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Rachael Pringle Polgreen (c. 1753–1791) was an Afro-Barbadian hotelier and brothel owner. Born into slavery, her freedom was purchased, and she became the owner of the Royal Naval Hotel, a brothel that catered to the itinerant military personnel on the island of Barbados. She was one of the first mulatto women to operate a business in the colony.
January 17, 1973. Heʻeia Fishpond (Hawaiian: Loko Iʻa O Heʻeia) is an ancient Hawaiian fishpond located at Heʻeia on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. A walled coastal pond (loko iʻa kuapā), it is the only Hawaiian fishpond fully encircled by a wall (kuapā). Constructed sometime between the early 1200s and early 1400s, it was badly damaged ...
Sandy Lane is a luxury five-star [2][3][4] beachfront resort close to Holetown and Paynes Bay on the island of Barbados. [5] Sandy Lane was opened in 1961 by Ronald Tree, a former British politician, as a luxury hotel and golf course on what had been a sugar plantation. [6] In 1998, the hotel was put up for sale by Granada plc, and five Irish ...
Fairmont Royal Pavilion. / 13.2028; -59.6404. The Fairmont Royal Pavilion is a beachfront hotel in St. James, Barbados is situated 29 km (17 miles) from the Grantley Adams International Airport and 14 km (8 miles) from the capital city of Bridgetown, and a half mile from the nearest shopping centre in Holetown .
Biography. Daphne Joseph-Hackett was born in 1915 in Barbados. [1] Training as a teacher, she began her career teaching in Grenada. After eleven years, she returned to Barbados. [2] She taught Latin at Queen's College in Bridgetown. [1] In the 1940s, the British Council established regional offices to sponsor theatre workshops.
Māhaki. Māhaki ( fl. 1470s) was a Māori rangatira (chieftain) in the area north of modern Gisborne on the East Cape of New Zealand and the ancestor of the Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki iwi. He may have lived in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
Rākei-hikuroa was a rangatira (chieftain) of Ngāti Kahungunu, who may have lived in the fifteenth century.His efforts to establish his son Tūpurupuru as upoko ariki (paramount chief) of Ngāti Kahungunu led to a conflict with his brother-in-law, Kahutapere, who expelled him from the Gisborne region, beginning a long-lasting conflict within Ngāti Kahungunu.
The island was briefly claimed by the Spanish Empire who saw trees with a beard like feature (hence the name Barbados), and then by Portugal from 1532 to 1620. The island was an English and later a British colony from 1625 until 1966. Sugar cane cultivation in Barbados began in the 1640s, which saw the increasing importation of black slaves ...