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"New" was added later to distinguish it from Providencia, a pirate name for the Western Caribbean (present-day Colombia).

"New" was added later to distinguish it from Providencia, a pirate name for the Western Caribbean (present-day Colombia).

A: The name New Providence comes from a 16th-century governor who gave thanks to God for his survival after shipwreck.

Speaking of which,

Berta von Suttner's mother, who won the first Nobel Peace Prize and whose portrait is on Austrian banknotes,

was addicted to casinos and Berta had a hard time.

Her mother Sophie dreamed of getting rich quick and gambled away her husband's inheritance.

She also lost all of Berta's fortune, so

Berta became independent from her mother.

Speaking of casinos, Baden-Baden is probably the place to go.

The Russian literary giant Dostoevsky also frequented them.