Before they attack the island they offer its defenders a chance to surrender. The defenders agree to surrender and a small detachment of 5 men are sent ashore to investigate. The party of men become lost in the darkness first sailing into a small cove and then onto a sandbar. Eventually they find the harbor and are greeted by the surrendering Italians. They are shocked to learn that the Germans had planned to ambush them‚ but their two accidental landings caused them to believe that they were actually
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The Iliad (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters‚ traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War‚ the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states‚ it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. Although the story covers only a few weeks in the final year of the war‚ the Iliad mentions or alludes to many of the Greek legends about
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The British Colonisation of Australia Timeline: The Aboriginal Australian species originated from Africa approximately 200‚000 years ago and migrated to Asia 70‚000 years ago then continued to Australia 50‚000 years ago. Before 1788 only the Indigenous people of Australia - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders‚ populated Australia. In 1788 Aboriginal people inhabited the whole of Australia and Torres Strait Islanders lived on the islands between Australian and Papua New Guinea
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influential in governing these factors. Apart from the aborigines‚ it was through British settlement which initialized the demography of Australia. After seeing the potential of the land for agriculture and settlement the British first landed in Sydney Cove. When the British first landed they had to settle around the coast as it took them great effort to clear the land. Had it not been necessary for the British to setup a penal colony because of the overcrowding in the prisons and the British had been
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up with the modern world during the industrial revolution the people of Appalachia were doomed to their pre-industrial image. Until the era of industrialization Appalachia was a region of small‚ open-country communities‚ concentrated in valleys‚ coves and hollows. Each community of farms was self-sufficient socially and economically. The focus of a self-sufficient farmer was that of survival by working in their own crops and hunting or raising livestock for food. They tended to have large families
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minimum wage—just to make a living‚ according to a report in Pinoy-OFW.com. Along with a group of fellow Filipino workers‚ Espiritu may have had never seen daylight outside W South Beach hotel‚ Lincoln Road’s Quattro Italian restaurant‚ and Admiral’s Cove country club in Jupiter where he worked 100 hours weekly as a waiter and bellboy. His nights weren’t any better. As if there was enough time for a recommended eight-hour sleep‚ Espiritu always returned to a small barrack‚ where he and several other
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ZIP LINING Screams‚ yells‚ laughter shouting filled my ears just making it even more nerve racking. When I was ten years old‚ I spent a week at Sandy cove Camp for Girls‚ a sleep away camp in Virginia. From canoeing in the brisk waters of a small river to horseback riding through deep forest trails‚ there was never a dull day at this place. I was an archer‚ a cowgirl‚ a swimmer‚ and an artist all in a matter of days. Throughout the week‚ I found satisfaction in thinking that I
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something I can definitely work on. I also show my nerves when I question myself. During my speech I asked myself if my memory really was from Lake Okoboji‚ but I was really trying to think of which part of Okoboji. I grew up going to camp at Monarch Cove‚ but I know that Ruby’s house was somewhere
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Lagniappe Fine Candies Since 1900 12 Bristol Pike Knoxville‚ TN 37912 April 12‚ 1999 Mrs. Lauren Alana Frazier Purchasing Manager Village Supermarkets Executive Offices 189 Barnaby Cove Boulevard Drakeville‚ NC 28408 Dear Mrs. Frazier: Since 1900 Lagniappe has been known for fine candies‚ appealing to the buyer of luxury and gift items. Now we are ready to market a new product line‚ and we think you will be as excited about it as we are! Beginning in time for this year’s
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abandoning almost all of his possessions‚ and spent two years hitchhiking and traveling around the west. He went to Alaska‚ where he journied alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley in April 1992. Gene Rosellini (also known as Mayor of Hippie Cove) was a brilliant man from a wealthy family who decided to see if he could live his life “independent of modern technology.” He succeeded for over a decade before deciding his experiment failed. Rosellini was the eldest stepson of a wealthy Seattle
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