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... commodities: food, clothing, timber, and machinery partners: UK, Netherlands Antilles (Curacao), Japan (1992) ...

— The 1996 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... Suffolk Court Files, no. 1390, paper 1. This case appears in the Records of the Court of Assistants, I. 34-39, 42. The chief originator of this episode of piracy was a Dutch captain from Curacao, Juriaen Arentsen. In 1674, when a state of war existed between France and the Netherlands, he captured the French forts at Castine and St. John, and took possession of the region as "New Holland." Then, "at the Bear in Boston," he gave some sort of commission ...

— Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period - Illustrative Documents • Various

... folks she asked him to have something to drink. He said no; she insisted, and at last laughingly offered to have a glass of liqueur with him. So she went to fetch a bottle of curacao from the cupboard, reached down two small glasses, filled one to the brim, poured scarcely anything into the other, and, after having clinked glasses, carried hers to her mouth. As it was almost empty she bent back to drink, her head ...

— Madame Bovary • Gustave Flaubert

... brothers being killed in the war. Baez held out for eleven months, but after the fall of Samana and when Santo Domingo was reduced to starvation he at length yielded to the entreaties of the foreign consuls and capitulated on June 12, 1858. As soon as he had embarked for Curacao, General Santana marched into the city with ...

— Santo Domingo - A Country With A Future • Otto Schoenrich

Words linked to "Curacao" : Netherlands Antilles, island, orange liqueur