In 1873, a private philanthropist ( John Anderson ) gave Agassiz the island of Penikese, in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts ( south of New Bedford ), and presented him with $ 50, 000 to permanently endow it as a practical school of natural science, especially devoted to the study of marine zoology.

Two of Columbus's crewmen during his 1492 journey, Rodrigo de Jerez and Luis de Torres, are said to have encountered tobacco for the first time on the island of Hispaniola, when natives presented them with dry leaves that spread a peculiar fragrance.

The first lengthy description of the island and its inhabitants is presented by the Russian explorer Fyodor Litke, whose ship Senyavin gave the island group of Pohnpei, Ant and Pakin its name.

Inspired by the ganza dance which the Igorot people presented regularly in the Village and their reaction to civilization, the poet explored the interaction of a white man with an island culture.

In 1899 Kitchener was presented with a small island in the Nile at Aswan in gratitude for his services ; the island was renamed Kitchener's Island in his honour.

Napoleon presented the island with the huge silver chandelier in the cathedral as a gesture of gratitude for the Hydriots ' role in running the British blockade and so bringing food to France and Europe.

Alisa Bailey, a representative of VTA, presented the island with a plaque to commemorate the occasion.

The deserted and solitary aspect of the island was brought out with a strange and startling effect by the presence of so many steamers ; and as Her Majesty's barge with the Royal Standard floated into the cave, the crew dipping their oars with the greatest precision, nothing could be more animated and grand than the appearance which the vast basaltic entrance, so solemn in its proportions, presented.

In return the sultan ceded complete sovereignty of Sarawak to Brooke, who in 1846 presented the island of Labuan to the British government.

At first, the college rejected the offer made by Okinawan officials, who suggested that a replica of the statue would be presented to the school if the original was returned to the island, however, after consulting both with the U. S. State Department and the college's board of trustees, then Rollins President Rita Bornstein accepted the offer and the statue was returned to Okinawa in 1995 in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II.

Henry Sargent, the inventor, presented it as a wonder that people from Boston would flock to and " that his invention would make the island a centre of attraction to many people " The company allowed this to be built on its land and it was an attraction for nine days in 1834 and then was closed because of lack of ridership.

Consequently, this island group presented itself to Portuguese navigators authentically uninhabited.

Father Palóu wrote of Father Vizcaíno ’ s visit to the Santa Cruz village of Xaxas that the missionaries on ship went ashore and “ they were well received by the heathen and presented with fish, in return for which the Indians were given some strings of beads .” The island was considered for establishment of a Catholic mission to serve the large Chumash population.

They are presented with a random series of shapes, and must place them on the island within a time limit to keep their castles surrounded by walls.

He bought the island because a friend, John Whitehead, had drawn his attention to the opportunities presented by the island's strategic location.

He presented falsified imperial letters that ordered the local administration to obey him in everything and established himself as ruler of the island.

James Gurney ( born June 14, 1958 ) is an artist and author best known for his illustrated book series Dinotopia, which is presented in the form of a 19th century explorer ’ s journal from an island utopia cohabited by humans and dinosaurs.

* Alcaeus, a general of Rhadamanthus, according to Diodorus Siculus, who presented him with the island of Paros.

According to testimony presented at the trial of Droege and his nine co-conspirators, in exchange for restoring John to power, Droege would have been permitted to use the island as the centre of a drug-refinement and trafficking operation.

Georgetti and the " Fuerzas Vivas " presented the Secretary of War a " Memorandum " which presented the economic situation of the island in the brink of ruins.

On that occasion, the Himeraeans were among the first to promise their support to Syracuse: hence, when Nicias presented himself before their port with the Athenian fleet, they altogether refused to receive him ; and, shortly after, it was at Himera that Gylippus landed, and from whence he marched across the island to Syracuse, at the head of a force composed in great part of Himeraean citizens.

Several key events that transpired during the cruise and subsequent trek to Ernesto's island included: the performance of Ernesto's play " Fatal Passion ," in which Victor nearly murdered Roman / John ; Jack and Jennifer revealing that Isabella was really Victor's daughter, not Ernesto's, after an affair with Ernesto's wife ; Roman / John and Isabella realizing they are in love with each other ; Ernesto planting a bomb on board the Loretta ; everyone washing ashore on his island ; Jack and Jennifer, the show's " supercouple " at the time, making love for the first time ; Ernesto slowly poisoning Isabella for accidentally murdering her half-sister Marina earlier in the series ; Victor and Julie's first kiss ; and Bo double-crossing Ernesto, which in turn led to the shocking climactic ending to the storyline: Hope and Ernesto's supposed deaths during one of Ernesto's " magic tricks " in an explosion while inside a cage suspended over a vat of acid.

The completeness of the ruin of so powerful a state finds an explanation in the economic conditions of the island, the prosperity of which rested upon a basis of slave-labour.

This report urgently recommended eradication of all the rats on the island, so that vegetation might be reduced and the island might return to its " pre-human " state.

On October 13, 1986, a meeting took place regarding the establishment of a permanent base for fishing at Clipperton, between the high commissioner of French Polynesia, representing the state, and the survey firm for the development and exploitation of the island ( SEDEIC ).

Soon after Fidel Castro declared Cuba a socialist state, Costa Rican President Mario Echandi ended diplomatic relations on 10 September 1961 with the island through Executive Decree Number 2, in compliance with sanctions placed on Cuba by the Organization of American States.

One of its leaders, Joaquín Infante, drafted Cuba's first constitution, declaring the island a sovereign state, presuming the rule of the countries ' wealthy, maintaining slavery as long as it was necessary for agriculture, establishing a social classification based on skin colour and declaring Catholicism the official religion.

As well, the Castro government found an alternate source for vehicles in its new patron, the Soviet Union, which supplied the island with Volgas, Moskvich 1500s, Ladas and other Eastern Bloc cars, mainly for state use.

In 1605, Spain was infuriated that Spanish settlements on the northern and western coasts of the island were carrying out large scale and illegal trade with the Dutch, who were at that time fighting a war if independence against Spain in Europe, and the English, a very recent enemy state, and so decided to forcibly resettle their inhabitants closer to the city of Santo Domingo.

In this work he depicted a land where there would be freedom of religion-showing a Jew treated fairly and equally in an island of Christians, but it has been debated whether this work had influenced others reforms, such as greater rights for women, the abolition of slavery, elimination of debtors ' prisons, separation of church and state, and freedom of political expression, although there is no hint of these reforms in The New Atlantis itself.

There are no large inland bodies of water on the island, which consists entirely of the state of Grenada.

In 1605, Spain was infuriated that Spanish settlements on the northern and western coasts of the island persisted in carrying out large scale and illegal trade with the Dutch, who were at that time fighting a war of independence against Spain in Europe, and the English, a very recent enemy state, and so decided to forcibly resettle their inhabitants closer to the city of Santo Domingo.

These products moved as a result of private trade and also through payments and contracts established by the Roman state to support its military forces and officials on the island, as well as through state taxation and extraction of resources.

Up until the mid-3rd century, the Roman state ’ s payments appear to have been unbalanced, with far more products sent to Britain, to support its large military force ( which had reached c. 53, 000 by the mid-2nd century ), than were extracted from the island.

It has been argued that Roman Britain ’ s continental trade peaked in the late 1st century AD and thereafter declined as a result of an increasing reliance on local products by the population of Britain, caused by economic development on the island and by the Roman state ’ s desire to save money by shifting away from expensive long-distance imports.

is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania.

Typically, a desert island is denoted as such because it exists in a state of being deserted, or abandoned.

The Communists controlled mainland China while the Nationalists held a rump state on the island of Taiwan.

Long Island is an island in the southeast of the U. S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan.

By staying on the island while it is cut off by the tide tourists can experience the island in a much quieter state, as most day trippers leave before the tide rises.

For example, the 12th century copperplates found at Isdhoo Island state that the monks ( Sangumanun ) from the monastery at that island were brought to Male ' and beheaded.

* Mount Desert Island, an island off the coast of the U. S. state of Maine

One year after the United States invasion of the island, Dr. José Celso Barbosa embraced the idea of annexation as a U. S. state as a solution to the colonial situation and founded the Republican Party in 1899.