| North America | During World War II, soybeans became important in both | and Europe chiefly as substitutes for other protein foods and as a source ... |
| Maui | The Green Iguana is established on Oahu and | , Hawaii as a feral species (despite strict legislation banning the import ... |
| Gilbert Islands | Four of the former districts (including Tarawa) lie in the | , where most of the country's population lives. Five of the Line Islands a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Chiloé | ... hannel bridge is a planned suspension bridge that was to link the island of | with mainland Chile crossing the Chacao Channel. It was one of the several ... |
| 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 from | to Hoek van Holland |
| Long Island | Lloyd 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 |
| 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 ... |
| New Zealand | ... when William Soltau Davidson fitted a compression refrigeration unit to the | vessel Dunedin in 1882, leading to a meat and dairy boom in Australasia an ... |
| Cape Cod | ... nal is an artificial waterway traversing the narrow neck of land that joins | to mainland Massachusetts |
| Shawnee National Forest | ... dgway is located in Southern Illinois at (37.798036, -88.260571)., north of | . According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total ar ... |
| Line Islands | ... Gilbert Islands, where most of the country's population lives. Five of the | are uninhabited (Malden Island, Starbuck Island, Caroline Island, Vostok I ... |
| Venice | ... hips had been mass-produced using prefabricated parts and assembly lines in | several hundred years earlier. The Venetian Arsenal apparently produced ne ... |
| Iberia | ... rth of Athena from the head of Zeus). Chrysaor is said to have been king of | (Andorra, Gibraltar, Spain and Portugal). Chrysaor had one son, Geryon, fr ... |
| North America | ... streams. It inhabits the mountainous regions of Central America and western | from Panama to Alaska |
| Key West | ... species in South Florida and is found along the gulf coast of Florida from | to Pinellas County. The original small populations in the Florida Keys wer ... |
| Sydney Cricket Ground | ... nce the foundation of British settlement in Australia). Venues included the | (the main stadium), the Sydney Sports Ground, North Sydney Pool and Henson ... |
| 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 | |
| South America | An anaconda is a large, nonvenomous snake found in tropical | . Although the name actually applies to a group of snakes, it is often use ... |
| Auckland | ... of Bill Morrow. After appearing at the Brisbane Festival Hall, they went to | where Robeson affirmed his primary purpose on tour was to sing and enterta ... |
| Lofoten | Kabelvåg is the oldest fishing village in | , where King Øystein built the first fishing shacks in the early 12th cent ... |
| Venice | Giorgio 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 ... |
| Andøya | The Andenes–Gryllefjord Ferry to | is operated during about two months in the summer. The road to Kaldfarnes ... |
| 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 ... |
| Auckland | ... f the 19th century were unsuccessful. Birds were released around Melbourne, | , Christchurch, Wellington and Dunedin by various local Acclimatisation so ... |
| Coconino Plateau | ... transition from the lower Sonoran Desert to the south to the heights of the | to the north, and the Mogollon Rim to the east. The Highest point above se ... |
| Australasia | ... the New Zealand vessel Dunedin in 1882, leading to a meat and dairy boom in | and South America. J & E Hall of Dartford, England outfitted the 'SS Selem ... |
| Malay Peninsula | ... by 40 million people across the Malacca Strait, including the coasts of the | of Malaysia, the eastern coast of Sumatra, and the Riau Islands in Indones ... |
| Balkans | ... to develop hypermarkets and supermarkets under the Carrefour banner on the | |
| 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 ... |
| Starbuck Island | ... population lives. Five of the Line Islands are uninhabited (Malden Island, | , Caroline Island, Vostok Island and Flint Island). The Phoenix Islands ar ... |
| Snake River Plain | ... ains to Island Park. For more info, see, “Effects on Climate” in article, “ | . |
| 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 ... |
| Curaçao | ... Netherlands, consisting of the autonomous countries the Netherlands, Aruba, | and Sint Maarten |
| Polynesia | Settled by Micronesian and | n people, Nauru was annexed and claimed as a colony by the German Empire i ... |
| Philippines | ... occasionally added to ice cream and other desserts. In Brazil, Vietnam, the | and Indonesia, a dessert drink is made with sugar, milk or water, and pure ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Philippines | Holbrook returned to the | in 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 | |
| Jutland | ... es, were a combination of a number of peoples from northern Germany and the | Peninsula |
| Zhifu Island | ... ortality and fell prey to many who offered him supposed elixirs. He visited | three times in order to achieve immortality |
| Caroline Island | ... . Five of the Line Islands are uninhabited (Malden Island, Starbuck Island, | , Vostok Island and Flint Island). The Phoenix Islands are uninhabited exc ... |
| Riau Islands | ... s of the Malay Peninsula of Malaysia, the eastern coast of Sumatra, and the | in Indonesia, and has been established as a native language of part of wes ... |
| New Zealand | Robeson embarked on a a two month concert tour of Australia and | in October 1960, with Essie, with the primary purpose of generating money ... |
| Seattle | The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), held annually in | , Washington since 1976, is among the top film festivals in North America. ... |
| 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 | |
| Savai'i | ... Samoa to film Moana (1926). Flaherty shot Moana in Safune on the island of | where he lived with his wife and family for more than a year. The studio h ... |
| Wieringen | In the early Middle Ages and before, Texel and | may have been much bigger and met each other as opposite banks of the Mars ... |
| 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 ... |
| Anatolia | ... Eastern Europe and gradually making it predominantly Slavic, and affecting | and the Caucasus as the first Turkic tribes (Avars, Huns, Khazars, Pechene ... |
| Puerto Rico | ... ritories, such as the USA, are not members (although the US Commonwealth of | has Observer status, and the US Virgin Islands announced in 2007 they woul ... |
| 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 in | or overseas possessions (mainly in French Guiana, guarding Guiana Space Ce ... |
| Black Hills National Forest | ... s. The timber industry is important to Hill City since it is located in the | . Rushmore Forest Products runs a lumber mill outside of town and is the a ... |
| Tranøy | ... 8th century. Ånderdalen National Park is located in Torsken and neighboring | |
| Tortuga | ... the year 1660 and caused a number of conflicts. By 1640, the buccaneers of | were calling themselves the Brethren of the Coast |
| 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 ... |
| Aruba | ... of the Netherlands, consisting of the autonomous countries the Netherlands, | , Curaçao and Sint Maarten |
| North America | ... "spandex" is an anagram of the word "expands". It is the preferred name in | ; in many European countries it is referred to as "elastane", and is known ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bruce Peninsula | ... emaun (Ojibwe for "Big Canoe"), travels between Tobermory on the tip of the | and South Baymouth |
| Asia | ... according to Ctesias. He was reputed to have conquered the whole of western | in 17 years with the help of Ariaeus, king of Arabia, and to have founded ... |
| South America | ... is a regional hub for commercial flights heading to and from The Caribbean, | , North America and Central America. Also, the European cities of Frankfur ... |
| Easter Island | ... for a deity, such as in the Cult of Makemake, in which the Tangata manu of | served 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 ... |
| Anatolia | ... ed above. But this terminological structure is not convenient for southeast | and settlements of the middle Anatolia basin. This era was before the Meso ... |
| 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 the | in the Thames estuary. In 864 they reverted to Thanet for their winter enc ... |
| Cyprus | ... United States, Turkey, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Germany, the United Kingdom, | , Iran, and the United Arab Emirates. Turkmenistan is a member of the Econ ... |
| 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 - ... |
| Sydney Showground | ... competitors' residential village was established within the grounds of the | |
| 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 ... |
| North America | ... ub for commercial flights heading to and from The Caribbean, South America, | and Central America. Also, the European cities of Frankfurt, Madrid and Am ... |
| Isle of Dogs | ... C also built Limehouse Link tunnel, a cut and cover road tunnel linking the | to The Highway (the A13 road) at a cost of over £150 million per kilometre ... |
| Maldives | In 2009 President Tong attending the Climate Vulnerable Forum (V11) in the | , along with 10 other countries that are vulnerable to climate-change, and ... |
| 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 ... |
| Long Island | ... ol District in Ocean Beach until grade 6, at which point they are bussed to | for 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 ... |
| 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 the | and the Phoenix Islands (ministry at London, Christmas). Each inhabited is ... |
| Caribbean | ... for the past 7000 years. It is possible that some of the populations in the | were translocated there from the mainland by various tribes as a food sour ... |
| Banaba Island | ... island country in Micronesia in the South Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is | in Kiribati, to the east. Nauru is the world's smallest republic, covering ... |
| Borneo | ... a native language of part of western coastal Sarawak and West Kalimantan in | . In southern Thailand, the related language Pattani Malay is spoken |
| 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 ... |
| Noorderhaaks | The 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 of | and 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 on | when Odysseus fled Polyphemus the cyclops, until Aeneas arrived and took h ... |
| Antarctic | ... uring which he opened the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne and visited the | . The Queen and the children remained in the UK. On the return leg of the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Qatar | ... for local beliefs, banned its troops in Saudi Arabia from drinking alcohol. | bans the importation of alcohol and it is a punishable offense to drink al ... |
| Cape Flats | Vukani, based in the | , is published in Xhosa |
| 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 ... |
| Iceland | ... "six days' sail north of Britain, and [...] near the frozen sea", possibly | , was also never invaded by the Romans |
| Manhattan | ... merchants first settled the area. Later, German immigrants immigrated from | . Irish, Polish, Armenians, Syrians, eastern European Jews and Italians fo ... |
| Cape York | ... north into the Pacific calling at Tonga and Fiji, and then back westward to | in Australia by the end of August. The ship arrived in New Zealand in late ... |
| 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 ... |
| Africa | ... s thus graduated from a top school, begun innovative medical initiatives in | , refused to have premarital sex with his fiancée despite her willingness, ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 of | to hold a consultative forum between vulnerable states and their partners ... |
| Snake River Plain | ... elevation. Island Park is different from almost anywhere in the world. The | that was also formed by the Yellowstone hotspot is in line with the gap be ... |
| New Zealand | Queensland, like | , continues the practice of appointment by the Archbishop of Canterbury ac ... |
| Turtle Island | ... r Angola), the Little Turtle Branch of the Allen County Public Library, and | in Lake Erie |
| Tabiteuea | ... hree councils on Tarawa: Betio, South-Tarawa, North-Tarawa; two councils on | ) |
| Cocos (Keeling) Islands | The | have fifteen kilometres of highway. The airport has paved runways of lengt ... |
| 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 the | BSN 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) |
| Senja | Torsken is a municipality on the western coast of | island in Troms county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipal ... |
| New Zealand | The Russell Museum, in the Bay of Islands, | has a sea-going one-fifth scale replica of the Endeavour. It was built in ... |
| Java | ... ossils in Yunnan, China, whereas Huia masonii is a species of frog found in | , Indonesia |
| Somontano | ... of the Pyrenees, particularly in western Ribagorza, Sobrarbe, Jacetania and | ; it is enjoying a resurgence of popularity as a tool for regional identit ... |
| 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 of | on 1 January 1964. The municipal boundaries have not changed since |
| 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 ... |
| Turtle Island | Lake Erie's | , which sits astride the Michigan and Ohio border, is named for him |
| Wadden Sea | ... oday, Texel forms the largest natural barrier between the North Sea and the | |
| Seattle | ... o Anchorage, Alaska. After a year in Alaska, her husband was transferred to | and Letourneau gave birth to her second child (Claire). Letourneau attende ... |
| 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 |
| Africa | ... y years often to the Swiss Alps. In 1929 and 1940 he also travelled through | from south to north |
| Qatar | The Doha round began in Doha, | , and negotiations have subsequently continued in: Cancún, Mexico; Geneva, ... |
| South America | ... in 2010. If completed, it would have been the largest suspension bridge in | |
| 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 ... |
| Iceland | ... , wine and stronger beers in Norway (Vinmonopolet), Sweden (Systembolaget), | (Vínbúðin) and Finland (Alko). Bars and restaurants may, however, import a ... |
| Caribbean | In the aftermath of two | hurricanes in 1995, a group of fifteen Green Iguanas was found to be livin ... |
| Belcher Islands | In 1913, on his expedition to prospect the | , his boss, Sir William Mackenzie, suggested that he take a motion picture ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rhodes | ... im. Bunche eventually negotiated a ceasefire, signed on the Greek island of | . See 1949 Armistice Agreements |
| Cretan | ... re called the Meliai. The ash-tree sisters tended the infant Zeus in Rhea's | cave. Gaea gave birth to the Meliai after being made fertile by the blood ... |
| Culebra, Puerto Rico | ... ebra protests that criticized the United States Navy's use of the island of | for military exercises. He squatted in Culebra's Flamenco Beach for three ... |
| 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 on | around 1661. He was the grandson of the original settler named Bodden who ... |
| Taiwan | ... al British Legion's annual festival of remembrance. Recent requiem works by | ese composers Tyzen Hsiao and Fan-Long Ko follow in this tradition, honour ... |
| South America | ... nglish language, the Americas refers to the landmasses of North America and | with their associated islands and regions, whereas America, in current usa ... |
| Cape Breton | ... itories of Hudson Bay, Acadia, and Newfoundland to Britain, while retaining | and other islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Some of its terms were ambi ... |
| Guadeloupe | ... come caught on the trees and rafted two hundred miles across the ocean from | , where Green iguanas are an indigenous species. By examining the weather ... |
| Northern Neck | ... ion, and overfishing have diminished catches. Wineries and vineyards in the | and along the Blue Ridge Mountains also have begun to generate income and ... |
| Newfoundland | The 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Africa | ... ed ideas respectable." Berlet accused Horowitz of blaming slavery on "black | ns … abetted by dark-skinned Arabs" and of "attack[ing] minority 'demands ... |
| Taiwan | ... hsiung (; old names: Takao, Takow, Takau) is a city located in southwestern | , facing the Taiwan Strait on the west. Kaohsiung, officially named Kaohsi ... |
| Cape York | ... ark lies east of the mainland coast of Queensland, starting in the north at | . Its northern boundary is the circle of latitude 10°41'S (running east up ... |
| Samoa | ... a goodwill cruise to Australia and New Zealand. After calling at Pago Pago, | , on 10 July and 11 July, she arrived in Melbourne on 23 July. In company ... |
| Melbourne Cricket Ground | The site for the opening and closing ceremonies was the | which was also used during Melbourne's 1956 Olympic Games. The mascot for ... |
| Stroma | In the middle of the Firth are two significant islands, | and Swona. The small Pentland Skerries group are in the east. The islands ... |
| Anatolia | ... stwards and westwards. Neolithic cultures are also attested in southeastern | and northern Mesopotamia by c. 8000 BC |
| Ytterøy | ... the town had 1,669 residents. On 1 January 1964, the island municipality of | was merged with the newly enlarged municipality of Levanger. Prior to the ... |
| Puerto Rico | In February 2012, the government of | proposed that the islands' iguanas, which were said to have a population o ... |
| Newfoundland | Islands include | (including hundreds of surrounding islands), Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Isl ... |
| Rote Island | In the | language, it is called Nusa Solokaek. Both names have the meaning Sand Isl ... |
| Gove Peninsula | ... d bomb aimer, before serving with No. 13 Squadron RAAF, based mainly on the | , Northern Territory, flying Lockheed Ventura bombers. He reaching the ran ... |
| New Zealand | ... ity in supermarkets, convenience stores and online retailers. In Australia, | and the United Kingdom, jerky products are available and becoming more com ... |
| Leek, Staffordshire | ... ngineer. He was born in Tunstead, Derbyshire, and lived much of his life in | , becoming one of the most notable engineers of the 18th century |
| Qatar | ... beration of Bahrain in 1783, different Arab families and tribes mostly from | moved to Bahrain to settle there since the Persians have been expelled fro ... |
| British Isles | ... ian Magyars and the Viking expansion out of Scandinavia into Europe and the | , as well as Greenland and Iceland |
| Philippines | In the | , Brazil, Indonesia, Vietnam, and southern India (especially the coastal K ... |
| Newfoundland | ... y in the north, with additional colonial settlements or trading outposts on | and at Hudson Bay |
| Long Island | ... hamlet (and a census-designated place) in Huntington on the North Shore of | in 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 ... |
| South America | ... her than being an aid. For some communities such as in Papua New Guinea and | (except Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Bolivia), spiders ... |
| Ireland | ... of a Feather" (in 1953). On September 9, 1953, their boat arrived in Cobh, | . Laurel recounted their reception |
| New Forest | Ringwood Brewery is a small brewery situated on the edge of the | in Hampshire, England near the Dorset border. It produces mainly cask ales ... |
| North America | The Thirteen Colonies were the colonies on the Atlantic coast of | founded between 1607 (Virginia) and 1733 (Georgia). They revolted in the A ... |
| U.S. Botanic Garden | ... ad station rose on the north side of the Mall. Greenhouses belonging to the | appeared near the east end of the Mall |
| Philippine Islands | On June 24, 1889, he was ordered to the | and during the Philippine-American War he participated in the Northern Cam ... |
| Geraldton Sandplains | ... ds of the Houtman Abrolhos fall within the Geraldton Hills subregion of the | region. The main biogeographic significance of the islands is their isolat ... |
| Middle-earth | In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional | , the Dagor Bragollach (Sindarin for Battle of Sudden Flame) was the fourt ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 on | and 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 |
| Sicily | Bronte 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, ... |
| Matsu | ... by the People's Republic of China. However, the archipelagos of Kinmen and | are under the control of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Thus, there are t ... |
| Africa | ... term neocolonialism first saw widespread use, particularly in reference to | , soon after the process of decolonization which followed a struggle by ma ... |
| 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 ... |
| Delos | ... far away as al-'Ula in northwestern Saudi Arabia and even on the island of | and 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 |
| Hokkaidō | Ueshiba moved to | in 1912, and began studying under Takeda Sokaku in 1915. His official asso ... |
| 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 ... |
| Grand Cayman | The island of | , which lies largely unprotected at sea level, was hit by Hurricane Ivan o ... |
| Fire Island | The village is located on the western part of | between the Great South Bay and the Atlantic Ocean and in-between towns Ki ... |
| Qamea | ... sease and to humans by spreading salmonella. They were initially brought to | in 2000 by an American who wanted them to eat the numerous insects on the ... |
| St Martin's | ... hough it is realistically no more than a rock. It lies just of the coast of | and is part of the Eastern Isles |
| Samoa | ... Paramount to produce another film on the order of Nanook, Flaherty went to | to film Moana (1926). Flaherty shot Moana in Safune on the island of Savai ... |
| Hinnøya | The municipality encompasses the southern part of | . The terrain is mountainous, with several small islands and fjords. The c ... |
| Mojave Desert | ... one of his correspondents, Charles K. Johnson, as he retired in 1972 to the | , California. He incorporated the IFERS and steadily built up the membersh ... |
| Isles of Scilly | English 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 ... |
| Gibraltar | ... m the head of Zeus). Chrysaor is said to have been king of Iberia (Andorra, | , Spain and Portugal). Chrysaor had one son, Geryon, from Callirrhoe, daug ... |
| Puerto Rico | With 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, leaving | adrift |
| Madagascar | The 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 and | in 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 | |
| Bruce Peninsula | ... underpinnings". It consists mainly of dolomite. It is a continuation of the | and Niagara Escarpment, a geological rock formation running south into Nia ... |
| 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 ... |
| Horn of Africa | ... ic languages are spoken predominantly in the Middle East, North Africa, the | , and parts of the . More than 300 million people speak an Afroasiatic lan ... |
| Northern | Found in | , Central and South America, the Caribbean, southeastern Europe and Asia M ... |
| 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 |
| New Guinea | ... ific, Imperial Japanese forces decided to invade and occupy Port Moresby in | and 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 ... |
| Saanich Peninsula | ... being released in Long Island, New York in 1852, Oregon in 1889-92, and the | in British Columbia in 1908-10 |
| Philippine | ... ld War II, was restored. It also became a fishing port for boats sailing to | and Indonesian waters. Largely because of its climate, Kaohsiung has overt ... |
| Puerto Rico | ... shot at a world title by the WBO title holder Josue Camacho, who came from | to the challenger's hometown to defend his title. Carbajal put on a brilli ... |
| Tasmania | Mount Field National Park is a national park in | , Australia, 64 km northwest of Hobart. The landscape ranges from eucalypt ... |
| Flinders Island | Strzelecki National Park is a national park on | , Tasmania (Australia), 307 km north of Hobart. It is named after Sir Paul ... |
| Oahu | The Green Iguana is established on | and Maui, Hawaii as a feral species (despite strict legislation banning th ... |
| Kola Peninsula | ... the land along the coast of the Barents Sea, from Nordland in Norway to the | in Russia and beyond all the way to the Ural Mountains and Novaya Zemlya, ... |
| 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 ... |
| New Zealand | ... d Pearl Harbor with the Fleet, bound for a goodwill cruise to Australia and | . After calling at Pago Pago, Samoa, on 10 July and 11 July, she arrived i ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tasmania | Strzelecki National Park is a national park on Flinders Island, | (Australia), 307 km north of Hobart. It is named after Sir Paul Edmund Str ... |
| Africa | The island is located off the east coast of | , to the north of Madagascar, and boasted a high standard of living, an ex ... |
| 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 |
| Southern Ontario | The island is physio-graphically part of | , an "eastward extension of the Interior Plains, a region characterized by ... |
| Bogong High Plains | ... Park and the Baw Baw National Park include: Mount Bogong, Mount Feathertop, | , Mount Howitt, Mount Reynard and Snowy Plains. The Kangaroo Hoppet is a l ... |
| South India | In | , the Wodeyar dynasty (1399—1947) of the Kingdom of Mysore used mail servi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Asia Minor | ... ation of spiders and that it was considered to have been perfected first in | |
| Anatolia | ... acticed by the pirates of Cilicia, the coastal province in the southeast of | , who were active in the 1st century BC: "They likewise offered strange sa ... |
| New Zealand | ... ries including Britain, the United States, Canada, Argentina, Australia and | . The size of the diaspora is demonstrated by the number of people around ... |
| Malay Archipelago | The use of Malay as a lingua franca throughout the | is linked to the rise of Muslim kingdoms and the spread of Islam, itself a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Asia | ... pecies is a disjunct distribution, with a main centre in east and southeast | and a secondary centre in eastern North America, Central America, the West ... |
| 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 ... |
| Line Islands | ... al Date Line, Kiribati is now the easternmost country in the world, and the | are the first area to enter into a new year, including year 2000. For that ... |
| Taiwan | ... ndidate Chen Chu, the first elected female mayor of special municipality in | , defeating her Kuomintang rival and former deputy mayor, Huang Chun-ying |
| Horn of Africa | ... during the 3rd century CE after the first destruction of the Marib Dam. The | 's first Semitic nation, , was a Yemeni settlement |
| Anatolia | ... , the victory at Manzikert signalled the beginning of Turkish ascendancy in | . Most historians, including Edward Gibbon, date the defeat at Manzikert a ... |
| Elba | Image:Pyrite-elba_hg.jpg|Crystal cluster from | , Ital |
| North America | ... ns. If this were the case, they would have spread to Asia through Africa or | . As the Characiformes began to diversify and spread, they may have out-co ... |
| Philippines | In the | , 103.5 Max FM has The Bass Hour every Saturday at midnight that caters to ... |
| New Zealand | ... t place in the culture and heritage of Northern England, Eastern Australia, | , Southern France and Papua New Guinea. The European Super League and Aust ... |
| 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 ... |
| Guam | ... Netherlands East Indies, Wake Island, New Britain, the Gilbert Islands, and | while inflicting heavy losses on opposing Allied land, naval, and air forc ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Seattle | ... h above the ground on adjustable columns in the Googie style, reflective of | 's Space Needle and the Theme Building of the Los Angeles International Ai ... |
| North America | ... a main centre in east and southeast Asia and a secondary centre in eastern | , Central America, the West Indies, and some species in South America |
| North America | ... izard") is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in western | during the Late Cretaceous Period, more than 70 million years ago. The typ ... |
| Great Britain | ... children who survived childhood married into the most important families in | |
| Asia | Cypriniformes is thought to have originated in south-east | , where the most diversity of this group is found today. The alternative h ... |
| 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 ... |
| Marsh Harbour Airport | ... cord company boarded a twin-engine Cessna 402B (registration N8097W) at the | in 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 ... |
| Asia | Soybeans were a crucial crop in eastern | long before written records. They remain a major crop in China, Japan, and ... |
| Africa | ... stretched this far, it is remote from the traditional conception of a city. | 's first megalopolis is situated in the urban portion of Gauteng Province ... |
| South America | ... this group is found today. The alternative hypothesis is that they began in | , similar to the other otophysans. If this were the case, they would have ... |
| New Zealand | In | , Aeon hosts a four-hour drum & bass show called System Bypass on 105.4 BO ... |
| Alaska Peninsula | ... titude and 162° west longitude. It comprises the westernmost portion of the | , and a small number of the Aleutian Islands, from which the borough name ... |
| 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 Group | The 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 ... |
| Caribbean | ... ring this period, embracing types of music that were growing popular in the | such 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, ... |
| Iberian Peninsula | ... omous communities of Spain. It is located at the centre of the country, the | , and the Castilian Central Plateau (Meseta Central). The community is als ... |
| Gondwana | ... dicates that the Laurasian Cypriniformes must have been distinct from their | n relatives |
| Gibraltar | ... sion of Spain by civil war led to the loss of Sicily, Sardinia, Minorca and | and the temporary occupation of the other Balearic islands and parts of ma ... |
| North America | Reform Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism in | and Liberal Judaism in the United Kingdom view homosexuality to be accepta ... |
| 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 | |
| Auckland | ... atest Dnb tunes. Aeon also hosts a Dubstep show every Thursday on BOPFM. In | , DJ Dub Panda and HT host a three-hour drum and bass and dubstep show cal ... |
| Asia | ... town is 87.14% White, 11.43% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% | n, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 1.43% from two or m ... |
| Kingston Peninsula | ... rhood with Summerville, New Brunswick, across the Kennebecasis River on the | |
| 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 ... |
| Madison, Wisconsin | ... n by David Bishop and the libretto by Carlos Morton. The opera premiered in | , on August 25, 2000, to positive reviews |
| Africa | ... for provisions after being told by the white crew that they had returned to | . American authorities were alerted and the slaves were recaptured and ult ... |
| New Zealand | ... arch 7, 1959 Willem Ruys went off on her new world service to Australia and | . She departed from Rotterdam, sailing via Southampton, the Mediterranean, ... |
| New Zealand | ... se mechanical sounds for auditory communication. The Coenocorypha snipes of | drive air through their feathers, woodpeckers drum territorially, and Palm ... |
| 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 ... |
| New Zealand | ... ips , , and , Thompson left Melbourne on 6 August and made port at Dunedin, | , four days later |
| North America | ... ston returned to Scotland and then sailed for Boston to find his fortune in | . Livingston moved to Albany, New York where he became wealthy in the fur ... |
| 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 ... |
| sanba | ... n, the shamisen accompanies instead. Other Okinawan instruments include the | (which produce a clicking sound similar to that of castanets), taiko and a ... |
| Puerto Rico | The Republican Party has expressed its support for the U.S. citizens of | to exercise their right to determine a future permanent non-territorial po ... |
| 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 ... |
| Terøya | ... any islands including Bjørnøya, Fjørtofta, Haramsøya, Løvsøya, Skuløya, and | . The islands of Bjørnøya and Terøya are connected to the mainland via cau ... |
| New Zealand | ... uthampton, the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, Fremantle, Melbourne, Sydney, | , returning via the Panama Canal. The Royal Dutch Mail Ships (Willem Ruys, ... |
| Sardinia | Born in Nuoro, | into a bourgeois family, she attended elementary school and then was educa ... |
| South India | ... lpur and Golbai Sassan dating between 3400 and 3000 years ago, and sites in | , Sanganakallu and Tuljapur Garhi, also dating back to 3400 years ago. Fro ... |
| Lord's | St John's Wood is the location of | Cricket Ground, home of Middlesex County Cricket Club and the Marylebone C ... |
| Leizhou Peninsula | Hainan, separated by the Qiongzhou Strait (瓊州海峽) from the | (雷州半島) of Guangdong, is the largest island administered by the People's Re ... |
| Iceland | ... , consisting of Albion (Great Britain), Hibernia (Ireland), Thule (possibly | ) and many smaller islands. Over time, Albion specifically came to be know ... |
| 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 the | in the Wadden Sea, and also the westernmost of this archipelago, which ext ... |
| Tonga | Politics of | takes place in a framework of a constitutional monarchy, whereby the King ... |
| 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 ... |
| North America | ... ink of extinction or even beyond. In particular, Cyprinidae of southwestern | have been severely affected; a considerable number went entirely extinct a ... |
| Seattle | ... tion in 1989. The city incorporated in February 1990. SeaTac's name is from | and |
| Newlands Cricket Ground | In cricket, the Cape Cobras represent Cape Town at the | . The team is the result of an amalgamation of the Western Province Cricke ... |
| Zanzibar | ... oyal charter and concessionary rights to the Kenya coast from the Sultan of | for a 50-year period. Incipient imperial rivalry was forestalled when Germ ... |
| Auckland | ... d by the war. As a consequence, the British Admiralty enlarged its docks at | , New Zealand; Bombay, British India; Fremantle, Australia; British Hong K ... |
| Indian subcontinent | ... n important legume crop of rainfed agriculture in the semiarid tropics. The | , Eastern Africa and Central America, in that order, are the world's three ... |
| Tonga | For most of the 20th century | was quiet, inward-looking, and somewhat isolated from developments elsewhe ... |
| Asia | The dominion of Alp Arslan after Manzikert extended over much of western | . He soon prepared to march to the conquest of Turkestan, the original sea ... |
| Pavlof Islands | ... orough name derives. Also included are the Shumagin Islands, as well as the | and 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 of | and 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: | |
| Iberian Peninsula | The municipality of Bilbao is located on the northern tip of the | , about from the Bay of Biscay. It covers an area of , of which are urban, ... |
| Antarctica | ... and Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) are found on all continents except | . In some cases, these exotic species have a negative impact on the enviro ... |
| North Africa | ... t, the teachings of the school moved into Syria, Northern Arabia, Egypt and | (where Augustine was a member of the school from 373-382); from Syria it p ... |
| Fuerteventura | Finally, the Robins which can be found in | are the European ones, which is not surprising as the species does not bre ... |
| 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 Islands | Qatar 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 ... |
| West Siberian Plain | ... l subject of Russia (an oblast), located in southwestern Siberia, where the | meets the South Siberian mountains. The oblast, which covers an area of , ... |
| Africa | ... es an elongated, S-shaped basin extending longitudinally between Europe and | to the east, and the Americas to the west. As one component of the interco ... |
| Maldives | In 2009, President Tong attended the Climate Vulnerable Forum (V11) in the | , along with 10 other countries that are vulnerable to climate-change, and ... |
| Philippines | ... terials within a prescribed distance from the structure. Communities in the | also maintain fire lines wide between the forest and their village, and pa ... |
| South America | ... astern North America, Central America, the West Indies, and some species in | |
| New Zealand | ... ne, received approval for its use against multiple myeloma in Australia and | in 2003. Thalomid, in conjunction with dexamethasone, is now standard ther ... |
| 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 |
| Manhattan | ... is located on the eastern bank of the Hudson River, about north of midtown | in New York City, and is served by a stop on the Metro-North Hudson Line. ... |
| North America | ... t of the wind-driven Gulf Stream which goes further east and north from the | n coast, across the Atlantic and into the Arctic Ocean |
| Paracel Islands | The | and Spratly Islands, south of Sanya, are claimed by the PRC and thus consi ... |
| 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 ... |
| New Zealand | In 1959 the United States, Australia, Canada, | , South Africa, and the United Kingdom defined the length of the internati ... |
| Belcher Islands | Flaherty Island, one of the | in Hudson Bay, is named in his honor |
| Seattle | ... merican city in southern King County, Washington, and an outlying suburb of | , Washington. Incorporated in February 1990, the City of SeaTac is ten squ ... |
| Madagascar | ... al island in the Mozambique Channel, about a third of the way from southern | to 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 of | and South Korea in the 3 decades following the 2nd World War. Import Subst ... |
| Iceland | ... renada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, | , India, Indonesia, Iran, the Republic of Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 Islands | The Paracel Islands and | , south of Sanya, are claimed by the PRC and thus considered to form an ad ... |
| Great Plains | Comanche County lies in an area that is typical of the | with prairie, few trees, and generally flat topography with gently rolling ... |
| Ravenna | On 17 June 1923, Enzo Ferrari won a race at the Savio track in | where he met the Countess Paolina, mother of Count Francesco Baracca, an a ... |
| Kiritimati | The soil is thin and calcareous, making agriculture very difficult. | (Christmas Island) in the Line Islands is the world's largest atoll. Based ... |
| 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 the | use a second official language in their governments. According to GAO (201 ... |
| Cayman Islands | This 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 the | in Dorset, England |
| North America | In the English language, the Americas refers to the landmasses of | and South America with their associated islands and regions, whereas Ameri ... |
| Antarctica | ... e south. (Other definitions describe the Atlantic as extending southward to | .) The equator subdivides it into the North Atlantic Ocean and South Atlan ... |
| Africa | ... ng exemplaries or just passing through during their long migrations between | and Europe |
| Bjørnøya | The municipality of Haram includes many islands including | , Fjørtofta, Haramsøya, Løvsøya, Skuløya, and Terøya. The islands of Bjørn ... |
| Venice | ... contributed to make Livorno a leading seaport. They received privileges at | , where they were protected from the persecutions of the Inquisition. At M ... |
| 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 ... |
| Arabia | ... e Sayfawa. Islam offered the Sayfawa rulers the advantage of new ideas from | and the Mediterranean world, as well as literacy in administration. But ma ... |
| 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 ... |
| North America | ... oceeded in a similar vein, and these two LPs enabled them to break into the | n market. By the early 1990s, the band was fraying behind the scenes, due ... |
| Caribbean | Although many | islands were initially populated by Amerindian groups such as the Arawaks, ... |
| Lofoten | Vågan is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the | traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Balkans | ... rn and Eastern Roman Empires. He crossed the Danube twice and plundered the | , but was unable to take Constantinople. He also attempted to conquer Roma ... |
| 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 ... |
| Vanuatu | ... rubber-stamp postmark parts of which were hand-painted. At Hideaway Island, | , the Underwater Post Office has an embossed postmark |
| 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 ... |
| 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 isolated | off the west coast of Ireland. Man of Aran was a major critical success, a ... |
| Great Britain | ... ss. She appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those films made in | during and after World War II – she was one of J. Arthur Rank's 'well-spok ... |
| Madison, Wisconsin | ... reas were hit by a 3.8 magnitude earthquake that was felt 134 miles away in | . When the quake was first reported, it was thought Sycamore was the epice ... |
| Willamette Valley | ... re cleared further and further west, eventually reaching all the way to the | in Oregon. What became called the Oregon Trail was complete even as improv ... |
| Tjøtta | ... together with the southern part of Nesna (population: 580) and the parts of | on the island of Alsta (population: 180) to form a new, larger municipalit ... |
| Ireland | William T. Potts from Coreen Castle in | initiated the building of the stairs, which were completed in 1871, in ret ... |
| Africa | ... in many other parts of the Caribbean, resulting in a more even division of | n and European ancestry. Those of mixed race make up 40% of the population ... |
| 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-island | in the Indian Ocean, in preparation for the establishment of joint United ... |
| Cayman Islands | ... f its 45,436 residents live on the island of Grand Cayman. According to the | Chamber of Commerce, in 1999 an estimated 1,300 people lived on Cayman Bra ... |
| Sumatra | The Malay language originated in | , where it has its closest relatives. The oldest inscriptions in Malay, Ke ... |
| Bermuda | S-1 began her service operations in July 1920 with a cruise to | attached to Submarine Division 2 (SubDiv 2), with subsequent operations ou ... |
| Middle-earth | In the fictional world of J. R. R. Tolkien's | , Dorthonion ("Land of Pines"), later Taur-nu-Fuin, was a highland region ... |
| Sicily | ... France. In the mid-12th century, the Cappella Palatina is built in Palermo, | and the Madrid Skylitzes manuscript illustrates the Synopsis of Histories ... |
| Cayman Brac | ... man Islands Chamber of Commerce, in 1999 an estimated 1,300 people lived on | , while only 115 resided on Little Cayman |
| Anatolia | ... h argues that Proto-Indo-Europeans lived 2,000 years before the Kurgans, in | , later diffusing throughout the Mediterranean and into Central and Northe ... |
| Horn of Africa | ... ng from the Levant/Near East to the area between the Eastern Sahara and the | , including Egypt, Ethiopia and |
| 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 ... |
| Indian subcontinent | ... e. Linguistic and genetic evidence indicates the Romanies originated on the | , emigrating from India towards the northwest no earlier than the 11th cen ... |
| Azores | ... rn Siberia, south to Algeria and on the Atlantic islands as far west as the | and 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, although | has officially adopted a neutral flag to ease ethnic tensions with the Tur ... |
| Tulagi | ... t of the naval units in the South Pacific area, advocated the occupation of | in the southeastern Solomon Islands and Port Moresby in New Guinea, which ... |
| Oak Island | Caswell Beach is a small seaside town located on the eastern part of | in Brunswick County, North Carolina, and is adjacent to the North Carolina ... |
| North America | ... rehistoric elephant) roamed the northern parts of the Earth, from Europe to | (mastodons only occurred in North America.) There was also the dwarf eleph ... |
| Ireland | ... werful warm ocean current that continues the Gulf Stream northeast. West of | it 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 ... |
| New Zealand | In Australia and | , it is commonly served in sandwiches, sushis, on toast, or with chicken. ... |
| Hormuz | ... n Bahrain's affairs. In 1330, the islands became tributary to the rulers of | |
| Solomon Islands | ... South Pacific area, advocated the occupation of Tulagi in the southeastern | and Port Moresby in New Guinea, which would put northern Australia within ... |
| Somerset Levels | ... ngland. A substantial extension of the irrigation system on the surrounding | was also completed |
| Africa | ... evelopment in Central America) and animal husbandry (pastoralism) spread to | and Eurasia. World population was approximately 5 million |
| Little Cayman | ... 9 an estimated 1,300 people lived on Cayman Brac, while only 115 resided on | |
| Qatar | ... tment at One Hyde Park, sold off plan for £100,000,000, and was bought by a | i Prince. The development is valued in excess of £4,000 per square foot (£ ... |
| Otterøy | ... nce again). On 1 January 1964, the parts of the neighboring municipality of | that were located south of the Namsenfjorden (population: 571) were transf ... |
| Anatolia | ... lennium BC, agriculture became widely practised in the Fertile Crescent and | |
| 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 ... |
| Ireland | ... Sufi tradition, technology and Luddism, and Amanita muscaria use in ancient | |
| Phoenix Islands | ... and, Starbuck Island, Caroline Island, Vostok Island and Flint Island). The | are 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, ... |
| Antarctica | ... Antarctica defines its border. Some authorities show it extending south to | , while others show it bounded at the 60° parallel by the Southern Ocean |
| 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 to | in 1839 by Seyyid Said had the effect of consolidating the Omani power in ... |
| Devon Island | ... in inhospitable climates, such as the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station or | Mars Arctic Research Station, can also provide some practice for off-world ... |
| Hispaniola | Prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus, the island of | was inhabited by people known as the Taíno, who arrived in approximately 2 ... |
| Sundøy | ... the village of Leland. Other villages in Leirfjord include Bardalssjøen and | . The large Helgeland Bridge is partly located in the municipality, connec ... |
| Great Britain | In | the 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 ... |
| New Zealand | ... o is a town on the shore of Lake Taupo in the centre of the North Island of | . It is the seat of the Taupo District Council and lies in the southern Wa ... |
| Aldabra | ... g seabirds and other waterbirds. It is the only known breeding site outside | and Madagascar for Malagasy Pond Herons. Seabirds include the second large ... |
| Antarctica | ... the Indian Ocean. The 20° East meridian, running south from Cape Agulhas to | defines its border. Some authorities show it extending south to Antarctica ... |
| Iceland | Fire & plague insurance first become available in | , and the first documented outbreaks of influenza occur |
| Flint Island | ... habited (Malden Island, Starbuck Island, Caroline Island, Vostok Island and | ). The Phoenix Islands are uninhabited except for Kanton, and have no repr ... |
| Corfu | ... e Philip of Greece and Denmark was born at Mon Repos on the Greek island of | on 10 June 1921, the only son and fifth and final child of Prince Andrew o ... |
| Qatar | ... ear his childhood home. He also designed the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, | . Although it was originally planned for the corniche road along Doha Bay, ... |
| islands | In Trinidad and Tobago, communities all over the | get together and celebrate the festival. One major celebration that stands ... |
| Italian Peninsula | ... , which was a key supply centre for Allied forces fighting their way up the | . Several Allied ships were sunk in the overcrowded harbour, including the ... |
| North Island | Taupo is a town on the shore of Lake Taupo in the centre of the | of 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 the | and the Far East, notably around the Philippines. Spain's response to its ... |
| The Bahamas | ... and Caicos Islands, an Associate member of CARICOM, and the Commonwealth of | , a full member of CARICOM, are in the Atlantic, but near to the Caribbean ... |
| 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 ... |
| Iceland | ... e Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the | ic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. Along with Snorri Sturluson's Prose ... |
| Africa | ... re was the late Stone Age (10 000 BC) hunter-gatherer societies in Southern | , known as the San. They used poisoned arrows, tipping the wood, bone and ... |
| Seattle | ... In the Mouth of the Crocodile - Live in Seattle, capturing a performance in | . Segments of a 2004 performance in Chicago were released the following ye ... |
| Taiwan | ... cally with immigrants from mainland China. In 1684 the Qing Dynasty annexed | and renamed the town Fengshan County , considering it a part of Taiwan Pre ... |
| 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, ... |
| Anatolia | ... lock that supports mainland Greece and the Aegean basin, as a parallel to " | ". This block is rotating counter-clockwise and is being strongly subducte ... |
| 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 ... |
| Iberian Peninsula | During this century, the Middle East, the coast of North Africa and the | rapidly come under Islamic Arab domination. The westward expansion of the ... |
| Africa | ... expelling hundreds of arrested Irgun and Lehi members to detention camps in | . 251 detainees from Latrun were flown on thirteen planes, on October 19 t ... |
| Sakhalin | ... the naval base and the peninsula around it, and ceded the southern half of | Island to Japan |
| Asia | ... notably from the Near East region to the exemplary prophecies found on the | tic mainland, focused more on reaching to the educated elites and enlighte ... |
| Java | ... 1365, as one of the "tributary states" of the Majapahit kingdom in eastern | |
| 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 from | to Beijing. Many landscape projects designed by the Taller involve the pre ... |
| Palau | ... eir admittance to the United States was very strong, and, until Bermuda and | agreed to accept them in June 2009, the U.S. had failed to find a home for ... |
| Manhattan | ... Metro-North Commuter Railroad provides service to Grand Central Terminal in | with 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 | |
| Manhattan | A large British army controlled | at the time, and Washington chose the Dobbs Ferry area for encampment beca ... |
| Rabi Island | ... nhabited now. There is also a non-elected representative of the Banabans on | in 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 the | in the |
| Sambia | A peasant rebellion broke out in | (German: Samland) in 1525. The combination of taxation by the nobility, th ... |
| Seattle | ... e from much of Greater Victoria, Greater Vancouver, and, to the south, from | (and on clear days Tacoma) in Washington |
| 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 |
| Great Plains | The | meet the Rocky Mountains in Wyoming. The state is a great plateau broken b ... |
| Seattle | ... ld be the Attractions' last. The quartet performed their final U.S. show in | , Washington on 1 September 1996, before wrapping up their tour in Japan. ... |
| Puerto Rican | ... ons per square mile (278.4/km²), ranking third in terms of population among | municipalities |
| 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 from | in the north to Jacksonville, St. Augustine, and Palm Coast in the south. ... |
| Ravenna | Benedict's successor, Clement XII (elected 1730), named him legate of | , where he erected the Porta Alberoni (1739), a magnificent gateway that f ... |
| Point Reyes | ... of the foggiest land areas in the world include Argentia, Newfoundland and | , California, each with over 200 foggy days per year. Even in generally wa ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Azores | ... sixty years of immigration from Portuguese Atlantic islands (primarily the | , though also from Madeira and the Cape Verde Islands). There are strong B ... |
| Zuid-Beveland | ... as opened, the Western Scheldt Tunnel, from Ellewoutsdijk (mun. Borsele) in | to Terneuzen in Zeelandic Flanders. It is the longest road traffic tunnel ... |
| 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 ... |
| Arabian Peninsula | ... n the tropic zone, around the equator, are warm year round. Wetlands on the | , for example, can reach 50 °C (122 °F) and would therefore be subject to ... |
| Oahu | ... ted place and residential area located in the Ewa District on the Island of | in the City & County of Honolulu, United States. In Hawaiian, maka kilo me ... |
| 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 to | in 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 ... |
| Africa | ... ray of wild and endangered animals including species from the continents of | , Asia, Europe, North and South America, and Australia. The park is in a s ... |
| Madeira | ... on from Portuguese Atlantic islands (primarily the Azores, though also from | and the Cape Verde Islands). There are strong British influences, together ... |
| Africa | ... . It maintained close relations with the United Kingdom, Senegal, and other | n countries. The July 1994 coup strained The Gambia's relationship with We ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Asia | ... es acquainted Europeans with new and different cultures in the Americas, in | , and in the Pacific. They discovered a greater amount of cultural diversi ... |
| Útila | ... ifically Grenada, Curaçao, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and | . They have been introduced to Grand Cayman, Puerto Rico, Texas, Florida, ... |
| Malta | In | , the term ħelwa tal-Tork is used to refer to a tahini-based block confect ... |
| Ravenna | ... ona surrendered soon afterwards, followed by Aquileia, Mutina (Modena), and | . The road to Rome was now wide open to Constantine |
| Ireland | ... on of Irish-American veterans of the American Civil War who plotted to free | from 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 ... |
| North China Plain | ... housands of acres of farmland and killed tens of thousands of people in the | . Such an unfortunate event could reduce the legitimacy of a ruling dynast ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sicily | ... inqueremes, loaded with 1,000 soldiers, raided the Aegadian Islands west of | and 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 being | in Tasmania. The term is commonly reported to be a contraction of the Port ... |
| Africa | In 1998 Frist visited | n hospitals and schools with the Christian aid group Samaritan's Purse. Fr ... |
| 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 ... |
| Asia | ... ild and endangered animals including species from the continents of Africa, | , Europe, North and South America, and Australia. The park is in a semi-ar ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sicily | ... afia (also known as Cosa Nostra) first developed in the mid-19th century in | and spread to the East Coast of the United States during the late 19th cen ... |
| Samoa | ... sing these locations as supporting bases, to seize New Caledonia, Fiji, and | and thereby cut the supply and communication lines between Australia and t ... |
| Möja | ... kholm archipelago. The largest of the islands are Värmdön, Ingarö, Svartsö, | , Runmarö, Sandhamn and Nämdö. Gustavsberg is the main town, and there are ... |
| Solor | ... f all Portuguese dependencies on Lesser Sunda Islands. Former capitals were | and Larantuka. Portuguese control over the territory was tenuous particula ... |
| New Zealand | ... spread from China in the early 20th century, when seeds were introduced to | by Mary Isabel Fraser, the principal of Wanganui Girls' College, who had b ... |
| Antarctica | ... ry's Peak, the highest mountain in Tristan da Cunha; and Queen Mary Land in | are named in her honour |
| Aegadian Islands | ... of the island. Twenty quinqueremes, loaded with 1,000 soldiers, raided the | west of Sicily and eight ships intended to attack the Vulcan islands, but ... |
| Sumatra | ... e laws were for the Kerinci people who today still live in the highlands of | |
| North America | ... an evergreen conifer native to the interior mountainous regions of western | , from central British Columbia and southwest Alberta in Canada southward ... |
| Tahiti | ... on 21 January 1769, heading west-northwest into warmer weather. She reached | on 10 April, where she remained for the next two months. The transit of Ve ... |
| Sakhalin | Russian soldiers, as well as convict labourers from | and 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 ... |
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| 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 to | and took on Elbląg City State citizenship. The Protestant Saint Mary Churc ... |
| Anatolia | ... use of which saw the Seleucids agree to pay a large indemnity, retreat from | and to never again attempt to expand Seleucid territory west of the Taurus ... |
| 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 ... |
| Asia | ... ew genera being recognized regularly. They are most diverse in southeastern | , but are entirely absent from Australia and South America |
| Mohéli | ... ames by the Comorian government. They are Njazidja (Grande Comore), Mwali ( | ), Nzwani (Anjouan), and Mahoré (Mayotte). The islands' distance from each ... |
| Taiwan | The 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 ... |
| 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 |
| 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 of | in 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 ... |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| New Zealand | ... Actinidia deliciosa 'Hayward' was developed by Hayward Wright in Avondale, | around 1924. It was initially grown in domestic gardens, but commercial pl ... |
| 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. ... |
| New Zealand | | abolished the grand jury in 1961 |
| Taiwan | ... , Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Burma, | and Nepal. This spread was due to the establishment of sea and land trade ... |
| Auckland | The earliest electronica in New Zealand came out of | and Wellington in the early 1980s. Wellington's The Body Electric, formed ... |
| 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 | ... th several additional countries, including Libya, the Republic of China (on | ), and Cuba |
| Corfu | ... gn policy in Europe. In 1923, Italian soldiers captured the Greek island of | after the assassination of General Tellini. In 1925, Italy forced Albania ... |
| 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 ... |
| Staten Island | ... rey Woods joined the Wu-Tang Clan, a nine-member hip hop group based in the | borough of New York City, in 1992. He went under the stage name Raekwon th ... |
| 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 late | ic sources, varying descriptions of Hel are given and various figures are ... |
| South America | ... s and Taiwan is Strobilanthes cusia (Japanese: . Chinese: ). In Central and | the two species Indigofera suffruticosa (Añil) and Indigofera arrecta (Nat ... |
| 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 ... |
| New Zealand | ... or donors in 2010/2011 were Australia (A$15 million), Taiwan (A$11 million) | ;(A$6 million), the World Bank (A$4 million), and the Asian Development Ba ... |
| Timor | Prior to the arrival of European colonial powers, the island of | was part of the trading networks that stretched between India and China an ... |
| Kathiawar | ... Ali Shah left Sind for Bombay, passing through Cutch(modern day Kutch) and | where he spent some time visiting the communities of his followers in the ... |
| Middle-earth | ... ebeard (Sindarin: Fangorn) is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's | fantasy writings. The eldest of the species of Ents, he is said to live in ... |
| 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 ... |
| South America | ... nic population with Cubans, Dominicans, and the more recent groups, such as | ns and Central Americans, Haitians, Asian Indians, Koreans and Arabs. As o ... |
| Ireland | The Vikings conducted extensive raids in | and founded the cities of Waterford, Cork, Dublin and Limerick. The Viking ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cape Flats | ... l colonies on Seal and Duiker Islands. Several companies offer tours of the | , a mostly Coloured township, and Khayelitsha, a mostly black township. An ... |
| Africa | The vegetation of | follows very closely the distribution of heat and moisture. The northern a ... |
| South America | ... st diverse in southeastern Asia, but are entirely absent from Australia and | |
| Great Britain | Britannia is an ancient term for | , and also a female personification of the island. The name is Latin, and ... |
| Asia | ... departments and territories of France and United States territories) across | , Americas, Europe and Oceania. Along with its regional partners, the carr ... |
| Philippines | ... ere introduced into several countries, such as India, Japan, Indonesia, the | , Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Burma, Taiwan and Nepal. This spr ... |
| Iceland | ... s a submarine mountain range called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. It extends from | in the north to approximately 58° South latitude, reaching a maximum width ... |
| Philippines | In the | , a similar game which was first distributed in 1978 and is still in circu ... |
| Vanuatu | ... Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Sudan, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Ukraine, | , Vatican City and the states with limited recognition |
| 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 ... |
| Iwo Jima | ... unkers, pillboxes, tunnels, and other fortifications, especially on Saipan, | , the Philippines, and Okinawa, where deeply dug-in Japanese troops refuse ... |
| 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 ... |
| Flinders Island | ... n School in Hobart in 1832. In 1835, he was sent to Wybalenna settlement on | where he remained until 1838. He and his wife Mary-Anne went with Robinson ... |
| 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 ... |
| New Zealand | ... ment assistance in 2009 were Australia (A$11 million), Japan (A$2 million), | (A$6.6 million), Taiwan (A$10.6 million), and other donors providing A$16. ... |
| Catalina Island | ... . He even entered balloon races, including one in 1964 from the mainland to | that ended with him being rescued from the Pacific Ocean. A certified priv ... |
| New Zealand | ... rei) was a species of massive eagles that once lived on the South Island of | . The species was the largest eagle known to have existed. Its prey consis ... |
| 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 | |
| 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 ... |
| Asia | ... , which are native to the tropics. The primary commercial indigo species in | was true indigo (Indigofera tinctoria, also known as Indigofera sumatrana) ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Outer Banks | ... ro to Raleigh. Soon to be four-laned from Tarboro to North Carolina's famed | |
| 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 ... |
| Stadsholmen | ... west) drains into the Baltic Sea (to the east). The island is today called | and constitutes Stockholm's Old Town. It is surrounded by land to the nort ... |
| Calabria | Italian doughnuts include ciambelle, krapfen, zippuli and zeppole from | , maritozzi and bomboloni from Tuscany |
| Mayotte | ... an any other location. This list excludes the French-administered island of | which is claimed by the Comorian government |
| Capri | Ferdinand's regular holidays on | , then a famous haunt for wealthy gay men, were common knowledge in royal ... |
| Bermuda | ... l 25, 1791, Kinglassie - d. October 31, 1858, London, England), governor of | (1839–46), Barbados (1846–48), and Malta (1851–58); knighted 185 |
| Africa | ... is is one of the largest families of fish, and is widely distributed across | , Eurasia, and North America. Most species are strictly freshwater inhabit ... |
| 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 and | to assist rehabilitation programmes. Prison concerts have become a regular ... |
| 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) |
| Virginia Peninsula | ... Roanoke colonists. The weroance Chief Powhatan told Captain Smith about his | -based Powhatan Confederacy, and went on to say that he had wiped out the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Isthmus of Tehuantepec | ... here via Cuernavaca and Chilpancingo. Then Mayan influence arrived from the | and through what is now Oaxaca. This history is known through the archeolo ... |
| Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula | ... cated in the North Carolina Inner Banks on the north-central portion of the | , and along the western edge of the southern portions of the Scuppernong R ... |
| alluvial terrace | ... e Valley. The original plat was essentially one square mile, situated on an | running north and south along the eastern edge of the Jordan River drainag ... |
| Venice | ... pposition to the Normans. By 1123, he had increased ties with Byzantium and | and taken the title gratia Dei et beati Nikolai barensis princeps. Grimoal ... |
| South Pacific | ... ing the largest breeding population of endangered loggerhead turtles in the | |
| Fuerteventura | ... Palma de Mallorca, Antalya, Gran Canaria, Teneriffe, Rhodos, Heraklion and | (TUIfly), Berlin-Tegel (Air Berlin), (Pegasus Airlines |
| North America | In 1967, the MCA Records label was established outside | to issue releases by MCA's labels. Decca, Kapp and Uni were merged into MC ... |
| Mojave Desert | ... tion, a stop on the Southern Pacific Railroad's , which served the northern | and |
| South America | ... maximized comprised countries that were economically weak—namely, those in | , the Balkans and eastern Europe (Yugoslavia, Romania and Hungary)—and had ... |
| Kamchatka Peninsula | ... g, the total area of the oblast was , encompassing the southern half of the | . The administrative center of Kamchatka Oblast was the city of Petropavlo ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| North America | ... est families of fish, and is widely distributed across Africa, Eurasia, and | . Most species are strictly freshwater inhabitants, but a considerable num ... |
| Azores | ... Virginia, and it was thought for many years that he had been buried in the | or at sea |
| North America | Unique and protected creatures seldom found anywhere else in | inhabit the thousands of islands along the Alaska coast. Five species of s ... |
| 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 ... |
| South America | ... ls including species from the continents of Africa, Asia, Europe, North and | , and Australia. The park is in a semi-arid environment and one of its mos ... |
| Tuvalu | ... n Marino, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Sudan, Turkmenistan, | , Ukraine, Vanuatu, Vatican City and the states with limited recognition |
| Iceland | In | kleinuhringur (pl. kleinuhringir and kleinuhringar) are a type of old Icel ... |
| 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 the | of New Zealand. The species was the largest eagle known to have existed. I ... |
| Flinders Island | ... appointed Protector of Aborigines at Port Phillip [Victoria], returning to | in 1842. In 1856,while living at the government settlement of Oyster Cove, ... |
| Caribbean | ... tribution of alcohol. Distilleries and breweries in Canada, Mexico, and the | flourished as their products were either consumed by visiting Americans or ... |
| South India | Thrissur has played a significant part in the political history of | . The city of Thrissur is represented in the Kerala State Assembly by two ... |
| Oceania | ... of France and United States territories) across Asia, Americas, Europe and | . Along with its regional partners, the carrier serves 171 destinations in ... |
| 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 ... |
| Middle-earth | ... sëa, but no record is made of successful communication from any palantír of | to this one. They are believed to have a power over people, as seen from t ... |
| North America | ... ependence Hurricane (August 29 – September 13) devastates the east coast of | , killing 4,173, and when, on the western side of the North American conti ... |
| Ravenna | ... nd Pope Gregory V (996–999), Otto III's cousin, appointed him Archbishop of | in 998. With the Emperor's support, he was elected to succeed Gregory V as ... |
| Pelion | Peleus entrusted Achilles to Chiron the Centaur, on Mt. | , to be reared |
| 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 ... |
| Lolland | ... idge which spans the Guldborgsund strait between the islands of Falster and | , are both named after Frederick IX |
| Qatar | ADSL launched 2002 in | provided by Qtel with 25000 ADSL user |
| Great Plains | ... tural regions by varying definitions, and partially in the Upland South and | by definitions of abstract geographical-cultural regions. Oklahomans have ... |
| 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 ... |
| Iberian Peninsula | ... nos (; , sing. marrano; , , sing. marrà) were originally Jews living in the | who had been forced to convert to Christianity, some of whom may have cont ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pangaea | ... he continents that formed from the breakup of the ancestral super continent | were drifting apart from seafloor spreading. The Atlantic has been extensi ... |
| Sewell's Point | ... re also reports of a Native American burial mound in the Pine Beach area of | in present day Norfolk, Virginia, where the principal Chesepian village of ... |
| Savu | After a three-day layover off the island of | , Endeavour sailed on to Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies, on ... |
| Pacific | ... players from the ACP countries—countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the | that are signatories to the Cotonou Agreement—are not counted against non- ... |
| Florida Keys | ... d in the United States as feral populations in South Florida (including the | ), Hawaii, and the Rio Grande Valley of Texas |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 with | ian 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 ... |
| Newfoundland | ... industrialization of the island, exchanges of people between the island of | and Cape Breton increased beginning a cultural exchange that continues to ... |
| 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 ... |
| Qatar | ... lear, it might be associated with the islands of Bahrain, Eastern Province, | and nearby Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf. One of the early settlements ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Philippines | ... ah, until August 19, 1926. Holbrook then commanded Camp Stotsenburg, in the | until May 11, 1929. Aterwards, he commanded Fort Bragg, North Carolina, fr ... |
| Asia | ... ae and small invertebrates. They are found only in tropical and subtropical | . While the former are a speciose group, the latter contain only a handful ... |
| Sicily | ... tive region of Aragon, Catalonia, and later the Balearic Islands, Valencia, | , Naples and Sardinia (see Aragonese Empire) |
| New Zealand | ... is 'palm' is in fact a cabbage tree (Cordyline australis), originating from | . These trees flourish elsewhere in the UK. It is suggested that the popul ... |
| 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, ... |
| Rose Bowl | ... nd in 2000 when Hampshire moved all their home matches to their newly built | home |
| 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 on | directly 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 |
| Cape York Peninsula | ... yage on the afternoon of 5 August 1770, reaching the northern-most point of | fifteen days later. On 22 August, Cook was rowed ashore to a small coastal ... |
| Okinawa | In 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 of | and Lolland, are both named after Frederick IX |
| Puerto Rico | ... and Paraguay as far north as Mexico and the Caribbean Islands especially in | where they are also known as "Gallina de palo" and they are very common th ... |
| North America | ... nly a handful of species. The suckers (Catostomidae) are found in temperate | and eastern Asia. These large fishes are similar to carps in appearance an ... |
| Balkans | ... t times, the trading and colonising activities of the Greek tribes from the | and Asia Minor spread people of Greek culture, religion and language aroun ... |
| 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 |
| Sakhalin | ... the Battle of Tsushima, the Japanese army occupied the entire chain of the | Islands to force the Russians to sue for peace |
| the Solomon Islands | During 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, ... |
| Manhattan | In late nineteenth century | , Henry is the spoiled only child of stuffy, clueless, wealthy parents Ran ... |
| Polynesia | ... ome late Neolithic societies formed complex stratified chiefdoms similar to | n societies such as the Ancient Hawaiians, most Neolithic societies were r ... |
| Great Keppel Island | ... the Capricorn Coast. The largest island and a popular tourist attraction is | |
| Timor | ... under Portuguese control. During this period, Portugal shared the island of | with the Netherlands East Indies, and later with Indonesia |
| Madagascar | ... continental Asia. Malagasy is a geographic outlier, spoken in the island of | in 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 ... |
| North America | ... a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in | , "channel 2" refers to the broadcast or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with ... |
| Middle-earth | ... Riders, or simply the Nine) are fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's | legendarium. They were nine Men who succumbed to Sauron's power and attain ... |
| Ingarö | ... all part of Stockholm archipelago. The largest of the islands are Värmdön, | , Svartsö, Möja, Runmarö, Sandhamn and Nämdö. Gustavsberg is the main town ... |
| Sicily | In 1853, Dunant visited Algeria, Tunisia, and | , on assignment with a company devoted to the "colonies of Setif" (Compagn ... |
| Asia | ... Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean, with a smaller number in continental | . Malagasy is a geographic outlier, spoken in the island of Madagascar in ... |
| Alcatraz Island | The Rock is a 1996 action film that primarily takes place on | and 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 |
| 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 in | Federal Court. Ellefson alleged that Mustaine short changed him on profits ... |
| Ameland | ... riefly initiated passenger and postal service to Schiermonnikoog and nearby | , landing its Douglas DC-3s on the beach |
| Stockholm archipelago | The municipality consists of 10,000 islands, all part of | . The largest of the islands are Värmdön, Ingarö, Svartsö, Möja, Runmarö, ... |
| Sardinia | ... le plant food diet. The article is a lifestyle survey of three populations, | ns, Okinawans, and Adventists, who generally display longevity and "suffer ... |
| Big Thicket National Preserve | ... ng, fishing, and some mining are allowed. Big Cypress National Preserve and | were created in 1974 as the first national preserves |
| Balkans | ... traced to ethnic Slavs who mixed with the local European population of the | (Illyrians, Dacians/Thracians, Romans, Celts); the Bulgarians' Slavs also ... |
| Africa | ... s term illustrates a past trend towards referring to the whole continent of | by the name Aethiopia. The modern nation of Ethiopia, in northeast Africa, ... |
| 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 of | is thought to have studied under St. Mobhi, but left Glasnevin following a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Värmdön | The municipality is named after the main island | , 180 km 2 in size |
| Paradise Island | ... ates imposed a ban on travel to Cuba in 1963. The Atlantis resort on nearby | accounts 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. In | arroz 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 Britain | The Industrial Revolution on Continental Europe came a little later than in | . In many industries, this involved the application of technology develope ... |
| Palau | ... y, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Micronesia, Monaco, Montenegro, Nauru, | , Poland, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South ... |
| 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 ... |
| Middle-earth | ... enta provides a middle-ground and link between Ainulindalë, which stands as | 's cosmogony or 'creation myth', and Quenta Silmarillion, a collection of ... |
| South America | ... Bond film series. Wisdom gained a celebrity status in lands as far apart as | , Iran and many Eastern Bloc countries, particularly in Albania, where his ... |
| Sicily | ... odern Belgrade) and Sirmium. During 442 Theodosius recalled his troops from | and ordered a large issue of new coins to finance operations against the H ... |
| Ireland | John MacBride was born at The Quay, Westport, County Mayo, | to Patrick MacBride, a shopkeeper and trader, and the former Honoria Gill, ... |
| Mauritius | ... esiding on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, were expelled to | in the 1960s, in connection with the erection of an American strategic mil ... |
| 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 ... |
| Casquets | There is a large, deepwater harbour at St Peter Port. The | , a group of islets, are notable for the lighthouse facility constructed t ... |
| Samoa | ... that the Japanese operation might include carrier raids on Allied bases in | and at Suva. Nimitz, after consultation with Admiral Ernest King, Commande ... |
| New Zealand | ... ean Kiribati will be inundated. Paul Kench at the University of Auckland in | and Arthur Webb at the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission in Fiji ... |
| Pangaea | ... . However, their divergence probably occurred only with the splitting-up of | in the Jurassic, maybe 160 million years ago. By 110 mya, the plate tecton ... |
| 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 ... |
| Chatham Islands | ... authorities are combined into a single unitary authority, and the isolated | have a body with its own special legislation, making it very like a unitar ... |
| Bermuda | In | and the Bahamas local leaders were angry at the food shortages caused by B ... |
| Po Valley | ... d fog is often found in lowlands and valleys, such as the lower part of the | and the Arno and Tiber valleys in Italy or Ebro Valley in northeastern Ibe ... |
| Spice Islands | ... e South Seas. Fifteenth-century Portuguese sailors from Goa en route to the | often made stopovers on the island which they called Pulo Pinaom. Early Ma ... |
| New Zealand | ... utbreak of World War I, Nauru was captured by Australian troops. Australia, | and the United Kingdom signed the Nauru Island Agreement in 1919, creating ... |
| Hokkaidō | ... the island are the Sakhalin Ainu, Oroks, and Nivkhs. Most Ainu relocated to | when 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 ... |
| Ireland | ... are explained in aitiological folk-tales, recorded in many variant forms in | , Scotland, England, Wales, Appalachia, and Newfoundland |
| 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 between | and Kedah. The ese, then the overlord of the Kedah Sultanate, referred to ... |
| Newfoundland | ... tablishing a settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, near the northernmost tip of | . The Viking settlers quickly abandoned Vinland, and disappeared from Gree ... |
| Sinai Peninsula | ... gyptian and Syrian forces crossed ceasefire lines to enter the Israeli-held | and Golan Heights respectively, which had been captured and occupied since ... |
| North America | ... ashington, D.C., and their vicinities. Two other prominent megalopolises in | are as follows |
| Asia | ... 28.7%, U.S. 12.3%), 0.12% Native American (Georgia 0.3%, U.S. 0.9%), 0.64% | n (Georgia 2.1%, U.S. 3.6%), 0.02% Pacific Islander (Georgia 0.1%, U.S. 0. ... |
| Middle-earth | Bree is a fictional village in J. R. R. Tolkien's | , east of the Shire and south of Fornost Erain. It is thought to have been ... |
| Mentawai Islands | ... ndemic mammal species on mainland Sumatra and 14 more endemic to the nearby | . The species present include: Sumatran Tiger, Sumatran Orangutan, Sumatra ... |
| 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, ... |
| Anatolia | ... ypothesis" posited that this group lived 2,000 years before the Kurgans, in | , later diffusing to Greece, then Italy, Sicily, Corsica, the Mediterranea ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| North America | ... 5 or 50 (HDTV) frames per second. NTSC television displays (the standard in | ) refresh at 29.97 frames per second |
| Djerba | ... nd Djerbi; according to the 1998 Ethnologue report, about 26,000 Berbers in | and Matmata speak Djerb |
| Swona | ... of the beacon and to the east between the old jetty and the lighthouse. On | they can be seen around the mid point of the west coast |
| Great Plains | The Republican Party's strongest focus of political influence lies in the | states, particularly Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North D ... |
| Lagos Island | The two major urban islands of Lagos in Lagos Lagoon are | and Victoria Island. These islands are separated from the mainland by the ... |
| Llano Estacado | ... om Canyon is located within Yellow House Canyon, at the eastern edge of the | . Yellow House Canyon was carved by the North Fork of the Double Mountain ... |
| 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 ... |
| Asia | ... stic period, which was characterized by a new wave of Greek colonization in | and Africa, with Greek ruling classes established in Egypt, southwest Asia ... |
| Virginia Peninsula | ... valry brigade assisted Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's army as it withdrew up the | in the face of superior numbers. Stuart fought at the Battle of Williamsbu ... |
| Africa | ... loping countries). List C is further divided into sub-list C1 (countries in | ); sub-list C2 (countries in Europe, Asia and the Pacific); and sub-list C ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jutland | ... ty in south Denmark, in Region of Southern Denmark on the west coast of the | peninsula. The municipality covered an area of 117 km², and had a total po ... |
| 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 ... |
| Roanoke Island | ... ginia, used tree ring cores from 800-year-old bald cypresses taken from the | area of North Carolina and the Jamestown area of Virginia to reconstruct p ... |
| 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 ... |
| North | ... ered animals including species from the continents of Africa, Asia, Europe, | and South America, and Australia. The park is in a semi-arid environment a ... |
| 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 ... |
| North America | The Reform Judaism movement, the largest branch of Judaism in | , has rejected the traditional view of Jewish Law on this issue. As such, ... |
| Antarctica | Wetlands occur naturally on every continent except | . They can also be constructed artificially as a water management tool, wh ... |
| South Pacific | ... s by western sailing ship to the island of Bora Bora, a small island in the | , on an important mission. He bears a message from the chief of Fanuma to ... |
| Iberian Peninsula | ... ay. Typically the Renaissance settings, especially those not written on the | , may be performed a cappella (i.e. without necessary accompanying instrum ... |
| Jutland | ... r) is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Region of Southern Denmark on the | peninsula in south Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 1,278 km², ... |
| 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 ... |
| Malay Peninsula | ... o the southeast is Java, separated by the Sunda Strait. To the north is the | , separated by the Strait of Malacca. To the east is Borneo, across the Ka ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cook Islands | Members of IFAD are 162 of the UN members, along with | and Niue, and they are classified as follows: List A (primarily OECD membe ... |
| Mag Mell | In Irish mythology, Tethra of the Fomorians ruled | after 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 ... |
| Jutland | ... nicipality (Danish, kommune) in Region of Southern Denmark partially on the | peninsula and partially on the island of Als in south Denmark, at the bord ... |
| Cyclades | ... ge of the spoken Attic dialect included Attica, Euboea, some of the central | islands, and northern Aegean coastal areas of Thrace (i.e. Chalcidice). Th ... |
| Castle Cornet | ... ; there were a few Royalist uprisings in the southwest of the island, while | was occupied by the Governor, Sir Peter Osborne, and Royalist troops. Cast ... |
| Roanoke Island | ... Argüelles was born in San Agustín 21 years before the English settlement at | in Virginia Colony, and 42 years before the successful settlements of Sant ... |
| Arabian Peninsula | ... t of their genetic material (Y-chromosome analysis) coming from present day | , Europe or Sub-Saharan Africa |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rotherhithe | ... nd suffered from a lack of space at the quayside. The Howland Great Dock in | (built 1696 and later forming the core of the Surrey Commercial Docks) was ... |
| South America | ... this release, as he had already left the label that released it. Dio toured | , Japan, Europe, and Russia in 2005. Their autumn tour was titled "An Even ... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Iceland | In 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" of | and are located about east north-east of Grand Cayman and have areas of re ... |
| Riau Islands | # | (capital: Tanjung Pinang |
| Gilbert Islands | ... st widely known of these was King Auweyida. Christian missionaries from the | arrived 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 ... |
| Djerba | ... town of Tatouine itself, but instead at Tunisian locations such as Matmâta, | , and Tozeur |
| Hawaiian Islands | In about , the | have 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 of | named Abimilki. They could possibly be the same person. Abimilki's name ap ... |
| Maldives | Mantas sometimes breach the surface, launching themselves into the air. The | are a hotspot for plankton and consequently for reef mantas. A population ... |
| New Zealand | All land masses in the Ross Sea are claimed by | to fall under the jurisdiction of the Ross Dependency, but few non-Commonw ... |
| 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 ... |
| Great Plains | ... to develop new ones. Winter wheat production quickly spread throughout the | , and was, and still is, usually grown using the techniques of dryland far ... |
| Jutland | ... parated by Alssund, the waterway which separates the island of Als from the | mainland |
| Faroe Islands | Already in 1907, the | passed a law prohibiting all sale of alcohol, which was in force until 199 ... |
| Africa | ... od, which was characterized by a new wave of Greek colonization in Asia and | , with Greek ruling classes established in Egypt, southwest Asia and |
| Spice Islands | ... the Dutch in the late sixteenth century. Both came in search of the fabled | of Maluku. Portuguese first landed near modern Pante Macassar, and in 1556 ... |
| Sardinia | It is one of the main tourist destinations of | , has a long beach (more than 15 Kilometers of white sand) and a system of ... |
| Istria | ... and inland from the Liburnians, off the Adriatic coast and eastwards of the | n peninsula. They occupied the interior of the country between the Colapis ... |
| 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 ... |
| South America | ... ickers fight each other for the Guerrero coast route that brings drugs from | as well as soldiers that have been fighting the cartels since 2006. A majo ... |
| Newfoundland | ... y Canada. However, historians are unclear as to whether Cabot first visited | or 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Isla de la Juventud | ... rot, which is native to the Cayman Islands, forested areas of Cuba, and the | |
| North America | These nudibranchs occur on the West Coast of | and Central America, some extending west into Japanese and Russian waters |
| West Frisian Islands | ... a national park in the northern Netherlands. Schiermonnikoog is one of the | , and is part of the province of Friesland |
| Antarctica | ... cidentally or deliberately released into the wild in every continent except | . They quickly revert to the natural coloration of common carp within a fe ... |
| Channel Television | ... swas for its final series in 1981. The smallest broadcaster in the network, | , did not carry the programme |
| 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 | |
| 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 ... |
| Virgin Islands | ... aved Africans and African-Americans. Indigo plantations also thrived in the | . However, France and Germany outlawed imported indigo in the 16th century ... |
| Somontano | ... cetania, Gallego, Sobrarbe, and Ribagorza regions; and wines from Cariñena, | , Calatayud, and Campo de Borja; and fruit, especially peaches, from its f ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lagos Island | Victoria Island with its annex is situated to the south of | . It has expensive real estate properties and for that reason, many new lu ... |
| Ravenna | ... he legitimacy of the supposed marriage proposal. Attila sent an emissary to | to proclaim that Honoria was innocent, that the proposal had been legitima ... |
| South Ronaldsay | At 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 |
| New Zealand | ... Vacuum Oil Co., or "Stanvac", operated in 50 countries, from East Africa to | , before it was dissolved in 1962 |
| 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 America | ... nding algorithm, primarily used in the digital telecommunication systems of | and Japan. Companding algorithms reduce the dynamic range of an audio sign ... |
| North America | Lake Winnipeg is a large, lake in central | , in the province of Manitoba, Canada, with its southern tip about north o ... |
| Llano Estacado | ... Haboob Ransom Canyon Texas 2009.jpg|Gust-front dust cloud moving across the | toward Ransom Canyo |
| Venice | Francesco Foscari (1373 – 1 November 1457) was doge of | from 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 ... |
| 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 | |
| Ireland | ... would have been difficult”.One of the most notorious cases of sex abuse in | involved Brendan Smyth, who, between 1945 and 1989, sexually abused and in ... |
| Guernsey | The present flag of | was adopted in 1985 and consists of the red cross of St. George with an ad ... |
| Cayman Brac | ... s. The vast majority of the population resides on Grand Cayman, followed by | and Little Cayman, respectively. The population is projected to rise to 60 ... |
| North America | ... ccepted definition of a geographic center"), the center of the continent of | is 6 miles west of Balta, at a latitude of 48°10' and a longitude of 100°1 ... |
| Bermuda | In 1999, Seirawan played a ten-game match against Michael Adams in | . The match was drawn +2–2=6 |
| Rhodos | ... irport with flights to Palma de Mallorca, Antalya, Gran Canaria, Teneriffe, | , Heraklion and Fuerteventura (TUIfly), Berlin-Tegel (Air Berlin), (Pegasu ... |
| Gibraltar | ... ching Braes" of Cambuslang in 1742—two to Ireland, and one each to Bermuda, | , and the . He also came to America in 1738 following John Wesley's depart ... |
| North America | In | , archaeological recovery has indicated asphalt was sometimes used to adhe ... |
| Rotherhithe | ... t of London, although some relief was provided by Brunel's Thames Tunnel to | . The opening of Wapping tube station on the East London Line in 1869 prov ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| Middle-earth | Huston is also famous to a generation of fans of J. R. R. Tolkien's | stories as the voice of the wizard Gandalf in the Rankin/Bass animated ada ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sundeved | ... ity was combined with Augustenborg, Broager, Gråsten, Nordborg, Sydals, and | municipalities to form a new Sønderborg municipality. The former Sønderbor ... |
| Southern Ontario | ... mponent of Ontario's Golden Horseshoe, which includes other major cities in | such as Mississauga, Oakville, Hamilton, Brantford, and Niagara Falls. The ... |
| Polynesia | ... time in his life that Appleton developed a serious interest in the music of | and 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 ... |
| Marshall Islands | ... yet finished their ratification procedures are: Bahamas (approved in 2008), | (approved 2009) and Yemen (1977 signatory) |
| Roanoke Island | The researchers concluded that the settlers of the Lost Colony landed at | in the summer of the worst growing-season drought in 800 years. "This drou ... |
| Ross Island | ... ss Sea was discovered by James Ross in 1841. In the west of the Ross Sea is | with 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 |
| North America | Winter wheat is grown throughout Europe, | , and in Siberia |
| 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 ... |
| Kiribati | ... ublic of Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, | , South Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia ... |
| North America | ... utabaga was then introduced more widely to England in 1790. Introduction to | came in the early 19th century with reports of planted rutabaga crops in I ... |
| Ikoyi | | is situated on the eastern half of Lagos Island and joined to it by a land ... |
| Djerba | ... ulation) are Muslim. There is a Jewish population on the southern island of | and Tunis. There is also a small indigenous Christian population |
| Atlantic coastal plain | ... water. Lakeland is located within the Central Florida Highlands area of the | with a terrain consisting of flatland interspersed with gently rolling hil ... |
| Asia | ... d into sub-list C1 (countries in Africa); sub-list C2 (countries in Europe, | and the Pacific); and sub-list C3 (countries in Latin America and the ) |
| Grassholm | ... the Mabinogi are located in Harlech in northwest Wales and on the island of | in southwestern Pembrokeshire |
| 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 ... |
| Great Britain | ... . Additionally, the haplotypes of about 48% of the indigenous population of | aggravate the condition, as the E647 sequence underwent epigenetic degrada ... |
| Grand Cayman | One of | 's main attractions is Seven Mile Beach, on which a number of the island's ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 Islands | Brown Peak is the highest point of the | . It is situated on the northern part of Sturge Island, near East Antarcti ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Asia | Portuguese exploration of Africa and | , Columbus's voyage to the Americas (1492) and finally Ferdinand Magellan' ... |
| 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 the | and the island of Madeira, mobs massacred former Jews. Because of these ex ... |
| Africa | ... possess a high ratio of endemism. Since the island separated from mainland | 65 million years ago, many species and ecosystems have evolved independent ... |
| Bora Bora | Aged 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, ... |
| Swona | ... n the main setting off point from the mainland to the islands of Stroma and | and Orkney itself. This route, known as The Short Sea Crossing, is both th ... |
| Anatolia | ... e Middle East, but also throughout Eurasia, with Indo-European expansion to | , Europe and Central Asia. The civilization of Ancient Egypt rose to a pea ... |
| 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 ... |
| Langkawi | ... e beauty of the beaches and increasingly turns tourists away to places like | and 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 ... |
| Antarctica | The Ross Sea is a deep bay of the Southern Ocean in | between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land |
| Svalbard | ... situated on the western side of Norway's fourth largest island (other than | ) Sørøya. Most people are to be found in a string of settlements along the ... |
| Ireland | Bluebell woods may be found in all parts of Great Britain and | , as well as elsewhere in Europe. Bluebells are a common indicator species ... |
| Antarctica | ... less than 220 Dobson Units were not found in the historic observations over | prior to 1979. Also, from direct measurements over Antarctica, a column oz ... |
| Middle-earth | ... aw the release of The Lord of the Rings Online, based on J. R. R. Tolkien's | . Other licensed MMORPGs include The Matrix Online, based on the Matrix tr ... |
| Cape Cod | ... ounty is a county located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, consisting of | and associated islands. (Some adjacent islands are in Dukes County and Nan ... |
| Anatolia | Urban cultures in Mesopotamia and | flourished, developing the wheel. Copper ornaments became more common, mar ... |
| Asia | ... Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean, with a smaller number in continental | . Malagasy, a geographic outlier spoken in Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, ... |
| Melanesia | ... ng an estimated 750–1800 species, occurred during the human colonisation of | n, 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Africa | ... in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Britain, Mesoamerica, Peru, Iran, and | |
| Great Britain | Bluebell woods may be found in all parts of | and 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 ... |
| New Zealand | ... rutabaga in many Commonwealth Nations, including England, Wales, Australia, | . The name turnip is also used in parts of Northern and Midland England, O ... |
| North America | ... icians from different ethnic groups produced music unique to this region of | . Appalachian string bands of the early 20th century primarily consisted o ... |
| Guernsey | In | , the light is known as the faeu boulanger (rolling fire), and is believed ... |
| Mulberry Island | Established 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 on | and 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 of | from Dutch and French military forces during the Napoleonic Wars and contr ... |
| Caribbean | Batey, a ball game played on many | islands including Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the West Indies, has been propose ... |
| South America | The Amazon River ( or ; ; ) in | is the second longest river in the world and by far the largest by waterfl ... |
| 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 |
| Seattle | ... ome time in his early childhood. When he was seven, his family emigrated to | (United States), where he attended McClure Middle School and Garfield High ... |
| Ireland | ... most other jurisdictions employ some other type of preliminary hearing. In | , they also functioned as local government authorities |
| North America | ... 4,624 km 2 ) and the world's 33rd largest freshwater lake. It is in central | , in the Canadian province of Manitoba, which is named after the lake. It ... |
| Bermuda | defence of | is the responsibility of the United Kingdo |
| 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 at | for the next nine years |
| Flotta | ... 128-mile-long underwater pipeline brings oil from the Piper oilfield to the | oil terminal. The Claymore and Tartan oil fields also feed into this line |
| 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 Rico | Batey, 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 on | from Fiji's main airport, Nadi International Airport |
| Africa | Portuguese exploration of | and Asia, Columbus's voyage to the Americas (1492) and finally Ferdinand M ... |
| 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 ... |
| Commander Islands | ... on the Pribilof, Bogoslof and Buldir islands in the United States, and the | in Russia. On these islands, it shares some of the same cliff habitat as t ... |
| New Zealand | ... d kiwifruit has long been regularly used as a garnish atop whipped cream on | 's national dessert, the pavlova. It can also be used in curry |
| Sri Lanka | Dhanushkodi has the only land border between India and | which 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 to | and Boulogne. Until the 1990s these provided the only surface-based route ... |
| Kamchatka Peninsula | ... , railways and airways stretches almost from Kaliningrad in the west to the | in the east, and major cities such as Moscow and Saint Petersburg are serv ... |
| Castle Cornet | ... are German defences visible all round the coast and additions were made to | and a windmill. Hitler became obsessed with the idea that the Allies would ... |
| Cassidy International Airport | ... s. Fiji's national carrier Air Pacific provides an international service to | on Kiritimati from Fiji's main airport, Nadi International Airport |
| South Ronaldsay | ... . The small Pentland Skerries group are in the east. The islands of Hoy and | border the firth to the north and are part of the Orkney Islands |
| Virgin Islands | ... nto the fall of 1941, she patrolled and conducted training exercises in the | and off the Panama Canal Zone. During October 1941, R-19 returned to Groto ... |
| 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 the | in 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. ... |
| Pentland Skerries | ... iddle of the Firth are two significant islands, Stroma and Swona. The small | group 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 ... |
| Ireland | ... and, Faroe Islands, Great Britain (including numerous surrounding islands), | , Rockall, Sable Island, Azores, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Madeira, Bermuda ... |
| Cabo San Lucas | ... ations. Some consider it a “passé” resort, eclipsed by the newer Cancún and | . Over the years a number of problems have developed here, especially in t ... |
| New Zealand | ... War I, Nauru became a League of Nations mandate administered by Australia, | , and the United Kingdom. During World War II, Nauru was occupied by Japan ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rockall | ... e Islands, Great Britain (including numerous surrounding islands), Ireland, | , Sable Island, Azores, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Madeira, Bermuda, Canary ... |
| Family Islands | ... he remainder of the Bahamas) is the result of waves of immigration from the | to 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 |
| 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 the | south of Marseille, and buried in Carqueiranne in September |
| Bonriki International Airport | ... es: Air Kiribati and Coral Sun Airways. Both airlines are based in Tarawa's | and serve destinations across the Gilbert Islands only |
| Ireland | ... e Atlantic from the Gulf of St. Lawrence through Greenland and the coast of | down to Portugal, as well as in the high Arctic islands. In the winter, th ... |
| Great Britain | ... luding hundreds of surrounding islands), Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, | (including numerous surrounding islands), Ireland, Rockall, Sable Island, ... |
| Asia | ... degrees. Increasingly, there are more cross-over composers fusing Pacific, | n and European influences along with electronic instruments and techniques ... |
| 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 near | Island. Marumo's support group sortied from New Ireland on 29 April headed ... |
| 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 of | to 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 | ... millions of insects, about half of which occur nowhere else. The island of | , particularly the unique Madagascar dry deciduous forests and lowland rai ... |
| Númenor | Some of the stones were given to the Dúnedain of | as a gift, during the Second Age. Of these, Elendil took seven with him on ... |
| 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 in | with Flaherty who had experience with the natives there. Murnau and Flaher ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rameswaram | Dhanushkodi or Danushkodi is a town/village at the southern tip of the | island, at the eastern coast of the Tamil Nadu state of India |
| Mayotte | ... e maintains a small maritime base and a Foreign Legion Detachment (DLEM) on | |
| Kintyre | ... ame referring to the sea lanes of the entire west coast of Scotland down to | . One version of the 9th century Historia Brittonum states that "the Brito ... |
| East Frisian Islands | ... Bight, a shallow bay of the North Sea. The island of Wangerooge, one of the | , is a part of Friesland |
| Madagascar | ... maller number in continental Asia. Malagasy, a geographic outlier spoken in | in the Indian Ocean, is also a member of this language family. Although ea ... |
| North America | In criminal justice, particularly in | , correction, corrections, and correctional, are umbrella terms describing ... |
| Iceland | ... nclude Newfoundland (including hundreds of surrounding islands), Greenland, | , Faroe Islands, Great Britain (including numerous surrounding islands), I ... |
| Heligoland | It was in fact called Heligoland, after the German archipelago of | |
| 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 ... |
| Sardinia | Pane carasau, or carta da musica, is a traditional flatbread from | |
| Swona | In 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 | |
| Newfoundland | The 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 ... |
| North America | ... e Dreamcast was released in November 1998 in Japan; on September 9, 1999 in | and on October 14, 1999 in Europe and November 30, 1999 in Australia. Desp ... |
| Balkans | ... 's shares. OTE owns a total of 13 subsidiaries in four countries across the | , including Greece's top mobile telecommunications provider, Cosmote |
| Aleutian Islands | ... s, around the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk throughout the Bering Sea and the | to southeast Alaska, and in the Atlantic from the Gulf of St. Lawrence thr ... |
| Cape Cod | ... ou include inland lakes). Barnstable County includes and consists mostly of | |
| Dunnet Head | On the Caithness (southern) side the Firth extends from | in the west to Duncansby Head in the east, while on the Orkney (northern) ... |
| South America | ... wetlands is the Pantanal, which straddles Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay in | |
| 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 ... |
| Africa | ... m $2.4 billion a year earlier to position the country in the fourth rank in | among FDI recipients, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade ... |
| Seattle | In an interview KISW 99.9 FM in | , Mustaine stated that, after 4 years of absence, there would be a new Gig ... |
| Caribbean | ... Island, Azores, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Madeira, Bermuda, Canary Islands, | , Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Annobón Province, Fernando de Noronha ... |
| 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 ... |
| Asia | ... and, some large jellyfish are considered a delicacy in eastern and southern | . Coral reefs have long been economically important as providers of fishin ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tonga | ... on the Corruption Perceptions Index (with 10 being the least corrupt). Only | , Uzbekistan, Haiti, Iraq, Burma, and scored lower. Critics of President D ... |
| Sicily | ... Durum wheat pasta was introduced by Libyian Arabs during their conquest of | in 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 ... |
| Africa | ... become an international hit, raising millions for famine victims in several | n nations, particularly Ethiopia |
| 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 ... |
| New Zealand | ... y defense is recognized in Australia, Canada, England and Wales, Hong Kong, | , the Republic of Ireland, India, and most U.S. states with the exception ... |
| New Guinea | ... he first part of the route passed north and west over the Arafura Sea, with | to the north-east and the Australian mainland to the south-west. The first ... |
| Cape Verde | ... ores, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Madeira, Bermuda, Canary Islands, Caribbean, | , São Tomé and Príncipe, Annobón Province, Fernando de Noronha, Rocas Atol ... |
| North America | ... ommon at larger universities. The term political science is more popular in | than elsewhere; other institutions, especially those outside the United St ... |
| North America | ... kmaq: Únamakika, simply: Cape Breton) is an island on the Atlantic coast of | . The name probably corresponds to the word Breton, the French adjective r ... |
| New Zealand | In Australia and | , companies also forward franking credits or imputation credits to shareho ... |
| Ireland | ... ity relationship with Balbriggan, a town of nearly 16,000 in County Dublin, | |
| 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 ... |
| Africa | ... f Sicily, Italy, and nearly 300 km north (Libya) and northeast (Tunisia) of | . Although Malta is situated in Europe, it is located farther south than A ... |
| Azores | ... ry (10%), the result of immigration from Portuguese islands (especially the | ) during the past 160 years |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Balkans | ... has developed a regional policy to help promote peace and stability in the | , the Mediterranean and the Middle East |
| Asia | ... sponsible for publishing and marketing games produced by Electronic Arts in | . Under the terms of the agreement, Electronic Arts owned 30 percent of Sq ... |
| Isthmus of Chignecto | ... d route between Fortress Louisbourg and Quebec went from Baie Verte through | , along the Bay of Fundy and up the St. John River. With the establishment ... |
| Howland Island | ... ited States also expanded into the Pacific, beginning with Baker Island and | in 1857, and with Hawaii becoming a U.S. territory from 1898. Disagreement ... |
| Annobón Province | ... ira, Bermuda, Canary Islands, Caribbean, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, | , Fernando de Noronha, Rocas Atoll, Ascension Island, Saint Helena, Trinda ... |
| Sardinia | ... coasts could be launched. Palma was the base from where a campaign against | was launched between 1016 and 1017, which caused the intervention of Pisan ... |
| Tahiti | ... avour, she departed Plymouth in August 1768, rounded Cape Horn, and reached | in 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 and | were major centres for Varangian trade |
| British Isles | As with the rest of the | and the midlands, Coventry experiences a maritime climate with cool summer ... |
| 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 | |
| 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 with | and 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Africa | ... hical position give Egypt extensive political influence in the Middle East, | , and within the Non-Aligned Movement as a whole. Cairo has been a crossro ... |
| 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 ... |
| Balearic Islands | ... rovince of Dénia. Subsequently, Muyahid organised a campaign throughout the | to consolidate this district and incorporated them to its "taifa" in early ... |
| Upper Matecumbe Key | ... . Prior to this date, Islamorada was only considered to be on the island of | |
| Kola Peninsula | ... a Norwegians were Norwegians who settled along the coastline of the Russian | from approximately 1850 to the closure of the border in the 1920s. It is e ... |
| Kola Peninsula | ... o known from ultra-alkaline pegmatitic rocks, that occur for example in the | in Russia |
| 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 Islands | This article lists communications in the | |
| Bahamian | ... he US, with 33.0% of the populace.) It had the fourth highest percentage of | residents in the US, at 1.80% of the population, and the twentieth highest ... |
| Tasmania | Before the 1890s, there was no formal party system in | . Party labels before that time indicate a general tendency only. The curr ... |
| Plantation Key | ... of Tea Table Key, Lower Matecumbe Key, Upper Matecumbe Key, Windley Key and | in the Florida Keys |
| 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 ... |
| Manhattan | Houston 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 ... |
| 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 of | under 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 the | some weeks previous. The Red Lion had been with them, but had merely dropp ... |
| Anatolia | ... ttoman provinces, settling in Constantinople, Salonika, Sarajevo, Sofia and | . With the Holy Land incorporated into the Ottoman empire, a slow influx o ... |
| Mitcham Cricket Green | ... ates in Eastfields, Phipps Bridge and Pollards Hill occurred after 1965. In | , the area lays reasonable, although not definitive, claim to having the w ... |
| Windley Key | ... on the islands of Tea Table Key, Lower Matecumbe Key, Upper Matecumbe Key, | and Plantation Key in the Florida Keys |
| Malta | | introduced its first allotment gardens in April, 2011. The scheme, which i ... |
| Bonneville Salt Flats | ... tains, but land around the north and west shores is almost uninhabited. The | lie to the west, and the Oquirrh and Stansbury Mountains rise to the south |
| 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 ... |
| South America | The formation of the Isthmus of Panama about 3 Mya joined | to North America, allowing canids to invade the former, where they diversi ... |
| Sugarloaf Key | ... the key at approximately mile markers 20.5 – 23, between Summerland Key and | |
| Palau | ... ile they projected air strikes against Japanese positions on the islands of | , Yap, Ulithi, and Woleai, in the Caroline Islands. She steamed out from M ... |
| Iceland | ... refers to the economic and social models of the Nordic countries (Denmark, | , Norway, Sweden and Finland). This particular adaptation of the mixed mar ... |
| South America | ... espanol) by Cubans, Puerto Ricans, such as Joe Bataan, and Ralphi Pagan and | (La Nueva Cancion). Rock band The Mars Volta combines elements of progress ... |
| Manhattan | ... no competition when he was aged 12. The following year, his family moved to | and 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 ... |
| Cape York Peninsula | ... e end of August and thence arriving at Cape York, at the tip of Australia's | |
| Sicily | ... glish army back to England after Richard's departure from Palestine, but in | he 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, between | and Sugarloaf Key |
| Sulawesi | ... orean multinationals and provincial governments have also purchased land in | , Indonesia, Cambodia and Bulgan, Mongolia. The South Korean government it ... |
| Malta | ... . It is also popular in Algeria and on the central Mediterranean islands of | |
| Asia | ... e CDP is 89.96% White, 1.61% African American, 0.13% Native American, 4.40% | n, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 1.67% from other races, and 2.20% from two or m ... |
| Asia Minor | ... s, where Teucer is said to have founded the first colony, and the shores of | . Around 1200 BC the Dorians, another Greek-speaking people, followed from ... |
| 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 ... |
| Isthmus of Panama | The formation of the | about 3 Mya joined South America to North America, allowing canids to inva ... |
| Majorca | ... productive from the start of their association, though after they moved to | they 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Crete | The Second World Summit on the Knowledge Society, held in Chania, | , in September 2009, gave special attention to the following topics |
| Manhattan | Wealthy urban residents from | and Newark in search of rural tranquility pushed beyond the natural barrie ... |
| 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 | |
| Tonga | ... Tripartite Convention of 1899. Among the last islands to be colonised were | and Niue (1900) and Manu'a (1904) |
| Cyprus | Demetrius conquered | in 306 BC. Following the victory Antigonus assumed the title king and best ... |
| Tuvalu | The Marshall Islands and | gained National Olympic Committee status in 2006 and 2007 respectively, an ... |
| New Zealand | The pathogenic agent is to be found everywhere except | . The bacterium is extremely sustainable and virulent: a single organism i ... |
| 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, ... |
| North America | ... Late Miocene, Canis, Urocyon, and Vulpes genera expanded from southwestern | . This was the point where the canine radiation began. The success of thes ... |
| Taiwan | ... rrived in Sumatra around 500 BCE as part of the Austronesian expansion from | to Southeast Asia. With its location in the India-China sea trade route, s ... |
| 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 ... |
| Manhattan | ... 20,000 people lined up for hours at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel in | to pay their respects. On June 27, James Mason gave a eulogy at the funera ... |
| Long Beach Island | ... ng Beach Township. Other communities within Long Beach Township include the | communities of Beach Haven Crest, Beach Haven Gardens, Beach Haven Inlet, ... |
| Italian Peninsula | Nicholas was born in the | and had become a friend of the Patriarch Photios. He fell into disfavor af ... |
| Aegean Islands | ... mous battles in history. During the first invasion, Thrace, Macedon and the | were 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 ... |
| Marshall Islands | The | and Tuvalu gained National Olympic Committee status in 2006 and 2007 respe ... |
| Malay Peninsula | ... outhern China, to present day coastal Vietnam, southern Cambodia, Thailand, | , Sumatra, Java, Burma, India, Ceylon, Pakistan, Persia and Iraq. Another ... |
| Madagascar | ... thnographical fieldwork was carried out in places as diverse as New Guinea, | , Romania, Guatemala and Indonesia and there were excavations in the Near ... |
| 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 ... |
| Iceland | ... æmundar Edda or the Elder Edda, is a collection of Old Norse poems from the | ic medieval manuscript Codex Regius ("Royal Book"). Along with the Prose E ... |
| Key Biscayne | ... mily retreat. In 1963, Wood sold to a development group that included local | millionaire Bebe Rebozo, Miami native and United States Senator George Sma ... |
| Puerto Rico | Fiel a la Vega is a Rock en Español band from | formed in 1994. Band members Tito Auger and Ricky Laureano come from the n ... |
| Asia | ... e. According to Greek historian Herodotus, Darius wanted to know more about | . He wished to know where the "Indus (which is the only river save one tha ... |
| Philippines | ... government secured 95,000 hectares of farmland in Oriental Mindoro, central | , to grow corn. The South Jeolla province became the first provincial gove ... |
| Korean Peninsula | ... with the conquest of the Dian Kingdom in 109 BCE, followed by parts of the | with the colonial establishments of Xuantu Commandery and Lelang Commander ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tuvalu | ... he Olympic Games for their first time: the Marshall Islands, Montenegro and | |
| 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 ... |
| South America | ... the massive Sea-based X-band Radar to Adak, Alaska, via the southern tip of | and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. It arrived at Pearl Harbor on 9 January 2006, ha ... |
| South America | ... eft Colombia since 1965 to escape the country's violence and civil wars. In | , thousands of Argentinan, Chilean and Uruguayan refugees fled to Europe d ... |
| New Zealand | ... role" in the film, and when told that it would mean spending months away in | , he turned down the offer |
| 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 ... |
| Oceania | ... the company's final console. Support of the system continued in Europe and | until the end of 2002, while in Japan, consoles were still sold until 2007 ... |
| Puerto Rico | The Government of | is a republican form of government subject to U.S. jurisdiction and sovere ... |
| Malta | ... ternational Dispensary Association has manufactured it since 1998, first in | and then in India from December 2004 |
| 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 ... |
| Manu'a | ... 1899. Among the last islands to be colonised were Tonga and Niue (1900) and | (1904) |
| Niihau | The 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 ... |
| Cape Henlopen | ... , which lay within the territory claimed by the Dutch, passing Cape May and | in late March 1638, and anchored at a rocky point on the Minquas Kill that ... |
| Marshall Islands | ... Three countries participated in the Olympic Games for their first time: the | , Montenegro and Tuvalu |
| Indian subcontinent | ... th, while the entirety of Sumatra became Dutch. The Malay Peninsula and the | were both free of Dutch interference |
| 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 ... |
| Balkan peninsula | ... probably arrived at the area now called Greece, in the southern tip of the | , at the end of the 3rd millennium BC,, though a later migration by sea fr ... |
| North America | ... as responsible for publishing and marketing all games produced by Square in | . Conversely, Electronic Arts Square, K.K., formed at the same time and ba ... |
| Qatar | ... e treaty relationships with the Persian Gulf sheikdoms, Bahrain joined with | and the seven Trucial States (which now form the United Arab Emirates) und ... |
| 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 ... |
| Africa | ... million in projects abroad, which put the kingdom in the third position in | |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Peace Monument | ... image), the Capitol Reflecting Pool, the James A. Garfield Monument and the | , as well as some that are south of Maryland Avenue, such as the (#9 on im ... |
| 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 ... |
| Delos | ... the withdrawal of these states, a congress was called on the holy island of | to institute a new alliance to continue the fight against the Persians; he ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| North America | Lake Winnipeg lies along one of the oldest trading routes in | to have flown the British flag. For several centuries, furs were traded al ... |
| 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 of | in the Pribilofs, a small island group in the Bering Sea. Saint Paul Islan ... |
| Middle-earth | One of the languages of Arda in Tolkien's | legendarium, it was spoken in the realm of Mordor. Tolkien describes the l ... |
| Java | ... day coastal Vietnam, southern Cambodia, Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, | , Burma, India, Ceylon, Pakistan, Persia and Iraq. Another branch extends ... |
| Badwater Basin | ... United States, is on Inyo County's western border (with Tulare County). The | , in Death Valley National Park, the lowest place in North America, is in ... |
| Solomon Islands | ... ific Islands Forum in 2000. Bougainville Island, geographically part of the | but 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 ... |
| Malay Peninsula | ... 786, the Riau Archipelago was an attractive choice just to the south of the | , for its proximity to Malacca. In his correspondences with Calcutta, Raff ... |
| Manhattan | ... he constituent organizations of the City University of New York, located on | 's Upper East Side. Hunter provides undergraduate and graduate instruction ... |
| 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 ... |
| Istria | ... ictorious Italian nation the Southern half of the County of Tyrol, Trieste, | , and the city of Zadar. Italy did not receive other territories promised ... |
| Cape Cod | ... s the Europeans came closer in contact with the natives, along the coast of | to Nova Scotia, they brought along with them diseases, such as small pox, ... |
| Guam | ... eration Forager", the invasion of the Marianas Islands and the recapture of | from Japanese occupation. On 12 June, the Alabama screened the aircraft ca ... |
| 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 ... |
| North America | ... e world's population moves towards the high (75–85%) urbanization levels of | and Western Europe. The 1990 census marked the first time the majority of ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tierra del Fuego | ... tan da Cunha, Gough Island (Also known as Diego Alvarez), Falkland Islands, | , South Georgia Island, South Sandwich Islands, and Bouvet Island |
| Antarctica | ... le dispute is the supposed Late Cretaceous loon Polarornis (Seymour Island, | ). Eupterornis from the Paleocene of Châlons-sur-Vesle (France) has some f ... |
| Gibraltar | ... er the Atlantic Ocean) and one Arabsat. There is a microwave radio relay to | , Spain and the Western Sahara. Coaxial cables and microwave radio relays ... |
| 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 ... |
| Central Broward Regional Park | ... d Park Boulevard and east of University Drive). On November 9, 2007, in the | , the Main Event cricket field was opened, and on May 22, 2010, became the ... |
| Svalbard | ... veral miners died occurred in the Kings Bay coal mine on Spitsbergen in the | archipelago. In the aftermath, the Gerhardsen government was accused of no ... |
| 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 ... |
| Long Beach Island | ... es 2010 Census, the borough population was 1,156. The borough is located on | and borders the Atlantic Ocean |
| Africa | In | some children were killed because of fear that they were an evil omen or b ... |
| Bardsey Island | ... we know the fate of the Culdean house in Wales that existed at Snowdon and | in north Wales in the days of Giraldus Cambrensis, mentioned (c. 1190) in ... |
| Auckland | ... e 1980s, in 1985 French agents caused the Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior in | to prevent it from arriving at the test site in Moruroa. In September 1995 ... |
| Isthmus of Corinth | ... . After the successful journey, the Argo was consecrated to Poseidon in the | . It was then translated into the sky and turned into the constellation of ... |
| Bouvet Island | ... slands, Tierra del Fuego, South Georgia Island, South Sandwich Islands, and | |
| Euboea | ... e first ten years of the league's existence, Cimon/Kimon forced Karystos in | to 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 ... |
| James A. Garfield Monument | ... e Ulysses S. Grant Memorial (#8 on image), the Capitol Reflecting Pool, the | and the Peace Monument, as well as some that are south of Maryland Avenue, ... |
| Rarotonga | Air 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 the | social 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 ... |
| Britain | ... lly the same as the corresponding words in other native Celtic languages of | and Ireland, including Welsh carn (and carnedd), Irish carn, and Cornish k ... |
| Lérins Islands | ... me means. The area was a fishing village used as a port of call between the | |
| Miami Beach | ... of the northern part of the island is incorporated as a part of the city of | |
| Seattle | ... go, and across the Upper Midwest, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho to Spokane and | . About east of Westfield, the turnpike intersects I-91 which generally fo ... |
| Spitsbergen | ... ccident in which several miners died occurred in the Kings Bay coal mine on | in the Svalbard archipelago. In the aftermath, the Gerhardsen government w ... |
| 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 at | and Rio de Janeiro, the warships passed in order through the Straits of Ma ... |
| North America | ... Barks's eponymous story, allowing Azure Blue to resume his plans of owning | . Above-mentioned ancient Phoenician accounts of the Americas having inspi ... |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Badwater | ... st point in the Western Hemisphere and the lowest point in North America at | , which is below sea level. It is home to many species of plants and anima ... |
| 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 ... |
| Madison | It is located in central Wisconsin, about north of | |
| Rocas Atoll | ... , Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Annobón Province, Fernando de Noronha, | , Ascension Island, Saint Helena, Trindade and Martim Vaz, Tristan da Cunh ... |
| 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 ... |
| North America | Condor Ridge displays endangered | n desert wildlife. The featured species are California condors (the wild a ... |
| Asia Minor | ... ere uniformly distributed between the Greek peninsula, the western coast of | , Pontus, Egypt, Cyprus and Constantinople; many of these regions coincide ... |
| 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 |
| 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 partitioning | into 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 ... |
| Crete | ... ber of islands (approximately 1,400, of which 227 are inhabited), including | , the Dodecanese, the Cyclades, and the Ionian Islands among others. Eight ... |
| Malta | Great Britain didn't respect the terms of the Treaty of Amiens by occupying | and gathered a Third Coalition against France. The French intervention in ... |
| Iceland | ... rose Edda, sometimes referred to as the Younger Edda or Snorri's Edda is an | ic 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hispaniola | Alvarado went to | in 1510 with all his younger brothers: Gonzalo, Jorge, Gómez, Hernando and ... |
| Malta | ... uania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, | , Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Federated States of Mic ... |
| Van Cortlandt Park | ... an, which is accessible via exit 10 for West 230th Street. I-87 next enters | and has an interchange with Van Cortlandt Park South at exit 11. Exit 12 i ... |
| Qatar | ... founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Makra corresponds to modern day Bahrain, | , and United Arab Emirates, plus the northern half of Oman as well as Balo ... |
| 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 ... |
| Samoa | ... 300 AD followed by later waves of immigration from the Society Islands and | -Tonga. Their languages, over time, became the Hawaiian language. Kimura a ... |
| 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. ... |
| Ocala National Forest | ... or many of its residents.) Astor lies entirely within the boundaries of the | |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| Cocos (Keeling) Islands | ... ital Territory, the Northern Territory, the Christmas Island Territory, the | Territory, the Norfolk Island Territory and the Australian Antarctic Terri ... |
| Tonga | ... esia and Micronesia. He led a group of Dartmouth students to the Kingdom of | and later received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to tra ... |
| Bermuda | The defence of | remains the responsibility of the National (British) Government, rather th ... |
| Corsica | ... comprised Catalans, Pisans and other Italians, and soldiers from Provence, | , and Sardinia, in a struggle to end Almoravid control |
| Polynesia | Tagaloa is one of the oldest Polynesian deities and in western | (for example, Samoa and Tonga) traditions has the status of supreme creato ... |
| Keweenaw Peninsula | ... wnship, Houghton County in the U.S. state of Michigan, in the center of the | . The population was 2,126 at the 2000 census |
| 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 ... |
| Philippines | When 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Elba | ... hew, Niccolò, was made reigning Prince of Piombino and Lord of the Isola d' | in 1634, having married the heiress, 30 March 1632 |
| South Island | In the | , his name can take the form Takaroa |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| South India | In | , there are a few types of oil lamps that are common in temples and tradit ... |
| Africa | ... ark's major exhibits. Visitors go down a trail which replicates habitats in | . The exhibit begins in African Woods with scrub animals - vultures, lesse ... |
| Caribbean | ... when Sir Francis Drake paused on his way home from a successful raid in the | and offered to take the colonists, including the metallurgist Joachim Gans ... |
| Society Islands | ... chipelago in roughly 300 AD followed by later waves of immigration from the | and Samoa-Tonga. Their languages, over time, became the Hawaiian language. ... |
| Nova Scotia peninsula | ... 7% of the total area of Nova Scotia. Although physically separated from the | by the Strait of Canso, it is artificially connected to mainland Nova Scot ... |
| Cumberland Plateau | ... t to west: Tidewater, Piedmont, Blue Ridge Mountains, Ridge and Valley, and | |
| Ionian Islands | ... 227 are inhabited), including Crete, the Dodecanese, the Cyclades, and the | among others. Eighty percent of Greece consists of mountains, of which Mou ... |
| 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 ... |
| Norfolk Island | ... the Christmas Island Territory, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Territory, the | Territory and the Australian Antarctic Territory are managed by Parks Aust ... |
| Föhr | ... tively lively community of Frisian speakers exists though on the islands of | and Amrum. After becoming German, three districts were established in the ... |
| Arabian Peninsula | ... highlands near the African Great Lakes, the interiors of Australia and the | , and parts in Mexico and the Andes. Some of these, such as the Great Basi ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 near | while on a weekend boating trip |
| Pannonian Plain | Some of the Obotrites also migrated to the south and settled in the | , where the Bodrogiensis county of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary was nam ... |
| Yeongjong Island | A number of Korea's western islands, including Ganghwa Island, | , and Baengnyeong Island are also administered by Incheon. Baengnyeong Isl ... |
| Balearic Islands | ... dministrative organization, Palma became the capital of the new province of | in the 1833 territorial division of Spain. The French occupation of Algeri ... |
| Pulau Tikus | Paya Terubong – | |
| Hainan | ... ects remain undocumented. It has been seen to cause issues in areas such as | due to environmental degradation. Modern farming practise and increased la ... |
| Pulau Betong | Pulau Tikus – | |
| Ganghwa Island | A number of Korea's western islands, including | , Yeongjong Island, and Baengnyeong Island are also administered by Incheo ... |
| 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 ... |
| Iberian Peninsula | ... Cork on 12 July 1808 to participate in the war against French forces in the | , with his skills as a commander tested and developed. According to the hi ... |
| Kinnaird Head | ... mained relatively quiet until 1787 when Fraserburgh Castle was converted to | Lighthouse, Scotland's first mainland lighthouse. In 1803, the original 15 ... |
| Manhattan | ... of bookstores headquartered at 122 Fifth Avenue in the Flatiron District in | in New York City. Barnes & Noble also operated the chain of small B. Dalto ... |
| Lipari | ... deriving their income from tourism. It is a few minutes hydrofoil ride from | and has several hotels and cafes, the important attractions being the beac ... |
| Isle of Sheppey | ... ns (Euscorpius flavicaudis) have established themselves in Sheerness on the | in the United Kingdom. This small population has been resident since the 1 ... |
| Calais | ... l Pole on his return to England in December 1554, again accompanying him to | in May 1555 |
| Bergen Neck | It is located south of Jersey City on a peninsula earlier known as | surrounded by Upper New York Bay to the east, Newark Bay to the west, and ... |
| 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 of | in Sweden). According to the poem, the weather-geats or sea-geats, as they ... |
| Balkans | ... o 1908, Munro worked as a foreign correspondent for The Morning Post in the | , Warsaw, Russia (where he witnessed Bloody Sunday), and Paris; he then ga ... |
| Gibraltar | ... take part in the Peninsular Campaign and rendezvous with 5,000 troops from | |
| Australasia | ... ropical regions of all continents in addition to the South West Pacific and | . Sorghum is in the subfamily Panicoideae and the tribe Andropogoneae (the ... |
| Suðuroy | ... other is Old Norse æ), and this is particularly evident in the dialects of | , where Æ is or |
| Kinnaird Head | It is home to the famous | lighthouse/castle |
| Asia | ... d to fight the Cold War overseas and resist Soviet aggression in Europe and | ; they were also willing to accept most aspects of the social welfare stat ... |
| Newfoundland | ... ing to Channel–Port aux Basques and seasonally to Argentia on the island of | |
| Johnston Atoll | ... ountry and an international incident. These munitions were moved in 1971 to | under Operation Red Hat |
| Jutland | ... rigins of the ethnonym Jute, it may be a secondary formation of the toponym | , where jut is derived from a Proto-Indo-European root *eud meaning "water ... |
| Avalon | ... d the normally sheltered side of Catalina Island. Protected harbors such as | and 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 between | and the Isle of Man, while the buggane's feet make an opening for the port ... |
| Isthmus of Tehuantepec | The other major candidate is the Olmec heartland, across the | along the Gulf Coast. The Aztecs referred to their Postclassic contemporar ... |
| Hawar Islands | ... elations improved with neighbouring Qatar after the border dispute over the | was 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 Seashore | The Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge and the | are 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 in | and in Brooklyn from 2000 until 2010) |
| 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 ... |
| Coney Island | ... 1931, when he invited Masseria and two other associates to have lunch in a | restaurant. 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 and | and between Kitterland and the Isle of Man, while the buggane's feet make ... |
| Australasia | ... r relatives. What eventually seemed clear was that corvids are derived from | n ancestors and from there spread throughout the world. Other lineages der ... |
| Anatolia | ... h by some contemporary accounts looked like genocide or even a holocaust in | . The Vatican attempted to get Germany and Austria–Hungary involved in pro ... |
| 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 | |
| Tonga | ... in New Zealand, followed by a large loop north into the Pacific calling at | and Fiji, and then back westward to Cape York in Australia by the end of A ... |
| Anatolia | ... the decisive Battle of Ipsus in 301 BC, Seleucus took control over eastern | and northern Syria |
| 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 ... |
| Qatar | ... els, but opposed the invasion of Iraq. Relations improved with neighbouring | after the border dispute over the Hawar Islands was resolved by the Intern ... |
| Atlantic coastal plain | ... llcrest Heights is located within the Central Florida Highlands area of the | with a terrain consisting of flatland interspersed with gently rolling hil ... |
| Funafuti | The USS Alabama reached | , the Ellice Islands, on 21 January 1944, and there she rejoined the Fast ... |
| South America | ... on of 9,000 men. Preparing to sail for an attack on the Spanish colonies in | (to assist the Latin American patriot Francisco de Miranda) his force was ... |
| Asia | ... d to be due to Amstrad bulk-buying a large consignment of 3" drive units in | ; the units were custom-made by Panasonic. The chosen drive (built-in for ... |
| Willamette Valley | ... f the Oregon Trail route as well as Fort Vancouver near its terminus in the | . With minor exceptions they all gave substantial and often desperately ne ... |
| 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 ... |
| Puerto Rico | ... araschino cherry or both. The piña colada has been the official beverage of | since 1978 |
| Iceland | ... cs which also contains many mythological stories. Its purpose was to enable | ic poets and readers to understand the subtleties of alliterative verse, a ... |
| Africa | ... a and Melilla remained the sole Spanish enclave territories within mainland | . Ceuta was deemed a part of Cadiz province prior to 14 March 1995, when t ... |
| Isthmus of Corinth | ... elf with Athens, allowing construction of a double line of walls across the | and protecting Athens from attack from that quarter. Around the same time, ... |
| Calf of Man | ... attle at Kirk Christ Rushen. Finn's feet carve out the channels between the | and Kitterland and between Kitterland and the Isle of Man, while the bugga ... |
| Ireland | In | , where it had been extinct due to hunting since 1912, efforts are being m ... |
| Île Sainte-Marguerite | ... ouse the Musée de la Castre. The Man in the Iron Mask was imprisoned on the | |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | ... rn British Virgin Islands to fish, and the references may be to the present | |
| North America | ... o bid for the rights to run a transatlantic mail service between the UK and | . It was successful in its bid, the company later becoming Cunard Steamshi ... |
| Marajó | ... e towns and cities. For instance the pre-Columbian culture on the island of | may have developed social stratification and supported a population of 100 ... |
| Liaodong Peninsula | ... acknowledgement of the Mongolian traditions there. The southern part of the | was ruled by Japan as the Kwantung Leased Territory |
| Africa | Frist supports programs to fight AIDS and African poverty. He travels to | frequently to provide medical care |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| North America | At one time, the Golden Eagle lived in temperate Europe, North Asia, | , North Africa, and Japan. In most areas this bird is now a mountain-dwell ... |
| Africa | ... of pastures in many tropical regions. Sorghum is an important food crop in | , Central America, and South Asia and is the "fifth most important cereal ... |
| Hebrides | ... he Norsemen had settled in Shetland, Orkney (the Nordreys- Norðreyjar), the | and Man, (the Sudreys- Súðreyjar - this survives in the Diocese of Sodor a ... |
| Ibiza | Judge Jules has a regular club night in | at 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 to | in 1763, defence of the territory remained a duty shared by French and Bri ... |
| Asia | ... thic architecture is the architecture of the Neolithic period. In Southwest | , Neolithic cultures appear soon after 10000 BC, initially in the Levant ( ... |
| Baengnyeong Island | The northwestern islands of | , Yeonpyeong Island, Daecheong Island, and the much smaller Socheong Islan ... |
| Asia | ... so they resorted to bribes. Hera tried to bribe Paris with control over all | and Europe, while Athena offered wisdom, fame and glory in battle, but Aph ... |
| Cotentin Peninsula | ... ed land and intertidal zone. It lies in the English Channel, about from the | in Normandy, France, and about south of Great Britain. Geographically it i ... |
| Philippines | ... Third Cinema (such as Tomás Gutiérrez Alea of Cuba or Kidlat Tahimik of the | ) |
| Palos Verdes | On the northern side of the | Peninsula, facing Torrance, Rolling Hills Estates is mostly residential. I ... |
| 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 ... |
| Asia | At one time, the Golden Eagle lived in temperate Europe, North | , North America, North Africa, and Japan. In most areas this bird is now a ... |
| Marshall Islands | ... attacks, while they launched air attacks on Jaluit and Milli Atolls, in the | , attempting to neutralize Japanese airfields located there, within range ... |
| Giant's Causeway | ... cal features in Ireland are attributed to Fionn. Legend has it he built the | as stepping-stones to Scotland, so as not to get his feet wet; he also onc ... |
| North Island | The film was shot in Whangara on the East Coast of New Zealand's | and in Auckland. Producer John Barnett said "This novel was set in Whangar ... |
| Astola Island | The coast of Makran possesses only one island, | , near Pasni, and several insignificant islets. The coastline can be divid ... |
| Kauai | Apukohai is a marine monster in the mythology of the island of | , Hawaii. Kawelo, a giant of enormous strength, departs for Oahu and encou ... |
| Ceylon | In August 1689, a French fleet appeared near the coast of | compelling the Governor of Pulicat Lawrence Pitt who was on high seas to s ... |
| Marquesas Islands | Atanua (or Atanea), in Polynesian mythology (specifically: | ) is the goddess of the dawn and wife of Atea (Atea and Atanua emerged fro ... |
| South America | ... East Asiatic Squadron, leaving Stanley on 22 October for the west coast of | via Cape Horn |
| 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 the | jungle 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 ... |
| Istria | ... gainst the German Empire and Austria-Hungary, in exchange for territories ( | and Dalmatia), at war’s end, upon which the Kingdom of Italy held claims. ... |
| Prince Edward Island | ... ck. He also controlled logging ventures and at one point owned a seventh of | |
| Africa | ... wned operation. Founded in 1929, it is one of the oldest stock exchanges in | , but it came into reckoning after financial reforms in 1993, making it th ... |
| Line Islands | ... rbor, and Kanton. There is a small network of canals, totaling 5 km, in the | |
| Marquesas Islands | In the mythology of the | , Atea is the giver of light. In one legend Atea and Tane are brothers, th ... |
| Corfu | ... moving to various places between 1874 and 1886, including Stuttgart, Rome, | , Basel, and Karlsruhe. In Stuttgart he met the Tübingen University studen ... |
| Oahu | ... island of Kauai, Hawaii. Kawelo, a giant of enormous strength, departs for | and encounters Apukohai. After a fierce struggle, Kawelo kills Apukohai, h ... |
| Hispaniola | The island of | , of which Haiti occupies the western third, is one of many Caribbean isla ... |
| Anatolia | ... plied regular routes to Italy, while land routes went either north through | or south to North Africa. Another branch road traveled from Herat through ... |
| 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 ... |
| Caribbean | ... Nova Scotia), sovereignty over Newfoundland, the Hudson Bay region, and the | island of St. Kitts. France recognized British suzerainty over the Iroquoi ... |
| 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 ... |
| North America | ... ark hosted the Reverend Billy Graham on what he stated was his last tour in | |
| Anatolia | ... IV Diogenes played an important role in undermining Byzantine authority in | and Armenia, and allowed for the gradual Turkification of Anatolia |
| 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 ... |
| Cyprus | In Greece and | , the term halvas (χαλβάς) is used for both varieties of the dessert. Sesa ... |
| Liancourt Rocks | ... e occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945. South Korea's assertions concerning | (Japanese: "Takeshima", Korean: "Dokdo") are acknowledged, but not accepte ... |
| South America | ... rimp, prawns, and some fish. Today, these are mostly sold in the Orient and | . The amount of cysts and the quality are affected by several factors, but ... |
| 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 of | and the southernmost of the eight Aeolian Islands. It is 21 square kilomet ... |
| Arabian Peninsula | ... d while the city flourished partly due to the discovery of crude oil on the | in the 1930s, the states of the Aden Protectorate stagnated |
| Venice | ... 7 European Union member countries, sailed from Jason's hometown of Volos to | , stopping at 23 cities en route |
| New Zealand | ... farm building where milk is harvested is often called a milking parlor. In | such a building is historically known as the milking shed - although in re ... |
| Riau Archipelago | ... ren Hastings overlooked the island before settling upon Penang in 1786, the | was an attractive choice just to the south of the Malay Peninsula, for its ... |
| Anatolia | ... ely defend its borders. This led to the mass movement of Turks into central | ; by 1080 an area of had been lost to the empire. It took a decade of inte ... |
| Wilsons Promontory | ... ong the coast from Melbourne to Sydney took place in April 1874, passing by | and Cape Howe |
| Betio | ... the Gilberts. Alabama supported the U.S. Marine landings on the main island | of the Tarawa Atoll on 20 November, and soon afterwards, she supported the ... |
| Africa | ... he Golden Eagle lived in temperate Europe, North Asia, North America, North | , and Japan. In most areas this bird is now a mountain-dweller, but in for ... |
| British Isles | As with the rest of the | , Cheltenham experiences a maritime climate with cool summers and mild win ... |
| Bermuda | ... Strait, and the northwestern Atlantic and have been spotted as far south as | and Madeira. Ships are subject to superstructure icing in the extreme nort ... |
| Luzon | ... Filipino: Lungsod ng Baguio) is a highly urbanized city located in northern | island 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 in | and Latinises the name "Caledfwlch" as Caliburnus. When his influential ps ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mangaia | In the mythology of | , Tau-Titi is a son of Miru |
| Qatar | ... on of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which Bahrain joined with Kuwait, Oman, | , Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The sense of regional uncerta ... |
| 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 |
| 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 | ... 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 |
| Asia | ... rth America, with the exception of the Siberian chipmunk, which is found in | |
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| Avaiki | As soon as the dawn arrives, the Tapairu returned to their home in | |
| Anatolia | ... tle land in Thrace draining southward, almost all of these rivers flow from | |
| Africa | Castor oil was used by the ancient Egyptians. In | , carrot oil, peanut oil, mustard oil and nettle oil are used. Indian lamp ... |
| Ibiza | Another temple to Melqart was at Ebyssus ( | ), in one of four Phoenician sites on the island's south coast. In 2004 a ... |
| Pulau Gedung | ... le trails and a spa resort. Other islands include Pulau Aman, Pulau Betong, | , Pulau Kendi (Coral Island) and |
| Hallig | ... (Sylt, Föhr, Amrum, Pellworm and Nordstrand) and ten small islets known as | en |
| Anatolia | The Neolithic peoples in the Levant, | , Syria, northern Mesopotamia and Central Asia were great builders, utilis ... |
| Moloka‘i | ... ā. Wākea had sexual relations with Hina and she gave birth to the island of | |
| Malay Peninsula | ... the northeast side the narrow Strait of Malacca separating the island from | , an extension of Eurasian continent. On the southeast the narrow Sunda St ... |
| Nashawena Island | ... ncluding Nonamesset Island, Uncatena Island, Naushon Island, Pasque Island, | , Penikese Island, Cuttyhunk Island and several smaller islands. The strin ... |
| Balearic Islands | ... e found at least three Phoenician/Punic sites in Spain: Cádiz, Ibiza in the | and Cartagena. Near Gades/Gádeira (modern Cádiz) was the westernmost templ ... |
| New Zealand | The History of Oceania is the history of Australia, | , Papua New Guinea, Fiji and other Pacific island nations |
| Pulau Kendi | ... a spa resort. Other islands include Pulau Aman, Pulau Betong, Pulau Gedung, | (Coral Island) and |
| 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 ... |
| Corfu | ... Naples, he continued his soldier's life: he participated in expeditions to | and Navarino, and saw the fall of Tunis and La Goletta to the Turks in 157 ... |
| New Zealand | Some countries, such as Chile, Israel, the Philippines, France, Austria, | and South Africa, use a centralized system of policing. Other countries ha ... |
| Antarctica | Scorpions are found widely distributed over all continents, except | , in a variety of terrestrial habitats except the high latitude tundra. Sc ... |
| New Zealand | ... celand, Sweden and Norway (2008); the United Kingdom, France, Australia and | (2009); Portugal (2010); People's Republic of China, Turkey, Mexico, Canad ... |
| 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 |
| South America | Although academic data of infanticides among the indigenous people in | is not as abundant as that of North America, the estimates seem to be simi ... |
| North America | ... ble to buy in a wide range of stores in Europe and in specialised stores in | |
| Canary Islands | ... vince on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, south of Agadir and across from the | |
| Avşa | ... wo major island groups known as the Princes' and Marmara islands (including | and Paşalimanı) |
| Constable Hook | ... t the time it was formed, Bayonne included the communities of Bergen Point, | , Centreville, and Saltersville |
| Kermadec Islands | ... North Island, and then north and east into the open Pacific, passing by the | en route to Tongatabu, the main island of the Tonga archipelago (then know ... |
| Penikese Island | ... t Island, Uncatena Island, Naushon Island, Pasque Island, Nashawena Island, | , Cuttyhunk Island and several smaller islands. The string of islands exte ... |
| Paşalimanı | ... island groups known as the Princes' and Marmara islands (including Avşa and | ) |
| Bangka Island | ... t local princes to subjugate them to British rule, as well as a takeover of | to set up a permanent British presence in the area in the case of the retu ... |
| Africa | Japan is increasingly active in | . In May 2008, the first Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize will be awarded at Fo ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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, ... |
| Fremont Island | Black Rock, Antelope Island, White Rock, Egg Island, | , and the Promontory mountain range are each extensions of the Oquirrh Mou ... |
| Asia | ... of the town was 95.35% White, with no African Americans, Native Americans, | ns, or Pacific Islanders, and 4.65% from two or more races. None of the po ... |
| New Zealand | ... mes have been recorded, including Tau-ua in the Marquesas Islands, Rehua in | , and Aa and Hoku-Kauopae in Hawaii |
| Africa | ... family Turdidae. It is common in well-wooded areas over much of sub-Saharan | . Populations are resident |
| New Zealand | Aoraki / Mount Cook is the highest mountain in | , reaching |
| Iceland | The | ic Landnámabók (Book of Settlements) mentions that the Norse found Irish p ... |
| Caribbean | ... an Numbering Plan -- calls between Bermuda, the USA, Canada and most of the | requires the caller dialing "1", then the 3-digit area code, then the 7-di ... |
| Savai'i | ... oa's warrior goddess hails from the village of Falealupo at the west end of | island, which is also the site of the entry into Pulotu, the spirit world. ... |
| Newfoundland | ... The scenery of the island is rivalled in northeastern North America only by | and Cape Breton Island tourism marketing places a heavy emphasis on its Sc ... |
| Auckland | ... was shot in Whangara on the East Coast of New Zealand's North Island and in | . Producer John Barnett said "This novel was set in Whangara and it would ... |
| Oceania | ... ot occur naturally in Great Britain, New Zealand and some of the islands in | , but have now been accidentally introduced in some of these places by hum ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bermuda | Early 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. The | were 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 the | country. Frist had also traveled to Haiti with Samaritan's Purse in Januar ... |
| Baja California peninsula | ... the rise of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains and the separation of the | , with all three running roughly north-south. The mountains dominate easte ... |
| 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 ... |
| South Island | ... lies in the Southern Alps, the mountain range which runs the length of the | . A popular tourist destination, it is also a favourite challenge for moun ... |
| 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 |
| Pulau Aman | ... t attraction offering jungle trails and a spa resort. Other islands include | , Pulau Betong, Pulau Gedung, Pulau Kendi (Coral Island) and |
| Staten Island | ... . It shares a land border with Jersey City to the north and is connected to | by the Bayonne Bridge. While somewhat diminished, traditional manufacturin ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Philippines | Some countries, such as Chile, Israel, the | , France, Austria, New Zealand and South Africa, use a centralized system ... |
| Jupiter Island | ... t of the village is located on the mainland but parts of the village are on | , with small sections both north and south of the unincorporated, county-o ... |
| Venice | ... reliant on the good will of Nazi sympathizers abroad—moved from Austria to | , then in May 1924 to Rome via Florence and Siena. Göring met Mussolini in ... |
| 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 ... |
| North America | ... ipmunks are small, striped squirrels. All species of chipmunks are found in | , with the exception of the Siberian chipmunk, which is found in Asia |
| 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 ... |
| Madagascar | ... , Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, | , Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, M ... |
| Walcheren | ... lied occupied areas of the south of the Netherlands, visiting the region of | and the city of Eindhoven where she received a rapturous welcome from the ... |
| Eiderstedt | ... stablished in the region: Südtondern in the north, Husum in the centre, and | in the south. In 1970 these three districts were merged to form the Nordfr ... |
| Allegheny National Forest | ... they know that they have discovered a special place. A short drive from the | and Kinzua Bridge State Park, Smethport is about two hours from Erie and B ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sunda Islands | ... Indonesian: Sumatera) is an island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the | . It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia (two larger islands, Born ... |
| 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 ... |
| Philippines | In 2003, the first allotment garden of the | was 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 of | from the Swedes. The island lies east of Denmark/Dacia and whales were onc ... |
| Maui | Lānai was under the control of nearby | throughout before recorded history. Its first inhabitants may have arrived ... |
| 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 ... |
| Malta | The geography of | is dominated by water. Malta is an archipelago of coralline limestone, loc ... |
| Fairpoint Peninsula | Gulf Breeze is a city located on the | in Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States and is a suburb of Pensacola ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gibraltar | ... est Cornwall, MK polled over 10%. This was in a constituency which included | , Bristol, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire. Mebyon ... |
| Long Island | Mellon died on August 26, 1937, in Southampton, | , New York, and was buried at Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery, Uppervill ... |
| New Zealand | As herd numbers increased so did the problems of animal health. In | two approaches to this problem have been used. The first was improved vete ... |
| Bermuda | | has five television stations, a small cable microwave system, two cellular ... |
| coastal plain catchments | The Swan River drains the Avon and | , which have a total area of about 121,000 km 2 . It has three major tribu ... |
| 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 and | for their phosphate deposits on 15 May. Further operations against Fiji, S ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gibraltar | ... during the summer, Kentucky sailed on 26 October 1900 for the Far East via | and the Suez Canal. She joined the other American ships on the Asiatic Sta ... |
| North America | In | the situation is not as dramatic, but there has still been a noticeable de ... |
| Antarctica | Wildfires occur on every continent except | . Fossil records and human history contain accounts of wildfires, as wildf ... |
| St. Christopher | ... ake the voyage profitable. Minuit died on this voyage during a hurricane at | in the Caribbean |
| Indian subcontinent | ... e indicate that the Rigveda was composed in the north-western region of the | , roughly between 1700–1100 BC (the early Vedic period) |
| Avalon Peninsula | ... d their principal towns, the French at Plaisance on the western side of the | , the English at St. John's on Conception Bay. During King William's War, ... |
| Sinai Peninsula | ... ael was formed. During the Six-Day War of 1967, Israel had captured Egypt's | and roughly half of Syria's Golan Heights |
| Puerto Ricans | ... nincorporated territory of the United States and used to be eligible due to | having had American citizenship since 1917. Their best success in this awa ... |
| North Frisian Islands | The | are part of the district and located inside the national park as well. The ... |
| Partridge Island | ... ith the government forced to construct a quarantine station and hospital on | at the mouth of the harbour to handle the new arrivals. These immigrants c ... |
| 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 the | and 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 ... |
| North America | A style exists in some parts of | called "Chicago". A Chicago-style steak is cooked to the desired level and ... |
| 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 on | figurines. Many ballplayers of the Classic era are seen with a right kneep ... |
| Arabian Peninsula | ... d to consolidate his power, eventually conquering nearly all of the central | . However, the alliance between the Ikhwan and the Al Saud collapsed when ... |
| 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 |
| Two Harbors | ... lly sheltered side of Catalina Island. Protected harbors such as Avalon and | are normally protected and the waters within the harbors are very calm. In ... |
| Maui | ... ted from the island of Molokai by the Kalohi Channel to the north, and from | by 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 ... |
| Guadeloupe | ... trand d'Orgeron attracted many French colonial families from Martinique and | , such as those of Jean Roy, 1625–1707; Jean Hebert, 1624; Guillaume Barre ... |
| Baengnyeong Island | ... of Korea's western islands, including Ganghwa Island, Yeongjong Island, and | are also administered by Incheon. Baengnyeong Island is South Korea's west ... |
| Sicily | Melqart protected the Punic areas of | such as Ras Melqart 'Cape of Melqart', where his head, indistinguishable f ... |
| 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 |
| Malta | ... , both pluralistic ones like the U.S., and officially Catholic nations like | and |
| Asia | ... nd distribute games and related merchandising (toys, books, music, etc.) in | . It declared bankruptcy in October 2003 |
| Madagascar | ... de the Morefield Mine in Amelia, Virginia. It is also found in pegmatite in | and in |
| Niihau | ... earl Harbor. It involved three Japanese Americans on the Hawaiian island of | assisting 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 ... |
| Malta | The Cippi of Melqart, found on | and dedicated to the god as an ex voto offering, provided the key to under ... |
| Iberian Peninsula | ... the Ghomara) changed his allegiance, and exhorted the Muslims to invade the | . Under the leadership of Berber General Tariq ibn Ziyad, the Muslims used ... |
| Eiderstedt | ... coastal section between Dithmarschen and Denmark. In the south there is the | peninsula, where the River Eider meets the sea |
| 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 ... |
| Elba | Some 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 ... |
| Willamette Valley | ... nd Oregon in particular skips Medford, making it drier and sunnier than the | . Medford's climate is considerably warmer, both in summer and winter, tha ... |
| 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 of | in 794, the year following the raid on the other holy island of Lindisfarn ... |
| Kodiak Island | Kodiak (, 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 Island | Nauru was annexed by Germany in 1888 and incorporated into Germany's | Protectorate. The Germans called the island Nawodo or Onawero. The arrival ... |
| Melbourne Cricket Ground | ... headlined the Sound Relief concert in Melbourne. A concert was held at the | (MCG) on 14 March 2009 to raise money for victims of Victoria's February b ... |
| Cape Peninsula | Simon's Town Harbour on the False Bay coast of the | is the main base of the South African Navy |
| Staten Island | The Bayonne Bridge connects south to | over the Kill van Kull. Kennedy Boulevard is a major thoroughfare along th ... |
| Calabria | ... t his dealings with close friend Frank Costello whom they called "the dirty | n. |
| 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 ... |
| New Zealand | In | As The World Turns was aired on TVNZ from 1962 to 1989 |
| 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 ... |
| Iceland | ... These immigrants moved to Canada and USA after the eruption of a volcano in | in 1875. Immigrants from Iceland then played on behalf of Canada and won t ... |
| 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 between | and Isla de los Estados was named the Le Maire Strait in his honor, though ... |
| 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 ... |
| Yucatán Peninsula | ... ions in Mexico’s tropical south, especially the henequen plantations in the | . The Yaqui resistance continued into the 1900s, with the expulsions reach ... |
| 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 ... |
| New Zealand | Standard 1.2.4 of the Australia and | Food Standards Code requires the presence of MSG as a food additive to be ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sydney Cricket Ground | ... bushfire disaster. The event was held simultaneously with a concert at the | . All proceeds from the Melbourne Concert went to the Red Cross Victorian ... |
| Polynesia | ... th America. In the last two thousand years there may have been contact with | ns across the South Pacific Ocean, as shown by the spread of the sweet pot ... |
| Philippines | Makati became the financial center of the | during the 1950s. Many districts and landmarks in the city have become wel ... |
| Pingtan Island | ... nnium BC. From the Keqiutou site (7450–5590 BP), an early Neolithic site in | located about southeast of Fuzhou, numerous tools made of stones, shells, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Île Amsterdam | ... he city has a total area of , all of it land. La Junta is directly opposite | , La Junta' |
| 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 ... |
| Africa | ... n that occasion, all dated 15 March 431, together with a few others, to the | n bishops, to those of Illyria, of Thessalonica, and of Narbonne, are exta ... |
| 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 ... |
| Anatolia | ... sts of Alexander the Great. At the height of its power, it included central | , the Levant, Mesopotamia, Persia, today's Turkmenistan, Pamir and parts o ... |
| South America | ... o the "Republic of the Equator") is a representative democratic republic in | , bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Philippines | In 1935 he accompanied MacArthur to the | , where he served as assistant military adviser to the Philippine governme ... |
| Seattle | ... 707-227, N7071, destined for Braniff, crash-landed on a river bed north of | at Arlington, Washington, killing four of the eight occupants |
| Westerplatte | ... y 1735 the long-expected French fleet appeared and disembarked 2,400 men on | . A week later, this little army gallantly attempted to force the Russian ... |
| 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 ... |
| Palau | ... ands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, | , Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, ... |
| Africa | ... d", to raise money for Compassion International's famine relief programs in | . Other artists participating included Amy Grant, Larry Norman, Randy Ston ... |
| Hawaiian Islands | Lānai 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 ... |
| Willamette Valley | ... d by a British explorer, who navigated past the Oregon Coast Range into the | . In the following decades, fur trading companies used the Columbia as a k ... |
| 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 ... |
| Colorado Plateau | ... ore arcing northwest into desert Utah. Carving its way southwest across the | , the Colorado forms Cataract Canyon and other gorges and receives its pri ... |
| Santiago | ... ion in the Atlantic Ocean west of Senegal. It lies on the southern coast of | island 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 Fuego | Eendracht then rounded Cape Horn, proving that | was not a continent |
| Africa | Burundi is one of the few countries in | , along with its closely linked neighbour Rwanda among others, to be a dir ... |
| The Oval | ... ed to Lord Kitchener although Tony Cozier and many who attended the Test at | can attest that it was a Kitch composition. In England, Kitchener started ... |
| Philippines | Metro 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 Britain | ... l assistant to Ambassador Lord Lothian and supervisor of American Relief to | through the British embassy. As a result, the Langley Park estate became a ... |
| 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 |
| Redemption Rock | ... inceton. According to tradition, in 1675, Mary Rowlandson was ransomed upon | , now within the town of Princeton, by King Philip |
| Virgin Islands | ... 73 was spent crossing the Atlantic westwards from the Canary Islands to the | , then heading north to Bermuda, east to the Azores, back to Madeira, and ... |
| Dingle Peninsula | ... e of the Irish counties from which these people arrived were County Kerry ( | ), County Cork, and County Roscommon, along with others |
| 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 ... |
| Manhattan | ... nd earned money as a commercial artist and technical illustrator at several | companies |
| Cumberland Plateau | ... bright is located at (36.247369, -84.672692). The city is situated atop the | approximately west of the plateau's Walden Ridge escarpment. White Oak Cre ... |
| Asia | ... sea that connects the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea, thus separating Turkey's | n and European parts. The Bosphorus strait connects it to the Black Sea an ... |
| Cyprus | ... ortant street behind the Buda Castle. When the Turkish Armed Forces invaded | in 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, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Anatolia | ... e details may be present or omitted. The centre-piece is Mithras clothed in | n costume and wearing a Phrygian cap; who is kneeling on the exhausted bul ... |
| Balkans | ... South Asia, Central Asia, West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, the | , Eastern Europe, Malta and the Jewish world |
| 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 the | began to arrive on the coast, and established a colony at Trou-Borded. As ... |
| Horn of Africa | ... oss the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, West Asia, North Africa, the | , the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Malta and the Jewish world |
| Galápagos Islands | ... Chile, that do not have a border with Brazil. The country also includes the | in 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 ... |
| Kitsap Peninsula | ... s connected by shallower sills. The four basins are Hood Canal, west of the | , Whidbey Basin, east of Whidbey Island, South Sound, south of the Tacoma ... |
| Cotentin Peninsula | ... es the Bald signed the Treaty of Compiègne, by which he agreed to yield the | to the Breton king Salomon, on the condition that Salomon would take an oa ... |
| Africa | ... iced throughout the world, but the practice is concentrated more heavily in | , Indonesia, and the Middle East. There is much controversy surrounding in ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sotavento Islands | ... an west of Senegal. It lies on the southern coast of Santiago island in the | group. It is the island's ferry port and is home to one of the nation’s fo ... |
| Manhattan | ... gs of her conversion to Norman sharing his faith with her on the streets of | in 1972. Grammy-nominated Australian singer and songwriter Paul Colman, wh ... |
| North America | ... loon, or diver, family of birds. The species is known as the Common Loon in | and the Great Northern Diver in Eurasia; its current name is a compromise ... |
| Seattle | ... les' Jane's Addiction. Around the same time, the grunge subgenre emerged in | , Washington. Grunge was based around a sludgy, murky guitar sound that sy ... |
| 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 ... |
| North America | The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of | . The river rises in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, flow ... |
| 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 ... |
| New Guinea | ... ranged throughout Southeast Asia, stretching, for example, to the island of | .The agricultural technology was exploited after population pressures incr ... |
| Hawar Islands | ... d a peaceful settlement of the matter. The ICJ granted sovereignty over the | and 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 were | and 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| New Zealand | ... the name of the great fish caught by Māui which became the North Island of | . When a fish took his hook, Māui said, 'A fish has taken my hook. Perhaps ... |
| Caribbean | ... enegalese, as well as a favourite side snack or side dish in Brazil and the | just as it is in West Africa. It is said that its exact origin may be from ... |
| British Isles | The Robin found in the | and 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 of | until the Spanish gave up and returned to Puerto Rico |
| 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 the | of 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 ... |
| Seattle | Important locations of the civil aerospace industry worldwide include | , Dayton, Ohio and St. Louis in the USA (Boeing), Montreal in Canada (Bomb ... |
| Molokai | ... 2nd largest island in the United States. It is separated from the island of | by 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 ... |
| South India | ... of the major manufacturing centers of plain gold and rolled gold jewelry in | ; up to 70% of Kerala's jewellery is manufactured in Thrissur. There are a ... |
| Mustique | ... nment reportedly planned, but did not attempt, to assassinate the prince on | in July 1982. Though he had brief assignments to HMS Illustrious, RNAS Cul ... |
| Calabria | ... to, in honourable captivity, until he acknowledged the Normans conquests in | and Apulia. He did not long survive his return to Rome, where he died on 1 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Iberia | ... to the extreme South. They were responsible for the major expansion of the | n culture in the interior of Brazil. They acculturated the Indian tribes w ... |
| Mauritius | Port Louis is the capital of | . It is the largest city of the country and main port, which borders the I ... |
| St. Kitts | ... ng the island, he destroyed the Dutch forts and removed all their cannon to | |
| North America | ... as opposed to the forced-air furnaces or wood burning stoves more common in | . The hydronic boiler operates by way of heating water/fluid to a preset t ... |
| Iberian Peninsula | ... died 385) was bishop of Ávila and a theologian from Roman Gallaecia (in the | ), the first person in the history of Christianity to be executed for here ... |
| Marmara | There are two major island groups known as the Princes' and | islands (including Avşa and Paşalimanı) |
| 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 ... |
| Nonamesset Island | ... y town in the Commonwealth. It consists of the Elizabeth Islands, including | , Uncatena Island, Naushon Island, Pasque Island, Nashawena Island, Penike ... |
| Caldon Canal | ... ria, Stoke-on-Trent, at the junction of the Trent and Mersey Canal with the | ,opposite Etruria Industrial Museum |
| 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 ... |
| Ireland | The Field is set in a small country village in southwest | |
| Willem Schouten | ... cob in charge of trading during the expedition. The experienced ship master | was captain of the Eendracht and a participant of the enterprise in equal ... |
| 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 ... |
| Marquesas Islands | ... ctures of life on board the Acushnet. Melville deserted the Acushnet in the | in July 1842. For three weeks he lived among the Typee natives, who were c ... |
| Tarawa | ... a number of islets connected through a series of causeways, located in the | archipelago. Kiribati became independent from the United Kingdom in 1979. ... |
| Atlantis | ... a Genoese Sea-Captain". Inspired by Plato's Republic and the description of | in Timaeus, it describes a theocratic society where goods, women and child ... |
| New Zealand | ... intain a resident ambassador in New York, and its vote is typically cast by | in a proxy arrangement |
| 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 ... |
| Ryukyu Islands | The 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 ... |
| Gibraltar | ... om Portsmouth (December 1872) south to Lisbon (January 1873) and then on to | . The next stops were Madeira and the Canary Islands (both February 1873). ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 the | and 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 from | to ports in New England and Chesapeake Bay. She debarked the militia at Ne ... |
| Cumberland Plateau | ... Chattanooga trunk. As the last stop before the uphill climb onto the nearby | , pusher engines to assist trains in making the steep ascent were based th ... |
| Cyprus | ... ntries that have been targeted for this type of recruitment are: Australia, | , Kenya, Latvia, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal, and South Africa |
| Texel | On June 14, 1615, Jacob le Maire and Willem Schouten sailed from | in the United Provinces. On January 29, 1616, they rounded Cape Horn, whic ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pemba | ... Indian Ocean be abolished. As The Omani presence continued in Zanzibar and | until the 1964 revolution, but the official Omani Arab presence in Kenya w ... |
| Sand Island | ... , referred to as "Hawaiian Island Detention Camps". One camp was located at | at 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 the | and 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Asia | Coventry's large industrial base made it attract to the wave of | n and Caribbean immigrants who arrived from Commonwealth colonies after 19 ... |
| Solomon Islands | In 1888, Lieut. F. Elton reported that Ugi beach people in the | killed their infants at birth by burying them, and women were also said to ... |
| Cumberland Plateau | ... hills partially surround Huntsville. These plateaus are associated with the | , and are locally called "mountains". Monte Sano Mountain (Italian for "He ... |
| Guernsey | ... the aircraft company which bore his name. Her paternal grandfather was from | in the Channel Islands |
| Curaçao | Mansvelt 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 ... |
| Guernsey | Jersey along with | has its own lottery called The Channel Islands Lottery that was launched i ... |
| Kingston, Ontario | Queen's University ( | ) uses the term "rector". The term refers to a member of the student body ... |
| North America | ... d stones removed from a field. These can be seen in the Catskill Mountains, | where there is a strong Scottish heritage, and may also represent places w ... |
| 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 ... |
| Madeira | On | and the Azores, the local population has been described as E. r. microrhyn ... |
| Great Britain | Throughout the 18th century, the great European powers Spain, | and France vied for power in Florida. Their interest in the peninsula was ... |
| 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 ... |
| Channel Islands | ... pany which bore his name. Her paternal grandfather was from Guernsey in the | |
| Caribbean | Coventry's large industrial base made it attract to the wave of Asian and | immigrants who arrived from Commonwealth colonies after 1948. In 1960, one ... |
| Radak | ... y and natural history. The expedition, proceeding by Cape Horn, visited the | and Society Islands, and reached Petropavlovsk in July 1824. Many position ... |
| South India | ... . Alla-ud-din Khilji, the Sultan of Delhi, was determined to bring isolated | under his domain and sent his commander, Malik Kafur, on a southern expedi ... |
| Rossel Island | ... nnoitered the area where landings were planned. The submarines investigated | and the Deboyne Group anchorage in the Louisiade Archipelago, Jomard Chann ... |
| 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 Archipelago | The | has been home to native cultures for over 7000 years. In their language, " ... |
| 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 ... |
| continent | ... . It is also likely to have carried much prestige, having originated on the | and arrived via Korea in the Asuka period (6th century CE), along with oth ... |
| 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 ... |
| Romney Marsh | ... rbury (the Roman Durovernum) to Lympne (Lemanis) at the western edge of the | . Most of it is now the current B2068 road that runs from the M20 motorway ... |
| Hokkaidō | ... . Within the museum are branches of famous ramen restaurants from Kyūshū to | . The current list includes Ide Shoten, Shinasobaya, Keyaki, Ryushanhai, H ... |
| 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 |
| Africa | ... rcentage being followers of the Hindu and Muslim faith), with the rest from | and a minority of Chinese and Eurasian |
| Semple Stadium | ... Hurling Team of the Century". At the special centenary All-Ireland final in | he received one of the loudest cheers and rounds of applause when all the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Indian subcontinent | ... the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, in the western and central part of the | , today the Saurashtra and Malwa regions of India. They were successors to ... |
| 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 ... |
| San Juan Islands | ... und proper but also for waters to the north, such as Bellingham Bay and the | region |
| Caribbean | ... hiladelphia. He imported scotch whisky directly from Scotland, rum from the | , and whiskey from Canada. He was also involved in gambling |
| Venice | He was born in | , a nephew of Pope Eugene IV (1431–1447) through his mother. His adoption ... |
| New Zealand | ... ne 1845, British troops attacking Maori trenches and bunkers at Ohaeawai in | fired shells containing an unknown type of poison gas from their cannon an ... |
| Africa | ... occurs as a vagrant in adjacent regions. E. r. witherbyi from Northwestern | , Corsica, and Sardinia closely resembles melophilus but for a shorter win ... |
| Martha's Vineyard | Oak Bluffs is a town located on | in Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 3,713 at ... |
| Falkland Islands | The disputed territories of the | , which are a British overseas territory but are claimed by Argentina, wer ... |
| 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 ... |
| Venice | ... s (emperor) without saying anything else. In exchange for that recognition, | was returned to the Byzantine Empire. However, under the influence of Theo ... |
| Philippines | ... t and other major teen magazines, and also when Menudo became famous in the | and Japan |
| Bonriki International Airport | ... Kiribati, of which 4 have paved runways, the only international ones being | and 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 ... |
| Bougainville | Gotō's force left Truk on 28 April, cut through the Solomons between | and 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 for | for privateering |
| 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, ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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. ... |
| Cassidy International Airport | ... unways, the only international ones being Bonriki International Airport and | |
| islands | ... substitution of the submission treaty by the effective incorporation of the | to the Islamic state. This incorporation took place in the last years of t ... |
| Jutland | ... thesis the Geats would have not only resided in southern Sweden but also in | , where Beowulf would have lived |
| 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 ... |
| Kamchatka | ... lands, Rurik Islands and Krusenstern Islands (today Tikehau), then made for | , and in the middle of July proceeded northward, coasting along the north- ... |
| 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 ... |
| Indian subcontinent | ... le. Thousands of former subjects of the British Raj went to the UK from the | after India and Pakistan became independent in 1947 |
| 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 ... |
| Sardinia | ... in adjacent regions. E. r. witherbyi from Northwestern Africa, Corsica, and | closely resembles melophilus but for a shorter wing length. The northeaste ... |
| Elizabeth Islands | Gosnold is a town that encompasses the | in Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2010 census, the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Puerto Rico | Published since 1974, El Vocero was at first the third of the four largest | newspapers, 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 to | and the youngest daughter of the family was declared Contessa Morabitto di ... |
| Kyūshū | ... e invented. Within the museum are branches of famous ramen restaurants from | to 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 ... |
| Kanton | ... ok Island and Flint Island). The Phoenix Islands are uninhabited except for | , and have no representation. Banaba itself is sparsely inhabited now. The ... |
| Puerto Rico | ... tchili ("snow"), or chilli ("where the land ends"). Chile, Panama, Peru and | are some of the Spanish-speaking countries where chilis are known as ají, ... |
| Venice | ... l tastes and murderous tendencies who lives with his wife (Helen Mirren) in | |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tristan da Cunha | ... pent crossing the Atlantic from Bahia to the Cape of Good Hope, touching at | on the way |
| Kingston, Ontario | ... e Klondyke march and two step with music by Oscar Telgmann was published in | by the Music Emporium, c. 1897 |
| Croke Park | ... ootball team was scheduled to play the Tipperary team later the same day in | , the Gaelic Athletic Association's major football ground. Despite the gen ... |
| 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 ... |
| Outer Banks | ... oes the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, which marks the beginning of the | |
| Puerto Rico | ... , once again substituting Serbia. Proyecto M went to enjoy great success in | and Venezuela |
| Hispaniola | ... aribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of | , in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican ... |
| Palm Beach, Florida | On Easter weekend 1991, Kennedy was at a get-together at the family's | estate 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 the | as 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 |
| Great Plains | ... rrigation who played a leading role in transforming the arid prairie of the | east of Colorado's Front Range into a thriving agricultural region with wa ... |
| New Zealand | ... and has particularly close ties to Pacific neighbours Japan, Australia, and | . Kiribati established diplomatic relations with Taiwan in November 2003. ... |
| La Gomera | ... enetically. Robins from the western Canary Islands: El Hierro, La Palma and | (E. (r.) microrhynchus) are similar to the European (Erithacus rubecula) |
| New Zealand | ... ollowers. He has had some influence on twentieth century art (including the | painter Melvin Day) and literary criticism (e.g., in the "Vies imaginaires ... |
| Louisiades | ... d fueling until 4 May. Fletcher elected to take TF 17 northwest towards the | and 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 ... |
| North America | ... lakes over a much wider range in Europe and the British Isles as well as in | |
| 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 ... |
| Africa | ... in The African Queen (1951). When informed that the film was to be made in | , Davis refused the part, telling Jack Warner, "If you can't shoot the pic ... |
| Dungeness Bay | ... and his crew reached the Pacific Northwest coast in 1792. While anchored in | on the south shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, third lieutenant Joseph ... |
| 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 ... |
| Faroe Islands | ... the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO) was established by the | , Greenland, Iceland, and Norway under the Agreement on Cooperation in Res ... |
| 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 ... |
| Virgin Islands | ... underway on 9 June for a summer practice cruise that took her to Cuba, the | , Panama, New York, Boston, and Provincetown. She returned to Annapolis on ... |
| Lampedusa | ... a faced starvation as the British navy intercepted a French relief force of | Island. Eventually, General Vaubois, the commander of the French forces, s ... |
| 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 ... |
| Great Plains | ... d dirt, are usually darker, taking on the color of debris. Tornadoes in the | can turn red because of the reddish tint of the soil, and tornadoes in mou ... |
| Caribbean | ... iti ( ; Haitian Creole Ayiti ), officially the Republic of Haiti (; ), is a | country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispani ... |
| Azores | On Madeira and the | , the local population has been described as E. r. microrhynchos, and alth ... |
| Seattle | ... e, Atlanta, Lakewood, CO (Denver), Omaha, NE, Oakland, CA, Philadelphia and | . The headquarters building of the National Park Service Southwest Regiona ... |
| 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 ... |
| Great Plains | Oklahoma is between the | and the Ozark Plateau in the Gulf of Mexico watershed, generally sloping f ... |
| North America | ... onique Wilson have widely believed that the book was of ancient provenance. | n Gardnerians of the Long Island line allow covens to add rituals and teac ... |
| Great Britain | ... te of the area was much different than it is now; it was similar to that of | today. The area which today is Brevard County was probably not coastal at ... |
| Fernando de Noronha | ... each St Paul's Rocks. From here, the route went south across the equator to | during September 1873, and onwards that same month to Bahia (now called Sa ... |
| Sydney Cricket Ground | ... 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The concert, which took place at the | , also included performances by Powderfinger, Silverchair, Nick Cave, John ... |
| Staten Island | Joe Banks (Tom Hanks) is a downtrodden everyman from | , working in a factory for an unpleasant, demanding boss, Frank Waturi (Da ... |
| Gran Canaria | The most distinct birds are those of | (E. r. marionae) and Tenerife (E. r. superbus), which may be considered tw ... |
| Indochina | ... or national French from former colonies of North and West Africa, India and | , to mainland France. 1.6 million European pieds noirs migrated from Alger ... |
| Manhattan | ... reet." On May 28, 1928, Fish, then 58 years old, visited the Budd family in | under the pretense of hiring Edward; he later confessed that he had planne ... |
| Ireland | Martyn 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 ... |
| 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 on | where their nine men were pursued by three hundred natives, because one of ... |
| New Zealand | ... er countries with similar ethnic, historical and political origins, such as | , Canada, and the United States. The Australian indigenous tradition broug ... |
| Malay Peninsula | ... to the Greeks. The Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy in his Geographia named the | as Aurea Chersonesus (Golden Peninsula) while Java was called Labadius. La ... |
| Baengnyeong Island | ... and Weihai. There are also ferries to Incheon's outlying islands as well as | inside of the Northern Limit Line |
| Elizabeth Islands | The earliest settlers of the | were 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 ... |
| Tenerife | The 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 | |
| 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 ... |
| North America | ... The state-owned Royal Air Maroc airline provides regular service to Europe, | , the Middle East, and Western Africa |
| Navigator islands | ... ropavlovsk in July 1824. Many positions along the coast were rectified, the | visited, and several discoveries made. The expedition returned by the Mari ... |
| South America | ... sphere, with a few species reaching the Southern Hemisphere in the Andes in | |
| Riau Islands | ... 1999 (North Maluku, West Papua, Banten, Bangka-Belitung Islands, Gorontalo, | and West Sulawesi) and five provinces received special status: Aceh, for t ... |
| Gibraltar | In February 1801 Ball was appointed commissioner of the navy at | and had to leave Malta. Control passed to Major General Henry Pigot, whose ... |
| Lesbos | ... s an Athenian Empire; at the start of the Peloponnesian War, only Chios and | were 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 ... |
| Sicily | Salvatore 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 |
| Bermuda | In 1922, Merton and his father traveled to | , having left John Paul with his in-laws, the Jenkins family, in Douglasto ... |
| Auckland | ... his service, is now on display at the Museum of Transport and Technology in | , New Zealand |
| Taiwan | ... especially by the Four Asian Tigers (Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and | ), resulted in rapid economic transformation and industrialization. Their ... |
| Polynesia | ... Polynesia, the Maohi (Mā’ohi in tahitian language) are the ancestors of the | n peoples |
| South America | ... instead, it seems that they have survived in evolutionarily isolated areas. | was isolated until a few million years ago, with a fauna that included mar ... |
| South America | ... living species in tropical Asia. The neotropical pygmy squirrel of tropical | is the sole living member of the Sciurillinae. The third lineage, by far t ... |
| Matsu | Small 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 ... |
| Lolland | He 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 the | in 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 ... |
| Asia | ... amilies. The Ratufinae contain a mere handful of living species in tropical | . The neotropical pygmy squirrel of tropical South America is the sole liv ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Indochina | The similar Philippine version common to | is called patis. Patis which is a by-product of bagoong is nearly always c ... |
| Nevill Ground | ... as a neighbour of Sassoon. Siegfried often turned out for Bluehouses at the | , where he sometimes played alongside Arthur Conan Doyle. He also played c ... |
| Indian subcontinent | ... theast Asia was animist before Hinduism and Buddhism were exported from the | . Islam arrived mostly through Indian Muslims and later dominated much of ... |
| Africa | ... ation ignited both popular and scientific interest in the polar regions and | , so too did the mysteries of the unexplored oceans |
| Africa | ... ll fairly ubiquitous, being present in Eurasia, North America, and parts of | . The highest density of nesting Golden Eagles in the world lies in southe ... |
| New Zealand | ... Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, | , Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, ... |
| Marco Island | ... tes. The population was 2,232 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Naples– | Metropolitan Statistical Area |
| New Zealand | File:Coptic Orthodox Church, Dunedin.jpg|Coptic Church, Dunedin, | File:Coptic cathedral (Khartoum) 001.jpg|Coptic Cathedral, Khartoum, Sudan ... |
| Taiwan | ... ed strikes on Japanese facilities at Okinawa, in the Penghu archipelago and | |
| Samoa | ... nd the Indian River Lagoon. The county is larger in area than the nation of | and nearly the same size, and population, as Cape Verde. It is one-third t ... |
| Asia Minor | ... henian temples during the Second Persian War. He sent an advance force into | under the command of his generals Parmenion and Attalus to "liberate" the ... |
| 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 of | island and contains the island's easternmost point. The capital is Morioka ... |
| Africa | ... ginated in Eurasia, for example, one would expect quite ancient lineages in | , but African squirrels seem to be of more recent origin |
| 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 ... |
| Ravenna | ... us Honorius, Western Roman Emperor from 395 to 423, moved the government to | and Rome's population declined to a mere 20,000 during the Early Middle Ag ... |
| Majorca | ... , ; formerly Palma de Mallorca) is the major city and port on the island of | and capital city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Sp ... |
| New Zealand | ... e, just as Māori is accepted among native or indigenous people in Aotearoa, | or Avaiki, Cook Islands as the way they describe themselves. Te Ao Maohi - ... |
| Faial | ... th century. Many of these town residents were originally from the island of | in the Azores, and the neighborhood where many of them lived, located betw ... |
| Bermuda | ... development of the schooner is connected with that of the Bermuda sloop. In | , countless vessels of otherwise identical description were built with bet ... |
| Lau Islands | ... ', his home was Ata, and he was better known by the original Tongans on the | than in the kingdom of Tonga proper |
| North America | ... uncommon, the species is still fairly ubiquitous, being present in Eurasia, | , and parts of Africa. The highest density of nesting Golden Eagles in the ... |
| 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 the | archipelago and Taiwan |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | ... The Territory considered holding a plebiscite as to whether the British and | should merge under the U.S. flag, but (although there was no opposition fr ... |
| Africa | ... d may have arrived as part of the hypothesized Great Coastal Migration from | via coastal India. These groups now make up only a small minority of the S ... |
| 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 ... |
| North America | ... o, tupelo, or black gum, is a medium-sized deciduous tree native to eastern | from New England and southern Ontario south to central Florida and eastern ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 the | were added in 1937. Sir Arthur Grimble was a cadet administrative officer ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| North America | ... or divers (UK/Ireland) are a group of aquatic birds found in many parts of | and northern Eurasia (Europe, Asia and debatably Africa). All living speci ... |
| North America | These birds have disappeared from some lakes in eastern | due to the effects of acid rain and pollution, as well as lead poisoning f ... |
| Qatar | ... the many wealthy Palestinians working there and other Gulf States, such as | (where he met Mahmoud Abbas in 1961). These businessmen and oil workers co ... |
| Rossel Island | ... h at a prearranged rendezvous . TF 17 then turned to head northwest towards | in the Louisiades. Unbeknownst to the two adversaries, their carriers were ... |
| New Zealand | ... garoa is a rural suburb of Upper Hutt situated in the lower North Island of | . It is home to Mangaroa School, and previously th |
| Gibraltar | ... Spain and Morocco across the strait, as well as between Spain and Ceuta and | to Tangier |
| Feroz Shah Kotla | ... Delhi. There are several cricket grounds (or ) located across the city. The | stadium is one of the oldest cricket grounds in India and is a venue for i ... |
| North Island | Mangaroa is a rural suburb of Upper Hutt situated in the lower | of 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 the | in Wales. At this time the section south of London became known as the Gre ... |
| Niuafo'ou | ... nd" (Tafahi), "Traitors Island" (Niuatoputapu), and "Island of Good Hope" ( | ). On April 28 they discovered the Hoorn Islands (Futuna and Alofi), where ... |
| New Zealand | ... kyo and Hamburg. In Kiribati, there are High Commissions from Australia and | and embassy of the Republic of China (Taiwan), and the People's Republic o ... |
| Olympic Peninsula | ... o drained to the Chehalis River until the Chimacum Valley, in the northeast | , melted, allowing the lake's water to rapidly drain north into the marine ... |
| 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 the | as well as organising relief during a cholera epidemic |
| Auckland | ... s ($812/week) than other regions in New Zealand (18% more than second-place | , $687/week) |
| 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 the | until the first Europeans started to settle there in the early 17th centur ... |
| Puerto Rico | Ponce (; ) is both a city and a municipality in the southern part of | . The city is the seat of the municipal government |
| Iberian Peninsula | ... d Zambra or Zamba, both coming from Arabic, from when the Moors invaded the | in the 8th century. Another theory says it originated from one of many Afr ... |
| 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 conquer | through the river when another god challenged him in the form of an octopu ... |
| Indochina | ... , and Singapore while the Burmese, Thai, and Khmer peoples governed much of | . At the same time, opportunities and threats from the east and the west s ... |
| Ten Thousand Islands | ... rers, Marco Island is the largest barrier island within Southwest Florida's | area extending southerly to Cape Sable. Like the City of Naples to the nor ... |
| Croke Park | ... -weary populace continued with life. Approximately 5,000 spectators went to | for the Gaelic football match between Dublin and Tipperary, which began th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ponapese | ... ther cultures, including the Ugandan Batoro, Mohave Indians, Mangaians, and | . Amongst the Batoro, older women teach the younger women "kachapati" (spr ... |
| Réunion | ... e reluctant to call at the island. Most freight is sent first to Mombasa or | and 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 ... |
| Indian subcontinent | ... ive in PAKSTAN") referring to the names of the five northern regions of the | : Punjab, North-West Frontier Province (Afghan Province), Kashmir, Sind, a ... |
| Great Plains | ... r archaeological evidence to suggest how and when Arapaho bands entered the | . The Arapaho Indian tribe most likely lived in Minnesota and North Dakota ... |
| Sri Lanka | ... the civil war in 1983, more than 800,000 Tamils have been displaced within | as 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Caribbean | ... ti-ethnic heritages, from Central America, West Africa, Southeast Asia, the | , and many other parts of the world |
| Oceania | ... find a passage across the Arctic Ocean and explore the less-known parts of | |
| New Zealand | ... ate, bringing him to Australia, Canada, England, Finland, Hong Kong, Japan, | , Norway, Scotland, Sweden and the Philippines |
| Venice | Doppler 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 ... |
| Tuvalu | ... ent by Britain. In 1978 the Ellice Islands became the independent nation of | . The Gilbert Islands became independent as Kiribati on 12 July 1979. Alth ... |
| Long Island | Hart was born on April 18, 1976 in Smithtown, New York, on | , the daughter of Paula, a producer and talent manager, and William Hart, ... |
| Philippines | The Alabama departed from the Carolines to steam to the | and provided cover for the carriers striking the islands of Cebu Island, L ... |
| Sicily | Locations include the Cyclopean Islands east off | and 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 ... |
| Long Island | The Village of Farmingdale is an incorporated village on | within the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, New York in the United Sta ... |
| Hoorn Islands | ... pu), and "Island of Good Hope" (Niuafo'ou). On April 28 they discovered the | (Futuna and Alofi), where they were very well received and stayed until Ma ... |
| 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 ... |
| Africa | ... ed merchants to travel immense distances, from the shores of the Pacific to | and deep into Europe, without trespassing on agricultural lands and arousi ... |
| Line Islands | Some of the islands of Kiribati, especially in the remote | , were formerly used by the United States and United Kingdom for nuclear w ... |
| 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 ... |
| Iona | ... ldees of the 9th to the 12th century the direct successors of the Irish and | n monasticism of the 6th to the 8th century. Some have suggested that thes ... |
| South India | ... n important period in the development of art, architecture, and religion in | . The empire is remembered today primarily for its temple architecture. Ov ... |
| Africa | ... tment was the creation of the new port Tanger-Med. It's the largest port in | and on the Mediterranean. The city is undergoing an economic boom. This in ... |
| Snake River Plain | ... the Big Lost River, disappear from the surface to flow underground into the | aquifer in Butte County |
| 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. ... |
| Zanzibar | This rice flour and coconut milk halva is common fare on the streets of | |
| Gibraltar | The small British enclave of the city of | presents a third cultural group found in the straits. This enclave was fir ... |
| Zanzibar | ... abs from Oman. Under Seyyid Said, the Omani sultan who moved his capital to | in 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 ... |
| New Zealand | ... s Merton was born in Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales, France, to Owen Merton, a | painter active in Europe and the United States, and Ruth Jenkins, an Ameri ... |
| Iceland | ... em include Israel, Ireland, Malta, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Turkey, | , India, Pakistan, Germany and Greece |
| Tongatapu | ... illy, as Maui apparently was not an expert fisherman yet. His next catch, ( | ) he kept much smoother |
| Rurutu | ... rritories. However, an attempt to land the pinnace on the Austral Island of | was thwarted by rough surf and the rocky shoreline. On 15 August, Endeavou ... |
| Betio | ... November 1943; the Battle of Tarawa was fought at Kiribati's former capital | on Tarawa Atoll |
| Great Plains | The Smoky Hill River is a river in the central | of North America, running through the U.S. states of Colorado and Kansas |
| North America | The Smoky Hill River is a river in the central Great Plains of | , running through the U.S. states of Colorado and Kansas |
| 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 ... |
| Admiralty Island | ... war effort. Most Aleuts from the Pribilofs were imprisoned at Funter Bay on | in Southeast Alaska. In 1979, the Aleut people from the Pribilof islands r ... |
| Green Mountain National Forest | ... s other recreational activities. On the Vermont side of the border lies the | . The Appalachian Trail crosses from north to south through the town, pass ... |
| 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 ... |
| Staten Island | There is also bus service to | on the S89 route operated by MTA New York City Bus, which provides service ... |
| Puerto Rico | ... to Chile. Other Latin American countries that have Irish settlement include | and Colombia |
| Isle of Bute | ... ey Street, Grosvenor Square, Westminster, and was buried at Rothesay on the | |
| Asia | ... Boidae are a family of nonvenomous snakes found in America, Africa, Europe, | and some Pacific Islands. Relatively primitive snakes, adults are medium t ... |
| 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 the | of 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 ... |
| Africa | The Boidae are a family of nonvenomous snakes found in America, | , Europe, Asia and some Pacific Islands. Relatively primitive snakes, adul ... |
| 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 Vineyard | Aquinnah is a town located on the island of | in Massachusetts. Prior to 1998 the town was officially known as Gay Head, ... |
| 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 the | people, a single word is used to describe ejaculation in both male and fem ... |
| Martha's Vineyard | On | , in Massachusetts, this species is called "beetlebung", perhaps for its u ... |
| North | ... Cuba, and since the early 16th century, extended into the interiors of both | and South America. In 1497, sailing from the north on behalf of the Kingdo ... |
| Jutland | ... the death of his parents. From 1924, he was the vicar of Vedersø in Western | . The dramas of Munk were mostly performed and made public during the 1930 ... |
| Guernsey | ... the previous success of Les Misérables. Dedicated to the channel island of | where 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 ... |
| Arabian Peninsula | ... haeopotamus - formerly included in Hexaprotodon**†Archaeopotamus harvardi - | & Central Africa; Miocene - Pliocene**†Archaeopotamus lothagamensis - Keny ... |
| New Zealand | Several countries, including Sweden (1 January 1993), | (1998 and 2003), Germany (2005 and 2007) and Argentina have opened up the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tiburon Peninsula | ... c (the southeast) and the mountainous southern peninsula (also known as the | ). The Plaine du Cul-de-Sac is a natural depression that harbors the count ... |
| South India | ... ered to be essentially a "Northern" confection, it is also quite popular in | . A prominent South Indian version of halva (or alvaa in Tamil) is from Ti ... |
| 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 ... |
| Kenai Peninsula | Kasilof is on the east side of the Cook Inlet on the | , on the Sterling Highway, south Kenai on the Kasilof River |
| Tonga | ... etime between 3000 BC and AD 1300. The area was not isolated; invaders from | , Samoa, and Fiji later introduced Polynesian and Melanesian cultural aspe ... |
| Indian subcontinent | ... pt for a phalloplasty and/or mastectomy. Hijra, a third gender found in the | , may opt to undergo castration |
| Great Britain | ... ow-bellied marmot was eaten significantly more than other species, while in | and 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 |
| Nez Perce National Forest | ... utside of Alaska. National Forests and their acreage within the county are: | 2,224,091; Clearwater National Forest 870,807; Payette National Forest 804 ... |
| Africa | ... nce, Greece, and Russia. These study programs in Europe (including Russia), | , the Near East, and Asia, as well as nine programs in Central and South A ... |
| Kenai Peninsula | Ninilchik is on the west side of the | on the coast of Cook Inlet, southwest of Kenai, and southwest of Anchorage ... |
| 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 of | in Asterix and Obelix All at Sea |
| Gibraltar | ... ripoli and Algiers with the 4th Division before reforming with the fleet at | . Underway for home on 6 February, she again passed in review before Presi ... |
| Asia | Returning by the coast of | , he again sailed to the south, sojourned for three weeks at the Sandwich ... |
| Samoa | ... etween 3000 BC and AD 1300. The area was not isolated; invaders from Tonga, | , and Fiji later introduced Polynesian and Melanesian cultural aspects, re ... |
| Qatar | ... ver, relations between Bahrain and two other Persian Gulf states – Iran and | – were less than amicable. The government of Bahrain has made a concerted ... |
| Seward Peninsula | ... of the PYK Line – which included the entirety of Alaska's North Slope, the | , most of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, the western portions of the Alaska Pe ... |
| North America | ... commonly called purple coneflowers. They are endemic to eastern and central | , where they are found growing in moist to dry prairies and open wooded ar ... |
| Samoa | ... , India and Sri Lanka, the Moluccas and New Guinea through to Melanesia and | |
| Cape Cod | This | island 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 and | through to Melanesia and Samoa |
| Ouachita National Forest | ... ,000 km 2 ) of forest is public land, including the western portions of the | , the largest and oldest national forest in the Southern United States. Wi ... |
| Majorca | After the conquest of | , it was loosely incorporated into the province of Tarraconensis by 123 BC ... |
| Clearwater National Forest | ... nd their acreage within the county are: Nez Perce National Forest 2,224,091 | ;870,807; Payette National Forest 804,853; Bitterroot National Forest 464, ... |
| Balkans | ... diting Codex diplomaticus of the Academy. Šufflay became a historian of the | , convinced that the history of the Croats can be properly researched only ... |
| Philippines | ... d, Finland, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Sweden and the | |
| Puerto Rico | U.S. federal law applies to | , even though Puerto Rico is not a state. Due to the Federal Relations Act ... |
| sea island | Kiawah 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 the | and Luzon before retiring to Ulithi on 24 November |
| Elba | ... OAC Flight 781 and crashed into the Mediterranean off the Italian island of | with the loss of all 35 on board. With no witnesses to the disaster and on ... |
| Melanesia | ... thwestern Asia, India and Sri Lanka, the Moluccas and New Guinea through to | and Samoa |
| North Island | The 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 |
| North America | ... rginia. This charter specified that Raleigh needed to establish a colony in | , or lose his right to colonization. Raleigh and Elizabeth intended that t ... |
| 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 Zealand | The Wellington region of | occupies the southern end of the North Island |
| South America | ... vessel Dunedin in 1882, leading to a meat and dairy boom in Australasia and | . J & E Hall of Dartford, England outfitted the 'SS Selembria' with a vapo ... |
| Asia | This increase will be most dramatic on the least-urbanized continents, | and Africa. Surveys and projections indicate that all urban growth over th ... |
| 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 of | is located on the island of the same name, in the Golfe de la Gonâve. Gonâ ... |
| Sri Lanka | ... Leonardo Boff was suspended and others were censured. Tissa Balasuriya, in | , was excommunicated. Sebastian Kappen, an Indian theologian, was also cen ... |
| 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 ... |
| North America | Unlike the earlier T-carrier systems developed in | , all 8 bits of each sample are available for each call. This allows the E ... |
| New Zealand | ... uum Oil Co., or "Stanvac," operated in 50 countries, including East Africa, | and China, before it was dissolved in 1962 |
| Juan Fernández Islands | ... of Hoorn was also the birthplace of Schouten. After failing to moor at the | in early March, the ships crossed the Pacific in a fairly straight line, v ... |
| 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, the | and the Greek mainland. Crete is associated with the Minoan civilization f ... |
| Kodiak Island | ... permanently stay in the village were Russian colonists who moved there from | in 1847 before the Alaska Purchase. They were Russian Grigorii Kvasnikov ( ... |
| Falkland Islands | ... ith a vapor compression system to bring 30,000 carcasses of mutton from the | in 1886 |
| Crete | ... os bonifacti, and the huge specimens of the Late Pleistocene of Liko Cave ( | ) have been named Aquila chrysaetos simurgh |
| North America | ... middle of July proceeded northward, coasting along the north-west coast of | , and discovering and naming Kotzebue Sound or Gulf and Cape Krusenstern i ... |
| Miami Beach | ... idus, fresh from his success in redefining the glittering Collins Avenue in | with 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 |
| Great Britain | ... Hampshire, Vermont, some areas of Massachusetts, Yellowstone National Park, | , Canada, Michigan, and Denmark |
| Cowal | The Cenél Comgaill are thought to have been centred in | , which is plausibly derived from Comgall or Comgaill, and the isle of But ... |
| Roanoke Island | The Roanoke Colony on | in Dare County, present-day North Carolina, United States was a late 16th- ... |
| South America | ... eaves when touched or exposed to heat. It is native to southern Central and | but is widely cultivated elsewhere for its curiosity value, both as a hous ... |
| Ireland | ... he leading members of the Schley family married into the Wilson family from | . Consequently, many of the Schleys converted to Catholicism, and resident ... |
| Arabian Peninsula | ... inor, Northern, Central and East Africa, Madagascar and Reunion Island, the | , Central and southwestern Asia, India and Sri Lanka, the Moluccas and New ... |
| 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 ... |
| Long Island | ... the village of New Hyde Park in Nassau County, New York, United States, on | as well as surrounding unincorporated areas in Nassau County and Queens Co ... |
| Balkans | ... ternational railway lines connect Greek cities with the rest of Europe, the | and Turkey, although they have been suspended, due to the financial crisis |
| Kola Peninsula | ... e in Sweden, with smaller groups living in the far north of Finland and the | of Russia. The Sámi in Russia were forced by the Soviet authorities to rel ... |
| Taiwan | The immigration law of | gives priority to returning Taiwanese and overseas Chinese who are not cit ... |
| Yeongjong International City | As of 2012, | ’s centering on the Incheon International Airport is being developed as an ... |
| North America | ... uring nations (Belgium, Spain, Britain, Germany etc.), and far away lands ( | , Middle East, India etc.) |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Yeonpyeong Island | The northwestern islands of Baengnyeong Island, | , Daecheong Island, and the much smaller Socheong Island are part of Ongji ... |
| Africa | In | , a new series of diasporas formed following the end of colonial rule. In ... |
| Parnell Park | ... n team plays most of their home league hurling and Gaelic Football games at | . I.R.F.U. Stadium Lansdowne Road was laid out in 1874. This was the venue ... |
| Asia | ... agascar and Reunion Island, the Arabian Peninsula, Central and southwestern | , India and Sri Lanka, the Moluccas and New Guinea through to Melanesia an ... |
| 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 ... |
| Manhattan | ... sey Turnpike northbound travels to Jersey City and, via the Holland Tunnel, | . Westbound, the Newark Bay Bridge provides access to Newark, Newark Airpo ... |
| Sinai Peninsula | ... reed to allow the United Nations Emergency Force to establish itself in the | and Gaza Strip, causing the expulsion of all guerrilla or "fedayeen" force ... |
| Brijuni Islands | ... Koch accepted the invitation and spent two years, from 1900 to 1902, on the | and Kupelwieser erected a monument to Koch, which still stands in the vici ... |
| Madagascar | ... ean, southeastern Europe and Asia Minor, Northern, Central and East Africa, | and Reunion Island, the Arabian Peninsula, Central and southwestern Asia, ... |
| New Zealand | ... f Dinornis were reclassified as two species, one each formerly occurring on | 's North Island (D. novaezealandiae) and South Island (D. giganteus); giga ... |
| New Zealand | In | , a bar similar to the United Kingdom product is sold as the Caramello var ... |
| North Bay Village | ... tion) in the United States at 3.5%, and the second largest in Florida; only | had a greater percentage, at 6%. It also had the 59th largest proportion o ... |
| 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 ... |
| Palau | ... oping nation in the Pacific never to have been a member of the Group of 77. | (which withdrew from membership in 2004) is the only other Pacific develop ... |
| Chukchi Peninsula | ... of St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, southwest of Nome. It is from the | in the Russian Far East |
| Marco Island | ... lation recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 513. It is part of the Naples– | |
| Ireland | ... condemned the Pelagians and was zealous for orthodoxy. He sent Palladius to | to serve as a bishop in 431. Bishop Patricius (Saint Patrick) continued th ... |
| St. Lawrence Island | Gambell is a village on | in Alaska, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 681 |
| British Isles | In 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, ... |
| South America | Many | n, Central American, and African nations follow the presidential model |
| 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 the | in 1820 by a Russian admiral, Adam von Krusenstern, and French captain Lou ... |
| Venice | In 1425, Uccello travelled to | , where he worked on the mosaics for the façade of San Marco (all these wo ... |
| Snake River Plain | ... r. Smaller buttes called the East Butte and the Middle Butte located in the | are visible south of US Route 20 |
| Tierra del Fuego | Although 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 Island | Gambell is located on the northwest cape of | in the Bering Sea, southwest of Nome. It is from the Chukchi Peninsula in ... |
| South India | The Hoysala Empire (, ) was a prominent | n Kannadiga empire that ruled most of the modern day state of Karnataka be ... |
| Africa | Many South American, Central American, and | n nations follow the presidential model |
| Melanesia | ... lated; invaders from Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji later introduced Polynesian and | n 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Matsu | ... RC numbers. Thus, Quemoy (Jinmen) is included as one of the 45 counties and | (Mazu) as one of the 334 townships |
| Asia | ... ese study programs in Europe (including Russia), Africa, the Near East, and | , as well as nine programs in Central and South America, provide the oppor ... |
| North America | ... a Portuguese explorer, and had accompanied his father on his expeditions to | . In 1500, King Manuel I of Portugal sent Gaspar to discover lands and sea ... |
| 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 |
| Delos | ... Syrian merchants; thus we find traces of it in the great seaport towns; at | especially numerous inscriptions have been found bearing witness to her im ... |
| Caribbean | ... then departed for Stockholm for a second group. He made a side trip to the | to 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 ... |
| South America | Found in Northern, Central and | , the Caribbean, southeastern Europe and Asia Minor, Northern, Central and ... |
| Merritt Island | ... ard for a junior high school, in order to keep students from being bused to | |
| South America | ... inship with all the Indians of the tribe. Polygyny, a common practice among | n Indians, was quickly adopted by European settlers. This way, a single Eu ... |
| 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 ... |
| Luzon | Detached from the Formosa area on 14 October to sail toward | , the USS Alabama again used her anti-aircraft batteries in support of the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alaska Peninsula | ... d Peninsula, most of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, the western portions of the | , and the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands—would be part of the new state, bu ... |
| 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 ... |
| Balearic Islands | ... n the island of Majorca and capital city of the autonomous community of the | in Spain. The names Ciutat de Mallorca (English: City of Majorca) and Ciut ... |
| 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 ... |
| Africa | ... increase will be most dramatic on the least-urbanized continents, Asia and | . Surveys and projections indicate that all urban growth over the next 25 ... |
| Fennoscandia | Sápmi is located in Northern Europe, includes the northern parts of | and spans four countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia |
| Caribbean | Found in Northern, Central and South America, the | , southeastern Europe and Asia Minor, Northern, Central and East Africa, M ... |
| Blake Island | ... ws (about ). Other sills that present less of a barrier include the ones at | , Agate Pass, Rich Passage, and |
| Marco Island | ... tes. The population was 5,186 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Naples– | Metropolitan Statistical Area |
| Veliki Brijun Island | Because the construction efforts on | were jeopardized by malaria outbreaks which occurred during summer months, ... |
| Cyprus | ... egovina, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Russia, Greece and | , Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Iran, Lebanon, Macedonia, Albania, Syria, Central A ... |
| Coney Island | ... years from 1894 through 1908, the race was held at Gravesend Race Track on | , New York. In 1909 it returned to Pimlico |
| Searles Lake | ... per district of Michigan, Bergen Hill, New Jersey, Golden, Colorado, and at | , California in the United States; and at Cape Blomidon, Nova Scotia and M ... |
| Tonga | ... ril 21 and 24, 1616, they were the first Westerners to visit the (Northern) | islands: "Cocos Island" (Tafahi), "Traitors Island" (Niuatoputapu), and "I ... |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Gibraltar | ... d the Perejil island, drawing comparisons with Spain's territorial claim to | . In both cases, the national governments and local populations of the dis ... |
| Polynesia | ... rea was not isolated; invaders from Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji later introduced | n and Melanesian cultural aspects, respectively. Intermarriage tended to b ... |
| 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 ... |
| South America | ... ), Africa, the Near East, and Asia, as well as nine programs in Central and | , provide the opportunity for research in many disciplines, from archaeolo ... |
| New Zealand | ... ell are often encountered in archaeological sites and sand dunes around the | coast. Thirty six whole moa eggs exist in museum collections and vary grea ... |
| Zanzibar | ... on 9 December 1962. On 26 April 1964, Tanganyika joined with the islands of | to 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 ... |
| Asia | ... ortugal sent Gaspar to discover lands and search for a Northwest Passage to | |
| Balkans | ... ve gained legal identity, Fa'afafine of Polynesia, and Sworn virgins of the | , among others, and is also used by many of such groups and individuals to ... |
| North America | Today, cairns are built for many purposes. The most common use in | and Northern Europe is to mark mountain bike and hiking trails and other c ... |
| Maldives | ... earest population in India. Former populations in this area, centred on the | and the Laccadive Islands, are presumed to be extinct. A population exists ... |
| Maldives | The | is a nation consisting of 26 natural atolls, comprising 1192 island |
| 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 ... |
| North America | Deptford was the site of the first hot air balloon landing in | , gathering that distinction when Jean-Pierre Blanchard completed his flig ... |
| Öland | | is a separate province from Småland, however its arms are included in the ... |
| Gozo | ... ted dark yellow, with a band of orange, while those on the sister island of | were grey with a red band. When Arriva commenced operations in July 2011, ... |
| Cherokee National Forest | A portion of the county is included in the | |
| Venice | Aveiro is sometimes called "The Portuguese | ", because of its canals and boats that remind one of the Italian city of ... |
| Venice | ... hmetic, Geometry, Ratio and Proportion") was first printed and published in | in 1494. It included a 27-page treatise on bookkeeping, "Particularis de C ... |
| Indochinese Peninsula | ... d southward over two millennia to occupy the entire eastern seacoast of the | . Ethnic Vietnamese, or Viet (known officially as Kinh), live in the lowla ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sumatra | The first dominant power to arise in the archipelago was Srivijaya in | . From the 5th century CE, the capital, Palembang, became a major seaport ... |
| 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 ... |
| Africa | The African Renaissance is the concept that | n people and nations overcome the current challenges confronting the conti ... |
| New Forest | ... rica, about 100 in the Palaearctic, and exactly one species in England, the | cicada, Melampsalta montana, widely distributed throughout Europe. There a ... |
| Kamchatka | In | , babies were killed and thrown to the dogs. American explorer George Kenn ... |
| Marshall Islands | The people of the | are of Micronesian origin, which is traced to a combination of peoples who ... |
| Cuvier Island | ... named after Cuvier, such as the South American giant sloth Catonyx cuvieri. | in New Zealand was named after Cuvier by D'Urvill |
| 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 of | and Nukulaelae |
| North America | ... o very much associated with multiple genders are the indigenous cultures of | , who often contain social gender categories that are collectively known a ... |
| Tasmania | Efforts 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, | |
| South | ... opics, where they are found in tropical lakes and rivers throughout most of | and Central America. At least 209 species of characins are found in Africa ... |
| New Guinea | ... the Medical Corps. He served with distinction in the Pacific theater and in | |
| Cape Verde | The 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 the | off the western coast of Ireland. It portrays characters living in premode ... |
| Nukulaelae | Households on Funafuti and | are restricted to two buckets of fresh water per day (40 litres). The gove ... |
| Mindanao | ... ign against the secessionist Moro National Liberation Frontin the island of | |
| North America | ... shing a church in the area, and is considered the first Christian martyr in | |
| Africa | West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the | n continent. Geopolitically, the United Nations definition of Western Afri ... |
| Beef Island | ... proved, linking West End to the East End of Tortola, and joining Tortola to | by a new bridge. The Beef Island airport (now renamed after Terrance B. Le ... |
| Middle-earth | In the fictional history of | , the original Certhas Daeron was created by the elf Daeron, the minstrel ... |
| Indian subcontinent | ... the first settlers were people from the southern shores of the neighboring | |
| 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 ... |
| Crete | ... red Tripolitsa. The Peloponnesian revolt was quickly followed by revolts in | , Macedonia and Central Greece, which would soon be suppressed. Meanwhile, ... |
| Java | In Indonesia, especially in | , a similar place is called Alun-Alun. It is a central part of Javanese vi ... |
| Roi Islet | ... Atoll, from the Japanese. The Alabama, the South Dakota, and the bombarded | on 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 in | may commonly mix pronunciations, phrases, and words from Mandarin and Taiw ... |
| Mayotte | This article is about the demographic features of the population of | , including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the ... |
| Iberian Peninsula | In the | , Portugal's and Spain's university heads or presidents have the title Mag ... |
| Azores | ... to fight the rematch, his Air France Lockheed Constellation crashed in the | , killing everyone on board |
| North America | ... Monroe County. The underground lake for which it is named is the largest in | . The cave tour features a ride on the lake in boats with electric motors. ... |
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| Paradise Island | A heliport is located on | , as well as other smaller islands, such as the various cruise line privat ... |
| Mauritius | | has strong and friendly relations with the West, as well as with India and ... |
| Ireland | Scotia was originally a Roman name for | , inhabited by the people they called Scoti or Scotii. Use of the name shi ... |
| Calabria | ... ographers differed on whether the term included Sicily or merely Apulia and | — Strabo being the most prominent advocate of the wider definitions |
| Inchcolm | Inchcolm Abbey is a medieval abbey located on the island of | in the Firth of Forth in Scotland. The Abbey, which is located at the cent ... |
| South America | ... n times throughout Latin America to mark trails. Even today in the Andes of | , the Quechuan peoples use cairns as religious shrines to the indigenous I ... |
| Lesbos | Galienus called fellatio "lesbiari" since women of the island of | were supposed to have introduced the practice of using one's lips to give ... |
| Sri Lanka | ... he major marine routes of the Indian Ocean. Maldives' nearest neighbors are | and India, both of which have had cultural and economic ties with Maldives ... |
| Mojave Desert | ... ce Base landscape which necessitated the entire production crew move to the | for the opening sequences that framed the story of the test pilots at Edwa ... |
| Funafuti | Households on | and Nukulaelae are restricted to two buckets of fresh water per day (40 li ... |
| Caribbean | ... orthern Europe in 1962, and participation in Operation "Springboard" in the | in 1966. Between these cruises and major yard work in 1961, 1962, 1966, 19 ... |
| Manhattan | Allentown is about one hour southwest of | via the Turnpike and about 50 minutes northeast of Philadelphia. Both Prin ... |
| Asia | ... implications of the spread of Hellenism across much of the Middle East and | were to prove long lived as Greek became the lingua franca, a position it ... |
| 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 ... |
| Balkans | ... roduced since 1994 in İzmir, to countries mainly in the Middle East and the | |
| 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 ... |
| Iberian Peninsula | ... . They were well known during the Christian Reconquista (reconquest) of the | . Aragonese crown troops were commanded mainly by Christian officers, or i ... |
| Governors Island | ... taff was also the Second Corps Area headquarters staff based at Fort Jay at | in New York, New York |
| Java | ... who lived in the Manila area. This document mentions a leader of Medang in | |
| Columbia Point | Finally the project moved to | , near the University of Massachusetts. The new site was less than ideal; ... |
| North America | ... e natives of Europe and Asia, but several species have been introduced into | and Australia and have spread widely there |
| North America | ... rni Herjólfsson, Leif Ericson and Þórfinnr Karlsefni from Greenland reached | and attempted to settle the land they called Vinland. They created a small ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rockall | ... batross when drunk on rum). Occasionally the penguins live on the island of | , where they occasionally set up a socialist commune |
| Newfoundland | ... sters are eaten on much of the East Coast; the American lobster ranges from | down to about the Carolinas, but is most often associated with Maine. A ty ... |
| Anatolia | Lycian: 𐊗𐊕𐊐𐊎𐊆𐊖 Trm̃mis; ) was a geopolitical region in | in what are now the provinces of Antalya and Muğla on the southern coast o ... |
| Sinai Peninsula | ... ed the ship. At the time, the ship was in international waters north of the | , about northwest from the Egyptian city of Arish |
| 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 ... |
| Tasmania | ... tant species of Tettigarctidae, one in southern Australia, and the other in | . The family Cicadidae is subdivided into the subfamilies Tettigadinae, Ti ... |
| Goat Island | In January 1985, Midnight Oil performed Oils on the Water, a concert on | in Port Jackson to celebrate Triple J's tenth birthday, before a select au ... |
| The Bahamas | ... gust 25, 2001, Aaliyah and eight others were killed in an airplane crash in | after filming the music video for the single "Rock the Boat". The pilot, L ... |
| Hispaniola | Haiti is on the western part of | , the second largest island in the Greater Antilles. Haiti is the third la ... |
| Door Peninsula | The distinctive | , which extends off the eastern coast of the state, contains one of the st ... |
| Philippines | ... e, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, | , Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Kitt ... |
| Ryukyu Islands | Shamanism is still widely practiced in the | (Okinawa, Japan), where shamans are known as 'Noro' (all women) and 'Yuta' ... |
| Marianas | ... abama began steaming toward the large islands and Japanese air bases of the | to screen the aircraft carriers in heavy air raids on the islands of Tinia ... |
| Asia | ... telephones in Greece, Turkey, South Africa, India, Japan, China, and other | n countries. |
| Isthmus of Corinth | ... gress. However, the Peloponnesian cities made fall-back plans to defend the | should it come to it, whilst the women and children of Athens had been eva ... |
| Philippines | In the | , the Laguna Copperplate Inscription dating from 900 CE relates a granted ... |
| Marshall Islands | This article is about the demographic features of the population of the | , including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alaska Peninsula | ... northern coast of Bristol Bay as far east as Nushagak Bay and the northern | at Naknek River and Egegik Bay in Alaska; the Alutiiq (or Sugpiaq) of the ... |
| 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 |
| New Zealand | ... er lost contact with his sons until a chance meeting with Piers in a pub in | allowed them to renew their relationship. In December 1980 he married Lall ... |
| Puerto Rico | ... eceive a shot at the title, the WBC insisted Chacon fight Héctor Camacho in | instead, then stripped him of his title when he refused |
| North China Plain | ... world's earliest—flourished in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the | . China's political system was based on hereditary monarchies, known as dy ... |
| Asia | The salsifies are natives of Europe and | , but several species have been introduced into North America and Australi ... |
| Island of Montreal | ... ed on the northwest side of Mount Royal, north of downtown Montreal, on the | in southwestern Quebec, Canada. The town is completely surrounded by Montr ... |
| Arabia | ... that there is little evidence that infanticide was prevalent in pre-Islamic | or early Muslim history, except for the case of the Tamim tribe, who pract ... |
| Balkans | ... c, as well as the mountains of Scandinavia, the Alps, Carpathian Mountains, | , Caucasus and in isolated locations elsewhere. In Great Britain, it occur ... |
| Puerto Rico | ... tary recruitment in educational service centers in several US cities and in | |
| Africa | ... R), and began her first deployment in 1965, to waters off the west coast of | . She carried out several more operations during the next two years |
| Malta | The transportation system in | is small but extensive, and the islands' domestic system of public transpo ... |
| Antarctica | ... ninae, Cicadinae, and Cicadettinae, and they exist on all continents except | |
| Jost Van Dyke | ... the population. This was followed by an outbreak of smallpox in Tortola and | in 1861 which caused a further 33 deaths |
| New Zealand | ... uckets of fresh water per day (40 litres). The governments of Australia and | have responded to the fresh-water crisis by supplying temporary desalinati ... |
| Philippines | ... Hong Kong, Mauritius, and Taiwan, as well as parts of Cambodia, Japan, the | and Vietnam. Further disappearances are likely |
| Newfoundland | ... e out of those parts. He was also credited as one of the discoverers of the | fisheries |
| Crete | For 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 ... |
| Edwards Plateau | Mills County is a county located on the | in Central Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 4,936. Mills C ... |
| Virginia Peninsula | Amtrak serves the city with four trains a day. The line runs west along the | to Richmond and points beyond. Connecting buses are available to Norfolk a ... |
| Melanesia | ... es spoken on the Polynesian outliers in Micronesia and Northern and Central | . Tuvaluan has borrowed considerably from Samoan, the language of Christia ... |
| 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 ... |
| Guam | ... European domination quite early. In the early 17th Century Spain colonized | , the Northern Marianas, and the Caroline Islands (what would later become ... |
| Indian subcontinent | ... or Himalaya for short, is a mountain range immediately at the north of the | . By extension, it is also the name of a massive mountain system that incl ... |
| Great Britain | ... 69 at the 2000 census. The majority of early settlers were from Germany and | |
| The Bahamas | ... a, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, | , Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, ... |
| Puerto Rico | In | , he hosted a weekly astrology television show, first on WKAQ-TV, and late ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edwards Plateau | Irion County is a county located on the | in the U.S. state of Texas. It is included in the San Angelo, Texas, Metro ... |
| South India | ... of Thrissur and made the city in to a major financial and commercial hub of | , by inviting Syrian Christian families and Brahmins from adjoining areas |
| Lamay Island | ... ossen (modern Chiayi) to Lonkjiaow (Heng Chun). The 1636 punitive attack on | in 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 of | may 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Iceland | ... pound, and the Scandinavian currencies do not issue large value banknotes. | in particular has never needed much currency since electronic transactions ... |
| Ceos | ... ame to be known as the Dog Days of summer. The inhabitants of the island of | in the Aegean Sea would offer sacrifices to Sirius and Zeus to bring cooli ... |
| Balkans | ... Europe in the 15th century was precipitated by the Ottoman conquest of the | . Although the Romanies themselves were refugees from the conflicts in sou ... |
| Santo | ... hey began clearing more land for coconut production, protests began in both | and Malekula led by Jimmy Stevens and his kastom movement called "Nagriame ... |
| Malay Peninsula | The | and indeed Southeast Asia has been a center for trade for centuries. Vario ... |
| Edwards Plateau | Somervell County is a county located on the | in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 8,49 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Philippines | ... lau), creating the Spanish East Indies, which was governed from the Spanish | until the Spanish-American War in 1898 |
| Sri Lanka | In | , 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 the | by 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 | |
| Corsica | Cairns 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 ... |
| Corinthia | ... etween Corinth and Achaea on the territory of the present-day prefecture of | . The king-list given by Pausanias comprises twenty-four kings, beginning ... |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Guam | ... ore she departed the area on 19 February, without any kills. She arrived at | on the 24th for refit alongside Proteus |
| Arabian Peninsula | ... the masses took much longer; however, as the native populations outside the | gradually abandoned their languages in favor of Arabic. As Bedouin tribes ... |
| 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 ... |
| Trinidad | Boldon was born in Port-of-Spain, | to a Jamaican mother and Trinidadian father. He attended Fatima College (S ... |
| Cape Ann | ... rt in 1624 orchestrated by pastor John White led to a short-lived colony at | , also on the Massachusetts coast. In 1628 some of the investors in that e ... |
| 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 |
| Vanuatu | The history of Vanuatu begins obscurely. The commonly held theory of | 's prehistory from archaeological evidence supports that peoples speaking ... |
| New Zealand | ... armed forces and was also used in Commonwealth countries such as Canada and | |
| 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 ... |
| Crete | ... lands were under Ottoman control by the end of the 15th century, Cyprus and | did not fall to them until 1571 and 1670 respectively. The only part of Gr ... |
| Australian geological continent | Higher peaks in the | , but outside the mainland/country |
| North German Plain | ... of Bremen by the Leine, and was situated near the southern edge of the wide | and north-west of the Harz mountains, so that east-west traffic such as mu ... |
| Sri Lanka | ... ia, beyond the Mauryas' northwest border, as well as South to the island of | and the Maldive Islands. Serious studies of the archaeological remains of ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 in | and 11 years younger than her husband, she married while still a junior le ... |
| Great Plains | Like other cities in the | and Midwest, the economy of Great Falls has suffered from the decline of h ... |
| Oceania | Micronesia is a subregion of | , comprising thousands of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It i ... |
| Africa | ... the Western world, particularly where the dominant religion is Islam and in | and the Middle East, are currently very dangerous for LGBT people because ... |
| United Services Recreation Ground | ... nt near the Hovercraft Terminal. The city hosted first-class cricket at the | in Burnaby Road from 1882, while from 1895 to 2000 County Championship mat ... |
| 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 ... |
| Kyūshū | ... Japan that is now the western half of Kagoshima Prefecture on the island of | . Its abbreviation is Sasshū (薩州) |
| 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 ... |
| Anatolia | ... in the defence of his European provinces, Michael VIII began to denude the | n frontier of its troops and was forced to lower their pay or cancel their ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pangaea | ... ceeding . However the Alleghenian mountains, formed during the formation of | , likely rivalled or exceeded the Himalayas in height |
| Ryukyu Islands | ... on northeast of Formosa during strikes on northern Formosa and the southern | in support of the Allied struggle for Okinawa. On 21 April, Bang rescued a ... |
| Bali | ... oco rivers, are antipodal to central Indonesia, specifically the islands of | , Lombok, Sumbawa, Madura, and most of Java. The Amazonian southern lobe o ... |
| Korean Peninsula | ... ince been recovered from the tomb of Wang Guang at Lelang Commandery in the | , illustrated in a work by Harada and Komai. However, the Chinese collapsi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rhodes | On defeating Antiochus III in 188 the Romans gave Lycia to | for 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 ... |
| Edwards Plateau | Hays County is a county located on the | in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its official population ... |
| Africa | ... nt. Cleaver organized a stolen car ring, stealing cars in Europe to sell in | . Around this time Cleaver discovered his wife had a lover; the lover was ... |
| Balkans | While still dealing with the defeated enemy, news came from the | reporting large-scale attacks from the Heruli, Goths, Gepids, and Bastarna ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Qatar | ... u, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, | , Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, ... |
| Anatolia | ... ick Barbarossa responded to the call to arms, and led a massive army across | , but drowned in a river in Asia Minor on June 10, 1190, before reaching t ... |
| Nukufetau | Funafuti 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. The | lie to the west, and Indonesia to the southwest |
| Little San Salvador Island | ... known as Royal Caribbean International's "Coco Cay", Carnival Corporation's | or "Half Moon Cay", and Castaway Cay, of Disney Cruise Line. Of these, onl ... |
| Great Plains | ... s on the Missouri River. It lies near the center of Montana on the northern | . It lies next to the Montana Rocky Mountain Front and is about south of t ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Asia | ... freshwater fish of eutrophic waters in lakes and large rivers in Europe and | . The wild populations are considered vulnerable to extinction, but the sp ... |
| Anatolia | ... of the army. From 1042 to 1057, he served as commander of the field army in | . In 1057, after being humiliated by the Emperor Michael VI, he rebelled i ... |
| Espiritu Santo | The first island in the Vanuatu group discovered by Spaniards was | when, in 1606, the Portuguese explorer, Pedro Fernández de Quirós, spied w ... |
| Melanesia | ... housands of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It is distinct from | to the south, and Polynesia to the east. The Philippines lie to the west, ... |
| Borneo | ... y south of the Guiana Highlands, is antipodal to the southeastern corner of | |
| 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 ... |
| New Zealand | ... improved security. Mark 23 was a Mark 22 modified for use with the CCM. In | , Typex Mark II and Mark III were superseded by Mark 22 and Mark 23 on 1 J ... |
| 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, and | to 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 in | because 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, like | and Epirus, remained effectively autonomous from the central Ottoman state ... |
| Vanuatu | ... ds archipelago and New Caledonia, stretching to a westernmost population in | . A highly isolated population lives around the islands of Palau |
| Manhattan | In 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 1977 | Perimeter Relay (a running race for 5-person teams). Among the participant ... |
| Funafuti | ... go and passengers between the main atolls and travel between Suva, Fiji and | 3 to 4 times a year. The Nivaga II and Manu Folau provide round trip visit ... |
| Venice | The climate and environment of | has 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 Island | Today, most of Micronesia are independent states, except for Guam and | , which are U.S. territories, and for the Northern Mariana Islands, which ... |
| Puerto Rico | The defense of | is the responsibility of the United States as part of the Treaty of Paris ... |
| Nunivak Island | The Central Alaskan Yupik who live on | call themselves Cup'ig (plural Cup'it). Those who live in the village of C ... |
| 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 |
| Africa | ... equently arrested for protesting against British colonial rule in India and | |
| Madison | ... United States. The population was 792 at the 2000 census. It is part of the | Metropolitan Statistical Area |
| Hainan | ... are not yet classified, such as: Danzhou dialect (/), spoken in Danzhou, on | Island; Xianghua (/), not to be confused with Xiang , spoken in western Hu ... |
| Usedom | ... Polish coast, and a town on that island. It is separated from the island of | by 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 and | Commonwealth 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pingo | ... H 2 S and CO 2 . Air hydrates are frequently observed in polar ice samples. | s are common structures in permafrost regions. Similar structures are foun ... |
| Italian Peninsula | ... to the House of Savoy to establish a united kingdom encompassing the entire | |
| Madison | ... United States. The population was 328 at the 2000 census. It is part of the | Metropolitan Statistical Area |
| Abaco | ... is Bimini, which is also known as the gateway to The Bahamas. The island of | is 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 ... |
| Asia | ... ing hit the town in 1962 when local men and youths clashed with some of the | n and Caribbean Commonwealth immigrants who had settled in the town since ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| Mauritius | Relations between Pakistan and | were first established in 2006. Pakistan has an embassy at Port Louis and ... |
| Corsica | ... Phoceans of Italy founded colonies along the coast of France, Catalonia and | . This led the Etruscans to ally themselves with the Carthaginians, whose ... |
| Istria | ... hat is still spoken today in a few villages and hamlets in the peninsula of | , on the northern part of the Adriatic Sea, in what is now Croatia as well ... |
| Gibraltar | ... 9 711. The armies of Tariq, composed of recent converts to Islam, landed at | . The Muslim armies swept through Hispania. Bandits known as Al-Mogauar we ... |
| 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 | |
| New Zealand | ... uropean franchises are located in Amsterdam, Netherlands; the Australia and | locations are supported from Brisbane, Australia; the Asian locations are ... |
| Indian subcontinent | ... t themselves, the Mauryan Empire was developing in the northern part of the | . The founder of the empire, Chandragupta Maurya, confronted a Macedonian ... |
| Philippines | ... this are the Yapese who are related to Austronesian tribes in the Northern | |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| New Zealand | Typex machines continued in use after the war up until the 1970s (the | government disposed of its last machine about 1973. |
| 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 | |
| Seattle | The song "NW Apt." by | based rock band Band of Horses takes place in Moclips |
| North China Plain | ... er Valley (of which the delta region was the most populous), Sichuan Basin, | , Pearl River Delta, and the industrial area around the city of Shenyang i ... |
| Gozo | ... There are also two man-made harbours that connect the islands of Malta and | |
| 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, the | and finally Ionia would be removed from Persian control by the Allies, or ... |
| Carrizo Plain | ... ge blocks of desert scrubland in the southern San Joaquin Valley and in the | which is just outside the valley but has a similar landscape |
| Borneo | ... d to exist in the Straits of Johor in very small numbers. The waters around | support a small population, with more scattered throughout the Malay archi ... |
| Asia | ... parts of India. It has been cultivated for at least 3,000 years in Western | , and was probably introduced to other parts of Europe by the Romans. Reco ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| South India | Bangalore lies in the southeast of the | n state of Karnataka. It is in the heart of the Mysore Plateau (a region o ... |
| Niulakita | The highest elevation is above sea level on | , which gives Tuvalu the second-lowest maximum elevation of any country (a ... |
| Malay Peninsula | ... , and Seberang Perai (formerly, and occasionally Province Wellesley) on the | . Highly urbanised and industrialised Penang is one of the most developed ... |
| Great Salt Lake Desert | ... ajor defensive installations were set up along the Wasatch Front and in the | during World War II, further encouraging growth and boosting the economy, ... |
| Sri Lanka | At independence in 1948, | , then called Ceylon, was a Commonwealth realm, with the monarch represent ... |
| Philippines | eEye believed that the worm originated in Makati City, | , the same origin as the VBS/Loveletter (aka "ILOVEYOU") worm |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Blennerhassett Island | This 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 ... |
| Asia | ... grows, Orisha communities and lineages can be found in parts of Europe and | as well. While estimates may vary, some scholars believe that there could ... |
| New Zealand | ... now spoken across a huge area from Madagascar to Hawaii, Easter Island and | , but form only one branch of the Austronesian family, the rest of whose b ... |
| 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 Archipelago | Mauritius claims the entire | in the Indian Ocean; claims the whole French-administered Tromelin Island, ... |
| Africa | ... cean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Spain in Europe from Morocco in | . The name comes from Gibraltar, which in turn originates from the Arabic ... |
| 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 ... |
| Funafuti | ... as Pacific Sun) operates services between Suva (originating from Nadi) and | with a 40-seat plane, twice a week |
| New Zealand | ... ion, as they are lobbied by neighbouring pro-whaling Japan and anti-whaling | and Australia. Greenpeace alleges that Japan's aid activities and these co ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sicily | Gorgias originated from Leontini, a Greek colony in | , and what is often called the home of Spartan rhetoric. It is known that ... |
| 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 ... |
| Africa | ... social services, and publishing networks across the United States, Israel, | , Europe and Australia. However, Schneerson kept a low public profile with ... |
| 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 ... |
| Willamette Valley | ... epression, a geologic formation extending south from the Puget Sound to the | in Oregon. Nestled up against the Cascade Mountains, many of the county’s ... |
| Venice | ... geographic path; for instance, consecutive episodes feature appearances in | , Morocco, London, Greece, India, Uzbekistan, Hong Kong, and Scotland. Fur ... |
| Kahoʻolawe | ... esting ground for bombs, missiles, and other weapons in a manner not unlike | in the Hawaiian Islands |
| North America | ... c and DNA findings, suggests that the ancestors of American Indians reached | before the ancestors of the Eskimo and Aleut. There appear to have been se ... |
| Croke Park | ... l Irish Constabulary opened fire on the crowd at a Gaelic football match in | , killing fourteen civilians. That evening, three IRA suspects in Dublin C ... |
| New Zealand | ... he United Kingdom for many years. Low was a self-taught cartoonist. Born in | , he worked in his native country before migrating to Sydney, Australia in ... |
| Trinidad | Kitchener 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 | |
| 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 ... |
| South America | ... 1870. After graduation in 1874, he went on a training cruise to Europe and | aboard Imperial German Navy vessels from 1877–78, and as junior officer ac ... |
| 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 |
| Maldives | ... gives Tuvalu the second-lowest maximum elevation of any country (after the | ). However, the highest elevations are typically in narrow storm dunes on ... |
| Isthmus of Panama | ... il War, but traffic declined after 1855 when the Panama Railroad across the | was completed. Paddle wheel steamships and sailing ships, often heavily su ... |
| Jutland | ... (1 January 2011), located in Randers municipality in Region Midtjylland in | . Until January 1, 2007 it was the site of the municipal council of the no ... |
| 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 ... |
| Great Salt Lake Desert | ... the Western United States, as well as the largely uninhabited and desolate | to the west (used for training, weapons testing, and storage of hazardous ... |
| Guernsey | The people of | erected a statue in Candie Gardens (St. Peter Port) to commemorate his sta ... |
| North America | ... USD $620,279 on its opening weekend before finally grossing $6.2 million in | |
| Puerto Rico | He then travelled to | , where he lost a ten round decision to Leo Cruz - himself a future world ... |
| South America | ... in an uprising in Piedmont in 1834, was sentenced to death, and escaped to | . He spent fourteen years there, taking part in several wars, and returned ... |
| Anatolia | ... Excluded from Romanos's campaign at Manzikert, he retired to his estates in | . Eventually, under Michael VII Doukas, he became strategos of the Anatoli ... |
| Guam | U.S., | , Japan, Singapore, Korea (2000 |
| Labrador Peninsula | ... retching from Eastern Siberia through Alaska and Northern Canada (including | ) to Greenland. Shamanistic practice and beliefs have been recorded at sev ... |
| Funafuti | The main island of | is the focus of travelers, since the only airport in Tuvalu is the Funafut ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| SWALEC Stadium | ... ed as a first class county since 1921. Their headquarters and ground is the | , Sophia Gardens, since moving from Cardiff Arms Park in 1966. The Sophia ... |
| Bonin Islands | ... s northeast of Formosa off the Nansei Shoto. While passing northwest of the | to take up her station, Bang encountered an enemy convoy on 9 September. D ... |
| Babeldaob | ... cture projects, including the rebuilding of the bridge connecting Koror and | Islands after its collapse in 1996 and the construction of a highway aroun ... |
| Indian subcontinent | Ciprofloxacin resistance is an increasing problem, especially in the | and Southeast Asia. Many centres are therefore moving away from using cipr ... |
| British Virgin Islands | The economy of the | is one of the most prosperous in the Caribbean. According to the CIA World ... |
| 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 ... |
| North America | ... boat, and the modernisation of agricultural machinery, the prairie farms of | were able to export vast quantities of cheap corn, as were peasant farms i ... |
| Ascension Island | ... the end of February, heading first due east and then due north, arriving at | at the end of March 1876. The period from early to mid-April was spent sai ... |
| New Zealand | ... ntators have called for the relocation of Tuvalu's population to Australia, | or Kioa in Fiji, the former Prime Minister Maatia Toafa said his governmen ... |
| Gibraltar | On the northern side of the Strait are Spain and | (a British overseas territory in the Iberian Peninsula), while on the sout ... |
| 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 |
| 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 the | before. In Sanders' words |
| Asia | The first Devonian tetrapod identified from | was recognized from a fossil jawbone reported in 2002. The Chinese tetrapo ... |
| Sri Lanka | ... alized at the first Conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists held in | in 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 ... |
| Puerto Rico | María de Lourdes Santiago Negrón is a lawyer and journalist from Adjuntas, | . She is the current vice-president of the Puerto Rican Independence Party ... |
| Philippines | ... rule, it is now believed to be small and scattered. All the islands of the | are believed to have once provided habitat for dugongs, which were common ... |
| Great Britain | ... athian Mountains, Balkans, Caucasus and in isolated locations elsewhere. In | , it occurs in the Pennines (northern England), at two locations in Snowdo ... |
| Iberian Peninsula | ... of the Strait are Spain and Gibraltar (a British overseas territory in the | ), while on the southern side are Morocco and Ceuta (a Spanish exclave in ... |
| Great Plains | ... ountains that guided many early prospectors to the region westward over the | . The prospectors provided the first major European-American population in ... |
| North America | ... trees or shrubs with large simple leaves and large fruit, native to eastern | . The genus includes the widespread common pawpaw Asimina triloba, which b ... |
| Alaska Peninsula | ... a at Naknek River and Egegik Bay in Alaska; the Alutiiq (or Sugpiaq) of the | and coastal and island areas of southcentral Alaska; and the Siberian Yupi ... |
| Vanuatu | # Sowa (a language of | ): last fluent speaker died in 200 |
| Bodmin Moor | ... a 5 m (16 ft) high and 24 m (79 ft) diameter mound atop Brown Willy hill in | , an area with many ancient cairns. Burial cairns and other megaliths are ... |
| Africa | In the developing world, however, especially in | , the death rate is very high, and ectopic pregnancies are a major cause 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 ... |
| North America | ... eed such environments as habitat. Five of the species are native to eastern | from southeastern Canada through the Eastern United States to southern Mex ... |
| Samoa | ... anda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, | , San Marino, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seyche ... |
| 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 ... |
| Kioa | ... lled for the relocation of Tuvalu's population to Australia, New Zealand or | in Fiji, the former Prime Minister Maatia Toafa said his government did no ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lipari | ... ern Italy with the volcano gods Adranus (of Mount Etna) and Vulcanus of the | islands. His forge was moved there by the poets. The first-century sage Ap ... |
| Great Plains | ... bartered for the products of American Indian agriculture. The tribes of the | and the Rocky Mountains learned from the Spanish how to grow European crop ... |
| Damariscove Island | ... lies between the Sheepscot River and Damariscotta River. The town includes | |
| Antigua | ... by the Atlantic Relay Station and the Caribbean Relay Company, a station in | run jointly with Deutsche Welle. In addition, an exchange agreement with R ... |
| Sumatra | ... a Super Corridor. Proposals that were eventually canceled include the 95 km | –Malaysia bridge (would have been world's longest), the Mega International ... |
| Bataan Peninsula | ... e US Navy's Asiatic Fleet. This base was located on the southern tip of the | and completed on July 22, 1941 |
| Hokkaidō | ... hips that pursued Enomoto Takeaki and the remnants of the Tokugawa fleet to | in 1869 |
| Das Island | Ajman Port, Fujairah Port, | , Mina' Zayid and Mina Jabal Al Dhanna in Abu Dhabi, Khawr Fakkan, Mina Al ... |
| Achill Island | ... wife lived in Cologne and the Eifel region. However, he also spent time on | off the west coast of Ireland. His cottage there is now used as a guesthou ... |
| 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 and | in western Alaska. They are Eskimo and are related to the |
| St George's Island | ... example, two islands named Long Island, and St George's Town is located on | within St George's Parish (each known as St George's) |
| Lord's Cricket Ground | ... nd Arthur travel through the space-time continuum from prehistoric Earth to | . There they run into Slartibartfast, who enlists their aid in preventing ... |
| Gondwana | ... mprised Europe, North America and Greenland. The only exception is a single | n genus, Metaxygnathus, which has been found in Australia |
| Asia | ... e western shores of Luzon. The city lies 800 miles (1,300 km) from mainland | . The Pasig River bisects the city. Almost all of the city sits on top of ... |
| 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 ... |
| Culebra | ... mestic flights fly between Carolina and other local destinations, including | , Mayagüez, Ponce and Vieques. The airport offers rapid access to San Juan ... |
| Hainan | A small population exists off Southern China, centred around the island of | . The population around the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are known only fro ... |
| 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 ( ... |
| New Zealand | ... alu Trust Fund was established in 1987 by the United Kingdom, Australia and | . The value of the Tuvalu Trust Fund is approximately $100 million |
| Kauai | ... er havoc. A decision to change the film's setting to the Hawaiian island of | was 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 ... |
| Iceland | ... ng, which is banned." Since 1994, Norway, has been whaling commercially and | began hunting commercially in September 2006. Since 1986, Japan has been w ... |
| Madagascar | Malayo-Polynesian languages are now spoken across a huge area from | to 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 |
| Hispaniola | According 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 ... |
| Samothrace | Other "sons of Hephaestus" were the Cabeiri on the island of | ; they were identified with the crab (karkinos) by the lexicographer Hesyc ... |
| Sicily | ... hist, pre-socratic philosopher and rhetorician, was a native of Leontini in | . Along with Protagoras, he forms the first generation of Sophists. Severa ... |
| North America | ... d 1890, the D&RG had the largest operating narrow gauge railroad network in | . Known for its independence, the D&RGW operated the last private intercit ... |
| Philippines | ... thnic Chinese populations of Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the | . Fujian, especially Fuzhou, is also the major source of Chinese immigrant ... |
| Nova Scotia peninsula | ... cated in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, west of Cape Breton Island, north of the | , and east of New Brunswick. Its southern shore bounds the Northumberland ... |
| North America | ... All but one were from the Laurasian supercontinent, which comprised Europe, | and Greenland. The only exception is a single Gondwanan genus, Metaxygnath ... |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Sakhalin | ... region is Sahaliyan ula (literally, "Black River"), from which the name of | is derived, and the Mongolian name accordingly is Qaramörin |
| Caribbean | Bimini and its curative waters were widespread subjects in the | . The Italian-born chronicler Peter Martyr told of them in a letter to the ... |
| Shawmut Peninsula | ... estown, but a lack of good water there prompted them to instead move to the | , where they founded what is now the city of Boston. Because the season wa ... |
| Venetian | ... ed a detailed written report back to the Mongols. Around the same time, the | explorer Marco Polo became one of the first Europeans to travel the Silk R ... |
| New Zealand | ... as Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, | , Fiji, Mauritius, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Guyana, Surinam, Trinida ... |
| Rhodes | Meanwhile, in 1868, tombs at Ialysus in | had yielded to Alfred Biliotti many fine painted vases of styles which wer ... |
| Ireland | One custom that persists in modern-day | is the baking (or more often nowadays, the purchase) of a barmbrack , whic ... |
| 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 |
| Middle-earth | ... subsequently grown up since its publication. Further, Tolkien's concept of | was to continually change and slowly evolve throughout his life and writin ... |
| Polynesia | ... ated to reach 10,544 in July 2010. The population of Tuvalu is primarily of | n 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 ... |
| Ireland | ... s in Snowdonia (north Wales), and more widely in the Scottish Highlands; in | it 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 the | tablet bearing . In the early stages of the war, Allied propaganda capital ... |
| Cape Breton Island | Prince 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 ... |
| Long Island | Suffolk County occupies the easternmost portion of | , in the southeastern portion of New York State. The eastern end of the co ... |
| Indochina | ... species are found in eastern and southeastern Asia from China south through | to Malaysia and southwest to the Himalayas. A related genus, Davidia, incl ... |
| Lemuria | ... er own past lives - eleven in all, including one on the "lost continent" of | |
| The Gabba | ... the two clubs clashed on four occasions. The Lions defeated the Magpies at | in Round 4 before thrashing them in Heritage Round |
| Mays Island | ... l and largest city. City hall and the Linn County Courthouse are located on | in the Cedar River; Cedar Rapids is one of few cities in the world with go ... |
| Virginia Peninsula | ... ontinental and French land and naval forces trapped the British army on the | , where troops under George Washington and Comte de Rochambeau defeated Br ... |
| 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 on | in the Aran Islands, is still surrounded by small cairns and strategically ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Asia | ... and, some large jellyfish are considered a delicacy in eastern and southern | . Coral reefs have long been economically important as providers of fishin ... |
| 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 ... |
| Horn of Africa | ... ere. Henry de Monfreid stated in his books that before World War II, in the | , whips were made from the tail of big stingrays, and these devices inflic ... |
| Arabian Peninsula | In Arabic-dominated Yemen and Oman, on the southern rim of the | , a few tribes continue to speak Modern South Arabian languages such as Ma ... |
| 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 ... |
| South America | ... ally, culturally, and socially, Paraguay has one of the most populations in | . About 95% of the people are mestizo (mixed Spanish and Guaraní Indian de ... |
| New Zealand | ... mmercial elements, has extended to places such as South America, Australia, | , (most) continental Europe, Japan, and other parts of East Asia |
| Caribbean | In common with most | countries, slavery in the British Virgin Islands forms a major part of the ... |
| New Zealand | ... r TelstraClear) for the TelstraClear Pacific events centre in Manukau City, | |
| Sicily | ... an. The reign of Peter III of Aragon ("the Great") included the conquest of | and the successful defense against a French crusade; his son and successor ... |
| Vieques | Humacao's airport is no longer used for daily flights to | and Culebra as it was in the past. It is now used for charter flights and ... |
| Mauritius | ... ar, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, | , Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Guyana, Surinam, Trinidad and Tobago,( Zi ... |
| North America | ... ish Highlands; in Ireland it occurs on The Burren and a few other sites. In | , it is found in Alaska most frequently on previously glaciated terrain an ... |
| 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 ... |
| Australasia | ... d Service to end shortwave radio transmission directed to North America and | on 1 July 2001. A shortwave listener coalition formed to oppose the change ... |
| Asia | Minor consumer and transshipment point for heroin from South | ; small amounts of cannabis produced and consumed locall |
| 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 ... |
| terracing | ... ng around £20,000. However in 1941 the new North Stand and part of the west | had been badly damaged in the Blitz by the Luftwaffe during the Second Wor ... |
| Culebra | Humacao's airport is no longer used for daily flights to Vieques and | as it was in the past. It is now used for charter flights and for skydivin ... |
| South America | ... ticularly in iconic and commercial elements, has extended to places such as | , Australia, New Zealand, (most) continental Europe, Japan, and other part ... |
| Hawaii Island | In 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 ... |
| Crete | ... sibly after the old name under Venetian domination of the principal city of | , which he had visited after graduation from Harvard |
| Tortola | As | , and to a lesser extent Virgin Gorda, came to be settled by plantation ow ... |
| Whidbey Island | The primary islands of Island County, | and Camano Island are served by a total of 3 Washington State Routes, thos ... |
| 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 Cod | Fanning grew up in Harwich, Massachusetts on | and graduated from Harwich High School in 1998. During his time in high sc ... |
| Philippines | In April 2009, Brunei and The | signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that seeks to strengthen the bi ... |
| Puerto Rico | Humacao is a city in | located in the eastern coast of the island, north of Yabucoa; south of Nag ... |
| North America | ... imated 100,000 gold seekers took part in one of the greatest gold rushes in | n history. The participants in the gold rush were known as "Fifty-Niners" ... |
| Virgin Gorda | As Tortola, and to a lesser extent | , came to be settled by plantation owners, slave labour became economicall ... |
| Asia | ... tes to southern Mexico. Other species are found in eastern and southeastern | from China south through Indochina to Malaysia and southwest to the Himala ... |
| Camano Island | The primary islands of Island County, Whidbey Island and | are 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, ... |
| Falkland Islands | ... were Port Famine, Sandy Point, and Elizabeth Island. Challenger reached the | towards the end of January, calling at Port Stanley and then continuing no ... |
| terracing | ... 2002, and the South Stand. Both the Bmibaby Stand and the South Stand have | below seating. The other ends of the ground are the Westgate Street end (e ... |
| St. John's Island | ... m the Greek Τοπάζιος (Τοpáziοs) or Τοπάζιον (Τοpáziοn), the ancient name of | in the Red Sea which was difficult to find and from which a yellow stone ( ... |
| Hispaniola | Taino people moved into the uninhabited southern Bahamas from | and Cuba around the 11th century AD. These people came to be known as the ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cyprus | ... n the European Union and its originally 12 Mediterranean Partners: Algeria, | , Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, ... |
| Philippines | ... gion and grow stronger as they move west toward the Mariana Islands and the | |
| Crete | ... years in his autobiographical song "Es fügt sich...", mentioning travels to | , Prussia, Lithuania, Crimea, Turkey, the Holy Land, France, Lombardy and ... |
| 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; ... |
| Subiaco Oval | ... ey, in the elimination final and then West Coast in an overtime thriller at | in the semi-final. Having earned a preliminary final against , the Pies ch ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ireland | ... next datable event in the Historia ecclesiastica is King Ecgfrith’s raid on | in 684 (Book IV, Chapter 26). Taken together, this evidence suggests an ac ... |
| Shandong Peninsula | ... o new branches: one emptying to the north and the other to the south of the | , though Han engineers managed to dam the southern branch by 70 CE. The fl ... |
| Isthmus of Corinth | ... e Persians to conquer Boeotia and Attica. The Allies prepared to defend the | whilst the fleet was withdrawn to nearby Salamis Island |
| West Indies | ... when it became the center of the distribution of sugar and slaves from the | along with the traditional wine |
| Guadeloupe | ... de Kahin, an Ethiopian capuchin monk, and from Dr. Vitalien, a surgeon from | . Tafari was named Dejazmach (literally "commander of the gate", roughly e ... |
| Thorney Island | ... ar modern-day St Albans in Hertfordshire) and London (by way of the ford at | until 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 the | and the Philippines |
| Anatolia | His earlier (late 60s early 70s) psychedelic- | n works with English lyrics released under US, Dutch, German and Canadian ... |
| South-American | ... rick Scrooge McDuck into paying dinner for him. To do so, Donald posed as a | businessman named Petrolio de Vaselino and had Scrooge take him to the Rit ... |
| 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 for | island, ba-ha-ma ("large upper middle land") |
| 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 ... |
| Heirisson Island | # The Causeway (north), Perth to | # The Causeway (south), Heirisson Island to South Pert |
| Puerto Rico | operating in U.S. waters, raising Threadfin near Hawaii and cobia near | . An operation targeting bigeye tuna recently received final approval. All ... |
| Maui | ... 1943 to replace the Sand Island camp. One was also located on the island of | in the town of Haiku. In total, five internment camps operated in Hawaii |
| North West Cape | ... ent coastal islands. In the south west the range ecompasses an area between | , Cape Leeuwin and Eucla; while in the east it covers are large region bou ... |
| 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 of | in the Baltic Sea. The seat is located in the town of Mörbylånga, while th ... |
| Olympic Peninsula | ... main entrance at Admiralty Inlet being a line between Point Wilson, on the | , and Point Partridge, on Whidbey Island; a second entrance at Deception P ... |
| 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 Island | The 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Arran | Further afield Telford designed a road to cross the centre of the Isle of | . Named the 'String road', this route traverses bleak and difficult terrai ... |
| North America | In the midst of touring | as a drummer, Joseph DiMaggio began cutting hair for fun after his shows. ... |
| Sardinia | ... defeats at Solférino and Magenta against the combined forces of France and | led 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 ... |
| Ralik Chain | ... ed islands. The atolls and islands form two groups: the Ratak Chain and the | (meaning "sunrise" and "sunset" chains) |
| 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 ... |
| Australasia | ... re Shop. Although the setting and style of the film are distinctly British/ | n pastoral, many of the human speaking parts were overdubbed from Australi ... |
| Mauritius | ... es—two from Guyana and one each from Honduras, Ireland, Malaysia, Maldives, | , the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand |
| Great Plains | The Pony Express was a fast mail service crossing the | , the Rocky Mountains, and the High Sierra from St. Joseph, Missouri, to S ... |
| Ratak Chain | ... atolls and 5 isolated islands. The atolls and islands form two groups: the | and the Ralik Chain (meaning "sunrise" and "sunset" chains) |
| Roosevelt Island | ... and county consist of Manhattan Island and several small adjacent islands: | , Randall's Island, Wards Island, Governors Island, Liberty Island, part o ... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Cape Leeuwin | ... ds. In the south west the range ecompasses an area between North West Cape, | and Eucla; while in the east it covers are large region bounded by the Ath ... |
| Queen Adelaide Archipelago | ... llington Island), Puerta Bueno (near Hanover Island), Isthmus Bay (near the | ), and Port Churruca (near Santa Ines Island). The final stops, before hea ... |
| Caribbean | ... ar waters were also evidently prominent among the indigenous peoples of the | during the Age of Exploration, who spoke of the restorative powers of the ... |
| Malay Peninsula | ... gners to India including Arabs, Jews, Persians, Chinese and people from the | . Migration of people within Southern India as a result of the expansion o ... |
| Wake Island | ... t of the Federated States of Micronesia, and south of the U.S. territory of | , to which it lays claim |
| Point Partridge | ... alty Inlet being a line between Point Wilson, on the Olympic Peninsula, and | , on Whidbey Island; a second entrance at Deception Pass being a line from ... |
| Africa | ... enus Hippopotamus - true hippopotami**Hippopotamus amphibius - Hippopotamus | **†Hippopotamus antiquus - mainland Europe & British Isles; Pleistocene**† ... |
| Tasmania | ... are large region bounded by the Atherton Tableland, the Eyre Peninsula and | , with the Murray Darling Basin supporting very large populations of Black ... |
| Balkans | After the exchanges in the | , forced population transfer was used by the Great Powers and later the Le ... |
| 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 ... |
| Kiribati | The islands are located north of Nauru and | , east of the Federated States of Micronesia, and south of the U.S. territ ... |
| Sardinia | ... the western Mediterranean after the conquest of Valencia, Balearic Islands, | , and the accession to Sicily of the kings of Aragon |
| Cape Mendocino | ... ing the Wailaki, Mattole and Nongatl. Andrés de Urdaneta hit the coast near | , California, then followed the coast south to Acapulco in 1565. Spanish t ... |
| New Zealand | ... here they played a headline show at the Hollywood Bowl), Canada, Australia, | , Hong Kong and Japan. Upon return to their homeland, Sigur Rós provided a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Maldives | Mohammed Waheed Hassan Manik was sworn in as President of the | on 7 February 2012, in connection to the resignation of President Nasheed ... |
| Seattle | ... hington State Penitentiary for a fatal knifing incident following a show in | . He appealed against his conviction and was released while the case was r ... |
| 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 ... |
| New Zealand | ... nued as part of a large post-war wave of European immigration to Australia. | has received modest, but steady, ethnic German immigration from the mid-19 ... |
| South America | ... llowed as well as several more dates in the United States, finishing with a | n tour in December. That year, Duffy began the band Circus Diablo with Bil ... |
| Philippines | ... t win in 14 rounds over another hall of famer, Gabriel Elorde, Flash in the | followed, 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Eyre Peninsula | ... the east it covers are large region bounded by the Atherton Tableland, the | and Tasmania, with the Murray Darling Basin supporting very large populati ... |
| Palawan Island | In 2005, | was transferred to Region VI (Western Visayas) by Executive Order 429. How ... |
| Mojave Desert | ... ersfield, and west of Barstow in the Antelope Valley region of California's | |
| 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 | |
| North America | ... hat purportedly inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of | . Bigfoot is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid. The te ... |
| Africa | ... ji Islands, mission-age accounts of the conversion of the Xhosa in Southern | , the lives of English romantic poets, and various elements of Hindu and M ... |
| 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 ... |
| North America | ... in South America (now Suriname) and the most important Dutch settlement in | , New Amsterdam (now New York City). Large stone warehouses were built at ... |
| Mojave Desert | Aaron Lane, who grew up in Piermont, was the first permanent settler in the | area now known as Victorville, California. A sheds light on life in Piermo ... |
| Niulakita | ... torial claims to four Tuvaluan islands (Funafuti, Nukefetau, Nukulaelae and | ) under the Guano Islands Act of 1856 |
| South America | ... same time. Mouth-blown free reed instruments appeared in the United States, | , the United Kingdom and in Europe at roughly the same time |
| South America | The BBC continues to broadcast to Central America and | in several languages. It is possible to receive the Western African shortw ... |
| Philippines | More recent immigrant populations include those from India, | , Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, Panama, J ... |
| Wirral Peninsula | The city is a hub for major roads, including the M53 motorway towards the | and Liverpool and the M56 motorway towards Manchester. The A55 road runs a ... |
| Italian Peninsula | The history of San Marino is both very European and typical for the | , and yet helps explain its unusual characteristics as the sole remaining ... |
| 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 ... |
| Samoa | The economy of | is dependent on agricultural exports, development aid and private family r ... |
| Iberia | ... ym for the European Magpie, as there are no other magpies in Europe outside | . That bird was referred to as a "pie" until the late 16th century when th ... |
| Asia | ... or seas or sinks. The largest of these consists of much of the interior of | , and drains into the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea. Other endorheic region ... |
| 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 ... |
| Asia | ... tes Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and | that eventually led to World War II. They were spurred by the growth in is ... |
| 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 ... |
| Iceland | ... ts' to their citizens. Japan has issued such permits since 1986, Norway and | whale under objection to the moratorium and issue their own quotas. In 199 ... |
| Nukulaelae | ... ced prior territorial claims to four Tuvaluan islands (Funafuti, Nukefetau, | and Niulakita) under the Guano Islands Act of 1856 |
| South America | ... nternational destinations in North America, Central America, the Caribbean, | and Europe (until August 31). Their primary hub was Mexico City's Benito J ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 493 | was taken, where Theodoric would set up his capital. It was also at this t ... |
| Ireland | Connery's great-grandparents emigrated to Scotland from | in 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, ( ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jutland | ... or Århus County is a former county (Danish: amt) in central Denmark on the | peninsula. The county was abolished effective January 1, 2007, when almost ... |
| Whidbey Island | ... and Kingston, is . The depth of the main basin, between the southern tip of | and Tacoma, Washington, is approximately |
| 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 ... |
| Seychelles | ... s, Samoa, San Marino, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, | , Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, S ... |
| South America | ... e, as they were located approximately halfway between the Dutch colonies in | (now Suriname) and the most important Dutch settlement in North America, N ... |
| Philippines | ... isits to California with the Manila Galleons on their return trips from the | beginning 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Falkland Islands | ... ntee reception in this area. It has ended its specialist programming to the | but 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 in | and throughout Europe, as a revealing wealth and social standing |
| New Zealand | The music of New Zealand is an expression of the culture of New Zealand . | 's music is influenced by the culture of the indigenous Māori and immigran ... |
| 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, ... |
| Asia | ... ry. Free reed instruments like the sheng were fairly common throughout East | for centuries and were relatively well known in Europe for some time. Arou ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mojave Desert | ... n real estate developer and sociology professor Nat Mendelsohn purchased of | land with the aim of master-planning California's next great city. He desi ... |
| North America | ... ervices, Mexicana operated flights to various international destinations in | , Central America, the Caribbean, South America and Europe (until August 3 ... |
| Taiwan | After the retreat of the KMT to | at 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 from | populated the region of Luzon and headed south to the Visayas, Borneo, Ind ... |
| Istria | ... o withdraw from South Tyrol, Tarvisio, the Isonzo valley, Gorizia, Trieste, | , western Carniola, and Dalmatia. Terms mandated German forces expulsion f ... |
| Corsica | Located in Sardinia and | , the nuraghe civilization lasted from the early Bronze Age (18th century ... |
| 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 ... |
| North America | ... r Pigeon or Wild Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) was a bird that existed in | until the early 20th century when it went extinct due to hunting and habit ... |
| North America | ... ivide that separates one drainage area from another drainage area, while in | , it means the drainage basin or catchment area itself. Drainage basins dr ... |
| Prince Edward Island | In 1992, the owner of all Tim Hortons and Wendy's Restaurants in | , Daniel P. Murphy, decided to open new franchise outlets for both brands ... |
| New Zealand | ... and southwest regions of Australia. The species was hunted to extinction in | , but later reintroduced. Within Australia they are nomadic, with erratic ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sardinia | Located in | and Corsica, the nuraghe civilization lasted from the early Bronze Age (18 ... |
| Caribbean | ... o various international destinations in North America, Central America, the | , South America and Europe (until August 31). Their primary hub was Mexico ... |
| Majorca | ... of new conquests. Over the course of the next quarter-century he conquered | and Valencia |
| Africa | ... n ship repair facility. The port’s location at the extreme western point of | , at the crossroad of the major sea-lanes linking Europe to South America, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elugelab | ... test of the first U.S. hydrogen bomb, code named "Ivy Mike", the island of | in the Enewetak atoll was destroyed |
| Indian subcontinent | ... and developed into the driving force behind the creation of Pakistan in the | |
| 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 ... |
| Mojave Desert | Boron is a hinterland community on the western edge of the | . Within a half day's drive one can view the highest and lowest points in ... |
| 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. ... |
| Istria | ... guists believe that the Istro-Romanians migrated to their present region of | and all the way up to the city of Trieste about 1,000 years ago from Trans ... |
| 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 ... |
| Middle Peninsula | King and Queen County is a county located in the | in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of 2010, the population was 6,945. Its c ... |
| Penghu | ... osing the Sino-Japanese War, The Qing empire ceded the island of Taiwan and | to 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 of | in the Baltic Sea and the rest of metropolitan Denmark, but excludes the F ... |
| Ireland | The first organized police force in | came about through the Peace Preservation Act of 1814, but the Irish Const ... |
| Stora Alvaret | One fourth of the municipality consists of the nature area, | , a unique alvar nature area containing by many endemic and rare plants no ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bodmin Moor | ... is a phantom wild cat purported to live in Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. | became a centre of these sightings with occasional reports of mutilated sl ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Iceland | Langjökull (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 ... |
| South America | ... point of Africa, at the crossroad of the major sea-lanes linking Europe to | , makes it a natural port of call for shipping companies. Total freight tr ... |
| Anatolia | ... Middle East and Near East, ancient Iran, ancient Egypt, ancient Nubia, and | (Turkey), Ancient Nok, Carthage, the Greeks and Romans of ancient Europe, ... |
| Southern Ontario | ... nization located in the Midwestern United States, Western Pennsylvania, and | . It operates mostly in cities not served by Major or Minor League Basebal ... |
| Asia | ... with Persian, Mede or Elamite ancestry, to fight the invading Scythians of | and then led the conquests in South Asia, where he conquered Sindh in 519 ... |
| Philippines | ... by most countries and closer regional integration. Indonesia, Malaysia, the | , Singapore and Thailand have traditionally experienced high growth and ar ... |
| 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, ... |
| Falkland Islands | ... such distant areas as Hawaii, Bermuda, Greenland, Tristan da Cunha and the | |
| Sumatra | In 1761, Mason was assigned to travel to the island of | to observe the Transit of Venus as part of an international effort to reco ... |
| Faroe Islands | ... lm in the Baltic Sea and the rest of metropolitan Denmark, but excludes the | and Greenland. Its position gives Denmark complete control of the Danish S ... |
| Iceland | #(1979) Stykkishólmur, | #(2001) Łódź, Polan |
| Black Isle | The McFarquhars of Redcastle brought a strong Jacobite contingent from the | to join the forces of the Earl of Cromarty and a rebel, John Ross joined t ... |
| Seattle | Butler moved to | , Washington, in November 1999. She described herself as "comfortably asoc ... |
| Canary Islands | ... the Mediterranean Maritime Zone with its headquarters at Cartagena; and the | Maritime Zone with its headquarters at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
| 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 ... |
| Tahiti | ... ts in many societies, including traditional Fijian, Māori, Samoan, Rapanui, | an, Hawaiian, and Tongan cultures – in most cases using a recognisably sim ... |
| 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 a | from Lipari) and Maxene Anderson, her Anglo-Australian mother. Imbruglia g ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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, ... |
| Mojave Desert | California City, incorporated in 1965, is a city in the | 's Fremont Valley of northern Antelope Valley, in Kern County, north of ne ... |
| Great Plains | ... ater. It is one of six states on the Frontier Strip, and lies partly in the | near the geographical center of the 48 contiguous states. Arkansas and Mis ... |
| 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 in | for the International Year of Astronomy, but a lack of sponsorship meant t ... |
| Tonga | ... cluding traditional Fijian, Māori, Samoan, Rapanui, Tahitian, Hawaiian, and | n cultures – in most cases using a recognisably similar word—but in Rotuma ... |
| 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 ... |
| Anatolia | ... e to the Byzantine emperor's call for military assistance after the loss of | . From another perspective, the West saw Manzikert as a signal that Byzant ... |
| Melbourne Cricket Ground | ... orts and Entertainment Precinct in Melbourne, playing its home games at the | and with its training and administrative base in Gosch's Paddock and the W ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elba | On 26 February 1815, Napoleon escaped from | and returned to France. He regained control of the country by May and face ... |
| Ireland | ... lling was further extended for another 28 days on 21 October 2008. Germany, | , Switzerland and Canada banned short selling leading financial stocks, an ... |
| Isthmus of Panama | ... trenuous, disease ridden, five to seven day trip by canoe and mule over the | before catching a ship from Panama City, Panama to Oregon or California. T ... |
| New Zealand | Wildside Records is an independent | record label, owned and run by former Rip It Up magazine editor, Murray Ca ... |
| Mojave Desert | ... he prevailing temperatures in the source regions, the Great Basin and upper | . The winds are known for the hot dry weather (often the hottest of the ye ... |
| Indochina | ... u in 1903; to Tunisia in 1904; and to Australia, the United States, Guinea, | , New Zealand, Tonkin, and Uruguay in 1905 |
| Africa | ... also known by its short-form name Burkina – is a landlocked country in west | . It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Vatnajökull | ... "long glacier") is the second largest ice cap in Iceland (953 km 2 ), after | . It is situated in the west of the Icelandic interior or Highlands of Ice ... |
| Philippines | ... He also met with President Corazon Aquino for a series of talks between the | and South Korea for economic, social and cultural ties, supporting Filipin ... |
| Indochina | ... ent magazine for trade and an ideal location to curtail French expansion in | and Dutch foothold in Sumatra. On 11 August 1786, Francis Light landed on ... |
| Venice | ... lerno via Bologna, Florence, Rome and Naples, the second runs from Turin to | via Milan, and is under construction in parts. The network is designed for ... |
| Bermuda | Making their debuts were Algeria, | , Brazil, Honduras, Ireland and Swaziland (as well as the previously menti ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sri Lanka | ... ous areas including the Ural and Ilmen mountains of Russia, in Afghanistan, | , Czech Republic, Germany, Norway, Pakistan, Italy, Sweden, Japan, Brazil, ... |
| Majuro | ... y (of the Tobolar Copra processing plant in the Marshall Islands capital of | ) said power authorities, private companies, and entrepreneurs had been ex ... |
| San Juan Islands | ... others. It does not include Bellingham Bay, Padilla Bay, the waters of the | or anything farther north |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 to | to learn the art of printing, and in 1498 he petitioned the Doge for the e ... |
| Corsica | # | (off map, Ajaccio, cons. souv. in Bastia |
| Vanuatu | ... the Russian Federation, Senegal, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and | |
| Cape Flats | ... idents were forcibly removed. Many of these residents were relocated to the | and Lavender Hill. Under apartheid, the Cape was considered a "Coloured la ... |
| New Zealand | Today | 's only glockenspiel clock tower plays the balcony scene from Romeo and Ju ... |
| 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 ... |
| Middle-earth | ... ladden Fields (Sindarin Loeg Ningloron) is a location in J. R. R. Tolkien's | . In his works, the Gladden Fields are located where the Gladden river joi ... |
| Palau | ... lation in Vanuatu. A highly isolated population lives around the islands of | |
| Cyprus | Fredric Hasselquist, in his travels in Asia Minor, Egypt, | and Palestine in the 18th century, came across the Egyptian or hairy cucum ... |
| New Zealand | Stratford District Council is one of 74 territorial local authorities in | . It is one of three territorial authorities in the Taranaki region, along ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Skellig Michael | ... le that the cell had a stone-corbelled roof, similar to the beehive huts on | , County Kerry |
| Great Plains | ... mountain ranges, prairie, and eastern forests, most of Oklahoma lies in the | and the U.S. Interior Highlands—a region especially prone to severe weathe ... |
| 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 from | settled 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 ... |
| Antarctica | ... ailing ship rounding the treacherous, cold, and dangerous Cape Horn between | and South America and then sailing on to California or Oregon. This trip t ... |
| North America | ... European empires (English, Spanish, French) and the Native people living in | . The exhibition was presented in three languages and with multiple perspe ... |
| Ireland | ... tuation changed during late 1845 with poor harvests and the Great Famine in | ; Britain experienced scarcity and Ireland starvation. Peel argued in Cabi ... |
| 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 | |
| Flinders Island | ... Republic, Germany, Norway, Pakistan, Italy, Sweden, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, | , Australia, Nigeria and the United States |
| Asia | ... d remain durably at relatively high levels as Gulf Arab, Latin American and | n governments are less inclined to accommodate G7 nations on the supply fr ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Belle Île | ... surgeon in 1760 and was staff surgeon on expedition to the French island of | in 1761, then served in 1762 with the British Army in the expedition to Po ... |
| Asia | ... he south by the island of Taiwan, and on the west by mainland China and the | n continent. It is connected with the South China Sea by the Taiwan Strait ... |
| 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% are | n, 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 ... |
| 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 of | before it sank |
| 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 ... |
| North America | Penstemon , Beard-tongue, is a large genus of | n and East Asian plants traditionally placed in the Scrophulariaceae famil ... |
| 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 from | in 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 ... |
| 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 the | Metropolitan 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 ... |
| Puerto Rico | The Dominican Republic has very strong ties and relations with | . Although a United States Commonwealth, the island is the Dominican Repub ... |
| Antarctica | Winds blowing off the elevated glaciated plateaus of Greenland and | experience the most extreme form of katabatic wind, of which the Santa Ana ... |
| Philippines | ... nce, Germany, Laos, Martinique, the Netherlands, New Caledonia, Norway, the | , the Russian Federation, Senegal, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Kingdom, a ... |
| Kingston, Ontario | ... Halloween in North America is first recorded in 1911, where a newspaper in | reported children going "guising" around the neighborhood |
| Po Valley | ... opulation who imported copper smithing. The Remedello culture took over the | . A second wave of immigration occurred in the Bronze Age, from the late 3 ... |
| Krakatoa | ... glows. A number of eruptions, including those of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 and | in 1883, have produced sufficiently high stratospheric sulfuric acid cloud ... |
| Great Plains | ... feet (563 m). It lies on the southern edge of the Smoky Hills region of the | . Blood Creek, which flows east into nearby Cheyenne Bottoms, passes immed ... |
| 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 ... |
| Seattle | ... was demolished, copper concentrate from the mine is now shipped by rail to | , where it is transported to Japan for smelting. The dramatic increase in ... |
| 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 ... |
| Solomon Islands | This article is about the demographic features of the population of the | , including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 from | which was named Scotia (feminine form of Scoti) during this Epoch. The set ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jutland | ... ark is located in Western Europe (it is one of the Nordic countries) on the | peninsula and several islands in the Baltic sea. It borders both the (Balt ... |
| 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 ... |
| Erromango | ... ce. In 1825, trader Peter Dillon's discovery of sandalwood on the island of | began a rush that ended in 1830 after a clash between immigrant Polynesian ... |
| 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 ... |
| Indian subcontinent | ... the modern day plateau, while the Indo-Aryans ultimately headed towards the | . The Avesta is believed to have been composed possibly as early as 1800 B ... |
| 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 the | must 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 ... |
| Great Plains | ... north side of the South Fork Solomon River in the Smoky Hills region of the | . The Osborne Canal, part of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Webster Unit ... |
| Elba | ... r different from its current shape. During the last Ice Age, the islands of | and Sicily were connected to the mainland. The Adriatic Sea was far smalle ... |
| Nevis | Grokster Ltd. was a privately owned software company based in | , West Indies that created the Grokster peer-to-peer file-sharing client i ... |
| 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 of | had seized the treasure. The young women were unharmed. Richard entered Li ... |
| Philippines | ... uwait, Mexico, Puerto Rico, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the | , Japan, China, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, BahrainHong ... |
| 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 ... |
| Asia | ... he family Fabaceae. There are 37 species, mainly distributed across Africa, | and Australasia |
| Solomon Islands | As Croatia and Slovenia, the | were claimed to be members of the coalition but wished "to disassociate it ... |
| Van Cortlandt Park | ... n's and women's tennis), Ammirati Field at Coleman Park (women's softball), | (men's and women's cross country), and the 168th Street Armory (men's and ... |
| Sicily | ... nt from its current shape. During the last Ice Age, the islands of Elba and | were connected to the mainland. The Adriatic Sea was far smaller, as it st ... |
| Cape Mendocino | Located inside Humboldt County is | , the westernmost point in California (longitude124 degrees, 24 minutes, 3 ... |
| Réunion | ... 1841, Edmond Albius, a 12-year-old slave who lived on the French island of | in 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 a | mother 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 immigrant | n workers and indigenous Melanesians. During the 1860s, planters in Austra ... |
| Australasia | ... Fabaceae. There are 37 species, mainly distributed across Africa, Asia and | |
| 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 ... |
| Funafuti | The boreholes on | , at the site now called David's Drill, are the result of drilling conduct ... |
| Acklins | ... ed islands include Eleuthera, Cat Island, Long Island, San Salvador Island, | , Crooked Island, Exuma and Mayaguana. Nassau, capital city of The Bahamas ... |
| Johnson's Island | ... m Sabine Parish was Christopher Columbus Nash, who was a prisoner of war at | in Ohio. Nash later, as the sheriff of Grant Parish, crushed the Colfax Ri ... |
| Guadalcanal | The capital city of Honiara, situated on | , the largest island, has over 30,000 inhabitants. The other principal tow ... |
| Africa | ... ber of the family Fabaceae. There are 37 species, mainly distributed across | , Asia and Australasia |
| San Salvador Island | ... Island. Other inhabited islands include Eleuthera, Cat Island, Long Island, | , Acklins, Crooked Island, Exuma and Mayaguana. Nassau, capital city of Th ... |
| Taiwan | ... ms for Chinese characters. The traditional system, still used in Hong Kong, | , Macau and Chinese speaking communities (except Singapore and Malaysia) o ... |
| Solomon Islands | ... , Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, | , Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Swe ... |
| Funafuti | ... pent several days at Funafuti with the Count photographing men and woman on | |
| Sumatra | ... between nearby islands, especially in the chain of islands stretching from | through Java to the Lesser Sunda Islands. On the busy crossings between Su ... |
| Melanesia | | n 93%, Polynesian 4%, Micronesian 1.5%, European 0.8%, Chinese 0.3%, other ... |
| Balkans | ... hants, archers, thieves, children, and students in various countries in the | and Eastern Europe (Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Georgia, G ... |
| 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 ... |
| Guernsey | ... nd finally settled with his family at Hauteville House in Saint Peter Port, | , where he would live in exile until 1870 |
| Bimini | The closest island to the United States is | , which is also known as the gateway to The Bahamas. The island of Abaco i ... |
| Qatar | ... ailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, China, the United Arab Emirates, | , Saudi Arabia, BahrainHong Kong (2006–2008), and |
| Funafuti | ... visited Funafuti aboard the yacht Le Tolna. Le Tolna spent several days at | with the Count photographing men and woman on Funafuti |
| Africa | ... he DRC are above all long-term emigrants, the majority of which live within | and to a lesser extent in Europe; 79.7% and 15.3% respectively, according ... |
| 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 ... |
| Anatolia | ... clipse as if in the Land of the Dead. The region of Cilicia in southeastern | had many opportunities for coastal Hellenes' connection with the Hittites ... |
| Marshall Islands | On October 21, 1986, the U.S. ended its administration of the | district. 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 ... |
| Iceland | Einar Benediktsson (1864–1940) was an | ic poet and lawyer |
| Funafuti | ... e Tolna, his wife Eila (née Haggin) and her daughter Blanche Haggin visited | aboard the yacht Le Tolna. Le Tolna spent several days at Funafuti with th ... |
| New Zealand | In | , Diwali is celebrated publicly among many of the South Asian diaspora cul ... |
| 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 ... |
| Philippines | As 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 | |
| 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 ... |
| Polynesia | Melanesian 93%, | n 4%, Micronesian 1.5%, European 0.8%, Chinese 0.3%, other 0.4 |
| Rügen | ... onal Park is a nature reserve in the Jasmund peninsula, in the northeast of | island in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is famous for the largest ch ... |
| British Isles | According to the Köppen classification the | experience a maritime climate characterised by relatively cool summers and ... |
| 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 ... |
| South America | ... st recorded settlement of the Territory was by Arawak Indians who came from | , in around 100 BC. However, there is some dispute about the dates. Some h ... |
| Africa | Almost all Dominicans are descendants of | n slaves brought in by colonial planters in the 18th century. Dominica is ... |
| Africa | Locales in southern Europe, western Asia, or north | have been proposed as the historic birthplace of the genus. The instrument ... |
| 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 to | in 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 ... |
| Tahiti | ... f French Polynesia for the 3rd time in 3 years (with 27 of 44 votes cast in | assembly). He replaced former President Gaston Tong Sang, who lost a no-co ... |
| 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 ... |
| Asia | Locales in southern Europe, western | , or north Africa have been proposed as the historic birthplace of the gen ... |
| Juan Fernández Islands | ... ore turning east towards the South American coast. The route touched at the | in mid-November 1875, with Challenger reaching the port of Valparaiso in C ... |
| Horn of Africa | ... han 270 million people across much of the Middle East, North Africa and the | . They constitute a branch of the Afroasiatic language family |
| Sumatra | The railway system has four unconnected networks in Java and | primarily dedicated to transport bulk commodities and long-distance passen ... |
| Gargano | ... ainland. The Adriatic Sea was far smaller, as it started at what is now the | peninsula, and what is now the bay of Venice was a fertile plain with a hu ... |
| Réunion | ... 1819, however, French entrepreneurs shipped vanilla beans to the islands of | and Mauritius in hopes of producing vanilla there. After Edmond Albius dis ... |
| Africa | ... nt of mineral deposits have contributed to many civil wars, particularly in | |
| 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 ( ... |
| Isthmus of Corinth | ... s, such as rebuilding the Hexamilion, the ancient defensive wall across the | , which had been breached by the Ottomans in 1423 |
| 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 ... |
| New Zealand | ... with the high level of rainfall, make for some of the best dairy country in | . The district is predominantly dairying (57,300 dairy cattle), while the ... |
| Balkans | ... the Gothic kingdoms. Many of the Goths migrated into Roman territory in the | , while others remained north of the Danube under Hunnic rule. They became ... |
| Gozo | ... aletta in Malta, and the launch taking McCall out to HMS Ajax was filmed in | harbour on Malta's northern island |
| Funafuti | ... aptain's clerk and photographer, recorded people, communities and scenes at | during a visit of USFC Albatross when the U.S. Fish Commission was investi ... |
| Tonga | ... erives from this later meaning and dates from Captain James Cook's visit to | in 1777 |
| Aleutian | ... ukon-Kuskokwim Delta, the western portions of the Alaska Peninsula, and the | and Pribilof Islands—would be part of the new state, but the President wou ... |
| Venice | ... it started at what is now the Gargano peninsula, and what is now the bay of | was a fertile plain with a humid climate. The presence of the Homo neander ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Venice | ... efore leaving after a dispute with his professor. After settling briefly in | in 1536, he moved to the University of Padua (Universitas artistarum) to s ... |
| Qatar | ... gers it had delivered, but some of them found their way into Croatia, Iran, | and North Korea. According to the CIA, already in August 1988 the US had d ... |
| Mauritius | ... r, French entrepreneurs shipped vanilla beans to the islands of Réunion and | in hopes of producing vanilla there. After Edmond Albius discovered how to ... |
| 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 ... |
| Polynesia | Tapu, tabu or kapu is a | n traditional concept denoting something holy or sacred, with "spiritual r ... |
| North America | ... interments. Several campaigns of 20th-century excavations have been led by | n institutions, including New York University and the University of Toront ... |
| Gibraltar | Initially he served in | , Ceylon, Hong Kong, and India. After returning to Great Britain, Dowding ... |
| Clipperton Island | note: | , 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cape Otway | ... arine communications cable across Bass Strait was laid in 1859. Starting at | , Victoria, it went via King Island and Three Hummock Island, made contact ... |
| 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, ... |
| South Island | ... ate Highways 8 and 83, near the southern end of the Mackenzie Basin, in the | of New Zealand. Omarama is in the Waitaki District, in the historic Provin ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mojave Desert | ... re filmed on location in Palm Springs, Lucerne Valley, the Ojai Valley, the | , the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and in what is now Westlake Village, adding ... |
| Tahiti | ... lo Bay off Hawaii's Big Island, before continuing to the south and reaching | in mid-September. The expedition left Tahiti in early October, swinging to ... |
| Bermuda | ... grant, this bird has occurred as a vagrant to such distant areas as Hawaii, | , Greenland, Tristan da Cunha and the Falkland Islands |
| Philippines | ... ne countries which participated were Brunei, Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia, | , Singapore, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam |
| Istria | ... gion about 600 years ago from Romania, after the Bubonic plague depopulated | . This hypothesis is based on chronicles of the Frangipani princes that st ... |
| 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 ... |
| rock outcrop | ... four tracks was the surf-instrumental "Wedding Cake Island" named after the | in 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 ... |
| Istria | ... ds who escaped from the Ottoman invasions to settle in a plague-depopulated | in the 14th century. However, he does not relate to the fact that Istro-Ro ... |
| Whidbey | Its 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 | |
| MCG | ... he famous inner-city Victoria Park. Collingwood now plays home games at the | . It now also has its headquarters situated in the former Glasshouse Enter ... |
| 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 ... |
| Paradise Island | ... e title. The competition remained in Las Vegas until 1975, when it moved to | in 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 |
| North America | ... itionally been used in Ireland and Scotland at Halloween, but immigrants to | used the native , which is both much softer and much larger – making it ea ... |
| Caribbean | ... al planters in the 18th century. Dominica is the only island in the eastern | to retain some of its pre-Columbian population—the Carib Indians—about 3,0 ... |
| New Zealand | ... nd 83, near the southern end of the Mackenzie Basin, in the South Island of | . Omarama is in the Waitaki District, in the historic Province of Otago. T ... |
| New Zealand | ... eliminary investigation of insect colonization and succession on remains in | revealed the following results on decay and insect colonization |
| 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 ... |
| Palau | ... ncil ended the trusteeship for the Palau district, after which the U.S. and | agreed to establish the latter's independence on October 1 |
| Kola Peninsula | ... which today encompasses parts of far northern Sweden, Norway, Finland, the | of Russia, and the border area between south and middle Sweden and Norway. ... |
| Africa | ... lace of the genus. The instrument is still played in north-eastern parts of | |
| 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 ... |
| Efate | The municipality of Franceville (present-day Port Vila) on | was established during this period. In 1878 Britain and France declared al ... |
| Balkans | ... of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation. Greece is the largest economy of the | |
| New Zealand | ... n countries including Argentina, Costa Rica, Egypt, England, France, India, | , Spain, and Senegal, as well as Japan where Amherst maintains a special r ... |
| Cyprus | ... Age (such as is given by J. L. Myres and M. O. Richter in Catalogue of the | Museum) shows more than 25 settlements in and about the Mesaorea district ... |
| 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 ... |
| Taiwan | From 1683, the Qing Dynasty ruled | as a prefecture and in 1875 divided the island into two prefectures, north ... |
| Tonga | ... di, Ecuador, Georgia, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Mozambique, Slovakia, | , Ukraine, and Uzbekistan |
| Africa | ... win the swift, complete, and lasting subjugation of Algeria. He was sent to | in a subordinate capacity and proceeded to initiate his war of flying colu ... |
| 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) of | who in 1739, aiding certain rebels, possibly contrary to the orders of Pop ... |
| North America | ... 3) was a Canadian actress. Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in | from the mid-1920s through the 1930s. Her early films cast her as the girl ... |
| Puerto Rica | Ricky Meléndez (born 22 November 1967) is a | n singer. He was raised in Guaynabo. He became a member of Menudo at the a ... |
| Istria | ... f the "melting pot" of the Roman legionnaires (moved by Augustus to eastern | to colonize the borders of Italy) and the Aromanian shepherds who escaped ... |
| 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 in | and 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 ... |
| Iberian Peninsula | ... the Fifth Coalition, British military operations on land apart from in the | remained restricted to hit-and-run operations executed by the Royal Navy, ... |
| 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, including | and Malta and the 10 Mediterranean Partners |
| Australasia | ... from the Welcome Swallow (Hirundo neoxena) with which its range overlaps in | . In Africa the short tail streamers of the juvenile Barn Swallow invite c ... |
| 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 ... |
| Arabian Peninsula | In one interpretation, Proto-Semitic itself is assumed to have reached the | by approximately the 4th millennium BC, from which Semitic daughter langua ... |
| Ireland | ... ring the souls held in purgatory. The turnip has traditionally been used in | and Scotland at Halloween, but immigrants to North America used the native ... |
| Great Plains | ... n elevation of 1,913 feet (583 m). It lies in the Smoky Hills region of the | approximately north of the Smoky Hill River and south of the Saline River. ... |
| Sri Lanka | ... demonstrations took place in Dhaka, Bangladesh; Kathmandu, Nepal; Colombo, | ; Kelantan; Jakarta and Java, Indonesia; Surabaya; and , Thailand |
| Izu Peninsula | ... e peasant village at Toho Studios and had a complete set constructed on the | . Although the studio protested the increased production costs, Kurosawa w ... |
| 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 ... |
| North America | ... ing George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in | after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War. The purpose o ... |
| 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 ... |
| Malta | ... 7, the co-operation covers 35 countries, the EU of 27, including Cyprus and | and 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 to | and then on to the royal farm (gård) at Odense by his trusted adviser, Asb ... |
| Taiwan | ... ten looked upon as culturally and politically provocative. Additionally, in | , it is closely associated with Taiwanese independence, where some support ... |
| Africa | ... ve in Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait and in some parts of | , namely Kenya, and Tanzania (Tabora has a large community). Small communi ... |
| Calabria | ... atus consultum de Bacchanalibus, inscribed on a bronze tablet discovered in | (1640), now in Vienna — by which the Bacchanalia were prohibited throughou ... |
| Philippines | ... e city's name is probably adapted from the 400-year-old capital city of the | , Manila |
| Seattle | ... f regional musical styles. Along with musical centers such as Philadelphia, | , New York City, San Francisco, New Orleans, Detroit, Minneapolis, Chicago ... |
| Kra Isthmus | ... ing the passage of Tropical Storm Linda across the Gulf of Thailand and the | . The carrier's main task was to search for and assist any fishing vessels ... |
| Tuamotus | ... from the administrative subdivisions (subdivisions administratives) on the | and the Gambier Islands. The 6 electoral circumscriptions (circonscription ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Samana Cay | An 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cyprus | A map of | in the later Bronze Age (such as is given by J. L. Myres and M. O. Richter ... |
| Lemnos | ... al centers of Greece, particularly in Athens. The center of his cult was in | |
| Bethel Island | Bethel Island (formerly, Bethell) is a census-designated place (CDP) on | in 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, carrying | priests on his back. The Homeric name of the oracle is Pytho (Πυθώ) |
| Cape Otway | ... of the Straits, but there were no guides to the western entrance until the | Lighthouse was first lit in 1848, followed by another at Cape Wickham at t ... |
| Istria | ... arini believes that there are more than 5,000 Istro-Romanian descendants in | today, but most of them identify themselves (census 1991: only 811 Istro-R ... |
| Ireland | ... in Latin texts from the fourth century describing a tribe which sailed from | to raid Roman Britain. It came to be applied to all the Gaels. It is not b ... |
| Malay Peninsula | By 1550, the kingdom's vassals included some city-states in the | , Sukhothai, and parts of Cambodia |
| Flinders Island | ... rally around 50 metres deep, it contains many islands, with King Island and | home to substantial human settlements |
| Philippines | ... ed in Southeast Asian colonies such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and the | |
| New Zealand | ... BBC2. All three seasons have also been shown in Australia, Bahrain, India, | , France, Spain, Germany, Greece, Norway, Finland, Sweden and Brazil and t ... |
| Antarctica | ... adaptive and can be found in almost all environments with the exception of | and high mountainous regions. The most diverse beetle fauna can be found i ... |
| Lemnos | ... over Philoctetes' army after Philoctetes was bitten by a snake and left on | because the wound festered and smelled bad. Medon was killed by Aeneas |
| Taiwan | ... except Israel. Previously, the passport was invalid for travel to Rhodesia, | and South Africa as well |
| 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 ... |
| Bermuda | ... as by other Amerindians. In 1648, the Eleutherian Adventurers migrated from | . These English Puritans established the first permanent European settleme ... |
| Magdalen Islands | ... CTMA operates seasonally between Souris and Cap-aux-Meules, Quebec, in the | |
| Tahiti | ... dditional sources include Vanilla pompona and Vanilla tahitiensis (grown in | and 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 ... |
| Asia | ... ersian cumin, is a biennial plant in the family Apiaceae, native to western | , Europe and Northern |
| AAMI Stadium | Collingwood finished 8th in 2008 and were assigned an away final against at | . After at one point trailing in the match, the Pies went on to end Adelai ... |
| Ireland | ... by the Society of Jesus. In general, northern Europe, with the exception of | and pockets of Britain, turned Protestant. Southern Europe remained Roman ... |
| Gambier Islands | ... trative subdivisions (subdivisions administratives) on the Tuamotus and the | . The 6 electoral circumscriptions (circonscriptions électorales) are |
| Africa | ... rescent and star among the Muslim populations of many countries of Asia and | . Muhammad Ali, who became Pasha of Egypt in 1805, introduced the first na ... |
| 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 ... |
| Auckland | In the mid-1990s, the Otara, | group OMC, led by Pauly Fuemana, scored a worldwide hit with the song "How ... |
| Puerto Rico | On May 6, 2008, the first store in | opened, followed by two additional locations in 2010 and one additional lo ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lindisfarne | ... t whose mortal remains were kept here for seven years between exhumation at | and re-interment at Chester-le-Street. The "kirk" element is Old Norse in ... |
| Raasay | He was born at Osgaig on the island of | on 26 October 1911, where Scottish Gaelic was the first language. He atten ... |
| Balkans | ... nguist, cited the hypothesis that a sizeable Roman population inhabited the | from west to east across the former Yugoslavia before the 10th century. Th ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ascension Island | ... of February 2008. In a very few cases, 15400 kHz from the relay station in | still 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 and | from 12–14 September. The carriers launched strikes on shipping and instal ... |
| Indian subcontinent | ... reat Indian Desert) is a large, arid region in the northwestern part of the | and forms a natural boundary running along the border between India and Pa ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Venice | ... States and other minor states in the centre. However, old republics such as | and Genoa were not recreated, Venice went to Austria, and Genoa went to th ... |
| 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 |
| Block Island | ... ecided to send an expedition under John Endecott to raid native villages on | in the war's first major action, but his communication with Williams encou ... |
| New Zealand | Forty-two species from five genera populate | , and all are endemic to New Zealand and the surrounding islands (Norfolk ... |
| 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 ... |
| New Zealand | ... semi-professional world record-breaker Alastair Galpin and Don Purdon from | and Nepalese brothers Rohit and Santosh Timilsina who agreed to share the ... |
| Auckland | ... i-war demonstrations in the New Zealand cities Christchurch, Wellington and | |
| 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 | ... 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Asia | ... ize the crescent and star among the Muslim populations of many countries of | and Africa. Muhammad Ali, who became Pasha of Egypt in 1805, introduced th ... |
| Devil's Island | ... , publicly stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on | in French Guiana |
| Pitcairn | ... Terra Australis, Spanish explorers in the 17th century also discovered the | and Vanuatu archipelagos. Most significantly, from 1565 Spanish fleets exp ... |
| Crete | ... way underground and escaped Orion's wrath. Orion's next journey took him to | where 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Anatolia | ... he English archaeological expeditions, sent subsequently into north-western | , have never failed to bring back ceramic specimens of Aegean appearance f ... |
| Madagascar | ... abour shortage prompted the authorities to import slaves from Indonesia and | . Many of these became ancestors of the first Cape Coloured communities. U ... |
| Asia | ... ia are often criticized in the rest of the world (including eastern Europe, | , Africa, and the Middle East) as being pro-Western with regard to a varie ... |
| Admiralty Islands | ... he north coast of New Guinea. By March 1875, the expedition had reached the | north-east of New Guinea. The final stage of the voyage on this side of th ... |
| Venice | Although his grandson later wrote of the family's roots in | , it seems the family's only connection with that city was through these s ... |
| New Zealand | Tuvalu maintains close relations with Fiji, | , Australia, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the European Union ... |
| 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 ... |
| Chappaquiddick Island | On the night of July 18, 1969, Kennedy was on Martha's Vineyard's | at a party he gave for the "Boiler Room Girls", a group of young women who ... |
| 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 from | to 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, the | campus began admitting men also. The Bronx campus subsequently became Lehm ... |
| New Zealand | Before the arrival of the Māori in | , a subspecies of the Black Swan known as the New Zealand Swan had develop ... |
| Balkans | ... Bohemia, Moravia, much of present day Austria, the Pannonian plain and the | ; and northward along the upper Dnieper river. Perhaps some Slavs migrated ... |
| Tuvalu archipelago | ... arianas and Caroline Islands, several naval expeditions also discovered the | , the Marquesas, the Solomon Islands and New Guinea in the South Pacific. ... |
| 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 ... |
| Key Biscayne | ... the Cuban Revolution, Saralegui and her family fled to Miami and settled in | |
| Calabria | ... that the name was actually derived from the Italic tribes settled in modern | . The Greeks gradually came to use the name for a wider region, but it was ... |
| Iceland | In | , the members of Ásatrúarfélagið account for 0.4% of the total population, ... |
| Africa | ... often criticized in the rest of the world (including eastern Europe, Asia, | , and the Middle East) as being pro-Western with regard to a variety of po ... |
| Tonga | ... followed by later waves of immigration from the Society Islands and Samoa- | . Their languages, over time, became the Hawaiian language. Kimura and Wil ... |
| Istria | ... 1329, when Serbian chronicles mention that a Vlach population was living in | , although there was an earlier mention from the 12th century of a leader ... |
| Ireland | ... oons, then they could certainly afford to pay more taxes. The Allisons left | shortly thereafter. The offending spoons are now on display in the main un ... |
| Martha's Vineyard | On the night of July 18, 1969, Kennedy was on | 's Chappaquiddick Island at a party he gave for the "Boiler Room Girls", a ... |
| New Zealand | ... as discrimination. In both complaints the events themselves occurred before | was a party to the First Optional Protocol and so was inadmissible ratione ... |
| North America | ... e seasons of Seven Days were produced. All three seasons have been shown in | . In the UK, all three seasons have now been shown on Bravo and BBC2. All ... |
| Africa | ... ominance of the war party, who placed him in command of a combined force of | n levies and his mercenaries from Italy. But Hannibal was opposed to this ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bali | ... i de la Falaise produced two feature length documentaries, (1935) filmed in | , and Kilou the Killer Tiger (1936) filmed in Indochina |
| Wheeling Island | ... Ohio River from Wheeling, West Virginia, and is connected by two bridges to | in the Ohio River |
| New Zealand | Early in 2004, McTell co-headlined on Steeleye Span's tour of Australia and | as well as touring in the UK, Ireland and continental Europe |
| 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 with | and the in the Pacific. Spain's loss of these last territories politically ... |
| Ireland | ... leye Span's tour of Australia and New Zealand as well as touring in the UK, | and continental Europe |
| 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 ... |
| Taiwan | ... ia, Belarus, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Sweden, and | |
| Qatar | The world's largest gas field is | 's offshore North Field, estimated to have 25 trillion cubic meters (9.0cu ... |
| Niutao | ... n Tuvalu declined with the last of the palagi traders being Fred Whibley on | and Alfred Restieaux on Nukufetau. By 1909 there were no more resident pal ... |
| Africa | ... two years teaching mathematics to secondary school pupils before heading to | where he was mathematical advisor on the Gold Coast Survey. He returned to ... |
| Island of Hawaii | Mauna Loa ( or ; Hawaiian: ) is one of five volcanoes that form the | in the U.S. state of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean, and the largest on Earth ... |
| Pacific Island | In the 1990s, New Zealand hip hop scene grew with the added input of | musicians, 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 in | were constructed from it that it is nicknamed the 'Limestone City'. On the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Seattle | ... er 1937, with an Electra carrying two passengers and mail from Vancouver to | , a $14.20 round trip. On 1 July 1938, TCA hired its first flight attendan ... |
| Trinidad | ... troopship conversion. After two stops to refuel and replenish her stores in | and 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 ... |
| Indochina | ... ntaries, (1935) filmed in Bali, and Kilou the Killer Tiger (1936) filmed in | |
| Kamchatka | In the Far East, Russians became active in fur trapping in | and in the Kuril Islands. This spurred Russian interest in opening trade w ... |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gabo Island | On the East. The Western limit of the Tasman Sea between | 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Caribbean | ... joined the company's fleet and began making their way through the airline's | routes. This was the first "wide-body" aircraft type Mexicana ever operate ... |
| Ambergris Caye | The island of | is geographically close to Corozal District, but it is a part of Belize Di ... |
| Asia | ... re are many variations of these two general themes. Top-loading machines in | use impellers instead of agitators. Impellers are similar to agitators exc ... |
| Negros | Western Visayas consists of the islands of Panay and the western half of | . The regional center is Iloilo City. Its provinces are |
| North America | In | , the word gypsy is commonly used as a reference to lifestyle or fashion, ... |
| Prudence Island | ... Island (now the site of Logan International Airport) in Boston Harbor, and | in Narragansett Bay. He also engaged in the fur trade in partnership with ... |
| Iberian Peninsula | ... ed from the 4th century BC to the 5th century AD, and is not related to the | |
| Tasmania | ... Australia, to King Island and thence to Cape Grim, the Northwest extreme of | |
| Great Britain | ... ion as the Elco boats. Many Higgins boats were sent to the Soviet Union and | at the beginning of the war, so many of the lower-numbered squadrons in th ... |
| Calais | ... mission to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, accompanying Thomas Wolsey to | and Bruges, More was knighted and made under-treasurer of the Exchequer in ... |
| 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 the | of 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, including | and Steep Holm |
| 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 to | and the Mexican city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas |
| Steep Holm | ... h is otherwise only found on a few other islands, including Ailsa Craig and | |
| Liaodong Peninsula | ... Japan. Through the Triple Intervention, Japan relinquished its claim on the | for an increased financial indemnity |
| Negros | ... tral Visayas includes the islands of Cebu and Bohol and the eastern half of | . The regional center is Cebu City. Its provinces are |
| New Zealand | In | , judges of the High Court and above are referred to as "His/Her Honour Ju ... |
| Roosevelt Island | ... f two commuter cable car systems in North America, whisks commuters between | and Manhattan in less than five minutes, and has been serving the island s ... |
| Samoa | ... igues Solitaire. The generic name of the dodo-like Tooth-billed Pigeon from | is Didunculus, which means "little Dodo", and it was also shown to be quit ... |
| Asia Minor | ... , Troy stood overlooking the Hellespont – a channel of water that separates | and Europe. In the 1870s, Heinrich Schliemann set out to find it. Followin ... |
| Korean Peninsula | ... Sino-Japanese War, which resulted in Qing China's loss of influence in the | as well as the cession of Taiwan (including the Pescadores) to Japan |
| Sicily | ... Thracian coasts. Offshoots are found in the western Mediterranean area, in | , Italy, Sardinia and Spain, and in the eastern Mediterranean area in Syri ... |
| Caribbean | ... ica, Central America and southern North America, in addition to its earlier | conquests. Over this same timeframe, Portugal colonized much of eastern So ... |
| Gibraltar | ... ornwall and York. For eight months they toured the British Empire, visiting | , Malta, Egypt, Ceylon, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Mauritius, Sout ... |
| Cape Otway | On the West. The Eastern limit of the Great Australian Bight | , Australia, to King Island and thence to Cape Grim, the Northwest extreme ... |
| Taiwan | ... fer to Rowland Heights as "Little Taipei", due to its high concentration of | ese 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 off | with reinforcements of men and supplies. The new governor ordered them to ... |
| Iberian Peninsula | ... arrival of colonists from Ancient Greece and Carthage; like the rest of the | , Catalonia participated in what became the Iberian culture. At this time ... |
| 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 ... |
| Long Island | ... ew York City boroughs—the Bronx to the northeast and Brooklyn and Queens on | to the east and south. Its only direct connection with the fifth New York ... |
| Victoria Island | ... of Lagos Island and joined to it by a landfill. Ikoyi is also connected to | by a bridge carrying a main road over a Five Cowrie creek. Ikoyi housed th ... |
| Hawaiian Islands | Hawaii 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 ... |
| British Isles | ... aedeker raids (so called because Baedeker's series of tourist guides to the | were used to select propaganda-rich targets of cultural and historic signi ... |
| Aeolian Islands | The port of Milazzo is a departure point for ferries to the | and Naples |
| Anatolia | ... k pantheon coming originally from Lydia. The Etruscans coming from northern | also worshipped Apollo, and it may be that he was originally identical wit ... |
| Tasmania | Bass Strait is a sea strait separating | from the south of the Australian mainland, specifically the state of Victo ... |
| Kiribati | ... rock islands in the Pacific Ocean (the others were Banaba (Ocean Island) in | and Makatea in French Polynesia). However, the phosphate reserves on Nauru ... |
| Cardiff Arms Park | ... nternational Sports Stadium (the home of Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club) and | (the home of Cardiff Rugby Club). The city is also HQ of the Wales Rally G ... |
| North America | ... ined control of much of western South America, Central America and southern | , in addition to its earlier Caribbean conquests. Over this same timeframe ... |
| 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 ... |
| Malta | ... York. For eight months they toured the British Empire, visiting Gibraltar, | , Egypt, Ceylon, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Mauritius, South Afric ... |
| Cape York Peninsula | ... ees south). Planar reefs are found in the northern and southern parts, near | , Princess Charlotte Bay, and Cairns. Most of the islands on the reef are ... |
| Balkans | ... orld was fragmented into several independent states. Central Europe and the | were occupied by the Germanic and Slavic tribes, as well as by the Huns, w ... |
| Devil's Island | ... ets to the German Embassy in Paris, Dreyfus was sent to the penal colony at | in French Guiana and placed in solitary confinement, where he was to spend ... |
| Makatea | ... in the Pacific Ocean (the others were Banaba (Ocean Island) in Kiribati and | in 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 |
| North America | ... Li, H. 2005. Acta Bot. Gallica 152(2): 227-234. The first two are native to | while Heliamphora is native to South America. All three are carnivorous pl ... |
| Negros | ... olution and the Philippine–American War between 1896 to 1913, the island of | and other neighboring islands initiated their revolution. After gaining Ph ... |
| Java | ... as an island within Majapahit's realm. Timor was incorporated into ancient | nese, Chinese and Indian trading networks of the 14th century as an export ... |
| Philippines | In November 2006, Krispy Kreme opened the flagship store in the | . These stores are franchise owned like many others.The development deal f ... |
| African coast | ... s throughout the Americas and Europe, as well as the Canary Islands off the | , and cargo flights to Asia; it is South Florida's main airport for long-h ... |
| Africa | Afro-Bahamians or Bahamians of | n descent are Bahamians whose ancestry lies within the continent of Africa ... |
| 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, ... |
| Crete | ... other revelers. They proceeded to have intercourse in a ploughed furrow in | ; she later gave him a son, Ploutos |
| Philippines | Manila (; pronounced in Tagalog and in English) is the capital of the | . It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila |
| 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 ... |
| Venice | ... ed a stimulus to the art of many nations. Its influences can be traced from | in 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 | |
| Malay Peninsula | From the fifteenth century, Ayutthaya showed an interest in the | , where the great trading port of Malacca contested its claims to sovereig ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 the | for Henry III of Castile |
| 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 ... |
| island of Hawaii | Wilkes sailed to Hilo on the | and decided to climb Mauna Loa first, since it looked easier than Mauna Ke ... |
| Anatolia | ... and warfare. The Vikings also reached Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland, and | . Additionally, there is evidence to support the Vinland legend that Vikin ... |
| Middle-earth | ... ally named Minas Anor, is a fictional city and castle in J. R. R. Tolkien's | writings. It became the heavily fortified capital of Gondor in the second ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Victoria Island | The 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 ... |
| Indian subcontinent | ... dian religions" refers to a number of religions that have originated on the | tracing their origins through Proto-Indo-Iranian religion ultimately to Pr ... |
| Borneo | ... h Central–Eastern formed Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian, and an "Outer" group on | and the Philippines. Both are remnant groups with negative definitions: Ou ... |
| Sicily | Agrigento (Sicilian: Girgenti), is a city on the southern coast of | , Italy, and capital of the province of Agrigento. It is renowned as the s ... |
| New Zealand | ... e of the Governor General, who is the Queen's representative. Australia and | have since followed suit, in consultation with Elizabeth II's Private Secr ... |
| Asia | Rice is a staple grain of Thai cuisine, as in most | n cuisines. The highly prized, sweet-smelling jasmine rice is indigenous t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Magdalen Islands | ... Sea Shepherd, were confronted by a number of Canadian sealers in a hotel on | over 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 ... |
| South America | Spanish is an official language of Mexico, much of | , Central America, the islands of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean (e ... |
| Venice | ... rful being Milan, Florence, Pisa, Siena, Genoa, Ferrara, Mantua, Verona and | . High Medieval Northern Italy was further divided by the long running bat ... |
| North America | ... day Central America, the Caribbean islands, and Mexico; much of the rest of | including the Southwestern, Southern coastal, and California Pacific Coast ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Balkan | Since the fall of communism, Greece has invested heavily in neighbouring | countries. Between 1997 and 2009, 12.11% of foreign direct investment capi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Crete | ... el's") from the island of Syros in the Cyclades, and various graviéras from | |
| Negros | The major islands of the Visayas are Panay, | , Cebu, Bohol, Leyte, and Samar. The region may also include the islands o ... |
| Jutland | ... icipality, Region Midtjylland. The town is close to Ringkøbing Fjord on the | peninsula in west Denmark. The former Videbæk municipality covered an area ... |
| Great Plains | ... opulation as great as 10,000. The site drew traders from as far away as the | . The Cascades Rapids of the Columbia River Gorge, and Kettle Falls and Pr ... |
| 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 ... |
| Funafuti | ... Janet Nicoll visited Tuvalu; while Fanny records that they made landfall at | and Niutao, Jane Resture suggests that it was more likely Nukufetau. An ac ... |
| New Zealand | ... n. All living species of birds have wings—the now extinct flightless moa of | were the only exception. Wings are evolved forelimbs, and most bird specie ... |
| Horn of Africa | ... cal savanna, the Sahel extends beyond the borders of Burkina Faso, from the | to the Atlantic Ocean, and borders the Sahara to its north and the fertile ... |
| 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 ... |
| Anatolia | ... ete and Cyprus, the Hellenic peninsula with the Ionian islands, and Western | . Evidence is still wanting for the Macedonian and Thracian coasts. Offsho ... |
| New Zealand | ... ish Empire, visiting Gibraltar, Malta, Egypt, Ceylon, Singapore, Australia, | , Mauritius, South Africa and Canada. No royal had undertaken such an ambi ... |
| Fårö | ... n France; Malham Cove in North Yorkshire and the Isle of Wight, England; on | near 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 | |
| San Francisco Peninsula | ... co or Royal Presidio of San Francisco) is a park on the northern tip of the | in San Francisco, California, within the Golden Gate National Recreation A ... |
| Bali | The 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 in | until 1951, when the United States Department of the Interior took over co ... |
| Bohol | The major islands of the Visayas are Panay, Negros, Cebu, | , Leyte, and Samar. The region may also include the islands of Romblon and ... |
| Sulawesi | ... Central–Eastern MP, Wouk and Ross split Western MP into an "Inner" group on | and the Sunda Islands, which together with Central–Eastern formed Nuclear ... |
| Rhodes | ... noisseurs of the first century CE: Apelles travelled to Protogenes' home in | to 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 of | were so pretty that I could not resist collecting them and figuring out Ve ... |
| Africa | ... pires. French is one of the official languages of Canada, many countries in | , and some islands in the Indian and Pacific Ocean. It is also the sole of ... |
| South America | ... 4. The first two are native to North America while Heliamphora is native to | . All three are carnivorous plants that lure insects with nectar and use t ... |
| 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 ... |
| New Zealand | ... late at night on ntv7, while the censored version aired during the day. In | Oz aired on The Box at 9.30pm on Wednesdays in the early 2000s (decade) |
| Indian subcontinent | ... tani cuisine is a blend of cooking traditions from different regions of the | , originating from the royal kitchens of sixteenth-century Mughal emperors ... |
| Ireland | The town was named after Dublin in | |
| Orchid Island | Indian River Shores is a town on | , in Indian River County, Florida, United States. The population was 3,448 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Asia | ... Center in San Juan City, it is the first Krispy Kreme drive-thru outlet in | and the first free-standing store in the Philippines. Branches in SM Mall ... |
| 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 the | are of volcanic origin and less than 10 million years old, the ancestors o ... |
| Cyprus | Thus the "Aegean Area" has now come to mean the Archipelago with Crete and | , the Hellenic peninsula with the Ionian islands, and Western Anatolia. Ev ... |
| New Zealand | | has a local government system comprising two complementary sets of local a ... |
| SWALEC Stadium | ... the Wales national rugby union team and the Wales national football team), | (the home of Glamorgan County Cricket Club), Cardiff City Stadium (the hom ... |
| Africa | ... of the Throne of Alexandria. It is still expanding in the vast continent of | |
| Manhattan | ... its title from the 1929 Waller song "Ain't Misbehavin'". It was a time when | nightclubs like the Cotton Club and the Savoy Ballroom were the playground ... |
| Leyte | The major islands of the Visayas are Panay, Negros, Cebu, Bohol, | , and Samar. The region may also include the islands of Romblon and Masbat ... |
| Grenadines | Grenada is a Caribbean island (one of the | ) between the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, north of Trinidad and Toba ... |
| Tonga | ... den, Switzerland, Syria, Thailand, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, | , Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukra ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sardinia | Archaeological evidence of prehistoric human settlement on | island 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 ... |
| Gibraltar | ... glish, Spanish, Hebrew, Hindi and Arabic spoken in the British territory of | (from Gabal-Tariq, meaning Mountain of Tariq), which is unintelligible to ... |
| Africa | ... 1, quickly modernized and built a vast colonial empire, colonizing parts of | , and countries along the Mediterranean. However, many regions of the youn ... |
| 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 ... |
| Funafuti | The United States Exploring Expedition under Charles Wilkes visited | , Nukufetau and Vaitupu in 1841. During this expedition, on Tuvalu, Alfred ... |
| Mauritius | ... isiting Gibraltar, Malta, Egypt, Ceylon, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, | , South Africa and Canada. No royal had undertaken such an ambitious tour ... |
| Taiwan | Since the 1980s, many upper-middle-class immigrants from | , China, and Hacienda Heights, Walnut, and Diamond Bar). Also, Rowland Hei ... |
| Pelennor Fields | ... ght against the face of Mount Mindolluin. The city looked eastward over the | , which were used for farmland, toward Osgiliath, the former capital of Go ... |
| Iona | ... f the Clyde and Tweed valleys on their way between the religious centres of | and Holy Island. A Celtic stone carved with cup and rings/channels, known ... |
| North America | Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of | and the only one located entirely within the United States. The other four ... |
| Anatolia | ... murderer, Ptolemy Keraunos, apparently abandoning Macedonia and Thrace. In | he was unable to reduce Bithynia or the Persian dynasties that ruled in Ca ... |
| Jutland | ... ty (Danish, kommune) in Region of Southern Denmark on the west coast of the | peninsula in southwest Denmark. Its mayor is Johnny Søtrup, from the Venst ... |
| Jutland | ... nicipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Region Midtjylland on the | peninsula in western Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 1,336 km² ... |
| Anatolia | ... een found in Assurbanipal's library, and in the Hattusas archive in Hittite | . As Ea, Enki had a wide influence outside of Sumer, being equated with El ... |
| M. Chinnaswamy Stadium | ... s many public fields. Bangalore's main international cricket stadium is the | , which has a seating capacity of 55,000 and has hosted matches during the ... |
| St David's | Some 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 |
| Jutland | ... Herning [ left edge ] is south of Holstebro and west of Århus, on Denmark's | |
| Italian Peninsula | ... poleon's empire, while the Vatican maintained control over Rome, before the | was eventually liberated and unified in the late 19th century |
| 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 ... |
| Corfu | ... ace agreed and Alexios IV returned with the Marquess to rejoin the fleet at | after it had sailed from Zara. Most of the rest of the Crusade's leaders, ... |
| Trinidad | | is the principal island of Trinidad and Tobago |
| Jutland | ... icipality (Danish, kommune) in Ringkøbing County near the west coast of the | peninsula in west Denmark. The municipality covered an area of 377 km², an ... |
| Jutland | ... nicipality was a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Ringkøbing County on the | peninsula in west Denmark. The municipality covered an area of 239 km², an ... |
| Ireland | ... ates. The population was 242 at the 2010 census. It is named after Avoca in | |
| Nukufetau | ... e United States Exploring Expedition under Charles Wilkes visited Funafuti, | and Vaitupu in 1841. During this expedition, on Tuvalu, Alfred Thomas Agat ... |
| 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 the | between 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mors | ... d went home would not be punished for rebellion. The men from the island of | and 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 ... |
| Six Rivers National Forest | ... oods District of the California State Parks System and the one million acre | . The city, a major player in the historic west coast lumber trade, is the ... |
| Venice | ... ove. The popularity of oil spread through Italy from the North, starting in | in the late 15th century. By 1540 the previous method for painting on pane ... |
| 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 ... |
| New Zealand | ... d song texts, Whitman's the texts for larger choral works. The contemporary | composer David Downes includes a setting of "March" on his CD The Rusted W ... |
| King Island | ... rst lit in 1848, followed by another at Cape Wickham at the northern end of | in 1861 |
| Liaodong Peninsula | Port Arthur, on the | in the south of Manchuria, had been fortified into a major naval base by t ... |
| New Zealand | ... -loading design or vertical-axis clothes washer, most popular in Australia, | , Canada, the United States and Latin America, places the clothes in a ver ... |
| Great Plains | ... erce and Cayuse kept large herds and made annual long-distance trips to the | for bison hunting, adopted the plains culture to a significant degree, and ... |
| Florida Keys | The | , islands off the south coast of Florida, are composed mainly of oolitic l ... |
| South America | ... and U.S. states of Alaska, Washington, and Oregon; and the western half of | . In the early 19th century the revolutionary movements resulted in the in ... |
| 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 ... |
| Deal Island | ... many ships lost there during the 19th century. A lighthouse was erected on | in 1848 to assist ships in the eastern part of the Straits, but there were ... |
| New Zealand | ... businessmen, the brothers John Cooke and Henry Cooke, who had arrived from | in the 1840s, and Walter Powell. The first edition appeared on 17 October ... |
| New Zealand | In English skiffle bands and Australian and | bush bands, the same sort of bass has a tea chest as a resonator. Before t ... |
| 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 | ) |
| Mariana Islands | ... mination of U.S. administration of the Chuuk, Yap, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and the | districts of the TTPI soon followed on November 3, 1986. The Security Coun ... |
| Rhodes | ... eucids' defeat in the Battle of Magnesia resulted in Lycia being awarded to | in the Peace of Apamea in 188 BC. It was then granted autonomy as a protec ... |
| Sicily | ... e, the city and the surrounding Comtat Venaissin were ruled by the kings of | of 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, with | and Flinders Island home to substantial human settlements |
| Samos | The Samian sibyl's oracular site was at | |
| Jutland | ... ty is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Region of Southern Denmark on the | peninsula in south Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 817 km², an ... |
| 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 ... |
| Canary Islands | ... rs at the airport connects only to regional destinations (to Morocco or the | ) |
| 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 ... |
| Willamette Valley | Several Oregon Trail branches and route variations led to the | . The most popular was the Barlow Road, which was carved though the forest ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Euboea | In 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 the | built long barrows and chamber tombs for their dead and causewayed camps, ... |
| Stora Alvaret | ... limestone with thin soil mantles. The largest such expanse in Europe is the | on the island of Öland, Sweden. Another area with large quantities of lime ... |
| Guernsey | Ramé was born in Bury St. Edmunds, England, to a | -born French-speaking father and an English mother. She derived her pen na ... |
| New Zealand | In 1998, | based company Fisher & Paykel introduced its SmartDrive washing machine li ... |
| Korean Peninsula | Created in 1948, following the division of the | , the Republic of Korea Armed Forces is one of the largest standing armed ... |
| 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 ... |
| Monterey Peninsula | ... a, United States, founded in 1902 and incorporated in 1916. Situated on the | , the town is known for its natural scenery and rich artistic history. In ... |
| Chincha Islands | ... raiders ("blackbirders") seeking workers to mine the guano deposits on the | in Peru, combed the Pacific between 1862 and 1865, including the southern ... |
| Asia | ... ne of the largest Bagavathi temples in Kerala is also situated in the city. | 's highest church, the Basilica of Our Lady of Dolours (Puthan Pally), Our ... |
| New Zealand | ... nd has yet to regain its previous popularity to levels enjoyed in Europe or | . Owing to its unique flavour and richness in polyphenols, dietary fibre a ... |
| 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 in | in 1897 |
| Willamette Valley | ... und Agricultural Company farms. Instead he encouraged them to settle in the | , with the American settlers, where they could get free land |
| Nukufetau | ... f the Rebecca's cargo. In 1820 the Russian explorer Mikhail Lazarev visited | as commander of the Mirny. Following 1819 whalers were roving the Pacific ... |
| Corfu | Around 1360, a fiefdom, called the Feudum Acinganorum was established in | , which mainly used Romani serfs and to which the Romanies on the island w ... |
| Venice | ... d from 1629 through 1631 in northern Italy, with the cities of Lombardy and | experiencing particularly high death rates. In 1656 the plague killed abou ... |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Asia Minor | ... its first overseas excavations, Charles Fellows's expedition to Xanthos, in | , whence came remains of the tombs of the rulers of ancient Lycia, among t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Balkans | By the 14th century, the Romanies had reached the | ; by 1424, Germany; and by the 16th century, Scotland and Sweden. Some Rom ... |
| Qatar | ... eum in Japan, the Suzhou Museum in Suzhou, and the Museum of Islamic Art in | |
| Sri Lanka | In | , judges of all courts are addressed as "Your Honour", however the Chief J ... |
| Snake River Plain | ... xico, spread widely via native trade networks, reaching the Shoshone of the | by 1700. The Nez Perce, Cayuse, and Flathead people acquired their first h ... |
| Channel Islands | The | are mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary as following : Sarnia, Caesarea, B ... |
| Mascarene | ... or the Broad-billed Parrot. Wendy Strahm and Anthony Cheke, two experts in | ecology, claim that while a rare tree, it has germinated since the demise ... |
| South America | The llama (Lama glama) is a domesticated | n camelid, widely used as a meat and pack animal by Andean cultures since ... |
| Africa | ... urisdiction over Pentapolis, Libya, Nubia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and all | |
| Edwards Plateau | San Angelo falls on the southwestern edge of the | and the northeastern edge of the Chihuahuan desert at the juncture of the ... |
| Sardinia | ... f Savoy (a mountainous region between Italy and France) had become kings of | by 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 | |
| Brecqhou | ... cts of two nearby crown dependencies (Alderney and Sark), and the island of | |
| Asia | Competitive table tennis is popular in | and Europe and has been gaining attention in the United States. The most i ... |
| 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 ... |
| Korean Peninsula | ... the U.S. Navy naval aviators had control of the air over nearly all of the | . Hence, close air support of the ground troops along the border between N ... |
| Nukulaelae | ... 863 about 180 people were taken from Funafuti and about 200 were taken from | as 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 in | in 1883, but his family had his body brought to Bayreuth for burial |
| Sardinia | ... world music to trip hop. Gangsta rap crews include Sa Razza, La Fossa from | and 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 | |
| New Zealand | The Māori language ( | ) uses reduplication in a number of ways |
| Capri | In 1887, he moved to | and 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, to | and thence to Cape Grim, the Northwest extreme of Tasmania ] |
| New Zealand | Early explorers and European settlers noted that the | forest had a loud dawn chorus. This is no longer the case due to extensive ... |
| Asia | ... into distant countries, to satisfy his thirst for knowledge. He traveled to | , and was even said to have reached India and Ethiopia |
| North America | Llamas appear to have originated from the central plains of | about 40 million years ago. They migrated to South America about 3 million ... |
| South America | ... since the early 16th century, extended into the interiors of both North and | . In 1497, sailing from the north on behalf of the Kingdom of England, Joh ... |
| 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 other | to the northeast constitute the Timor and Wetar deciduous forests ecoregio ... |
| Funafuti | ... issionary in Tuvalu, reported that in 1863 about 180 people were taken from | and 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 ... |
| Cape Henlopen | ... etheless considered an ocean resort, particularly as the ocean is nearby at | . Lewes is among those communities which have banned smoking in its public ... |
| Sri Lanka | ... have toured Pakistan since March 2009, when militants attacked the touring | n cricket team |
| Isle of Arran | ... marks” of the relationship between the rock layers. On the 1787 trip to the | he 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 and | to the north, and beyond them Sulawesi |
| 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 ... |
| south-eastern Europe | ... eted the conquest of the south. Catherine made Russia the dominant power in | after her first Russo-Turkish War against the Ottoman Empire (1768–74), wh ... |
| Tuvalu | ... mor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, | , Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Ur ... |
| 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 the | chevron 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 ... |
| Liaodong Peninsula | ... res of operations were Southern Manchuria, specifically the area around the | and Mukden; and the seas around Korea, Japan, and the Yellow Sea |
| Jutland | ... rom there up the Schlei inlet to Haithabu/Hedeby, a large trading center in | . Hedeby, which lay near the modern city of Schleswig in Schleswig-Holstei ... |
| New Zealand | ... ies was the third adaption of the format following both an Australian and a | version. In August and September of the same year, over 4,300 hopefuls tur ... |
| New Zealand | ... . In 2005 the ASEAN plus Three countries together with India, Australia and | held the inaugural East Asia Summit (EAS) |
| Mascarene | ... or the Broad-billed Parrot. Wendy Strahm and Anthony Cheke, two experts in | ecology, claim that while a rare tree, it has germinated since the demise ... |
| Palau | The Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and | (former American trust territories with a combined population of around 18 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lesser Sunda Islands | ... sociated smaller islands, Timor forms the southern outer archipelago of the | with the inner islands of Flores, Alor and Wetar to the north, and beyond ... |
| New Zealand | ... rd is the only town in the central Taranaki district of Stratford District, | . It lies beneath the eastern slopes of Mount Taranaki/Egmont, approximate ... |
| 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 ... |
| North America | ... ky Harbor's fourth control tower and is among the tallest control towers in | |
| 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 ... |
| South India | ... radesh, Punjab, and the then Madras Presidency including what is now called | . More groups were scattered around India. Particularly notable movements ... |
| Nukufetau | ... h passed through the southern Tuvalu waters in May 1819; de Peyster sighted | and Funafuti, which he named Ellice's Island after an English Politician, ... |
| Qatar | ... pen up to 120 stores in five years across the Persian Gulf region including | , Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Ireland | There 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, the | islands, and Mexico; much of the rest of North America including the South ... |
| Ireland | ... Previously, most harps were imported to North America from France, England, | , or Italy by smaller groups of craftsmen |
| Kyūshū | The East China Sea is bounded on the east by | and the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, on the south by the island of Taiwan, and ... |
| South Pacific | ... is father enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War II and traveled to the | . He attended Lowell High School where he developed his oratory and dramat ... |
| North America | ... in the United Kingdom, then subsequently spread throughout Western Europe, | , Japan, and eventually the rest of the world |
| South America | ... in much of eastern North America, on a number of Caribbean islands, and in | . Portugal colonized parts of South America (mostly Brazil), but also some ... |
| Canary Islands | ... cargo flights to cities throughout the Americas and Europe, as well as the | off the African coast, and cargo flights to Asia; it is South Florida's ma ... |
| 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 | |
| Balkans | | . In addition to their main population centre in Europe, some East Slavs ( ... |
| 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 ... |
| Matagi | ... rous insects on the island. They are now present on the islands of Laucala, | and Taveuni |
| Cyprus | ... is promise to pay Raynald a sum of money, and vowed to attack the island of | in revenge. When the Latin Patriarch of Antioch refused to finance this ex ... |
| Virginia Peninsula | ... n Roads metropolitan area of Virginia. It is at the southeastern end of the | , on the north shore of the James River extending southeast from Skiffe's ... |
| Ryukyu Islands | The East China Sea is bounded on the east by Kyūshū and the | of 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 as | in France, are mainly covered with woods and fruit yards |
| Panay | ... ei, led by the chieftain Datu Puti and his tribes, settled in the island of | and its surrounding islands. By the 14th century, Arab traders and their f ... |
| Gotland | ... n the Middle Ages the German mother had the right to expose the newborn. In | , Sweden, children were also sacrificed |
| 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 ... |
| Chausey | ... tutes the suffix -ey in Jersey, Guernsey (Greneroi), Alderney (Alneroi) and | (Calsoi). Chausey can be compared with Cholsey (GB, Berkshire, Ċeolesiġ 89 ... |
| Sicily | ... ade and conquest into Valencia, the Balearic Islands, and even Sardinia and | |
| 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 ... |
| New Zealand | ... populations of the former British colonies of the United States, Australia, | , South Africa, Canada, and various islands of the Caribbean, Indian Ocean ... |
| 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 ... |
| Madagascar | ... ccurs in trace amounts in many minerals. Rare minerals from Scandinavia and | such as thortveitite, euxenite, and gadolinite are the only known concentr ... |
| Sardinia | ... panding by trade and conquest into Valencia, the Balearic Islands, and even | and Sicily |
| New Zealand | ... hop of Canterbury to China and had responsibility for travels to Australia, | , Burma, the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, and South Africa |
| Asia | ... orld—including the Bahamas, Virgin Islands, Canary Islands, Canada, Africa, | and Europe. Their most recent international appearance was in St. Petersbu ... |
| 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 ... |
| Romblon | ... , Cebu, Bohol, Leyte, and Samar. The region may also include the islands of | and Masbate, whose population identify as Visayan |
| Prince Edward Island | In Montgomery's works, Avonlea is located on the northern shore of | on a small peninsula. Its primary industries are farming and lobster fishi ... |
| New Guinea | The Lexington returned after the | raid 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 of | in 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Manhattan | ... ers that stands at the entrance. Its popularity has attracted visitors from | and |
| Channel Islands | The island of Jersey is the largest of the | . Although the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey are often referred to col ... |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Melanesia | During 1907–8 Rivers travelled to the Solomon Islands, and other areas of | and Polynesia. His two-volume History of Melanesian Society (1914), which ... |
| Cape Flats | ... city limits. Many of the suburbs of Cape Town are on the large plain of the | , which joins the peninsula to the mainland. The Cape Flats lie on what is ... |
| South America | ... ing of the early history of this family. Llamas were not always confined to | ; abundant llama-like remains were found in Pleistocene deposits in the Ro ... |
| 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 |
| South America | ... boreal herbivorous species of lizard of the genus Iguana native to Central, | , and the Caribbean. The green iguana ranges over a large geographic area, ... |
| Balkans | ... us, peninsular mainland jutting out into the sea at the southern end of the | , ending at the Peloponnese peninsula (separated from the mainland by the ... |
| Baffin Island | ... southern tip of Greenland from Estotelandia, pars America extrema, probably | |
| Great Plains | ... by Lieutenant Zebulon Pike and in 1819 by Major Stephen Long described the | as "unfit for human habitation" and as "The Great American Desert". These ... |
| 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 ... |
| North America | British Airways provides the airport's only nonstop service outside of | to London-Heathrow, as well as the only passenger flights on Boeing 747 in ... |
| Gozo | ... rld's oldest free-standing structure is the neolithic temple of Ggantija in | , Malta |
| Balearic Islands | ... cal ferment caused by the entrance of the French into Spain extended to the | , and the population suspected Arago's movements and his lighting of fires ... |
| Calais | ... help his son, and Blanche was his sole support. She established herself at | and 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 both | and China by changing its recognition from one to the other (see One China ... |
| Marshall Islands | The | , 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 ... |
| Hornsherred | ... s the Roskilde Fjord between the town of Frederikssund and the peninsula of | , as well as the Frederick IX Bridge which spans the Guldborgsund strait b ... |
| 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 on | with the neutral name "Taiwan. |
| Balearic Islands | ... became a maritime power, expanding by trade and conquest into Valencia, the | , and even Sardinia and Sicily |
| 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 ... |
| Polynesia | ... 8 Rivers travelled to the Solomon Islands, and other areas of Melanesia and | . His two-volume History of Melanesian Society (1914), which he dedicated ... |
| Ireland | ... pacity of 30,000 is an important Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) venue in | and is home to the Roscommon county footballers and Roscommon Gaels club |
| Anatolia | ... s and moved along the outskirts of the Karakum desert into Iran, Syria, and | |
| Écréhous | ... f small islands that are no longer permanently inhabited, the Minquiers and | , and the Pierres de Lecq and other rocks and reefs |
| Antarctica | ... eir southern extreme in the Snow Petrel's breeding colonies up to inland in | . The highest bird diversity occurs in tropical regions. It was earlier th ... |
| Venice | The majority of the crusading army that set out from | in 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 of | in the mid to late 90s. The gamble had seemed to pay-off and Jayasuriya ne ... |
| Alameda, California | ... ontinued to soar and in that year Lucent acquired Ascend Communications, an | -based manufacturer of communications equipment for US$24 billion. Lucent ... |
| Iceland | ... g. Tables games were played in Germany in the 12th century, and had reached | by 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 off | to avoid discovery. Both Ryan and Ramius are on hand to see the submarine ... |
| Vanuatu | ... wealth, and 48 by foreign states. The inhabitants of some small villages in | also worship Prince Philip as a god; the islanders possess portraits of th ... |
| Machars | ... Nithsdale, Annandale and Eskdale, the Stewartry of Kirkcudbrightshire, the | and Wigtownshire. Dumfries also lends its name to the Lieutenancy Area of ... |
| Taiwan | ... onoseki under which China abandoned its own suzerainty over Korea and ceded | , Pescadores and the Liaodong Peninsula (Port Arthur) to Japan |
| Seattle | ... ms features 1 from the East Coast in Pittsburgh and 6 from the West Coast - | , Denver, Los Angeles, Orange County, Dallas and Houston. Jamaica also hav ... |
| 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 ... |
| South America | ... only as a minority or secondary language by immigrant communities in North, | , Australia, and African countries like Libya, Eritrea and Somalia. Romani ... |
| 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, and | and their islet possessions. The Bailiwick of Guernsey also administers so ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mauritius | Diwali is an official holiday in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, | , Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, Malaysia, Singapore, and |
| Sicilian | Tommaso Buscetta (13 July 1928 – 2 April 2000) was a | mafioso. Although he was not the first pentito (informant) in the Italian ... |
| North America | Queen Anne's War (1702–1713), as the | n theater of the War of the Spanish Succession was known in the British co ... |
| North America | ... s of Mannheim's central area are laid out in a grid pattern, just like most | n and Australian cities and towns. Because of this, the city's nickname is ... |
| Australasia | ... part of the Wallacea area with a mixture of plants and animals of Asian and | n origin; it lies in the western part of Wallacea, in which Asian species ... |
| Sri Lanka | Diwali 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 to | in Western Australia |
| North America | ... ndigenous belief systems, thus creating a new distinct aboriginal people in | . First Nations women were the link between cultures, they not only provid ... |
| Asia | ... region is part of the Wallacea area with a mixture of plants and animals of | n and Australasian origin; it lies in the western part of Wallacea, in whi ... |
| Korean Peninsula | ... 011. This comes as a response to both the mountainous terrain native to the | (70% mountainous) as well as the heavy North Korean presence, with its 1 m ... |
| Samosir Island | ... d uplift due to partial refilling of the magma chamber, for example pushing | and the Uluan Peninsula above the surface of the lake. The lake sediments ... |
| Isthmus of Corinth | ... the Peloponnese peninsula (separated from the mainland by the canal of the | ). Due to its highly indented coastline and numerous islands, Greece has t ... |
| 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 | |
| Guernsey | ... s the largest of the Channel Islands. Although the Bailiwicks of Jersey and | are often referred to collectively as 'the Channel Islands', they are not ... |
| Iceland | The Íslendingabók, a main source for the early history of | , recounts that on the Conversion of Iceland to Christianity in 1000 it wa ... |
| Prince Edward Island | Avonlea (ah-von-LEE) is a fictional community located on | , Canada, and is the setting of Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel Anne of Green ... |
| 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, ... |
| Liaodong Peninsula | ... bandoned its own suzerainty over Korea and ceded Taiwan, Pescadores and the | (Port Arthur) to Japan |
| 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 | |
| British Isles | As with the rest of the | and 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 ... |
| Cape Peninsula | The centre of Cape Town is located at the northern end of the | . Table Mountain forms a dramatic backdrop to the City Bowl, with its plat ... |
| Asia | ... a species of Ribes berry native to central and northern Europe and northern | , and is a perennial |
| Cape Henlopen | In 1941, the United States built Fort Miles on | , immediately south of Lewes, to defend Delaware Bay and the Delaware Rive ... |
| Indian subcontinent | Christianity, Islam and Judaism entered in to the | through the Thrissur district. The works of scholars and Eastern Christian ... |
| Lesbos | ... the 60m-wide Euripus Strait, is the second largest, followed by Rhodes and | |
| Marco Island | ... red Miami Blue Butterfly (Cyclargus thomasi bethunebakeri); additionally on | , Green Iguanas have been observed using the burrows of the Florida Burrow ... |
| Cook Islands | ... Colombia, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, | , Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democr ... |
| Iberian Peninsula | ... ng the Middle Palaeolithic. Like the rest of the Mediterranean coast of the | , it was colonized by Ancient Greeks and Carthaginians and participated in ... |
| Iberian Peninsula | ... eden. Some Romanies migrated from Persia through North Africa, reaching the | in the 15th century. The two currents met in France |
| Rhodes | ... mainland by the 60m-wide Euripus Strait, is the second largest, followed by | and Lesbos |
| 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 with | and Luzon. It consists of several islands, primarily surrounding the Visay ... |
| Gibraltar | ... arrier battle group, the U.S. 6th Fleet, sent on a training exercise toward | was re-positioned back towards the eastern Mediterranean to be able to def ... |
| 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 ... |
| Philippines | In 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Markagunt | ... anses of forest are found in the Rocky Mountains, the Kaibab, Aquarius, and | Plateaus in southern Utah and northern Arizona, the Mogollon Rim through c ... |
| Seattle | ... Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, | , and Washington, D.C |
| Vanuatu | ... lis, Spanish explorers in the 17th century also discovered the Pitcairn and | archipelagos. Most significantly, from 1565 Spanish fleets explored and co ... |
| 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 ... |
| Seattle | ... , inland from the Puget Sound, south of the border with Canada and north of | |
| 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 ... |
| Chignecto | ... the famous Indian fighter Benjamin Church, the expedition raided Grand Pré, | , and other settlements. Although French accounts claim that Church attemp ... |
| Hispaniola | ... ery, stone carving, and other artifacts, eventually merged with groups from | and Cuba, to form what is now called the Taíno culture. This culture flour ... |
| South America | ... ed the religious cult the Children of God. They began travelling throughout | |
| Réunion | ... nting the five overseas departments (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, | and Mayotte) the total comes to 101 departments. In 2011, the overseas col ... |
| 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 ... |
| Isthmus of Panama | ... World camels crossed over via the Bering Land Bridge. The formation of the | three million years ago allowed camelids to spread to South America as par ... |
| County Cricket Ground | Derbyshire also has a cricket team based at the | . Derbyshire County Cricket Club currently play in Division two of the Cou ... |
| Ireland | ... ld 347,563 copies in the United Kingdom. The song reached the top twenty in | and Switzerland. "I Refuse", the fourth single (France only), was released ... |
| Icaria | In a similar story, Dionysus desired to sail from | to Naxos. He then hired a Tyrrhenian pirate ship. However, when the god wa ... |
| Seattle | ... y in King County, Washington, United States. Federal Way is located between | and Tacoma. Its western boundary is Puget Sound. It is bordered by Des Moi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Yucatán Peninsula | ... n, from 1551–1697, against the Maya peoples of the Maya civilization in the | of present day Mexico and northern Central America. The day Hernán Cortés ... |
| Seattle | ... s an example, to adjust the flow of AC power on a hypothetical line between | and Boston would require adjustment of the relative phase of the two elect ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sumatra | ... int. Located in the middle of the northern part of the Indonesian island of | with a surface elevation of about , the lake stretches from to . It is the ... |
| Gotland | ... n European trade routes, which led from Birka in the north to the island of | and to Visby in the Baltic Sea and later included the Hanseatic city of El ... |
| Arabian Peninsula | ... in Africa. The practice persists in 28 African countries, as well as in the | , where Types I and II are more common. It is known to exist in northern S ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mayotte | ... ve overseas departments (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion and | ) the total comes to 101 departments. In 2011, the overseas collectivity o ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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, ... |
| North America | ... ales representation in the Irish Free State, certain European countries and | . A monthly newsletter was produced entitled Quota News, and trophies were ... |
| 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 |
| Bornholm | ... ed to the V-83 pilotless aircraft (an experimental V-1) that had crashed on | in the Baltic and to reports from agents of a flying bomb capable of being ... |
| Malta | ... Illustrious which lay in Norfolk, Virginia, for repairs following action at | in the Mediterranean in January. During this period of relative inactivity ... |
| Cayman Islands | ... find them in shallow, sandy waters, more so when the water is warm. In the | several dive sites called Stingray City, Grand Cayman, allow divers and sn ... |
| Delmarva Peninsula | ... e mid-point is located about northwest of Salisbury, near the center of the | . The county is generally flat, characteristic of the region, with a few s ... |
| Isle of May | To the north east, the | on the coast of the East Neuk of Fife, can be seen |
| Cape Cod | Provincetown is a New England town located at the extreme tip of | in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 3,4 ... |
| Seattle | ... -Cities area and is served by several major airlines with direct flights to | , Denver, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Phoenix/Mes ... |
| 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 ... |
| Delmarva Peninsula | Lewes is an incorporated city in Sussex County, Delaware, on the | . According to the 2010 census, the population is 2,747, a decrease of 6.3 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Africa | ... the name Mogadore. Some say the sailor had fond memories of trips to North | , some have said he had a friend that had been captured by the Barbary Pir ... |
| Mayotte | ... ) the total comes to 101 departments. In 2011, the overseas collectivity of | became the 101st department |
| Great Britain | Speer introduced economic reforms that the United States and | had implemented long before—namely, the full mobilization of factories for ... |
| Sri Lanka | ... large populations of Hindu and Sikh origin. These include countries such as | , Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealan ... |
| Manhattan | ... oldest secondary school in the nation after the Collegiate School (1628) in | and the Boston Latin School (1635). The state also has many noted private ... |
| Philippines | The Republic of the | established its ROTC program in 1912, during American colonial rule, with ... |
| Crete | ... few areas of the world, particularly in southern Spain, Portugal, Morocco, | , the Levant, South Africa, Colombia, Peru, parts of central and northern ... |
| Ireland | ... enmark (on behalf of the Faroe Islands) on the one hand and with the UK and | on 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 ... |
| Cape Cod | ... the Metropolitan was over. John pawned his late father's watch and sold his | cottage to birth control activist and sex educator Margaret Sanger. When W ... |
| Anatolia | At its greatest extent, the Kingdom of Lydia covered all of western | . Lydia (known as Sparda by the Achaemenids) was a satrapy (province) of t ... |
| Cape Cod | Bartholomew Gosnold named | in Provincetown Harbor in 1602. In 1620, the Pilgrims signed the Mayflower ... |
| Melbourne Cricket Ground | Both the | and the Yarra River were again centrepieces for the ceremony. Samresh Jung ... |
| Calabria | ... e London Brick Company in the southern Italian regions of Puglia, Campania, | , Molise, Abruzzo and Sicily. Bedford's Little Italy feel is enhanced by a ... |
| Kiribati | ... us. As a consequence Tuvalu separated from the Gilbert Islands which became | . Tuvalu became fully independent within the Commonwealth on October 1, 19 ... |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Wirral Peninsula | ... ers Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys met at primary school in Meols on the | , in the early 1960s, and in the mid-1970s, as teenagers, they were involv ... |
| Funafuti | ... i during his expedition in search of Terra Australis. In 1819 the island of | was named Ellice's Island; the name Ellice was applied to all nine islands ... |
| Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus | The | (TRNC) issues passports, but only Turkey recognises its statehood. TRNC pa ... |
| Taiwan | ... ary parade on October 10, 1949 was the first public military parade held in | with 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 "the | of the East". It is of a similar geological form to nearby North Berwick L ... |
| Caribbean | The English-speaking regions of Canada and the | are caught between historical connections with the UK and the Commonwealth ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mojave Desert | ... s such as the Santa Monica Mountains, San Gabriel Mountains ranges, and the | . Developed land in these regions is observed on the fringes of incorporat ... |
| San Juan Island | In 1845 the Hudson's Bay Company laid claim to | . In 1850 they built a salmon curing station. A few years later they start ... |
| South America | ... efore deciding to withdraw from acting for a while and travel to Mexico and | with his father |
| Asia | ... n or "transition" in former Communist states located in parts of Europe and | , in which new governments aimed to create free market-oriented capitalist ... |
| Puerto Rico | Vieques (; ), in full Isla de Vieques, is an island–municipality of | in the northeastern Caribbean, part of an island grouping sometimes known ... |
| New Zealand | Since 2002 | collective Vitamin S has hosted weekly improvisations based around randoml ... |
| San Juan Islands | ... ted on San Juan Island, Friday Harbor is the major commercial center of the | archipelago and is the county seat of San Juan County |
| Long Island | Suffolk and Nassau counties together are generally referred to as " | " by area residents — as distinct from the New York City boroughs of Queen ... |
| Middle-earth | The pure Vanyar were only seen in | once after their departure, when Ingwë's son Ingwion led an armed host of ... |
| Cyprus | ... reaches Othello, news arrives in Venice that the Turks are going to attack | ; therefore Othello is summoned to advise the senators. Brabantio arrives ... |
| Corsica | The reorganisation of Ile-de-France (1968) and the division of | (1975) added six more departments, raising the total to 96. Counting the f ... |
| 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 ... |
| Taiwan | | was ceded to Japan in 1895 and was a major Japanese prefecture in World Wa ... |
| Tahiti | Many | an island resorts regularly offer guests the chance to "feed the stingrays ... |
| Seattle | ... ublic pay phones, free short-term and long-term parking. Trains run between | and Los Angeles with a northbound, and a southbound train departing from t ... |
| Long Beach Peninsula | Ilwaco is located at (46.312541, -124.029688) on the | |
| 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 ... |
| Tonga | ... ority of Pacific Islander population also resides in East Palo Alto, mostly | ns with some Samoans and Fijians . East Palo Alto has the largest concentr ... |
| Great Plains | ... es, for example among the Cheyenne, one of Plains Indians that lived in the | of North America, medicine such as war paint, war shields, war shirts, and ... |
| Corfu | ... ticed widely in Greece while cricket and handball are relatively popular in | and Veroia respectively |
| Samoa | ... slander population also resides in East Palo Alto, mostly Tongans with some | ns and Fijians . East Palo Alto has the largest concentration of Pacific I ... |
| Keahole Point | ... ert to Hāwī and back, and the marathon run along the coast (from Keauhou to | and back to Kailua-Kona); finishing on Alii Drive. The most recent Ironman ... |
| 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, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Vanuatu | ... , United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, | , Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabw |
| Atauro | Timor and its offshore islands such as | , a former place of exile increasingly known for its beaches and coral, as ... |
| South America | ... l Diaconis supported himself by playing poker on ships between New York and | . Gardner recalls that Diaconis had "fantastic second deal and bottom deal ... |
| Ithaca | In Greek mythology, Halithersês (Ἁλιθέρσης), son of Mastor, was an | n prophet who warned the suitors of Odysseus's wife Penelope after interpr ... |
| Great Plains | ... oximately 35 miles east of Trinidad, Colorado, on State Highway 389, in the | , as well in the Black Mesa area, the town is surrounded by mesa. It is a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Seward Peninsula | The mainland's most westerly point is the end of the | in Alaska; Attu Island, further off the Alaskan coast to the west, is cons ... |
| Olympic Peninsula | ... rson County. In addition to its natural scenery at the northeast tip of the | , the city is also known for the many Victorian buildings remaining from i ... |
| Guadeloupe | ... ing the total to 96. Counting the five overseas departments (French Guiana, | , Martinique, Réunion and Mayotte) the total comes to 101 departments. In ... |
| Jaco | ... mer place of exile increasingly known for its beaches and coral, as well as | along with Wetar and the other Barat Daya Islands to the northeast constit ... |
| Ambergris Caye | In Belize, off the island of | , there is a popular marine sanctuary, Hol Chan, where divers and snorkele ... |
| Calais | At | , 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 from | have 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 ... |
| Puerto Rico | ... e 1974 Candidates' matches, Spassky first defeated American Robert Byrne in | by 4½–1½ (+3 =3); he then lost the semifinal match to the up-and-coming An ... |
| 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 and | Island (minor island of Ponziane Archipelago) |
| Caribbean | ... ricana) and feed them by hand. A "Stingray City" in the sea surrounding the | island of consists of a large, shallow reserve where the rays live, and sn ... |
| Long Island | A county park in East Meadow, New York ( | ) is named in his honor. Eisenhower State Park on Lake Texoma near his bir ... |
| Philippines | ... d most of the townsite. He renamed the town to Pateros, after a town in the | he previously visited. In 1903, the city consisted of four commercial esta ... |
| Venice | ... Napoleon's German allies, and pay 40 million francs in war indemnities, and | was given to the Kingdom of Italy. It was a harsh end for Austria, but cer ... |
| Niutao | ... s) but was unable to land. Keith S. Chambers and Doug Munro (1980) identify | as 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 from | and 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 ... |
| South India | ... , Anderson was the son of a British Army officer. He was born in Bangalore, | , and educated at Saint Ronan's School in Worthing, West Sussex, and at Ch ... |
| Antarctica | ... The nations of the world have recently united in declaring the continent of | "off limits" to military preparations. We could extend this principle to a ... |
| Bell Rock | ... ng boat, renamed Pharos, which entered service on 15 September 1807 near to | and had a 1.5 ton anchor. The effectiveness of these anchors improved dram ... |
| Malta | ... o the Murmansk front (see Lapland War). Reportedly Kirkenes is second after | on a list of European towns experiencing air-raid alarms and attacks, with ... |
| North America | ... in-building episode known as the Laramide orogeny started to uplift western | 65 million years ago and eventually formed the ancestral Rocky Mountains. ... |
| Gibraltar | ... f David. Leaving the Holy Land, Haile Selassie and his entourage sailed for | aboard the British cruiser HMS Capetown. From Gibraltar, the exiles were t ... |
| Cape Peninsula | ... bleway. Cape Point is recognised as the dramatic headland at the end of the | . Many tourists also drive along Chapman's Peak Drive, a narrow road that ... |
| Hispaniola | ... the New World. Ten years after Columbus's discovery, the administration of | was 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 with | to the Empire of Japan in 1895 following the First Sino-Japanese War. Taiw ... |
| Kuril Islands | ... f Saint Petersburg (1875), when they ceded it to Russia in exchange for the | |
| Seattle | Unlike nearby | , Moses Lake has a very dry climate, and is sometimes called a desert |
| Balkans | ... the 1990s, Republicans opposed the intervention of the United States in the | under President Bill Clinton and in 2000, George W. Bush ran on a platform ... |
| Seattle | Martin and Lyon met in | in 1950 when they began working for the same magazine. They became lovers ... |
| Palau | The economy of | consists primarily of subsistence agriculture and fishing. The government ... |
| New Zealand | ... onies at the close of the 19th century, with the self-governing colonies of | and South Australia granting women the right to vote in 1893 and 1895 resp ... |
| 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 |
| Jutland | ... at the south-western corner of the Courish Lagoon), along the Baltic Sea to | , and from there up the Schlei inlet to Haithabu/Hedeby, a large trading c ... |
| Sunda Islands | Timor is located north of Australia, and is one of the easternmost | . Together with Sumba, Babar and associated smaller islands, Timor forms t ... |
| Australasia | Women's suffrage was achieved in Britain's | n colonies at the close of the 19th century, with the self-governing colon ... |
| 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 ... |
| Solomon Islands | In the | in 1943, three PT boats, PT-59, PT-60, and PT-61, were converted into "PT ... |
| Seattle | ... ord, and during the 1950s, she worked as part of the editorial staff of two | magazines |
| Jutland | ... n Rebild municipality in Region Nordjylland in the geographic region of the | peninsula known as Himmerland in northern Denmark. The modern town has a p ... |
| South America | ... noted Jewish operetta star who performed throughout Europe and in North and | ; he starred as Count Danilo in the original production of The Merry Widow |
| 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 ... |
| Saint Croix | ... rport (20-30 minute flight). Flights are also available between Vieques and | and Saint Thomas |
| Philippines | ... s. The population enjoys a per capita income of more than twice that of the | and much of Micronesia. Long-term prospects for the tourist sector have be ... |
| Long Island | ... inister after studying under Wheelock from 1743 to 1747, and later moved to | to preach to the Montauks |
| Ireland | Francis Stewart Leland Lyons (1923–1983) was one of | 's premier historians |
| 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 ... |
| North America | ... Complex—seasonally draw some of the largest concentrations of waterfowl in | . The area is world-renowned as a birdwatcher's paradise. Natural geotherm ... |
| Pelennor Fields | ... lands were surrounded by the Rammas Echor, a fortified wall encircling the | and meeting up with Osgiliath, where the Causeway Forts were built on the ... |
| Cape Cod | Provincetown is located at the tip of | . The town's total area is , of it being land and of it water. The town is ... |
| Olympic Peninsula | ... 116514, -122.775254). It is situated at the extreme northeastern end of the | , on the north end of a large, semi-protected bay. Port Townsend is adjace ... |
| Iceland | ... summers there, with the Morris children, while Morris himself travelled to | in 1871 and 1873 |
| Great Plains | ... tes. The population was 150 at the 2000 census. The town is situated on the | , straddling U.S. Route 287 |
| Cyprus | ... , Norway, Belgium, Denmark, Iceland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, | , Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. Donald Rumsfeld tried to downplay the Fren ... |
| 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 ... |
| Maluku Islands | ... tronesian languages are related to languages spoken in the Halmahera in the | and Western New Guinea |
| South Pacific | Heggen based his novel on his experiences aboard the and the in the | during World War II, and began the book as a collection of short stories. ... |
| Middle-earth | ... úvatar gave being to the themes of the Ainur, his music became the lands of | . Other of his works include Angainor (the chain of Melkor), the Two Lamps ... |
| Great Britain | ... ntrol for over three centuries, from 1565 to 1898. The city was occupied by | for two years from 1762 to 1764 as part of the Seven Years' War. The city ... |
| Great Plains | ... ppi-Missouri river system drains most of 31 states of the U.S., most of the | , and large areas between the Rocky and Appalachian mountains. This river ... |
| Iceland | ... ia, France, Switzerland, Greece, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Denmark, | , the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus, Russia, Belarus, and Ukra ... |
| 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 ... |
| Saint Thomas | ... ute flight). Flights are also available between Vieques and Saint Croix and | |
| North America | The establishment of the first permanent English-speaking colony in | in 1607 was a major step towards the globalisation of the language. Britis ... |
| 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 ( ... |
| New Zealand | ... n Chile, Vietnam, Indonesia, parts of southern India, Sri Lanka, Australia, | , the Philippines, Malaysia, Central America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Calif ... |
| Rhodians | ... title of king bestowed upon him by his father, he endeavoured to punish the | for having deserted his cause; his ingenuity in devising new siege engines ... |
| Maldives | The | ban 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 ... |
| Asia | ... uding MSNBC in the U.S. and Canada, CNBC Europe in Europe, and CNBC Asia in | . It is also broadcast in Australia on the Seven Network |
| New Zealand | ... s. Others (like the United Kingdom, Italy, Russia, South Africa, Australia, | , and Japan) use different ensigns. Such ensigns are strictly regulated an ... |
| Ellis Island | ... lty to Children as an interpreter for the U.S. Bureau of Immigration at the | immigrant 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. On | and Vaitupu the founding ancestor is described as being from Samoa; wherea ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jutland | ... town with a population of 8,010 (1 January 2011) in the Himmerland area on | . Administratively, it is located in Region Nordjylland in the Vesthimmerl ... |
| Asia | ... entury, and this relatively well-established English was brought to Africa, | and New Zealand. It developed both as the language of English-speaking set ... |
| Long Island | He spent summers in | with his maternal grandmother, Rose Schwartz, and attended the Actors Stud ... |
| Cashman Field | ... Athletics were forced to play their first six-game homestand at 9,300-seat | in Las Vegas |
| Manhattan | Corporate headquarters is in the Upper West Side of | in New York City, and the company's news operations are also centered in M ... |
| 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. ... |
| Uluan Peninsula | ... refilling of the magma chamber, for example pushing Samosir Island and the | above the surface of the lake. The lake sediments on Samosir Island show t ... |
| Jutland | ... ty on the northwest coast of the island of Vendsyssel-Thy at the top of the | peninsula in northern Denmark. The municipality covered an area of 181 km² ... |
| Silda | | , the island in Sildagapet bay, is an old fishing community, which in its ... |
| New Zealand | ... nd this relatively well-established English was brought to Africa, Asia and | . It developed both as the language of English-speaking settlers from Brit ... |
| Rideau Hall | ... is Oath of Allegiance before the Queen in person at her Canadian residence, | . Visiting Canada in 1969, Philip spoke about his views on republicanism |
| Taiwan | ... t 18414 Colima Road in Rowland Heights, 91748 to feed its flight to Taipei, | |
| San Francisco Peninsula | ... census, the population of East Palo Alto was 28,155. It is situated on the | , roughly halfway between the cities of San Francisco and San Jose. To the ... |
| Lesser Sunda Islands | ... imur, Malay for "east"; it is so called because it is at the eastern end of | |
| Iberian Peninsula | ... Ovando of the Order of Alcántara, founded during the Reconquista. As in the | , the inhabitants of Hispaniola were given new landmasters, while religiou ... |
| Coronado, California | ... on Bay, California, as well as the 1975 Optimist Sports Fiesta Triathlon in | . A number of the other military athletes in attendance were also familiar ... |
| Samoa | ... d. On Funafuti and Vaitupu the founding ancestor is described as being from | ; whereas on Nanumea the founding ancestor is described as being from |
| Melbourne Cricket Ground | Both the | and the Yarra River were centrepieces for the ceremony, which included man ... |
| New Zealand | ... w Zealand) is an Olympic champion, former World Record holding swimmer from | , based in Dunedin. , he is a National Record holder |
| 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 ... |
| Melbourne Cricket Ground | Melbourne's premier sporting ground, the | (MCG), was redeveloped in preparation for the Games. An athlete's village ... |
| 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 | |
| Seattle | ... d Enchanted Village. It is located on the south side of the city and is the | area's only permanent amusement park. Six Flags purchased Wild Waves in De ... |
| Wayne National Forest | ... town, approximately 20 miles east of Marietta, Ohio. Matamoras is south of | . The town's longitude and latitude are: (39.522451, -81.065084) |
| Africa | ... evious century, and this relatively well-established English was brought to | , Asia and New Zealand. It developed both as the language of English-speak ... |
| Antarctica | Article 1 of the main Antarctic Treaty forbids military activity in | , though military personnel and equipment may use the landmass for peacefu ... |
| Cape Finisterre | ... sh civil ensign distinguished with the national arms in the canton north of | , but had to fly the Swedish civil ensign in the Mediterranean to be prote ... |
| Jutland | ... ality (Danish, kommune) in Rebild municipality in Region Nordjylland on the | peninsula in northern Denmark. The former Nørager municipality covered an ... |
| 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 ... |
| Elba | The 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 ... |
| Moldøen | ... igruten) has daily departures. The old part of the city lies on the island, | |
| the continent | ... (OAU) members, concerned that this could encourage separatism elsewhere on | and duly committed to the sanctity of African state borders, firmly reject ... |
| Melanesia | ... ries regarding the spread of humans out of Southeast Asia, from Taiwan, via | and 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. ... |
| Sri Lanka | ... e assassinations were linked to separatist movements in Punjab and northern | , respectively |
| Guam | ... ited States Navy, was promoted to coxswain and took part in the invasion of | against 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 ... |
| South India | The city also has emerged as the prime centre in | for students seeking entry into the professional courses. As many as 17,00 ... |
| Culebra | ... ieques is the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south the Caribbean. The island of | is about north of Vieques, and the US Virgin Islands lie to the east. Vieq ... |
| 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 ... |
| Malaya | ... ed of labor, such as the Americas, Australia, South Africa, Southeast Asia, | and other places |
| Kaskaskia, Illinois | ... ford, and James Garretson, settlers from Maryland and Virginia travelled to | in 1781 and after wintering there, settled at or near Bellefontaine (Frenc ... |
| Cape Finisterre | ... t civil ensign (with the saltire included) in "distant waters" (i.e. beyond | ). In "distant waters", they had the right to use any of the square-cut ci ... |
| Corsica | In 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 ... |
| Philippines | In many countries in Latin America, the | , and several US states, the sale but not the consumption of alcohol is pr ... |
| North America | , published as Dragon Warrior in | until 2005, is a series of internationally best-selling console role-playi ... |
| Wirral Peninsula | ... tish New Wave/synthpop group whose founding members are originally from the | , England. OMD were originally assimilated in the greater New Wave batch o ... |
| Interior Plains | Between its coastal mountain ranges, North America has vast flat areas. The | spread over much of the continent with low relief. The Canadian Shield cov ... |
| Jutland | ... rederikshavn municipality, Region Nordjylland on the northeast coast of the | peninsula in northern Denmark. Its name translates to "Frederik's harbour" ... |
| Woodlark Island | ... vasion convoy, Gotō, and Kajioka steered towards a rendezvous point east of | to await the outcome of the carrier battle. During the night, the warm fro ... |
| Africa | ... main illegal (notably throughout the Middle East, South Asia and in most of | , but also in much of the Caribbean and Oceania) including five that carry ... |
| Africa | ... hrough the 1800s. The Colony of Natal was a British colony in south-eastern | that had been proclaimed a British colony on May 4, 1843 after the British ... |
| Africa | ... lic Throne of Saint Mark the Evangelist,” that is “of Alexandria and of all | .” The title of “Patriarch” was first used around the time of the Third Ec ... |
| Elba | After the war he retired to Silesia, but the return of Napoleon from | soon called him back to service. He was put in command of the Army of the ... |
| Polynesia | Tuvalu ( or ), formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is a | n island nation located in the Pacific Ocean, midway between Hawaii and Au ... |
| Ireland | Millions demonstrated on the streets of Britain, | , Spain, Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, France, Switzerland, G ... |
| Canary Islands | ... lands, he took holiday voyages twice to the West Indies, three times to the | and 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 the | and Oceania) including five that carry the death penalty |
| Balkans | ... their ships to the city. By autumn, the epidemic had spread throughout the | , possibly through contact with Venetian ports along the Adriatic Sea. Spe ... |
| Tenerife | ... was announced in December 2005 that a musical called "Assuca" would open in | before touring the world. The name comes from Cruz's well-known catch phra ... |
| Inchgarvie | Where 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, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Oceania | ... st, South Asia and in most of Africa, but also in much of the Caribbean and | ) including five that carry the death penalty |
| Crete | ... liberate the Greek-speaking provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Especially in | , a prolonged revolt in 1866–1869 had raised nationalist fervour. When war ... |
| Sardinia | ... of young children, with evidence of sacrificial rituals, have been found in | . Infants were offered to the Babylonian goddess Ishtar. Pelasgians offere ... |
| Seattle | ... lk of it was stolen in 2000. The gravestone was recovered in June 2001 near | and is now in a museum in Waushara County |
| Forest of Bowland | ... the northern leaders of the Pilgrimage and the King's own Bowbearer of the | |
| 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 ... |
| Mocha Island | ... bergen observed the use of chiliquenes (a llama type) by native Mapuches of | as plow animals in 1614 |
| Hebrides | ... so settled in the Faroe Islands, Ireland, Iceland, Scotland (Caithness, the | and the Northern Isles), Greenland, and Canada |
| 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. ... |
| 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 ... |
| Leizhou Peninsula | ... vince. Hainan is located in the South China Sea, separated from Guangdong's | to the north by the shallow and narrow Qiongzhou Strait |
| Oceania | In at least one island in | , infanticide was carried out until the 20th century by suffocating the in ... |
| Rozenburg | ... llest municipality in the Netherlands in land area, following the merger of | into Rotterdam |
| Northern Isles | ... Faroe Islands, Ireland, Iceland, Scotland (Caithness, the Hebrides and the | ), Greenland, and Canada |
| Sinai Peninsula | ... tions. It has exclusive authority over the following regions: Egypt and the | , Eritrea and northern Ethiopia, southern Albania and Bulgaria, Cyprus, Gr ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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' ... |
| Newfoundland | The island of | , then a British colony, held two referendums in 1948 to determine its fut ... |
| Madison, Wisconsin | ... n Waupun, Wisconsin, and later transferred to the Mendota State Hospital in | . In 1968, Gein's doctors determined he was sane enough to stand trial. Th ... |
| Spratly Islands | ... he PRC government claims territories of the province extend to the southern | , Paracel Islands, and other disputed marine territory |
| North America | King George's War (1744–1748) is the name given to the operations in | that formed part of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748). It was ... |
| 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 ... |
| San Francisco Peninsula | One of the two Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct utility corridors on the | was installed through the area at an angle diagonal to the existing street ... |
| San Francisco Peninsula | ... populations of at least 10,000. It is located south of San Francisco on the | , bordered by Burlingame to the north, San Mateo to the east, Highlands-Ba ... |
| Asia | ... ne end of the Manila–Acapulco galleon trade route linking Latin America and | . This caused it to be called the "Pearl of the Orient". Several Chinese i ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sakhalin | ... strategic resources. Japan also received the southern half of the Island of | from 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 of | and 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 ... |
| Hiawatha National Forest | ... and Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Parts of the shoreline are within the | and the Manistee National Forest. The Manistee National Forest section of ... |
| Horn of Africa | ... -Barbar ("Land of the Berbers"), which was the medieval Arabic term for the | |
| Kiribati | ... 1500 people left the island during a repatriation of immigrant workers from | and Tuvalu. The repatriation was motivated by wide-scale reductions-in-for ... |
| Iceland | ... enmark, Norway and Sweden. They also settled in the Faroe Islands, Ireland, | , Scotland (Caithness, the Hebrides and the Northern Isles), Greenland, an ... |
| Shawnee National Forest | Illinois Route 145 lies east of the city and serves remote areas of nearby | |
| Asia Minor | ... trading and colonising activities of the Greek tribes from the Balkans and | spread people of Greek culture, religion and language around the Mediterra ... |
| Isthmus of Panama | ... (1567–1635) who explored Canada. In 1513, Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the | and led the first European expedition to see the Pacific Ocean from the we ... |
| Ireland | There have been two introductions of English to | , a medieval introduction that led to the development of the now-extinct Y ... |
| New Forest | ... back to England and to have lived with him in the Christchurch area of the | in southern England. After her father's death, she continued to live in th ... |
| Cumberland Plateau | ... ed to as "The Monteagle" or "Monteagle Mountain", a section of the southern | which is a major landmark on the road between Chattanooga and Nashville. 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 ... |
| North America | Locations named after Valhalla exist in | (including Valhalla, New York, Valhalla Centre, Alberta, Walhalla, Michiga ... |
| 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 ... |
| Kowloon Peninsula | ... , in Cheung Sha Wan, Sham Shui Po District, in the northwestern part of the | of Hong Kong |
| 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 of | following a fire onboard. The fire was caused by seawater entering through ... |
| William Robert Broughton | In October 1792, Vancouver sent Lieutenant | , his second-in-command, up the river. Broughton got as far as the Sandy R ... |
| Asia | Prevalence is higher in some countries in Africa and | . Countries with particularly high rates of infection include Egypt (22%), ... |
| Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge | ... includes the Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness. The Lake Michigan division of the | is also within the lake |
| Artillery Ground | ... tary citizens, and even today this part of the manor still bears the name " | ". Next to this lies Bunhill Fields, the name deriving from "Bone Hill", w ... |
| 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 ... |
| Guam | ... azpi was carried by the navy from New Spain (Mexico) to the Philippines via | in order to establish the Spanish East Indies, a base for trade with the O ... |
| Necker Island | Page married Lucinda Southworth at Richard Branson's Caribbean island, | in 2007. Southworth is a research scientist and sister of actress and mode ... |
| Pontine Islands | ... s Latina, including the only remaining remnant of the swamp, and two of the | offshore, 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 ... |
| Guadalcanal | ... was sufficient to disrupt heavily escorted Japanese resupply activities at | . Afterwards, the PT mission in the Solomon Islands was deemed a success |
| Mustang Island | The 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 ... |
| Iceland | ... ament of the United Kingdom, the Tynwald of the Isle of Man, the Althing of | and Sejm of . Of these, it is the only one to have met continuously as a l ... |
| Willamette Valley | In 1843, settlers of the | drafted the Organic Laws of Oregon organizing land claims within the Orego ... |
| 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 ... |
| Africa | Prevalence is higher in some countries in | and Asia. Countries with particularly high rates of infection include Egyp ... |
| Great Britain | ... the start of the Industrial Revolution also concerns the massive lead that | had over other countries. Some have stressed the importance of natural or ... |
| Penghu | Taiwan (excluding | ) was first populated by unknown peoples, then by Austronesian people. It ... |
| Liaodong Peninsula | ... vacuate Manchuria and return its sovereignty to China, but Japan leased the | (containing Port Arthur and Talien), and the Russian rail system in southe ... |
| Fraser Island | ... he unnamed passage between Lady Elliot Island (its southernmost island) and | in the south. Lady Elliot Island is located southeast of Bramble Cay as th ... |
| Po River plain | ... tationed in Parma on 9 September. By 19 September all Italian forces in the | had been disarmed, but the OKW was concerned by reports that elements of t ... |
| Africa | ... thful. This title is historically known as “Patriarch of Alexandria and all | on the Holy Apostolic Throne of Saint Mark the Evangelist,” that is “of Al ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Isthmus of Panama | In 1513, Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the | , to find gold but instead led the first European expedition to the Pacifi ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cumberland Plateau | ... ranklin, Grundy, and Marion counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee, in the | region of the southeastern part of the state. The population was 1,238 at ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tuvalu | ... eft the island during a repatriation of immigrant workers from Kiribati and | . The repatriation was motivated by wide-scale reductions-in-force in the ... |
| 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 Islands | The effectiveness of PT boats in the | campaign, where there were numerous engagements between PTs and capital sh ... |
| 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 |
| Maldives | In ancient times the | were renowned for cowries, coir rope, dried tuna fish (Maldive Fish), ambe ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cape Cod | ... d the Tufts Laboratory at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole on | |
| Schouten Islands | ... d visited adjacent islands, including, on July 24, what became known as the | |
| Philippines | ... as aware of the shrunken heads, which Gein had described as relics from the | sent 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 ... |
| 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 to | the Stendhal Express |
| British Isles | ... to pay a trading tax on their goods. The beginning of the Viking Age in the | is, however, often given as 793. It was recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chroni ... |
| Cyprus | In later years he traveled and visited, among other places, Paphlagonia and | (Historia Ecclesiastica 1.12.8, 2.33.30) |
| Kingdom of Tonga | Japan and the | have maintained official diplomatic relations since July 1970. Japan is To ... |
| Great Plains | ... Catholics chose Brazil and Argentina. They moved primarily to the American | and western Canada, especially North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansa ... |
| Boothia Peninsula | ... orth-to-south landmass. The distance between its two polar extremities, the | in northern Canada and Cape Froward in Chilean Patagonia, is roughly |
| Malé | ... ghout the country, and the greatest concentration is on the capital island, | . Limitations on potable water and arable land, plus the added difficulty ... |
| Taiwan | ... nyin: Táiwān Lǜ Dǎng, Taiwanese: Tâi-ôan Le̍k Tóng) is a political party in | established on 25 January 1996. The party is not a member of, and should n ... |
| 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) |
| New Guinea | ... stayed until May 12. They then followed the north coasts of New Ireland and | and visited adjacent islands, including, on July 24, what became known as ... |
| Africa | ... volcano in Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania and the highest mountain in | at above sea level (the Uhuru Peak/Kibo Peak) |
| Whitsunday Islands | ... ity. The reef is a very popular destination for tourists, especially in the | and Cairns regions. Tourism is an important economic activity for the regi ... |
| Bali | ... nfluence from south-east Asia (notably using the harmonic properties of the | nese gamelan), while Nigel Butterley combined his penchant for Internation ... |
| Antarctica | ... e islands of Southern Thule, although they are sometimes considered part of | |
| Crete | Major cults to Demeter were located at Eleusis (in Sicily), Hermion (in | , Megara, Celeae, Lerna, Aegila, Munychia, Corinth, Delos, Priene, Akragas ... |
| 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 ... |
| Liberty Island | ... ds Island, and Roosevelt Island in the East River, and Governors Island and | to the south in New York Harbor. Manhattan Island is in area, long and wid ... |
| Cyprus | After several campaigns against Ptolemy on the coasts of Cilicia and | , Demetrius sailed with a fleet of 250 ships to Athens. He freed the city ... |
| Isle of Portland | ... ding to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a group of men from Norway sailed to the | in 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 the | and 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 ... |
| North America | ... d, and are widely eaten around the world, especially in Asia (see the ). In | , although not generally in the United Kingdom, the term "seafood" is also ... |
| Kaffeklubben Island | The northernmost point of the Americas is | , which is the most northerly point of land on Earth. The southernmost poi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Seattle | ... ed area in King County, Washington, United States. Located 26 miles east of | , the community lies along the Snoqualmie River. The population was 1,993 ... |
| Misima Island | The American strike aircraft sighted Shōhō a short distance northeast of | at 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 off | on August 10, 1943, by a torpedo which failed to detonate; the boat remain ... |
| 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 |
| Leizhou Peninsula | ... ainan" (海南) describes its location south of the Qiongzhou Strait, while the | is also called Haibei (海北) as it is located north of the strait |
| Ternate | They reached the Northern Moluccas in August and finally | , the headquarters of the VOC, on September 12, 1616. Here they were enthu ... |
| North America | ... source of inspiration for numerous films, television episodes and songs in | n popular culture |
| South America | ... from Chicago VII, was also a popular favorite on FM radio, was a big hit in | and subsequently covered by Tony Orlando and Dawn on their album To Be Wit ... |
| Easter Island | ... to which they belong), to the north is Cocos Island at and to the south is | and San Felix Island at |
| Matsu | ... alized flare-ups when the Red Army began shelling the islands of Quemoy and | in September 1954. Ike received recommendations embracing every variation ... |
| Asia | ... ne end of the Manila–Acapulco galleon trade route linking Latin America and | . This caused it to be called the "Pearl of the Orient". Several Chinese i ... |
| Lesbos | ... g the baby Dionysus into his thigh, i.e., his testicles). used in Samos and | |
| Governors Island | ... Randall's Island, Wards Island, and Roosevelt Island in the East River, and | and Liberty Island to the south in New York Harbor. Manhattan Island is in ... |
| Prince Edward Island | ... ). Provinces may also do this with their superior courts. The government of | initiated the Provincial Judges Reference by asking its provincial Supreme ... |
| Cocos Island | ... of Ecuador to the east (the country to which they belong), to the north is | at and to the south is Easter Island and San Felix Island at |
| Isthmus of Panama | ... s ago, the continents of North America and South America were linked by the | , thereby forming the single landmass of the Americas |
| Newfoundland | Islanders travelled across the North Atlantic to participate in the | fisheries in the late 16th century. In recognition for help given to him d ... |
| 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, and | in the East River, and Governors Island and Liberty Island to the south in ... |
| North America | ... become a cult classic and possesses substantial fanbases in both Japan and | . As a result, the game regularly appears on readers' choice polls in both ... |
| Moluccas | ... he trade in the Straits, and especially the spices from the Celebes and the | , moved under its protection and through its markets |
| 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 ... |
| Réunion | The supposed "Réunion Solitaire" or "White Dodo" of | is now believed to have been erroneous conjecture based on contemporary re ... |
| Marajó | ... notable examples. The Amazon has also an inland delta before the island of | |
| Anatolia | ... opulations in Europe, especially the Roma of Central and Eastern Europe and | , followed by the Kale of Iberia and Southern France |
| 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 ... |
| 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 Banks | The local accent is not unlike that of the "Hoi Toiders" of the | of North Carolina, also settled by English settlers, many of whom still ha ... |
| 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 the | causeway 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 ... |
| Samoa | ... pread out from 6° to 10° south. Its nearest neighbours are Kiribati, Nauru, | and Fiji. Its population of 10,544 makes it the third-least populous sover ... |
| Johnston Atoll | ... 1966, Nike Tomahawk flight. A second Nike Tomahawk rocket was launched from | on September 22, 1966, at 17:13 UTC and reached an apogee of 160 km, with ... |
| Spice Islands | ... ent by Amsterdam merchants to Lisbon to discover as much information on the | as he could. At the same time as he returned to Amsterdam, Jan Huygen van ... |
| Moneron Island | Sakhalin 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 |
| Indochina | ... journalistic writings for Paris-Soir and other newspapers covered events in | and the Far East (1934), the Mediterranean, Soviet Union and Moscow (1935) ... |
| 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 ... |
| New Guinea | ... o discovered the Tuvalu archipelago, the Marquesas, the Solomon Islands and | in the South Pacific. In the quest for Terra Australis, Spanish explorers ... |
| Calais | In the continuing Hundred Years' War, the English won the city of | in a treaty signed in September. In a meeting with the Estates General in ... |
| Sicily | While it was not directly connected with the Italian peninsula, Syracuse on | was important for securing the searoutes for supply, since Lilybaeum remai ... |
| Gower Peninsula | ... ic extent as the ancient Principality of Deheubarth, although excluding the | and the area west of the River Tawe. The choice of the name Dyfed was base ... |
| 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 towards | to launch airstrikes against the Japanese forces at Tulagi the next mornin ... |
| Cumberland Plateau | Grundy is located in the | Region. The town is tightly tucked within the mountains in little valleys ... |
| Gran Canaria | ... t" or "good port", after its similar geographical features to the island of | in the Canary Islands. In 1521, the newer settlement was given its formal ... |
| 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 ... |
| New Zealand | ... he longest annual migration being those of Sooty Shearwaters, which nest in | and Chile and spend the northern summer feeding in the North Pacific off J ... |
| Willamette Valley | ... s in the territory. He left the company in 1846 to found Oregon City in the | |
| Sicily | Major cults to Demeter were located at Eleusis (in | ), Hermion (in Crete, Megara, Celeae, Lerna, Aegila, Munychia, Corinth, De ... |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Hawaiian Islands | ... bombs, missiles, and other weapons in a manner not unlike Kahoʻolawe in the | |
| Monterey Peninsula | ... heatre company, is the only professional (Equity) company in Carmel and the | . One of the eight major arts institutions in Monterey County, it was foun ... |
| Johnston Atoll | ... X-ray astronomy instrument was carried aboard a Thor missile launched from | on September 24, 1970, at 12:54 UTC and altitudes above 300 km, to search ... |
| Philippines | ... greed to Japanese control of Korea, in return for American dominance in the | . The Japanese also agreed with the United Kingdo |
| North America | ... he Sky1 satellite channel in October 2004. The series was then broadcast in | on the Sci-Fi Channel in January 2005. Continuing where the 2003 mini-seri ... |
| 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 the | and shot it down from TF 11. The aircraft was unable to send a report befo ... |
| Corsica | ... d infrastructure and urbanized culture (at least in the plains). Along with | it formed a province under a praetor. Together with Sicily it formed one o ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cape Peninsula | ... ver 300 threatened plant species and 13 which are now extinct. In fact, the | , which lies entirely within the city of Cape Town, has the highest concen ... |
| Corfu | In 1827 Ioannis Kapodistrias, from | , was chosen as the first governor of the new Republic. However, following ... |
| Green Island | ... , outer CairnsFile:Great Barrier Reef Ferry.JPG|A Great Barrier Reef ferry, | , outer CairnsFile:QLD Rescue Helicopter.JPG|Queensland rescue Helicopter, ... |
| D'Entrecasteaux Islands | ... d Port Moresby. The rest of Marumo's Cover Force then took station near the | to help screen Abe's oncoming convoy |
| 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 ... |
| Taiwan | ... nt of the Republic of China lost control of mainland China and relocated to | in 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 | |
| Ytterøy | ... anger, and at the same time, it lost its "town status". The municipality of | was 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 ... |
| Asia | ... e" (LAOTSE), an international network of leading universities in Europe and | exchanging students and senior scholars |
| Venice | ... the Andrea Gabrieli, Giovanni Gabrieli and their contemporaries c.1570-1620 | and there is also evidence of trombonists being employed in churches and c ... |
| North | ... her was a noted Jewish operetta star who performed throughout Europe and in | and South America; he starred as Count Danilo in the original production o ... |
| Sicily | ... March 11, 1936. His father, Salvatore Eugene Scalia, was an immigrant from | who 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, the | and New Guinea in the South Pacific. In the quest for Terra Australis, Spa ... |
| Majorca | ... The earliest recorded invasion of the plague into Spanish territory was in | in 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 and | in the West, and to China in the East. Some leading Christian theologians ... |
| Johnston Atoll | ... al Agent Disposal System began destruction of chemical agents stored on the | in the Pacific, seven years before the Chemical Weapons Treaty came into e ... |
| Istrijani | ... he major regional South Slavic groups include: Zagorci in northern Croatia, | in westernmost Croatia, Dalmatinci in southern Croatia, Boduli in Adriatic ... |
| North Seymour Island | ... , scientists decided to move 70 of Baltra's land iguanas to the neighboring | as 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 ... |
| 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 on | without any attempt to stop him. They blamed a series of bad harvests on h ... |
| Rennell Island | ... Makira), and entered the Coral Sea after transiting between Guadalcanal and | in 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 ... |