Moreover, he had spent six months on the Galapagos islands, among the great turtles that Captain Cook had found there, and now and then he would disappear into some small island of the West Indies.

On February 17, Russell and Cook were sent to the Pena Flor community on the Vermejo to see about renting out ranches the company had purchased.

Russell had reached the house as Cook surmised, dismounted, but just as the old trapper opened the door to receive him, he fell into the trapper's arms -- dead.

Cook Bennett Mathues said Juet had predicted bloodshed on the ship.

We had become good friends during my stay at Cook County Hospital.

Phillip soon decided that this site, chosen on the recommendation of Sir Joseph Banks, who had accompanied James Cook in 1770, was not suitable, since it had poor soil, no secure anchorage and no reliable water source.

In 2007, the Times printed another Editor ’ s Note after Hesser published a review of Vegetable Garden by Patricia Wells without disclosing that in 1999, Wells had contributed a jacket blurb for Hesser ’ s book The Cook and the Garden.

Stephen Cook asserts that the prophetic efforts of this book can be summed up in this passage " I have been the Lord your God ever since the land of Egypt ; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior " () Hosea's job was to speak these words during a time when that had been essentially forgotten.

In addition, the pitching staff posted a 4. 66 ERA — the best in team history — and starters Jason Jennings, Aaron Cook, and Jeff Francis had good seasons.

Biographer Blanche Weisen Cook suggests that this period served as " the political education of General Eisenhower ", as he had to prioritize wide-ranging educational, administrative, and financial demands for the university.

Terry Jones and Peter Cook had visited earlier that day.

This was driven in some part by scientific naiveté, namely an early belief that seawater was incapable of freezing ( as late as the mid-18th century, Captain James Cook had reported, for example, that Antarctic icebergs had yielded fresh water, seemingly confirming the hypothesis ), and that a route close to the North Pole must therefore exist.

Niue had been offered autonomy in 1965 ( along with the Cook Islands, which accepted ), but had asked for its autonomy to be deferred another decade.

The Duchess was dead at the time of the island's sighting by Cook, but Cook had set out from England in 1772 and could not have known of her May 1773 death.

George Forster, who had been on Cook ’ s second voyage to the Pacific and had been with him when he landed on Norfolk Island, was at the time professor of natural history at the University of Vilna ( or Vilnius ) in Polish Lithuania: Forster discussed the proposed Botany Bay colony in an article written in November 1786, “ Neuholland, und die brittische Colonie in Botany Bay ”.

Stephen Cook coined the name " Nick's class " after Nick Pippenger, who had done extensive research on circuits with polylogarithmic depth and polynomial size.

As a student, Cook initially intended to become a career diplomat like his father, but Britain " had run out of colonies ", as he put it.

When he returned, the pilot had been refashioned as That Was The Week That Was and had made a star of David Frost, something Cook resented.

* 1777 – Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook.

Christmas Island was discovered by Captain James Cook on Christmas Eve ( 24 December ) 1777.

Captain James Cook discovered the southern eight islands of the Sandwich Islands Group in 1775, although he lumped the southernmost three together, and their status as separate islands was not established until 1820 by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.

On 22 August 1770, James Cook discovered the eastern coast of Australia while on a scientific voyage to the South Pacific.

* 1768 – 1779: James Cook mapped the boundaries of the Pacific Ocean and discovered many Pacific Islands

* December 24 – Kiritimati is discovered by James Cook.

In 1773 James Cook crossed the Antarctic Circle for the first time but although he discovered nearby islands, he did not catch sight of Antarctica itself.

In November 1774, Cook started from New Zealand and crossed the South Pacific without sighting land between 53 ° and 57 ° S to Tierra del Fuego ; then, passing Cape Horn on 29 December, he rediscovered Roché Island renaming it Isle of Georgia, and discovered the South Sandwich Islands ( named Sandwich Land by him ), the only ice-clad land he had seen, before crossing the South Atlantic to the Cape of Good Hope between 55 ° and 60 °.

Various trinkets were hidden in the cake for the children to find ; one of these was a star the Cook discovered in the old spice box.

In Māori legend, Cook Strait was discovered by Kupe the navigator.

The name Anchor Point comes from a legend that when James Cook discovered the area, he lost an anchor.

At first, Cook intended to become a Church of Scotland minister, but lost his faith as he discovered politics.

Cook discovered the island's name as " Toobouai " by means of a Tahitian named Omai who was part of Cook's group.

Botany Bay had been discovered by Lieutenant James Cook during his voyage of discovery in 1770, and was recommended by the eminent botanist Sir Joseph Banks, who had accompanied Cook, as a suitable site for a settlement.

In the 19th century some Australian Catholics, living under a Protestant ascendancy, claimed that Queirós had in fact discovered Australia, in advance of the Protestants Willem Janszoon, Abel Tasman and James Cook.

* Mrs Moon – Cook at the Hiltons during The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters she is discovered to be the culprit.

People have since explored the general area of Magnetic Island with various instruments to discover what might have caused the effect that Cook reported, but nothing has been discovered.

File: deathofcookoriginal. jpg | The original painting by Cleveley was discovered in 2004 and depicts Captain Cook as a violent man

Cook's half-brother Darryl was Cook's business manager until 2008, when it was discovered that Darryl and his wife had embezzled millions of dollars from Dane Cook.

Home of the famous Singing Ship Monument, the Emu Park land area was first discovered by Captain James Cook in 1770.

Etolin Strait is named after Adolf Etolin, who discovered it and named it Cook Strait.

It was discovered by James Cook on 16 June 1774.

Palmerston was discovered by Captain Cook in 1774, but he did not land on the island until 13 April 1777.