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The design may have inspired later 'Maps of World History' such as the HistoMap by John B. Sparks, which chronicles four thousand years of world history in a graphic way similar to the enlarging and contracting nation streams presented on Adam's chart. Sparks added the innovation of using a logarithmic scale for the presentation of history.
Chapel Hill, Balladoole is a significant historical and archaeological site in Arbory on the Isle of Man. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The site is a short distance from Castletown in the south of the Island. It is located on a small hilltop overlooking the coast.
A New History of the Isle of Man, Volume 2: Prehistory. Duffy, Sean (2005). A New History of the Isle of Man, Volume 3: The Medieval Period, 1000-1406. Belchem, John (2001). A New History of the Isle of Man, Volume 5: The Modern Period, 1830-1999. Gawne, C.W. (2009). The Isle of Man and Britain: Controversy, 1651-1895, from Smuggling to the ...
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The range consists of a noise range to the east of the isle of South Rona, and a torpedo testing range located in the centre of the Inner Sound between the isle of Raasay and Applecross on the mainland. The noise range is about a mile long and divided into blocks 50 yards wide (labelled A to Z) within which is a large array of sensors.
It is the sovereign state with the shortest history of human settlement (followed by Mauritius). [122] East Pacific: Floreana Island: 1805: Black Beach: First settled 1805–1809 by Patrick Watkins. Later attempts in 1837, 1893, 1925, and 1929. [123] South Atlantic: Tristan da Cunha: 1810: First settled by Jonathan Lambert and two other men ...
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The earliest written mention of the Outer Hebrides was by the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus in 55 BC. He wrote that there was an island called Hyperborea (which means "Far to the North") where a round temple stood from which the moon appeared only a little distance above the earth every 19 years, an apparent reference to the stone circle at Callanish.