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unusual facts about Pointe-Noire, Guadeloupe


Samuel Pechell

The French frigate Topaze had been forced to take shelter under a gun battery off Pointe-Noire, Guadeloupe, but had been spotted by Pechell's blockade force.


2009 French Caribbean general strikes

The mayor of Pointe-à-Pitre, Jacques Bangou, reported that three policemen were wounded by gunfire in the Cite Henri IV section of the city.

Bambous

Bambous, Mauritius, a village in the district of Rivière Noire, Mauritius

Benjamin D'Urban

Sir Benjamin D'Urban's remains now rest at the Last Post Fund National Field of Honour, a military cemetery owned by the Last Post Fund in Pointe-Claire where there is an obelisk to his memory.

Cadence rampa

As early as 1962 the Sicot Brothers from Haiti would frequently tour Dominica, the French Islands of Martinique & Guadeloupe and others to spread the seed of cadence, a Haitian Méringue.

Cherbourg Harbour

Exceeding Vauban's designs, he planned the construction of a 4 km long harbour wall between île Pelée and pointe de Querqueville.

David Jno Baptiste aka Ras Jumbo

As early as the 1970s, he was involved in bands on the island playing French Creole music that originated in the archipelago formed from Guadeloupe to Martinique.

Demographics of the Republic of the Congo

Thus, Congo is one of the most urbanized countries in Africa, with 85% of its total population living in a few urban areas, namely in Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire, or one of the small cities or villages lining the 332-mile railway which connects the two cities.

Dunmore Pineapple

Discovered by Christopher Columbus on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe in 1493, pineapples became a rare delicacy in Europe, and were symbolic of power, wealth, and hospitality.

Élie Domota

Élie Domota (born in 1963) is a trade union leader from Guadeloupe, spokesman of Liyannaj Kont Pwofitasyon or LKP (« Movement against exploitation » in creole) and general secretary of the UGTG, the main trade union in Guadeloupe.

Élizabeth Bourgine


She was awarded the Prix Romy Schneider Prize in 1985.

In 2011 she appeared in the joint French/British production Death in Paradise, a crime drama/comedy filmed in Guadeloupe for BBC One, but she is best known in France for her roles A Heart in Winter (1992), My Best Friend (2006) and Private Lessons (1986).

Exile One

In 1969, Gordon Henderson (the creole father of soul) decided that the French Overseas Department of Guadeloupe had everything he needed to begin a career in Creole music.

Fort Pointe-aux-Trembles

Fort Pointe-aux-Trembles was built around 1670 on the Island of Montreal in order to defend this part of the island which also included Ville-Marie.

Gas chamber

In his book, Le Crime de Napoléon, French historian Claude Ribbe has claimed that in the early 19th century, Napoleon used poison gas to put down slave rebellions in Haiti and Guadeloupe.

Gilmore LRT Station

The most recognizable landmarks closest to the station are SYKES Asia, Inc. (K-Pointe site), Saint Paul University Quezon City, Aurora Garden Plaza, Gilmore I.T. Center, and Robinsons Magnolia .

Gordon Giffin

He lived in Montreal and Toronto for 17 years, attending Valois Park Elementary School in Pointe Claire and Richview Collegiate in Etobicoke.

Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan

Meg White of The White Stripes grew up in Grosse Pointe Farms, according to her former husband, John "Jack" White, né Gillis.

Havre-Saint-Pierre, Quebec

In 1857, a group of Acadian families from the Magdalen Islands, who had previously been deported from Savannah (Georgia, USA), settled on Eskimo Point (Pointe aux Esquimaux).

Henri Bourassa Boulevard

Spanning 29 kilometres in length, it links the borough of Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles in the east to Autoroute 13 in the West Island.

Jean Blaise

In 1976 he received his Licencié en lettres and became head of a cultural center in the Bordeaux region, then another in Seine-et-Marne, and a third in 1980, in Guadeloupe.

Jean-Luc Lambourde

Jean-Luc Lambourde (born 10 April 1980) is a French football player who currently plays for Amical Club on the island of Guadeloupe in the Guadeloupe Division d'Honneur.

Jocelyn Angloma

He also scored the first goal in Guadeloupe's 2–1 quarterfinal win over Honduras on 17 June 2007 at Reliant Stadium in Houston.

In 2006, Angloma came out of retirement to play for his native région, Guadeloupe, and help them qualify for the 2007 Caribbean Nations Cup.

La Malbaie

The Fairmont Manoir Richelieu hotel and Casino de Charlevoix are both located in the neighbourhood and former municipality of Pointe-au-Pic.

La Seine no Hoshi

The title translates to English as "Star of the Seine" or "The Seine's Stars." It is based on Alain Delon's 1963 movie La Tulipe noire (movie which, in spite of the title, is not based on Alexandre Dumas, père's novel The Black Tulip).

Louis-François Jeannet

On 1 October 1799, Jeannet was sent to Guadeloupe, and promoted to acting brigadier general on 14 juillet 1800.

Lucette

Lucette Michaux-Chevry, the head of the Regional council of the French overseas department of Guadeloupe between 1992 and 2004

Maurice Boucher

Around 1982, Boucher was a member of a white-supremist motorcycle gang named the SS, who were based in Pointe-aux-Trembles, on the eastern tip of the Island of Montreal.

Michaël Niçoise

Michaël Joseph Niçoise (born 19 September 1984 in Bondy, Seine-Saint-Denis) – commonly known as Dawood Nicoise – is a French football player from Guadeloupe, who is currently playing for Putrajaya SPA F.C. in the Malaysia Premier League.

Mondeuse noire

An early theory, popularized in 1887 by French ampelographer Pierre Tochon, is that Mondeuse noire could be the Ancient Roman grape Allobrogica described by Pliny the Elder and Columella as well as the 2nd century Greek writer Celsus.

Outarde

Pointe-aux-Outardes, Quebec, is a municipality in Quebec on the north shore of the St Lawrence estuary, between the mouths of the Outardes and Manicouagan Rivers

Patois

Also named "Patuá" in the Paria Peninsula of Venezuela, and spoken since the 18th century by self colonization of French people (from Corsica) and Caribbean people such as JAMAICA, which is the main country that speaks this language (from Martinique, Saint Thomas, Trinidad, Guadeloupe, Haiti) who moved for cacao production.

Patrick Ascione

A number of his pieces have been awarded prizes and mentions at various international competitions: Fontaines (La Défense/SACEM, France, 1978); Métamorphose d’un jaune citron (Bourges, France, 1979); Lune noire (Noroit-Léonce Petitot, France, 1989); Espaces-Paradoxes, (Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, 1994).

Pointe au Baril, Ontario

Pointe au Baril is also a setting of John Irving's novel Last Night in Twisted River, where many of the places are described in the winter setting, including nearby islands.

Pointe Coupee Parish School Board

Upper Pointe Coupee High School (at a previous point Batchelor High School) - Merged into Pointe Coupee Central High School in 1991

Pointe des Almadies

The Almadies peninsula was a featured location in the 1964 film The Endless Summer where Bruce Brown shot the film's stars Mike Hynson and Robert August at a reef near Pointe des Almadies.

Pointe-Noire

Congolese oil has been largely exploited by the French company Elf Aquitaine since its discovery around 1980.

Republic of the Congo–France relations

In 1924-34, the Congo-Ocean Railway (CFCO) was built at a considerable human and financial cost, opening the way for growth of the ocean port of Pointe-Noire and towns along its route.

Rivière-à-la-Lime

In its course, the river flows through the Route 361 of the “rang Rivière à la lime" (row). The “rivière à la lime” empties into the Batiscan River, towards la “Grande pointe” (great point of land), above the village of Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan.

Robert Masterman Stainforth

Upon graduation he was offered a position as a paleontologist at Pointe-à-Pierre in Trinidad working for Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd. Those working at the laboratory, including Stainforth, had a great influence on the study of stratigraphy in the years that followed.

Roger Kent

He was a close, personal friend of Johnson's vice-president, Hubert Humphrey and a favorite political bete noire of fiery San Francisco Congressman Phillip Burton.

Salvatore Capezio

Salvatore Capezio (1871–1940) was an Italian-born shoemaker who established Capezio, one of the world's largest manufacturers of dance apparel and specialized dance shoes including ballet pointe shoes.

Simon Njami

He is currently directing “At Work”, an itinerant and digital project with lettera27 Foundation, in partnership with Moleskine, as well as the Pan African Master Classes in Photography, project that he conceived with the Goethe Institut, and setting up the collection of contemporary art for the future Memorial Acte Museum in Guadeloupe.

South Pointe Tower

Notable residents of South Pointe Tower have included Madonna and Lenny Kravitz.

The Pointe at North Fayette

The Pointe is unique in that it has an exit off one of Pittsburgh's busiest highways, I-376/US 22/US 30 (known locally as the Parkway West).

Treaty of La Pointe

The Treaty of La Pointe may refer to either of two treaties made and signed in La Pointe, Wisconsin between the United States and the Ojibwe (Chippewa) Native American peoples.

United National Congress

In April 2005 the UNC was further weakened when Pointe-à-Pierre MP Gillian Lucky and San Juan MP Fuad Khan declared themselves to be "independent UNC members" and relocated to the Opposition backbenches.

William P. Anderson

Among the more important works may be mentioned the Colchester Reef lighthouse (1885) on a caisson in Lake Erie, the construction and installation in 1898 of the first-order fog siren station on Belle Isle (Newfoundland and Labrador), and the nine flying buttress lighthouses at Pointe-au-Pere, Escarpement Bagot, Estevan Point, Michipicoten Island, Caribou Island, Belle Isle Northeast, Cape Bauld, Cape Norman, and Cape Anguille.


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