Bimini, the Glossary
Bimini is the westernmost district of the Bahamas and comprises a chain of islands located about due east of Miami.[1]
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69 relations: Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Administrator of the government, Alice Town, Ameiva, Arawak, Bar (establishment), Bigeye thresher, Bimini Island Air, Bimini Road, Boinae, Cay Sal Bank, Chalk's International Airlines, Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101, CNN, Compleat Angler Hotel, Critically Endangered, Donna Rice Hughes, Endemism, Epicrates (snake), Ernest Hemingway, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Folk etymology, Fountain of Youth, Gary Hart, Gulf of Honduras, Gulf Stream, Islands in the Stream (novel), Jean-Michel Cousteau, Juan Ponce de León, Lemon shark, Local government in the Bahamas, Lucayan people, Mackey Airlines, Mangrove forest, Martin Luther King Jr., Miami, Miami New Times, Miss World, Nassau, Bahamas, Ocean Cay, Oscar Zeta Acosta, Parliament of the Bahamas, Prohibition in the United States, Reptile, Resorts World Bimini, Restaurant, Rum, Rum-running, Samuel H. Gruber, Scuba diving, ... Expand index (19 more) »
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (November 29, 1908 – April 4, 1972) was an American Baptist pastor and politician who represented the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the United States House of Representatives from 1945 until 1971.
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Administrator of the government
An administrator (administrator of the government or officer administering the government) in the constitutional practice of some countries in the Commonwealth is a person who fulfils a role similar to that of a governor or a governor-general.
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Alice Town
Alice Town is a town in the Bahamas.
Ameiva
Ameiva, commonly called jungle-runners, is a genus of whiptail lizards that belongs to the family Teiidae.
Arawak
The Arawak are a group of Indigenous peoples of northern South America and of the Caribbean.
Bar (establishment)
A bar, also known as a saloon, a tavern or tippling house, or sometimes as a pub or club, is an establishment retail business that serves alcoholic beverages, such as beer, wine, liquor, cocktails, and other beverages such as mineral water and soft drinks.
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Bigeye thresher
The bigeye thresher (Alopias superciliosus) is a species of thresher shark, family Alopiidae, found in temperate and tropical oceans worldwide.
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Bimini Island Air
Bimini Island Air, Inc./Ltd. was a part 135 shared charter operator with its headquarters in unincorporated Broward County, Florida, near Fort Lauderdale.
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Bimini Road
The Bimini Road, sometimes called the Bimini Wall, is an underwater rock formation near the island of North Bimini in the Bimini chain of islands.
Boinae
The Boinae are a purported subfamily of boas found in Central and South America, as well as the West Indies.
Cay Sal Bank
Cay Sal Bank (Placer de los Roques) is the third largest (after Great Bahama Bank and Little Bahama Bank) and the westernmost of the Bahama Banks.
Chalk's International Airlines
Chalk's International Airlines, formerly Chalk's Ocean Airways, was an airline with its headquarters on the grounds of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in unincorporated Broward County, Florida near Fort Lauderdale.
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Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101
Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101 was an aircraft crash that occurred off Miami Beach, Florida, in the United States on December 19, 2005.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
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Compleat Angler Hotel
The Compleat Angler Hotel was a modest three-story hotel on the island of North Bimini in the Bahamas.
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Critically Endangered
An IUCN Red List Critically Endangered (CR or sometimes CE) species is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.
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Donna Rice Hughes
Donna Rice Hughes (born January 7, 1958) is American activist, author, speaker and film producer who is president and chairperson of Enough Is Enough.
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Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
Epicrates (snake)
Epicrates is a genus of non-venomous snakes in the subfamily Boinae of the family Boidae.
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream is a 1971 novel in the gonzo journalism style by Hunter S. Thompson.
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Folk etymology
Folk etymology – also known as (generative) popular etymology, analogical reformation, (morphological) reanalysis and etymological reinterpretation – is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one through popular usage.
Fountain of Youth
The Fountain of Youth is a mythical spring which allegedly restores the youth of anyone who drinks or bathes in its waters.
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Gary Hart
Gary Warren Hart (né Hartpence; born November 28, 1936) is an American politician, diplomat, and lawyer.
Gulf of Honduras
The Gulf or Bay of Honduras is a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea, indenting the coasts of Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras.
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Gulf Stream
The Gulf Stream is a warm and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and flows through the Straits of Florida and up the eastern coastline of the United States, then veers east near 36°N latitude (North Carolina) and moves toward Northwest Europe as the North Atlantic Current.
Islands in the Stream (novel)
Islands in the Stream (1970) is the first of the posthumously published novels of Ernest Hemingway.
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Jean-Michel Cousteau
Jean-Michel Cousteau (born 6 May 1938) is a French oceanographic explorer, environmentalist, educator and film producer.
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Juan Ponce de León
Juan Ponce de León (1474 – July 1521) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador known for leading the first official European expedition to Puerto Rico in 1508 and Florida in 1513.
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Lemon shark
The lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris) is a species of shark from the family Carcharhinidae, known for its yellowish color, which inspires its common name.
Local government in the Bahamas
Local government in The Bahamas exists at two levels: 32 districts and 41 towns.
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Lucayan people
The Lucayan people were the original residents of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands before the European colonisation of the Americas.
Mackey Airlines
Mackey Airlines, Inc. was a small certificated United States international airline flying from Florida to the Bahamas starting in 1953.
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Mangrove forest
Mangrove forests, also called mangrove swamps, mangrove thickets or mangals, are productive wetlands that occur in coastal intertidal zones.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
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Miami
Miami, officially the City of Miami, is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida.
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Miami New Times
The Miami New Times is a newspaper published in Miami, Florida, United States, and distributed every Thursday.
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Miss World
Miss World is the oldest existing international beauty pageant.
Nassau, Bahamas
Nassau is the capital and largest city of The Bahamas.
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Ocean Cay
Ocean Cay is an island in the Bahamas located in the district of Bimini.
Oscar Zeta Acosta
Oscar "Zeta" Acosta Fierro (April 8, 1935 – disappeared 1974) was a Mexican American attorney, author and activist in the Chicano Movement.
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Parliament of the Bahamas
The Parliament of The Bahamas is the bicameral national parliament of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas.
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Prohibition in the United States
The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.
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Reptile
Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with usually an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development.
Resorts World Bimini
Resorts World Bimini Bahamas is a Caribbean beachfront resort and casino located on North Bimini Island.
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Restaurant
A restaurant is a business that prepares and serves food and drinks to customers.
Rum
Rum is a liquor made by fermenting and then distilling sugarcane molasses or sugarcane juice.
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Rum-running
Rum-running, or bootlegging, is the illegal business of smuggling alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law.
Samuel H. Gruber
Samuel H. Gruber (May 13, 1938 – April 18, 2019) was a shark biologist and founder of the American Elasmobranch Society.
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Scuba diving
Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and therefore has a limited but variable endurance.
Sea level rise
Between 1901 and 2018, the average sea level rise was, with an increase of per year since the 1970s.
Shipwreck
A shipwreck is the wreckage of a ship that is located either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water.
Shortfin mako shark
The shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus), also known as the shortfin mako, blue pointer, or bonito shark, is a large mackerel shark.
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Sixgill sawshark
The sixgill sawshark, Pliotrema warreni is a sawshark of the family Pristiophoridae.
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Smalltooth sawfish
The smalltooth sawfish (Pristis pectinata) is a species of sawfish in the family Pristidae.
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Snorkeling
Snorkeling (British and Commonwealth English spelling: snorkelling) is the practice of swimming face down on or through a body of water while breathing the ambient air through a shaped tube called a snorkel, usually with swimming goggles or a diving mask, and swimfins.
South Bimini Airport
South Bimini Airport is an airport in South Bimini on Bimini in the Bahamas.
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Spiny dogfish
The spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias), spurdog, mud shark, or piked dogfish is one of the best known species of the Squalidae (dogfish) family of sharks, which is part of the Squaliformes order.
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.
The Bahamas
The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean.
The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea is a 1952 novella written by the American author Ernest Hemingway.
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The real McCoy
"The real McCoy" is an idiom and metaphor used in much of the English-speaking world to mean "the real thing" or "the genuine article", e.g. "he's the real McCoy".
The Silence of the Lambs (film)
The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme and written by Ted Tally, adapted from Thomas Harris's 1988 novel of the same name.
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To Have and Have Not
To Have and Have Not is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1937 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
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Trolling (fishing)
Trolling is a method of fishing where one or more fishing lines, baited with lures or bait fish, are drawn through the water at a consistent, low speed.
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Tropical cyclone
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls.
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West End, Bahamas
West End (also referred to as "Settlement Point") is the oldest town and westernmost settlement on the Bahamian island of Grand Bahama.
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William McCoy (rum runner)
William Frederick "Bill" McCoy (August 17, 1877 – December 30, 1948), was an American sea captain and rum-runner during the Prohibition in the United States.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimini
Also known as Beimeni, Bimini Bay, Bimini Island, Bimini Islands, Bimini and Cat Cay, Bimini, Bahamas, Biminis, North Bimini, South Bimini.
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