Marshall Islands

For what reason do elephant seals come ashore during the spring and summer? This and many other ocean questions are asked at competitions of the National Ocean Sciences Bowl. I enjoy academic competitions like this because they allow me to share the knowledge I have accumulated over the years. In April 2016, myself and several friends travelled to Morehead City, North Carolina, to compete in the national competition of the National Ocean Sciences Bowl. Earlier, in February, we had emerged…

It was late March 1876, the wind was cold and hard like the stones of the lake shore the S.S. Cronet landed on, carrying six crew and three passengers. The three passengers were explorers sent by the Government of Canada to explore from the subarctic shores of Repulse Bay to Chesterfield Inlet townships. They were sent to map hundreds of lakes and over five-hundred miles of shore line. The passengers on this boat are Troy Mathews Leader and mapper from Quebec, Stephen Lewis the cook from the…

I believe the Rapanui walked the statues 11 miles across what is now known as Easter Island. The Rapanui are peoples who lived in the island. The only information we know from the Rapanui about the statues walked across the island. The first reason I believe the statues were rolled on wooden sledges is because that is so much easier for a human than to pull them with ropes. "In 1998, a group of scientists put the sledge-and-roller theory to the test, using a 10-ton replica of a statue and 70…

The English and the Algonquins at Roanoke. • It was late August 1590 when English ships made their way north through rough seas to Roanoke Island, (off the coast of present-day North Carolina) • Virginia Dare, the first English baby born in America. • Walter Raleigh, a wealthy adventurer who saw prophet and prestige by organizing an English colony to compete with Spain Powerful Empire in the New World. • Although Manteo, from the village of Croaton, argued that their technology would make the…

Have you ever seen the strange statues on easter island? well in the magazine article “did aliens make these statutes” clearly explains two ways the statues appeared. over 1000 years ago a few explorers landed on the island and found the statues and no humans. it is believed that the people that lived there were rapanui, and they created the statues. There is only one problem, the statues weighed up to 80 tons and their height ranged from 4 to 33 feet. currently there are two theories to how the…

in America, led by John White, is the lost colony of Roanoke that suddenly vanished in 1587. After John White went back to England for supplies, and was delayed, he left the settlers on Roanoke Island; only to find them missing afterwards in 1590 (“Wolfe”). This led him to finding clues through Roanoke Island, North Carolina, in order to find the colonists; including his family and granddaughter. Even over centuries of looking for them we are still persistent on any leads towards it. Whether…

today as the Lost Colony, was established in today’s Dare County, North Carolina in the late 16th-century. It was an attempt by Queen Elizabeth to create a permanent English settlement. Nearly four hundred years ago, a baby girl was born on Roanoke Island, off what is now the North Carolina coast. She was the first child of English parents to be born in the New World, named Virginia Dare. Within a year, Virginia Dare, along with over one hundred other colonists, disappeared. Still today no one…

Queen Anne’s Revenge In November 1996 researchers working with Intersal Inc. found a mound of cannon, anchors, and ballast stones off the coast of Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina. What the researchers discovered Queen Anne’s Revenge, the flagship of Blackbeard, real name Edward Teach (Wilde-Ramsing:2006). The ship, which sank in 1718, was not professional excavated by archaeologists till 1997 when the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources (NCDCR) to control of the site. The site has…

The history of Easter Island, its statues and its peoples, has long been shrouded in mystery. Some have suggested that aliens marooned on earth planted the statues as signals to their fellow aliens to rescue them. Others have said that the statues were constructed by a great race of guilders that were stranded on the island and built them before being rescued. Still others are convinced that an ancient society with the capability of…

During the evening of August 13, 2015, the Hawthorne Fire Department conducted a training exercise using the Sugar Shack. They arrived at Eastview at approximately 6:30 pm to set-up. Hiltz, Lombardo, Rutigliano, and Ramlochan were all present during the exercise, but they did not participate in the exercise. Feeney participated in the training exercise in his role as volunteer firefighter but not in his capacity as a Con Edison employee. According to Hiltz, there was no job briefing done before…