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...19th century, it was rare to find a sailing ship that did not carry a Newfoundland for rescue work on the high seas. Lloyd's of London once presented a medal to a Newf who swam ashore with a line from a vessel foundering on the Nova Scotia coast, helping rescuers haul passengers and crew to safety. Newfoundlands are still used as lifeguards on beaches in France. Their fitness for such work was proved on no less a near drowning victim than Napoleon...
Robert L. Stanfield, Member of Parliament from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and former Leader of the Opposition, cited historical precedents for Canada's language problems. "Traditionally, when you have two languages, you have a problem," he said last week singling out the Basque drive for independence from Spain as an example...
...January, when he announced a moratorium on disharmony, adding that Brown would be offered a contract for next season and that no trades-requested or not-would be made. Feldman followed his ultimatum by inviting Porter and Brown to breakfast. On the menu: bagels, Nova Scotia salmon and soft soap. Bagel diplomacy seems to have worked, but the rest of the league may live to regret it. The Pistons' combativeness has shifted its focus; Detroit players have been in fistfights with opponents during three straight games...
Archeologists came to accept that Vikings traveled to North America only after material evidence--artifacts such as tools and pottery--and settlement ruins were found in Nova Scotia. But Fell's book includes no hard archeological evidence that has not either been declared a fraud by professional archeologists, established as something other than what Fell says it is, or been considered in the context of a more plausible hypothesis than the one Fell constructs...
...Harvard, if this wasn't the easiest game of the year then the Larries didn't have 15 Canadians on their roster, seven from Nova Scotia alone. But they did, and the game was boring, so boring that Crimson goalie Brian Petrovek put in a wake-up call for eight o'clock this morning...