Block Island has been mentioned more than a dozen times throughout the RSS channels we monitor. This location appears to be especially popular on the channel 'Rss' where it has less than a dozen mentions. As seen in the chart below, Block Island had the highest popularity figure in December, 2016.

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The Life Savers: Rhode Island’s Forgotten Service, 1872-1914

[...] per year. Another stream of vessels outside the Point Judith venue transited east and west of Block Island bound for more distant venues, adding thousands more to the count. This was also the peak [...]

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Twenty-Six Pirates Hanged at Newport in 1723

[...] a clock in the evening he bore from us N.W. by W. two leagues, when we lost sight of him near Block Island. One desperado was for blowing up this sloop rather than surrendering, and being hindered, he [...]

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Pearl Harbor Attack Panics Rhode Islanders

[...] and furloughs,” the newspaper added, noting that many had to cut short their holiday leaves. Block Island, a small island thirteen miles south of the coast of the Rhode Island mainland, as was the [...]

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Walter Massie, a Remarkable Wireless Radio Pioneer

[...] . A storm blew down the Block Island’s slender antenna tower and deForrest lost interest in the deal. The Journal needed someone [...]

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Top 20 Greatest Rhode Islanders of All Time: Counting Down from Number 5 to 1

[...] Virginia in October of 1781. Married to the vivacious and intelligent Catharine Littlefield of Block Island, Greene tragically died of heatstroke at the age of forty-four, while working on the [...]

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A German U-Boat in Newport Harbor During World War I

[...] Many Rhode Islanders are familiar with the sinking of the German submarine U-853 off Block Island in May of 1945 in the waning days of World War II. But U-boats had been prowling Rhode Island [...]

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Verrazzano Visits the Narragansett Indians in 1524

[...] and “Port de Refuge” probably intends to show the West Passage.  “Brisa” is probably Block Island. (Private Collection)] For Further Reading: Charles Mann. 1491. New Revelations of the [...]

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