Necker Island (British Virgin Islands) would survive their castaway adventure for at least three weeks, but as McCullin later recounted, "because of our gathering weakness ... out of temper, and out of water, we hoisted the red flag and were taken off in the early hours of the fifteenth day". According to McCullin, there was nothing idyllic about the desert island: "The mosquitos and other insects were more venomous and persistent than any I had encountered in Vietnam or the Congo." Richard Branson's "Extreme Tech Challenge" has been hosted annually at Necker Island since 2015. Described as one of the largest technology competitions in the
Necker–Sharpe Funeral Home building, built in 1930, was one of the first in the United States to be built solely as a funeral home, and the last of the Necker branches to bear the name. Necker–Sharpe Funeral Home Necker–Sharpe Funeral Home is funeral home in Union City, New Jersey. William Necker was born in West Hoboken, New Jersey on November 12, 1870, his parents the eldest son of Christopher Necker and Louisa Kienle, natives of Germany. Circumstances required stop attending school at age of twelve to work in piano-making in the establishment of the Braumuller Piano Company in New York City. During his