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.

The ruddy turnstone, bar-tailed godwit, sanderling, bristle-thighed curlew and Pacific golden plover, considered species of High Concern on the national conservation priority scheme, are shorebirds that inhabit the island.

In Yunnan, China, inhabitants would flee from their homes as soon as they saw dead rats, and on the island of Formosa ( Taiwan ), residents considered the handling of dead rats heightened the risks of developing plague.

In 1805 President Thomas Jefferson considered possessing Cuba for strategic reasons, sending secret agents to the island to negotiate with Governor Someruelos.

The island, home to rare species of wildlife, is considered by many as a beautiful, unspoiled tropical preserve.

To avoid debates about the possibility of in-vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, or cloning, the original Darwin Awards book applied the following " deserted island " test to potential winners: If the person were unable to reproduce when stranded on a deserted island with a fertile member of the opposite sex, he or she would be considered sterile.

In addition, Malta was considered an island of North Africa for centuries, while Iceland, though nearer to Greenland ( North America ), is also generally included in Europe.

On October 1983, during the U. S. invasion of Grenada, U. S. President Ronald Reagan maintained that US Marines arrived on the island of Grenada, which was considered a Soviet-Cuban ally that would export communist revolution throughout the Caribbean.

Conversely, when a piece of land is separated from the mainland by a man-made canal, for example the Peloponnese by the Corinth Canal, it is generally not considered an island.

British settlement and colonial rule of the island continent of Australia in the eighteenth century was premised on terra nullius, for its settlers considered it unused by its sparse inhabitants.

* 1767 – Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.

* Putuoshan ( Mount Putuo ), an island in Zhejiang province, China, considered to be the bodhimandala of Guanyin

Finally, she finds an island that isn't attached to the ocean floor so it isn't considered land and she can give birth.

The Tempest is considered by most Shakespearean scholars to have been written in 1610 – 11 and inspired by published and unpublished contemporary descriptions of the 1609 Sea Venture shipwreck on the island of Bermuda, and most especially William Strachey's eyewitness report, A True Reportory of the Wracke and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight because of certain verbal, plot and thematic similarities.

During the Middle Ages, Stephen III was considered a Saint in his home island of Sicily.

The degree of archaism varies, with Nuorese ( central northeast part of the island ) considered the most conservative, though in some cases it has innovated.

Whidbey Island is often claimed to be the longest island in the continental United States ( or another similar claim ) by its inhabitants, but according to the Seattle Times it cannot be correctly considered so.

The carnival of Mindelo, in the island of Sao Vicente is considered the most animated where a number of groups challenge each other for the yearly prize.

The celebration in the neighboring island of Sao Nicolau is considered the most traditional, where incumbent groups celebrate the festival through the narrow colonial streets of Ribeira Brava, culminating in the picturesque town square.

Since the water level of the lake can vary greatly between years, what may be considered an island in a high water year may be considered a peninsula in another, or an island in a low water year may be covered during another year.

* Tetun-Belu, or the Belunese dialect, is spoken in a central strip of the island of Timor from the Ombai Strait to the Timor Sea, and is split between East Timor and West Timor, where it is considered a bahasa daerah or " regional language ", with no official status in Indonesia, although it is used by the Diocese of Atambua in Roman Catholic rites.

By 1905 the island had electric power supplied by water power in Sun-Moon Lake, and in subsequent years Taiwan was considered the second-most developed region of East Asia ( after Japan ).

This island later became sacred to Apollo.

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.

The name refers to the islands around ( κυκλάς ) the sacred island of Delos.

Jacob Grimm noted that if, as Adam of Bremen states, Fosite's sacred island was Heligoland, that would make him an ideal candidate for a deity known to both Frisians and Scandinavians, but that it is surprising he is never mentioned by Saxo Grammaticus.

According to Alcuin's Life of St. Willebrord, the saint visited an island between Frisia and Denmark that was sacred to Fosite and was called Fositesland after the god worshipped there.

" There were also temples to Hera in Olympia, Corinth, Tiryns, Perachora and the sacred island of Delos.

The island later became sacred to Apollo.

The druids, the Celtic priestly caste who were believed to originate in Britain, were outlawed by Claudius, and in 61 they vainly defended their sacred groves from destruction by the Romans on the island of Mona ( Anglesey ).

On the island of Thrinacia, Odysseus ' men ate the cattle sacred to the sun-god Helios.

Thus, the Athenians sent a religious mission to the island of Delos ( one of Apollo's most sacred sanctuaries ) on the Athenian state galley — the ship itself — to pay their fealty to the god.

There are a number of other shrines across the island, not as famous as Kataragama that are as sacred to the Veddas as well as to other communities.

At the end of the Okeanos Potamos, is the holy island of Alba ( Leuke, Pytho Nisi, Isle of Snakes ), sacred to the Pelasgian ( and later, Greek ) Apollo, greeting the sun rising in the east.

Homer mentions " Dia "; literally the sacred island " of the Goddess ".

Unsuccessful in his search-or unwilling to go against Zeus-he came to Samothrace, the island sacred to the " Great Gods " and the Kabeiroi, whose mysteries would be celebrated also at Thebes.

She landed on the island of Delos, which was sacred to Apollo.

Anius was born either on the island of Delos, which was sacred to his father Apollo, or on Euboea, after the box in which his mother had been placed by Staphylus when he had discovered her pregnancy was washed ashore there.

It was then ordered that no one should be allowed to either die or give birth on the island due to its sacred importance and to preserve its neutrality in commerce, since no one could then claim ownership through inheritance.

Strabo also mentions Thermessa as sacred place of Hephaestus ( ἱερὰ Ἡφαίστου ), but it's not clear if it was a third name for the island, or just an adjective.

For ancient Greeks, the island was sacred to Hephaestus, god of metallurgy, who — as he tells himself in Iliad I. 590ff — fell on Lemnos when Zeus hurled him headlong out of Olympus.

On 20 May 1994, after a funeral in Cluny Parish Church, Edinburgh attended by 900 people and after which 3, 000 people lined the streets, Smith was buried in a private family funeral on the island of Iona, at the sacred burial ground of Reilig Odhráin, which contains the graves of several Scottish kings as well as monarchs of Ireland, Norway and France.

" A Hindu temple-sculpture from the sacred caverns of the island of Elephanta, near Mumbai in India, showing this position with the man actually standing, and holding the woman hanging down in this from his shoulders, was … brought to England in the late eighteenth century ….

It is interesting to note that several place names around the farm also have sacred meanings: Ve ( holy place ), Helgastein ( holy rock ), Godøy ( the god's island ), and Vevatnet ( the holy lake ).