North Mariana Islands

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plural noun

a group of islands in the W Pacific Ocean, N of Guam: formerly a part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; since 1986 a commonwealth associated with the U.S. 184 sq. mi. (477 sq. km). Capital: Saipan.

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There were also the fleshy remains of the seniors who migrated to Florida from all points north.
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Between South and North, the probabilities of a serious, and no very distant rupture, are strong and manifest.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
Two Battalions racing due North along the coast and foothills with levelled bayonets.
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Among the Japanese who are in the islands there are more than one thousand five hundred Christians.
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In Cuba its culture commenced in 1580, and from this and the other islands large quantities were shipped to Europe.
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Turn we our backs to the cold gloomy north, to the wet windy west, to the dry parching east—on to the south!
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