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Maldives... earest population in India. Former populations in this area, centred on theand the Laccadive Islands, are presumed to be extinct. A population exists ...
MauiThe Green Iguana is established on Oahu and, Hawaii as a feral species (despite strict legislation banning the import ...
MaldivesTheis a nation consisting of 26 natural atolls, comprising 1192 island
Gilbert IslandsFour of the former districts (including Tarawa) lie in the, where most of the country's population lives. Five of the Line Islands a ...
Makin Atoll... on 20 November, and soon afterwards, she supported the U.S. Army landing on. During the night of 26 November, Alabama twice opened up antiaircraft fi ...
Chiloé... hannel bridge is a planned suspension bridge that was to link the island ofwith mainland Chile crossing the Chacao Channel. It was one of the several ...
Ibiza... rope, and in South America. São Paulo is sometimes called the drum and bass. Brazilian drum and bass is sometimes referred to as "sambass", with its ...
Sumatra... cluding the coasts of the Malay Peninsula of Malaysia, the eastern coast of, and the Riau Islands in Indonesia, and has been established as a native ...
Rozenburg... 31, 1863. The first phase consisted of the expropriation of farm lands fromto Hoek van Holland
Ölandis a separate province from Småland, however its arms are included in the ...
Long IslandLloyd Harbor is a village in Suffolk County, New York on the North Shore of. As of the United States 2000 Census, the village population was 3,675
Gozo... ted dark yellow, with a band of orange, while those on the sister island ofwere grey with a red band. When Arriva commenced operations in July 2011, ...
Martha's Vineyard... er Saratoga light aircraft crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of. The accident killed its pilot John F. Kennedy, Jr., and also his wife an ...
VeniceAveiro is sometimes called "The Portuguese", because of its canals and boats that remind one of the Italian city of ...
Cape Cod... nal is an artificial waterway traversing the narrow neck of land that joinsto mainland Massachusetts
Line Islands... Gilbert Islands, where most of the country's population lives. Five of theare uninhabited (Malden Island, Starbuck Island, Caroline Island, Vostok I ...
Venice... hmetic, Geometry, Ratio and Proportion") was first printed and published inin 1494. It included a 27-page treatise on bookkeeping, "Particularis de C ...
Venice... hips had been mass-produced using prefabricated parts and assembly lines inseveral hundred years earlier. The Venetian Arsenal apparently produced ne ...
Key West... species in South Florida and is found along the gulf coast of Florida fromto Pinellas County. The original small populations in the Florida Keys wer ...
Nukulaelae... mber 28, 2011; with rationing of fresh-water on the islands of Funafuti and
Ireland... rst 16 hangings after the men were convicted of desertion at court martial.and Mexico jointly issued commemorative postage stamps to mark the anniver ...
SumatraThe first dominant power to arise in the archipelago was Srivijaya in. From the 5th century CE, the capital, Palembang, became a major seaport ...
Sicily... 10 and directed to land at Naval Air Station Sigonella, a N.A.T.O. base in, where the hijackers were arrested by the Italians after a disagreement b ...
Great Britain... aven Precinct. It was named for the House of Hanover, which was then ruling
Faroe Islands... used on land as sea cliff warnings in rugged and hilly terrain in the foggy. In the Canadian Maritimes, cairns have been used as beacons like small l ...
Puerto Rico... o the United States. The U.S. took occupation of Cuba, the Philippines, and. The latter possession now officially continues as a self-governing uninc ...
Staten Island... e building materials and debris from Ground Zero to Fresh Kills Landfill in. Some people, such as those affiliated with World Trade Center Families f ...
LofotenKabelvåg is the oldest fishing village in, where King Øystein built the first fishing shacks in the early 12th cent ...
VeniceGiorgio Cavazzano (born October 19, 1947,) is an Italian comic strip artist. He started his career at age 14, as an ...
Ireland... living in the Roman province of Britannia were called Britanni, or Britons., inhabited by the Scoti, was never invaded and was called Hibernia. Thule ...
Crete... well as the Libyan Sea, within the Greek exclusive economic zone, south of. The Ministry of the Environment, Energy and Climate Change announced tha ...
Marshall IslandsThe people of theare of Micronesian origin, which is traced to a combination of peoples who ...
AndøyaThe Andenes–Gryllefjord Ferry tois operated during about two months in the summer. The road to Kaldfarnes ...
Cuvier Island... named after Cuvier, such as the South American giant sloth Catonyx cuvieri.in New Zealand was named after Cuvier by D'Urvill
Malden Island... the country's population lives. Five of the Line Islands are uninhabited (, Starbuck Island, Caroline Island, Vostok Island and Flint Island). The P ...
Philippines... ership transfer to the United States. The U.S. took occupation of Cuba, the, and Puerto Rico. The latter possession now officially continues as a sel ...
Funafuti... ared on September 28, 2011; with rationing of fresh-water on the islands ofand Nukulaelae
TasmaniaEfforts to eradicate a small colony from's Lake Crescent without using chemicals have been successful, but the lon ...
Puerto Rico... osely followed behind by Port Everglades, Florida and the Port of San Juan,
New Guinea... the Medical Corps. He served with distinction in the Pacific theater and in
Vesterålen... of road, shipping, and ferry routes to five areas: Lofoten, Ofoten, Salten,, and Sør Troms. It is also located between five fjords: Vestfjorden, Ofot ...
Cape VerdeThe 14 countries making their Olympic debut were: Azerbaijan, Burundi,, Comoros, Dominica, Guinea-Bissau, Macedonia, Nauru, Palestine, Saint Kit ...
Aran Islands... ictional documentary (ethnofiction) by Robert J. Flaherty about life on theoff the western coast of Ireland. It portrays characters living in premode ...
Mindanao... ign against the secessionist Moro National Liberation Frontin the island of
NukulaelaeHouseholds on Funafuti andare restricted to two buckets of fresh water per day (40 litres). The gove ...
Starbuck Island... population lives. Five of the Line Islands are uninhabited (Malden Island,, Caroline Island, Vostok Island and Flint Island). The Phoenix Islands ar ...
Curaçao... Netherlands, consisting of the autonomous countries the Netherlands, Aruba,and Sint Maarten
Sri Lanka... by R. Edwin in a colorful description of a large snake found in Ceylon (now), most likely a reticulated python, Python reticulatus. The account, whic ...
PolynesiaSettled by Micronesian andn people, Nauru was annexed and claimed as a colony by the German Empire i ...
Beef Island... proved, linking West End to the East End of Tortola, and joining Tortola toby a new bridge. The Beef Island airport (now renamed after Terrance B. Le ...
Philippines... occasionally added to ice cream and other desserts. In Brazil, Vietnam, theand Indonesia, a dessert drink is made with sugar, milk or water, and pure ...
Tasmania... alia, cicadas are found on tropical islands and cold coastal beaches around; in tropical wetlands; high and low deserts; alpine areas of New South Wa ...
Ireland... y progressed, the obsolete pike would still find a use in such countries as, Russia, and China, generally in the hands of (as usual) desperate peasan ...
Lille Molla... ågan municipality also includes the islands of Gimsøy, Skrova, Store Molla,, and numerous islets
Isle of Bute... 1st Duke of Argyll), Bute succeeded to the Earldom of Bute (named after the) upon the death of his father, James Stuart, 2nd Earl of Bute, in 1723. H ...
Crete... red Tripolitsa. The Peloponnesian revolt was quickly followed by revolts in, Macedonia and Central Greece, which would soon be suppressed. Meanwhile, ...
JavaIn Indonesia, especially in, a similar place is called Alun-Alun. It is a central part of Javanese vi ...
Luzon... rst Philippine Army airfield (Zablan Airfield) was built outside of Manila,in 1935. At this time only three pilot trainers were available in the Phil ...
PhilippinesHolbrook returned to thein March 1901 and served with Troop B, 15th Cavalry Brigade and Troop I, 4 ...
Rote... inental shelf north-west of Australia and south of the Indonesian island of
Roi Islet... Atoll, from the Japanese. The Alabama, the South Dakota, and the bombardedon 29 January and Namur Islet on 30 January. She fired 330 rounds of shell ...
Taiwan... resident of Taiwan, both Taiwanese and putonghua/guoyu. A person living inmay commonly mix pronunciations, phrases, and words from Mandarin and Taiw ...
Zhifu Island... ortality and fell prey to many who offered him supposed elixirs. He visitedthree times in order to achieve immortality
MayotteThis article is about the demographic features of the population of, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the ...
Riau Islands... s of the Malay Peninsula of Malaysia, the eastern coast of Sumatra, and thein Indonesia, and has been established as a native language of part of wes ...
Caroline Island... . Five of the Line Islands are uninhabited (Malden Island, Starbuck Island,, Vostok Island and Flint Island). The Phoenix Islands are uninhabited exc ...
Azores... to fight the rematch, his Air France Lockheed Constellation crashed in the, killing everyone on board
Long Island, NY... h in twin penthouse apartments, the The Bevin House mansion in Asharoken on, as well as a townhouse on Beekman Place in Manhattan. It was after his a ...
Sint Maarten... consisting of the autonomous countries the Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao and
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Savai'i... Samoa to film Moana (1926). Flaherty shot Moana in Safune on the island ofwhere he lived with his wife and family for more than a year. The studio h ...
Paradise IslandA heliport is located on, as well as other smaller islands, such as the various cruise line privat ...
WieringenIn the early Middle Ages and before, Texel andmay have been much bigger and met each other as opposite banks of the Mars ...
Mauritiushas strong and friendly relations with the West, as well as with India and ...
IrelandScotia was originally a Roman name for, inhabited by the people they called Scoti or Scotii. Use of the name shi ...
Ireland... rganic material. Finds of such material have been made in Denmark, Germany,and the United Kingdom. Some bogs have preserved ancient oak logs useful i ...
InchcolmInchcolm Abbey is a medieval abbey located on the island ofin the Firth of Forth in Scotland. The Abbey, which is located at the cent ...
Puerto Rico... ritories, such as the USA, are not members (although the US Commonwealth ofhas Observer status, and the US Virgin Islands announced in 2007 they woul ...
Sri Lanka... he major marine routes of the Indian Ocean. Maldives' nearest neighbors areand India, both of which have had cultural and economic ties with Maldives ...
LesbosGalienus called fellatio "lesbiari" since women of the island ofwere supposed to have introduced the practice of using one's lips to give ...
FunafutiHouseholds onand Nukulaelae are restricted to two buckets of fresh water per day (40 li ...
Caribbean... orthern Europe in 1962, and participation in Operation "Springboard" in thein 1966. Between these cruises and major yard work in 1961, 1962, 1966, 19 ...
Hispaniola... 92. The first Spanish settlement in the Americas was La Isabela in northern. This town was abandoned shortly after in favor of Santo Domingo de Guzmá ...
Corsica... cated in Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria. Nowadays, some units of the Légion are inor overseas possessions (mainly in French Guiana, guarding Guiana Space Ce ...
ManhattanAllentown is about one hour southwest ofvia the Turnpike and about 50 minutes northeast of Philadelphia. Both Prin ...
Tranøy... 8th century. Ånderdalen National Park is located in Torsken and neighboring
Antigua... ts of British troops dispatched by the Governor of the Leeward Islands from. Twenty of the ringleaders of the riots were sentenced to lengthy terms o ...
Tortuga... the year 1660 and caused a number of conflicts. By 1640, the buccaneers ofwere calling themselves the Brethren of the Coast
Aruba... of the Netherlands, consisting of the autonomous countries the Netherlands,, Curaçao and Sint Maarten
Thule... Ireland, inhabited by the Scoti, was never invaded and was called Hibernia., an island "six days' sail north of Britain, and [...] near the frozen se ...
Crete... nd in catacombs beneath Rome and Byzantine Icons were also found in Cyprus,, Ephesus, Cappadocia and Antioch. Roman frescoes were done by the artist ...
Madeira... south to Algeria and on the Atlantic islands as far west as the Azores and. It is not found in Iceland. In the south east, it reaches the Caucasus r ...
Governors Island... taff was also the Second Corps Area headquarters staff based at Fort Jay atin New York, New York
Java... who lived in the Manila area. This document mentions a leader of Medang in
Easter Island... for a deity, such as in the Cult of Makemake, in which the Tangata manu ofserved as chiefs, or as attendants, as in the case of Hugin and Munin, two ...
Kiribati... Micronesia in the South Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in, to the east. Nauru is the world's smallest republic, covering just . Wit ...
Crete... the real basis underlying the Hellenic myths of the Argolid, the Troad and, to cause these to be taken seriously. Aegean vases have been exhibited b ...
Vanua Levu... ea of Fiji proposed for resettlement is the second largest Fijian island of. The mass migration is expected to include younger, skilled workers first ...
Tranøy... orsken (population: 160) was transferred to the neighboring municipality of
Isle of Sheppey... of Thanet, Kent. In 854 a raiding party overwintered a second time, at thein the Thames estuary. In 864 they reverted to Thanet for their winter enc ...
Cyprus... were found in catacombs beneath Rome and Byzantine Icons were also found in, Crete, Ephesus, Cappadocia and Antioch. Roman frescoes were done by the ...
Cyprus... United States, Turkey, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Germany, the United Kingdom,, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates. Turkmenistan is a member of the Econ ...
Rockall... batross when drunk on rum). Occasionally the penguins live on the island of, where they occasionally set up a socialist commune
Iceland... s often considered a victimless crime. Countries such as Sweden, Norway and- where it is illegal to remunerate sexual acts, but not to supply them - ...
Newfoundland... sters are eaten on much of the East Coast; the American lobster ranges fromdown to about the Carolinas, but is most often associated with Maine. A ty ...
Matsu... imited to Taiwan and several outlying islands, including Penghu, Kinmen and. Since 1949, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (no ...
MaldivesIn 2009 President Tong attending the Climate Vulnerable Forum (V11) in the, along with 10 other countries that are vulnerable to climate-change, and ...
Isle of Dogs... C also built Limehouse Link tunnel, a cut and cover road tunnel linking theto The Highway (the A13 road) at a cost of over £150 million per kilometre ...
Iceland... Atlantic islands as far west as the Azores and Madeira. It is not found in. In the south east, it reaches the Caucasus range. British Robins are lar ...
Rhodes... ts he went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. On his return journey he put in at, which was still occupied by the knights of St John, under whose protecti ...
Long Island... ol District in Ocean Beach until grade 6, at which point they are bussed tofor grades 7-12, usually to Bay Shore Middle School and High School, or to ...
Lofoten... ality is at the junction of road, shipping, and ferry routes to five areas:, Ofoten, Salten, Vesterålen, and Sør Troms. It is also located between fi ...
Tasmania... tant species of Tettigarctidae, one in southern Australia, and the other in. The family Cicadidae is subdivided into the subfamilies Tettigadinae, Ti ...
Goat IslandIn January 1985, Midnight Oil performed Oils on the Water, a concert onin Port Jackson to celebrate Triple J's tenth birthday, before a select au ...
Cyprus... ish High Commissioner of Palestine, Sir Harold MacMichael and deport him to. However, the Haganah leaked the planned operation and it was thwarted be ...
Line Islands... s which have no administrative function, including a group which unites theand the Phoenix Islands (ministry at London, Christmas). Each inhabited is ...
HispaniolaHaiti is on the western part of, the second largest island in the Greater Antilles. Haiti is the third la ...
Caribbean... for the past 7000 years. It is possible that some of the populations in thewere translocated there from the mainland by various tribes as a food sour ...
Borneo... a native language of part of western coastal Sarawak and West Kalimantan in. In southern Thailand, the related language Pattani Malay is spoken
Banaba Island... island country in Micronesia in the South Pacific. Its nearest neighbour isin Kiribati, to the east. Nauru is the world's smallest republic, covering ...
Philippines... e, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru,, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Kitt ...
Ryukyu IslandsShamanism is still widely practiced in the(Okinawa, Japan), where shamans are known as 'Noro' (all women) and 'Yuta' ...
Venice... ur of Europe. They travel over the Alps and take up residence for a time in, and finally in Rome, carrying, with the exception of Amy, an air of conc ...
Marianas... abama began steaming toward the large islands and Japanese air bases of theto screen the aircraft carriers in heavy air raids on the islands of Tinia ...
NoorderhaaksThe municipality also includes the uninhabited sand bar of. The island of Texel, which received city rights in 1415, originally was ...
Stroma... rea has been the main setting off point from the mainland to the islands ofand Swona and Orkney itself. This route, known as The Short Sea Crossing, ...
Sicily... a son of Adamastus of Ithaca, and one of Odysseus' crew. He was marooned onwhen Odysseus fled Polyphemus the cyclops, until Aeneas arrived and took h ...
Phoenix Islands... istrative function, including a group which unites the Line Islands and the(ministry at London, Christmas). Each inhabited island has its own council ...
Vestvågøy... ustvågøy (Norse Vágøy) was named after this important site - and later also
Cayman Brac... n Caribbean Sea. The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman,, and Little Cayman, located south of Cuba and northwest of Jamaica. The C ...
PhilippinesIn the, the Laguna Copperplate Inscription dating from 900 CE relates a granted ...
Manhattan... merchants first settled the area. Later, German immigrants immigrated from. Irish, Polish, Armenians, Syrians, eastern European Jews and Italians fo ...
Iceland... "six days' sail north of Britain, and [...] near the frozen sea", possibly, was also never invaded by the Romans
Stroma... it. Usually seen feeding inshore at high tide around here in the Gills Bay,area though may be seen in deeper water. Generally around 8m long, greyish ...
Ithaca... k and Roman mythology, Achaemenides (Ἀχαιμενίδης) was a son of Adamastus of, and one of Odysseus' crew. He was marooned on Sicily when Odysseus fled ...
Marshall IslandsThis article is about the demographic features of the population of the, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the ...
Little Cayman... The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and, located south of Cuba and northwest of Jamaica. The Cayman Islands are c ...
Kuril Islands... segment of the economy. Nearly all the cargo arriving for Sakhalin (and the) is delivered by cargo boats, or by ferries, in railway wagons, through t ...
Silda... include: Bryggja, Degnepoll, Holvik, Kvalheim, Langenes, Raudeberg, Refvik,, Tennebø, Totland, Vedvik, and Vågsvåg
Kiribati... CCC), the purpose of which is to support the initiative of the President ofto hold a consultative forum between vulnerable states and their partners ...
Eighteenmile Island... au, the city has a total area of , of which, is land and (28.12%) is water.is located a half-mile downstream of the city in the Columbia River
Puerto Rico... eceive a shot at the title, the WBC insisted Chacon fight Héctor Camacho ininstead, then stripped him of his title when he refused
Turtle Island... r Angola), the Little Turtle Branch of the Allen County Public Library, andin Lake Erie
Island of Montreal... ed on the northwest side of Mount Royal, north of downtown Montreal, on thein southwestern Quebec, Canada. The town is completely surrounded by Montr ...
Tabiteuea... hree councils on Tarawa: Betio, South-Tarawa, North-Tarawa; two councils on)
Cocos (Keeling) IslandsThehave fifteen kilometres of highway. The airport has paved runways of lengt ...
Puerto Rico... tary recruitment in educational service centers in several US cities and in
Stroma... move as the water rises. Large groups of seals can be seen at the north of, from the lighthouse round to the north-west part of the island and at th ...
Puerto Rican... ales, for his ability to conquer both scoring and team championships in theBSN league, is one of Puerto Rico's most famous basketball players
Betio... tmas). Each inhabited island has its own council (three councils on Tarawa:, South-Tarawa, North-Tarawa; two councils on Tabiteuea)
MaltaThe transportation system inis small but extensive, and the islands' domestic system of public transpo ...
SenjaTorsken is a municipality on the western coast ofisland in Troms county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipal ...
Java... ossils in Yunnan, China, whereas Huia masonii is a species of frog found in, Indonesia
Long Island... st Hampton in Suffolk County, New York, United States on the South Shore of. As of the United States 2000 Census, the CDP population was 3,851 as of ...
Austvågøy... was built there. The name is the plural form of vág m 'bay'. The island of(Norse Vágøy) was named after this important site - and later also Vestvåg ...
Tranøy... the two locations: 480) was transferred from Bjarkøy to the municipality ofon 1 January 1964. The municipal boundaries have not changed since
Turtle IslandLake Erie's, which sits astride the Michigan and Ohio border, is named for him
Grand Cayman... in the western Caribbean Sea. The territory comprises the three islands of, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman, located south of Cuba and northwest of J ...
Jost Van Dyke... the population. This was followed by an outbreak of smallpox in Tortola andin 1861 which caused a further 33 deaths
Philippines... Hong Kong, Mauritius, and Taiwan, as well as parts of Cambodia, Japan, theand Vietnam. Further disappearances are likely
Wadden Sea... oday, Texel forms the largest natural barrier between the North Sea and the
South China Sea Islands... became Hainan Special Administrative Region with 16 counties containing the
Long Island... census-designated place) in Suffolk County, New York on the North Shore of. As of the United States 2000 Census, the CDP population was 4,975
Newfoundland... e out of those parts. He was also credited as one of the discoverers of thefisheries
CreteFor details of monumental evidence the articles on, Mycenae, Tiryns, Troad, Cyprus, etc., must be consulted. The most repres ...
Taiwan... 0 years. They have disappeared from the waters of Hong Kong, Mauritius, and, as well as parts of Cambodia, Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam. Furthe ...
Melanesia... es spoken on the Polynesian outliers in Micronesia and Northern and Central. Tuvaluan has borrowed considerably from Samoan, the language of Christia ...
d'Urville Island... on (on New Zealand's North Island), brief stops were made at Port Hardy (on) and Queen Charlotte Sound (on New Zealand's South Island) and Challenger ...
Corsica... towards the Pact of Steel. Mussolini hoped to quickly capture Savoy, Nice,, and the African colonies of Tunisia and Algeria from the French, but Ger ...
Little Stirrup Cay... ive ships. These include Great Stirrup Cay, owned by Norwegian Cruise Line,otherwise known as Royal Caribbean International's "Coco Cay", Carnival Co ...
Iceland... , wine and stronger beers in Norway (Vinmonopolet), Sweden (Systembolaget),(Vínbúðin) and Finland (Alko). Bars and restaurants may, however, import a ...
CaribbeanIn the aftermath of twohurricanes in 1995, a group of fifteen Green Iguanas was found to be livin ...
Belcher IslandsIn 1913, on his expedition to prospect the, his boss, Sir William Mackenzie, suggested that he take a motion picture ...
Guam... European domination quite early. In the early 17th Century Spain colonized, the Northern Marianas, and the Caroline Islands (what would later become ...
Crete... ollowed by Central Macedonia (€32.285 billion), Thessaly (€11.608 billion),(€11.243 billion) and West Greece (€10.659 billion). The least important w ...
Great Britain... 69 at the 2000 census. The majority of early settlers were from Germany and
Rhodes... im. Bunche eventually negotiated a ceasefire, signed on the Greek island of. See 1949 Armistice Agreements
Culebra, Puerto Rico... ebra protests that criticized the United States Navy's use of the island offor military exercises. He squatted in Culebra's Flamenco Beach for three ...
Puerto RicoIn, he hosted a weekly astrology television show, first on WKAQ-TV, and late ...
Cretan... re called the Meliai. The ash-tree sisters tended the infant Zeus in Rhea'scave. Gaea gave birth to the Meliai after being made fertile by the blood ...
Corsica... saw itself relegated to the northern Tyrrhenian Sea with full ownership of. From the first half of the 5th century, the new international political ...
Scattered Islands... ation and is visited by scientists. Though uninhabited, it is part of the "" of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands administrative region
Grand Cayman... orded permanent inhabitant of the Cayman Islands, Isaac Bodden, was born onaround 1661. He was the grandson of the original settler named Bodden who ...
Taiwan... al British Legion's annual festival of remembrance. Recent requiem works byese composers Tyzen Hsiao and Fan-Long Ko follow in this tradition, honour ...
Lamay Island... ossen (modern Chiayi) to Lonkjiaow (Heng Chun). The 1636 punitive attack onin response to the killing of the shipwrecked crew of the Beverwijck and t ...
Gotland... he archaeological find known as the Visby lenses from the Swedish island ofmay be components of a telescope. It appears to date from long before the ...
Derry Castle... s radical friends were an influence. This was followed by 'The Wreck of the' and then 'Golden Gully.' Prefixed to the former poem was an editorial 'n ...
Iceland... pound, and the Scandinavian currencies do not issue large value banknotes.in particular has never needed much currency since electronic transactions ...
Funafuti... u has a national football team, which trains at the Tuvalu Sports Ground in. The Tuvalu national football team competes in the Pacific Games and Sout ...
Ceos... ame to be known as the Dog Days of summer. The inhabitants of the island ofin the Aegean Sea would offer sacrifices to Sirius and Zeus to bring cooli ...
Cape Breton... itories of Hudson Bay, Acadia, and Newfoundland to Britain, while retainingand other islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Some of its terms were ambi ...
Santo... hey began clearing more land for coconut production, protests began in bothand Malekula led by Jimmy Stevens and his kastom movement called "Nagriame ...
NewfoundlandThe most productive areas include's Grand Banks, the Nova Scotia shelf, Georges Bank off Cape Cod, the Baha ...
Sicilie... found also moyst swimming upon wells in the country of the Agrigentines of, which they use for lamps instead of oyle, and which they call falsely Si ...
Taiwan... rengthening the Nation") or Dongfeng (, lit. "Eastern Wind"). Similarly, on, it used to be common to incorporate one of the four characters of the na ...
Vieques, Puerto Rico... egan camping inside the U.S. Navy bombing practice grounds in the island of(see Navy-Vieques protests). He stayed in the Gilberto Concepción de Graci ...
Philippines... lau), creating the Spanish East Indies, which was governed from the Spanishuntil the Spanish-American War in 1898
Sri LankaIn, this festival is also called "Deepavali" and is celebrated by the Tamil ...
Sicily... s, a rebellion against Charles of Anjou in Palermo, and the invasion of theby the Catalans of King Peter III of Aragon. Michael VIII was forced to dr ...
Taiwan... o have been preserved in the Catholic religious traditions of aborigines in
Taiwan... hsiung (; old names: Takao, Takow, Takau) is a city located in southwestern, facing the Taiwan Strait on the west. Kaohsiung, officially named Kaohsi ...
CorsicaCairns are also common on the Mediterranean island of.
Cyprus... tails of monumental evidence the articles on Crete, Mycenae, Tiryns, Troad,, etc., must be consulted. The most representative site explored up to now ...
Sri Lanka... econd female head of government in the world after Sirimavo Bandaranaike of, and she remains as the world's second longest serving female Prime Minis ...
Great Stirrup Cay... destinations available exclusively to their respective ships. These include, owned by Norwegian Cruise Line, Little Stirrup Cay otherwise known as Ro ...
StromaIn the middle of the Firth are two significant islands,and Swona. The small Pentland Skerries group are in the east. The islands ...
Taiwan... sidents from Hong Kong, 21,201 residents from Macao, 170,283 residents from, and 593,832 residents from other locations, totaling 1,020,145 residents
Ytterøy... the town had 1,669 residents. On 1 January 1964, the island municipality ofwas merged with the newly enlarged municipality of Levanger. Prior to the ...
Cardona Island Light... called Club Náutico de Ponce. From the observation tower on the boardwalk,can be seen. A 45-minute boat ride is also available to Isla de Caja de Mu ...
Puerto RicoIn February 2012, the government ofproposed that the islands' iguanas, which were said to have a population o ...
NewfoundlandIslands include(including hundreds of surrounding islands), Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Isl ...
Rote IslandIn thelanguage, it is called Nusa Solokaek. Both names have the meaning Sand Isl ...
Guam... ore she departed the area on 19 February, without any kills. She arrived aton the 24th for refit alongside Proteus
Madagascar... alia, the United Kingdom, People's Republic of China, Egypt, France, India,, Pakistan, Russia, and the United States
Caroline Islands... the early 17th Century Spain colonized Guam, the Northern Marianas, and the(what would later become the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau), cr ...
TrinidadBoldon was born in Port-of-Spain,to a Jamaican mother and Trinidadian father. He attended Fatima College (S ...
Mauritius... t in the last 90 years. They have disappeared from the waters of Hong Kong,, and Taiwan, as well as parts of Cambodia, Japan, the Philippines and Vie ...
Nicholson Island... 2 km²) of it is land and 0.9 square miles (2.3 km²) of it (3.21%) is water.is within the township in the Allegheny River
British Isles... ian Magyars and the Viking expansion out of Scandinavia into Europe and the, as well as Greenland and Iceland
PhilippinesIn the, Brazil, Indonesia, Vietnam, and southern India (especially the coastal K ...
Newfoundland... y in the north, with additional colonial settlements or trading outposts onand at Hudson Bay
Long Island... hamlet (and a census-designated place) in Huntington on the North Shore ofin Suffolk County, New York, United States. Named after Nathan Hale, a cap ...
Line Islands... equivalent of the former colony to acknowledge the inclusion of Banaba, the, and the Phoenix Islands, which were never considered part of the Gilbert ...
Ireland... of a Feather" (in 1953). On September 9, 1953, their boat arrived in Cobh,. Laurel recounted their reception
Crete... lands were under Ottoman control by the end of the 15th century, Cyprus anddid not fall to them until 1571 and 1670 respectively. The only part of Gr ...
Great Britain... lso be noted that Flamsteed's catalogue covered only the stars visible from, and therefore stars of the far southern constellations have no Flamsteed ...
Philippine IslandsOn June 24, 1889, he was ordered to theand during the Philippine-American War he participated in the Northern Cam ...
Sri Lanka... ia, beyond the Mauryas' northwest border, as well as South to the island ofand the Maldive Islands. Serious studies of the archaeological remains of ...
Tasmania... Lomond National Park is located in the northeast of the Australian state of, about 50 km east of Launceston. The park has an area of 18,192 ha and wa ...
Cyprus... e Aegean islands were under Ottoman control by the end of the 15th century,and Crete did not fall to them until 1571 and 1670 respectively. The only ...
Sumbawa... e antipodal to central Indonesia, specifically the islands of Bali, Lombok,, Madura, and most of Java. The Amazonian southern lobe of the country, mo ...
Newfoundland... red the Atlantic coast, travelling from what is now called The Carolinas to. He entered what is now called Lower New York Bay in 1524, greeted by wha ...
Sardinia... Eva Mameli, was a botanist and university professor. A native of Sassari inand 11 years younger than her husband, she married while still a junior le ...
Anastasia Island... ough some documentary evidence suggests it was first moved to a location on. At any rate, it was certainly in its present location by the end of the ...
Manhattan... ublic school, he obtained a scholarship to Jesuit-run Xavier High School in, where he graduated first in his class. Scalia later stated that he spent ...
Long Island... tcome in North America as birds failed to establish after being released in, New York in 1852, Oregon in 1889-92, and the Saanich Peninsula in Britis ...
Zanzibar... d's well-watered highlands to 134 per square kilometre (347 per sq. mi.) on. More than 80% of the population is rural. Dar es Salaam is the capital a ...
Crete... city. Two further trials, in 1450 and 1456, led to Jacopo's imprisonment onand his eventual death there
Solomon Islands... invade and occupy Port Moresby in New Guinea and Tulagi in the southeastern. The plan to accomplish this, called Operation MO, involved several major ...
Wadden Sea... Holland. It is the largest and most populated of the Frisian Islands in the, and also the westernmost of this archipelago, which extends to Denmark. ...
Aegean Islands... Sea in order to protect and enhance the environment and civilization of the, and to link culture with education at all education levels, introducing ...
Mont Saint-Michel... ended Edition DVDs, the appearance and structure of the city was based upon, France
SicilyBronte is a town and comune of(in the province of Catania, Italy), near Mount Etna
Philippines... la Seaport Terminal in the Port Area, Manila is the shipping gateway to the. The Pasig River Ferry Service traveled the Pasig River from Intramuros, ...
Kyūshū... Japan that is now the western half of Kagoshima Prefecture on the island of. Its abbreviation is Sasshū (薩州)
Java... sia, specifically the islands of Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Madura, and most of. The Amazonian southern lobe of the country, mostly south of the Guiana H ...
Lombok... vers, are antipodal to central Indonesia, specifically the islands of Bali,, Sumbawa, Madura, and most of Java. The Amazonian southern lobe of the co ...
Funafuti... ds are unpaved. Tuvalu is among a few countries that do not have railroads.is the only port but there is a deep-water berth in the harbour at Nukufet ...
Matsu... by the People's Republic of China. However, the archipelagos of Kinmen andare under the control of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Thus, there are t ...
Cocos Plate... floor, however, is being carried northeast by the underlying motion of the. Ocean floor material is largely composed of basalt, which is relatively ...
Crete... δνος [adnos] "holy"), in Greek mythology, was the daughter of Minos king of, and his queen Pasiphaë, daughter of Helios, the Sun-titan. She is mostly ...
Ionian Islands... only part of Greece that managed to escape long-term Ottoman rule were the, which remained under the sovereignty of the Republic of Venice until the ...
Delos... far away as al-'Ula in northwestern Saudi Arabia and even on the island ofand in Egypt. It was the first of the South Arabian kingdoms to end, and t ...
Laucala... the numerous insects on the island. They are now present on the islands of, Matagi and Taveuni
HokkaidōUeshiba moved toin 1912, and began studying under Takeda Sokaku in 1915. His official asso ...
Ryukyu Islands... on northeast of Formosa during strikes on northern Formosa and the southernin support of the Allied struggle for Okinawa. On 21 April, Bang rescued a ...
Phoenix Islands... er colony to acknowledge the inclusion of Banaba, the Line Islands, and the, which were never considered part of the Gilberts chain. In the Treaty of ...
Bali... oco rivers, are antipodal to central Indonesia, specifically the islands of, Lombok, Sumbawa, Madura, and most of Java. The Amazonian southern lobe o ...
Fire IslandThe village is located on the western part ofbetween the Great South Bay and the Atlantic Ocean and in-between towns Ki ...
Grand CaymanThe island of, which lies largely unprotected at sea level, was hit by Hurricane Ivan o ...
Qamea... sease and to humans by spreading salmonella. They were initially brought toin 2000 by an American who wanted them to eat the numerous insects on the ...
Allegheny Islands State Park... the Allegheny River drainage basin and contains one undeveloped state park,, on three alluvial islands in the Allegheny River. Deer Creek flows throu ...
St Martin's... hough it is realistically no more than a rock. It lies just of the coast ofand is part of the Eastern Isles
RhodesOn defeating Antiochus III in 188 the Romans gave Lycia tofor 20 years, taking it back in 168 BC. In these latter stages of the Roma ...
Philippines... ommon in Latin American countries. It is also used in Russia, Pakistan, the, Indonesia and Israel, all of which are strongly influenced by European t ...
HinnøyaThe municipality encompasses the southern part of. The terrain is mountainous, with several small islands and fjords. The c ...
Isles of ScillyEnglish Island is an uninhabited island that is part of the, although it is realistically no more than a rock. It lies just of the co ...
Sandwich Islands... mid-June 1875, heading east across the Pacific to a point due north of the(Hawaii), and then turning south, making landfall at the end of July at Ho ...
Caribbean... n EU country. Also, players from the ACP countries—countries in Africa, the, and the Pacific that are signatories to the Cotonou Agreement—are not co ...
Crete... consulted. The most representative site explored up to now is Knossos (see) which has yielded not only the most various but the most continuous evid ...
Puerto RicoWith the exceptions of Louisiana,, Quebec, whose private law is based on civil law, and British Columbia, w ...
Venice... of Francesco Sforza. Sforza soon made peace with Florence, however, leavingadrift
MadagascarThe island is located off the east coast of Africa, to the north of, and boasted a high standard of living, an excellent economy, and freedom ...
Tulagi... Japanese forces decided to invade and occupy Port Moresby in New Guinea andin the southeastern Solomon Islands. The plan to accomplish this, called O ...
Taveuni... s on the island. They are now present on the islands of Laucala, Matagi and
NukufetauFunafuti is the only port but there is a deep-water berth in the harbour at. The merchant marine fleet consists of two passenger/cargo ships Nivaga I ...
Philippines... It is distinct from Melanesia to the south, and Polynesia to the east. Thelie to the west, and Indonesia to the southwest
Little San Salvador Island... known as Royal Caribbean International's "Coco Cay", Carnival Corporation'sor "Half Moon Cay", and Castaway Cay, of Disney Cruise Line. Of these, onl ...
Lindisfarne... the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, Viking raiders struck England in 793 and raided, the monastery that held Saint Cuthbert’s relics. The raiders killed the ...
Taiwan... ernment figures on the number of immigrants from South Korea, Hong Kong and. The 1982 census reported that there were 2,700 Koreans in Paraguay, alon ...
Vlieland... s to Denmark. The next island in the archipelago, to the north of Texel, is
Corsica... te dynasties, and Giovanni's siblings wed the s of the hereditary rulers of, Ferrara, Bologna and Forlì
Long Beach Island... arger homes on pilings that are popular in nearby beach communities such as
Philippines... over Malacca from the Portuguese in 1641 while Spain began to colonize the(named after Philip II of Spain) from 1560s. Acting through the Dutch East ...
Castaway Cay... , Carnival Corporation's Little San Salvador Island or "Half Moon Cay", and, of Disney Cruise Line. Of these, only Castaway Cay offers ships an actua ...
New Guinea... ific, Imperial Japanese forces decided to invade and occupy Port Moresby inand Tulagi in the southeastern Solomon Islands. The plan to accomplish thi ...
Newfoundland# On, English colonists based at St. John's disputed control of the island wit ...
Puerto Rico... shot at a world title by the WBO title holder Josue Camacho, who came fromto the challenger's hometown to defend his title. Carbajal put on a brilli ...
Philippine... ld War II, was restored. It also became a fishing port for boats sailing toand Indonesian waters. Largely because of its climate, Kaohsiung has overt ...
TasmaniaMount Field National Park is a national park in, Australia, 64 km northwest of Hobart. The landscape ranges from eucalypt ...
Melanesia... housands of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It is distinct fromto the south, and Polynesia to the east. The Philippines lie to the west, ...
Espiritu SantoThe first island in the Vanuatu group discovered by Spaniards waswhen, in 1606, the Portuguese explorer, Pedro Fernández de Quirós, spied w ...
Flinders IslandStrzelecki National Park is a national park on, Tasmania (Australia), 307 km north of Hobart. It is named after Sir Paul ...
Borneo... y south of the Guiana Highlands, is antipodal to the southeastern corner of
OahuThe Green Iguana is established onand Maui, Hawaii as a feral species (despite strict legislation banning th ...
Ireland... aid throughout the breeding season, which commences in March in Britain and. The eggs are a cream, buff or white speckled or blotched with reddish-br ...
Puerto Rico... De La Salle in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. Four years later he became a member of's national basketball team. Morales didn't go to the Montreal Olympics be ...
Sri Lanka... n Sri Lanka most of his life, claim that Buddhism came to the Maldives from. Since then, new archaeological discoveries point to Mahayana and Vajraya ...
TasmaniaStrzelecki National Park is a national park on Flinders Island,(Australia), 307 km north of Hobart. It is named after Sir Paul Edmund Str ...
Long Island... census-designated place) in Suffolk County, New York on the North Shore of. As of the United States 2000 Census, the CDP population was 10,185
Philippines... is a major tourist attraction and one of the most recognizable icons of the. Ermita and Malate, aside from being known for its nightlife, are well-kn ...
Polynesia... the western Pacific Ocean. It is distinct from Melanesia to the south, andto the east. The Philippines lie to the west, and Indonesia to the southwe ...
Ireland... races at Kew Gardens and many other locations. This man who refused work inbecause he had not finished England was called "Capability" Brown, because ...
Öland... lmar County includes the eastern part of Småland and the island province of. The arms is a combination of the arms of Småland and Öland
Crete... ke Athens), were self-governed municipalities. Some regions of Greece, likeand Epirus, remained effectively autonomous from the central Ottoman state ...
ManhattanIn January 1935 Merton enrolled as a sophomore at Columbia University in. He lived with the Jenkins family in Douglaston and took a train to the C ...
Antilles... to Puerto Rico's oldest cemetery; in fact, it is the oldest cemetery in the. In the city outskirts, the Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center was discov ...
Oahu... he original Ironman Triathlon arose during the awards ceremony for the 1977Perimeter Relay (a running race for 5-person teams). Among the participant ...
Funafuti... go and passengers between the main atolls and travel between Suva, Fiji and3 to 4 times a year. The Nivaga II and Manu Folau provide round trip visit ...
Puerto Rico... entrated their efforts in keeping the most important islands, such as Cuba,and the majority of Santo Domingo, while the system of treasure fleets, de ...
New Britain... Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, the Netherlands East Indies, Wake Island,, the Gilbert Islands, and Guam while inflicting heavy losses on opposing ...
VeniceThe climate and environment ofhas proved to be a problem for frescoes and other works of art in the city ...
Sri Lanka... raged to partake of vegetarian food for the day. In some countries, notably, two days are set aside for the celebration of Vesākha and all liquor sho ...
Wake IslandToday, most of Micronesia are independent states, except for Guam and, which are U.S. territories, and for the Northern Mariana Islands, which ...
Nunivak IslandThe Central Alaskan Yupik who live oncall themselves Cup'ig (plural Cup'it). Those who live in the village of C ...
Puerto RicoThe defense ofis the responsibility of the United States as part of the Treaty of Paris ...
Malay ArchipelagoThe use of Malay as a lingua franca throughout theis linked to the rise of Muslim kingdoms and the spread of Islam, itself a ...
Cyprus... trated the Aegean Sea and by the 15th century BC had reached Rhodes, Crete,, where Teucer is said to have founded the first colony, and the shores of ...
Northern Mariana Islands... s, except for Guam and Wake Island, which are U.S. territories, and for the, which are a U.S. commonwealth
Sardinia... lings and environment. The environment depicted is that one harsh of native, but it is not depicted according to regional veristic schemes neither ac ...
Hainan... are not yet classified, such as: Danzhou dialect (/), spoken in Danzhou, onIsland; Xianghua (/), not to be confused with Xiang , spoken in western Hu ...
Taiwan... in 1471. He called it Formosa ("beautiful [isle]", a name later applied to), but it quickly took on the name of its European discoverer, albeit spel ...
Gilbert Islands... land, Singapore, the Netherlands East Indies, Wake Island, New Britain, the, and Guam while inflicting heavy losses on opposing Allied land, naval, a ...
Usedom... Polish coast, and a town on that island. It is separated from the island ofby the Świna river, and from mainland Pomerania by the Dziwna river. The o ...
Caribbean... e town in 1962 when local men and youths clashed with some of the Asian andCommonwealth immigrants who had settled in the town since the late 1940s
Cat Island... largest island is Andros Island. Other inhabited islands include Eleuthera,, Long Island, San Salvador Island, Acklins, Crooked Island, Exuma and May ...
Line Islands... al Date Line, Kiribati is now the easternmost country in the world, and theare the first area to enter into a new year, including year 2000. For that ...
Polynesia... y of the ethnicities of Micronesia feel closer to some groups in Melanesia,or the Philippines. A good example of this are the Yapese who are related ...
Taiwan... ndidate Chen Chu, the first elected female mayor of special municipality in, defeating her Kuomintang rival and former deputy mayor, Huang Chun-ying
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PhilippinesIn the, 103.5 Max FM has The Bass Hour every Saturday at midnight that caters to ...
Bassas da India... ssible offshore. Its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), contiguous with that of, is 127,300 km². The airstrip is 1,500 metres long. It is surrounded by c ...
Abaco... is Bimini, which is also known as the gateway to The Bahamas. The island ofis to the east of Grand Bahama. The southeasternmost island is Inagua. The ...
Nunivak Island... r East. The Yupiit speak the Central Alaskan Yup'ik language. The people of, speakers of the Nunivak Island dialect of Central Alaskan Yup'ik, call t ...
British Isles... igenous name for the Pretani people whom the Greeks believed to inhabit the. Following the Greek usage, the Romans referred to the Insulae Britannica ...
Manhattan... e subway. As morning comes, he finally shows up at Stephanie's apartment in, apologizing for his bad behavior. He tells her that he plans to leave Br ...
Guam... Netherlands East Indies, Wake Island, New Britain, the Gilbert Islands, andwhile inflicting heavy losses on opposing Allied land, naval, and air forc ...
Caroline Island... first area to enter into a new year, including year 2000. For that reason,has been renamed Millennium Island. The majority of Kiribati, including th ...
Melanesia... escent, many of the ethnicities of Micronesia feel closer to some groups in, Polynesia or the Philippines. A good example of this are the Yapese who ...
Funafuti... true atolls are Funafuti, Nanumea, Nui, Nukufetau, Nukulaelae and Vaitupu.is the largest atoll of the nine low reef islands and atolls that form the ...
Whidbey Island... rry system, which links Port Townsend with the Coupeville ferry terminal on, on the east side of Puget Sound
Corsica... Phoceans of Italy founded colonies along the coast of France, Catalonia and. This led the Etruscans to ally themselves with the Carthaginians, whose ...
MauritiusRelations between Pakistan andwere first established in 2006. Pakistan has an embassy at Port Louis and ...
Rhodes... ns quickly penetrated the Aegean Sea and by the 15th century BC had reached, Crete, Cyprus, where Teucer is said to have founded the first colony, an ...
Iceland... territorial flower of the Northwest Territories, and the national flower of
Philippines... this are the Yapese who are related to Austronesian tribes in the Northern
Great Britain... children who survived childhood married into the most important families in
Philippines... ing civilians following the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo on Luzon Island in the. In October 1993, Lincoln deployed to Somalia to assist UN humanitarian o ...
Aleutian Islands... the westernmost portion of the Alaska Peninsula, and a small number of the, from which the borough name derives. Also included are the Shumagin Isla ...
Iceland... ve been used for centuries as trail and sea marks, among other purposes. In, cairns were often used as markers along the numerous single-file roads o ...
Prince Edward Island... Edward Island (UPEI) is a public liberal arts university in Charlottetown,, Canada, and the sole university in the province. Founded in 1969, it tra ...
Philippines... ies of Micronesia feel closer to some groups in Melanesia, Polynesia or the. A good example of this are the Yapese who are related to Austronesian tr ...
Corsica... ice, once in a land battle near Agrigento and another in a naval battle off
Gozo... There are also two man-made harbours that connect the islands of Malta and
Marsh Harbour Airport... cord company boarded a twin-engine Cessna 402B (registration N8097W) at thein Abaco Islands, The Bahamas, to travel to the Opa-locka Airport in Flori ...
Shumagin Islands... leutian Islands, from which the borough name derives. Also included are the, as well as the Pavlof Islands and the Sanak Islands. In all, about 63.9 ...
Long Island... nd is Andros Island. Other inhabited islands include Eleuthera, Cat Island,, San Salvador Island, Acklins, Crooked Island, Exuma and Mayaguana. Nassa ...
Aegean Islands... don to revolt against Persian rule; and over the next 30 years, Thrace, theand finally Ionia would be removed from Persian control by the Allies, or ...
Hispaniola... stadors encountered a rudimentary type of chemical warfare on the island of. The Taíno threw gourds filled with ashes and ground hot peppers at the S ...
Wallabi GroupThe Houtman Abrolhos is made up of three island groups, the, Easter Group and Pelsaert Group
Bermuda... girl). Due to his father's work, Sheen also spent part of his childhood in, where the family lived on St. John's Road, Pembroke. He graduated from C ...
Abaco Islands... in-engine Cessna 402B (registration N8097W) at the Marsh Harbour Airport in, The Bahamas, to travel to the Opa-locka Airport in Florida, after they c ...
Borneo... d to exist in the Straits of Johor in very small numbers. The waters aroundsupport a small population, with more scattered throughout the Malay archi ...
Zhuhai... , the most prominent SEZs in the country are Shenzhen, Xiamen, Shantou, and. It is notable that Shenzhen, Shantou, and Zhuhai are all in Guangdong pr ...
Malé... omb now stands on the grounds of Hukuru Mosque, or miski, in the capital of. Built in 1656, this is the oldest mosque in Maldives. Arab interest in M ...
Caribbean... ring this period, embracing types of music that were growing popular in thesuch as rap, reggae, and rock. Examples of Samba fusions with popular Cari ...
Réunion... is also claimed by Madagascar. The island, garrisoned by a detachment from, has a weather station and is visited by scientists. Though uninhabited, ...
NiulakitaThe highest elevation is above sea level on, which gives Tuvalu the second-lowest maximum elevation of any country (a ...
Sri LankaAt independence in 1948,, then called Ceylon, was a Commonwealth realm, with the monarch represent ...
PhilippineseEye believed that the worm originated in Makati City,, the same origin as the VBS/Loveletter (aka "ILOVEYOU") worm
Wake Island... ntrol of the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, the Netherlands East Indies,, New Britain, the Gilbert Islands, and Guam while inflicting heavy losses ...
Pelsaert Group... lhos is made up of three island groups, the Wallabi Group, Easter Group and
Crete... ν, a Cretan-Greek form for arihagne, "utterly pure") was a Great Goddess of, "the first divine personage of Greek mythology to be immediately recogni ...
Malta... owledged the Catholic faith as penitents, were transported to the island of; twenty-four, who adhered to Judaism, were publicly burned (May, 1556). T ...
Philippines... e that borders on a tropical monsoon climate. Together with the rest of the, Manila lies entirely within the tropics. Its proximity to the equator me ...
East Wallabi Island... he main islands of the Wallabi Group are North Island, West Wallabi Island,and Beacon Island. The group is best known for the shipwreck of the Batavi ...
Blennerhassett IslandThis community is named after, an island in the Ohio River near the area. The island got its name from ...
Sicily... erminal at the Grand Harbour that connects Malta to Pozzallo and Catania in
Crete... ly penetrated the Aegean Sea and by the 15th century BC had reached Rhodes,, Cyprus, where Teucer is said to have founded the first colony, and the s ...
Midway Atoll... company with and for her first war patrol. After a one day fueling stop at, the trio continued to their patrol area in Luzon Strait and waters south ...
Puerto Rico... is fact also included films produced in U.S. overseas possessions. However,is an unincorporated territory of the United States and used to be eligibl ...
Funen... own in central Denmark, located in Kerteminde Municipality on the island of. The town has a population of 5,698 (1 January 2011). It is a small harbo ...
Chagos ArchipelagoMauritius claims the entirein the Indian Ocean; claims the whole French-administered Tromelin Island, ...
Ireland Island... n improving the harbours and in 1811 started building the large dockyard on, in the west of the chain, to serve as its principal naval base guarding ...
sanba... n, the shamisen accompanies instead. Other Okinawan instruments include the(which produce a clicking sound similar to that of castanets), taiko and a ...
Sanak Islands... so included are the Shumagin Islands, as well as the Pavlof Islands and the. In all, about 63.9 percent of its land area comprises land on the Alaska ...
Puerto RicoThe Republican Party has expressed its support for the U.S. citizens ofto exercise their right to determine a future permanent non-territorial po ...
Terøya... any islands including Bjørnøya, Fjørtofta, Haramsøya, Løvsøya, Skuløya, and. The islands of Bjørnøya and Terøya are connected to the mainland via cau ...
SardiniaBorn in Nuoro,into a bourgeois family, she attended elementary school and then was educa ...
Funafuti... as Pacific Sun) operates services between Suva (originating from Nadi) andwith a 40-seat plane, twice a week
SicilyGorgias originated from Leontini, a Greek colony in, and what is often called the home of Spartan rhetoric. It is known that ...
Philippines... zon City features a tropical monsoon climate. Together with the rest of the, Metro Manila lies entirely within the tropics. Its proximity to the equa ...
Ærø... is a town in central Denmark, located in Ærø Municipality on the island of. The suffix -købing means a trade town in the languages that derive from ...
Easter Island... sian languages are now spoken across a huge area from Madagascar to Hawaii,and New Zealand, but form only one branch of the Austronesian family, the ...
Camano Island... e south-central area (Coupeville, Langley) voted over 60 percent for Kerry.has a Republican lean and went for Bush with 52 percent of the vote in 200 ...
Venice... geographic path; for instance, consecutive episodes feature appearances in, Morocco, London, Greece, India, Uzbekistan, Hong Kong, and Scotland. Fur ...
Iceland... , consisting of Albion (Great Britain), Hibernia (Ireland), Thule (possibly) and many smaller islands. Over time, Albion specifically came to be know ...
Kahoʻolawe... esting ground for bombs, missiles, and other weapons in a manner not unlikein the Hawaiian Islands
Madagascar... e island has been a possession of France since 1897, but is also claimed by. The island, garrisoned by a detachment from Réunion, has a weather stati ...
Frisian Islands... the province of North Holland. It is the largest and most populated of thein the Wadden Sea, and also the westernmost of this archipelago, which ext ...
Lanzarote... rising as the species does not breed either in this island or in the nearby, they are wintering exemplaries or just passing through during their long ...
Zanzibar... oyal charter and concessionary rights to the Kenya coast from the Sultan offor a 50-year period. Incipient imperial rivalry was forestalled when Germ ...
TrinidadKitchener emigrated from, spending six months in Jamaica before traveling on the Empire Windrush t ...
Funen... a town in central Denmark, located in Nyborg municipality on the island of
Pavlof Islands... orough name derives. Also included are the Shumagin Islands, as well as theand the Sanak Islands. In all, about 63.9 percent of its land area compris ...
Cyprus... Graecia), the Black Sea, the Ionian coasts of Asia Minor and the islands ofand Sicily. In Plato's Phaidon, Socrates remarks, "we (Greeks) live like a ...
South China Sea Islands... Province by them. Sovereignty of the islands is however disputed. See also:
St. Thomas... work on the sugar cane plantations. They arrived from the nearby islands of, Nevis, St. Kitts, St. Croix, and many other Caribbean islands, some of t ...
FuerteventuraFinally, the Robins which can be found inare the European ones, which is not surprising as the species does not bre ...
Tromelin Island... hagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean; claims the whole French-administered, Bassas da India, Europa Island, Glorioso Islands, and Juan de Nova Islan
Grand Cayman... countries. The vast majority of its 45,436 residents live on the island of. According to the Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce, in 1999 an estimate ...
Sicily... he Black Sea, the Ionian coasts of Asia Minor and the islands of Cyprus and. In Plato's Phaidon, Socrates remarks, "we (Greeks) live like ants or fro ...
Hawar IslandsQatar and Bahrain have argued over who owns the. In 2001, the International Court of Justice gave Bahrain sovereignty ove ...
Philippines... sides Malaya, Japanese forces attacked and successfully took control of the, Thailand, Singapore, the Netherlands East Indies, Wake Island, New Brita ...
Tasmania... o Australian places with a Portuguese name, the other being Pedra Branca in. The term is commonly reported to be a contraction of the Portuguese expr ...
MaldivesIn 2009, President Tong attended the Climate Vulnerable Forum (V11) in the, along with 10 other countries that are vulnerable to climate-change, and ...
Maldives... gives Tuvalu the second-lowest maximum elevation of any country (after the). However, the highest elevations are typically in narrow storm dunes on ...
Philippines... terials within a prescribed distance from the structure. Communities in thealso maintain fire lines wide between the forest and their village, and pa ...
Manhattan... is located on the eastern bank of the Hudson River, about north of midtownin New York City, and is served by a stop on the Metro-North Hudson Line. ...
Flaherty Island... cumentary subjects with a fiction-film-like narrative and poetic treatment., one of the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay, is named in his honor
Solomon Islands... nama, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St Kitts and Nevis and the. Caribbean countries have consistently sided with Japan in each IWC vote ...
Paracel IslandsTheand Spratly Islands, south of Sanya, are claimed by the PRC and thus consi ...
GuernseyThe people oferected a statue in Candie Gardens (St. Peter Port) to commemorate his sta ...
Antillas... and Norteamérica, the land bridge of Centroamérica, and the islands of the. Americano/a in Spanish refers to a person from América in a similar way ...
Puerto RicoHe then travelled to, where he lost a ten round decision to Leo Cruz - himself a future world ...
Belcher IslandsFlaherty Island, one of thein Hudson Bay, is named in his honor
Madagascar... al island in the Mozambique Channel, about a third of the way from southernto southern Mozambique. The island has been a possession of France since 1 ...
Taiwan... Stalin's advocacy of Socialism In One Country and the economic policies ofand South Korea in the 3 decades following the 2nd World War. Import Subst ...
Caribbean... ain, the TTDF is one of the largest Military forces in the English speaking. Its mission statement is to "defend the sovereign good of The Republic o ...
Iceland... renada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary,, India, Indonesia, Iran, the Republic of Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, ...
Marco Island... death from pneumonia, after which Mrs. Smith relocated to a condominium on, Florida. She died at age 87 of complications from hydrocephalus. The Smi ...
Spratly IslandsThe Paracel Islands and, south of Sanya, are claimed by the PRC and thus considered to form an ad ...
GuamU.S.,, Japan, Singapore, Korea (2000
RavennaOn 17 June 1923, Enzo Ferrari won a race at the Savio track inwhere he met the Countess Paolina, mother of Count Francesco Baracca, an a ...
KiritimatiThe soil is thin and calcareous, making agriculture very difficult.(Christmas Island) in the Line Islands is the world's largest atoll. Based ...
FunafutiThe main island ofis the focus of travelers, since the only airport in Tuvalu is the Funafut ...
Iceland... of Scandinavia into Europe and the British Isles, as well as Greenland and
Philippines... wever, some countries such as India, Singapore, Malaysia, Pakistan, and theuse a second official language in their governments. According to GAO (201 ...
Guam... s, as well as in the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Louisiana has enacted most provisions of the ...
Cayman IslandsThis article is about the demographic features of the population of the, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the ...
Majorca... usian citadels fell in a grand sweep: Mérida and Badajoz in 1230 (to Leon),in 1230 (to Aragon), Beja in 1234 (to Portugal), Córdoba in 1236 (to Casti ...
Isle of Portland... larity to Portland stone, a type of building stone that was quarried on thein Dorset, England
Guernsey... e islands. The City of Paris has preserved his residences Hauteville House,and 6, Place des Vosges, Paris as museums. The house where he stayed in Vi ...
BjørnøyaThe municipality of Haram includes many islands including, Fjørtofta, Haramsøya, Løvsøya, Skuløya, and Terøya. The islands of Bjørn ...
Bonin Islands... s northeast of Formosa off the Nansei Shoto. While passing northwest of theto take up her station, Bang encountered an enemy convoy on 9 September. D ...
Babeldaob... cture projects, including the rebuilding of the bridge connecting Koror andIslands after its collapse in 1996 and the construction of a highway aroun ...
British Virgin IslandsThe economy of theis one of the most prosperous in the Caribbean. According to the CIA World ...
Venice... contributed to make Livorno a leading seaport. They received privileges at, where they were protected from the persecutions of the Inquisition. At M ...
Kyūshū... harges of accepting ¥1m (US$13,000) in bribes from coal mining interests in. Yoshida and the DLP dropped most of their ties with Tanaka, removed him ...
Vancouver Island... Quimper of the Spanish Navy set sail from Nootka, a temporary settlement on, with orders to explore the newly discovered Strait of Juan de Fuca. Acco ...
Ascension Island... the end of February, heading first due east and then due north, arriving atat the end of March 1876. The period from early to mid-April was spent sai ...
Crete... re still played in Bulgaria, Greece, Italy and Turkey; a notable example is, where the Cretan lyra is central to the traditional music of the island
Sardinia... as Professor in Political economy first in Perugia, and later in Cagliari,. In Turin he had met Antonio Gramsci (the most important leader of Italia ...
Bimini... Caribbean islanders described a mythical land of Beimeni or Beniny (whence), a land of wealth and prosperity, to the Spanish, which became conflated ...
Malé... e. The British had no presence, however, on the leading island community of. They left the islanders alone, as had the Dutch, with regard to internal ...
Hawaiian islands... more clearly. No other animated feature had ever taken place on any of thebefore. In Sanders' words
CaribbeanAlthough manyislands were initially populated by Amerindian groups such as the Arawaks, ...
Sri Lanka... alized at the first Conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists held inin 1950, although festivals at this time in the Buddhist world are a centu ...
Caribbean... economy of the British Virgin Islands is one of the most prosperous in the. According to the CIA World factbook, in 2004 the Territory had the 12th ...
LofotenVågan is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of thetraditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the t ...
Puerto RicoMaría de Lourdes Santiago Negrón is a lawyer and journalist from Adjuntas,. She is the current vice-president of the Puerto Rican Independence Party ...
Great Britain... athian Mountains, Balkans, Caucasus and in isolated locations elsewhere. In, it occurs in the Pennines (northern England), at two locations in Snowdo ...
Philippines... rule, it is now believed to be small and scattered. All the islands of theare believed to have once provided habitat for dugongs, which were common ...
Grytøya... read across several smaller islands, the biggest being the northern side of(the southern part belongs to Harstad). The island of Bjarkøya has the big ...
Taiwan... a and New Zealand, which provide the majority of the country's foreign aid.and Japan also have specified-period licences to fish in Kiribati's waters
Senja... ary 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The southernmost part of the island of(the Senjehesten peninsula) and the Lemmingsvær island (total population o ...
Seychelles... nd, and the smaller Lesotho Relay Station and Indian Ocean Relay Station on. A large part of the English schedule is taken up by specialist programmi ...
Sri Lanka... 007 had two full moon days, the 1st and the 31st. Some countries (including, Cambodia and Malaysia) celebrated Vesākha on the 1st, while others (Thai ...
Kiritimati... ced that Japan's National Space Development Agency planned to lease land on(Christmas Island) for 20 years, on which to build a spaceport. The agreem ...
Sri Lanka... s also can be found in Sigiriya, situated in the central Matale District of, which are reminiscent of the Ajanta Caves of India. The frescoes were cr ...
Kioa... lled for the relocation of Tuvalu's population to Australia, New Zealand orin Fiji, the former Prime Minister Maatia Toafa said his government did no ...
Lipari... ern Italy with the volcano gods Adranus (of Mount Etna) and Vulcanus of theislands. His forge was moved there by the poets. The first-century sage Ap ...
Sicily... the Elder (c. 432 – 367 BC) was a Greek tyrant of Syracuse, in what is now, southern Italy. He conquered several cities in Sicily and southern Italy ...
Aran Islands... portrayed the harsh traditional lifestyle of the occupants of the isolatedoff the west coast of Ireland. Man of Aran was a major critical success, a ...
Damariscove Island... lies between the Sheepscot River and Damariscotta River. The town includes
Great Britain... ss. She appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those films made induring and after World War II – she was one of J. Arthur Rank's 'well-spok ...
Antigua... by the Atlantic Relay Station and the Caribbean Relay Company, a station inrun jointly with Deutsche Welle. In addition, an exchange agreement with R ...
Tjøtta... together with the southern part of Nesna (population: 580) and the parts ofon the island of Alsta (population: 180) to form a new, larger municipalit ...
IrelandWilliam T. Potts from Coreen Castle ininitiated the building of the stairs, which were completed in 1871, in ret ...
Sumatra... a Super Corridor. Proposals that were eventually canceled include the 95 km–Malaysia bridge (would have been world's longest), the Mega International ...
Hokkaidō... hips that pursued Enomoto Takeaki and the remnants of the Tokugawa fleet toin 1869
Great Britain... and therefore became the enemy of Norway's most important trading-partner:. (It is from this period that Henrik Ibsen took his subject, when he crea ...
Chagos Archipelago... Privy Council made an order to evict the 2,000 inhabitants of the 65-islandin the Indian Ocean, in preparation for the establishment of joint United ...
SumatraThe Malay language originated in, where it has its closest relatives. The oldest inscriptions in Malay, Ke ...
Achill Island... wife lived in Cologne and the Eifel region. However, he also spent time onoff the west coast of Ireland. His cottage there is now used as a guesthou ...
Cayman Islands... f its 45,436 residents live on the island of Grand Cayman. According to theChamber of Commerce, in 1999 an estimated 1,300 people lived on Cayman Bra ...
Das IslandAjman Port, Fujairah Port,, Mina' Zayid and Mina Jabal Al Dhanna in Abu Dhabi, Khawr Fakkan, Mina Al ...
BermudaS-1 began her service operations in July 1920 with a cruise toattached to Submarine Division 2 (SubDiv 2), with subsequent operations ou ...
Elba... ers (but not his title as Emperor of the French) and sent him into exile on
St. Lawrence Island... thcentral Alaska; and the Siberian Yupik people of the Russian Far East andin western Alaska. They are Eskimo and are related to the
Sicily... France. In the mid-12th century, the Cappella Palatina is built in Palermo,and the Madrid Skylitzes manuscript illustrates the Synopsis of Histories ...
St George's Island... example, two islands named Long Island, and St George's Town is located onwithin St George's Parish (each known as St George's)
Cayman Brac... man Islands Chamber of Commerce, in 1999 an estimated 1,300 people lived on, while only 115 resided on Little Cayman
Gardiners Island... he Pequot War in Connecticut. In the aftermath the Montauketts were to sell. In 1648 what would become the Town of Easthampton (first Maidstone) was ...
Veøy... Hen (population: 1,663), Voll (population: 1,163), and the southern part of(population: 1,400) were all merged together to form one municipality
Ytre Sula... Snota at above sea level. Other mountains include Vassnebba, Indre Sula and, Neådalssnota, and Trollhetta. The river Surna runs through the valley fr ...
Caribbean... er Captain Sawyer, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia on a trip to the. It is on this voyage that he begins his long friendship with William Bus ...
Azores... rn Siberia, south to Algeria and on the Atlantic islands as far west as theand Madeira. It is not found in Iceland. In the south east, it reaches the ...
Cyprus... ek Orthodoxy. The Greek flag is widely used by the Greek Cypriots, althoughhas officially adopted a neutral flag to ease ethnic tensions with the Tur ...
Culebra... mestic flights fly between Carolina and other local destinations, including, Mayagüez, Ponce and Vieques. The airport offers rapid access to San Juan ...
HainanA small population exists off Southern China, centred around the island of. The population around the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are known only fro ...
Tulagi... t of the naval units in the South Pacific area, advocated the occupation ofin the southeastern Solomon Islands and Port Moresby in New Guinea, which ...
Puerto Rico... gend, the Spanish heard of Bimini from the Arawaks in Hispaniola, Cuba, and. The Caribbean islanders described a mythical land of Beimeni or Beniny ( ...
Oak IslandCaswell Beach is a small seaside town located on the eastern part ofin Brunswick County, North Carolina, and is adjacent to the North Carolina ...
Ireland... werful warm ocean current that continues the Gulf Stream northeast. West ofit splits in two; one branch, the Canary Current, goes south, while the ot ...
Hinnøya... rthern Norway. Lødingen is located on the southeastern corner of the island, and is part of the Ofoten traditional region. The administrative centre ...
Kauai... er havoc. A decision to change the film's setting to the Hawaiian island ofwas an important choice in defining the plot more clearly. No other animat ...
Ireland... as the corresponding words in other native Celtic languages of Britain and, including Welsh carn (and carnedd), Irish carn, and Cornish karn or carn ...
Hormuz... n Bahrain's affairs. In 1330, the islands became tributary to the rulers of
Iceland... ng, which is banned." Since 1994, Norway, has been whaling commercially andbegan hunting commercially in September 2006. Since 1986, Japan has been w ...
Solomon Islands... South Pacific area, advocated the occupation of Tulagi in the southeasternand Port Moresby in New Guinea, which would put northern Australia within ...
MadagascarMalayo-Polynesian languages are now spoken across a huge area fromto Hawaii, Easter Island and New Zealand, but form only one branch of the ...
Ravenna... te depose Avitus and ordered the murder of the magister militum Remistus at, in the in Classis Palace, on 17 September 456
Little Cayman... 9 an estimated 1,300 people lived on Cayman Brac, while only 115 resided on
HispaniolaAccording to legend, the Spanish heard of Bimini from the Arawaks in, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. The Caribbean islanders described a mythical land ...
Tyre... e crowned, Conrad was stabbed to death by two Hashshashin in the streets of. Eight days later, Richard's nephew Henry II of Champagne married Queen I ...
Otterøy... nce again). On 1 January 1964, the parts of the neighboring municipality ofthat were located south of the Namsenfjorden (population: 571) were transf ...
Sicily... hist, pre-socratic philosopher and rhetorician, was a native of Leontini in. Along with Protagoras, he forms the first generation of Sophists. Severa ...
SamothraceOther "sons of Hephaestus" were the Cabeiri on the island of; they were identified with the crab (karkinos) by the lexicographer Hesyc ...
Philippines... thnic Chinese populations of Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the. Fujian, especially Fuzhou, is also the major source of Chinese immigrant ...
Ascension Island... e from the UK, Cyprus (see Europe), the large BBC Atlantic Relay Station on, and the smaller Lesotho Relay Station and Indian Ocean Relay Station on ...
Philippines... le to defeat the Battle of the Philippines 1941–42 Japanese invasion of the
Zanzibar... t half of the nineteenth century. First, was the emergence of the island of, located off the east coast of Africa. Zanzibar became a base from which ...
Luzon... d on the eastern shores of Manila bay, which rests on the western shores of. The city lies 800 miles (1,300 km) from mainland Asia. The Pasig River b ...
Seychelles... the Suvadive republic was scrapped and Abdulla Afif went into exile to the, where he died in 1993
Ireland... Sufi tradition, technology and Luddism, and Amanita muscaria use in ancient
Staten Island... Brooklyn and Queens) since the 2001 closure of the Fresh Kills Landfill on. A small amount of trash processed at transfer sites in New Jersey is som ...
Phoenix Islands... and, Starbuck Island, Caroline Island, Vostok Island and Flint Island). Theare uninhabited except for Kanton, and have no representation. Banaba itse ...
Iceland... in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany,, Ireland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, ...
Sakhalin... region is Sahaliyan ula (literally, "Black River"), from which the name ofis derived, and the Mongolian name accordingly is Qaramörin
CaribbeanBimini and its curative waters were widespread subjects in the. The Italian-born chronicler Peter Martyr told of them in a letter to the ...
Venetian... ed a detailed written report back to the Mongols. Around the same time, theexplorer Marco Polo became one of the first Europeans to travel the Silk R ...
Sandøy... of there (population: 287) were merged into the neighboring municipality of. Also on that date most of the municipality of Vatne (population: 2,260) ...
Zanzibar... , intensification of the slave trade and relocation of the Omani capital toin 1839 by Seyyid Said had the effect of consolidating the Omani power in ...
RhodesMeanwhile, in 1868, tombs at Ialysus inhad yielded to Alfred Biliotti many fine painted vases of styles which wer ...
Devon Island... in inhospitable climates, such as the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station orMars Arctic Research Station, can also provide some practice for off-world ...
IrelandOne custom that persists in modern-dayis the baking (or more often nowadays, the purchase) of a barmbrack , whic ...
HispaniolaPrior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus, the island ofwas inhabited by people known as the Taíno, who arrived in approximately 2 ...
Philippines... closely related to Micronesian languages than they are to languages of the, Malaysia, and Indonesia (Kirch, 2000: pp. 166–167)
Taiwan... ists around the Nansei Shoto islands, and a population formerly existed off. An endangered population of 50 or fewer dugongs survives around Okinawa
Sundøy... the village of Leland. Other villages in Leirfjord include Bardalssjøen and. The large Helgeland Bridge is partly located in the municipality, connec ...
Great BritainInthe first postmark employed for the cancellation of the then new postage s ...
Sardinia... ions on how much he could spend. In 1323–1324, he undertook the conquest of. He became heir after his older brother James renounced his rights to bec ...
Polynesia... ated to reach 10,544 in July 2010. The population of Tuvalu is primarily ofn ethnicity with approximately 4% of the population being Micronesian. The ...
Lemnos... inscriptions in a similar language have been found on the Aegean island of. Etruscans were a monogamous society that emphasized pairing. The histori ...
Aldabra... g seabirds and other waterbirds. It is the only known breeding site outsideand Madagascar for Malagasy Pond Herons. Seabirds include the second large ...
Ireland... s in Snowdonia (north Wales), and more widely in the Scottish Highlands; init occurs on The Burren and a few other sites. In North America, it is fou ...
Easter Island... s, about 1000 incunabula; and a huge collection of manuscripts, such as thetablet bearing . In the early stages of the war, Allied propaganda capital ...
Cape Breton IslandPrince Edward Island is located in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, west of, north of the Nova Scotia peninsula, and east of New Brunswick. Its south ...
Flint Island... habited (Malden Island, Starbuck Island, Caroline Island, Vostok Island and). The Phoenix Islands are uninhabited except for Kanton, and have no repr ...
IcelandFire & plague insurance first become available in, and the first documented outbreaks of influenza occur
Corfu... e Philip of Greece and Denmark was born at Mon Repos on the Greek island ofon 10 June 1921, the only son and fifth and final child of Prince Andrew o ...
islandsIn Trinidad and Tobago, communities all over theget together and celebrate the festival. One major celebration that stands ...
Long IslandSuffolk County occupies the easternmost portion of, in the southeastern portion of New York State. The eastern end of the co ...
North IslandTaupo is a town on the shore of Lake Taupo in the centre of theof New Zealand. It is the seat of the Taupo District Council and lies in t ...
Caribbean... s of the bay. This naval war took on a global dimension with actions in theand the Far East, notably around the Philippines. Spain's response to its ...
Philippines... famous quotes and mishaps during filming, albeit in Romania instead of the.) The film crew is befriended by a young-looking vampire, who leaves with ...
Mays Island... l and largest city. City hall and the Linn County Courthouse are located onin the Cedar River; Cedar Rapids is one of few cities in the world with go ...
Iceland... e Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in theic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. Along with Snorri Sturluson's Prose ...
Shimazu clan... ma Province (now Kagoshima Prefecture) as the son of samurai who served the. As a youth, he took part in the Anglo-Satsuma War. He later joined Satsu ...
Inishmore... al use. For example, Dún Aonghasa, an all-stone Iron Age Irish hill fort onin the Aran Islands, is still surrounded by small cairns and strategically ...
Taiwan... cally with immigrants from mainland China. In 1684 the Qing Dynasty annexedand renamed the town Fengshan County , considering it a part of Taiwan Pre ...
Aran Islands... le, Dún Aonghasa, an all-stone Iron Age Irish hill fort on Inishmore in the, is still surrounded by small cairns and strategically placed jutting roc ...
Crete... ich is found in various regions in Greece—in particular, the Dodecanese and(e.g. Cretan lyra)—and the northern mainland regions of Macedonia and Thra ...
Vostok Island... e Islands are uninhabited (Malden Island, Starbuck Island, Caroline Island,and Flint Island). The Phoenix Islands are uninhabited except for Kanton, ...
Issa... . In the Adriatic, to facilitate trade, Dionysius founded Ancona, Adria and. After him, the Adriatic became a sea of Syracuse. In the Peloponnesian W ...
Ireland... ina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Iceland,, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, Uruguay, ...
Puerto Rico... ury, Osceola County has experienced a significant influx of immigrants from, and in the 2000 U.S. Census Puerto Rican was the largest self-reported a ...
Caribbean... ns or Ukrainians (a large number are Jews), U.S. Americans and West Indies/(esp. Afro-Caribbean) nationalities, in which thousands of Barbadian and J ...
Northerly Island... airport that operated from December 1948 until March 2003. It was built on, the man-made peninsula that was also the site of the 1933–1934 Century o ...
Topsail Island... rth Carolina. The population was 2,057 at the 2008 census. It is located on
Ireland... d about 40 families of Scots-Irish Presbyterians, largely from the north of, to settle here. Some were veterans of the Revolution of 1688. Named for ...
Sakhalin... the naval base and the peninsula around it, and ceded the southern half ofIsland to Japan
CaribbeanIn common with mostcountries, slavery in the British Virgin Islands forms a major part of the ...
ViequesHumacao's airport is no longer used for daily flights toand Culebra as it was in the past. It is now used for charter flights and ...
Sicily... an. The reign of Peter III of Aragon ("the Great") included the conquest ofand the successful defense against a French crusade; his son and successor ...
Java... 1365, as one of the "tributary states" of the Majapahit kingdom in eastern
Mauritius... ar, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji,, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Guyana, Surinam, Trinidad and Tobago,( Zi ...
Isle of Grain... tunnels, providing connections from Essex to a major new hub airport on the
Puerto Rico... es, Taller de Arquitectura has created more than 100 designs for parks fromto Beijing. Many landscape projects designed by the Taller involve the pre ...
Sri Lanka... pulation exists in the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait between India and, but it is seriously depleted. A small population exists around the Nanse ...
Manhattan... Metro-North Commuter Railroad provides service to Grand Central Terminal inwith an average commute time of slightly over an hour from stations at Pur ...
Crete... -clockwise and is being strongly subducted into a line of trenches south of
ManhattanA large British army controlledat the time, and Washington chose the Dobbs Ferry area for encampment beca ...
Long Island... , United States. It lies on the east side of Shinnecock Bay on southeastern, near Tuckahoe, Shinnecock Hills, and the village of Southampton. The pop ...
CulebraHumacao's airport is no longer used for daily flights to Vieques andas it was in the past. It is now used for charter flights and for skydivin ...
Rabi Island... nhabited now. There is also a non-elected representative of the Banabans onin Fiji. Each of the 21 inhabited islands has a local council that takes c ...
Falkland Islands... Canada and Alaska (called muskeg). There are also bogs in Patagonia and thein the
Crete... sibly after the old name under Venetian domination of the principal city of, which he had visited after graduation from Harvard
Hawaii IslandIn 1981 organizer Valerie Silk moved the competition to the less urbanized(called the Big Island) and in 1982 moved the race date from February to O ...
Whidbey IslandThe primary islands of Island County,and Camano Island are served by a total of 3 Washington State Routes, thos ...
TortolaAs, and to a lesser extent Virgin Gorda, came to be settled by plantation ow ...
Sumatra... nly other areas in Indonesia having railroads are three separate regions of, one in the north around Medan, second in the West Sumatra from Pariaman ...
Cape CodFanning grew up in Harwich, Massachusetts onand graduated from Harwich High School in 1998. During his time in high sc ...
Portsea Island... le for being the United Kingdom's only island city; it is located mainly on. It is situated south west from London and south east from Southampton
Puerto RicoHumacao is a city inlocated in the eastern coast of the island, north of Yabucoa; south of Nag ...
PhilippinesIn April 2009, Brunei and Thesigned a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that seeks to strengthen the bi ...
Virgin GordaAs Tortola, and to a lesser extent, came to be settled by plantation owners, slave labour became economicall ...
Puerto Rican... ons per square mile (278.4/km²), ranking third in terms of population amongmunicipalities
Camano IslandThe primary islands of Island County, Whidbey Island andare served by a total of 3 Washington State Routes, those being SR 20 and ...
Dún Aonghasa... n". Cairns in the region were also put to vital practical use. For example,, an all-stone Iron Age Irish hill fort on Inishmore in the Aran Islands, ...
Euboea... ity of Aegea is the modern Turkish Ayas. Near another city called Aegea, in, Poseidon had his watery palace
Amelia Island... lies in a region of Florida known as "The First Coast", which extends fromin the north to Jacksonville, St. Augustine, and Palm Coast in the south. ...
Falkland Islands... were Port Famine, Sandy Point, and Elizabeth Island. Challenger reached thetowards the end of January, calling at Port Stanley and then continuing no ...
Oahu... community in the Koolauloa District on the northern coast of the Island of, City & County of Honolulu. In Hawaiian, ka wela means "the heat". As of ...
RavennaBenedict's successor, Clement XII (elected 1730), named him legate of, where he erected the Porta Alberoni (1739), a magnificent gateway that f ...
St. John's Island... m the Greek Τοπάζιος (Τοpáziοs) or Τοπάζιον (Τοpáziοn), the ancient name ofin the Red Sea which was difficult to find and from which a yellow stone ( ...
Grande Comore... lled by their Swahili names by the Comorian government. They are Njazidja (), Mwali (Mohéli), Nzwani (Anjouan), and Mahoré (Mayotte). The islands' di ...
Puerto Rico... t. Augustine was first explored in 1513 by Spanish explorer and governor of, Juan Ponce de León, who claimed the region for the Spanish crown. Prior ...
HispaniolaTaino people moved into the uninhabited southern Bahamas fromand Cuba around the 11th century AD. These people came to be known as the ...
Azores... sixty years of immigration from Portuguese Atlantic islands (primarily the, though also from Madeira and the Cape Verde Islands). There are strong B ...
Andaman Islands... made a penal settlement when 700 convicts were transferred thither from the. In 1805 Penang was made a separate presidency (ranking with Bombay and M ...
Kuril Islands... umerous of seabirds. Breeding colonies can be found in the Pacific from the, around the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk throughout the Bering Sea and the ...
Antiparos... begun to extend beyond the Greek mainland. Certain central Aegean islands,, Ios, Amorgos, Syros and Siphnos, were all found to be singularly rich in ...
Oahu... ted place and residential area located in the Ewa District on the Island ofin the City & County of Honolulu, United States. In Hawaiian, maka kilo me ...
Cyprus... n the European Union and its originally 12 Mediterranean Partners: Algeria,, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, ...
Crete... years in his autobiographical song "Es fügt sich...", mentioning travels to, Prussia, Lithuania, Crimea, Turkey, the Holy Land, France, Lombardy and ...
Philippines... gion and grow stronger as they move west toward the Mariana Islands and the
Curaçao... tral Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia and the Caribbean; specifically Grenada,, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and Útila. They have been i ...
Öland... e are several examples of origin legends where Odin appears. In Gärdlösa on, there is a story that Odin once went across the Alvar of Högrum and tied ...
Calais... st of Dover in the county of Kent, England, to Cap Gris Nez, a cape near toin the French of Pas-de-Calais, France. Between these two points lies the ...
Manhattan... s unlikely to prosper at Thomas Jefferson, the principal transferred him to's School of Industrial Art. In June 1956, Bakshi graduated from the schoo ...
New Guinea... lthough there is significant migration between the strait and the waters of. The Great Barrier Reef provides important feeding areas for the species; ...
Ireland... next datable event in the Historia ecclesiastica is King Ecgfrith’s raid onin 684 (Book IV, Chapter 26). Taken together, this evidence suggests an ac ...
Oahu... he City and County of Honolulu and in the Wahiawa District of the island of, Hawaii, United States. Schofield Barracks lies adjacent to the town of W ...
Merritt Island... , Mims and Port St. John; Central Brevard, which includes Cocoa, Rockledge,, and Cocoa Beach; and South County, which includes Melbourne, Palm Bay, G ...
Madeira... on from Portuguese Atlantic islands (primarily the Azores, though also fromand the Cape Verde Islands). There are strong British influences, together ...
Ireland... 00,000 square kilometres. Sphagnum bogs were widespread in northern Europe:was more than 15% bog (Achill Island off Ireland is 87% bog), Scotland, De ...
West Indies... when it became the center of the distribution of sugar and slaves from thealong with the traditional wine
Útila... ifically Grenada, Curaçao, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and. They have been introduced to Grand Cayman, Puerto Rico, Texas, Florida, ...
MaltaIn, the term ħelwa tal-Tork is used to refer to a tahini-based block confect ...
Thorney Island... ar modern-day St Albans in Hertfordshire) and London (by way of the ford atuntil London Bridge was finished, and the line of the modern Old Kent Road ...
Mariana Islands... the Marshall Islands region and grow stronger as they move west toward theand the Philippines
Venice... cation of his Prospetto politico-geografico dello stato attuale del globo (, 1808) obtained his election to the chair of professor of geography at th ...
Grand Bahama... It may derive from the Spanish baja mar ("low sea") or the Lucayan word forisland, ba-ha-ma ("large upper middle land")
Ravenna... ona surrendered soon afterwards, followed by Aquileia, Mutina (Modena), and. The road to Rome was now wide open to Constantine
Liberty Island... slands: Roosevelt Island, Randall's Island, Wards Island, Governors Island,, part of Ellis Island, Mill Rock, and U Thant Island; as well as Marble H ...
Ireland... on of Irish-American veterans of the American Civil War who plotted to freefrom British rule by striking at the United Kingdom's colonies that lay wi ...
Andaman... as hanged and several others were deported for life to the Cellular Jail in. The Bengal Volunteers started operating in 1928. On 8 December 1930, the ...
Heirisson Island# The Causeway (north), Perth to# The Causeway (south), Heirisson Island to South Pert
Venice... ansformed that still medieval city into a major centre of art and learning., one of the wealthiest cities due to its control of the Mediterranean Sea ...
Puerto Ricooperating in U.S. waters, raising Threadfin near Hawaii and cobia near. An operation targeting bigeye tuna recently received final approval. All ...
Sri Lanka... nent, reaching right across from Iran into Pakistan to Burma and Kashmir to. After independence, the Indian Railways adopted as the standard Indian g ...
Madagascar... e north end of the Mozambique Channel, between Mozambique and the island of. Still widely known by their French names, the islands officially have be ...
Sicily... inqueremes, loaded with 1,000 soldiers, raided the Aegadian Islands west ofand eight ships intended to attack the Vulcan islands, but were blown off- ...
Pedra Branca... s one of only two Australian places with a Portuguese name, the other beingin Tasmania. The term is commonly reported to be a contraction of the Port ...
Lihou... mandy coast and south of Weymouth, England and lies in the Gulf of St Malo., a tidal island, is attached to Guernsey by a causeway at low tide. The t ...
Maui... 1943 to replace the Sand Island camp. One was also located on the island ofin the town of Haiku. In total, five internment camps operated in Hawaii
Taiwan... n their signing of players from Asia; mainly, Japan, Korea, Iran, Iraq, and. Former owner Peter O'Malley began reaching out in 1980 by starting clini ...
Öland... ipality in Kalmar County, in south-eastern Sweden, located on the island ofin the Baltic Sea. The seat is located in the town of Mörbylånga, while th ...
Newfoundland... lachian Mountains run along the east coast of North America from Alabama to. North of the Appalachians, the Arctic Cordillera runs along the eastern ...
Grand Cayman... and Tobago, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and Útila. They have been introduced to, Puerto Rico, Texas, Florida, Hawaii, and the United States Virgin Island ...
Long Island... in February 1952, soon after completion of Levittown, New York, located on. Levittown, Pennsylvania was the second "Levittown" built by William J. L ...
Wake IslandThe Marshall Islands also lays claim to. While Wake been administered by the United States since 1899, the Marsha ...
Cyprus... known as the Hellenes (, ), are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece,and other regions. They also form a significant diaspora, with Greek commu ...
Sicily... afia (also known as Cosa Nostra) first developed in the mid-19th century inand spread to the East Coast of the United States during the late 19th cen ...
Governors Island... l small adjacent islands: Roosevelt Island, Randall's Island, Wards Island,, Liberty Island, part of Ellis Island, Mill Rock, and U Thant Island; as ...
ArranFurther afield Telford designed a road to cross the centre of the Isle of. Named the 'String road', this route traverses bleak and difficult terrai ...
Möja... kholm archipelago. The largest of the islands are Värmdön, Ingarö, Svartsö,, Runmarö, Sandhamn and Nämdö. Gustavsberg is the main town, and there are ...
Sardinia... defeats at Solférino and Magenta against the combined forces of France andled to the loss of Lombardy and Tuscany to the Kingdom of Sardinia, which ...
Whidbey Island... ine between Point Wilson, on the Olympic Peninsula, and Point Partridge, on; a second entrance at Deception Pass being a line from West Point, on Whi ...
Solor... f all Portuguese dependencies on Lesser Sunda Islands. Former capitals wereand Larantuka. Portuguese control over the territory was tenuous particula ...
Ralik Chain... ed islands. The atolls and islands form two groups: the Ratak Chain and the(meaning "sunrise" and "sunset" chains)
Aegadian Islands... of the island. Twenty quinqueremes, loaded with 1,000 soldiers, raided thewest of Sicily and eight ships intended to attack the Vulcan islands, but ...
San Nicolas... ngva occupied much of the Los Angeles basin and the Santa Catalina islands,, San Clemente and Santa Barbara; when Spanish explorer Juan Rodrigues Cab ...
Mauritius... es—two from Guyana and one each from Honduras, Ireland, Malaysia, Maldives,, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand
Ratak Chain... atolls and 5 isolated islands. The atolls and islands form two groups: theand the Ralik Chain (meaning "sunrise" and "sunset" chains)
Sumatra... e laws were for the Kerinci people who today still live in the highlands of
Caribbean... idely viewed as one of the all-time leading sportsmen in the history of the, as well as one of its most internationally recognizable and outspoken
Roosevelt Island... and county consist of Manhattan Island and several small adjacent islands:, Randall's Island, Wards Island, Governors Island, Liberty Island, part o ...
Bermuda... John Wentworth, who is recorded as capturing 67 slaves, who were removed to. This is the first official record of slaves being held in the Territory
Tahiti... on 21 January 1769, heading west-northwest into warmer weather. She reachedon 10 April, where she remained for the next two months. The transit of Ve ...
SakhalinRussian soldiers, as well as convict labourers fromand other places were pressed into railway-building service
Runmarö... archipelago. The largest of the islands are Värmdön, Ingarö, Svartsö, Möja,, Sandhamn and Nämdö. Gustavsberg is the main town, and there are also sev ...
Caribbean... ar waters were also evidently prominent among the indigenous peoples of theduring the Age of Exploration, who spoke of the restorative powers of the ...
Anjouan... ian government. They are Njazidja (Grande Comore), Mwali (Mohéli), Nzwani (), and Mahoré (Mayotte). The islands' distance from each other—Njazidja is ...
Ireland... 83. Norfolk was also created Earl Marshal, and Lord Admiral of all England,, and Aquitaine
Great Britain... ttish Nation of the reformed church. Many of these people did not return toand took on Elbląg City State citizenship. The Protestant Saint Mary Churc ...
Wake Island... t of the Federated States of Micronesia, and south of the U.S. territory of, to which it lays claim
Oahu... windward district of Koolauloa, City & County of Honolulu on the Island of, Hawaii. As of the 2000 Census, the total population for Kaaawa was 1,324 ...
Tasmania... are large region bounded by the Atherton Tableland, the Eyre Peninsula and, with the Murray Darling Basin supporting very large populations of Black ...
TaiwanThe major donors in 2010/2011 were Australia (A$15 million),(A$11 million); New Zealand (A$6 million), the World Bank (A$4 million), a ...
Mohéli... ames by the Comorian government. They are Njazidja (Grande Comore), Mwali (), Nzwani (Anjouan), and Mahoré (Mayotte). The islands' distance from each ...
Tristan da Cunha... Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong; Queen Mary's Peak, the highest mountain in; and Queen Mary Land in Antarctica are named in her honour
Wards Island... and and several small adjacent islands: Roosevelt Island, Randall's Island,, Governors Island, Liberty Island, part of Ellis Island, Mill Rock, and U ...
Caribbean... tends from southern Mexico to central Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia and the; specifically Grenada, Curaçao, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia, St. Vince ...
Oahu... census-designated place (CDP) located in the Ewa District on the island ofin the City & County of Honolulu, Hawaii. As of the 2000 Census, the CDP p ...
Society Islands... Tahiti on 13 July and headed northwest to allow Cook to survey and name the. Landfall was made at Huahine, Raiatea and Borabora, providing opportunit ...
Svartsö... t of Stockholm archipelago. The largest of the islands are Värmdön, Ingarö,, Möja, Runmarö, Sandhamn and Nämdö. Gustavsberg is the main town, and the ...
Venice... d colour he imitates Claude Lorrain. He stayed for some years circa 1712 in, where he painted many works for the patron Zaccaria Sagredo
KiribatiThe islands are located north of Nauru and, east of the Federated States of Micronesia, and south of the U.S. territ ...
Puerto Rico... ent camps in Hawaii and Alaska (not states at the time), the United States,, the West Indies, and South and Central American countries
Sardinia... the western Mediterranean after the conquest of Valencia, Balearic Islands,, and the accession to Sicily of the kings of Aragon
Zanzibar... gsley's paternal grandfather was a spice trader who had moved from India to, where Kingsley's father lived until moving to England at the age of 14. ...
Taiwan... , Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Burma,and Nepal. This spread was due to the establishment of sea and land trade ...
Corfu... gn policy in Europe. In 1923, Italian soldiers captured the Greek island ofafter the assassination of General Tellini. In 1925, Italy forced Albania ...
MaldivesMohammed Waheed Hassan Manik was sworn in as President of theon 7 February 2012, in connection to the resignation of President Nasheed ...
Ireland... t the 19th century, several immigrant groups from Europe, most notably from, Germany, Spain, and Italy moved to Texas. These groups interacted with M ...
Taiwan... he European Union. It has diplomatic relations with the Republic of China (); the ROC maintains the only resident embassy in Tuvalu and has a large a ...
Taiwan... th several additional countries, including Libya, the Republic of China (on), and Cuba
Aleutian Islands... f the Eastern Orthodox Church. He was allegedly a native of Kodiak Island (), and is said to have received the Christian name of Peter when he was ba ...
Achill Island... um bogs were widespread in northern Europe: Ireland was more than 15% bog (off Ireland is 87% bog), Scotland, Denmark, Estonia (20% bog lands), Finla ...
Philippines... t win in 14 rounds over another hall of famer, Gabriel Elorde, Flash in thefollowed, and then a remach with Lane, this time Ortiz retaining his world ...
Balearic Islands... t extended across the western Mediterranean after the conquest of Valencia,, Sardinia, and the accession to Sicily of the kings of Aragon
Staten Island... rey Woods joined the Wu-Tang Clan, a nine-member hip hop group based in theborough of New York City, in 1992. He went under the stage name Raekwon th ...
Virgin Gorda... ia Company expressed an interest in the copper which had been discovered on, and a settlement was set up on that island, which came to be known as "L ...
Palawan IslandIn 2005,was transferred to Region VI (Western Visayas) by Executive Order 429. How ...
Bermuda... recommissioned at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She then made two cruises to, training submariners, and returned to Philadelphia from the second cruis ...
Iceland... ares a name with Hel, a female figure associated with the location. In lateic sources, varying descriptions of Hel are given and various figures are ...
Randall's Island... t of Manhattan Island and several small adjacent islands: Roosevelt Island,, Wards Island, Governors Island, Liberty Island, part of Ellis Island, Mi ...
Bimini... n, who spoke of the restorative powers of the water in the mythical land of
Hvasser... and restaurants. There are a few other central areas on the islands such as, with active fishermen as well as the tourist industry for the bypassing ...
Bull Island... Benjamin Lee Guinness in 1835 (the largest municipal park is nearby (North), also shared between Clontarf and Raheny)
Balearic Islands... hern Africa into his alliance. Conquering Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica and the, he built his kingdom into a powerful state. Historian Camerson suggests ...
TimorPrior to the arrival of European colonial powers, the island ofwas part of the trading networks that stretched between India and China an ...
Niulakita... torial claims to four Tuvaluan islands (Funafuti, Nukefetau, Nukulaelae and) under the Guano Islands Act of 1856
Iceland... ur Ragnar Grímsson (born 14 May 1943) is the fifth and current President of. He has served as President since 1996; he was unopposed in 2000, re-elec ...
IrelandThe Vikings conducted extensive raids inand founded the cities of Waterford, Cork, Dublin and Limerick. The Viking ...
PhilippinesMore recent immigrant populations include those from India,, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, Panama, J ...
South China Sea Islands... im, Hainan Province includes not just one island, but also some two hundred. Whilst the containment of the South China Sea Islands means that Hainan ...
United States Virgin Islands... en introduced to Grand Cayman, Puerto Rico, Texas, Florida, Hawaii, and the. Though the species is not native to Martinique, a small wild colony of r ...
São Miguel Island... was singing. The Lockheed L-749 Constellation crashed into Monte Redondo (, Azores), killing all 11 crew members and 37 passengers on board, includi ...
San Salvador Island... he Lucayans as Guanahani), which some researchers believe to be present-day, (also known as Watling's Island) in the southeastern Bahamas
Sumatra... eal location to curtail French expansion in Indochina and Dutch foothold in. On 11 August 1786, Francis Light landed on Penang at what is later calle ...
Great BritainBritannia is an ancient term for, and also a female personification of the island. The name is Latin, and ...
Kodiak Island... jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodox Church. He was allegedly a native of(Aleutian Islands), and is said to have received the Christian name of Pet ...
Philippines... ere introduced into several countries, such as India, Japan, Indonesia, the, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Burma, Taiwan and Nepal. This spr ...
Iceland... ts' to their citizens. Japan has issued such permits since 1986, Norway andwhale under objection to the moratorium and issue their own quotas. In 199 ...
Iceland... s a submarine mountain range called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. It extends fromin the north to approximately 58° South latitude, reaching a maximum width ...
PhilippinesIn the, a similar game which was first distributed in 1978 and is still in circu ...
Nukulaelae... ced prior territorial claims to four Tuvaluan islands (Funafuti, Nukefetau,and Niulakita) under the Guano Islands Act of 1856
Long Island... an/American abstract expressionist painter, who lived on the south shore of, died in 1984. His memoirs, A Not-So-Still Life, were published shortly b ...
Sardinia... usion of the Alans of northern Africa into his alliance. Conquering Sicily,, Corsica and the Balearic Islands, he built his kingdom into a powerful s ...
James Shoal... ce has a very large water body, it has a disproportionally small land area.(曾母暗沙 Zengmu Ansha), which is presently marked by the PRC, signifies the c ...
St. John's Island... present-day peninsular Nova Scotia, in addition to the adjacent colonies of(renamed Prince Edward Island in 1798) and Newfoundland. The colony of Cap ...
Madagascar... oxide is converted to scandium fluoride and reduced with metallic calcium.and Iveland-Evje region in Norway have the only deposits of minerals with ...
Ravenna... sion from the Byzantine emperor Zeno, to recover Italy from Odoacer. By 493was taken, where Theodoric would set up his capital. It was also at this t ...
Iwo Jima... unkers, pillboxes, tunnels, and other fortifications, especially on Saipan,, the Philippines, and Okinawa, where deeply dug-in Japanese troops refuse ...
IrelandConnery's great-grandparents emigrated to Scotland fromin the mid 19th century. Thomas Sean Connery, named Thomas after his grand ...
Guanahani... the New World was on an island named San Salvador (known to the Lucayans as), which some researchers believe to be present-day San Salvador Island, ( ...
Flinders Island... n School in Hobart in 1832. In 1835, he was sent to Wybalenna settlement onwhere he remained until 1838. He and his wife Mary-Anne went with Robinson ...
Mag Mell... n had two sons, Connla and Art. Connla fell in love with a fairy woman from, and went with her to her otherworld home in her crystal boat, leaving Ar ...
Pribilof... Kittiwake has a very limited range in the Bering Sea, breeding only on the, Bogoslof and Buldir islands in the United States, and the Commander Isla ...
Corsica... he Alans of northern Africa into his alliance. Conquering Sicily, Sardinia,and the Balearic Islands, he built his kingdom into a powerful state. Hist ...
Whidbey Island... and Kingston, is . The depth of the main basin, between the southern tip ofand Tacoma, Washington, is approximately
Catalina Island... . He even entered balloon races, including one in 1964 from the mainland tothat ended with him being rescued from the Pacific Ocean. A certified priv ...
Paradise Island... centered around the visit by the main character, Russ Tobin, to Nassau and, and the comedic events that ensue
Venice... of manuscripts was sacked on the Crusade by Italian knights and brought to
Majuro... enators) to the lower house of RMI’s bicameral legislature, the Nitijela. (, the capital atoll, elects five senators.) The President, who is head of ...
Sicily... mber 1717, strongly supported by Sardinian politician Vicente Bacallar) and(July 1718), in spite of promises made to the Pope, while pressing Spanish ...
New Guinea... ccupation of Tulagi in the southeastern Solomon Islands and Port Moresby in, which would put northern Australia within range of Japanese land-based a ...
Mayotte... re Njazidja (Grande Comore), Mwali (Mohéli), Nzwani (Anjouan), and Mahoré (). The islands' distance from each other—Njazidja is some 200 kilometers f ...
Maluku Islands... iving letters written in Malay is letters from Sultan Abu Hayat of Ternate,in present day Indonesia, dated around 1521–1522. The letter is addressed ...
Seychelles... s, Samoa, San Marino, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia,, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, S ...
Philippines... isits to California with the Manila Galleons on their return trips from thebeginning in 1565. Humboldt County was formed in 1853 from parts of Trinit ...
Azores... Lockheed L-749 Constellation crashed into Monte Redondo (São Miguel Island,), killing all 11 crew members and 37 passengers on board, including Cerda ...
Outer Banks... ro to Raleigh. Soon to be four-laned from Tarboro to North Carolina's famed
Bogoslof... has a very limited range in the Bering Sea, breeding only on the Pribilof,and Buldir islands in the United States, and the Commander Islands in Russ ...
Cyprus... the Holy Land. He sailed with the Venetian fleet under James Malatesta via. When he reached Jerusalem, he received a message from the Venetian senat ...
Venice... Francesco Gasparini, performed that same year in the Teatro San Cassiano in, but the same libretto was put in music also by Nicola Porpora (1711, in ...
Taiwan... Australia (A$11 million), Japan (A$2 million), New Zealand (A$6.6 million),(A$10.6 million), and other donors providing A$16.2 million, including tec ...
Falkland Islands... ntee reception in this area. It has ended its specialist programming to thebut continues to provide a stream of World Service programming to the Falk ...
Venice... were usually 7-8 inches (17.7-20.3 cm) high. These shoes became popular inand throughout Europe, as a revealing wealth and social standing
Stadsholmen... west) drains into the Baltic Sea (to the east). The island is today calledand constitutes Stockholm's Old Town. It is surrounded by land to the nort ...
Mayotte... an any other location. This list excludes the French-administered island ofwhich is claimed by the Comorian government
Ithaca... the suitors of Penelope who had been plaguing his halls in his homeland of. Medon attempts to return the favor by speaking on behalf of his master, ...
CapriFerdinand's regular holidays on, then a famous haunt for wealthy gay men, were common knowledge in royal ...
Crete... Oenopion, the recovery of his sight at Lemnos, his hunting with Artemis on, his death by the bow of Artemis or the sting of the giant scorpion which ...
Bermuda... l 25, 1791, Kinglassie - d. October 31, 1858, London, England), governor of(1839–46), Barbados (1846–48), and Malta (1851–58); knighted 185
Puerto Rico... . Lucia, St. Vincent, and Útila. They have been introduced to Grand Cayman,, Texas, Florida, Hawaii, and the United States Virgin Islands. Though the ...
Ireland... , he has appeared with the choir for performances in prisons in England andto assist rehabilitation programmes. Prison concerts have become a regular ...
TaiwanAfter the retreat of the KMT toat the end of the Chinese Civil War, he moved to the United States. Kung d ...
Taiwan... of genetic markers in present-day populations that Austronesian people frompopulated the region of Luzon and headed south to the Visayas, Borneo, Ind ...
CorsicaLocated in Sardinia and, the nuraghe civilization lasted from the early Bronze Age (18th century ...
Södermalm... lm's Old Town. It is surrounded by land to the north (Norrmalm) and south (), and by water to the west (Riddarfjärden) and east (Stockholms ström)
Ternate... dest surviving letters written in Malay is letters from Sultan Abu Hayat of, Maluku Islands in present day Indonesia, dated around 1521–1522. The let ...
Sicily... y Theodoric's own hand. Ostrogothic power was fully established over Italy,, Dalmatia and the lands to the north of Italy. In this war the Ostrogoths ...
Venice... pposition to the Normans. By 1123, he had increased ties with Byzantium andand taken the title gratia Dei et beati Nikolai barensis princeps. Grimoal ...
Fuerteventura... Palma de Mallorca, Antalya, Gran Canaria, Teneriffe, Rhodos, Heraklion and(TUIfly), Berlin-Tegel (Air Berlin), (Pegasus Airlines
Prince Edward IslandIn 1992, the owner of all Tim Hortons and Wendy's Restaurants in, Daniel P. Murphy, decided to open new franchise outlets for both brands ...
Caribbean... o various international destinations in North America, Central America, the, South America and Europe (until August 31). Their primary hub was Mexico ...
SardiniaLocated inand Corsica, the nuraghe civilization lasted from the early Bronze Age (18 ...
Amorgos... beyond the Greek mainland. Certain central Aegean islands, Antiparos, Ios,, Syros and Siphnos, were all found to be singularly rich in evidence of t ...
Malta... 8, London, England), governor of Bermuda (1839–46), Barbados (1846–48), and(1851–58); knighted 185
Matsu... as under their respective control is closest near the islands of Kinmen and, off the Fujian coast, but otherwise run through the Taiwan Strait. The P ...
Majorca... of new conquests. Over the course of the next quarter-century he conqueredand Valencia
Luzon... ration (Napocor) and other independent power producers across the island of. It is transmitted by the privately-owned National Grid Corporation of Th ...
Sardinia... possessions in Italy, where he was responsible for unwarranted invasions of(November 1717, strongly supported by Sardinian politician Vicente Bacalla ...
Azores... Virginia, and it was thought for many years that he had been buried in theor at sea
Philippines... xes, tunnels, and other fortifications, especially on Saipan, Iwo Jima, the, and Okinawa, where deeply dug-in Japanese troops refused to surrender. N ...
Outer Banks... ary eastern NC hub, 10–15 miles from Rocky Mount, NC and two hours from the. Tarboro is also convenient to area and regional airports, freight and pa ...
Sicily... the inclusion of the Alans of northern Africa into his alliance. Conquering, Sardinia, Corsica and the Balearic Islands, he built his kingdom into a ...
IcelandInkleinuhringur (pl. kleinuhringir and kleinuhringar) are a type of old Icel ...
Elugelab... test of the first U.S. hydrogen bomb, code named "Ivy Mike", the island ofin the Enewetak atoll was destroyed
Key Largo... had suites on the bottom of the Persian Gulf, and Jules' Undersea Lodge in, Florida requires scuba diving to access its rooms
Lemnos... erope and was blinded by her father, Oenopion, the recovery of his sight at, his hunting with Artemis on Crete, his death by the bow of Artemis or th ...
Balearic Islands... ing had been defeated while a storm had blown the Carthaginian fleet to the. When they finally made it to Sardinia, the Romans were aware of their in ...
South Island... (Harpagornis moorei) was a species of massive eagles that once lived on theof New Zealand. The species was the largest eagle known to have existed. I ...
Flinders Island... appointed Protector of Aborigines at Port Phillip [Victoria], returning toin 1842. In 1856,while living at the government settlement of Oyster Cove, ...
Caribbean... tribution of alcohol. Distilleries and breweries in Canada, Mexico, and theflourished as their products were either consumed by visiting Americans or ...
Funafuti... United States renounced prior territorial claims to four Tuvaluan islands (, Nukefetau, Nukulaelae and Niulakita) under the Guano Islands Act of 1856
Borneo... from Taiwan populated the region of Luzon and headed south to the Visayas,, Indonesia, then to Pacific islands and to the east of the Indian Ocean. ...
Sicily... ilitary's attention away from the real Allied target, the Italian island of. This operation had also been carried out in an attempt to lure the out o ...
Penghu... osing the Sino-Japanese War, The Qing empire ceded the island of Taiwan andto Japan on 17 April 1895, according to the terms of the Treaty of Shimono ...
Bornholm... few gently rolling plains. The territory of Denmark includes the island ofin the Baltic Sea and the rest of metropolitan Denmark, but excludes the F ...
IrelandThe first organized police force incame about through the Peace Preservation Act of 1814, but the Irish Const ...
West Indies... founded the Ostend Company to augment Austria's trade with the East Indies,and Africa. The charter was for a period of thirty years. The Austrian exc ...
Ravenna... to restore the imperial authority in that province, and then passed through, where he left a Gothic force under the new patricius and magister militu ...
Lindisfarne... sh sources as Din Guardi. Near this high-status residence lay the island of(formerly known, in Welsh, as Ynys Metcaut), which became the seat of the ...
Tierra del Fuego... bays and islands of the Patagonian archipelago, the Strait of Magellan, and. Locations visited here include Hale Cove, Gray Harbour, Port Grappler, T ...
Niulakita... rld. The islets that form the atolls are very low lying. Nanumanga, Niutao,are reef islands and the six true atolls are Funafuti, Nanumea, Nui, Nukuf ...
Ireland... ampshire. The area was first called Sligo, likely after the county Sligo in, and the name survives on a town road. It would be established in 1729 as ...
Florida Keys... s, which offers scuba diving certification and works to repair reefs in the. In the summer of 2009, the OA will pilot the OA Canadian Odyssey which w ...
Ravenna... nd Pope Gregory V (996–999), Otto III's cousin, appointed him Archbishop ofin 998. With the Emperor's support, he was elected to succeed Gregory V as ...
Azores... e parents, Maria Manuela and António José Furtado, both immigrants from the. She was named after Soviet gymnast Nellie Kim. Her parents were born on ...
IcelandLangjökull (Icelandic for "long glacier") is the second largest ice cap in(953 km 2 ), after Vatnajökull. It is situated in the west of the Icelandi ...
Lolland... idge which spans the Guldborgsund strait between the islands of Falster and, are both named after Frederick IX
Númenor... ge of Middle-earth. They were once mortal Men, three being "great lords" of. Sauron gave each of them one of nine Rings of Power. Sauron also gave se ...
Philippines... by most countries and closer regional integration. Indonesia, Malaysia, the, Singapore and Thailand have traditionally experienced high growth and ar ...
Mount Penglai... uld be achieved if one reached the lands of the Queen Mother of the West or. Han-era Daoists assembled into small groups of hermits who attempted to ...
SavuAfter a three-day layover off the island of, Endeavour sailed on to Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies, on ...
Hispaniola... ds, cays, and islets. It is located in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba and(Dominican Republic and Haiti), northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, ...
Florida Keys... d in the United States as feral populations in South Florida (including the), Hawaii, and the Rio Grande Valley of Texas
Falkland Islands... such distant areas as Hawaii, Bermuda, Greenland, Tristan da Cunha and the
New Guinea... and had entered the open waters of the Torres Strait between Australia and, earlier navigated by Luis Váez de Torres in 1606. To keep Endeavour’s vo ...
SumatraIn 1761, Mason was assigned to travel to the island ofto observe the Transit of Venus as part of an international effort to reco ...
Florida Keys... the Ocean Adventure at the Florida National High Adventure Sea Base in the, which offers scuba diving certification and works to repair reefs in the ...
Faroe Islands... lm in the Baltic Sea and the rest of metropolitan Denmark, but excludes theand Greenland. Its position gives Denmark complete control of the Danish S ...
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Chatham Islands... ; fifty-four district councils in more rural areas; and one council for the. Each generally has a ward system of election, but an additional councill ...
Trinidad... as of Marcus Garvey and in 1943 met and began a lengthy correspondence withian Marxist C.L.R. James, Russian expatriate Raya Dunayevskaya, and Chines ...
Sugar Island... Dynamite (also known as Powder House Island), Fox Island, Stony Island, and, which are all uninhabited. Stony and Celeron are owned by the Michigan D ...
Canary Islands... the Mediterranean Maritime Zone with its headquarters at Cartagena; and theMaritime Zone with its headquarters at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Newfoundland... industrialization of the island, exchanges of people between the island ofand Cape Breton increased beginning a cultural exchange that continues to ...
Cape Verde... ssalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada,, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, the People's Republic of China, C ...
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Funafuti... . Nanumanga, Niutao, Niulakita are reef islands and the six true atolls are, Nanumea, Nui, Nukufetau, Nukulaelae and Vaitupu. Funafuti is the largest ...
Sri Lanka... ollowed by shorter postings on HM Ships Kent, Shropshire and in Ceylon (now). After the invasion of Greece by Italy in October 1940, he was transferr ...
Tahiti... ts in many societies, including traditional Fijian, Māori, Samoan, Rapanui,an, Hawaiian, and Tongan cultures – in most cases using a recognisably sim ...
Manhattan... in Asharoken on Long Island, NY, as well as a townhouse on Beekman Place in. It was after his arrival in the United States that the author adopted th ...
Philippines... econd most important port, after Veracruz, due to its direct trade with the. This trade would focus on the yearly Manila Galleon, which was the nexus ...
Iceland... s exist there, including Panvera (now part of Invitrogen), Promega, and the-based Nimblegen. The contract research organisation Covance is a big empl ...
Sicilian... daughters to Elliot Imbruglia, her father of Italian descent (originally afrom Lipari) and Maxene Anderson, her Anglo-Australian mother. Imbruglia g ...
Grosse Ile... in the Detroit River, but the largest island is also referred to as simply. The name comes from French Grosse Île, meaning "Big Island". The populat ...
Nanumanga... t country in the world. The islets that form the atolls are very low lying., Niutao, Niulakita are reef islands and the six true atolls are Funafuti, ...
Lastovo... aly. The affected populations were Slovenes and Croats in the Julian March,and Zadar; between 1941 and 1943 the Gorski Kotar and coastal Dalmatia; Ge ...
Philippines... ah, until August 19, 1926. Holbrook then commanded Camp Stotsenburg, in theuntil May 11, 1929. Aterwards, he commanded Fort Bragg, North Carolina, fr ...
Majuro... n ancestry, mainly Japanese. Two-thirds of the nation's population lives on, the capital, and Ebeye. The outer islands are sparsely populated due to ...
Taiwan... 1956 by the People's Republic of China, and later adopted by Singapore and. Pinyin is almost universally employed now for teaching standard spoken C ...
Tenerife... Royal Albert Hall Jarre met Brian May, who proposed he create a concert infor the International Year of Astronomy, but a lack of sponsorship meant t ...
Delos... ctised divination and prophecy. In the visits to various places in Greece –, Sparta, Phlius, Crete, etc. which are ascribed to him, he usually appear ...
Sicily... tive region of Aragon, Catalonia, and later the Balearic Islands, Valencia,, Naples and Sardinia (see Aragonese Empire)
Sardinia... leon invaded Italy, with the aims of forcing the First Coalition to abandon(where they had created an anti-revolutionary puppet-ruler) and forcing Au ...
ElbaOn 26 February 1815, Napoleon escaped fromand returned to France. He regained control of the country by May and face ...
Flekkerøy... t there are 4 other densely populated areas in the municipality: Skålevik () with a population of 2,635, Strai (Torridal) with a population of 1,332, ...
Ireland... lling was further extended for another 28 days on 21 October 2008. Germany,, Switzerland and Canada banned short selling leading financial stocks, an ...
Philippines... h Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands,, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, United King ...
Pleasure Island... atistical Area. The population was 1,507 at the 2000 census. It is found ondirectly south of the Wilmington Beach annex of Carolina Beach and just no ...
Isla de Caja de Muertos... ardona Island Light can be seen. A 45-minute boat ride is also available to(Coffin Island), a small beach island with an 1887 lighthouse
OkinawaIn 1969, 23 U.S. servicemen and one U.S. civilian stationed in, Japan, were exposed to low levels of the nerve agent sarin while repaint ...
Falster... derick IX Bridge which spans the Guldborgsund strait between the islands ofand Lolland, are both named after Frederick IX
Niutao... n the world. The islets that form the atolls are very low lying. Nanumanga,, Niulakita are reef islands and the six true atolls are Funafuti, Nanumea ...
Philippines... He also met with President Corazon Aquino for a series of talks between theand South Korea for economic, social and cultural ties, supporting Filipin ...
Puerto Rico... and Paraguay as far north as Mexico and the Caribbean Islands especially inwhere they are also known as "Gallina de palo" and they are very common th ...
BermudaMaking their debuts were Algeria,, Brazil, Honduras, Ireland and Swaziland (as well as the previously menti ...
Venice... lerno via Bologna, Florence, Rome and Naples, the second runs from Turin tovia Milan, and is under construction in parts. The network is designed for ...
Majuro... y (of the Tobolar Copra processing plant in the Marshall Islands capital of) said power authorities, private companies, and entrepreneurs had been ex ...
Sri Lanka... ous areas including the Ural and Ilmen mountains of Russia, in Afghanistan,, Czech Republic, Germany, Norway, Pakistan, Italy, Sweden, Japan, Brazil, ...
Falkland Islands... rs to passengers for the Royal Air Force's scheduled TriStar flights to the. Some airbases are co-located with civilian airports, sharing the same AT ...
Balearic Islands... ruled the present administrative region of Aragon, Catalonia, and later the, Valencia, Sicily, Naples and Sardinia (see Aragonese Empire)
Balearic Islands... Brussels–Charleroi, Milan, Lisbon, Düsseldorf, Barcelona, Málaga, Alicante,and Canary Islands
San Juan Islands... others. It does not include Bellingham Bay, Padilla Bay, the waters of theor anything farther north
Sakhalin... the Battle of Tsushima, the Japanese army occupied the entire chain of theIslands to force the Russians to sue for peace
the Solomon IslandsDuring 1907–8 Rivers travelled to, and other areas of Melanesia and Polynesia. His two-volume History of Me ...
Ravenna... revolted against the Emperor, forcing Otto III and Sylvester II to flee to. Otto III led two unsuccessful expeditions to regain control of the city, ...
Tasmania... ng dinghy. In 2009, to celebrate the first broadcast of their radio show in, Hamish & Andy sailed a Tall Ship with gifts from the mainland through Ba ...
ManhattanIn late nineteenth century, Henry is the spoiled only child of stuffy, clueless, wealthy parents Ran ...
Great Keppel Island... the Capricorn Coast. The largest island and a popular tourist attraction is
Polynesia... ome late Neolithic societies formed complex stratified chiefdoms similar ton societies such as the Ancient Hawaiians, most Neolithic societies were r ...
Timor... under Portuguese control. During this period, Portugal shared the island ofwith the Netherlands East Indies, and later with Indonesia
Majorca... out of two hundred girls eventually made it from the local recall shows to, Spain to get trained in singing, dancing, and fitness. While the judges ...
Zakynthos... s with the adverse winds in the Ionian Sea, he was wrecked on the island of
Sicily... sh strength toward the Mediterranean theater to prepare for the invasion of, the Royal Navy lacked the heavy ships necessary to cover the northern co ...
Madagascar... continental Asia. Malagasy is a geographic outlier, spoken in the island ofin the Indian Ocean
Ireland... f Hell, to save himself. In the course of trying to save himself, he visits, where he becomes reacquainted with Kit Ryan, an old friend. The followin ...
Ireland... 1; in the United Kingdom, where Channel 4 aired the show late at night; in, where the series aired on free-to-air channel TG4 at 11 p.m.; and in Bra ...
Venice... brone (Pesaro), and probably was educated at Urbino. Around 1490 he went toto learn the art of printing, and in 1498 he petitioned the Doge for the e ...
Corsica#(off map, Ajaccio, cons. souv. in Bastia
Ingarö... all part of Stockholm archipelago. The largest of the islands are Värmdön,, Svartsö, Möja, Runmarö, Sandhamn and Nämdö. Gustavsberg is the main town ...
Ireland... ate belonging to a monastery and used for food production in Great Britain,, or Austria. In France such a supporting satellite farm, often a replica ...
SicilyIn 1853, Dunant visited Algeria, Tunisia, and, on assignment with a company devoted to the "colonies of Setif" (Compagn ...
Alcatraz IslandThe Rock is a 1996 action film that primarily takes place onand in the San Francisco Bay area. It was directed by Michael Bay, directo ...
Canary Islands... ilan, Lisbon, Düsseldorf, Barcelona, Málaga, Alicante, Balearic Islands and
Sumatra... e brigades. This sustainable approach can be seen in Central Kalimantan and, Indonesia
CyprusFredric Hasselquist, in his travels in Asia Minor, Egypt,and Palestine in the 18th century, came across the Egyptian or hairy cucum ...
Nantucket, Massachusetts... epublic collided with the Italian liner SS Florida in fog off the island of, United States. Radio Operator Jack Binns sent the CQD distress signal by ...
Manhattan... July 2004, former bassist Dave Ellefson sued Mustaine for $18.5 million inFederal Court. Ellefson alleged that Mustaine short changed him on profits ...
Nukulaelae... reef islands and the six true atolls are Funafuti, Nanumea, Nui, Nukufetau,and Vaitupu. Funafuti is the largest atoll of the nine low reef islands an ...
U Thant Island... and, Governors Island, Liberty Island, part of Ellis Island, Mill Rock, and; as well as Marble Hill, a very small area on the mainland bordering . Th ...
Ameland... riefly initiated passenger and postal service to Schiermonnikoog and nearby, landing its Douglas DC-3s on the beach
Stockholm archipelagoThe municipality consists of 10,000 islands, all part of. The largest of the islands are Värmdön, Ingarö, Svartsö, Möja, Runmarö, ...
Fidalgo Island... rom West Point, on Whidbey Island, to Deception Island and Rosario Head, on; and a third entrance at the south end of the Swinomish Channel, which co ...
Sardinia... le plant food diet. The article is a lifestyle survey of three populations,ns, Okinawans, and Adventists, who generally display longevity and "suffer ...
Skellig Michael... le that the cell had a stone-corbelled roof, similar to the beehive huts on, County Kerry
Hanover Island... ler, Tom Bay (all in the vicinity of Wellington Island), Puerta Bueno (near), Isthmus Bay (near the Queen Adelaide Archipelago), and Port Churruca (n ...
Bermuda... islands were mostly deserted from 1513 to 1648, when English colonists fromsettled on the island of Eleuthera
Great Britain... ing farming estate belonging to a monastery and used for food production in, Ireland, or Austria. In France such a supporting satellite farm, often a ...
Taiwan... aintains official relations with the Republic of China (commonly known as "") instead of the People's Republic of China
Rab... enerated as Saint Marinus, emigrated in 257 AD from the Dalmatian island of, then a Roman colony, when the emperor Diocletian issued a decree calling ...
Alexander Archipelago... of endangered and rare flora and fauna. Tongass encompasses islands of the, fjords, glaciers, and peaks of the Coast Mountains. An international bor ...
Iona... ad to visit Ireland a century after St Mobhi's death in 544. St. Columba ofis thought to have studied under St. Mobhi, but left Glasnevin following a ...
VärmdönThe municipality is named after the main island, 180 km 2 in size
Venice... r Thames, which is raised when the sea water level reaches a certain point.has a similar arrangement, although it is already unable to cope with very ...
Ireland... tuation changed during late 1845 with poor harvests and the Great Famine in; Britain experienced scarcity and Ireland starvation. Peel argued in Cabi ...
Paradise Island... ates imposed a ban on travel to Cuba in 1963. The Atlantis resort on nearbyaccounts for more tourist arrivals to the city than any other hotel proper ...
Puerto Rico... ican Republic. Pigeon peas are also made as a stew, with plantain balls. Inarroz con gandules is made with rice and pigeon peas and is a typical dish ...
Java... e country. He mounted a military expedition against the Dutch and French in, Indonesia. The war was swiftly conducted by Admiral Robert Stopford, Gen ...
Great BritainThe Industrial Revolution on Continental Europe came a little later than in. In many industries, this involved the application of technology develope ...
Venice... en his activity was interrupted by the war of the League of Cambrai against; he departed the city for Fossombrone, where he resumed his activities as ...
Ravenna... in mid-March, 538. He witnessed Belisarius' entry into the Gothic capital,, in 540. Book Eight of The Wars of Justinian, and the Secret History, sug ...
Eleuthera... 1513 to 1648, when English colonists from Bermuda settled on the island of
Mauritius... s, especially on Mauritius. The dodo rampant appears on the coat of arms of. A smiling dodo is the symbol of the Brasseries de Bourbon, a popular bre ...
Cyprus... Jewish immigration and illegal immigrants were placed in detention camps in, which increased the anger of the Jewish community towards the mandate go ...
Flinders Island... Republic, Germany, Norway, Pakistan, Italy, Sweden, Japan, Brazil, Mexico,, Australia, Nigeria and the United States
Sicily... odern Belgrade) and Sirmium. During 442 Theodosius recalled his troops fromand ordered a large issue of new coins to finance operations against the H ...
IrelandJohn MacBride was born at The Quay, Westport, County Mayo,to Patrick MacBride, a shopkeeper and trader, and the former Honoria Gill, ...
Wellington Island... ude Hale Cove, Gray Harbour, Port Grappler, Tom Bay (all in the vicinity of), Puerta Bueno (near Hanover Island), Isthmus Bay (near the Queen Adelaid ...
Ireland... rainne) played by Jean Butler, and he ran away together into the forests of, immediately after Fionn and Grania's wedding. When she sees Diarmuid's d ...
Belle Île... surgeon in 1760 and was staff surgeon on expedition to the French island ofin 1761, then served in 1762 with the British Army in the expedition to Po ...
Taiwan... s, New Caledonia, Norway, the Philippines, the Russian Federation, Senegal,, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and Vanuatu
Melanesia... diverse cultures, languages, and customs. Of its 552,438 persons, 94.5% aren, 3% Polynesian, and 1.2% Micronesian. In addition, small numbers of Euro ...
Matsu Islands... er the jurisdiction of Fuzhou prefecture-level city, nominally includes the(Mazu), but Matsu (Mazu) is in reality controlled by the Republic of China ...
Mauritius... esiding on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, were expelled toin the 1960s, in connection with the erection of an American strategic mil ...
Sicily... ich says that Orion was responsible for the present shape of the Straits of
Atlantis... iverse, "Varnae" is the name of the first vampire, created by the people ofbefore it sank
Sicily... 0), a Lombard merchant's son, was the third of the great admirals of Norman. The Basilica di San Nicola was founded in 1087 to receive the relics of ...
Lemnos... s flung down by Zeus. He fell for an entire day and landed on the island of, where he was cared for and taught to be a master craftsman by the Sintia ...
CasquetsThere is a large, deepwater harbour at St Peter Port. The, a group of islets, are notable for the lighthouse facility constructed t ...
Hawaiki... p was a floating island, or a gigantic bird from their mythical homeland of. Endeavour spent the next six months sailing close to shore, while Cook m ...
Ellis Island... , Randall's Island, Wards Island, Governors Island, Liberty Island, part of, Mill Rock, and U Thant Island; as well as Marble Hill, a very small area ...
Ireland... named Scotia (feminine form of Scoti) during this Epoch. The settlers fromin nowadays Scotland were known as Scoti. The Romans in the Middle Ages kn ...
Polynesia... s, languages, and customs. Of its 552,438 persons, 94.5% are Melanesian, 3%n, and 1.2% Micronesian. In addition, small numbers of Europeans and Chine ...
Chatham Islands... authorities are combined into a single unitary authority, and the isolatedhave a body with its own special legislation, making it very like a unitar ...
BermudaInand the Bahamas local leaders were angry at the food shortages caused by B ...
Spice Islands... e South Seas. Fifteenth-century Portuguese sailors from Goa en route to theoften made stopovers on the island which they called Pulo Pinaom. Early Ma ...
Lindisfarne... ed this man as the murderer of Urien Rheged who was, at the time, besieging
Ocean City... at the tip of the Cape May Peninsula in Cape May County. It is part of theMetropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the re ...
Nukufetau... lakita are reef islands and the six true atolls are Funafuti, Nanumea, Nui,, Nukulaelae and Vaitupu. Funafuti is the largest atoll of the nine low re ...
Hokkaidō... the island are the Sakhalin Ainu, Oroks, and Nivkhs. Most Ainu relocated towhen the Japanese were displaced from the island in 1949
Ireland... the Cuban Revolution ousting the American-backed Fulgencio Batista in 1959,'s Sinn Féin, Wales's Plaid Cymru, Scotland's SNP, the Awami League in Ban ...
Puerto RicoThe Dominican Republic has very strong ties and relations with. Although a United States Commonwealth, the island is the Dominican Repub ...
Ireland... are explained in aitiological folk-tales, recorded in many variant forms in, Scotland, England, Wales, Appalachia, and Newfoundland
Kingston, Ontario... Halloween in North America is first recorded in 1911, where a newspaper inreported children going "guising" around the neighborhood
Philippines... nce, Germany, Laos, Martinique, the Netherlands, New Caledonia, Norway, the, the Russian Federation, Senegal, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Kingdom, a ...
Madagascar... he demoralizing news that Port Arthur had fallen reached the fleet while at. Admiral Rozhestvensky's only hope now was to reach the port of Vladivost ...
Lingga... ause it was the largest island encountered on the trading sea-route betweenand Kedah. The ese, then the overlord of the Kedah Sultanate, referred to ...
Krakatoa... glows. A number of eruptions, including those of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 andin 1883, have produced sufficiently high stratospheric sulfuric acid cloud ...
Newfoundland... tablishing a settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, near the northernmost tip of. The Viking settlers quickly abandoned Vinland, and disappeared from Gree ...
Sicily... sy by Marcian, with the destruction of Capua. Avitus sent Ricimer to defend, and the Romans defeated the Vandals twice, once in a land battle near Ag ...
Taiwan... st by Kyūshū and the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, on the south by the island of, and on the west by mainland China and the Asian continent. It is connect ...
Mentawai Islands... ndemic mammal species on mainland Sumatra and 14 more endemic to the nearby. The species present include: Sumatran Tiger, Sumatran Orangutan, Sumatra ...
Solomon IslandsThis article is about the demographic features of the population of the, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the ...
Heirisson Island... wans of the area. Vlamingh sailed with a small party up the river to around. A French expedition under Nicholas Baudin also sailed up the river in 18 ...
Cyprus... (effectively ethnic Greeks) into the borders of the modern Greek state and. Other ethnic Greek populations can be found from southern Italy to the C ...
Mill Rock... land, Wards Island, Governors Island, Liberty Island, part of Ellis Island,, and U Thant Island; as well as Marble Hill, a very small area on the mai ...
Puerto Rico... few United States jurisdictions where trained notaries are allowed (such as), the practice of these jurists is limited to non-judicial legal advice, ...
Batam... and Malaysia, and between Singapore and nearby Indonesian islands, such as
Iceland... issue standard compliant National Identity Cards, notably Denmark, Norway,, Latvia, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Sweden issues National Identity ...
Ireland... (masculine form of Scoti). This is in reference to the Gaelic settlers fromwhich was named Scotia (feminine form of Scoti) during this Epoch. The set ...
Tenerife... I) (1973), which were based on his observations at the Teide Observatory in. He is the co-author of Bang! – The Complete History of the Universe with ...
Österland... historically divided into the four lands: Götaland, Svealand, Norrland and
Virgin Gorda... er the legend of Saint Ursula. He is also reported to have personally named(the Fat Virgin), which he thought to be the largest island in the group
Honshū... , and in Europe is replaced in urban areas by the House Martin. However, in, the Barn Swallow is a more urban bird, with the Red-rumped Swallow (Cecr ...
Zakynthos... nipolis with heavy losses. In retaliation, the Vandals took 500 hostages at, hacked them to pieces and threw the pieces overboard on the way to Carth ...
Cyprus... cene**†Hippopotamus creutzburgi - Crete; Pleistocene**†Hippopotamus minor -; Pleistocene to Holocene**†Hippopotamus melitensis - Malta; Pleistocene** ...
Taiwan... unity of Sanzhi (Sanshi-kyō), Taipei County (Taihoku, now New Taipei City),(under Japanese rule at that time). As a child, he often dreamed of travel ...
Pohnpei... district. The termination of U.S. administration of the Chuuk, Yap, Kosrae,, and the Mariana Islands districts of the TTPI soon followed on November ...
Bali... the Lesser Sunda Islands. On the busy crossings between Sumatra, Java, and, multiple car ferries run frequently twenty-four hours per day. There are ...
Erromango... ce. In 1825, trader Peter Dillon's discovery of sandalwood on the island ofbegan a rush that ended in 1830 after a clash between immigrant Polynesian ...
Kiritimati... d, with a total population of 8,809 (census of 2005), of which 5,115 are on, 2,539 on Tabuaeran, and 1,155 on Teraina. The total population of these ...
Rottnest Island... as much lower than at present, the Swan River curved around to the north of, and disgorged itself into the Indian Ocean slightly to the north and wes ...
Isles of Scilly... y Lord Teverson that would have ensured that "all parts of Cornwall and themust be included in constituencies that are wholly in Cornwall and the Isl ...
Penghu... risdiction is now limited to Taiwan and several outlying islands, including, Kinmen and Matsu. Since 1949, the People's Republic of China and the Rep ...
Eleuthera... nagua. The largest island is Andros Island. Other inhabited islands include, Cat Island, Long Island, San Salvador Island, Acklins, Crooked Island, E ...
Djerba... nd Djerbi; according to the 1998 Ethnologue report, about 26,000 Berbers inand Matmata speak Djerb
Elba... r different from its current shape. During the last Ice Age, the islands ofand Sicily were connected to the mainland. The Adriatic Sea was far smalle ...
Swona... of the beacon and to the east between the old jetty and the lighthouse. Onthey can be seen around the mid point of the west coast
Lagos IslandThe two major urban islands of Lagos in Lagos Lagoon areand Victoria Island. These islands are separated from the mainland by the ...
NevisGrokster Ltd. was a privately owned software company based in, West Indies that created the Grokster peer-to-peer file-sharing client i ...
Gotland... Count Oscar Bernadotte of Wisborg (formerly Prince Oscar of Sweden, Duke of) and his wife Ebba Munck af Fulkila. His grandfather was King Oscar II of ...
British Isles... hestra have toured many countries including Denmark, Hong Kong, Russia, the, and Central Europe. The Symphonic Band is also an ensemble dedicated to ...
Lesser Sunda Islands... ecially in the chain of islands stretching from Sumatra through Java to the. On the busy crossings between Sumatra, Java, and Bali, multiple car ferr ...
Cyprus... massed for the crusade. It was soon discovered that Isaac Dukas Comnenus ofhad seized the treasure. The young women were unharmed. Richard entered Li ...
Tabuaeran... ation of 8,809 (census of 2005), of which 5,115 are on Kiritimati, 2,539 on, and 1,155 on Teraina. The total population of these three atolls in 1900 ...
Philippines... uwait, Mexico, Puerto Rico, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the, Japan, China, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, BahrainHong ...
Cape Cod... include Newfoundland's Grand Banks, the Nova Scotia shelf, Georges Bank off, the Bahama Banks, the waters around Iceland, the Irish Sea, the Dogger B ...
Kosrae... Islands district. The termination of U.S. administration of the Chuuk, Yap,, Pohnpei, and the Mariana Islands districts of the TTPI soon followed on ...
Solomon IslandsAs Croatia and Slovenia, thewere claimed to be members of the coalition but wished "to disassociate it ...
Sicily... nt from its current shape. During the last Ice Age, the islands of Elba andwere connected to the mainland. The Adriatic Sea was far smaller, as it st ...
Roanoke Island... ginia, used tree ring cores from 800-year-old bald cypresses taken from thearea of North Carolina and the Jamestown area of Virginia to reconstruct p ...
Réunion... 1841, Edmond Albius, a 12-year-old slave who lived on the French island ofin the Indian Ocean, discovered the plant could be hand-pollinated. Hand-p ...
Channel Islander... 13 July 1960 in Mumbles, Swansea, to a Scottish father, David Hislop, and amother of English descent, Helen Rosemarie née Beddows. When he was five m ...
Polynesia... f Erromango began a rush that ended in 1830 after a clash between immigrantn workers and indigenous Melanesians. During the 1860s, planters in Austra ...
Puerto Rico... claims, and never settled the Territory. In 1508 Juan Ponce de León settled, and reports in Spanish journals suggested that the settlement used the V ...
Taiwan... one of four Carter-critical voices new to the committee. Leader of the pro-congressional lobby, Helms demanded that the People's Republic of China re ...
Acklins... ed islands include Eleuthera, Cat Island, Long Island, San Salvador Island,, Crooked Island, Exuma and Mayaguana. Nassau, capital city of The Bahamas ...
Ireland... between Bundoran, County Donegal, and Sligo town on the northwest coast of. The village was only 12 miles away from the border with Northern Ireland ...
FunafutiThe boreholes on, at the site now called David's Drill, are the result of drilling conduct ...
Johnson's Island... m Sabine Parish was Christopher Columbus Nash, who was a prisoner of war atin Ohio. Nash later, as the sheriff of Grant Parish, crushed the Colfax Ri ...
GuadalcanalThe capital city of Honiara, situated on, the largest island, has over 30,000 inhabitants. The other principal tow ...
San Salvador Island... Island. Other inhabited islands include Eleuthera, Cat Island, Long Island,, Acklins, Crooked Island, Exuma and Mayaguana. Nassau, capital city of Th ...
Manhattan... Pennsylvania Station, New York, and Hampton Jitney provides bus service to. Suffolk Transit's 10C and seasonally-operated S94 routes serve the villa ...
Kure Atoll... cker). The oldest member of the Hawaiian archipelago still above the sea is, which can be dated to 30 mya. The archipelago itself (produced by the Pa ...
Caja de Muertos Island... Quintana and the La Guancha and El Tuque beaches. There is also a beach at. Lake Cerrillos is located within the limits of the municipality, as will ...
Taiwan... ms for Chinese characters. The traditional system, still used in Hong Kong,, Macau and Chinese speaking communities (except Singapore and Malaysia) o ...
Philippines... , China shares maritime boundaries with South Korea, Japan, Vietnam and the. The PRC and the Republic of China (Taiwan) make mutual claims over each ...
Solomon Islands... , Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia,, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Swe ...
Sumatra... between nearby islands, especially in the chain of islands stretching fromthrough Java to the Lesser Sunda Islands. On the busy crossings between Su ...
Funafuti... pent several days at Funafuti with the Count photographing men and woman on
Melanesian 93%, Polynesian 4%, Micronesian 1.5%, European 0.8%, Chinese 0.3%, other ...
Cook IslandsMembers of IFAD are 162 of the UN members, along withand Niue, and they are classified as follows: List A (primarily OECD membe ...
Mag MellIn Irish mythology, Tethra of the Fomorians ruledafter dying in the Second Battle of Mag Tuiredh
Falkland Islands... tting as a naval transport. She then made two routine return voyages to the, the first to deliver provisions and the second to bring home the British ...
Cyclades... ge of the spoken Attic dialect included Attica, Euboea, some of the centralislands, and northern Aegean coastal areas of Thrace (i.e. Chalcidice). Th ...
Roanoke Island... Argüelles was born in San Agustín 21 years before the English settlement atin Virginia Colony, and 42 years before the successful settlements of Sant ...
Castle Cornet... ; there were a few Royalist uprisings in the southwest of the island, whilewas occupied by the Governor, Sir Peter Osborne, and Royalist troops. Cast ...
Taiwan... an Institute in Taiwan, leaders of the Republic of China (commonly known as) seemed supportive of the war effort; however Taiwan did not appear in th ...
Grand Cayman... tuated about south of Miami, south of Cuba, and about northwest of Jamaica.is by far the biggest, with an area of . The two "Sister Islands" of Cayma ...
BiminiThe closest island to the United States is, which is also known as the gateway to The Bahamas. The island of Abaco i ...
Guernsey... nd finally settled with his family at Hauteville House in Saint Peter Port,, where he would live in exile until 1870
Funafuti... visited Funafuti aboard the yacht Le Tolna. Le Tolna spent several days atwith the Count photographing men and woman on Funafuti
Madagascar... altic Sea to the Pacific via the Cape of Good Hope. After a port of call at, then Cam Ranh Bay (later part of South Vietnam), Rozhestvensky finally r ...
Taiwan... held in a concentration camp for 13 years. When the Kuomintang retreated to, Chiang ordered the execution of Yang, his wife and his son as a small ch ...
Marshall IslandsOn October 21, 1986, the U.S. ended its administration of thedistrict. The termination of U.S. administration of the Chuuk, Yap, Kosrae ...
Hispaniola... es, firstly in 1542 and then again in 1563 with a cargo of slaves bound for. On his third visit, he was accompanied by a young Captain by the name of ...
Florida Keys... Europe, of which only two sites now remain — one in Comfort and one in the
Man of Aran... ew genre of docufiction, e.g. with Moana (1926), set in the South Seas, and(1934), filmed in Ireland's Aran Islands
IcelandEinar Benediktsson (1864–1940) was anic poet and lawyer
Crete... n Ode). Plato, in the Laws, attributes the cult of Athena to the culture of, introduced, he thought, from Libya during the dawn of Greek culture
IcelandIn 1915,instituted total prohibition. The ban for wine and spirits was lifted in 1 ...
Cayman Brac... Cayman is by far the biggest, with an area of . The two "Sister Islands" ofand are located about east north-east of Grand Cayman and have areas of re ...
Funafuti... e Tolna, his wife Eila (née Haggin) and her daughter Blanche Haggin visitedaboard the yacht Le Tolna. Le Tolna spent several days at Funafuti with th ...
Riau Islands#(capital: Tanjung Pinang
Gilbert Islands... st widely known of these was King Auweyida. Christian missionaries from thearrived in 1888. The Germans ruled Nauru for almost three decades. Robert ...
Puerto Ricans... rock crossed paths of other Latin rock genres (Rock en espanol) by Cubans,, such as Joe Bataan, and Ralphi Pagan and South America (La Nueva Cancion ...
Inagua... and of Abaco is to the east of Grand Bahama. The southeasternmost island is. The largest island is Andros Island. Other inhabited islands include Ele ...
Oahu... h, making landfall at the end of July at Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of. A couple of weeks later, in mid-August, the ship departed south-eastward ...
Djerba... town of Tatouine itself, but instead at Tunisian locations such as Matmâta,, and Tozeur
Hawaiian IslandsIn about , thehave the most diverse collection of drosophilid flies in the world, living ...
Tyre... o his father's. At the time of Abimelech, there was an Egyptian governor ofnamed Abimilki. They could possibly be the same person. Abimilki's name ap ...
MaldivesMantas sometimes breach the surface, launching themselves into the air. Theare a hotspot for plankton and consequently for reef mantas. A population ...
PhilippinesAs the cultural center of the, Manila houses a number of notable museums. Bahay Tsinoy, one of Manila's ...
Saipan... the Interior took over control, administering the territory from a base in
Oahu... n set foot in Hawaii, the Hawaiians considered Waipahu to be the capital of. Royalty in the Kingdom of Hawaii would often gather and enjoy the fresh ...
Grand Bahama... known as the gateway to The Bahamas. The island of Abaco is to the east of. The southeasternmost island is Inagua. The largest island is Andros Isla ...
PolynesiaMelanesian 93%,n 4%, Micronesian 1.5%, European 0.8%, Chinese 0.3%, other 0.4
Faroe IslandsAlready in 1907, thepassed a law prohibiting all sale of alcohol, which was in force until 199 ...
Rügen... onal Park is a nature reserve in the Jasmund peninsula, in the northeast ofisland in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is famous for the largest ch ...
Spice Islands... the Dutch in the late sixteenth century. Both came in search of the fabledof Maluku. Portuguese first landed near modern Pante Macassar, and in 1556 ...
SardiniaIt is one of the main tourist destinations of, has a long beach (more than 15 Kilometers of white sand) and a system of ...
British IslesAccording to the Köppen classification theexperience a maritime climate characterised by relatively cool summers and ...
St. Simon's Island... rles went as chaplain to the garrison and colony at near-by Fort Frederica,, arriving there Tuesday, 9 March 1736 according to his journal entry. How ...
Tasmania... cicadas occur in almost every part of Australia: the hot wet tropical north;n snowfields; Victorian beaches and sand dunes such as Torquay and desert ...
Sicily... In July 1190, Richard and Philip set out jointly from Marseille, France for. Philip II had hired a Genoese fleet to transport his army which consiste ...
Sicily... ound during recent excavations of sites in Philistia by the Palestine Fund., ever since P. Orsi excavated the Sicel cemetery near Lentini in 1877, ha ...
Venice... on, he is also known as Nikolaos of Bari. The remaining bones were taken toin 1100
Tasmania... ed by two Spirit of Tasmania passenger vehicle ferries, based in Devonport,. The ships travel daily in opposite directions between Devonport and Stat ...
Newfoundland... y Canada. However, historians are unclear as to whether Cabot first visitedor Cape Breton Island. This discovery is commemorated by Cape Breton's Cab ...
Sardinia... which had been given to the Luftwaffe. They operated mostly in Tunisia and, and were quickly replaced by the Me 410
Tahiti... f French Polynesia for the 3rd time in 3 years (with 27 of 44 votes cast inassembly). He replaced former President Gaston Tong Sang, who lost a no-co ...
New Providence... bbean, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The city is located on the island of, which functions much like a business district. Nassau is the site of the ...
Sicily... d the Mediterranean and Black Sea basins, establishing Greek city states in, southern Italy, northern Libya, eastern Spain, the south of France, and ...
Crete... - mainland Europe & British Isles; Pleistocene**†Hippopotamus creutzburgi -; Pleistocene**†Hippopotamus minor - Cyprus; Pleistocene to Holocene**†Hip ...
Camano... s name reflects the fact that it consists of two large islands, Whidbey and, and seven smaller islands (Baby, Ben Ure, Deception, Kalamut, Minor, Smi ...
Puerto Rico... ed Kingdom, Australia, Lebanon, Turkey, Dominican Republic, Kuwait, Mexico,, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, Chin ...
Isla de la Juventud... rot, which is native to the Cayman Islands, forested areas of Cuba, and the
West Frisian Islands... a national park in the northern Netherlands. Schiermonnikoog is one of the, and is part of the province of Friesland
Channel Television... swas for its final series in 1981. The smallest broadcaster in the network,, did not carry the programme
Juan Fernández Islands... ore turning east towards the South American coast. The route touched at thein mid-November 1875, with Challenger reaching the port of Valparaiso in C ...
United States Minor Outlying Islands... i, while the remaining three are United States territories grouped with the
Manhattan... f the Philadelphia Athletics, Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, the Polo Grounds in, Boston's Fenway Park along with Wrigley Field and Comiskey Park in Chica ...
South Ronaldsay... tland Ferries operate on this route from Gills Bay to St Margaret's Hope on
SumatraThe railway system has four unconnected networks in Java andprimarily dedicated to transport bulk commodities and long-distance passen ...
Northerly Island... d at the time, in addition to the dozens of private aircraft left stranded.redevelopment includes a concert venue, prairie preserve, and bird rehabil ...
Réunion... 1819, however, French entrepreneurs shipped vanilla beans to the islands ofand Mauritius in hopes of producing vanilla there. After Edmond Albius dis ...
Sicily... 1 – 23 September 1835) was a Italian opera composer. A native of Catania in, his greatest works are I Capuleti ed i Montecchi (1830), La sonnambula ( ...
Tortola... tery have been found around Belmont and Smuggler's Cove on the northwest of, but many other sites have been found, including at Soper's Hole, Apple B ...
Gozo... aletta in Malta, and the launch taking McCall out to HMS Ajax was filmed inharbour on Malta's northern island
Philippines... by the high school and college fraternity Scouts Royale Brotherhood of the. Marc-André Fleury, a Canadian ice hockey goaltender, has a fleur-de-lis ...
Kiribati... the longest islands chains of the world. Eight of the islands form part of, while the remaining three are United States territories grouped with the ...
Funafuti... aptain's clerk and photographer, recorded people, communities and scenes atduring a visit of USFC Albatross when the U.S. Fish Commission was investi ...
Lagos IslandVictoria Island with its annex is situated to the south of. It has expensive real estate properties and for that reason, many new lu ...
Venice... t begin with the Industrial Revolution but in 14th century Italy. In Milan,and Florence the small city-state governments led to the development of th ...
Aleutian... ukon-Kuskokwim Delta, the western portions of the Alaska Peninsula, and theand Pribilof Islands—would be part of the new state, but the President wou ...
Ravenna... he legitimacy of the supposed marriage proposal. Attila sent an emissary toto proclaim that Honoria was innocent, that the proposal had been legitima ...
South RonaldsayAt the Eastern end John o' Groats Ferries sail to Burwick, also on. This is a small passenger ferry and is run in the summer months only
Venice... it started at what is now the Gargano peninsula, and what is now the bay ofwas a fertile plain with a humid climate. The presence of the Homo neander ...
Grand Cayman... Presbyterians and Catholics. The vast majority of the population resides on, followed by Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, respectively. The population ...
Aran Islands... (1926), set in the South Seas, and Man of Aran (1934), filmed in Ireland's
North Jutlandic Island... 112 mile long Limfjorden, which separates Denmark's second largest island,, 4,686 km 2 in size, from the rest of Jutland. Denmark has 443 named isla ...
Venice... town trade and of the spice trade, as well as the copious documentation of, Genoa, and Pisa regarding control of the Mediterranean trade of bullion ...
Krk... the migrating Vlachs from the nearby mainland and from the northern part of(Veglia) island, and settled them in isolated villages at Poljica and Duba ...
Caribbean... ort, Rhode Island until about 1810. The total slave trade to islands in the, Brazil, Mexico and to the United States is estimated to have involved 12 ...
Venice... efore leaving after a dispute with his professor. After settling briefly inin 1536, he moved to the University of Padua (Universitas artistarum) to s ...
Mauritius... r, French entrepreneurs shipped vanilla beans to the islands of Réunion andin hopes of producing vanilla there. After Edmond Albius discovered how to ...
VeniceFrancesco Foscari (1373 – 1 November 1457) was doge offrom 1423 to 1457, at the inception of the Italian Renaissance
Bermuda... the "Preaching Braes" of Cambuslang in 1742—two to Ireland, and one each to, Gibraltar, and the . He also came to America in 1738 following John Wesl ...
Ireland... t in 1849 as the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork in. He met his future wife, Mary Everest, there in 1850 while she was visiti ...
PolynesiaTapu, tabu or kapu is an traditional concept denoting something holy or sacred, with "spiritual r ...
Clipperton Islandnote:, just off the coast of Mexico, was administered by France from French Pol ...
Malta... f Spee sailing from Montevideo were shot in the Grand Harbour at Valetta in, and the launch taking McCall out to HMS Ajax was filmed in Gozo harbour ...
Teneriffe... rnational airport with flights to Palma de Mallorca, Antalya, Gran Canaria,, Rhodos, Heraklion and Fuerteventura (TUIfly), Berlin-Tegel (Air Berlin), ...
Taiwan... perations in October 2006 under the name Our Airline with monetary aid from
Mayaguana... sland, Long Island, San Salvador Island, Acklins, Crooked Island, Exuma and. Nassau, capital city of The Bahamas, lies on the island of New Providenc ...
Sri Lanka... ngapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain,, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Thailand, Tajiki ...
Philippines... tan region encompassing the City of Manila and its surrounding areas in the. It is composed of 17 cities namely City of Manila, Caloocan, Las Piñas, ...
Ireland... would have been difficult”.One of the most notorious cases of sex abuse ininvolved Brendan Smyth, who, between 1945 and 1989, sexually abused and in ...
South Island... ate Highways 8 and 83, near the southern end of the Mackenzie Basin, in theof New Zealand. Omarama is in the Waitaki District, in the historic Provin ...
GuernseyThe present flag ofwas adopted in 1985 and consists of the red cross of St. George with an ad ...
Taiwan... 5 January 1923) is a politician of the Republic of China (commonly known as). He was the President of the Republic of China and Chairman of the Kuomi ...
Tahiti... lo Bay off Hawaii's Big Island, before continuing to the south and reachingin mid-September. The expedition left Tahiti in early October, swinging to ...
Cayman Brac... s. The vast majority of the population resides on Grand Cayman, followed byand Little Cayman, respectively. The population is projected to rise to 60 ...
BermudaIn 1999, Seirawan played a ten-game match against Michael Adams in. The match was drawn +2–2=6
Bermuda... grant, this bird has occurred as a vagrant to such distant areas as Hawaii,, Greenland, Tristan da Cunha and the Falkland Islands
Rhodos... irport with flights to Palma de Mallorca, Antalya, Gran Canaria, Teneriffe,, Heraklion and Fuerteventura (TUIfly), Berlin-Tegel (Air Berlin), (Pegasu ...
Philippines... ne countries which participated were Brunei, Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia,, Singapore, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam
Borneo... is the Malay Peninsula, separated by the Strait of Malacca. To the east is, across the Karimata Strait. West of the island is the Indian Ocean
Little Cayman... rity of the population resides on Grand Cayman, followed by Cayman Brac and, respectively. The population is projected to rise to 60,000 by 2020
Prince Edward Island... Newfoundland, Rupert's Land (the area around the Hudson Bay), Nova Scotia,, East Florida, West Florida, and the Province of Quebec. There were other ...
Exuma... era, Cat Island, Long Island, San Salvador Island, Acklins, Crooked Island,and Mayaguana. Nassau, capital city of The Bahamas, lies on the island of ...
Hawaiian Islands... ven atolls and low coral islands in the central Pacific Ocean, south of the, that stretches for 2,350 km in a northwest-southeast direction, making i ...
rock outcrop... four tracks was the surf-instrumental "Wedding Cake Island" named after thein the ocean off Sydney's Coogee Beach. The band's third LP Place without ...
Caribbean... ztecs. The Spanish followed with the enslavement of local aborigines in the. As the native populations declined (mostly from European diseases, but a ...
Polynesia... time in his life that Appleton developed a serious interest in the music ofand Micronesia. He led a group of Dartmouth students to the Kingdom of Ton ...
Louisiade Archipelago... ubmarines investigated Rossel Island and the Deboyne Group anchorage in the, Jomard Channel, and the route to Port Moresby from the east. They did no ...
Roanoke IslandThe researchers concluded that the settlers of the Lost Colony landed atin the summer of the worst growing-season drought in 800 years. "This drou ...
Marshall Islands... yet finished their ratification procedures are: Bahamas (approved in 2008),(approved 2009) and Yemen (1977 signatory)
Ross Island... ss Sea was discovered by James Ross in 1841. In the west of the Ross Sea iswith the Mt. Erebus volcano, in the east Roosevelt Island. The southern pa ...
Key Biscayne... other side of the argument is that Green Iguanas at the Miami Seaquarium in, Florida, have been observed eating dead fish and individuals kept in cap ...
Caja de Muertos Island... Cabullón inlet, and four keys: Ratones, Cardona, Gatas, and Isla del Frio.and Morrillito islet are located at the boundary between Ponce and Juana D ...
Solomon Islands... e to Nauru International Airport, connecting to Honiara, the capital of the, and further to Brisbane, Australia
WhidbeyIts name reflects the fact that it consists of two large islands,and Camano, and seven smaller islands (Baby, Ben Ure, Deception, Kalamut, ...
New Providence... a and Mayaguana. Nassau, capital city of The Bahamas, lies on the island of
Manhattan... y a vehicle and the traffic paths are parallel to the x and y axes, like in, then a more realistic distance function will be the \ell_1 distance, na ...
Ireland... r (born 1965) published the first installment of his Artemis Fowl series in. In 2008, titles from the series spent six weeks at number one and helped ...
Kiribati... ublic of Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya,, South Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia ...
Ikoyiis situated on the eastern half of Lagos Island and joined to it by a land ...
Paradise Island... e title. The competition remained in Las Vegas until 1975, when it moved toin the Bahamas. The years 1976, 1977 & 1978 saw "dual" World Championships ...
Tristan da Cunha... occurred as a vagrant to such distant areas as Hawaii, Bermuda, Greenland,and the Falkland Islands
Djerba... ulation) are Muslim. There is a Jewish population on the southern island ofand Tunis. There is also a small indigenous Christian population
Caribbean... al planters in the 18th century. Dominica is the only island in the easternto retain some of its pre-Columbian population—the Carib Indians—about 3,0 ...
Grassholm... the Mabinogi are located in Harlech in northwest Wales and on the island ofin southwestern Pembrokeshire
Ireland... and was admitted an advocate at Doctors' Commons. In 1702, having moved to, he was made Judge of the Admiralty, Commissioner of the Prizes, Keeper o ...
Anastasia Island... ered the survivors of Ribault's fleet near the inlet at the southern end of. Menéndez executed most of the survivors, including Ribault; the inlet wa ...
Grand CaymanOne of's main attractions is Seven Mile Beach, on which a number of the island's ...
Great Britain... . Additionally, the haplotypes of about 48% of the indigenous population ofaggravate the condition, as the E647 sequence underwent epigenetic degrada ...
Cyprus... offerton and Skelton. The former BBC East Mediterranean Relay Station is in
Three Hummock Island... laid in 1859. Starting at Cape Otway, Victoria, it went via King Island and, made contact with the Tasmanian mainland at Stanley Head, and then conti ...
Ravenna... Maxentius' bribes, most of the army defected to Maxentius. Severus fled to, which Maximian besieged. The city was strongly fortified so Maximian off ...
Roosevelt Island... est of the Ross Sea is Ross Island with the Mt. Erebus volcano, in the east. The southern part is covered by the Ross Ice Shelf. Roald Amundsen start ...
EfateThe municipality of Franceville (present-day Port Vila) onwas established during this period. In 1878 Britain and France declared al ...
Gran Canaria... port , an international airport with flights to Palma de Mallorca, Antalya,, Teneriffe, Rhodos, Heraklion and Fuerteventura (TUIfly), Berlin-Tegel (A ...
Santa Isabel Island... t group sortied from New Ireland on 29 April headed for Thousand Ships Bay,, to establish a seaplane base on 2 May to support the Tulagi assault. Shi ...
Balleny IslandsBrown Peak is the highest point of the. It is situated on the northern part of Sturge Island, near East Antarcti ...
Ireland... asant Valley" in Pennsylvania. It was named after Avoca, County Wicklow, in. The borough suffered tragedy in 1888 when 37 inhabitants were killed in ...
Cyprus... Age (such as is given by J. L. Myres and M. O. Richter in Catalogue of theMuseum) shows more than 25 settlements in and about the Mesaorea district ...
TaiwanFrom 1683, the Qing Dynasty ruledas a prefecture and in 1875 divided the island into two prefectures, north ...
Great Britain... ularity extending from the American colonies and Brazil in the New World to, Russia and Northern Africa. The American colonies, in particular, were e ...
British Isles... amphibius - Hippopotamus Africa**†Hippopotamus antiquus - mainland Europe &; Pleistocene**†Hippopotamus creutzburgi - Crete; Pleistocene**†Hippopotam ...
Ravenna... . On October 17, 1739, Cardinal Giulio Alberoni, legate (papal governor) ofwho in 1739, aiding certain rebels, possibly contrary to the orders of Pop ...
Puerto RicaRicky Meléndez (born 22 November 1967) is an singer. He was raised in Guaynabo. He became a member of Menudo at the a ...
Ireland... suite depicts the journey of St. Colum Cille through the Celtic nations of, Scotland, the Isle of Man, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany and Galicia. The su ...
Chatham Islands... lakes, especially Rotorua Lakes, Lake Wairarapa and Lake Ellesmere, and the. Black Swans have also naturally flown to New Zealand, leading scientists ...
Tyre... Phoenicia was important in glass manufacture with its chief centres Sidon,and Antioch. The British Museum holds two of the finest Roman pieces, the ...
Puerto Rico... orary records, noting its recent expansion. He traded with the Spaniards inand farmed cotton and tobacco
Eleuthera... ished the first permanent European settlement on an island which they named—the name derives from the Greek word for freedom. They later settled New ...
Great Britain... ir of islands, Inner Qwghlm and Outer Qwghlm, off the northwestern coast of
Azores... attacked in Gouvea, Alentejo, Olivença, Santarém, and other places. In theand the island of Madeira, mobs massacred former Jews. Because of these ex ...
Bora BoraAged emissary Hitu arrives by western sailing ship to the island of, a small island in the South Pacific, on an important mission. He bears a ...
Curaçao... ppear bluish in color with bold black markings. On islands such as Bonaire,, Aruba, and Grenada, a Green Iguana's color may range from green to laven ...
Bildøy... f Bergen, the major ones being Litlesotra, Store Sotra (the northern part),, Bjorøy, Misje and Turøy
Bonaire... iguanas appear bluish in color with bold black markings. On islands such as, Curaçao, Aruba, and Grenada, a Green Iguana's color may range from green ...
Polynesia... ted 750–1800 species, occurred during the human colonisation of Melanesian,n, and Micronesian islands. Many bird populations are declining worldwide, ...
Preservation Island... dney after deliberately grounding his foundering ship and being stranded on(at the eastern end of the strait). He reported that the strong south west ...
Cyprus... January 2007, the co-operation covers 35 countries, the EU of 27, includingand Malta and the 10 Mediterranean Partners
Balearic Islands... sum as an article (another archaic feature, also seen in the Catalan of the)
New Providence... uthera—the name derives from the Greek word for freedom. They later settled, naming it Sayle's Island after one of their leaders. To survive, the set ...
Swona... n the main setting off point from the mainland to the islands of Stroma andand Orkney itself. This route, known as The Short Sea Crossing, is both th ...
Caribbean... ity centre, and has daily flights to major cities in the United States, the, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The city is located on the island of New ...
Ireland... ring the souls held in purgatory. The turnip has traditionally been used inand Scotland at Halloween, but immigrants to North America used the native ...
Sri Lanka... demonstrations took place in Dhaka, Bangladesh; Kathmandu, Nepal; Colombo,; Kelantan; Jakarta and Java, Indonesia; Surabaya; and , Thailand
Kyūshū... later years, 527 or 528, the Iwai Rebellion broke out in Tsukushi province,. Keitai assigned Mononobe no Arakahi as Shogun and sent him to Kyūshū to ...
Langkawi... e beauty of the beaches and increasingly turns tourists away to places likeand Pangkor. Among the identified sources of pollution include inefficient ...
Crete... m Didymus of Alexandria and "The Tarrhaean" (Lucillus of Tarrha, a polis in). In the work, the proverbs are alphabetised and grouped by hundreds. Thi ...
Malta... the Republic of Genoa, the Duchy of Savoy, the Knights Hospitaller based in, and others, under the command of King Philip II's illegitimate half brot ...
IrelandBluebell woods may be found in all parts of Great Britain and, as well as elsewhere in Europe. Bluebells are a common indicator species ...
Malta... 7, the co-operation covers 35 countries, the EU of 27, including Cyprus andand the 10 Mediterranean Partners
Venice... o occur in various locations including London, Bath, Winchester, Naples and
Funen... e Canute had more support. He was convinced instead however to sail over toand then on to the royal farm (gård) at Odense by his trusted adviser, Asb ...
Cape Cod... ounty is a county located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, consisting ofand associated islands. (Some adjacent islands are in Dukes County and Nan ...
Taiwan... ten looked upon as culturally and politically provocative. Additionally, in, it is closely associated with Taiwanese independence, where some support ...
Philippines... e city's name is probably adapted from the 400-year-old capital city of the, Manila
Melanesia... ng an estimated 750–1800 species, occurred during the human colonisation ofn, Polynesian, and Micronesian islands. Many bird populations are declinin ...
Sturge Island... ighest point of the Balleny Islands. It is situated on the northern part of, near East Antarctica. A stratovolcano, Brown Peak is considered to belon ...
Governors Island... ,126 at the 2010 census. Situated on Lake Winnipesaukee, Gilford is home to, Ellacoya State Beach, Belknap Mountain State Forest, Gunstock Mountain S ...
Tuamotus... from the administrative subdivisions (subdivisions administratives) on theand the Gambier Islands. The 6 electoral circumscriptions (circonscription ...
Sri Lanka... hanushkodi was a flourishing tourist and pilgrimage town. Since Ceylon (now) is just away, there were many ferry services between Dhanushkodi and Tal ...
Great BritainBluebell woods may be found in all parts ofand Ireland, as well as elsewhere in Europe. Bluebells are a common indica ...
Ireland... an auto mechanic. As both of his parents are from Killarney, County Kerry,, Leary holds both Irish and U.S. citizenship. Through marriage, Leary is ...
Cyprus... well as its opportunities to study abroad. UIndy has satellite campuses in, Jerusalem, and at the base of the Acropolis in Athens. The University of ...
GuernseyIn, the light is known as the faeu boulanger (rolling fire), and is believed ...
Samana CayAn alternative theory holds that Columbus landed to the southeast on, according to calculations made in 1986 by National Geographic writer and ...
Langkawi... Malaysian cities, namely Kuala Lumpur, Kuching, Kota Kinabalu, Johor Bahru,, and regular connections to major Asian cities such as Bangkok, Jakarta, ...
Ponape... a battle line with five other fast battleships, shelled the large island of, in the Caroline Islands, which was the site of major Japanese airfields ...
Mulberry IslandEstablished during World War I at historic, the large base at Fort Eustis in modern times hosts the U.S. Army's Tran ...
Newfoundland... lso saw active settlement by France. After the French ceded its colonies onand the Acadian mainland to the British by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, ...
Java... ". He was also heavily involved in the conquest of the Indonesian island offrom Dutch and French military forces during the Napoleonic Wars and contr ...
CaribbeanBatey, a ball game played on manyislands including Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the West Indies, has been propose ...
CyprusA map ofin the later Bronze Age (such as is given by J. L. Myres and M. O. Richter ...
Alameda... tween Oakland and Orinda, and the underwater Posey Tube between Oakland and. The final climb out to the daylight was actually filmed (with the camera ...
Lemnos... al centers of Greece, particularly in Athens. The center of his cult was in
Bethel IslandBethel Island (formerly, Bethell) is a census-designated place (CDP) onin Contra Costa County, California, United States. The population was 2,13 ...
Cretan... gend of how Apollo first came to Delphi in the shape of a dolphin, carryingpriests on his back. The Homeric name of the oracle is Pytho (Πυθώ)
Sørøya... on the western side of Norway's fourth largest island (other than Svalbard). Most people are to be found in a string of settlements along the western ...
Bjorøy... , the major ones being Litlesotra, Store Sotra (the northern part), Bildøy,, Misje and Turøy
Ireland... most other jurisdictions employ some other type of preliminary hearing. In, they also functioned as local government authorities
Ireland... in Latin texts from the fourth century describing a tribe which sailed fromto raid Roman Britain. It came to be applied to all the Gaels. It is not b ...
Flinders Island... rally around 50 metres deep, it contains many islands, with King Island andhome to substantial human settlements
Philippines... ed in Southeast Asian colonies such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and the
Lemnos... over Philoctetes' army after Philoctetes was bitten by a snake and left onbecause the wound festered and smelled bad. Medon was killed by Aeneas
Bermudadefence ofis the responsibility of the United Kingdo
Taiwan... except Israel. Previously, the passport was invalid for travel to Rhodesia,and South Africa as well
Bermuda... as by other Amerindians. In 1648, the Eleutherian Adventurers migrated from. These English Puritans established the first permanent European settleme ...
Azores... , but the French using their normal callsigns. The Paris-Caracas route (via) began on 10 April. The US Congress had just banned Concorde landings in ...
Magdalen Islands... CTMA operates seasonally between Souris and Cap-aux-Meules, Quebec, in the
Efate... noe departed the Coral Sea to deliver its remaining fuel to Allied ships at
League Island... placed in the reserve fleet at that shipyard, where she remained berthed atfor the next nine years
Tahiti... dditional sources include Vanilla pompona and Vanilla tahitiensis (grown inand Niue), although the vanillin content of these species is much less tha ...
Fishers Island... ct access to the sea. The jurisdiction of New York actually extends east at, where New York shares a sea border with Rhode Island dividing Narraganse ...
Ireland... by the Society of Jesus. In general, northern Europe, with the exception ofand pockets of Britain, turned Protestant. Southern Europe remained Roman ...
Flotta... 128-mile-long underwater pipeline brings oil from the Piper oilfield to theoil terminal. The Claymore and Tartan oil fields also feed into this line
Gambier Islands... trative subdivisions (subdivisions administratives) on the Tuamotus and the. The 6 electoral circumscriptions (circonscriptions électorales) are
Faroe Islands... nd established a separate commission – along with Norway, Greenland and the– for the conservation, management, and study of marine mammals. Since the ...
Puerto RicoBatey, a ball game played on many Caribbean islands including Cuba,, and the West Indies, has been proposed as a descendent of the Mesoameric ...
Kiritimati... cific provides an international service to Cassidy International Airport onfrom Fiji's main airport, Nadi International Airport
Puerto Rico... ormed in Massachusetts because dispensing contraception there was a felony.was selected as a trial site in 1955, in part because there was an existin ...
Puerto RicoOn May 6, 2008, the first store inopened, followed by two additional locations in 2010 and one additional lo ...
Commander Islands... on the Pribilof, Bogoslof and Buldir islands in the United States, and thein Russia. On these islands, it shares some of the same cliff habitat as t ...
Delos... League's modern name derives from its official meeting place, the island of, where congresses were held in the temple and where the treasury stood un ...
Madagascar... Pakistan; Italy; Russia; China; Brazil; Tujetsch, St. Gothard, Switzerland;; Tyrol, Austria; Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada; Sanford, Maine, Gouver ...
Philippines... essful one-night only concert at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City,, much to the delight of their Filipino fans, for it being the band's firs ...
Sri LankaDhanushkodi has the only land border between India andwhich is one of the smallest in the world-just 50 yards in length on a sho ...
Calais... the strait is criss-crossed from north to south by ferries linking Dover toand Boulogne. Until the 1990s these provided the only surface-based route ...
Cassidy International Airport... s. Fiji's national carrier Air Pacific provides an international service toon Kiritimati from Fiji's main airport, Nadi International Airport
Castle Cornet... are German defences visible all round the coast and additions were made toand a windmill. Hitler became obsessed with the idea that the Allies would ...
Guernsey... e. He also composed or published some of his best work during his period in, including Les Misérables, and three widely praised collections of poetry ...
South Ronaldsay... . The small Pentland Skerries group are in the east. The islands of Hoy andborder the firth to the north and are part of the Orkney Islands
Lindisfarne... t whose mortal remains were kept here for seven years between exhumation atand re-interment at Chester-le-Street. The "kirk" element is Old Norse in ...
RaasayHe was born at Osgaig on the island ofon 26 October 1911, where Scottish Gaelic was the first language. He atten ...
Crete... s appears in the famous sarcophagus of Hagia Triada (a Minoan settlement in). The sarcophagus was used during the Mycenaean occupation of Crete (1400 ...
Manhattan... e Dodgers playing in Brooklyn and the Giants playing at the Polo Grounds in. After the 1957 season, Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley decided to move the ...
Iceland's closest relations are with Norway and other Nordic states and the US. I ...
Spratly Islands... an Strait. The PRC and ROC assert identical claims over the entirety of thein the South China Sea, and the southern-most extent of these claims reach ...
Gotland... f culture, the Eastern group may be derived from the 1st-century variety of, leaving southern Sweden as the original location of the Northern group. ...
Ascension Island... of February 2008. In a very few cases, 15400 kHz from the relay station instill becomes listenable, as are some frequencies directed to Africa
Manhattan... variously named the Americana Building and the Grolier Building) in Midtown, at 575 Lexington Avenue. Sales during this period were accomplished prim ...
Negros... over for the carriers striking the islands of Cebu Island, Leyte, Bohol andfrom 12–14 September. The carriers launched strikes on shipping and instal ...
Pentland Skerries... iddle of the Firth are two significant islands, Stroma and Swona. The smallgroup are in the east. The islands of Hoy and South Ronaldsay border the f ...
Corsica... f in an unarmed P-38 on his ninth reconnaissance mission from an airbase on. To the great alarm of the squadron compatriots who revered him, he did n ...
Sardinia... Sardinian nuraghes) is the main type of ancient megalithic edifice found in, likely developed during the Nuragic Age between 1900-730 BC. Today it ha ...
Bornholm... his chiefs when he hanged Jarl Egil Ragnarsen, his hand-picked governor of, and most of his household for piracy. Many nobles took to the seas on oc ...
Ireland... and, Faroe Islands, Great Britain (including numerous surrounding islands),, Rockall, Sable Island, Azores, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Madeira, Bermuda ...
Langkawi... il the bridge was built in 1985. High-speed ferries to the resort island of, Kedah in the north as well as to are also available daily
Malta... . Medical personnel were transferred to the Liberty, and it was escorted to, where it was given interim repairs. After these were completed in July 1 ...
Isles of Scilly... unding of four ships of Vice-Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell's fleet off the, resulting in heavy loss of life. Established by the Longitude Act in 171 ...
Venice... States and other minor states in the centre. However, old republics such asand Genoa were not recreated, Venice went to Austria, and Genoa went to th ...
Isle of Dogs... from other parts of London and so tended to develop in some isolation. The, for instance, had only two roads in and out. Local sentiment was so stro ...
Malta... 12 Mediterranean Partners: Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon,, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, and the Palestinian Authority. Libya cu ...
Mariana Islands... pen ocean to the north, passing mostly west of the Carolina Islands and the, reaching port in Yokohama, Japan, in April 1875
Rockall... e Islands, Great Britain (including numerous surrounding islands), Ireland,, Sable Island, Azores, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Madeira, Bermuda, Canary ...
Block Island... ecided to send an expedition under John Endecott to raid native villages onin the war's first major action, but his communication with Williams encou ...
Family Islands... he remainder of the Bahamas) is the result of waves of immigration from theto the capital. Consequently this has led to the decline in the population ...
Wangerooge... is bounded by the Jade Bight, a shallow bay of the North Sea. The island of, one of the East Frisian Islands, is a part of Friesland
Lesbos... crime was discovered, the four had to escape from Rhodes: Macareus fled to, Candalus to Cos, Triopas to Caria, and Actis to Egypt. Ochimus and Cerca ...
Lagos Island... er than what had been anticipated and has created a controversy in Nigeria., the central Local Government Area and historic centre of Metropolitan La ...
Frioul archipelago... g French colors was found several days after his disappearance, east of thesouth of Marseille, and buried in Carqueiranne in September
Bonriki International Airport... es: Air Kiribati and Coral Sun Airways. Both airlines are based in Tarawa'sand serve destinations across the Gilbert Islands only
Puerto Rico... s), Zone I-A (California south of 40 degrees latitude, U.S. Virgin Islands,), and Zone II (all other locations). The highest-power stations are class ...
Ireland... e Atlantic from the Gulf of St. Lawrence through Greenland and the coast ofdown to Portugal, as well as in the high Arctic islands. In the winter, th ...
Ireland... me eclipsed in Britain with the notable exception of Scotland. There and in, they had been celebrating Samhain and Halloween since the early Middle A ...
Bohol... provided cover for the carriers striking the islands of Cebu Island, Leyte,and Negros from 12–14 September. The carriers launched strikes on shipping ...
Philippines... e former Asian territories of Malaysia (British), Indonesia (Dutch) and the(American) in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In Indonesia, some o ...
Great Britain... luding hundreds of surrounding islands), Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Islands,(including numerous surrounding islands), Ireland, Rockall, Sable Island, ...
Norfolk Island... w Zealand, and all are endemic to New Zealand and the surrounding islands (, New Caledonia). Many New Zealand cicada species differ from those of oth ...
Tortola... Scottish) monarch King James I granted a patent to the Earl of Carlisle for, as well as "Angilla, Semrera (Sombrero island) & Enegada". He also recei ...
Devil's Island... , publicly stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment onin French Guiana
Pitcairn... Terra Australis, Spanish explorers in the 17th century also discovered theand Vanuatu archipelagos. Most significantly, from 1565 Spanish fleets exp ...
Crete... way underground and escaped Orion's wrath. Orion's next journey took him towhere he hunted with the goddess Artemis and her mother Leto, and in the c ...
Marquesas... ands, several naval expeditions also discovered the Tuvalu archipelago, the, the Solomon Islands and New Guinea in the South Pacific. In the quest fo ...
Venice... an Balbi (April 25, 1782 – March 14, 1848), Italian geographer, was born at. The publication of his Prospetto politico-geografico dello stato attuale ...
Faroe Islands... wfoundland (including hundreds of surrounding islands), Greenland, Iceland,, Great Britain (including numerous surrounding islands), Ireland, Rockall ...
New Georgia... hrough the Solomons between Bougainville and Choiseul and took station nearIsland. Marumo's support group sortied from New Ireland on 29 April headed ...
Phi Phi Islands... er. This task force was involved in search-and-rescue around Phuket and the, treatment of wounded and handling of dead, and repair work to schools an ...
Sardinia... Portus Luguidonis or Portus Liquidonis) is a frazione and small village in, Italy, on the Tyrrhenian coast of the island, in the territory of the co ...
Corsica... xupéry was lost in action in a July 1944 spy mission from the moonscapes ofto the continent in preparation for the Allied invasion of occupied France ...
Bahía Kino... ed in the state, with hand made wares available in local markets such as in, Punta Chueca and El Desemboque. Those made near the ocean often have mar ...
Madagascar... abour shortage prompted the authorities to import slaves from Indonesia and. Many of these became ancestors of the first Cape Coloured communities. U ...
Madagascar... millions of insects, about half of which occur nowhere else. The island of, particularly the unique Madagascar dry deciduous forests and lowland rai ...
Admiralty Islands... he north coast of New Guinea. By March 1875, the expedition had reached thenorth-east of New Guinea. The final stage of the voyage on this side of th ...
NúmenorSome of the stones were given to the Dúnedain ofas a gift, during the Second Age. Of these, Elendil took seven with him on ...
VeniceAlthough his grandson later wrote of the family's roots in, it seems the family's only connection with that city was through these s ...
Philippines... Luzon in 1935. At this time only three pilot trainers were available in the. Courses in flying and technical training were given in the mainland Unit ...
Tahiti... h Flaherty's brother David, and Murnau expressed a desire to make a film inwith Flaherty who had experience with the natives there. Murnau and Flaher ...
Caribbean... few species of land crabs are eaten, for example Cardisoma guanhumi in the
Leyte... es and provided cover for the carriers striking the islands of Cebu Island,, Bohol and Negros from 12–14 September. The carriers launched strikes on ...
Corsica... lsace-Lorraine and Italy on the mixed Italian and French populated Nice and. In May 1939, a formal alliance with Germany was signed, known as the Pac ...
RameswaramDhanushkodi or Danushkodi is a town/village at the southern tip of theisland, at the eastern coast of the Tamil Nadu state of India
Chappaquiddick IslandOn the night of July 18, 1969, Kennedy was on Martha's Vineyard'sat a party he gave for the "Boiler Room Girls", a group of young women who ...
Mayotte... e maintains a small maritime base and a Foreign Legion Detachment (DLEM) on
East Frisian Islands... Bight, a shallow bay of the North Sea. The island of Wangerooge, one of the, is a part of Friesland
Kauai... 626 survives his escape attempt to Earth, landing on the Hawaiian island of, but is knocked unconscious by a passing truck, and is taken to an animal ...
Ireland... Charles Frederick Allison. Charles Allison's grandfather had emigrated fromto Canada in the late 18th century because of the after effects of a dinne ...
Manhattan... educational, Hunter started admitting men to its Bronx campus. In 1964, thecampus began admitting men also. The Bronx campus subsequently became Lehm ...
Madagascar... maller number in continental Asia. Malagasy, a geographic outlier spoken inin the Indian Ocean, is also a member of this language family. Although ea ...
Iceland... nclude Newfoundland (including hundreds of surrounding islands), Greenland,, Faroe Islands, Great Britain (including numerous surrounding islands), I ...
Kodiak Island... Uutuk in Alutiiq) are commonly eaten by the Alaska Native population around. It is commonly exported, mostly to Japan; in Maine, sea urchins are know ...
HeligolandIt was in fact called Heligoland, after the German archipelago of
Key Biscayne... the Cuban Revolution, Saralegui and her family fled to Miami and settled in
Madeira... tejo, Olivença, Santarém, and other places. In the Azores and the island of, mobs massacred former Jews. Because of these excesses, the king began to ...
Oahu... lulu, Hawaii, United States, in the District of Koolaupoko on the island of. In Hawaiian ka haluu means literally "diving place". As of the 2000 Cens ...
SardiniaPane carasau, or carta da musica, is a traditional flatbread from
IcelandIn, the members of Ásatrúarfélagið account for 0.4% of the total population, ...
SwonaIn the middle of the Firth are two significant islands, Stroma and. The small Pentland Skerries group are in the east. The islands of Hoy an ...
Lagos Island... h Court of the Lagos State Judiciary, housed in an old colonial building on
NewfoundlandThe foggiest place in the world is the Grand Banks off the island of, the meeting place of the cold Labrador Current from the north and the mu ...
Gilbert Islands... ng of the word Gilbert and the original name of this British colony was the. The indigenous format of the name was adopted when independence was gain ...
Cape Cod... ou include inland lakes). Barnstable County includes and consists mostly of
Aleutian Islands... s, around the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk throughout the Bering Sea and theto southeast Alaska, and in the Atlantic from the Gulf of St. Lawrence thr ...
Ireland... oons, then they could certainly afford to pay more taxes. The Allisons leftshortly thereafter. The offending spoons are now on display in the main un ...
Martha's VineyardOn the night of July 18, 1969, Kennedy was on's Chappaquiddick Island at a party he gave for the "Boiler Room Girls", a ...
Aruba... ish in color with bold black markings. On islands such as Bonaire, Curaçao,, and Grenada, a Green Iguana's color may range from green to lavender, bl ...
Long Island... and Rail Road (which connects Manhattan and other New York City boroughs to), the Metro-North Railroad (which connects Manhattan to Upstate New York ...
Caribbean... Island, Azores, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Madeira, Bermuda, Canary Islands,, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Annobón Province, Fernando de Noronha ...
Bali... i de la Falaise produced two feature length documentaries, (1935) filmed in, and Kilou the Killer Tiger (1936) filmed in Indochina
Canaveral National Seashore... e refuges. These lands include Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, the, the St. Johns National Wildlife Refuge, the Archie Carr National Wildlif ...
Wheeling Island... Ohio River from Wheeling, West Virginia, and is connected by two bridges toin the Ohio River
Philippines... ted, and several discoveries made. The expedition returned by the Marianas,, New Caledonia and the Hawaiian Islands, reaching Kronstadt on July 10, 1 ...
Canary Islands... , Rockall, Sable Island, Azores, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Madeira, Bermuda,, Caribbean, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Annobón Province, Fernando ...
Sicily... Durum wheat pasta was introduced by Libyian Arabs during their conquest ofin the late 7th century The 9th century Arab physician Isho bar Ali define ...
Caroline Islands... Japanese positions on the islands of Palau, Yap, Ulithi, and Woleai, in the. She steamed out from Majuro on 22 March with Task Force 58, in the scree ...
Sicily... European power in the Mediterranean, encompassing the Balearics, Sardinia,, southern Italy and, briefly, the Duchy of Athens. Castile meanwhile used ...
Guam... to Rico, given up in 1898 following the Spanish-American War, together withand the in the Pacific. Spain's loss of these last territories politically ...
Cycladic Islands... 490 BCE, which attacked Naxos, before receiving the submission of the other. The task force then moved on Eretria, which it besieged and destroyed. F ...
Bermuda... ful English settlements were at Jamestown (1607) (along with its satellite,in 1609) and Plymouth (1620), in what are today Virginia and Massachusetts ...
Ireland... leye Span's tour of Australia and New Zealand as well as touring in the UK,and continental Europe
New Guinea... he first part of the route passed north and west over the Arafura Sea, withto the north-east and the Australian mainland to the south-west. The first ...
Taiwan... ia, Belarus, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Sweden, and
Lindisfarne... ng Age began dramatically on 8 June 793 when Vikings destroyed the abbey on, a centre of learning famous across the continent. Monks were killed in t ...
Cape Verde... ores, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Madeira, Bermuda, Canary Islands, Caribbean,, São Tomé and Príncipe, Annobón Province, Fernando de Noronha, Rocas Atol ...
Niutao... n Tuvalu declined with the last of the palagi traders being Fred Whibley onand Alfred Restieaux on Nukufetau. By 1909 there were no more resident pal ...
Island of HawaiiMauna Loa ( or ; Hawaiian: ) is one of five volcanoes that form thein the U.S. state of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean, and the largest on Earth ...
Ireland... ity relationship with Balbriggan, a town of nearly 16,000 in County Dublin,
Pacific IslandIn the 1990s, New Zealand hip hop scene grew with the added input ofmusicians, creating a local variant style known as Urban Pasifika, a term ...
Kingston, Canada... ociated complex in Giza, Egypt, are made of limestone. So many buildings inwere constructed from it that it is nicknamed the 'Limestone City'. On the ...
Puerto Rico... ad a contingency plan if they were separated, which was to meet up again in, and the Tiger arrived in the "Baye of Muskito" (Guayanilla Bay) on May 1 ...
Taiwan... l ferries that leave Osaka for Shanghai, Tianjin, Korea, and until recently. Osaka's domestic ferry services include regular service to ports such as ...
Puerto Rico... n the independence of most Spanish colonies in America, except for Cuba and, given up in 1898 following the Spanish-American War, together with Guam ...
Florida Keys... place in Monroe County, Florida, on an island of the same name in the lower. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 1,695
Azores... ry (10%), the result of immigration from Portuguese islands (especially the) during the past 160 years
Woleai... trikes against Japanese positions on the islands of Palau, Yap, Ulithi, and, in the Caroline Islands. She steamed out from Majuro on 22 March with Ta ...
Trinidad... troopship conversion. After two stops to refuel and replenish her stores inand Cape Town, she arrived in Singapore's Naval Docks where she was fitted ...
Flinders Island... east point of East Sister Island (148°E) thence along the 148th meridian to; beyond this Island a line running to the Eastward of the Vansittart Shoa ...
Teraina... f 2005), of which 5,115 are on Kiritimati, 2,539 on Tabuaeran, and 1,155 on. The total population of these three atolls in 1900 was about 300
Martha's Vineyard... orth Carolina and roughly 590 nautical miles (1100 km, 690 mi) southeast of. The island lies due east of Fripp Island, South Carolina. It has 103 km ...
Howland Island... ited States also expanded into the Pacific, beginning with Baker Island andin 1857, and with Hawaii becoming a U.S. territory from 1898. Disagreement ...
Nukufetau... of the palagi traders being Fred Whibley on Niutao and Alfred Restieaux on. By 1909 there were no more resident palagi traders representing the trad ...
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and Eddystone Point [A line from Gabo Island (near Cape Howe, 37°30'S) to ...
Lagos Island LGA... anded in 1976 and divided into several Local Government Areas (most notably, Lagos Mainland LGA and Eti-Osa LGA). The mainland beyond the Municipalit ...
Annobón Province... ira, Bermuda, Canary Islands, Caribbean, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe,, Fernando de Noronha, Rocas Atoll, Ascension Island, Saint Helena, Trinda ...
Caribbean... joined the company's fleet and began making their way through the airline'sroutes. This was the first "wide-body" aircraft type Mexicana ever operate ...
Aleutian Islands... . The first Higgins boats for the U.S. Navy were used in the Battle for the(Attu and Kiska) as part of Squadron 13 and 16, and others (RON15 and RON2 ...
Sardinia... coasts could be launched. Palma was the base from where a campaign againstwas launched between 1016 and 1017, which caused the intervention of Pisan ...
Tahiti... avour, she departed Plymouth in August 1768, rounded Cape Horn, and reachedin time to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun. She then set ...
Gotland... dly overtook it in popularity. Apart from Ladoga and Novgorod, Gnezdovo andwere major centres for Varangian trade
British IslesAs with the rest of theand the midlands, Coventry experiences a maritime climate with cool summer ...
Ambergris CayeThe island ofis geographically close to Corozal District, but it is a part of Belize Di ...
Great Britain... tributed with magical powers or associated with the rightful sovereignty of. Sometimes Excalibur and the Sword in the Stone (the proof of Arthur's li ...
Florida Keys... r Matecumbe Key, Upper Matecumbe Key, Windley Key and Plantation Key in the
NegrosWestern Visayas consists of the islands of Panay and the western half of. The regional center is Iloilo City. Its provinces are
Hawaiian Islands... The expedition returned by the Marianas, Philippines, New Caledonia and the, reaching Kronstadt on July 10, 1826
Ireland... ombs for the dead were also built. These tombs are particularly numerous in, where there are many thousand still in existence. Neolithic people in th ...
Baker Island... a in 1900. The United States also expanded into the Pacific, beginning withand Howland Island in 1857, and with Hawaii becoming a U.S. territory from ...
Manhattan... owntown Manhattan, running crosstown across the full width of the island of, from Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive (FDR Drive) and East River P ...
Prudence Island... Island (now the site of Logan International Airport) in Boston Harbor, andin Narragansett Bay. He also engaged in the fur trade in partnership with ...
New Guinea... ntly known as Jayapura, Wakde, Sawar, and Sarmi along the northern coast of. She next covered U.S. Army landings at Aitape, Tanahmerah Bay, and Humbo ...
Tasmania... Tasmania is the head of the executive government in the Australian state of. By convention, the party or political grouping which has majority suppor ...
Coral reef... eyed upon by other animals including starfish, sea slugs, fish and turtles.s, whose polyps are rich in endosymbiotic algae, support some of the world ...
Philippines... hics, as large numbers of third world immigrants from countries such as the, Pakistan, Egypt and Iran were attracted by better salaries than at home
Balearic Islands... rovince of Dénia. Subsequently, Muyahid organised a campaign throughout theto consolidate this district and incorporated them to its "taifa" in early ...
Venice... articularly its seaside resorts and romantic cities such as Rome, Verona or. Typically honeymoons would start on the night they were married, with th ...
Upper Matecumbe Key... . Prior to this date, Islamorada was only considered to be on the island of
Tasmania... Australia, to King Island and thence to Cape Grim, the Northwest extreme of
Aru Islands... e Australian mainland to the south-west. The first islands visited were the, followed by the nearby Kai Islands. The ship then crossed the Banda Sea ...
Cook IslandsThis article lists communications in the
Plantation Key... of Tea Table Key, Lower Matecumbe Key, Upper Matecumbe Key, Windley Key andin the Florida Keys
TasmaniaBefore the 1890s, there was no formal party system in. Party labels before that time indicate a general tendency only. The curr ...
Great Britain... ion as the Elco boats. Many Higgins boats were sent to the Soviet Union andat the beginning of the war, so many of the lower-numbered squadrons in th ...
Cyprus... the legitimacy of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus on the island of; and the Macedonia naming dispute with the small Balkan country which sha ...
Fernando de Noronha... ry Islands, Caribbean, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Annobón Province,, Rocas Atoll, Ascension Island, Saint Helena, Trindade and Martim Vaz, Tr ...
Calais... mission to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, accompanying Thomas Wolsey toand Bruges, More was knighted and made under-treasurer of the Exchequer in ...
ManhattanHouston Street is a major east-west thoroughfare in downtown, running crosstown across the full width of the island of Manhattan, from ...
Solomon Islands... total tankage to , giving it the range needed to fight effectively over the. Known to the Navy as the Model 22, it began to replace the Model 11 in f ...
Iceland... ary source of animal protein. Fish is among the most common food allergens., Japan, and Portugal are the greatest consumers of seafood per capita in ...
Cyprus... ublic of the Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba,, Czech Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Denmark, Djibouti ...
Outer Banks... 580 nautical miles (1070 km, 670 mi) east-southeast of Cape Hatteras on theof North Carolina and roughly 590 nautical miles (1100 km, 690 mi) southea ...
Ailsa Craig... Bass mallow which is otherwise only found on a few other islands, includingand Steep Holm
Wakde... Task Force 58 hit enemy targets on Hollandia, currently known as Jayapura,, Sawar, and Sarmi along the northern coast of New Guinea. She next covere ...
Nias... heir customs, especially their religions and laws. He brought the island ofunder British rule as well, noting its more civilized state and production ...
Outer Banks... uly reunited with the Roebuck and Dorothy, both of which had arrived in thesome weeks previous. The Red Lion had been with them, but had merely dropp ...
Windley Key... on the islands of Tea Table Key, Lower Matecumbe Key, Upper Matecumbe Key,and Plantation Key in the Florida Keys
Maltaintroduced its first allotment gardens in April, 2011. The scheme, which i ...
Eleuthera... al crop or food of that area, such as the "Pineapple Fest" in Gregory Town,or the "Crab Fest" on Andros. Other significant traditions include story t ...
South Padre Island... lle, and the Children's Museum of Brownsville. There is also easy access toand the Mexican city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas
Steep Holm... h is otherwise only found on a few other islands, including Ailsa Craig and
Negros... tral Visayas includes the islands of Cebu and Bohol and the eastern half of. The regional center is Cebu City. Its provinces are
Venice... the value of jet propulsion and in 1932 demonstrated a jet-powered boat in. With support of the Air Ministry, he began work with Italian aircraft ma ...
Roosevelt Island... f two commuter cable car systems in North America, whisks commuters betweenand Manhattan in less than five minutes, and has been serving the island s ...
Sugarloaf Key... the key at approximately mile markers 20.5 – 23, between Summerland Key and
Iceland... refers to the economic and social models of the Nordic countries (Denmark,, Norway, Sweden and Finland). This particular adaptation of the mixed mar ...
Sicily... Thracian coasts. Offshoots are found in the western Mediterranean area, in, Italy, Sardinia and Spain, and in the eastern Mediterranean area in Syri ...
Manhattan... no competition when he was aged 12. The following year, his family moved toand he attended Theodore Roosevelt High School in The Bronx as this school ...
Iceland... ca (2002); the Netherlands (2007); Denmark, the Faroes, Finland, Greenland,, Sweden and Norway (2008); the United Kingdom, France, Australia and New ...
Sicily... glish army back to England after Richard's departure from Palestine, but inhe heard of the king's capture, and diverted to Germany. He, along with Wi ...
Summerland Key... s Highway) crosses the key at approximately mile markers 20.5 – 23, betweenand Sugarloaf Key
Sulawesi... orean multinationals and provincial governments have also purchased land in, Indonesia, Cambodia and Bulgan, Mongolia. The South Korean government it ...
Caribbean... ica, Central America and southern North America, in addition to its earlierconquests. Over this same timeframe, Portugal colonized much of eastern So ...
Malta... . It is also popular in Algeria and on the central Mediterranean islands of
Taiwan... fer to Rowland Heights as "Little Taipei", due to its high concentration ofese restaurants and businesses. It has become the center for Chinese comme ...
Mulberry Island... r the new Governor Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr in the James River offwith reinforcements of men and supplies. The new governor ordered them to ...
Madagascar... ng the captains and traders, several were killed or imprisoned on board. At, where a brief stop was planned, further complications led to many more d ...
Sable Island... , Great Britain (including numerous surrounding islands), Ireland, Rockall,, Azores, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Madeira, Bermuda, Canary Islands, Carib ...
Mauritius... car, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania,, Mexico, Federated States of Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Moroc ...
Long Island... ew York City boroughs—the Bronx to the northeast and Brooklyn and Queens onto the east and south. Its only direct connection with the fifth New York ...
Majorca... productive from the start of their association, though after they moved tothey became even more so. While still in London they had set up (1927) a p ...
Manhattan... e, The Rose City. The rail service connected the commerce to the markets of. The Morris and Essex Lines became one of America's first commuter railro ...
Huahine... he largely uncharted ocean to the south, stopping at the Pacific islands of, Borabora, and Raiatea to allow Cook to claim them for Great Britain. In ...
Victoria Island... of Lagos Island and joined to it by a landfill. Ikoyi is also connected toby a bridge carrying a main road over a Five Cowrie creek. Ikoyi housed th ...
Puerto Rico... e band in 1994 after looking for success in the United States. Returning to, they joined long-time friends Pedro and Jorge Arraiza (with whom they ha ...
ManhattanWealthy urban residents fromand Newark in search of rural tranquility pushed beyond the natural barrie ...
Hawaiian IslandsHawaii County is a county located in the U.S. state of Hawaii in the. It is with the Island of Hawaii, often called the "Big Island" to distin ...
CreteThe Second World Summit on the Knowledge Society, held in Chania,, in September 2009, gave special attention to the following topics
British Isles... aedeker raids (so called because Baedeker's series of tourist guides to thewere used to select propaganda-rich targets of cultural and historic signi ...
Aeolian IslandsThe port of Milazzo is a departure point for ferries to theand Naples
TasmaniaBass Strait is a sea strait separatingfrom the south of the Australian mainland, specifically the state of Victo ...
Kiribati... rock islands in the Pacific Ocean (the others were Banaba (Ocean Island) inand Makatea in French Polynesia). However, the phosphate reserves on Nauru ...
Bahía Kino... fine, white sand.The best known of these are San Carlos, Puerto Peñasco and. San Carlos, with its Los Algodones Beach is one of the most visited area ...
Sardinia... cio, the area around the Gran Sasso mountain, and the Tivoli's quarries and
Niutao... lowing traders in the Ellice Group: Edmund Duffy (Nanumea); Jack Buckland (); Harry Nitz (Vaitupu); John (also known as Jack) O'Brien (Funafuti); Alf ...
Newfoundland... d. They created a small settlement on the northern peninsula of present-day, near L'Anse aux Meadows. Conflict with indigenous peoples and lack of su ...
CyprusDemetrius conqueredin 306 BC. Following the victory Antigonus assumed the title king and best ...
Malta... York. For eight months they toured the British Empire, visiting Gibraltar,, Egypt, Ceylon, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Mauritius, South Afric ...
Block Island... pected trader and friend of the Narragansetts, was murdered in his boat off. The murderers were Block Islanders, a branch of Narragansetts, however, ...
Taiwan... rrived in Sumatra around 500 BCE as part of the Austronesian expansion fromto Southeast Asia. With its location in the India-China sea trade route, s ...
Devil's Island... ets to the German Embassy in Paris, Dreyfus was sent to the penal colony atin French Guiana and placed in solitary confinement, where he was to spend ...
Guam... aircraft carriers in heavy air raids on the islands of Tinian, Saipan, and. During these air attacks on the Marianas, the Alabama, while fighting ag ...
Azores... n (including numerous surrounding islands), Ireland, Rockall, Sable Island,, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Madeira, Bermuda, Canary Islands, Caribbean, Ca ...
Makatea... in the Pacific Ocean (the others were Banaba (Ocean Island) in Kiribati andin French Polynesia). However, the phosphate reserves on Nauru are deplete ...
Wadden Sea... Emsland), in the south Drenthe, in the west Friesland and in the north the. The capital of the province is the city of Groningen
Long Beach Island... ng Beach Township. Other communities within Long Beach Township include thecommunities of Beach Haven Crest, Beach Haven Gardens, Beach Haven Inlet, ...
Manhattan... 20,000 people lined up for hours at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel into pay their respects. On June 27, James Mason gave a eulogy at the funera ...
Negros... olution and the Philippine–American War between 1896 to 1913, the island ofand other neighboring islands initiated their revolution. After gaining Ph ...
Java... as an island within Majapahit's realm. Timor was incorporated into ancientnese, Chinese and Indian trading networks of the 14th century as an export ...
PhilippinesIn November 2006, Krispy Kreme opened the flagship store in the. These stores are franchise owned like many others.The development deal f ...
Marshall IslandsTheand Tuvalu gained National Olympic Committee status in 2006 and 2007 respe ...
Aegean Islands... mous battles in history. During the first invasion, Thrace, Macedon and thewere added to the Persian Empire, and Eretria was duly destroyed. However, ...
Kauai... Niihau, aka 'the Forbidden Island' to tourists, off the southwest coast of, is the one island where Hawaiian is still spoken by the entire populatio ...
Summerland Key... d. A more likely derivation for the name is offered by writer John Viele of. He believes that Cudjoe, a very common West African name, was the name o ...
Madagascar... thnographical fieldwork was carried out in places as diverse as New Guinea,, Romania, Guatemala and Indonesia and there were excavations in the Near ...
Guanahani... ort of Palos de la Frontera in Southern Spain, and arrived on the island of, in the Bahamas, on 12 October 1492. On that first trans-Atlantic voyage, ...
Key Biscayne... mily retreat. In 1963, Wood sold to a development group that included localmillionaire Bebe Rebozo, Miami native and United States Senator George Sma ...
Crete... other revelers. They proceeded to have intercourse in a ploughed furrow in; she later gave him a son, Ploutos
Iceland... æmundar Edda or the Elder Edda, is a collection of Old Norse poems from theic medieval manuscript Codex Regius ("Royal Book"). Along with the Prose E ...
PhilippinesManila (; pronounced in Tagalog and in English) is the capital of the. It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila
Puerto RicoFiel a la Vega is a Rock en Español band fromformed in 1994. Band members Tito Auger and Ricky Laureano come from the n ...
Ireland... mesake, Sir William Newce, was an English soldier and originally settled in. There he had established Newcestown near Bandon in County Cork. Newce sa ...
Philippines... government secured 95,000 hectares of farmland in Oriental Mindoro, central, to grow corn. The South Jeolla province became the first provincial gove ...
Venice... ed a stimulus to the art of many nations. Its influences can be traced fromin the West to Kazakhstan in the East. In turn, Greek art was influenced b ...
Manhattan... sing the Tappan Zee Bridge from Rockland County to catch express service to
Crete... rtunity and ran to the sea and swam, with her on his back, to the island of. He then revealed his true identity, and Europa became the first queen of ...
Manhattan... 1970s corporations began moving their headquarters to Fairfield County from; Thomas J. Lueck of The New York Times said that the trend "permanently d ...
Isles of Scilly... around 1830 to house ship figureheads from shipwrecks that occurred at the, England, where the museum is located. A crater, Valhalla, located on the ...
Bali... Schappelle Corby was convicted of smuggling 4.4 kilograms of cannabis in to, a crime that carried a maximum penalty of death. Her trial reached the v ...
Ulithi... jected air strikes against Japanese positions on the islands of Palau, Yap,, and Woleai, in the Caroline Islands. She steamed out from Majuro on 22 M ...
Madeira... islands), Ireland, Rockall, Sable Island, Azores, St. Pierre and Miquelon,, Bermuda, Canary Islands, Caribbean, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, A ...
Puerto RicoThe Government ofis a republican form of government subject to U.S. jurisdiction and sovere ...
Church Island... re was more than one bridge and it is believed that these bridges traversed
Canary Islands... ar. In 1402 a Castilian expedition led by Juan de Bethencourt conquered thefor Henry III of Castile
Malta... ternational Dispensary Association has manufactured it since 1998, first inand then in India from December 2004
Ireland... on usage by television commentators, particularly in the United Kingdom and. The rugby commentator Liam Toland uses the term to describe a team's inc ...
Funafuti... uckland (Niutao); Harry Nitz (Vaitupu); John (also known as Jack) O'Brien (); Alfred Restieaux and Fenisot (Nukufetau); and Martin Kleis (Nui). Durin ...
Luzon... sea level, nestled within the Cordillera Central mountain range in northern. The city is enclosed by the province of Benguet. It covers a small area ...
island of HawaiiWilkes sailed to Hilo on theand decided to climb Mauna Loa first, since it looked easier than Mauna Ke ...
Manu'a... 1899. Among the last islands to be colonised were Tonga and Niue (1900) and(1904)
NiihauThe island named, aka 'the Forbidden Island' to tourists, off the southwest coast of Kauai ...
New Guinea... eawakened. Ethnographical fieldwork was carried out in places as diverse as, Madagascar, Romania, Guatemala and Indonesia and there were excavations ...
Sumatra... present day coastal Vietnam, southern Cambodia, Thailand, Malay Peninsula,, Java, Burma, India, Ceylon, Pakistan, Persia and Iraq. Another branch ex ...
Marshall Islands... Three countries participated in the Olympic Games for their first time: the, Montenegro and Tuvalu
Manhattan... , New Jersey by way of the Lackawanna Cut-Off, with connecting service into. This project began in 2011, and track has been laid to the County Road 6 ...
Ravenna... d frequent barbarian invasions, so the capital was moved from Mediolanum to. In 476, the last Western Empreror Romulus Augustulus was deposed by Odoa ...
Sardinia... s. Offshoots are found in the western Mediterranean area, in Sicily, Italy,and Spain, and in the eastern Mediterranean area in Syria and Egypt. Regar ...
Iceland... found as an element in many placenames of Orkney, Shetland, the Faroes and. The traditional accounts state that the papar left when the Norse arrive ...
Bermuda... , Ireland, Rockall, Sable Island, Azores, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Madeira,, Canary Islands, Caribbean, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Annobón Pr ...
Victoria IslandThe two major urban islands of Lagos in Lagos Lagoon are Lagos Island and. These islands are separated from the mainland by the main channel draini ...
Nukufetau... ohn (also known as Jack) O'Brien (Funafuti); Alfred Restieaux and Fenisot (); and Martin Kleis (Nui). During this time, the greatest number of palagi ...
Malta... potamus minor - Cyprus; Pleistocene to Holocene**†Hippopotamus melitensis -; Pleistocene**†Hippopotamus pentlandi - Sicily; Pleistocene**†Hippopotamu ...
Bougainville Island... Forum was founded in 1971, which became the Pacific Islands Forum in 2000., geographically part of the Solomon Islands but politically part of Papua ...
Falkland Islands... d Martim Vaz, Tristan da Cunha, Gough Island (Also known as Diego Alvarez),, Tierra del Fuego, South Georgia Island, South Sandwich Islands, and Bouv ...
Borneo... h Central–Eastern formed Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian, and an "Outer" group onand the Philippines. Both are remnant groups with negative definitions: Ou ...
SicilyAgrigento (Sicilian: Girgenti), is a city on the southern coast of, Italy, and capital of the province of Agrigento. It is renowned as the s ...
Caribbean... n Hispanic White,) 58.77% African American and Black (a large part from the), 0.12% Native American, 1.58% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 1.61% from ...
Delos... the withdrawal of these states, a congress was called on the holy island ofto institute a new alliance to continue the fight against the Persians; he ...
Lérins Islands... the 18th century, the Spanish and British both tried to gain control of the, but were chased away by the French. The islands were later controlled by ...
Iceland... ked by a Canadian Short Sunderland and a PBY Catalina aircraft southeast of. One crewman was killed in the attack. The Catalina was damaged, the Sund ...
Marshall Islands... Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta,, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Federated States of Micronesia, Moldova, ...
Madagascar... ne**†Hippopotamus pentlandi - Sicily; Pleistocene**†Hippopotamus lemerlei -; Holocene**†Hippopotamus laloumena - Madagascar; Holocene**†Hippopotamus ...
Magdalen Islands... Sea Shepherd, were confronted by a number of Canadian sealers in a hotel onover Sea Shepherd's history of attacks on sealing and whaling ships. Sheen ...
Crete... the door to wider knowledge, and much exploration has ensued, for which see
Tasmania... ia, The Age primarily serves Victoria but is also available for purchase in, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia a ...
Rockall... ed in the Irish Sea—the clump becoming the Isle of Man, the pebble becoming, and the void becoming Lough Neagh. Fingal's Cave in Scotland is also nam ...
Saint Paul Island... tians West Census Area, Alaska, United States. It is the main settlement ofin the Pribilofs, a small island group in the Bering Sea. Saint Paul Islan ...
Java... day coastal Vietnam, southern Cambodia, Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra,, Burma, India, Ceylon, Pakistan, Persia and Iraq. Another branch extends ...
Venice... rful being Milan, Florence, Pisa, Siena, Genoa, Ferrara, Mantua, Verona and. High Medieval Northern Italy was further divided by the long running bat ...
Solomon Islands... ific Islands Forum in 2000. Bougainville Island, geographically part of thebut politically part of Papua New Guinea, tried unsuccessfully to become i ...
Philippines... Baguio) is a highly urbanized city located in northern Luzon island in the. The city has become the center of business and commerce as well as the c ...
Pribilofs... laska, United States. It is the main settlement of Saint Paul Island in the, a small island group in the Bering Sea. Saint Paul Island is well known ...
Philippines... py Kreme drive-thru outlet in Asia and the first free-standing store in the. Branches in SM Mall of Asia and Trinoma opened October 2007. Three more ...
Manhattan... he constituent organizations of the City University of New York, located on's Upper East Side. Hunter provides undergraduate and graduate instruction ...
Whitsunday Islands... part of the Great Barrier Reef, attached to high islands, for example, the. Lagoonal reefs are found in the southern Great Barrier Reef, and further ...
Mangaia... examples from other cultures, including the Ugandan Batoro, Mohave Indians,ns, and Ponapese. Amongst the Batoro, older women teach the younger women ...
Sulawesi... rth-westward towards what is now the Philippines, passing east of Celebes () into the Celebes Sea. The expedition called at Samboangan (Zamboanga) on ...
Cape Cod... s the Europeans came closer in contact with the natives, along the coast ofto Nova Scotia, they brought along with them diseases, such as small pox, ...
Guam... eration Forager", the invasion of the Marianas Islands and the recapture offrom Japanese occupation. On 12 June, the Alabama screened the aircraft ca ...
Venice... popular, as it was cheaper, easier to transport, and allowed larger works., where sail-canvas was easily available, led the move. The popularity of ...
Tapuaetai... oldest in the Cook Islands) and some gigantic Banyan trees (Ficus prolixa).(One Foot Island), a small islet in the south-east of the lagoon, is often ...
Crete... el's") from the island of Syros in the Cyclades, and various graviéras from
NegrosThe major islands of the Visayas are Panay,, Cebu, Bohol, Leyte, and Samar. The region may also include the islands o ...
Sicily... oon after employed against Motya (397 BC), a key Carthaginian stronghold in. Diodorus is assumed to have drawn his description from the highly rated ...
Fanø... e east, and Varde to the north. The neighboring municipality to the west is, an island municipality located in Fanø Bay (Fanø Bugt). Beyond the islan ...
Guam... including six refuelling stops at Toulouse, Dubai, Bangkok, Andersen AFB in, Honolulu, and Acapulco. By its 30th flight anniversary on 2 March 1999 C ...
Tierra del Fuego... tan da Cunha, Gough Island (Also known as Diego Alvarez), Falkland Islands,, South Georgia Island, South Sandwich Islands, and Bouvet Island
Funafuti... Janet Nicoll visited Tuvalu; while Fanny records that they made landfall atand Niutao, Jane Resture suggests that it was more likely Nukufetau. An ac ...
Holy Island... de and Tweed valleys on their way between the religious centres of Iona and. A Celtic stone carved with cup and rings/channels, known as the Runic Cr ...
The Somers Isles... exico, the English colonies of Virginia (with its North Atlantic off-shoot,) and New England, the French colonies of Acadia and Canada, the Swedish c ...
Fårö... n France; Malham Cove in North Yorkshire and the Isle of Wight, England; onnear the Swedish island of Gotland, the Niagara Escarpment in Canada/Unite ...
Shikoku... took up residence in a thatched roof farmhouse in Imabari on the island of
BaliThe ships then sailed for, and met with the region's king. They finally managed to obtain a few pot ...
Guam... ritories. The United States Navy controlled the TTPI from a headquarters inuntil 1951, when the United States Department of the Interior took over co ...
Taiwan... ple's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC, also known as), as well as one of four official languages of Singapore. It is one of th ...
BoholThe major islands of the Visayas are Panay, Negros, Cebu,, Leyte, and Samar. The region may also include the islands of Romblon and ...
Long Beach Island... es 2010 Census, the borough population was 1,156. The borough is located onand borders the Atlantic Ocean
Sulawesi... Central–Eastern MP, Wouk and Ross split Western MP into an "Inner" group onand the Sunda Islands, which together with Central–Eastern formed Nuclear ...
Rhodes... noisseurs of the first century CE: Apelles travelled to Protogenes' home into make the acquaintance of this painter he had heard so much about. Arriv ...
Taiwan... t is produced mainly in Fujian, China, and in Pinglin Township near Taipei,
Bermuda... ms and on other invertebrates. She commented in a letter: "The polyclads ofwere so pretty that I could not resist collecting them and figuring out Ve ...
Bardsey Island... we know the fate of the Culdean house in Wales that existed at Snowdon andin north Wales in the days of Giraldus Cambrensis, mentioned (c. 1190) in ...
Merritt Island... ished on the eastern shore of the Indian River on a narrow strip of land on. During the construction of the Hernandez-Capron Trail, General Joseph He ...
IrelandThe town was named after Dublin in
Orchid IslandIndian River Shores is a town on, in Indian River County, Florida, United States. The population was 3,448 ...
Bouvet Island... slands, Tierra del Fuego, South Georgia Island, South Sandwich Islands, and
Ireland... king of the film, including Bradbury's dealings with Huston and his time in, where exterior scenes that were set in New Bedford, Massachusetts, were ...
Niutao... visited Tuvalu; while Fanny records that they made landfall at Funafuti and, Jane Resture suggests that it was more likely Nukufetau. An account of t ...
Mascarene Islands... extinct Rodrigues Solitaire, around the Paleogene-Neogene boundary. As theare of volcanic origin and less than 10 million years old, the ancestors o ...
CyprusThus the "Aegean Area" has now come to mean the Archipelago with Crete and, the Hellenic peninsula with the Ionian islands, and Western Anatolia. Ev ...
Euboea... e first ten years of the league's existence, Cimon/Kimon forced Karystos into join the league, conquered the island of Skyros and sent Athenian colon ...
Rarotonga... s on the island play for the Aitutaki island team against their main rivals
Adak... n left Corpus Christi, Texas, to move the massive Sea-based X-band Radar to, Alaska, via the southern tip of South America and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ...
Seymour Island... d by considerable dispute is the supposed Late Cretaceous loon Polarornis (, Antarctica). Eupterornis from the Paleocene of Châlons-sur-Vesle (France ...
RarotongaAir Rarotonga offers daily flights and a day tour from
Manhattan... w York City, living in the West Village and becoming an A-list guest in thesocial scene. In February 2000, Lewinsky appeared on MTV's The Tom Green S ...
Tyre... in every direction, to Egypt, Palestine, and Syria, through Arsinoe, Gaza,, Jerusalem, and Damascus, and by other routes, terminating at the Mediter ...
Manhattan... its title from the 1929 Waller song "Ain't Misbehavin'". It was a time whennightclubs like the Cotton Club and the Savoy Ballroom were the playground ...
Lérins Islands... me means. The area was a fishing village used as a port of call between the
Britain... lly the same as the corresponding words in other native Celtic languages ofand Ireland, including Welsh carn (and carnedd), Irish carn, and Cornish k ...
LeyteThe major islands of the Visayas are Panay, Negros, Cebu, Bohol,, and Samar. The region may also include the islands of Romblon and Masbat ...
GrenadinesGrenada is a Caribbean island (one of the) between the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, north of Trinidad and Toba ...
Miami Beach... of the northern part of the island is incorporated as a part of the city of
Spitsbergen... ccident in which several miners died occurred in the Kings Bay coal mine onin the Svalbard archipelago. In the aftermath, the Gerhardsen government w ...
Nukufetau... dfall at Funafuti and Niutao, Jane Resture suggests that it was more likely. An account of this voyage was written by Fanny Vandegrift Stevenson and ...
Venice... were collected by Venetian sailors during the first crusade and brought to, where a church to St. Nicholas, the patron of sailors, was built on the ...
Trinidad... tates Theodore Roosevelt as a unit in the Second Squadron. After calling atand Rio de Janeiro, the warships passed in order through the Straits of Ma ...
SardiniaArchaeological evidence of prehistoric human settlement onisland is present in the form of the nuraghe which dot the land. The recor ...
Sunda Islands... P, Wouk and Ross split Western MP into an "Inner" group on Sulawesi and the, which together with Central–Eastern formed Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian, an ...
windmill... visible all round the coast and additions were made to Castle Cornet and a. Hitler became obsessed with the idea that the Allies would try to regain ...
Staten Island... e reacted by establishing branches in the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, and. By 1920, Hunter College had the largest enrollment of women of any munic ...
Lower Matecumbe Key... nty, Florida, United States. It is located on the islands of Tea Table Key,, Upper Matecumbe Key, Windley Key and Plantation Key in the Florida Keys
FunafutiThe United States Exploring Expedition under Charles Wilkes visited, Nukufetau and Vaitupu in 1841. During this expedition, on Tuvalu, Alfred ...
Sumatra... ictated by the surrounding sea and the wind system. Penang's proximity with, Indonesia makes it susceptible to dust particles carried by wind from pe ...
Long Island... actors on television in the 1950s. Walken studied at Hofstra University on, but did not graduate. Walken initially trained as a dancer in music thea ...
Mauritius... isiting Gibraltar, Malta, Egypt, Ceylon, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand,, South Africa and Canada. No royal had undertaken such an ambitious tour ...
Rocas Atoll... , Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Annobón Province, Fernando de Noronha,, Ascension Island, Saint Helena, Trindade and Martim Vaz, Tristan da Cunh ...
TaiwanSince the 1980s, many upper-middle-class immigrants from, China, and Hacienda Heights, Walnut, and Diamond Bar). Also, Rowland Hei ...
Roanoke Island... to leave Ralph Lane and 107 men to establish the colony at the north end of, promising to return in April 1586 with more men and fresh supplies. They ...
Kai Islands... est. The first islands visited were the Aru Islands, followed by the nearby. The ship then crossed the Banda Sea touching at the Banda Islands, to re ...
Upper Matecumbe Key... States. It is located on the islands of Tea Table Key, Lower Matecumbe Key,, Windley Key and Plantation Key in the Florida Keys
Iona... f the Clyde and Tweed valleys on their way between the religious centres ofand Holy Island. A Celtic stone carved with cup and rings/channels, known ...
Cyclades... ly 1,400, of which 227 are inhabited), including Crete, the Dodecanese, the, and the Ionian Islands among others. Eighty percent of Greece consists o ...
Marajó... s of river channels called furos near the town of Breves; between them lies, an island almost the size of Switzerland that is the world's largest com ...
Ireland... This was intended to find a solution to the "Irish problem" by partitioninginto two parts, each of which would have a separate home rule parliament. ...
Cominotto... – Malta, Gozo and Comino – are inhabited. Other (uninhabited) islands are:, Filfla and the St.Paul's Islands. The country is approximately 316 km 2 ...
Ireland... British Isles in the mid-1970s, the post-punk band U2 was formed in Dublin,. Active simultaneously in the local punk music scene and the "Shalom Fell ...
Ascension Island... São Tomé and Príncipe, Annobón Province, Fernando de Noronha, Rocas Atoll,, Saint Helena, Trindade and Martim Vaz, Tristan da Cunha, Gough Island (A ...
St David'sSome islanders, especially in, trace their ancestry to Native Americans, and many more are ignorant of ...
Spanish Virgin Islands... ques and Culebra, together with various small islets, make up the so-called, sometimes known as the Passage Islands
Crete... ber of islands (approximately 1,400, of which 227 are inhabited), including, the Dodecanese, the Cyclades, and the Ionian Islands among others. Eight ...
MaltaGreat Britain didn't respect the terms of the Treaty of Amiens by occupyingand gathered a Third Coalition against France. The French intervention in ...
Corfu... ace agreed and Alexios IV returned with the Marquess to rejoin the fleet atafter it had sailed from Zara. Most of the rest of the Crusade's leaders, ...
Rhodes... a. The Theban demos voted him a fleet of a hundred triremes to win over the, Chios, and Byzantium. The fleet finally sailed in 364, but modern schola ...
Trinidadis the principal island of Trinidad and Tobago
Iceland... rose Edda, sometimes referred to as the Younger Edda or Snorri's Edda is anic manual of poetics which also contains many mythological stories. Its pu ...
Falkland Islands... ic voyage, Endeavour spent the next three years shipping Navy stores to the. Renamed and sold into private hands in 1775, she briefly returned to nav ...
Ireland... ates. The population was 242 at the 2010 census. It is named after Avoca in
Crete... g how Europa came into the Hellenic world, but they agreed that she came to, where the sacred bull was paramount. In the more familiar telling she wa ...
Nukufetau... e United States Exploring Expedition under Charles Wilkes visited Funafuti,and Vaitupu in 1841. During this expedition, on Tuvalu, Alfred Thomas Agat ...
Tea Table Key... e in Monroe County, Florida, United States. It is located on the islands of, Lower Matecumbe Key, Upper Matecumbe Key, Windley Key and Plantation Key ...
Gotland... orkshire and the Isle of Wight, England; on Fårö near the Swedish island of, the Niagara Escarpment in Canada/United States, Notch Peak in Utah, the ...
Sulu Archipelago... anguages, including some languages of northern Sulawesi; Sama–Bajaw, of thebetween the Philippines and Borneo; and the Indo-Melanesian languages, bei ...
Island of Hawaii... located in the U.S. state of Hawaii in the Hawaiian Islands. It is with the, often called the "Big Island" to distinguish it from the state as a whol ...
HispaniolaAlvarado went toin 1510 with all his younger brothers: Gonzalo, Jorge, Gómez, Hernando and ...
Calais... n. The Cross-Channel ferry ports of Caen, Le Havre, Dieppe (50 minutes) and, and the Channel Tunnel are within easy driving distance (two and a half ...
Malta... uania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali,, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Federated States of Mic ...
Mors... d went home would not be punished for rebellion. The men from the island ofand Thisted left, for which they were called cowards and traitors ever aft ...
Mauritius... hus cucullatus) was a flightless bird endemic to the Indian Ocean island of. It stood about a metre (3.3 feet) tall, weighing about . The species los ...
Venice... ove. The popularity of oil spread through Italy from the North, starting inin the late 15th century. By 1540 the previous method for painting on pane ...
Filfla... ozo and Comino – are inhabited. Other (uninhabited) islands are: Cominotto,and the St.Paul's Islands. The country is approximately 316 km 2 (122 sq m ...
Balearic Islands... b by the Almohad. Almoravid dominions, from 1157 on, were restricted to the, with Palma again acting as the capital, governed by Muhammad ibn Ganiya. ...
Nukufetau... raver and illustrator, recorded the dress and tattoo patterns of the men of
Philippines... rn formed Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian, and an "Outer" group on Borneo and the. Both are remnant groups with negative definitions: Outer WMP (Borneo–Phi ...
Tristan da Cunha... onha, Rocas Atoll, Ascension Island, Saint Helena, Trindade and Martim Vaz,, Gough Island (Also known as Diego Alvarez), Falkland Islands, Tierra del ...
Majorca... outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, Riding and Graves lived in Deià,, where they were visited by writers and artists including James Reeves, N ...
Banda Islands... the nearby Kai Islands. The ship then crossed the Banda Sea touching at the, to reach Amboina (Ambon Island) in October 1874, and then continuing to ...
King Island... rst lit in 1848, followed by another at Cape Wickham at the northern end ofin 1861
Madagascar... multinational Daewoo Logistics secured 1.3 million hectares of farmland in, half the size of Belgium, to grow maize and crops for biofuels. Roughly ...
Florida KeysThe, islands off the south coast of Florida, are composed mainly of oolitic l ...
Taiwan... iang Ching-kuo followed his father and the retreating Nationalist forces to. On December 8, 1949, the Nationalist capital was moved from Chengdu to T ...
Philippines... an states; Idi Amin in Uganda, Adolf Hitler in Germany, Ferdinand Marcos in, for example
Sri Lanka... r aid from Japan. Four South Asian nations—India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and—are in the top ten list of Tokyo's aid recipients worldwide. A point to n ...
Cocos (Keeling) Islands... ital Territory, the Northern Territory, the Christmas Island Territory, theTerritory, the Norfolk Island Territory and the Australian Antarctic Terri ...
BermudaThe defence ofremains the responsibility of the National (British) Government, rather th ...
PolynesiaTagaloa is one of the oldest Polynesian deities and in western(for example, Samoa and Tonga) traditions has the status of supreme creato ...
Corsica... comprised Catalans, Pisans and other Italians, and soldiers from Provence,, and Sardinia, in a struggle to end Almoravid control
Deal Island... many ships lost there during the 19th century. A lighthouse was erected onin 1848 to assist ships in the eastern part of the Straits, but there were ...
Puerto Rico... lices fried in soybean oil (known as tostones in the Dominican Republic and). It is eaten both as a snack and as part of a meal is, often eaten with ...
Kingston... uired Hawker Siddeley Canada’s Thunder Bay facilities and UTDC (formerly of)
Philippines... t. G.T. International Tower is an office skyscraper located in Makati City,. The "G.T." in the name stands for George Ty, the building's owner and ch ...
PhilippinesWhen the Americans took possession of the, Baguio was selected by a party to become the summer capital of the Phili ...
Miami Beach... The entire island, which includes an uninhabited small part of the city of, is slightly larger at
Mariana Islands... mination of U.S. administration of the Chuuk, Yap, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and thedistricts of the TTPI soon followed on November 3, 1986. The Security Coun ...
Madagascar... otes encounters with the "White Rajah" of Sarawak, with Queen Ranavalona of, and with Emperor Maximilian of Mexico; and service as a Union major and ...
South IslandIn the, his name can take the form Takaroa
Elba... hew, Niccolò, was made reigning Prince of Piombino and Lord of the Isola d'in 1634, having married the heiress, 30 March 1632
Rhodes... eucids' defeat in the Battle of Magnesia resulted in Lycia being awarded toin the Peace of Apamea in 188 BC. It was then granted autonomy as a protec ...
Ambon Island... hen crossed the Banda Sea touching at the Banda Islands, to reach Amboina () in October 1874, and then continuing to Ternate Island. All these island ...
Gough Island... Ascension Island, Saint Helena, Trindade and Martim Vaz, Tristan da Cunha,(Also known as Diego Alvarez), Falkland Islands, Tierra del Fuego, South G ...
Easter Island... an languages, such as Marquesan, Tahitian, Māori, Rapa Nui (the language of), and less closely to Samoan, and Tongan
Sicily... e, the city and the surrounding Comtat Venaissin were ruled by the kings ofof the house of Anjou. The French King Philip the Fair, who had inherited ...
King Island... t point and generally around 50 metres deep, it contains many islands, withand Flinders Island home to substantial human settlements
SamosThe Samian sibyl's oracular site was at
Caribbean... when Sir Francis Drake paused on his way home from a successful raid in theand offered to take the colonists, including the metallurgist Joachim Gans ...
Society Islands... chipelago in roughly 300 AD followed by later waves of immigration from theand Samoa-Tonga. Their languages, over time, became the Hawaiian language. ...
Manhattan... m programmed the Battery Maritime Building, a 99-year-old ferry terminal in, to play music. Essentially Byrne took the old New York City building, ho ...
Caribbean... s population was born outside of the United States. 24.63% were born in the, 14.73% from Jamaica alone. Other major West Indian populations were born ...
Ionian Islands... 227 are inhabited), including Crete, the Dodecanese, the Cyclades, and theamong others. Eighty percent of Greece consists of mountains, of which Mou ...
Norfolk Island... the Christmas Island Territory, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Territory, theTerritory and the Australian Antarctic Territory are managed by Parks Aust ...
Föhr... tively lively community of Frisian speakers exists though on the islands ofand Amrum. After becoming German, three districts were established in the ...
Canary Islands... rs at the airport connects only to regional destinations (to Morocco or the)
South Island... them and turned them to stone. Their canoe became the Te Waka o Aoraki, the. Aoraki, the tallest, became the highest peak, and his brothers created t ...
Catalina Island... come from a northeasterly direction; toward the normally sheltered side of. Protected harbors such as Avalon and Two Harbors are normally protected ...
Sicily... t city in the province of Messina, and is one of most important city of the. The city proper has a population of over 32,000 inhabitants, and is the ...
Ireland... ginally members of ascetic Christian monastic and eremitical communities of, Scotland and England in the Middle Ages. The term is used of St. John th ...
Santa Catalina Island, California... e last persons to see Wood alive with her untimely accidental drowning nearwhile on a weekend boating trip
Balearic Islands... dministrative organization, Palma became the capital of the new province ofin the 1833 territorial division of Spain. The French occupation of Algeri ...
Yeongjong IslandA number of Korea's western islands, including Ganghwa Island,, and Baengnyeong Island are also administered by Incheon. Baengnyeong Isl ...
Barren Island... is Island a line running to the Eastward of the Vansittart Shoals to [Cape], and from Cape Barren (the Easternmost point of [Cape] Barren Island) to ...
Pulau TikusPaya Terubong –
Ireland... ate tombs were built for the dead. These tombs are particularly numerous in, where there are many thousand still in existence. Neolithic people in th ...
Hainan... ects remain undocumented. It has been seen to cause issues in areas such asdue to environmental degradation. Modern farming practise and increased la ...
Pulau BetongPulau Tikus –
EuboeaIn its day, the original range of the spoken Attic dialect included Attica,, some of the central Cyclades islands, and northern Aegean coastal areas ...
British Isles... , where there are many thousand still in existence. Neolithic people in thebuilt long barrows and chamber tombs for their dead and causewayed camps, ...
Cape Breton Island... ns. It retained all of the islands in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, including, and retained fishing rights in the area, including rights to dry fish on ...
Ganghwa IslandA number of Korea's western islands, including, Yeongjong Island, and Baengnyeong Island are also administered by Incheo ...
Manhattan... of bookstores headquartered at 122 Fifth Avenue in the Flatiron District inin New York City. Barnes & Noble also operated the chain of small B. Dalto ...
GuernseyRamé was born in Bury St. Edmunds, England, to a-born French-speaking father and an English mother. She derived her pen na ...
Lipari... deriving their income from tourism. It is a few minutes hydrofoil ride fromand has several hotels and cafes, the important attractions being the beac ...
Puerto Rico... his first occurred along the Caribbean coasts on the islands of Hispaniola,and Cuba, and since the early 16th century, extended into the interiors of ...
Penang Island... rently, there are 350 buses plying 41 routes around the state (30 routes on, 9 routes on Seberang Prai and 2 routes connecting Penang Island and Sebe ...
Isle of Sheppey... ns (Euscorpius flavicaudis) have established themselves in Sheerness on thein the United Kingdom. This small population has been resident since the 1 ...
Chincha Islands... raiders ("blackbirders") seeking workers to mine the guano deposits on thein Peru, combed the Pacific between 1862 and 1865, including the southern ...
Calais... l Pole on his return to England in December 1554, again accompanying him toin May 1555
Rhodes... s formed as an agent to convince Rome to rescind the annexation of Lycia to. Lycia had been under Rhodian control since the Peace of Apamea in 188 BC ...
Tasmania... curred several years before the first use of proportional representation inin 1897
Maldives... chtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia,, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Federated ...
Gotland... also been a suggestion that Beowulf's people were Gutes (from the island ofin Sweden). According to the poem, the weather-geats or sea-geats, as they ...
Venice... d from 1629 through 1631 in northern Italy, with the cities of Lombardy andexperiencing particularly high death rates. In 1656 the plague killed abou ...
CorfuAround 1360, a fiefdom, called the Feudum Acinganorum was established in, which mainly used Romani serfs and to which the Romanies on the island w ...
Nukufetau... f the Rebecca's cargo. In 1820 the Russian explorer Mikhail Lazarev visitedas commander of the Mirny. Following 1819 whalers were roving the Pacific ...
Malay Archipelago... . By the 14th century, Arab traders and their followers, venturing into the, converted some of these tribal groups into Muslims. These tribes practic ...
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria... at Cartagena; and the Canary Islands Maritime Zone with its headquarters at
Aleutian Islands... minimum population, in the 1950s, it was largely restricted to Alaska, the, northern and eastern Canada, and Florida
Suðuroy... other is Old Norse æ), and this is particularly evident in the dialects of, where Æ is or
Sporades... se, another loose collection in the southeast between Crete and Turkey, the, a small tight group off the coast of Euboea, and the Ionian Islands, loc ...
Newfoundland... ing to Channel–Port aux Basques and seasonally to Argentia on the island of
Öland... s. The largest such expanse in Europe is the Stora Alvaret on the island of, Sweden. Another area with large quantities of limestone is the island of ...
Johnston Atoll... ountry and an international incident. These munitions were moved in 1971 tounder Operation Red Hat
Sri LankaIn, judges of all courts are addressed as "Your Honour", however the Chief J ...
Channel IslandsTheare mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary as following : Sarnia, Caesarea, B ...
Avalon... d the normally sheltered side of Catalina Island. Protected harbors such asand Two Harbors are normally protected and the waters within the harbors a ...
Kitterland... t carve out the channels between the Calf of Man and Kitterland and betweenand the Isle of Man, while the buggane's feet make an opening for the port ...
Mascarene... or the Broad-billed Parrot. Wendy Strahm and Anthony Cheke, two experts inecology, claim that while a rare tree, it has germinated since the demise ...
Hawar Islands... elations improved with neighbouring Qatar after the border dispute over thewas resolved by the International Court of Justice in The Hague in 2001. F ...
Venice... volved in the political and military conflicts of the Habsburgs with Milan,, Switzerland and the County of Gorizia, as well as Bavaria and Swabia
Puerto Rico... c of Benin, Togo, Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica,, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, the United States, Uruguay and Venezuela ...
Canaveral National SeashoreThe Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge and theare two national wildlife refuges in the county that offer recreational pu ...
Manhattan... d in New York City for all of its time on television (its first 43 years inand in Brooklyn from 2000 until 2010)
Sardinia... f Savoy (a mountainous region between Italy and France) had become kings ofby increasing their Italian possessions, which now included Sardinia and t ...
Mauritius... ed the Dodo Tree, is a long-lived tree in the family Sapotaceae, endemic to. The Dodo Tree is valued for its timber
Capri... he local population. From this time on he divided his time between Rome and
Ireland... aladbolg was also known for its incredible power and was carried by some of's greatest heroes. The name, which can also mean "hard cleft" in Irish, a ...
Brecqhou... cts of two nearby crown dependencies (Alderney and Sark), and the island of
Coney Island... 1931, when he invited Masseria and two other associates to have lunch in arestaurant. When they finished their lunch, they decided to play a game of ...
Kitterland... rist Rushen. Finn's feet carve out the channels between the Calf of Man andand between Kitterland and the Isle of Man, while the buggane's feet make ...
Malta... tructed from it that it is nicknamed the 'Limestone City'. On the island of, a variety of limestone called Globigerina limestone was, for a long time ...
Long Island... s separated and Gaddis was subsequently raised by his mother in Massapequa,. At age 5 he was sent to Merricourt Boarding School in Berlin, Connecticu ...
St. Croix... although Columbus would have a hostile encounter with the Carib natives of
Prince Edward Island... passenger-vehicle ferry service from Caribou, Nova Scotia to Wood Islands,. A separate passenger-only ferry service is also operated seasonally from ...
Nukulaelae... 863 about 180 people were taken from Funafuti and about 200 were taken fromas there were fewer than 100 of the 300 recorded in 1861 as living on Nuku ...
Venice... are buried in Bayreuth; however Wagner did not die there. Rather he died inin 1883, but his family had his body brought to Bayreuth for burial
FunafutiThe USS Alabama reached, the Ellice Islands, on 21 January 1944, and there she rejoined the Fast ...
Sardinia... world music to trip hop. Gangsta rap crews include Sa Razza, La Fossa fromand Flaminio Maphia from Rome. Probably the most famous Italian rappers ap ...
Channel Islands... included (along with the Bailiwick of Jersey) in the grouping known as the
Amrum... vely community of Frisian speakers exists though on the islands of Föhr and. After becoming German, three districts were established in the region: S ...
CapriIn 1887, he moved toand managed to purchase the Villa San Michele and begin restoring the buil ...
King Island... limit of the Great Australian Bight [A line from Cape Otway, Australia, toand thence to Cape Grim, the Northwest extreme of Tasmania ]
Puerto Rico... araschino cherry or both. The piña colada has been the official beverage ofsince 1978
Iceland... cs which also contains many mythological stories. Its purpose was to enableic poets and readers to understand the subtleties of alliterative verse, a ...
IrelandIn, where it had been extinct due to hunting since 1912, efforts are being m ...
Calf of Man... attle at Kirk Christ Rushen. Finn's feet carve out the channels between theand Kitterland and between Kitterland and the Isle of Man, while the bugga ...
Île Sainte-Marguerite... ouse the Musée de la Castre. The Man in the Iron Mask was imprisoned on the
Philippines... five Southeast Asian nations—Malaysia, Brunei, Thailand, Singapore, and the—culminated in a 3 May major foreign policy address in Singapore, in which ...
Barat Daya Islands... n for its beaches and coral, as well as Jaco along with Wetar and the otherto the northeast constitute the Timor and Wetar deciduous forests ecoregio ...
U.S. Virgin Islands... rn British Virgin Islands to fish, and the references may be to the present
Marajó... e towns and cities. For instance the pre-Columbian culture on the island ofmay have developed social stratification and supported a population of 100 ...
Funafuti... issionary in Tuvalu, reported that in 1863 about 180 people were taken fromand about 200 were taken from Nukulaelae as there were fewer than 100 of t ...
Manhattan... station's studios and offices are located on the Upper West Side section of, adjacent to ABC's corporate headquarters, and its transmitter is atop th ...
Channel Islands... St Malo and Le Havre in France, and Santander, Cantabria, in Spain and the. Ferry services from the port are operated by Brittany Ferries, Condor Fe ...
Spice Islands... ustralian Company) with the goal to find a new route to the Pacific and the, thereby evading the restrictions of the VOC. He contributed to the outfi ...
Sri Lanka... have toured Pakistan since March 2009, when militants attacked the touringn cricket team
Isle of Arran... marks” of the relationship between the rock layers. On the 1787 trip to thehe found his first example of Hutton's Unconformity to the north of Newton ...
Wetar... lago of the Lesser Sunda Islands with the inner islands of Flores, Alor andto the north, and beyond them Sulawesi
Falkland Islands... otecting British merchant shipping as far south as Pernambuco and later the. She then embarked on the search for the German East Asiatic Squadron, le ...
Tahiti... y to Paradise (El paraíso en la otra esquina), is set largely in France and. Based on the biography of former social reformer Flora Tristan, it demon ...
Hebrides... he Norsemen had settled in Shetland, Orkney (the Nordreys- Norðreyjar), theand Man, (the Sudreys- Súðreyjar - this survives in the Diocese of Sodor a ...
IbizaJudge Jules has a regular club night inat the club Eden called Judgement Sundays, advertised as "San Antonio's bu ...
Great Britain... t infantry" units adept at woodland warfare. When France conceded Canada toin 1763, defence of the territory remained a duty shared by French and Bri ...
Baengnyeong IslandThe northwestern islands of, Yeonpyeong Island, Daecheong Island, and the much smaller Socheong Islan ...
Funafuti... gh the southern Tuvalu waters in May 1819; de Peyster sighted Nukufetau and, which he named Ellice's Island after an English Politician, Edward Ellic ...
Cytherean... 5,768 km at 17:01 UT. Using a near-ultraviolet filter, it photographed thechevron clouds and performed other atmospheric studies. It was discovered ...
Great Britain... en fields in Britain were being enclosed into individually owned fields. In, the process sped up during the 15th and 16th centuries as sheep farming ...
Philippines... Third Cinema (such as Tomás Gutiérrez Alea of Cuba or Kidlat Tahimik of the)
Aeolian Islands... rrhenian Sea, about 25 km north of Sicily and the southernmost of the eight. It is 21 square kilometers in area, rises to 499 meters, and contains se ...
Marshall Islands... attacks, while they launched air attacks on Jaluit and Milli Atolls, in the, attempting to neutralize Japanese airfields located there, within range ...
North IslandThe film was shot in Whangara on the East Coast of New Zealand'sand in Auckland. Producer John Barnett said "This novel was set in Whangar ...
Mascarene... or the Broad-billed Parrot. Wendy Strahm and Anthony Cheke, two experts inecology, claim that while a rare tree, it has germinated since the demise ...
Raine Island... f guano, and lighthouses were built as beacons throughout the system. as in, the earliest example. In 1922, the Great Barrier Reef Committee began ca ...
Taiwan... re popular among players originating from East Asian regions such as China,, Japan, and South Korea. Traditionally, penhold players use only one side ...
KauaiApukohai is a marine monster in the mythology of the island of, Hawaii. Kawelo, a giant of enormous strength, departs for Oahu and encou ...
Lesser Sunda Islands... sociated smaller islands, Timor forms the southern outer archipelago of thewith the inner islands of Flores, Alor and Wetar to the north, and beyond ...
Astola IslandThe coast of Makran possesses only one island,, near Pasni, and several insignificant islets. The coastline can be divid ...
St. Vincent... e Caribbean; specifically Grenada, Curaçao, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia,, and Útila. They have been introduced to Grand Cayman, Puerto Rico, Texas ...
Newfoundland... t, Britain gained Acadia (which they renamed Nova Scotia), sovereignty over, the Hudson Bay region, and the Caribbean island of St. Kitts. France rec ...
Marquesas IslandsAtanua (or Atanea), in Polynesian mythology (specifically:) is the goddess of the dawn and wife of Atea (Atea and Atanua emerged fro ...
CeylonIn August 1689, a French fleet appeared near the coast ofcompelling the Governor of Pulicat Lawrence Pitt who was on high seas to s ...
Ravenna... 7) and The Kiss (1907–1908). Klimt travelled little but trips to Venice and, both famous for their beautiful mosaics, most likely inspired his gold t ...
Nukufetau... h passed through the southern Tuvalu waters in May 1819; de Peyster sightedand Funafuti, which he named Ellice's Island after an English Politician, ...
Puerto Rico... in the United States: Seattle, Detroit, Charlotte. It intended to return to, but the service came back only as a charter operation. It is also negoti ...
Canary Islands... United States and all over the world—including the Bahamas, Virgin Islands,, Canada, Africa, Asia and Europe. Their most recent international appeara ...
Guernsey... a Oya) or Oye-Plage (Ogia 7th C.) and constitutes the suffix -ey in Jersey,(Greneroi), Alderney (Alneroi) and Chausey (Calsoi). Chausey can be compar ...
Flores... ern outer archipelago of the Lesser Sunda Islands with the inner islands of, Alor and Wetar to the north, and beyond them Sulawesi
Crete... irst imprisonment, when he was engaged in the organization of the church in, where Paul had left him for this purpose. The last notice of him is in , ...
Philippine... 9's Apocalypse Now, a film that gained him wide recognition. Filming in thejungle in the typhoon season of 1976, Sheen admitted he was not in the gre ...
Gilbert Islands... vember to take part in Operation Galvanic, the assault on the Japanese-held. The battleship screened the fast carriers, for defense against surface a ...
Caribbean... South America, Central America, the islands of the Greater Antilles in the(except in Haiti where the official languages are French and Haitian Kreyo ...
Long Island... xcellence of their management practices". Only nonprofits in New York City,, or Westchester were eligible
Ireland... iest, which threatened the authority of the Queen's deputised government in; out of caution Cecil withdrew his longstanding protection, and the judge ...
IrelandThere are a number of snowdrop gardens in England, Scotland, and
South Ronaldsay... nd, United Kingdom, sheltered by the islands of Mainland, Graemsay, Burray,and Hoy. It is about . It has a shallow sandy bottom not deeper than and m ...
Caribbean... panish Empire would expand across: most of present day Central America, theislands, and Mexico; much of the rest of North America including the South ...
Prince Edward Island... ck. He also controlled logging ventures and at one point owned a seventh of
Line Islands... rbor, and Kanton. There is a small network of canals, totaling 5 km, in the
Marquesas IslandsIn the mythology of the, Atea is the giver of light. In one legend Atea and Tane are brothers, th ...
Ireland... Previously, most harps were imported to North America from France, England,, or Italy by smaller groups of craftsmen
Oahu... island of Kauai, Hawaii. Kawelo, a giant of enormous strength, departs forand encounters Apukohai. After a fierce struggle, Kawelo kills Apukohai, h ...
Corfu... moving to various places between 1874 and 1886, including Stuttgart, Rome,, Basel, and Karlsruhe. In Stuttgart he met the Tübingen University studen ...
HispaniolaThe island of, of which Haiti occupies the western third, is one of many Caribbean isla ...
Caribbean... Nova Scotia), sovereignty over Newfoundland, the Hudson Bay region, and theisland of St. Kitts. France recognized British suzerainty over the Iroquoi ...
Iceland... the independent Jarls under his control, many of the rebels having fled to. He found himself ruling not only Norway, but the Isles, Man and parts of ...
KyūshūThe East China Sea is bounded on the east byand the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, on the south by the island of Taiwan, and ...
Madeira... the northwestern Atlantic and have been spotted as far south as Bermuda and. Ships are subject to superstructure icing in the extreme north from Octo ...
Canary Islands... cargo flights to cities throughout the Americas and Europe, as well as theoff the African coast, and cargo flights to Asia; it is South Florida's ma ...
British Isles... nce, and about south of Great Britain. Geographically it is not part of the. As of 15 October 2006, the States of Jersey indicates that the island is ...
CyprusIn Greece and, the term halvas (χαλβάς) is used for both varieties of the dessert. Sesa ...
Lady Elliot Island... l continental and coral cay islands are now resorts, including the pristine. As of 1996, 27 islands on the Great Barrier Reef supported resorts.Domes ...
Sulawesi... h the inner islands of Flores, Alor and Wetar to the north, and beyond them
Venice... veloper Mabry McMahan envisioned a bayside luxury development modeled after, Italy (hence the name "Santa Venetia" - there is no actual Christian sai ...
Burray... , Scotland, United Kingdom, sheltered by the islands of Mainland, Graemsay,, South Ronaldsay and Hoy. It is about . It has a shallow sandy bottom not ...
Liancourt Rocks... e occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945. South Korea's assertions concerning(Japanese: "Takeshima", Korean: "Dokdo") are acknowledged, but not accepte ...
Hatteras Island... , White took this to mean they had moved to "Croatoan Island" (now known as), but he was unable to conduct a search. A massive storm was brewing and ...
Sicily... cano is a small volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, about 25 km north ofand the southernmost of the eight Aeolian Islands. It is 21 square kilomet ...
Matagi... rous insects on the island. They are now present on the islands of Laucala,and Taveuni
Venice... 7 European Union member countries, sailed from Jason's hometown of Volos to, stopping at 23 cities en route
Cyprus... is promise to pay Raynald a sum of money, and vowed to attack the island ofin revenge. When the Latin Patriarch of Antioch refused to finance this ex ...
Riau Archipelago... ren Hastings overlooked the island before settling upon Penang in 1786, thewas an attractive choice just to the south of the Malay Peninsula, for its ...
Betio... the Gilberts. Alabama supported the U.S. Marine landings on the main islandof the Tarawa Atoll on 20 November, and soon afterwards, she supported the ...
Ryukyu IslandsThe East China Sea is bounded on the east by Kyūshū and theof Japan, on the south by the island of Taiwan, and on the west by mainlan ...
Cyclades... m San Michálē (Σαν Μιχάλη, "St. Michael's") from the island of Syros in the, and various graviéras from Crete
Calais... ills, which originate in Bolderberg, Heusden-Zolder, and continue as far asin France, are mainly covered with woods and fruit yards
Panay... ei, led by the chieftain Datu Puti and his tribes, settled in the island ofand its surrounding islands. By the 14th century, Arab traders and their f ...
British IslesAs with the rest of the, Cheltenham experiences a maritime climate with cool summers and mild win ...
Venice... 4th to 17th centuries. The plague of 1575–77 claimed some 50,000 victims in. In the first half of the 17th century a plague claimed some 1,730,000 vi ...
Gotland... n the Middle Ages the German mother had the right to expose the newborn. In, Sweden, children were also sacrificed
Bermuda... Strait, and the northwestern Atlantic and have been spotted as far south asand Madeira. Ships are subject to superstructure icing in the extreme nort ...
Luzon... Filipino: Lungsod ng Baguio) is a highly urbanized city located in northernisland in the Philippines. The city has become the center of business and ...
Avalon... n-Welsh source to speak of the sword. Geoffrey says the sword was forged inand Latinises the name "Caledfwlch" as Caliburnus. When his influential ps ...
Chausey... tutes the suffix -ey in Jersey, Guernsey (Greneroi), Alderney (Alneroi) and(Calsoi). Chausey can be compared with Cholsey (GB, Berkshire, Ċeolesiġ 89 ...
MangaiaIn the mythology of, Tau-Titi is a son of Miru
Cyprus... sted aid from Athens. Pericles led 250 ships, originally intended to attack, to their aid because it would further damage Persia. After four years, h ...
Marquesas Islands... n". Many other Polynesian names have been recorded, including Tau-ua in the, Rehua in New Zealand, and Aa and Hoku-Kauopae in Hawaii
Sicily... ade and conquest into Valencia, the Balearic Islands, and even Sardinia and
Bornholm... s on September 6, 1945. On May 9, 1945, the Red Army occupied the island of; between May 9 and June 1, 1945 the Soviets shipped some 3,000 refugees a ...
Ertvågsøy... many islands as well as some parts of the mainland. Islands of Aure include, Rottøya, Ruøya, Solskjel, Stabblandet, Tustna, and Skardsøya. The Vinjef ...
Amrum... inside the national park as well. There are five large islands (Sylt, Föhr,, Pellworm and Nordstrand) and ten small islets known as Halligen
Philippines... ngapore (who shortly after reached a Free Trade Agreement with the US), the, and South Korea all pledged support for the war, as did a number of smal ...
Philippines... n targets in World War II, commencing with Pearl Harbor and US bases in the, such as Clark Air Force Base. During the course of the Second World War, ...
Pulau Betong... offering jungle trails and a spa resort. Other islands include Pulau Aman,, Pulau Gedung, Pulau Kendi (Coral Island) and
Pellworm... the national park as well. There are five large islands (Sylt, Föhr, Amrum,and Nordstrand) and ten small islets known as Halligen
AvaikiAs soon as the dawn arrives, the Tapairu returned to their home in
Sulawesi... giant monitor lizards similar to the Komodo Dragon. Like Flores, Sumba and, Timor was also once a habitat of extinct dwarf stegodonts, relatives of ...
IbizaAnother temple to Melqart was at Ebyssus (), in one of four Phoenician sites on the island's south coast. In 2004 a ...
Madagascar... ccurs in trace amounts in many minerals. Rare minerals from Scandinavia andsuch as thortveitite, euxenite, and gadolinite are the only known concentr ...
Sardinia... panding by trade and conquest into Valencia, the Balearic Islands, and evenand Sicily
Hallig... (Sylt, Föhr, Amrum, Pellworm and Nordstrand) and ten small islets known asen
Pulau Gedung... le trails and a spa resort. Other islands include Pulau Aman, Pulau Betong,, Pulau Kendi (Coral Island) and
Moloka‘i... ā. Wākea had sexual relations with Hina and she gave birth to the island of
Nashawena Island... ncluding Nonamesset Island, Uncatena Island, Naushon Island, Pasque Island,, Penikese Island, Cuttyhunk Island and several smaller islands. The strin ...
Sumba... of extinct giant monitor lizards similar to the Komodo Dragon. Like Flores,and Sulawesi, Timor was also once a habitat of extinct dwarf stegodonts, r ...
Balearic Islands... e found at least three Phoenician/Punic sites in Spain: Cádiz, Ibiza in theand Cartagena. Near Gades/Gádeira (modern Cádiz) was the westernmost templ ...
Ireland... e purposes of Irish nationality law a person born anywhere on the island of(including Northern Ireland) is considered "Irish." A person born outside ...
Pulau Kendi... a spa resort. Other islands include Pulau Aman, Pulau Betong, Pulau Gedung,(Coral Island) and
Corfu... Naples, he continued his soldier's life: he participated in expeditions toand Navarino, and saw the fall of Tunis and La Goletta to the Turks in 157 ...
Prince Edward IslandIn Montgomery's works, Avonlea is located on the northern shore ofon a small peninsula. Its primary industries are farming and lobster fishi ...
Föhr... cated inside the national park as well. There are five large islands (Sylt,, Amrum, Pellworm and Nordstrand) and ten small islets known as Halligen
New GuineaThe Lexington returned after theraid to Pearl Harbor for repairs and to have her obsolete 8-inch guns remo ...
Manhattan... ivity, a family of Bald Eagles recently moved to the Harlem neighborhood ofin New York City
Britain... the enormous popularity of that work, this brand of the earlier history of, including the Trojan origin tradition, became incorprated into subsequen ...
Nukulaelae... Islands became caught in a storm and drifted for 8 weeks before landing at. Elekana began proselytizing Christianity. He was trained in a London Mis ...
Canary Islands... vince on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, south of Agadir and across from the
Lagos Island... a huge metropolis which originated on islands separated by creeks, such as, fringing the southwest mouth of Lagos Lagoon whilst protected from the A ...
Avşa... wo major island groups known as the Princes' and Marmara islands (includingand Paşalimanı)
Manhattan... ers that stands at the entrance. Its popularity has attracted visitors fromand
Penikese Island... t Island, Uncatena Island, Naushon Island, Pasque Island, Nashawena Island,, Cuttyhunk Island and several smaller islands. The string of islands exte ...
Kermadec Islands... North Island, and then north and east into the open Pacific, passing by theen route to Tongatabu, the main island of the Tonga archipelago (then know ...
Paşalimanı... island groups known as the Princes' and Marmara islands (including Avşa and)
Channel IslandsThe island of Jersey is the largest of the. Although the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey are often referred to col ...
Bangka Island... t local princes to subjugate them to British rule, as well as a takeover ofto set up a permanent British presence in the area in the case of the retu ...
Florida Keys... is not on an island. It is also the last stop on the mainland north of the. The southern terminus of the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike w ...
Elba... of the Grand Army). He was with Napoleon during his exile to the island of, and during his brief comeback known as the Hundred Days
Tinian... rianas to screen the aircraft carriers in heavy air raids on the islands of, Saipan, and Guam. During these air attacks on the Marianas, the Alabama, ...
Necker... resent islands date from 0.4 million years ago (mya) (Mauna Kea) to 10mya (). The oldest member of the Hawaiian archipelago still above the sea is Ku ...
MelanesiaDuring 1907–8 Rivers travelled to the Solomon Islands, and other areas ofand Polynesia. His two-volume History of Melanesian Society (1914), which ...
Fremont IslandBlack Rock, Antelope Island, White Rock, Egg Island,, and the Promontory mountain range are each extensions of the Oquirrh Mou ...
Malta... oldest free-standing structure is the neolithic temple of Ggantija in Gozo,
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria... oups" (midway between battalions and regiments) are stationed in Madrid and. The Tercio (fleet - regiment equivalent) is available for immediate emba ...
Formentera... of Spain. Biot returned to Paris after they had determined the latitude of, the southernmost point to which they were to carry the survey. Arago con ...
Ireland... litical rallies and around Scout and Guide campfires, primarily in Britain,and some Commonwealth nations
IcelandTheic Landnámabók (Book of Settlements) mentions that the Norse found Irish p ...
Savai'i... oa's warrior goddess hails from the village of Falealupo at the west end ofisland, which is also the site of the entry into Pulotu, the spirit world. ...
Caribbean... an Numbering Plan -- calls between Bermuda, the USA, Canada and most of therequires the caller dialing "1", then the 3-digit area code, then the 7-di ...
Newfoundland... The scenery of the island is rivalled in northeastern North America only byand Cape Breton Island tourism marketing places a heavy emphasis on its Sc ...
Malta... ria, and Mosul in Iraq in the Middle East. Only the three largest islands –, Gozo and Comino – are inhabited. Other (uninhabited) islands are: Comino ...
BermudaEarly in its history,had unusual connections with Ireland. It has been suggested that St. Brend ...
Underwater World, Singapore... lived there until it died on 10 February 2011. Another, named Gracie, is at, due to her mother being killed when she was a calf. A third resides in S ...
Hawaiian Islands... princess of Olalo-i-mehani and a granddaughter of Princess Kaoupe-alii. Thewere created by Wākea and Pāpā. Wākea had sexual relations with Hina and s ...
Caribbean... date for immediate earthquake relief and long-term recovery efforts in thecountry. Frist had also traveled to Haiti with Samaritan's Purse in Januar ...
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Saipan... o screen the aircraft carriers in heavy air raids on the islands of Tinian,, and Guam. During these air attacks on the Marianas, the Alabama, while f ...
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Ithaca... character of Homer's Odyssey, visited them during his journey back home to. The giants ate many of Odysseus' men and destroyed eleven of his twelve ...
Java... continent. On the southeast the narrow Sunda Strait separating Sumatra with. The northern tip of Sumatra bordering the Andaman islands, while the low ...
Socotra... ate of Shihr and Mukalla, Kathiri State of Seiyun, Mahra State of Qishn and) with the remaining states comprising the west
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Calais... help his son, and Blanche was his sole support. She established herself atand organized two fleets, one of which was commanded by Eustace the Monk, ...
Taiwan... ition as a member of the United Nations to gain financial support from bothand China by changing its recognition from one to the other (see One China ...
Staten Island... . It shares a land border with Jersey City to the north and is connected toby the Bayonne Bridge. While somewhat diminished, traditional manufacturin ...
Raine Island... ly and early August 1874. The ship's course was then set westward, reaching(on the outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef) at the end of August and the ...
Great Britain... g." It was not until the 18th century that the fork became commonly used in, although some sources say forks were common in France, England and Swede ...
Marshall IslandsThe, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau (former American trust territo ...
Lagos Island... Olofin, the Awori moved to an island now called Iddo and then to the larger. In the 15th century, the Awori settlement was attacked by the Benin Empi ...
PhilippinesSome countries, such as Chile, Israel, the, France, Austria, New Zealand and South Africa, use a centralized system ...
Caribbean... s, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, and various islands of the, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean
Taiwan... rking-level relations with Taiwan. Japan refers to the Republic of China onwith the neutral name "Taiwan.
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Tasmania... the Albury/Wodonga Hub, going to centres around New South Wales, Victoria,and into South Australia. Broadcast out of the same building is 105.7 The ...
Hawaiian Islands... on the Pacific Coast; its influence reached from the Rocky Mountains to the, and from Russian Alaska into Mexican-controlled California. At its pinna ...
Ireland... pacity of 30,000 is an important Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) venue inand is home to the Roscommon county footballers and Roscommon Gaels club
Cyprus... owed up their victory by sending a fleet to re-establish their control over, and 200 ships were sent out to counter them under Cimon, who returned fr ...
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Écréhous... f small islands that are no longer permanently inhabited, the Minquiers and, and the Pierres de Lecq and other rocks and reefs
VeniceThe majority of the crusading army that set out fromin October 1202 originated from areas within France. It included men from ...
Sri Lanka... e batting and attack as a tactic by Arjuna Ranatunga who was the captain ofin the mid to late 90s. The gamble had seemed to pay-off and Jayasuriya ne ...
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Walcheren... lied occupied areas of the south of the Netherlands, visiting the region ofand the city of Eindhoven where she received a rapturous welcome from the ...
Iceland... g. Tables games were played in Germany in the 12th century, and had reachedby the 13th century. In Spain, the Alfonso X manuscript Libro de los juego ...
Puerto Rico... of all technology. The Red October was then sunk in a deep ocean trench offto avoid discovery. Both Ryan and Ramius are on hand to see the submarine ...
Ireland... erard Slevin (born 1 November 1919, died 18 January 1997) was born in Cork,. Slevin was assistant to Edward McLysaght, the Chief Herald of Ireland, f ...
Taiwan... onoseki under which China abandoned its own suzerainty over Korea and ceded, Pescadores and the Liaodong Peninsula (Port Arthur) to Japan
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Euboea... , 227 of which are inhabited. Crete is the largest and most populous island;, separated from the mainland by the 60m-wide Euripus Strait, is the seco ...
Great Britain... the Durham Report, Upper and Lower Canada were merged into a single colony.had begun to loosen its ties to the North American colonies. The United St ...
Mason's Island... he village is on the east and west bank of the estuary of the Mystic River.(Pequot language: Chippachaug) fills the south end of the estuary
Taiwan... ued Truman's policy of recognizing the Republic of China (based in Formosa/) as the legitimate government of China, not the Beijing regime. There wer ...
PhilippinesIn 2003, the first allotment garden of thewas established in Cagayan de Oro City, Northern Mindanao as part of a Eur ...
Gotland... an, Beowulf is buried. However, an expanse of water separates the island offrom the Swedes. The island lies east of Denmark/Dacia and whales were onc ...
Manihiki... came to Tuvalu in 1861 when Elekana, a deacon of a Congregational church in, Cook Islands became caught in a storm and drifted for 8 weeks before lan ...
Lihou... the Island of Guernsey, but also the islands of Herm, Jethou, Brecqhou, andand their islet possessions. The Bailiwick of Guernsey also administers so ...
MauiLānai was under the control of nearbythroughout before recorded history. Its first inhabitants may have arrived ...
Kuril Islands... again proclaimed sovereignty over the whole island in 1845, as well as the, as there were competing claims from Russia. However, the Russian navigat ...
MauritiusDiwali is an official holiday in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar,, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, Malaysia, Singapore, and
Ireland... t, but works closely with the other green parties of the United Kingdom and: the Green Party of England and Wales, the Green Party in Northern Irelan ...
MaltaThe geography ofis dominated by water. Malta is an archipelago of coralline limestone, loc ...
SicilianTommaso Buscetta (13 July 1928 – 2 April 2000) was amafioso. Although he was not the first pentito (informant) in the Italian ...
Borneo... slands. It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia (two larger islands,and New Guinea, are shared between Indonesia and other countries) and the ...
Long IslandMellon died on August 26, 1937, in Southampton,, New York, and was buried at Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery, Uppervill ...
Bermudahas five television stations, a small cable microwave system, two cellular ...
Sri LankaDiwali is an official holiday in India, Nepal,, Myanmar, Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, Malaysia, Singa ...
Brecqhou... 0 parishes on the Island of Guernsey, but also the islands of Herm, Jethou,, and Lihou and their islet possessions. The Bailiwick of Guernsey also ad ...
Spice Islands... ute to India. This led to the establishment of direct trade with India, the, China, and Japan. Importers could now avoid the heavy duties imposed by ...
Rottnest Island... "villages," such as Flatts Village and Somerset Village. It is antipodal toin Western Australia
New Guinea... is the largest island entirely in Indonesia (two larger islands, Borneo and, are shared between Indonesia and other countries) and the sixth largest ...
Ocean Island... peration RY, using ships released from the MO operation, to seize Nauru andfor their phosphate deposits on 15 May. Further operations against Fiji, S ...
Samosir Island... d uplift due to partial refilling of the magma chamber, for example pushingand the Uluan Peninsula above the surface of the lake. The lake sediments ...
Great Britain... ewlywed couple going on a holiday together originated in early 19th century, a concept borrowed from the Indian elite, in the Indian Subcontinent. Up ...
Burray... s were run by the jarls from large manor farms, some of which were sited at, Burwick, Paplay, Hoy, and Cairston (near Stromness) to guard the entranc ...
Nukulaelae... aelae as there were fewer than 100 of the 300 recorded in 1861 as living on
Malta... farming. There are currently over 50 allotment plots located in Għammieri,. All plots are fully irrigated and those who have entered the scheme rece ...
Guernsey... s the largest of the Channel Islands. Although the Bailiwicks of Jersey andare often referred to collectively as 'the Channel Islands', they are not ...
IcelandThe Íslendingabók, a main source for the early history of, recounts that on the Conversion of Iceland to Christianity in 1000 it wa ...
Prince Edward IslandAvonlea (ah-von-LEE) is a fictional community located on, Canada, and is the setting of Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel Anne of Green ...
St. Christopher... ake the voyage profitable. Minuit died on this voyage during a hurricane atin the Caribbean
Aeolian Islands... : Milazzo is now a important destination and a great starting point for the, the Nebrodi Park, Tindari. There are numerous testimonies, the symbols o ...
Ganghwa Island... five. In 2011, a marine who had been abused killed four of his comrades on. Eighty-two military personnel committed suicide in 2010. From 2009-2010, ...
Puerto Ricans... nincorporated territory of the United States and used to be eligible due tohaving had American citizenship since 1917. Their best success in this awa ...
North Frisian IslandsTheare part of the district and located inside the national park as well. The ...
North Aegean islands... arge but dense collection occupying the central part of the Aegean Sea, the, a loose grouping off the west coast of Turkey, the Dodecanese, another l ...
Puerto Ricans... e-class ethnic Americans, such as Croatians, Czechs, Slovaks, Italians, and
Partridge Island... ith the government forced to construct a quarantine station and hospital onat the mouth of the harbour to handle the new arrivals. These immigrants c ...
British IslesAs with the rest of theand Scotland, Dumfries experiences a maritime climate with cool summers an ...
Sardinia... ies of any European power in the Mediterranean, encompassing the Balearics,, Sicily, southern Italy and, briefly, the Duchy of Athens. Castile meanwh ...
Lindisfarne... and of Iona in 794, the year following the raid on the other holy island of, Northumbria
Lipari... Elliot Imbruglia, her father of Italian descent (originally a Sicilian from) and Maxene Anderson, her Anglo-Australian mother. Imbruglia grew up in B ...
Channel Islands... by the European Communities (Jersey) Law 1973. The relationship between theand the EU cannot be changed without the unanimous agreement of all Member ...
Nias... t, northwest and southwest sides of Sumatra with islands chain of Simeulue,and Mentawai bordering along southwestern coast. On the northeast side the ...
Sylt... nd located inside the national park as well. There are five large islands (, Föhr, Amrum, Pellworm and Nordstrand) and ten small islets known as Hall ...
Jaina Island... tions, headdresses being particularly prevalent on Maya painted vases or onfigurines. Many ballplayers of the Classic era are seen with a right kneep ...
Lesbos... the 60m-wide Euripus Strait, is the second largest, followed by Rhodes and
Penikese Island... tending school in Cuttyhunk, with others attending schools on the mainland.is also home to The Penikese School, a private school for troubled boys
Marco Island... red Miami Blue Butterfly (Cyclargus thomasi bethunebakeri); additionally on, Green Iguanas have been observed using the burrows of the Florida Burrow ...
Two Harbors... lly sheltered side of Catalina Island. Protected harbors such as Avalon andare normally protected and the waters within the harbors are very calm. In ...
Cook Islands... Colombia, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo,, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democr ...
Maui... ted from the island of Molokai by the Kalohi Channel to the north, and fromby the Auau Channel to the east. The United States Census Bureau defines L ...
Sicily... one, located in the Mediterranean Sea, approximately 93 kilometres south of, Italy, and nearly 300 km north (Libya) and northeast (Tunisia) of Africa ...
Baengnyeong Island... of Korea's western islands, including Ganghwa Island, Yeongjong Island, andare also administered by Incheon. Baengnyeong Island is South Korea's west ...
SicilyMelqart protected the Punic areas ofsuch as Ras Melqart 'Cape of Melqart', where his head, indistinguishable f ...
Rhodes... mainland by the 60m-wide Euripus Strait, is the second largest, followed byand Lesbos
Florida Keys... h into the Florida Keys. Along with serving as the mainland entrance to the, Florida City also serves as the gateway to the main section of
Hispaniola... followed. This first occurred along the Caribbean coasts on the islands of, Puerto Rico and Cuba, and since the early 16th century, extended into th ...
Mindanao... f the three principal geographical divisions of the Philippines, along withand Luzon. It consists of several islands, primarily surrounding the Visay ...
Malta... , both pluralistic ones like the U.S., and officially Catholic nations likeand
Iceland... g Debenhams, Wilkinson, Primark, H&M and supermarkets Tesco, Sainsburys and. To the north of the City Centre is the Victory Retail Park. Portsmouth a ...
PhilippinesIn the, the assassination of Benigno Aquino, Jr. triggered the eventual downfall ...
Jethou... ly all 10 parishes on the Island of Guernsey, but also the islands of Herm,, Brecqhou, and Lihou and their islet possessions. The Bailiwick of Guerns ...
Luzon... rincipal geographical divisions of the Philippines, along with Mindanao and. It consists of several islands, primarily surrounding the Visayan Sea, a ...
Cook Islands... valu in 1861 when Elekana, a deacon of a Congregational church in Manihiki,became caught in a storm and drifted for 8 weeks before landing at Nukulae ...
Madagascar... de the Morefield Mine in Amelia, Virginia. It is also found in pegmatite inand in
Niihau... earl Harbor. It involved three Japanese Americans on the Hawaiian island ofassisting a Japanese pilot who crashed there. Despite the incident, the Te ...
Sicily... ther's parents emigrated from Polizzi Generosa, in the province of Palermo,, and his mother was also of Italian descent. Scorsese was raised in a dev ...
MaltaThe Cippi of Melqart, found onand dedicated to the god as an ex voto offering, provided the key to under ...
Caribbean... l as drank (she drank too). The couple travelled to Europe, America and the, and while Lowry continued to drink heavily, this seems to have been a re ...
ElbaSome well-known English palindromes are, "Able was I ere I saw", "A man, a plan, a canal - Panama!", "Madam, I'm Adam" or "Madam in Eden ...
Philippines... lous countries such as India, Pakistan and Nigeria; and others, such as the, under the sphere of influence of English-speaking countries. Here Englis ...
Pitcairn Islands... igh led to several of the mutineers escaping the Royal Navy and settling on, which later became a British colony
Ireland... gmore-by-Sea) are unique on the Celtic Sea coastline (i.e. Cornwall, Wales,and Brittany) as they are formed of a combination of liassic limestone, sh ...
Iona... are thought to have led their first raids in Scotland on the holy island ofin 794, the year following the raid on the other holy island of Lindisfarn ...
Kodiak IslandKodiak (, Kadʹyak) is one of 7 communities and the main city on, Kodiak Island Borough, in the U.S. state of Alaska. All commercial trans ...
Marshall IslandNauru was annexed by Germany in 1888 and incorporated into Germany'sProtectorate. The Germans called the island Nawodo or Onawero. The arrival ...
Staten IslandThe Bayonne Bridge connects south toover the Kill van Kull. Kennedy Boulevard is a major thoroughfare along th ...
Craigleith... ch in turn are considered some of the Islands of the Forth. To the west are, and the Lamb, Fidra and finally to the west of Fidra, the low lying isla ...
Azores... any of these town residents were originally from the island of Faial in the, and the neighborhood where many of them lived, located between Vineyard ...
Long Island... ty located in the U.S. state of New York. Located on the eastern portion of, it is the easternmost county in the state and part of the New York metro ...
Barnegat Peninsula... trance to Island Beach State Park in Berkeley Township, Ocean County on the. It heads north on a divided highway with parking spaces in the median th ...
Hispaniola... ery, stone carving, and other artifacts, eventually merged with groups fromand Cuba, to form what is now called the Taíno culture. This culture flour ...
Puerto Rico... gle and Cape Air. JetBlue Airways is the largest carrier in San Juan and in, with about 38 daily flights in high season and 31 daily flights in low s ...
Iceland... These immigrants moved to Canada and USA after the eruption of a volcano inin 1875. Immigrants from Iceland then played on behalf of Canada and won t ...
Réunion... nting the five overseas departments (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique,and Mayotte) the total comes to 101 departments. In 2011, the overseas col ...
Malta... , West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, the Balkans, Eastern Europe,and the Jewish world
Tierra del Fuego... Dutch mariner who circumnavigated the earth in 1615-16. The strait betweenand Isla de los Estados was named the Le Maire Strait in his honor, though ...
Ireland... ld 347,563 copies in the United Kingdom. The song reached the top twenty inand Switzerland. "I Refuse", the fourth single (France only), was released ...
Martha's Vineyard... hew. Constituting Dukes County, New York since 1683, the Elizabeth Islands,, and Nantucket, were transferred to the newly created Province of Massach ...
Azores... y Islands to the Virgin Islands, then heading north to Bermuda, east to the, back to Madeira, and then south to the Cape Verde Islands. During this p ...
IcariaIn a similar story, Dionysus desired to sail fromto Naxos. He then hired a Tyrrhenian pirate ship. However, when the god wa ...
Lesbos... ng the war saw the example made of the Mytilenians, the principal people on. After an unsuccessful revolt, the Athenians ordered the death of the ent ...
Darrell's Island, Bermuda... ating scheduled flying-boat airline services from New York and Baltimore to. In 1948, regularly scheduled commercial airline service by land-based ae ...
Pingtan Island... nnium BC. From the Keqiutou site (7450–5590 BP), an early Neolithic site inlocated about southeast of Fuzhou, numerous tools made of stones, shells, ...
PhilippinesMakati became the financial center of theduring the 1950s. Many districts and landmarks in the city have become wel ...
Polynesia... th America. In the last two thousand years there may have been contact withns across the South Pacific Ocean, as shown by the spread of the sweet pot ...
Cyprus... Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Austria, Netherlands, Czech Republic, China,, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Iran, Italy, Bahrain, Lebanon, Spa ...
Long Island... t of Suffolk County, and point of division for the north and south forks of. Eventually, though, only 45 miles (from Queens in New York City to Lake ...
Sicily... southern Italian regions of Puglia, Campania, Calabria, Molise, Abruzzo and. Bedford's Little Italy feel is enhanced by a wide variety of Italian bar ...
Fidra... some of the Islands of the Forth. To the west are Craigleith, and the Lamb,and finally to the west of Fidra, the low lying island of Eyebroughy. Thes ...
Île Amsterdam... he city has a total area of , all of it land. La Junta is directly opposite, La Junta'
Sumatra... int. Located in the middle of the northern part of the Indonesian island ofwith a surface elevation of about , the lake stretches from to . It is the ...
Manhattan... d Nations from 1946 until it moved in 1951 to its permanent headquarters in. The former New York City building was used for the UN General Assembly d ...
Gotland... n European trade routes, which led from Birka in the north to the island ofand to Visby in the Baltic Sea and later included the Hanseatic city of El ...
Pacific Islands... July. The story centers around smugglers and pirates in the World War I-era. In 1970, Pratt moved to France and began a series of short Corto Maltese ...
Taiwan... elagos of Kinmen and Matsu are under the control of the Republic of China (). Thus, there are two provinces (in the sense of government organizations ...
Taiwan... in the theories regarding the spread of humans out of Southeast Asia, from, via Melanesia and across the Pacific islands to create Polynesia. During ...
Mayotte... ve overseas departments (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion and) the total comes to 101 departments. In 2011, the overseas collectivity o ...
Puerto Rico... , Saint John the Baptist), is the capital and most populous municipality in, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, ...
Philippines... I, and has also aired on Indosiar from August 1993 to December 2000. In the, the show was aired on ABS-CBN from 1991 to 1996 then on Studio 23 from 1 ...
Eyebroughy... d the Lamb, Fidra and finally to the west of Fidra, the low lying island of. These are also mainly the result of volcanic activity
PhilippinesIn 1935 he accompanied MacArthur to the, where he served as assistant military adviser to the Philippine governme ...
Malta... Illustrious which lay in Norfolk, Virginia, for repairs following action atin the Mediterranean in January. During this period of relative inactivity ...
Bornholm... ed to the V-83 pilotless aircraft (an experimental V-1) that had crashed onin the Baltic and to reports from agents of a flying bomb capable of being ...
Cayman Islands... find them in shallow, sandy waters, more so when the water is warm. In theseveral dive sites called Stingray City, Grand Cayman, allow divers and sn ...
Bermuda... twards from the Canary Islands to the Virgin Islands, then heading north to, east to the Azores, back to Madeira, and then south to the Cape Verde Is ...
Hawaiian IslandsLānai or Lanai (; Hawaiian: or ) is the sixth-largest of the. It is also known as the Pineapple Island because of its past as an islan ...
Isle of MayTo the north east, theon the coast of the East Neuk of Fife, can be seen
Philippines... litan area and the country. Its central business district hosts many of the' largest corporations including the Ayala Group of Companies and the nati ...
Cape CodProvincetown is a New England town located at the extreme tip ofin Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 3,4 ...
Santiago... ion in the Atlantic Ocean west of Senegal. It lies on the southern coast ofisland in the Sotavento Islands group. It is the island's ferry port and i ...
Euboea... 49 BC. The Battle of Coronea, in 447 BC, led to the abandonment of Boeotia.and Megara both revolted, and while the former was restored to its status ...
Tierra del FuegoEendracht then rounded Cape Horn, proving thatwas not a continent
Ytterøy... The county was divided into six parishes: Ekne, Alstadhaug, Levanger, Frol,, and Leksvik. The county church was located in Alstadhaug, which also con ...
Sri Lanka... a holiday observed traditionally by Buddhists in Bangladesh, India, Nepal,, and the South East Asian countries of Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Camb ...
Manhattan... sts compared to those in nearby art havens such as Hoboken, Jersey City and. The Union City/West New York area in particular is a major training grou ...
Terra Australis... , the Solomon Islands and New Guinea in the South Pacific. In the quest for, Spanish explorers in the 17th century also discovered the Pitcairn and V ...
Mayotte... ) the total comes to 101 departments. In 2011, the overseas collectivity ofbecame the 101st department
Great Britain... l assistant to Ambassador Lord Lothian and supervisor of American Relief tothrough the British embassy. As a result, the Langley Park estate became a ...
PhilippinesMetro Manila is the financial, commercial and industrial center of the. It accounts for 33% of the Philippines' GDP. It has a third of the count ...
Great BritainSpeer introduced economic reforms that the United States andhad implemented long before—namely, the full mobilization of factories for ...
Sicily... s the similarity of style, and the fact that each betrays a connection with, this provides compelling evidence that the same author wrote both books
Sri Lanka... large populations of Hindu and Sikh origin. These include countries such as, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealan ...
Redemption Rock... inceton. According to tradition, in 1675, Mary Rowlandson was ransomed upon, now within the town of Princeton, by King Philip
Manhattan... oldest secondary school in the nation after the Collegiate School (1628) inand the Boston Latin School (1635). The state also has many noted private ...
PhilippinesThe Republic of theestablished its ROTC program in 1912, during American colonial rule, with ...
Bermuda... the entire coastal region from South Carolina to Maine, plus the island of. The London Company was incorporated as a joint stock company by the prop ...
Crete... few areas of the world, particularly in southern Spain, Portugal, Morocco,, the Levant, South Africa, Colombia, Peru, parts of central and northern ...
Manhattan... nd earned money as a commercial artist and technical illustrator at severalcompanies
Ireland... enmark (on behalf of the Faroe Islands) on the one hand and with the UK andon the other hand, concerning claims to the continental shelf in the Hatto ...
Moneron Island... ot down by the Soviet Union, just west of Sakhalin Island, near the smaller; the Soviet Union claimed it was a spy plane. All 269 passengers and crew ...
Cyprus... ortant street behind the Buda Castle. When the Turkish Armed Forces invadedin 1974, the operations were named after Attila (Atilla I and Atilla II)
Taiwan... n-explosive) harpoons. Faced with similar pressure, the Republic of China () placed a complete ban on whaling in 1981. Without United States support, ...
Cape Cod... the Metropolitan was over. John pawned his late father's watch and sold hiscottage to birth control activist and sex educator Margaret Sanger. When W ...
Sicily... ling the garrisons placed in some of the coast towns by the Norman kings of. The history of their decline differs from that of the Almoravids, whom t ...
Cape CodBartholomew Gosnold namedin Provincetown Harbor in 1602. In 1620, the Pilgrims signed the Mayflower ...
Kiribati... us. As a consequence Tuvalu separated from the Gilbert Islands which became. Tuvalu became fully independent within the Commonwealth on October 1, 19 ...
Britain... . In general, northern Europe, with the exception of Ireland and pockets of, turned Protestant. Southern Europe remained Roman Catholic, while fierce ...
Île de la Tortue... re. Around 1650, French pirates, or flibustiers, running out of room on thebegan to arrive on the coast, and established a colony at Trou-Borded. As ...
Corsica... e on 3 September 1780, and first served in the newly conquered territory of. He was for a long time stationed in Collioure in the South of France and ...
Johnson's Island... uously operating lighthouse on the Great Lakes. Nearby, in Sandusky Bay, is, a former Confederate officer POW camp during the Civil War
Galápagos Islands... Chile, that do not have a border with Brazil. The country also includes thein the Pacific, about west of the mainland
Canary Islands... s reliant on support from the various nationalist parties (Catalan, Basque,, etc.) which was leveraged by CiU, to gain broaden the scope of Catalan a ...
Calais... he English contingent and its very definite purpose of making Dunkirk a new, to be held by England forever, gave the next campaign a character of cer ...
Ravenna... ave written a life of Saint Adalbert. Later, Bruno entered a monastery near, founded by Otto, and underwent severe ascetic training under the guidanc ...
Funafuti... i during his expedition in search of Terra Australis. In 1819 the island ofwas named Ellice's Island; the name Ellice was applied to all nine islands ...
Hokkaidō... ikes on targets in the industrial areas of Tokyo and other areas of Honshū,, and Kyūshū. On the night of 17–18 July, the Alabama, and several other f ...
Turkish Republic of Northern CyprusThe(TRNC) issues passports, but only Turkey recognises its statehood. TRNC pa ...
Sotavento Islands... an west of Senegal. It lies on the southern coast of Santiago island in thegroup. It is the island's ferry port and is home to one of the nation’s fo ...
Taiwan... ary parade on October 10, 1949 was the first public military parade held inwith Chen Cheng serving as the Grand Review Officer. The 1964 National Day ...
Ailsa Craig... est in its own right, due to its gannet colony. It is sometimes called "theof the East". It is of a similar geological form to nearby North Berwick L ...
Manhattan... gs of her conversion to Norman sharing his faith with her on the streets ofin 1972. Grammy-nominated Australian singer and songwriter Paul Colman, wh ...
Islas Chafarinas... Ceuta is the main link to and from the plazas de soberanía, especially the, occupied by Spain during the 19th century
Curaçao... nces that could be woven into his material. This led him to performances in, Aruba and Jamaica in the early days, and finally to London, when he was ...
Pasque Island... beth Islands, including Nonamesset Island, Uncatena Island, Naushon Island,, Nashawena Island, Penikese Island, Cuttyhunk Island and several smaller ...
Caribbean... ristopher Columbus was one of the first Europeans to encounter them (in the), and called them "peppers" because they, like black and white pepper of ...
Honshū... out strikes on targets in the industrial areas of Tokyo and other areas of, Hokkaidō, and Kyūshū. On the night of 17–18 July, the Alabama, and sever ...
CaribbeanThe English-speaking regions of Canada and theare caught between historical connections with the UK and the Commonwealth ...
New Guinea... ranged throughout Southeast Asia, stretching, for example, to the island of.The agricultural technology was exploited after population pressures incr ...
Hokkaidō... it of Tartary, which often freezes in winter in its narrower part, and from, (Japan) by the Soya Strait or La Pérouse Strait. Sakhalin is the largest ...
Hawar Islands... d a peaceful settlement of the matter. The ICJ granted sovereignty over theand Qit’at Jaradah to Bahrain and sovereignty over Zubarah (part of the Qa ...
Madeira... outh to Lisbon (January 1873) and then on to Gibraltar. The next stops wereand the Canary Islands (both February 1873). The period from February to J ...
Taiwan... by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south.lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait. The name Fujian came from the ...
San Juan IslandIn 1845 the Hudson's Bay Company laid claim to. In 1850 they built a salmon curing station. A few years later they start ...
Puerto RicoVieques (; ), in full Isla de Vieques, is an island–municipality ofin the northeastern Caribbean, part of an island grouping sometimes known ...
Long Island... ), also known as the Vanderbilt Parkway and Motor Parkway, was a parkway on, New York, in the United States. It was the first roadway designed for au ...
Caribbean... enegalese, as well as a favourite side snack or side dish in Brazil and thejust as it is in West Africa. It is said that its exact origin may be from ...
San Juan Islands... ted on San Juan Island, Friday Harbor is the major commercial center of thearchipelago and is the county seat of San Juan County
Long IslandSuffolk and Nassau counties together are generally referred to as "" by area residents — as distinct from the New York City boroughs of Queen ...
British IslesThe Robin found in theand most of western Europe, Erithacus rubecula melophilus, also occurs as ...
St. Thomas... name, and sheltered there from the Spanish. He later moved to the island ofuntil the Spanish gave up and returned to Puerto Rico
Cyprus... reaches Othello, news arrives in Venice that the Turks are going to attack; therefore Othello is summoned to advise the senators. Brabantio arrives ...
Ireland... ouse of Iona, which was followed in 795 by raids upon the northern coast of. From bases there, the Norsemen attacked Iona again in 802, causing great ...
CorsicaThe reorganisation of Ile-de-France (1968) and the division of(1975) added six more departments, raising the total to 96. Counting the f ...
Taiwanwas ceded to Japan in 1895 and was a major Japanese prefecture in World Wa ...
Tahiti... m the Acushnet. He boarded an Australian whaleship, the Lucy Ann, bound for; took part in a mutiny and was briefly jailed in the native "Calabooza Be ...
North Island... Hāhau-whenua is the name of the great fish caught by Māui which became theof New Zealand. When a fish took his hook, Māui said, 'A fish has taken my ...
Aruba... could be woven into his material. This led him to performances in Curaçao,and Jamaica in the early days, and finally to London, when he was already ...
TahitiManyan island resorts regularly offer guests the chance to "feed the stingrays ...
Spanish Virgin Islands... e northeastern Caribbean, part of an island grouping sometimes known as the. Vieques is part of the United States Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, but, l ...
Molokai... 2nd largest island in the United States. It is separated from the island ofby the Kalohi Channel to the north, and from Maui by the Auau Channel to t ...
Canary Islands... January 1873) and then on to Gibraltar. The next stops were Madeira and the(both February 1873). The period from February to July 1873 was spent cros ...
Mustique... nment reportedly planned, but did not attempt, to assassinate the prince onin July 1982. Though he had brief assignments to HMS Illustrious, RNAS Cul ...
Corfu... ticed widely in Greece while cricket and handball are relatively popular inand Veroia respectively
Darwin... abela being directly on the equator. Española, the southernmost island, and, the northernmost island, are spread out over a distance of 220 km (137 m ...
Lake Erie Islands... a popular vacation area because of its lake frontage, ferry service to the, quality sport fishery, the nearby Chautauqua at Lakeside, and the Cedar ...
Cyprus... nice to command the Venetian armies against invading Turks on the island of, accompanied by his new wife, his new lieutenant Cassio, his ensign Iago, ...
MauritiusPort Louis is the capital of. It is the largest city of the country and main port, which borders the I ...
Iona... nals of Ulster, there was a serious attack on Lindisfarne's mother-house of, which was followed in 795 by raids upon the northern coast of Ireland. F ...
St. Kitts... ng the island, he destroyed the Dutch forts and removed all their cannon to
MarmaraThere are two major island groups known as the Princes' andislands (including Avşa and Paşalimanı)
IthacaIn Greek mythology, Halithersês (Ἁλιθέρσης), son of Mastor, was ann prophet who warned the suitors of Odysseus's wife Penelope after interpr ...
AtauroTimor and its offshore islands such as, a former place of exile increasingly known for its beaches and coral, as ...
Gotland... h as the stone circles (domarringar), which are most common in Götaland and, and stelae (bautastenar) appeared in what is now northern Poland in the ...
Sicily... ttu) is a town and comune of about 50,000 inhabitants in the north coast of, Italy, 40 km from Messina towards Palermo. It belongs to the Province of ...
Nonamesset Island... y town in the Commonwealth. It consists of the Elizabeth Islands, including, Uncatena Island, Naushon Island, Pasque Island, Nashawena Island, Penike ...
Gilbert Islands... local pronunciation of "Gilberts", derived from the main island chain, the. The capital of South Tarawa consists of a number of islets connected thr ...
Kyūshū... arriers as they launched air strikes on installations in the Ryukyus and on. On 14 May, several Japanese planes penetrated the combat air patrol to g ...
Fernandina... as they moved away from the mantle plume, the youngest islands, Isabela and, are still being formed, with the most recent volcanic eruption in April ...
Jaco... mer place of exile increasingly known for its beaches and coral, as well asalong with Wetar and the other Barat Daya Islands to the northeast constit ...
Ambergris CayeIn Belize, off the island of, there is a popular marine sanctuary, Hol Chan, where divers and snorkele ...
IrelandThe Field is set in a small country village in southwest
Willem Schouten... cob in charge of trading during the expedition. The experienced ship masterwas captain of the Eendracht and a participant of the enterprise in equal ...
CalaisAt, Percy openly approaches Chauvelin in a decrepit inn (the Chat gris), who ...
Attu Island... mainland's most westerly point is the end of the Seward Peninsula in Alaska;, further off the Alaskan coast to the west, is considered the westernmos ...
New Guinea... t an unpleasant oil against an aggressor, and some species of pitohuis fromhave a powerful neurotoxin in their skin and feathers
Terra Australis... ds and is understood to have sighted Nui during his expedition in search of. In 1819 the island of Funafuti was named Ellice's Island; the name Ellic ...
Hispaniola... ith the crew of Christopher Columbus's second voyage in 1493. He settled in, which he helped pacify under the leadership of Governor Nicolás de Ovand ...
Tarawa... a number of islets connected through a series of causeways, located in thearchipelago. Kiribati became independent from the United Kingdom in 1979. ...
Marquesas Islands... ctures of life on board the Acushnet. Melville deserted the Acushnet in thein July 1842. For three weeks he lived among the Typee natives, who were c ...
Atlantis... a Genoese Sea-Captain". Inspired by Plato's Republic and the description ofin Timaeus, it describes a theocratic society where goods, women and child ...
Puerto Rico... e 1974 Candidates' matches, Spassky first defeated American Robert Byrne inby 4½–1½ (+3 =3); he then lost the semifinal match to the up-and-coming An ...
Naushon Island... sts of the Elizabeth Islands, including Nonamesset Island, Uncatena Island,, Pasque Island, Nashawena Island, Penikese Island, Cuttyhunk Island and s ...
Guernsey... nnel Islands, firstly to Jersey (1852–55) and then to the smaller island of(1855–1870). Although a general amnesty was proclaimed by Napoleon III in ...
Islands of the Forth... ff part of the East Lothian coast, which in turn are considered some of the. To the west are Craigleith, and the Lamb, Fidra and finally to the west ...
Zannone... in 1934 on over the territories of Latina, Sabaudia, San Felice Circeo andIsland (minor island of Ponziane Archipelago)
Caribbean... ricana) and feed them by hand. A "Stingray City" in the sea surrounding theisland of consists of a large, shallow reserve where the rays live, and sn ...
Ryukyu IslandsThe Alabama departed from Ulithi with TF 58 on 9 May, bound for the, to support forces which had landed on Okinawa on 1 April, and to protect ...
Staten Island... home after playing catch with friends in the Port Richmond neighborhood of. A search was organized and his body was found in a wooded area near his ...
Coral reef... les of sea anemones, and each partner protects the other against predators.s form some of the world's most productive ecosystems. Common coral reef c ...
Long IslandA county park in East Meadow, New York () is named in his honor. Eisenhower State Park on Lake Texoma near his bir ...
Uncatena Island... nwealth. It consists of the Elizabeth Islands, including Nonamesset Island,, Naushon Island, Pasque Island, Nashawena Island, Penikese Island, Cuttyh ...
Florida Keys... ar walls, and typically travel very slowly. They occur most commonly in theand in the northern Adriatic Sea. In contrast, tornadic waterspouts are st ...
Long Island... 3 June 1915 and sailed on 3 July to train New York militia in a cruise fromto ports in New England and Chesapeake Bay. She debarked the militia at Ne ...
Cyprus... ntries that have been targeted for this type of recruitment are: Australia,, Kenya, Latvia, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal, and South Africa
TexelOn June 14, 1615, Jacob le Maire and Willem Schouten sailed fromin the United Provinces. On January 29, 1616, they rounded Cape Horn, whic ...
Philippines... d most of the townsite. He renamed the town to Pateros, after a town in thehe previously visited. In 1903, the city consisted of four commercial esta ...
Venice... Napoleon's German allies, and pay 40 million francs in war indemnities, andwas given to the Kingdom of Italy. It was a harsh end for Austria, but cer ...
Cape Verde... oth Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole), is the capital and largest city of, an island nation in the Atlantic Ocean west of Senegal. It lies on the s ...
Niutao... s) but was unable to land. Keith S. Chambers and Doug Munro (1980) identifyas the island that Francisco Antonio Mourelle named on May 5, 1781 thus so ...
Choiseul Island... November 2, 1943, PT-59 participated in the rescue of 40 to 50 Marines fromand a foundering landing craft (LCP(R)) which was under fire from Japanese ...
Iceland... in 1972 in the "Match of the Century". The contest took place in Reykjavík,, at the height of the Cold War, and consequently was seen as symbolic of ...
Tyre... She is generally said to be the daughter of Agenor, the Phoenician King of; the Syracusan poet Moschus makes her mother Queen Telephassa ("far-shini ...
Bell Rock... ng boat, renamed Pharos, which entered service on 15 September 1807 near toand had a 1.5 ton anchor. The effectiveness of these anchors improved dram ...
Pemba... Indian Ocean be abolished. As The Omani presence continued in Zanzibar anduntil the 1964 revolution, but the official Omani Arab presence in Kenya w ...
Malta... o the Murmansk front (see Lapland War). Reportedly Kirkenes is second afteron a list of European towns experiencing air-raid alarms and attacks, with ...
Sand Island... , referred to as "Hawaiian Island Detention Camps". One camp was located atat the mouth of Honolulu Harbor. This camp was prepared in advance of the ...
Pacific Islands... . It may be performed as apart of traditional customs, such as those in theand the Philippines. In the medical field, it may be performed for as an a ...
Kerguelen Islands... during this period were the Prince Edward Islands, the Crozet Islands, the, and Heard Island. February 1874 was spent travelling south and then gene ...
Venice... ian War. In exchange Prussia would allow Italy to annex Austrian-controlled. King Emmanuel agreed to the alliance and the Third Italian War of Indepe ...
Hispaniola... the New World. Ten years after Columbus's discovery, the administration ofwas given to Nicolás de Ovando of the Order of Alcántara, founded during t ...
Penghu... ngly integrated into the Qing Dynasty before it ceded the island along withto the Empire of Japan in 1895 following the First Sino-Japanese War. Taiw ...
New Year Island... for three weeks at the Sandwich Islands, and on January 1, 1817 discovered. After further cruising in the Pacific Ocean, he again proceeded north, b ...
Kuril Islands... f Saint Petersburg (1875), when they ceded it to Russia in exchange for the
Solomon IslandsIn 1888, Lieut. F. Elton reported that Ugi beach people in thekilled their infants at birth by burying them, and women were also said to ...
Guernsey... the aircraft company which bore his name. Her paternal grandfather was fromin the Channel Islands
CuraçaoMansvelt was given orders to attack the Dutch settlement of, but once the crew was out at sea it was decided that Curaçao was not luc ...
Caribbean... ally means "fetish" or "charm," thus a gris-gris bag is a charm bag. In the, an almost identical African-derived bag is called a wanga or oanga bag, ...
Læsø... n of Frederikshavn to the city of Oslo in Norway, Göteborg in Sweden and to
Sumba... th of Australia, and is one of the easternmost Sunda Islands. Together with, Babar and associated smaller islands, Timor forms the southern outer arc ...
Miami Beach, Florida... with her eyesight failing, Lamarr retreated from public life and settled in, in 1981
GuernseyJersey along withhas its own lottery called The Channel Islands Lottery that was launched i ...
Kingston, OntarioQueen's University () uses the term "rector". The term refers to a member of the student body ...
Philippines... apart of traditional customs, such as those in the Pacific Islands and the. In the medical field, it may be performed for as an alternative to circu ...
MadeiraOnand the Azores, the local population has been described as E. r. microrhyn ...
Great BritainThroughout the 18th century, the great European powers Spain,and France vied for power in Florida. Their interest in the peninsula was ...
Channel Islands... pany which bore his name. Her paternal grandfather was from Guernsey in the
Banaba... rts", as an equivalent of the former colony to acknowledge the inclusion of, the Line Islands, and the Phoenix Islands, which were never considered p ...
CaribbeanCoventry's large industrial base made it attract to the wave of Asian andimmigrants who arrived from Commonwealth colonies after 1948. In 1960, one ...
Radak... y and natural history. The expedition, proceeding by Cape Horn, visited theand Society Islands, and reached Petropavlovsk in July 1824. Many position ...
Sunda IslandsTimor is located north of Australia, and is one of the easternmost. Together with Sumba, Babar and associated smaller islands, Timor forms t ...
Rossel Island... nnoitered the area where landings were planned. The submarines investigatedand the Deboyne Group anchorage in the Louisiade Archipelago, Jomard Chann ...
Penglai mountain... th ships carrying hundreds of young men and women in search of the mystical. They were sent to find Anqi Sheng, a 1,000-year-old magician whom Qin Sh ...
Cuttyhunk... opulous town in Massachusetts. Most of the residents live in the village of, while most of the land in the town is owned by the Forbes family
Krusenstern Islands... eeding via Cape Horn, he discovered the Romanzov Islands, Rurik Islands and(today Tikehau), then made for Kamchatka, and in the middle of July procee ...
Kodiak ArchipelagoThehas been home to native cultures for over 7000 years. In their language, " ...
Solomon IslandsIn thein 1943, three PT boats, PT-59, PT-60, and PT-61, were converted into "PT ...
Prince Edward Island... ked an exodus by the Acadians to Île-Royale and Île-Saint-Jean (present-day). By the 1740s French leaders like Father Jean-Louis Le Loutre orchestrat ...
Cook Islands... gue is currently the national sport of 2 countries Papua New Guinea and the
Sri Lanka... of central and northern Chile, Vietnam, Indonesia, parts of southern India,, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Central America, the ...
Iona... onicle, or at Dunnottar following the Prophecy of Berchán. He was buried on. Máel Coluim's sons Dub and Cináed were later kings. American musician Jo ...
Hokkaidō... . Within the museum are branches of famous ramen restaurants from Kyūshū to. The current list includes Ide Shoten, Shinasobaya, Keyaki, Ryushanhai, H ...
Saint Croix... rport (20-30 minute flight). Flights are also available between Vieques andand Saint Thomas
Kiritimati... or over. One merchant ship connects, from time to time, the Line Islands (, Fanning and Washington) and makes stops en route at the Phoenix Islands
Philippines... s. The population enjoys a per capita income of more than twice that of theand much of Micronesia. Long-term prospects for the tourist sector have be ...
Senkaku Islands... eople's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (Taiwan) over the; and with the People's Republic of China over the status of
Manhattan... wark and into New York on the George Washington Bridge. I-95 travels across, The Bronx, and southern Westchester County in New York before reaching C ...
Long Island... inister after studying under Wheelock from 1743 to 1747, and later moved toto preach to the Montauks
IrelandFrancis Stewart Leland Lyons (1923–1983) was one of's premier historians
Philippines... m the driver sits behind the passenger seat on a "tadpole" tricycle. In the, the passenger seats are usually located beside the driver. there are als ...
Capri... eling in 1875, Munthe sailed in a small boat from Sorrento to the island of. Climbing the Phoenician stairs to the village of Anacapri, he came upon ...
San Juan Islands... und proper but also for waters to the north, such as Bellingham Bay and theregion
Caribbean... hiladelphia. He imported scotch whisky directly from Scotland, rum from the, and whiskey from Canada. He was also involved in gambling
VeniceHe was born in, a nephew of Pope Eugene IV (1431–1447) through his mother. His adoption ...
Cape CodProvincetown is located at the tip of. The town's total area is , of it being land and of it water. The town is ...
Falkland IslandsThe disputed territories of the, which are a British overseas territory but are claimed by Argentina, wer ...
Martha's VineyardOak Bluffs is a town located onin Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 3,713 at ...
Sicily... ly, Constantine himself learned of the exarch's errand before departing for, then Gallipoli, and then Otranto, where the group stayed for winter. In ...
Philippines... t and other major teen magazines, and also when Menudo became famous in theand Japan
Venice... s (emperor) without saying anything else. In exchange for that recognition,was returned to the Byzantine Empire. However, under the influence of Theo ...
Bonriki International Airport... Kiribati, of which 4 have paved runways, the only international ones beingand Cassidy International Airport
Mays Island... rth and south sides of the city, and the Cedar River divides east and west., in the middle of the river, is the only area of the city where addresses ...
BougainvilleGotō's force left Truk on 28 April, cut through the Solomons betweenand Choiseul and took station near New Georgia Island. Marumo's support gr ...
Newfoundland... had been with them, but had merely dropped off its passengers and left forfor privateering
Iceland... summers there, with the Morris children, while Morris himself travelled toin 1871 and 1873
Moorea... beachcomber and island rover (Omoo in Tahitian) eventually crossing over to. He then signed articles on yet another whaler for a six-month cruise (No ...
St. Kitts... mbrero island) & Enegada". He also received letters of patent for Barbados,and "all the Caribees" in 1628. Carlisle died shortly after, but his son, ...
Cyprus... , Norway, Belgium, Denmark, Iceland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania,, Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. Donald Rumsfeld tried to downplay the Fren ...
South Island... long the same major geologic fault responsible for the Southern Alps in the. Though nowhere near as mountainous as these, the Rimutaka and Tararua Ra ...
Corsica... as a vagrant in adjacent regions. E. r. witherbyi from Northwestern Africa,, and Sardinia closely resembles melophilus but for a shorter wing length. ...
Long Island... the 1976 112 lb New York Golden Gloves Sub-Novice Championship. He defeated's Ricky Brown in the finals. Laporte was defeated by Joseph Nieto of the ...
islands... substitution of the submission treaty by the effective incorporation of theto the Islamic state. This incorporation took place in the last years of t ...
Maluku Islands... tronesian languages are related to languages spoken in the Halmahera in theand Western New Guinea
Cassidy International Airport... unways, the only international ones being Bonriki International Airport and
Suwanosejima... with a group of Japanese back-to-the-land drop-outs known as "the Tribe" on(a small Japanese island in the East China Sea), where they combed the bea ...
Great Britain... ntrol for over three centuries, from 1565 to 1898. The city was occupied byfor two years from 1762 to 1764 as part of the Seven Years' War. The city ...
Sandwich Islands... ast of Asia, he again sailed to the south, sojourned for three weeks at the, and on January 1, 1817 discovered New Year Island. After further cruisin ...
Iceland... ia, France, Switzerland, Greece, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Denmark,, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus, Russia, Belarus, and Ukra ...
Puerto Rico... mi, Orlando, New York, and Washington, DC. In June, 2000, upon returning to, the band held a concert at the Rubén Rodríguez Coliseum in Bayamón. In A ...
Elizabeth IslandsGosnold is a town that encompasses thein Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2010 census, the ...
Sardinia... in adjacent regions. E. r. witherbyi from Northwestern Africa, Corsica, andclosely resembles melophilus but for a shorter wing length. The northeaste ...
Graemsay... ey Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, sheltered by the islands of Mainland,, Burray, South Ronaldsay and Hoy. It is about . It has a shallow sandy bo ...
Crozet Islands... The islands visited during this period were the Prince Edward Islands, the, the Kerguelen Islands, and Heard Island. February 1874 was spent travell ...
Saint Thomas... ute flight). Flights are also available between Vieques and Saint Croix and
Puerto RicoPublished since 1974, El Vocero was at first the third of the four largestnewspapers, trailing El Mundo and El Nuevo Día and leading The San Juan St ...
Malta... ck to the early 20th century when a favoured Tuscan family left the city toand the youngest daughter of the family was declared Contessa Morabitto di ...
Kyūshū... e invented. Within the museum are branches of famous ramen restaurants fromto Hokkaidō. The current list includes Ide Shoten, Shinasobaya, Keyaki, Ry ...
Ireland... e nation), along with three previously introduced characters, Banshee (from), Sunfire (from Japan), and Wolverine (from Canada), who eventually becam ...
Canary Islands... stocene) and only beginning to diverge genetically. Robins from the western: El Hierro, La Palma and La Gomera (E. (r.) microrhynchus) are similar to ...
Puerto Rico... tchili ("snow"), or chilli ("where the land ends"). Chile, Panama, Peru andare some of the Spanish-speaking countries where chilis are known as ají, ...
Kanton... ok Island and Flint Island). The Phoenix Islands are uninhabited except for, and have no representation. Banaba itself is sparsely inhabited now. The ...
Venice... l tastes and murderous tendencies who lives with his wife (Helen Mirren) in
Puerto Rico... born Joaquín Rafael Bottom in Río Piedras, located in the city of San Juan,, to American parents. He is the third of five children, including River ( ...
Rhodians... title of king bestowed upon him by his father, he endeavoured to punish thefor having deserted his cause; his ingenuity in devising new siege engines ...
Staten Island... 1924, Fish found eight-year-old Beatrice Kiel playing alone on her parents'farm. He offered her money to come and help him look for rhubarb. She was ...
MaldivesTheban the import of alcohol, x-raying all baggage on arrival. Alcoholic beve ...
Cyprus... figures are available, they show around 3 million Greeks outside Greece and. Estimates provided by the SAE - World Council of Hellenes Abroad put the ...
El Hierro... y beginning to diverge genetically. Robins from the western Canary Islands:, La Palma and La Gomera (E. (r.) microrhynchus) are similar to the Europe ...
Ellis Island... lty to Children as an interpreter for the U.S. Bureau of Immigration at theimmigrant station
Mauritius... own descriptions of the bird were made by Dutch travellers to the island of, east of Madagascar. Only a dozen such contemporary accounts based on obs ...
Funafuti... stories as to the ancestors of the Tuvaluans vary from island to island. Onand Vaitupu the founding ancestor is described as being from Samoa; wherea ...
Cayman Islands... , a Tunisian cell phone company and venture capital funds in the US and the. The head of the investigation stated that "although the money for the po ...
Venice... r blue, azurite, for under painting. Most likely imported to Europe through, the pigment was seldom seen in German art or art from countries north of ...
Tristan da Cunha... pent crossing the Atlantic from Bahia to the Cape of Good Hope, touching aton the way
Iceland... s Greece, Ireland and Portugal and also some EU countries outside the area., the country which experienced the largest crisis in 2008 when its entire ...
Kingston, Ontario... e Klondyke march and two step with music by Oscar Telgmann was published inby the Music Emporium, c. 1897
New Guinea... practice infanticide Géza Róheim reported that even infanticidal mothers in, who ate a child, did not affect the personality development of the survi ...
Long IslandHe spent summers inwith his maternal grandmother, Rose Schwartz, and attended the Actors Stud ...
ManhattanCorporate headquarters is in the Upper West Side ofin New York City, and the company's news operations are also centered in M ...
Outer Banks... oes the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, which marks the beginning of the
Koror... ch marine environment, including the Floating Garden Islands to the west of. The number of visitors—85% of whom come from Japan, Taiwan, and the U.S. ...
Puerto Rico... , once again substituting Serbia. Proyecto M went to enjoy great success inand Venezuela
Silda, the island in Sildagapet bay, is an old fishing community, which in its ...
Hispaniola... aribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican ...
Taiwan... t 18414 Colima Road in Rowland Heights, 91748 to feed its flight to Taipei,
Palm Beach, FloridaOn Easter weekend 1991, Kennedy was at a get-together at the family'sestate when, restless and maudlin after reminiscing about his brother-in-l ...
Spice Islands... etersz Coen of the VOC claimed infringement of its monopoly of trade to the. Le Maire and Schouten were arrested and the Eendracht was confiscated. A ...
Ireland... to use as a turnpike road for use by mail coaches bringing mail to and from, his road being extended to the port of Holyhead on the Isle of Anglesey ...
British Isles... s on sea coasts or on large lakes over a much wider range in Europe and theas well as in North America
Nordstrand... park as well. There are five large islands (Sylt, Föhr, Amrum, Pellworm and) and ten small islets known as Halligen
La Gomera... enetically. Robins from the western Canary Islands: El Hierro, La Palma and(E. (r.) microrhynchus) are similar to the European (Erithacus rubecula)
Lesser Sunda Islands... imur, Malay for "east"; it is so called because it is at the eastern end of
Louisiades... d fueling until 4 May. Fletcher elected to take TF 17 northwest towards theand ordered TF 11 to meet TF 44, which was en route from Sydney and Nouméa ...
Crete... d wife. Around 75, he married as his fourth wife, a Greek Jewish woman from, who was a member of a distinguished family. They had a happy married lif ...
La Palma... to diverge genetically. Robins from the western Canary Islands: El Hierro,and La Gomera (E. (r.) microrhynchus) are similar to the European (Erithac ...
Crete... rophecy. In the visits to various places in Greece – Delos, Sparta, Phlius,, etc. which are ascribed to him, he usually appears either in his religio ...
Prince Edward Islands... rallel of 60 degrees south. The islands visited during this period were the, the Crozet Islands, the Kerguelen Islands, and Heard Island. February 18 ...
New Guinea... bstantial effect on the strategic planning of both sides. Without a hold in, the subsequent Allied advance, arduous though it was, would have been mo ...
Faroe Islands... the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO) was established by the, Greenland, Iceland, and Norway under the Agreement on Cooperation in Res ...
Lampedusa... a faced starvation as the British navy intercepted a French relief force ofIsland. Eventually, General Vaubois, the commander of the French forces, s ...
Coney Island... ted States. The pool, along with several other smaller ones, was known as "of the West.
Manhattan... tella Zavala Damon, in New York. As of 2011, Damon and his family reside in
Cape Breton Island... f Newfoundland and Acadia restricted the French presence on the Atlantic to. French settlers from Newfoundland were resettled there, creating the col ...
Caribbean... iti ( ; Haitian Creole Ayiti ), officially the Republic of Haiti (; ), is acountry. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispani ...
AzoresOn Madeira and the, the local population has been described as E. r. microrhynchos, and alth ...
Polynesia... t Asia, from Taiwan, via Melanesia and across the Pacific islands to create. During pre-European-contact times there was frequent canoe voyaging betw ...
ElbaThe victors exiled Napoleon to the island of, and restored the French Bourbon monarchy in the person of Louis XVIII. T ...
Palm Beach, Florida... s his family moved among Bronxville, New York, Hyannis Port, Massachusetts,, and the Court of St. James's in London, Kennedy attended ten different s ...
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Manhattan... t Louisiana Tech, in the fall of 1980, Wright moved on to The New School in. He lived in an apartment over Balducci’s, in Greenwich Village, and spen ...
Sicily... all city (a frazione) in the comune of Patti, in the Province of Messina in, between Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto and Cefalù
Philippines... government within the Port Area Manila is a major publishing center in the. Clustered in the central business districts of Makati, Ortigas Center, a ...
Melanesia... ries regarding the spread of humans out of Southeast Asia, from Taiwan, viaand across the Pacific islands to create Polynesia. During pre-European-co ...
Azores... was bolstered by a number of Portuguese sailors, many of whom were from the, and came to live in Provincetown after being hired to work on US ships. ...
Great Britain... te of the area was much different than it is now; it was similar to that oftoday. The area which today is Brevard County was probably not coastal at ...
Sri Lanka... e assassinations were linked to separatist movements in Punjab and northern, respectively
Fernando de Noronha... each St Paul's Rocks. From here, the route went south across the equator toduring September 1873, and onwards that same month to Bahia (now called Sa ...
Staten IslandJoe Banks (Tom Hanks) is a downtrodden everyman from, working in a factory for an unpleasant, demanding boss, Frank Waturi (Da ...
Guam... ited States Navy, was promoted to coxswain and took part in the invasion ofagainst the Japanese. Upon his discharge, Elmore returned to central Missi ...
United States Virgin Islands... olumbus Day is a legal holiday in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. In the, the day is celebrated as both Columbus Day and "Puerto Rico Friendship D ...
Culebra... ieques is the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south the Caribbean. The island ofis about north of Vieques, and the US Virgin Islands lie to the east. Vieq ...
Gran CanariaThe most distinct birds are those of(E. r. marionae) and Tenerife (E. r. superbus), which may be considered tw ...
Puerto Rico... Montreal), Bahamas, France, French Antilles, the Turks and Caicos, Jamaica,, Venezuela and French Guiana. There are an estimated 800,000 in the Domin ...
Manhattan... reet." On May 28, 1928, Fish, then 58 years old, visited the Budd family inunder the pretense of hiring Edward; he later confessed that he had planne ...
IrelandMartyn died on 29 January 2009, in hospital in, as a result of double pneumonia. His death was announced by his friend J ...
Taiwan... en by virtually all young and middle-aged citizens of mainland China and on. Cantonese, not Mandarin, was used in Hong Kong during the time of its Br ...
Kaskaskia, Illinois... ford, and James Garretson, settlers from Maryland and Virginia travelled toin 1781 and after wintering there, settled at or near Bellefontaine (Frenc ...
Kiribati... ment, Kiribati is also a member of the African Caribbean and Pacific Group.maintains good relations with most countries and has particularly close ti ...
Madagascar... iod there, then went directly over to the Cape of Good Hope. They landed onwhere their nine men were pursued by three hundred natives, because one of ...
Baengnyeong Island... and Weihai. There are also ferries to Incheon's outlying islands as well asinside of the Northern Limit Line
Elizabeth IslandsThe earliest settlers of thewere the Wampanoag Native Americans. The tribe did not settle permanently ...
Great Britain... oes of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula fail to stop Count Dracula's conquest of, resulting in a world where vampires are common and increasingly dominant ...
TenerifeThe most distinct birds are those of Gran Canaria (E. r. marionae) and(E. r. superbus), which may be considered two distinct species or at least ...
Philippines... nd the Makati Business Club, one of the most important economic hubs in the
CorsicaIn continental France (metropolitan France, excluding), the median land area of a department is , which is two-and-a-half times ...
Puerto Rico... the mainland U.S., Columbus Day is a legal holiday in the U.S. territory of. In the United States Virgin Islands, the day is celebrated as both Colum ...
Iceland... , Greenland, and Alaska. There is a smaller population (ca. 3,000 pairs) in. On isolated occasions they have bred in the far north of Scotland. The f ...
PhilippinesIn many countries in Latin America, the, and several US states, the sale but not the consumption of alcohol is pr ...
Riau Islands... 1999 (North Maluku, West Papua, Banten, Bangka-Belitung Islands, Gorontalo,and West Sulawesi) and five provinces received special status: Aceh, for t ...
Lesbos... s an Athenian Empire; at the start of the Peloponnesian War, only Chios andwere left to contribute ships, and these states were by now far too weak t ...
Iceland... Mammal Commission (NAMMCO) was established by the Faroe Islands, Greenland,, and Norway under the Agreement on Cooperation in Research, Conservation ...
SicilySalvatore Lucania was born on November 24, 1897 in Lercara Friddi,. His parents, Antonio and Rosalia Lucania, had four other children: Barto ...
Coney Island... mains the oldest platform carousel still in operation. It was originally on, but was moved to Oak Bluffs in 1884. It was built in 1876
Woodlark Island... vasion convoy, Gotō, and Kajioka steered towards a rendezvous point east ofto await the outcome of the carrier battle. During the night, the warm fro ...
BermudaIn 1922, Merton and his father traveled to, having left John Paul with his in-laws, the Jenkins family, in Douglasto ...
Polynesia... Polynesia, the Maohi (Mā’ohi in tahitian language) are the ancestors of then peoples
Taiwan... especially by the Four Asian Tigers (Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and), resulted in rapid economic transformation and industrialization. Their ...
MatsuSmall parts of the province, namely the islands of Quemoy and, are under the administration of the Republic of China
Niuatoputapu... the (Northern) Tonga islands: "Cocos Island" (Tafahi), "Traitors Island" (), and "Island of Good Hope" (Niuafo'ou). On April 28 they discovered the ...
LollandHe was born Kaj Harald Leininger Petersen on the island of, Denmark, and raised by a family named Munk after the death of his parent ...
Philippines... oup performed humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations in thein June 2008 after Typhoon Fengshen, which killed hundreds from the centra ...
Venice... In Europe it extends from Israel, Lebanon, Egypt, and Italy (historically,) in the Mediterranean Sea to other European ports or caravan routes such ...
ElbaAfter the war he retired to Silesia, but the return of Napoleon fromsoon called him back to service. He was put in command of the Army of the ...
PolynesiaTuvalu ( or ), formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is an island nation located in the Pacific Ocean, midway between Hawaii and Au ...
San Cristobal... e of the Solomons throughout the day on 5 May, turned west to pass south of(Makira), and entered the Coral Sea after transiting between Guadalcanal a ...
IrelandMillions demonstrated on the streets of Britain,, Spain, Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, France, Switzerland, G ...
Madagascar... g perfume. It also is the world's second-largest producer of vanilla, after. Principal food crops are coconuts, bananas, and cassava. Foodstuffs cons ...
Canary Islands... lands, he took holiday voyages twice to the West Indies, three times to theand Madeira, to America, to Norway, to Lisbon, as well as numerous visits ...
Caribbean... the Middle East, South Asia and in most of Africa, but also in much of theand Oceania) including five that carry the death penalty
Marco Island... tes. The population was 2,232 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Naples–Metropolitan Statistical Area
Taiwan... ed strikes on Japanese facilities at Okinawa, in the Penghu archipelago and
Tenerife... was announced in December 2005 that a musical called "Assuca" would open inbefore touring the world. The name comes from Cruz's well-known catch phra ...
Sicily... ed in several different commands. In World War II he saw combat in Tunisia,, France and Germany. He reached the temporary wartime rank of colonel, an ...
Solomon Islands... in the Old World, but with boid species present in Madagascar, Fiji and the, this is not quite accurate; instead, it seems that they have survived in ...
Honshū... t prefecture of Japan after Hokkaido. It is located in the Tōhoku region ofisland and contains the island's easternmost point. The capital is Morioka ...
InchgarvieWhere possible, the bridge used natural features such as, an island, the promontories on either side of the firth at this point, a ...
Madeira... day voyages twice to the West Indies, three times to the Canary Islands and, to America, to Norway, to Lisbon, as well as numerous visits to France, ...
Ireland... a second run-off ballot. Preferential voting is used throughout Australia,, and in some states in the United States. This reduces but does not elimi ...
Majorca... , ; formerly Palma de Mallorca) is the major city and port on the island ofand capital city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Sp ...
Manhattan... ston, Massachusetts or White Plains, New York (with optional car service to) via Cape Air, which also operates code-share flights for JetBlue. The ai ...
Ravenna... us Honorius, Western Roman Emperor from 395 to 423, moved the government toand Rome's population declined to a mere 20,000 during the Early Middle Ag ...
Faial... th century. Many of these town residents were originally from the island ofin the Azores, and the neighborhood where many of them lived, located betw ...
Lau Islands... ', his home was Ata, and he was better known by the original Tongans on thethan in the kingdom of Tonga proper
Crete... liberate the Greek-speaking provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Especially in, a prolonged revolt in 1866–1869 had raised nationalist fervour. When war ...
Bermuda... development of the schooner is connected with that of the Bermuda sloop. In, countless vessels of otherwise identical description were built with bet ...
Sardinia... of young children, with evidence of sacrificial rituals, have been found in. Infants were offered to the Babylonian goddess Ishtar. Pelasgians offere ...
Tortuga... aving the longest. The country lies mostly between latitudes 18° and 20°N (island lies just north of 20°), and longitudes 71° and 75°W. Haiti's terra ...
Tafahi... he first Westerners to visit the (Northern) Tonga islands: "Cocos Island" (), "Traitors Island" (Niuatoputapu), and "Island of Good Hope" (Niuafo'ou) ...
Sicily... cket is thought to be a mosaic icon still visible in Monreale Cathedral, in, created shortly after his death. Becket's cousins obtained refuge at the ...
Vasilievsky Island... ov, who took possession of Peter II and lodged him in his own palace on the, had intended to marry Peter to his daughter Maria. For a few months in t ...
Penghu... ttops while they launched strikes on Japanese facilities at Okinawa, in thearchipelago and Taiwan
U.S. Virgin Islands... The Territory considered holding a plebiscite as to whether the British andshould merge under the U.S. flag, but (although there was no opposition fr ...
Great Britain... lice surveillance. Presently he elected to retire to Germany, and thence to, where he married in Edinburgh on 20 June 1817 Margaret Mercer Elphinston ...
Ata... is, volcanoes), while Maui's lands were smooth (coral islands and atolls).and Eua, the islands which were fished up first, were quite hilly, as Maui ...
Mocha Island... bergen observed the use of chiliquenes (a llama type) by native Mapuches ofas plow animals in 1614
Cebu Island... the Philippines and provided cover for the carriers striking the islands of, Leyte, Bohol and Negros from 12–14 September. The carriers launched stri ...
Hebrides... so settled in the Faroe Islands, Ireland, Iceland, Scotland (Caithness, theand the Northern Isles), Greenland, and Canada
Long Island... eft Prades for the United States. They settled first with Ruth's parents on, New York and then near them in Douglaston, New York. In 1917, the family ...
Phoenix Islands... Christmas Island (or Kiritimati) became part of the colony in 1919 and thewere added in 1937. Sir Arthur Grimble was a cadet administrative officer ...
Whidbey Island... , Robert Jay Mathews, died in a stand-off with police and federal agents on, Washington, when police fired flares into his hideout, igniting a fire. ...
Sicily... a kingdom which included the Roman Africa province, besides the islands of, Corsica, Sardinia, Malta and the Balearics. In 455, they sacked the city ...
Timor... place between those in Southeast Asia and those in Australia, mostly around. One of the lineages stretches all the way from Moreton Bay to Western Au ...
Bora Bora... ntry, the Cook Islands Christian Church in Arutanga, was built by Papeiha () and Vahapata (Raiatea), two LMS teachers Williams had left behind
Prince Edward Island... ed throughout Canada, reaching both coasts. The provinces of New Brunswick,and Quebec have yet to play host to the Junos
Rozenburg... llest municipality in the Netherlands in land area, following the merger ofinto Rotterdam
Rossel Island... h at a prearranged rendezvous . TF 17 then turned to head northwest towardsin the Louisiades. Unbeknownst to the two adversaries, their carriers were ...
North IslandMangaroa is a rural suburb of Upper Hutt situated in the lowerof New Zealand. It is home to Mangaroa School, and previously th
Isle of Anglesey... to and from Ireland, his road being extended to the port of Holyhead on thein Wales. At this time the section south of London became known as the Gre ...
Sunda Arc... he Sumatra Fracture Zone. The volcanoes of Sumatra and Java are part of the, a result of the northeasterly movement of the Indo-Australian Plate whic ...
Niuafo'ou... nd" (Tafahi), "Traitors Island" (Niuatoputapu), and "Island of Good Hope" (). On April 28 they discovered the Hoorn Islands (Futuna and Alofi), where ...
NewfoundlandThe island of, then a British colony, held two referendums in 1948 to determine its fut ...
Bateman Island... nt-day Tri-Cities, Washington. They explored a few miles upriver, as far as, before heading down the Columbia, concluding their journey at the river' ...
Spratly Islands... he PRC government claims territories of the province extend to the southern, Paracel Islands, and other disputed marine territory
Madagascar... he New World and pythons in the Old World, but with boid species present in, Fiji and the Solomon Islands, this is not quite accurate; instead, it se ...
Caroline Islands... ed negotiate the resolution of a dispute between Germany and Spain over theas well as organising relief during a cholera epidemic
Cyprus... (different versions of it are also found in Albania, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria,, Greece, Montenegro and Turkey), is usually made with wheat semolina, sug ...
British Virgin Islands... riod of time from when the last Arawaks left what would later be called theuntil the first Europeans started to settle there in the early 17th centur ...
Puerto RicoPonce (; ) is both a city and a municipality in the southern part of. The city is the seat of the municipal government
Paracel Islands... claims territories of the province extend to the southern Spratly Islands,, and other disputed marine territory
British Virgin Islands... sovereign states, as several states have overseas dependencies (such as the(GBR) and Saint Pierre and Miquelon (FRA)), with citizenry at times identi ...
Spice Islands... an armada that would sail from the western coast of Mexico to China and the. At great cost, he assembled and equipped 13 ships and approximately 550 ...
Kadavu Island... ted them from evil denizens of the sea. He was once going inland to conquerthrough the river when another god challenged him in the form of an octopu ...
Ten Thousand Islands... rers, Marco Island is the largest barrier island within Southwest Florida'sarea extending southerly to Cape Sable. Like the City of Naples to the nor ...
Kiritimati... rown colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in 1916. Christmas Island (or) became part of the colony in 1919 and the Phoenix Islands were added in ...
Zanzibar... f commerce, administration, and higher education), Arabic (widely spoken in), many local languages (see also:
Wards Island... ands are also part of the borough of Manhattan, including Randall's Island,, and Roosevelt Island in the East River, and Governors Island and Liberty ...
Ponapese... ther cultures, including the Ugandan Batoro, Mohave Indians, Mangaians, and. Amongst the Batoro, older women teach the younger women "kachapati" (spr ...
Sakhalin... strategic resources. Japan also received the southern half of the Island offrom Russia. Japan gained a great deal from the treaty, but it was not wha ...
Atlantis... ously on different parts of the earth. Cayce also accepted the existence ofand had claimed that "the red race developed in Atlantis and its developme ...
Ireland... was one of four brothers who may have been born in Liscannor, County Clare,to an Irish speaking mother, Máire Ní Scannláin, and John Holland, and lea ...
Ireland... ns from Denmark, Norway and Sweden. They also settled in the Faroe Islands,, Iceland, Scotland (Caithness, the Hebrides and the Northern Isles), Gree ...
Réunion... e reluctant to call at the island. Most freight is sent first to Mombasa orand transshipped from there
Rügen... nian coast include Wollin (on the isle of Wollin), Ralswiek (on the isle of), Altes Lager Menzlin (at the lower Peene river), and Bardy-Świelubie nea ...
Sri Lanka... the civil war in 1983, more than 800,000 Tamils have been displaced withinas local diaspora, and over a half million Tamils living as the Tamil dias ...
Malta... is largely ceremonial. Countries using this system include Israel, Ireland,, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Iceland, India, Pakistan, Germa ...
Kiribati... 1500 people left the island during a repatriation of immigrant workers fromand Tuvalu. The repatriation was motivated by wide-scale reductions-in-for ...
Malta... he Roman Africa province, besides the islands of Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia,and the Balearics. In 455, they sacked the city of Rome. Their kingdom col ...
Guernsey... ropean Division 1 alongside Ireland, Scotland, Denmark, the Netherlands and. In two tournaments at this level Jersey have finished 6th
Iceland... enmark, Norway and Sweden. They also settled in the Faroe Islands, Ireland,, Scotland (Caithness, the Hebrides and the Northern Isles), Greenland, an ...
Caribbean... ti-ethnic heritages, from Central America, West Africa, Southeast Asia, the, and many other parts of the world
Isla de Caja de Muertos... lado La Guancha on the southern shore, and a ferry that provides service to. The new intra-city mass transit system, SITRAS, was scheduled to start o ...
IrelandThere have been two introductions of English to, a medieval introduction that led to the development of the now-extinct Y ...
VeniceDoppler died on 17 March 1853 at age 49 from a pulmonary disease in(also at that time part of the Austrian Empire). His tomb is just inside t ...
Skomer... in the 1950s a Manx Shearwater released in Boston returned to its colony in, Wales, within 13 days, a distance of . Birds navigate during migration u ...
Long IslandHart was born on April 18, 1976 in Smithtown, New York, on, the daughter of Paula, a producer and talent manager, and William Hart, ...
Melanesia... voyages; for, besides his great expeditions for work in the Torres Straits,, Egypt, India and the Solomon Islands, he took holiday voyages twice to t ...
PhilippinesThe Alabama departed from the Carolines to steam to theand provided cover for the carriers striking the islands of Cebu Island, L ...
Long IslandThe Village of Farmingdale is an incorporated village onwithin the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, New York in the United Sta ...
SicilyLocations include the Cyclopean Islands east offand near Trentino in northern Italy; Victoria in Australia; Kerguelen Isla ...
Sardinia... included the Roman Africa province, besides the islands of Sicily, Corsica,, Malta and the Balearics. In 455, they sacked the city of Rome. Their kin ...
Ravenna... in his father's expedition in 424 to defeat the western usurper, Joannes of, and to install Galla Placidia and her son, Valentinian III, in his place ...
Ireland... ane Naval Base, Scotland to Nova Scotia declared an emergency north-west offollowing a fire onboard. The fire was caused by seawater entering through ...
Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands... eptember 28, 2011, and ended its first run on December 21, 2011. A , set in, is currently in production, and will premiere in mid-2012. The show has ...
William Robert BroughtonIn October 1792, Vancouver sent Lieutenant, his second-in-command, up the river. Broughton got as far as the Sandy R ...
Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge... includes the Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness. The Lake Michigan division of theis also within the lake
Smith Island, Maryland... Tangier is very isolated, its nearest neighbors being other islands such as. The only methods of transportation off the island are boats and airplane ...
Line IslandsSome of the islands of Kiribati, especially in the remote, were formerly used by the United States and United Kingdom for nuclear w ...
Guam... azpi was carried by the navy from New Spain (Mexico) to the Philippines viain order to establish the Spanish East Indies, a base for trade with the O ...
Malta... – 20 October 1809) was a British Admiral and the first British governor of. He was born in Ebworth Park, Sheepscombe, Gloucestershire. He was the fo ...
Necker IslandPage married Lucinda Southworth at Richard Branson's Caribbean island,in 2007. Southworth is a research scientist and sister of actress and mode ...
Iona... ldees of the 9th to the 12th century the direct successors of the Irish andn monasticism of the 6th to the 8th century. Some have suggested that thes ...
Pontine Islands... s Latina, including the only remaining remnant of the swamp, and two of theoffshore, Zannone and Ponza, have been included in the Circeo National Par ...
Randall's Island... Several small islands are also part of the borough of Manhattan, including, Wards Island, and Roosevelt Island in the East River, and Governors Isla ...
Corsica... ndence became less exact. There is no number 20, but 2A and 2B instead, for. Corsican postal codes or addresses in both departments do still start wi ...
Corsica... om which included the Roman Africa province, besides the islands of Sicily,, Sardinia, Malta and the Balearics. In 455, they sacked the city of Rome. ...
ZanzibarThis rice flour and coconut milk halva is common fare on the streets of
Guadalcanal... was sufficient to disrupt heavily escorted Japanese resupply activities at. Afterwards, the PT mission in the Solomon Islands was deemed a success
Zanzibar... abs from Oman. Under Seyyid Said, the Omani sultan who moved his capital toin the early 19th century, the Arabs created long-distance trade routes in ...
Java... King", on streets and buildings. In Indonesia, especially on the island of, the sultan's divite right is more commonly known as the wahyu, or 'revel ...
Mustang IslandThe city is on the mainland of Texas and is connected to(which contains the city of Port Aransas) via a -long causeway, and a free ...
Tongatapu... illy, as Maui apparently was not an expert fisherman yet. His next catch, () he kept much smoother
Iceland... em include Israel, Ireland, Malta, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Turkey,, India, Pakistan, Germany and Greece
Iceland... ament of the United Kingdom, the Tynwald of the Isle of Man, the Althing ofand Sejm of . Of these, it is the only one to have met continuously as a l ...
Rurutu... rritories. However, an attempt to land the pinnace on the Austral Island ofwas thwarted by rough surf and the rocky shoreline. On 15 August, Endeavou ...
Philippines... in the charge of Ferdinand Magellan. Following the death of Magellan in the, the expedition was completed under the command of Juan Sebastian Elcano ...
Betio... November 1943; the Battle of Tarawa was fought at Kiribati's former capitalon Tarawa Atoll
Cook Islands... epted among native or indigenous people in Aotearoa, New Zealand or Avaiki,as the way they describe themselves. Te Ao Maohi - the Maohi world - as an ...
Great Britain... the start of the Industrial Revolution also concerns the massive lead thathad over other countries. Some have stressed the importance of natural or ...
Admiralty Island... war effort. Most Aleuts from the Pribilofs were imprisoned at Funter Bay onin Southeast Alaska. In 1979, the Aleut people from the Pribilof islands r ...
PenghuTaiwan (excluding) was first populated by unknown peoples, then by Austronesian people. It ...
Staten IslandThere is also bus service toon the S89 route operated by MTA New York City Bus, which provides service ...
Grande Comore... on Anjouan. Only small vessels can approach the existing quays in Moroni on, despite recent improvements. Long-distance, ocean-going ships must lie o ...
Fraser Island... he unnamed passage between Lady Elliot Island (its southernmost island) andin the south. Lady Elliot Island is located southeast of Bramble Cay as th ...
Puerto Rico... to Chile. Other Latin American countries that have Irish settlement includeand Colombia
Isle of Bute... ey Street, Grosvenor Square, Westminster, and was buried at Rothesay on the
Avaiki... i is accepted among native or indigenous people in Aotearoa, New Zealand or, Cook Islands as the way they describe themselves. Te Ao Maohi - the Maoh ...
Austral Island... them as British territories. However, an attempt to land the pinnace on theof Rurutu was thwarted by rough surf and the rocky shoreline. On 15 August ...
Luzon... hich killed hundreds from the central island regions and the main island of. In January 2010 Vinson operated off Haiti, providing aid and drinking wa ...
Zannone... ly remaining remnant of the swamp, and two of the Pontine Islands offshore,and Ponza, have been included in the Circeo National Park
Philippines... h the third fight between Ali and Joe Frazier in Manila, the capital of the, which King deemed the "Thrilla in Manila". Aside from promoting the prem ...
Staten Island... Brooklyn Cyclones play in Brooklyn, while the Staten Island Yankees play in. Yet three of the four major league teams to play in New York City played ...
Martha's VineyardAquinnah is a town located on the island ofin Massachusetts. Prior to 1998 the town was officially known as Gay Head, ...
Crete... as part of the Treaty of Berlin, while frustrating Greek hopes of receiving. Greeks in Crete continued to stage regular revolts, and in 1897, the Gre ...
Anjouan... ts are rudimentary, although a deepwater facility was recently completed on. Only small vessels can approach the existing quays in Moroni on Grande C ...
Trobriand Island... ruk: Man in Paradise" (1956). Malinowski states that in the language of thepeople, a single word is used to describe ejaculation in both male and fem ...
Malta... 793. Napoleon was angry that British troops had not evacuated the island of. The tense situation only worsened when Napoleon sent an expeditionary fo ...
Martha's VineyardOn, in Massachusetts, this species is called "beetlebung", perhaps for its u ...
Sri Lanka... or Veddahs (Sinhala වැද්දා , Tamil "வேடுவர்"), are an indigenous people of, an island in the Indian Ocean. They amongst other self identified native ...
Great Britain... bbi Lord Immanuel Jakobovits, former Chief Rabbi of the United Synagogue of, describes a commonly held Jewish view on this issue: "Yes, I do believe ...
Guernsey... the previous success of Les Misérables. Dedicated to the channel island ofwhere he spent 15 years of exile, Hugo's depiction of Man's battle with th ...
Pinta... 53 sea lions (13 pups, 25 youngsters, 9 males and 6 females) were killed at, Galapagos Islands nature reserve, with their heads caved in. In 2001, po ...
Trinidad... nch Revolutionary Wars, led by Sir Ralph Abercromby (who had just conquered). His army laid siege to the city but was forced to withdraw in defeat as ...
Solomon IslandsThe effectiveness of PT boats in thecampaign, where there were numerous engagements between PTs and capital sh ...
Channel Island milk... ry rich, cream and butter have played a large part in insular cooking. (See) However there is no indigenous tradition of cheese making, contrary to t ...
Grande Comore... ical hardwoods are found. Some timber is produced, notably on the island of, which has about half the remaining forest. Roundwood production in 2003 ...
Tarawa... ded in 1937. Sir Arthur Grimble was a cadet administrative officer based at(1913-1919) and became Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Isl ...
Faroe Islands... re chiefly pagans from Denmark, Norway and Sweden. They also settled in the, Ireland, Iceland, Scotland (Caithness, the Hebrides and the Northern Isl ...
Great Britain... e Chancery version of the language developed into a written standard across, further progressing in the modern period as Scotland became united with ...
Solomon Islands... expeditions for work in the Torres Straits, Melanesia, Egypt, India and the, he took holiday voyages twice to the West Indies, three times to the Can ...
Lady Elliot Island... outh coast of Papua New Guinea) in the north to the unnamed passage between(its southernmost island) and Fraser Island in the south. Lady Elliot Isla ...
Alor... r archipelago of the Lesser Sunda Islands with the inner islands of Flores,and Wetar to the north, and beyond them Sulawesi
MaldivesIn ancient times thewere renowned for cowries, coir rope, dried tuna fish (Maldive Fish), ambe ...
Cape Cod... d the Tufts Laboratory at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole on
Bramble Cay... includes the smaller Murray Islands. It reaches from Torres Strait (between, its northernmost island, and the south coast of Papua New Guinea) in the ...
Schouten Islands... d visited adjacent islands, including, on July 24, what became known as the
Great Britain... ow-bellied marmot was eaten significantly more than other species, while inand central and alpine Eurasia, the Mountain Hare was taken far more than ...
Taiwan... st Shimpei Goto award, named after the former Japanese colonial governor of, and to give a speech on 7 June regarding the global situation after 2007
Philippines... as aware of the shrunken heads, which Gein had described as relics from thesent by a cousin who had served in World War II. Upon investigation by the ...
Caroline Islands... ntil the early 17th century, the Pacific Ocean. Aside from the Marianas and, several naval expeditions also discovered the Tuvalu archipelago, the Ma ...
Delos... cily), Hermion (in Crete, Megara, Celeae, Lerna, Aegila, Munychia, Corinth,, Priene, Akragas, Iasos, Pergamon, Selinus, Tegea, Thoricus, Dion (in Mac ...
Hilton Head Island... u, Shell Point is included within the Beaufort Urban Cluster and the larger–Beaufort Micropolitan Statistical Area
Atlantis... the use of extraterrestrials in Asterix and the Falling Sky and the city ofin Asterix and Obelix All at Sea
Ponza... remnant of the swamp, and two of the Pontine Islands offshore, Zannone and, have been included in the Circeo National Park
Venice... e to Stendhal, Trenitalia named their overnight train service from Paris tothe Stendhal Express
British Isles... to pay a trading tax on their goods. The beginning of the Viking Age in theis, however, often given as 793. It was recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chroni ...
Cape CodThisisland is surrounded by the waters of Popponesset Bay. The island is part ...
New Guinea... nsula, Central and southwestern Asia, India and Sri Lanka, the Moluccas andthrough to Melanesia and Samoa
MajorcaAfter the conquest of, it was loosely incorporated into the province of Tarraconensis by 123 BC ...
CyprusIn later years he traveled and visited, among other places, Paphlagonia and(Historia Ecclesiastica 1.12.8, 2.33.30)
Taiwan... nyin: Táiwān Lǜ Dǎng, Taiwanese: Tâi-ôan Le̍k Tóng) is a political party inestablished on 25 January 1996. The party is not a member of, and should n ...
Malé... ghout the country, and the greatest concentration is on the capital island,. Limitations on potable water and arable land, plus the added difficulty ...
Venice... ino although meeting the modern definition, was the Ridotto, established in, Italy in 1638 to provide controlled gambling during the carnival season. ...
Lindisfarne... -Saxon Chronicle that the Northmen raided the important island monastery of(note that the generally accepted date is actually 8 June, not January)
Philippines... d, Finland, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Sweden and the
Puerto RicoU.S. federal law applies to, even though Puerto Rico is not a state. Due to the Federal Relations Act ...
sea islandKiawah is a, or barrier island, on the Atlantic coast of the United States. Located s ...
Visayas... doro Island. She spent the next few weeks engaged in operations against theand Luzon before retiring to Ulithi on 24 November
Elba... OAC Flight 781 and crashed into the Mediterranean off the Italian island ofwith the loss of all 35 on board. With no witnesses to the disaster and on ...
New Guinea... stayed until May 12. They then followed the north coasts of New Ireland andand visited adjacent islands, including, on July 24, what became known as ...
Melanesia... thwestern Asia, India and Sri Lanka, the Moluccas and New Guinea through toand Samoa
Whitsunday Islands... ity. The reef is a very popular destination for tourists, especially in theand Cairns regions. Tourism is an important economic activity for the regi ...
Bali... nfluence from south-east Asia (notably using the harmonic properties of thenese gamelan), while Nigel Butterley combined his penchant for Internation ...
North IslandThe Wellington region of New Zealand occupies the southern end of the
Cid Harbor... vancing towards Port Moresby, Crace turned towards Australia and arrived at, north of Townsville, on 11 May
Genovesa (Tower) Island... ere the waved albatross nests. Some of the birds have attempted to breed on, but unsuccessfully. Española's steep cliffs serve as the perfect runways ...
New Guinea... as assigned the high risk mission of bombing the Japanese airbase at Lae in. A colonel took Johnson's original seat on one bomber, and it was shot do ...
La Gonâve... a Tortue) is located off the coast of northern Haiti. The arrondissement ofis located on the island of the same name, in the Golfe de la Gonâve. Gonâ ...
CreteMajor cults to Demeter were located at Eleusis (in Sicily), Hermion (in, Megara, Celeae, Lerna, Aegila, Munychia, Corinth, Delos, Priene, Akragas ...
Sri Lanka... Leonardo Boff was suspended and others were censured. Tissa Balasuriya, in, was excommunicated. Sebastian Kappen, an Indian theologian, was also cen ...
Sicily... e Slavic mercenaries and slaves in the medieval Arab world in North Africa,and Al-Andalus. Saqaliba served as caliph's guards. In the 12th century, t ...
CyprusAfter several campaigns against Ptolemy on the coasts of Cilicia and, Demetrius sailed with a fleet of 250 ships to Athens. He freed the city ...
Liberty Island... ds Island, and Roosevelt Island in the East River, and Governors Island andto the south in New York Harbor. Manhattan Island is in area, long and wid ...
Sri Lanka... epublic by Charles de Gaulle, are used in France, Finland, Romania, Russia,and several post-colonial countries which have emulated the French model
Crete... but communicating and interacting geographic regions covered by this term:, the Cyclades and the Greek mainland. Crete is associated with the Minoan ...
Isle of Portland... ding to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a group of men from Norway sailed to thein Dorset. There, they were mistaken for merchants by a royal official. Th ...
Celebes... Portugal. All the trade in the Straits, and especially the spices from theand the Moluccas, moved under its protection and through its markets
Crete... east) two sons, Sarpedon and Minos. When they contended for the kingship of, their native land, Minos drove Sarpedon and his people, the Termilae, in ...
Kaffeklubben IslandThe northernmost point of the Americas is, which is the most northerly point of land on Earth. The southernmost poi ...
Juan Fernández Islands... of Hoorn was also the birthplace of Schouten. After failing to moor at thein early March, the ships crossed the Pacific in a fairly straight line, v ...
Santa Catalina Island, California... aurant. The Catalina Casino, a famous landmark overlooking Avalon Harbor on, has never been used for traditional games of chance, which were already ...
Iceland... Cape Blomidon, Nova Scotia and Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec in Canada; and in
Cyclades... icating and interacting geographic regions covered by this term: Crete, theand the Greek mainland. Crete is associated with the Minoan civilization f ...
Kodiak Island... permanently stay in the village were Russian colonists who moved there fromin 1847 before the Alaska Purchase. They were Russian Grigorii Kvasnikov ( ...
Misima IslandThe American strike aircraft sighted Shōhō a short distance northeast ofat 10:40 and deployed to attack. The Japanese carrier was protected by six ...
Southern Thule... northerly point of land on Earth. The southernmost point is the islands of, although they are sometimes considered part of Antarctica
New Georgia... t returned to base for repairs. PT-167 (Elco) was holed through the bow offon August 10, 1943, by a torpedo which failed to detonate; the boat remain ...
Falkland Islands... ith a vapor compression system to bring 30,000 carcasses of mutton from thein 1886
Philippines... about the life of Imelda Marcos, the controversial former First Lady of the. Some music from this piece was debuted at Adelaide Festival of Arts in A ...
Iceland... of the 16th century, as the monarchs of Denmark (who also ruled Norway and) and Sweden (who also ruled Finland) converted to that faith
TernateThey reached the Northern Moluccas in August and finally, the headquarters of the VOC, on September 12, 1616. Here they were enthu ...
Crete... os bonifacti, and the huge specimens of the Late Pleistocene of Liko Cave () have been named Aquila chrysaetos simurgh
Miami Beach... idus, fresh from his success in redefining the glittering Collins Avenue inwith his work on the Fontainebleau Hotel, Eden Roc, Americana and other ne ...
Sri Lanka... ion Island, the Arabian Peninsula, Central and southwestern Asia, India and, the Moluccas and New Guinea through to Melanesia and Samoa
Easter Island... to which they belong), to the north is Cocos Island at and to the south isand San Felix Island at
Matsu... alized flare-ups when the Red Army began shelling the islands of Quemoy andin September 1954. Ike received recommendations embracing every variation ...
Great Britain... Hampshire, Vermont, some areas of Massachusetts, Yellowstone National Park,, Canada, Michigan, and Denmark
Lesbos... g the baby Dionysus into his thigh, i.e., his testicles). used in Samos and
Prince Edward Island... ). Provinces may also do this with their superior courts. The government ofinitiated the Provincial Judges Reference by asking its provincial Supreme ...
Roanoke IslandThe Roanoke Colony onin Dare County, present-day North Carolina, United States was a late 16th- ...
Governors Island... Randall's Island, Wards Island, and Roosevelt Island in the East River, andand Liberty Island to the south in New York Harbor. Manhattan Island is in ...
Ireland... he leading members of the Schley family married into the Wilson family from. Consequently, many of the Schleys converted to Catholicism, and resident ...
Cocos Island... of Ecuador to the east (the country to which they belong), to the north isat and to the south is Easter Island and San Felix Island at
Newfoundland... y changed course to the south and reached land, believed to be Labrador and. There they captured about sixty native men, who would later be sold as s ...
NewfoundlandIslanders travelled across the North Atlantic to participate in thefisheries in the late 16th century. In recognition for help given to him d ...
Long Island... the village of New Hyde Park in Nassau County, New York, United States, onas well as surrounding unincorporated areas in Nassau County and Queens Co ...
San Juan Island... hington, United States. The population was 2,162 at 2010 Census. Located on, Friday Harbor is the major commercial center of the San Juan Islands arc ...
Roosevelt Island... of the borough of Manhattan, including Randall's Island, Wards Island, andin the East River, and Governors Island and Liberty Island to the south in ...
TaiwanThe immigration law ofgives priority to returning Taiwanese and overseas Chinese who are not cit ...
Moluccas... he trade in the Straits, and especially the spices from the Celebes and the, moved under its protection and through its markets
Yeongjong International CityAs of 2012,’s centering on the Incheon International Airport is being developed as an ...
Tortuga... i also includes various offshore islands. The historically famous island of(Île de la Tortue) is located off the coast of northern Haiti. The arrondi ...
Euboea... del Faro, and the temple to Poseidon at the tip, after which he settled in. He was then "numbered among the stars of heaven and thus won for himself ...
Outer Hebrides... with the obsolete scientific name Colymbus immer). The story is set in the, where the main characters—a group of children on holiday—notice a pair o ...
RéunionThe supposed "Réunion Solitaire" or "White Dodo" ofis now believed to have been erroneous conjecture based on contemporary re ...
Yeonpyeong IslandThe northwestern islands of Baengnyeong Island,, Daecheong Island, and the much smaller Socheong Island are part of Ongji ...
Marajó... notable examples. The Amazon has also an inland delta before the island of
Hispaniola... us returned to the New World and claimed Spanish ownership of the island of(contemporary Haiti and the Dominican Republic) from the indigenous Taíno ...
Penrhyn Island... airstrip that can be seen today. This airport, and one on the northernmost, were to be used as bases by the Allies during World War II. The first ai ...
Île à Vache... lfe de la Gonâve. Gonâve Island is moderately populated by rural villagers.(Cow Island), a lush island with many beautiful sights, is located off the ...
San Cristóbal Island... airports which receive flights from the continent; the other is located on. Private planes flying to Galápagos must fly to Baltra, as it is the only ...
Outer BanksThe local accent is not unlike that of the "Hoi Toiders" of theof North Carolina, also settled by English settlers, many of whom still ha ...
Manhattan... sey Turnpike northbound travels to Jersey City and, via the Holland Tunnel,. Westbound, the Newark Bay Bridge provides access to Newark, Newark Airpo ...
Madagascar... ean, southeastern Europe and Asia Minor, Northern, Central and East Africa,and Reunion Island, the Arabian Peninsula, Central and southwestern Asia, ...
Brijuni Islands... Koch accepted the invitation and spent two years, from 1900 to 1902, on theand Kupelwieser erected a monument to Koch, which still stands in the vici ...
Crete... ted her as "Mother-Earth". Demeter may be linked to goddess-cults of Minoan, and embody aspects of a pre-Hellenic Great Goddess. Her other epithets i ...
Kuril Islands... est developments in Russo-Japanese relations with specific reference to the. Since then, the Forum has brought the Portsmouth Peace Treaty and its mo ...
Northey Island... ge from this island to the shore; the description seems to have matched thecauseway at that time. This would place the site of the battle about two m ...
Canary Islands... fter its similar geographical features to the island of Gran Canaria in the. In 1521, the newer settlement was given its formal name, San Juan Bautis ...
Iceland... lords who did not want to be oppressed by greedy kings emigrated overseas.became Europe's first modern republic, with an annual assembly of elected ...
North Bay Village... tion) in the United States at 3.5%, and the second largest in Florida; onlyhad a greater percentage, at 6%. It also had the 59th largest proportion o ...
Johnston Atoll... 1966, Nike Tomahawk flight. A second Nike Tomahawk rocket was launched fromon September 22, 1966, at 17:13 UTC and reached an apogee of 160 km, with ...
Pribilof Islands... m Delta, the western portions of the Alaska Peninsula, and the Aleutian and—would be part of the new state, but the President would be granted emerge ...
Spice Islands... ent by Amsterdam merchants to Lisbon to discover as much information on theas he could. At the same time as he returned to Amsterdam, Jan Huygen van ...
Moneron IslandSakhalin has one smaller island associated with it,. Moneron, the only land mass in the Tatar strait, long and wide, is about ...
Long Island... reportedly used a boat to approach a residence where Jagger was staying on, New York; the plot failed when the boat was nearly sunk by a storm
Marco Island... lation recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 513. It is part of the Naples–
Nevis... sugar cane plantations. They arrived from the nearby islands of St. Thomas,, St. Kitts, St. Croix, and many other Caribbean islands, some of them arr ...
Ireland... condemned the Pelagians and was zealous for orthodoxy. He sent Palladius toto serve as a bishop in 431. Bishop Patricius (Saint Patrick) continued th ...
New Guinea... o discovered the Tuvalu archipelago, the Marquesas, the Solomon Islands andin the South Pacific. In the quest for Terra Australis, Spanish explorers ...
CalaisIn the continuing Hundred Years' War, the English won the city ofin a treaty signed in September. In a meeting with the Estates General in ...
St. Lawrence IslandGambell is a village onin Alaska, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 681
SicilyWhile it was not directly connected with the Italian peninsula, Syracuse onwas important for securing the searoutes for supply, since Lilybaeum remai ...
British IslesIn contrast to the intense Scandinavian influence in Normandy and the, Varangian culture did not survive to a great extent in the East. Instead ...
Society Islands... ral history. The expedition, proceeding by Cape Horn, visited the Radak and, and reached Petropavlovsk in July 1824. Many positions along the coast w ...
Utøya... ut an hour later, a shooting spree, which killed 69 people, was reported at, an island forty-five minutes away where the ruling Labour Party was hold ...
Sardinia... n 1290 in the Odenwald and in 1344 in the Black Forest. In the 14th century, firebreaks were used for wildfire protection. In Spain during the 1550s, ...
Guernsey... 00 HMV stores worldwide, plus the website hmv.com, which is operated by HMV
Guadalcanal... rs to maintain radio silence. TF 17 changed course and proceeded at towardsto launch airstrikes against the Japanese forces at Tulagi the next mornin ...
Sea Island, Georgia... ire. During the early 1930s they returned to the United States and lived in, at a house called . He moved to Danville, California in 1937 and lived t ...
Gilbert Islands... the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The main island chain was named thein 1820 by a Russian admiral, Adam von Krusenstern, and French captain Lou ...
Gran Canaria... t" or "good port", after its similar geographical features to the island ofin the Canary Islands. In 1521, the newer settlement was given its formal ...
VeniceIn 1425, Uccello travelled to, where he worked on the mosaics for the façade of San Marco (all these wo ...
Kiribati... ive true atolls spread out from 6° to 10° south. Its nearest neighbours are, Nauru, Samoa and Fiji. Its population of 10,544 makes it the third-least ...
Maui... volcanoes: Mauna Loa, Kīlauea, and Hualālai on the Big Island, Haleakalā on, and Loihi, a submarine volcano south of the Big Island and the youngest ...
Tierra del FuegoAlthough Fuegians (the indigenous peoples of) were all hunter-gatherers, they did not share a common culture. The mate ...
Corsica... ar away lands. Places visited in the series include parts of Gaul (Lutetia,etc.), neighbouring nations (Belgium, Spain, Britain, Germany etc.), and f ...
Tuamotus... hips crossed the Pacific in a fairly straight line, visiting several of the. Between April 21 and 24, 1616, they were the first Westerners to visit t ...
Channel Islands... of the new digital broadcasting licenses when they become available to the. Currently the station broadcasts MP3 streams to provide higher quality m ...
St. Lawrence IslandGambell is located on the northwest cape ofin the Bering Sea, southwest of Nome. It is from the Chukchi Peninsula in ...
Melanesia... lated; invaders from Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji later introduced Polynesian andn cultural aspects, respectively. Intermarriage tended to blur cultural di ...
Hispaniola... the Caribbean to take part in the Western Design, Cromwell's plan to invade. His first battle at Santo Domingo ended in a failed attempt to take the ...
SicilyMajor cults to Demeter were located at Eleusis (in), Hermion (in Crete, Megara, Celeae, Lerna, Aegila, Munychia, Corinth, De ...
Matsu... RC numbers. Thus, Quemoy (Jinmen) is included as one of the 45 counties and(Mazu) as one of the 334 townships
Suwanosejima... g for a while with a group of other people on the small, volcanic island of. His previous study of written Chinese assisted his immersion in the Zen ...
Iceland... Polabian-Pomeranian Slavs are also known to have even settled on Norse age. Saqaliba refers to the Slavic mercenaries and slaves in the medieval Ara ...
Cyprus... ai Peninsula, Eritrea and northern Ethiopia, southern Albania and Bulgaria,, Greece, Israel, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Syria, ...
Green Island... d, outer CairnsFile:QLD Rescue Helicopter.JPG|Queensland rescue Helicopter,, Great Barrier Reef, outskirts of Cairn
Cape Verde... area than the nation of Samoa and nearly the same size, and population, as. It is one-third the size of the state of
Guadalcanal... cannibalized from crashed P-39 Airacobra fighter planes on Henderson Field,. After having demonstrated its value on board PT boats, the M4 (and later ...
Delos... Syrian merchants; thus we find traces of it in the great seaport towns; atespecially numerous inscriptions have been found bearing witness to her im ...
Hawaiian Islands... bombs, missiles, and other weapons in a manner not unlike Kahoʻolawe in the
Caribbean... then departed for Stockholm for a second group. He made a side trip to theto pick up a shipment of tobacco for resale in Europe to make the voyage p ...
Cook Islands... taki, also traditionally known as Araura, Ararau and Utataki, is one of the, north of Rarotonga. It has a population of approximately 2,000. Aitutaki ...
Johnston Atoll... X-ray astronomy instrument was carried aboard a Thor missile launched fromon September 24, 1970, at 12:54 UTC and altitudes above 300 km, to search ...
Merritt Island... ard for a junior high school, in order to keep students from being bused to
Stansbury... stly on the level of the lake. From largest to smallest, they are Antelope,, Fremont, Carrington, Dolphin, Cub, Badger, Strongs Knob, Gunnison, Goose ...
Aleutian Islands... n 1783 storms drove a Japanese sea captain, Daikokuya Kōdayū, ashore in the, at that time Russian territory. Russian local authorities helped his par ...
Philippines... greed to Japanese control of Korea, in return for American dominance in the. The Japanese also agreed with the United Kingdo
LuzonDetached from the Formosa area on 14 October to sail toward, the USS Alabama again used her anti-aircraft batteries in support of the ...
Philae... a, including Karnak, Luxor temple, Colossi of Memnon, Esna, Edfu, Kom Ombo,, and others
Shortland Islands... aircraft from the Yokohama Air Group of the 25th Air Flotilla based at theand shot it down from TF 11. The aircraft was unable to send a report befo ...
Philippines... is known as Taiwanese or Hoklo) and in Southeast Asia (known as Hokkien in, Singapore and Malaysia). There are also sizeable Hakka and Shanghainese ...
Channel Television... dquarters in Jersey provides a joint television news service with Guernsey.is a regional ITV franchise shared with the Bailiwick of Guernsey but with ...
Rarotonga... y known as Araura, Ararau and Utataki, is one of the Cook Islands, north of. It has a population of approximately 2,000. Aitutaki is the second most ...
Corsica... d infrastructure and urbanized culture (at least in the plains). Along withit formed a province under a praetor. Together with Sicily it formed one o ...
Philippines... Latin America, Spain, Croatia, Italy, France, Israel, Russia, China and the. The success of this story brought her new found fame with her single, "A ...
Balearic Islands... n the island of Majorca and capital city of the autonomous community of thein Spain. The names Ciutat de Mallorca (English: City of Majorca) and Ciut ...
Mauritius... s in their favour, they have not been allowed to return from their exile in, although there are signs that financial compensation and an official apo ...
CorfuIn 1827 Ioannis Kapodistrias, from, was chosen as the first governor of the new Republic. However, following ...
CaribbeanFound in Northern, Central and South America, the, southeastern Europe and Asia Minor, Northern, Central and East Africa, M ...
Marco Island... tes. The population was 5,186 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Naples–Metropolitan Statistical Area
Blake Island... ws (about ). Other sills that present less of a barrier include the ones at, Agate Pass, Rich Passage, and
Green Island... , outer CairnsFile:Great Barrier Reef Ferry.JPG|A Great Barrier Reef ferry,, outer CairnsFile:QLD Rescue Helicopter.JPG|Queensland rescue Helicopter, ...
Ireland... the Sydney Comedy Festival, and the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival in Kilkenny,. Radio hosts Opie and Anthony also produce a comedy tour called Opie and ...
D'Entrecasteaux Islands... d Port Moresby. The rest of Marumo's Cover Force then took station near theto help screen Abe's oncoming convoy
Taiwan... nt of the Republic of China lost control of mainland China and relocated toin 1949. The National Celebration Day is now mainly celebrated in the Free ...
British Isles... ous plant species just on Table Mountain than there are in the whole of the
Veliki Brijun IslandBecause the construction efforts onwere jeopardized by malaria outbreaks which occurred during summer months, ...
Ytterøy... anger, and at the same time, it lost its "town status". The municipality ofwas merged with Levanger two years later
Malta... ourse at the Naval Staff College, Greenwich. From 1949, he was stationed in, after being posted as the First Lieutenant of the destroyer HMS Chequers ...
Cyprus... egovina, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Russia, Greece and, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Iran, Lebanon, Macedonia, Albania, Syria, Central A ...
Venice... the Andrea Gabrieli, Giovanni Gabrieli and their contemporaries c.1570-1620and there is also evidence of trombonists being employed in churches and c ...
Coney Island... years from 1894 through 1908, the race was held at Gravesend Race Track on, New York. In 1909 it returned to Pimlico
Kingston, Ontario... ake during one of his Arctic expeditions. In 1843 a British Army officer in, in Upper Canada, wrote "Began to skate this year, improved quickly and h ...
Mindanao... the carriers as they conducted air strikes on Cebu, Negros, Panay, northern, and Leyte on 21 October
Sicily... March 11, 1936. His father, Salvatore Eugene Scalia, was an immigrant fromwho was a graduate student and clerk at the time of his son's birth, but w ...
Solomon Islands... aval expeditions also discovered the Tuvalu archipelago, the Marquesas, theand New Guinea in the South Pacific. In the quest for Terra Australis, Spa ...
Bermuda... s of the board were paid large sums illegally through a SABENA affiliate in. When Paul Reutlinger became the CEO of the company, he stopped the illeg ...
Majorca... The earliest recorded invasion of the plague into Spanish territory was inin December 1347, probably through commercial ships. 3 years of Plague beg ...
Great Britain... or some time in Kushan lands), spread throughout the Old World, to Gaul andin the West, and to China in the East. Some leading Christian theologians ...
Polynesia... rea was not isolated; invaders from Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji later introducedn and Melanesian cultural aspects, respectively. Intermarriage tended to b ...
Johnston Atoll... al Agent Disposal System began destruction of chemical agents stored on thein the Pacific, seven years before the Chemical Weapons Treaty came into e ...
North Seymour Island... , scientists decided to move 70 of Baltra's land iguanas to the neighboringas part of an experiment. This move had unexpected results during the mili ...
Manhattan... mself in a separate room from the cast and crew while they were shooting in. The script initially ended with Harry and Sally remaining friends and no ...
Philippines... spent several months there, before being sent on a brief expedition to the, where he established a list of new hygiene precautions for his men to de ...
Green Island... lass bottom boats & Semi sub.JPG|Glass bottom boats and a Semi submarine at, Great Barrier Reef, outer CairnsFile:Great Barrier Reef Ferry.JPG|A Grea ...
Gotland... he allowed his uncle (ex-King Eric) to plunder shipping from his castle onwithout any attempt to stop him. They blamed a series of bad harvests on h ...
Zanzibar... on 9 December 1962. On 26 April 1964, Tanganyika joined with the islands ofto form the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, a new state that c ...
Sicily... ave been found bearing witness to her importance. Again we find the cult in, introduced, no doubt, by slaves and mercenary troops, who carried it eve ...
Kuril Islands... he Far East, Russians became active in fur trapping in Kamchatka and in the. This spurred Russian interest in opening trade with Japan to the south f ...
Rennell Island... Makira), and entered the Coral Sea after transiting between Guadalcanal andin the early morning hours of 6 May. Takagi commenced refueling his ships ...
Puerto Rico... ffering of many Puerto Rican blacks during the 19th century at the hands of's vast white majority. Its 20 chapters, while presumably made up of ficti ...
Malé... ed difficulty of congestion are some of the problems faced by households in
Manhattan... in 1968 by the Pierpont Morgan Library (now The Morgan Library & Museum) in, New York City. The manuscript pages includes content that was struck-thr ...

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Great Britain... 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the B ...
Central Sulawesi... genous communities – Anca, Tomado, Langko, and Puroo - around Lindu Lake in, Indonesia
Key West... e Civil War, when Union sympathizers who had farmed on Cape Sable to supplyduring the war, moved up the west coast of the peninsula. The first perman ...
Robert Moses State Park... York State Police, headquartered at Republic Airport. State parks, such as, are the responsibility of the New York State Park Police, based at Belmo ...
Britain... in two Jacobite expeditions to Scotland in the spring of 1719. By provoking, France, the Netherlands and the Empire to form the Quadruple Alliance, h ...
Circe... his company was lost. The surviving crew went next to Aiaia, the island of
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Greek-Cypriot... o the citizens of Cyprus. The Annan Plan was overwhelmingly rejected in thereferendum
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Gulf... .9% of the entire FDIs in 2006. A number of Arab countries, mainly from theare involved in large-scale projects in Morocco, including the giant Tange ...
Ireland... rrubias, Galicia, Spain; and his mother from Borrisokane, County Tipperary,. After moving to Dayton in the 1930s, his father was a factory worker/mac ...
Roanoke Island... shipping for the remainder of the war. For his successes at the battles ofand New Bern, the first significant Union victories in the Eastern Theater ...
Newfoundland... ve a rather different physiology to other dogs of similar size (such as the, St. Bernard or Alaskan Malamute). Laboratory-formulated diets designed f ...
Venice... In total, Great Britain, France, Saxony-Poland, the Dutch Republic, Spain,, States of the Church, Prussia, Russia, Denmark, Savoy-Sardinia, Bavaria, ...
Paden... owned by the Barnett family, among other Creek Freedmen, was midway betweenand Castle, and ideal for a station stop. With the approval of the railroa ...
Tarawa... d "00". From 20-November 23, 1943, the U.S. forces landed in the Gilberts (and Makin), and the Enterprise joined in providing close air support to th ...
Venice... age to Honoria anew, invading and ravaging Italy along the way. The city ofwas founded as a result of these attacks when the residents fled to small ...
Ireland... Cliath, , occasionally Duibhlinn) is the capital and most populous city of. The English name for the city is derived from the Irish name Dubhlinn, m ...
Philippines... ang Jingwei government (30 November 1940), Thailand (5 August 1941) and the(1943)—all under Japanese control
Sicily... umvirate. Lepidus was forced to retire in 36 BC after betraying Octavian in. Antony settled in Egypt with his lover, Cleopatra VII. Mark Antony's aff ...
Phuket... y to the disaster. This task force was involved in search-and-rescue aroundand the Phi Phi Islands, treatment of wounded and handling of dead, and re ...
Taiwan... public of China has administrative control over 22 provinces, and considersto be its 23rd province, although Taiwan is currently governed by the Repu ...
Jupiter Island# Town of# Town of Ocean Breeze Par
New Guinea... 3 and French Polynesia from 1889, while the Germans established colonies inin 1884, and Samoa in 1900. The United States also expanded into the Pacif ...
WollinScandinavian settlements at the Pomeranian coast include(on the isle of Wollin), Ralswiek (on the isle of Rügen), Altes Lager Menz ...
Walcheren... d him with the defence of the Netherlands against the British expedition in. In 1810, he was about to enter upon his new post as governor of Rome whe ...
Hawaiian... awaii. As of the 2000 Census, the total population for Kaaawa was 1,324. In, kaaawa means "the wrasse (fish)". The word always delights visitors who ...
TaiwanCitizens of the(ROC) use identity documents issued by China (PRC) public-security authori ...
Navarino... island of Hydra, the allied fleet intercepted the Ottoman–Egyptian fleet at. Following a week long standoff, a battle began which resulted in the des ...
Ireland... is used by a chain of music shops owned by HMV Group plc, mainly in the UK,, Canada, Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, and Japan
Riau#(capital: Pekanbaru
IrelandWellington was born inas "The Honourable Arthur Wesley", the fourth son—third of five surviving ...
Malagasy... east Asia and the Pacific Ocean, with a smaller number in continental Asia.is a geographic outlier, spoken in the island of Madagascar in the Indian ...
New Britain... tion) include Bridgeport, New Haven, Stamford, Waterbury, Norwalk, Danbury,, Greenwich and Bristol. There are 169 incorporated towns in Connecticut
Shelter Island... 10 towns: Babylon, Brookhaven, East Hampton, Huntington, Islip, Riverhead,, Smithtown, Southampton, and Southold. Also part of the county, but not c ...
Devil's Peak... Bowl, with its plateau over high; it is surrounded by near-vertical cliffs,and Lion's Head. Sometimes a thin strip of cloud forms over the mountain, ...
Turtle Island... ent in the back-to-the-land movement in the Sierra foothills. His 1974 book, titled after a Native American name for the North American continent, wo ...
Malta International Airportis the only airport serving the Maltese Islands. It is built on the land f ...
Hawaiian... on the northern coast of the Island of Oahu, City & County of Honolulu. In, ka wela means "the heat". As of the 2000 Census, the CDP had a total pop ...
Iona... ol district also has students from neighboring communities including Avoca,, Dundee, Kinbrae, Wilmont, and among others
Ravenna... rtance and the viability of Estill County and its Twin Cities of Irvine and. Both cities sit along the Kentucky River. Ravenna is home to CSX Transpo ...
Ile de France... ers, faced the forces assembled by vassal lords of the Capetian mainly fromand the north of France, led by Simon de Montfort, against the nobility of ...
Venetians... that he would become cardinal, and then pope, when he would wrest from thehis duchy of Verona, of which the republic had despoiled his ancestors. He ...
Ireland... e, (6) Wales, (7) Fiji, (8) Samoa, (9) Tonga, (10) Scotland, (11) USA, (12), (13) Italy and (16) Cook Islands. (14) Lebanon, (17) Russia and (22) Sou ...
Sicilian... , Lombard, Mirandese, Neapolitan, Occitan, Piedmontese, Romansh, Sardinian,, Venetian and Walloon
Saba... nd controlled the lucrative spice trade: M'ain, Qataban, Hadhramaut, Awsan,and Himyarite. Islam arrived in 630 CE, and Yemen became part of the Musli ...
Great Britain... esign as quarterings from about 1411. The monarchs of England (and later of) continued to quarter the French arms until 1801, when George III abandon ...
Rapanui... cept exists in many societies, including traditional Fijian, Māori, Samoan,, Tahitian, Hawaiian, and Tongan cultures – in most cases using a recognis ...
Marshalleseis used by the government. Although the ancient skills are now in decline, ...
Bantam... arley-Davidson version was known as the Hummer, while BSA used them for the. IFA and later MZ models continued in production until the 1990s, when ec ...
Ireland... 4, the first international match was played at the ground between Wales and, when 5,000 people watched Wales beat Ireland by 2 tries and a drop goal ...
Daru... auge Sierra Leone Government Railway from Freetown through Bo to Kenema andwith a branch to Makeni closed in 1974. The country does not share rail li ...
Caversham... ions for electric launches" between Kew (Strand-on-the-Green) and Reading ()
Governors Island... he Ten Hills Farm, as well as land that would become the town of Billerica,(now the site of Logan International Airport) in Boston Harbor, and Pruden ...
IrelandMallow is a town in County Cork,, about thirty-five kilometres north of Cork. It is the administrative cen ...
Elephant Rocks... William Bay National Park covers 1734 hectares and includes Greens Pool and. The granite boulders create a natural reef which protects Greens Pool fr ...
West Island... ed by 2.2% to 18,088. Although the city has the largest surface area in the, it is among the least densely populated. Pierre Elliott Trudeau Internat ...
Malta... formance in Poland, appearing with The Imposters for the closing gig of thetheatre festival in Poznań
Thanet... t the Anglo-Saxons from their native paganism to Christianity; he landed at, Kent, with Augustine in 597, or, as some sources state, first arrived in ...
Samoan Islands... ians. During the 1860s, planters in Australia, Fiji, New Caledonia, and the, in need of labourers, encouraged a long-term indentured labour trade cal ...
Manhattan... anhattan, and many of Woody Allen's films, such as Annie Hall, Bananas, and. The city was also the backdrop and location for numerous crime and drama ...
Île-de-France... East and Middle East and the South Asia). The Paris metropolitan district () is the region that accounts for the largest number with nearly 56% of al ...
Maltese... tary events that brought Malta under British rule. Universally loved by the, Ball visited the islands for the first time on 12 October 1798. Whenever ...
Psara... The Turks and Egyptians ravaged several Greek islands, including Chios and
Great Britain... support its claim to the Oregon Country, which was also claimed by Russia,, Spain and other nations
IrishJames Connolly (, 5 June 1868 – 12 May 1916) was anrepublican and socialist leader. He was born in the Cowgate area of Edinbu ...
New Britain... Bridgeport. Connecticut also has a sizable Polish American population, withcontaining the largest Polish American population in the state
Thorney... e English" because of the churches and cathedrals of Ely, Ramsey, Crowland,and Peterborough
Gan... e United Kingdom obtained permission to reestablish its wartime airfield onin the southernmost Addu Atoll. Maldives granted the British a 100 year le ...
Madeira# –, Bolivia/Brazi
Carvel... one is filled beneath a spigot on order. In the United States, Dairy Queen,, and pioneered in establishing chains of soft-serve ice cream outlets
Ireland... al other celebrities of South African origin. During rehearsals she drew anball instead of France as a joke at the expense of FIFA, referring to Thie ...
Jawa... n (in the shape of companies like Honda, Yamaha and Suzuki) and Europe from/ CZ, Bultaco and Husqvarna was eroding BSA's market share. The BSA (and T ...
Riau... ems. The equator crossed the island right in the center on West Sumatra andprovinces, making the climate of the island tropical hot and humid with lu ...
VeniceThe Latin Rite Patriarchs of Lisbon and, while in practice always made cardinals at the consistory after they tak ...
NewfoundlandThe United States built large military bases in, at the time, a British crown colony. The American involvement ended the ...
Ireland... 06-37) in late 1394 and Charles I of England, King of England, Scotland and(reign 1625-49) in 1600. James VI and I, the King of England, Scotland and ...
Yama... a, lord of Death, visited his sister Yami (the river Yamuna). Yami welcomedwith an Aarti and they had a feast together. Yama gave a gift to Yami whil ...
Venetians... ularly his neighbors in Italy (Charles I of Sicily, Pope Martin IV, and the) would unite against him and attempt the restoration of Latin rule in Con ...
Alofi... ope" (Niuafo'ou). On April 28 they discovered the Hoorn Islands (Futuna and), where they were very well received and stayed until May 12. They then f ...
Hawaiian Islands... the Pacific Coast and its influence reached from the Rocky Mountains to the, and from Alaska into Mexican-controlled California
Addu AtollIn 1956, a bilateral agreement gave United Kingdom access to Gan inin the far south, to establish an air facility in Gan in return for Britis ...
St KildaIn 1897, Collingwood, along with fellow VFA clubs Fitzroy, Melbourne,, Carlton, Essendon, South Melbourne and Geelong split from the VFA and fo ...
West IndiaThe first of the Georgian docks was the(opened 1802), followed by the London (1805), the East India (also 1805), ...
Iceland... advantage of its local amenities, such as shops (which include branches ofand Sainsbury's) and banks
IrelandLismore Castle is located in the town of Lismore in County Waterford in. It was largely re-built in the Gothic style during the mid-nineteenth ce ...
Kings Island... ebanon High School, working through much of high school as a wood-carver atamusement park. He later attended Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana, whe ...
Fort Charlotte... as a lookout post above Road Town on the site that would eventually become. They stationed troops at the Spanish "dojon" near Pockwood Pond, later t ...
Rhodes... tres around the country include those of Patras, Heraklion, Larissa, Volos,, Ioannina, Chania and Chalcis with urban populations above 100,000 inhabi ...
Loch Leven... west end of the glen, on the southern bank of the River Coe where it entersa salt-water loch off )
SardiniaThe northern border is formed with the towns of Concord andin Erie County, and the south border is created by the Towns of Ellicottvi ...
Rota... m and Spain permitting the use of bases at the Holy Loch in Scotland and atin the Bay of Cadiz that were much closer to patrol areas, avoiding the ne ...
Islandia... d to be cut through it. In the approximate middle of the road in and around, office construction and other commercial building has widened the road a ...
Malta... 960, by which time work had begun on two additional segments from Latham to(at NY 67) and from US 9 in northern Saratoga County to US 9 and NY 149 mi ...
Heligoland"I think it's got definitely a more organic feel," says Del Naja of. "100th Window was very much about this amalgamation of everything joinin ...
Bali... tells the story of Lord Vishnu, who in his dwarf incarnation vanquished the, and banished him to Patala. It is on the fourth day of Diwali, Kartika S ...
Ireland... 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, King of Scotland, and King offrom 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649, and is a saint in the Chur ...
Ireland... sed in everyday life (and in advertising) in Canada, the United Kingdom and, including alongside litres per 100 km in advertisements and other offici ...
Bray... is second marriage, he frequently resided at Ockwells Manor at Cox Green inas it was conveniently close to the Royal residence at Windsor Castle
Great BritainGeorge Vancouver explored Puget Sound in 1792. Vancouver claimed it foron 4 June 1792, naming it for one of his officers, Lieutenant Peter Puget
Ireland... tween 1960 and 1964, overseeing the introduction of State television to theand establishing the Irish State broadcaster as an independent semi-state ...
Masbate... l, Leyte, and Samar. The region may also include the islands of Romblon and, whose population identify as Visayan
Taiwan... s to the west of Koror. The number of visitors—85% of whom come from Japan,, and the U.S.—reached nearly 67,000 in 1997, more than quadruple the leve ...
Taiwan... s that do not maintain diplomatic relations with Brazil, such as Kosovo and, diplomatic, official and work passports are not accepted, and visas are ...
Iceland... Burton, Holland & Barrett, Dorothy Perkins, Blockbuster, WHSmith, H Samuel,, The Carphone Warehouse, Phones 4U, New Look, Clinton Cards, Boots Optici ...
Two HarborsSilver Bay is located 28 miles northeast of the city of
Langlade... on was 856 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Hollister,, and Markton are located in the town
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Ireland... nd outside the UK in 2000, buying into markets on continental Europe and in
Afro-Caribbean... mbe is the most ethnically diverse town in the county, with large Asian andpopulations. During the Second World War there were many Polish settlement ...
Bali... of the big three Vishnu, the incarnation he assumed to kill the demon king. On this day, Vishnu came back to his abode the Vaikuntha; so those who w ...
Addu Atoll... d permission to reestablish its wartime airfield on Gan in the southernmost. Maldives granted the British a 100 year lease on Gan that required them ...
Venice... ulation was 4,168 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Bradenton–Sarasota–Metropolitan Statistical Area
Figure 8The final album Smith completed in his lifetime,, was released on April 18, 2000. It featured the return of Rothrock, Schn ...
Romblon... , Cebu, Bohol, Leyte, and Samar. The region may also include the islands ofand Masbate, whose population identify as Visayan
British... settlers arrived in 1837. In 1892 the Gilbert Islands consented to become aprotectorate together with the nearby Ellice Islands. They were administer ...
Gilligan's Island... announcer, whose voice could be heard blaring from the castaway's radio on
Shelter Island... k County Police Department. The five "East End" towns (Riverhead, Southold,, East Hampton, and Southampton), maintain their own police forces. Also, ...
Île-de-FranceThe region with the largest proportion of immigrants is the(Greater Paris), where 40% of immigrants live. Other important regions are ...
Keppel Bay... vely 538 km and 518 km northwest of Brisbane. The islands are positioned in, off the coast of Yeppoon and Emu Park on the Capricorn Coast. The larges ...
IrelandIn the late 1970s in, Córas Iompair Éireann (now Dublin Bus) commissioned a range of single an ...
Robert Moses State Park... ad, one lane in each direction, across Fire Island Inlet to its terminus atand The Fire Island Lighthouse. Robert Moses Causeway opened in 1964
lighthouse... Isla de Caja de Muertos (Coffin Island), a small beach island with an 1887
Lidingö... uses using Dalén's products. 1910 the company bought a large real estate inand built a production plant that was completed around 1912, when they mov ...
PhilippineThe similarversion common to Indochina is called patis. Patis which is a by-product o ...
Great Britain... gland demanded that Austria abolish its overseas trading company. In total,, France, Saxony-Poland, the Dutch Republic, Spain, Venice, States of the ...
Taiwan... nduras, Ireland, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, the Philippines, Singapore,, and Thailand
Great Britain... Adolphus Frederick IV, by marrying King George III became queen consort of. In 1793 her niece Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, daughter of Duke Charl ...
Sardinian#Savoy, afie
Pitcairn... w County, Ontario, Canada; Sanford, Maine, Gouverneur, Diana, Rossie, Fine,, Brewster, New York and California in the USA
Malay... land's surface is 30,777 square kilometres. The name is a variant of timur,for "east"; it is so called because it is at the eastern end of Lesser Sun ...
Great Britain... centuries, but the French made no permanent settlements in Wisconsin beforewon control of the region following the French and Indian War in 1763. Eve ...
Shortlands... mley with Bickley, Bromley Park and Bromley Common, Park Langley, Plaistow,, and Southborough; Chislehurst, with Elmstead and Sundridge. The built-up ...
Caversham... moving on to Reading Cricket Ground (1878–1882), Coley Park (1882–1889) andCricket Ground (1889–1896). Madejski Stadium replaced previous stadium Elm ...
Iceland... nufactured, and there are food processing plants to the north and west. Thefrozen food company is based in nearby Deeside
La Unión... 4 February, she steamed with DesDiv 32 to Balboa, Canal Zone, and thence to, El Salvador. Departing that port on 27 February, she proceeded north and ...
Robert Moses State ParkThe Fire Island Inlet span of the Robert Moses Causeway connects toon the western tip of Fire Island
IrelandHuston visitedin 1951 and stayed at Luggala, County Wicklow, the home of Garech Browne, ...
Blue LakeThe Arcata Eye is a newspaper covering Arcata andthat is published weekly in Arcata; the paper has some renown outside of t ...
Turkish Cypriot... prus has officially adopted a neutral flag to ease ethnic tensions with theminority – see flag of Cyprus)
George Town... ntact with the Tasmanian mainland at Stanley Head, and then continued on to. However it started failing within a few weeks of completion, and by 1861 ...
Rif... ich has resulted in the total potential production of cannabis resin in theregion decreasing by 10 per cent over the previous year. At the same time ...
Ravenna... rds, to take control over vast regions of Italy. In 751 the Lombards seized, ending the Byzantine presence in central Italy. Facing a new Lombard off ...
Ireland... 1769 – 14 September 1852), was a British soldier and statesman, a native of, from the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, and one of the leading military and pol ...
southern... h millennium BC saw the spread of agriculture from the Near East throughoutand central Europe
Venice... In total, Great Britain, France, Saxony-Poland, the Dutch Republic, Spain,, States of the Church, Prussia, Russia, Denmark, Savoy-Sardinia, Bavaria, ...
Ireland... drainage system, so much so, that other rugby unions (England, Scotland and) complained after the Games about the state of the pitch. On 4 December 1 ...
Ireland... region. However, he also spent time on Achill Island off the west coast of. His cottage there is now used as a guesthouse for international and Iris ...
North Aegean... 43 billion) and West Greece (€10.659 billion). The least important were the(€3.330 billion) and the Ionian Islands (€4.130 billion)
Seven Cities of Gold... and colonize western North America. An early motive was the search for the, or "Cibola", rumored to have been built by Native Americans somewhere in ...
Trinidad... as. U.S. Route 350 begins at La Junta and travels southwest before reaching. Colorado State Highway 10 also begins at La Junta and travels west-south ...
Ireland... and possibly one of the most important events in modern Irish history, was's entry into the European Economic Community. Lynch personally steered th ...
Marquesan... ed, originally from a Polynesian language of the South Pacific, most likelyor Tahitian. The island name was first written in English, in 1778 by Brit ...
Anacapri... to to the island of Capri. Climbing the Phoenician stairs to the village of, he came upon a peasant's house and the adjacent ruin of a chapel dedicat ...
Newfoundland... stroyers. Proceeding via Little Placentia Sound and Naval Station Argentia,, the battleship reached Scapa Flow on 19 May, reporting for duty with Tas ...
Lismore... e Cork, Tralee and Dublin lines. An additional line east through Fermoy andto the Waterford South station closed in 1967. Mallow railway station open ...
French Island... ion resides in its eastern portion, on the section of French Island denotedCDP by the United States Census Bureau. Most of the island is part of the ...
Lido... ce, where a church to St. Nicholas, the patron of sailors, was built on the. This tradition was confirmed in two scientific investigations of the rel ...
Tahitian... y from a Polynesian language of the South Pacific, most likely Marquesan or. The island name was first written in English, in 1778 by British explore ...
Saint Christopher... ormation wall-paintings and a large mural (dating from the 14th century) ofwith the infant Child are on the North wall. A brass to Veare Jenyns (1644 ...
Lanka... ignificance to mean the bridge across the ocean constructed by Ram to reach
Eastern Solomons... riers would face off against each other again in the battles of Midway, the, and the Santa Cruz Islands in 1942, and the Philippine Sea in 1944. Each ...
Polynesian... uages Nukuoro and Kapingamarangi represent an extreme westward extension of
Île-de-France... en applied to the 12th century. France was a word used to signify Paris andwhen used on the continent. Marie may possibly not have stated that she wa ...
Christmas Island... ishing vessel in international waters. The Afghans wanted passage to nearby. The Australian government sought to prevent this by refusing Tampa entry ...
Atlantis... cially after the United States imposed a ban on travel to Cuba in 1963. Theresort on nearby Paradise Island accounts for more tourist arrivals to the ...
Ireland... "My plan is to read English literature, philosophy and theology in Galway,, where my late mother came from and where I'm also a citizen." Speaking a ...
Newfoundland... lf-government than with parliamentary accountability; hence the notion that"gave up responsible government" when it withdrew its dominion status in 1 ...
Langland... southern coast consists of a series of small, rocky or sandy bays, such asand Three Cliffs, and larger beaches such as Port Eynon, Rhossili and Oxwi ...
Saintes#Saintonge (
Navarino... e continued his soldier's life: he participated in expeditions to Corfu and, and saw the fall of Tunis and La Goletta to the Turks in 1574
Venice... location for the trade in Slavic slaves. The slaves were mostly captured byfrom Dalmatia, the Holy Roman Empire from what is now Prussia and Poland, ...
IrelandGlendalough or Glendaloch ( , ) is a glacial valley in County Wicklow,. It is renowned for its Early Medieval monastic settlement founded in the ...
Indonesian archipelagoOver the following three centuries, the Dutch would come to dominate thewith the exception of the eastern half of Timor, which would become Portug ...
Easter... e upon the arrival of the emperor and his mother at the ensuing festival of
Fort Charlotte... nmore governed the colony from 1787 to 1796 and oversaw the construction ofin Nassau
LankaRamayana mentions about Lavanasagara (Salt-ocean) when Rama goes to attackwith the army of vanaras. Rama uses his agneyashtra-amogha to dry up the s ...
Puerto Rican... nd torched after racial riots occurred following the beating and death of amotorist by city police in August 1971
Palm Beach, Florida... er to pay the $120 million in claims against the archdiocese.Two bishops ofresigned due to child abuse allegations. Resigned bishop Joseph Keith Symo ...
Mauritius... es from the United States won the most total medals, with 110. Afghanistan,, Sudan, Tajikistan and Togo won their first Olympic medals. Athletes from ...
Caribbean... traditionally consumed at this time in many parts of Latin America and the
Shelter Island... t of the five easternmost towns of Suffolk County: East Hampton, Riverhead,, Southampton and Southold, plus the Shinnecock Indian Reservation
Corsi... habited by the following peoples, from north to south: the Tibulati and the, the Coracenses, the Carenses and the Cunusitani, the Salcitani and the L ...
Santa Cruz Islands... st each other again in the battles of Midway, the Eastern Solomons, and thein 1942, and the Philippine Sea in 1944. Each of these battles was strateg ...
Ireland... ter an ancient chieftain) is a largely residential neighbourhood of Dublin,
Burgundians... id a Germanic reaction. In the autumn of 285, two barbarian armies – one ofand Alamanni, the other of Chaibones and Heruli – forded the Rhine and ent ...
insular... es a D with a line through the vertical stroke. The lower case resembles and with a line through the top. The lower-case letter has been adopted to r ...
Ireland... was officially created in 1734. It is named after the city of Londonderry,which is in present-day Northern Ireland. The first settlers were immigran ...
LagoonFile:M8-20.jpg|and Trifid Nebulae in a montage of two single 30-minute exposures captured ...
ComorianTheSecurity Force (French Armée nationale de développement) consist of a smal ...
VeniceBoniface and the other leaders sent envoys to, Genoa, and other city-states to negotiate a contract for transport to Eg ...
Kapingamarangi... stern edge of the Federated States of Micronesia, the languages Nukuoro andrepresent an extreme westward extension of Polynesian
Puerto RicansAmong the Hispanic and Latino population,are, unsurprisingly, the largest group; they make up 87.5% of San Juan's H ...
French IslandThe La Crosse Municipal Airport occupies the northern part of
Sandwich Islands... ks Andrus. He then married six more times and served as a missionary to the, and in the Utah Territorial Legislature
London Stone... , it is not to be confused with the more famous (and probably more ancient)in Cannon Street in the City of London)
The World... ic Radio International (PRI). The BBC and PRI also co-produce the programmewith WGBH Radio Boston, and the BBC is also involved with The Takeaway mor ...
Venice... ulation was 4,795 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Bradenton–Sarasota–Metropolitan Statistical Area
Great Britainobtained the island from France under the terms of the Treaty of Paris in ...
Curaçao1 dash Angostura bitters 1 dashPiece of cut loaf sugar Dissolve in two spoonfuls of water 100% liquor as ...
Venice... ulation was 7,466 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Bradenton–Sarasota–Metropolitan Statistical Area
Ireland... esidency is largely ceremonial. Countries using this system include Israel,, Malta, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Iceland, India, Pakistan ...
Samar... e for a peacetime navy. Much of this destruction occurred at PT Base 17, on, Philippines, near Bobon Point
island of Thanet... Ireland. In 850 Vikings overwintered for the first time in England, on the, Kent. In 854 a raiding party overwintered a second time, at the Isle of ...
Grand Isle... for the Lake Champlain Transportation Company's ferry to Gordon Landing on, Vermont is near the south end of Cumberland Head. Cumberland Bay State P ...
IrelandIn, the traditional brigade rank structure is still adopted. In Dublin Fire ...
Cape Cod... Indian" or as a "Latin Lover". In 1950, he was cast against type, playing apolice officer in the film Mystery Street. In 1957, he played Nakamura in ...
Sri Lanka... d the first FIFA World Cup qualifier in decades when the Philippines hostedin July 2011. The stadium, which was previously unfit for international ma ...
LummiMount Baker (: Qwú’mə Kwəlshéːn; Nooksack: Kw’eq Smaenit or Kwelshán), also known as Ko ...
Ireland... residential suburb, with a village core. It is on the Northside of Dublin,, and lies in the postal district Dublin 11. A couple of kilometres from D ...
Philippines... tball Stadium hosted the first FIFA World Cup qualifier in decades when thehosted Sri Lanka in July 2011. The stadium, which was previously unfit for ...
Yell... Russellville Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Pope andcounties
Key West... driving time south of Miami and approximately 2 hours driving time north of
Visayans... pines also inhabit the metropolis as a result of migration. The include the, Bicolanos, Kapampangan, Ilocanos, Pangasinan, and Moro groups (mostly Ma ...
Taiwan... (1967–74), Chile under Pinochet, Brazil under military rule (1964–85), andunder Chiang Kai-Shek (see also "Free China"). It often refers to 1st Worl ...
in Japan... d gifts from the Parthian Empire, from a king in modern Burma, from a ruler, and initiated an unsuccessful mission to Daqin (Rome) in 97 CE with Gan ...
Fort Charlotte... lier Dutch fortifications, new structures armed with cannon were erected at, Fort George, Fort Burt, Fort Recovery and a new fort was built in the ce ...
Northern Mindanao... allotment garden of the Philippines was established in Cagayan de Oro City,as part of a European Union funded project. Meanwhile, with the assistance ...
GB... refour Market (Formerly Champion as of 2008), Champion Mapinomovaoe, Globi,, GS, Carrefour Cafe, Carrefour mini, Gima
Gaelic... rayed all the time, took us to Mass. And my father would sometimes swear in. It doesn't get more religious than that. But, no, after a while, they ta ...
Comorosis made up of three islands that have inadequate transportation links, a y ...
Bantam... an Huygen van Linschoten returned from India. The merchants determined that(Banten) provided the best opportunity to buy spices. In 1594 the merchant ...
Filipino... ries (mostly Romanians and Albanians): 3.52%, East Asia (mostly Chinese and): 2.17%, the Americas (moslty Peruvians): 1.41%, and North Africa (mostly ...
Venice... roups of elite burgher families in many medieval Italian republics, such asand Genoa, and subsequently "patrician" became a vaguer term used for aris ...
Islands... although it was released before the Last Waltz film and soundtrack. 1977'swas the last with The Band's classic lineup. It contained a mix of origina ...

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Britain... esult of Sulpicius Severus' Vita Sancti Martini and spread early to western. The villages of St Hilary in Cornwall and Glamorgan and that of Llanilar ...
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British... ublished description in 1945, but its inventors were two other players: theexpert Jack Marx in 1939, who published it only in 1946, and Stayman's reg ...
Britain... s for the dead on All Souls' Day (November 2). It originated in Ireland and, although similar practices for the souls of the dead were found as far s ...
Irish... y groups in the city are German (71.7%), Norwegian (18.4%), Russian (9.4%),(8.8%), English (6.0%), Swedish (4.0%)
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Hawaii... (Hawaiian: Ōlelo Hawaii) is a Polynesian language that takes its name from, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it de ...
Irish... he top 6 ancestry groups in the city are German (74.3%), Norwegian (12.3%),(9.3%), Russian (7.7%), English (3.4%), Czech (2.3%)
IrishOne Minute Silence came together in the early 1990s whenvocalist Brian Barry got together with guitarist Chris Ignatiou under the ...
Great Britain... s flourished as a place of distinction during the Roman occupation of North. The Selgovae inhabited Nithsdale at the time and may have raised some mi ...
Irish... , just as 'New Britain' an American folk melody, believed to be Scottish orin origin; has since the 1830s been associated with 'Amazing grace'. The h ...
R'lyeh... world as he knew it. After obtaining the map, which reveals the location ofand other secret places, Shrewsbury finally lets Alhazred return to his et ...
West Indian... ate the Mississippi River for 25 years. It also opened Spain's European andseaports to American shipping. However, the Treaty was not ratified under ...
Sombrero island... patent to the Earl of Carlisle for Tortola, as well as "Angilla, Semrera () & Enegada". He also received letters of patent for Barbados, St. Kitts a ...
Strand... rt of Rungholt, which was destroyed by a storm surge in 1362. The island ofvanished in the Burchardi flood, another disastrous storm in 1634: subsequ ...
Providence... th Admiral Mansvelt and Vice-Admiral Morgan to attack the Spanish island of
TopazosPliny says thatis a legendary island in the Red Sea and the mineral "topaz" was first min ...
IrishMany Newfoundlanders are ofdescent. It is estimated that about 80% of Newfoundlanders have Irish ance ...
José Antonio Carrillo... ifornios gave up fighting. The treaty was drafted in English and Spanish by, approved by American Lieutenant-Colonel John C. Frémont and Mexican Gove ...
Great Britain... the strait is now, a south-east extension of the Weald joining what is nowto continental Europe. The eastern end of this old longer Weald is the Bou ...
CaribbeanThe culture, customs, and language of Panama is predominantlySpanish. Panama has a very diverse population which is largely of mixed Sp ...
Oahu... ember for refit. Following a restful holiday period, the submarine departedon 2 January 1945 and set a course for Saipan. There, on 15 January, she j ...
Beniny... y his royal charter, Ponce de León was charged with discovering the land of. Although the Indians were probably describing the land of the Maya in Yu ...
Hawaii... d other products. It developed markets for these exports in Russian Alaska,, and Mexican California. The HBC opened agencies in Sitka, Honolulu, and ...
TinianA textbook example of reconnaissance-pull was documented during thelandings during World War II. The United States Marine Corps's Amphibious ...
Irish... ilwaukee Road primarily by German settlers, though also by Scandinavian and. The community was named for Fulda in Hesse, Germany. Fulda is still pred ...
Lemnos... In vengeance, Oenopion blinded Orion and drove him away. Orion stumbled towhere Hephaestus — the lame smith-god — had his forge. Hephaestus told his ...
Flores... e abode of extinct giant monitor lizards similar to the Komodo Dragon. Like, Sumba and Sulawesi, Timor was also once a habitat of extinct dwarf stego ...
KaskaskiaThe original capital of Illinois was at. The overland route from Kaskaskia to the interior of the State followed ...
Puerto RicanEl Vocero is anewspaper that is published in San Juan
Rhodes... ting high losses on Ptolemy. Demetrius in 305 BC attempted the reduction of, which had refused to assist Antigonus against Egypt. The siege of Rhodes ...
NewfoundlandersManyare of Irish descent. It is estimated that about 80% of Newfoundlanders ha ...
Dordrecht... great victory." On 24 October 1944, 146 Typhoon Wing attacked a building inwhere senior members of the German 15th Army staff were meeting; 17 staff ...
North Haven... In 1847, the North Fox Island seceded and became a separate township called
Britain... ite of the Staines air disaster in 1972, at the time the worst air crash inuntil the Lockerbie disaster of 1988. The crash was commemorated in June 2 ...
Kragerø... e northwest by Vegårshei and Gjerstad in Aust-Agder and in the northeast byin Telemark. The Nordfjorden is a branch of the Søndeledfjorden that is to ...
SicilianIn 218 BC, the Carthaginian navy was busy scouting thewaters and preparing for a surprise attack on their former key stronghold ...
Rota... y struck enemy shipping, aircraft, and shore installations on Guam, Tinian,, and Saipan. She then retired to the Marshall Islands for upkeep
Enegada... l of Carlisle for Tortola, as well as "Angilla, Semrera (Sombrero island) &". He also received letters of patent for Barbados, St. Kitts and "all the ...
Report from the Aleutians... films that some critics rank as "among the finest made about World War II:(1943), about soldiers preparing for combat; The Battle of San Pietro (194 ...
Thule... ae in the plural, consisting of Albion (Great Britain), Hibernia (Ireland),(possibly Iceland) and many smaller islands. Over time, Albion specificall ...
national park... Galápagos Islands and its surrounding waters form an Ecuadorian province, a, and a biological marine reserve. The principal language on the islands i ...
Formosa... trio continued to their patrol area in Luzon Strait and waters southwest of
Atlantis... had the ability to give answers to questions on subjects such as healing orwhile in a hypnotic trance. Though Cayce himself was a devout Christian an ...
British... erting to France as the Illyrian Provinces, these territories then became aprotectorate, as the United States of the Ionian Island
Puerto Rican... linas (born 9 March 1932), also known by his stage name Shanti Ananda, is aastrologer. On 8 January 2010, and after a fifteen-year relation, Mercado ...
Britain... point of the headland of Dunnet Head, Easter Head, is also that of mainland. The famous John o' Groats, Mey (site of the Castle of Mey), and many sma ...
Teneriffe... ess an extravagance, than if he had maintained a mole-hill to be as high as, or a pond as extensive as the ocean.' (Hume, "Of the Standard of Taste", ...
Halmahera... lago. The non-Austronesian languages are related to languages spoken in thein the Maluku Islands and Western New Guinea
Choiseul... ce left Truk on 28 April, cut through the Solomons between Bougainville andand took station near New Georgia Island. Marumo's support group sortied f ...
Devenish... mention of nine places in Ireland (including Armagh, Clonmacnoise, Clones,and Sligo) where communities of Culdees were established as a kind of anne ...
BritainThe work alleges the settlement ofby Trojan expatriates, and states that the nation of Britain took its name ...
Avalon... as derived from Cavalon, a place name that he suggested was a corruption of(under the influence of the Breton place name Cavallon). He further sugges ...
CebuThe major islands of the Visayas are Panay, Negros,, Bohol, Leyte, and Samar. The region may also include the islands of Romb ...
IrishThe most prolonged of Cecil's surviving personal correspondences is with anjudge, Nicholas White, lasting from 1566 until 1590; it is contained in th ...
Rhodians... ere addressed not only to the gods, but to human beings. In this manner thecelebrated Ptolemy I of Egypt, the Samians Lysander of Sparta, the Athenia ...
bear his name... c settlements. Joost van Dyk himself escaped to the island that would later, and sheltered there from the Spanish. He later moved to the island of St ...
Irish... and 1996 in their own van. The band was threatened with legal action by anpop band of the same name in 1994, and, to avoid a legal dispute, the band ...
Man of AranProducer Michael Balcon took Flaherty on to direct(1934), which portrayed the harsh traditional lifestyle of the occupants o ...
Irish... name might be a reference to a Dublin fishmonger Molly Malone from a famousfolk song of the same name. However Don Rosa has admitted he does not reme ...
named after Ireland... in a two-ton boat. By the following year, one of Bermuda's main islands was. By the mid-17th century, Irish prisoners-of-war and ethnically cleansed ...
SamarThe major islands of the Visayas are Panay, Negros, Cebu, Bohol, Leyte, and. The region may also include the islands of Romblon and Masbate, whose po ...
Santa Barbara... Angeles basin and the Santa Catalina islands, San Nicolas, San Clemente and; when Spanish explorer Juan Rodrigues Cabrillo arrived off the shores of ...
CebuCentral Visayas includes the islands ofand Bohol and the eastern half of Negros. The regional center is Cebu City ...
VenetianCorto Maltese (whose name is possibly derived from theCorte Maltese - Courtyard of the Maltese, today Corte Contarini del Bovolo ...
Irish... itish-sanctioned settlers to the island following the Seven Years' War were, although upon settlement, they merged with local French communities to f ...
BritainEstablished in 1962 after Trinidad and Tobago's independence from, the TTDF is one of the largest Military forces in the English speaking C ...
Kino Viejo... e central coast of the state, especially in Punta Chueca, El Desemboque andas well as a number of islands in the Gulf of California in and around the ...
Kingston... ve been played on the St. Lawrence River at Montreal and Quebec City and inand Ottawa in Ontario. The number of players on these games was often larg ...
La Navasse... uthwestern Haiti. Also part of Haiti are the Cayemites and Île d' Anacaona.located west of Jérémie on the south west peninsula of Haiti, is subject t ...
Santa Catalina... Native Americans. The Tongva occupied much of the Los Angeles basin and theislands, San Nicolas, San Clemente and Santa Barbara; when Spanish explore ...
Namur Islet... he Alabama, the South Dakota, and the bombarded Roi Islet on 29 January andon 30 January. She fired 330 rounds of shells and 1,562 rounds of ammuniti ...
Inner Farne... cetime; Embleton Tower is now part of the (former) vicarage and that on theis a home to bird wardens. The most obvious conversion needs will include ...
Irish... aptains and the Kings (1972), which chronicles the rise to wealth of a poorimmigrant to America in the 1800s. Captains and the Kings was made into a ...
British... colonization by the Dutch it belonged to the matrilineal Lenape tribes, butcolonists did their best to displace them westward
San Clemente... much of the Los Angeles basin and the Santa Catalina islands, San Nicolas,and Santa Barbara; when Spanish explorer Juan Rodrigues Cabrillo arrived o ...
Lindau... Königsegg-Rothenfels, the lordships of Argen and Tettnang, and the city ofwith its territory were to be added to Bavaria. On the other hand Würzburg ...
Heptanesean or Ionian School... notable for the birth of the first School of modern Greek classical music (, Greek:Επτανησιακή Σχολή), established in 1815. Prominent representatives ...
Great Britain... lt of this, a great number of soldiers from Hanover eventually emigrated to, leading to the formation of the King's German Legion, which was the only ...
Marsh Harbour International Airport... Providence, Grand Bahama International Airport on Grand Bahama Island, andon Abaco Island. Out of 62 airports in all, 33 have paved runways, of whic ...
Roald... municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The district ofwas separated from Haram on 1 January 1890 to form a municipality of its o ...
Bay Islands... to the east. During the decade of 1780, the Spanish regained control of theand took most of the British and their allies in the Black River area. The ...
Irish... to the classification of these instruments. For example, small Scottish andharps can be held on the lap, while some ancient Sumerian lyres appear to ...
biological marine reserve... its surrounding waters form an Ecuadorian province, a national park, and a. The principal language on the islands is Spanish. The islands have a pop ...
Paradise Island... way for good, that appeared often in his depiction of the near-ideal Amazoncivilization, and especially its Transformation Island penal colony, which ...
Saipan... panese bunkers, pillboxes, tunnels, and other fortifications, especially on, Iwo Jima, the Philippines, and Okinawa, where deeply dug-in Japanese tro ...
Midway Atoll... attack, into a decisive showdown with his fleet in the central Pacific near. In the meantime, however, Yamamoto detached some of his large warships, ...
Iona... monastic foundations with Columban associations, such as Oronsay Priory or, Inchcolm is considered the most likely source of the manuscript's compil ...
Venetian... a by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, possibly after the old name underdomination of the principal city of Crete, which he had visited after grad ...
Caroline... ied German-leased territories in China's Shandong Province and the Mariana,, and Marshall islands in the Pacific Ocean. On November 7, Jiaozhou surre ...
Majorca... ns. The reign of Peter the Ceremonious was a time of war: the annexation of, the quelling of a rebellion in Sardinia, a rebellion by Aragonese unioni ...
atoll Mili... d in mid-1943, and caused half the Japanese garrison of 5,100 people in theto die from hunger by August 1945. In just one month in 1944, Americans ca ...
Sealand... Magazine, in numerous television, radio, and print articles on HavenCo and. Lackey operates Blue Iraq, a communications and IT company serving the D ...
New Providence... ricts of The Bahamas provide a system of local government everywhere except, whose affairs are handled directly by the central government. In 1996, t ...
Britain... ely that the earlier entries in the chronicle, starting with his arrival inwith his father Cerdic in 495, are correct. David Dumville has suggested t ...
Kingston... eal, 545 from Saguenay, 315 from Toronto, 240 from Trois-Rivières, 225 from, and 180 from Sudbury
Pacific... ague is played internationally, predominantly by European, Australasian andcountries, and is governed by the Rugby League International Federation. T ...
Sardinia... on, Catalonia, and later the Balearic Islands, Valencia, Sicily, Naples and(see Aragonese Empire)
Osney... ) tried to obtain planning permission to build a new book depository on theMead site, to the south west of Oxford city centre. However, this applicat ...
Marshall... sed territories in China's Shandong Province and the Mariana, Caroline, andislands in the Pacific Ocean. On November 7, Jiaozhou surrendered to Japan
Lyford Cay... althier residents continued to spread east (to East End Point) and West (to)
Gan... he southern atolls that benefited economically from the British presence on. This group cut ties with the Maldives government and formed an independe ...
Irish... sidents can be grouped into five main cultures; Scottish, Mi'kmaq, Acadian,, and English, with respective languages Gaelic (Scottish and Irish), Mi'k ...
British... ce and parade through the town singing 'minstrel' songs. This is an ancientmidwinter celebration that occurs every year in Padstow and was originally ...
St. Thomas... preceded by the Ciboney Indians, who are thought to have settled in nearbyas early as 300 BC. There is some evidence of Amerindian presence on the i ...
Puerto RicanTerrazo is a book written in 1947 bywriter Abelardo Diaz Alfaro. The book won many awards, including that of t ...
St Kilda... y known in Scots as 'Solan Goose'. In common with other gannetries, such as, the birds were harvested for their eggs and the flesh of their young chi ...
Irish... he top 6 ancestry groups in the city are German (48.8%), Norwegian (32.3%),(7.5%), Swedish (4.9%), English (4.7%), French (3.6%)
Bahía Kino... o, Ciudad Obregón, Guaymas, Nogales, San Luis Río Colorado, Puerto Peñasco,and Álamos all have 5-star hotels. There are 2,577 restaurants in the stat ...
CorfuIn the region of Gastouri (Γαστούρι) to the south of the city ofGreece, Empress of Austria Elisabeth of Bavaria also known as Sissi built ...
Gunnison... Goose, Browns, Hat (Bird), Egg Island, Black Rock and White Rock. Dolphin,, Cub, and Strongs Knob are in the northwest arm. The rest are in the sout ...
Tenerife's... e was inspired by his Cambridge mentor John Barcroft's ascent to the top ofhighest peak and his subsequent reports. Keys wrote up a proposal for an e ...
Great Britain... l (see also: House of Hanover). Its electors would later become monarchs of(and from 1801, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland). The f ...
Venice... collection of letters written by Pope John Paul I when he was Patriarch of, Dupanloup is one of the "recipients" of the letters. There are 40 letter ...
Bainbridge Island, Washington... ruiser (CGN-25), and a contemporary Arleigh Burke-class destroyer (DDG 96).is named after Commodore Bainbridge, as well as Bainbridge Township, Ohio; ...
Puerto Rican... m both sides (Nepal and Tibet) of the mountain is 60-year-old Julio Bird, acardiologist who reached the summit of Mount Everest from the north side o ...
Santa Cruz... of the islands are inhabited: Baltra, Floreana, Isabela, San Cristobal and
Cyclades... 1965 he completed his PhD thesis "Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of theand their external relations" and in the same year married Jane M. Ewbank
IrelandIn, grand juries were active during the Lordship of Ireland in parts of the ...
Ireland... n escaping the Great Irish Famine and extremely poor economic conditions in, part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland at the time. The ...
Britain... also very popular as an ornamental waterbird in western Europe, especially, and escapes are commonly reported. As yet the population in Britain is n ...
Puerto Rican... nce. Interestingly, while the City of Holyoke currently has a predominatelypopulation, it hosts the second largest St. Patrick's Day parade in the Un ...
DordrechtZevenbergen has a railway station with connections toand Roosendaal
Corcyrean... ere is also an account of a re-enactment of a famous sea battle between the(Corfiot) Greeks and the Corinthians. This has been the subject of some de ...
Saint Croix... dustrial unrest. Many locals were forced to move to mainland Puerto Rico orto look for work
British... his release from prison, he was frequently arrested for protesting againstcolonial rule in India and Africa
Britain... cts as tax rebellions, female hymn composers, scouting and patron saints ofand Ireland. In 2007 he became the only person to make a second guest appe ...
Great Britain... the Congress, Middleton was not a supporter of immediate independence from, himself remaining loyal to the crown. In October 1774, Middleton was ele ...
BritishIn the 17th centurycolonists settled in North Smithfield developing a farming community that ...
Smith... amano, and seven smaller islands (Baby, Ben Ure, Deception, Kalamut, Minor,, and Strawberry). Island County was created out of Thurston County on Dec ...
Staten Island... in 1883—except for 1889, when they split their time between Jersey City and, and when they played in Hilltop Park in 1911—until they headed west with ...
New Providence... , Texas, for a memorial service. Daniel was buried at Lake View Cemetery on, Bahamas, on October 19, 2006, almost six weeks after his death. Accordin ...
IsabelaFive of the islands are inhabited: Baltra, Floreana,, San Cristobal and Santa Cruz
Jemo... agues away, they sighted another island that they called "Pajares" (perhaps). On January 12, they sighted another island at 10°N which they called "C ...
TannaFrance was unhappy. Significant rebellions occurred onand Espiritu Santo and paperwork revealed the direct culpability of France ...
the Lamb... onsidered some of the Islands of the Forth. To the west are Craigleith, and, Fidra and finally to the west of Fidra, the low lying island of Eyebroug ...
milling... ty between England and France. The Jersey way of life involved agriculture,, fishing, shipbuilding, and production of woollen goods. 19th century imp ...
Sardinian... for unwarranted invasions of Sardinia (November 1717, strongly supported bypolitician Vicente Bacallar) and Sicily (July 1718), in spite of promises ...
San CristobalFive of the islands are inhabited: Baltra, Floreana, Isabela,and Santa Cruz
Samos... by Pausanias, and named "Herophile", seems to have been based ultimately in, but visited other shrines, at Clarus. Delos and and sang there, but that ...
Treaure Island... a Chaney, the commissioner of St. Pete Beach, and Mary Maloof, the mayor of, had asked the school board not to close Gulf Beaches. The Gulf Beaches c ...
Rhodes... n hosting a small enclave of the Dorian Greeks as Doris for some centuries.also was Dorian. After the defeat of the Persians by the Greeks, Lycia bec ...
Antelope... depends mostly on the level of the lake. From largest to smallest, they are, Stansbury, Fremont, Carrington, Dolphin, Cub, Badger, Strongs Knob, Gunn ...
Māui... o the Ngāti Hau tribe, Hāhau-whenua is the name of the great fish caught bywhich became the North Island of New Zealand. When a fish took his hook, M ...
Puerto Rico... still couldn't join the national team, the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, because's Olympic committee decided to join the United States in the boycott, and ...
Irish... long history dating to pre-Christian times. In Europe, these games includedsport of hurling, the closely related Scottish sport of shinty, and versio ...
Chongming County, Shanghai, China... hmond Hill, Ontario; Imabari, Japan; Balti, Moldova; Portmore, Jamaica; andas part of the Sister Cities program
Princes'There are two major island groups known as theand Marmara islands (including Avşa and Paşalimanı)
Île St.-Jean... dition to Cape Breton Island, the French colony of Île Royale also included(today called )
Britain... arts of Gaul (Lutetia, Corsica etc.), neighbouring nations (Belgium, Spain,, Germany etc.), and far away lands (North America, Middle East, India etc ...
Britain... t with a fetus suffering from anencephaly, was prevented from travelling toby the Health Service Executive. The High Court ruled on May 9, 2007 that ...
Irish... of its author was to produce a synchronizing chronicle after the manner ofhistorians in his own time
Delos... eath than the Iliad: Eos, the Dawn, fell in love with Orion and took him towhere Artemis killed him
British... is not found in Iceland. In the south east, it reaches the Caucasus range.Robins are largely resident but a small minority, usually female, migrate ...
Vieques Passage... sland, north of Yabucoa; south of Naguabo; east of Las Piedras; and west of. Humacao is spread over 10 wards and Humacao Pueblo (The downtown area an ...
Delos... have been based ultimately in Samos, but visited other shrines, at Clarus.and and sang there, but that at the same time, Delphi had its own sibyl
Irish... groups in the city are German (49.3%), Norwegian (32.8%), Swedish (13.9%),(10.7%), English (8.7%), French (6.0%)
Venice... re based not on medievalism, but on the Italian High Renaissance artists of, Titian and Veronese
Britain... and harvest deity often equated with Greece's Demeter or Ireland's Danu. In, she appears as a washerwoman, and thus there would seem to be a connecti ...
Ryūkyū... rd only of a massacre of Ryūkyūans, not of Japanese, and quickly noted thatwas under Chinese suzerainty, therefore this issue was not Japan's busines ...
SicilianAcis, ayouth, was sometimes said to be Dionysus' son
Puerto RicanCarlos Ortiz (born September 9, 1936) is awho was a three time world boxing champion, twice in the lightweight divis ...
Delos... ote the opera, "L'Orione", in 1653. The story is set on the Greek island ofand focuses on Diana's love for Orion as well as on her rival, Aurora. Dia ...
Great Britain... gnite, as many as 400,000 Protestants chose to leave France, most moving to, Prussia, the Dutch Republic, Switzerland, South Africa and the new Frenc ...
Irish... he top 6 ancestry groups in the city are Norwegian (47.8%), German (31.6%),(9.6%), English (5.8%), Swedish (4.5%), French (4.0%)
Britain... owth of social and institutional changes brought by the end of feudalism inafter the English Civil War in the 17th century. As national border contro ...
Britain... alm and a symbol of the Arthurian world. The stories locate it somewhere inand sometimes associate it with real cities, though more usually its preci ...
Ireland... arly settler William Evans, whose family arrived in the area from Limerick,in 1698. The township is mentioned in Philadelphia court records in the 17 ...
BorneoBy 1913, the British occupied Burma, Malaya and theterritories, the French controlled Indochina, the Dutch ruled the Netherla ...
Christmas... which unites the Line Islands and the Phoenix Islands (ministry at London,). Each inhabited island has its own council (three councils on Tarawa: Be ...
Sicily... ells the story of Orion and two wonder-stories of his mighty earth-works in. One tells how he aided Zanclus, the founder of Zancle (the former name f ...
Sicilian... of Tommaso Buscetta, the term was more often used for former members of theMafia who abandoned their organization and started helping in investigatio ...
Great Britain... ar. Elizabeth regarded the treaty of Westminster ( 16 January 1756, wherebyand Prussia agreed to unite their forces to oppose the entry into, or the ...
Milli Atolls... inst surface and air attacks, while they launched air attacks on Jaluit and, in the Marshall Islands, attempting to neutralize Japanese airfields loc ...
Formosa... to the latitude of 22 degrees and 30 minutes, and anchored at the island of(Taiwan). Then they arrived to the coast of China. They visited Nanking ne ...
Neverland... to grow up and spends his never-ending childhood in the small island called
Fremont... level of the lake. From largest to smallest, they are Antelope, Stansbury,, Carrington, Dolphin, Cub, Badger, Strongs Knob, Gunnison, Goose, Browns, ...
Mariana... kly occupied German-leased territories in China's Shandong Province and the, Caroline, and Marshall islands in the Pacific Ocean. On November 7, Jiao ...
Jefferson CountyWilna is a town in, New York, United States. The population was 6,427 at the 2010 census
Irishman... lbert Sharpe, Janet Munro, and Jimmy O'Dea. The film is a tale about a wilyand his battle of wits with leprechauns. Upon the film's initial release, ...
Wake Island... -person shooter video game, Battlefield 3 features skid loaders in the mapson all consoles and Gulf of Oman for the PC version of the game. It was fi ...
Great Britain... t, he visited Moscow. In October 1956 he signed the Protocol of Sèvres withand Israel on behalf of France
Sumatra... unifying language/lingua franca"). However, in areas of central to southernwhere the language is indigenous, Indonesians refer to it as Bahasa Melayu ...
Ireland... the revolutionary Roger Casement and two other agents to Ballyheige Bay inin hopes that they would foment an uprising that would distract the United ...