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Baffin Island
(Encyclopedia) Baffin Island, 183,810 sq mi (476,068 sq km), c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) long and from 130 to 450 mi (210–720 km) wide, in the Arctic Ocean, Nunavut Territory, Canada. It is the fifth…Onetti, Juan Carlos
(Encyclopedia) Onetti, Juan Carlos, 1909–94, Uruguayan novelist and short story writer, b. Montevideo. One of the great 20th-century Latin American novelists, Onetti wrote of the dissipation of…Visayan Islands
(Encyclopedia) Visayan IslandsVisayan Islandsvĭsīˈən [key], large island group (1990 pop. 13,794,991), c.24,000 sq mi (62,160 sq km), in and around the Visayan Sea, central Philippines. The group…Fars
(Encyclopedia) Fars Fars färs [key] or Farsistan Fars…Aleut
(Encyclopedia) AleutAleutəl&oomacr;tˈ, ălˈē&oomacr;tˌ [key], native inhabitant of the Aleutian Islands and W Alaska. Like the Eskimo, the Aleuts are racially similar to Siberian peoples.…Gaspé Peninsula
(Encyclopedia) Gaspé Peninsula or GaspésieGaspé Peninsulagäspāzēˈ [key], tongue of land, E Que., Canada, between the estuary of the St. Lawrence River on the north and Chaleur Bay on the south, and…Belém
(Encyclopedia) Belém Belém bəlāNˈ [key] or Pará Pará pəräˈ…Elisabeth Harnois
Elisabeth Harnois is the ethereal blonde who starred in the short-lived prime-time soap opera Point Pleasant (2005-06), in which she played Christina Nickson, Satan's daughter and a mysterious…Peter Allen
Name at birth: Peter Allen WoolnoughPeter Allen was a songwriter and exuberant cabaret-style performer who had his greatest fame in the 1970s and 1980s. He was "discovered" in 1964 by Judy Garland,…State of the World’s Forests
Source: FAO; Natural Resources Defense Council; World Resources Institute. Half of the forests that originally covered 46% of the Earth's land surface are gone. Only one-fifth of the Earth's…Trending
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