Sentences with phrase «as rock island»

Founded in 1987, the company — first known as Rock Island Baking Co., it changed to Nancy's Pies a year later, and then Hill and Valley in 2005 — specialized in four - inch diameter pies.

The company was founded as Rock Island Baking Company in 1987 by George Coin, Florence's father - in - law.

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The submerged rock, known as Ieo Island, sits in disputed territory in the South China Sea.

A Reuters witness described the roof and walls of a well - built house shaking hard as the storm rocked the island of Providenciales and caused a drop in pressure that could be felt in people's chests.

At a time when the theological storms were beginning to be felt in these islands, long after they had been blowing a gale in the rest of Europe, Slim was for many of us like a rock, standing firm as all about us was moving and capsizing.

Tim grew up in the Quad Cities, Illinois & Iowa along the banks of the Mississippi River where he worked his first job as a gardener on the Rock Island Arsenal.

Their story begins back in 1900 on a small isolated Pacific island known as Ocean Island with the discovery of a strange looking rock that turned out to be one of the purest forms of phosphate ever discoisland known as Ocean Island with the discovery of a strange looking rock that turned out to be one of the purest forms of phosphate ever discoIsland with the discovery of a strange looking rock that turned out to be one of the purest forms of phosphate ever discovered.

Written as an anti-apartheid anthem in the 1980s, when South African government was allwhite and Nelson Mandela was breaking rocks on Robben Island.

Even before entering the water, we were treated to a view of the fabulous 500 - foot - high rock formation, which looks sphinxlike from one perspective — hence the Spanish name Leon Dormido, or Sleeping Lion — but appears simply as a dramatically cleft vertical island when viewed up close.

The plume anomaly is consistent with partial melting, melt extraction, and remixing of hot rocks and is spreading north toward the mid-ocean ridge instead of, as projected, eastward with the migrating Nazca plate on which the island chain sits, says co-author Douglas R. Toomey, a professor in the UO's Department of Geological Sciences.

Seismologists proposed some 30 years ago that stationary plumes of hot rock in the mantle occasionally punched through the crust to produce volcanoes, which, as the crust moved, generated island chains such as the Galapagos, Cape Verde and Canary islands.

As part of this work, Krista Williscroft, Stephen Grasby, and colleagues intended to reinvestigate strange spaghetti - like rock that was noticed, but the origin not understood, during the first geologic mapping of the island in the 1970s.

As Darwin later confessed: «I never dreamed that islands, about fifty or sixty miles apart, and most of them in sight of each other, formed of precisely the same rocks, placed under a quite similar climate, rising to a nearly equal height, would have been differently tenanted.»

In contrast, the island basalts» ratios of uranium - 238 to uranium - 235 correspond to those of the meteorites used in the study and showed that these rocks could not have the same mantle source as the MORBs.

Rocks forming the northwesternmost point on the island today spilled from Waianae volcano, the older of the two long - extinct volcanoes that make up modern - day Oahu, so ridges extending more than 100 kilometers offshore from there were presumed by some scientists to have originated from that peak as well.

Researchers reporting in the journal Geoarchaeology discovered that the interior of the container, which was found at an archaeological site on southern Baffin Island, contains fragments of bronze as well as small spherules of glass that form when rock is heated to high temperatures.

Their story begins back in 1900 on a small isolated Pacific island known as Ocean Island with the discovery of a strange looking rock that turned out to be one of the purest forms of phosphate ever discoisland known as Ocean Island with the discovery of a strange looking rock that turned out to be one of the purest forms of phosphate ever discoIsland with the discovery of a strange looking rock that turned out to be one of the purest forms of phosphate ever discovered.

Are you a single Sugar Daddy in Rock Island who wants a beautiful young companion who will make you feel just as young?

It is the attempt to penetrate The Void that brought us Alex Haley's Roots, that draws thousands of African Americans across the ocean to visit West Africa every year, that left me crumpled on the rocks outside the Door of No Return at Gorée Island's slave house as I stared out over a horizon that my ancestors might have traversed once and forever.

Tilda Swinton stars as a rock star who is recuperating on an island after throat surgery, Far From The Maddening Crowd's Matthias Schoenaerts plays her younger boyfriend, Raph Fiennes plays one of Swinton's exes, and Dakota Johnson plays Fiennes» daughter.

Kirk Ward (from The Island) has been cast as Tallahassee, while Maiara Walsh (DesperateHousewives), Tyler Ross (Milkshake) and Izabela Vidovic will play Wichita, Columbus and Little Rock, respectively.

You're just as likely to see Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson in family fare like Journey 2: The Mysterious Island as you are in an manly romp like Fast Five.

Transformers: The Last Knight is once again directed by iconic American filmmaker Michael Bay, of all four of the previous Transformers movies, as well as 13 Hours, Pain & Gain, The Island, Pearl Harbor, Armageddon, The Rock, plus Bad Boys I & II previously.

This time he costars with Tilda Swinton and Matthias Schoenarts as a bombastic rock «n» roll producer who intrudes upon their quiet getaway on the Italian island of Pantelleria.

Guadagnino, who also directed I Am Love, starring Tilda Swinton as a rich Milanese wife who has a life - changing affair with a chef, as well as A Bigger Splash, in which Swinton plays a sort of Bowie-esque rock star whose bohemian idyll on a Mediterranean island is interrupted by the arrival of her producer (and former lover) and his daughter, was very involved in the casting for Call Me by Your Name.

The fire effects are more detailed and realistic as are the water effects, whether wading through a pool of water or seeing the waves crash upon the rocks of this mysterious island and according to the developers, not two waves are the same.

Tilda Swinton (Trainwreck, The Grand Budapest Hotel) stars as Marianne Lane, a Bowie-esque, world renown rock star who is on vacation with Paul (Schoenaerts, The Danish Girl), her documentarian boyfriend of six years, on Pantelleria, a small, secluded Mediterranean island off between the coasts of Sicily and Tunisia.

Matthew Fox is the ostensible star as Jack, the doctor who steps up as group leader in the first episode, but it quickly settles in as a dense ensemble show with characters who have vivid backstories: tough, raven - haired beauty Kate, whose fair looks hide a rough outlaw past (Evangeline Lilly), con man Sawyer (Josh Holloway) who hides his bitterness under a country - boy voice and a suspicious smile, Iraqi communications specialist and Gulf war veteran (he fought on the other side) Sayid (Naveen Andrews), steely survivalist John Locke (Terry O'Quinn), who has a mystic, one might say miraculous, connection to the island, pregnant single mother - to - be Claire (Emilie de Ravin) running from a fortune - teller's prophecy, washed - up rock star and heroine addict Charlie (Dominic Monaghan), Korean couple Jin and Sun Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim and Yoon - jin Kim) with mob connections and no English skills (or do they?)

Fossils inlaid within the rocks in the Cliff area hint at previous inhabitants of the island, consisting of enormous trilobite lookalikes, gastropods, placoderm fish, and eurypterids as well.

If Klaus Badelt turned pirate scores into electro - orchestral rock operas with the «Caribbean» movies, «Cutthroat Island» stands tall as a last, defiant gasp to the old - school symphonic way of playing brigands in all of their unapologetically symphonic glory, as accompanied by Jeff Bond's entertainingly blunt notes about Carolco's sinking ship.

Mr. Anderson, 47, earned a reputation as a strong leader and dedicated educator as a principal and assistant superintendent in Rock Island, a blue - collar, racially diverse city in northern Illinois.

Lisa Harrington just joined the CEC as an Organizational Facilitator for the Rock Island Academy.

We have helped customers from Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, Davenport, Bettendorf, Moline, Rock island, Macomb, Rockford, Madison and even Chicago with their Chevy, Buick, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ford, or Suzuki needs and we look forward to helping you as well.

For some seventeen years, I lived in a small beach - house I called The Writing Rock, located on Estero Island, better known as Fort Myers Beach, FL..

Located in northwest Illinois, Moline is part of the Quad Cities area that includes Rock Island as well as Bettendorf and Davenport, which are just across the border in Iowa.

Dr. Czepiel graduated from Augustana College (Rock Island, IL) with a Bachelor of Arts in both Biology and Spanish as well as a minor in Biochemistry.

Waves have eroded the volcanic island, creating towering sea cliffs, sea caves, and natural bridges, such as forty - foot - high Arch Rock — a symbol of Anacapa and Channel Islands National Park.

Cruising Anacapa Island you will see the famous Arch Rock that is the insignia for the park as well as the seals and sea lions that make their home on the shore beneath the high cliffs.

You took me to the cliffs of Orongo and pointed out the small island off the coast where warriors used to swim to collect tern eggs, braving dangerous rocks and sharks as part of the birdman ritual.

Also known as Little Water Cay, this pristinely preserved island is home to locally revered and loved rock iguanas that give the island its nickname.

Waves have eroded the volcanic island, creating towering sea cliffs, sea caves, and natural bridges, such as forty - foot - high Arch Rock - a symbol of Anacapa and Channel Islands National Park.

Among the signature dives accessed from Dunbar Rock is the wreck of the 240 - foot Jado Trader, which is regarded as the premier artificial reef in the Bay Islands.

While there are seven rock formations in all on the island, if you only have time to visit a couple as we did, I would definitely recommend that you check out Bel - At during high tide for the lagoons — the sweeping, majestic view that you'll get of the natural pools is absolutely romantic.

Known locally as «Iguana Island», Little Water is home to a population of some 2,000 rock iguanas and not much else.

Nameless Island is approximately 90 minutes west of Puerto Ayora and it is popular for viewing Blue - Footed Boobies, Nazca Boobies, Frigate Birds and Gulls as well as Sea Lions resting on the rocks with Sea Turtles and Rays in the waters below.

Alone among the BVI's in being formed of coral and limestone, rather than volcanic rock, Anegada is also known as «Drowned Island» because its highest point is only 28 feet above sea level.

Above the high tide line, Haystack Rock is protected as part of the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge, providing habitat and viewing of a wide range of seabirds including the most accessible colony of Tufted Puffins in the Northwest.

Hidden in a private corner of our 23 - acres of tropical paradise, your wedding photos will astound your friends and family as they marvel over the picturesque backdrop of historic Black Rock, the blue Pacific Ocean and the island of Lana`i.

Foamy white waves create a striking contrast as they collide with dark volcanic rock at Blackstone Beach; at Andicuri Beach, the turquoise water attracts daring body surfers between jagged cliffs; and Boca Ketu, near the park's famous Conchi natural pool, is a secluded spot with powdery sand to sit on while you admire the island's natural wonders in pure solitude.

Built as a private villa in 1920 and later used as headquarters for American command in World War II, this boutique hotel was carved into the rock face at the southeastern tip of the island.