Sabres vs. Islanders Brawl Fight 10/13/08
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Desc: The Buffalo Sabres and the New York Islanders do battle in a big brawl after one of the Sabres 7 goals. Players involved in the three separate fights included: Craig Rivet, Sean Bergenheim, Brendan Witt, Adam Mair, Patrick Kaleta, and Nate Thompson. The Sabres went on to win 7-1. Five people were thrown out of the game...Rick Jeanneret and Harry Neale with the call |
Islanders @ Flyers 12/9/08
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Desc: New York Islanders @ Philadelphia Flyers 12/9/08 |
Capitals @ Islanders 12/16/08
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Desc: Washington Capitals @ New York Islanders 12/16/08 |
Islanders Rangers brawl
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Desc: This is the extended version of the Cloutier Salo fight. |
Islanders @ Oilers 1/5/09
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Desc: New York Islanders @ Edmonton Oilers 1/5/09 |
Christopher Lavaud highlight john abbott islanders CB #10
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Desc: After three years of inactivity and rehabilitation for his knee christopher A. Lavaud is back at what he does best. |
Mitch Fritz vs Colton Orr Dec 29, 2008
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Desc: Mitch Fritz vs Colton Orr from the New York Islanders at New York Rangers game on Dec 29, 2008.
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Doug Weight vs Christian Ehrhoff Jan 3, 2009
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Desc: Doug Weight vs Christian Ehrhoff from the New York Islanders at San Jose Sharks game on Jan 3, 2009.
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Mitch Fritz vs Riley Cote Dec 9, 2008
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Desc: Mitch Fritz vs Riley Cote from the New York Islanders at Philadelphia Flyers game on Dec 9, 2008.
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Andre Deveaux vs Tim Jackman Dec 26, 2008
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Desc: Andre Deveaux vs Tim Jackman from the Toronto Maple Leafs at New York Islanders game on Dec 26, 2008.
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Nate Thompson vs Ryan Hollweg Dec 8, 2008
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Desc: Nate Thompson vs Ryan Hollweg from the New York Islanders at Toronto Maple Leafs game on Dec 8, 2008.
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Tim Jackman vs Alexei Semenov Jan 3, 2009
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Desc: Tim Jackman vs Alexei Semenov from the New York Islanders at San Jose Sharks game on Jan 3, 2009.
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Mike Comrie vs Nigel Dawes Dec 29, 2008
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Desc: Mike Comrie vs Nigel Dawes from the New York Islanders at New York Rangers game on Dec 29, 2008.
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THOR ANGRY!!!
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Desc: Thor Nelson, an NHL linesman, was none too pleased about being swept to the ice and hit by a dump in during the third period of the Islanders/Oilers game. |
Exploring the Ionian Islands
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Desc: Special thanks to my best friends and...their video cameras!
Music background: Manos Hajdidakis "Nostalgic Melody"
The Ionian Islands (Modern Greek: Ιόνια νησιά, Ionia nisia,are a group of islands in Greece. They are traditionally called "Eptanisa", i.e. "the Seven Islands" (Greek: Επτάνησα, Heptanēsa, or Επτάνησος, Heptanēsos, the Heptanese; Italian Eptaneso), but the group includes many smaller islands as well as the seven principal ones.
The six northern islands (Corfu/Kerkyra, Paxoi, Lefkada, Ithaca, Keffalonia, Zakynthos) are off the west coast of Greece, in the Ionian Sea. The seventh island, Kythira, is off the southern tip of the Peloponnesus, the southern part of the Greek mainland. The islands were settled by Greeks at an early date, possibly as early as 1200 BC, and certainly by the 9th century BC. The early Eretrian settlement at Kerkyra was displaced by colonists from Corinth in 734 BC. The islands were mostly a backwater during Ancient Greek times and played little part in Greek politics. The one exception was the conflict between Kerkyra and its mother-City Corinth in 434 BC, which brought intervention from Athens and triggered the Peloponnesian War. Ithaca was the name of the island home of Odysseus in the epic Ancient Greek poem "The Odyssey" by Homer. From 1204 the Republic of Venice controlled Corfu and slowly all the Ionian islands fell under venetian rule. In the 15th century the Ottomans occupied most of Greece, but the islands remained Christian thanks to the Venetians. Zakynthos passed permanently to Venice in 1482, Kefallonia and Ithaki in 1483, Lefkada in 1502. Kythera had been Venetian since 1393.The islands thus became the only part of the Greek-speaking world to escape Ottoman rule, which gave them both a unity and an importance in Greek history they would otherwise not have had.Under Venetian rule, many of the upper classes spoke Italian but the mass of people remained Greek in language and religion. In the 18th century a Greek national independence movement began to emerge, and the free status of the Ionian islands made them the natural base for exiled Greek intellectuals, freedom fighters and foreign sympathisers. The islands became more self-consciously Greek as the 19th century, the century of romantic nationalism, neared. In 1797, however, Napoléon Bonaparte conquered Venice, and by the Treaty of Campo Formio the islanders found themselves under French rule. In 1798 the Russian Admiral Ushakov evicted the French, and established the Septinsular Republic under joint Russo-Ottoman protection—the first time Greeks had had even limited self government since the fall of Constantinople in 1453. But in 1807 they were ceded again to the French and directly annexed to the French Empire. In 1809 the British defeated the French fleet in Zakynthos (October 2, 1809) captured Kefallonia, Kythera and Zakynthos, and took Lefkada in 1810. The French held out in Kerkyra until 1814. The Treaty of Paris in 1815 turned the islands into the "United States of the Ionian Islands" under British protection (November 5, 1815). Once Greek independence was established after 1830, however, the islanders began to resent foreign rule and to press for enosis - union with Greece. In 1862 Britain decided to transfer the islands to Greece. On May 21, 1864, the British departed and the islands became part of Greece. |
Faroe Whale Cull - Faroe Islands
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Desc: October 2007
The Faroe Islands, midway between Scotland and Iceland, were settled by Vikings a thousand years ago. Remote and intriguing, they look like something out of a Norse fairy tale.
People live in log houses with turf rooves, speak an ancient Viking language and delight in dressing up in traditional costume and singing Norse ballads.
But there is one part of their picture-postcard culture that outsiders find positively shocking. Every northern summer, Faroese herd pods of pilot whales to shore and butcher them with hooks and knives, before cutting up the meat to share with each family.
It's seen as a birth right and a celebration of Faroese culture. The islanders have steadfastly resisted international pressure to stop.
Kate Sanderson moved to the Faroes from Australia 22 years ago and married a local. She tells tells us, " You know what we say, save the whales -- for dinner!
Sanderson is the chief international negotiator on whaling and fishing. "Two generations of media hype and campaigning against whaling have really warped people's view of what whaling today is all about," she says. "Those countries that continue to (hunt) whales today are all countries that have a very long tradition of eating whale. |
Skyland - The Islander
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Desc: I ordered the new Nightwish album a few weeks ago, and LOVED it. So i combined two things i love: Aran Cortes from Skyland..and one of the songs from Nightwish's new album!
I thought the song suited because skyland is about a load of floating islanders..hence..the islander..XD
Song: The Islander (c) Nightwish
Video: Skyland (c) Emmanuel Goreinstien.
End Song: Yume no Shima (c) Susumu Hirasawa.
This is a fan creation, i own nada except this dipstick laptop! I just love the show~ ^^ |
