Sentences with phrase «arriving on any of the islands»

The people around these parts are what truly make it special though and arriving on any of the islands you can expect to be mobbed by an army of local fans.

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Emily Hall had just arrived at the research center on Summerland Key, a tiny barrier island 40 miles off the southern tip of mainland Florida, when she got the bad news.

Naguib Sawiris, one of the region's wealthiest men, said «there is no limit» on what he is willing to spend to buy an island from Italy or Greece — where thousands have been arriving — to provide the refugees with a new home.

Deputies with the Broward Sheriff's Office maintained order on the corner of Holmberg and Pine Island roads as more students arrived at Stoneman Douglas.

In 1953, at the age of 43, Buscher arrived on Kaua`i to take the reigns of the Coco Palm Lodge, not really knowing how bad a state the property was in, at the request of Island Holidays Ltd. hotel manager Lyle «Gus» Guslander, whom she later marries in 1969.

There's also one incre.dibly famous instance where a group of jewish refug.ees made it on a boat and arrived at E.llis Island, but without proper entry or docu.mentation were refused entry into the US and had to be sent back to Europe where they were later all rounded up (having been caught in Vi.chy France) and sent to camps.

I wondered if Haitians feel the same way sometimes about all of the Westerners arriving on their island to «show them the right way» to do everything from construction to Jesus.

On the big island of Hawaii last summer I learned of an early missionary who had arrived there in the spring of 1832.

At 4 a.m. on September 25, Abdel and his family arrived on the island before the sun rose over the blue waters of the harbor.

By Patrick Holian As I arrived at the Flamingo Airport on the southern Caribbean island of Bonaire, I received some bad news.

As I arrived at the Flamingo Airport on the southern Caribbean island of Bonaire, I received some bad news.

The PSA Academies team, led by Philippe Saint Andre also included coaches Jermome Riondet (leading French Rugby journalist and ex-Harlequins, FC Grenoble & Oxford University Blue, the first Frenchman to play in the Varsity Match), Florian Rossigneux (ex-Racing, Sydney University, London Wasps, Bedford & Richmond player and Rugby Canada & Rosslyn Park coach), Jules Di Tomaso and Cory Brown were welcomed by host Olivier Baudin as they arrived for the 10 day programme at Fort de France airport on the west coast of the island.

A life - sized Thomas the Tank Engine arrived at NYC's Brooklyn Bridge Park, on a barge last week, to celebrate the HIT Entertainment's DVD release of the Thomas & Friends Misty Island Rescue and to introduce the newest Thomas toys from Fisher - Price.

A group of protesters calling on NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to speed up his planned 10 - year timetable for shuttering Rikers Island greeted him and first lady Chirlane McCray as they arrived at the Park Slope public library just before 8 a.m. to cast his ballot.

A partnership of New York groups and a state agency said that it would invest about $ 500,000 to provide legal, mental health and educational support to children on Long Island who recently arrived as part of a surge in illegal migration from Central America.

The first anniversary of Eric Garner's death on Staten Island arrives next week, an event sure to be accompanied by rhetorical excess and unwise policy...

WASHINGTON — A delegation of American legislators led by Senator Patrick J. Leahy arrived in Cuba on Saturday to discuss greater cooperation and remaining areas of disagreement, the first congressional delegation to visit the island nation since President Obama announced last month that he was restoring full diplomatic ties with it.

When former Rep. Michael Grimm arrived at Violet's Cellar in the New Dorp section of Staten Island on Sunday afternoon, the scene recalled one of President Trump's campaign rallies.

State Senator Dean G. Skelos of Long Island and his son, Adam B. Skelos, arrived at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in Manhattan on Monday morning.

Once Mooi's team arrived at the island they, along with Chilean colleagues, embarked on a series of dives over roughly two weeks.

Live mosquitoes captured in the holds of aircraft arriving on the Galapagos from mainland Ecuador were found to survive and breed on the islands (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2009.0998).

Unlike many bird species that are now extinct on the Earth's small islands, the Eastern Bluebird and the Hispaniolan Crossbill disappeared long before the first people arrived, uncoupling their extinction from human actions, such as the introduction of new predators and habitat loss for agricultural use.

To arrive at those conclusions, the researchers used sediment cores from Lake Towuti, an ancient lake on the island of Sulawesi in central Indonesia.

Now, in a study published in Scientific Reports, a research team led by Lounès Chikhi from Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC, Portugal) and CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier (France), and Benoit Goossens, from Cardiff University (Wales), and Sabah Wildlife Department (Malaysia), found that elephants might have arrived on Borneo at a time of the last land bridge between the Sunda Islands in Southeast Asia.

The thylacine, a hyena - size marsupial predator with long jaws and a spectacular gape, roamed freely on the island of Tasmania until the Europeans arrived around 1800.

Then in early October, as they plowed into the frigid waters of Long Island Sound, they found disastrous proof of the rumors: pot after pot of dead lobsters, and others so weak they died a day or two after arriving on land.

Indeed, in the 2,000 years since humans first arrived, intact forests on the island, which is believed to have once been almost entirely forested, have dwindled to a mere 5 percent of their original extenta level of destruction that is among the highest on the planet.

That is when mammoth icebreakers like the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star arrive in Antarctica's McMurdo Sound as part of Operation Deep Freeze to open up the shipping lanes needed to resupply the National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station and other facilities on Ross Island.

A study evaluating the origins of shrubs and herbs on a group of islands in the Arctic Circle finds that seeds arrived from hundreds of kilometers away to restore plant communities lost during the last ice age — all in a matter of a few thousand years.

«When I arrived in Quebec from France 15 years ago, I was working on the evolution of island mammals,» she recalls.

Instead of using boats to deliberately settle on Indonesian islands, hominins may have arrived as castaways, carried on makeshift rafts after floods.

The DNA analysis allowed the scientists to infer the timeline for the habitat changes of the Central Highlands — it happened thousands of years before humans arrived on the island.

New prey therefore arrives on the ocean currents, with both Koram and NomSao Islands receiving the same input of new individuals, at the same rate.

Arriving by helicopter, fly - camp on a volcanic island, surrounded by the jade waters of Lake Turkana

When European settlers arrived on the Australian island of Tasmania and met the small marsupial, they called it a «devil» for its furious temper, loud screeches, and bad behavior.

A pregnant female ancestor could have arrived on the island from the islands of New Guinea or New Britain, lead author study author Valter Weijola, a graduate student at the University of Turku, Finland, said in a release.

We've arrived at nirvana — layered potato slices with lots of cream, garlic and melted Gruyère — to be served on feast days on my desert island.

We arrived on Friday in quaint Pawleys Island (just south of Myrtle Beach) for a wedding.

And even though we arrived on Maldives after the shortest red eye flight ever, the beauty of the Reethi Rah island of the One & Only Reethi Rah Maldives was almost too much to take in.

The character of Coney Island is apparent as soon as you arrive, it's a great place to let out your playful side, compete in some of the arcade games, scream your way through the rollercoasters and share some of the mouth - watering food on offer!

Get all the facts on The Mystery of Easter Island New findings rekindle old debates about when the first people arrived and why their civilization collapsed

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Documentary about Ill - Conceived Reality - TV Show Arrives on DVD What do you think of the idea of a Survivor - style, reality - TV show where the players are starved and losers are not shipped off the island, but expected to fend for themselves in the jungle after being fed the suggestion that one of the contestants is going to be eaten before the series ends?

Herman Melville, onetime sailor, never set foot on Nantucket before publishing Moby - Dick, but in In The Heart Of The Sea — which adapts Nathaniel Philbrick's non-fiction book about the Essex whaleship disaster as a hokey origin story for Melville's novel — he arrives on the island, hoping to find the man who had been the...

Already ostracised from the bird community in a self - appointed exile from the village, Red finds himself the only one suspicious of a group of pigs that arrive on the island.

Rock legend Marianne Lane is recuperating on the volcanic island of Pantelleria with her partner Paul when iconoclast record producer and old flame Harry unexpectedly arrives with his daughter Penelope and interrupts their holiday, bringing with him an A-bomb blast of nostalgia from which there can be no rescue.

Opening April 4th, the exciting new IMAX 3D documentary, «Island of Lemurs: Madagascar,» takes audiences on a spectacular journey to the remote and wondrous world of Madagascar, where lemurs arrived millions of years ago as...

Although the film is short at 86 minutes, even that seems too long — there is fully half - an - hour of scene - setting during which the story makes no progress before the two main characters find themselves on the island, and once they arrive there significant chunks of the time is filled with their rolling in the sand or with musical numbers designed to let Madonna strut her stuff.

On top of all those, other big movies opening in 2017: Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Ready Player One, Pixar's new Dia De Los Muertos movie Coco, a remake of Murder on the Orient Express, Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant, Andy Serkis» motion - capture Jungle Book: Origins movie (not to be confused with Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book movie arriving in theaters in 2016), Christopher Nolan's new WWII action movie Dunkirk, the video game adaptation Uncharted; Ninjago, Barbie and Emoji movies (scraping the bottom of the brand barrel); live - action Ghost in the Shell starring Scarlett Johansson, new Beauty and the Beast and The Mummy movies, Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, restart of Kong: Skull Island, Tom Cruise in Doug Liman's sci - fi Mena, plus Luc Besson's return to epic sci - fi with Valerian and the City of a Thousand PlanetOn top of all those, other big movies opening in 2017: Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Ready Player One, Pixar's new Dia De Los Muertos movie Coco, a remake of Murder on the Orient Express, Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant, Andy Serkis» motion - capture Jungle Book: Origins movie (not to be confused with Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book movie arriving in theaters in 2016), Christopher Nolan's new WWII action movie Dunkirk, the video game adaptation Uncharted; Ninjago, Barbie and Emoji movies (scraping the bottom of the brand barrel); live - action Ghost in the Shell starring Scarlett Johansson, new Beauty and the Beast and The Mummy movies, Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, restart of Kong: Skull Island, Tom Cruise in Doug Liman's sci - fi Mena, plus Luc Besson's return to epic sci - fi with Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planeton the Orient Express, Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant, Andy Serkis» motion - capture Jungle Book: Origins movie (not to be confused with Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book movie arriving in theaters in 2016), Christopher Nolan's new WWII action movie Dunkirk, the video game adaptation Uncharted; Ninjago, Barbie and Emoji movies (scraping the bottom of the brand barrel); live - action Ghost in the Shell starring Scarlett Johansson, new Beauty and the Beast and The Mummy movies, Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, restart of Kong: Skull Island, Tom Cruise in Doug Liman's sci - fi Mena, plus Luc Besson's return to epic sci - fi with Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.

Jurassic Park III: A mysterious potential benefactor (William H. Macy) arrives at one of Dr Alan Grant's (Sam Neill) dinosaur fossil digs in Montana to offer him a large financial sum to support his research, if he would just be his guide on an aerial tour of the dinosaur island featured in The Lost World, as a gift to his wife.

Westport native Lisa Addario and her husband / screenwriting - directing partner Joe Syracuse came up with a crazy idea: What if a rebellious teenager became the pen - pal of a notorious, Castro - like tyrant of a small Caribbean island nation — and he suddenly arrived on her doorstep?