Guyanese history.A letter to the editor is presented in response to a review of John Gimlette's "Wild Coast," by Ian Thomson, in the May 13, 2011 issue.TLSBARNIEJOHN
Hancock generalized that for mobile Gypsies, methods of preparing food have been "contingent on circumstance." Such items as stew, unleavened bread, and fried foods are common, whereas leavened breads and broiled foods, are not. Cleanliness is paramount, though; and, "like Hindus and Muslims, ...
To the east the llanos end at the Macizo Guayanés (Guyanese Mount) which is one of the oldest rock formations in the world. The region to the south, the Guiana, is also referred to as La Gran Sabana (Great Savanna) since it is composed of savannas and flat mountaintops (referred to...
For their part, the Kwans speak Mandarin, Cantonese, and the local Kaiping language of Taishanese (also romanized as Toisanese in Cantonese), in addition to English, and Justin acknowledges that his parents were almost certainly aware of the linguistic fumble in their restaurant’s ads. ...
Venezuela administers a number of Caribbean islands and archipelagos, among which areMargarita Island, La Blanquilla, La Tortuga, Los Roques, and Los Monjes. Since the early 19th century Venezuela has claimed jurisdiction over Guyanese territory west of theEssequibo Rivertotaling some 53,000 square...
A pile of paper cups with cyanide-laced fruit punch, and a pile of hypodermic syringes, found at Jonestown by Guyanese officials. In fact, according to Scheeres, Jones held a number of mass suicide rehearsals to see how the crowd would respond, and who would cause him trouble. “And then...
Born Shirley Anita St. Hill to a Guyanese American father and a Barbadian American mother in Brooklyn, New York, on November 30, 1924, Chisholm excelled first in school and then in her political career. Shirley Chisholm: A Groundbreaking Legacy ...
The Portuguese intervened, militarily, in West African trade along the Upper Guinea coast, as early as the 15th century, and as the late Guyanese Socialist, Walter Rodney, wrote in his classic, "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" [Page 121], the Portuguese interfered in the transfers of ...
For over 170 years, Guyanese Indians have worked to maintain their Indian identity. Appearing in Guyana under the British colonial indenture system, laborers both retained and reformulated elements of "Indianness" within a pan-Indian collective. This thesis will investigate the history of Indo-Gu...
A. J. Seymour. Dictionary of Guyanese Folklore. Georgetown: National history and arts council, 1975doi:10.1080/17449857508588367A circuit architecture and methodology for providing burst data transfer in high-speed digital circuit applications implements a sequence of overlapped global-pointer signals for...