An even worse disaster was visited upon the troubled province by the tsunami of December 26th, which swept away perhaps 170,000 of its residents and left around 600,000 homeless.Shortly after the tsunami, a new round of peace talks began, sponsored by Finland.
An even worse disaster was visited upon the troubled province last December 26th, when a huge tsunami, caused by an undersea quake off its Indian Ocean coast, swept away perhaps 170,000 of its residents and left around 600,000 homeless, also causing death and destruction as far away as Africa.A few weeks after the tsunami struck, a new round of peace talks began, sponsored by Finland.
Since the violence, a vast rebuilding effort has begun, sponsored by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
By 1997, galleries began sponsoring monthly art walks — now organized by the nonprofit Art on Alberta (www.artonalberta.org) — and the momentum hasn't stopped.
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM POSTER Designer: Ivan Chermayeff In 1975, when Mobil Oil began sponsoring some of New York's museums by keeping them open on Tuesday evenings, Mr. Chermayeff designed bus-shelter posters, one each for the Whitney and the Guggenheim.
The Canadian Lacrosse Association began sponsoring box lacrosse.
By the end of the decade it had begun sponsoring regional meetings in other parts of the world.
Neighboring cities joined in, and by 1997, auto manufacturers and other vendors had begun sponsoring the event.
The program, New Media Summer Enrichment, began four years ago, sponsored by the PepsiCo Foundation as part of its effort to provide economically disadvantaged students with digital media skills and to encourage the pursuit of a college education.
In a monastery near Würzburg, east of Frankfurt, its spokesmen began talks, sponsored by the German bishops' conference, with a large group from many sides of Colombian society, not least the head of the federation of industry; briefly, even the chief prosecutor was there.
He began attending classes sponsored by the Communist Party-run New York Workers School, began to read the Communist newspaper The Daily Worker and was introduced to the social-documentary photographs of Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine.
