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Georgetown University Student Dies While On Spring Break In The Dominican Republic | Fox News Latino not sure why the photo of the student has a lion in the background - one of my students from my DR days had this on his facebook page tonight - very sad news

Treasure Hunters find 16th century cache in shipwreck off Dominican Republic First paragraph of the article is below: September 10, 2013 (MMD Newswire) -- A Florida based treasure hunting firm has discovered a 450 year old ship that wrecked off the Dominican coast, it's cargo is the single...

http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/Clinics/Haiti_TDC_Final_Report.pdf This is a link to a report about the cholera epidemic in Haiti. There is also a strong Dominican link as one of the authors is a Dominican who attended and graduated from Carol Morgan School in Santo Domingo. He did his...

Miami-Dade County - Fruit and Spice Park I found this while pottering around on the web today and it made me think about some of the gardening questions that pop up here from time to time. They do have a contact up option so perhaps they would be able to answer questions.

After the operation, for the condition called gynecomastia which affects males who have a hormonal imbalance, Dr Elbi Morla told the show: 'In reality, this is a key moment in their evolution. 'It was something that was affecting them greatly.' Read more: Brothers bullied and beaten for...

Watch this woman fail to solve world's easiest math problem - msnNOW the ultimate blonde joke - unfortunately I don't think she was acting :mad:

Our school has an International Week and the teacher in charge has asked if my son could read a short(ish) poem or written selection from/about the Dominican Republic. Any suggestions for something appropriate for a 13 year old to read in a school assembly? In Spanish if possible but if not...

Saw this on facebook and thought it was worthy of being shared. <a href="http://s1211.photobucket.com/albums/cc430/monicamichele/?action=view&current=dominicanmonopoly.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1211.photobucket.com/albums/cc430/monicamichele/dominicanmonopoly.jpg" border="0"...

Promo Armonia De Amor En El Teatro Nacional - YouTube Hopefully this will take you to information about a fundraising concert that will be happening on Feb. 20th. It is for a good cause.

While there is a lot of money in the GCC it is not spend and blast the consequences as it used to be. I think that some development dollars might come to the DR from "Arab ties" - after all Thailand and Maylasia (or Bahrain closer to home) have been visited to death by the Arab populace and a...

this is an excerpt from the PBS special Black in Latin America 'Anything but Black' in the Dominican Republic | The Root

I was just wondering if anyone had more specific info for the meet that will be held on May 13th. Does anyone know what time it is supposed to start and how much (if anything) that it costs to get in? It would be great if anyone had a list of events and the approx. start times. Normally I...

I thought it might be fun to have a thread with images that let you KNOW you are in the DR. These are two of my favorites of "typical DR". <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/photosbymonicamichele/134381907/" title="Photo Sharing"><img...

Two Indians and a Tennessee Hillbilly were walking through the woods. All of a sudden one of the Indians ran up a hill to the mouth of a small cave. "Wooooo! Wooooo! Wooooo!"he called into the cave and listened closely until he heard an answering, "Wooooo! Wooooo! Woooooo! He then tore off his...