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St and Helena
Includes Galápagos Islands, Hawaii, and Australia subcontinent, ( plus St. Helena Island, etc.
* St. Helena
After his final defeat, Napoleon was treated as a general by the British authorities during his second exile to Atlantic Isle of St. Helena.
His title was a matter of dispute with the governor of St Helena, who insisted on addressing him as " General Bonaparte ", despite the " historical reality that he had been an emperor " and therefore retained the title.
It has also been suggested that the island may not have been discovered until 30 July 1503 by a squadron under the command of Estêvão da Gama and that da Nova actually discovered Tristan da Cunha on the feast day of St Helena.
St Helena was much less frequently visited by Asia-bound ships, the northern trade winds taking ships towards the South American continent rather than the island.
Also, Lopo Homem-Reineis published the " Atlas Universal " about 1519 which clearly showed the locations of St Helena and Ascension.
Nevertheless, St Helena certainly once had a rich and dense inland forest.
Bermudez, the Patriarch of Abyssinia landed at St Helena in 1557 on a voyage to Portugal, remaining on the island for a year.
Three Japanese ambassadors on an embassy to the Pope also visited St Helena in 1583.
Once St Helena ’ s location was more widely known, English ships of war began to lie in wait in the area to attack Portuguese India carracks on their way home.
As a result, in 1592 Philip II of Spain and I of Portugal ( 1527 – 1598 ) ordered the annual fleet returning from Goa on no account to touch at St Helena.
The Dutch Republic formally made claim to St Helena in 1633, although there is no evidence that they ever occupied, colonised or fortified it.
' A View of the Town and Island of St Helena in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to the English East India Company ', engraving c. 1790
By 1649, the East India Company ordered all homeward-bound vessels to wait for one another at St Helena and in 1656 onward the Company petitioned the government to send a man-of-war to convoy the fleet home from there.
Having been granted a charter to govern the island by the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth Oliver Cromwell in 1657, the following year the Company decided to fortify and colonise St Helena with planters.
A fleet commanded by Captain John Dutton ( first governor, 1659 – 1661 ) in the Marmaduke arrived at St Helena in 1659.
It is from this date that St Helena claims to be Britain ’ s second oldest colony ( after Bermuda ).
The East India Company immediately sought a Royal Charter, possibly to give their occupation of St Helena legitimacy.
Finding that the cape was not the ideal harbour they originally envisaged, the Dutch East India Company launched an armed invasion of St Helena from the Cape colony over Christmas 1672.
This he used to locate an East India Company flotilla sent to reinforce St Helena with fresh troops.
Acknowledging that St Helena was a place where there was no trade, the Company was permitted to send from England any provisions free of Customs and to convey as many settlers as required.
Against the background of this erosion, several years of drought and the general dependency of St Helena, in 1715 governor Isaac Pyke ( 1714 – 1719 ) made the serious suggestion to the Company that appreciable savings could be made by moving the population to Mauritius, evacuated by the French in 1710.
William Dampier called into St Helena in 1691 at the end of his first of three circumnavigations of the world and stated Jamestown comprised 20 – 30 small houses built with rough stones furnished with mean furniture.
St Helena was then transferred to this new United East India Company.

St and coffee
Following praise of St Helena ’ s coffee given by Napoleon during his exile on the island, the product enjoyed a brief popularity in Paris during the years after his death.
In 1839, London coffee merchants Wm Burnie & Co described St Helena coffee as being of “ very superior quality and flavour ”.
The same year, St Helena coffee was sold in London at 1d per pound, making it the most expensive and exclusive in the world.
Probably the most famous gangland drive-by-shooting happened with George " Bugs " Moran attacked Al Capone in a coffee shop, several months before the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929.
In Russia and the CIS countries, ponchiki (, plural form of пончик, ponchik ) or pyshki (, especially in St. Petersburg ) are a very popular sweet doughnut, with many fast and simple recipes available in Russian cookbooks for making them at home as a breakfast or coffee pastry.
Around the same time, his father, who had opened an unsuccessful Latin-speaking coffee house at St John's Gate, was imprisoned for debt in Fleet Prison for five years.
Thriving businesses including a coffee shop, clothing store and a pottery studio in downtown Delaware, Ohio at the intersection of South Sandusky St and West William St.
St Ives is a lively hub of shops, bars and coffee lounges, and even boasts a department store and all other amenities.
The shop window sequence was filmed at St Ann's Square, Manchester, at Hector Powes tailors shop which is now a Starbucks coffee shop.
The pedestrianised St Mary's Street contains antique shops, gift shops, an independent book shop, coffee shops and restaurants.
The St Kilda Coffee Palace, built in the 1870s was once the St Kilda's main coffee palace.
The proprietor was Pasqua Rosée, the servant of a trader in Turkish goods named Daniel Edwards, who imported the coffee and assisted Rosée in setting up the establishment in St Michael's Alley, Cornhill.
Through the Peru Initiative, students have a chance to travel to a third world country and visit Cafe Feminino, a fair trade organic coffee company owned by women who St. Jerome's supports by selling their coffee in the cafeteria.
Al-Khobar is a vibrant city with multiple lifestyle centers and shopping malls, The city also is famed for the Corniche ( Prince Turki St .) which is lined with several international and local chain of restaurants, coffee bars and boutiques of all kinds.
Also on Quincy St is the Quincy House, a long-time residence of Catholic graduate students who regularly host coffee houses and other community events.
The fishing harbour of St Apostolos is a hub of activity especially in the morning, whilst the fishing boats unload their catch, the day cruisers ( direct to Lindos, Rhodes Town & beaches ) depart and locals congregate for their coffee.
Billboards advertising city events, a coffee shop, a small retail area and vast brick wall do not engage the robust and animated nature of Queen St. On a similar note, the solid, intimidating Eastern facing facade is a completely different atmosphere than the inviting, transparent Western facade.
In the Lucia procession in the home depicted by Carl Larsson in 1908, the oldest daughter brings coffee and St. Lucia buns to her parents while wearing a candle-wreath and singing a Lucia song.
It is important for pupils on their way to a coffee shop to pass a seller of the Big Issue and find out why he's selling it ; the pupils need to visit local primary schools in some of the poorest parts of southern England ; they want to help the local community with a variety of projects such as street cleaning, singing to elderly residents and helping out at, for example, St Dunstan's-a charity that provides support and rehabilitation for blind ex-service men and women.
St. Joseph, now so called after the British took ownership of the island, was busy with activity with up to thirteen sugar mills, seven coffee mills, four cotton mills and two rum distilleries during the 16th century.

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