Honda: CB-100
The CB100 was an excellent street motorcycle for short commutes around a town or city. Taking its styling cues from the already established CB-series, the CB100 was a successful bike
Carrier Bike
Used by businesses to deliver "goods", bread, and other produce
BSA-Bantam
The BSA Bantam is a two-stroke unit construction motorcycle that was produced by the Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA) from 1948 (as a 125 cc) until 1971 (as a 175 cc). Exact production figures are unknown, but it was over 250,000 and some estimates place the number closer to half a million
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Guyana
The Lutheran Church in Guyana was founded by Dutch settlers in 1743, making it the second oldest Lutheran church in the Caribbean and the South American continent. During its early history, the church was served by pastors from Holland. In 1803 the colony changed hands from the Dutch to the British, and in 1841 the Dutch severed links with the Lutheran church in what was then British Guiana.
Stanley Field's Exhibition to British Guiana in 1922
Photos from Stanley Field Expedition to British Guiana
Participants: Bror E. Dahlgren and John R. Millar
Expedition Date: 1922
A chronology of key events in Guyana's History
A chronology of key events:
1498 - Christopher Columbus sights Guyana.
1580 - Dutch establish trading posts upriver.
1620 - Dutch West India Company establishes a foothold in Guyana, including armed bases, and imports slaves from Africa to work on the sugar plantations.
Britain sends troops to Guiana
October 06, 1953 - Naval and military forces are on their way to British Guiana in response to what the UK Government says is a threat to the administration of the British colony.
Troop ships set off to the South American country earlier today.
People's Temple Jonestown Guyana
Jonestown was a settlement established in Guyana in the 1970s by the Peoples Temple, a cult led by Reverend Jim Jones. Although Jonestown was originally founded as a paradise, it has since become famous for the mass murder-suicide of its residents, which occurred on November 18, 1978
Today is the 34th Anniversary of the murder of 11 Guyanese in an act of terrorism
Cubana Flight 455 was a Cubana flight from Barbados to Jamaica that was brought down by a terrorist attack on October 6, 1976. All 73 people on board the Douglas DC-8 aircraft were killed in what was then the most deadly terrorist airline attack in the Western hemisphere. Two time bombs were used, variously described as dynamite or C-4.