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Block Island, the Glossary

Block Island is an island of the Outer Lands coastal archipelago, located approximately south of mainland Rhode Island and east of Long Island's Montauk Point.^[1]

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Adriaen Block

Adriaen Courtsen Block (c. 1567 – 27 April 1627) was a Dutch private trader, privateer, and ship's captain who is best known for exploring the coastal and river valley areas between present-day New Jersey and Massachusetts during four voyages from 1611 to 1614, following the 1609 expedition by Henry Hudson.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.

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Aquaculture

Aquaculture (less commonly spelled aquiculture), also known as aquafarming, is the controlled cultivation ("farming") of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other organisms of value such as aquatic plants (e.g. lotus).

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Atlantic Flyway

The Atlantic Flyway is a major north-south flyway for migratory birds in North America.

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Block Island

Block Island is an island of the Outer Lands coastal archipelago, located approximately south of mainland Rhode Island and east of Long Island's Montauk Point. Block Island and Block Island are coastal islands of Rhode Island, islands of Rhode Island, new Netherland, Pequot War, pre-statehood history of Rhode Island and Surfing locations in the United States.

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Block Island Historical Society

The Block Island Historical Society is a historical society which runs a museum at 18 Old Town Road and Ocean Avenue on Block Island (New Shoreham) in Rhode Island.

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Block Island North Light

Block Island North Light (Lighthouse), built in 1867, is a historic lighthouse on Block Island, Rhode Island (New Shoreham).

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Block Island School

Block Island School is a K-12 school located in Block Island, Rhode Island.

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Block Island Southeast Light

Block Island Southeast Light is a lighthouse located on Mohegan Bluffs at the southeastern corner of Block Island, Rhode Island.

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Block Island State Airport

Block Island State Airport is a public use airport located on Block Island, in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States.

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Block Island Wind Farm

Block Island Wind Farm was the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States, located from Block Island, Rhode Island in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Cape Ann

Cape Ann is a rocky peninsula in northeastern Massachusetts on the Atlantic Ocean.

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Cape Cod

Cape Cod is a peninsula extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States.

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Citigroup

Citigroup Inc. or Citi (stylized as citi) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company in New York City.

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Claude of France

Claude of France (13 October 1499 – 26 July 1524) reigned as Duchess of Brittany from 1514 until her death in 1524 and was Queen of France from 1515 to 1524 as the wife of King Francis I. She was the eldest daughter of King Louis XII of France and Duchess Anne of Brittany.

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CNBC

CNBC is an American business news channel owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal.

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Conquest

Conquest is the act of military subjugation of an enemy by force of arms.

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Cunard Line

The Cunard Line is a British shipping and cruise line based at Carnival House at Southampton, England, operated by Carnival UK and owned by Carnival Corporation & plc.

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Dismemberment

Dismemberment is the act of completely disconnecting and or removing the limbs from a living or dead being.

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Elizabeth Dickens (ornithologist)

Elizabeth Dickens, known as the "Bird Lady of Block Island", (born 2 Dec 1877, died 17 Jun 1963) was an American ornithologist.

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Fathom

A fathom is a unit of length in the imperial and the U.S. customary systems equal to, used especially for measuring the depth of water.

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General aviation

General aviation (GA) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as all civil aviation aircraft operations except for commercial air transport or aerial work, which is defined as specialized aviation services for other purposes.

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Giovanni da Verrazzano

Giovanni da Verrazzano (often misspelled Verrazano in English; 1485–1528) was an Italian (Florentine) explorer of North America, in the service of King Francis I of France.

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Great Salt Pond Archeological District

The Great Salt Pond Archeological District is a historic district in New Shoreham, Rhode Island.

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Hardiness zone

A hardiness zone is a geographic area defined as having a certain average annual minimum temperature, a factor relevant to the survival of many plants.

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Henry Vane the Younger

Sir Henry Vane (baptised 26 March 161314 June 1662), often referred to as Harry Vane and Henry Vane the Younger to distinguish him from his father, Henry Vane the Elder, was an English politician, statesman, and colonial governor. Block Island and Henry Vane the Younger are Pequot War.

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HMS Dispatch

Seventeen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dispatch, or the variant HMS Despatch.

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HMS Nimrod

Six ships of the Royal Navy, and one shore establishment, have borne the name HMS Nimrod, after the biblical figure of Nimrod.

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HMS Pactolus (1813)

HMS Pactolus was one of eight 38-gun Cydnus-class fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy, that served in the Napoleonic wars and the War of 1812.

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HMS Ramillies (1785)

HMS Ramillies was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 12 July 1785 at Rotherhithe.

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HMS Terror (1813)

HMS Terror was a specialised warship and a newly developed bomb vessel constructed for the Royal Navy in 1813.

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Hull, Massachusetts

Hull is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, located on a peninsula at the southern edge of Boston Harbor.

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Humid continental climate

A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold (sometimes severely cold in the northern areas) and snowy winters.

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Humid subtropical climate

A humid subtropical climate is a temperate climate type characterized by hot and humid summers, and cool to mild winters.

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Independence Day (United States)

Independence Day, known colloquially as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States which commemorates the ratification of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, establishing the United States of America.

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Jens Risom

Jens Risom (8 May 1916 – 9 December 2016) was a Danish American furniture designer.

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John Endecott

John Endecott (also spelled Endicott; before 1600 – 15 March 1664/1665), regarded as one of the Fathers of New England, was the longest-serving governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which became the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Block Island and John Endecott are Pequot War.

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John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States.

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John Oldham (colonist)

John Oldham (July 1595 – July 20, 1636) was an early Puritan settler in Massachusetts. Block Island and John Oldham (colonist) are Pequot War.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kelp

Kelps are large brown algae or seaweeds that make up the order Laminariales.

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Kenneth Bacon

Kenneth Hogate Bacon (November 21, 1944 – August 15, 2009) was an American journalist who served as a spokesman for the Department of Defense during the Presidency of Bill Clinton, and later as president of Refugees International, an organization advocating for displaced persons and solutions for displacement crises.

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List of colonial governors of Massachusetts

The territory of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, one of the fifty United States, was settled in the 17th century by several different English colonies.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Long Island Sound

Long Island Sound is a marine sound and tidal estuary of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Long-finned pilot whale

The long-finned pilot whale, or pothead whale (Globicephala melas) is a large species of oceanic dolphin.

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Louise of Savoy

Louise of Savoy (11 September 1476 – 22 September 1531) was a French noble and regent, Duchess suo jure of Auvergne and Bourbon, Duchess of Nemours and the mother of King Francis I and Marguerite of Navarre.

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Manitou

Manitou, akin to the Haudenosaunee orenda, is the spiritual and fundamental life force among Algonquian groups in the Native American theology.

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Martha's Vineyard

Martha's Vineyard, often simply called the Vineyard, is an island in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, lying just south of Cape Cod.

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Mohegan Bluffs

The Mohegan Bluffs are large clay cliffs about high, located on the southern shore of Block Island.

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Montauk, New York

Montauk is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, New York, on the eastern end of the South Shore of Long Island.

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Montville, Connecticut

Montville is a town in New London County, Connecticut in the United States.

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Nantucket

Nantucket is an island about south from Cape Cod.

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Narragansett Bay

Narragansett Bay is a bay and estuary on the north side of Rhode Island Sound covering, of which is in Rhode Island.

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Narragansett people

The Narragansett people are an Algonquian American Indian tribe from Rhode Island.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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New England Airlines

New England Airlines is a regional airline based in Westerly, Rhode Island, U.S. With a main base at Westerly State Airport, it provides scheduled service to Block Island and operates charters to other airports along the Northeast coast.

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New London, Connecticut

New London is a seaport city and a port of entry on the northeast coast of the United States, located at the outlet of the Thames River in New London County, Connecticut.

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New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City.

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Newport, Rhode Island

Newport is a seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island, United States.

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Niantic people

The Niantic (Nehântick or Nehantucket) are a tribe of Algonquian-speaking American Indians who lived in the area of Connecticut and Rhode Island during the early colonial period.

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Nicrophorus americanus

Nicrophorus americanus, also known as the American burying beetle or giant carrion beetle, is a critically endangered species of beetle endemic to North America.

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Oceanic climate

An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate or maritime climate, is the temperate climate sub-type in Köppen classification represented as Cfb, typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, generally featuring cool to warm summers and cool to mild winters (for their latitude), with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature.

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Offshore wind power

Offshore wind power or offshore wind energy is the generation of electricity through wind farms in bodies of water, usually at sea.

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Old Harbor Historic District

The Old Harbor Historic District is an historic district in the resort community of New Shoreham on Block Island off the southern coast of Rhode Island.

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Orient, New York

Orient is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, United States.

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Outer Lands

The Outer Lands is the prominent terminal moraine archipelagic region off the southern coast of New England in the United States. Block Island and Outer Lands are coastal islands of Rhode Island and islands of Rhode Island.

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Palatine Light

The Palatine Light is an apparition reported near Block Island, Rhode Island, said to be the ghost ship of a lost 18th-century vessel named the Palatine.

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Pequot War

The Pequot War was an armed conflict that took place in 1636 and ended in 1638 in New England, between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the colonists from the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their allies from the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes.

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Piping plover

The piping plover (Charadrius melodus) is a small sand-colored, sparrow-sized shorebird that nests and feeds along coastal sand and gravel beaches in North America.

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Point Judith, Rhode Island

Point Judith is a village and a small cape, on the coast of Narragansett, Rhode Island, on the western side of Narragansett Bay where it opens out onto Rhode Island Sound.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Pride parade

A pride parade (also known as pride event, pride festival, pride march, or pride protest) is an event celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) social and self-acceptance, achievements, legal rights, and pride.

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Public library

A public library is a library, most often a lending library, that is accessible by the general public and is usually funded from public sources, such as taxes.

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Punitive expedition

A punitive expedition is a military journey undertaken to punish a political entity or any group of people outside the borders of the punishing state or union.

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Queen Elizabeth 2

Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) is a retired British passenger ship converted into a floating hotel.

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Raymond-Bradford Homestead

The Raymond-Bradford Homestead is a historic house on Raymond Hill Road in Montville, Connecticut.

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Refugees International

Refugees International (RI) is an independent humanitarian organization that advocates for lifesaving assistance, human rights, and protection for displaced people and promotes solutions to displacement crises.

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Rhode Island

Rhode Island (pronounced "road") is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Richard Parsons (businessman)

Richard Dean Parsons (born April 4, 1948), an American business executive, is the former chairman of Citigroup and the former chairman and CEO of Time Warner.

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Sachem

Sachems and sagamores are paramount chiefs among the Algonquians or other Native American tribes of northeastern North America, including the Iroquois.

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Shoreham, Kent

Shoreham is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England.

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Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet

Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, 1st Baronet, GCB (5 April 1769 – 20 September 1839) was a British Royal Navy officer.

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Slavery in the colonial history of the United States

Slavery in the colonial history of the United States refers to the institution of slavery that existed in the European colonies in North America which eventually became part of the United States of America.

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Stonington, Connecticut

Stonington is a town located in New London County, Connecticut.

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Tad Devine

Thomas A. "Tad" Devine (born June 11, 1955) is an American political consultant.

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Thames River (Connecticut)

The Thames River is a short river and tidal estuary in the state of Connecticut.

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The Block Island Sound

The Block Island Sound is a 2020 American science fiction horror thriller film written and directed by Kevin McManus and Matthew McManus and starring Chris Sheffield and Michaela McManus.

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The Economist

The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.

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The Hamptons

The Hamptons, part of the East End of Long Island, consist of the towns of Southampton and East Hampton, which together compose the South Fork of Long Island, in Suffolk County, New York.

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The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is a global environmental organization headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Providence Journal

The Providence Journal, colloquially known as the ProJo, is a daily newspaper serving the metropolitan area of Providence, the largest newspaper in Rhode Island, US.

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Three Sisters (agriculture)

The Three Sisters are the three main agricultural crops of various indigenous peoples of Central and North America: squash, maize ("corn"), and climbing beans (typically tepary beans or common beans).

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U-boat

U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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United States Coast Guard

The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is the maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's eight uniformed services.

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United States Fish and Wildlife Service

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS or FWS) is a U.S. federal government agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior which oversees the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats in the United States.

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University of Rhode Island

The University of Rhode Island (URI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Kingston, Rhode Island, United States.

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US Weather Bureau Station (Block Island)

The U.S. Weather Bureau Station is a historic former weather station on Beach Avenue on Block Island, Rhode Island.

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Wampum

Wampum is a traditional shell bead of the Eastern Woodlands tribes of Native Americans.

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Warner Media, LLC (doing business as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned by AT&T.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Island

Also known as Block Island (Rhode Island), Block Island, RI, Block Island, Rhode Island, New Shoreham (RI), New Shoreham, RI, New Shoreham, Rhode Island, Rodman's hollow, Settler's rock.

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Block Island, the Glossary

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See also

Coastal islands of Rhode Island

Islands of Rhode Island

Pequot War

Pre-statehood history of Rhode Island

Surfing locations in the United States

References