Denali 20, feet , rises 3. Not only is Mt. Denali the highest mountain in North America, but Alaska has 15 other peaks higher than any in the continental U. Road Density Alaska has sq. Rhode Island has 6 sq. During the long, cold grip of winter, Alaskans build ice roads to traverse rivers and ground that is otherwise too soft to drive.
Air Travel Alaska has 8. Alaska has seaplane bases, far more than any other state. Alaska stretches about 2, miles east to west and 1, miles north to south. Including islands, the state has 6, miles of coastline measured from point to point and 47, miles of tidal shoreline. Rhode Island measures just 37 miles east to west and 48 miles north to south. The state's total boundary length is miles. In area, Rhode Island could fit in Alaska nearly times. The next smallest state by area is Delaware at 2, square miles, followed by Connecticut, which at 5, square miles is more than three times the size of Rhode Island and more than twice the size of Delaware.
If it were a state, the District of Columbia would be the smallest at just This includes water features that are part of that state. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile.
Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights. It's going to take self-discipline. Basically, eat less and exercise more. And it will take a little divine intervention as well, because I've got a sweet tooth as big as Rhode Island. The Mayor Speaks Shoot somebody in the chest with a soft-nose. Maxim , "Das Boots: Which of the new generation of high-performance ski boots are soft on your feet?
And which are just plain soft? So Jamie [Summers] decides to go undercover by getting her hair done. While she's being shampooed, the Interestingly, Jamie's new hair is the size of Rhode Island, yet Callahan's "do" is exactly the same as before her brainwashing.
He would no doubt tell you otherwise, but Robert Craig [Evel] Knievel was a mediocre, semi-pro flat-tracker who came out of Butte, Montana, with little [more] than a criminal record and huevos the size of Rhode Island. I'm kinda sick of roller derby by the last day of practice. There's a large, painful, bloody blister the size of Rhode Island on my foot. Each crossover feels like a large nail being driven into the side of my foot.
WEBN seems to have outraged plenty of Cincinnatians with its all-but-over billboard campaign that featured female cleavage the size of Rhode Island. Wasn't shot with no BB gun, either. Got a hole in his head about the size of Rhode Island.
He gets a lump in his throat "the size of Rhode Island" when he thinks of his darling children. An asteroid the size of Rhode Island will briefly blot out one of the brightest stars in the sky overnight tonight March , and you can watch the rare celestial event live online, weather permitting.
Hell, even if the entire planet is the size of Rhode Island, the chances against that happening are vanishingly small. As you know, impact with an extraterrestrial object a fraction of the moon's mass—one the size of Rhode Island, for example—would constitute an extinction-level event for most of the planet. Now the asteroid [NT7] is only 1. Space-derived materials that survive entry into the Earth's atmosphere are called bolides.
The largest known bolide impact occurred It made a crater twice the size of Rhode Island and deep as the Grand Canyon. The first few million years of the Moon's existence were so violent that few traces of this period remain.
As a molten outer layer gradually cooled and solidified into different kinds of rock, the Moon was bombarded by huge asteroids and smaller objects. Some of the asteroids were as large as Rhode Island or Delaware, and their collisions with the Moon created basins hundreds of kilometers across. The 1. The city of Dallas [Texas] is the size of Rhode Island, [yet] they have [only] one district. Let's face it, it's too late for most of us.
We're doomed to a life sentence of sensible shoes. But it's not too late to rise up and reject this mean-spirited attempt to rob youth of its God-given right to be ridiculous. Do it for pants the size of Rhode Island, surgically-attached baseball caps, and jewelry-studded appendages yearning to be free.
April I see these people with big jackets, collars the size of Rhode Island, zippers oh-so-inconspicuously zipped down to that strange area between the nipple and the navel, and I am aware that they are hip. Mitt: n. The mitt is the size of Rhode Island so that the useless bastards don't fucking drop it. Why they can't just use their bare hands like we do in cricket, I have no idea. Perhaps it's because they're a bunch of soft fuckers.
The Arthur Thacker Guide to Baseball , posted in alt. Telepan's veal supplier, Duane Merrill of Walton, N. Texas has more counties than any other state. Forty-one counties in Texas are each larger than the state of Rhode Island. The average size of Smolski, Spring Three times the size of Rhode Island, which has 1 million people, Piscataquis County [Maine] has just 18, people The Boston Globe , Submitted by Carol.
Larger than some states, Pima County [Arizona] comprises an area the size of Connecticut, Delaware, and two Rhode Islands, or square miles, with a total population of about , people. Yankee Magazine's NewEngland. Self proclaimed "Rhode Island enthusiast" Dan Bertwell has created a website that allows the user to find out the number of Rhode Islands that might fit into any given country on the globe.
This is sure to be a boon to writers, newscasters, and anyone who has ever wondered how Rhode Island stacks up against their own favorite benchmark. Check it out at howmanyrhodeislands. Submitted by Amelia, Providence. This series of [nine islands that make up Cape Verde], which together are about the size of Rhode Island, sits miles off the African coast, but it's nothing like the rest of the continent: The literacy rate is 77 percent, nearly double that of the nearest African country, Senegal, and health standards are considered the highest in West Africa.
I'm very proud to be the first American in the field. To be in the top 10 in Boston is great at the age of I was born in a small country. Belgium is the size of Rhode Island. This is a big country and I'm the one representing it.
Where is everybody else? It's kind of disappointing that there are not more U. The other Americans are not here today.
Bahrain consists of 33 islands with a total area one-sixth the size of Rhode Island. Israel is a very small country. In terms of land area, this state is comparable to Rhode Island. Sand stretches to the horizon, dunes rise more than 1, feet, and farmers flee their parched plots for work in the city. Welcome to northern China, where desertification—land degradation caused primarily by human activities—is wiping out close to a million acres of grassland a year an area nearly as large as Rhode Island.
Striving to feed twenty percent of the world's population, the Chinese have overgrazed, overfarmed, and created new deserts in the process. The Kuwait desert is as flat as a patio and as big as Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. The world is turning to dust, with lands the size of Rhode Island becoming desert wasteland every year and the problem threatening to send millions of people fleeing to greener countries, the United Nations says. With 27, people, the [4th] district covers about 60 percent of the land mass of St.
Louis County [Minnesota]—about 4, square miles—almost four times the size of Rhode Island. It's the size of Rhode Island. How could they consolidate with somebody else? They'd have kids on buses four hours a day. Located in all this [Alaskan] beauty is the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, which serves over 10, students and covers 25, square miles bigger than Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire combined.
One million exhibitors. Sixty million attendees. Four trillion booths spread across an area the size of Rhode Island. Like a lot of action films, the Bond franchise has always used comedy to blunt the violence and bring in big audiences. Approximately half the size of Rhode Island. He guessed that [Staronia] was about as big as Rhode Island, or Chicago—but on further search he found that it was of respectable size—he was unused to the vast stretch of the African Continent.
A vast wildfire, measuring half the size of the state of Rhode Island and described as the second worst fire in Arizona history, continues to surge across eastern Arizona. The Wallow Fire has destroyed approximately , acres and threatens main electrical lines that supply power as far away as west Texas.
Submitted by David G. The Possum Kingdom fire is the fifth of at least , acres around Texas reported in the past two weeks. Most of the state is in extreme drought, and wildfires in the past week alone have burned more than 1, square miles of parched Texas ranchland—an area that combined would be the size of Rhode Island.
Associated Press , "Texas wildfire grows amid hot, windy weather," April 19, Submitted by Mike Z. Up to , acres were laid waste between Friday and Monday alone—10 times the annual average for the past 50 years, according to the European Commission's European Forest Fire Information System.
A total , acres—an area almost the size of Rhode Island—went up in smoke since the start of the year. Associated Press , "Forests, wildlife wiped out by Greek fires," August 29, State and federal officials were still surveying the damage from California's worst wildfires, which killed 20 people, leveled 3, homes and blackened , acres, nearly the size of Rhode Island.
Broder, November 4, More than , acres of brush, forest and homes—or about square miles, roughly three-quarters the total area of Rhode Island—had burned in California. The blazes had charred more than , acres, or square miles—almost half the size of the state of Rhode Island—of dense, dry brush and trees.
Associated Press , "Deadly Calif. Dunham said the smoke was caused by a fire east of James Bay in northern Quebec that consumed more than square miles of forest. That's about one-third the size of Rhode Island, Dunham said, utilizing the Rhode Island-sized unit of measure typically implemented in references to ranches and icebergs.
Providence Journal , "Smoke screens out the sun," by Peter B. Lord, July 8, In what is by far the worst fire season on record in this arid state, some 1. What snapped me to attention was mention in the Seattle Times of the flag Admiral Ellison It sure looks like an American flag. And the stripes?
They're there OK, representing the original 13 colonies, but emblazoned in white lettering on the last stripe is a 14th colony, or maybe a colonizer: ORACLE. The flag is immense—roughly the size of Rhode Island. OK, you figured that. Admiral Ellison understands that the meek might indeed inherit the earth, but in the meantime the arrogant have the best shot at conquering it. It's hard to get excited by Flag Day when: A major corporation flies a flag bigger than Rhode Island in front of every one of its restaurants Brasch, July 12, Before I leave, they load me up with a box roughly the size of Rhode Island full of baked goods.
Submitted by Tina in Wakefield. Disappointments were minor. Submitted by Sarah Zurier. In one year, Dunkin' Donuts serves enough freshly brewed coffee for every person in the state of Rhode Island to have cups. Between and [Antactica gained] 82 billion tons of ice per year. It's difficult to imagine that much ice, but it would be enough to cover the state of Rhode Island about 85 feet deep every year in pure form. At the top of Alaska's panhandle, Malaspina Glacier spills from a funnel of rock in the St.
Elias Mountains and spreads to form a huge pancake between the mountains and the sea. That pancake is as large as Rhode Island, but Malaspina is thinning fast.
There, on the left side of the green is a bunker the size of Rhode Island. If you can avoid this you'll start off well. Journal and Courier , "Fairy tale's happy ending depends on shot selection," by Dave Schneider, August 23, While technology has given us clubs with sweet spots the size of Rhode Island and golf balls that break the sound barrier, no one has been able to control the weather.
I read somewhere that over 17, square miles of this country are devoted to golf courses alone, which is an area equal to that of two Rhode Islands and one Delaware. Thirty five million years ago a space rock gouged a crater as big as Rhode Island and as deep as the Grand Canyon in what is now called the lower Chesapeake Bay. Welcome to the 'Burg! Ellen K. Rudolph, November You either worship Steve Spurrier or you hope he is swallowed by a sinkhole the size of Rhode Island.
I was turning around drove past a house I was looking for and encountered the 'ol pot-hole-the-size-of-rhode-island-hiding-under-water. Funny thing is, if the ice caps do melt, Rhode Island will shrink, perhaps disappearing altogether. What will we use to measure really big things then? Curious about the iceberg situation today, he started researching and found himself looking at an Antarctic iceberg the size of Rhode Island, which was broken off when the Mertz Ice Tongue was bumped by another iceberg the size of Luxembourg.
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