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{{Useful Notes}}
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Jamaica?
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Gave the world reggae, ska, mento, [[Bob Marley]], Grace Jones, Sheryl Lee Ralph, [[Anthony Winkler]], [[Oliver Samuels]], Usain Bolt, the [[Twin of Twins]], Courtney Walsh, Keith Arthurton (these two being members or past members of the West Indies cricket team), the Reggae Boyz football/soccer team, Rastafari, the "jerk" cooking style, Blue Mountain Coffee, its trademark beef patties, Red Stripe beer, bulla cakes, bammies, and its immediately recognizable patois dialect.
Famous for its national fruit, ackee (although the fruit is [[Geographic Flexibility|actually originally native to West Africa]]), and for the national dish of ackee and saltfish, the latter item being salted codfish. (Recipes for the dish can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20140106125717/http://foodjamaica.net/2008/04/17/ackee-and-saltfish/ here].)
Its national tree is the Blue Mahoe (used widely in cabinet-making, furniture-building and wood carvings); its national flower is the Lignum Vitae (used to treat coughs and arthritis, and also brewed into a kind of tea, and its wood is used to make a variety of items); and its national bird is Red-Billed Streamertail hummingbird (nicknamed the "Doctor Bird" and featured in the ''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]'' story ''[[For Your Eyes Only (film)|For Your Eyes Only]]'').
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* According to [http://www.mahalo.com/guinness-world-records the Guinness World Record News], Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt ran the 200-meter sprint race in the 2009 Olympics [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|in]] [[Super Speed|19.19 seconds]]. He also ran the 100-meter sprint race earlier in the competition [[Crazy Awesome|in 9.58 seconds]].
Oh, and Jamaica really does have a [https://web.archive.org/web/20090813174436/http://www.jambob.com/ bobsled team] and a rather good one at that.
For further and more in-depth information on Jamaica, check out [[The Other Wiki|The Other Wiki's]] [[wikipedia:Jamaica|main entry and all the links therein]].
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== the Jamaican flag ==
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