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The islands were also previously known as the Enchanted Isles or Islands (Islas Encantadas) from sailors' difficulty with the winds and currents around them; [7] as the Ecuador Archipelago (Archipiélago de Ecuador) or Archipelago of the Equator (Archipiélago del Ecuador) following their settlement by Ecuador in 1832; [8] and as the Colon or ...
The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles", is a novella by American author Herman Melville. First published in Putnam's Magazine in 1854, it consists of eleven philosophical "Sketches" on the Galápagos Islands , then frequently known as the "Enchanted Islands" ( Spanish : Islas Encantadas ) from the treacherous winds and currents around them.
The Enchanted Island (opera), a Baroque pasticcio performed by the Metropolitan Opera in 2011–2012. The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles, a novella by Herman Melville whose title refers to another name for the Galapagos Islands. Enchanted Island (film), a 1958 film starring Dana Andrews. The Enchanted Island of Yew, a 1903 novel by L. Frank Baum.
172–178. "Si Lulu at si Lily Liit". March 1, 2014 (2014-03-01) April 12, 2014 (2014-04-12) The story of a young girl named Lulu and her twin sister Lily, who is cursed to become as little as an elf. Before the twins were born, Lulu and Lily's parents asked a dwarf to grant their wish to have a complete family.
Pomona is a ghost town in southern Namibia south of Lüderitz on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. It is about 15 km south of Elizabeth Bay, Namibia, in an area called Sperrgebiet, a diamond mining zone with restricted access. Around 1910, at the time of the diamond rush in German South West Africa, diamonds in the Pomona area were so plentiful ...
Averil Constance Demuth was born on 5 January 1906 in Devon . In the 1920s Demuth wrote words for music composed by Norman Demuth. However, her first story was Trudi and Hansel (1938), set in the Austrian Tyrol. The girl Trudi, the boy Hansel, the cow Lotti, the dog Berni, the hen Griselda and the raven Kraak all go up the mountain to see Riese ...
The Fortunate Isles or Isles of the Blessed[1][2] (Ancient Greek: μακάρων νῆσοι, makarōn nēsoi) [3] were semi-legendary islands in the Atlantic Ocean, variously treated as a simple geographical location and as a winterless earthly paradise inhabited by the heroes of Greek mythology. In the time of Hesiod, the Fortunate Isles were ...
Crater of Diamonds State Park is a 911-acre (369 ha) Arkansas state park in Pike County, Arkansas, in the United States. The park features a 37.5-acre (15.2-hectare) plowed field, one of the few diamond -bearing sites accessible to the public. Diamonds have been discovered in the field continuously since 1906, including the graded-perfect ...