Sentences with phrase «on island history»
Another place to catch up on island history is the Mount Gay Rum Visitors Centre on the Spring Garden Highway.
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Luxembourg, a nation smaller than Rhode Island with a long history in mining, has bet 200 million euros — more than $ 225 million — on this industry that does not exist.
On September 18, 2017, the worst natural disaster in the history of Dominica ravaged this small island nation.
Hurricane Maria, which made landfall on Puerto Rico on September 21 as a Category 4 storm, will go down as one of the most devastating events in the island's history.
If I was alone on a desert island with nothing but the Bible, and no research tools to help me understand the background and history of who Jesus was and what He taught, and the cultural and theological forces He was facing, I doubt I ever would have understood Him in the way that Wright presents here.
The article recounts how an ambitious team of research psychologists undertook to study the entire group of children born in 1955 on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, beginning with prenatal histories taken from the mothers and following up on each child's development at ages one, two, ten, eighteen, and again at thirty - one or thirty - two.
It was unnecessary for me to remind the Dublin audience of the history of oppression of the people of Ireland by English sovereigns and governments, and by colonists put on the island to maintain British control of it.
In a theatre designed to resemble one of 1,200 sidewalk rum shops in Barbados, a twelve - minute multimedia presentation on the history of sugar cane and rum making on the island tells of early beginnings of rum production in St. Lucy Parish, using very pure water that has filtered through limestone.
Richard Lignon, in his History of the Barbadoes (1647), described the two varieties of peppers he found on the island: «The one so like a child's corall, as not to be discerned at the distance of two paces, a crimson and scarlett mixt; the fruit about three inches long and shines more than the best pollisht corall.
Why I dredge my brain for memories of those times I lived in Tasmania — an island so physically close to the mainland but so mentally distant — is thanks to coming across a story of the history of the apple industry in the Huon on the Tasmanian Geographic website.
Blue Chair Bay ® Rum, created on the shores of the Caribbean and inspired by multiplatinum singer - songwriter Kenny Chesney's love of the island lifestyle, is the fastest growing new company launch in the history of wine and spirits.
The International Olympic Committee, which has a long history of supporting Chiang Kai - shek at the expense of all the Chinese athletes who do not live on his island, threatened to withdraw its sanction for the Asian Games.
In addition to Old Sturbridge Village, other institutions offering free admission on the Aug. 24 Free Fun Friday include the Basketball Hall of Fame, the American Textile History Museum, the USS Constitution Museum, and the Boston Harbor Island Alliance, which will offer free ferry ride tickets to Georges Island and Spectacle Island.
More than 100 volunteers have served on nine committees to gather information on proposed improvements to district parks and their facilities, including building natural and local history exhibits at Peck Farm; building athletic fields and environmental study areas; constructing a new swimming pool; repairing the retaining wall around Island Park on the Fox River; renovating old playgrounds and building new ones; restoring tennis courts and building new ones; and expanding the community center.
President Barrack Obama, on Tuesday while delivering his historic address in Havana, Cuba, called for the island nation to expand Internet access across the country, calling the Internet «one of the greatest engines of growth in human history.»
«The fact that here on Long Island, we have such a rich environmental activism history, you know, we should really be concerned with using chemicals once again to control these mosquitoes.»
At 7 p.m. former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, the longest serving police commissioner in New York City history, will hold a book signing on Staten Island.
Peconic Bay Medical Center president and CEO Andrew Mitchell gave a short and sometimes funny history of the Massoud family's journey and of winemaking on Long Island.
Focusing on news anchor Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels; Looper, Dumb & Dumber, Speed) and his new executive producer Mackenzie McHale (Emily Mortimer; Shutter Island, Hugo), the series follows them on their challenging mission to «do the news well» in the face of corporate and commercial adversity, as well as their own complicated personal history.
Murray deflects concern that she would be the first district attorney in recent history on Long Island not to come from the ranks of active attorneys working in criminal justice or from the judiciary.
«School property taxes on Long Island are projected to grow by the lowest levels in modern history, proving once again that the property tax cap is working,» Cuomo said in a prepared statement.
He added: «We would like to think that before Mr Blair leaves this office that he will be courageous about that, that he will feel the hand of history on his shoulder and will admit to precisely what happened and what was done in the name of the people of this island of Britain.»
LONG ISLAND, NY — The tragic mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018, carried out by 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz, stands as one of the worst school mass shootings in history.
On July 14, 1993, the Long Island Pine Barrens Protection Act was signed into law by Gov. Mario Cuomo, creating one of the largest comprehensive land management plans in state history.
«We probably had one of the most progressive, productive state budgets in modern history,» Cuomo said on Long Island on Thursday.
In a bombshell announcement that brings the curtain down on one of the most storied careers in Staten Island political history, fifth - term Republican Rep. Vito Fossella will not seek re-election this fall.
And its closure would provide a firm break from the history of brutal violence on Rikers Island by inmates and, particularly, by correction officers that resulted in a 2015 federal court settlement.
The farm — the last operating duck farm on Long Island and a part of local history, is also making sure water quality is protected, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone said Thursday at the new facility.
Long Island's houseboat community is steeped in the Island's history, with enclaves moored on both the North and South Shores of Nassau and Suffolk counties.
A report released by four of the five borough presidents (all but Staten Island James Molinaro), Pubic Advocate Bill de Blasio and parent leaders, tells some of the sad history of the councils under this administration, focusing to a large extent on the repeatedly botched election for members in 2011.
The following Rhode Island elections have been identified as featured elections based on electoral history, competitive polling, campaign finance data, or significant involvement from noteworthy individuals or organizations.
«It's the first time in Staten Island history that we have two leading presidential candidates on the Island on the same day,» he said.
Lori Weintrob, a history professor at Wagner College on Staten Island, said that while Donovan's political vision is «distant from mine,» Grimm is «weakest» on integrity and appeals to a small base.
A Parrish spokeswoman said Paterson has a long history on Long Island, having attended school at Hempstead and Hofstra University and participated in several museum functions.
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DEADLY DISASTER The quake that ruptured off the coast of Sumatra on December 26, 2004, was one of the deadliest earthquakes in history, mostly because it set off an enormous tsunami that destroyed nearby island communities.
Look at a map of New York City and in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens (located on the west end of Long Island) you can see that chilly history encoded in the names of today's neighborhoods: Cobble Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope, Forest Hills.
An international team of researchers including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena now analyzed for the first time, the genomes of the first settlers who lived on the island chains Tonga and Vanuatu 3100 - 2500 years ago.
Hurricane Maria's destruction on Puerto Rico could spawn one of the largest mass migration events in the United States» recent history, experts say, as tens of thousands of storm victims flee the island territory to rebuild their lives on the U.S. mainland.
Using new chemical analyses of penguin guano extracted in sediment cores from a lake on the island, the researchers unraveled the history of the penguin colony.
In order to determine treeshrew body size from populations on the Malay Peninsula and 13 offshore islands, the researchers measured 260 specimens collected over the past 122 years and housed in six natural history museums in Europe and North America.
The drive - hunting of dolphins has a long history in the Solomon Islands, particularly at the island of Malaita, according to Marc Oremus, a biologist with the South Pacific Whale Research Consortium and lead author on the study.
Honnavalli Kumara at the Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History in Coimbatore, India, and colleagues followed 20 Nicobar long - tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis umbrosus) on Great Nicobar Island in the Indian Ocean.
A specimen preserved in a jar of alcohol in The Natural History Museum, London has remained the only record of the Mortlock Islands flying fox, one of the least known bat species on the planet, for over 140 years.
Stone tools from 118,000 years ago found on Sulawesi island suggest a richer history of early human habitation in what is now Indonesia
Insights into sea level changes, combined with archaeological data on the history of the island's fauna through excavation, has never been done before in charting Zanzibar's history.
The life histories of the deer are well documented thanks to the Isle of Rum Red Deer Project, which has been collecting data on the island for more than 40 years, spanning seven deer generations.
The Apex Predators Program, located at the NEFSC's Narragansett Laboratory in Rhode Island, collects basic demographic information about sharks and their life histories by conducting research on their distribution and migration patterns, age and growth, reproductive biology, and feeding ecology.
As part of the conference, Matt Schlesinger covers the natural history and ecological diversity of Plum Island and the importance of the island for rare species as the federal government decides on the sale of the iIsland and the importance of the island for rare species as the federal government decides on the sale of the iisland for rare species as the federal government decides on the sale of the islandisland.
In a study by the University of Oklahoma, Boston University and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, researchers investigated the archaeological and genetic history of the Arctic ground squirrel on Chirikof Island, Alaska.