Dropping to one knee, Cook felled one, and the other struggled off with his comrade, sending no further fire in his direction.

The wealth of greenspace afforded by Chicago's parks is further augmented by the Cook County Forest Preserves, a network of open spaces containing forest, prairie, wetland, streams, and lakes that are set aside as natural areas which lie along the city's periphery, home to both the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe and the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield.

As of July 2008, 106 countries are states parties ( with Suriname and Cook Islands set to join in October 2008 ), and a further 40 countries have signed but not yet ratified the treaty.

It was also during this period that the Village annexed large areas of existing homes in unincorporated Cook County, which laid the foundation for further annexations to the west, which continued to expand the village limits to what they are today.

Summer tourism began in the early 19th century when Quaker Thomas Cook, Jr. opened his farmhouse on the site of the current Antrim Elementary School to boarders, which began the trend that transformed the area into an oceanfront haven for visitors, a trend further established in the 1870 by Captain John Arnold, who built a roadway to the ocean, now known as Arnold Avenue.

's career further and so Cook took over as manager.

Captain Henry Rous further examined the Tweed River in 1828, and incorrectly identified the present-day Point Danger, as the Point Danger of James Cook and recorded the name ‘ Cook ’ s Island ’ rather than ‘ Turtle Island ’ of Oxley.

* His notes on the fauna and flora of northwestern Australia were studied by naturalist and scientist Joseph Banks, who made further studies during the first voyage with Captain James Cook.

Low-rise apartment buildings predominate in sections, with further commercial development along Cook and Quadra Streets.

On Pharyngula, biologist and University of Minnesota Morris ( UMM ) professor PZ Myers publicly expressed support for Cook as well as outrage that Fox News appeared to be inciting readers to cause further problems for the student ; he also ridiculed reports that armed guards would attend the next mass.

In 1941, the centenary of the company, Thomas Cook & Son Ltd. was sold to the four major railway companies with the aim of expanding it further.

Cook Inlet provides navigable access to the port of Anchorage at the northern end, and to the smaller Homer port further south.

On 15 May 1942 a special supplement to the London Gazette carried the announcement of 19 decorations ; Frost was awarded the Military Cross ( MC ), Cook the Distinguished Service Cross ( DSC ) and Cox the Military Medal ( MM ); there were two other DSCs, two Distinguished Service Medals, one other MC, two further MMs and 9 Mentions in Despatches.

He further points to the differences in the dental records of Eleanor Cook and the records made of Little Miss 1565 after her death.

He also employed a wide-ranging scouting network to find the right players for his tactical system ; bolstered by the money from the cup run, Chapman was able to make further signings such as goalkeeper Ted Taylor and forward Charlie Wilson ( later to be joined by George Cook ).

Taren Point Road leads north to the Captain Cook Bridge, St George area and further north to the Sydney CBD.

The short pieces provide further insights into the Streeb-Greebling character that Cook had created for Not Only ...

After the retirement of the last of the original submarine cables, the overall HVDC link transfer capability was restricted further to 1040 MW due to the single Pole 2 cable across Cook Strait.

The districts are, as on some other islands of the Lower Cook Islands, further subdivided into 38 traditional sub-districts called Tapere.

In July, 2006, further infestations were discovered in northern Cook County, Illinois, including Wilmette, Evanston, and Winnetka.

Chicago's wealth of greenspace afforded by Chicago's parks is further enhanced by the Cook County Forest Preserves, a network of open spaces containing forest, prairie, wetland, streams, and lakes, that are set aside as natural areas along the city's periphery.

Transcripts of further, unreleased, out takes are available in a book titled Come Again, edited by William Cook and feature " General Eisenhower ", where Cook reflects on the perils of counting the late General's dandruff flakes ; " Vietnam ", where Moore received a paper cut inflicted by the Viet Cong ( in one insightful remark Cook mentions a " friend " of his who fought in Vietnam but he's not sure " on which side "), and " A Million Pounds ", where Cook plays an hysterical woman looking for a million pounds off a sympathetic Moore.

* 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.

* 1770 – James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.

The three previous claims to have arrived at the North Pole — by Frederick Cook in 1908 ; Robert Peary in 1909 ; and Richard Evelyn Byrd in 1926 ( just a few days before the Norge )— are all disputed, as being either of dubious accuracy or outright fraud.

* April 21 – Frederick Cook claims to have reached the North Pole on this date.

* August 22 – James Cook claims the eastern coast of New Holland ( Australia ) for Great Britain.

Human knowledge and mastery over nature advances when James Watt builds a successful prototype of a steam engine, and a scientific expedition continues as Captain James Cook claims the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands in the south Atlantic Ocean for Britain.

The company claims there is enough tidal movement in Cook Strait to generate 12 GW of power, more than one-and-a-half times New Zealand's current requirements.

This prompted Spain to send expeditions north to assert Spanish ownership, while Captain James Cook and subsequent expeditions by George Vancouver advanced British claims.

The image of the maple leaf used on the flag was designed by Jacques Saint-Cyr ; however, Jack Cook claims that this stylized eleven-point maple leaf was lifted from a copyrighted design owned by a Canadian craft shop in Ottawa.

Blair did not explicitly deny the claims but Robin Cook, former Foreign Secretary, wrote that in his experience he would be surprised if the claims were true.

Menzies claims he sailed the routes sailed by Ferdinand Magellan and James Cook, while he was commanding officer of the diesel submarine between 1968 and 1970, a contention questioned by some of his critics.

In 1991, arson investigator Rick Davey ( along with co-writer Don Massey ) published " A Matter of Degree: The Hartford Circus Fire and Mystery of Little Miss 1565 ", in which he claims the girl's name was Eleanor Emily Cook and that she was from Massachusetts.

However, despite these claims, the English did not establish a colonizing presence on the west coast of North America until the late 18th century in the form of the explorations and asserted claims of Captains Cook and Vancouver and the associated Nootka Conventions, shortly after, the establishment of the Columbia Fur District of the Hudson's Bay Company and its headquarters at Fort Vancouver.

Ray Parkin in his book H. M. Bark Endeavour claims that the modern ' Broken Bay ' was passed unremarked at night, and that Cook was in fact referring to the area around Narrabeen Lagoon.

When the parties rendezvoused, Porter was skeptical of Cook ’ s claims that he climbed the mountain.

Britain's claims to the region were dated back to the voyage of Sir Francis Drake in 1579, and also by right of prior discovery by Captain James Cook in 1778, although the Spanish had explored and claimed the region in 1774, under Juan Pérez, and in 1775, under Bruno de Heceta and Bodega y Quadra.

The three previous claims to have arrived at the North Pole — by Frederick Cook in 1908, Robert Peary in 1909, and Richard E. Byrd in 1926 ( just a few days before the Norge )— are all disputed as being either of dubious accuracy or outright fraud.

The three previous claims to have arrived at the North Pole — by Frederick Cook in 1908, Robert Peary in 1909, and Richard E. Byrd in 1926 ( just a few days before the Norge )— are all disputed, as being either of dubious accuracy or outright fraud.

Given the doubts surrounding the North pole conquest claims of Robert Peary and Frederick Cook, Ralph Plaisted's journey is regarded as the first undisputed surface conquest of the North Pole.

In describing the progress of his investigation, Knight reveals a series of coincidences: both Albert Victor's mother and Alice Crook were deaf ; both Albert Victor's mother and Walter Sickert were Danish ; Sickert is obsessed by the Ripper ; the murders ended with the death of Mary Kelly ; there was growing republican sentiment at the time of the murders, as well as anti-Catholic prejudice ; a woman named " Elizabeth Cook ", who Knight claims could be Annie Elizabeth Crook misspelt, did live at 6 Cleveland Street ; Annie Crook was institutionalised ; rumours of the time link Prince Albert Victor to a scandal in Cleveland Street ; Gull was fond of grapes, and one of the victims may have been eating some at the time of her death ; Gull matches the description of an unnamed physician accused by clairvoyant Robert James Lees, who claimed to have identified the Ripper by using psychic powers.

Due to the historical disputes over the claims of polar explorers prior to Amundsen's expedition, particularly the competing claims of Frederick Cook and Robert Peary to have reached the North Pole first, Amundsen took special care in making his polar observations.