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Haitian Americans
HAITIAN AMERICANS by Felix Eme Unaeze and Richard E. Perrin Overview Haiti, an independent republic since 1804, is the oldest black republic in the world. It is located in the West Indies on the western third of the Island of Hispaniola, which lies between Cuba and Puerto Rico in the... Read more |
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Antiques
Andre Pierre 1915– Artist At a Glance… Sources Andre Pierre is one of Haiti Read more |
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Francois Duvalier
F RANÇOISD UVALIER Born: April 14, 1907 Port-au-Prince, Haiti Died: April 21, 1971 Port-au-Prince, Haiti Haitian president and physician François Duvalier was the president of Haiti from 1957 until his death. Trained as a physician and... Read more |
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Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince , city (1995 est. pop. 846,200), capital of Haiti, SW Haiti, on a bay at the end of the Gulf of Gonaïves. The country's chief seaport, it exports mainly coffee and sugar. The city has food-processing plants; soap, textile, and cement industries; and other light manufacturing. It... Read more |
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Cap-Haitien
Cap-Haïtien , city (1995 est. pop. 100,600), N Haiti, on the Atlantic Ocean. Haiti's second largest city, it is a seaport, commercial center, and tourist attraction. Agriculture dominates the regional economy, with sisal, sugar, coffee, cacao, bananas, and pineapples as the major commercial... Read more |
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Tortuga
Tortuga [Span.,=turtle], island, c.70 sq mi (180 sq km), off N Haiti. It was a notorious rendezvous of pirates in the 17th cent. It is called Île de la Tortue by the Haitians.... Read more |
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Haitians
Haitians PRONUNCIATION:HAY-shuns LOCATION:Haiti POPULATION:6.6 million LANGUAGE:Haitian Creole; French RELIGION:Voudou (Voodoo); Roman Catholicism; Protestantism 1 • INTRODUCTION Sharing the Caribbean island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic, Haiti... Read more |
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Haiti
Haiti , Fr. Haïti , officially Republic of Haiti, republic (2005 est. pop. 8,122,000), 10,700 sq mi (27,713 sq km), West Indies, on the western third of the island of Hispaniola. It is bounded on the north by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the east by the... Read more |
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Hispaniola
Hispaniola , Span. Española , second largest island of the West Indies, 29,530 sq mi (76,483 sq km), between Cuba and Puerto Rico. Haiti occupies the western third of the island and the Dominican Republic the remainder. Visited by Columbus in 1492, the island was called Española.... Read more |
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Jean Pierre Boyer
Jean Pierre Boyer , 1776-1850, president of Haiti (1818-43). A free mulatto, he fought under Toussaint L'Ouverture and then joined André Rigaud , also a mulatto, in the latter's abortive insurrection against Toussaint. He returned in 1802 with the French army of Charles Leclerc but later... Read more |
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Exorcising Haiti's ghosts. (American prejudices toward Haiti)
...mandate, restored the elected government of Haiti, which had been overthrown by the country...Nations assumed responsibility for peacekeeping in Haiti. But with the February 7 inauguration of Haiti's newly elected president, Rene Preval... |
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Rituals of exorcism, blessings embellish curse legend on soccer pitch
...For Malaysians, dabbling in or exorcising the supernatural is not something new...with developing nations. The likes of Haiti's Papa Doc Duvalier or Malaysia's...difference between blessing something or exorcising it. With that, The Sun, has been accused... |
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All glory goes to Rory
...accounts, McIlroy is a likable young man. He recently visited Haiti as a UNICEF ambassador. ‘‘The good thing about Rory...are premature. McIlroy earned the ever-elusive first major, exorcising his final-round collapse at the Masters in April, but he more... |
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Zusätzliche Friedenswächter Bitte!
...proficient military capability available - is unjustifiable. Exorcising the sins of the 20th century will require the sublimation of...support peacekeeping operations in Darfur, Eastern Congo, Haiti and other places - largely ignored by the West - where the... |
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The Nuptial Flight of the Ants: Or, On the Nature of Motherly Love
...religious processions through the dusty streets, in hopes of exorcising the ants. Priests carried large rosaries and images of St...pleas, because the settlements survived and eventually became Haiti and the Dominican Republic. In more recent times, fire ants... |
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