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Thomas Graham Briggs was born on 30 September 1833 on the British colony of Barbados. [1] He was the only child of Joseph Lyder Briggs (1792 - 1866) and Elizabeth Hinds. Thomas' father was a wealthy landowner in Barbados, serving as a Justice of the Peace and an honorary Colonel of the St. Lucy regiment of militia.
By 1757 owned by Henry Bishop, 1817 by John Marshall Morris and 1820 the 250 Acres owned by James Thomas Rogers and William Marshall Morris. Breedies & Cleland St. Andrew 442 In 1817 the estate was owned by William Murray and then by 1913 the owner was Denison et al. Bruce Vale St. Andrew 225 By 1913 the owner was Inniss Burnt House St. Andrew 166
Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books – including the first book of any kind that Simon & Schuster published (1924). [1]
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
Eighty English settlers, with ten African slaves (captured-at-sea) aboard the ship William and John land at St. James Town. (to 20 February) 25 February: English king Charles I gave Courten by Royal Letters Patent the proprietary ownership and title to various lands in the Southern Americas (which Courten applies towards claim of Barbados). 2 July
Archibald Jones Pile (died 1898) was lawyer and landowner in Barbados. He owned the Greens Estate, Saint George estate and part owned two others. Through acting as an attorney via his legal practice he controlled thirty estates in total. [1] He was murdered when returning home after paying his labourers on Planter's Day
The Caribbean Sea. Most of the Caribbean countries are islands in the Caribbean Sea, with only a few in inland lakes.The largest islands include Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico.