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    Henry Morgan's Panama expedition also known as the Sack of Panama, was an expedition that took place between 16 December 1670 and 5 March 1671 during the...
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  • à la de Lesseps – Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805–1894), French builder of the Suez Canal and first to try to build the Panama Canal, was honored with a dinner...
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    writer Hannah Glasse in her 1784 cookery book Art of Cookery. Linguist Paul Anthony Jones has written, "in the late 1500s a chitterling was an ornate type...
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    with the French chef Marie-Antoine Carême (1784–1833), who stiffened the casque à meche with cardboard . A toque, or sometimes touge, was the traditional...
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  • Press. 23 March 2022. Retrieved 24 March 2022. "M 5.3 - 3 km SSE of Anse-à-Veau, Haiti". earthquake.usgs.gov. "5.3 Magnitude Haiti Earthquake Destroys...
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    (Îlet à Caret) Îlet à Christophe (Guadeloupe island), 16°17′40″N 61°34′11″W / 16.29455°N 61.56981°W / 16.29455; -61.56981 (Îlet à Christophe) Îlet à Colas...
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    Herðubreið, and Eldfell. The volcanic eruption of Laki in 1783–1784 caused a famine that killed nearly a quarter of the island's population. In addition, the eruption...
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    Despite the usage of the term "light", forces in a light unit will normally carry heavier individual loads vis-à-vis other forces; they must carry everything...
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  • This is a list of islands in the Caribbean by area. (The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands are not in the Caribbean Sea, but rather in the open...
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    Antoine de Rivarol (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Lettre à M. le Président de *** sur le globe Airostatique, sur les Têtes Parlantes et sur l’État Présent de l’Opinion Publique à Paris. (1784). De l’Universalité...
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