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Longyear subsequently merged with other small mining companies in the area to form the basis of what would ultimately become Falconbridge Ltd., although actual mining operations in the community did not begin until 1928, when Thayer Lindsley purchased the company for $ 2, 500, 000 and finally sunk the Falconbridge deposit's first mine shaft the following year.
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As of 2007, Seattle lawyer Michael Longyear and Ed Marquand, founding president of the art publishing house Marquand Books have been investing in the town and attempting to revive it, with a project they call project " Mighty Tieton.
The American industrialist John Munroe Longyear visited Spitsbergen as a tourist in 1901, where he met with an expedition prospecting for coal.
Along with his associate Frederick Ayer, Longyear bought the Norwegian claims on the west side of Adventfjorden, and expanded the claims significantly the following year.
In 1906, the Boston-based Arctic Coal Company, with Ayer and Longyear as the main shareholders, started mining in Mine 1a, after having built docks and housing.
The Enemy Papers is a short story collection by Barry B. Longyear containing the novella " Enemy Mine ," later made into a feature-length film of the same name, along with two sequels: " The Last Enemy " and " The Tomorrow Testament.
Longyear and mining
Known as Longyear City until 1926, the town was established by and named after John Munroe Longyear, whose Arctic Coal Company started coal mining operations in 1906.
The first commercially viable mining company was John Munroe Longyear's Arctic Coal Company, which established Longyear City ( from 1925 Longyearbyen ).
Longyear and area
Longyear company had discovered large ore samples during test drilling in the Falconbridge Township area.
Longyear and .,
* Longyear, Rey M., and Kate R. Covington ( 1988 ).
Longyear and community
This community was previously called " Longyear " and " Riseley's ".
The community is served by Svalbard Airport, Longyear and Svalbard Church.
Longyear and until
The claim reverted to Crown land until the Longyear Drilling Company bought it in 1911.
Longyear and when
Normally it is open when a daily boat from Longyear arrives ( in summer months only ), and by special arrangement.
Longyear and company
The company had American administration, but mostly Norwegian laborers, and named the town Longyear City.
Longyear and for
The original novella, in part, helped Longyear to win the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer for 1980.
Longyear and .
The original campus-site at the corner of Presque Isle and Kaye Avenues was on land donated by local businessman and philanthropist John M. Longyear, whose namesake academic building, Longyear Hall, opened its doors to students in 1900.
Svalbard Airport, Longyear, located from Longyearbyen, is the only airport offering air transport off the archipelago.
: Barry B. Longyear, “ Alter Kameraden ” ( in Asimov's, 4 / 10 )
Svalbard Airport, Longyear, located from Longyearbyen, is the only airport offering air transport off and onto the island.
* John W. Longyear, a judge and politician, moved to Mason in 1844, where he taught school and studied law.
All of these houses are currently owned by the Longyear Museum, and all may be visited.
According to Rey M. Longyear, Spohr's best works were hailed by many of his contemporaries as quintessentially Romantic and inherited by Mendelssohn.
In 1918, eleven people were killed by the Spanish flu and a graveyard was established in Longyear City.
Longyear City was renamed Longyearbyen in 1926.
It produces of coal annually, of which is used to fuel Longyear Power Station, Norway's only coal-fueled power station.
Svalbard Airport, Longyear is located at Hotellneset, northwest of town.
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Environmental issues helped form the basis of the nationalist independence movement when environmental demonstrations subsequently merged with those for other political causes in the late 1980s.
DEC was acquired in June 1998 by Compaq, which subsequently merged with Hewlett-Packard in May 2002.
The company subsequently merged with Hewlett-Packard in May 2002. some of DEC's product lines were still produced under the HP name.
Both companies subsequently merged to form Gibtelecom, a joint venture between the Government of Gibraltar and Nynex's successor company, Verizon.
In 1993 the company demerged its pharmaceutical bioscience businesses: pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, specialities, seeds and biological products were all transferred into a new and independent company called Zeneca Group ( which subsequently merged with Astra AB to form AstraZeneca PLC ).
The region of northern Canaan was subsequently merged into the empire of Alexander the Great, who notably conquered Tyre ( 332 BC ) by extending a still-extant causeway from the mainland in a seven-month effort.
Beria maintained that he was assigned to that work by the Hummet party, which subsequently merged with the Adalat Party, the Ahrar Party, and the Baku Bolsheviks to establish the Azerbaijan Communist Party.
Best Foods Inc subsequently merged with Unilever in 2000, and Marmite is now a trademark owned by Unilever.
Formed in 1986, it acquired ( and subsequently merged ) the Computer Film Company in 1997.
All three of these titles merged with the Principality in the same person after the personal union of the Scottish and English crowns in 1603 with the accession of James VI of Scotland as James I of England, with the first Prince of Wales to receive them being his son Henry Frederick ( subsequently an incorporating union created a single British crown in 1707 ).
Geffen Records, along with A & M Records, was subsequently merged into Interscope Records.
Ben-Gurion subsequently broke with Mapai in June 1965 and formed a new party, Rafi, while Mapai merged with Ahdut HaAvoda to form Alignment, with Eshkol as its head.
The RCS and the Royal School of Mines subsequently merged in 1907 with the City and Guilds Central Technical College to form the Imperial College of Science and Technology, each continuing as a Constituent College of Imperial, which then joined the University of London in 1929.
Physical Chemistry ( originally the department of Colloid Science under Eric Rideal ) left the Cavendish site earlier, subsequently locating as the Department of Physical Chemistry ( under RG Norrish ) in the then new chemistry building with the Department of Chemistry ( under Lord Todd ) in Lensfield Road: both chemistry departments merged in the 1980s.
Piqua's Shawnee Native American history became the namesake for the community of Shawnee, founded in 1797 which is bordered on the east side of the river adjacent to downtown and the former Pennsylvania Railroad corridor later used by the merged Penn Central Transportation and subsequently by Conrail.
The schools subsequently merged to become the Mifflin County High School Huskies.
In the early 7th century, it merged with its southern neighbour, Deira, to form the kingdom of Northumbria and its borders subsequently expanded considerably.
A group supporting the restoration of the canal had been set up in the early 1950s independently of the Inland Waterways Association, with which it was subsequently merged.
The entire Royal College of Science, which by then had been merged with University College Dublin, was subsequently taken over in 1990 and turned into a state of the art Government Buildings.
This was to be the band's last album with Mercury Records, who along with Polygram, had become part of the Universal Music Group who subsequently merged Island Records and Def Jam Recordings forming the new Island Def Jam label.
" Mayer's company subsequently merged with two others to become Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ), with the 24 year-old Thalberg made part-owner and accorded the same position as vice president in charge of production.
This site subsequently merged with ShowTime. com.
Arguably, they are best thought of as forerunners of the Quakers, with whom many of them subsequently merged.
It operated from 1969 to 2005, when it was bought by Icelandic investment group Fons Eignarhaldsfélag and subsequently merged with their other Danish acquisition the same year, the low-fare airline Sterling European Airlines.
In 1918, IBC became a wholly owned subsidiary and was subsequently merged into the bank.
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