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    olive oil, fish sauce and wine. Further such material was uncovered by the Insula IX 'Town Life' project, including a great boundary ditch likely made about...
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    Auslegung adds that this section of the map extends from Ireland to the "Insula Fortunata". This "Fortunate Island" was a destination on St. Brendan's Voyage...
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    Johann Reinhold (1776). Characteres Generum Plantarum quas in Itinere ad Insulas Maris Australis Collegerunt, Descripserunt, Delinearunt, Annis. Missouri...
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    "island of Achilles", famous for the tomb of that "man" (portus Achaeorum, insula Achillis, tumulo eius viri clara), situated somewhat nearby Olbia and the...
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    Coates, proposes that the name ultimately derives from Latin Medicata [Insula] (English: Healing [Island]), owing perhaps to the island's reputation for...
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    Rock of Polynesia International Scientific Council for Island Development (INSULA), UNESCO, ISBN 9299002304. SPREP, Rod Hay and Ralph Powlesland, Compiled...
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    of Newton Hall Tower, a 13th-century defensive tower belonging to the de Insula family, that was demolished in the 1800s. Newton Hall country house was...
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    Church was built between them and is recorded as Ecclesia S. Patricii in Insula (the Church of St Patrick on the Island). The church was elevated to collegiate...
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    the late 14th century John of Fordun referred to it as "the isle of Irte (insula de Irte), which is agreed to be under the Circius and on the margins of...
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    ; Cadell, T. (1776). Characteres generum plantarum, quas in itinere ad insulas maris Australis, : collegerunt, descripserunt, delinearunt, annis 1772-1775...
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    (1776). "plate 25". Characteres generum plantarum, quas in itinere ad insulas maris Australis: collegerunt, descripserunt, delinearunt, annis 1772-1775...
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    the port near Bosham). The Roman historian Suetonius calls the island "insula Vecta" in his account of its capture in year 43, referring to the future...
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  • (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) "Hunkin, Joseph Wellington". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2012 online ed.)....
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