Most of the kinds commonly eaten fresh or dried, those of the genus Phaseolus, come originally from the Americas, being first seen by a European when Christopher Columbus, during his exploration, of what may have been the Bahamas, found them growing in fields.

With no gold to be found, and the population removed, the Spanish effectively abandoned the Bahamas, but still retained titular claims to them until the Treaty of Paris in 1783.

The Bahamian government re-introduced a tax on salt from the Turks, annexed them to the Bahamas, and created a seat in the Bahamian parliament to represent them.

The Spanish reported that the Tainos also grew sweet potatoes, cocoyams, arrowroot, leren, yampee, peanuts, beans and cucurbits, and the Lucayans probably took most, if not all, of those crops with them to the Bahamas.

Nemo is devoted to his crew and grieves deeply when one of them happens to be killed, as is portrayed in the aftermath of the giant-squid attack in the Bahamas and the mysterious midnight encounter with a surface ship.

Hammocks were introduced to Europe by Christopher Columbus when he brought several of them back to Spain from islands in the present day Bahamas.

It is associated with rocky or coral reefs but is not dependent on them ; it is found in the Western Atlantic Ocean, from Massachusetts, USA, in the north to southern Brazil, but is particularly associated with the southern Gulf of Mexico, the Florida Keys, the Bahamas and the Caribbean.

William Paterson was born in his parents ' farmhouse in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, and lived with them until he was seventeen, when he emigrated first ( briefly ) to Bristol and then to the Bahamas.

The Bahamian government re-introduced a tax on salt from the Turks, annexed them to the Bahamas, and created a seat in the Bahamian parliament to represent them.

Chris Blackwell made them the core of the Compass Point All Stars, the Nassau ( Bahamas ) recording band based at Compass Point Studios that was to produce classic records for Grace Jones, Joe Cocker and Gwen Guthrie among many others.

This was probably the reason why the Duke was appointed to the Bahamas post: to keep them as far away as possible from the war and to prevent Mrs. Simpson from having any contact with Ribbentrop as well as to make it easier for the FBI and the British to keep them under surveillance.

One creative solution was uncovering Peter Parks, a specialist in macro photography, who had retrieved deep-sea microorganisms and photographed them in 3-D under partial funding from the Bahamas government.

The Bahamas has a few notable industrial firms: the Freeport pharmaceutical firm, PFC Bahamas ( formerly Syntex ), which recently streamlined its production and was purchased by the Swiss pharmaceutical firm Roche ; the BORCO oil facility, also in Freeport, which transships oil in the region ; the Commonwealth Brewery in Nassau, which produces Heineken, Guinness, and Kalik beers ; and Bacardi Corp., which distills rum in Nassau for shipment to the U. S. and European markets.

It provides investment products and services and attracts the majority of the corporate business deals in The Bahamas, most recently acting as financial advisor and placement agent for the largest Initial Public Offering ( IPO ) ever in The Bahamas with the IPO of Commonwealth Brewery, a Heineken subsidiary.

Bahamian tastes in consumer products roughly parallel those in the U. S. With approximately 85 % of the population of primarily African descent, there is a large and growing market in the Bahamas for " ethnic " personal care products.

Finally, if the Triangle is assumed to cross land, such as parts of Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, or Bermuda itself, there is no evidence for the disappearance of any land-based vehicles or persons.

However, due to concerns over the previous Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista the company had started foreign branches a few years prior to the revolution ; the Company moved the ownership of the Company's trademarks, assets and proprietary formulas out of the country to the Bahamas prior to the revolution as well as constructing plants in Puerto Rico and Mexico after the prohibition era to save in import taxes for rum being imported to the US.

* Currency for Caribbean area — CARICOM states except the Bahamas.

The opportunity cost of a vacation in the Bahamas might be the down payment for a house.

From 1965, the governor of the Bahamas was also governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands and oversaw affairs for the islands.

By that time the Spanish had been using first Indians ( the Lucayans from the Bahamas were particularly prized for the task ) and then Africans to dive for pearls around the islands near present-day Venezuela.

Suggested routes for the earliest migrations have been from Hispaniola to the Caicos Islands, from Hispaniola or eastern Cuba to Great Inagua Island, and from central Cuba to Long Island ( in the central Bahamas ).

In 1648 a group from Bermuda called ' The Company of Adventurers for the Plantation of the Islands of Eleutheria ' which was led by William Sayle, sailed to the Bahamas to found a colony.

In 1670 the Proprietors of Carolina were issued a patent for the Bahamas, but the governors sent by the Proprietors had difficulty in imposing their authority on the independent-minded residents of New Providence.

With no functioning government in the Bahamas, Nassau became a base of operations for English privateers, in what has been called a " privateers ' republic ," which lasted for eleven years.

The 1, 000 or so pirates on the islands surrendered peacefully and the Proprietors then leased their land in the Bahamas to Rogers ' company for 21 years.

Others, such as Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Nicholas Brown and Edmond Condent, left the Bahamas for other territories.

Vane worked to organize resistance to the anticipated arrival of Royal authority, even appealing to the James Francis Edward Stuart, the Stuart pretender, for aid in holding the Bahamas and capturing Bermuda for the Stuarts.

Rogers sent four of his ships to Havana to assure the Spanish governor that Rogers was suppressing piracy in the Bahamas and to trade for supplies.

Charles Vane attacked several small settlements in the Bahamas, but after he refused to attack a stronger French frigate, he was deposed for cowardice and replaced as captain by " Calico Jack " Rackham.

A Spanish invasion fleet set out for the Bahamas, but was diverted to Pensacola, Florida when it was seized by the French.

The king awarded him a pension, retroactive to 1721, and in 1728 appointed Governor of the Bahamas for a second term.

The court case against the development continues, and news articles are reporting that the legal fight has been inspired by the similar fight on Great Guana Cay, in the Bahamas.

The ship ran aground on an uncharted reef in the Bahamas and sank 12 December 1816.

Born in Armenia, Colombia, Lehder eventually ran a cocaine transport empire on Norman's Cay island, off the Florida coast in the central Bahamas.

They were operated by the British ( using Royal Navy officers on leave ) and ran between Confederate-controlled ports and the neutral ports of Havana, Cuba ; Nassau, Bahamas, and Bermuda, where British suppliers had set up supply bases.

* In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed on the island of San Salvador in The Bahamas.

The Bahamas is a stable, developing nation with an economy heavily dependent on tourism and offshore banking.

However, since December 2000, when the government enacted new regulations on the financial sector, many international businesses have left The Bahamas.

The more familiar triangular boundary in most written works has as its points somewhere on the Atlantic coast of Miami ; San Juan, Puerto Rico ; and the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda, with most of the accidents concentrated along the southern boundary around the Bahamas and the Florida Straits.

Christopher Columbus, on his first voyage to the Americas, sailed south from what is now the Bahamas to explore the northeast coast of Cuba and the northern coast of Hispaniola.

* The first day of Junkanoo street parade, the second day is on the New Year's Day ( the Bahamas )

Recorded history begins in 1492, when Christopher Columbus landed on the island of Guanahani, an unknown island somewhere in the Bahamas, on his first voyage.

The Bahamas gained independence from the United Kingdom on July 10, 1973.

Population density in the southern-most Bahamas remained lower, probably due to the drier climate there ( less than 800 mm of rain a year on Great Inagua Island and the Turks and Caicos Islands and only slightly higher on Acklins and Crooked Islands and Mayaguana ).

Columbus visited several other islands in the Bahamas before sailing on to Cuba and afterward to Hispaniola.

When Europeans first landed on the islands, they reported the Bahamas were lushly forested.

In 1666 other settlers from Bermuda arrived on New Providence, which soon became the center of population and commerce in the Bahamas, with almost 500 people living on the island by 1670.

The Spanish raided the Bahamas, the Bahamians in turn commissioned privateers against Spain, even though England and Spain were at peace, and in 1684 the Spanish burned the settlements on New Providence and Eleuthera, after which they were largely abandoned.

In 1703 and in 1706 combined French-Spanish fleets attacked and sacked Nassau, after which some settlers left and the Proprietors gave up on trying to govern the Bahamas.

* State Dept Country Study-Includes information on the Bahamas including history.

The struggle began in 1766, when the King's representative in the Bahamas, Mr Symmer, on his own authority, wrote a constitution which legislated for and taxed the Bermudians on the Turks.

S. mahagoni grows on the West Indian islands as far north as the Bahamas, the Florida Keys and parts of Florida ; S. humilis grows in the dry regions of the Pacific coast of Central America from south-western Mexico to Costa Rica ; S. macrophylla grows in Central America from Yucatan southwards and into South America, extending as far as Peru, Bolivia and extreme western Brazil.

Cameron had originally planned to shoot on location in the Bahamas where the story was set but quickly realized that he needed to have a completely controlled environment because of the stunts and special visual effects involved.