When hurricanes are particularly destructive, their names are retired from the list of usable names. Any country affected by a particularly terrible storm can request that the name be retired by…
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U.S. Department of State Background Note Index: People Government and Political Conditions Economy Foreign Relations PEOPLEThe island's indigenous Arawak people were expelled or exterminated…
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For the Treaty of Paris of 1856, see Paris, Congress of. For the Treaty of Paris of 1898,…
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Most of Grenada's population…
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