While this would be a separate project from the reconstruction of the nearby I-91 / I-95 interchange, it has been gaining increasing popular support among residents, business-owners and city officials in New Haven.

While SR 286 has access to the main lanes of I-95, SR 289 interchanges with the HOV lanes of the Shirley Highway, a reversible lane system in the median of I-95 and I-395 to Washington.

While SR 9 is mainly used as a " hidden " state designation for Interstate 95 from the Georgia border ( near Yulee, Florida ) to the Golden Glades Interchange in Miami Gardens, a 13. 7-mile-long signed SR 9 extends to the southwest as I-95 continues southward with the " hidden " SR 9A state designation.

While Bannister was well known in the artistic community of his adopted home of Providence, Rhode Island and admired within the wider East Coast art world ( he won a bronze medal for his large oil " Under the Oaks " at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial ), he was largely forgotten for almost a century for a complexity of reasons, principally connected with racial prejudice.

While residing in Providence, Rhode Island, she and husband taught free two-week summer schools in scientific management from 1913 to 1916.

While at Twentynine Palms, his superiors became impressed with his leadership skills, and he was recommended for, and accepted to, the Naval Academy Preparatory School at Newport, Rhode Island.

While those all failed, the Rhode Island General Assembly did pass a resolution in 1990 " stating that Victory Day is not a day to express satisfaction in the destruction and death caused by nuclear bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

While roughly half of the textile workers in North and South Carolina and roughly three fourths in Georgia were on strike at this point, with similar figures in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, workers had started to drift back to work and struck plants were reopening, if with only skeleton crews.

While some notable examples such as Roger Williams of Rhode Island and William Penn ensured the protection of religious minorities within their colonies, others such as the Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony had established churches.

While exploring his Rhode Island mansion, she discovers a secret room containing, among other odd items, a tome bound with human skin and bone.

While Dudley governed, the Lords of Trade, based on a petition from Dudley's council, decided to include the colonies of Rhode Island and Connecticut in the dominion.

While some such as Roger Williams of Rhode Island and William Penn ensured the protection of religious minorities within their colonies, others like the Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony had established churches.

While his ship was in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1881, Sprague invented the inverted type of dynamo.

While opening new stores, the company fueled rapid growth by acquiring other natural foods chains throughout the 1990s: Wellspring Grocery of North Carolina, Bread & Circus of Massachusetts and Rhode Island ( banner retired in 2003 ), Mrs. Gooch ’ s Natural Foods Markets of Los Angeles, Bread of Life of Northern California, Fresh Fields Markets on the East Coast and in the Midwest, Florida Bread of Life stores, Detroit-area Merchant of Vino stores, and Nature ’ s Heartland of Boston.

While the British " Red Coats " occupied the harbor of Providence, RI in 1776, a minor epidemic of " The Columbus Fever " spread throughout Rhode Island, and Jemima was infected.

While trading places, Colonel Isaac P. Rodman of the 4th Rhode Island was told by Lieutenant Colonel William S. Clark of the 21st Massachusetts that he thought that another attack on the brick kiln would be successful.

While the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations hardly took an active role, the simple matter of geography put the colony in the middle of the fray, causing it to suffer more than any other colony.

While Williams was not explicitly anarchist, another Rhode Islander, Anne Hutchinson, was.

While the French and Indian War had ended in North America in 1760, other aspects of this global war, known in Europe as the Seven Years ' War, continued to involve Rhode Island.

From April 1770 until his death in 1803 Hopkins preached at the First Congregational Church in Newport, Rhode Island While the British occupied Newport from 1776 – 1780, Hopkins preached at Newburyport, Massachusetts, and Canterbury and Stamford, Connecticut.

Coddington was usually at odds with Roger Williams, who described him in a letter, several years after the founding of Portsmouth ( 1638 ) as, "... a worldly man, a selfish man, nothing for public, but all for himself and private ..." While highly critical of Coddington for obtaining a commission to govern Aquidneck Island separately from Providence and Warwick, Rhode Island historian and Lieutenant Governor Samuel G. Arnold had this to say of him: " He was a man of vigorous intellect, of strong passions, earnest in whatever he undertood, and self-reliant in all his actions.

While he is noted for being the first president of the united colony of four towns, he is also noted for helping to establish the three towns of Boston, Portsmouth, and Newport, and the two colonies of Massachusetts Bay and Rhode Island.

While a senior at Brown he was elected State Representative in the Rhode Island General Assembly.

While still in the Navy, Charles met and married Ana Rogers Case, the daughter of Rear Admiral Augustus Ludlow Case ; the couple were wed in 1875 in Newport, Rhode Island.

While stationed and treating soldiers at Rhode Island, he gained the favor of Marquis de Lafayette, the Comte de Rochambeau, the Comte d ' Estaing and other French military officers supporting the American cause.

* While touring Brown University, Lois recalls how when she was attending, the Rhode Island National Guard came and shot some of her friends.

While long integrated into Kei Island society, residents of these settlements continue to value the historical origins of their ancestors.

While there were visible signs of damage, in the vegetation and an apparent lack of construction in some places, the Island was bustling again as some things had been freshly re-built and those that were not were quite on their way.

While the Cape Breton Regional Municipality is in transition from an industrial to a service-based economy, the rest of Cape Breton Island outside of the industrial area surrounding Sydney-Glace Bay has been more stable, with a mixture of fishing, forestry, small-scale agriculture, and tourism.

* 1960 – 1960 New York air disaster: While approaching New York's Idlewild Airport, a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 collides with a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation in a blinding snowstorm over Staten Island, killing 134.

While thousands of isolated bones have been collected from 19th century Funk Island to Neolithic middens, only a small number of complete skeletons exist.

While Howland Island was colonized in 1935 as a future aviation facility and is known in popular culture mostly because of its association with the last flight of Earhart and Noonan, no aircraft is known to have ever landed there, although anchorages nearby could be used by floatplanes and flying boats during World War II.

* While incarcerated on Robben Island prison, Nelson Mandela recited the poem to other prisoners and was empowered by its message of self-mastery.

While it is not clear from the Historia Brittonum and the Annales Cambriae that Arthur was even considered a king, by the time Culhwch and Olwen and the Triads were written he had become Penteyrnedd yr Ynys hon, " Chief of the Lords of this Island ", the overlord of Wales, Cornwall and the North.

While many phantom islands appear never to have existed, a few ( such as, perhaps, Thompson Island or Bermeja ) may have been actual islands subsequently destroyed by volcanic explosions, earthquakes or submarine landslides, or low-lying lands such as sand banks that are no longer above water.

While working as librarian at Xavier Junior College, Mother St. Margaret of Scotland ( Sister Margaret Beaton ) recognized that documents of historical significance to Cape Breton Island were being lost.

While both sides agreed that all of Vancouver Island would remain British, the treaty did not specify which channel the boundary should follow between the Strait of Georgia and the Strait of Juan de Fuca, resulting in a boundary dispute.

* February 23 – While the Massachusetts Council debates how to handle the Christian Indians they had exiled to Deer Island on October 13, 1675, a coalition of Indians led by Metacomet attacks colonial settlements just outside of Boston.

While the North Island was convulsed by the Land Wars, the South Island, with its low Māori population, was generally peaceful.

While it is commonly accepted that Herschel Island ( in the Arctic Ocean, part of the Yukon Territory ) was named after him, the entries in the expedition journal of Sir John Franklin state that the latter wished to honour the Herschel name, about which John Herschel ’ s father ( Sir William Herschel ) and his aunt ( Caroline Herschel ) constitute two other notable members of this family.

" While we know this island today as Vancouver Island the English explorer had not intentionally meant to name such a large body of land solely after himself.

While doing so, the expedition spotted the volcano Mount Saint Elias, and sailed past Kodiak Island.

While it has a 33 % larger landmass than the North Island, only % of New Zealand's million inhabitants live in the South Island.

While they were still on the high seas, in May 1840 Hobson proclaimed British sovereignty over the South Island by virtue of Captain Cook's discovery.

While the North Island was convulsed by the Land Wars of the 1860s and 1870s, the South Island, with its low Māori population, was generally peaceful.

While Victoria Island is part of Canada, it is over from the city of Victoria, British Columbia, which is on Vancouver Island in the Pacific Ocean.