41. Arts And Culture In United States Virgin Islands Home Arts and culture. Arts and culture in United States virgin islands.Arts and culture. virgin islands Photo Gallery. Art Galleries. http://195.224.187.36/usvi/dir/arts/

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43. Bits Of Culture - U.S. Virgin Islands Language Map. Bits of culture. PointTo-Talk Booklets. Additional Resources.BITS OF culture - US virgin islands. Languages. Geography. Cultural Values. http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/interpreters/b_usvi.asp

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44. Bits Of Culture - British Virgin Islands Language Map. Bits of culture. PointTo-Talk Booklets. Additional Resources.BITS OF culture - British virgin islands. Languages. Geography. Cultural Values. http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/interpreters/b_bvi.asp

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45. Culture virgin islands' culture. The public school system provides grades K12for the children. A commissioner of education and two district http://www.henry.k12.ga.us/pges/kid-pages/islands/virgin/culture.html

VIRGIN ISLANDS' CULTURE The public school system provides grades K-12 for the children. A commissioner of education and two district board of education, which consist of 5 members each, supervise the system, which includes more than 30 schools that contain about 2,000 students. Children are required to attend school between the ages of 4 and a half and 16. The only college in the Virgin Islands is the University of the Virgin Islands. This university is located in St. Thomas, but there is a 2-year branch campus on the island of St. Croix. The religion of the Virgin Islands is, of course, the same as the U.S. The religion of the British Virgin Islands is the same religion as Europe. To narrow it down, the religions of the Virgin Islands are Christian, Presbyterian, Methodist, etc. For entertainment in the Virgin Islands, people fish, do water sports, dance, and sing. Climate Government History Economy ... Home

46. IWon - Travel Guide - History & Culture iWon Travel. 5 iWon 6 Travel 3 Caribbean 3 British virgin islands History culture, Powered by. HISTORY and culture History culture. History. http://www.iwon.com/travel/travelguide/history/0,20310,Caribbean-560,00.html

iWon Travel Caribbean British Virgin Islands Powered by HISTORY and CULTURE History Culture History The Spanish didn't think much of the islands, settling only to mine copper on Virgin Gorda in the early 1600s. The Europeans were harassed by Caribs and by pirates who attacked galleons carrying riches back to Spain. An assortment of colorful characters sailed through the surrounding waters, including pirates Henry Morgan, Sir John Hawkins and Blackbeard, and English sea dog Sir Francis Drake. As Spain declined as a colonial power, ownership of the islands shifted about until the Dutch established a permanent settlement on Tortola in 1648. The English ousted the Dutch from Tortola in 1672, and from Anegada and Virgin Gorda in 1680. The new rulers introduced the two quintessential features of the colonial era in the Caribbean: sugar cane and slaves. At first, most of Tortola's 'planters' were more interested in piracy and smuggling than agriculture, but by the 1700s they were displaced by a new wave of experienced planters and a settlement of hard working Quakers. Between the mid-18th and early 19th centuries, the islands prospered, producing sugar, cotton, rum, indigo and spices. Slave unrest and ideological doubt brought an end to slave auctions in 1803. By the 1830s, slaves had been emancipated. Abolition and the introduction of sugar beet in Europe and the USA were disastrous for the islands: capital and settlers departed for more buoyant economies, and for the next 100 years the islands' economy stagnated.

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iWon Travel Caribbean US Virgin Islands Powered by HISTORY and CULTURE History Culture History The earliest settlements in the Virgin Islands date back to about 1500BC though there's evidence of human habitation going back another thousand years. Three known groups of Indians predated European arrival: the Ciboneys, the Arawaks and the Caribs. The latter had only secured the islands a few decades before Columbus arrived in 1493 and disrupted them. The sugar industry was entirely dependant on slavery and the largest slave auctions in the world took place in Charlotte Amalie on St Thomas. In 1797, 25,500 slaves worked on the islands out of a total population of 30,000. After emancipation in 1848, higher labor costs combined with drought, hurricane and an increase in beet sugar supplies from US and European growers to bring about the decline of the Danish West Indies. The US first recognized the strategic importance of the islands' fortresses and deep-water harbors during the American Civil War, but the senate failed to approve a US$7.5 million purchase of St Thomas and St John from Denmark. At the outbreak of WWI, when the islands became critical to US control of the Caribbean basin and the Panama Canal, the purchase was finally consummated for US$25 million in gold, the highest price the US had ever paid for land. The US Virgin Islands remained under the jurisdiction of the US Navy for the next 14 years, when the US Department of the Interior assumed responsibility for them. Home rule was granted in 1970 and today the islands are an unincorporated territory under the US flag. In the 1950s and 1960s, the popularization of air travel and the US embargo against Cuba brought an influx of tourists to the islands, significantly altering the basis of their economy. Tourism remains the most dominant feature of the islands, and development of infrastructure continues. Despite their prominence in Caribbean tourist brochures, the islands only seem to come to international attention when a hurricane wreaks havoc, as it did in 1995.

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Sicilian Culture sicilianculture.com Please support this site by shopping at Virgin Islands Roman Catholic Churches St. Patrick's 1999-2002 (MCMXCIX) Cristaldi Communications February 25, 2002

49. Atlas: U.S. Virgin Islands Daily Almanac Iraq Primer º World United States History Gov't Biography SportsArts Ent. Business Society culture Health Science. US virgin islands. http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/country/usvirginislands.html

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50. Virgin Island Sailing, BVI Yacht Charter, Virgin Island Yacht Charter, BVI Vacat Today the culture of the virgin islands is uniquely its own, withhints of American, British and West African. As you meet locals http://www.inthewild.org/virginislandspage.htm

Home Our Vacations About Us Destinations ... Info Request speak to a yacht charter broker Why are the US and British Virgin Islands (USVI and BVI) the perfect place for a Caribbean yacht charter? Browse our trips! Wind Water People Wild ... Honeymoons Both on and off the boat, your Virgin Island yacht charter experience will be unforgettable! Reasons why the Virgin Islands is among the world's best sailing areas Perfect sailing trade winds and protected anchorages Natural beauty on the islands and below the water A vibrant modern culture with a unique Caribbean history Privacy or partying, you decide! Easy to fly to and safe to visit. Virgin Island Map, Info and Links Here is a Sample Virgin Islands Sailing Itinerary to spark your imagination. Enjoy the many activities a USVI and BVI Yacht Charter has to offer. Sailing Conditions Through a unique combination of geology and geography, the US and British Virgin Islands boast some of the best sailing grounds in the world with steady trade winds, averaging 10-15 mph from the northeast, with insignificant currents and tidal range. There are almost 100 islands and cays (pronounced keys) in the Virgin Islands (

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Home Our Vacations About Us Destinations ... Info Request speak to a yacht charter broker Culturally enriching sailing vacations! Browse our trips! Wind Water People Wild ... Honeymoons Click on each trip to learn more! Sail through Virgin Island History History abounds in the Virgin Islands. Ancient Indian tribes, legendary pirates, European colonists, and African slaves all have left their mark for you to discover. Sail from one historical site to another with the knowledgeable crew on Cantamar. Trips start at $1317/person/week Introduction to West Indian Cooking Offered by Master Chef and Native Trinidadian, Rona Ramkhelawan, this unique course is designed to introduce guests to West Indian spices, basic curry sauces and coconut milk cooking while sailing the Virgin Islands. Trips start at $1100/person/week Party Obsessively aboard Obsession If your dream is to party aboard a luxury power yacht with class and to soak up the Caribbean lifstyle, than get ready to get obsessed! There's no stopping you now

52. Culture '97 - Virgin Islands Environment Not... A Collaborative Project of the University of the virgin islands Librariesand the virgin islands Division of Libraries, Archives, and Museums. http://webpac.uvi.edu/imls/np_uvi/odavis1997/culture/matter.shtml

Digitization for Access and Preservation A Collaborative Project of the University of the Virgin Islands Libraries and the Virgin Islands Division of Libraries, Archives, and Museums (Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services About this Project Project Home UVI Libraries ... Help Us Grow! Go to Year... About this Project Project Home UVI Libraries Credits ... Help Us Grow! Go to Year... St. Croix Campus Library RR 02, Box 10,000 Kingshill St. Croix, VI 00850 Ralph M. Paiewonsky Library #2 John Brewer's Bay St. Thomas, VI 00802-9990

53. TDS; Passports, Visas, Travel Documents - British Virgin Islands British virgin islands. The World Travel Guide presents a bit aboutthe Social/Cultural scene on the islands. To Country Main Page http://www.traveldocs.com/vg/culture.htm

British Virgin Islands The World Travel Guide presents a bit about the Social/Cultural scene on the islands. To Country Main Page To TDS Home Page Travel Document Systems Washington DC Office 925 Fifteenth Street N.W. Suite 300 Washington, D.C. 20005 Voice: 1-800-874-5100 Local: 202-638-3800 Fax: 202-638-4674 support@traveldocs.com San Francisco Office One Embarcadero Center Suite 500 San Francisco CA 94111 Voice: 1-888-874-5100 Local: 415-773-2829 Fax: 415-773-2834 sfo@traveldocs.com

54. TDS; Passports, Visas, Travel Documents - U.S. Virgin Islands US virgin islands. The Lonely Planet has information about the Cultural scene onthe islands. To Country Main Page To TDS Home Page Travel Document Systems http://www.traveldocs.com/vi/culture.htm

U.S. Virgin Islands The Lonely Planet has information about the Cultural scene on the islands. To Country Main Page To TDS Home Page Travel Document Systems Washington DC Office 925 Fifteenth Street N.W. Suite 300 Washington, D.C. 20005 Voice: 1-800-874-5100 Local: 202-638-3800 Fax: 202-638-4674 support@traveldocs.com San Francisco Office One Embarcadero Center Suite 500 San Francisco CA 94111 Voice: 1-888-874-5100 Local: 415-773-2829 Fax: 415-773-2834 sfo@traveldocs.com

55. Virgin Islands Humanities Council (VIHC) that an understanding of human history, thought and culture begins with a knowledgeof one’s own history and culture, the virgin islands Humanities Council http://www.vihumanities.org/publications.htm

Virgin Islands Humanities Council Publications Program Based on the belief that an understanding of human history, thought and culture begins with a knowledge of one’s own history and culture, the Virgin Islands Humanities Council has established a publications program that makes available source materials central to an understanding of Virgin Islands history and cultural heritage. Volumes published to date chronicle the history and cultural evolution of the islands, formerly known as the Danish West Indies. Beginning with a transcription of eyewitness accounts of the encounter of the Island Carib inhabitants of St Croix with the Colombian fleet in 1493, many of the publications focus on the Danish colonial period. Translations of historical works and current scholarship aim to broaden understanding of the institution of slavery with an emphasis on the lives and cultural adaptations of the enslaved and freed Africans. St. Croix 1493: An Encounter of Two Worlds

56. Virgin Islands Humanities Council (VIHC) Cruzan Festival has made and continues to make to that island’s heritage, culture,economics, and social life, the virgin islands Humanities Council, the http://www.vihumanities.org/press.htm

July 31, 2002 Press Release #02-009 Carnival RFP Extended to the St. Croix Festival July 31, 2002 Press Release #02-008 Two Community Groups Receive Grant Awards July 31, 2002 Press Release #02-007 Humanities Website Launched July 30, 2002 Press Release #02-006 Council Seeks Board Nominees June 5, 2002 Press Release #02-005 Humanities Council Seeks Proposals on St. Thomas Carnival July 31, 2002 Carnival RFP extended to St. Croix Festival In observance of this year’s 50 th anniversary of the Festival tradition on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, and in acknowledgement of the unique contributions Cruzan Festival has made and continues to make to that island’s heritage, culture, economics, and social life, the Virgin Islands Humanities Council, the local affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is issuing a community request, especially to the St. Croix community, to submit proposals on projects that will bring to life the ongoing history, personalities, traditions, activities, dances, rituals, masquerading, music, and overall cultural impact of the St. Croix Festival tradition. It is the Council’s hope that the same excitement and creative spirit that is inspiring the preparations now underway for the 50th anniversary observance will inspire a variety of projects and perspectives on the Festival, which together will enable “de Crucians dem” to capture and document forever the emotional imprint 50 years of Festival has left on the community’s collective heart and soul.

57. Bienal - Official Artists - Virgin Islands - Roy Lawaetz Thomas, virgin islands; BedfordStuyvesant Center/Arts and culture, NewYork, USA; First Annual Earth Day Art Exhibit, Government House, St. http://www.uol.com.br/23bienal/paises/ipvi.htm

Fax of Life 1996. Acrylic on canvas, wood and fax machine, 125X195X10 cm. Photo: ole Friis Aquarium 1996. Acrylic on canvas, wood, aquarium and fish, 125X195X35 cm. Photo: Ole Friis Roy Lawaetz by Marianne de Tolentino Those who see Caribbean art as something more complex than the traditional and naive approach observe in its artworks the three sources that have strong influence in it: the pre-Colombian Indian, African and European heritage, the latter in consequence of colonization and foreign prevailing cultures. Besides all these aspects, the traces of Eastern minority groups can be found although presenting differences according to the islands where the artwork was originated. We also find in the recent output strong influences from the United States. It is a fact accepted by all that the African origin is a common denominator in Caribbean art, where traces of slavery and African culture can be found. Besides the political aspect of European influence, this pole is also extremely important in modern fine arts as a model to be followed, although exerting its influence with a delay of about 50 years... However, there has been a renewed focus on native approaches - especially Arawak and Taino - with emphasis on the intellectual level. We are referring to a past which has disappeared; it was nearly completely destroyed in the first 50 years of colonization. An extensive research of their artistic traces is being carried out so as to integrate them in the art being currently produced. This movement has at its basis an ideological process, the search for the retrieval of a persecuted and extinct culture. Besides, these people had attained a significant level in visuality, which is maintained to a certain extent in objects and hieroglyphs, in stones whose essential forms are in complete harmony with Western contemporaneity. This is why we can find in the Caribbean Islands an increasing concern to extend the anonymous Taino patterns and geometry to modern art, which exhibit the artist's personality and his signature.

58. Latin American And Caribbean Information Center US virgin islands History and culture Digital Library, May 2002 A recent agreementbetween the libraries at the University of the virgin islands, Florida http://lacic.fiu.edu/new/lacic_article.cfm?article_id=198

59. Lonely Planet's Guide To British Virgin Islands From Lonely Planet. Lonely Planet guide to British virgin islandsand the world. Order Now. British virgin islands. culture. No trace http://cssvc.travel.compuserve.com/travel/lonely_planet/mexico_and_caribbean/bri

From Lonely Planet Lonely Planet guide to British Virgin Islands and the world Order Now British Virgin Islands Culture No trace remains of the islands' original Indian population; today's inhabitants are mostly descended from slaves or slave owners. The hybrid Caribbean culture is evident in the food, in the music and in the handmade sloops that many locals use for fishing. Islanders reflect a mixture of British and West Indian influences when playing their dashing style of cricket and when they wash down a plate of conch fritters with a pint of ale. Virgin Islanders are suckers for a beat. Fungi bands play scratch instruments such as gourds and washboards and sing songs that often comment on local social and political issues. Calypso, known originally as kaiso, was brought here by African slaves and used as a form of communication and rebellion. It's still an integral part of the islands' Carnival, which began as a celebration of slave emancipation. A lot of islanders of African descent retain a strong belief in the spirit world: ghosts (jumbis) often get blamed for bad things and credited for good things on the islands. Jumbi stories were an important part of slave culture, used not only as spine-tingling entertainment on moonlit nights, but also as cautionary tales for children. The inspirational antics of Bru Nansi, a wily spidery man who prevailed in adverse circumstances, were an integral part of West African slave culture. Storytelling traditions persist today, though often in more structured settings such as community halls and festival gatherings.

60. A Bookstore About The Virgin Islands And Caribbean - Nature, Fishs, Birds, Reefs HISTORY / culture virgin islands Books, Conquest of Eden, 14931515; OtherVoyages of Columbus, Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, virgin islands http://www.paradiseconnections.com/bookstore-history.html

HISTORY / CULTURE Conquest of Eden, 1493-1515; Other Voyages of Columbus, Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Virgin Islands by Michael Paiewonsky Customer's comments: This book is a gem. The sad results of the encounter of the Spanish with the indiginous population of the Caribbean Islands is presented objectively and the few accounts of the Tiano Peoples' own words are effectively used to hint at who these early victims of European expansion really were. The use of modern photos and historic illustrations opens up the real lost world where these events unfolded and every illustration adds to and interacts with the text. The result is both a good read and a rigerous scholarly introduction to the foundations of the American experiance. This is the first work of its kind that interperts the historic documents as understood by an island inhabitant who understands details the first explorer encountered from personal experience. PARADISE CONNECTIONS 41 Water Isle St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands 00802-7802 Phone/ Fax: 340-774-1111 Toll Free: 1-877-567-9350 Phone between 9am-9pm Atlantic Standard Time (GMT-4) E-mail: Charters@ParadiseConnections.com

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