Icaria
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Icaria
a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, in the Southern Sporades group. Area: 256 sq. km (99 sq. miles)
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Icaria
a Utopian communist country described by the French Utopian socialist E. Cabet in his novel Journey to Icaria (1840; Russian translation, 1924). The name “Icaria” was also given to communist communes in North America created by E. Cabet and his followers from 1848 to 1895. The Icarians were connected with the Socialist Labor Party of the USA and with the First International.
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"I boarded
Nikaria II with the intention of landing the year's heaviest conger caught by a BCC woman member," she said.
Husband Chris Martin, former skipper of Newhaven's charter boat,
Nikaria, finished fourth with a 36lb 15oz conger.
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