In 1917, the United States took possession of the Virgin Islands, which it purchased from Denmark.
So could the 29-year-old from the Virgin Islands be the one to return the trophy the original godfathers of racing?
And in 2008 alone, the program was active in 657 communities in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
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After a weekend of victories for Obama in Washington state, Louisiana, Nebraska, Maine and even the Virgin Islands, Clinton must make a play in Virginia.
At the end of the 2011 fiscal year RadioShack operated 4, 476 U.S. company operated stores in the United States, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
The Department of Justice also announced they doubled fraud recoveries between 2008 and 2011 in twenty-one states, the District of Columbia, and the Virgin Islands.
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We have brought together a team that has had a hand in transforming broadband in dozens of communities, Including Cleveland-Ohio, Chattanooga-Tennessee, Lafayette-Louisiana, Jackson-Mississippi, Topeka-Kansas, and the Virgin Islands.
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And in August, it bought an Atlanta-area home from Mr. Erbey for nearly 50% more than he paid six years earlier so he could relocate to the Virgin Islands to oversee the new subsidiary.
With Obama's wins Saturday in Louisiana, Nebraska, Washington and the Virgin Islands, and his projected victory in Maine, the Illinois senator took the pledged-delegate lead over Clinton -- 986-924, according to CNN calculations.
There's no erasing those tabloid photos, like the ones that chronicled the once-blissful pairing of Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger and country crooner Kenny Chesney, who wed in the Virgin Islands in May 2005 after a whirlwind courtship.
This includes Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, as well as the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands.
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Back in 1998, my parents had been anchored off that very seawall before heading south for Norfolk and the start of the Caribbean 1500, a rather laid back ocean race from the Chesapeake Bay to the Virgin Islands.
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Otherwise those relying on it in the US Virgin Islands are going to have a hard time working out what those islands on the horizon are (the British Virgin Islands are not on the list) and New Zealand will be a bit surprised to note the non-existence of the Cook Islands.
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The conference audience was the right one from which potential whistleblowers could be drawn: It included representatives from offshore entities, high-net worth individuals and others who have information about offshore strategies, including attorneys, judges, trustees and businesses from the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, the Bahamas and other offshore financial centers.
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The two recipes, "Cold Omelets with Crab Meat" and "Crab with Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing, " appear in an article titled "Cold Omelets with Crab Meat, " written by Pierre Franey of the New York Times News Service that was published in the August 22, 1979 edition of the Virgin Islands Daily News, a copy of which can be seen here.
Are the Cook Islands or the British Virgin Islands the legitimate heirs to that legacy?
The executive will then register a Limited (Ltd.) company on another offshore tax haven like the Cayman Islands or the British Virgin Islands, and declare that it is owned by his trust in Liechtenstein.
In November 2010 the fund was placed in formal liquidation and PriceWaterhouseCoopers consultants in the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands were appointed as liquidators of the fund.
Ever since Sir Richard Branson opened his Necker Island resort in the British Virgin Islands in the early 80s, private islands have been the sexiest vacation choices for the really rich, and they have proliferated around the globe.
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Forty-two US states, the District of Columbia and the US Virgin Islands participate in the Powerball lottery.
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Among contenders for the top spot offshore is OIL, which has benefited from an Asian fondness for companies from the British Virgin Islands (on paper the second-largest investor in China in 2010, after Hong Kong).
The boss of the Virgin business empire owns two of the smaller British Virgin Islands (BVI), and planned to have lemurs living in the forest on one of them, Moskito (also Mosquito) Island.
Because of China's laws and rulings on offshore listings, it first set up a vehicle in the British Virgin Islands called Solar Touch, which then turned the original company into a subsidiary.
China counts the tiny Caribbean bolthole of the British Virgin Islands as its biggest source of foreign investment (not including the Chinese territory of Hong Kong).
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During a recent phone conversation, Mr. Thompson, who was in Miami and about to leave to perform on a cruise ship as it toured the British Virgin Islands, said he chose Mr. Miller to produce for the sound he captures in his home studio.
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Sailing the Caribbean blue by Lori Robertson, details how to island hop in the British Virgin Islands on a chartered boat, and Catch some rays in the Caymans is Tim Rock's review of Stingray City, often considered to be one of the best shallow dives and snorkelling spots in the world.
From setting up central offices in low tax havens such as Nevada, Luxembourg and the British Virgin Islands, to its use of a complex tax structure known as "The Double Irish, " Apple has relentlessly exploited legal tax loopholes.
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