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Caliban: This island is mine.
Singapore, as it developed its high-rises and its remarkable public housing, also developed an island of parks, and if you go there, you'll see how much of it is green land and park land.
In my husband's homeland in the highlands of Sulawesi island in eastern Indonesia, there is a community of people that experience death not as a singular event but as a gradual social process.
During my time on the Greek island of Lesbos and on the rescue boats in the Mediterranean, thousands of refugee boats arrived to the shoreline, crowded with more than 1.5 million refugees.
As we learn more, we’ll likely come to appreciate just how subjective and individual each person’s island universe of perception really is.
You can fit Boston, San Francisco, and the island of Manhattan within its footprint.
So if we take all of that vacant and abandoned property and we smush it together, it looks like about 20 square miles, and that's roughly equivalent to the size of the island we're sitting on today, Manhattan, at 22 square miles.
Now, at this point you might be imagining one of those lovely tropical island tax havens but here's the thing, shockingly, my own hometown, London, and indeed the U.K., is one of the best places in the world to set up an anonymous company.
On the human side, Walter Starck, an oceanographer, has been painting his wetsuit since the 1970s, and anthropologically, Pacific island tribes painted themselves in bands in a sea snake ceremony to ward off the shark god.
You'll see scenes like this all over the island.
To make a building, sometimes you need to make an island, and we made the island.
They pretend, they behave, as if they believed that every country was an island that existed quite happily, independently of all the others on its own little planet in its own little solar system.
Perhaps I discovered a little island off of Portugal.
I get a lot of people asking me, in terms of "Lost," you know, "What the hell's that island?"
You know, it's usually followed by, "No, seriously, what the hell is that island?"
In 1908, on the island of Crete, archaeologists discovered a clay disc.
The second reasons students flock to Cuba is the island's own health report card, relying on strong primary care.
Erick comes from the island of Madagascar.
Some years ago, it was my good fortune to meet a tribal elder on an island not far from Vancouver.
My call to action for new power is to not be an island.
These islands — Mauritius, Rodrigues, and Réunion — along with the island of Madagascar, they are blessed with unique plants found nowhere else in the world.
And as you can see, the island of Mauritius where I work and where I live, belongs to one such biodiversity hotspot, and I study the unique plants on the island for their biomedical applications.
There's one from Africa, one from Australia, and six are endemic to the island of Madagascar.
From jathilan, a popular trance ritual on the island of Java, to Umbanda in the north of Brazil.
The sun god Helios admired the hero’s strength and lent his chariot for the journey to the island of Erytheia.
And so my first sketch after I left was to say, "Let's cut the channel and make an island and make an island building."
And I got all excited and came back, and they sort of looked at me in dismay and said, "An island?
And so the process began and they said, "You can't put it all on an island; some of it has to be on the mainland because we don't want to turn our back to the community."
And there emerged a design: the galleries sort of forming an island and you could walk through them or on the roof.
And this gave birth to the idea of having toroidal generating geometry, one with its center deep in the earth for the landside building and a toroid with its center in the sky for the island building.
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