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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, ... - Henry Hudson (4760 bytes)
3: ...udson discovered what is now known as [[Jan Mayen Island]] before reaching home in September.
23: ...ievements] by Thomas A. Janvier, at [[Project Gutenberg]] - James Cook (14770 bytes)
20: ...ich separates the [[North Island]] from the South Island, and which Tasman had not guessed at.
39: ...overed [[South Georgia]] and the [[South Sandwich Islands]]. In the Antarctic fog, Cook and Furneaux were ...
41: ..., he landed at the [[Friendly Islands]], [[Easter Island]], and [[Vanuatu]], in [[1774]]. His return home...
49: ...umbia|Yuquot]] in [[Nootka Sound]] on [[Vancouver Island]], although he unknowingly sailed past the [[Stra...
53: ... thefts were quite common in Tahiti and the other islands, he would have taken [[hostage|hostages]] until ... - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
16: ...s had been sent out to look for [[Hy-Brazil]], an island that would lie somewhere in the [[Atlantic Ocean]...
22: ...oundland, but others look for it in [[Cape Breton Island]], [[Nova Scotia]], [[Labrador]] or [[Maine]]. W... - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (4763 bytes)
12: ...t limped back to "San Salvador" ([[Santa Catalina Island]]) to overwinter and make repairs. There Cabrillo...
16: ...Catalina Island, San Miguel Island and Santa Rosa Island have all been suggested. - Leif Ericson (4502 bytes)
10: ... Flat Stones"), probably the present day [[Baffin Island]]. Next he came to a land that was flat and woode... - Roald Amundsen (8034 bytes)
14: ...led dog]]s. Continuing to the south of [[Victoria Island]], the ship cleared the [[Arctic Archipelago]] on...
51: *{{gutenberg author|id=Roald_Amundsen|name=Roald Amundsen}} - March 19 (9902 bytes)
31: ...[Argentina|Argentines]] land on [[South Georgia]] Island, precipitating war. - March 21 (10586 bytes)
20: ... - [[Alcatraz]], a federal [[penitentiary]] on an island in [[San Francisco Bay]], closes.
93: *[[1958]] - [[Cyril M. Kornbluth]], science fiction writer, (b. [[1923]]) - Juneau City and Borough, Alaska (8577 bytes)
4: ...t Juneau]], and across the channel from [[Douglas Island]]. The [[borough seat]] is the City of Juneau, wh...
10: ... [[Mendenhall Glacier]]), one bridge to [[Douglas Island]], an airport, and dead-end roads. A car brought...
19: ...8]], [[1880]], the two men marked a 160 acre (0.6 km²) town site where soon a mining camp ap...
49: ...nsus)|Asian]], 0.38% [[Race (U.S. census)|Pacific Islander]], 1.05% from [[race (U.S. census)|other races]...
71: ...g,awh,awhbib,wright Picture of Juneau and Douglas Island, 1914] - Atlanta, Georgia (39442 bytes)
53: ...]. Though now somewhat offset by the [[urban heat island]] effect, this still results in a climate more mo...
82: ...], 0.04% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 1.99% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|other races]...
135: ...ed specifically towards children include the [[Fernbank Science Center]] and Imagine It! Atlanta's Chi...
197: ... Missouri|St. Louis]] Hawks (1955-68). Their only NBA championship was in [[1958]], when they were the... - Honolulu, Hawaii (19495 bytes)
25: ...ity & County of Honolulu]] encompasses all of the Island of O‘ahu (approximately 600 square miles).
29: ...he [[California Current]] that passes through the islands much of year. The average daily low and high tem...
41: ...oved his royal court from the Island of [[Hawaii (island)|Hawai‘i]] to [[Waikiki|Waikīkī]]...
44: ...age:honolulu_diamondhead.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Rainbow over Honolulu skyline with Diamond Head behind....
46: ...me, Honolulu became the center of commerce in the islands, with descendants of American missionaries estab... - Boston, Massachusetts (36071 bytes)
57: ...up2;) of it is land and 106.7 km² (41.2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 45....
63: ...st lies [[Boston Harbor]] and the [[Boston Harbor Islands]], many of which are open to the public. The [[N...
65: ...t also coincidentally averages 42 in. (1,100 mm) of snowfall a year, though this increases ...
71: ...], 0.06% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 7.83% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|other races]...
176: *[[NBC]] - [[WHDH-TV|WHDH]] Channel 7 - Saint Paul, Minnesota (13759 bytes)
33: ...ort_snelling/index.html], which incorporates Pike Island named for the [[List of explorers|explorer]] [[Ze...
66: ...], 0.07% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 3.84% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|other races]...
111: *[[KARE]] 11 ([[NBC]]) - [[Golden Valley, Minnesota|Golden Valley]] - Olympia, Washington (7112 bytes)
30: ...ed access to these resources, including [[Squaxin Island Tribe|Squaxin]], [[Nisqually (tribe)|Nisqually]],...
54: ...e American]], 5.82% [[Asia|Asian]], 0.29% Pacific Islander, 1.68% from other cultural backgrounds, and 3.7... - Russia (28007 bytes)
60: ...|Kuril Islands]] and [[Sakhalin]]. (See [[List of islands of Russia]]).
67: ...rt (a large contiguous portion with its off-shore islands) and an [[exclave]] (at the southeast corner of ...
81: ...e the east shore of [[Sakhalin]] and its [[Kurile Islands]] lie), and
83: **through the [[Bering Strait]] (where its minor island of [[Big Diomede]] is separated by only a few mil...
85: ...(where the south and east shores of its [[Wrangel Island]] lie), - Malta (18511 bytes)
35: |'''[[Area]]'''<br> - Total <br> - % water
38: ...[Population]]'''<br> - Total ([[2003]]) <br> - [[Population density|Density]]
41: |'''[[Independence]]'''<br> - Date
47: |'''[[Time zone]]'''<br> - in [[European Summer Time|summer]]
62: ...y south of [[Italy]]. These strategically located islands have been ruled and fought over by various power... - Geography of Malta (2380 bytes)
2: ...53 [[metre|m]], is the [[Ta' Dmejrek]] on [[Malta Island]]. The capital is ''[[Valletta]]''. - Economy of Malta (6199 bytes)
2: ... the ranks of the less affluent EU countries. The island has joined the EU in 2004 despite having been the... - Amusement park (17293 bytes)
14: ...n one generically thinks of the heyday of [[Coney Island]]. Steeplechase Park was a huge success and by th...
16: ...ooden. In [[1911]], Dreamland was the first Coney Island amusement park to completely burn down; in [[1944...
25: ...uilt park still in operation is 'Bakken' at Klampenborg, north of [[Copenhagen]]. It was founded in 15...
30: ...r doors. Even before Steeplechase Park at [[Coney Island]] closed in [[1964]], a new entry to the theme pa...
38: ...now owned by Paramount, which now also owns Kings Island; and the latter is now [[Six Flags Great America]... - Roller coaster (14862 bytes)
23: ...r coaster, [[The Cyclone]], was opened at [[Coney Island]] in [[Brooklyn, New York]] in [[1927]]. Like [[T...
25: ...til [[1972]], when the Racer was built at [[Kings Island]] in [[Mason, Ohio]] (near [[Cincinnati, Ohio|Cin...
92: ...to run a complete circuit: The Switchback, Coney Island. [[1884]]
102: * First suspended coaster: Bat, [[Kings Island]]. [[1981]]
106: ...rst coaster with six inversions: Vortex, [[Kings Island]]. [[1987]] - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
57: ...lways, the first of which was operated at [[Coney Island]] from [[1892]].
118: *[http://www.rinbad.demon.co.uk/ Rinbad] - on railway geography and infrastructure in E...
126: [[da:Jernbane]]
127: [[de:Eisenbahn]]
136: [[nds:Isenbohn]] - Hinduism (49198 bytes)
63: [[Image:YoungBrahminBoy.jpg|thumb|175px|right|This young [[India]]n bra...
138: The Indonesian islands of [[Bali]], [[Java (island)|Java]], [[Sulawesi]], [[Sumatra]], and [[Borneo]...
230: ...s to this day, in a tradition that has continued unbroken for at least 3,000 years, perform morning ab... - Rome (33048 bytes)
23: |[[Area]]<br /> - City Proper || <br /> 1290 [[1 E6 m�|km²]]
25: ... City ([[2004]])<br /> - Metropolitan <br /> - [[Density]] (city proper) ||<br /> 2,546,807...
49: ...iber forms an ''S'' shaped curve that contains an island where the river can be forded. Because of the riv...
52: ...ites]] (in the South), [[Osci|Oscans]] and others — shared the penisula with two other majo...
61: ...uno]], [[Minerva]], and [[Jupiter (god)|Jupiter]] — from the [[Etruscan mythology|Etruscan ... - Cotton plant (5639 bytes)
25: ...pium barbadense'' L. – Creole cotton or Sea island cotton, native to tropical [[South America]].
31: ...an cotton, is a species endemic to the [[Hawaiian Islands]]. The seed hairs (lint) are short and reddish b...
69: Image:Cottonbiocontrol6038.JPG|Natural biocontrol: Predatory Po... - Equator (3944 bytes)
26: * [[Maldives]] - may miss every island
27: * [[Pini]] - a small island near Sumatra
29: * [[Lingga]] and one other small island near Sumatra
33: * small islands east of Halmahera
34: * [[Gilbert Islands]] - may miss every island - Egyptian mythology (14567 bytes)
52: * [[Philae]] – Island of Philae with Temple of Aset which was construct... - Ice age (15810 bytes)
56: | glacial period || 15 – 70
58: ...mian interglacial era|Sangamon / Eemian]]
59: | interglacial || 70 – 130
93: ...ll near [[Syracuse, New York]] is now dry. [[Long Island]] was formed from glacial till, and the watershed... - Geyser (14881 bytes)
6: ... [[greenhouse effect]], may erupt to heights of 8 km.
60: *4. [[Taupo Volcanic Zone]], [[North Island]], [[New Zealand]]
78: ...ve the surface, and depositing material up to 150 km downstream.
84: ...last up to a year, and during this time about 0.1 km³ of material may be deposited downwind.... - Hot spring (7271 bytes)
58: *The Queen Charlotte Islands: [[Hot Springs Island]] - Yellowstone National Park (23738 bytes)
68: ...outside of the south-western park border is the [[Island Park Caldera]] which is a plateau ringed by low h...
81: ...2 million years ago and formed the much smaller [[Island Park Caldera]] and the geologic formation called ... - Rainforest (6551 bytes)
1: ...n_forest_12.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Rainforest, Big Island, Hawaii]] - Great Barrier Reef (3888 bytes)
7: ...to the reef on a daily basis. Several continental islands have been turned into [[resort]]s.
14: ...eef is a large system of about 3000 reefs and 900 islands that are mostly offshore. The coastline of north...
24: ... some very popular areas near shore, like [[Green Island]] that have suffered damage from tourist activity... - Ocelot (4489 bytes)
17: ...st occurrence is [[Texas]]. It also occurs on the island of [[Trinidad]] in the West Indies. It is up to 1...
40: *''Leopardus pardalis steinbachi'', [[Bolivia]] - Tiger (11674 bytes)
19: ... between 100 and 160 kg (220 lb and 350 lb). The males are between 2.6 and 3.3 [[metre|...
35: ...st [[Asia]], including the [[Indonesia|Indonesian islands]]. These are the surviving subspecies, in descen...
39: ...xtreme risk from [[habitat fragmentation]] and [[inbreeding]]. In Vietnam, almost three-quarters of th...
42: ...0 and 500 animals, occurring predominantly in the island’s five [[national parks]]. Recent genetic t...
46: ... viable]], subject to potentially catastrophic [[inbreeding]]. By far the largest subspecies, with mal... - Weather forecasting (4312 bytes)
30: Island direction. Most of the models agree on a slow bu...
36: will be from Cape Hatteras to Block Island.<br> - Tennis (24557 bytes)
113: ...he home of [[Mary Ewing Outerbridge]] on [[Staten Island, New York]] in [[1874]].
115: ...1]] at [[Newport, Rhode Island|Newport]], [[Rhode Island]]. The U.S. National Women's Singles Championship...
123: ...f Fame]], a non-profit museum in [[Newport, Rhode Island]]. The building contains a large collection of te... - United States House of Representatives (41197 bytes)
9: ...nvention]] in [[1787]]; all states except [[Rhode Island]] agreed to send delegates. The issue of how Cong...
25: ...American Samoa]], [[Guam]], and the [[U.S. Virgin Islands]] are represented by a delegate each. Only [[Pue...
204: ...font color=yellow>*</font></td><td>Independent: 1 <small>([[Bernie Sanders]] of VT)</small>
206: <tr><td bgcolor=gray> </td><td>Vacant: 1</td></tr>
335: ...Congressional Delegations from Rhode Island|Rhode Island]] (2) - Native American (42651 bytes)
11: ... [[American Samoa]] (USA) and natives of [[Easter Island]] ([[Chile]]).
26: ...Aborigine]]s or the [[Negritos]] of the [[Andaman Islands]]. These hypothetical [[American Aborigine]]s wo...
83: ...suing a policy of "assimilation" [http://www.doiu.nbc.gov/orientation/bia2.cfm], the goal of which was...
176: ...er Columbus]] that the Caribbean islands were the islands in [[Southeast Asia]] known to Europeans as the ...
229: *[[Rainbow Warrior]] - Peking Man (2617 bytes)
21: ...imens of ''H. erectus'' had been found in [[Java (island)|Java]] in 1891 by [[Eugene Dubois]], with the [[... - Mid-Atlantic Ridge (3017 bytes)
2: ...tain range extend above the water mark, to form [[island]]s. Those are, from North to South, with their re...
4: #[[Jan Mayen]] ([[Beerenberg]], 2277 m, at 71°06'N, 0812'W)
6: ...ores]] ([[Ponta do Pico]] or Pico Alto, on [[Pico Island]], 2351 m, at 38°28'0"N, 28°24'0"W) </br>'''(hi...
8: #[[Ascension Island]] (The Peak, Green Mountain, 859 m, at 07°59'S, ...
10: #[[Gough Island]] ([[Edinburgh Peak]], 909 m, at 40°20'S, 10°00'W) - Walrus (6653 bytes)
18: ...larger, the male weighing up to 4000 lb (1.8 t).
30: ...th shore of eastern [[Siberia]], around [[Wrangel Island]], in the [[Beaufort Sea]] along the north shore ...
36: ...lows. When a calf is born it is over 3 ft (1 m) long and able to swim. Birth takes place on ... - Faience (4113 bytes)
6: ...a") is a garbled version of "Maiorica", for the [[island]] of [[Majorca]], which was a transshipping point... - Navigation (15650 bytes)
7: ...ousands of miles of open ocean, to tiny inhabited islands, using only their own senses and knowledge, pass...
15: ...how clouds would cluster at the locations of some islands
18: ...hods, were kept as guild secrets. Generally each island maintained a guild of navigators who had very hig...
20: ...sail to the Hawaiian Islands from the [[Marquesas Islands]]. In [[1973]], the [[Polynesian Voyaging Socie...
103: ...finding on commercial stations in order to locate islands and cities within the last several miles of erro... - Platypus (21900 bytes)
49: ...lia]] (bar an introduced population on [[Kangaroo Island]]) and is no longer found in the main part of the... - Archipelago (3081 bytes)
1: ... which consists of a chain or cluster of [[island|islands]]. Archipelagoes usually occur in the open sea; ...
5: ...n they form part of the same continental shelf so islands are just exposed continental shelf.
7: ...tion, is Indonesia. The archipelago with the most islands is the Archipelago Sea in Finland.
12: *[[Aegean islands]]
13: *[[Aleutian Islands]] - Atlantis (41399 bytes)
2: '''Atlantis''' was a [[legend]]ary ancient island, whose existence and location have never been con...
12: ... some information on the size and location of the island of Atlantis. Atlantis might be a work of fiction,...
14: ...and and the ocean were called "''Atlantic''". The island was facing the country called the region of [[Gad...
17: ...ke men used to come from the continent beyond the islands, in order to offer sacrifice to the gods of the ...
20: ... that far west of the Ocean there lies a group of islands whose inhabitants are red-skinned and whose hair... - Persian Empire (26229 bytes)
70: [[image:Ghaboos.jpg|thumb|right|200px|<center>''Gonbad e Ghaboos'', built in [[1007]], Iran, is a remi...
107: ...nd captured a [[Portugal|Portuguese]] base on the island of [[Ormus]]. - Tenochtitlan (3092 bytes)
3: ...al of the [[Aztec]] empire, which was built on an island in [[Lake Texcoco]] in what is now central [[Mexi...
7: ...cross this vision on what was then a small swampy island in Lake Texcoco. Not deterred by the unfavourable...
9: ...sland was perpetually enlarged as an [[artificial island]] as Tenochtitlan grew to become the largest and ... - Doric order (6699 bytes)
15: ... Athens, the Delians reassigned the temple to the island of Poros. It is "hexastyle", with six columns acr... - Petroglyph (5591 bytes)
1: ...etrolyphs2.jpg|thumb|250px|Petroglyphs on the Big Island, Hawaii.Image provided by [http://classroomclipar...
2: ...Petrolyphs.jpg|thumb|250px|Petroglyphs on the Big Island, Hawaii.Image provided by [http://classroomclipar...
28: ...g Chuk Hang]] and [[Big Wave Bay]] on [[Hong Kong Island]], [[Lung Ha Wan]] in [[Sai Kung]] - Peloponnesian War (15884 bytes)
11: ...w its immense wealth from tribute paid from these islands. Thus, the two powers were relatively unable to ...
17: ... One of these posts was near [[Pylos]] on a tiny island called [[Sphacteria]], where the course of the fi...
51: ...ossible, but the Athenian fleet, now based on the island of [[Samos]], refused to accept the change. In [[... - Greco-Persian Wars (5983 bytes)
7: ...xpediation of [[Datis]] and [[Artaphernes]]. The islands of the [[Cyclades]] surrendered, Eretria was cap...
9: ...cuated, and the Greek fleet withdrew to [[Salamis Island|Salamis]]. While the Peloponnesians proposed a de...
13: ... by Xerxes' failures, the Greeks of Asias and the islands revolted again. In [[478 BC|478]], a fleet unde... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
15: ... They also gained control a number of neighboring islands, as well as the Anatolian ports of [[Bodrum]] an...
19: ...an the Magnificent]] delivered 200,000 men to the island. Against this force the Knights had about 7,000 m...
25: ...lord the King of Sicily. Their annual fee for the island was a single [[Maltese falcon]], which they had t...
27: ...tomans lost some 30,000 men, enough to secure the island for a time. The siege is vividly portrayed in the...
36: ...1540]]. In [[1577]] the German Bailiwick of Brandenburg became [[Lutheran]], but continued to pay its ... - Chumash (3016 bytes)
3: ...art of the [[Channel_Islands_(California)|Channel Islands]]. Modern place names with Chumash origins inclu...
9: ... separated). The word ''čhumaš'' means "islander".
15: ...h tribe paddled from the mainland to [[Santa Cruz Island]] in a tomol, the first such crossing of the Sant... - Christopher Condent (2308 bytes)
1: ...1718]], when Woodes Rogers became governor of the island.
5: At the [[Cape Verde|Cape Verde Islands]], Condent and his men captured a Portuguese win...
11: ...pardon. Twenty or more of the men settled on the island, but Condent went on to marry the governor?s sist... - Early history of Ireland (30651 bytes)
7: ...n they are today, Ireland was probably already an island by the time the first settlers arrived by boat. T...
34: ...the height of the Neolithic the population of the island was probably in excess of 100,000, and perhaps as...
39: ... copper mine in these islands was located on Ross Island in [[County Kerry]]; mining and metalworking took...
56: ...ople who introduced the Celtic languages to these islands may well have been Celtic-speakers, but they wer...
70: ...s much more likely that their settlement of these islands was a gradual one, spread over several centuries... - Viking Age (10637 bytes)
4: ...93]], when Vikings attacked the important British island monastary of [[Lindisfarne]], and its end is mark...
31: ...velled to the north-west and west, to the [[Faroe Islands]], [[Shetland]], [[Orkney]], [[Iceland]], [[Irel...
60: There is a finding at the island [[Gotlandia|Gotland]] in [[Sweden]] that might po... - Troy (22846 bytes)
10: ...s]]. Elektra raised Dardanus in her palace on the island of [[Samothrace]]. King [[Tros]] called the peopl...
114: ...ut not extending to the [[Ionian Islands|Ionian]] islands or [[Anatolia]], which suggests that the Iliad r...
123: ...isit the site each year, mostly coming from [[Istanbul]] by bus or by ferry via [[Canakkale]]. The vis... - Flags of the U.S. states (1821 bytes)
44: *[[Flag of Rhode Island]]
64: *[[Flag of U.S. Virgin Islands]]
65: *[[Flag of Northern Mariana Islands]] - Limestone (3809 bytes)
7: ...surface in often spectacular rocky outcrops and [[island]]s. Examples include the [[Verdon Gorge]] in [[Fr... - Tyre (5124 bytes)
3: ...their [[colonies]] on the coasts and neighbouring islands of the [[Aegean Sea]], in [[Greece]], on the nor...
5: ...hich he built a causeway from the mainland to the island, but continued to maintain much of its commercial...
53: |[[Yakinbaal]]||[[564 BC]] - Adriatic Sea (5830 bytes)
22: Moreover, the chain of islands which fringes the northern part of the eastern s...
31: ==Coasts and islands==
35: On islands within one of the lagoons opening from the [[Gul...
37: ...ulf of Trieste]] from the [[Bay of Kvarner]], the island-fringe of the east coast extends as far south as ...
39: ...c]] (St. Ilija, 961 m). There are over a thousand islands in the Adriatic, 66 of which are inhabited. - Ernest Shackleton (9537 bytes)
26: ...tion. Shackleton's base camp was built on [[Ross Island]] at Cape Royds, approximately 20 miles (40 km) n...
28: ... [[Mount Erebus]], the active [[volcano]] of Ross Island; the location of the [[Magnetic South Pole]] by [...
36: ...hour journey. The 22 men who remained on Elephant Island were rescued by the Chilean ship ''Yelcho'' after...
55: ...al take place on [[Grytviken]], [[South Georgia]] Island instead. Shackleton was buried there on March 5. - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
9: ...e [[Saint Croix Island, New Brunswick|Saint Croix Island]] settlement which was abandoned the following sp...
33: ...th [[Tessouat]], the Algonkian chief of Allumette Island, and offered to build them a fort if they were to...
73: ...gutenberg.net/etext/6749 Vol. 2], [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/6825 Vol. 3] - Global warming (53726 bytes)
38: ...ds may not be much influenced by the [[urban heat island]] effect. While the accuracy of collected station...
40:
95: ...s not need any explanation. See also [[urban heat island]].
140: ...rate of 3 mm/y since 1992. Some [[Pacific Ocean]] island nations, such as [[Tuvalu]], are concerned about ...
298: ...ton and Sheldon Rampton, published in the ''Earth Island Journal''. - April Fool's Day (15510 bytes)
21: ...]'' printed a supplement featuring this fictional island (a reference to "[[sans-serif]]", a family of typ...
78: *[[San Serriffe]] is a fictional island nation created to honour April Fool's Day. - Aphrodite (14648 bytes)
4: ...in [[Cyprus]] and [[Cythera]], respectively. The island of Cythera was a center of her cult. She was ass... - Mycenaean Greece (6175 bytes)
58: ...teries of [[Kerameikos]] in [[Athens]], [[Salamis Island|Salamis]] in [[Attica]] and Skoubris in [[Lefkand... - Beach (8328 bytes)
38: ...zar|Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh]] (120kms), [[Fraiser Island]] beach, [[Ninety Mile Beach, Victoria|90 Mile Be... - Subduction (7616 bytes)
11: ...uate chains, hence the term [[volcanic arc]] or [[island arc]]. Not all "volcanic arcs" are arced: trenche...
15: ...ct stratovolcano in the [[Mariana Islands]], an [[island arc]] in the Western Pacific.]]
22: ...een surface and deep mantle reservoirs, producing island arcs and continental crust. - Sumatra (5388 bytes)
1: ...' is the [[List of islands by size|sixth largest island]] of the world and is the largest part of [[Indo...
4: ... [[equator]] near the center. The interior of the island is dominated by two geographical regions: the [[B...
6: ...eo]], across the [[Karimata Strait]]. West of the island is the [[Indian Ocean]].
8: The backbone of the island is the Barisan mountains chain. The volcanic acti...
14: ''See also: [[Islands of Indonesia]], [[Riau islands]]'' - Rift (geology) (1656 bytes)
12: ...[[Taupo Volcanic Zone]] in the north east [[North Island]] of [[New Zealand]] - Coast (8529 bytes)
5: ...cific term and is only applied to that part of an island or continent that borders an ocean or its saltwat...
21: ...r the "Mediterranean Coast" of France. Similarly islands may refer to specific coasts such as the "North ...
25: ...ing]], [[surfing]], [[boating]], and [[Sunlight#Sunbathing|sun bathing]].
42: *[[bar (landform)|bar]] — [[barrier island]] — [[headlands and bays|bay]] — [[be...
49: *[[island]] — [[island arc]] - Cliff (1559 bytes)
1: ...|thumb|right|250px|Cliffs on the coast of the Big Island, Hawaii. Image provided by [http://classroomclipa... - Felucca (1721 bytes)
3: ...luca.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Felucca in front of an island of Elephantine, Aswan. Image provided by [http://... - Lake (11397 bytes)
64: ...argest freshwater-lake [[island]] is [[Manitoulin Island]] on [[Lake Huron]], with a surface area of 2,766...
65: ...cated on an island is Nettilling Lake on [[Baffin Island]].
66: * [[Lake Toba]] on the island of [[Sumatra]] is located in what is probably the... - Lake Titicaca (3147 bytes)
6: ...river]]s empty into Titicaca, and the lake has 41 islands – some of which are densely populated.
8: ...eside city of [[Puno]]. Another island, [[Taquile Island|Taquile]], is another tourist attraction featurin... - Lithium (11359 bytes)
7: ...'Li'''<br>[[Sodium|Na]] <br> <br>
153: ...b>5</sub>)<sub>2</sub>, he was analyzing from the island [[Ut?weden|Ut?in [[Sweden]]. In [[1818]] [[Chris... - Aluminium (26079 bytes)
120: ...nexpensive, such as [[South Africa]], the [[South Island]] of [[New Zealand]], [[Australia]], [[China]], [... - Ununhexium (3740 bytes)
7: '''Uuh'''<br /> <br> <br> </td></tr>
37: ...confirmed a region of "enhanced" stability (see [[Island of stability]]): confirmation of these results is... - Ununpentium (4197 bytes)
6: ...<br>'''Uup'''<br> <br> <br>
40: Ununpentium was theorized to be inside the [[island of stability]]. This probably explains why it was... - Ununquadium (2587 bytes)
6: <br> <br>
41: *[[Island of stability]] - Uranium (27752 bytes)
204: ... popular opposition, and finally the [[Three Mile Island]] nuclear accident in [[1979]], all of which led ... - Aegean civilization (41260 bytes)
67: ...?) the scattered communities of the center of the island coalesced into a strong monarchical state, the [[...
69: ...with the capital, were founded in the east of the island to command fertile districts and assist maritime ...
77: ...an dominance was short-lived. The security of the island was apparently violated not long after 1500 BC, w...
114: ...ves and [[fortification]]s ([[Aegean Sea|Aegean]] islands, [[Greece|Greek]] mainland and northwestern [[An...
136: ...866]] primitive structures were discovered on the island of Therasia by quarrymen extracting pozzolana, a ... - Bahamas (7935 bytes)
16: |
19: | align=center colspan=3 | [[image:LocationBahamas.png|240px|Location of Bahamas]]<br>Location...
21: | '''[[Official language|Official language]]'''
33: ...List of Governors-General of the Bahamas|Governor General]]'''
41: | '''[[Area]]'''<br> - Total <br> - % water - U.S. Electoral College (46986 bytes)
82: ...[Oregon]] - 7<BR>[[Pennsylvania]] - 21<BR>[[Rhode Island]] - 4<BR>[[South Carolina]] - 8</td><td> [[South ...
138: Rhode Island - 4<BR> - Gong (10121 bytes)
72: In older [[Java (island)|Java]]nese usage and in modern [[Bali]]nese usag... - Washboard (2078 bytes)
23: :Coney Island washboard rondelay
24: ::"Coney Island Washboard" - Canary (4349 bytes)
16: ...as named for the latter, although the name of the island group comes from the Latin word for [[dog]], "can... - Chicken (21473 bytes)
27: ...athers on one of the wings are cut, resulting in unbalanced flight which the bird cannot sustain for m...
126: ...g boats, they reached the Asian continent via the islands of Indonesia and from there spread west to Europ... - Kiwi (6303 bytes)
31: ...h about 2.8 kg, the males about 2.2 kg. The North Island Brown has demonstrated a remarkable resilience: i...
36: ...incubate. These Kiwi are distributed in the South Island of New Zealand.
38: ...the north of [[Franz Josef glacier]] in the South Island. Reclassification would make five recognised kiwi...
42: ...and it has been introduced to other predator-free islands and appears to be becoming established. A docil... - Red deer (16671 bytes)
44: ... released into the southwestern part of the South Island.
78: ...Columbia. Transplants have been made to [[Afognak Island]] in Alaska. Estimates of the total population ra...
86: ...was given permanent protection in a 950 acre (3.8 km²) property, now known as [[Tule Elk Sta... - Dhole (1697 bytes)
15: ...[[Malaysia]] and south to [[Sumatra]] and [[Java (island)|Java]]. The dhole is a social canid and is gener... - Fox (3295 bytes)
23: * [[Dusicyon]] ([[Falkland Island fox]])
28: * [[Urocyon]] ([[gray fox]] and [[island fox]]) - Leatherback Sea Turtle (10187 bytes)
50: ...m Georgia in the United States to the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.
54: ...back turtles are most often seen off the Hawaiian Islands, where they are known to congregate north of th...
56: ...ing near the surface, particularly in the [[Long Island Sound]], where they have been injured by collisi...
64: ...ed by people in [[Puerto Rico]], the surrounding islands, and possibly in other places. Development of ... - Praying mantis (4062 bytes)
19: ...of two characters in the novel ''[[Island (novel)|Island]]''. The species was Gongylus gongylodes. - Dingo (6650 bytes)
23: ...e]] and also because of Dingo attacks on [[Fraser Island]] in [[Queensland]]. They are opportunistic [[car... - Greyhound (7556 bytes)
78: ...ssachusetts]], [[Colorado]], [[Iowa]] and [[Rhode Island]]. - Korea Jindo Dog (7529 bytes)
31: ...ndo is a [[hunting dog]], originally from [[Jindo Island]]. Although relatively unknown outside Korea, it...
42: ...thus they are the most popular colors. Some Jindo Island residents have valued black, black/tan and red/wh...
60: ...ht. The soldiers' dogs ended up isolated on Jindo Island, where they developed a very pure strain. Jindos ... - Labrador Retriever (5832 bytes)
68: The Labrador originated on the island of [[Newfoundland]], now part of the province of ... - Newfoundland (dog) (4428 bytes)
53: ..., but they were in use as [[working dog]]s on the island of [[Newfoundland]] in [[Newfoundland and Labrad... - Aye-aye (1185 bytes)
1: ... individuals were transported to Nosy Mangabe, an island near Maroansetra in eastern Madagascar. The Aye-a... - Nikola Tesla (29894 bytes)
98: ...ocated in [[Shoreham, New York|Shoreham]], [[Long Island]], [[New York]].]] In [[1900]], with $150,000 (51... - Caldera (4953 bytes)
17: ...s, such as [[Kilauea]] on the island of [[Hawaii (island)|Hawaii]], form calderas in a different fashion. ...
21: ...a de Taburiente]] on [[La Palma]] in the [[Canary Islands]] is an example of this.
26: ...e|Caldera de Taburiente]] ([[La Palma]], [[Canary Islands]], [[Spain]])
27: ...s Cas''' on [[Teide]] ([[Tenerife]], [[Canary Islands]], [[Spain]]) - Chinese River Dolphin (4152 bytes)
31: ...since [[1990]]. A female was found in [[Chongming Island]] near [[Shanghai]] in [[1998]], but she did not ...
35: .... The Foundation has gathered 1,383,924.35 [[Renminbi|CNY]] (about 10,034.02 [[United States dollar|U... - Temperate rain forest (5436 bytes)
16: ...hern Pacific coastal forests]], [[Queen Charlotte Islands]], [[British Columbia mainland coastal forests]]...
22: ...cur on the western shore of New Zealand's [[South Island]]. The forests are made up of coniferous [[Podoca...
28: ...forests are mixed, with deciduous [[alder]], [[hornbeam]], [[Oriental Beech]] (''Fagus orientalis''), ... - Djoser (3402 bytes)
14: ...er rebuilt the temple of the god [[Khnum]] on the island of [[Elephantine]] at the First Cataract, thus en... - Humpback Whale (17123 bytes)
81: ...ear off the Caribbean islands of [[Saint Vincent (island)|St. Vincent]] and the [[Grenadine]]s. The take i... - Gabby Hartnett (4450 bytes)
3: Hartnett was born in [[Woonsocket, Rhode Island]] as the oldest of 14 children. Joining the Cubs ... - 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 == - New Year's Day (5455 bytes)
32: ...nto the cold water on New Year's Day. The [[Coney Island]] Polar Bears Club in [[New York, New York|New Yo... - Anna Harrison (3660 bytes)
5: ...h the British lines to her grandparents on [[Long Island]], who cared for her during the rest of the war. - Chile (39914 bytes)
38: established_events = • Initiated<br> • Declared |
48: ...araíso]]<br><sup>2</sup> Includes [[Easter Island]] and [[Isla Sala y Gómez]]; does not incl...
124: ...et]]s, [[canal]]s, twisting [[peninsula]]s, and [[island]]s. The Andes Mountains are located on the easter...
128: ...d to its territory in 1888, and [[Robinson Crusoe Island]], some 400 km from the mainland, in the [[Juan F...
167: ...r Force also operates an airbase on [[King George Island]], Antarctica. The FACH will begin taking deliver... - Hipparchus (astronomer) (50785 bytes)
4: ...ea]] (now Iznik, Turkey) and probably died on the island of [[Rhodes]]. He is known to have been active a...
18: Hipparchus is believed to have died on the island of [[Rhodes]], where he spent most of his later l...
41: ... 29 days 12 hours 44 min 3⅓ s)
47: ...he founded a school of [[astrology]] on the Greek island of [[Kos]]. Another candidate for teaching the G...
65: : chord(''A'') = 2 sin(''A''/2). - Brown Bear (9756 bytes)
16: ...[[1 E2 kg|130–700 kg]] (300–1500 [[pound]]s). The '''grizzly bear''', the '''Ko...
19: ...y can run at speeds of up to 64 [[km/h]] (40 mph).
22: ...odiak]], [[Afognak Island|Afognak]], and [[Shuyak Island|Shuyak]]. The range of the subspecies ''U. arcto...
81: {{fnb|1}} ''Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance'',... - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
5: ...h are found south of the equator. (See: [[Pacific Islands]].)
9: ...d by underwater earthquakes, have devastated many islands and wiped out whole towns.
15: ...e the sea as island groups, such as the [[Solomon Islands]] and [[New Zealand]], and deep trenches, such a...
34: ...erature. Closer to the equator, where most of the islands lie, steadily blowing trade winds allow for rela...
40: ...ng South America to Mexico, returning then to the islands off California. Indonesia, the Philippines, Japa... - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
17: ...]]''. After finishing school, Darwin went to [[Edinburgh University]] in [[1825]] to study medicine.
19: ...he collections of the [[Royal Museum|Museum of Edinburgh University]], then one of the largest in Euro...
37: ...ater confirmed by survey in the [[Cocos (Keeling) Islands]].
43:
51: ...'s, he was able to relate the finches to separate islands. - Theodore Roosevelt (35706 bytes)
80: ...re any law which prohibits me from declaring this island a bird refuge?" When they indicated there was not...
115: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[Elihu Root]]'''||align="lef...
117: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[Robert Bacon]]'''||align="l...
121: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[Leslie M. Shaw]]'''||align=...
123: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[George B. Cortelyou]]'''||a... - Christian mythology (4875 bytes)
23: ...inded devot�s still seek to identify "Brendan's islands" in actual geography. - Snake (17266 bytes)
63: [[Image:Nb 307 028.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http:/...
139: ***Family [[Bolyeridae]]: Round Island boas
145: ***Family [[Xenopeltidae]]: [[Sunbeam Snake]]s - Breadfruit (2787 bytes)
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15: ...ruit]]) native to the East Indian and [[Pacific]] islands, which has also been widely planted in tropical ... - Lettuce (5469 bytes)
25: ...could have originated on the Turkish coast on the island of [[Kos]].
31: ...European lettuce was in a piece by Lucas van Valkenborch who showed clear depictions of modern butterh... - Potato (22889 bytes)
26: ...fore returning to England he stopped at [[Roanoke Island]], where the first English settlers had attempted...
57: ...'Jersey Royal'', a salad new potato, grown on the island of [[Jersey]] and in [[Spain]]
64: ...ws typically produce long tubers with very pale, unblemished skin. Their flesh, firm and also very pal...
100: ...]], [[Idaho]], [[New Brunswick]], [[Prince Edward Island]], - Penguin (7847 bytes)
19: ...ropics; one lives as far north as the [[Galapagos Islands]] and will occasionally cross the [[equator]] wh...
81: ...the eye (although its head was black), or from an island off Newfoundland known as "White Head" due to a l... - Ancient Indian science and technology (21581 bytes)
99: ... the [[Bay of Bengal]] like [[Cambodia]], [[Java (island)|Java]], [[Sumatra]], [[Borneo]], and even up to ... - Britain in the Middle Ages (12239 bytes)
7: ...tain". During the medi�val period, Britain, the island, was a number of kingdoms. At the height of Engli...
10: ..., [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] forces withdrew from the island of Britain. The Celtic forces that had fought the...
25: ...om his native Ireland, founded a monastery on the island of [[Iona]] in the Hebrides, and from there Chris...
42: ...ccessful, it weakened the English position on the island, a tendency only intensified by the [[Black Death... - History of Italy as a monarchy and in the World Wars (9742 bytes)
52: ...tions around Rome and in places such as the Greek island of [[Cefalonia]]), and the Germans quickly occupi... - Massachusetts (31663 bytes)
47: ... Williams ended up founding the colony of [[Rhode Island]] and Hooker founded [[Connecticut]]. [[King Phi...
50: ...re and the King's Province (part of today's Rhode Island), maintaining this position until [[Sir Edmund An...
52: ...d. Andros and his officials were held on [[Castle Island]] and then sent back to [[England]] as prisoners....
148: ...dy, arm-shaped peninsula called [[Cape Cod]]. The islands of [[Martha's Vineyard]] and [[Nantucket]] lie t...
150: ...cities and towns on the Massachusetts–Rhode Island border are also adjacent to [[Narragansett Bay]]. - New York (25691 bytes)
71: ...sey]] and [[Pennsylvania]]). In addition, [[Rhode Island]] shares a water border with New York.
79: ...Staten Island]], and [[Long Island, New York|Long Island]].
81: ...d) is south of Manhattan. The eastern end of Long Island includes suburban [[Nassau County, New York|Nassa...
86: ... a quarter million acres (1,000 km²) on Long Island following the last glacial advance some 15,000 to...
95: ...l fishery located along the Atlantic side of Long Island. The principal catches by value are clams, lobste... - River borders of U.S. states (3806 bytes)
24: * [[Pawcatuck River]]: [[Connecticut]], [[Rhode Island]] - United States Declaration of Independence (23184 bytes)
91: '''[[Rhode Island]]:'''
113: ...mage:1951PreservationOfDeclarationOfIndependenceByNBS.jpg|thumb|[[National Bureau of Standards]] prese... - Traditional U.S. state abbreviations (2884 bytes)
87: | [[Rhode Island]] || R.I. - List of U.S. states' largest cities (4566 bytes)
87: ...e Island]] || [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]]
97: ...rgin Islands]] || [[Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands|Charlotte Amalie]] - List of U.S. states by elevation (16995 bytes)
56: | 0 m ([[Long Island Sound]])
246: | [[Rhode Island]]
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577: | Rhode Island ||247 m|| 0 m||60 m||247 m - List of U.S. states by population density (2963 bytes)
9: | 2 || [[Rhode Island]] || 387.35 - US State Flags (1889 bytes)
42: *Printable [[Rhode Island State Flag]] - Culture of Ireland (27885 bytes)
2: The culture of the people living on the island of [[Ireland]] is far from monolithic. Many notab...
8: ....7 million. The total population of humans on the island, north and south, only just approaches this figur...
12: ... full extension of English [[feudalism]] over the island, the Irish [[county]] structure came into existen...
21: ...manent settlement and the first true towns on the island emerged. These towns were taken over and expanded...
122: ...lacht fiadh sites have been identified across the island of Ireland, and some of them appear to have been ... - Culture of Jersey (13844 bytes)
5: [[J�rriais]], the island's [[Norman language]], is spoken by a minority of...
7: ...ace with the migration of English people into the island since the end of the [[Napoleonic wars]].
23: ... only arrived in Jersey in the [[1780s]], but the island supported a multitude of regular publications in ...
27: ... Pipon Marett 1820–1884, [[Bailiff_(Channel_Islands)|Bailiff]] of Jersey 1880–1884), 'A.A.L.G....
68: [[Lillie Langtry]], the ''Jersey Lily'', is the island's most widely recognised cultural icon. - Animal C (1243 bytes)
20: *[[Chatham Island Taiko]] - Animal V (166 bytes)
2: *[[Vancouver Island Marmot]] - Barn Owls (3416 bytes)
21: 5 species of barn owl are threatened, and some island species have gone [[extinct]] (like the species '... - Black Howler Monkeys (4913 bytes)
14: ''[[Coiba Island Howler|Alouatta coibensis]]''<br/>
45: **** [[Coiba Island Howler]], ''Alouatta coibensis'' - Boas (3640 bytes)
19: ...ut, with boas found on Madagascar and the Solomon Islands, this is not quite true. Instead, it is possible...
25: ...[[Epicrates]]'' ([[Rainbow boa|Rainbow Boas]] and Island Boas) - Blue Crabs (3489 bytes)
19: ...ulf of Mexico]]. There is also a blue crab on the island [[St. Francois]], [[Seychelles]]. In its scientif... - Bottlenose Whales (4246 bytes)
25: ... tip of [[South Africa]], [[New Zealand]]'s North Island and the southern parts of [[Brazil]]. There is th... - Cicadas (3983 bytes)
23: ... Zealand]] and the surrounding islands ([[Norfolk Island]], [[New Caledonia]]).
27: ...here some tropic species that reach 15 cm (6 in), e.g. the ''Pomponia imperatoria'' from [[M...
29: ...ound. Some cicadas produce sounds louder than 100 [[Decibel|dB]]. (This amazing sound has frequen...
35: ...ft]]) up to 2.5 [[metre|m]] (about 8½ ft). The nymphs feed on root juices and have st... - Degus (5480 bytes)
17: ...that is found only on Isla Mocha, a small coastal island in the [[Valdivian]] [[rainforest]] zone of centr... - Dingoes (6363 bytes)
24: ...e]] and also because of Dingo attacks on [[Fraser Island]] in [[Queensland]]. They are opportunistic [[car... - Dodos (9122 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...
44: ... species were reported by sailors to be living on islands near Mauritius: in [[1613]] the R鵮ion Solitair... - Dusky Dolphins (3923 bytes)
23: ...mania]] and [[New South Wales]] and several small islands in the [[South Atlantic Ocean|South Atlantic]] a...
28: ...ators from [[Kaikoura]], on [[New Zealand]] South Island are either dedicated to watching Duskys or watch ... - Earthworms (15728 bytes)
63: ...Arctiostrotus vancouverensis]]'' from [[Vancouver Island]] and the [[Olympic Peninsula]] is generally foun... - Feral Cats (8203 bytes)
23: ...e in the loss of rare species on [[Australasia]]n islands, however, has been significant.)
31: == Feral cats and island restoration ==
32: ...planned, including their removal from [[Ascension Island]].
34: ...ntire animal population of the remote [[Kerguelen Islands]] in the southern [[Indian Ocean]]. - Fishing Cats (2030 bytes)
24: *''Prionailurus viverrinus risophores'', [[Java (island)|Java]], [[Bali]] - Flying Foxes (2158 bytes)
6: [[Image:flying_foxes.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Fox Island, Australia, is the largest colony of flying foxes... - Giant Squids (7570 bytes)
24: ...dory]] in [[Bell Island]], [[Newfoundland]]. A 17 m (55 ft) giant squid specimen washed ashore in...
42: ...ken]], a tentacled [[sea monster]] as large as an island capable of engulfing and sinking any ship. Howeve... - Green Tree Pythons (1865 bytes)
15: ...erning differences; for example, species from Aru Island, Indonesia typically have more white spotting tha... - Gypsy Moths (23610 bytes)
49: ...e defoliated. This is an area larger than [[Rhode Island]], [[Massachusetts]], and [[Connecticut]] combine... - Hippopotamuses (6272 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...
31: ...ecies, ''[[Phanourios minutis]]'', existed on the island of [[Cyprus]] but became extinct at the end of th... - Howler Monkeys (5154 bytes)
14: ''[[Coiba Island Howler|Alouatta coibensis]]''<br/>
47: **** [[Coiba Island Howler]], ''Alouatta coibensis'' - Komodo Dragons (3118 bytes)
16: ...es (10 feet) and weighing between 80 and 140 kg (175 to 310 lb). It is a member of the [[mon...
20: ...t charge (they can run briefly at speeds up to 20 km/h). They have a strong bite augmented by sev...
24: ... protected, but the hatchlings (100 g and 40 cm in length) are not and most are eaten. The o...
28: ...r Sunda Islands]] in [[Indonesia]], including the islands of [[Komodo]] (1,700), [[Rincah|Rinca]] (1,300),...
30: ...or of the Zoological Museum at [[Bogor]], [[Java (island)|Java]]. - Leatherback Turtles (10187 bytes)
50: ...m Georgia in the United States to the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.
54: ...back turtles are most often seen off the Hawaiian Islands, where they are known to congregate north of th...
56: ...ing near the surface, particularly in the [[Long Island Sound]], where they have been injured by collisi...
64: ...ed by people in [[Puerto Rico]], the surrounding islands, and possibly in other places. Development of ... - Lemurs (4235 bytes)
22: ...d of [[Madagascar]], and some smaller surrounding islands, including the [[Comoros]] (where it is likely t... - Leopards (8935 bytes)
21: ...d [[South-East Asia]], and the islands of [[Java (island)|Java]], [[Zanzibar]], and [[Sri Lanka]].
27: [[Image:Nb_leopard.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Image provided by [h...
38: [[Image:Nb_leopard_2.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Image provided by ... - Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches (1620 bytes)
18: ...is a large cockroach which is originally from the island of [[Madagascar]] off the [[Africa]]n coast. The ... - Marmots (2941 bytes)
36: ...d Marmot]] ''Marmota vancouverensis'' [[Vancouver Island]], [[British Columbia]], [[Canada]] - New Guinea Singing Dog (1528 bytes)
4: Once thought to inhabit the entire island of New Guinea, today populations remain only in r... - Northern Fur Seal (3631 bytes)
2: ...eal]] | caption = Northern Fur Seal Bull, St Paul Island, 1992, photo by Rolf Ream, NMML.}}
29: ...slands around the north of Japan and [[San Miguel Island]] off [[California]].
37: ...h the proviso that a managed take at the Pribilof islands could take its place. Commercial hunting ended c... - Philippine Eagles (3923 bytes)
19: ...Philippine]] islands. Now it is restricted to the islands of [[Luzon]] and [[Mindanao]], but it is nearly ...
25: ...times they also prey on large [[bird]]s like [[hornbill]]s or [[crow]]s.
35: ...nhabit 6 islands in the country, even the largest island, [[Luzon]]. Now, the eagle may only be found in [...
37: ...troduction of the eagle in Luzon Island and other islands have not materialised due to political conflicts... - Pigeons (23097 bytes)
166: * [[Island Collared Dove]], ''Streptopelia bitorquata''
339: * [[Norfolk Island Ground Dove]], ''Gallicolumba norfolciensis'' (ex...
475: * [[Island Imperial Pigeon]], '' Ducula pistrinaria'' - Poison Dart Frogs (4344 bytes)
20: ...d that the species was actually introduced to the islands during the 19th or 20th centuries by man.
30: ...tellas]], a small colorful frog only found on the island of Madagascar. These two families of frogs are n... - Praying Mantids (3894 bytes)
19: ...of two characters in the novel ''[[Island (novel)|Island]]''. The species was Gongylus gongylodes. - Proboscis Monkeys (3096 bytes)
14: ...he coastal areas of [[Borneo]] and the [[Mentawai Islands]] west of [[Sumatra]], in [[coastal]] [[mangrove...
24: ...roficient swimmers, often swimming from island to island, and have been picked up by fishing boats in open... - Quokkas (2433 bytes)
18: ...nds off the coast: [[Bald Island]] and [[Rottnest Island]] — which is its stronghold. On Rottnest it...
24: Although numerous on the small offshore islands, they have a very restricted range and are class... - 13 colonies (4411 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]] - Roseate Spoonbills (5005 bytes)
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2: ...200px|Roseate Spoonbill]] | caption = Roseate Spoonbill}}
13: ''P. leucorodia''<br>
14: ''P. minor''<br>
15: ''P. alba''<br> - Sloths (6298 bytes)
2: ...xobox_image | image = [[Image:Sloth - Project Gutenberg eBook 11921.jpg|250px|A sloth, as depicted in ...
40: *** [[Escudo Island Three-toed Sloth]], ''Bradypus pygmaeus'' - Solenodons (2732 bytes)
22: ...odon (''Solenodon paradoxus'') of [[Hispaniola]] (island shared by the [[Dominican Republic]] and [[Haiti]... - Spoonbills (5005 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = pink | name = Spoonbills}}
2: ...200px|Roseate Spoonbill]] | caption = Roseate Spoonbill}}
13: ''P. leucorodia''<br>
14: ''P. minor''<br>
15: ''P. alba''<br> - Tasmanian Devils (12312 bytes)
20: ...nivorous]] [[marsupial]] found exclusively on the island of [[Tasmania]], and is the largest carnivorous m...
25: ...[[1807]], he named it ''Didelphis ursina''{{mn|Stanbury|1}}. The devil was later renamed ''Dasyurus la...
30: ...ugh 7 to 9 kg is more typical), and stand 30 cm at the shoulder. Analysis of mammalian bite ...
38: ...scher2001|6}}. They occupy territories of 8 to 20 km² which overlap considerably.
56: ...n the Hobart suburb of [[Taroona]] and at [[Maria Island]] off the east coast of Tasmania. Captive breedin... - Tiger Snake (1916 bytes)
27: ::''N. a. serventyi'' - '''Chappell Island Tiger Snake'''
28: ...hreysi'' - '''Tasmanian Tiger Snake''' or '''King Island Tiger Snake'''
32: ...us are found in southern Australia, [[Tasmania]], islands in the [[Bass Strait]] and on [[New Guinea]]. - Tigers (12435 bytes)
19: ... between 100 and 160 kg (220 lb and 350 lb). The males are between 2.6 and 3.3 [[metre|...
35: ...st [[Asia]], including the [[Indonesia|Indonesian islands]]. These are the surviving subspecies, in descen...
39: ...xtreme risk from [[habitat fragmentation]] and [[inbreeding]]. In Vietnam, almost three-quarters of th...
42: ...0 and 500 animals, occurring predominantly in the island’s five [[national parks]]. Recent genetic t...
46: ... viable]], subject to potentially catastrophic [[inbreeding]]. By far the largest subspecies, with mal... - Toothfish (2948 bytes)
14: ...continental shelves around most sub-[[Antarctic]] islands. A commercial fishery exists for Patagonian Toot...
16: ..., and [[Australia]]'s [[Heard Island and McDonald Islands]]. The fish are then sold on the black market, a...
18: ...fishing is reserved for fisheries from [[Réunion Island]]. Because of poaching, the [[French Navy]] patro... - Trumpeter Swans (3342 bytes)
19: ...to 9 eggs in a mound of plant material on a small island, a [[American Beaver|beaver]] or [[muskrat]] lodg... - Tuataras (5776 bytes)
13: ''[[Brothers Island tuatara|Sphenodon guntheri]]''
15: ..., and now live only on a small number of offshore islands. It has been classified as an [[endangered speci...
28: ...ther adaptations that allow them to thrive on the islands of New Zealand. These adaptations are probably u...
32: ...fined to [[The Brothers, New Zealand|The Brothers Islands]] in [[Cook Strait]]. These have olive skin with... - 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]... - Walruses (5529 bytes)
18: ...larger, the male weighing up to 4000 lb (1.8 t).
30: ...th shore of eastern [[Siberia]], around [[Wrangel Island]], in the [[Beaufort Sea]] along the north shore ...
36: ...lows. When a calf is born it is over 3 ft (1 m) long and able to swim. Birth takes place on ... - Wild Canids (4175 bytes)
60: *** ([[Falkland Island fox|Falkland Island Fox]], ''Dusicyon australis'' extinct)
90: *** [[Island fox|Island Fox]], ''Urocyon littoralis'' - Hipparchus (50784 bytes)
3: ...ea]] (now Iznik, Turkey) and probably died on the island of [[Rhodes]]. He is known to have been active a...
17: Hipparchus is believed to have died on the island of [[Rhodes]], where he spent most of his later l...
40: ... 29 days 12 hours 44 min 3⅓ s)
46: ...he founded a school of [[astrology]] on the Greek island of [[Kos]]. Another candidate for teaching the G...
64: : chord(''A'') = 2 sin(''A''/2). - Theater in the United States (12545 bytes)
13: ...1750, in [[Pennsylvania]] in 1759, and in [[Rhode Island]] in 1761, and it was banned in most states durin... - Franklin Delano 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'',... - List of countries (20527 bytes)
7: ...]] and [[Wales]] – the three nations on the island of [[Great Britain]] – are known as countri...
38: *[[Ascension Island]] (''dependency of [[#S|Saint Helena]], an overse...
58: *[[British Virgin Islands]] (''overseas territory of the [[#U|United Kingd...
70: *[[Cayman Islands]] (''overseas territory of the [[#U|United Kingd...
76: *[[Christmas Island]] - Territory of Christmas Islands (''overseas territory of [[#A|Australia]]'') - 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|?]] - List of countries by highest point (12398 bytes)
102: ...pain]]||[[Teide]] on [[Tenerife]] in the [[Canary Islands]]||3,718m
104: |51||[[Greenland]]||[[Gunnbjorn]]||3,700m
204: |101||[[Solomon Islands]]||[[Mount Makarakomburu]]||2,447m
218: |108||[[Portugal]]||[[Ponta do Pico]] on [[Pico Island]] in the [[Azores]]||2,351m
318: |158||[[Tonga]]||unnamed location on [[Kao Island]]||1,033m - List of autonomous entities (9309 bytes)
24: | [[Inner Mongolia]] (֢?gghul – N詠Měnggǔ/内蒙&#...
30: | [[Tibet]] (P?p;nbsp;– Xīz/西藏)
33: ...Hong Kong]] (Xiānggǎng/香港 – Hong Kong)
35: | [[Macau]] (?m鮯澳门 – Macau)
39: | [[Ŭand Islands]] (Ŭand – Ahvenanmaa) - US State Maps (1761 bytes)
43: *Printable [[Rhode Island State Map]] - State Facts Handouts (1913 bytes)
40: *Printable [[Rhode Island State Facts]] - Korean art (25186 bytes)
57: ...head, is set for a $300 million dollar home on an island on the Han river. Korean opera and an entirely re...
168: ...two hundred years before the work of [[Johann Gutenberg]] or [[William Caxton]] whom, to most westerne... - Banteng (2305 bytes)
15: ...dia]], [[Laos]], [[Vietnam]], [[Borneo]], [[Java (island)|Java]], and [[Bali]]. Some Banteng were introduc... - Ice Age (15809 bytes)
55: | glacial period || 15 – 70
57: ...mian interglacial era|Sangamon / Eemian]]
58: | interglacial || 70 – 130
92: ...ll near [[Syracuse, New York]] is now dry. [[Long Island]] was formed from glacial till, and the watershed... - Rock formations (10410 bytes)
15: ...lain. ''Inselberg '' is a German word that means "island mountain". [[Uluru]]/[[Ayers Rock]] in [[Australi...
46: *Castle Hill Basin, [[South Island]], [[New Zealand]]
47: *Fatu Hiva, [[Marquesas Islands]], [[French Polynesia]]
62: *James Bond Island, [[Phang Nga province|Phang Nga]], [[Thailand]]
138: *[[Virgin Gorda]] Rocks, [[British Virgin Islands]] - Lava dome (958 bytes)
3: ...es include those at [[Merapi volcano]] in [[Java (island)|Java]], at [[Soufriere Hills volcano]] in [[Mont... - 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. - Proboscis Monkey (3098 bytes)
14: ...he coastal areas of [[Borneo]] and the [[Mentawai Islands]] west of [[Sumatra]], in [[coastal]] [[mangrove...
24: ...roficient swimmers, often swimming from island to island, and have been picked up by fishing boats in open... - Historical temperature record (5347 bytes)
29: ... but they are at least immune to the [[urban heat island]]
33: ...ture record, see the main article: ''[[Urban heat island effect]]'' - Solar power (20128 bytes)
148: ...talled. A large solar PV plant is planned for the island of [[Crete]]. Research continues into ways to mak... - Eocene (7034 bytes)
37: ...terranean]], and created another shallow sea with island [[archipelago]]s to the north. Though the North [...
55: ...ers of the new mammal orders were small, under 10 kg; based on comparisons of tooth size, Eocene ... - Estevanico the moor (3698 bytes)
8: ...s enslaved by the Ananarivo of the Louisiana Gulf Islands, but they eventually escaped into the American i... - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (19760 bytes)
80: There is also a small "island" (it is really a peninsula) near [[San Diego]] na... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
4: ...strate) of the second Spanish town founded on the island. In 1519, he was elected captain of the third exp...
47: ...om a shipwreck and joined the troops.<ref name=Grunberg/> Jeronimo de Aguilar, a Franciscan priest, ha...
53: ...cy of [[attrition warfare|attrition]] towards the island city of [[Tenochtitlán]] cutting off supplies an...
83: ...his estates at [[Cuernavaca]], about 30 miles (48 km) south of Mexico City. There he concentrated... - Anne Bonny (5802 bytes)
10: ...o [[Nassau, Bahamas|Nassau]], on [[New Providence Island]] in the [[Bahamas]], which was then a pirate hub... - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
45: ...th Carolina inlet on the inner side of [[Ocracoke Island]]
91: ...741]]: [[Russia]]ns began settling the [[Aleutian Islands]].
124: * [[1767]]: [[Konbaung Dynasty|Burmese]] conquered the [[Ayutthaya k...
148: ...s Cook]] becomes first European on the [[Hawaiian Islands]].
170: ...eha I]], [[Kingdom of Hawaii|King of the Hawaiian Islands]]]] - Spinning mule (12067 bytes)
13: ...ater]] who founded the cotton industry in [[Rhode Island]]. Development over the next century and a half l... - Christmas around the world (98033 bytes)
106: ... in a fashion reminiscent of when the parents of unborn baby [[Jesus Christ|Jesus]] looked for shelter...
368: ... is used as an ornament, ranging from sizes of 10 cm to huge constructions like the giant straw [...
405: ...on is Roman Catholic. However over the years, the island has adopted other popular Christmas customs and t...
457: ...mainly a [[turkey]] or other meats, along with cranberries, [[parsnip]]s, [[roast potato]]es, quite li...
461: ...h Hogmanay and "Ne'erday". The capital city of Edinburgh has a traditional German market from late Nov... - Arctic Ocean (7316 bytes)
7: ...[[North America]], [[Greenland]], and a number of islands. It includes [[Baffin Bay]], [[Barents Sea]], [...
26: ...ly straight-line movement from the [[New Siberian Islands]] ([[Russia]]) to [[Denmark Strait]] (between [[...
36: ...nd extreme northeastern [[Canada]]; permafrost on islands; virtually ice locked from October to June; ship... - Baffin Bay (763 bytes)
5: ... west, [[Greenland]] in the east, and [[Ellesmere Island]] in the north. It connects to the Atlantic thro... - Stone Age (17593 bytes)
31: ...ikely crossed from Asia by hopping from island to island. Middle Palaeolithic peoples demonstrate the earl...
94: ...nd in [[Papua New Guinea]], [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]] ([[India]]), [[Africa]] and [[South America]]. - List of U.S. state songs (4961 bytes)
47: ...[Maryland, My Maryland]]" (to the tune of "O Tannenbaum")
85: | [[Rhode Island]] || "Rhode Island, It's for Me" - Cyprus (16721 bytes)
1: ...language|Turkish]]: ''Kıbrıs'') is an [[island nation]] in the eastern [[Mediterranean Sea]], 11...
53: ...opper". Large deposits of copper are found on the island.
61: ...ereignty of the Republic of Cyprus over the whole island of Cyprus.
63: ...n Cyprus". They control the northern third of the island, following a military invasion by Turkey in [[197...
67: ...d title to two areas on the southern coast of the island, around [[Akrotiri and Dhekelia]], known collecti... - Ascension (3367 bytes)
6: ... the mid-southern Atlantic Ocean. See [[Ascension Island]]. - Croquet (12113 bytes)
73: ...California to Puget Sound, Washington, from Rhode Island to Palm Beach Florida and many places in-between. - North Pole (13759 bytes)
55: ...f Ringness Island]], one of the [[Queen Elizabeth Islands]], in Canada. During the 20th century it has mov... - Rice (13724 bytes)
2: ...x|Rice field]] | caption = Rice fields on [[Java (island)|Java]]}} - Medieval medicine (14745 bytes)
102: ...out [[village]]s in a matter of [[month]]s. The [[island]] of [[Hispaniola]] had a [[population]] of 250,0... - Washington, D.C. (43465 bytes)
5: ... state, it would rank last in area behind [[Rhode Island]], 50th in population ahead of [[Wyoming]], and 3...
32: |[[Area]]<br /> - City Proper || <br /> 61 [[square mile|mi²]]
34: ... City ([[2003]])<br /> - Metropolitan <br /> - [[Density]] (city proper) ||<br /> 563,384 <...
130: ...], 0.06% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 3.84% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|other races]...
201: *[[Theodore Roosevelt Island]] - Igor Stravinsky (26622 bytes)
10: Stravinsky was born in Oranienbaum (now [[Lomonosov, Russia|Lomonosov]]), near [[...
23: ...to Klemperer]], who knew [[Arnold Schoenberg|Schoenberg]] well, said that he always found Stravinsky m...
31: ...f 89 and was buried in [[Venice]] on the cemetery island of [[San Michele]]. His grave is close to the tom...
59: Only after the death of [[Arnold Schoenberg]], the inventor of the [[twelve tone system]],...
97: ...[Anton Webern]], [[Alban Berg]] and [[Arnold Schoenberg]] were also exploring some of these orchestral... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
62: ...] of the imperial family, situated on the Yelagin Island.
78: ...earance, St Catherine church on the [[Vasilievsky Island]] (1768–1771), and numerous non-Orthodox ch...
88: ...her bank of the Neva, the spit of the Vasilievsky island is graced by the former [[Stock exchange|Bourse]]...
96: ...y]] occupies several buildings on the Vasilievsky Island, including the spacious baroque edifice of Twelve...
118: ...surrounded by a park. [[Oranienbaum, Russia|Oranienbaum]], founded by [[Prince Menshikov]], features h... - Copenhagen (8004 bytes)
22: ...land|Zealand ''(Sj�lland)'']] and partly on the island of [[Amager]]. Copenhagen faces the [[Oresund|�...
44: [[Image:kopenhagenborse.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Danish stock exchange (...
45: *[[Amalienborg Palace]]
58: *[[Kronborg|Kronborg Castle]] - [[Hamlet]]'s castle in [[Elsinore]]...
65: *[[Rosenborg Castle]] - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (32608 bytes)
32: ... A congregation was formed in [[1646]] on Tinicum Island by Swedish missionary Johannes Campanius. In [[17...
120: ...], 0.05% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 4.77% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|other races]...
221: *[[Rosenbach Foundation]] & [[Rosenbach Museum]]
316: ...nd Athletics]]), and the Philadelphia Warriors ([[NBA]], now the [[Golden State Warriors]]). The city... - Swamp (2871 bytes)
33: * [[Honey Island Swamp]], Louisiana, United States - Monarchy (11801 bytes)
61: *[[Denmark]], [[Greenland]] and the [[Faroe Islands]]
75: *[[New Zealand]], [[Cook Islands]] and [[Niue]]*
76: *[[Norway]], [[Bouvet Island]], [[Jan Mayen]] and [[Svalbard]]
85: *[[Solomon Islands]]*
93: ...uth Sandwich Islands]] and the [[Turks and Caicos Islands]] - Borneo (3249 bytes)
1: ...]) is the [[List of islands by size|third largest island in the world]]. It has an area of 743,330 sq km (...
6: ...nsula]] and [[Sumatra]]. To the south is [[Java (island)|Java]]. To the east are [[Sulawesi|Sulawesi (Ce...
26: The island historically had extensive [[rainforest]] cover, ...
28: ...Kayan, Kenyah, Punan Bah and Penan) living on the island are not too happy about the logging and they try ...
36: * [[Islands of Indonesia]] - Pomegranate (4637 bytes)
26: ...punica'', is [[endemic (ecology)|endemic]] on the island of [[Socotra]]. It differs in having pink (not re... - Axe (10109 bytes)
42: ..., Ireland ([[Lambay Island]], porphyry, [[Rathlin Island]] and [[Tievebulliagh]], porcellanite) Poland ([[...
64: [[Image:Travellers' Axe - Project Gutenberg eText 14861.jpg|frame|right|Climbing axes from... - Articles of Confederation (19574 bytes)
41: ...maintain and defend our common liberties . . . '' [2]
99: ... present from New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, a...
110: *[[Rhode Island|Rhode Island and Providence Plantations]]: [[William Ellery]],... - Antigua and Barbuda (8199 bytes)
21: | '''[[Capital]]'''<br> - Population:
28: | '''[[Area]]'''<br> - Total: <br> - % water:
31: | '''[[Population]]'''<br> - Total:<br> - [[Population density|Density]]
54: ... the [[Lesser Antilles]] [[archipelago]] with the island of [[Guadeloupe]] to the south, [[Montserrat]] to...
58: ...ations on Antigua, was abolished in [[1834]]. The islands became an independent state within the [[Commonw... - Song Dynasty (16385 bytes)
24: ...ge in [[Silvermine Bay]] ([[Mui Wo]]) on [[Lantau Island]] and later in what is today [[Kowloon City]], [[...
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