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unusual facts about Resolute


Arctic Bay Airport

On January 13, 2010, First Air transferred all air services to Arctic Bay's newly expanded airport with service to Iqaluit and Resolute Bay.


Drango

Set in a fictional Georgia town in the months immediately following the American Civil War, the film depicts the efforts of a resolute Union Army officer who had participated in the destruction of the town during Sherman's March determined to heal the land he had previously harmed.

George Munro, 1st of Auchinbowie

His younger son George Monro became famous for his resolute but ultimately unsuccessful defence of Fort William Henry in 1757 during the Seven Years' War/French and Indian War and the subsequent massacre of his garrison at the hands of France’s American Indian allies which is portrayed in the film; The Last of the Mohicans.

I Don't Wanna Fight

Featuring a wistful but resolute vocal set against a melodic synthesizer line, the track was a substantial hit on both sides of the Atlantic, reaching number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 as well as number seven on the UK Singles Chart.

José de Palafox y Melci

Stimulated by the appeals of Palafox and of the fierce and resolute demagogues who ruled the mob, the inhabitants resolved to contest possession of the remaining quarters of Saragossa inch by inch, and if necessary to retire to the suburb across the Ebro, destroying the bridge.

Luís Oliveira Gonçalves

Gonçalves's resolute defending plus quick counter-attacking tactics continued into his team's match against Iran, with Flavio creating history by scoring Angola's first ever goal in the World Cup.

Mark Vishniak

Within the exile community he was close to resolute anti-Bolsheviks like Fondaminsky and even co-operated with P.B. Struve and P.N. Miliukov.

Maurice Berkeley

Maurice de Berkeley "the Resolute" (1218 - 1281), 8th (feudal) Baron de Berkeley, English soldier and rebel

Robert Emmons

He was an avid yachtsman who was the managing owner of the Resolute in its successful defense of the America's Cup in 1920.

Takeo Manjome

But James M. Cushing's 8,500 Cebu guerrillas, who had remained resolute to fight ever since 1941, ambushed the retreating forces and entrapped them in a small corridor.

Yukiya Amano

In an interview mid-2009 with the Austrian newspaper Die Presse, Yukiya Amano said he was "resolute in opposing the spread of nuclear arms because I am from a country that experienced Hiroshima and Nagasaki".

Zachariah Wells

After a brief stint at graduate school in Montreal, Quebec, he returned to Iqaluit in 2001 and later that year transferred to the remote settlement of Resolute, on Cornwallis Island, where he worked until 2003, when he moved to Halifax with his wife, Rachel Lebowitz.


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