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...that Isla Margarita(pictured), the largest Caribbean island of the Nueva Esparta State in Venezuela, was seized by Lope de Aguirre, a notoriously violent and rebellious conquistador in 1561? And that he held the islanders in a grip of terror until he returned to the mainland in an attempt to take Panama from the Spanish crown?
...that in 1596, Sir Francis Drake(pictured), the famed British Admiral who defeated the Spanish Armada, was defeated twice in his attempts to take San Juan, Puerto Rico and that he died of dysentery while attacking the island?
...that the Garífuna population (flag pictured), who are descendants of Amerindian and African slaves exiled to Punta Gorda, Belize, is estimated to be around 200,000 both in the Caribbean homeland and North America?
...that in 2004, Hurricane Jeanne(pictured) hit the Haitian coastal city of Gonaïves, where it affected about 80,000 of the city's 100,000 residents? And that official reports counted 3,006 people dead, with 2,826 of those in Gonaïves alone?
...that the Empire Windrush(pictured) was a ship that transported a group of 492 immigrants from Jamaica to Tilbury near London on 22 June 1948 to start a new life in Britain? And that these arrivals were the first of many subsequent migrants from the Caribbean to the United Kingdom via immigration campaigns created by successive British governments?
...that Alexander Bustamante, the prominent Jamaican politician, was born William Alexander Clarke but took the name Bustamante to honour an Iberian sea captain who befriended him in his youth?
...that eating an unripe Ackee fruit (pictured), which were introduced to Jamaica from West Africa by Dr. Thomas Clark in 1778, can trigger an acute vomiting and hypoglycemic disease known as Jamaican vomiting sickness?
...that record producer Lee "Scratch" Perry's first single "People Funny Boy" was directed as an insult to fellow Jamaican music mogul and former collaborator Joe Gibbs?
...that former President of HaitiJean-Claude Duvalier, also known as "Baby Doc" was exiled to France after his disposition in 1986? And that he lost most of his wealth due to his divorce from his wife Michèle and was charged with corruption shortly after his return to Haiti in 2011?
...that the island of Bonaire in the Lesser Antilles is famed for its flamingo populations and its donkeys which are the descendants of donkeys brought by the Dutch in the 16th century?
...that the Caribbean Sea is a Mediterranean sea largely situated on the Caribbean Plate? And that estimates of the sea's age range from 20,000 years to 570 million years?
...that Orisha is a spirit that reflects one of the manifestations of Olodumare (God) in the Yoruba spiritual or religious system, and forms part of a religion that is practised in many areas of the Caribbean including Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago?
...that the national dish of Antigua and Barbuda is fungie (pronounced foon-gee), a dish very similar to the Italian Polenta made mainly from cornmeal?
...that Jamaicanska music pioneer Prince Buster had been a skillful amateur boxer as a teenager, and was first hired by record producer Coxsone Dodd not as a musician but as security?