The Carbonear town council voted in November to send CNA locomotive 803 to the scrapyard due to safety concerns and costly renovations. But a petition with around 1,300 signatures has prompted the town to rethink its decision.
TO MANY Americans, probably, the name Newfoundland has long stood for little except large black dogs and codfish. To strategists, however, the island's position at the crossroads of shipping in the North Atlantic has always given it special importance. And now the war, with the establishment of American bases on Newfoundland territory and the dramatic meeting between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill in Newfoundland waters, has brought it prominently into the consciousness of the wider public.
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Top 10 Places That Were Once Their Own Countries
What makes a nation? Over the years, sovereign states have taken many forms and enjoyed widely disparate levels of international recognition. Some were forged by war, others as refuge from it. Some were influential kingdoms, others makeshift micronations.
But whether credible or simply incredible, nations that are no more often have fascinating backstories. Here are ten, listed in order of their founding.
Now India’s least populated state, Sikkim – located in northeastern India bordering Bhutan, Nepal and China’s Tibet Autonomous Region – was a sovereign nation for centuries. According to legend, a 14th Century Tibetan prince named Khye Bumsa came to Sikkim after a divine revelation promised him riches. In 1642 Bumsa’s descendant, Phuntsog Namgyal, was consecrated priest-king of the new Kingdom of Sikkim.
Dozens protest planned closure of Railway Coastal Museum in St. John s
Wayne Greenland sees parallels between the closing of the railway museum, and the closure of the railway more than 30 years ago it was made too expensive and inaccessible.
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Wayne Greenland national director for the provincial branch of the CN Pensioners Association, is saddened to see the museum closing. He says the city hasn t done enough to promote it in recent years.(Ryan Cooke/CBC)