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Searching for a Hilton Head Vacation Rental has just gotten easier. Hilton Head Island, SC (PRWEB) May 17, 2013 Beach Properties, voted the #1 Vacation Rental Company on Hilton Head, announces the launch of their new mobile website. Now those potential guests looking to find a Hilton Head Vacation Rental while on their cell phone will be able to search the company’s inventory with ease. This mobile website (http://www.beach-property.com/m) also includes a “What’s Nearby” feature...
HotelPlanner.com names the Holiday Inn Cincinnati North as the best group friendly booking hotel in Cincinnati, OH in the full service category. West Palm Beach, FL (PRWEB) May 17, 2013 HotelPlanner.com awards the Holiday Inn Cincinnati North in Cincinnati, OH a top honor as a Best Group Friendly Hotel. To achieve this honor a hotel must retain a perfect 10 group score on HotelPlanner.com for 3 consecutive years. The HotelPlanner.com proprietary group score is made up of several key group...
With A Digital Makeover By One Of San Diego’s Top Marketing Firms, DotCom San Diego, Vinz Is Looking New, Improved And Better Than Ever Escondido, CA (PRWEB) May 17, 2013 Vinz Wine Bar has announced their partnership with one of the top marketing firms here in San Diego, DotCom San Diego, to help them re-vamp their website and take them to the next level. With DotCom San Diego’s expertise, they have helped them achieve a website that is an all inclusive one-stop-shop! DotCom San...
Residents of Heritage Woods of Charleston, a BMA Management affordable assisted living community in Charleston, Illinois, won the statewide 2013 Wii Bowling Tournament hosted by the Affordable Assisted Living Coalition. The community serves seniors of all incomes, including those on Medicaid. Bradley, Illinois (PRWEB) May 17, 2013 The Heritage Woodmen team of residents from Heritage Woods of Charleston, a BMA affordable assisted living community, won the 2013 Affordable Assisted...
VANCOUVER, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - The US National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) has announced it will conduct a 12-month assessment of the biological status of harbor seals in Southwest Alaska's Lake Iliamna, in response to the Center for Biological Diversity's (CBD) November 2012 submission of a "Petition to List Iliamna Lake Seal, a Distinct Population Segment of Pacific Harbour Seal (Phoca vitulina richardsi) under the Endangered Species Act". NMFS is the lead federal...
Chairman and CEO Fisk Johnson Named "Friend of the Library" for Encouraging Racine Children to Read Nearly Two Million Books RACINE, Wis., May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Yesterday, the Racine Public Library named Fisk Johnson, SC Johnson's Chairman and CEO, "Friend of the Library," their highest honor. Johnson received the award for sponsoring the Racine Reads: Dream Big! program during the 2011-2012 school year which challenged 10,000 local elementary school students to read one...
NEW YORK, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Town Sports International (TSI) (Nasdaq: CLUB), the owner and operator of Boston Sports Clubs (BSC), announced today that the previously pending acquisition of Fitcorp has formally closed. The transaction adds five more clubs and four managed sites to TSI's portfolio of 159 clubs in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, 25 of which operate under the Boston Sports Clubs brand. "Making opportunistic acquisitions in our...
HOUSTON, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Southwestern Energy Company (NYSE: SWN) announced today that it has closed its recently announced acquisition of approximately 162,000 net acres in the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania. The properties were acquired from Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK) and its partner for approximately $93 million, excluding purchase price adjustments. Southwestern has financed the acquisition with its revolving credit facility. Southwestern Energy...
WASHINGTON, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Red Cross partners University of Phoenix(®) and MGM Resorts International have become founding members of the Red Cross Service to the Armed Forces (SAF) Giving Program, which helps support members of the U.S. military, veterans and their families. (Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090108/RedCrossLOGO) The program marks its first anniversary this month, closely coinciding with Armed Forces Day on May 18, when...
The 2013 New York State Athletic Trainers’ Association (NYSATA) Conference, including the annual philanthropic Golf Tournament, will run from Friday, May 31st through Sunday, June 2nd at Jamestown Community College (JCC), in the picturesque Chautauqua Lake region of southwestern New York. The educational portion will commence Friday evening with a complimentary screening of the book-made-film, Head Games, introduced by the book’s author, Christopher Nowinski, former All-Ivy football...
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Wrangell- St. Elias National Park and Preserve is located in the southeastern portion of the American state of Alaska. The park holds 13,175,799 acres of land, divided between the park and preserve, which was once inhabited by Native Americans like the Ahtna and Tlingit peoples. Although Alaska was purchased by the United States in 1867, American citizens did not move into the area until the 1880’s, when gold was discovered in the Yukon Territory. It is thought that George Holt was the...
Mammoth Cave National Park is located in the state of Kentucky in the United States. The park holds 52,830 acres of land that was once inhabited by Native Americans. Many mummies and artifacts have been found in Mammoth Cave and surrounding caves to support this. It is thought that first man of European descent to visit the area was John Houchin or Francis Houchin. The legend says that one of the brothers was hunting a wounded bear that entered the cave to hide. The first documented discovery...
Petrified Forest National Park is located in the state of Arizona in the United States. The park holds 221,552 acres of land, of which 50,260 acres are comprised of a designated wilderness. The area was once inhabited by Native American tribes including the basket maker and pueblo peoples. The first American explorers to enter the area arrived while searching for good routes leading from east to west. This group, led by Army Lieutenant Amiel Whipple, surveyed the northern area of the...
Mount Rainer National Park is located in the state of Washington in the United States. The park holds 236,381 acres of land that was once inhabited by Native American tribes including the Puyallup and Yakama tribes. Many sites were found throughout the park showing evidence of older tribes including rock shelters and projectile points. The establishment of the park began in 1893, when the Pacific Forest Reserve was established. This area included a national forest as well as Mount Rainer and...
The Great Basin shrub steppe ecoregion, located within the Deserts and xeric shrublands Biome, incorporates a variety of xeric shrub-steppe sub-ecoregions in the area of the Great Basin in the Western United States. It’s within the North American Desert area, and includes a great deal of Nevada, northeastern and eastern California east of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Range rain shadows, and some parts of Utah and Idaho. The Great Basin Desert and semi-arid non-desert xeric shrubland...
