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It is indeed true, as stated in the famous novel of our day, `` For Whom The Bell Tolls '', that `` no man is an island, entirely of itself ; ;
Active warfare is raging between the forces pressing for a monument to the first Roosevelt on Theodore Roosevelt Island in the Potomac, and TR.'s own living children, who wish to preserve the island as a wildlife sanctuary.
The episode in which Sancho Panza concludes the joke that is played on him when he is facetiously put in command of an `` island '' is one of the best in the film.
The land on the Arctic Circle is divided among eight countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the United States ( Alaska ), Canada, Denmark ( Greenland ), and Iceland ( where it passes through the small offshore island of Grímsey ).
** Eunectes murinus, the green anaconda, the largest species, is found east of the Andes in Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and on the island of Trinidad.
An archipelago ( ), sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain or cluster of islands.
It is now used to refer to any island group or, sometimes, to a sea containing a large number of scattered islands such as the Aegean Sea.
* 1993 – The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.
Achill Island () in County Mayo is the largest island off the coast of Ireland, and is situated off the west coast.
The island is 87 % peat bog.
Keem BayAchill Archaeological Field School is based at the Achill Archaeology Centre in Dooagh, which has served as a catalyst for a wide array of archaeological investigations on the island.
The legend connected with its foundation is given by Peter Damiani in his Life of St Odilo: a pilgrim returning from the Holy Land was cast by a storm on a desolate island.
Aphrodite is usually said to have been born near Paphos, on the island of Cyprus, for which reason she is called " Cyprian ", especially in the poetic works of Sappho.
However, other versions of her myth have her born near the island of Kythira ( Cythera ), for which reason she is called " Cytherea ".
The Territory of the Ashmore and Cartier Islands is an external territory of Australia consisting of two groups of small low-lying uninhabited tropical islands in the Indian Ocean situated on the edge of the continental shelf north-west of Australia and south of the Indonesian island of Rote.
Earlier Pliny says that a large island of three days ' sail from the Scythian coast called Balcia by Xenophon of Lampsacus is called Basilia by Pytheas.
* 1483 – Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile.
In the 1516 novel Utopia by Thomas More, the island called Utopia once had the name " Abraxa ", which scholars have suggested is a related use.
During the Tokugawa period ( 1600 – 1868 ) the Ainu became increasingly involved in trade with Japanese who controlled the southern portion of the island that is now called Hokkaido.

island and characterized
This kofun-type Imperial tomb is characterized by a keyhole-shaped island located within a wide, water-filled moat.
Both kofun-type Imperial tombs are characterized by a keyhole-shaped island located within a wide, water-filled moat.
The island is located off the east coast of Africa, to the north of Madagascar, and boasted a high standard of living, an excellent economy, and freedom from the political and racial turmoil that characterized neighboring nations.
These central highlands, traditionally the homeland of the Merina people and the location of their historic capital at Antananarivo, are the most densely populated part of the island and are characterized by terraced, rice-growing valleys lying between grassy, deforested hills.
Ceans had a strong sense of their national identity, characterized by their own exotic legends, national folklore and a successful tradition of athletic competition, especially in running and boxing – making the island a congenial home for a boy of quick imagination.
His administration was also characterized for investing in large-scale infrastructure projects which included a train system, dubbed Tren Urbano, a new convention center in San Juan, now officially named the Pedro Rosselló Convention Center and a massive aqueduct system which linked two major water reservoirs on the island.
The island is physio-graphically part of Southern Ontario, an " eastward extension of the Interior Plains, a region characterized by low relief and sedimentary underpinnings ".
The island of Maddalena is renowned for its beaches ; it is characterized by rocky granitic terrain and has some ancient fortifications.
Thereafter, Oristano's history was that of the island of Sardinia, characterized by the Aragonese-Spanish ( until 1708 ) and Piedmontese ( from 1720 ) dominations, and then the unification of Italy.
As he characterized his opponents in general as the " pestilent herd of libertine scribblers with which the island is overrun ," it is no matter of surprise that the book made him many bitter enemies.
The island is characterized by reduced sources of water, and the vegetation is consequently scarce.
The urban environment has been classified as an anthropogenic biome, which is characterized by the predominance of certain species and climate trends such as urban heat island across many urban areas.
This kofun-type Imperial tomb is characterized by a keyhole-shaped island located within a wide, water-filled moat.
These forests are characterized by trees such as Dombeya spp., on the Réunion island only, and species in the plant family Monimiaceae ( Monimia spp., Tambourissa spp.
Avoiding decisive battles which characterized earlier island campaigns and often included the dramatic banzai attack, Japanese commanders instead deployed their soldiers to caves and other dug-in positions which had to be taken one by one — maximizing casualties on the attacking force.
The west of the island is characterized by Várzea forests and small farms.
Bear Island, which is four mile long and has a south-facing beach, is characterized by an extensive dune system, a pocket of maritime forest, and a shrub thicket and marsh on the north, or sound side of the island.
The construction on the island was characterized by climate-adapted but Western-plan detached houses with hipped roofs and large verandahs.
The island is characterized by broad lowlands and locally by dissected uplands which reflect the diversity of structures and lithological characters of the bedrock formations.
The north-northeastern part of the island contains tholeittic basaltic rocks and is characterized by tension faulting, lava flows and fragmental deposits of igneous rocks.
The volcano of Mount Okmok, characterized by its wide circular caldera, it located in the northwestern part of the island.
It is coincident with the Western regional geomorphological zone from Ponta dos Rosais until approximately the area of Ribeira Seca, and characterized by a cascade of escoria cones and axial deposits that extend along the plateau, formed from fissural volcanism that originates in faults extending from the center of the island which run parallel along a north-northwest to south-southeast axis.
The morphology of Antiparos is characterized essentially flat, with many small hilly peaks, while the vegetation of the island is low.

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