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Threepwood, a wannabe pirate, washes up at the Caribbean port of Mêlée, and finds himself rubbing elbows and hooks with the isle's colourful buccaneers.
Ahoy, adventure game fans! ‘Monkey Island’ returns | Sync Blog 2009
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The building is about the only thing of interest left on Roosevelt Island and a solid reminder of the isle's grisly past.
Neglect: Nature's Wrecking Ball Brooks of Sheffield 2008
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Above the Scottish soil, European "punters" kicked the isle's oddsmakers between their blinkers.
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Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, held talks with Bacar to seek a solution to the isle's political rebellion.
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The trio were injured on Monday night when a gang of political operatives, armed with machetes and iron rods, attacked Muslims leaving a mosque in the isle's Msumbiji area, witnesses said.
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After the last elections in 2000, some 40 people on Zanzibar were killed in street protests against alleged fraud, badly damaging the isle's reputation as a paradise holiday destination.
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Ramgoolam's father, Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, who was the isle's first president from independence in 1968 lost the seat to Sir
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Even though the local pbs station has educated me on the isle's prehistory and so much more.
joegood Diary Entry joegood 2002
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Much of the southern part of the isle remains forested and uninhabited, except for the few crafthalls and the rich Feyn River plains, where most of the isle's grain is grown.
The Magic Engineer Modesitt, L. E. 1994
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Though to set foot on this beach was to challenge the isle's strange guardians, Taen swung her good leg over the rim of the barrel and leaped down.
Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989
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