encampment that was occupied sporadically for perhaps 20 years at L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of Newfoundland. No further European exploration...

Tropical storm August 20, 1879 (1879-08-20) Channel-Port aux Basques Southern Coast Unknown The Bahamas, East Coast of the United States Unnamed Tropical storm...

French physicist Marguerite Pindling (born 1932), Governor-General of the Bahamas beginning 2014 Marguerite Porter Zwicker (1904–1993), Canadian watercolor...

desperately grieving French to identify with that". In 1979 a reggae version, "Aux armes et cætera" by Serge Gainsbourg, was received poorly by some in France...

and the Magdalen Islands. During one stop at Îles aux Oiseaux (Islands of the Birds, now the Rochers-aux-Oiseaux federal bird sanctuary, northeast of Brion...

details see the United Kingdom under British Isles, Europe The Bahamas Colony of the Bahamas (complete list) – British colony, 1648–1973 For details see...

referred to as the pre-Columbian era. His landing place was an island in the Bahamas, known by its native inhabitants as Guanahani. He then visited the islands...

retained her as Queen:  Jamaica (sovereign 6 August 1962; 60 years, 33 days)  Bahamas (sovereign 10 July 1973; 49 years, 60 days)  Grenada (sovereign 7 February...

this settlement, followed by the Western Settlement c. 985. 1000 L'Anse aux Meadows Newfoundland and Labrador Canada First European settlement in the...

was a French protectorate in Southeast Asia of what is today Laos between 1893 and 1953—with a brief interregnum as a Japanese puppet state in 1945—which...