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Ocean Beach (Bluff Harbour)

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Ocean Beach (Bluff Harbour) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Original flying boat alighting area in Bluff Harbour, Bluff, Southland, New Zealand. Controlled by the Bluff Harbour Board, was used by the RNZAF for flying boat operations (until 1966) when patrolling New Zealand's southern sub-Antarctic islands. Short Sunderland and Consolidated Catalina aircraft types were regular visitors. [1] In the late 1950s, Ansett Australia operated four chartered international flights using Short Sandringham flying boats. A local launch, small jetty and customs terminal was provided and passengers hurried onto buses for the short ride to Invercargill. This was an early attempt to open the southern region to mass tourism. [2] Eventually the flying boat era was replaced by more efficient land based airliners and the alighting area delisted as an airport. References [ edit ] ^ Southland Harbour Board|Invercargill ...

Riley Rebus is a calm man

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Riley Rebus is a calm man Prefix + Infix + Suffix I will post hints as time goes on. Hint 1: You will have to think more abstractly than what is literally in the pictures. Hint 2: Its not about the stones. Its about the abstract idea that is associated with them. Hint 3: EK Hint 4: The Stones represent an act often performed by mindful people. Hint 5: XXX x X x XXXX x $begingroup$ Decided to make on of the Riley Rebus, I see. Nice puzzle mate :D $endgroup$ – Kevin L Sep 10 '18 at 12:51 $begingroup$ I loved it! Hope you dont mind! $endgroup$ – Dylan Sep 10 '18 at 12:52 $begingroup$ Nah, I'm glad someone made another of this :D $endgroup$ – Kevin L Sep 10 '18 at 12:53 2 Answers 2 Could the answer be STACK EXCHANGE ? Prefix: STACK because the Zen stones are being stacked . Infix: EX . As the element is an isotope of Hydrogen (H), it is literally ex -Hydrogen. Suffix: CHANGE . The infinite series cha...

Changes to Cyprus timezones

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8 Today I've heard end of radio program talking about recent some changes in Cyprus timezones. I did not hear the details, but conlusion was, that for travelers travelling between Cyprus and Northern Cyprus (I know, that this is possible) this can a be a little experience. Expert talking in that radio program underlined that this recent change to Cyprus timezones came from the fact, that both sides of island want to have their timezones aligned to home countries -- i.e.: the Republic of Cyprus's (ROC) want to have the same timezone as Greece has and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus's (TRNC) want to have times zone aligned to Turkey. However, when reading Wikipedia's articles on both countries (links above) I found out, that both of them actually have the same timezone : EET (UTC+2) during winter and EEST (UTC+3) during summer. What am I missing (from that radio talk or in generally)? Can someone shed any light on this recent timezone change in both ...