The Laptev Sea, into which the Lena River empties, helps keep the temperature of the world's northernmost regions regulated, through large blocks of ice that from from the Lena's outflow and then break off when the temperature rises at the river's mouth, drifting off to cool.
The Independence of Haiti (1804) Contenidos Adicicionales. Since the late 17th Century, the French holds the western part of Saint-Domingues Island, Hispaniola. A century later, sugar cane production makes Haiti one of the current most prosperous colonies of the Caribbean, thanks to the new independent United States.
While Haiti's independence as a nation started with a slave rebellion the notion that this was a straight black versus white affair is wrong. Haiti's struggle for independence was a much more complex affair. In addition to black and white ethnic groups there was a class of mulattoes who were important in business and as land owners.