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634 relations: Abortion, Acacia, Affranchi, Africa, African Americans, African Union, Afro-Haitians, Alexandre Pétion, American Colonization Society, American crocodile, Americas, An Unbroken Agony, André Rigaud, Anténor Firmin, Anti-Haitian sentiment in the Dominican Republic, Antillean Creole, Arab Haitians, Ariel Henry, Armée Indigène, Armed Forces of Haiti, Arnold Antonin, Arrondissements of Haiti, Artibonite (department), Artibonite River, Assassination of Jovenel Moïse, Associated Press, Association football, Association of Caribbean States, Atlantic slave trade, AuthorHouse, Axis powers, Azua, Dominican Republic, Élie Lescot, Étang Saumâtre, Étienne Polverel, Île-à-Vache, Baháʼí Faith in Haiti, Banana, Barack Obama, Baron Samedi, Bat, Battle of Palo Hincado, Battle of Vertières, BBC News, Bean, Ben Stiller, Berth (moorings), Bird of prey, Birth rate, Boniface Alexandre, ... Expand index (584 more) »
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- 1625 establishments in New France
- 17th-century disestablishments in the Spanish West Indies
- 1804 disestablishments in the French colonial empire
- 1804 establishments in North America
- Countries in North America
- Countries in the Caribbean
- French Caribbean
- Greater Antilles
- Least developed countries
- Member states of the Caribbean Community
- States and territories established in 1804
Abortion
Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus.
Acacia
Acacia, commonly known as wattles or acacias, is a genus of about of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae.
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Affranchi
Affranchi is a former French legal term denoting a freedman or emancipated slave, but also a pejorative term for Free people of color.
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
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African Americans
African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
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African Union
The African Union (AU) is a continental union of 55 member states located on the continent of Africa.
Afro-Haitians
Afro-Haitians or Black Haitians (Afro-Haïtiens, Haïtiens Noirs; Afro-Ayisyen, Ayisyen Nwa) are Haitians who trace their full or partial ancestry to Sub-Saharan Africa.
Alexandre Pétion
Alexandre Sabès Pétion (2 April 1770 – 29 March 1818) was the first president of the Republic of Haiti from 1807 until his death in 1818.
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American Colonization Society
The American Colonization Society (ACS), initially the Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, was an American organization founded in 1816 by Robert Finley to encourage and support the repatriation of freeborn people of color and emancipated slaves to the continent of Africa.
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American crocodile
The American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) is a species of crocodilian found in the Neotropics.
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Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.
An Unbroken Agony
An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President is a book on the history of Haiti by Randall Robinson in 2008.
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André Rigaud
Benoit Joseph André Rigaud (17 January 1761 – 18 September 1811) was the leading mulatto military leader during the Haitian Revolution.
Anténor Firmin
Joseph Auguste Anténor Firmin (18 October 1850 – 19 September 1911), better known as Anténor Firmin, was a Haitian barrister and philosopher, pioneering anthropologist, journalist, and politician.
Anti-Haitian sentiment in the Dominican Republic
Anti-Haitian sentiment (Antihaitianismo; Antihaitienisme) is prejudice or social discrimination against Haitians in the Dominican Republic.
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Antillean Creole
Antillean Creole (also known as Lesser Antillean Creole) is a French-based creole that is primarily spoken in the Lesser Antilles.
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Arab Haitians
Arab Haitians are Haitian citizens of Arab descent.
Ariel Henry
Ariel Henry (born 6 November 1949) is a Haitian neurosurgeon and politician who served as the acting prime minister after the assassination of Jovenel Moïse, until his formal resignation on 24 April 2024.
Armée Indigène
The Indigenous Army (Armée Indigène; Lame Endijèn), also known as the Army of Saint-Domingue (Armée de Saint-Domingue) was the name bestowed to the coalition of anti-slavery men and women who fought in the Haitian Revolution in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti).
Armed Forces of Haiti
The Armed Forces of Haiti (Forces Armées d'Haïti; FAd'H) are the military forces of the Republic of Haiti, currently consisting of the Haitian Army, which has about 2000 active personnel as of 2023.
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Arnold Antonin
Arnold Antonin (born 1942 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is a Haitian film director.
Arrondissements of Haiti
An arrondissement (awondisman) is a level of administrative division in Haiti.
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Artibonite (department)
Artibonite (French) or Latibonit (Haitian Creole) is one of the ten departments of Haiti located in central Haiti.
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Artibonite River
The Artibonite River (French: Fleuve Artibonite; Spanish: Río Artibonito; Haitian Creole: Latibonit) is the longest river in Haiti, and the longest on the island of Hispaniola.
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Assassination of Jovenel Moïse
Jovenel Moïse, the 43rd president of Haiti, was assassinated on 7 July 2021 at 1 am EDT (UTC−04:00) at his residence in Port-au-Prince.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Association of Caribbean States
The Association of Caribbean States (ACS; Asociación de Estados del Caribe; Association des États de la Caraïbe) is an advisory association of nations centered on the Caribbean Basin.
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Atlantic slave trade
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas.
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AuthorHouse
AuthorHouse, formerly known as 1stBooks, is a self-publishing company based in the United States.
Axis powers
The Axis powers, originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis and also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies.
Azua, Dominican Republic
Azua de Compostela, also known simply as Azua, is a city, municipality (municipio) and capital of Azua Province in the southern region of Dominican Republic.
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Élie Lescot
Antoine Louis Léocardie Élie Lescot (December 9, 1883 – October 20, 1974) was the President of Haiti from May 15, 1941 to January 11, 1946.
Étang Saumâtre
Étang Saumâtre (Laguna del Fondo), (English: brackish pond) is the largest lake in Haiti and the second largest lake in the Dominican Republic and Hispaniola, after Lake Enriquillo.
Étienne Polverel
Étienne Polverel (1740–1795) was a French lawyer, aristocrat, and revolutionary.
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Île-à-Vache
Île-à-Vache, (French,, also expressed Île-à-Vaches, former Spanish name Isla Vaca; both translate to Cow Island; Lilavach) is a Caribbean island, one of Haiti's satellite islands.
Baháʼí Faith in Haiti
The Baháʼí Faith in Haiti began in 1916 when ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, the head of the religion, cited Haiti as one of the island countries of the Caribbean where Baháʼís should establish a religious community.
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Banana
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
Baron Samedi
Baron Samedi (Baron Saturday), also written Baron Samdi, Bawon Samedi or Bawon Sanmdi, is one of the lwa of Haitian Vodou.
Bat
Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera.
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Battle of Palo Hincado
The Battle of Palo Hincado (Palo Hincado Stands for "Kneeling Stick") was the first major battle of the Spanish reconquest of Santo Domingo of the Spanish colonial Captaincy General of Santo Domingo, that was occupied by the French in the Spanish West Indies.
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Battle of Vertières
The Battle of Vertières (Batay Vètyè) was the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, and the final part of the Revolution under Jean Jacques Dessalines.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Bean
A bean is the seed of several plants in the family Fabaceae, which are used as vegetables for human or animal food.
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Ben Stiller
Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an American actor, filmmaker, and comedian.
Berth (moorings)
A berth is a designated location in a port or harbour used for mooring vessels when they are not at sea.
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Bird of prey
Birds of prey or predatory birds, also known as raptors, are hypercarnivorous bird species that actively hunt and feed on other vertebrates (mainly mammals, reptiles and other smaller birds).
Birth rate
Birth rate, also known as natality, is the total number of live human births per 1,000 population for a given period divided by the length of the period in years.
Boniface Alexandre
Boniface Alexandre (31 July 1936 – 4 August 2023) was a Haitian politician.
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Boston Review
Boston Review is an American quarterly political and literary magazine.
Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America. Haiti and Brazil are member states of the United Nations.
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Brazilian Army
The Brazilian Army (Exército Brasileiro; EB) is the branch of the Brazilian Armed Forces responsible, externally, for defending the country in eminently terrestrial operations and, internally, for guaranteeing law, order and the constitutional branches, subordinating itself, in the Federal Government's structure, to the Ministry of Defense, alongside the Brazilian Navy and Air Force.
Breadfruit
Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) is a species of flowering tree in the mulberry and jackfruit family (Moraceae) believed to be a domesticated descendant of Artocarpus camansi originating in New Guinea, the Maluku Islands, and the Philippines. It was initially spread to Oceania via the Austronesian expansion.
Brown University
Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Buccaneer
Buccaneers were a kind of privateer or free sailors particular to the Caribbean Sea during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed, Inc. is an American Internet media, news and entertainment company with a focus on digital media.
Cacique
A cacique, sometimes spelled as cazique (feminine form: cacica), was a tribal chieftain of the Taíno people, who were the indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles at the time of European contact with those places.
Cacos (military group)
In Haitian history, Cacos were bodies of armed men, originally drawn from the country's enslaved population, who came to wield power in the mountainous regions of Haiti following the victory of the Haitian Revolution in 1804.
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Cajun cuisine
Cajun cuisine (cuisine cadienne, cocina acadiense) is a style of cooking developed by the Cajun–Acadians who were deported from Acadia to Louisiana during the 18th century and who incorporated West African, French and Spanish cooking techniques into their original cuisine.
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Haiti and Canada are countries in North America, French-speaking countries and territories, member states of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie and member states of the United Nations.
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Cap-Haïtien
Cap-Haïtien (Kap Ayisyen; "Haitian Cape"), typically spelled Cape Haitien in English and often locally referred to as Le Cap, Okap or Au Cap, is a commune of about 274,000 people on the north coast of Haiti and capital of the department of Nord.
Cap-Haïtien International Airport
Cap-Haïtien International Airport (Ayewopò Entènasyonal Kap Ayisyen, Aéroport International de Cap-Haïtien) is a minor international airport serving Cap-Haïtien, a city in Nord, Haiti.
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Captaincy General of Santo Domingo
The Captaincy General of Santo Domingo (Capitanía General de Santo Domingo) was the first Capitancy in the New World, established by Spain in 1492 on the island of Hispaniola. The Capitancy, under the jurisdiction of the Real Audiencia of Santo Domingo, was granted administrative powers over the Spanish possessions in the Caribbean and most of its mainland coasts, making Santo Domingo the principal political entity of the early colonial period.
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Caracol, Haiti
Caracol (Karakòl) is a commune in the Trou-du-Nord Arrondissement, in the Nord-Est department of Haiti.
Cardinal (Catholic Church)
A cardinal (Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae cardinalis) is a senior member of the clergy of the Catholic Church.
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Caribbean
The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.
Caribbean Community
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM or CC) is an intergovernmental organisation that is a political and economic union of 15 member states (14 nation-states and one dependency) and five associated members throughout the Americas, The Caribbean and Atlantic Ocean.
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Caribbean Plate
The Caribbean Plate is a mostly oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of South America.
Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.
Cash crop
A cash crop, also called profit crop, is an agricultural crop which is grown to sell for profit.
Cassava
Manihot esculenta, commonly called cassava, manioc,--> or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America, from Brazil, Paraguay and parts of the Andes.
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
Catholic Church in Haiti
The Catholic Church in Haiti is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the pope, the Curia in Rome and the Conference of Haitian Bishops.
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Cave painting
In archaeology, cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves.
Cedrela odorata
Cedrela odorata, commonly known as Spanish cedar, Cuban cedar, or cedro in Spanish, is a commercially important species of tree in the chinaberry family, Meliaceae native to the Neotropics.
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.
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Centre (department)
Centre (French) or Sant (Haitian Creole; both meaning "Center") is a central department (départements; depatman) of Haiti, located in the center of the country along the border with the Dominican Republic.
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Chaîne de la Selle
Chaîne de la Selle is a mountain range in Haiti, on the island of Hispaniola.
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Chamber of Deputies (Haiti)
The Chamber of Deputies (Chambre des députés; Chanm Depite) is the lower house of Haiti's bicameral legislature, the Haitian Parliament.
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Charlemagne Péralte
Charlemagne Masséna Péralte (10 October 1886 – 1 November 1919) was a Haitian nationalist leader who opposed the United States occupation of Haiti in 1915.
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Charles Leclerc (general, born 1772)
Charles Victoire Emmanuel Leclerc (17 March 1772 – 2 November 1802) was a French Army general who served under Napoleon Bonaparte during the French Revolution.
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Charles Rivière-Hérard
Charles Rivière-Hérard (16 February 1789 – 31 August 1850) also known as Charles Hérard aîné (Charles Hérard eldest) was an officer in the Haitian Army under Alexandre Pétion during his struggles against Henri Christophe.
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Charles X of France
Charles X (Charles Philippe; 9 October 1757 – 6 November 1836) was King of France from 16 September 1824 until 2 August 1830.
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Chibly Langlois
Chibly Langlois (born 29 November 1958) is a Haitian cardinal of the Catholic Church.
Chilabothrus fordii
Chilabothrus fordii, also known commonly as Ford's boa and the Haitian ground boa, is a species of snake in the family Boidae.
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Christian prayer
Christian prayer is an important activity in Christianity, and there are several different forms used for this practice.
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Christianity in Haiti
Haiti is a majority Christian country.
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Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
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Chrysopogon zizanioides
Chrysopogon zizanioides, commonly known as vetiver and khus, is a perennial bunchgrass of the family Poaceae.
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Cincinnatus Leconte
Jean Jacques Dessalines Michel Cincinnatus Leconte (September 29, 1854 – August 8, 1912) was President of Haiti from August 15, 1911, until his death on August 8, 1912.
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Circus music
Circus music (also known as carnival music) is any sort of music that is played to accompany a circus, and also music written that emulates its general style.
Citadelle Laferrière
The Citadelle Laferrière (Sitadèl-Laferyè), commonly known as La Citadelle ("The Citadel"), is a large early 19th-century fortress located in Milot in Nord, Haiti.
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Cité Soleil
Cité Soleil (Site Solèy; English) is an extremely impoverished and densely populated commune located in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area in Haiti.
Civil and political rights
Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.
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Cocoa bean
The cocoa bean, also known simply as cocoa or cacao, is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, the cacao tree, from which cocoa solids (a mixture of nonfat substances) and cocoa butter (the fat) can be extracted.
Coconut
The coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the palm tree family (Arecaceae) and the only living species of the genus Cocos.
Code Noir
The Code noir (Black code) was a decree passed by King Louis XIV of France in 1685 defining the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire and served as the code for slavery conduct in the French colonies up until 1789 the year marking the beginning of the French Revolution.
Coffee
Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted coffee beans.
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Communal section
The communal section (section communale, formerly section rurale) is the smallest administrative division in Haiti.
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Community of Latin American and Caribbean States
The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) is a regional bloc of Latin American and Caribbean states proposed on February 23, 2010, at the Rio Group–Caribbean Community Unity Summit, and created on December 3, 2011, in Caracas, Venezuela, with the signing of the Declaration of Caracas.
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Compas
Compas, also known as compas direct in French, konpa dirèk in Haitian Creole, or simply konpa but most commonly as Kompa, is a modern méringue dance music genre of Haiti.
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Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865.
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Constitution of Haiti
The Constitution of Haiti (Constitution d'Haïti, Konstitisyon Ayiti) was modeled after the constitutions of the United States, Poland and France.
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Convergence Démocratique
Convergence Démocratique (CD; Democratic Convergence) was a conservative Haitian political movement created in summer 2000 in opposition to Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his Fanmi Lavalas (FL) party.
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Corruption Perceptions Index
The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is an index that scores and ranks countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, as assessed by experts and business executives.
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Corvée
Corvée is a form of unpaid forced labour that is intermittent in nature, lasting for limited periods of time, typically only a certain number of days' work each year.
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Cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.
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Coup d'état
A coup d'état, or simply a coup, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership.
Crane (machine)
A crane is a machine used to move materials both vertically and horizontally, utilizing a system of a boom, hoist, wire ropes or chains, and sheaves for lifting and relocating heavy objects within the swing of its boom.
Creole cuisine
Creole cuisine (cuisine créole; culinária crioula; cocina criolla) is a cuisine style born in colonial times, from the fusion between African, European and pre-Columbian American traditions.
Creole peoples
Creole peoples may refer to various ethnic groups around the world.
Crown of Castile
The Crown of Castile was a medieval polity in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and, some decades later, the parliaments of the kingdoms of Castile and León upon the accession of the then Castilian king, Ferdinand III, to the vacant Leonese throne.
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Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island. Haiti and Cuba are countries in North America, countries in the Caribbean, former Spanish colonies, Greater Antilles, island countries, member states of the United Nations, republics and small Island Developing States.
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Dame-Marie, Haiti
Dame Marie (Dam Mari) is a small seaside commune located on the western tip of Haiti, in the arrondissement of Anse-d'Hainault, in the Grand'Anse department of Haiti.
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Dany Laferrière
Dany Laferrière (born Windsor Kléber Laferrière, 13 April 1953) is a Haitian-Canadian novelist and journalist who writes in French.
Defecation
Defecation (or defaecation) follows digestion, and is a necessary process by which organisms eliminate a solid, semisolid, or liquid waste material known as feces from the digestive tract via the anus or cloaca.
Defence Force of Haiti
The Defence Force of Haiti (Force de Défense d'Haïti) was the envisaged name of the planned, reconstituted armed forces of the Republic of Haiti.
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Deforestation
Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use.
Delmas, Haiti
Delmas (Dèlma) is a commune in the Port-au-Prince Arrondissement, in the Ouest department of Haiti.
Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! is an hour-long TV, radio, and Internet news program based in Manhattan and hosted by journalists Amy Goodman (who also acts as the show's executive producer), Juan González, and Nermeen Shaikh.
Departments of France
In the administrative divisions of France, the department (département) is one of the three levels of government under the national level ("territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes.
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Departments of Haiti
In the administrative divisions of Haiti, the department (département d'Haïti,; depatman Ayiti) is the first of four levels of government.
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Detention (imprisonment)
Detention is the process whereby a state or private citizen lawfully holds a person by removing their freedom or liberty at that time.
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Deutsche Welle
("German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget.
Diarrhea
Diarrhea (American English), also spelled diarrhoea or diarrhœa (British English), is the condition of having at least three loose, liquid, or watery bowel movements in a day.
Dieter Nohlen
Dieter Nohlen (born 6 November 1939) is a German academic and political scientist.
Diplomacy
Diplomacy comprises spoken or written communication by representatives of state, intergovernmental, or non-governmental institutions intended to influence events in the international system.
Doctor of Medicine
Doctor of Medicine (abbreviated M.D., from the Latin Medicinae Doctor) is a medical degree, the meaning of which varies between different jurisdictions.
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Domestic worker
A domestic worker is a person who works within a residence and performs a variety of household services for an individual, from providing cleaning and household maintenance, or cooking, laundry and ironing, or care for children and elderly dependents, and other household errands.
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a North American country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north. Haiti and Dominican Republic are 1492 establishments in the Spanish West Indies, countries in North America, countries in the Caribbean, former French colonies, former Spanish colonies, Greater Antilles, island countries, member states of the United Nations, republics and small Island Developing States.
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Dominican Republic–Haiti border
The Dominican Republic–Haiti border is an international border between the Dominican Republic and the Republic of Haiti on the island of Hispaniola.
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Dominican War of Independence
The Dominican War of Independence (Spanish: Guerra de Independencia Dominicana) was a war of independence that began when the Dominican Republic declared independence from the Republic of Haiti on February 27, 1844 and ended on January 24, 1856.
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Drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.
Dumarsais Estimé
Dumarsais Estimé (born April 21, 1900, in Verrettes, Haiti; died July 20, 1953, in New York City, USA) was a Haitian politician and President of the Haitian Republic from August 16, 1946, to May 10, 1950.
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Duvalier dynasty
The Duvalier dynasty (Dynastie des Duvalier, Dinasti Duvalier) was an autocratic hereditary dictatorship in Haiti that lasted almost 29 years, from 1957 until 1986, spanning the rule of the father-and-son duo Dr. François Duvalier (Papa Doc) and Jean-Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc).
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Easter
Easter, also called Pascha (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary.
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Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.
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Edgard Leblanc Fils
Edgard Leblanc Fils (born 1955) is a Haitian politician, who was president of the Senate from 1995 to 2000, and was chosen as president of the Transitional Presidential Council on 30 April 2024.
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Edouard Duval-Carrié
Edouard Duval-Carrié (born 1954) is a Haitian-born American contemporary painter and sculptor based in Miami, Florida.
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Education in France
Education in France is organized in a highly centralized manner, with many subdivisions.
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Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat (born January 19, 1969) is a Haitian-American novelist and short story writer.
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Eighth Wonder of the World
Eighth Wonder of the World is an unofficial title sometimes given to new buildings, structures, projects, designs or even people that are deemed to be comparable to the seven Wonders of the World.
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Elections in Haiti
The Constitution of Haiti provides for the election of the President, Parliament, and members of local governing bodies.
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Electrical grid
An electrical grid (or electricity network) is an interconnected network for electricity delivery from producers to consumers.
Empire of Japan
The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the reformed Constitution of Japan in 1947.
Encomienda
The encomienda was a Spanish labour system that rewarded conquerors with the labour of conquered non-Christian peoples.
England national football team
The England national football team have represented England in international football since the first international match in 1872.
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Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone
The Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone (EPGFZ or EPGZ) is a system of active coaxial left lateral-moving strike slip faults which runs along the southern side of the island of Hispaniola, where Haiti and the Dominican Republic are located.
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Epidemic
An epidemic (from Greek ἐπί epi "upon or above" and δῆμος demos "people") is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of hosts in a given population within a short period of time.
Erosion
Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism, also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes the centrality of sharing the "good news" of Christianity, being "born again" in which an individual experiences personal conversion, as authoritatively guided by the Bible, God's revelation to humanity.
Evil
Evil, by one definition, is being bad and acting out morally incorrect behavior; or it is the condition of causing unnecessary pain and suffering, thus containing a net negative on the world.
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Fabre Geffrard
Guillaume Fabre Nicolas Geffrard (23 September 1806 – 31 December 1878) was a mulatto general in the Haitian army and President of Haiti from 1859 until his deposition in 1867.
Failed state
A failed state is a state that has lost its ability to fulfill fundamental security and development functions, lacking effective control over its territory and borders.
Fanmi Lavalas
Fanmi Lavalas (Lavalas Family, Lavalas is Haitian Creole for flood) is a social-democratic political party in Haiti.
Fault (geology)
In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements.
Faustin Soulouque
Faustin-Élie Soulouque (15 August 1782 – 3 August 1867) was a Haitian politician and military commander who served as President of Haiti from 1847 to 1849 and Emperor of Haiti from 1849 to 1859.
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Federal Research Division
The Federal Research Division (FRD) is the research and analysis unit of the United States Library of Congress.
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FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, often called the World Cup, is an international association football competition among the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body.
First Empire of Haiti
The First Empire of Haiti, officially known as the Empire of Haiti (Empire d'Haïti; Anpi an Ayiti), was an elective monarchy in North America. Haiti and First Empire of Haiti are states and territories established in 1804.
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Flash flood
A flash flood is a rapid flooding of low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and depressions.
Florvil Hyppolite
Louis Mondestin Florvil Hyppolite (26 May 1828 – 24 March 1896) was a Haitian general and politician who served as the President of Haiti from 17 October 1889 to 24 March 1896.
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Folk religion
In religious studies and folkloristics, folk religion, traditional religion, or vernacular religion comprises various forms and expressions of religion that are distinct from the official doctrines and practices of organized religion.
Folklore
Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture.
Food for the Poor
Food For The Poor, Inc. (FFP) is an ecumenical Christian nonprofit organization based in Coconut Creek, Florida, United States that provides food, medicine, and shelter, among other services, to the poor in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Forest Landscape Integrity Index
The Forest Landscape Integrity Index (FLII) is an annual global index of forest condition measured by degree of anthropogenic modification.
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Fort de Joux
The Fort de Joux or Château de Joux is a castle, later transformed into a fort, located in La Cluse-et-Mijoux in the Doubs department in the Jura Mountains of France.
Fort-Liberté
Fort-Liberté (Fòlibète) is a commune and administrative capital of the Nord-Est department of Haiti.
François C. Antoine Simon
François C. Antoine Simon (a.k.a. Antoine Simon) (October 10, 1843 – March 10, 1923) was President of Haiti from 6 December 1908 to 2 August 1911.
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François Duvalier
François Duvalier (14 April 190721 April 1971), also known as Papa Doc, was a Haitian politician who served as the president of Haiti from 1957 until his death in 1971.
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François Mackandal
François Mackandal (-) was a Haitian Maroon leader in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti).
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Franc
The franc is any of various units of currency.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Haiti and France are French-speaking countries and territories, member states of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, member states of the United Nations and republics.
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Frankétienne
Frankétienne (born Franck Étienne on April 12, 1936, in Ravine-Sèche, Haiti) is a Haitian writer, poet, playwright, painter, musician, activist and intellectual.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, or February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
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Free people of color
In the context of the history of slavery in the Americas, free people of color (French: gens de couleur libres; Spanish: gente de color libre) were primarily people of mixed African, European, and Native American descent who were not enslaved.
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French Army
The French Army, officially known as the Land Army (Armée de terre), is the principal land warfare force of France, and the largest component of the French Armed Forces; it is responsible to the Government of France, alongside the French Navy, French Air and Space Force, and the National Gendarmerie.
French First Republic
In the history of France, the First Republic (Première République), sometimes referred to in historiography as Revolutionary France, and officially the French Republic (République française), was founded on 21 September 1792 during the French Revolution.
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French Guiana
French Guiana (or; Guyane,; Lagwiyann or Gwiyann) is an overseas department and region of France located on the northern coast of South America in the Guianas and the West Indies. Haiti and French Guiana are former French colonies, French Caribbean and French-speaking countries and territories.
French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
French Navy
The French Navy (lit), informally La Royale, is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the four military service branches of France.
French Revolution
The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.
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French West Indies
The French West Indies or French Antilles (Antilles françaises,; Antiy fwansé) are the parts of France located in the Antilles islands of the Caribbean. Haiti and French West Indies are French Caribbean and French-speaking countries and territories.
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French-based creole languages
A French creole, or French-based creole language, is a creole for which French is the lexifier.
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Fritz Jean
Fritz Alphonse Jean is a Haitian economist, politician and writer who served as governor of the Banque de la République d'Haïti from 1998 until 2001.
Gang
A gang is a group or society of associates, friends, or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior, with such behavior often constituting a form of organized crime.
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Gang war in Haiti
Since 2020, Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince has been the site of an ongoing gang war between two major criminal groups and their allies: the Revolutionary Forces of the G9 Family and Allies (FRG9 or G9) and the G-Pep.
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Garry Conille
Garry Conille (born 26 February 1966) is a Haitian academic, development worker, author, and the current acting Prime Minister of Haiti since 3 June 2024.
Gecko
Geckos are small, mostly carnivorous lizards that have a wide distribution, found on every continent except Antarctica.
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Geophysical Journal International
Geophysical Journal International (GJI) is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of geophysics.
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German Empire
The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.
German Haitians
German Haitians are Haitians of German descent or Germans with Haitian citizenship.
Global energy crisis (2021–2023)
A global energy crisis began in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, with much of the globe facing shortages and increased prices in oil, gas and electricity markets.
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Gold
Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.
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Gold mining
Gold mining is the extraction of gold by mining.
Gonaïves
Gonaïves (Gonayiv) is a commune in northern Haiti, and the capital of the Artibonite department of Haiti.
Gonâve Island
Gonâve Island or Zil Lagonav (Île de la Gonâve,; also La Gonâve) is an island of Haiti located west-northwest of Port-au-Prince in the Gulf of Gonâve.
Government Accountability Office
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent, nonpartisan government agency within the legislative branch that provides auditing, evaluative, and investigative services for the United States Congress.
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Grand'Anse (department)
Grand'Anse, Grandans or Grantans (both meaning "Big Cove") is one of the ten departments of Haiti.
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Grande Ravine
Grande Ravine is a communal section in the Croix-des-Bouquets commune of the Croix-des-Bouquets Arrondissement, in the Ouest department of Haiti.
Greater Antilles
The Greater Antilles is a grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Navassa Island, and the Cayman Islands.
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Greater Antilles mangroves
The Greater Antilles mangroves is a mangrove ecoregion that includes the coastal mangrove forests of the Greater Antilles – Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico.
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Grey-crowned palm-tanager
The grey-crowned palm-tanager or grey-crowned tanager (Phaenicophilus poliocephalus) is a Near Threatened species of bird in the family Phaenicophilidae, the Hispaniolan palm-tanagers.
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Gross domestic product
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.
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Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe (Gwadloup) is an overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. Haiti and Guadeloupe are French Caribbean and island countries.
Guayamouc River
The Guayamouc River, (French: Rivière Guayamouc), is a river in central and eastern Haiti.
Gulf of Gonâve
The Gulf of Gonâve (Golfe de la Gonâve; Gòf Lagonav) is a large gulf of the Caribbean Sea along the western coast of Haiti.
Gunboat diplomacy
Gunboat diplomacy is the pursuit of foreign policy objectives with the aid of conspicuous displays of naval power, implying or constituting a direct threat of warfare should terms not be agreeable to the superior force.
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Haiti at the Olympics
Haiti made its first appearance at the Olympic Games in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.
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Haiti Independence Debt
The Haiti Independence Debt involves an 1825 agreement between Haiti and France that included France demanding an indemnity of 150 million francs to be paid by Haiti in claims over property – including Haitian slaves – that was lost through the Haitian Revolution in return for diplomatic recognition, with the debt removing the equivalent of US$21 billion in 2020 terms from the Haitian economy.
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Haiti national football team
The Haiti national football team (Équipe d'Haïti de football, Haitian Creole: Ekip foutbòl Ayiti) represents Haiti in international football.
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Haiti: Her History and Her Detractors
Haiti: Her History and Her Detractors is a non-fiction book by Jacques Nicolas Léger about Haiti.
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Haitian Americans
Haitian Americans (Haïtiens-Américains; ayisyen ameriken) are a group of Americans of full or partial Haitian origin or descent.
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Haitian art
Haitian art is a complex tradition, reflecting African roots with strong Indigenous, American and European aesthetic and religious influences.
Haitian Carnival
Haitian Carnival (Kanaval, Carnaval) is a celebration held over several weeks each year leading up to Mardi Gras.
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Haitian Coast Guard
The Haitian Coast Guard, officially the Haitian Coast Guard Commission (Commissariat des Gardes-Côtes d’Haïti; abbreviated G-Cd'H), is an operational unit of the Haitian National Police.
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Haitian Creole
Haitian Creole (kreyòl ayisyen,; créole haïtien), or simply Creole (kreyòl), is a French-based creole language spoken by 10 to 12million people worldwide, and is one of the two official languages of Haiti (the other being French), where it is the native language of the vast majority of the population.
Haitian crisis (2018–present)
Protests began in cities throughout Haiti on 7 July 2018 in response to increased fuel prices.
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Haitian Cuban
Haitian Cubans (Haitiano-Cubano; Haïtien Cubain; Ayisyen Kiben) are Cuban citizens of full or partial Haitian ancestry.
Haitian French
Haitian French (français haïtien, Haitian Creole: fransè ayisyen) is the variety of French spoken in Haiti.
Haitian gourde
The gourde or goud is the currency of Haiti.
Haitian Health Foundation
The Haitian Health Foundation (aka HHF) is a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides relief services to residents of rural southwest Haiti.
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Haitian hip hop
Rap Kreyòl started in Haiti in the early ‘80s by the Late Great Master Dji, who witnessed how American Hip Hop gave birth to French Hip Hop while living in France.
Haitian National Police
The Haitian National Police (PNH; National Police of Haiti) is the law enforcement and de facto police force of Haiti.
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Haitian occupation of Santo Domingo
The Haitian occupation of Santo Domingo (Ocupación haitiana de Santo Domingo; Occupation haïtienne de Saint-Domingue; Okipasyon ayisyen nan Sen Domeng) was the annexation and merger of then-independent Republic of Spanish Haiti (formerly Santo Domingo) into the Republic of Haiti, that lasted twenty-two years, from February 9, 1822, to February 27, 1844.
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Haitian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution (révolution haïtienne or La guerre de l'indépendance; Lagè d Lendependans) was a successful insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti.
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Haitian Tèt Kale Party
The Haitian Tèt Kale Party (Parti Haïtien Tèt Kale, Pati Ayisyen Tèt Kale, PHTK) is a Haitian political party.
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Haitian Vodou
Haitian Vodou is an African diasporic religion that developed in Haiti between the 16th and 19th centuries.
Haitians
Haitians (French: Haïtiens, Ayisyen) are the citizens of Haiti and the descendants in the diaspora through direct parentage.
Haiti–United States relations
Haiti–United States relations are bilateral relations between Haiti and the United States.
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Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.
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Hérard Abraham
Hérard Abraham (28 July 1940 – 24 August 2022) was a Haitian military officer and politician who served as the acting President of Haiti in 1990, helping to lead its democratic transition.
Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais
Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais is a hospital in Mirebalais that was created by Partners In Health after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
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Heavily indebted poor countries
The heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) are a group of 39 developing countries with high levels of poverty and debt overhang.
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Hector Hyppolite
Hector Hyppolite (1894–1948) was a Haitian painter.
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Henri Christophe
Henri Christophe (6 October 1767 – 8 October 1820) was a key leader in the Haitian Revolution and the only monarch of the Kingdom of Haiti.
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Henri Namphy
Henri Namphy (2 October 1932 – 26 June 2018) was a Haitian general and political figure who served as President of Haiti's interim ruling body, the National Council of Government, from 7 February 1986 to 7 February 1988.
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and as the first lady of the United States to former president Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001.
Hinche
Hinche (Ench; Hincha) is a commune in the Centre department of Haiti.
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Hispaniola
Hispaniola (also) is an island in the Caribbean that is part of the Greater Antilles. Haiti and Hispaniola are Greater Antilles.
Hispaniolan amazon
The Hispaniolan parrot (Amazona ventralis), also known as Hispaniolan amazon, is a species of psittaciform bird of the family Psittacidae endemic to Hispaniola, which includes the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
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Hispaniolan dry forests
The Hispaniolan dry forests are a tropical dry broadleaf forest ecoregion on the island of Hispaniola (split between the Dominican Republic and Haiti).
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Hispaniolan hutia
The Hispaniolan hutia (Plagiodontia aedium) is a small, threatened, rat-like mammal endemic to forests on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (split between Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
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Hispaniolan moist forests
The Hispaniolan moist forests are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion on the island of Hispaniola.
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Hispaniolan parakeet
The Hispaniolan parakeet (Psittacara chloropterus) is a Vulnerable species of bird in subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots.
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Hispaniolan pine forests
The Hispaniolan pine forests are a subtropical coniferous forest ecoregion found on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, which is shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
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Hispaniolan solenodon
The Hispaniolan solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus), also known as the agouta, is a small, furry, shrew-like mammal endemic to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (in the Dominican Republic and Haiti).
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Hispaniolan trogon
The Hispaniolan trogon (Priotelus roseigaster), also known as cacos is a species of bird in the family Trogonidae.
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History of the Jews in Haiti
The history of the Jews in Haiti stretches from the beginning of the European settlement until the modern day.
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HIV/AIDS
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system.
Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.
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Human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,.
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.
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Human trafficking
Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation.
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Hunger
In politics, humanitarian aid, and the social sciences, hunger is defined as a condition in which a person does not have the physical or financial capability to eat sufficient food to meet basic nutritional needs for a sustained period.
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Hurricane Gordon
Hurricane Gordon was an erratic, long-lived, and catastrophic late-season hurricane of the 1994 Atlantic hurricane season.
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Hurricane Gustav
Hurricane Gustav was the second most destructive hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season.
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Hurricane Hanna (2008)
Hurricane Hanna was a moderately powerful but deadly tropical cyclone that caused extensive damage across the Western Atlantic, mostly in the Turks and Caicos Islands and the East Coast of the United States.
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Hurricane Ike
Hurricane Ike was a powerful tropical cyclone that swept through portions of the Greater Antilles and Northern America in September 2008, wreaking havoc on infrastructure and agriculture, particularly in Cuba and Texas.
Hurricane Matthew
Hurricane Matthew was an extremely powerful Atlantic hurricane which caused catastrophic damage and a humanitarian crisis in Haiti, as well as widespread devastation in the southeastern United States.
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Idolatry
Idolatry is the worship of a cult image or "idol" as though it were a deity.
Index of Haiti-related articles
The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to Haiti.
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Indiana University
Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana.
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Infant mortality
Infant mortality is the death of an infant before the infant's first birthday.
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Infection
An infection is the invasion of tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure is the set of facilities and systems that serve a country, city, or other area, and encompasses the services and facilities necessary for its economy, households and firms to function.
Institut de Sauvegarde du Patrimoine National
The Institut de Sauvegarde du Patrimoine National (ISPAN), the Haitian Institute for the Protection of National Heritage, was founded in 1979 and has since been active.
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Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the IACHR or, in the three other official languages Spanish, French, and Portuguese CIDH, Comisión Interamericana de los Derechos Humanos, Commission Interaméricaine des Droits de l'Homme, Comissão Interamericana de Direitos Humanos) is an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States (OAS).
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Inter-American Development Bank
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB or IADB) is an international development finance institution headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States of America, and serving as the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean.
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International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution funded by 190 member countries, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is regarded as the global lender of last resort to national governments, and a leading supporter of exchange-rate stability.
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Intestinal parasite infection
An intestinal parasite infection is a condition in which a parasite infects the gastro-intestinal tract of humans and other animals.
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Irreligion
Irreligion is the absence or rejection of religious beliefs or practices.
Islam in Haiti
Islam in Haiti consists of a small minority of Muslims forming less than 1% of the total population, composed of locals and foreign immigrants.
Jacmel
Jacmel (Jakmèl) is a commune in southern Haiti founded by the Spanish in 1504 and repopulated by the French in 1698.
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Jacobins
The Society of the Friends of the Constitution (Société des amis de la Constitution), renamed the Society of the Jacobins, Friends of Freedom and Equality (Société des Jacobins, amis de la liberté et de l'égalité) after 1792 and commonly known as the Jacobin Club (Club des Jacobins) or simply the Jacobins, was the most influential political club during the French Revolution of 1789.
Jacques Nicolas Léger
Jacques Nicolas Léger (July 20, 1859, in Who's Who in America (1901-1902 edition), p. 673–1918) was a Haitian lawyer, politician, and diplomat.
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Jacques Roumain
Jacques Roumain (June 4, 1907 – August 18, 1944) was a Haitian writer, politician, and advocate of Marxism.
Jacques Stephen Alexis
Jacques Stephen Alexis (22 April 1922 – c. 22 April 1961) was a Haitian communist novelist, poet, and activist.
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Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory). Haiti and Jamaica are countries in North America, countries in the Caribbean, former Spanish colonies, Greater Antilles, island countries, member states of the Caribbean Community, member states of the United Nations and small Island Developing States.
Jazz Guignard
Jazz Guignard was a popular Haitian jazz musician in the 1930s.
Jérémie
Jérémie (Jeremi) is a commune and capital city of the Grand'Anse department in Haiti.
Jérémie Vespers
The term Jérémie Vespers refers to a massacre that took place in August, September and October 1964 in the Haitian town of Jérémie.
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; before 1750 – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder.
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Jean Price-Mars
Jean Price-Mars (15 October 1876 – 1 March 1969) was a Haitian medical doctor, teacher, politician, diplomat, writer, and ethnographer.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jean-Baptiste Colbert (29 August 1619 – 6 September 1683) was a French statesman who served as First Minister of State from 1661 until his death in 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV.
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Jean-Baptiste Riché
Jean-Baptiste Riché, Count of Grande-Riviere-du-Nord (1780 – February 27, 1847) was a career officer and general in the Haitian Army.
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Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born 15 July 1953) is a Haitian former Salesian priest and politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president.
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Jean-Claude Duvalier
Jean-Claude Duvalier (3 July 19514 October 2014), nicknamed "Baby Doc" (Bébé Doc, Bebe Dòk), was a Haitian politician who was the President of Haiti from 1971 until he was overthrown by a popular uprising in February 1986.
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Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Haitian Creole: Jan-Jak Desalin;; 20 September 1758 – 17 October 1806) was the first Haitian Emperor, and leader of the Haitian Revolution, and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1805 constitution.
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Jean-Louis Pierrot
Prince Jean-Louis Michel Paul Pierrot, Baron of Haïti (19 December 1761 - 18 February 1857) was a career officer general in the Haitian Army who also served as President of Haiti from 16 April 1845 to 1 March 1846.
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Jean-Pierre Boyer
Jean-Pierre Boyer (15 February 1776 – 9 July 1850) was one of the leaders of the Haitian Revolution, and the president of Haiti from 1818 to 1843.
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Jet bridge
A jet bridge (also termed jetway, jetwalk, airgate, jetty, gangway, aerobridge/airbridge, finger, skybridge, airtube, expedited suspended passenger entry system (E-SPES), or its official industry name passenger boarding bridge (PBB)) is an enclosed, movable connector which most commonly extends from an airport terminal gate to an airplane, and in some instances from a port to a boat or ship, allowing passengers to board and disembark without heading outside and being exposed to harsh weather.
Joe Gaetjens
Joseph Edouard Gaetjens (1924 –, 1964 presumed) was a soccer player who played as a center forward.
Jovenel Moïse
Jovenel Moïse (26 June 1968 – 7 July 2021) was a Haitian politician and entrepreneur, who served as the 43rd president of Haiti from 2017 until his assassination in 2021.
Juan Pablo Duarte
Juan Pablo Duarte y Díez (January 26, 1813 – July 15, 1876) was a Dominican military leader, writer, activist, and nationalist politician who was the foremost of the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic and bears the title of Father of the Nation.
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Juan Sánchez Ramírez
Juan Sánchez Ramírez (1762–11 February 1811) was a Dominican general who was the primary leader of the War of Reconquista.
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June 1988 Haitian coup d'état
The June 1988 Haitian coup d'état took place on 20 June 1988, when Henri Namphy overthrew Leslie Manigat.
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Kenya
Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa. Haiti and Kenya are member states of the United Nations and republics.
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Killed in action
Killed in action (KIA) is a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their own personnel at the hands of enemy or hostile forces at the moment of action.
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Kingdom of Bulgaria
The Tsardom of Bulgaria (translit), also referred to as the Third Bulgarian Tsardom (translit), sometimes translated in English as the "Kingdom of Bulgaria", or simply Bulgaria, was a constitutional monarchy in Southeastern Europe, which was established on 5 October (O.S. 22 September) 1908, when the Bulgarian state was raised from a principality to a tsardom.
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Kingdom of France
The Kingdom of France is the historiographical name or umbrella term given to various political entities of France in the medieval and early modern period.
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Kingdom of Haiti
The Kingdom of Haiti, or Kingdom of Hayti (Royaume d'Haïti; Wayòm an Ayiti) was the state established by Henri Christophe on 28 March 1811 when he proclaimed himself King Henri I after having previously ruled as president of the State of Haiti, in the northern part of the country.
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Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)
The Kingdom of Hungary (Magyar Királyság), referred to retrospectively as the Regency and the Horthy era, existed as a country from 1920 to 1946 under the rule of Miklós Horthy, Regent of Hungary, who officially represented the Hungarian monarchy.
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Kingdom of Italy
The Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia) was a state that existed from 17 March 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy, until 10 June 1946, when the monarchy was abolished, following civil discontent that led to an institutional referendum on 2 June 1946.
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Kingdom of Romania
The Kingdom of Romania (Regatul României) was a constitutional monarchy that existed from 13 March (O.S.) / 25 March 1881 with the crowning of prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen as King Carol I (thus beginning the Romanian royal family), until 1947 with the abdication of King Michael I and the Romanian parliament's proclamation of the Romanian People's Republic.
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La Dessalinienne
"La Dessalinienne" ("Desalinyèn"; "The Dessalines Song") is the national anthem of Haiti.
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La Navidad
La Navidad ("The Nativity", i.e. Christmas) was a Spanish fort that Christopher Columbus and his crew established on the northwest coast of Hispaniola (near what is now Caracol, Nord-Est Department, Haiti) in 1492 from the remains of the Spanish ship the Santa María. Haiti and La Navidad are former Spanish colonies.
Lake Péligre
Lake Péligre (Lac de Péligre) is the second largest lake in Haiti, and is located in the Centre department.
Las Matas de Farfán
Las Matas de Farfán is a town in the San Juan Province, Dominican Republic.
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Laws of Burgos
The Laws of Burgos (Leyes de Burgos), promulgated on 27 December 1512 in Burgos, Crown of Castile (Spain), was the first codified set of laws governing the behavior of Spaniards in the Americas, particularly with regard to the Indigenous people of the Americas ("native Caribbean Indians").
Léger-Félicité Sonthonax
Léger-Félicité Sonthonax (7 March 1763 – 23 July 1813) was a French abolitionist and Jacobin before joining the Girondist party, which emerged in 1791.
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Léogâne
Léogâne (Leyogàn) is one of the coastal communes in Haiti.
Lüders affair
The Lüders affair was a legal and diplomatic embarrassment to the Haitian government in 1897.
Legal education
Legal education is the education of individuals in the principles, practices, and theory of law.
Les Cayemites
The Cayemites are a pair of islands located in the Gulf of Gonâve off the coast of southwest Haiti.
Les Cayes
Les Cayes, often referred to as Aux Cayes (Okay), is a commune and seaport in the Les Cayes Arrondissement, in the Sud department of Haiti, with a population of 71,236.
Leslie Manigat
Leslie François Saint Roc Manigat (August 16, 1930 – June 27, 2014) was a Haitian politician who was elected as President of Haiti in a tightly controlled military held election in January 1988. He served as President for only a few months, from February 1988 to June 1988, before being ousted by the military in a coup d'état.
Liberia
Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. Haiti and Liberia are least developed countries, member states of the United Nations and republics.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité
(), French for, is the national motto of France and the Republic of Haiti, and is an example of a tripartite motto.
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.
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Library of Congress Country Studies
The Country Studies are works published by the Federal Research Division of the United States Library of Congress, freely available for use by researchers.
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List of communes of Haiti
The commune is the third-level divisions of Haiti.
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List of countries and dependencies by area
This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies by land, water, and total area, ranked by total area.
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List of countries by Human Development Index
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) compiles the Human Development Index (HDI) of 193 nations in the annual Human Development Report.
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List of ethnic groups of Africa
The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each ethnicity generally having its own language (or dialect of a language) and culture.
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List of freedom indices
This article is a list of freedom indices produced by several non-governmental organizations that publish and maintain assessments of the state of freedom in the world, according to their own various definitions of the term, and rank countries as being free, partly free, or using various measures of freedom, including civil liberties, political rights and economic rights.
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List of French monarchs
France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the Kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in 1870, with several interruptions.
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List of hospitals in Haiti
This is a list of hospitals in Haiti.
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List of medical schools in the Caribbean
This is a list of medical schools in the Caribbean.
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List of natural disasters by death toll
A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life, brought about by forces other than the acts of human beings.
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List of revolutions and coups d'état in Haiti
This article lists successful revolutions and coups d'état that have taken place in the history of Haiti.
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Louis XIV
LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.
Louisiana (New France)
Louisiana (Louisiane) or French Louisiana (Louisiane française) was an administrative district of New France. Haiti and Louisiana (New France) are former French colonies.
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Louisiana Creole
Louisiana Creole is a French-based creole language spoken by fewer than 10,000 people, mostly in the US state of Louisiana.
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Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase (translation) was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803.
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Louisiane Saint Fleurant
Louisiane Saint Fleurant (11 September 1924 – 1 June 2005) was a Haitian female artist and painter.
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Lwa
italic, also called loa, are spirits in the African diasporic religion of Haitian Vodou and Dominican Vúdu.
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Lyonel Trouillot
Lyonel Trouillot (born 31 December 1956, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is a novelist and poet in French and Haitian Creole, a journalist and a professor of French and Creole literature in Port-au-Prince.
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Lysius Salomon
Louis Étienne Félicité Lysius Salomon (June 30, 1815 – October 19, 1888) was the president of Haiti from 1879 to 1888. Salomon is best remembered for instituting Haiti's first postal system and for his lively enthusiasm for Haiti's modernization. His daughter Ida Faubert was a French poet.
Mahogany
Mahogany is a straight-grained, reddish-brown timber of three tropical hardwood species of the genus Swietenia, indigenous to the AmericasBridgewater, Samuel (2012).
Maize
Maize (Zea mays), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain.
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Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.
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Malaria
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates.
Malnutrition
Malnutrition occurs when an organism gets too few or too many nutrients, resulting in health problems.
Mangifera indica
Mangifera indica, commonly known as mango, is a species of flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae.
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Mango
A mango is an edible stone fruit produced by the tropical tree Mangifera indica.
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Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Marie Vieux-Chauvet (born Marie Vieux; September 16, 1916 – June 19, 1973), was a Haitian novelist, poet and playwright.
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Maroons
Maroons are descendants of Africans in the Americas and Islands of the Indian Ocean who escaped from slavery, through flight or manumission, and formed their own settlements.
Marriott International
Marriott International, Inc. is an American multinational company that operates, franchises, and licenses lodging brands that include hotel, residential, and timeshare properties.
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Martine Moïse
Martine Marie Étienne Moïse (née Joseph; born 5 June 1974) is the former First Lady of Haiti and widow of assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.
Martinique
Martinique (Matinik or Matnik; Kalinago: Madinina or Madiana) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. Haiti and Martinique are French Caribbean, French-speaking countries and territories and island countries.
Massif de la Hotte
The Massif de la Hotte is a mountain range in southwestern Haiti, on the Tiburon Peninsula.
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Massif du Nord
The Massif du Nord is the longest mountain range of Haiti.
Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (6 May 1758 – 10 Thermidor, Year II 28 July 1794) was a French lawyer and statesman, widely recognized as one of the most influential and controversial figures of the French Revolution.
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Méringue
Méringue (mereng), also called méringue lente or méringue de salon (slow or salon méringue), is a dance music and national symbol in Haiti.
Môle Saint-Nicolas affair
The Môle Saint-Nicolas affair was an 1891 diplomatic incident between Haiti and the United States when in an act of gunboat diplomacy, President of the United States Benjamin Harrison ordered Rear-Admiral Bancroft Gherardi to persuade the cession or lease of Môle Saint-Nicolas to the United States in order to establish a naval base for the United States Navy.
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Môle-Saint-Nicolas
Môle-Saint-Nicolas (Mòlsennikola or Omòl) is a commune in the north-western coast of Haiti.
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Member states of the League of Nations
Between 1920 and 1946, a total of 63 countries became member states of the League of Nations.
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Member states of the United Nations
The member states of the United Nations comprise sovereign states.
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Meningitis
Meningitis is acute or chronic inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, collectively called the meninges.
Miami Herald
The Miami Herald is an American daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company and headquartered in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
Michèle Bennett
Michèle Bennett (born 15 January 1950) is the former First Lady of Haiti and the ex‑wife of former President of Haiti, Jean‑Claude Duvalier.
Michel Domingue
Michel Domingue (July 28, 1813 – May 24, 1877) served as the president of Haiti from 14 June 1874 to 15 April 1876.
Michel Martelly
Michel Joseph Martelly (born 12 February 1961) is a Haitian musician and politician who was the President of Haiti from May 2011 until February 2016.
Michel Oreste
Michel Oreste Lafontant (April 8, 1859 – October 29, 1918) served as president of Haiti from May 1913 to January 1914.
Michel Patrick Boisvert
Michel Patrick Boisvert is a Haitian civil servant and politician who served as the interim Prime Minister of Haiti from 25 February to 3 June 2024.
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Millet
Millets are a highly varied group of small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food.
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Mini-jazz
Mini-jazz (mini-djaz) is a reduced méringue-compas band format of the mid-1960s characterized by the rock band formula of two guitars, one bass, and drum-conga-cowbell; some use an alto sax or a full horn section, while others use a keyboard, accordion or lead guitar.
Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
Miragoâne
Miragoâne (Miragwàn) is a coastal commune in western Haiti and the capital of the Nippes department.
Mirlande Manigat
Mirlande Manigat (born Mirlande Hyppolite in Miragoâne, on November 3, 1940) is a Haitian constitutional law professor and candidate in 2010-11 Haitian general election.
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Moment magnitude scale
The moment magnitude scale (MMS; denoted explicitly with M or or Mwg, and generally implied with use of a single M for magnitude) is a measure of an earthquake's magnitude ("size" or strength) based on its seismic moment.
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Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine is a United States foreign policy position that opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere.
Mont-Organisé
Mont-Organisé (Montòganize) is a commune in the Ouanaminthe Arrondissement, in the Nord-Est department of Haiti.
Montagnes Noires, Haiti
The Montagnes Noires (Black Mountains) are a range of mountains in central Haiti.
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Montreal
Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.
Montrouis
Montrouis is a coastal communal section in Haiti, located in the department of Artibonite, south of Saint-Marc.
Mudflow
A mudflow, also known as mudslide or mud flow, is a form of mass wasting involving fast-moving flow of debris and dirt that has become liquified by the addition of water.
Mulatto
Mulatto is a racial classification that refers to people of mixed African and European ancestry.
Mulatto Haitians
Mulatto (mulâtre, milat) is a term in Haiti that is historically linked to Haitians who are born to one white parent and one black parent, or to two mulatto parents.
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Multi-purpose stadium
A multi-purpose stadium is a type of stadium designed to be easily used for multiple types of events.
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Multiracial people
The terms multiracial people or mixed-race people refer to people who are of more than two ''races'', and the terms multi-ethnic people or ethnically mixed people refer to people who are of more than two ethnicities.
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Musée du Panthéon National Haïtien
The Musée du Panthéon National Haïtien (MUPANAH) is a museum featuring the heroes of the independence of Haiti, the Haitian history and culture.
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Naïve art
Naïve art is usually defined as visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing).
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.
Napoleonic Code
The Napoleonic Code, officially the Civil Code of the French (simply referred to as Code civil), is the French civil code established during the French Consulate in 1804 and still in force in France, although heavily and frequently amended since its inception.
Nation state
A nation-state is a political unit where the state, a centralized political organization ruling over a population within a territory, and the nation, a community based on a common identity, are congruent.
National Assembly (Haiti)
The National Assembly (Assemblée nationale, Asanble Nasyonal) consists of the bicameral legislature of the Republic of Haiti, consisting of the upper house as the Senate and the lower house as the Chamber of Deputies (Chambre des Députés).
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National Convention
The National Convention (Convention nationale) was the constituent assembly of the Kingdom of France for one day and the French First Republic for its first three years during the French Revolution, following the two-year National Constituent Assembly and the one-year Legislative Assembly.
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National Council of Government (Haiti)
The National Council of Government (Conseil National de Gouvernement, CNG) was the ruling body of Haiti from 1986 to 1988.
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National History Park
National History Park (Pak nasyonal istorik, Parc national historique) is a national park in Haiti established on 1968.
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Navassa Island
Navassa Island (Lanavaz; Île de la Navasse, sometimes la Navase) is a small uninhabited island in the Caribbean Sea. Haiti and Navassa Island are Greater Antilles.
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
NBC News
NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC.
Neale Publishing Company
The Neale Publishing Company was an American book publisher active between 1894 and 1933.
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New France
New France (Nouvelle-France) was the territory colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris. Haiti and New France are former French colonies.
New Internationalist
New Internationalist (NI) is an international publisher and left-wing magazine based in Oxford, England, owned by a multi-stakeholder co-operative and run day to day as a worker-run co-operative with a non-hierarchical structure.
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New Orleans
New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
New York City Police Department
The New York City Police Department (NYPD), officially the City of New York Police Department, is the primary law enforcement agency within New York City.
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Nightlife
Nightlife is a collective term for entertainment that is available and generally more popular from the late evening into the early hours of the morning.
Nippes
Nippes (French) or Nip (Haitian Creole) is one of the ten departments (the highest-level political subdivisions) of Haiti located in southern Haiti.
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Non-governmental organization
A non-governmental organization (NGO) (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government.
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Nord (Haitian department)
Nord (French) or Nò (Haitian Creole; both meaning "North") is one of the ten departments of Haiti and located in northern Haiti.
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Nord-Est (department)
Nord-Est (French) or Nodès (Haitian Creole; both meaning "North East") is one of the ten departments of Haiti, located in northern Haiti.
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Nord-Ouest (department)
Nord-Ouest (French) or Nòdwès (Haitian Creole; both meaning "North West") is one of the ten departments of Haiti as well as the northernmost one.
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North American Plate
The North American Plate is a tectonic plate containing most of North America, Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Asia, and parts of Iceland and the Azores.
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Northstar Travel Group
Northstar Travel Group is a publications and event management company focused on the travel industry.
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November 2016 Haitian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Haiti on 20 November 2016 after having been postponed several times.
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Official language
An official language is a language having certain rights to be used in defined situations.
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Oligocene
The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.
OPANAL
The OPANAL (which stands for el Organismo para la Proscripción de las Armas Nucleares en la América Latina y el Caribe) is an international organization which promotes a non-aggression pact and nuclear disarmament in much of the Americas.
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Operation Uphold Democracy
Operation Uphold Democracy was a multinational military intervention designed to remove the military regime led and installed by Raoul Cédras after the 1991 Haitian coup d'état overthrew the elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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Oreste Zamor
Emmanuel Oreste Zamor (1861– July 27, 1915) was a Haitian general and politician who served as the president of Haiti in 1914. He was executed the following year after being ousted in a coup.
Organisation internationale de la Francophonie
The Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF; sometimes shortened to the Francophonie, La Francophonie, sometimes also called International Organisation of italic in English) is an international organization representing countries and regions where French is a lingua franca or customary language, where a significant proportion of the population are francophones (French speakers), or where there is a notable affiliation with French culture. Haiti and Organisation internationale de la Francophonie are French-speaking countries and territories.
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Organization of American States
The Organization of American States (OAS or OEA; Organización de los Estados Americanos; Organização dos Estados Americanos; Organisation des États américains) is an international organization founded on 30 April 1948 to promote cooperation among its member states within the Americas.
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Ouest (department)
Ouest (French) or Lwès (Haitian Creole; both meaning "West") is one of the ten departments of Haiti.
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Outline of Haiti
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Haiti: The Haiti – sovereign country located on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago.
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Overseas collectivity
The French overseas collectivities (collectivité d'outre-mer abbreviated as COM) are first-order administrative divisions of France, like the French regions, but have a semi-autonomous status.
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Overseas France
Overseas France (France d'outre-mer, also France ultramarine) consists of 13 French territories outside Europe, mostly the remains of the French colonial empire that remained a part of the French state under various statuses after decolonization.
Papaya
The papaya, papaw, or pawpaw is the plant species Carica papaya, one of the 21 accepted species in the genus Carica of the family Caricaceae, and also the name of its fruit.
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Parsley massacre
The Parsley massacre (Spanish: el corte "the cutting"; Creole: kout kouto-a "the stabbing") (Massacre du Persil; Masacre del Perejil; Masak nan Pèsil) was a mass killing of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic's northwestern frontier and in certain parts of the contiguous Cibao region in October 1937.
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Partners In Health
Partners In Health (PIH) is an international nonprofit public health organization founded in 1987 by Paul Farmer, Ophelia Dahl, Thomas J. White, Todd McCormack, and Jim Yong Kim.
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Patricia Benoit (director)
Patricia Benoit is a Haiti-born American filmmaker.
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Paul Magloire
Paul Eugène Magloire (July 19, 1907 – July 12, 2001), nicknamed Kanson Fè (Iron Pants), was the Haitian president from 1950 to 1956.
Péligre Dam
The Péligre Dam is a gravity dam located off the Centre department on the Artibonite River of Haiti.
Pétion-Ville
Pétion-Ville (Petyonvil) is a commune and a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in the hills east and separate from the city itself on the northern hills of the Massif de la Selle.
PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.
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Peace of Basel
The Peace of Basel of 1795 consists of three peace treaties involving France during the French Revolution (represented by François de Barthélemy).
Peace of Ryswick
The Peace of Ryswick, or Rijswijk, was a series of treaties signed in the Dutch city of Rijswijk between 20 September and 30 October 1697.
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Peanut
The peanut (Arachis hypogaea), also known as the groundnut, goober (US), goober pea, pindar (US) or monkey nut (UK), is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds.
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Pediatrics
Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pædiatrics) is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.
Peninsula
A peninsula is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water on most sides.
Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism or classical Pentecostalism is a Protestant Charismatic Christian movement that emphasizes direct personal experience of God through baptism with the Holy Spirit.
Pestel, Haiti
Pestel (Pestèl) is a commune in the Corail Arrondissement, in the Grand'Anse department of Haiti.
Petit-Goâve
Petit-Goâve (Ti Gwav) is a coastal commune in the Léogâne Arrondissement in the Ouest department of Haiti.
Petrocaribe
Petrocaribe was a regional oil procurement agreement between Venezuela and Caribbean member states.
Pew Research Center
The Pew Research Center (also simply known as Pew) is a nonpartisan American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It provides information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends shaping the United States and the world.
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Philippe Guerrier
Jean-Jacques Louis Philippe Guerrier, Duke of L'Avance, Count of Mirebalais (December 19, 1757 – April 15, 1845) was a career officer and general in the Haitian Army who became the president of Haïti on May 3, 1844.
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Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave
Philippe Sudre Dartiguenave (6 April 1863 – 26 July 1926) was a Haitian political figure.
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Pic la Selle
Pic la Selle (Kreyòl: Pik Lasel), also called Morne La Selle, is the highest peak in Haiti at above sea level.
Pierre Nord Alexis
Pierre Nord Alexis (2 August 1820 – 1 May 1910) was President of Haiti from 17 December 1902 to 2 December 1908.
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Pigeon pea
The pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) is a perennial legume from the family Fabaceae native to the Eastern Hemisphere.
Piracy in the Caribbean
The era of piracy in the Caribbean began in the 1500s and phased out in the 1830s after the navies of the nations of Western Europe and North America with colonies in the Caribbean began hunting and prosecuting pirates.
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Pistachio
The pistachio (Pistacia vera), a member of the cashew family, is a small tree originating in Persia.
Plain of the Cul-de-Sac
Plain of the Cul-de-Sac (Plaine du Cul-de-Sac, also known as the Cul-de-Sac Plain, or the Cul-de-Sac Depression) is a fertile lowland on the island of Hispaniola.
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Plaine-du-Nord
Plaine-du-Nord (Plèn dinò) is a commune in the Acul-du-Nord Arrondissement, in the Nord department of Haiti.
Plantation
Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on.
Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics is the scientific theory that Earth's lithosphere comprises a number of large tectonic plates, which have been slowly moving since 3–4 billion years ago.
Polish Haitians
Polish Haitians (Polonè-Ayisyen, colloquially: Lepologne; Polish: Polscy Haitańczycy, Polonia w Haiti, Polacy w Haiti; French: Haïtiens polonais) are Haitian people of Polish ancestry dating to the early 19th century; a few may be Poles of more recent native birth who have gained Haitian citizenship.
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II (Ioannes Paulus II; Jan Paweł II; Giovanni Paolo II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła,; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005.
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Port international de Port-au-Prince
The Port international de Port-au-Prince (UN/LOCODE: HTPAP) is the seaport in the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince.
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Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince (Pòtoprens) is the capital and most populous city of Haiti.
Port-de-Paix
Port-de-Paix (Pòdepè or Pòdpè; meaning "Port of Peace") is a commune and the capital of the Nord-Ouest department of Haiti on the Atlantic coast.
Portuguese language
Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Pottery
Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form.
Power station
A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power.
Préfète Duffaut
Préfète Duffaut (1 January 1923 – 6 October 2012) was a Haitian painter.
President of Haiti
The president of Haiti (Prezidan peyi Ayiti, Président d'Haïti), officially called the president of the Republic of Haiti (Président de la République d'Haïti, Prezidan Repiblik Ayiti), is the head of state of Haiti.
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Prime Minister of Haiti
The prime minister of Haiti (French: Premier ministre d'Haïti, Premye Minis Ayiti) is the head of government of Haiti.
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Prison
A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, remand center, hoosegow, or slammer is a facility where people are imprisoned against their will and denied their liberty under the authority of the state, generally as punishment for various crimes.
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Proselytism
Proselytism is the policy of attempting to convert people's religious or political beliefs.
Prosper Avril
Matthieu Prosper Avril (born December 12, 1937) is a Haitian political figure who was President of Haiti from 1988 to 1990.
Prosper Pierre-Louis
Prospère Pierre-Louis (1947–1997), also known as Prosper Pierre-Louis, was a Haitian artist, painter; and one of the main contributors to the Saint Soleil art movement.
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Protestantism in Haiti
Protestants in Haiti are a significant minority of the population.
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Provisional government
A provisional government, also called an interim government, an emergency government, a transitional government or provisional leadership, is a temporary government formed to manage a period of transition, often following state collapse, revolution, civil war, or some combination thereof.
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Puerto Rico
-;. Haiti and Puerto Rico are former Spanish colonies, Greater Antilles, island countries and small Island Developing States.
Pyramid scheme
A pyramid scheme is a business model which, rather than earning money (or providing returns on investments) by sale of legitimate products to an end consumer, mainly earns money by recruiting new members with the promise of payments (or services).
Rafael Trujillo
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina (24 October 1891 – 30 May 1961), nicknamed El Jefe, was a Dominican military commander and dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from August 1930 until his assassination in May 1961.
Rain
Rain is water droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then fall under gravity.
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Raoul Cédras
Joseph Raoul Cédras (born July 9, 1949) is a Haitian former military officer who was the de facto ruler of Haiti from 1991 to 1994.
Raoul Peck
Raoul Peck (born 9 September 1953 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is a Haitian filmmaker of both documentary and feature films.
Rara music
Rara is a form of festival music that originated in Haiti that is used for street processions, typically during Easter Week.
Rasin
Rasin, also known as Haitian roots music, is a musical style that began in Haiti in the 1970s when musicians began combining elements of traditional Haitian Vodou ceremonial and folkloric music with various musical styles.
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Regional airline
A regional airline is a general classification of airline which typically operates scheduled passenger air service, using regional aircraft, between communities lacking sufficient demand or infrastructure to attract mainline flights.
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Remittance
A remittance is a non-commercial transfer of money by a foreign worker, a member of a diaspora community, or a citizen with familial ties abroad, for household income in their home country or homeland.
René Depestre
René Depestre (born 29 August 1926, Jacmel, Haiti) is a Haitian poet and former communist activist.
René Préval
René Garcia Préval (17 January 1943 – 3 March 2017) was a Haitian politician and agronomist who twice was President of Haiti, from early 1996 to early 2001, and again from mid-2006 to mid-2011.
Reparations for slavery
Reparations for slavery is the application of the concept of reparations to victims of slavery and/or their descendants.
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Republic
A republic, based on the Latin phrase res publica ('public affair'), is a state in which political power rests with the public through their representatives—in contrast to a monarchy.
Republic of Spanish Haiti
The Republic of Spanish Haiti (República del Haití Español), also called the Independent State of Spanish Haiti (Estado Independiente del Haití Español) was the independent state that succeeded the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo after independence was declared on November 30, 1821 by José Núñez de Cáceres.
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Restavek
A restavek (or restavec) is a child in Haiti who is given away by their parents to work for a host household as a domestic servant because the parents lack the resources required to support the child.
Rhinoceros iguana
The rhinoceros iguana (Cyclura cornuta) is an endangered species of iguana that is endemic to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic) and its surrounding islands.
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Rice
Rice is a cereal grain and in its domesticated form is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Asia and Africa.
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Richard Branson
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate best known for co-founding the Virgin Group in 1970, which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields.
Rights of Man
Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people.
Rosalvo Bobo
Dr.
Roystonea regia
Roystonea regia, commonly known as the royal palm, Cuban royal palm, or Florida royal palm, is a species of palm native to Mexico, the Caribbean, Florida, and parts of Central America.
Rutgers University Press
Rutgers University Press (RUP) is a nonprofit academic publishing house, operating in New Brunswick, New Jersey under the auspices of Rutgers University.
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Sae-A Trading
The Sae-A Trading Company, Ltd., usually called Sae-A Trading or simply Sae-A (세아), is a global clothing manufacturer in South Korea.
Saint-Domingue
Saint-Domingue was a French colony in the western portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, in the area of modern-day Haiti, from 1697 to 1804. Haiti and Saint-Domingue are 1625 establishments in New France, 1804 disestablishments in the French colonial empire, former French colonies and island countries.
Saint-Marc
Saint-Marc (Sen Mak) is a commune in western Haiti in Artibonite departement.
San Juan Province (Dominican Republic)
San Juan is a province of the Dominican Republic.
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Sanitation
Sanitation refers to public health conditions related to clean drinking water and treatment and disposal of human excreta and sewage.
Sans-Souci Palace
The Palace of Sans-Souci, or Sans-Souci Palace (Palais Sans Souci), was the principal royal residence of Henry I, King of Haiti, better known as Henri Christophe.
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Santa María (ship)
La Santa María de la Inmaculada Concepción, or La Santa María, originally La Gallega, was the largest of the three small ships used by Christopher Columbus in his first expedition across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, with the backing of the Spanish monarchs.
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Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo (meaning "Saint Dominic" but verbatim "Holy Sunday"), once known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, known as Ciudad Trujillo between 1936 and 1961, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population.
Satanism
Satanism refers to a group of religious, ideological, and/or philosophical beliefs based on Satan – particularly his worship or veneration.
Sean Penn
Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American actor and film director.
Second Empire of Haiti
The Second Empire of Haiti, officially known as the Empire of Haiti (Empire d'Haïti, Anpi an Ayiti), was a state which existed from 1849 to 1859.
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Semi-presidential republic
A semi-presidential republic, or dual executive republic, is a republic in which a president exists alongside a prime minister and a cabinet, with the latter two being responsible to the legislature of the state.
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Senate (Haiti)
The Senate (Sénat) is the upper house of Haiti's bicameral legislature, the Haitian Parliament.
September 1988 Haitian coup d'état
The September 1988 Haitian coup d'état took place on 18 September 1988, when a group of non-commissioned officers in the Haitian Presidential Guard overthrew General Henri Namphy and brought General Prosper Avril to power.
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Septentrional-Oriente fault zone
The Septentrional-Orient fault zone (SOFZ) is a system of active coaxial left lateral-moving strike slip faults that runs along the northern side of the island of Hispaniola where Haiti and the Dominican Republic are located and continues along the south of Cuba along the northern margin of the Cayman Trough.
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Serge Jolimeau
Serge Jolimeau is a Haitian metal sculptor born in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti in 1952.
Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ, and its annihilationist soteriology.
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Shanty town
A shanty town, squatter area or squatter settlement is a settlement of improvised buildings known as shanties or shacks, typically made of materials such as mud and wood.
Simón Bolívar
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco (24July 178317December 1830) was a Venezuelan statesman and military officer who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire.
Sisal
Sisal (Agave sisalana) is a species of flowering plant native to southern Mexico, but widely cultivated and naturalized in many other countries.
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Slave rebellion
A slave rebellion is an armed uprising by slaves, as a way of fighting for their freedom.
Slave states and free states
In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was one in which they were prohibited.
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Slavery
Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour.
Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince
Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in Haiti is a 2006 book by American cultural anthropologist J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat.
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Smallpox
Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus.
Smithsonian (magazine)
Smithsonian is a science and nature magazine (and associated website, SmithsonianMag.com), and is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., although editorially independent from its parent organization.
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Social class
A social class or social stratum is a grouping of people into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the working class, middle class, and upper class.
Solar power
Solar power, also known as solar electricity, is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV) or indirectly using concentrated solar power.
Sorghum
Sorghum bicolor, commonly called sorghum and also known as great millet, broomcorn, guinea corn, durra, imphee, jowar, or milo, is a species in the grass genus Sorghum cultivated for its grain.
Soucouyant
A soucouyant, among other names, is a kind of shape-shifting, blood-sucking hag present in Caribbean folklore.
Soup joumou
Soup Joumou (soupe au giraumon, lit. ‘pumpkin soup’) is a soup native to Haitian cuisine made from squash, beef, and a mix of vegetables and spices.
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. Haiti and South Korea are member states of the United Nations and republics.
Spanish Empire
The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976.
Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Spanish reconquest of Santo Domingo
Spanish reconquest of Santo Domingo (Spanish: Reconquista Española de Santo Domingo) was the war for Spanish reestablishment in Santo Domingo, or better known as the Reconquista, and was fought between November 7, 1808, and July 9, 1809.
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Spinach
Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) is a leafy green flowering plant native to central and Western Asia.
St. Jean Bosco massacre
The St.
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Stade Sylvio Cator
The Stade Sylvio Cator is a multi-purpose stadium in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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State of Haiti
The State of Haiti (État d'Haïti; Leta an Ayiti) was the name of the state in northern Haiti.
State University of Haiti
The State University of Haiti (Université d'État d'Haïti (UEH), Inivèsite Leta Ayiti) is one of Haiti's most prestigious institutions of higher education.
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Sténio Vincent
Sténio Joseph Vincent (February 22, 1874 – September 3, 1959) was President of Haiti from November 18, 1930 to May 15, 1941.
Sud (department)
Sud (French) or Sid (Haitian Creole; both meaning "South") is one of the ten departments of Haiti and located in southern Haiti.
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Sud-Est (department)
Sud-Est (French) or Sidès (Haitian Creole; both meaning "South East") is one of the ten departments of Haiti located in southern Haiti.
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Sugar plantations in the Caribbean
Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were a major part of the economy of the islands in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
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Sugarcane
Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, perennial grass (in the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production.
Surface rupture
In seismology, surface rupture (or ground rupture, or ground displacement) is the visible offset of the ground surface when an earthquake rupture along a fault affects the Earth's surface.
Suriname
Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname (Republiek Suriname), is a country in northern South America, sometimes considered part of the Caribbean and the West Indies. Haiti and Suriname are member states of the Caribbean Community, member states of the United Nations, republics and small Island Developing States.
Sweet potato
The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.
Sylvain Salnave
Sylvain Salnave (February 6, 1827 – January 15, 1870) was a Haitian general who served as the President of Haïti from 1867 to 1869.
Syncretism
Syncretism is the practice of combining different beliefs and various schools of thought.
Taíno
The Taíno were a historic Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, whose culture has been continued today by Taíno descendant communities and Taíno revivalist communities.
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Taíno language
Taíno is an extinct Arawakan language that was spoken by the Taíno people of the Caribbean.
Tabarre
Tabarre (Taba) is a commune in the Port-au-Prince Arrondissement, in the Ouest department of Haiti.
Tap tap
Tap taps (Taptap) are gaily painted buses or pick-up trucks with metal covers traveladventures.org that serve as share taxis in Haiti.
Telephone numbers in Haiti
Country Code: +509 International Call Prefix: 00 Nationally Significant Numbers (NSN): eight digits.
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Tertiary education
Tertiary education, also referred to as third-level, third-stage or post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of secondary education.
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The Bahamas
The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean. Haiti and the Bahamas are countries in North America, countries in the Caribbean, island countries, member states of the Caribbean Community, member states of the United Nations and small Island Developing States.
The Christian Science Monitor
The Christian Science Monitor (CSM), commonly known as The Monitor, is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles both in electronic format and a weekly print edition.
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The Economist
The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.
The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
The Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation, sometimes referred to simply as "Heritage", is an activist American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1973, it took a leading role in the conservative movement in the 1980s during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, whose policies were taken from Heritage Foundation studies, including its Mandate for Leadership.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The World Factbook
The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.
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Theistic Satanism
Theistic Satanism, otherwise referred to as religious Satanism, spiritual Satanism, or traditional Satanism, is an umbrella term for religious groups that consider Satan, the Devil, to objectively exist as a deity, supernatural entity, or spiritual being worthy of worship or reverence, whom individuals may contact and convene with, in contrast to the atheistic archetype, metaphor, or symbol found in LaVeyan Satanism.
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, planter, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.
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Tiburon Peninsula
The Tiburon Peninsula (Péninsule de Tiburon), or The Xaragua Peninsula, simply "the Tiburon" (le Tiburon), is a region of Haiti encompassing most of Haiti's southern coast.
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Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom
The abolition of slavery occurred at different times in different countries.
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Tirésias Simon Sam
Paul Tirésias Augustin Simon Sam (May 15, 1835 – May 11, 1916) was the President of Haiti from 31 March 1896 to 12 May 1902.
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Tobacco
Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the genus Nicotiana of the family Solanaceae, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of these plants.
Tonton Macoute
The Tonton Macoute (Tonton Makout) or simply the Macoute, was a Haitian paramilitary and secret police force created in 1959 by dictator François "Papa Doc" Duvalier.
Tortuga (Haiti)
Tortuga Island (Île de la Tortue,; Latòti; Isla Tortuga,, Turtle Island) is a Caribbean island that forms part of Haiti, off the northwest coast of Hispaniola. Haiti and Tortuga (Haiti) are island countries.
Toussaint Louverture
François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture also known as Toussaint L'Ouverture or Toussaint Bréda (20 May 1743 – 7 April 1803), was a Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution.
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Toussaint Louverture International Airport
Toussaint Louverture International Airport (Ayewopò Entènasyonal Tousen Louvèti, Aéroport International Toussaint Louverture) is an international airport in Tabarre, a commune of Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
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Transitional Presidential Council
The Transitional Presidential Council (TPC) is a temporary body constituted on 12 April 2024 and sworn in on 25 April to exercise the powers and duties of the President of Haiti either until an elected president is inaugurated or until 7 February 2026, whichever comes first.
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Tropical Storm Fay (2008)
Tropical Storm Fay was an unusual tropical storm that moved erratically across the state of Florida and the Caribbean Sea.
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Trou Caïman
Trou Caïman (literally "Caiman's Hole" in French), sometimes called Eau Gallée by locals, is a saltwater lake in Haiti known for its excellent birdwatching opportunities.
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria.
Turks and Caicos Islands
The Turks and Caicos Islands (abbreviated TCI; and) are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands, two groups of tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean and northern West Indies.
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Twoubadou
Twoubadou (Troubadour) music is a popular genre of guitar-based music from Haiti that has a long and important place in Haitian culture.
Typhoid fever
Typhoid fever, also known simply as typhoid, is a disease caused by Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi bacteria, also called Salmonella typhi.
Unitary state
A unitary state is a sovereign state governed as a single entity in which the central government is the supreme authority.
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development.
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United Nations Environment Programme
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system.
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United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC; French: Office des Nations unies contre la drogue et le crime) is a United Nations office that was established in 1997 as the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention by combining the United Nations International Drug Control Program (UNDCP) and the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Division in the United Nations Office at Vienna, adopting the current name in 2002.
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United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti
The United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (Mission des Nations Unies pour la stabilisation en Haïti), also known as MINUSTAH, an acronym of its French name, was a UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti from 2004 to 2017.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. Haiti and United States are countries in North America and member states of the United Nations.
United States Agency for International Development
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the United States government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance.
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United States men's national soccer team
The United States men's national soccer team (USMNT) represents the United States in men's international soccer competitions.
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United States Military Academy
The United States Military Academy (USMA), also referred to metonymically as West Point or simply as Army, is a United States service academy in West Point, New York.
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United States occupation of Haiti
The United States occupation of Haiti began on July 28, 1915, when 330 U.S. Marines landed at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after the National City Bank of New York convinced the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, to take control of Haiti's political and financial interests.
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Unity makes strength
"Unity makes strength"(Săedinenieto pravi silata; Eendracht maakt macht,; L'union fait la force) is a motto that has been used by various states and entities throughout history.
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Unreported World
Unreported World is a British foreign affairs program made by ITN Productions and broadcast by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, first broadcast on 8 September 2000.
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USA Today
USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.
USS Constitution
USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy.
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Vaccine
A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious or malignant disease.
Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. Haiti and Venezuela are former Spanish colonies and member states of the United Nations.
Viceroyalty of New Granada
The Viceroyalty of the New Kingdom of Granada (Virreinato del Nuevo Reino de Granada), also called Viceroyalty of New Granada or Viceroyalty of Santafé, was the name given on 27 May 1717 to the jurisdiction of the Spanish Empire in northern South America, corresponding to modern Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela. Haiti and Viceroyalty of New Granada are former Spanish colonies.
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Vilbrun Guillaume Sam
Jean Vilbrun Guillaume Sam (4 March 1859 – 28 July 1915) was President of Haiti from 4 March 1915 until his assassination months later.
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Vincent Ogé
Vincent Ogé (– 6 February 1791) was a Creole revolutionary, merchant, military officer and goldsmith who had a leading role in a failed uprising against French colonial rule in the colony of Saint-Domingue in 1790.
W. E. B. Du Bois
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.
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War of Knives
The War of Knives (Guerre des couteaux), also known as the War of the South, was a civil war from June 1799 to July 1800 between the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, a black ex-slave who controlled the north of Saint-Domingue (modern-day Haiti), and his adversary André Rigaud, a mixed-race free person of color who controlled the south.
Warehouse
A warehouse is a building for storing goods.
Water supply
Water supply is the provision of water by public utilities, commercial organisations, community endeavors or by individuals, usually via a system of pumps and pipes.
Waterborne disease
Waterborne diseases are conditions (meaning adverse effects on human health, such as death, disability, illness or disorders) caused by pathogenic micro-organisms that are transmitted by water.
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Watercress
Watercress or yellowcress (Nasturtium officinale) is a species of aquatic flowering plant in the cabbage family, Brassicaceae.
White Haitians
White Haitians (Blancs haïtiens,; Haitian Creole: blan ayisyen), are Haitians of predominant or full European.
William Banks Caperton
William Banks Caperton (June 30, 1855 – December 12, 1941) was an admiral of the United States Navy.
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Wood
Wood is a structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
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Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856February 3, 1924) was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921.
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects.
World Food Programme
The World Food Programme (WFP) is an international organization within the United Nations that provides food assistance worldwide.
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World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.
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World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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World Trade Organization
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland that regulates and facilitates international trade.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Xlibris
Xlibris is a self-publishing and on-demand printing services provider, founded in 1997 and based in Bloomington, Indiana, United States.
Yahoo! News
Yahoo! News is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo!.
Yellow fever
Yellow fever is a viral disease of typically short duration.
Zombie
A zombie (Haitian French: zombi, zonbi, Kikongo: zumbi) is a mythological undead corporeal revenant created through the reanimation of a corpse.
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.ht
.ht is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Haiti.
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1692 Jamaica earthquake
The 1692 Jamaica earthquake struck Port Royal, Jamaica, on 7 June.
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1804 Haitian massacre
The 1804 Haiti massacre, sometimes referred to as the Haitian genocide, was carried out by Afro-Haitian soldiers, mostly former slaves, under orders from Jean-Jacques Dessalines against much of the remaining European population in Haiti, which mainly included French people.
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1950 FIFA World Cup
The 1950 FIFA World Cup was the fourth edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for senior men's national teams.
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1957 Haitian general election
General elections were held in Haiti on 22 September 1957.
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1974 FIFA World Cup
The 1974 FIFA World Cup was the tenth FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in West Germany (and West Berlin) between 13 June and 7 July.
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1987 Haitian general election
General elections were held in Haiti on 29 November 1987, with a second round planned for 29 December.
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1988 Haitian general election
General elections were held in Haiti on 17 January 1988, after the 1987 general election had been cancelled due to an election day massacre of voters either orchestrated or condoned by the Haitian military.
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1990–91 Haitian general election
General elections were held in Haiti between 16 December 1990 and 20 January 1991.
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1991 Haitian coup d'état
The 1991 Haitian coup d'état took place on 29 September 1991, when President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, elected eight months earlier in the 1990–91 Haitian general election, was deposed by the Armed Forces of Haiti.
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1995 Haitian general election
General elections were held in Haiti in 1995.
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1st millennium BC
The 1st millennium BC, also known as the last millennium BC, was the period of time lasting from the years 1000 BC to 1 BC (10th to 1st centuries BC; in astronomy: JD –). It encompasses the Iron Age in the Old World and sees the transition from the Ancient Near East to classical antiquity.
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2000 Haitian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Haiti on May 21 and July 9, 2000, electing all 82 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and nineteen seats in the Senate.
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2000 Haitian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Haiti on 26 November 2000.
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2004 Haitian coup d'état
A coup d'état in Haiti on 29 February 2004, following several weeks of conflict, resulted in the removal of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from office.
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2006 Haitian general election
General elections were held in Haiti on 7 February 2006 to elect the replacements for the interim government of Gérard Latortue, which had been put in place after the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
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2007 Caribbean Cup
The 2007 Caribbean Cup (known as the Digicel Caribbean Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the fourteenth edition of the biennial Caribbean Cup, the finals of which were contested in Trinidad and Tobago between 12 January and 23 January 2007.
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2010 Haiti earthquake
The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake that struck Haiti at 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010.
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2010–11 Haitian general election
General elections were held in Haiti on 28 November 2010, having originally been scheduled for 28 February.
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2010s Haiti cholera outbreak
The 2010s Haiti cholera outbreak was the first modern large-scale outbreak of cholera—a disease once considered beaten back largely due to the invention of modern sanitation.
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2021 Haiti earthquake
At 08:29:09 EDT on 14 August 2021, a magnitudenbsp7.2 earthquake struck the Tiburon Peninsula in the Caribbean nation of Haiti.
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2022 Haitian fuel protests
The socioeconomic and political crisis in Haiti has been marked by rising energy prices due to the 2022 global energy crisis, as well as protests, and civil unrest against the government of Haiti, armed gang violence, an outbreak of cholera, shortages of fuel and clean drinking water, as well as widespread acute hunger.
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See also
1492 establishments in the Spanish West Indies
- Columbian Viceroyalty
- Cruz de la Parra
- Dominican Republic
- Haiti
- List of colonial governors of Santo Domingo
- Spanish West Indies
1625 establishments in New France
- Haiti
- Saint-Domingue
17th-century disestablishments in the Spanish West Indies
- Haiti
1804 disestablishments in the French colonial empire
- Haiti
- Saint-Domingue
1804 establishments in North America
- Báez
- Haiti
Countries in North America
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Barbados
- Belize
- Canada
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- El Salvador
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- List of North American countries by GDP (PPP)
- List of North American countries by GDP (PPP) per capita
- List of North American countries by GDP (nominal)
- List of North American countries by GDP (nominal) per capita
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- The Bahamas
- Trinidad and Tobago
- United States
Countries in the Caribbean
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Barbados
- Cuba
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Grenada
- Haiti
- Jamaica
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- The Bahamas
- Trinidad and Tobago
French Caribbean
- Collectivity of Saint Martin
- Dominica
- French Guiana
- French West Indies
- Guadeloupe
- Haiti
- List of governors general of the French Antilles
- Martinique
- Négritude
- Parc naturel régional de la Martinique
- Saint Barthélemy
- Saint Lucia
Greater Antilles
- Anglo-French War (1778–1783)
- Antillean Confederation
- Antilles
- Cayman Islands
- Cuba
- Dominican Republic
- Effects of Hurricane Sandy in the Greater Antilles
- Eleutherodactylus portoricensis
- Erechthis
- Erechthis levyi
- Greater Antilles
- Haiti
- Hispaniola
- Islands of Cuba
- Islands of Haiti
- Islands of Jamaica
- Islands of Puerto Rico
- Islands of the Cayman Islands
- Islands of the Dominican Republic
- Jamaica
- List of Indigenous names of Caribbean islands
- Navassa Island
- Pre-Arawakan languages of the Greater Antilles
- Puerto Rico
Least developed countries
- Afghanistan
- Angola
- Bangladesh
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- East Timor
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Haiti
- Laos
- Least developed countries
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Niger
- Rwanda
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- The Gambia
- Togo
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Yemen
- Zambia
Member states of the Caribbean Community
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Barbados
- Belize
- Dominica
- Grenada
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Jamaica
- Member states of the Caribbean Community
- Montserrat
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Suriname
- The Bahamas
States and territories established in 1804
- Alta California
- Austrian Empire
- Baja California Territory
- District of Louisiana
- First Empire of Haiti
- First French Empire
- Gangpur State
- Haiti
- Jhansi State
- Pataudi State
- Revolutionary Serbia
- Sokoto Caliphate
- Territory of Orleans
- Tomsk Governorate
References
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