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• the bark of the Caribbean tree Canella winterana can be used as a spice similar to cinnamon?
• the African-American dancer Lavinia Williams gave up ballet stardom in the United States to spend decades developing national schools of Caribbean traditional dance in Haiti, Guyana, and the Bahamas?
• the 1806 settlement of Chinese in Trinidad was the first organised settlement of Chinese people in the Caribbean, preceding the importation of Chinese-indentured labour by over 40 years?
• among the Taíno people of the Caribbean, a zemi (pictured) is a spirit or a sculpture representing the spirit?
• the calls of the Red-throated Ant-Tanager, a noisy passerine bird native to the Caribbean, include a scolding raaah or nasal pip pik, and the song is a throaty whistled cherry quick cherry quick cherry quick cherry quick?
• the science fiction novel Typewriter in the Sky by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is set in the Caribbean during the 17th century?
• the fictional Caribbean island of "San Sebastian" appears in RKO's The Ghost Ship, I Walked With a Zombie, and Zombies on Broadway?
• the discovery of a population of smaller, less spiny palms in Dominica has led to speculation that Aiphanes minima may not be the only species of Aiphanes on that island nation in the Caribbean?
• the definitive image of the African and Caribbean goddess Mami Wata was based on a poster of a Samoan snake charmer?
• the Grotto at Goldney House (pictured), Bristol, which dates from 1739, is encrusted with the shells of over 200 African and Caribbean species?
• all four remaining species of island raccoons (examples pictured), found only on small Central American and Caribbean islands, are considered endangered?
• Captain Woodes Rogers rescued Alexander Selkirk, the model for Robinson Crusoe, and later defeated the pirates of the Caribbean?
• Espiritismo is the Latin American and Caribbean belief that good and evil spirits can affect health, luck and other elements of human life?
• aboriginal whaling rights are granted to native populations in Greenland, Canada, the United States, Russia and several Caribbean island communities?
• Trinidad has more bat species than any other island in the Caribbean?
• election monitors described the behaviour of the people of Suriname during the 2005 Surinamese legislative election as a good example to the Caribbean?
• Ignatz Urban's type collections of Caribbean plants were largely destroyed in the 1943 bombing of the Berlin Herbarium?
• Jewish immigration to Puerto Rico began in the 15th century and that Puerto Rico has the largest and richest Jewish community in the Caribbean?
• Yrausquin Airport in the Caribbean island of Saba has commercial air service despite prohibition for airline airplanes to land there?
• Mary Anne Rawson (pictured) helped in the anti-slavery campaign that reduced the sale of sugar from the West Indies in Sheffield?
• Lancelot Blackburne was thought to have spent time in the Caribbean as a buccaneer as a young man, and lived openly with his mistress whilst Archbishop of York?
• West Indians Viv Richards and Hallam Moseley top the batting and bowling charts in List A cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club?

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