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unusual facts about Saint John, Barbados



1853 Atlantic hurricane season

A publication by meteorologist Ivan R. Tannehill indicates that Tropical Storm Two was centered near Barbados on August 10.

1980 CARIFTA Games

The Austin Sealy Trophy for the most outstanding athlete of the games was awardeded to Richard Louis from Barbados.

Arleigh

Arleigh Winston Scott GCMG, GCVO 1900–1976 Governor-General of Barbados, (1967–1976)

Barbados Cricket Buckle

In the first chapter of his book "Muscular Learning", Professor Clem Seecharan reflects at some length on the importance of the Barbados Cricket Buckle recognising that its depiction on a Barbados postage stamp on the 60th anniversary of West Indies cricket was appropriate given cricket’s role as a “political instrument” from slavery through emancipation to independence.

Barbados National Stadium

But Barbados' past World Championships in Athletics gold-medalist Ryan Brathwaite has publicly condemned the current state of the National Stadiums' track infrastructure.

Barbados Sky

Barbados Sky is the first and only LP released by Typically Tropical, released in 1975.

Berghia creutzbergi

Berghia creutzbergi is an inhabitant of Western Atlantic Ocean, present in Florida, Costa Rica, ABC Islands (Curaçao); Venezuela (Dependencias Federales), Bahamas (Great or Little Abaco), Grand Cayman Island, Barbados, and Brazil (Rio de Janeiro).

Canadian American Railroad

Owning this section gave JDI access to interchange points with Canadian National Railway (CN) at Saint John, New Brunswick, Guilford Rail System at Mattawamkeag, Maine, and Bangor & Aroostook Railroad (BAR) at Brownville Junction, ME.

Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope

Henry Grenville (governor of Barbados in 1746 and ambassador to the Ottoman Porte in 1762), a younger brother of the 1st Earl Temple and of George Grenville.

Combined Islands cricket team

All-rounder Norbert Philip took more than 20 wickets for the second year running, and also hit 240 runs, while off spinner Derick Parry took a team record seven for 100 in the first innings of a drawn game against champions Barbados.

Courtney Browne

Courtney Oswald Browne (born 7 December 1970 in Lambeth, England) is a Barbadian cricketer.

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.

Doudou Diène

Diène holds a law degree from the University of Caen (France), a doctorate in public law from the University of Paris, a diploma in political science from the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris, and an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws degree from the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill, Barbados)

Dre Knight

Dre and Sizzla became good friends and travel to various countries to promote the album, these including Canada and Barbados.

Edward Greaves

Edward Evelyn Greaves (born 1940), High Commissioner of Barbados to Canada

Float Woods

Joseph 'Float' Woods (born about 1872 in Barbados, death details unknown) was a coloured West Indian cricketer best known as a member of the 1900 West Indian tourists to England.

Hartley Alleyne

Hartley Leroy Alleyne (born 28 February 1957 in Derricks, St James) is a former Barbadian cricketer: a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast bowler who played for Barbados, Worcestershire, Kent and Natal between 1978-79 and 1989-90.

James Scheibel

A graduate of Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota, he worked as a community organizer, as aide to former mayor Lawrence D. Cohen, as national organizer for the Fred R. Harris Presidential campaign in 1976 and as deputy director for Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA).

Jaspa's Journey- The Great Migration

Jaspa's Journey—The Great Migration is a children's fantasy adventure written by Dr. Rich Meyrick and published in 2009 by DreamCatcher Publishing in Saint John, New Brunswick.

Jesus Army Productions

Jesus Army Productions came out of the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF) at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.

Jost Van Dyke

Jost Van Dyke lies about 8 km to the northwest of Tortola and 8 km to the north of Saint John.

Kamahl Santamaria

He was on his way to Barbados - where the event was due to finish - when he was grounded at New York's JKF Airport, following the American Airlines Flight 587 crash in Queens.

Kimberly Guilfoyle

On May 27, 2006, Guilfoyle married furniture heir Eric Villency on the island of Barbados.

Mark Lackie

Mark Andrew Lackie (born March 23, 1967 in Saint John, New Brunswick) is a Canadian short track speed skater who competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Matt Joseph

He was also capped twice for Barbados in 2000, both caps at home against Guatamal and the United States.

New Brunswick Southern Railway

The tracks between Saint John and St. Croix were built as part of the European and North American Railway's "Western Extension" which was part of a project that connected Saint John, New Brunswick with Bangor, Maine, opening in 1869.

Obadele Thompson

After the 2000 Olympics, Thompson was made "Ambassador and Special Envoy to the Youth" by former Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur.

Pest house

Partridge Island, New Brunswick, just outside the main harbour of Saint John, was chosen as the location for a pest house and quarantine station as far back as 1785.

Prairie Hill, Washington County, Texas

Saint John Lutheran Church was located there, as was the Hafer General Store, the Prairie Hill School, and the doctor's office.

Promens

During 1999-2000 Sæplast acquired three companies abroad; in 1999 the Dyno AS factories in Ålesund, Norway and St. John, Canada, and in 2000, Nordic Supplies Container AS of Norway.

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Bridgetown

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (Q.E.H.) is located in Barbados' capital city Bridgetown, which is located in the parish of Saint Michael.

Richard Staple

He played twice in the Red Stripe Cup against the Leeward Islands and Barbados in February 1991, and went on the West Indies tour of England that year, playing against a World XI at the North Marine Road ground in Scarborough.

Ryan Hurley

Ryan "The Man" Hurley (born 13 September 1975 in Springhead, Barbados) is a former West Indian cricketer who played nine ODIs in 2003–04.

Saint Croix-Vanceboro Railway Bridge

The first railway bridge over the St. Croix River at this location was opened in October 1871 by U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant and Governor General of Canada Lord Lisgar on the completion of the European and North American Railway (E&NA) between Bangor, Maine and Saint John, New Brunswick.

Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands

At the end of John Grisham's best selling novel The Pelican Brief the heroes escape to St. John: specifically, a small cottage in Maho Bay, along the North Shore of St. John.

Saint John's Abbey

Rev. Rupert Seidenbusch, O.S.B. (1866-1875) Named Bishop of the Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Minnesota

Saint John's School of Alberta

The school continued to have an outdoor education program with snowshoe training and races (now shortened from the original one-day, 16-hour races of 50 miles (80 km), canoe trips and other outdoor excursions.

San Juan de la Rambla, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

San Juan de la Rambla (first part Spanish for Saint John) is a municipality in the northern part of the island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

São João da Fronteira

Fronteiras (Portuguese meaning Saint John of the frontier) is a municipality in the western part of the state of Piauí in Brazil.

Sport in Barbados

Barbados has a number of famous cricketers including: Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Everton Weekes, Sir Clyde Walcott, and Sir Frank Worrell.

St John's Gate, Clerkenwell

St John's Gate is one of the few tangible remains from Clerkenwell's monastic past; it was built in 1504 by Prior Thomas Docwra as the south entrance to the inner precinct of the Priory of the Knights of Saint John - the Knights Hospitallers.

Superman's Dead

The first performance of "Superman's Dead" took place on January 13, 1997 at Harbour Station in Saint John, New Brunswick, the first date of the Clumsy tour.

T. T. Lewis

Born Atholl Edwin Seymour Lewis, T. T. Lewis was one of a set of twins born in Drax Hall, Barbados.

Telecommunications in Barbados

By 1935 a hard wired cable-based radio network was later deployed throughout the country to broadcast the Rediffusion service directly from London to homes and business across Barbados.

Terence Lucy Greenidge

He was a first generation Barbadian born in England and second son of Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge (who came up to study and remained at Oxford as an academic) and his wife Edith Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of William Lucy, at that time the sole owner of Lucy Ironworks, previously known as the Eagle Ironworks, in Walton Well Road, Jericho, Oxford.

U.S. Virgin Islands Highway 20

Highway 20, or North Shore Road is a road on St. John.

Vensecar Internacional

Vensecar Internacional operates freight services to the following international scheduled destinations (at January 2005): Aruba, Barbados, Bogotá, Curaçao, Miami, Panama City, Port of Spain, and Santo Domingo.

William Blowers Bliss

He was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the son of Jonathan Bliss and Mary Worthington, Massachusetts loyalists, and was educated at King's Collegiate School and King's College.

Winslow Sargeant

Sargeant's parents immigrated to the U.S. from Barbados and he grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts, "one of Boston's mostly minority neighborhoods".

York Street railway station

Passenger service on the CP Fredericton Subdivision ended on April 28, 1962, forcing Fredericton residents to travel to Fredericton Junction to use the The Atlantic Limited service on the Saint John-Montreal main line.


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