathews

The elder Samuel Mathews was the first of the Mathews family to emigrate from England to Virginia, arriving at Jamestown by 1619.

Sibton Abbey

John Scrivener's sister Elizabeth was married to Harbottle Wingfield of Crowfield Hall, Suffolk, cousin of Edward Maria Wingfield, the first President of the Jamestown Colony.

Taras Kuzio

He writes regularly for the Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasian Daily Monitor, Oxford Analytica, and Jane's Information Group.

Tema Power Station

The power plant is connected to the electricity grid in Ghana and supplies energy to Tema and Accra.

The Mighty Wallop!

The Mighty Wallop! was a short-lived Jamestown, New York-based band formed by Dennis Drew, Steve Gustafson, and Jeff Erickson of the band 10,000 Maniacs in 2001.

Tropicana Club

On the TV series I Love Lucy, the character Ricky Ricardo (played by Cuban-born Desi Arnaz) was a singer and bandleader at Manhattan's fictional Tropicana nightclub, now recreated in reality in Jamestown, New York at the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center's Tropicana Room.

William Sidney Pittman

Pittman went on to become the first African American to win a federal commission for the Negro building at the national Tercentennial Exposition at Jamestown, Virginia.


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