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- Flag of Rhode Island (948 bytes)
1: ...[[Image:Rhode_Island_flag.jpg|thumb|Flag of Rhode Island. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com C...
3: ...motto: "Hope." The [[flag]] of the State of Rhode Island as it presently exists was formally adopted in [[...
7: ..., website of the government of the state of Rhode Island.
8: ...otw.net/flags/us-ri.html Flags of the world Rhode Island page] - Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
2: Name = Rhode Island |
3: Fullname = The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations |
4: Flag = Rhode Island state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of Rhode Island]] |
6: Seal = Rhode Island state seal.png | - Island (4674 bytes)
1: ...Image:Rhodes_7_04_9561W.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The Island of Rhodes, Greece. Picture provided by [http://cl...
2: ... for a relatively small island. Groups of related islands are called [[archipelago]]s.
4: ...anic''' islands. There are also some [[artificial island]]s.
6: The word ''island'' derives ultimately from the [[Norse]] word ''ig...
8: == Continental islands == - Vancouver Island Marmot (2031 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = pink | name = Vancouver Island Marmot}}<br/>{{StatusEndangered}}
14: ...ly in the high mountainous regions of [[Vancouver Island]]. They can be distinguished from other [[marmot]... - List of island countries (6641 bytes)
1: ...tical entities that are located on [[island]]s or island-[[continent]]s.
7: ...hough Greenland is usually considered the largest island
32: *[[Marshall Islands]]
47: *[[Solomon Islands]]
61: *[[Cook Islands]][[#Notes|?]] - Rhode Island State Map (233 bytes)
- Rhode Island State Facts (257 bytes)
2: [[Image:rhode_island_facts.jpg|center|thumb|250px|Image provided by [h...
3: [http://academickids.com/pdf/state_facts/rhode_island_facts.pdf Download Printable State Facts Handout] - Island Fox (12651 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox_begin | color=pink | name= Island Fox}}<br />{{StatusEndangered}}
2: ... [[Image:Urocyon littoralis full figure.jpg|250px|Island Fox]] | caption = }}
15: ...'Channel Islands Gray Fox'', ''California Channel Island Fox'' and ''Insular Gray Fox''.
17: ...s decimated fox numbers on several of the Channel Islands in the 1990s.
18: ...lations and restore the ecosystems of the Channel Islands are being undertaken.
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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
159: | [[Rhode Island]]
160: | [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]] - Lighthouse of Alexandria (3491 bytes)
1: ...n called the "''Pharos of Alexandria''" after the island on which it resided), was considered one of the [...
5: ...Martin Heemskerck. The [[lighthouse]] stood on an island in the harbour of [[Alexandria]] and was over 134...
17: Pharos was a small island just off the coast of [[Egypt]], with its artific... - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
18: *Miles Harvey, ''The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime'... - Erik the Red (5731 bytes)
4: ...d "Gunnbjarnarsker" ("Gunnbjörn's skerries"). Gunnbjorn's accidental discovery pushed him aside in th...
6: Erik traveled southward from the tip of the island, soon to be called Cape Farewell and continued do... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
29: ...t trackway between [[Cadbury Castle]] and [[Glastonbury]] (which is still known as King Arthur's Cause...
45: ...umb|right|250px|King Arthur's tombsite at [[Glastonbury Abbey]]]]
47: ... to [[Avalon]] (sometimes identified with [[Glastonbury]] in [[Somerset]], [[England]]), where his wou...
51: ... [[Gottfried von Strassburg]], [[Wolfram von Eschenbach]], ''[[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]'', an...
53: In [[1191]], monks of [[Glastonbury Abbey]] announced that they had found the buri... - Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
4: ...d in [[1820]] during an expedition to the [[Greek islands]]. On that expedition, D'Urville recognized the...
8: ...sts of [[New Guinea]], [[New Zealand]], and other islands, and found out the probable place of the death o...
14: ...], [[Irian Jaya]], [[Indonesia]], and [[D'Urville Island]] ([[New Zealand]]) were named after him. There ... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
27: ...pent a year on a ship bound towards [[Khios]] (an island in the [[Aegean Sea]]) and, after a brief visit h...
35: ...ra Islands]] and owned one of them ([[Porto Santo Island]]), but died when Felipa was a baby, leaving his ...
46: ...mbus calculated that the distance from the Canary Islands to Japan was 2,400 nautical miles (about 4,444 k...
54: ...d credit for being "the principal cause why those islands were discovered."
61: ...o the expedition. He first sailed to the [[Canary Islands]], fortunately owned by Castile, where he reprov... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
1: [[Image:IbnBattuta.jpg|thumb|250px|Ibn Battuta (1304-1377).]]
47: ...by imposing strict judgments in the laissez-faire island kingdom. From there he carried on to [[Ceylon]] f...
49: ...then sailed to the Maldives again before getting onboard a Chinese junk and trying once again to get t...
82: *[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1354-ibnbattuta.html Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Afric... - Steel (28384 bytes)
28: ...York City]] in [[1897]], it still weighed over 33 [[ton]]s.
62: ...d an application for iron casting, cast iron cannonballs.
87: ...onverter can still be seen at the city's [[Kelham Island Museum]]). In the Bessemer process, molten pig i...
94: ... Today, worldwide annual production is around 850 million tonnes. This widespread availability of... - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
29: ...the White House is lit up in the colors of the rainbow pride flag
44: ...dollars of damage. Irma also wrecks the Caribbean Islands.
45: ... hurricane, killing hundreds and knocking out the island's power.
51: - China (38909 bytes)
7: ...]], islands off the coast of [[Fujian]], and some islands in the South China Sea. The PRC does not recogni...
18: ...included "[[barbarian]]" regimes such as the [[Xianbei]] and [[Xiongnu]]. As the PRC now governs [[Inn...
25: ...vilization, to these peoples. For example, the Xianbei called their [[Northern Wei]] regime ''Zhongguo...
81: ...ce]], [[Taipei]], [[Kaohsiung]] and some offshore islands of [[Fujian]] province). Today, the political sc...
100: ...45, Japan relinquished the [[sovereignty]] of the island in the [[San Francisco Peace Treaty]], and the [[... - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
46: ...avier]], but he died the same year on the Chinese island of [[Shangchuan]], without having reached the mai... - List of people by name: Ae (1061 bytes)
4: ...ta|Aegineta, Paulus]], 4th century surgeon of the island of [[Aegina]] - Boudicca (6973 bytes)
11: ... leading a campaign against the [[druids]] on the island of [[Anglesey]] in north [[Wales]], the Iceni reb... - Eleonora di Arborea (2091 bytes)
5: ...rdinian]] ''giudicessa'' (ruler or judge) and the island's greatest heroine.
9: ...p by the Pope. Arborea obtained almost all of the island during this war. After rallying Sardinian forces,... - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
18: ...oduced those conventions in her own lands, on the island of [[Oleron]] in [[1160]], and then into England.... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
33: ... in the [[Firth of Forth]] hoping to capture [[Edinburgh]] and kidnap the infant queen, but Marie de G...
46: ...arles IX]]. Under the terms of the [[Treaty of Edinburgh]], signed by Mary's representatives on [[July...
57: ... 26]], [[1565]] to confront them, returning to Edinburgh to raise more troops the following month. Mor...
59: ...ssfully attempted to cause her to miscarry their unborn child.
62: ...syphilis]]). He was recuperating in a house in Edinburgh where Mary visited him frequently, so that it... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
51: ...entury's prime tourist locations. Her love of the island was matched by an initial Irish warmth for the yo...
113: ...] and [[Princess Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg|Princess Beatrice]] as carriers, and [[Prince ...
145: ...red, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duke of Edinburgh]]||[[6 August]] [[1844]]||[[31 July]] [[1900]...
147: ...Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg]]; had issue
155: ...ince Henry of Battenberg|HRH Prince Henry of Battenberg]]; had issue - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
44: ...04]], the [[United States|American]] TV network [[NBC]] broadcast [[Magnetic tape|tapes]] of Diana dis...
100: ...-Fayed has repeatedly claimed that the Duke of Edinburgh controls SIS.)
104: ...ntre section of the Mercedes, including one of a unbloodied Diana with no outward injuries, crouched o...
119: ...buried at Althorp in [[Northamptonshire]] on an [[island]] in the middle of a [[lake]] called the Round Ov... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
41: ...lt Campobello International Park] on [[Campobello Island, New Brunswick]] in [[1964]] following a gift of ... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
1: [[Image:Annie Besant - Project Gutenberg eText 13715.png|thumbnail|right|250px|'''Annie...
11: ...ne of its foci [[Theravada]] [[Buddhism]] and the island of [[Ceylon]] where Henry Olcott did the majority...
37: *{{gutenberg author|id=Annie_Besant|name=Annie Besant}} - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
10: [[Image:Goldmanberkman.jpe|thumb|240px|right|Goldman and Alexander...
18: ...[prison|imprisoned]] in [[1893]] at [[Blackwell's Island]] penitentiary for publicly urging [[unemployment...
82: * [ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext00/nrcsm10.txt ''Anarchism and Other Essa... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
22: ...rhart's Lockheed Electra 10E and guide her to the island once she arrived in the vicinity.
34: ...owland, to [[Nikumaroro]] (then known as Gardner) Island in what is now [[Kiribati]], landed there, and ul...
40: ...00 square mile (2,600 km²) area near Howland Island for Earhart's plane. The ocean where Jourdan plan... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
8: ...lying lessons at [[Roosevelt Airfield]] on [[Long Island]]. A natural, she was quickly flying solo and wit... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
12: ...r first air show, in [[Long Island, New York|Long Island]]. - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
33: ...throughout Melanesia, and especially in the large island of [[New Guinea]]. Moreover, male anthropologist...
49: "In her research on [[Manus Island]] of New Guinea, she discovered that 'primitive' ... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
16: ..., she prevailed on several members of the [[Rhode Island State Assembly]] to take Simmons case directly to... - Grace O'Malley (3478 bytes)
3: [[Image:PICT0045.JPG|thumb|300px|Clare Island, associated with Grace O' Malley]]
11: ...ce at the family castle or tower-house in [[Clare Island]]. - Kuan Yin (8111 bytes)
68: ... of the Southern Ocean' and 'Kuan Yin (of/on) the Island' stem from this tradition. - Mata Hari (3970 bytes)
5: ...o [[Paris]]. She posed as a princess from [[Java (island)|Java]] and became an exotic dancer, performing "... - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
14: ...and Islands]] and at her winter home on [[Merritt Island, Florida]] before retiring to a farm near [[Clayt... - Billie Jean King (2811 bytes)
7: ...ational Tennis Hall of Fame]] in [[Newport, Rhode Island]] in [[1987]]. In [[1990]], [[Life magazine]] nam... - Martina Navratilova (16246 bytes)
49: ...e a humorous guest appearance on the gay-themed [[NBC]] [[sitcom]] ''[[Will & Grace]]'', in a [[2000]]...
158: ** Washington DC, Houston, Minnesota, Detroit, Edinburgh, Charlotte
167: ...ty, Chicago, Los Angeles, Oakland, Dallas, Amelia Island, Orlando, Montreal, Richmond, Tokyo
179: ...''', Virginia Slims Championships [March], Amelia Island, Eastbourne, US Indoors, Sydney, Orlando, Newport...
191: ...on, DC, New England, Chicago, Hilton Head, Amelia Island, Eastbourne, Filderstadt - Violet (plant) (3474 bytes)
31: ...t of U.S. state flowers|state flower]] of [[Rhode Island]], [[Illinois]], and [[New Jersey]]. - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
82: ...third-rail locomotives are operated by the [[Long Island Rail Road]] and [[Metro-North Railroad]] between ... - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
60: ...ffolk County, New York|Suffolk County]] on [[Long Island]]. The contest drew considerable national attent...
106: *[http://www.ontheissues.org/NY_Senate_NBC.htm Clinton's positions in 2000 Senate Race] - Glass (26176 bytes)
37: ...ntense red, often [[marketing|marketed]] as "[[cranberry]]". [[Uranium]] (0.1 to 2%) can be added to g...
44: ...th century|8th centuries]] have been found on the island of [[Torcello]] near [[Venice]]. These form an im... - Pre-historic art (9744 bytes)
15: ... made by impressing the wet clay with braided or unbraided cord and sticks with a growing sophisticati...
22: ...ac, [[France]], at [[Skara Brae]] in the [[Orkney Islands]], in [[Portugal]], and in [[Wiltshire]], [[Engl...
55: ..., the most famous of which is located at [[Easter Island]]. - Marco Polo (6716 bytes)
5: ...55]], reached China in [[1266]], arriving at [[Khanbaliq]] (now [[Beijing]]). They returned from China...
7: ...radition that the Polo family originated from the island of [[Korcula|Korčula]] in today's [[Croatia]... - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
4: ... [[Agueybana]], and quickly gained control of the island. As a result, Ponce de Leon was named Governor of...
7: ...elected Ponce de León to colonize and govern the island of Puerto Rico. In the meantime Diego Columbus ha...
9: ...all of which he hoped to find at Bimini and other islands. The story of Ponce de León searching for the [...
12: ...n 1513. On [[March 27]] [[1513]], he sighted an [[island]], but sailed on without landing. Later, on April...
14: ...before returning to Puerto Rico.[[Image:poncedeleonburial.jpg|thumb|Cathedral where Ponce de Leon is b... - Geography (8541 bytes)
33: *[[island]] - Cairo (12536 bytes)
14: Cairo is located on the banks and islands of the [[Nile|Nile River]] in the north of Egypt...
18: ...pand east into the desert. Bridges link the Nile islands of [[Gezira]] and [[Roda]], where many governmen...
55: ...Cairo.JPG|thumb|left|South-Central Cairo from the island of [[Zamalek]].]] - Nose flute (4426 bytes)
9: ...g variation, the ''Fangufangu'' nose flute of the island of [[Tonga]] is made with intact node walls at bo... - Ukulele (6345 bytes)
5: ...d to the ukulele to its ancestral home of Madeira Island off the coast of North Africa. Flora Fox, a great...
48: ...is reported to have been introduced to the [[Cook Islands]] in [[1990]] by the band Te Ava Piti ([http://w... - Ptolemy I of Egypt (7434 bytes)
9: ...t the partisans of Antigonus and re-conquered the island ([[313 BC|313]]). A revolt of Cyrene was crushed ...
22: ...cusCurtius] — (Chapter II of E. R Bevan's ''House of Ptolemy'', 1923) - George Washington (29551 bytes)
43: ...nsive there. Washington lost the [[Battle of Long Island]] on [[August 22]] but managed to retreat, saving...
51: ... them there, Washington's forces moved to [[Rhode Island]], where he commanded military operations until t... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
82: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[George_Clinton_(politician)...
90: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[Albert Gallatin]]'''||align...
96: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[Robert_Smith_(U.S._politici...
98: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[John Breckinridge]]'''||ali...
100: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[Caesar A. Rodney]]'''||alig... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
63: ...of a new state constitution, which extended Rhode Island's restricted franchise. Tyler was of the opinion ...
65: ...tually by all the original States, of which Rhode-Island was one."</blockquote>
67: ... which belongs exclusively to the people of Rhode Island." It was the first occasion in U.S. history where...
69: <blockquote>"The people of the State of Rhode Island have been too long distinguished for their love o...
73: ...ending the territory of slave-holding states and unbalancing the [[Missouri Compromise]]. The conseq... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
11: ...of [[U.S. Senator]] [[Claiborne Pell]] of [[Rhode Island]]. He is also the uncle of [[Alexander Dallas Ba... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
62: ...eida'' as it sailed in the [[East River]] to Long Island Sound. The surgery was conducted through the mout...
90: |align="left"| ||align="left"|''None''||align="left"|1885&ndas...
98: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[Charles S. Fairchild]]'''||...
106: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[Don M. Dickinson]]'''||alig...
112: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[William F. Vilas]]'''||alig... - Continent (6440 bytes)
36: ...considered to be a part of Europe. The [[Pacific islands]] may be associated with Australia to form the r... - Landmass (122 bytes)
4: * large [[island]]s - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
23: ...ne possible site, behind the screen of the Pharos island and removed from the silt thrown out by Nile mout...
58: ... port, and a flourishing city arose on the Pharos island and the Heptastadion district, with outlying subu...
98: ...et-Tin quarter represents all that is left of the island of Pharos, the site of the actual lighthouse havi...
101: ...ther with the palaces, the "Private Port" and the island of Antirrhodus. There has been a land subsidence ...
117: On the eastern point of the Pharos island stood the '''Great Lighthouse''', one of the "Sev... - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
4: ...s an approximate area of [[1 E12 m2|2.5 million]] [[square kilometre|km²]] (965 000 [[square...
23: Large [[island]]s in the Mediterranean include:
26: ...za]], [[Majorca]] and [[Minorca]] (the [[Balearic Islands]]) in the western Mediterranean
31: ...[[Spain]], [[France]], [[Monaco]], [[Italy]], the island state of [[Malta]], [[Slovenia]], [[Croatia]], [[...
32: ...(from north to south): [[Turkey]], [[Syria]], the island state of [[Cyprus]], [[Lebanon]], [[Israel]], the... - Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
41: When two oceanic plates converge they form an [[island arc]] as one oceanic plate is [[subducted]] below...
139: ...he cause of marine trenches oddly placed just off island arcs or continents and their associated volcanoes... - Igneous rock (11419 bytes)
1: ...aii_lava.jpg|thumb|right|Volcanic flow on the Big Island of Hawaii. Image provided by [http://classroomcli... - Earth (30908 bytes)
44: |[[potassium]]:||align="right"|0||.019 ||%
46: |other elements: ||align="right"|0||.53||%
150: |27 Days, 7 hours, 43.7 minutes
264: ...he world is [[Alert, Nunavut|Alert]], [[Ellesmere Island]], [[Canada]]. The southernmost is the [[Amundsen... - Volcano (27295 bytes)
3: ...0px|Smoking Bromo and Semeru volcanoes on [[Java (island)|Java]] in [[Indonesia]].]]
10: ...e because it easily plugs. [[Mount Pel饝] on the island of [[Martinique]] is another example.
15: ...loor), 120 km in diameter and forms part of the [[Island of Hawai'i]]. [[Olympus Mons]] is a shield volcan...
26: ... in due time break the [[ocean]] surface in new [[island]]s.
56: *[[Mount Erebus]] ([[Ross Island]], [[Antarctica]]) - Mountain (4538 bytes)
5: ... [[volcano]]es, including many apparently small [[island]]s that reach a great height above the ocean floo...
14: ...una Kea]] on [[Hawaii]], whose peak is over 9,000 m above its base on the floor of the [[Pacific ...
18: ...des as a result. Extreme cases are known as [[sky island]]s. - Africa (35389 bytes)
3: ... [[square mile|mi²]]) including its adjacent islands, it covers 20.3 percent of the total land area o...
24: ...40 [[square mile|mi<sup>2</sup>]]), including the islands.
107: .... Some areas of Eastern Africa, particularly the island of [[Zanzibar]], received Arab and Asian Muslim s... - North America (12844 bytes)
26: ...smere Island]], [[Baffin Island]], and [[Victoria Island]] in the north)
27: ...|Revillagigedo archipelago]] and numerous smaller islands closer to the coast)
28: ...tes]], most of it – includes the [[Aleutian Islands]], [[Alaska]], but not the US state of [[Hawaii]...
39: ...southeastern end of the continent lies a chain of islands territories called the [[Antilles]], the [[Carib...
57: *[[Cayman Islands]] ([[British Empire|British]] dependency) - South America (5078 bytes)
15: ...e region of South America also includes various [[island]]s, most of which belong to countries on the cont...
21: ... table are [[South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands]] which have no permanent inhabitants, only temp...
60: | style="text-align:left;" | [[Falkland Islands]] (UK) - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
32: ...s not cut through any piece of land, continent or island, which is the northern limit of the Antarctic tre...
40: *[[Norway]]: [[Peter I Island]] at 68?50' S, 90?35'W, claimed [[1929]], the onl...
43: ...s west, except for the Norwegian claim to Peter I Island (see above).
52: [[image:PALMERPENGUINB.JPG|225px|thumb|right|Palmer Station]]
58: * [[Bellingshausen Station]], [[King George Island]] ({{coor dms|62|11|47|S|58|57|39|W|}}) {{flag|Ru... - Australia (39438 bytes)
9: capital =[[Canberra]]|
48: ...ralian Aborigine|Aboriginal]] and [[Torres Strait Islander]] peoples. Eastern Australia was claimed by the...
50: ...r by Papua New Guinean people and [[Torres Strait Islander]]s.
54: ...f New Holland'', in which they wrote of "the vast island, or rather continent, of Australia, Australasia o...
63: ...lly [[Melanesia]]n, inhabited the [[Torres Strait Islands]] and parts of far north [[Queensland]], they ha... - Indo-Australian Plate (2019 bytes)
5: ...the [[Tonga]] and [[Kermadec Islands|Kermadec]] [[island arc]]s. [[New Zealand]] lies along the southeaste...
9: ...er [[Burma]]) to the south-west of [[Indonesia]]n islands of [[Sumatra]] and [[Borneo]]. - Land bridge (3351 bytes)
1: ...necting what are now separate [[continent]]s or [[island]]s. The best-known is the [[Bering land bridge]],...
6: ...[[South American Plate]] to the south, first an [[island arc]], and then continuous dry land have been cre...
13: ...n [[Japan]] (including [[Okinawa]]), [[Sakhalin]] Island, [[Korean Peninsula]], and [[China]]. At the tim... - Africa-Eurasia (1157 bytes)
4: ...metimes it has also been referred as the '''World Island''', especially in [[geopolitics]].
6: ...rld]] includes Africa-Eurasia and its surrounding islands. - Europe (23835 bytes)
11: ...bducted by [[Zeus]] in bull form and taken to the island of [[Crete]], where she gave birth to [[Minos]]. ...
65: ... in the mountains, [[marmot]]s, [[Alpine Ibex|steinbocks]], [[chamois]]es among others.
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113: | width="10px" | - Asia (16910 bytes)
8: ...sion consists of the part of Eurasia and nearby [[island]]s in the [[Indian Ocean|Indian]] and [[Pacific O...
50: * The [[Pacific Ocean]] islands of [[Taiwan]] and [[Japan]].
60: ...ntains the [[Malay Peninsula]], [[Indochina]] and islands in the [[Indian Ocean]] and [[Pacific Ocean]]. T...
64: ...in both Asia and Oceania|some]] of the Indonesian islands also lie in the [[Melanesia]] region of [[Oceani...
66: ...uth China Sea]], and thus has both a mainland and island part. - Sub-Saharan Africa (3920 bytes)
7: ..., The Comoros, Mauritius, and Seychelles) and two island nations in the Atlantic Ocean (Cape Verde and Sao... - Canada (35540 bytes)
52: ...e Edward Island]]||[[Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island|Charlottetown]]
92: ...3-1791)|Province of Quebec]], and [[Prince Edward Island]] (created 1769). To accommodate the Loyalists, B...
96: ...ies of [[British Columbia]] in 1848 and Vancouver Island in 1849. By the late-1850s, politicians in the Pr...
111: ...tion (CFS) Alert on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island – latitude 82.5°N – just 834 kilo...
117: ...orld's largest tidal variations. [[Prince Edward Island]] is Canada's smallest province. - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
83: * [[Christmas Island]] (Australia)
84: * [[Cocos (Keeling) Islands]] (Australia)
102: * [[Mongolia]] - [[Ulaanbaatar]]
117: * [[Tajikistan]] - [[Dushanbe]]
183: *[[British Virgin Islands]] - [[Road Town]] (United Kingdom) - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
2: ...scar is the [[List of islands by size|4th largest island in the world]]. It is the home of five percent of...
53: ...rtuguese]] sea captain [[Diego Dias]] sighted the island after his ship became separated from a fleet goin...
55: ...important in Madagascar's economy. In return, the island received British military and financial assistanc...
59: ...he [[Japan]]ese. The [[Free French]] received the island from the [[United Kingdom]] in [[1943]].
156: ...map.png|thumb|Map of Madagascar. ''Nosy'' means ''island'' in the Malagasy language.]] - Samoa (9435 bytes)
1: ... short form) is a country comprising a group of [[island]]s in the South [[Pacific Ocean]]. Previous names...
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33: ...'<br> - Total <br>(Jul 2004 Est.)<br> - [[Population_density|Density]]
36: | '''[[Independence]]'''<br> - Date
57: ...in [[1914]]. Western Samoa was the first Pacific Island country to gain its independence. - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...Image:Myconos 12.jpg|thumb|200px|Windmills on the Island of Myconos, Greece. Image provided by [http://cla...
25: | '''[[Area]]'''<br> - Total<br> - % water || [[List of countries by area|Ranked...
27: ...[[Population]]'''<br> - Total ([[2004]])<br> - [[Population density|Density]] || [[List of c...
29: | '''[[Independence]]'''<br> - Declared<br> - Recognised || From the [[Ottoman Empire]]<br/...
31: ...ss Domestic Product|GDP]]'''<br> - Total<br> - GDP per capita - Brunei (7197 bytes)
1: ... is a [[petroleum]]-rich country located on the [[island]] of [[Borneo]], in [[southeast Asia]]. Apart fro...
19: | align=center colspan=2 | [[image:LocationBrunei.png]]
27: | '''[[Area]]'''<br> - Total <br /> - % water
31: <br /> - Total ([[2001]])
32: <br /> - [[Population density|Density]] - Saint Kitts and Nevis (6100 bytes)
1: ...'The Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis''' is an island nation in the [[Caribbean]].
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61: ...on Nevis and spent his childhood there and on the island of [[St. Croix]]. - People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
4: ... never controlled [[Taiwan]] and some neighboring islands, which are controlled by the [[Republic of China...
13: ...intang in control of [[Taiwan]] and some outlying islands of [[Fujian]]. On [[October 1]], 1949, [[Mao Zed...
61: ... U.S. plane struggled to land on China's [[Hainan Island]], where its 24 crewmembers were detained for 12 ...
68: *Over islands on the [[East China Sea]] or [[South China Sea]]...
69: **[[Paracel Islands]], administered by China, claimed by [[Vietnam]]... - Germany (46412 bytes)
89: ...ermany|President]] [[Paul von Hindenburg|von Hindenburg]] appointed [[Adolf Hitler]] [[Chancellor of G...
100: ...ad partitioned [[Berlin]] in front of the [[Brandenburg Gate]] shortly after the reunification]]
170: |'''4''' [[Brandenburg]]||[[Potsdam]]||Brandenburg||Potsdam
178: ...klenburg-Western Pomerania]]||[[Schwerin]]||Mecklenburg-Vorpommern||Schwerin
217: ...uro coins|50 euro cent coin]] featuring the Brandenburg Gate, symbol of division and reunification]] - South Africa (40100 bytes)
102: [[Image:Fynbos.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The [[fynbos]], a [[floristic province|floral kingdom]] uniq...
103: ...on earth, making it particularly verdant. The [[Fynbos]] [[Biome]], one of the six [[floristic provinc...
144: ...]], who was imprisoned there for 27 years. Robben Island is now a [[UNESCO]] [[World Heritage Site]].]]
152: ...d]]s in the world lying in valleys around [[Stellenbosch]], [[Franschoek]] and [[Paarl]]. - Brazil (12581 bytes)
45: A number of [[island]]s in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] are part of Brazil: - Barbados (21887 bytes)
1: ...es), and is primarily low, with some hills in the island's interior. It is located 13? north of the [[Equa...
3: ...es and [[mangrove]] [[swamp]]s. Some parts of the island's interior are also dotted with large sugarcane e...
5: ...P]], the #1 developing country in the world. The island is a major tourist destination.
9: ...lodoid-Barrancoid—lived in isolation on the island.
11: ...labor]] on [[plantation]]s. Other Caribs fled the island, moving elsewhere. - Tanzania (17411 bytes)
38: ... = -Tanganyika<br> -Zanzibar <br> -Merge |
98: ...as Shirazis claims its origins to be the supposed island's early Persian settlers. Non-Africans residing o... - Bangladesh (29715 bytes)
15: | colspan="2" | [[image:LocationBangladesh.png]]
267: ...;, has often been compared to Indonesia's [[Java (island)|Java]].
333: * [http://www.nbr-bd.org Bangladesh Customs Home Page (National Bo... - East Timor (13677 bytes)
1: ...of East Timor situated on the western side of the island, surrounded by [[West Timor]].
12: ...on the island of [[Timor]], while the surrounding islands came under [[Netherlands|Dutch]] control.
14: ...rt a [[Empire of Japan|Japanese]] invasion of the island. When the Japanese landed and drove the [[Allies]...
59: ...ait, to the south the [[Timor Sea]] separates the island from [[Australia]], while to the west lies the In...
92: ...and of Timor, or ''Ilha do Crocodilo'' (Crocodile Island), as it is often called. Like Indonesia, the cult... - Qatar (10610 bytes)
30: | '''[[Area]]'''<br> - Total <br> - percent water
33: ...Population]]'''<br> - Total (July 2003) <br> - [[Population density|Density]]
36: | '''[[Independence]]'''<br> - Recognised
61: ...gned over the Qatari peninsula from the off-shore island of [[Bahrain]]. Although Qatar was legally a depe... - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
1: ...ore than four million. The remaining sixth of the island of Ireland is known as [[Northern Ireland]] and i...
39: established_events = - Declared<br> - Recognised |
58: ...c of Ireland" in order to distinguish it from the island of Ireland as a whole. The name ''Republic of Ire...
67: ...mmon in contrast to the more agrarian rest of the island. (Any tariff barriers would, it was feared, most ...
71: ...-one's surprise. The remaining 26 counties of the island became the [[Irish Free State]], a [[constitution... - Tuvalu (11893 bytes)
37: | '''[[Area]]'''<br/> – Total <br/> – % water
38: ...0th]]<br/> [[1 E7 m²|26 km²]]<br/> Negligible
40: ...'''[[Population]]'''<br/> – Total<br/> – [[Density]]
41: ...ed 193rd]]<br/> 11,468 (July 2004 est.)<br/> 441/km²
55: ...o [[New Zealand]], or [[Niue]], a small Pacific [[island]] (independent but associated with New Zealand) t... - Cuba (25106 bytes)
2: ...he west [[Mexico]], to the southwest the [[Cayman Islands]] and [[Jamaica]], and to the southeast [[Haiti]...
6: ...] of [[1898]]. The [[United States]] occupied the island until its independence was granted in [[1902]], t...
24: ...istorical or political interests in the Caribbean island , some U.S. citizens visit Cuba by traveling thro...
72: ...he [[List of islands by size|world's 16th largest island]].
74: The island consists mostly of flat to rolling plains, with m... - Solomon Islands (9265 bytes)
1: ...wealth of Nations]]. It consists of more than 990 islands, which together cover a land mass of 28,000 squa...
3: |+<big><big>'''Solomon Islands'''</big></big>
8: | align="center" width="140px" | [[Image:Solomon islands flag large.png|125px|]]
9: | align="center" width="140px" | [[Image:Solomon_Islands_coat_of_arms_small.jpg]]
12: | align="center" width="140px" | ([[Media:Solomon_Islands_coat_of_arms.gif|Full size]]) - Indonesia (12958 bytes)
37: established_events = - Declared<br/> - Recognised |
56: ... formed on the islands of [[Sumatra]] and [[Java (island)|Java]] from the [[7th century|7th]] to [[14th ce...
58: ...cept for their colony [[Portuguese Timor]] on the island of [[Timor]]). The Netherlands ruled Indonesia a...
124: ...sland of [[New Guinea]] and [[East Timor]] on the island of [[Timor]]. In addition to the capital city of ...
126: ...which was located between [[Sumatra]] and [[Java (island)|Java]]. - Jamaica (16893 bytes)
32: | '''[[Area]]'''<br> - Total <br> - % water
36: <br> - Total
37: <br> - [[Population density|Density]]
43: <br> - Date
67: ... of Pennsylvania) and General Venables seized the island in [[1655]]. During its first 200 years of Britis... - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (8955 bytes)
33: | '''[[Area]]'''<br> - Total <br> - % water
36: ...ulation]]'''<br> - Total (July 2003 est)<br> - [[Population density|Density]]
39: | '''[[Sovereignty]]'''<br> - Autonomy<br> - Independence
59: ...Caribs were eventually deported to [[Roatan]], an island off the coast of [[Honduras]].
65: ...nd the Grenadines became the last of the Windward Islands to gain independence. - Palau (8171 bytes)
2: ...blic of Palau''' (also spelled '''Belau''') is an island nation in the [[Pacific Ocean]], located some 500...
16: ...top;" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: Rainbow's End ''</font>
29: | '''[[Area]]'''<br> - Total <br> - % water
32: ... '''[[Population]]'''<br> - Total (Year)<br> - [[Population density|Density]]
56: ...e U.S. broad powers such as control of 51% of the island in time of national emergency. The U.S. especial... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
3: ...nd the second-link bridge]] on the south with the island of [[Singapore]];
5: *[[East Malaysia]], the northern part of the island of [[Borneo]], is bordered to the south by [[Indo...
36: | '''[[Area]]'''<br> - Total <br> - % water
39: | '''[[Population]]'''<br> - Total<br> - [[Population density|Density]]
42: | '''[[Independence]]'''<br> - Date - Kuwait (15932 bytes)
34: | '''[[Area]]'''<br> - Total <br> - % water
37: ...[[Population]]'''<br> - Total ([[2001]])<br> - [[Density]]
99: ...rete bridge (after the liberation in [[1991]] the island was converted into a military base and currently ...
100: The islands are:
101: *[[Auhah Island]] - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...Madeira and Porto Santo]] (including the [[Savage Islands]]).
40: ...arly 15th century, Madeira Island and the Azorean islands were discovered. Henry the Navigator's interest ...
42: ..., leading to the discovery of several uninhabited islands and reaching the [[Congo River]].
94: ...p of the [[list of islands of Portugal|Portuguese islands]].]]
98: ...ps (''Portugal insular''), the Azores and Madeira Islands - the Autonomous regions (''regi?autas'', si... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
54: ... is [[Northern Ireland]], which is located on the island of [[Ireland|Ireland]].
58: ... Six counties in the north-eastern portion of the island, meanwhile, remained a part of the United Kingdom...
62: ...]] (often also including its smaller neighbouring islands, though never Ireland). Politically, the term Gr...
64: ... the Irish case since 1922. An alternative, the ''Islands of the North Atlantic'' (IONA) has been proposed...
155: ...osovo, Afghanistan, Iraq ([[Operation Granby|''Granby'']], No-Fly-Zones, [[Operation Desert Fox|''Dese... - Spain (36498 bytes)
1:
48: ...ish Peseta]]<br><sup>3</sup> Except in the Canary Islands, which are in the [[GMT]] time zone ( [[Coordina...
116: ...NV, IU-ICV, CC and the mixt group -BNG, CHA, EA y NB- supported it with a total of 192 votes, while th...
132: * [[Balearic Islands]] (''Illes Balears'' in [[Catalan language|Catal...
134: * [[Canary Islands]] (''Islas Canarias'') - Marshall Islands (8760 bytes)
1: ...cronesia]] and south of the U.S. island of [[Wake Island|Wake]].
3: ...;kin M̧ajeļ<br>Republic of the Marshall Islands'''</big></big>
7: ...| [[Image:Wikipedia flag republic of the marshall islands.png|122px|]]
8: ...ll_Islands_COA.gif|110px|Coat of arms of Marshall Islands]]
10: ...dth="140px" colspan="2" | ([[Flag of the Marshall Islands|In Detail]]) - Equatorial Guinea (13387 bytes)
1: ...cludes a number of islands, including the sizable island of [[Bioko]] where the capital, [[Malabo]] (forme...
32: | '''[[Area]]'''<br /> - Total <br /> - % water
36: - Total ([http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/f...
37: - [[Population density|Density]]
43: - Total ([[Year]]) - Flag of Hawaii (3178 bytes)
5: ...ite, red. They represent the islands of [[Hawaii (island)|Hawaii]], [[Oahu]], [[Kauai]], [[Kahoolawe]], [[... - Flag of Rhode Island (948 bytes)
1: ...[[Image:Rhode_Island_flag.jpg|thumb|Flag of Rhode Island. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com C...
3: ...motto: "Hope." The [[flag]] of the State of Rhode Island as it presently exists was formally adopted in [[...
7: ..., website of the government of the state of Rhode Island.
8: ...otw.net/flags/us-ri.html Flags of the world Rhode Island page] - Flag of South Carolina (934 bytes)
2: ...]] (constructed of palmetto logs) on [[Sullivan's Island]] from British attack in June [[1776]]. The flag... - Hippopotamus (6778 bytes)
17: ...cal rivers, as they are highly susceptible to [[sunburn]]. For additional protection from the sun thei...
19: ...ch after the Arab Conquest ([[639]]). Even in the island of [[Malta]], at Għar Dalam (the Cave of Dar...
30: ...ecies, ''[[Phanourios minutis]]'', existed on the island of [[Cyprus]] but became extinct at the end of th... - Mammoth (4333 bytes)
22: ...ies of dwarf mammoth have been found on [[Wrangel Island]] off the east coast of [[Siberia]]. They became ... - Sun Bear (4617 bytes)
31: ...ctos malayanus euryspilus''), found only on the [[island]] of [[Borneo]].
42: *[http://www.bearden.org/sunbear.html Bear Den]
43: *[http://exn.ca/AnimalTracks/SunBears/ Animal Tracks]
44: *[http://www.wellingtonzoo.com/animals/mammals/sunbear.html Wellington Zoo] - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
10: ...nd it is unknown if [[Alashiya]] was actually the island of [[Cyprus]]. - Aswan (1042 bytes)
12: ...:'' [[Aswan Dam]], [[Elephantine]], [[Kitchener's Island]], [[Nag Hammadi]] - Luxor (8772 bytes)
16: ...[[Byblos]] and [[Tyre]], the [[Minoans]] from the island of [[Crete]], the [[Greece|Greek]]s of [[Mycenae]...
43: [[Image:Touristenbazar in Luxor (1995, 880x625).jpg|right|thumb|225p... - Chnum (3466 bytes)
11: ...d on two principal riverside sites, [[Elephantine Island]] and [[Esna]], which were regarded as sacred sit... - Elephantine (3346 bytes)
1: ...om Classroom Clip Art]]]'''Elephantine''' is an [[island]] in the [[Nile|River Nile]], located just downst...
5: ...l transshipping point for river trade, and, as an island, also provided an excellent defensive site for a ...
6: ...hird dynasty, and most of the southern tip of the island is taken up by the ruins of the later temple to h...
7: ...ineIsland_Egypt.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Elephantine Island, showing the nilometer (lower left) and the Aswan...
8: ...ephantine. The oldest ruins still standing on the island are a granite [[step pyramid]] from the [[Third d... - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
14: ...jpg|thumb|left|Marble statuette from the Cycladic islands, 3000 BC]]
20: ... pattern dictated by Greek geography, where every island, valley and plain is cut off from its neighbours ...
24: ...|Syracuse]], [[Naples]], [[Marseilles]] and [[Istanbul]] had their beginnings as the Greek colonies Sy...
50: ...gue]] because its treasury was kept on the sacred island of [[Delos]]. The Spartans, although they had tak... - Ancient Rome (25155 bytes)
11: ...iver [[Tiber]]. At this location the Tiber has an island where the river can be forded. Because of the riv... - U.S. state (14432 bytes)
59: ...d>R.I.<td>[[Rhode Island]]<td>[[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]]</tr>
84: ...icial name of Rhode Island is "the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
18: ... with the Providence Grays of [[Providence, Rhode Island]]. Pitching in combination with the young [[Carl ... - Alaska (24727 bytes)
77: ...acific Standard Time), and the remaining Aleutian Islands were slotted into the UTC −10 hours zone, ...
81: ...hree of the outer Aleutian Islands — [[Attu Island|Attu]], [[Agattu]] and [[Kiska]] — were occ...
93: ... are found in the Aleutians. For example, Unimak Island is home to [[Mount Shishaldin]], a moderately act...
99: ...te]] in the [[United States|Union]]. The Aleutian Islands actually cross longitude 180?, though the [[Inte... - California (63989 bytes)
93: ...Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo]], where there is an island paradise called California. (For further discussi...
164: ...nent, either to sink into the ocean or form a new island. Notable movies in which the possible destruction...
292: ...DTH="32%">[[Native Hawaiian]] and Other [[Pacific Islander]]</TD>
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409: ...– [[Marin County, California|Marin County]] – $113,595 - North Carolina (18268 bytes)
42: ...The demise of one, the "Lost Colony" of [[Roanoke Island]], remains one of the great mysteries of American...
46: ...ther connected by construction of a 129 mile (208 km) wooden [[plank]] road, known as a "farmer's...
90: ... two hundred and eighty-six square miles (135,000 km²). - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
52: ... by [[Massachusetts]], and on the east by [[Rhode Island]]. The state capital is [[Hartford, Connecticut|H...
54: ...hrough the center of the state, flowing into Long Island Sound, Connecticut's outlet to the [[Atlantic Oce...
151: *[[Danbury, Connecticut|Danbury]] - Delaware (15006 bytes)
139: #[[Fenwick Island, Delaware|Fenwick Island]]: $44,415 - Florida (24937 bytes)
96: <tr><td style = "width:30px;"> </td><td style = "width:200px"> [[Whites|White]...
109: <tr><td style = "width:30px;"> </td><td style = "width:200px"> [[Protestant]]<...
174: *[[Marco Island, Florida|Marco Island]]
197: ...30px;">1 </td><td style = "width:200px"> [[Fisher Island, Florida]]</td><td>$236,238</td></tr>
198: <tr><td>2 </td><td>[[Jupiter Island, Florida]]</td><td>$200,087</td></tr> - Hawaii (34434 bytes)
37: ...[archipelago]] of the [[Hawaiian Islands|Hawaiian Islands]] in the [[Pacific Ocean]]. Hawaii constitutes t...
46: ...tal stripes representing the eight major Hawaiian Islands. The constitution declares the [[state motto]] ...
49: ''Main article: [[Hawaiian Islands]]''
51: ...olokai, Lānai, Kahoʻolawe, Maui and the Island of Hawaii.
52: ...s-hawaii.png|thumb|left|250px|Map of Hawaii (main islands)]] - Idaho (13962 bytes)
26: ...itude = 42? N to [[49th parallel north|49? N]] |
177: * [[Island Park, Idaho|Island Park]] - snowmobiling, summer recreation - Louisiana (26375 bytes)
354: ...ry. They still maintain contacts with the Canary Islands, and have an annual "[[Caldo]]" festival named f...
366: * [[Avery island]] - Maine (17312 bytes)
36: ...for the name 'Maine' is that the people living on islands along the coast of Maine used to speak of going ...
66: ...eral unique geographical features. [[Machias Seal Island]],
74: ... quiet fishing villages and thousands of offshore islands, including the [[Isles of Shoals]], which stradd...
79: :and saw three islands and a bay"
81: ...r land features, creating bays out of valleys and islands out of mountain tops. In the case of Maine there... - Maryland (22654 bytes)
77: ...d features of Delmarva is Maryland's [[Assateague Island]], on the Atlantic, with its herd of wild ponies ...
265: **[[Aberdeen IronBirds]] - Washington (20186 bytes)
78: ...ada, and the [[Pacific Rim]]. Puget Sound's many islands are served by one of the largest [[Washington St...
89: **[[Bainbridge Island]]
90: **[[Camano Island]]
91: **[[San Juan Islands]]
92: **[[Whidbey Island]] - Vermont (39851 bytes)
74: [[Image:Greenmountainboys.png|280px|thumb|right|The flag of the Green Mo...
148: ...companies, following [[Bermuda]] and the [[Cayman Islands]].
266: 273 [[Island Pond, Vermont]] $13,207 <br>
269: 276 [[Lunenburg, Vermont]] $12,804 <br>
334: ...([[talc]]), [[pie]] ([[apple pie]]), [[soil]] ("Tunbridge Soil Series"), [[beverage]] ([[milk]]), and ... - South Carolina (11968 bytes)
44: ...egan shelling [[Fort Sumter]], which stands on an island in Charleston harbor, thus precipitating the [[Am...
93: ...Greenville]], [[Spartanburg, South Carolina|Spartanburg]], [[Sumter, South Carolina|Sumter]], and [[Fl...
116: ...itics in Paradise: The Development of Hilton Head Island,'''. University of South Carolina Press, 1995. - Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
2: Name = Rhode Island |
3: Fullname = The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations |
4: Flag = Rhode Island state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of Rhode Island]] |
6: Seal = Rhode Island state seal.png | - Pennsylvania (32594 bytes)
118: ...100 years more. Finally, in 1979 the [[Three Mile Island]] Nuclear Power Incident near the state capital o...
198: 5 [[Thornburg, Pennsylvania]] $57,674 <br> - Nebraska (13662 bytes)
133: #[[Grand Island, Nebraska|Grand Island]]
148: #[[Grand Island, Nebraska|Grand Island]] area - New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
84: ...include the [[Souhegan River]]. The 410 mile (670 km) [[Connecticut River]], which starts at New ...
86: ...innipesaukee]], which covers 72 square miles (186 km²) in the central part of New Hampshire.
88: ... offshore are the [[Isles of Shoals]], nine small islands best known as the site of a 19th-century art col...
90: ...inion over several islands (now known as [[Seavey Island]]) that include the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard as ...
236: ... practical and includes measurements for offshore islands and other features such as inlets and rivers to ... - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
36: ...fth smallest state. The state is named after the island of [[Jersey]] in the [[English Channel]].
43: During the [[English Civil War]] the Island of [[Jersey]] remained loyal to The English Crown...
70: ...States Senate|U.S. Senators]] are [[Frank R. Lautenberg]] (Democrat) and [[Jon Corzine]] (Democrat). N...
107: ...and dairy products. In particular, [[cranberry|cranberries]] and [[eggplant]]s are two of the state's ... - Country (4192 bytes)
4: ...age:12_elephantine_is.jpg|thumb|250px|Elephantine Island, Egypt. Image provided by [http://classroomclipar...
7: ...]] and [[Wales]] – the three nations on the island of [[Great Britain]] – are known as countri...
16: ... United States]]. [[Uzbekistan]] has seven small "islands" embedded within neighbouring Kyrgystan in the p... - Agathocles (2843 bytes)
11: ... his rule over the [[Greece|Greek]] cities of the island more firmly than ever. Peace treaty with Carthage... - Ptolemy VIII of Egypt (5881 bytes)
5: ... this, and after Physcon's attempt to conquer the island failed, in [[161 BC|161]] the Senate sent Philome...
22: ...acusCurtius] — (Chapter X of E. R Bevan's ''House of Ptolemy'', 1923) - Pythagoras (10747 bytes)
9: Pythagoras was probably born on the island of [[Samos]], off the coast of [[Asia Minor]]. He... - Pytheas (6447 bytes)
10: ...ery high there. He recorded the local name of the islands in Greek as ''Prettanike'', which [[Diodorus]] l...
12: ...ian]] coast, the [[Shetland Islands]] and [[Faroe Islands]] have also been suggested by historians. Pythea...
20: ...e visited the [[Baltic Sea]], but he did visit an island which was a source of [[amber]], probably Helgola... - Dinosaur (35313 bytes)
11: [[Sauropodomorpha]]<br/>
12: [[Theropoda]]<br/>
124: ...e in northeastern [[China]], which was part of an island continent in the Cretaceous. However, the feather...
136: ...atan]] Peninsula 65 Ma, creating the [[1 E5 m|170 km]] wide [[Chicxulub Crater]], and caused the ...
169: ...id ''[[Ankylosaurus]]'', was discovered on [[Ross Island]] in 1986, though it was 1994 before an Antarctic... - Thirteen Colonies (4707 bytes)
6: ...e colonies of [[Nova Scotia]] and [[Prince Edward Island]]—remained loyal to the British Crown and m...
15: ...vidence Plantations]], later [[Rhode Island|Rhode Island and Providence Plantations]]
37: ...Jean'' or [[St. John's Island (Canada)|St. John's Island]]
54: * [[Cayman Islands]] - French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
1: ... islands and Saint Pierre and Miquelon, two small islands off Newfoundland. The British acquired Canada wh...
15: ...ands and [[Saint Pierre and Miquelon]], two small islands off [[Newfoundland]]. The British acquired Canad...
17: ...nada to Britain, preferring to keep the Caribbean island of [[Guadeloupe]] because of its rich [[sugar]] c... - Seven Years' War (11256 bytes)
30: ...st, the French were beaten in the [[Battle of Rheinberg]] and the [[Battle of Krefeld]] (Prince Ferdin...
50: ...uited the British as well, as their own Caribbean islands already supplied ample sugar, but with the hando...
63: *[[Battle of Reichenberg]]
66: *[[Battle of Hastenbeck]]: [[July 26]], [[1757]] - Time zone (34024 bytes)
14: ...(e.g. if it is 03:00 UTC, then it is 05:00 in Istanbul)
31: ...pplies to the island of Great Britain, not to the island of [[Ireland]].
41: ...orial waters and the lands they border, including islands. About [[1950]], a letter suffix was added to th...
51: ...e time is 23:30 Sunday in Samoa (UTC − 11) [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/full...
68: *[[Cook Islands]] - Cave (10592 bytes)
13: ...es are found on [[Hawaii]] ([[Hawaii (island)|Big Island]]). [[Kazumura Cave]] near [[Hilo]] is the longes... - Landform (3582 bytes)
32: *[[barrier bar]] & [[barrier island]]
47: *[[island]], [[islet]], [[island arc]], [[archipelago]] & [[atoll]]
75: *[[island]]
125: *[[Volcanic island]] - Macau (16856 bytes)
25: |'''Establishment<br> - Date'''
50: ...nlet"), Lin Do (蓮島; Liandao; "Lotus Island"), as well as "Soda port" (疏打ࣉ...
89: * The Islands District (離島區): [[Taipa]] a...
93:
98: ...sists of [[Macau Peninsula|a peninsula]], and the islands of [[Taipa]] and [[Coloane]]. - Crusade (28507 bytes)
28: ...l precedents in a society where violence against unbelievers, and indeed against other Christians, was...
38: ...al fall of [[Akko|Acre]] they took control of the island of [[Rhodes]], and in the sixteenth century were ...
133: ...nd Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby|Allenby]]'s capture of Jerusalem in 1917 (''illustration...
135: [[Image:Punch1917-richardIandallenby.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Depiction of Richard I ove...
140: ...er fortifications in the Aegean coast and coastal islands. Countries of Central Europe, despite the fact t... - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
80: ...l]], [[Alfonso X of Castile]], [[Wolfram von Eschenbach]], [[Walther von der Vogelweide]], and [[Niedh...
123: ...100 Years War ended, Constantinople fell, and Gutenberg invented moveable type. With this marker, the ...
125: ...hich had been developing on the somewhat isolated island even during the Ars subtillior, their music is of...
134: * [http://www.nb.no/baser/schoyen/5/5.3/index.html#1670 The Schyoe... - Medieval fortification (8517 bytes)
48: ...ually impossible. To position a castle on a small island was very favourable from a defensive point of vie... - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...mythology)|Icarus]]. Daedalus was trapped on the island of Minos, and so built wings out of feathers and ...
17: ...the experience, and not mind an arm or leg." Swedenborg was prescient in his observation that powering...
115: ... that most people on board survived, and the Hindenburg disaster was the only such disaster with a lig... - Geography of the United States (15104 bytes)
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45: <tr><td colspan=2> </td></tr> - Agriculture (19147 bytes)
8: ...pg|left|thumb|250px|[[Tea]] plantation in [[Java (island)|Java]], [[Indonesia]]]]
46: ...ess simultaneously on [[Pre-Pottery Neolithic B|PPNB]] sites in this region, although the consensus is... - India (27950 bytes)
1: ...he [[Indian Ocean]], it is also adjacent to the [[island nation]]s of the [[Maldives]] on the southwest, [...
73: ... the year 2004, India's total exports stood at US $69.18 billion while the imports were worth at ...
147: * [http://www.indiainbusiness.nic.in India in Business] – Official...
160: ...ile/ser-infotech.htm Services], [http://www.indiainbusiness.nic.in/ India in Business] - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
27: ...Confederate States of America]]<br />[[Image:starsnbars.png|100px|]]<br />
117: ... with the taking of [[Battle of Island Number Ten|Island No. 10]] and [[New Madrid, Missouri]], and then [...
293: Major naval battles included [[Battle of Island Number Ten]], [[Battle of Hampton Roads]], [[Batt... - World War I (62979 bytes)
52: ...on August 11, [[Australia]]n forces landed on the island of [[New Britain|Neu-Pommern]], which was part of...
60: ...ond) [[Battle of Tannenberg (1914)|Battle of Tannenberg]], but this diversion allowed French and Briti...
81: ...Egyptian Expeditionary Force]] under [[Edmund Allenby]] going on to break the Ottoman forces at the [[...
102: ...udendorff]] at [[Battle of Tannenberg (1914)|Tannenberg]] and the [[Battle of the Masurian Lakes|Masur...
169: ...], the Germans had been forced back to the [[Hindenburg Line]]. - World War II (58065 bytes)
58: ... and New Zealand troops. The Germans attacked the island simultaneously on the three airfields. Their inva...
91: ...ct, the Soviet Union occupied the Southern Kurile Islands, an area previously held by Japan and claimed by...
94: ...mbnail|250px|U.S. landings in the Pacific, August 1942–August 1945]]
113: ...more, fell to the Japanese onslaught. The British island fortress of Singapore was [[Battle of Singapore|c...
116: ...h later the invasion of [[Battle of Midway|Midway Island]] was prevented, causing the loss of four carrier... - Cold War (18329 bytes)
63: ...ves of all of the [[United Nations]], on a barren island or desert. - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
32: *[[1636]]-[[Rhode Island Colony]] founded by Roger Williams - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
6: *[[1790]] - [[Rhode Island]] becomes a state - Timeline of United States history (1970-1989) (5473 bytes)
16: *[[1979]] - [[Three Mile Island]] nuclear accident
36: *[[1986]] - [[Marshall Islands]] become independent
38: *[[1987]] - [[Dennis Conner]] onboard "Stars & Stripes" returns the [[America's Cup... - Timeline of United States history (1990-present) (6005 bytes)
19: ...995]] - [[TWA flight 800]] explodes off of [[Long Island]] killing all 230 aboard - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
66: Rhode Island had made no moves to call a ratification conventi...
70: ...l of Rights and ratified the Constitution. Rhode Island ratified the Constitution on May 29, 1790, and th... - History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
69: ...rge "[[Levittown]]" housing development on [[Long Island]]. Meanwhile, the suburban population swelled due... - History of the United States (1980-1988) (35211 bytes)
36: ... a 1969 automobile accident at [[Chappaquiddick]] Island in [[Massachusetts]] that had left a young woman ...
118: ...invasion of [[Grenada]]. On October 19, the small island nation had undergone a [[coup d'鴡t]] by [[Deput... - Michigan (29427 bytes)
113: | ||''[[Islands of Michigan]]''
114: | ||''[[List of Michigan rivers]]''
119: ...an [[First Nation]] (Indian) reserve of [[Walpole Island]], but only on water boundaries in the Great Lake...
124: ...s Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island combined, but has less than 330,000 inhabitants, ...
126: ...An additional 879 miles (1415 km) can be added if islands are included. This equals the length of the Atla... - Illinois (27007 bytes)
204: *[[Rock Island, Illinois|Rock Island]]
339: * [[Rock Island County, Illinois|Rock Island]] - Precipitation (meteorology) (2923 bytes)
8: ...ands]], where much of the rainfall received on an island is on the windward side, and the leeward side ten... - Tropical cyclone (34538 bytes)
63: ...g just west of [[Africa]] near the [[Cape Verde]] islands.
144: ...ly only available if the storm is passing over an island or a coastal area, or it has overtaken an unfortu... - List of politics by country articles (10131 bytes)
13: ...tics of the British Virgin Islands|British Virgin Islands]] - [[Politics of Brunei|Brunei]] - [[Politics o...
16: ...the Congo]] - [[Politics of the Cook Islands|Cook Islands]] - [[Politics of Costa Rica|Costa Rica]] - [[Po...
25: [[Politics of the Faroe Islands|Faroe Islands]] - [[Politics of Fiji|Fiji]] - [[Politics of Fi...
37: ...[Politics of Japan|Japan]] - [[Politics of Jarvis Island]] - [[Politics of Johnston Atoll]] - [[Politics o...
47: ...a]] - [[Politics of the Marshall Islands|Marshall Islands]] - [[Politics of Martinique|Martinique]] - [[Po... - Season (10047 bytes)
36: ...unavut|Alert]] on the northern tip of [[Ellesmere Island]], [[Canada]] (about 450 [[nautical mile]]s or 83... - Dodo (9332 bytes)
15: ...'Dodo''', was a metre-high flightless bird of the island of [[Mauritius]]. The Dodo, which is now extinct,...
22: ...round-bound birds evolved to take advantage of an island [[ecology]] with no predators.
27: ...he Dutch were the first permanent settlers on the island.)
31: ...th them other animals that had not existed on the island before, including [[pig]]s, [[rat]]s and [[monkey...
43: ... species were reported by sailors to be living on islands near Mauritius: in [[1613]] the R鵮ion Solitair... - Continental shelf (2503 bytes)
3: ...f]], which joins [[Borneo]], Sumatra, and [[Java (island)|Java]] to the Asian mainland. Other familiar bod... - Artemis (11271 bytes)
41: ...at Artemis was born one day before Apollo, on the island of [[Ortygia]] and that she helped Leto cross the... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
25: ...en Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen"). It lay on an island in the [[James River (Virginia)|James River]], ne...
31: ...umbers of [[Africa]]ns to the [[sugar]]-producing islands of the [[Caribbean]].
42: ...rovince of New Hampshire]], and [[Colony of Rhode Island]].''
56: ...dom of thought]]. She, too, was exiled to [[Rhode Island]].
67: ...s settled in these areas (also moving into [[Long Island]] and [[Connecticut]]); the [[Pennsylvania Dutch]... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
15: ... The [[United States]] takes possession of [[Wake Island]] in the [[Pacific Ocean]].
18: ... $25 million for the [[U.S. Virgin Islands|Virgin Islands]].
22: * 1945 - [[Sweden|Swedish]] diplomat [[Raoul Wallenberg]] disappears in [[Hungary]] while in [[Soviet ...
65: *[[1922]] - [[Nicholas Katzenbach]], American politician - January 1 (18244 bytes)
15: *[[1738]] - [[Bouvet Island]] is discovered by [[France|French]] explorer [[J...
28: *[[1892]] - [[Ellis Island]] opens to begin accepting immigrants to the [[Un...
30: ...e Bronx]], are joined on January 25th by [[Staten Island]] to create the modern city of five boroughs.
39: *[[1934]] - [[Alcatraz Island]] becomes a [[United States|U.S.]] federal prison...
60: *[[1976]] - [[NBC]] introduces its new logo: an abstract ''N'', si... - Rhodes (9349 bytes)
1: :''The Greek island of Rhodes..''
5: ...rovince of Rhodes, which also includes the nearby islands of [[Symi]], [[Tilos]], [[Halki]], and [[Kastell...
10: ...hodes]] is located at the far northern end of the island, including the site of the ancient— and mod...
12: ...ummer; Mount Attavyros, at 3,986 ft (1,215 m) the island's highest point of elevation; and the appropriate...
14: ...he whole island is geared toward [[tourism]], the island's primary source of income. - American Black Bear (15019 bytes)
54: *[[cranberry]] (''[[Vibernum]] spp.'')
104: ... americanus carlottae''</td><td>[[Queen Charlotte Islands]] and [[Alaska]]</td></tr>
114: ...s americanus hamiltoni''</td><td valign="top">the island of [[Newfoundland]]</td></tr>
126: ...nus vancouveri''</td><td valign="top">[[Vancouver Island]], British Columbia - History of California (38344 bytes)
11: ...n]] on [[Santa Rosa Island, California|Santa Rosa Island]] are among the traces of a very early inhabitati...
23: ... [[May 3]], [[1535]], Cortés claimed "Santa Cruz Island" (now known as the peninsula of [[Baja California...
26: {{main|Francisco de Ulloa}}, also [[Island of California]]
28: ...gated the peninsula and sailed as far as [[Cedros Island]].
31: ...Esplandian, the son of Amadis, travels through an island called "California" or "Califerne". - Earthquake (13859 bytes)
54: ...[Great Kanto earthquake]] (1923). On the Japanese island of [[Honshu]], killing over 140,000 in [[Tokyo]] ...
72: ....0. Epicenter off the coast of the [[Indonesia]]n island [[Sumatra]]. Triggered a [[tsunami]] which caused... - World (6524 bytes)
26: ...go)|The World]] is an archipelago of [[artificial island]]s, shaped like the continents of the Earth, bein... - Christianity (47078 bytes)
41: ... "have filled every place among you—cities, islands, fortresses, towns, market-places, the very camp...
49: ...with bishopries as far away as [[India]], [[Java (island)|Java]], and [[China]]. - Flood (7770 bytes)
16: Undersea earthquakes, eruptions of island volcanos that form a caldera, (such as [[Thera]] ... - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
33: ...s evening fell, on [[July 4]] in [[Bristol, Rhode Island]]. [[Philadelphia]] celebrated the first annivers...
45: ...he [[Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest]] in [[Coney Island]], [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]], which suppose... - Pope Silverius (2289 bytes)
9: ...eventually able to banish his rival to the prison island [[Pandataria]], where the rest of his life was sp...
13: ...e into a Saint and is now the patron saint of the island of Ponza, Italy (Isola Di Ponza, Italia).
15: ...aint Silverius (San Silverio). According to Ponza Islands legend, fishermen were in a small boat in a stor... - Pope Boniface III (3651 bytes)
3: ...half of [[Bishop Alcison]] of [[Cassiope]] on the island of [[Corcyra]]. Alcison found his position as bis... - Crustacean (6274 bytes)
45: ...emale. Terrestrial crabs (such as the [[Christmas Island red crab]]) mate seasonally and return to the sea... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
43: ...onstruction of two observatories for Tycho on the island of [[Hven]] in [[Copenhagen]] Sound. These were [...
80: * John Robert Christianson: ''On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe, science, and culture in the sixteen...
93: * {{fnb|1}} {{Web reference | URL=http://www.nada.kth.se/...
94: ...th Century | Publisher=Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh | Year=1890 | ID=unknown ISBN }} page 210<!--...
96: * {{fnb|3}} {{Web reference | URL=http://www.griffithobs.... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...[utopia]]", a name he gave to an ideal, imaginary island nation whose political system he described in a b...
17: ...wer left-hand corner describing to a listener the island of Utopia, whose layout is schematically shown ab...
27: ...cribes the political arrangements of an imaginary island nation named Utopia (a play on the Greek ''ou-top...
72: *[[Project Gutenberg]] e-text of Sir Thomas More's ''[http://online... - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
20: ...her troop units. Napoleon standardized the [[cannonball]] sizes to ensure easier resupply and compatib...
72: ...d in particular the seizure of colonial bases and islands throughout the wars, would directly and immediat...
76: ...sued. Napoleon's army had a record of continuous unbroken victory on land, but the full force of the R...
115: ...Fifth Coalition was ended by the [[Treaty of Schönbrunn]] ([[October 14]], [[1809]]). In the east onl...
142: Napoleon was exiled to the island of [[Elba]], and the [[House of Bourbon|Bourbon]]... - Carthage (20744 bytes)
1: ... [[Tunis]]). The map also shows [[Italy]] and the islands of [[Sicily]], [[Sardinia]], and [[Corsica]].]]
10: ...trol over [[Sardinia]], [[Malta]], the [[Balearic Islands]] and the western half of [[Sicily]]. Colonies h...
40: ...s and Phoenicians had been attracted to the large island, estblishing a large number of colonies and tradi...
42: ...art by Greek support, was attempting to unite the island under his rule. This imminent threat could not be...
49: ...d Carthaginian expedition, this time to claim the island in its entirety. This time, however, he met with ... - Boa (3641 bytes)
20: ...ut, with boas found on Madagascar and the Solomon Islands, this is not quite true. Instead, it is possible...
26: ...[[Epicrates]]'' ([[Rainbow boa|Rainbow Boas]] and Island Boas) - Bat (13851 bytes)
31: ... particularly interesting example here, given the island's unique fauna and flora (much of it, vestiges of... - Water Buffalo (6557 bytes)
30: ...[[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin]] to Melville Island and other locations in the [[Top End]] often with... - Blue Whale (22203 bytes)
44: ...tional Marine Mammal Laboratory]] (NMML) was 29.9 m long (98 ft) — about the same length as...
48: ...nbsp;in) in length. The weight of a 30 m (98 ft) individual is believed by the NMML to be in...
65: ...quency sound a human can typically perceive is 20 Hz. Blue Whale calls last between ten and thirt...
88: ...regation of the species off the coast of [[Chiloe Island]].
90: ...e [[Mid-Atlantic Ridge]] between the two volcanic islands. Beyond Iceland, Blue Whales have been spotted a... - Brown Pelican (2615 bytes)
21: ...ow tree. These birds nest in colonies, usually on islands. - Ireland (33828 bytes)
2: [[Image:LocationIslandIreland.png|frame|right|Ireland is located west of...
3: ...dom]], which covers the northeastern sixth of the island.
5: The [[population]] of the island is approximately 5.7 million people, 4 million in...
13: ...;mi) the longest river in Ireland or Britain. The island's lush vegetation, a product of its mild climate ...
30: ...ior to the [[Government of Ireland Act 1920]] the island had existed for centuries as one unified politica... - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
10: ...nvention]] in [[1787]]; all states except [[Rhode Island]] agreed to send delegates. Many delegates called...
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120: | colspan="2" rowspan="1" | '''Total'''<br> - Tundra (7482 bytes)
2: ...-493-a.jpg|thumb|250px|Arctic tundra on [[Wrangel Island]], Russia]]
8: [[Image:Nb_caribou.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Tundra coastal vege...
25: ..._Ox.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Tundra on the Kerguelen Islands]]
27: ... the South Sandwich Islands]] and the [[Kerguelen Islands]]. Antarctica is mostly too cold and dry to supp...
29: ... introduced by humans to some of the subantarctic islands. - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
18: ...ted at 50 – 150 m and reached 524 m up local mountains.
28: ... which typically reach only down to a depth of 10 m or so.
57: ...barriers. For instance, the tsunami which hit the island of [[Hokkaido]] on [[July 12]], [[1993]] created ...
68: ...[[1600 BC]] (still debated), the volcanic [[Greek island]] '''[[Santorini]]''' erupted, causing a 100 m to...
70: ===1700 - Vancouver Island, Canada=== - Surfing (15219 bytes)
5: ...[France]], [[Brazil]], [[South Africa]], and many island states.
46: ...nd Baja California Sur; Several great breaks, the island of [[Todos Santos]] being the most famous.
71: ... spots such as North Carolina's Outer Banks, Long Island, Virginia Beach, Ocean City (Md.), and the Jersey... - Groundhog Day (3781 bytes)
4: ...dhog forecaster for [[New York City]] is [[Staten Island Chuck]].
19: ...uregard Lee, Wiarton Willie, Balzac Billy, Staten Island Chuck - Culture of Italy (11004 bytes)
73: ...regions in Italy, [[Sardinia]] is an [[isolated]] island known for the tenores' [[polyphonic chant]], sacr...
77: ...ork songs are also indigenous to the agricultural island, known as "Italy's granary". Sicilian [[flute mus... - Endangered species (12553 bytes)
66: * [[Island Fox]] (''Urocyon littoralis'')
120: * [[Christmas Island Frigatebird]] (''Fregata andrewsi'')
167: * [[Writhed-billed Hornbill]] (''Aceros waldeni'') - Bodhisattva (7734 bytes)
57: ...es are famous as bodhimandalas; for instance, the island of [[Putuoshan]], located off the coast of [[Ning... - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]] |
15: Born '''Alexander Bell''' in [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]], he later adopted the middle ...
17: ...atise on [[Visible Speech]], which appeared in Edinburgh in [[1868]]. In this he explains his method ...
19: ... The next year he spent at the [[University of Edinburgh]]. From [[1866]] to [[1867]], he was an instr...
47: ...from injuries of an explosion on board the Staten Island ferry boat Westfield, retarded his experiments an... - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (14006 bytes)
7: After attending Rose Hill School, [[Tunbridge Wells]], Baden-Powell was awarded a scholars...
27: ...ership, and in [[1907]] held a camp on [[Brownsea Island]] for 22 boys of mixed social background to test ... - Dean Kamen (2784 bytes)
16: ... coast of [[Connecticut]], and has "declared" the island to be an independent state. - Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
48: ... the southern border to [[Mexico]], or escaped to islands in the [[Caribbean]], a point often neglected by...
71: ...m a bulwark against those who wished to unite the island with the United States.
136: ...road], 1872, by William Still, from [[Project Gutenberg]]'' (classic book documenting the Underground ... - List of extinct animals (3267 bytes)
27: * [[Falkland Island fox|Falkland Island Fox]] (1876)
36: ====[[Mauritius]] and neighbouring islands ====
79: * [[North Island Goose]]
85: * [[North Island Takahe]]
88: * [[Stephen Island's Wren]] - Coral reef (11599 bytes)
12: ...reef''' — reef separated from a mainland or island shore by a [[lagoon]]; see [[Great Barrier Reef]]...
16: ...rrier reef surrounding a lagoon without a central island; see [[atoll]].
36: ...ine islands.jpg|thumb|350px|coral reef philippine islands ]]
44: The coral reefs of the Indonesian islands are the most diverse in the world as well as one... - Totem pole (20143 bytes)
6: ...und the [[Haida]] people of the [[Queen Charlotte Islands]], from whence it spread outward to the [[Tsimsh...
24: ... [[Prince of Wales Island, Alaska|Prince of Wales Island]], are notable for having their undecorated porti...
28: ...g peoples of Southern British Columbia (Vancouver Island and the nearby mainland) and of Northwestern Wash... - Swimming (22854 bytes)
33: ...sp;m, 200 m, 400 m, 800 m and 1500 m. Events are held in yards at distances of 50 ...
34: ...ld at distances of 50 m, 100 m, and 200 m. Events are also held in yards.
35: ...ld at distances of 50 m, 100 m, and 200 m. This stroke, as well as butterfly requires g...
36: ...ld at distances of 50 m, 100 m, and 200 m. Events are also held in yards.
44: ...yle, 4×100 m freestyle and 4×200 m freestyle. - Extreme points of the world (6602 bytes)
6: ... The northernmost point on land is [[Kaffeklubben Island]], east of [[Greenland]] (83°40'), which lies...
8: ...ath of the [[International Date Line]], is [[Attu Island]], [[Alaska]].
9: ...of the [[International Date Line]], is [[Caroline Island]], [[Kiribati]].
20: ... Byrd Land]] (Antarctica) in the south, [[Chatham Island]] in the West, and Southern [[Chile]] in the east...
21: * The most remote island is [[Bouvet Island]], an uninhabited dependency of [[Norway]], which... - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
52: ...erius himself retired to live at his villa on the island of [[Capri]] in AD 26, leaving administration in ...
231: ...e model, took Constantinople and renamed it [[Istanbul]], [[Sultan]] [[Mehmed II]] established his cap... - Venice (22017 bytes)
2: ...-01-01). The city stretches across numerous small islands in a marshy [[lagoon]] along the [[Adriatic Sea]...
10: ...ire, the Republic acquired control of most of the islands in the [[Aegean Sea|Aegean]], including [[Cyprus...
41: ...is built on an [[archipelago]] of more than 100 [[island]]s in a shallow [[lagoon]]. In the old center, th...
44: ...tes along the major canals and between the city's islands. The city also has many private boats. The only...
81: * Islands: - Sicily (18450 bytes)
4: isocode = |
21: ... autonomous region of [[Italy]] and the largest [[island]] in the [[Mediterranean Sea]], with an area of 2...
32: ...ca Island]] to the north-west, and the [[Pelagian Islands]] to the south-west.
39: A network of [[motorway]]s crosses the island, much of it raised on columns due to the mountain...
48: ... national airports in [[Trapani]] and the smaller islands of [[Pantelleria]] and [[Lampedusa]]. - Palermo (10618 bytes)
12: ... Palermo on [[January 10]] [[1072]] and the whole island by [[1091]]. The policy of tolerance continued un...
69: *{{fnb|1}} [http://cis.alma.unibo.it/NewsLetter/090496Nw... - Nutrition (42689 bytes)
10: ...tream]]. The [[digestive system]], except in the unborn fetus, participates in the first step which ma...
40: ...ristiaan Eijkman]] worked with natives of [[Java (island)|Java]], who also suffered from beriberi. Eijkman...
45: ...ld cure it in dogs with cod liver oil. {{ref|mellanby}}
213: #{{note|mellanby}}[http://www.beyonddiscovery.org/content/view.tx... - Mykonos (1177 bytes)
2: ...yclades]], a group of [[List of islands of Greece|islands of the Aegean Sea]], lying between [[Tinos]], [[...
4: ...s probably the reason that brought tourism on the island in the first place).
6: ...[[Thessaloniki]] and the many of the other Aegean islands. - Windmill (7108 bytes)
1: ...dmill.jpg|thumbnail|200px| Windmills on the Greek Island of Myconos. Image provided by [http://classroomcl... - Forest (3705 bytes)
24: ...uan Island.jpg|thumb|300px|A forest on [[San Juan Island]] in [[Washington]]]] - Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
64: * [[Edinburgh]] ([[1899]]–[[1923]]))
92: * [[Providence, Rhode Island]] - Ronald Reagan (52721 bytes)
81: ...ion in the diminution of liberty. [http://libertyunbound.com/archive/2004_10/friedman-reagan.pdf] Also...
108: A communist [[coup]] on the small island nation of [[Grenada]] in 1983 led the administrat...
117: [[Image:ReaganBerlinWall.jpg|framed| Speaking in front of the [[B...
136: ...hived notes by his defense secretary, [[Casper Weinberger]], that he (Reagan) could survive violating ...
160: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[George P. Shultz]]'''||alig... - Gerald Ford (28942 bytes)
61: ...cue the crew, but the Marines landed on the wrong island and met unexpectedly stiff resistance just as, un...
92: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[Donald Rumsfeld]]'''||align...
96: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[Edward Levi]]'''||align="le...
100: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[Stanley K. Hathaway]]'''||a...
102: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[Thomas Kleppe]]'''||align="... - Jimmy Carter (33280 bytes)
106: ...ring a [[cover-up]] of the events at [[Three Mile Island]] following the near [[meltdown]] of that [[nucle...
124: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[Edmund Muskie]]'''||align="...
128: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[G. William Miller]]'''||ali...
134: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[Benjamin R. Civiletti]]'''|...
140: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[Philip M. Klutznick]]'''||a... - John F. Kennedy (36524 bytes)
36: ...man three miles through the ocean, arriving on an island where his crew was subsequently rescued. Kennedy ...
38: ...edo attack on a Japanese destroyer in the Solomon Islands area on the night of Aug 1-2, 1943. Lt. KENNEDY,...
42: ... be the wreckage of the [[PT-109]] in the Solomon Islands [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/07...
77: ...gs Invasion]], 1,500 Cuban exiles returned to the island to depose Castro, but the [[CIA]] had overestimat...
103: ...shalls]], Deputy Attorney General [[Nicholas Katzenbach]], and the Alabama [[National Guard]]. - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
60: ...le the Roosevelts were holidaying at [[Campobello Island, New Brunswick]], Roosevelt was stricken with [[p...
112: ...exchange for base rights in the British Caribbean islands. This was a precursor of the March [[1941]] [[Le...
144: ...n the grounds that they were indispensable to the Islands' economy, and the plan was dropped. Japanese-Ame...
174: ...an a slow and costly progress through the Pacific islands, with the objective of gaining bases from which ...
291: *[[William E. Leuchtenberg]], ''Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal'',... - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
1: [[Image:AaronBurr-flipped.jpg|thumb|Vice President Aaron Burr]]
13: ..., and by his vigilance in the retreat from [[Long Island]] Burr saved an entire brigade from capture.
55: ...He came to live as a quasi-feudal lord, owning an island now bearing his name on the [[Ohio River]]. It w...
57: ...el ever came to light, even when [[Blennerhassett Island]] was seized by [[Ohio]] militia.
70: ...Port Richmond, New York|Port Richmond]], [[Staten Island]], [[New York]] in 1836. He maintained an intere... - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
6: ...governor)|namesake]] colonial governor of [[Rhode Island]], Arnold grew up in a well-to-do Connecticut fam...
17: ...ish force near [[Battle of Valcour Island|Valcour Island]], New York on [[October 11]], [[1776]]. Though t... - USS Monitor (7466 bytes)
51: ...is still preserved at the marine museum in [[Gothenburg]].
57: ...nder tow by the [[USS Rhode Island (1861)|''Rhode Island'']], she sank on [[December 31]], [[1862]] in the... - Bahrain (16123 bytes)
1: ...n'''''), is a [[borderless country|borderless]] [[island nation]] in the [[Persian Gulf]] ([[Southwest Asi...
18: ...lspan=2 style="background:#fff;" | [[image:LocationBahrain.png]]
31: | '''[[Area]]'''<br /> - Total <br /> - % water
35: <br /> - Total ([[2004]])
36: <br /> - [[Population density|Density]] ... - Nubia (8928 bytes)
37: ...on the west bank of the Nile and on [[Elephantine Island]], and many Nubians live in large cities such as ...
49: # {{note|thelwall}} Joseph Greenberg as cited in Thelwall (1982). - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
21: ...zed a naval force, captured the pirates and their island stronghold and put them to death by [[crucifixion...
28: ...er at my age had conquered so many nations, and I have all this time done nothing that is memorab...
90: ...ar, after so much success, would be condemned had I dismissed my army."
103: ...: [[Veni Vidi Vici]] ("I came, I saw, I conquered").
136: ...om his chair and refused Antony again, saying, "I will not be king of Rome!" The crowd wildly end... - Pompey (25785 bytes)
15: ...tator, Sulla sent Pompey to Sicily to recover the island and its invaluable grain supply from the Marians....
17: ...icily was strategically very important, since the island held the majority of Rome's grain supply. Without...
19: ...went to Africa, where he continued his string of unbroken victories in 82-81 BC. His ruthless extermin...
67: ...ainst Caesar in the East. In the process, almost unbelievably, neither Pompey nor the Senate thought o...
69: ...e Cornelia and his son [[Sextus Pompeius]] on the island of [[Mytilene]]. He then wondered where to go nex... - Caesar Augustus (50559 bytes)
3: ...ptember]] [[63 BC]] – [[19 August]] [[14|AD 14]]), known earlier in his life as '''Gaius Oc...
36: ... and met with Antony and Lepidus on a small river island near [[Bononia]]. For two days the three politica...
57: ...ania, Italy, Cisalpine Gaul and the Mediterranean islands, with Lepidus receiving Africa.
163: ...ir, Tiberius retired to self-imposed exile on the island of [[Rhodes]]. His marriage to Julia was obviousl...
165: ...reserve his own honor, Augustus exiled her to the island of Pantederia and several others were executed fo... - Nero (23127 bytes)
32: ...and Livilla were soon exiled to the [[Pontian]] [[island]]s. Lucius was presumably separated from his mot... - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
11: ...[[Nassau County, New York|Nassau County]], [[Long Island]]), [[New York, New York|New York City]] to [[Par...
40: ...ndbergh spent his final years on the [[Hawaii]]an island of [[Maui]], where he died of [[cancer]] on [[Aug... - Blackbeard (5955 bytes)
6: ...ccording to the [[France|French]] governor of the island, "Edoard Titche" commanded two boats of English p...
14: ...ssau by Royal Governor [[Woodes Rogers]] when the island was raided and all pirate occupants were either k... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
10: ... Greece|Greeks]] and [[Ancient Rome|Romans]]. The island of [[Lemnos]] long resisted Greek influence and r...
29: ...]]. Muslim pirates operated out of the [[Balearic Islands]] in the 10th century. From 824 to 961 [[Arab]] ...
47: ...ved along the coast of southern [[Alaska]] and on islands in northwest [[British Columbia]], were traditio...
54: ...694, it was destroyed in a surprise attack by the island natives.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://everything2.co...
71: ...naged to raze townships on the outskirts of [[Istanbul]], forcing the [[Ottoman Sultan]] to flee his p... - Henry Morgan (5671 bytes)
4: ...in Edward Mansfield's expedition which seized the island of [[New Providence]] (Santa Catalina), and when ...
6: ...ting ten ships with 500 men, Morgan landed on the island and captured and sacked Puerto Principe, then wen...
10: ...ned on an expedition to Panama. He recaptured the island of Santa Catalina on [[December 15]], [[1670]], a... - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
9: ...anila]], [[Pulo Condore]], [[China]], the [[Spice Islands]], and [[New Holland (Australia)|New Holland]] (...
11: ...o shipmates were marooned on one of the [[Nicobar Islands]]. They built a small craft and sailed it to [[A...
18: ...trait]] between these islands (now the [[Bismarck Islands]]) and New Guinea.
20: ...o England, ''Roebuck'' foundered near [[Ascension Island]] on [[21 February]] [[1701]] and the crew were m...
32: ...agreement with Dampier, he opted to remain on the island. Selkirk's misgivings were fully justified: ''Cin... - William Kidd (4938 bytes)
8: ...bsequent fight a few days later, Kidd threw an ironbound bucket at Moore which killed him.
19: ...diner's Island]] is located, and in the [[Thimble Islands]] in [[Connecticut]].
25: *[[Gardiners Island]] - Pirate (23151 bytes)
86: ...cked and destroyed the pirate stronghold nests on islands throughout the Mediterranean Sea.
104: ...50 in film|1950]] film adaptation of ''[[Treasure Island]]''. Many stereotypical pirates have accents whic...
131: ...wooden timbers of one's ship "shivered" by a cannonball, in the archaic sense of the term shivered)
207: ...ilver]]'', one of several pirates in ''[[Treasure Island]]'', by [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], which weaves ...
212: ...wood]]'', hero and main character of the [[Monkey Island]] [[adventure games]] by [[LucasArts]]. He is als... - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
52: ...le on [[Lake Champlain]] (the [[Battle of Valcour Island]]) in October. Arnold fell back to Fort Ticondero...
57: ...Richard Howe]], began amassing troops on [[Staten Island]] in July of 1776.
59: ...d divided his troops about equally between [[Long Island]] and [[Manhattan]], thus allowing Howe to engage...
61: ...naries]]) to Long Island. In the [[Battle of Long Island]] on [[August 27]], [[1776]], the British expertl...
63: Having taken Long Island, the Howes moved to seize Manhattan. On [[Septemb... - Cabeza de Vaca (4807 bytes)
5: ...and]], which the explorers termed ''Malhado'', or Island of Doom) but later escaped and eventually reached... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
11: ...1506]], taking part in expeditions to the [[Spice Islands]]. In [[1510]], Magellan was promoted to the ran...
22: ...oneer this route to reach the [[Moluccas]] (Spice Islands), the key to the strategic and tremendously lucr...
37: ...Islands]], Magellan arrived at the [[Cape Verde]] Islands, where they set course for Cape St. Augustine in...
39: ... that Magellan believed would lead to the [[Spice Islands]]. The fleet reached [[R�de la Plata]] on [[J...
53: ...hey traded gifts with Rajah Kolambu of [[Limasawa Island|Limasawa]], who guided them to [[Cebu]], on [[Apr... - Frederick Cook (12772 bytes)
29: ...en water season and part of the winter on [[Devon Island]]. From there they traveled north, eventually cr...
31: ...raphical details of his journey south through the islands to mislead investigators and cover up this ficti...
37: ...ed and accurately depicted then-unknown [[Meighen Island]], which strongly suggests that they visited it, ...
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