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unusual facts about Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla


Dolphin Flag

The Dolphin Flag of Anguilla was adopted on September 29, 1967, after the colony (then part of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla) unilaterally declared independence from Great Britain as the Republic of Anguilla.


1766 in Great Britain

20 February - The Pennsylvania Gazette reports that a British sloop outside of Wilmington, North Carolina seized one sloop sailing from Philadelphia and one sloop sailing from Saint Christopher on the charge of carrying official documents without stamps.

AAAF

Anguilla Amateur Athletic Federation, the governing body for the sport of athletics in Anguilla

All Saints Church, Little Wenham

To the east of the north door is a wall painting of Saint Christopher and the Christ Child.

Almeda University

Legally, Almeda University is a corporation registered on the Caribbean island of Nevis.

Anguilla at the Commonwealth Games

Anguilla which is a British overseas territory in the Caribbean has competed at three Commonwealth Games to date, beginning in 1998.

Anguillan general election, 2010

In 2009, the year before the election, Chief Minister Osbourne Fleming, who was also the leader of the Anguilla United Front (AUF), announced that he would not stand for re-election in the 2010 race.

Bolshayne Fen

Brown trout Salmo trutta fario and Eel Anguilla anguilla are known to occur in Nanny's Water.

Brick Kiln

Brick Kiln is a settlement in the east of the island of Nevis in Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Butlers, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Butlers is a settlement in the east of the island of Nevis in Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Calotrophon carnicolor

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

Chalumna River

The African longfin eel (Anguilla mossambica) is common in its waters.

Charles E. Mills Secondary School

The Charles E. Mills Secondary School (formerly Sandy Point High School) is a public high school in Sandy Point Town, Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Church Ground, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Church Ground is a village on the island of Nevis in Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Dennis Byron

In 2000, Judge Byron was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and he was appointed a member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council in 2004, making him only the second national of St. Kitts and Nevis to be appointed, following the appointment of the country's first Prime Minister Dr. Kennedy Simmonds in 1984.

Flag of Anguilla

This flag was widely disliked, and was replaced during Anguilla's brief period of independence by the Dolphin Flag, which is still widely seen around the island.

Frederick Seymour

For the next twenty years, he served in various positions in a series of colonies mired in political and economic difficulties: Van Diemen's Land, Antigua, Nevis, British Honduras, and the Bay Islands.

Goodbody Stockbrokers

A whistleblower revealed that the broker illegally traded AIB Shares, through offshore blacklisted tax havens Nevis and Vanuatu.

Joseph Oliver Bowers

In recognition and acknowledgement of his work in Ghana, when the diocese of St. John's-Basseterre in the West Indies was created in 1971 - comprising the islands of Antigua-Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands - Bowers was appointed its first bishop on January 16, 1971, becoming the chief pastor in Antigua.

Kaleth Morales

Kaleth Miguel Morales Troya was born in Valledupar, Cesar, Colombia to singers Miguel Morales and Nevis Troya.

Kieran Kentish

Kieran Kentish (born 29 August 1987) is an Anguillan international footballer who plays college soccer in the United States for John Brown University, as a defender.

Landry of Paris

Consecrated bishop of Paris in 650, he built the first major hospital in the city, dedicating it to Saint Christopher, which is now the Hôtel-Dieu.

Mannings, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Mannings, Saint Kitts and Nevis is a small town on the island of Nevis in Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Music of Saint Kitts and Nevis

There is Inner City Fest in February in Molineaux Green Valley Festival usually around Whit Monday in village of Cayon, Easterama around Easter (April) in village of Sandy Point, Fest-Tab, around July-August in the village of Tabernacle, and La festival de Capisterre, around Independence Day in Saint Kitts and Nevis (19 September), in the Capisterre region.

NEVIS

NEVIS, or New Exhaust Valve & Intake System, is a type of internal combustion engine developed by Cesare Bortone in cooperation with the University of Perugia which utilizes a unique annular piston design on a sinusoidal cam to produce power.

Nevis Express

Nevis Express was an airline which operated from St Kitts and Nevis, West Indies.

Nevis Laboratories

James Hamilton built his mansion on this estate and named it Nevis in honor of the birthplace of his father.

Nevis Premier Division

Nevis Premier Division, is the Nevis top division, created in 2006 and organized by the St. Kitts and Nevis Football Association.

Nevis, Minnesota

The muskie fish is native to the waterways in the area, and is celebrated in Nevis.

Robert G. Renner, a U.S. federal judge, was born in Nevis in 1923.

Newcastle, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Newcastle is a village on the northern coast of the island of Nevis in Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Outline of Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Kitts and Nevis is the smallest nation on Earth to ever host a World Cup event; it was one of the host venues of the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

Paul A. Russo

He was Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Dominica, St Lucia, Antigua, St. Vincent, and St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla from 1986 to 1988, under Ronald Reagan.

People's Action Movement

In the 1980 elections they won three seats, and were able to form a coalition government with the Nevis Reformation Party to oust the Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party from power for the first time since 1952.

Pero's Bridge

The bridge is named after Pero, also known as Pero Jones, who lived from around 1753 to 1798, arriving in Bristol probably from the Caribbean Island of Nevis in 1783, as the slave of the merchant John Pinney (1740–1818) at 5 Great George Street.

Royal Bank of Trinidad and Tobago

This is now RBTT Bank Caribbean, with branches in St. Lucia, Antigua, St. Vincent, and Bequia, and owns RBTT Bank (SKN) in Nevis and RBTT Bank Grenada.

Ryan Lackey

In 1999 Lackey lived in the San Francisco Bay Area after a period in Anguilla before moving to the unrecognized state of Sealand off the coast of the United Kingdom and establishing HavenCo.

Saddler

Saddlers, a town in Saint John Capesterre Parish, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Anne Sandy Point Parish

The finished product will include the La Vallée Golf Course, a marina and port facility for transport to the northern Leeward Islands (Statia, Saba, St. Barths, St. Martin, and Anguilla),Villa developments, and a state of the art sporting facility.

Saint Christopher

According to church tradition, a bishop waved the relics from the city wall in 1358AD in order to end a siege of the city by an Ottoman army.

Medallions with St. Christopher's name and image are commonly worn as pendants, especially by travelers, to show devotion and as a request for his blessing.

Saint Paul Capisterre

Saint Paul's is home to the current prime minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Denzil Douglas, and was also home to former premier, Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, who is the first national hero of Saint Kitts.

St Faith's Church, Little Witchingham

One shows parts of Saint George killing the Dragon, another is thought to have contained Saint Christopher, and another possibly is of The Three Living and the Three Dead.

St. Mark's Church, Vrba

An image of St Christopher and one of the Crucifixion date to the early 15th century and are in the style of the Gorizia school.

The Lairig Club

It is interesting to note that other than the first ascent of Raven’s Gully in Glencoe by Hamish MacInnes and Chris Bonington in 1953 all the grade V routes in Scotland were confined to the Lairig’s stomping ground of the Eastern Cairngorms in the early 1950s and it is ironic that it was Lairig members Patey and Nicol who teamed up with Hamish MacInnes to climb the first grade V on Ben Nevis, this came in the form of the much prized first ascent of Zero Gully.

Tim Harris

Timothy Harris (born 1964), foreign minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis

University of the Southern Caribbean

Malcolm Guishard – 1975 – Leader of the Opposition in the Federal Parliament, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Deputy Premier Nevis.

West Indies Power

It has geothermal power development activities in Nevis, Saba and Dominica.

Zion, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Zion is a settlement in the southeast of the island of Nevis in Saint Kitts and Nevis.


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