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For these reasons, in 1778, Governor Frederick Haldimand ordered a survey to determine the best location for a naval station. The former French post at Cataraqui (the present day Kingston, Ontario ) and Buck Island (later renamed Carleton Island) were considered, but Buck Island was chosen because it was deemed more defensible.
Beaminster (/ ˈ b ɛ m ɪ n s t ər / BEM-in-stər) is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England, approximately 15 miles (24 km) northwest of the county town Dorchester.It is sited in a bowl-shaped valley near the source of the small River Brit.
Saladino was accused of murdering a wealthy merchant. Arena and Venturella happened to have been in the same prison, accused of a different murder. All were rounded up together and lynched to "teach the lawless Italians a salutary lesson." After the lynching, another person confessed to the murder for which Arena and Venturella had been lynched ...
The Manasquan Inlet, looking west at sunset from the jetty in Manasquan. Manasquan (/ ˌ m æ n ə ˈ s k w ɑː n /, man-ə-SKWAHN) is a borough in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, on the Jersey Shore.
The Cowra Breakout occurred on 5 August 1944, when 1,104 Japanese prisoners of war escaped from a POW camp near Cowra, in New South Wales, Australia.It was the largest prison escape of World War II, as well as one of the bloodiest.
Sandbanks Provincial Park is located on the northern shore of Lake Ontario in Prince Edward County 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) south of Picton, Ontario, Canada. [3] The park measures 1,550.87 hectares (3,832.3 acres) in size. [4]
Alf gets the hump during a family holiday in the West Country. The journey is a nightmare but it is the ramshackle holiday cottage and utter desolation if its location that sends him straight to the nearest pub. This episode no longer exists in the archive and is an off-air audio recording made during transmission.