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On 24 March 2014, the Bank of Jamaica issued a $50 note printed on the "Hybrid" substrate. [10] In 2015, the Bank of Jamaica issued a $100 note dated 1 January 2014 on the "Hybrid" substrate. [11] The $1000 note features an image of the Jamaican Swallowtail, the largest butterfly in the western hemisphere which is also endemic to Jamaica.
The bank is up to 40 m (44 yd) wide and up to 6 m (6.6 yd) high above the ditch bottom. The ditch is up to 10 m (11 yd) wide with a low counterscarp bank up to 18 m (20 yd) wide on the outside of the ditch, creating a maximum width of the hillfort's defences of 68 m (74 yd).
These Ibans were originally from Balau on the west bank of the Batang Lupar. As the Iban were coming to Lundu from the east, Chinese and Selako settlers were arriving from the west, over the hills that separate Sarawak from what is now Indonesian Borneo. Chinese had been living in Pontianak and Sambas for a hundred years or more.
William Poole was a large man for the time. He weighed over two hundred pounds and was about six feet tall. He was known for his brutal boxing style: "He was well known as being a notoriously dirty fighter, not averse to biting off noses, gouging out eyeballs, or beating a man to jelly."
Stoke is derived from the Saxon, meaning "the stoke" or stockade; a fortified place. Stoke [18] was placed in the hundred of Ipswich in 1086 in the Domesday Book as one of 470 places under the control of the Abbey of Ely St Etheldreda. Stoke was a small agricultural community, with estate land bordering the Orwell used for shooting.
The Upper Green contains the newly erected "Langley Village Hall and Community Centre" from 2021.. The only remaining public house, "The Bull", is located on Bull Lane at the Lower Green.
Flowerdew Hundred Plantation dates to 1618/19 with the patent by Sir George Yeardley, the Governor and Captain General of Virginia, of 1,000 acres (400 ha) on the south side of the James River. Yeardley probably named the plantation after his wife's wealthy father, Anthony Flowerdew, just as he named another plantation " Stanley Hundred " after ...