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The Visayas ( / vɪˈsaɪəz / viss-EYE-əz ), or the Visayan Islands[ 2] ( Visayan: Kabisay-an, locally [kabiˈsajʔan]; Filipino: Kabisayaan [kɐbɪsɐˈjaʔan] ), are one of the three principal geographical divisions of the Philippines, along with Luzon and Mindanao. Located in the central part of the archipelago, it consists of several ...
C418 releases Minecraft – Volume Alpha, the first soundtrack album to the sandbox video game Minecraft; Robert Lopez and South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone team up and create the musical The Book of Mormon. Gotye releases the album Making Mirrors, which features the number one hit single "Somebody That I Used to Know"
Washington was named after President George Washington by an act of the United States Congress during the creation of Washington Territory in 1853; the territory was to be named "Columbia", for the Columbia River and the Columbia District, but Kentucky representative Richard H. Stanton found the name too similar to the District of Columbia (the national capital, itself containing the city of ...
The M.2 standard allows module widths of 12, 16, 22 and 30 mm, and lengths of 16, 26, 30, 38, 42, 60, 80 and 110 mm. Initial line-up of the commercially available M.2 expansion cards is 22 mm wide, with varying lengths of 30, 42, 60, 80 and 110 mm. [3] [5] [14] [18] The codes for the M.2 module sizes contain both the width and length of a ...
In 2017, Solomon Islands was one of the least frequently visited countries in the world, with only 26,000 tourists. Tourism income in 2016 and 2017 was about Int'l$ 1.6 million (international dollars).
Socotra (/ s ə ˈ k oʊ t r ə, s oʊ-, ˈ s ɒ k ə t r ə /; [2] Arabic: سُقُطْرَىٰ Suquṭrā) or Saqatri (Soqotri: ساقطْري Saqaṭri) is an island of Yemen in the Indian Ocean. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Lying between the Guardafui Channel and the Arabian Sea and near major shipping routes, Socotra is the largest of the four islands in ...
The geology of the Canary Islands is dominated by volcanoes and volcanic rock. The Canary Islands are a 450 km-long (280 mi), east-west aligned archipelago of volcanic islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, 100–500 km (60–310 mi) off the coast of Northwest Africa. [ 1] The islands are located on the African tectonic plate.
The Grenadines (/ ˈ ɡ r ɛ n ə d iː n z /) is a chain of small islands that lie on a line between the larger islands of Saint Vincent and Grenada in the Lesser Antilles.Nine are inhabited and open to the public (or ten, if the offshore island of Young Island is counted): Bequia, Mustique, Canouan, Union Island, Petit St Vincent, Palm Island and Mayreau, all in Saint Vincent and the ...