* Alphonse Group ( Alphonse Atoll and St. François Atoll )

Alphonse Atoll is one of two atolls of the Alphonse Group, the other bing St. François Atoll — both in the Outer Islands ( Coralline Seychelles ) coral archipelago of the Seychelles.

Alphonse lies just three kilometers north of St. François Atoll.

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* Alphonse Group, a group of atolls in the Outer Islands of the Seychelles.

* Alphonse Island, in the Outer Islands of the Seychelles.

Emile Alphonse Griffith ( born February 3, 1938 ) is a former boxer who was the first fighter from the U. S. Virgin Islands ever to become a world champion.

* 1878: with Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Études sur les Mammifères et les Oiseaux des Îles Comores, ( Studies on Mammals and Birds of the Comoro Islands ).

90 km south of the Amirante Islands is Alphonse Group, the closest group of islands, which are sometimes incorrectly considered part of the Amirantes.

The isolation of Alphonse acts as a magnet to migratory birds and Seychelles Bird Records Committee has recorded more bird species here than anywhere south of the granitics apart from Aldabra, including the only record of Sociable Lapwing for the entire southern hemisphere.

Alphonse R. Hoge's measurements of several very young specimens from Brazil suggest that at birth the female is slightly larger than the male.

Afonso III (; rare English alternatives: Alphonzo or Alphonse ), or Affonso ( Archaic Portuguese ), Alfonso or Alphonso ( Portuguese-Galician ) or Alphonsus ( Latin ), the Bolognian ( Port.

Variants of the name include: Alfonso ( Italian and Spanish ), Alfons ( Catalan, Dutch, German, Polish and Scandinavian ), Afonso ( Portuguese and Galician ), Affonso ( Ancient Portuguese ), Alphonse, Alfonse ( Italian, French and English ), Αλφόνσος Alphonsos ( Greek ), Alphonsus ( Latin ), Alphons ( Dutch ), Alfonsu in ( Leonese ), Alfonsas ( Lithuanian ).

* Alphonse Capone, American gangster.

* Alphonse J. Jackson, Louisiana African-American politician

* Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle.

* Stade Alphonse Massemba-Débat, national stadium of the Republic of the Congo.

* Stade Alphonse Theis, a football stadium in Luxembourg.

Alphonse, as Count of Toulouse, recognised the autonomy of the Medieval commune | commune of the town of Agen.

Alphonse of Poitiers ( 11 November 1220 – 21 August 1271 ) was the Count of Poitou from 1225 and Count of Toulouse ( as Alfonso II ) from 1247.

Born at Poissy, Alphonse was a son of Louis VIII, King of France and Blanche of Castile.

It stipulated that a brother of King Louis was to marry Joan of Toulouse, daughter of Raymond VII of Toulouse, and so in 1237 Alphonse married her.

In 1252, on the death of his mother, Blanche of Castile, Alphonse was joint regent with Charles of Anjou until the return of Louis IX.

Aside from the crusades, Alphonse stayed primarily in Paris, governing his estates by officials, inspectors who reviewed the officials work, and a constant stream of messages.

When Louis IX again engaged in a crusade ( the Eighth Crusade ), Alphonse again raised a large sum of money and accompanied his brother.

Alphonse's wife Joan ( who died five days after Alphonse ) had attempted to dispose of some of her inherited lands in her will.

Alphonse might have met Eastern Roman Emperor Manuel I Comnenus during his visit there.

But in 1148 Alphonse had finally arrived at Acre.

Alphonse Gabriel " Al " Capone ( January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947 ) was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate.

Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York on January 17, 1899.

Gabriele and Teresa had nine children: Alphonse " Scarface Al " Capone, James Capone ( also known as Richard Two-Gun Hart ), Raffaele Capone ( also known as Ralph " Bottles " Capone, who took charge of his brother's beverage industry ), Salvatore " Frank " Capone, John Capone, Albert Capone, Matthew Capone, Rose Capone, and Mafalda Capone ( who married John J. Maritote ).

* Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou, Legitimist ( Blancs d ' Espagne ) pretender to France since 1989.

The Farquhar Atoll is part of the Farquhar Group of islands in the Seychelles that are part of the Outer Islands.

: In the 2006 edition of The World Factbook, the entries for Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, Johnston Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and the Midway Islands were merged into a new United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges entry.

The Cook Islands was not the only island group visited by the traders, but Penrhyn Atoll was their first port of call and it has been estimated that three-quarters of the population was taken to Callao, Peru.

1995 — The French Government resumed its Programme of nuclear-weapons testing at Mururoa Atoll in September 1995 upsetting the Cook Islands.

Johnston Atoll is grouped as one of the United States Minor Outlying Islands.

* 1944 – World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.

It is the northernmost of the Northern Line Islands and lies northwest of the next closest island ( Palmyra Atoll ), and south of Honolulu.

On 20 September 1979, representatives of the United States and Kiribati met on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilberts group of Kiribati, and signed a treaty of friendship between their two nations ( commonly referred to as the Treaty of Tarawa of 1979 ) by which the United States recognized Kiribati's sovereignty over Malden and thirteen other islands in the Line and Phoenix Islands groups.

In the months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Kwajalein Atoll was the administrative center of the Japanese 6th Fleet Forces Service, whose task was the defense of the Marshall Islands.

In just one month in 1944, Americans captured Kwajalein Atoll, Majuro and Enewetak, and in the next two months the rest of the Marshall Islands except Wotje, Mili, Maloelap and Jaluit.

The territorial claim by the Republic of the Marshall Islands on Wake Atoll leaves a certain amount of ambiguity regarding the actual or hypothetical role of the US military, responsible under agreement for the defense of Marshallese territory, in the event of any strategic crisis or hostilities involving Wake.

* The Kingdom of EnenKio, which claims Wake Atoll in the Marshall Islands belonging to the US minor outlying islands, has been condemned for selling passports and diplomatic papers by the governments of the Marshall Islands and of the United States.

* 1943 – World War II: Battle of Tarawa ( Operation Galvanic ) begins – United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.

In 1859, Palmyra Atoll was claimed for the United States by Dr. Gerrit P. Judd of the brig Josephine, in accordance with the Guano Islands Act of 1856, but there was no guano there to be mined.

The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, including Palmyra Atoll, was established on January 6, 2009.

* May 9 – Operation Greenhouse: The first thermonuclear weapon is tested on Enewetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands, by the United States.

* May 25 – The first atomic bomb " boosted " by the inclusion of thermonuclear materials, is tested in the " Item " test on Enewetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands by the U. S.

* January 31 – WWII: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.

The northernmost atoll of the world is Kure Atoll at 28 ° 24 ' N, along with other atolls of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Islands in colder, more polar regions evolve towards seamounts or guyots ; warmer, more equatorial islands evolve towards atolls, for example Kure Atoll.

Majuro Atoll was claimed by the Empire of Germany along with the rest of the Marshall Islands in 1884, and the Germans established a trading outpost.

It supplanted Jaluit Atoll as the administrative center of the Marshall Islands, a status that it retains after the independence of the Marshall Islands in 1986.