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Also France: "Just send them to Canada or Louisiana or something idk"

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2017209/also-france-just-send-them-to-canada-or-louisiana-or-something-idk

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

✧ black caracara ✧

The black caracara (Daptrius ater) is a bird of prey in the family Falconidae, found in the lowlands of the Amazon basin and French Guiana. Its common habitats include rivers, gallery forest and wooded savanna, at elevations up to 900 meters (3,000 ft). A largely sedentary and sociable species, it is an opportunistic omnivore...

#amazon #tapir #naporiver #sucumbíosprovince #frenchguiana #wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_caracara

Shower rain on Cayenne-Rochambeau airport (French Guiana) “METAR SOCA 311100Z AUTO VRB03KT 8000 -RA BKN022/// BKN034/// BKN046/// ///TCU 24/24 Q1011 TEMPO 2500 SHRA SCT008 BKN015CB BKN020TCU” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/soca/en #cayennerochambeauairport #airport #cayenne #frenchguiana #soca #cay #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek vl

Shower rain on Cayenne-Rochambeau airport (French Guiana) “SOCA 231330Z AUTO 05015KT 9999 SCT028 SCT040 BKN064 28/21 Q1014 TEMPO 05015G25KT 4000 SHRA BKN018TCU” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/soca/en #cayennerochambeauairport #airport #cayenne #frenchguiana #soca #cay #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek vl

Congregation of the Holy Spirit

Officially known as: the Congregation of the Holy Spirit under the protection of the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary. Or in Latin: Congregatio Beatissimae Virginis Mariae.

This is a religious congregation for men in the Catholic Church. Members are known as Holy Ghost Fathers. Or in continental Europe, & the Anglosphere, as Spiritans. Members use the postnominals: CSSp. Postnominals are letters placed after a person’s name to signify academic degrees, professional qualifications, awards, military decorations, or honorific titles (like PhD).

The order began in Paris on Pentecost Sunday, 1703. Claude Poullart des Places was a wealthy young lawyer who abandoned his social standing to become a priest. He wanted to form a religious institute for young men who wanted to become priests but were too poor to do so.

Unlike orders that focused on the elite, Claude was moved by the plight of “poor scholars.” HIs vision was a “proletariat” clergy. Priests assignments in hospitals, rural parishes, & overseas missions.

Claude was born on February 26, 1679 in the capital city of Brittany, France: Rennes. Claude was tutored at home before being enrolled at the age of 9-10 as a day student in the nearby Jesuit college of St. Thomas. Thus beginning his lifelong association with the Society of Jesus.

Graduating at 16, Claude studied at the University of Caen, Normandy. Before graduating at 22, with a Licentiate in Law from the Law School of Nantes. A licentiate in law is an individual holding an academic degree or professional certification. This is usually below a doctorate but above a bachelor’s, that authorizes them to practice law.

In 1701, Claude Poullart began his studies for the priesthood, as a boarder at the Jesuit College in Paris. His work grew quickly. The Order developed. However, Claude passed away at 29, or 31 depending on the source, of pleurisy after founding the order.

After the founder’s death, the order became fully organized. In 1765, the South American missions, in colonies such as China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand (Siam), & India under the support of the Paris Foreign missionaries arrived in Senegal, Africa.

Those in France served in various dioceses or alongside the de Montfont missionaries. This was due to the close friendship between Poullart & Louis de Montfont. The Order had trained 1,300 priests in the years leading up to 1792, when the seminary was suppressed by the French Revolution. The French Revolution saw the Spiritans have their property seized & many were executed or exiled to England, Italy, & Switzerland.

After the French Revolution only 1 member remained, James Bertout. He survived a series of hardships like being shipwrecked on his way to his destined mission in French Guiana, enslaved by the Moors, & a short stay in Senegal (where he had been sold to the English).

On his return to France, he reestablished the Order & continued its work. But he found it VERY hard to recover sufficiently from the effects caused by the Revolution.

In 1841/1842, Francis Liberman founded the Society of the Holy Heart of Mary (a.k.a. Society of the Immaculate Heart of Mary) This society is/was dedicated to serve mainly the emancipated black slaves in the French colonies. Particularly in Africa & the Caribbean.

In 1848, the Holy See asked Liberman to merge his relatively new society with the struggling Congregation of the Holy Spirit. Lieberman was made the 1st Superior General of the united groups. This effectively saving the Spiritan name & legacy.

Liberman’s approach to missionary work was revolutionary from the time. He instructed his missionaries not to “Europeanize” the people they served. Besides the missions in Africa, the society started missions in Mauritius, Reunion, & the Rodriguez Islands. In the Western Hemisphere, they had missions in Trinidad, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haiti, & Amazonia.

The Spiritans arrived in the United States in 1972, fleeing the Kulturkampf (persecution of Catholics) in Germany. They found a home in industrial heartlands, particularly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The Order is known in the United States for founding Duquesne University in 1878. This university was originally established to provide an education to the kids of poor immigrants working in the steel mills. It grew into a major research institution. The university’s motto (Spiritus est qui vivificat, “It is the Spirit who gives life”) reflects the order’s charism.

By the early 20th century the organization into the following provinces: France, Ireland, Portugal, United States of America, & Germany.

On December 31, 1961, 20 Spiritans: 19 Belgians & 1 Dutch man, were unalived in Kongolo (in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) by government troops during the Katanga Secession Rebellion.

In Rome, on April 24, 1979, Pope John Paul II presided over the beautification ceremony for Jacques-Desire Laval. The 1st member of the Spiritans to be honored.

Today, there are about 3,000 Spiritans serving in over 60 countries. They’re often associated with schools & chaplaincy, & missionary work.

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Cayenne – Félix Eboué Airport - Matoury, French Guiana

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayenne_%E2%80%93_F%C3%A9lix_Ebou%C3%A9_Airport
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/4.819964/-52.361326

#SOCA #CAY #Matoury #FrenchGuiana #airport #aviation #avgeeks #GIS

Hype for the Future 75F: French Guiana 🇬🇫

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/hype-for-the-future-75f-french-guiana-%f0%9f%87%ac%f0%9f%87%ab/

Made a small and difficult 🆕 geography quiz about the Communes of French Guiana. I you ever wondered where Kourou 🚀 (@[email protected]) is located. And where the Porsche SUV 🚗 got its name from... Link: geographyquiz.app/quiz/french-... #quiz #FrenchGuiana #Kourou

Hype for the Future 49J: French Guiana 🇬🇫

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/hype-for-the-future-49j-french-guiana-%f0%9f%87%ac%f0%9f%87%ab/

Cayenne – Félix Eboué Airport - Matoury, French Guiana

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayenne_%E2%80%93_F%C3%A9lix_Ebou%C3%A9_Airport
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/4.819964/-52.361326

#SOCA #CAY #Matoury #FrenchGuiana #airport #aviation #avgeeks #GIS

Cayenne – Félix Eboué Airport - Matoury, French Guiana

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayenne_%E2%80%93_F%C3%A9lix_Ebou%C3%A9_Airport
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/4.819964/-52.361326

#SOCA #CAY #Matoury #FrenchGuiana #airport #aviation #avgeeks #GIS

Shower rain on Cayenne-Rochambeau airport (French Guiana) “SOCA 211330Z AUTO 11006KT 070V140 9999 FEW015 29/24 Q1014 TEMPO 2500 SHRA BKN004 FEW012CB BKN015TCU” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/soca/en #cayenne #frenchguiana #cayennerochambeauairport #soca #cay #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek #airport vl

Cayenne – Félix Eboué Airport - Matoury, French Guiana

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayenne_%E2%80%93_F%C3%A9lix_Ebou%C3%A9_Airport
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/4.819964/-52.361326

#SOCA #CAY #Matoury #FrenchGuiana #airport #aviation #avgeeks #GIS

Bifid Palm in #frenchguiana :smug:

In Cayenne, a rare bifid palm stood in Place des Palmistes. Its trunk, a stipe actually, was made of fibers instead of lignin, meaning it did not thicken over time and classified the palm as a plant, not a #tree. The marks on the stipe can indicate growth rate and sometimes species. This specimen (center), cut down in 1955 at the age of 134, had split into two due to a mutation. :bongoCat:

Photo by Marcel Sébastien Bruère-Dawson
#postcard by G. Delabergerie.

Cayenne – Félix Eboué Airport - Matoury, French Guiana

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayenne_%E2%80%93_F%C3%A9lix_Ebou%C3%A9_Airport
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/4.819964/-52.361326

#SOCA #CAY #Matoury #FrenchGuiana #airport #aviation #avgeeks #GIS

#France #Brazil #FrenchGuiana #Guyane #border #Geography

If there's a #war between #Europe and #US - #Russia, we need satellite imagery to assist. All European #rockets currently fly out of #FrenchGuiana, which is easy to take over by the #USNavy.

A more sensible approach is to design (or license before it's too late) something like RocketLab's Electron (320 kg to LEO, 200 kg to SSO, very cheap). We don't need anything more powerful. Then launch it from the southern tip of #Crete.

#greece #eu #france #spacex #politics #greek #uk #germany #usa #space

OpenStreetMap Guyane will be at FOSS4G & SotM LatAm in Belém. We hope to meet our neighbours from the Guiana Shield and beyond.
@openstreetmap #OpenStreetMap #FrenchGuiana #Amapá #Suriname #Guyana #FOSS4G #SOTM #Belém #Brazil #France

OpenStreetMap Guyane will be at FOSS4G & SotM LatAm in Belém. We hope to meet our neighbours from the Guiana Shield and beyond.
@openstreetmap #OpenStreetMap #FrenchGuiana #Amapá #Suriname #Guyana #FOSS4G #SOTM #Belém #Brazil #France

Amazon Indigenous groups launch alliance at COP16

#politics #indigenous #EnvironmentalJustice #brazil #Colombia #Bolivia #Ecuador #Guyana #Suriname #FrenchGuiana #Peru #Venezuela https://valorinternational.globo.com/environment/news/2024/10/29/amazon-indigenous-groups-launch-alliance-at-cop16.ghtml?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=compartilhar

Illegal Mining by Brazilians Contaminates Rivers and Threatens Indigenous Communities in French Guiana

#politics #brazil #environmentalism #EnvironmentalJustice #indigenous #FrenchGuiana #france
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/scienceandhealth/2024/10/illegal-mining-by-brazilians-contaminates-rivers-and-threatens-indigenous-communities-in-french-guiana.shtml

#AmazonRiver has seen its levels in #Colombia reduced by as much as 90% govt agency said as #SouthAmerica faces a severe, widespread #drought. The river—the world's biggest by volume and which also flows through parts of #Brazil, #Peru, #Bolivia, #Ecuador, #Venezuela, #Guyana, #FrenchGuiana and #Suriname—has been hard hit by drought that has seen wildfires spread across continent. Water level has decreased bet 80-90% in last 3 months due 2 drought caused by #climatechange https://phys.org/news/2024-09-drought-amazon-river-colombia.html

Hello from French Guiana! #HelloWorld #FrenchGuiana #language #linguistics