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* 1965 – The Constitution of Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.

* Constitution Day ( Cook Islands )

In the Cook Islands, blue laws were first written legislation, enacted by the London Missionary Society in 1827, with the consent of ariki ( chiefs ).

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The Cook Islands are named after Captain James Cook, who visited the islands in 1773 and 1777.

The Cook Islands became a British protectorate in 1888.

The Cook Islands contain 15 islands in the group spread over a vast area in the South Pacific.

The main Cook Islands language is Rarotongan Māori.

The Cook Islands were first settled around 600 AD by Polynesian people who migrated from nearby Tahiti to the southeast.

Spanish ships visited the islands in the 16th century ; the first written record of contact from Europeans with the native inhabitants of the Cook Islands came with the sighting of Pukapuka by Spanish sailor Álvaro de Mendaña in 1595 who called it San Bernardo ( Saint Bernard ).

British navigator Captain James Cook arrived in 1773 and 1777 ; Cook named the islands the ' Hervey Islands ' to honour a British Lord of the Admiralty ; Half a century later the Baltic German Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern published the Atlas de l ' Ocean Pacifique, in which he renamed the islands the Cook Islands to honour Cook.

Common suggestions are that they are old English breeds introduced by the early whalers, or by Captain Cook or other early explorers.

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.

Today, the Cook Islands are essentially independent ( self-governing in free association with New Zealand ), but are still officially placed under New Zealand sovereignty.

1888 — Cook Islands are proclaimed a British protectorate and a single federal parliament is established.

1901 — The Cook Islands are annexed to New Zealand.

: Christian ( majority of populace are members of the Cook Islands Christian Church )

Cook automated teller machines often fail to fully disclose the fact that the Cooks are not part of the New Zealand banking system, thus legally requiring banks to charge the same fees for withdrawing or transferring money as if the person was in Australia or the EU.

Cook Islanders are NZ citizens.

The banking and incorporation laws of the Cook Islands make it an important centre for setting up companies that are involved in global trade.

In Cook Islands history, migrants from French Polynesia are believed to have arrived on the southern island group around 800 AD.

Of these, the Cook Islands and Niue are not UN members, and have limited sovereignty due to their free association with New Zealand.

As of November 2011, there are 191 ICAO members, consisting of 190 of the 193 UN members ( all but Dominica, Liechtenstein, and Tuvalu ), plus the Cook Islands.

Non-members are: Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein, Bhutan, North Korea, Micronesia, Nauru, Tonga, Cook Islands, Niue, Vatican City and the states with limited recognition.

South Pacific countries and dependencies that are more than 10 % Mormon include American Samoa, the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Niue, Samoa, and Tonga.

B. Cook, Minos and Minotaur are only different forms of the same personage, representing the sun-god of the Cretans, who depicted the sun as a bull.

The two main islands are separated by Cook Strait, 24 km wide at its narrowest point, but requiring a 70-km ferry trip to cross.

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.

Pearls are also produced in the Cook Islands and one farm in the Sea of Cortez, Mexico, from Concha Nácar the rainbow lipped oyster ; these pearls fluoresce red under ultraviolet light.

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.

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.

Not a bullet touched Cook who was nearer the ambush, but one hit Russell in the leg and another broke his arm, passing on through his body.

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

Grant followed the album with her second Christmas album, Home For Christmas in 1992, which included the song " Breath of Heaven ( Mary's Song )", written by Chris Eaton and Grant, and would later be covered by many artists, including Donna Summer, Jessica Simpson ( who acknowledged Grant as one of her favorite artists ), Vince Gill, Sara Groves, Point of Grace, and Broadway star Barbara Cook.

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.

As part of his apprenticeship, Cook applied himself to the study of algebra, geometry, trigonometry, navigation and astronomy — all skills he would need one day to command his own ship.

Cook married Elizabeth Batts ( 1742 – 1835 ), the daughter of Samuel Batts, keeper of the Bell Inn, Wapping and one of his mentors, on 21 December 1762 at St. Margaret's Church in Barking, Essex.

Musician Joe Walsh recorded chats with Moon, finding it remarkable how witty and alert the inebriated drummer managed to stay, ad-libbing his way through surrealistic fantasy stories à la Peter Cook, which Cooper reaffirms, saying he was not even certain he ever knew the real Keith Moon, or if there was one. Keith Moon showing off atop his drumkit Toronto, 21 October 1976

Of the research conducted in this area, one of the best examples of how vicarious conditioning, more specifically modeling, effects the acquisition of a phobia can be said to have come from Cook & Mineka's ( 1989 ) work on rhesus monkeys.

During one performance, Macmillan was in the theatre and Cook departed from his script and attacked him verbally.

The spacecraft takes its name from four British ships of exploration named Discovery, primarily HMS Discovery, one of the ships commanded by Captain James Cook during his third and final major voyage from 1776 to 1779.

Earnshaw Cook was one of the earliest researchers of sabermetrics.

Since March 2012, Cook hosts a one hour radio programme titled On The Road To Big Beach Bootique 5 on XFM.

Cook is considered one of the forefathers of computational complexity theory.

Byrne ran one more major campaign, a failed bid in the 1988 Democratic Primary for Cook County Circuit Court Clerk.

In 1931, Capone was convicted of income tax evasion and was sentenced to eleven years in a Federal institution, plus one year in the Cook County Jail for attempted jury tampering.

Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in the ground-breaking comedy revue Beyond the Fringe in the early 1960s, and then became famous as half of the highly popular television double-act he formed with Peter Cook.

Cook and Moore are most remembered for their sketches as two working-class men, Pete and Dud, in macs and cloth caps, commenting on politics and the arts, but they fashioned a series of one-off characters, usually with Moore in the role of interviewer to one of Cook's upper-class eccentrics.

The show broke new ground with Peter Cook's impression of then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ; on one occasion, this was performed with Macmillan in the audience, and Cook added an ad lib ridiculing Macmillan for turning up to watch.

Aitutaki, also traditionally known as Araura, Ararau and Utataki, is one of the Cook Islands, north of Rarotonga.

The North Island ( Māori: Te Ika-a-Māui ) is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the slightly larger but much less populous South Island by Cook Strait.

After a loss to the Bruins in the 1928 – 29 finals and a few mediocre seasons in the early 1930s, the Rangers, led by brothers Bill and Bun Cook on the right and left wings, respectively, and Frank Boucher at center, would defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1932 – 33 best-of-five finals, three games to one, to win their second Stanley Cup, exacting revenge on the Leafs ' " Kid line " of Busher Jackson, Joe Primeau, and Charlie Conacher.

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.