Charles has appeared on celebrity editions of University Challenge ( 1998 ), Can't Cook, Won't Cook ( 1998 ) and The Weakest Link ( 2004 ), and comedy panel shows such as Have I Got News For You ( 1995 ), Just a Minute ( 1995 ) and They Think It's All Over ( 1996 ).

The Cook Islands was not the only island group visited by the traders, but Penrhyn Atoll was their first port of call and it has been estimated that three-quarters of the population was taken to Callao, Peru.

1986 — In January 1986, following the rift between New Zealand and the USA in respect of the ANZUS security arrangements Prime Minister Tom Davis declared the Cook Islands a neutral country, because he considered that New Zealand ( which has control over the islands ' defence and foreign policy ) was no longer in a position to defend the islands.

In recent years, the Cook Islands has taken on more of its own external affairs ; as of 2005, it has diplomatic relations in its own name with eighteen other countries.

The Cook Islands has " Home Rule " with respect to banking, similar to Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man.

As a colony or other dependent state or territory lacks the authority to vest in a true head of state of its own, it either has no comparable office, simply receiving those roles exercised by the paramount powers ( in person or, most of the time, through an appointed representative, often styled governor or lieutenant-governor, but also various other titles, on the Cook Islands even simply King / Queen's Representative ) or has one, such as a formerly sovereign dynasty, but under a form of metropolitan guardianship, such as protection, vassal or tributary status.

Cook has no direct descendants — all his children either pre-deceased him or died without having children of their own.

He named the island " Savage Island " because, legend has it, the natives that " greeted " him were painted in what appeared to Cook and his crew to be blood.

According to Standish, " Anyone who is acquainted with the facts and has any amount of logical reasoning can not avoid the conclusion that neither Cook, nor Peary, nor Byrd reached the North Pole ; and they all knew it.

Cook has been described by Stephen Fry as " the funniest man who ever drew breath ", although his work was also controversial.

There are many clubs and societies organised by the students of the college, such as the college's dramatic society the Pembroke Players, which has been made famous by alumni such as Peter Cook, Eric Idle, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Clive James and Bill Oddie and is now in its 50th year.

Nolan Cook, a prominent collaborator with the group in both their live and studio work ( as well as being a live member of I Am Spoonbender ), denied in an interview that Fox and Flynn are the Residents, saying that he has come across such rumors, and they are completely false.

In the 1990s, Applegate, Bixby, Chvátal, and Cook developed the program Concorde that has been used in many recent record solutions.

The UNCCD has 194 country Parties: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, The Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, the People's Republic of China, Colombia, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d ' Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, European Union, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, The Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, the Republic of Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, South Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Federated States of Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Thailand, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

, the WHO has 194 member states, including the Cook Islands and Niue.

Cook is a 12 % shareholder of Brighton & Hove Albion, the football club he has supported since moving to Brighton in the late 1980s.

On 4 March 2009, Cook checked into a rehabilitation centre in Bournemouth to fight a " booze addiction " that he has been battling " for some time ".

Stephen Arthur Cook ( born December 14, 1939, Buffalo, New York ) is a renowned American-Canadian computer scientist and mathematician who has made major contributions to the fields of complexity theory and proof complexity.

Cook has supervised numerous MSc students, and 30 PhD students have completed their degrees under his supervision.

Cook has two children and currently lives with his wife in Toronto.

The name was inspired by Captain James Cook, whose journal entry " ambition leads me ... farther than any other man has been before me " inspired the second pilot's title.

* 1780 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England ( Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage ).

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.

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.

Cook went ashore on Tuesday 11 October 1774, and is said to have been impressed with the tall straight trees and New Zealand flax plants, which, although not related to the Northern Hemisphere flax plants after which they are named, produce fibres of economic importance.

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 ”.

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.

The biologist Orator F. Cook seems to have been the first to coin the term ' speciation ' for the splitting of lineages or " cladogenesis ," as opposed to " anagenesis " or " phyletic evolution " occurring within lineages.

Dr. John Raba, Medial Director of Cermak Health Services, the prison hospital in the Cook County Hospital system, later examined Wilson, determined his patient Wilson had been tortured, and quickly complained to then Chicago Police Superintendent Richard Brzeczek in a letter:

The poem may have been inspired by James Cook's second voyage of exploration ( 1772 – 1775 ) of the South Seas and the Pacific Ocean ; Coleridge's tutor, William Wales, was the astronomer on Cook's flagship and had a strong relationship with Cook.

Without it, there might not have been either That Was the Week That Was or Private Eye magazine, which originated at the same time, and that partially survived due to financial support from Peter Cook, and served as the model for the later American Spy Magazine.

* Peter Cook as E. L. Wisty: " Yes, I could have been a judge, but I never had the Latin.

Sailing in 1772 with the Resolution, a vessel of 462 tons under his own command and the Adventure of 336 tons under Captain Tobias Furneaux, Cook first searched in vain for Bouvet Island, then sailed for 20 degrees of longitude to the westward in latitude 58 ° S, and then 30 ° eastward for the most part south of 60 ° S, a higher southern latitude than had ever been voluntarily entered before by any vessel.

Cook Island MP Teina Bishop said " New Zealand aid should have been sent to the devastated area much sooner.

The extent to which he engineered this has been hotly debated ever since, and was even at the time regarded as ironic by many in the Labor movement given Hughes ' violent hostility to earlier Labor " rats " like Joseph Cook.

Consequently, Bering's name has since been used for the Bering Strait ( named by Captain James Cook despite knowledge of Dezhnev's earlier expedition ), the Bering Sea, Bering Island, Bering Glacier and the Bering Land Bridge.

As early as March 1785, Lapérouse proposed that Paul Monneron, who had been chosen as the expedition's chief engineer, go to London to find out about the latest conclusions on the anti-scurvy measures recommended by Cook and the exchange items used by Cook in his dealings with the native peoples, and to buy scientific instruments of English manufacture.

The Cook County Highway Department is responsible for the design and maintenance of roadways in the county.

The ECB also employs the English Test match captain Alastair Cook and other centrally contracted players, as well as being responsible for the ECB National Academy, currently based at Loughborough University in Leicestershire.

The Prime Minister of the Cook Islands is the official responsible for heading Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's government in the Cook Islands, a self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand.

It was the home of Captain J. Watson, who was responsible for the memorial to Captain James Cook, which still stands at front of the building.

* Scullery maid — the lowest grade of ' below stairs ' maid, reporting to the Cook, the Scullery Maids were responsible for washing up cutlery, crockery, and glassware, and scrubbing kitchen floors, as well as monitoring ovens whilst Kitchen Maids ate their own supper.

In parallel with the technical investigations for cables across Cook Strait, the Minister responsible for the State Hydro-Electric Department appointed a committee of key stakeholders to report on the options for power supply to New Zealand as a whole, not just the North Island.

In 1962, as County Judge-Executive, Cook was partially responsible for the county's $ 34, 000 purchase of the decrepit steamboat Avalon at public auction in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Cook, who since 2004 has been in charge of the group ’ s gas and power division, responsible for natural gas, liquefied natural gas, and Shell ’ s power generation operations, had worked for Shell for 29 years.

Panici also forged alliances with Democrats, and was partly responsible for bringing former Cook County Democratic chairman Edward Vrdolyak to the county's Republican party.

Christian dismissed the reasoning of Adrian Cook, defence lawyer for the accused, that as the persons responsible for the 1789 Mutiny on the Bounty never legally married their Tahitian companions, their children were illegitimate and assumed the nationality of their mothers.

David J. Cook ( 1840 / 1842 – April 2, 1907 ) was an American western lawman and City Marshal of Denver, Colorado, responsible for over 3, 000 arrests.

In 1856 he was elected to the first parliament under responsible government as the member for Cook and Westmoreland.

In 1999, she moved to a central post responsible for launching National Statistics and dealing with the arrival of Len Cook, the first National Statistician, in 2000.