Other bands were becoming regulars at CBGB, such as Mink DeVille and Talking Heads, which moved down from Rhode Island.

* Mink Island – An island located between Oak Island and the mainland near Schermerhorn Landing.

* Mink Island

** Mink Island

American Mink are believed by some to have contributed to the decline of the less hardy European Mink through competition ( though not through hybridization — native European mink are in fact closer to polecats than to their North American cousins ).

Waters ' 1970s and early ' 80s trash films feature his regular troupe of actors known as the Dreamlanders — among them Divine, Mink Stole, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, and Edith Massey.

* Thomas Mikal Ford — Mink

But its glory, after enduring in great splendor for a season, has now vanished — at least its Long Island Railroad glory has.

By 1914, around 100 people — men, women, and children — were living on Clipperton Island, resupplied every two months by a ship from Acapulco.

Also, similar hunting-out happened with the megafauna of New Zealand, Madagascar and many smaller islands around the world ( such as New Caledonia, Cyprus, Crete and Wrangel Island ), and at least in part, in the Americas — probably within a thousand years or so.

Describing Morris as a teenager, Mark Singer wrote that he " read with a passion the forty-odd Oz books, watched a lot of television, and on a regular basis went with a doting but not quite right maiden aunt (" I guess you'd have to say that Aunt Roz was somewhat demented ") to Saturday matinées, where he saw such films as This Island Earth and Creature from the Black Lagoon — horror movies that, viewed again 30 years later, still seem scary to him.

* Northernmost Point — Kaffeklubben Island ( 83 ° 40 ' N )-the northernmost permanent land in the world.

* Southernmost Point — unnamed islet 2. 3 km south of Cape Farewell, Egger Island ( 59 ° 44 ' N )

Although The Histories were often criticized in antiquity for bias, inaccuracy and plagiarism — Lucian of Samosata attacked Herodotus as a liar in Verae Historiae and went as far as to deny him a place among the famous on the Island of the Blessed — modern historians and philosophers take a more positive view of Herodotus's methodology, especially those searching for a paradigm of objective historical writing.

City Island Ballpark in Daytona Beach, Florida — the baseball field that became the Dodgers ' de facto spring training site in 1947 — was renamed Jackie Robinson Ballpark in 1989.

On August 20, 2012 USFWS proposed setting aside 838, 232 acres in Arizona and New Mexico — an area larger than Rhode Island — as critical jaguar habitat.

Nauru is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean — the others are Banaba ( Ocean Island ) in Kiribati and Makatea in French Polynesia.

Five Canadian provinces — British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick — are debating whether to abolish FPTP.

* Staten Island Ferry — coconut rum and pineapple juice over ice

Rain totals on March 29 – 30, 2010 exceeded 14 inches in many locales, resulting in the inundation of area rivers — especially the Pawtuxet River which runs through central Rhode Island.

* 1966: " Island In The Sun " — # 24 UK

* In Illinois and Iowa: three of the four Quad Cities — Moline and Rock Island in Illinois and Davenport in Iowa — were formerly known as the Tri-Cities, before the inclusion of East Moline, Illinois and later, Bettendorf, Iowa

Learning: UPEI is committed to students and professors learning from each other — inside the classroom and out, on the Island and beyond.

* January 22, 1906 — The SS Valencia strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, Canada, killing over 100 ( officially 136 ) in the ensuing disaster.

* 3600 BC — Construction of the Ġgantija megalithic temple complex on the Island of Gozo, Malta: the world's oldest extant unburied free-standing structures, and the world's oldest religious structures.

* 9, 251 km < sup > 2 </ sup > — Cyprus ( Island )