Palm Tree, Nassau, Winslow Homer, 1898
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Junkanoo Beach, Nassau, Bahamas
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Robert Plant, Nassau Coliseum, 1975 by Richard Aaron
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John Lennon Skateboarding
Nassau, Bahamas (1965)
Photos by Henry Grossman
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Junkanoo, Nassau, Bahamas: Junkanoo is a festival that was originated during the period of African chattel slavery in British American colonies. Wikipedia Junkanoo, named after the West African John Canoe Festival, originated in the Bahamas around the 17th century as a masquerade. Slaves with their faces hidden under a flour paste, celebrated on Boxing Day and the day after Christmas.
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Murals in Nassau, New Providence Island, Bahamas
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#OTD in 1697 – Birth of pirate, Anne Bonny, née Cormac, in Co Cork.
Born in Co Cork, Anne Bonny was the illegitimate daughter of lawyer William Cormac and his housemaid. They immigrated to America after Anne’s birth and settled on a plantation near Charleston, South Carolina. A headstrong young woman ‘with a fierce and courageous temper’, she eloped with James Bonny against her father’s wishes. James took her to a pirates’ lair in New Providence in the Bahamas,…
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