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In the News (Fri 17 Feb 12)

  
 Portsmouth, cities, United States
It was a point for exporting lumber and fish and served as colonial capital until the American Revolution.
Many old houses are in “Strawbery Banke,” a restored colonial community on the original seaport; they include the Richard Jackson house (1664), the Warner house (1716), and the John Paul Jones house (1758), where the naval hero once lived.
In Portsmouth itself are one of the world's largest shipyards; a huge naval hospital; a naval ammunitions dump; and the headquarters of the Fifth U.S. Coast Guard district.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/us/A0839842.html   (748 words)

  
 A History of Chatham Memorial Synagogue
When the practice ceased, these people tended to become ships' chandlers, or military tailors, some of their companies still being in existence today, in naval dockyard ports.
However, the Naval Agents were not the only members to benefit the wider community over the years:
Rochester Guildhall museum has a number of exhibits of Jewish interest, including a heavy gold mayoral chain and signet bracelet, donated by Lewis Levy, who was elected to that office twice, in the mid nineteenth century.
www.chathamshul.fsnet.co.uk /history.html   (1430 words)

  
 Animal Behavior :: Zoology
Feral Cats - Information on a study of feral cats in Portsmouth Naval Dockyard, United Kingdom, conducted by Jane Dards in the 1970s.
[ Feral cats in Portsmouth Naval Dockyard: Behaviour and ecology.
Honey Bee Research at the University of Illinois - Research in Gene E. Robinson's lab that studies the mechanisms of social behavior in honey bees.
science.gourt.com /Biology/Zoology/Animal-Behavior.html   (1016 words)

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