Teeth again flashing back at me, the driver released a deluge of Spanish in which `` amigo '' appeared every so often like an island in the stormy waves of surrounding sound.

Low periods of the Nile during the 11th century continued to add to the landscape of Cairo ; a new island, known as Geziret al-Fil, first appeared in 1174, but eventually became connected to the mainland.

In 55 BC the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus wrote that there was an island called Hyperborea ( which means " far to the north ") where a round temple stood from which the moon appeared only a little distance above the earth every 19 years.

Noting that certain names appeared only in the Cretan texts, Ventris made the inspired guess that those names applied to cities on the island.

Once the Persians eventually forced the other two out, it was not long before the Al Khalifa family appeared from nearby Qatar, to take control of the whole of the island at the end of the 18th century.

He named the island " Savage Island " because, legend has it, the natives that " greeted " him were painted in what appeared to Cook and his crew to be blood.

After Napoleon's surrender and exile to the island of Elba, peace appeared to have returned, but when he escaped back into France in 1815, the British and their allies had to fight him again.

The first slaves to arrive as part of a labor force appeared in 1502 on the island of Hispaniola ( now Haiti and the Dominican Republic ).

Around 3, 000 BC, the Neolithic Dapenkeng culture ( named after a site in Taibei county ) abruptly appeared and quickly spread around the coast of the island.

Staten Landt appeared on Tasman's first maps of New Zealand, but this was changed by Dutch cartographers to Nova Zelandia, after the Dutch province of Zeeland, some time after Hendrik Brouwer proved the South American land to be an island in 1643.

Scores of other island natives appeared in the film as extras.

In 1932 he appeared alongside Hans Albers in the science fiction film F. P. 1 antwortet nicht about an artificial island in the mid-Atlantic.

Cadmus did not journey alone to Samothrace ; he appeared with his " far-shining " mother Telephassa in the company of his brother, who gave his name to the island of Thasos nearby.

The Native American name for the island is Gingoteague, and the name of the town " Chincoteague " first appeared in the Decisions of the United States Board on Geographical Names in 1943.

On sending a boat to the island " a great crowd of armed Indians appeared " — which, however, they later " befriended ".

On January 5, 2007, he appeared on Puerto Rican television to blame the Puerto Rican and United States governments for not cleaning Vieques after the U. S. Navy stopped using the island for bombing practice.

Hong Kong Chinese-language newspapers soon dubbed the island " Death Island " and stories concerning apparitions appeared in the wake of news about the succeeding suicides.

In 1968, when it appeared the area was about to become a national monument, Islandia supporters bulldozed a highway six-lanes wide right down the center of the island, destroying the forest for seven miles.

Puffins also appeared on the coins and stamps of the island and a value expressed in ' Puffins '.

In one clinical study, stroke and ischaemic heart disease appeared to be absent in a population living on the island of Kitava, in Papua New Guinea, where a subsistence lifestyle, uninfluenced by western dietary habits, was still maintained.

The Portuguese appeared again on the island in 1648, replacing the Dutch Company with one of their own, also dedicated to slave trading and established in its neighbour island Corisco.

* The Aspidochelone, a giant turtle or whale that appeared to be an island, and lured sailors to their doom

Some people claim that the name comes from the word " blue whale " ( Baleine in French ) that appeared next to the island in early 20th century.

But in the middle of the last century an island woman named `` Karipo '' seized a spear in the heat of an inter-tribal battle and rallied the women after their men had fled.

A tale of a massive reservation in the Uplands to hold several million Jews A tale of a plan to ship all Jews to the island of Madagascar Stories of the depravity of the guards at Globocnik's camps struck a chord of terror at the mere mention of their names.

The knights establish their headquarters on the island and rename themselves the Knights of Rhodes.

The Ainu were distributed in the northern and central islands of Japan, from Sakhalin island in the north to the Kuril islands and the island of Hokkaidō and Northern Honshū, although some investigators place their former range as throughout Honshū and as far north as the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula in what is now Cape Lopatka.

The identification of Ajax with the family of Aeacus was chiefly a matter which concerned the Athenians, after Salamis had come into their possession, on which occasion Solon is said to have inserted a line in the Iliad ( 2. 557 – 558 ), for the purpose of supporting the Athenian claim to the island.

He gives no precise indication of their geographical situation but states that, together with six other tribes, they worshiped a goddess named Nerthus, whose sanctuary was located on " an island in the Ocean ".

For according to them, there were seven islands in that sea in their time, sacred to Persephone, and also three others of enormous size, one of which was sacred to Hades, another to Ammon, and another one between them to Poseidon, the extent of which was a thousand stadia ; and the inhabitants of it — they add — preserved the remembrance from their ancestors of the immeasurably large island of Atlantis which had really existed there and which for many ages had reigned over all islands in the Atlantic sea and which itself had like-wise been sacred to Poseidon.

Aeacus himself showed his gratitude by erecting a temple to Zeus Panhellenius on mount Panhellenion, and the Aeginetans afterwards built a sanctuary in their island called Aeaceum, which was a square place enclosed by walls of white marble.

Aeacus was also believed by the Aeginetans to have surrounded their island with high cliffs to protect it against pirates.

By Endeïs Aeacus had two sons, Telamon and Peleus ( father of Achilles ), and by Psamathe a son, Phocus, whom he preferred to the two others, both of whom contrived to kill Phocus during a contest, and then fled from their native island.

Aeacus had sanctuaries both at Athens and in Aegina, and the Aeginetans regarded him as the tutelary deity of their island.

The Aeginetans at first contented themselves with sending the images of the Aeacidae, the tutelary heroes of their island.

In the first winter of the Peloponnesian War ( 431 BC ) Athens expelled the Aeginetans and established a cleruchy in their island.

They had also threatened to leave the island en masse with the commissioner, unless the captain avenged their wrongs.

According to what Aleut people told Japanese castaways, otters were decreasing year by year and their share in return of furs they made also were decreasing as Russian ships stopped coming to the island.

After their losses in the Solomons, Gilberts, Marshalls and Marianas, the Imperial Army assembled a research team to develop a new island defense strategy.

Tacitus reports that before their arrival the area had been " an uninhabited district on the extremity of the coast of Gaul, and also of a neighbouring island, surrounded by the ocean in front, and by the river Rhine in the rear and on either side " ( Tacitus, Historiae iv. 12 ).

The Batavi were still mentioned in 355 during the reign of Constantius II ( 317-361 ), when their island was already dominated by the Salii, a Frankish tribe that had sought Roman protection there in 297 after having been expelled from their own country by the Saxons.

The latter derived their name from Peuce, a large island in the Danube delta which they had colonised.

In AD 60 or 61, while the current governor, Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, was leading a campaign against the island of Mona ( modern Anglesey ) in the north of Wales, which was a refuge for British rebels and a stronghold of the druids, the Iceni conspired with their neighbours the Trinovantes, amongst others, to revolt.

Certain indigenous Dayak people ( such as the Kayan, Kenyah, Lun Bawang / Lun Dayeh, Punan Bah and Penan ) living on the island have been struggling for decades for their right to preserve their environment from loggers and transmigrant settlers and colonists.