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prowlers.     In 1763, the island was settled again, this time by French mariners from Normandy and Brittany. This colony succeeded. French buccaneers found the place hospitable, and brightened the economy with vast quantities of plunder taken from Spanish galleons. Monbars the Exterminator, a famous buccaneer of noble French descent, reputedly maintained his headquarters in St. Barths. His treasure is believed to be still hidden among the coves of Anse du Gouverneur, or buried in the sands of Saline

everything depended on reaching the coast, yet waking in the night he knew that all of this was empty and no substance to it. There was a good chance they would die in the mountains and that would be that. They passed through the ruins of a resort town and took the road south. Burnt forests for miles along the slopes and snow sooner than he would have thought. No tracks in the road, nothing living anywhere. The fireblackened boulders like the shapes of bears on the starkly wooded slopes. He stood

so prone to be taken with ridiculous recollections. But really to-night I could not get that old foolish child's play out of my head-Here come three knights out of Spain A-courting of your daughter Jane." "I shall certainly never be one of those Spanish knights," said Edward. "Her daughter Jane is in no danger of being ruled by any 'flattering tongue' of mine. But what a shame for us to be talking of them in this manner." They drove to Mrs. St. Leonard's, hoping to be yet in time to pass half an

kingdom, they left England, went to Holland then sailed for America. Plymouth Rock Pilgrim Memorial State Park is one of the most heavily visited State parks in the country. Nearly one million people a year come from all over the world to visit the town where in 1620 Europeans first made a home in New England and to see Plymouth Rock. This simple glacial erratic boulder on the shore of Plymouth Harbor has become a world famous symbol of the courage and faith of the men and women who founded the first

protection of the Quraysh, and an attack on the existing ‎Arab religion was an attack on the prosperity of Mecca.‎ Following the death of Khadija in 621, Muhammad married eleven other women. ‎Tradition relates that he and his followers were invited to the town of Yathrib by ‎Jewish and Christian tribes after they were no longer welcome in Mecca. In 622, the ‎first year of the Muslim calendar, they set out on the Hijra, the emigration to Yathrib, ‎later renamed Medina, meaning "the city" where Muhammad  concluded

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fringed island, swaying palm trees, multi-colored birds, scents and aromas of spices known and unknown, the muhadeen calling for prayer, children singing in the Madrasas and a world of other strange sounds all echo a melody that describes Lamu. A trading town for hundreds of years between Arabia and India has produced a wonderful and vibrant culture and people known as the Swahili. Meaning the ‘House of Wonder’, Baytil Ajaib is one of the finest representation of the patrician palatial townhouses that have