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A taste of the tropical: The Dominican Republic revealed

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Another great post from a British website: Sammy Davis Junior is a friend of mine. I met him last week in the Dominican Republic. He poured me Santo-libre cocktails while balancing on the tailgate of a fast-moving truck. Santo-libres are the rum-and-Sprite cousin of the more familiar rum-and-Coke Cuba-libre. They taste just as good. I had not expected to find Sammy Davis Junior alive, well, and extreme-bartending in the Dominican Republic, but I knew precious little about the country before I…

Christopher Columbus, Hispaniola

Clues To Caribbean’s Earliest Inhabitants Discovered

Saturday, August 22, 2009

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Clues To Caribbean's Earliest Inhabitants Discovered

A prehistoric water-filled cave in the Dominican Republic has become a “treasure trove” with the announcement by Indiana University archaeologists of the discovery of stone tools, a small primate skull in remarkable condition, and the claws, jawbone and other bones of several species of sloths. The discoveries extend by thousands of years the scope of investigations led Charles Beeker, director of Academic Diving and Underwater Science Programs at IU Bloomington’s School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, and his interdisciplinary team…

Christopher Columbus, Dominican Republic, Indiana University, Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Taino

Country profile: Dominican Republic

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

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Facts and statistics on the Dominican Republic including history, population, politics, geography, economy, religion and climate Potted history of the country: The home of the Taíno people since the 7th century, the island of Hispianola was Christopher Columbus’s springboard to the New World after 1492. In 1697, Spain ceded the western third, which later became Haiti, to France. Independence was declared in 1821, leading to a 22-year occupation by Haiti and a return to Spanish rule until 1865. Rafael Trujillo led a bloody regime…

Caribbean, Christopher Columbus, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Hispaniola