After a week of marriage, we left my home in rural America, a place of big highways, big sky and a big family, to travel across the Balkans, a land of young countries, local cheese and small cars. Our [...] Ben the price of something in Faroese so long as it is a number below 20. Bush in Greece After a few days of beaches and big meals we grew restless, and have since spent the last two weeks of travel staying [...] U.S. dollar to spend. On the island of Samos, within sight of the Turkish coast, we stayed with a lovely pair of English teachers who treated us to the only bed in the apartment and an eagerness to talk
beautiful metropolitan, just a highway, a couple of fast-food restaurants, and miles upon miles of fields: I had landed in Hicksville, I just wasn’t aware of it. On the way to school, we stopped at a Wal-Mart [...] 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 [...] caught a 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
boates. In spide of the entired blackout because of the war a British officer in charge turned on the powerful searchlight in order to finde the whales somewhere in the fiord. Extract of the Round-up in Picture [...] active service in Italy with fixed bayonets and probably no dummy. An other event I dare say in 1942: A school of ”these ocean beasts” entered Nólsoyarfjørð the fiord south-east of Tórshavn. The tide and darkness [...] been won. A body of men, the vaktarhald, is appointed to drag the harbour for such beasts as in dying sank to the bed, an perform other necessary tasks in connection with the distribution of the meat. The
Sveinn Jónsson Iceland On the 11th of June in 1988 about six thousand peoplewere gathered together in a religious gathering by the Bethlehem church in Kawangware in Nairobi, Kenya. Mary Sinaida Akatsa [...] return of the Christ. Buddhists await another Buddha, Which they call Maitreya. Muslims await the arrival of the Imam Mahdi, Hindus the reappearance of Krishna and Jews await the Messiah. Students of esoteric [...] Benjamin Creme in Britain. Mr. Creme is a painter and writer who has spoken and written about this turn of events since 1974. According to mr. Creme, Maitreya emerged from his dwelling place in the Himalaya
be an advantage for British companies and people working in the Faroes”, says Mr Laksafoss. He is aware of oil companies refraining from working in the Faroes, e.g. activities which could be done here being [...] that their interest in having oil activities based in the Faroes is very much linked to exactly this agreement”. The situation has been that both the UK and the Faroes have each in their own way implemented [...] that all activity in a specific area was accordingly taxed in that area. Many birds nests to unravel - “Through this dual tax agreement you should never be taxed twice. On the other hand an agreement
developments took place first in Shetland. »Orkney learnt a lot of lessons from the Shetland experience,« he said. »It meant that we got many of the benefits of oil developments without many of the less acceptable [...] population of the islands had fallen steadily from 30,000 in 1901 to just 17,000 in 1971. »One of the most important benefits of the oil era, and one often overlooked, is the way it restored confidence in the [...] year, made more acquisitions of North Sea oil fields than any other operator. It is skilled in extending the life of fields many would consider to have reached the end of their useful life. That means
There is no place for this kind of barbaric tradition in the world of the 21st Century, in a world where species extinction is escalating, where the oceans are dying, and where the sheer numbers of human beings [...] culture and traditions of the Faeroese that lie behind the continuation of the slaughter of the whales. We were told we are not welcome because we will not compromise. In other words, we had to understand [...] there is no single whale remaining to communicate to other pods the horror that awaits other pilot whales in the fjords and coves of the Faeroes. The other reason is our human inability to comprehend non-
largest collection of books in America. Now Jónas knew the realities of living in a harsh environment and he brought along good quantities of building supplies (scare at even the best of times in the Faroes) [...] possessed by this unique microcosm of a country, nestled in the heart of the pristine North Atlantic Ocean. By way of illustration, several years ago I participated in the launch of Intel’s new Centrino WiFi chip [...] this sort of thing for centuries. Take Jónas Bronck, for example. Born in Copenhagen, the son of a Danish Lutheran minister, he was raised in the Faroes. As one could well imagine, growing up in the Faroes
the island, experience a living museum of farm life today, and sample local traditional cuisine. The farmer is part of a green certification program. If the numbers of cruise ships continue to grow rapidly [...] l impacts, but the Faroese are aware of the dangers and are debating solutions. This survey rates the qualities that make a destination unique—"integrity of place." It's not about consumer service, so [...] cultural integrity, we decided the best measure is informed human judgment: a panel of 522 well-traveled experts in a variety of fields—ecology, sustainable tourism, geography, travel writing and photography
Enski Cambridge-professarin í Quantum Physics, Dr. John Polkinghorne, sigur í bók síni ?Belief in God in an Age of Science?, at eins og tað var í post-Newtonsku ættarliðnum, har alt í ovfarakæti skuldi greinast [...] abstraktir ella skipskeks teleologiskar.? ?The undreamt-og breakthrough of molecular biology has made the problem of the origin of life a greater riddle than it was before: we have aquired new and deeper [...] a økið.? ?We emerge inevitably or by luck luck from the chipping of DNA by cosmic rays, chemical currents in the space, the bubbling of volcanic mud.? - Dennis Overbye Líknilsi um telduhvølpin Lat okkum