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Travel briefs: Ohio cave system to open new areas

Sat, 19 May 2012 15:00:00 -0700

Sections of a cave system that haven't been open before to the public will be available for tours in West Central Ohio just in time for the summer season.

'Phantoms of Asia' review: Ambitious exhibition

Sat, 19 May 2012 00:38:06 -0700

Since before its move from Golden Gate Park to the repurposed Old Main Library in 2003, the Asian Art Museum has struggled to link contemporary art cogently with the histories embodied in its magisterial collections....

The National Review’s fake plagiarism scoop

Fri, 18 May 2012 16:17:22 -0700

Updated: After falsely accusing Elizabeth Warren of plagiarism, the conservative magazine apologizes

All islands at some point were, and a few still are, colonies of European nations, a few are overseas or dependent territories:

British West Indies/Anglophone Caribbean Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Bay Islands, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Croix (briefly( ,Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago (from 1797( and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Danish West Indies present-day United States Virgin Islands
Dutch West Indies present-day Netherlands Antilles and Aruba,, Virgin Islands, Saint Croix (briefly(, Tobago and Bay Islands (briefly(
French West Indies Anguilla (briefly(, Antigua and Barbuda (briefly(, Dominica, Dominican Republic (briefly(, Grenada, Haiti, Montserrat (briefly(, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Eustatius (briefly(, St Kitts (briefly(, Tobago (briefly(, Saint Croix, the current French overseas departements of Martinique and Guadeloupe (including Marie-Galante, La Desirade and Les Saintes(, and the current French overseas collectivities of Saint Barthelemy and Saint Martin.
Portuguese West Indies present-day Barbados, known as Los Barbados in the 1500s when the Portuguese claimed the island en route to Brazil. The Portuguese left Barbados abandoned in 1533, nearly a century prior to the British arrival to the island.
Spanish West Indies Cuba, Hispaniola (present-day Dominican Republic, and until 1609, Haiti(, Puerto Rico, Jamaica (until 1655(, the Cayman Islands, Trinidad (until 1797( and Bay Islands (until 1643(
Swedish West Indies present-day French Saint-Barthelemy and Guadeloupe (briefly(
Courlander West Indies – Tobago (until 1691(

The British West Indies were united by the United Kingdom into a West Indies Federation between 1958 and 1962.