Hans Egede's Hope Colony was organized under the auspices of the Bergen Greenland Company prior to its bankruptcy in 1727 ; it was succeeded by the merchant Jacob Severin ( 1733 – 1749 ), the General Trade Company ( Det almindelige Handelskompagni ; 1749 – 1774 ), and finally the Royal Greenland Trading Department ( KGH ; 1776 – 1908 ).

* 1914 – World War I: the first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.

On 25 October 1977, then Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser declared the existence of ASIS and its functions following a recommendation by the first of the Hope Royal Commissions ( see below ).

Three Royal Commissions have examined, among other things, ASIS and its operations: in 1974 and 1983 ( the Hope Royal Commissions ), and in 1994 ( the Samuels and Codd Royal Commission ).

On 21 August 1974, the Whitlam Government appointed Justice Robert Hope to conduct a Royal Commission into the structure of security and intelligence services, the nature and scope of the intelligence required and the machinery for ministerial control, direction and coordination of the security services.

On 17 May 1983 the Hawke Government reappointed Justice Hope to conduct a second Royal Commission into ASIS, ASIO, ONA, DSD and JIO ( now DIO ).

As with the first Hope Royal Commission, the reports on ASIS and DSD, which included draft legislation on ASIS, were not made public.

Within two days the Minister for Foreign Affairs Bill Hayden announced that ' an immediate and full investigation ' would be conducted under the auspices of the second Hope Royal Commission on Australian Security and Intelligence Agencies, which was still in progress.

While not included within the public version of the report, the Royal Commission headed by Mr Justice Hope did prepare an appendix which would appear to have dealt with the possible security and foreign relations consequences of disclosure of participants ' names by The Sunday Age.

Herschel collaborated with Thomas Maclear, the Astronomer Royal at the Cape of Good Hope, and the two families became close friends.

The building is named for Justice Hope, who led two Royal Commissions into Australia's intelligence and security agencies and operations, the first of which led to the creation of ONA.

October 20: In reaction to the disturbances of 1929, the Passfield White Paper and the Hope Simpson Royal Commission recommend limiting Jewish immigration.

The Royal Canadian Mint produced a special dollar coin in 2005 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Marathon of Hope.

The cape at Point Hope was renamed by Captain Frederick William Beechey of the Royal Navy, who wrote on August 2, 1826: " I named it Point Hope in compliment to Sir William Johnstone Hope ".

He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1869, and on the resignation of Sir Thomas Maclear in 1870 he was appointed Her Majesty's astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope.

From 1881 to 1883, American astronomer William L. Elkin used a heliometer at the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa to compare the position of Epsilon Eridani with two nearby stars.

Between 1834 and 1838, John Frederick William Herschel made observations of the southern skies with his reflector from the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope.

Between 1896 and 1900, lacking an observatory, he volunteered to measure photographic plates taken by David Gill, who was conducting a photographic survey of southern hemisphere stars at the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope.

Aged twenty-one ( 1807 ) Haydon exhibited, for the first time, at the Royal Academy, The Repose in Egypt, which was bought by Thomas Hope the year after for the Egyptian Room at his townhouse in Duchess Street.

The $ ½ shows an older Queen Elizabeth II and the back shows a picture of Sister Sarah in the Nassau Straw Market ; the $ 1 shows Sir Lynden Pindling and on the back the Royal Bahamas Police Force Band ; the $ 3 has a young Queen Elizabeth II and on the back shows a Family Island Regatta with native sloops ; the $ 5 – Sir Cecil Wallace-Whitfield and the back shows a Junkanoo group ' rushing ' in the Junkanoo parade ; the $ 10 – an older Queen Elizabeth II ( replacing Sir Stafford Sands ) and the back shows the Hope Town Lighthouse and settlement in Abaco, the $ 20 – Sir Milo Butler ; the $ 50 – Sir Roland Symonette ; the $ 100 – an older Queen Elizabeth II and the back shows a jumping blue marlin, the national fish of The Bahamas.

The report " Mary: Faith and Hope in Christ ", by the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, concluded that the teaching about Mary in the two definitions of the Assumption and the Immaculate Conception can be said to be consonant with the teaching of the Scriptures and the ancient common traditions.

On April 22, 2007, the advisory body known as the International Theological Commission released a document, originally commissioned by Pope John Paul II, entitled " The Hope of Salvation for Infants Who Die without Being Baptized.

* The Hope of Salvation for Infants Who Die Without Being Baptized ( document of the International Theological Commission )

The New Hope-Lambertville Toll Supported Bridge The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission operates the free New Hope-Lambertville Toll Supported Bridge that connects PA 179 in New Hope, PA and NJ 179 while the New Hope-Lambertville Toll Bridge is over the line in Delaware Township.

He led the Duke-based International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development, a task force of scholars and leaders that published Poverty, Conflict, and Hope: A Turning Point in Central America ( also known as the Sanford Commission Report since he was " the principal catalyst of the commission's work ") in 1989 with the principles for promoting peace, democracy and equitable development in Central America.

Advisory Neighborhood Commission ( ANC ) 6C ( an elected local governmental body advising the District government on neighborhood issues ) asked Metro to move the Anacostia Metro station from its proposed location on Howard Road between Firth Sterling Avenue SE and Martin Luther King, Jr., Avenue SE to the intersection of Good Hope Road SE and Anacostia Drive SE.

After the widespread Arab riots of 1929 in the then British Mandate of Palestine, the Hope Simpson Royal Commission was appointed to seek causes and remedies for the instability.

In 1903, du Toit was appointed as a geologist within the Geological Commission of the Cape of Good Hope, and he began to develop an extensive knowledge of the geology of southern Africa by mapping large portions of the Karoo and its dolerite intrusions, publishing numerous papers on the subject.

Milian has served as emcee for a number of charitable causes, including the Latino Commission on AIDS, The Lighthouse for the Blind, The Miami-Dade County Teachers Awards, Hope for Vision, and the South Florida Children's Home Society.

The Interstate Commerce Commission ( ICC ) authorized the CNJ to acquire the Wharton and Northern Railroad and the Mount Hope Mineral Railroad on February 4, 1930.

According to the Hope Simpson Royal Commission Report of 1930 ," The cultivation of the orange, introduced by the Arabs before the commencement of Jewish settlement, has developed to a very great extent in consequence of that settlement.

This lead directly to the Hope Simpson Royal Commission in 1930.

" Strong Commission Seen as ' Only Hope ' For Rebuilt Avenue.

Perhaps most interesting was the original version of Hope which had been delivered to Capitol Records, including the complete contributions made by the London Symphony Orchestra, which had largely been removed from the version which was eventually released.

" Hope " delivered food, water and other needed supplies.

Obama also consulted Axelrod before he delivered an 2002 anti-war speech and asked him to read drafts of his book, The Audacity of Hope.

Hope delivered what was perhaps the most famous line of the evening when, at the program's start, he identified the new station as " KTL ", mistakenly omitting the " A " at the end of the call sign.

The X-Men defeated Ord and Benetech, and Ord was delivered into the hands of S. H. I. E. L. D .. Dr. Rao's work was destroyed by Wolverine, leaving Hank with the last sample of " Hope ", although he remains uncertain whether or not he will use it at some point.

The eight ships ran into foul weather after passing the Cape of Good Hope, and were separated.

The oldest nephew, Henry Thomas Hope, received eight of the most valuable gems including the Hope Diamond.

In Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, set 32 years before A New Hope, R2-D2 is portrayed as belonging to the Naboo defense forces and is one of eight astromech droids deployed for repair duty on Queen Padmé Amidala's starship as it attempts to get past the Trade Federation blockade.

The Quequechan River once flowed through downtown and finally down a series of eight steep waterfalls, into the Taunton River at the head of the deep Mount Hope Bay.

In 2010-11 Hope athletes and / or teams qualified for eight NCAA championships.

In 2003, the Church of the Blessed Hope ( CGAF ) had eight congregations² with about 400 members.

In addition, VEISHEA brings speakers, lecturers, and entertainers to Iowa State, and throughout its over eight decade history it has hosted such distinguished guests as Bob Hope, John Wayne, Presidents Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan, and Lyndon Johnson, and performers Diana Ross, Billy Joel, Sonny and Cher, the Goo Goo Dolls and The Black Eyed Peas.

The Play for Today series continued to take risks throughout Curran's eight years as Director-General and, in the drama series Days of Hope which accounted the early years of the Labour movement in Britain, the BBC proved that it was not necessarily as Tory-biased as some thought ( although significantly the series was never shown again ; it might have been more likely to gain a repeat under Hugh Greene or Alasdair Milne ).

8 Visions of Hope is a global art project that explores and shows how art, culture, artists & musicians as positive change agents can help in the realization of the eight UN Millennium Development Goals.

* Chicago Hope ( 1994 – 1995, eight episodes )

Beaucaire ( the name of the character played by Bob Hope in the film Monsieur Beaucaire ), Safra appeared in minor roles in three movies and financed eight Woody Allen films through a production company, Sweetland Films, run with girlfriend Jean Doumanian, who was a dear friend to Allen.

Regarded in the movie industry as the dean of special-effects artists, Mr. Stears added his inventions and calamities to the first eight James Bond thrillers, won an Oscar in 1965 for Thunderball, and shared a special-effects Academy Award in 1977 for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

To pull off the film's special effects, the producers hired John Stears, who had worked on the first eight James Bond films and shared a special effects Academy Award for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

By the time she was eight, she wrote her first poem, " Hope ," which was written in reaction to the arrest and exile of her aunt, Olena Kosach, who took part in a political movement against the tsarist autocracy.

Her first book, published in 1962 was called Self Help For Your Nerves ( Hope and Help for Your Nerves in the US ); this book has sold more than 300, 000 copies, and has been translated into eight languages.

Following the demise of that band in 1984, Jesse worked on several other projects, including the band Hope, before joining glam punk band D Generation for which he was the lead singer for eight years.

Spem in alium ( Latin for ' Hope in any other ') is a forty-part Renaissance motet by Thomas Tallis, composed circa 1570 for eight choirs of five voices each.

The pilots flew the aircraft, which can carry up to 46, 860 pounds ( 21, 255 kg ) of aviation fuel, in a figure eight pattern between Bob Hope Airport in Burbank and LAX for more than two hours in order to burn fuel and lower the risk of fire upon landing.