Upon a visit to a local junior college last week, I was shocked to see the young ladies wearing short shorts and the young men wearing Bermuda shorts.

They were married at a lavish ceremony which was duly recorded in Parvenu and all other magazines and newspapers, and then they honeymooned in Bermuda.

When the UK Channel 4 television program " The Bermuda Triangle " ( c. 1992 ) was being produced by John Simmons of Geofilms for the Equinox series, the marine insurance market Lloyd's of London was asked if an unusually large number of ships had sunk in the Bermuda Triangle area.

The NOVA / Horizon episode The Case of the Bermuda Triangle, aired on June 27, 1976, was highly critical, stating that " When we've gone back to the original sources or the people involved, the mystery evaporates.

A pleasure yacht was found adrift in the Atlantic south of Bermuda on September 26, 1955 ; it is usually stated in the stories ( Berlitz, Winer ) that the crew vanished while the yacht survived being at sea during three hurricanes.

* The first film based on the Triangle was The Bermuda Triangle in 1978.

Raising Bermuda was essential to Spanish ships for verifying their position before setting course for the Azores.

1: Newfoundland ; 2: Nova Scotia ; 3: The Thirteen Colonies ; 4: Bermuda ; 5: Bahamas ; 6: British Honduras ( was Spanish c1750: became British in 1798 ); 7: Jamaica ; 8: British Leeward Islands and Barbados

* The U. S. Navy high school at Naval Air Station Bermuda was named for him from 1970 to 1995.

In 1648 a group from Bermuda called ' The Company of Adventurers for the Plantation of the Islands of Eleutheria ' which was led by William Sayle, sailed to the Bahamas to found a colony.

Bermuda was also becoming overcrowded, and the Bahamas offered both religious and political freedom and economic opportunity.

The cable was tested in a trial in Bermuda in 1923.

Bermuda was discovered by Juan de Bermudez in 1505.

When the reefs to the East of Bermuda were spotted, the ship was deliberately driven on them to prevent its sinking, thereby saving all aboard ( 150 sailors and settlers, and one dog ).

The latter was made necessary by the food stores the survivors had begun to collect and stockpile in Bermuda, and which could not be accommodated aboard the Deliverance.

Representative government was introduced to Bermuda in 1620, when its House of Assembly held its first session, and it became a self-governing colony.

Bermuda was divided into nine equally-sized administrative areas.

It would take Bermuda some time to move away from this, especially as tobacco was the main form of currency.

The first slaves were brought to Bermuda soon after the colony was established.

They occupied the Turks only seasonally, for six months a year, however, returning to Bermuda when it was no longer viable to rake salt.

With a total landmass of, and lacking any natural resources, other than the Bermuda cedar, the colonists applied themselves fully to the maritime trades, developing the speedy Bermuda sloop, which was well suited both to commerce and to commerce raiding.

While there, Richman heard and became strongly influenced by the laid-back style of the local musicians, as documented in his later song " Monologue About Bermuda ".

Students ' wear Bermuda style shorts and participate in a variety of informal pre-and post-BSD activities including couch racing ( recently banned by the university administration over safety concerns ), the beer mile, and breakfast parties.

This is intermediate between a European option — which allows exercise at a single time, namely expiry — and an American option, which allows exercise at any time ( the name is a pun: Bermuda, a British overseas territory, is somewhat American and somewhat European — in terms of both option style and physical location — but is nearer to American in terms of both ).

During the latter half of the decade and the early 1980s, it evolved into a more attended " Bermuda triangle " style, which remained well into the 1990s.

The history of the modern Bermuda Gold Cup event dates back to the very beginning of the match racing style of sailing.

The guard wore the same wind breaker with black Bermuda shorts and an Aussie style hat.

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Demographics of Bermuda, Data of FAO, year 2005 ; Number of inhabitants in thousands.

Bermuda had three crops per year.

The US bases closed on 1 September of that year, but unresolved issues-primarily related to environmental factors-delayed the formal return of the base lands to the Government of Bermuda, which finally occurred in 2002.

Pennies were produced dated 1937 – 1940, and 1944 – 1952, although when necessary pennies were produced for the colonies in 1941 – 43 using the 1940 dies ; the 1950 and 1951 circulation pennies were only produced for the colonies as none were needed in Britain — when collecting pennies by year became fashionable in the early 1960s it was discovered that virtually the entire 1951 production of 120, 000 coins had been sent to Bermuda and considerable effort was made to buy as many specimens as possible and many wild claims were made about their investment value ( currently about £ 30 in uncirculated grade ).

After the America ’ s Cup the first real match race took place at the Omega Gold Cup in Bermuda in the year 1937.

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.

They were then stationed in Bermuda for just a year, from 1840 – 1841, before returning once again to Canada where they remained until 1843.

They occupied the Turks only seasonally, for six months a year, however, returning to Bermuda when it was no longer viable to rake salt.

The first named storm of the year was Hurricane Alice which formed on July 1 and became the first known cyclone to affect Bermuda during July.

Both bands formed in 1955 and disbanded in 1992, the same year the Bermuda Islands Pipe Band was formed.

Onstad played for Canada at the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship and made his senior debut for the Canadian national team on February 18, 1988 against Bermuda, and has played a total of 56 games over a 20 year period for the squad.

On September 10, the depression turned eastward, and later that day intensified into Tropical Storm Ginger, the seventh named storm of the year in the Atlantic, about 325 mi ( 525 km ) south of Bermuda.

The following year, RCA sent him to Bermuda to perform on the first ship-to-shore broadcast.

By that year 18m passengers from or to the US used London airports, up from 3m in the last year of Bermuda I.

The new Bermuda dollars operated in conjunction with decimal fractional coinage, hence ending the pounds, shillings, and pence system in that colony in the year before it was ended in the United Kingdom itself.

That year, ACE and its Bermuda subsidiary, incorporated in the Cayman Islands and headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda, wrote its first insurance policy with John Cox as its President and CEO.

Hurricane Four, the strongest of the year, took a northeastern path through the western Atlantic, striking Bermuda on October 16.

During all this time he had been suffering from tuberculosis, and in July 1801 a hemorrhage brought on by the exertion of preaching caused him to go to Bermuda where he spent nearly a year.

The Bermuda Cricket Club was formed one year later and had support from locals as well as British troops.