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Rain is rare in June and September and virtually unheard of during the remaining eight months of the year. Alert is the fourth-driest locality in Nunavut and averaging only 158.3 mm (6.23 in) of precipitation per year, the vast majority of this occurring as snow. The heaviest snowfalls occur during July to October, and Alert sees relatively ...
Jose Kusugak (2 May 1950 – 18 [1] or 19 [2] January 2011) was an Inuk politician from Repulse Bay, Northwest Territories (now Naujaat, Nunavut), Canada. He was an activist for Inuit rights, language and culture .
Recalling also the resolutions on the question of the death penalty adopted over the past decade by the Commission on Human Rights in all consecutive sessions, the last being its resolution 2005/59 of 20 April 2005, [d] in which the Commission called upon states that still maintain the death penalty to abolish it completely and, in the meantime ...
There are always people stationed at Alert. They are not necessarily there for an entire year but the weather station and the base are inhabited constantly. Think of it like a student going from a community in Nunavut to university. My daughter spent four years in Iqaluit taking the Nunavut Teacher Education Program. She came home to Cambridge ...
Located on the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island, Alert is the northernmost continuously inhabited place in the world. [1] It takes its name from HMS Alert, which wintered 10 km (6.2 mi) east of the present station off what is now Cape Sheridan, Nunavut in 1875–1876. [6] U.S. Ambassador David Jacobson in front of CFS Alert welcome sign
A former college dean who dedicated years of her life to researching a cure for cancer was gunned down on a walking trail near campus last week and her killer is still on the loose, leaving a ...
The prisoners who taken the guards hostage on the first night of the riot on 14 April 1971 were charged with kidnapping on 4 June 1971. [113] Charged were William James Knight, Charles Saunders, James Adams, Allan Lafreniere, Leo Joseph, Paul Barrieault and Brian Dodge. [ 113 ]
Gov. Ralph Northam signed the legislation Wednesday. There were 1,390 people put to death in the state, the first documented time was in the Jamestown colony in 1608.