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St and Helena
Includes Galápagos Islands, Hawaii, and Australia subcontinent, ( plus St. Helena Island, etc.
* St. Helena
After his final defeat, Napoleon was treated as a general by the British authorities during his second exile to Atlantic Isle of St. Helena.
His title was a matter of dispute with the governor of St Helena, who insisted on addressing him as " General Bonaparte ", despite the " historical reality that he had been an emperor " and therefore retained the title.
It has also been suggested that the island may not have been discovered until 30 July 1503 by a squadron under the command of Estêvão da Gama and that da Nova actually discovered Tristan da Cunha on the feast day of St Helena.
St Helena was much less frequently visited by Asia-bound ships, the northern trade winds taking ships towards the South American continent rather than the island.
Also, Lopo Homem-Reineis published the " Atlas Universal " about 1519 which clearly showed the locations of St Helena and Ascension.
Nevertheless, St Helena certainly once had a rich and dense inland forest.
Bermudez, the Patriarch of Abyssinia landed at St Helena in 1557 on a voyage to Portugal, remaining on the island for a year.
Three Japanese ambassadors on an embassy to the Pope also visited St Helena in 1583.
Once St Helena ’ s location was more widely known, English ships of war began to lie in wait in the area to attack Portuguese India carracks on their way home.
As a result, in 1592 Philip II of Spain and I of Portugal ( 1527 – 1598 ) ordered the annual fleet returning from Goa on no account to touch at St Helena.
The Dutch Republic formally made claim to St Helena in 1633, although there is no evidence that they ever occupied, colonised or fortified it.
' A View of the Town and Island of St Helena in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to the English East India Company ', engraving c. 1790
By 1649, the East India Company ordered all homeward-bound vessels to wait for one another at St Helena and in 1656 onward the Company petitioned the government to send a man-of-war to convoy the fleet home from there.
Having been granted a charter to govern the island by the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth Oliver Cromwell in 1657, the following year the Company decided to fortify and colonise St Helena with planters.
A fleet commanded by Captain John Dutton ( first governor, 1659 – 1661 ) in the Marmaduke arrived at St Helena in 1659.
It is from this date that St Helena claims to be Britain ’ s second oldest colony ( after Bermuda ).
The East India Company immediately sought a Royal Charter, possibly to give their occupation of St Helena legitimacy.
Finding that the cape was not the ideal harbour they originally envisaged, the Dutch East India Company launched an armed invasion of St Helena from the Cape colony over Christmas 1672.
This he used to locate an East India Company flotilla sent to reinforce St Helena with fresh troops.
Acknowledging that St Helena was a place where there was no trade, the Company was permitted to send from England any provisions free of Customs and to convey as many settlers as required.
Against the background of this erosion, several years of drought and the general dependency of St Helena, in 1715 governor Isaac Pyke ( 1714 – 1719 ) made the serious suggestion to the Company that appreciable savings could be made by moving the population to Mauritius, evacuated by the French in 1710.
William Dampier called into St Helena in 1691 at the end of his first of three circumnavigations of the world and stated Jamestown comprised 20 – 30 small houses built with rough stones furnished with mean furniture.
St Helena was then transferred to this new United East India Company.

St and Advocate
* July 19 – Henry Lauder, Lord St Germains, Lord Advocate of Scotland
An article in the Stamford Advocate from 1941 ( Tercentenary Edition ) stated that on March 22, 1912, the city's first Boy Scout Troop was being formed at the St. John's Episcopal Church.
He was one of the commissioners appointed to build the state capitol 1874 ; in 1867 appointed clerk of Westchester County, but resigned after a short service ; made immigration commissioner by New York Legislature in 1870, but declined to serve ; member of boundary commission of the state of New York in 1875 ; had also been commissioner of quarantine and president of Court of Claims of New York City and commissioner of taxes and assessments for the city and county of New York ; defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Liberal Republican-Democratic ticket in 1872 ; candidate for U. S. Senator from New York in 1881, but withdrew after the 41st ballot ; declined nomination as a senator in 1885 ; but elected to the U. S. Senate in 1899, and re-elected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899, to March 4, 1911 ; stumped the state of New York for John C. Frémont in 1856 and for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ; delegate-at-large to Republican National conventions 1888-1904 and delegate to all following conventions, including 1928, being elected the day before he died ; made the nomination speeches for Harrison in 1892, Governor Morton in 1896, and Fairbanks in 1904 ; at the convention in 1888 received ninety-nine votes for the presidential nomination, and in 1892 declined an appointment as Secretary of State in Harrison's cabinet ; Adjutant of the 18th Regiment, New York National Guard, which served in the American Civil War, and later Colonel and Judge Advocate of the 5th Division, on the staff of Major General James W. Husted of the New York Guard, trustee of Peekskill Military Academy ; president of New York State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Pilgrims Society from 1918 until his death, of the St. Nicholas Society, and of the Union League for seven years ( member since 1868 and elected honorary life member at the close of his presidency ); an officer of the French Légion d ' honneur ; vice president of New York Chamber of Commerce 1904-08 ( member since 1885 ).
Notable current or former faculty members of the University of St. Gallen include the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union Juliane Kokott, corporate communication professor Miriam Meckel ,, Walter Hunziker, developer of Tourism Science, and Ota Šik, Professor of Economics and one of the key figures in the Prague Spring.
* Charles Robert Prinsep ( 1789 – 1864 ), Lincoln's Inn barrister and economist, graduate of St John's College, Cambridge, Judge Advocate General of Bengal, resided at Belvedere Estate, Calcutta, son of patriarch John Prinsep
Elected as Member of Parliament for Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities from 1885, he served as Lord Advocate from 1885 to 1886 and from 1886 to 1888.
* Juliane Kokott, German Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Communities ( EJC ) and Professor at the University of St. Gallen
He has written for the Village Voice, the San Francisco Chronicle, the St. Petersburg Times, The Advocate, Black Issues Book Review, and The Crisis.
As per the November 2008 Issue of the Reagan Advocate, a new building will be built off campus at NW 90th St. and NW 114th Ave.
After serving several important churches in St. Louis and other places, south, he became Editor of the St. Louis Christian Advocate for eight years and, later, Associate Editor of The Nashville Christian Advocate for four years.

St and Weekly
He published numerous articles in publications such as Collier's Weekly and Harper's Weekly, and he chose the first College Football All-America Team. 1906 St. Louis Post-Dispatch photograph of Bradbury Robinson | Brad Robinson, who threw the first legal forward pass
Formerly published newspapers that served the parish include the St. Bernard Eagle and the St. Bernard Weekly Eagle which published in the 1870s through 1884 in Arabi, Progress which published from Stock Landing ( Arabi ) in 1888-1889, St. Bernard Protector 1925-1926, and the St. Bernard Guide which published from 1982-1986.
Weekly freight services, also carrying passengers, are operated by Alderney Shipping to Poole and St Peter Port.
His articles appeared in national periodicals such as Harper's Weekly, Collier's, Outing, Outlook, and The Independent, and in juvenile magazines such as St. Nicholas, Youth's Companion, and Boys ' Magazine.
It was reported in the Mist's Weekly Journal, on 19 November 1726: St. André was ordered by the king to travel back to Guildford and to bring Toft to London, so that further investigations could be carried out.
He also illustrated historical and adventure stories for periodicals such as Harper's Weekly and St. Nicholas Magazine.
# Dickens ’ s Own Story: Sidelights on his Life and personality, ( 1923 ) from ‘ Claudius Clear ’ in the British Weekly, Prefatory Note by St John Adcock, Chapman & Hall Ltd, London.
There are also numerous weekly student newspapers at area colleges including Macalester College's The Mac Weekly and St. Thomas ' The Aquin.
The 19th Century was rife with popular titles: Harper's Weekly launched in 1857, claiming to be " A Journal of Civilization " to readers ; St. Nicholas Magazine, a pioneering children's publication ; and Collier's Weekly, which counted Upton Sinclair and Ernest Hemingway as contributors.
Bibby worked for the Bell Shakespeare company in 2004 and also featured in several advertisements including the Zoo Weekly ad, and has previously been on the St. George Bank ad.
* St. Louis Falcons ice hockey, Falcons Pre-Game, Falcons Postgame, Falcons Weekly, ( Fridays at 7 PM )

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