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When radio station KEDA broke the news on 31 March 1995, many people accused the staff of lying because the next day was April Fools' Day. [64] 1 April 2005: News that the comedian Mitch Hedberg had died on 29 March 2005. [65] 1 April 2005: Announcement about Powerpuff Girls Z, by Aniplex, Cartoon Network and Toei Animation.
Satellite image of Ashmore reef on 26 August 2021. The Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands [1] is an uninhabited Australian external territory [2] consisting of four low-lying tropical islands in two separate reefs (Ashmore and Cartier), as well as the 12-nautical-mile (22 km; 14 mi) territorial sea generated by the islands. [3]
Wake Island (Marshallese: Ānen Kio, lit. 'island of the kio flower'), also known as Wake Atoll, is a coral atoll in the Micronesia subregion of the Pacific Ocean.The atoll is composed of three islets – Wake, Wilkes, and Peale Islands – surrounding a lagoon encircled by a coral reef.
Hawaiian, the only occupant of the inter-island terminal, will be removing the traditional check-in counter, to install six circular check-in islands in the middle of the lobbies. Those check-in islands can be used for inter-island, mainland, and international flights. [43] On July 12, 2011, Hawaiian added Osaka, Japan to its network. [44]
The island gained independence as a republic in 1978. Dominica has been nicknamed the "Nature Island of the Caribbean" for its natural environment. [15] It is the youngest island in the Lesser Antilles, and in fact it is still being formed by geothermal-volcanic activity, as evidenced by the world's second-largest hot spring, called Boiling Lake.
54°32′31″N 6°41′38″W / 54.542°N 6.694°W / 54.542; -6.694. Coalisland (Irish: Oileán an Ghuail) [1] is a small town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, with a population of 5,682 in the 2011 Census. [3] Four miles from Lough Neagh, it was formerly a centre for coal mining. Coalisland was established around the Coalisland ...
General William T. Sherman, who issued the orders that were the genesis of forty acres and a mule. Forty acres and a mule was part of Special Field Orders No. 15, a wartime order proclaimed by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16th, 1865, during the American Civil War, to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres (16 ha).
The following islands are some of the major islands in the island country Cuba: [10] Cuba (largest island in the Caribbean 104,556 km 2 (40,369 sq mi), 21°56′02″N 78°45′15″W / 21.93384°N 78.75425°W / 21.93384; -78.75425 ( Island