aWhile some Catholics are celebrating Carnival, others are spend- ing this time thinking about the past year. The three days before Ash Wednesday are called Shrovetide. Some Catholics observe these days by going to confession and asking forgiveness for their sins. In Guyana, Portuguese Catholics ...
Small numbers of green diamonds have also been mined in Brazil, the Central African Republic, Guyana, Russia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. The Letlapa Tala Collection: These five rough blue diamonds were all found during a single week in September 2020 at the Cullinan Mine, owned by Petra ...
As Christmas drew near, Ursula was faced with just that problem.She had come to live in an American home and learn English. 1 , she would mind the children and do anything she was asked. One of her tasks was to keep track of arriving Christmas presents.Ursula did this faithfully, but ...
- Size: 5.3 inches long This beetle gets its namesake from Actaeon, a hero of Greek mythology who wastransformed into a stag. It can be found across South America, including in French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Suriname, Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Megasoma ele...
In the dense rain forest of Guyana, Jim Jones built a compound where he and his followers were meant to live in utopian harmony: the Peoples Temple. There were several huts for sleeping, teaching, working and Jones’ own sermons. On November 18, 1978, Jones led 909 of those cult members...
“Is this like your piano in Guyana, Mom?” I asked. “Yes. This baby grand piano is exactly like the one my Dad bought me when I was your age.” Her sigh was full of longing. I knew that my mother had been a talented pianist. I vaguely recalled dancing under the piano when ...
setting for “park”; instead, the driver was supposed to put the car in reverse and then turn it off. Gas prices fell again this year, fairly substantially, and though the U.S. had not yet joined World War II, the nation was in a period of rearmament and providing aid to Great ...
The Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago. ...
The Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago. ...
There are vacation spots still flying under the radar, like a tiny coastal surf town in Denmark, or Guyana, a South American idyll that has a fraction of the crowds of its neighbors. There are even places in your own backyard worth a closer look — who would've guessed just a few ...