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4 unusual facts about West India


Good Shepherd Homes

Good Shepherd Homes is a British charity which provides care for street children and orphans in West India.

Horatio Joseph Lucas

Lucas was born in London on 27 May 1839, the fourth son of Louis Lucas, a West India merchant, and belonged to an old Jewish family.

The Parvatibai Chowgule College

Smt Parvatibai Chowgule College of Arts & Science, also referred to as Chowgule College or just Chowgules is a college based in the South Goa district of Margao, on the west coast of India.

Thomas Boddington

Boddington was involved in the slave trade and active as part of the West India lobby, but also participated in other committees: The Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor, and the Committees for Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts.


Anogeissus

A. pendula, known as kardhai or dhok, is common in the Kathiarbar-Gir dry deciduous forests of western India, where it often forms pure stands in the rocky ridges of the Aravalli Range.

Roderick S. McCook

From 1866 to 1878 he was in command of vessels of war on the West India and Asiatic stations.


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1 West India Quay

In the film Run Fatboy Run, the character Whit owns an apartment in 1 West India Quay.

Benjamin Vaughan

Vaughan was born in Jamaica to Samuel Vaughan, a British West India merchant planter, and an Anglo-American mother Sarah Hallowell.

Cape Henlopen

The 38th and 39th parallels region came under the final jurisdiction of the Dutch West India Company on behalf of the States General with the delivery of the first settlers to Governors Island in New Netherland in 1624.

Corps Léger d'Intervention

While the commandos trained in Jijel, Commandant de Crevècoeur arrived at Meerut, North West India on November 10, 1943 to introduce the CLI to British Special Operations Executive (SOE) Force 136's Colin Hercules Mackenzie.

Delaware Colony

Although he concluded a treaty with the Indians, deVries, his partners in Holland, and the Dutch West India Company decided the location was too dangerous for an immediate reattempt and the additional settlers were landed in New Amsterdam (New York) instead.

George Airey

He was then thirty-two years of age, which, at a time when men became lieutenant-colonels at twenty-three, meant but little chance of rising, but nevertheless by his topographical knowledge he managed to be of great assistance to Sir Charles Grey, who in 1793 reduced the French West India islands with the help of Sir John Jervis.

Hercules Robert Pakenham

He was promoted to a majority in the 7th West India regiment 30 Aug. 1810, remained with the Peninsular army, and was assistant adjutant-general of Picton's division up to the fall of Badajos, where he was severely wounded and received the Gold Cross for Busaco, Fuentes d'Onoro and Ciudad Rodrigo, and Badajos).

Karl Rost

In 1903 he went to Japan to collect insects for the Swiss collector George Meyer-Darcis (He went to Japan again in 1911) after two years in North-West India (1906 for Meyer-Darcis and 1907 for his dealership).

Olinda

John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen was appointed as the governor of the Dutch possessions in Brazil in 1637 by the Dutch West India Company on recommendation of Frederick Henry.

Parama Kamboja Kingdom

Like the Shakas, Pahlavas, Kambojas, Paradas, a section of the Rishikas had also migrated to west/south-west India prior to Christian era.

Samuel Boddington

Thereafter, Samuel approached his friend, Richard Sharp (politician), a fellow Dissenter, fellow member of the Fishmongers' Company, and both mutual friends of Samuel Rogers, asking if he would join him in business, and eventually a West India company of Boddington, Sharp and Philips (Sir George Philips, 1st Baronet) was established at 17 Mark Lane.

Suresh Kalmadi

Suresh Kalmadi studied at St. Vincent's High School, Pune in the state of Maharashtra, South West India; and then at Fergusson College, Pune.

Swedes' Landing

Jameson, J. Franklin Willem Usselinx,: Founder of the Dutch and Swedish West India Companies (G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1887)

Undercover Princes

The contestants were Remigius Jerry Kanagarajah, in exile from the kingdom of Jaffna; Africa Zulu, a Zulu chief from South Africa; and Manvendra Singh Gohil of Rajpipla in north west India.