On 18 July 2009, Bussell received an honorary doctorate ( DLitt ) from the University of Oxford.

On 12 August 2012 Bussell performed at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics, with a troupe of 200 ballerinas.

On 14 August 2007, The West Australian Newspaper reported that the J S Battye Library had paid a possible WA record $ 91, 000 at auction for the personal diaries of Vernon Bussell.

On arriving at the Swan River Colony in March 1830, the Bussell brothers were advised that most of the good land near the Swan River had already been granted.

On the east side of the island of Manhattan the indifferent hawk knew the East River that connected New York Bay with Long Island Sound.

On the western tip of Long Island protruded Brooklyn Heights.

On the shores north and south, the fishers and mooncursers -- smugglers -- lived along the churning Great South Bay and the narrow barrier of sand, Fire Island.

On July 9, 2011, Agassi was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Newport, Rhode Island.

On 1 January 1966 Selkirk's island was officially renamed Robinson Crusoe Island.

On June 27, 1974, Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton created Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge which was expanded in 2009 to add submerged lands within of the island.

On March 3, 1764, a charter was filed to create the College in Warren, Rhode Island, reflecting the work of both Stiles and Manning.

On 5 December 1717 Teach stopped the merchant sloop Margaret off the coast of Crab Island, near Anguilla.

On 8 August the fleet's boats stormed Aboukir Island, which surrendered without a fight.

On 19 December 2005 Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Bimini, Bahamas, with an unscheduled stop at Watson Island, Miami, Florida, crashed off Miami Beach, Florida.

On September 7, 2006, the CIA also merged the entries for Bassas da India, Europa Island, the Glorioso Islands, Juan de Nova Island, and Tromelin Island into a new Iles Eparses entry.

" On the return voyage he discovered and explored uninhabited Malden Island in the central Pacific on 30 July 1825.

* On the " Island Of Terror " ( 1966 ), silicon based life-forms are created accidentally by scientists while researching a cure for cancer.

On May 3, 1778 he was transferred to Staten Island.

On June 15, 1897, a fire of unknown origin, possibly caused by faulty wiring, turned the wooden structures on Ellis Island into ashes.

On October 15, 1965, Ellis Island was proclaimed a part of Statue of Liberty National Monument.

On 8 February 1813 the British ship Isabella, a ship of 193 tons and a crew of fourteen, was wrecked off the coast of Eagle Island ( now known as Speedwell Island ).

On 5 April Captain Charles Barnard of the American sealer Nanina was sailing off the shore of Eagle Island, with a discovery boat deployed looking for seals.

* On Staten Island, Masonic lodge # 1130 at 236 Main Street is named after him.

On Faro Island, a giant octopus ( known as the Oodako ) attacks the native village.

On 5 August 1944 the Island Queen schooner disappeared with the loss of all 56 passengers and 11 crew.

The ten lines are the East Rail, Kwun Tong, Tsuen Wan, Island, Tung Chung, Tseung Kwan O, West Rail, Ma On Shan, the Airport Express and the Disneyland Resort lines.

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

On her bureau lay a small, brass ornament of simple design and faded engraving -- an object which, Pamela believed now, had been the property of her great-grandfather, Major Hiram Munroe Culver.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

One beat poet composes a poem, `` Lines On A Tijuana John '', which contains a few happy hints for survival.

On the other hand, we cannot regard artistic invention as pure, uncaused, and unrelated to the times in which it occurs.

On the eve of his return to their native Naxos he speaks with his wife of the masterpiece which rises before them in its completed perfection.

On Christmas Eve, students brought out two small Christmas trees which I placed on either side of the tent.

On the way out Mr. Sakellariadis detoured up a special hill from which one may obtain a matchless view of the Acropolis lighted by night.

On the contrary, the frenzy and furor of combat is only the sombre foil against which the sudden illuminations of the human flash forth with the piercing radiance of a Caravaggio.

On the eve of the `` great debate '' on the proposal to give the President broad powers to make across-the-board tariff concessions which could practically bring us into the Atlantic Community, we should face the alternatives on this proposition.

On these excursions, Papa instructed him on man's chief end, which was his duty to God and his own salvation.

On the basis of the findings which led to this conclusion, the Court remanded the case to the District Court to determine the appropriate relief.

On the other side of the Golden Horn I rode through Eminonu Square, with Yeni Cami, or the New Mosque, which dates from the Seventeenth Century, just across from the entrance to the bridge.

On this, she builds an `` egg compartment '' or `` egg cell '' which is filled with that famous pollen-and-nectar mixture called beebread.

On these generators let Af and Af be, respectively, the harmonic conjugates of Af and Af with respect to the two points in which the corresponding generator meets Aj.

On C there is a Af correspondence in which the Af points cut from C by a general line, l, of the pencil correspond to the point of intersection of the image of L and the plane of the pencil.

On review the Supreme Court, via Mr. Justice Frankfurter, found southern racial problems `` a sensitive area of social policy on which the federal courts ought not to enter unless no alternative to adjudication is open ''.

On the other hand, there is a counterbalancing purpose in education which is to pass on the advantages of the parents to their children.

On these pillars rested that solid basis for life and thought which was soon to be manifested in the remarkably unlimited ken of the Iliad.

On Wednesday evening, November 23, 1859, in Warren, Rev. Mark Trafton of New Bedford, gave a `` Mission of Sympathy '' lecture in which he favorably viewed the Harper's Ferry insurrection.

On the right is the Brumidi Liberty group, as it looked after cleaning operations, which had not yet come around to the other end ; ;

On the second voyage, he had turned back at the frozen island of Novaya Zemlya and meekly given the crew a certificate stating that he did so of his own free will -- which was obviously not the case.

On July 14 the Security Council -- with France and Great Britain abstaining -- voted the resolution which drew the U.N. into the Congo.

On the Latin American front, the President held talks with Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon before sending him to Uruguay and the Inter-American Economic and Social Council ( which the President himself had originally hoped to attend ).

On the other hand, if she didn't remove her own things, it would be difficult to explain to the parade of guests which traversed the apartment.