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• Queen Elizabeth II takes the train

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  London, Dec 21 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Queen Elizabeth II was spotted taking a train for her Christmas break to Norfolk on Thursday. However she didn’t cause much of a stir, because she was dressed in quite a low-key way and largely went unnoticed amongst her ordinary subjects.The eighty-three old Queen was dressed in a ...
  16 hours ago

• Solomon Islands Campaign: Battle of Santa Cruz (III)

  
  USNI Blog — Authority: 504
  Staggered, Bloodied but Unbowed After the morning’s attacks Enterprise had suffered significant damage, but still able to put up a fight defensively and conduct air ops. The number two elevator, aft most on the flightdeck, was temporarily stuck in the down position, leaving a large, square hole just forward ...
  2 days ago

• Solomon Islands Campaign: Battle of Santa Cruz (III)

  
  Steeljaw Scribe — Authority: 491
  Though a later shot, this picture gives an idea of the relationship of El#2 and the landing area Staggered, Bloodied but Unbowed After the morning’s attacks Enterprise had suffered significant damage, but still able to put up a fight defensively and conduct air ops.  The number two elevator, aft most on ...
  2 days ago

• The Solomons Campaign: Battle of Santa Cruz (II)

  
  Steeljaw Scribe — Authority: 491
  Plot of 25-26 Oct Action (click to enlarge) Overnight: 25-26 October During the night, crews on the Hornet positioned aircraft on the flightdeck if the prospects of a night strike by moonlight made themselves present.  In the meantime, PBY Catalina’s, using the first crude airborne radar sets, continued to ...
  3 days ago

• Uninhabited tropical island paradise seeks REDD funding to save it from loggers

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 143
  Tetepare may be one of the last tropical island paradises left on earth. Headhunting and a mysterious illness drove its original inhabitants from the island two hundred years ago, making Tetepare today the largest uninhabited island in the tropical Pacific. The 120 square kilometer island (46 square miles), long ...
  4 days ago

• Fiji Signs Trade And Development Agreement with the European Union

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 450
  Fiji has signed an interim Economic Partnership Agreement with the EU. The agreement focuses on trade in goods and provides duty free – quota free access for all products from Fiji to the EU market. It also aims to deepen cooperation in areas such as animal and plant health as well as technical standards. The ...
  1 week ago

• Solomon Islands: ADRA Project Engages Youth, Communities

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 685
  Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International SILVER SPRING, Md.--In the Solomon Islands, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) recently launched a $3 million project to benefit communities on the islands of Malaita and Guadalcanal, ...
  1 week ago

• Pacific Island youth comes to Copenhagen, seeking climate justice

  
  Oxfam America Blog — Authority: 493
  Christina Ora photo by Emily Gertz / Oxfam America Christina Ora may have been among the youngest present at the fifth Council of Youth (COY) meeting in Copenhagen this past weekend. But the 17-year-old’s poise when she speaks about climate change would leave many an older person envious. “I’ve noticed that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pacific Island Nations Press for More Action on Climate Change at Copenhagen

  
  pacificEyeWitness.org — Authority: 141
  The leaders of the 15 nations attending the Pacific Islands Forum pose for a group photo at the Cairns Convention Centre on August 5, 2009 in Cairns, Australia. The Pacific Islands Forum is this year hosted by Australia. The 15 member countries attending the annual forum are Australia, Cook Islands, Federated States ...
  2 weeks ago

• Worldwide Hotel Deals

  
  Vacation Visitor Info Travel Deals — Authority: 143
  You will not find a better place to get a better hotel deal than right here! If you want to travel there, it has a hotel! If it has a hotel you will find the best deal here! You will get the best lodging price for rooms in Afghanistan , Albania , Algeria , American Samoa , Andorra , Angola , Anguilla , ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Bougainville Invasion (Part 4): March 1944 – May 1944

  
  Steeljaw Scribe — Authority: 491
  With this submission, CINCLAX’s in-depth review of this part of the Solomons campaign is complete. I think you will agree with me that considerable thought and work went into these articles and join me as a hearty “BZ” is passed his way.  On the horizon – inthe next few weeks we will wrap up the action at sea ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Bougainville Invasion (Part 4): March 1944 – May 1944

  
  USNI Blog — Authority: 504
  With this submission, CINCLAX’s in-depth review of this part of the Solomons campaign is complete. I think you will agree with me that considerable thought and work went into these articles and join me as a hearty “BZ” is passed his way. On the horizon – in the next couple of weeks we will wrap up the action ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Bougainville Invasion (Part 4): March 1944 – May 1944

  
  USNI Blog — Authority: 504
  With this submission, CINCLAX’s in-depth review of this part of the Solomons campaign is complete. I think you will agree with me that considerable thought and work went into these articles and join me as a hearty “BZ” is passed his way. On the horizon – in the next couple of weeks we will wrap up the action ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Bougainville Invasion (Part 3): December 1943 – March 1944

  
  USNI Blog — Authority: 504
  We resume the quite comprehensive articles provided by CINCLAX as part of the ongoing Solomon Islands Campaign blog project. With the exception of some noteworthy battles at sea and on land, the Solomons campaign slogged on in near anonymity, except for those doing the fighting. We would learn much in the process ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Bougainville Invasion (Part 3): December 1943 – March 1944

  
  USNI Blog — Authority: 504
  We resume the quite comprehensive articles provided by CINCLAX as part of the ongoing Solomon Islands Campaign blog project. With the exception of some noteworthy battles at sea and on land, the Solomons campaign slogged on in near anonymity, except for those doing the fighting. We would learn much in the process ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fiji’s Interest is good news (Solomon Islands)

  
  Futsal4all - Futsal in Australia and New Zealand — Authority: 137
  A former national futsal coach, Victor Waii, says it is good news Fiji is interested in signing a Solomon Islander to coach their national futsal team. He made the comment following reports that Fiji is looking to sign a futsal coach from Solomon Islands. Waii, who now works as a futsal and beach soccer development ...
  3 weeks ago

• Iran pays for Solomons students to fly to Cuba

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 150
  Rowan Callick; 27/11/09Twemty-five Solomon Islands students will fly to Cuba next week to train as doctors, accompanied by two health officials, thanks to about $107,000 paid by the Iran government for their travel costs.  The money was transmitted earlier this month by the Iranian embassy in Canberra via the ANZ ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ken Brown obituary

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  In 1980, my first husband, Ken Brown, who has died aged 64 of emphysema, took up a post as a magistrate in Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands. After two years there, he was appointed the countrys first public solicitor, a post with considerable influence on the countrys legal system. A couple of years later, ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Coast Watchers – Eric Feldt

  
  Arukiyomi — Authority: 116
  Context: finished this off at the desk where I’m doing my research job downstairs at 77 Field View. REVIEW This book tells the story of the Coast Watchers, a group of heroic men who played a key role in stopping the Japanese advance through New Guinea and eventually seeing them defeated there during WW2. As a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Solomon Islands: A Community Model for Global Conservation

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 520
  (Above video: Geoff Lipsett-Moore, director of conservation for the Conservancy’s Melanesia program , celebrates along with other Conservancy staff and chiefs from Choiseul province in the Solomon Islands celebrate the community’s support for two Conservancy recommendations at the 2009 annual meeting of the ...
  3 weeks ago

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