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06/22/11 Alex Cherney has won the photographic competition of an elite-level new astronomy and arts festival in the Canary Islands.
05/02/11 A top winemaker from Spain will be taking the winemaking operations at Breaux Vineyards. David Pagan Casta?o was the head winemaker of a destination winery on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands and comes from a family that has spent more than two generations in the grape growing and winemaking industry.
04/16/11 # watchthis Certainly, Norwegian photographer Terje Sorgjerd has a talent for capturing the awe-inspiring . Taken on El Teide in the Canary Islands, this time lapse captures the Milky Way galaxy overhead as sand wafts across the landscape as gold clouds. [ The Awesomer ] More »
02/20/11 Four years ago, wine from the Canary Islands was unheard of in America. Unless you were one of the tourists who visit the archipelago each year, you might have assumed that quality grapes couldn't exist 80 miles off the...
01/24/11 DUBLIN, IRELAND--(Marketwire - 01/24/11) - Editors Note: There is a photo included with this release. Stefan Hansen from Norway has lifted the first European Masters of Poker season III title after besting a 213-trong field in Gran Canaria at the weekend. He took down EUR34,160 for his victory in the EUR1,100 buy-in event at the Casino Las Palmas in the Canary Islands after a four-handed deal ...
01/19/11 Board your flight in Miami late in the day and the next afternoon you can be touring the Kremlin in Moscow , placing a bet in a casino in Montevideo, Uruguay, or stretched out on a beach in the Canary Islands.
12/05/10 The trees came from Spain, Morocco and the Canary Islands,surviving months of sea and overland travel to find homes in theinfrequent oases of New Spain. They were planted wherever thepresence of water allowed establishment of missions andpresidios.
12/01/10 Four friends from Concord -- Suzanne and John Lawson, and Sharon and Gene Dirks -- spent a month at sea in late spring, first enjoying a trans-Atlantic cruise that began with seven days on the ocean waves before reaching the Canary Islands.
10/19/10 Just when I was about to one-up David Stern and take my old Rucker team for an overseas jaunt to play the best the Canary Islands has to offer, I'm remanded, er, reminded the irregular season is just a week away. And so, I suspected, it might be perspicacious...
08/21/10 Posted: Aug 21, 2010 08:28 pm EDT The 14-year old Dutch sailor, Laura Dekker, set sail on Saturday morning, August 21, from Gibraltar to the Canary Islands on the first leg of her sail around the world.
07/29/10 The first LGBT Pride march on the Canary Islands' Lanzarote took place July 17. About 250 people paraded through the streets of Puerto del Carmen accompanied by the fire department and an all-male drumming band.
07/21/10 The yellow spray of bushy plant looks as innocuous as a coastal wildflower but Hypericum canariense, or Canary Islands St. Johnswort as the plant is more commonly known, is an escaped ornamental native to islands off the African coast and they are quickly usurping native species.
05/17/10 The state's coastal fishing industry is a gumbo of Vietna mese, Cambodian, Laotian, African-American, Native American and Hispanic boat and dock owners, deckhands and other workers. The industry includes Caucasian ethnic groups, like the entrenched Cajun community, Croatians and others from the former Yugoslavia, along with the Islenos-originally from the Canary Islands.
04/21/10 Ten scientific institutions from Spain and Portugal have joined forces to create the SPALINET lidar network, radars with laser technology intended to study the aerosols in the atmosphere. The aim of the team is to homogenise and enhance the quality of measurements in order to better understand the scattering of these particles in the sky over the Iberian Peninsula and the Canary Islands.
02/26/10 A lot of our garden favorites hail from the Canary Islands, a botanical wonderland off the coast of North Africa. We mentioned some familiar examples in our last column. Two spectacular Canary lineages are the aeoniums and the echiums. Neither genus is...
02/19/10 Lots of familiar plants hail from other places that share our Mediterranean climate, including the shores of the Mediterranean Sea (no surprise), South Africa, southern Australia and coastal Chile. The oceanic Canary Islands and Madeira are also well...
02/11/10 Politician's cross-dressing habit only became an issue this week, when critics questioned who accepted an alleged junket to the sun-soaked Canary Islands: Fredrik the lawmaker or Ursula the drag queen?
01/06/10 Pilots Aborted Takeoff, No One Is Injured The pilots of an Air Berlin 737-800 aborted their takeoff from Dortmund Airport in western Germany enroute to the Canary Islands and veered off the runway. The pilots reported a "technical irregularity", and runway conditions were described as "wintery."
01/05/10 Area: 504,750 sq. km. (194,884 sq. mi.), including the Balearic and Canary Islands; about the size of Arizona and Utah combined. Cities: Capital --Madrid (5.5 million).
12/19/09 LAAYOUNE, Morocco - Western Sahara independence activist Aminatou Haidar returned to the disputed Moroccan territory on Friday, more than a month after staging a hunger strike that led to a standoff with Rabat. The 42-year-old mother of two launched her protest on November 16 at Lanzarote airport, in Spain's Canary Islands, days after Moroccan authorities denied entry to her native Western ...
12/09/09 Madrid - Concern was mounting in Spain on Wednesday over a hunger strike drama at a Canary Islands airport where the iron will of an increasingly frail woman was defying Spain and Morocco. Doctors said award-winning Western Sahara activist Aminatou H... | 
