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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">K0MD will be active
from<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><STRONG>Turks and
Caicos Islands<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></STRONG>in
February 2014 as<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><STRONG>VP5/K0MD</STRONG><BR>Together
with K4IU , AC0W , K0PC he will be active in ARRL DX CW
Contest as<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><STRONG>VP5S</STRONG><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>in M/S Category<BR>QSL
info<BR>VP5/K0MD via K0MD , LOTW<BR>VP5S via K0MD ,
LOTW</SPAN></SPAN><BR><IMG style="WIDTH: 1024px; HEIGHT: 768px"
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<P>The Turks and Caicos Islands are named after the Turk's-cap cactus
(Melocactus communis), and the Lucayan term<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>caya hico</I>, meaning string
of islands. The first inhabitants of the islands were Arawakan-speaking
Taíno people, who crossed over from Hispaniola sometime from AD 500 to
800. Together with Taino who migrated from Cuba to the southern Bahamas
around the same time, these people developed as the Lucayan. Around 1200
the Turks and Caicos Islands were resettled by Classical Taínos from
Hispaniola.</P>
<P>Soon after the Spanish arrived in the islands in 1492, or 1512,they
began capturing the Taíno of the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Lucayan
as slaves (technically, as workers in the<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>encomienda</I><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>system) to replace the largely
depleted native population of Hispaniola. The southern Bahama Islands and
the Turks and Caicos Islands were completely depopulated by about 1513,
and remained so until the 17th century.</P>
<P>The first documented European to sight the islands was Spanish
conquistador Juan Ponce de León, who did so in 1512. During the 16th, 17th
and 18th centuries, the islands passed from Spanish, to French, to British
control, but none of the three powers ever established any settlements</P>
<P><A style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,153); TEXT-DECORATION: underline"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turks_and_Caicos_Islands">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turks_and_Caicos_Islands</A><BR></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></BODY></HTML>