The sport is now played in countries where squash is played, Australia, Bermuda, France, Germany, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina, Ireland and Sweden.

Its original form had gaff rig, but evolved to use what is now known as Bermuda rig, making it the basis of nearly all modern sailing yachts.

The Bermuda Botanic Gardens ( now with 38 acres ) had been established in 1898.

* Defence, Not Defiance: A History Of The Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps, Jennifer M. Ingham ( now Jennifer M. Hind ), The Island Press Ltd., Pembroke, Bermuda, ISBN 0-9696517-1-6

Its original form had gaff rigging, but evolved to use what is now known as Bermuda rig, which had been used on smaller Bermudian boats since the early 17th Century, making it the basis of nearly all modern sailing yachts.

In 1864, Ames's division, now part of the X Corps of the Army of the James, served under Maj. Gen. Benjamin Franklin Butler in the Bermuda Hundred Campaign and the Siege of Petersburg.

They had four children, Elizabeth (" Betsy "), John Terry, Charles White, and Edward Stettinius Trippe, who now resides in Tucker's Town, Bermuda, where he is executive director of the Tucker's Point Club and serves on Bermuda International Airport's advisory board.

In 1970, the field was transferred to the United States Navy, which operated it as US Naval Air Station, Bermuda until 1995 when the US Navy terminated its 99-year lease and the field was transferred to the Bermuda Government, which now operates the airport as part of the Ministry of Tourism & Transport.

In Bermuda, the Bermuda rig, now almost universally-used on small sailing vessels, can still be seen in its purest form in the Bermuda Fitted Dinghy, used for a series of races contested each year by the colony's yacht clubs.

* United Kingdom: The limit remains at in some of its overseas territories: Anguilla, Guernsey, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Gibraltar, Monserrat and Pitcairn ; the limit is now at in the United Kingdom and its territories of Jersey, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Isle of Man, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and Turks and Caicos Islands.

Along with other endemic and native Bermudian birds, it was threatened with extinction following the loss of 8 million Bermuda cedar trees in the 1940s, and is now quite rare.

The first ' match race ' in a one-design racing yacht i. e. technically identical boats, was the King Edward VII Gold Cup in Bermuda ( now known as the Argo Gold Cup ), that was first sailed in 1937.

By 1995, when Malabar was handed over to the Government of Bermuda, the Royal Naval presence in the North-Western Atlantic and Caribbean had been reduced to the West Indies Guard Ship ( now called Atlantic Patrol Task ( North )), a role which was rotated among the frigates of the fleet, which took turns operating extended patrols of the West Indies.

Former submarine bases include DORA 1, HMAS Platypus, Naval Submarine Base Bangor ( now part of Naval Base Kitsap ), Mare Island Naval Shipyard ( a nuclear-capable base ), Ordnance Island in Bermuda during World War II, and the formerly-classified Soviet base at Balaklava in the now Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

* In the United Kingdom, the Maltese Cross is the symbol used by Rifle Regiments, and has been incorporated into the badges of virtually all rifle units, including the capbadge of the Bermuda Regiment, officers cross belt of the Gurkha Rifles and now amalgamated, the Royal Green Jackets.

In 1728 he began painting " Dean George Berkeley and His Family ," also called " The Bermuda group ", now in the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, a group of eight figures ; it is maintained that the person farthest to the left is actually the artist himself.

Barnes, now an elderly pensioner, was an electrician by trade and worked on the Bermuda Railroad as an electrician until the railroad closed in 1948.

The dies now reside in Richmond's Museum of the Confederacy ; and the embossing press, equipped with brass replica dies, is in a National Trust Museum in St. George's, Bermuda.

* Bermuda Fire Service, East-end station sits astride perimeter, and provides support to ARFF.

These " tribes " were areas of land partitioned off to the " adventurers " ( investors ) of the Company – Devonshire, Hamilton, Paget, Pembroke, Sandys, Smith's, Southampton and Warwick ( thus far, this usage of the word " tribes " is unique to the Bermuda example ).

Hundreds were shipped to Bermuda, possibly from as far as Mexico.

The Company's possession of Bermuda was made official in 1612, when the third and final charter extended the boundaries of ' Virginia ' far enough out to sea to encompass Bermuda, which was also known, for a time, as Virgineola.

The term Bermuda sloop has come to be used outside of Bermuda, today, to describe any single masted, Bermuda rigged boat, also known as Marconi sloops, although most are far less extreme in their design than was once the norm in Bermuda, with bowsprits omitted, masts vertical and shortened, and booms similarly shortened.

On January 25, 1938, bright lights, an aurora borealis appeared all over the northern hemisphere, including in places as far south as North Africa, Bermuda and California.

The boundaries of Virginia were officially extended far enough out to sea to include Bermuda by the Virginia Company's Third Charter in 1612.

The Canadair North Stars were gradually replaced by longer range Lockheed Super Constellations from 1954 onwards, fourteen being operated on transatlantic routes extending as far as Vienna in Austria ; also to Bermuda and several Caribbean destinations including Jamaica and Trinidad.

* Tagfest Northwest, USA-Annual event that draws in mostly members from clubs all over the northwest and other alumni members from as far away as the country of Bermuda.

This was far more restrictive than Bermuda I which had permitted a large number of Fifth Freedom routes.

As far as UK law was concerned, Bermuda still remained a member of the overseas sterling area until exchange controls were abolished altogether in 1979.

The fourth storm of the season had an erratic track across the open Atlantic not far east of Bermuda in early September.

However, due to the risks of running the naval blockade upon the Confederacy, the accompanying embossing press was only shipped as far as Bermuda.

The current has been known to transport icebergs as far south as Bermuda and as far east as the Azores.

It dissipated on October 23 not far south of Bermuda.

They beat Argentina and longtime rivals the USA, but lost to the Cayman Islands and eventual winners Bermuda, and finished third, their worst performance so far in this tournament.

The reason for insisting on the inclusion of these provisions in the Bermuda II agreement was to prevent the much bigger, better financed and commercially far more aggressive US carriers from undercutting BCal with " loss-leading " fares cross-subsidised with profits those carriers ' vast domestic networks generated as well as to stop them from " marginalising " the UK carrier by adding capacity far in excess of what the market could sustain.

The Jamaican Anole, Anolis grahami, was deliberately introduced in 1905 from Jamaica and is now by far the most common lizard in Bermuda.

It was felt as far away as Boston to the north, Chicago and Milwaukee to the northwest, as far west as New Orleans, as far south as Cuba, and as far east as Bermuda.

Aerial view of Bermuda looking west, St. David's and St. George's in foreground

The elevation of Bermuda Dunes is above sea level, but the surface drops by over from west to east.

Located in the Coachella Valley desert region, Bermuda Dunes is sheltered by the San Bernardino Mountains to the north, the Santa Rosa Mountains to the south, by the San Jacinto Mountains to the west and by the Little San Bernardino Mountains to the east.

As would be expected for a long distance migrant, it has occurred as a vagrant eastwards to Alaska and west to Newfoundland, Bermuda and the Azores.

The main channel by which vessels reach most parts of Bermuda west of St. George's, including the Royal Naval Dockyard, on Ireland, the Great Sound, Hamilton Harbour, The Flatts, Murray's Anchorage, and other important sites, carries them around the East ends of St. David's and St. George's Islands, where the coastal artillery was always most heavily concentrated.

Early maps drew the island west of Brittany and southwest of Ireland, but it later moved towards the Americas ( Newfoundland, Bermuda, West Indies ).

As small pockets of dry air became entrained in the eyewall, Fabian weakened slightly, passing just 14 miles ( 23 km ) west of Bermuda on September 5 as a 120 mph ( 180 km / h ) Category 3 hurricane .</ div > The eastern portion of the eyewall moved over the island, resulting in a direct hit ; however, as the center did not move over the island, Fabian did not make landfall.

Several days prior to Fabian striking Bermuda, computer models forecast a ridge of high pressure forcing the hurricane to the west of the island by 200 miles ( 320 km ).

Later on September 8, the storm passed about west of Bermuda.

While passing west of Bermuda, the hurricane weakened slightly, although it re-intensified to its peak strength late on October 6.

Rather than following the normal practice of going south to the tropics and west with the trade winds, Captain Argall sailed west from the Azores to Bermuda and then almost due west to the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.

A tropical depression formed from this area west of Bermuda on September 25.

* 1961's Hurricane Frances: Caused flooding in Puerto Rico, peaked at Category 3 west of Bermuda, subtropical at Nova Scotia

Throughout the following days, Luis entered a state of gradual weakening as it accelerated safely to the west of Bermuda.

From there on, the center of the storm passed to the west of Bermuda on September 9 causing minor damage, and then later weakened to a Category 2 hurricane, with winds of 110 mph ( 165 km / h ).

Several hours later, the hurricane made its closest approach to Bermuda, passing about 200 mi ( 320 km ) west of the island.

As Marilyn weakened to Category 1 hurricane status and moved north-northwest, it passed about west of Bermuda on September 19.

The storm reached its peak intensity as a 120 mph ( 195 km / h ) Category 3 hurricane just west of Bermuda, bringing winds estimated at 100 mph ( 175 km / h ) to the island.

The hurricane peaked at winds, Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale and passed west of Bermuda on August 25.

Beginning to accelerate, the tropical storm passed to the west of Bermuda before becoming extratropical on November 6.

On August 9, the storm passed to the west of Bermuda, and early on August 10 the storm became extratropical over the open Atlantic Ocean.

Early on the following day, a tropical depression formed just west of Bermuda.