A floating island is a mass of floating aquatic plants, mud, and peat ranging in thickness from several centimeters to a few meters. Sometimes referred...
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A floating island or île flottante (French: [il flɔtɑ̃t]) is a dessert consisting of meringue floating on crème anglaise (a vanilla custard). The meringue...
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In science fiction and fantasy, floating cities and islands are a common trope, ranging from cities and islands that float on water to ones that float...
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Seasteading (redirect from Floating City Project)
included modified cruise ships, refitted oil platforms, and custom-built floating islands. Some proponents say seasteads can "provide the means for rapid innovation...
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Look up floating island in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A floating island is a mass of floating aquatic plants, mud, and peat. Floating island may also...
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a floating island surrounded by "a wall of unbreakable bronze" where the "cliffs run up shear". Homer does not say anything about where the island was...
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Uru people (redirect from Uros Floating Islands)
Peru. They live on a still-growing group of about 120 self-fashioned floating islands in Lake Titicaca near Puno. They form three main groups: the Uru-Chipaya...
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El Ojo (redirect from Eye Island)
rotating floating island located within a slightly larger circular lake in the Paraná Delta in the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. The island is unique...
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a floating island. If the floating mats are stable and large enough, even trees can grow on them, as at the Kleiner Arbersee. Beneath the floating mats...
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the craters of larger volcanoes. Other lake islands include ephemeral beds of floating vegetation, and islands artificially formed by human activity. Lakes...
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Forbes Island is a floating island and event space near Bradford Island, California, United States. It was formerly a restaurant, located between Pier...
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Floating Island is a 1930 children's novel written and illustrated by Anne Parrish. A China-doll family's shipwreck and adventure in the Floating Island...
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Dessert island may refer to:: Floating island (dessert), an "island" of meringue floating in a "sea" of Crème anglaise Dessert Island (I Am Weasel), an...
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dedicated to the sage Parashara situated on its bank. It contains a floating island. The lake was considered sacred by the sage Parashara, who meditated...
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Hirsh left WOW! in December 2023. In 2014, Michael Hirsh founded Floating Island Entertainment, where he continues to serve as CEO and Executive Producer...
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Polyphemus, came next to the island of Aeolia: where dwelt Aeolus, son of Hippotas, dear to the immortal gods, in a floating island, and all around it is a...
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Lochan Saorach (section Floating islands)
is notable for at one time having a floating island on it waters as recorded in 1769 in addition to a normal island. In 1769 the antiquarian Thomas Pennant...
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The series focused on the adventures of a community of animals on a floating island that was originally part of the Canadian Coastline before being struck...
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Lake Titicaca (redirect from Uros floating islands)
of Juliaca, in the northern part of the lake. The "Floating Islands" are small, human-made islands constructed by the Uros (or Uru) people from layers...
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Offenhartz, Jake (May 20, 2021). "Photos: Explore Little Island, NYC's Luxurious New Floating Park On The Hudson". Gothamist. Archived from the original...
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over cakes or fruits as a sauce or eaten as part of desserts such as floating island. It also serves as a base ingredient for other desserts such as ice...
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Murinsel (redirect from Mur Island)
The Murinsel (German, literally Mur island) in Graz, Austria, is an artificial floating "island" in the middle of the river Mur and links the two banks...
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Project Habakkuk (category Floating islands)
the first to suggest a floating mid-ocean stopping point for aircraft, nor even the first to suggest that such a floating island could be made of ice....
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of meringue: the sweetened, beaten egg whites that form the "islands" of floating island (also known in French as île flottante); the partly cooked toppings...
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The floating islands of Bingöl (Turkish: Yüzen Adalar Tabiat Anıtı) are mass of floating aquatic plants in the form of islands on a lake in Bingöl Province...
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cream dessert Éclair – Cream-filled pastry Flaugnarde – French dessert Floating island – Dessert made with meringue and crème anglaise Kouign-amann – Breton...
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the rightful rulers of the Floating Island. All echidnas, however, are united in the struggle against the Floating Island's second major race, dingoes...
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Island in the Sky or Islands in the Sky may refer to: Floating island (fiction), a fictional landmass that floats in the sky Island in the Sky (1953 film)...
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Pumice raft (category Floating islands)
A pumice raft is a floating raft of pumice created by some eruptions of submarine volcanoes or coastal subaerial volcanoes. Pumice rafts have unique characteristics...
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ship's mercenary, Margeurit Maida. The three washed ashore on the Floating Island, an island-- visitable in-game-- held above the surface of the water by massive...
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