Barbados Bits

Here are some interesting tidbits I found while researching Barbados.

You can watch Barbados Olympians compete in swimming and track and field events at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. 

Who are some well-known Americans of Barbadian descent? LL Cool J, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, and Eric Holder. 

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Despite its British history, Barbados was originally settled and named by the Portuguese, who left to continue exploring Brazil 84 years before the British arrived. 

Barbados is the only country outside the U.S. that our first president, George Washington, ever visited. He traveled there with his brother, who was convalescing, in 1751.