debut: 7/22/22
937 runs
...there I was watching a digest of CBS's election night coverage and a voice boomed: "this man, Donald John Trump...born in Jamaica.." I was surprised on two counts - first, I had in mind that his middle name was James, but born in Jamaica???
Via Wikipedia:
Via Wikipedia:
Jamaica Hospital Medical Center is a private, non-profit teaching hospital and emergency facility in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, New York City, on the service road of the Van Wyck Expressway at Jamaica Avenue.
Jamaicas original designation was for an area greater than the current neighborhoods, was settled under Dutch rule in 1656. It was originally called Rustdorp.[6][7] Under English rule, Jamaica became the center of the "Town of Jamaica"; the name is of Lenape origin and wholly unrelated to that of the country.
The neighborhood was named Yameco, a corruption of the word yamecah, meaning "beaver", in the language spoken by the Lenape, the Native Americans who lived in the area at the time of first European contact.[9][10][11] The semivowel "y" sound of English is spelled with a "j" in Dutch, the language of the first people to write about the area; the English retained the Dutch spelling but replaced the semivowel sound with the affricate [dʒ] sound that the letter "j" usually represents in English.[12] The name of the island Jamaica is unrelated, coming from the Taíno term Xaymaca, meaning "land of wood and water" or "land of springs".
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