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Bahamas holidays for 2011‏

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:28:07 EDT

Nassau, Bahamas - Enclosed are The following days will be observed as Public Bahamian Holidays during the Year 2011...

New Year’s Day        3 January                  (Monday)

Good Friday           22nd April                  (Friday)

Easter Monday           25th April                (Monday) ...

(VIDEO) How to Write a Mission Statement

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:20:20 EDT

Dan Heath from FastCompany.com writes: I want to show you why most mission statements are so terrible.

Let's say you founded a pizza parlor. And your first idea for a mission statement is something like this: "Our mission is to serve the tastiest damn pizza in Wake County." That's pretty good. If I worked for you, I could get excited about that. Now here's how it will go off the rails.

So you'll call your colleagues around the conference room table to unveil the mission, and all of the sudden, these people that you like and respect are going to transform into 10th-grade English teachers, nitpicking every word. Everybody starts chiming in with opinions: "Hey, I really like the word 'present' better than 'serve,' it has a nice resonance..."

The Bahamas: the World's First Undersea Post Office

Sat, 30 May 2009 18:41:51 EDT

Philatelic Database - Earlier this year, I visited a stamp show in a small town in south Sweden. At one of the dealer tables a colourful cover caught my attention. After some negotiations I was able to purchase the cover for the equivalent of some four Australian dollars.

The 1940 cover had a May 6th Sea Floor, Bahamas postmark. It was obvious that this cover had an interesting story to tell.

The world’s very first adhesive postage stamp went on sale in England on May 6, 1840 and the Bahamian cover was produced to commemorate the centenary of the Penny Black...

Proposed Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film & Media Studies at COB

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:49:44 EDT

Nassau, The Bahamas - The School of English and the School of Communication and Creative Arts at the College of The Bahamas is planning a BFA in Film (Digital Video). They are hosting a discussion about the possible curriculum for that programme with members of the community who have received formal training in Film.

The meeting wil be held on Friday November 14th, at 2pm in Room D-3 at the College. Please spread the word.

Click [Read more...] to view the course outline...

The Bahamas Yield Amazing Fossil Finds

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:56:24 EDT

Plant and animal fossils recently discovered from an island in the Bahamas tell a story of habitat change and human involvement in local extinction.

These finds are reported in a paper by Steadman et al. in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Most people with an interest in natural history know about one or more regions that were at one time covered by "a great inland sea." For instance, if you live in the American Midwest, you probably know that much of this region was covered by such a sea, evidenced by extensive limestone beds and other geological manifestations...