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- 132; Icelanders long tradition of, 133; "bad ice, blizzards, malevolent ghosts," 151; 218; Victo '''Great Wife Bazaar of the World-Island'''<br />19 KB (2,763 words) - 14:34, 13 August 2009
- ...arent (colorless) and flawless and occurs in huge crystals (up to 7 meters long). Iceland spar is also found in Mexico (Guanajuato), Siberia, Missouri and ...the Black Sea — ''das Interdikt'', as he calls it, two hundred miles long, invisible, waiting for certain unconsidered footfalls and, once triggered,12 KB (1,753 words) - 20:58, 28 April 2014
- 709; goddess with a long and complex history in Hinduism (although sometimes presented in the West a ..., the southern capital of the ancient kingdom of Khocho. Shambhalists have long considered Khocho one of the main candidates for the historical kingdom of14 KB (2,125 words) - 12:47, 4 January 2012
- 108; Indian Ocean island; volcano, 109; 107; Indian Ocean island25 KB (3,624 words) - 16:45, 3 January 2012
- ...win Vibes", 100-102; financing the Vormance Expedition, 130; manor on Long Island, 159; coveting his enemies' bloodline, 332; "Smite early and often" 333; in8 KB (1,206 words) - 22:48, 28 June 2007
- 326; located in Shoreham, Long Island, New York, this 94' by 94' brick building was designed by architect Stanfor "wings cast long shadows," "wing-flapping miracles of ornithurgy," 27; "White Wings," 150; "14 KB (2,163 words) - 13:04, 26 November 2007
- ...he rudder and propeller were pulled in and the "Fram" was prepared for its long drift westwards with the ice. ...Nansen and Johansen arrived at the island which Nansen later named Jackson Island, after the British explorer. There they spent the nine months of winter in28 KB (4,691 words) - 10:12, 13 January 2007
- "Tis a long cover'd boat that's common here,<br /> And up and down the long canals they go,<br />39 KB (7,239 words) - 12:23, 19 November 2006
- ...a sport shirt. Then on his head he had to wear a tight fitting cap with a long bill in front, the longer the better up to a certain ceiling length. With t ...Thomas Olney,] 17th-century Baptist anarchist who was influential in Rhode Island58 KB (9,428 words) - 02:08, 4 November 2022
- ...6/12/now-single-up-all-lines.html notes] that the British Royal Navy has a long tradition of warships with names like Impulsive, Incendiary, Inconstant, In ...aw a Goodyear blimp in Houston, Texas, landing. The craft had half a dozen long falls of rope hanging from her nose, and a ground crew of nearly two dozen67 KB (10,749 words) - 11:53, 27 April 2021
- ...d, in Russian, by the euphemism "honey-eater": ''medved'.'' It happened so long ago that speakers of the language think this is the native word. Same in En ...uted their astonishing success to something else: 'I know that during that long and racking march of 36 hours over the unnamed mountains and glaciers of So77 KB (12,597 words) - 04:22, 20 November 2022
- '''the iron of their shoes . . . seeking the magnetic memory of that long-ago visit'''<br /> A nod to the opening lines of ''Star Wars''? “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..."<br>47 KB (7,505 words) - 13:05, 15 June 2010
- '''On this island [...] all English, spoken or written, is looked down on as no more than str ...edia.org/wiki/Kabbalah Kabbalah] is the ancient study of Jewish mysticism, long shrouded in mystery and kept from all but a devout few of the most dedicate65 KB (10,445 words) - 12:40, 9 August 2015
- 1900: Morgan finances Tesla to $150,000 (Long Island construction site across from Yale) 1902: June: Tesla relocates to Long Island7 KB (1,000 words) - 01:05, 24 August 2007
- ...di_Lolando Isola di Lolando] in particular. Built to look like a Venetian island, it still sits abandoned in Biscayne Bay. ...paper_gibbs.html] As a young man, Pynchon co-wrote such a play, ''Minstral Island'', with his Cornell classmate Kirkpatrick Sale, who later would become one43 KB (6,966 words) - 19:15, 27 November 2022
- ...s unrelated to the "real" show, would go up in front of the curtain during long scene changes. ...daughter of Civil War era cabinet member Salmon P. Chase and wife of Rhode Island Governor William Sprague. She was accused of having had an affair with New32 KB (5,121 words) - 05:31, 13 July 2019
- Shetland Islands, an island group northeast of the Orkney Islands, comprising a county of Scotland. ...inhabited islands in the Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK. It is the largest island in Shetland Islands, the third largest in Great Britian.97 KB (15,375 words) - 19:21, 8 June 2021
- ...necktie. From the end of the 16th century, the term "band" applied to any long-strip neckcloth that was not a "ruff"; the ruff—a starched, pleated white ...eijing (Far East Asia). Taking a journey by the Trans-Siberian Railway has long been considered an experience with mythological proportions. It is the long73 KB (11,579 words) - 04:34, 10 March 2014
- Tasmania is an island of the southern coast of Australia. Known for its relative isolation, it wa '''''green and long'''''<br>81 KB (12,852 words) - 23:06, 10 June 2021
- '''reported as long ago as Marco Polo'''<br> '''World-Island'''<br />65 KB (10,452 words) - 09:11, 11 October 2018