[Sca-cooks] Totally OT Polymath/Geography question...

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach kattratt:
>Wouldn't that be the Dominican Republic?
>Nichola

Well, apparently, no. Their Tourism Board seems to make it pretty 
clear that they're a different entity, and I also suspect Haiti would 
have something to say about the land mass they share with Santo 
Domingo being named Dominica.

I'm not sure what that island housing Haiti and the Dominican 
Republic is called, if it is not still known by Columbus' name of 
Hispaniola.

It doesn't matter much; the news story I heard which mentioned this 
island had to do with the trial of a man claiming to be a voodoo 
priest (charged with bringing hazardous materials onto an airplane, 
IIRC), and he is apparently a native of this island, so that got me 
wondering.

Adamantius

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>Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:
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>>Sorry, all.
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>>I figured someone here would know.
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>>_Is_ there such a thing as "The Island of Dominica"? I just heard a 
>>reference to it on the radio news.
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>>The island of Hispaniola, I know about.
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>>The Republic of Santo Domingo, a.k.a. The Dominican Republic, I am aware of.
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>>The Republic of Haiti, on the same land mass, I am conversant with...
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>>But the Island of Dominica?
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>>I know it not...
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>>Can anyone confirm the existence of such a thing by any authority 
>>other than WCBS radio?
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>>Adamantius
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