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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Parasol, U.S. Virgin Islands 17°45′14″N 64°49′02″W / 17.75389°N 64.81722°W / 17.75389; -64 This Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands location article is a stub .
Map of Little Saint James. Little Saint James is a small island (or islet) [3] with an area of 70 to 78 acres (28 to 32 ha). It is in the United States Virgin Islands, [1] located southeast of neighboring Great Saint James, both off the southern coast of the larger St. Thomas island [4] [5] and belonging to the subdistrict East End, St. Thomas.
Map of the archipelago of islands to the north of Batavia Map of Onrust Island (1650). The modern history of the Thousand Islands begins with its role in the defenses of the city of Batavia for the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, abbreviated VOC) and the Dutch colonial empire.
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Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son, sometimes known as The Stroll (French: La Promenade) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Claude Monet from 1875. The Impressionist work depicts his wife Camille Monet and their son Jean Monet in the period from 1871 to 1877 while they were living in Argenteuil, capturing a moment on a stroll on a windy summer's day.
[10]: 4:40 After the rights to the photograph were bought by Microsoft, it was renamed Bliss and was chosen as the default wallpaper of the Luna visual style, [2] [26] the default graphical user interface of Windows XP. [27] The image was used extensively by Microsoft for promoting Windows XP and their $200 million advertising campaign. [2] [28]
The original mid-18th century estate was the country residence of Col. Godfrey Malbone of Virginia and Connecticut. The main house burned down during a dinner party in 1766 and the remaining structure sat dormant for many years until New York lawyer Jonathan Prescott Hall built a new roughly 5,800 sq ft (540 m 2 ) castellated residence directly ...
They are (re)discovered by explorers from the Narnian ship, the Dawn Treader, which has landed on the island to rest and resupply, and at their request Lucy Pevensie makes them visible again. Through confusion between their old name, "Duffers", and their new name of "Monopods", they become known as the "Dufflepuds".