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Coast Guard personnel include full-time paid employees, [22] and unpaid volunteers. [23] For example, a member of the Coast Guard, Caitriona Lucas, who died while on a rescue/recovery mission in County Clare in 2016, was a volunteer. [24] Not all Irish Coast Guard members have enforcement powers – only some officers under warrant. [citation ...
Island in the Sea of Time is a science fiction novel by Canadian-American writer S. M. Stirling, the first of the three alternate history books in the Nantucket series. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was released in the United States and Canada on February 1, 1998 and in the United Kingdom precisely a month later.
Frutee - variant of Fanta only sold on the Caribbean island of Barbados [14] Frutonic – Lightly carbonated soft drink available in Belgium, Luxembourg, and New Zealand [10] Full Throttle – Citrus-flavored energy drink available in the United States and Canada [10]
The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) is a maritime law enforcement and search and rescue agency of India with jurisdiction over its territorial waters including its contiguous zone and exclusive economic zone. It was started on 1 February 1977 and formally established on 18 August 1978 by the Coast Guard Act, 1978 of the Parliament of India. [5]
Only the three largest islands—Malta (Maltese: Malta), Gozo (Għawdex), and Comino (Kemmuna)—are inhabited. The islands of the archipelago lie on the Malta plateau, a shallow shelf formed from the high points of a land bridge between Sicily and North Africa that became isolated as sea levels rose after the last ice age. [152]
The Greek mainland and several small islands seen from Nydri, Lefkada. Greece features a vast number of islands—between 1,200 and 6,000, depending on the definition, [152] 227 of which are inhabited.
Clockwise from top: Partial panoramic view of Santorini, sunset in the village of Oia, ruins of the Stoa Basilica at Ancient Thera, the Orthodox Metropolitan Cathedral of Ypapanti (it) Cattedrale della Presentazione di Cristo (Fira) at the town of Fira, the Aegean Sea as seen from Oia, and view of Fira from the island of Nea Kameni at the Santorini caldera.
Alchemy (from Arabic: al-kīmiyā; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, khumeía) [1] is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practised in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe. [2]