Word: insula
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...Soviet nuclear-powered submarines are thought to give off so much radiation that Soviet sailors morbidly joke that members of the northern fleet are easily identifiable be cause they glow in the dark. During the past eight months, one nuclear sub foundered in deep water off the Siberian pen insula of Kamchatka and a second was disabled off the U.S. East Coast when the craft's propeller became entangled in an undersea surveillance cable...
Itaque Case coepit scribere fabulam heroicam quam discipuli legere amarent. Appellabatur Daimon, et incipi-bat simplicissime: "Olim erat in insula Herakleia puer nomine Daimon . .." Case primas paucas paginas exhibuit quattuor ex suis discipulis et hi constituerunt illi auxilium ferre ad fabulam scribendam. Case dixit: "Ab eventu ad eventum procedebamus, intellexi, si pueri ipsi fabulam invenirent, certe excitaturam esse...
...upper left-hand corner were the unmistakable outlines of Greenland and Vinland, the latter rounded off into an island in accordance with the medieval assumption that the universal sea surrounded any area that had not been explored. Both were plainly labeled (GRONELĀDA and VINLANDA INSULA...