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By that time, 33 percent of the nation's residents had been fully vaccinated against infection. In January 2022, a group of Kiribati citizens who had been living and travelling abroad as missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when the pandemic began returned to Kiribati on a chartered plane. Despite negative tests for ...
Kiribati (/ ˈ k ɪr ɪ b æ s / ⓘ KIRR-i-bass, [10] Gilbertese:), officially the Republic of Kiribati (Gilbertese: Ribaberiki Kiribati), [11] [12] [3] is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the central Pacific Ocean. Its permanent population is over 119,000 as of the 2020 census, and more than half live on Tarawa atoll.
For the community, women are responsible for producing "cash and traditional goods", and also includes fund-raising activities for the church. [1] 50% of Kiribati's workforce are composed of women. [2] In Kiribati politics, UN Women stated that 4.3% of parliamentary seats are held by female politicians. [2]
Louisiana Channel is a non-profit web TV channel launched in 2012 and based at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark. [1] The channel has developed into the world’s largest archive of contemporary art, featuring the artists, with videos available on the channel's website , Instagram , and YouTube .
The 1856 Last Island hurricane (also known as the Great Storm of 1856) was a deadly and destructive tropical cyclone that is tied with 2020's Hurricane Laura and 2021's Hurricane Ida as the strongest hurricane on record to make landfall in the U.S. state of Louisiana, as measured by maximum sustained winds. [1]
Last Days of Last Island: The Hurricane of 1856, Louisiana's First Great Storm. Lafayette, Louisiana: University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press. ISBN 978-1-887366-88-5. Falls, Rose C. (1893). Cheniere Caminada or The Wind Of Death: The Story Of The Storm In Louisiana (Chapter VII. Last Island). New Orleans: Hopkins' Printing Office. pp. 70– 71.
The settlement did not endure: Extreme drought killed 75% of the coconut palms, and the island was abandoned from 1905 to 1912. [ 1 ] Many of the toponyms in the island date to Father Emmanuel Rougier [ fr ] , a French priest who leased the island from 1917 to 1939, and planted some 500,000 coconut trees there. [ 16 ]
The 11-gross register ton screw steamer foundered in the Atchafalaya River at Butte La Rose, Louisiana. After sinking she slid down slope 60 feet (18 m) out in 60 feet of water. All three people on board survived. [6] [3] Fame United States