The object of Irie's undying love is the dashing Millat Iqbal, who, as an Islamic militant, has also staked out his post-colonial ground.
This handsomely eclectic 17-room hotel, on the colonial Parade Ground, is itself a historic 18th-century residence.
The cost is $2,500 a person, double occupancy, and includes air fare from New York on Cubana Airlines, lodging in hotels in renovated colonial buildings, ground transport and most meals (the Treasury Department license for the trip allows participants to spend up to $150 a day on the island).
Just off the green are three Colonial burying grounds.
lot; taxes $13,192; listed at $795,000 , 32days on market (Brokers: Schweppe & Co.; Burgdorff ERA) RIVERVALE $565,0003077 Alpine Circle 4-bedroom, 2 1/2-bath, 30-year-old brick/vinyl colonial; in-ground pool, hardwood floors; 123-by-150-ft.
$900,000 to $1.2 million Livingston $949,900 21 Country Club Road Number of bedrooms: 5 Number of full bathrooms: 3 Number of half bathrooms: 1 Weeks on market: 3.5 months 11-year-old colonial; in-ground pool with waterfall and whirlpool, family room, rec room, 3-car built-in garage, 0.49-acre lot; taxes $11,457; listed at $949,900.
When news of the battle spread through the colonies, it was reported as a colonial loss, as the ground had been taken by the enemy, and significant casualties were incurred.
For the Jews in Palestine, Zionism was a movement of national liberation after untold suffering; for the Arabs, Zionism was an intolerable assault by the colonial West against sacred ground and Islam itself.
Although William Penn built his colonial outpost on solid ground, the 19th-century builders who threw up thousands of brick-faced row houses for the growing middle class were not as thoughtful.
Many New Yorkers who know this history first heard it in 1991, when a construction crew uncovered a colonial-era African burial ground while digging the foundation of an office tower in lower Manhattan.
