Around 120 diaries are being presented to Anglesey archives department as part of a year-long project to chronicle daily life on the island.
The capital Willemstad, settled in 1634, is the financial and commercial centre of life on the island, as well as a Unesco World Heritage Site, thanks to its well-preserved, cotton-candy-coloured Dutch Colonial architecture and buildings like the Mikve Israel Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in use in the Western Hemisphere.
When the early settlers sailed to Rapa Nui from Polynesia, life on the lost island was all about living off the sea, and evidence indicates that crude surfboards were constructed for travel and fishing.
As villagers departed, few signs of life remained on the island -- only military trucks patrolling and waiting for possible North Korean retaliation for the drills.
Life on the five-mile long island contrasted greatly with the hustle of city living.
Having found out what caused the birds' deaths, the DoC has swung into action to give all the 24 kakapo remaining on Chalky Island life-saving antibiotics, and to check on the well-being of those living on Codfish Island.
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Last fall, the Turkish government initiated a new attempt at dialogue with Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK leader serving a life sentence in a prison on the Turkish island of Imrali.
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The PKK leader is serving a life sentence in a prison on the Turkish island of Imrali.
Rothstein left a voicemail, asking if Brickman was the man who saved her life on Long Island's Lido (LEE'-doh) Beach in September 1964.
The Pleasure Island experience that is now missing in Walt Disney World finds new life on the Dream in the District, an 18-and-over hideaway of five interlocking bars, lounges and nightclubs.
Company representatives will be on hand to answer questions on how the development would affect island-life.
Aswan started life here, as a garrison town on the tip of Elephantine Island, before spreading on to the east bank, where it faces the sands of the Western Desert.
That's long enough to have seen the first silent movie, when it came out, provided a movie theater even existed back then on the island of Barbados, where Sisnett spent his life.
Anyone applying for residency on Canna will be screened by the community to see if they are suitable for island life.
Their forthright lyrics about life in Cuba don't make them any friends among Cuba's authorities, and that limits their opportunities on the island.
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