Word: oranjestad
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...Avatar a Native American story? -Robert Thijsen, Oranjestad, Aruba Not exclusively. I think Americans locate the story there most quickly. But Avatar's now the No. 1 movie in Brazil, and Brazil has a lot of issues with the displacement of indigenous populations and deforestation. There's a tribe in India that is getting pushed off its sacred mountain for a bauxite mine. The film is hugely popular in China, and people there are getting displaced by the government to build dams. So people are relating to it from all these different perspectives. (See pictures of James Cameron's best...
ARRESTED. SATISH and DEEPAK KALPOE, 18 and 21, brothers previously detained and released in the May disappearance of Alabama tourist Natalee Holloway, 18, in Aruba; along with unidentified others, as a result of "new facts and circumstances," according to prosecutors; in Oranjestad, Aruba...
...island is dominated by The Hills and The Quill, volcanic cones, now extinct. Climbing to the peak of The Quill (1,800 ft.) with a verdant rain forest in its crater is a not too strenuous 80-min. hike. An old Dutch command post, Fort Oranjestad, built on French foundations in 1636, is a neat little 16-cannon salute to colonial glories. This and several other of the island's 17 original forts are on a walking tour laid out by Statia's energetic historical foundation. One of the best beaches is on Tumble Down Dick Bay, apparently...
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