strategy the Faroese Government decided to merge the Trade Council and Tourist Board in the beginning of this year. This was done in the realisation of the fact that development of trade and tourism can [...] a great increase in bed capacity in hotels and B&Bs, and tourist numbers started rocketing. The fact that people could get in contact with the local people in this way, along with the slightly primitive [...] advantages do the Faroe Islands have as a travel destination? The fact that our country is a small archipelago in the middle of the big ocean in the periphery of western society makes us quite unique and special
was indeed and the more I went about the country, and the more cups of coffee and sweet cakes I savored, the more I began to notice and appreciate that remarkable indomitable spirit of the Faroese bubbling [...] practical. The United States as well is well known for its practical nature and everyone knows that teamwork and practical collaboration is the spirit of the age these days, but the Faroese and the Americans [...] known as the American Revolution, the Americans and the Faroese teamed up in a quite remarkable demonstration of their combined practical resourcefulness. As everyone knows, the British and the American
We landed in Arkansas at around four in the evening, but for us - myself and my friend Samal, it could just as well have been four in the morning. Having traveled for three days, through three different [...] virus, in 30 degrees Celsius, wearing three shirts to many, I did not have the sweet feeling of adventure I had expected. However, I was happy to be done traveling for now. In the car on the way to the school [...] got mad, sometimes sad, and sometimes I was just happy to make it through the day. I remember one night looking at the ceiling and wondering why I had traveled halfway across the world. That night, I fell
changes of the current and we have one of the most respected scientists in the field, Bogi Hansen, here in the Faroes. Maybe this is where the question of climate changes can get answers. In May the worlds [...] experts in the field fetal programming and developmental toxicity met in the Faroes for the first international conference on the subject. It was in the Faroes because one of the leading experts in the field [...] Danish rule. However the Faroes have also acted very independently and it seems like the Faroese have the oldest parliament in the world. In ancient times it has been situated in the older part of Tórshavn
53 prisoners were executed in the USA in 2006, bringing to 1,057 the total number executed since the use of the death penalty was resumed in 1977. Scientific studies have consistently failed to find convincing [...] fundamental rights in the Declaration, namely the “right to life, liberty and security” (article 3). People around the world still disagree about whether it is legitimate to take the lives of those who have themselves [...] To Amnesty International, the death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. It violates the right to life. It is irrevocable and can be inflicted on the innocent. It has never been
there, it’s just too far away, and isn’t the crime rate pretty high over there? Oh, but it’s great that you’re doing it! Living the American Dream!” In the reality of what is the United States, I have not yet [...] coming in as an outsider is no barrier to fitting in and utilizing what the country has to offer. It is made easy by the astonishing openness that the people has been conditioned into by their heritage as ’the [...] too big to grasp fully, mysterious in some ways, and maybe even a little dangerous. The usual reaction I get when talking to people at home about studying in the U.S. is something like this: “I don’t think
interested in our stories about the Faroe Islands as a Tolkien-like country and about the boy who found a watch that had travelled all the way from the North Pole. But in order to sell the Faroes to his [...] story. And the story that got him here was the one about the Faroese professor, Bogi Hansen, who was awarded the Nordic Council Nature and Environment Prize in 2006 for his research into climate and oceanography [...] alive in the Faroe Islands«. In a poetic language the article vividly describes the unique and magic Faroese weather that is ever-changing and different. - The late-setting sun breaks through purple rain
alternatives, educational, labour and income possibilities. And as far as possible, the physically and mentally disabled ought to be financially self-sufficient and take part in the role of active citizenship [...] originates in a political ambition and it aims for a social system which both: • promotes equality, well-being and reliance; and which • at the same times generates innovation, cooperation and growth. From [...] atmosphere in which social, industrial and economic spheres come together in a expanding dialectic synthesis. This is how we will achieve to be amongst the most advanced nations. We see great ideals in the Nordic
describe and define. As Minister of Industry and Trade, I have watched with great pleasure the mounting interest in our fair isles and the growing collaboration between the Faroese business community and the [...] ensures that the inspiration and knowledge gained by our young people who study in the United States and elsewhere will quickly spread throughout our society and will come to be applied in new and interesting [...] Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States and one of the principal drafters of the Declaration of Independence, once reflected in a letter written in 1803 to James Monroe that some men
bestu handritunum. New English Bible skrivar, at: “it can be seen that practically all of the earliest and best mss (t.e. handrit) extant omit the pericope; it is found only in mss of secondary importance” [...] virdur millum trúgvandi kristin, tekur soleiðis saman um granskingina: “the evidence for the non-johannine origin of the pericope of the adulteress is overwhelming”. Hvørji eru so prógvini, sum hava sannført [...] Tregelles, sum í nógv ár hoyrdi til The Plymouth Brethren (í Føroyum brøðrasamkomuna), skrivaði í eini bók frá 1854: “The ancient translators in general could not have agreed, in so many countries, to pass by
