South America's drainage pattern was shaped by its persistent Guyana and Brazilian continental shields, the emerging Andes along its western and northern margins, the fluctuating foreland basin east of the Andes, and several structural arches. South America' s plate tectonic setting was established ...
Guyana was a Dutch colony in the 17th century until it was claimed by the British Crown in 1815. Remnants of these colonial eras are still evident ...
On November 18, 1978, Peoples Temple founderJim Jonesleads hundreds of his followers in amass murder-suicideat their agricultural commune in a remote part of the South American nation of Guyana. Many of Jones’ followers willingly ingested a poison-laced punch while others were forced to do so...
Bristow secured a multi-year contract to provide helicopter offshore crew change and search and rescue (SAR) services to support ExxonMobil in Guyana. 2017 When Hurricane Harvey struck southwest Texas in August, an Era search and rescue (SAR) AW139 assisted with life-saving missions on a human...
The actual name is derived from Christopher Columbus, it was referred to by the name Colombeia which means “papers and things relating toColombia.” The area that is now known as Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, (and small parts of Costa Rica, Brazil, Guyana, Peru, and Nicaragua) wo...
The History of the Moche Civilization It is believed that the first people to populate South America did so by crossing the land bridge over what is now the Bering Strait from Siberia at the end of the last ice age. They migrated south, and the first evidence of human civilization in ...
of course, living history is happening all around us, wherever we are. and recently, at a black history month event, i spent the morning speaking with a wonderful lady, who's a great example of living history. irene sinclair was born in 19...
Mattai draws on her South Asian heritage and her ancestors’ migration from India to British Guaiana on South America’s north Atlantic coast—now Guyana—as indentured laborers in the 19th century. Mattai was born in Georgetown, Guyana, which sits at the southwestern edge of the Caribbean Sea...
Quinceanera, the celebration of a girl’s 15th birthday, marking her passage from girlhood to womanhood; the term is also used for the celebrant herself. It is celebrated in Mexico, Latin America, and the Caribbean, as well as in Latino communities in th
Stabroek, Georgetown - port city and the capital and largest city of Guyana; "the city was called Stabroek by the Dutch but was renamed Georgetown by the British in 1812" Demerara - a former Dutch colony in South America; now a part of Guyana Demerara - a river in northern Guyana that...