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Residents of the Cayman Islands enjoy a tax-free existence; local legend has it that the reason for the absence of taxation is related directly to the Wreck of the Ten Sail. According to the legend, a member of the passenger list for the 10 vessels included a royal prince, one of the sons of Britain’s King George III. The legend further ...
"Red Sails in the Sunset" is a popular song. Published in 1935 , its music was written by Hugh Williams ( pseudonym of Wilhelm Grosz ) with lyrics by prolific songwriter Jimmy Kennedy . [ 3 ] The song was inspired by the "red sails" of Kitty of Coleraine , a yacht Kennedy often saw off the northern coast of Northern Ireland and by his adopted ...
Kennedy wrote several more successful songs for Maurice, including "Red Sails in the Sunset" (1935), inspired by beautiful summer evenings in Portstewart, Northern Ireland; "Harbour Lights" (1937); and "South of the Border" (1939), inspired by a holiday picture postcard he received from Tijuana, Mexico, and written with composer Michael Carr. [1]
Leshikar-Denton has a B.F.A. and an M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin [2] and a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University where her thesis was on the Wreck of the Ten Sail, a 1794 shipwreck off Cayman. [3] Her thesis title was "The 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail, Cayman Islands, British West Indies: A Historical Study and Archaeological Survey". [4]
"Red Sails in the Sunset" (Jimmy Kennedy, Hugh Williams) - 3:17 "Pretend" (Dan Belloc, Lew Douglass, Frank LaVere, Cliff Parman) - 2:44 "Make Her Mine" (Chester Conn, Sammy Gallop) - 2:57; tracks 5, 6, 11 and 12 were not part of the original 10-inch LP release but were added to the 1954 (and later) releases.
In 1991 the Cayman Islands government purchased Pedro St. James with the aim of preserving and restoring it to its 18th-century grandeur as a national historic site. The three-story building and its verandas were rebuilt and reconstructed in the original 18th-century style and is the most extensive restoration project in Cayman history. The ...
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The boom in the Cayman Islands' international finance industry can also be at least partly attributed to the British overseas territory having no direct taxation. A popular legend attributes the tax-free status to the heroic acts of the inhabitants during a maritime tragedy in 1794, often referred to as "Wreck of the Ten Sails". [9]