51. Archaeologists also will look for wooden solar boats which ancient Egyptians believed took the soul of the dead to the nether world. 52. At least two people drowned and another two were reportedly missing Thursday when a wooden boat carrying illegal immigrants sank in the Aegean, rescue officials said. 53. Authorities in Valletta, where the immigrants arrived Sunday, said the immigrants had been aboard a rickety wooden boat for two days without food or water. 54. But the official said smugglers use small wooden boats, called dows, and barges to evade detection. 55. Cariocas, as city residents are known, pay their respects by leaving offerings embedded in the sand or in small wooden boats launched into the sea. 56. Carter christened the wooden boat Snorri, the name given to the first Viking child born in the New World. 57. Each year, thousands of Dominicans try to reach the U.S. commonwealth illegally, often on wooden boats called yolas. 58. Fishermen were told to keep their wooden boats in the northern harbors of Keelung and Ilan. 59. Fishermen were told to keep their wooden boats in the harbors of Keelung and Ilan as rains began to pour. 60. Forty Afghan would-be immigrants were detained on this island late Sunday after crossing illegally in a wooden fishing boat from the nearby coast of Turkey, authorities said. |