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Featured Article: Aruba
Aruba is a 32 kilometer-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Curaçao, 18 miles north of the Paraguaná Peninsula of Venezuela. It belongs to the Realm of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Aruba has a land area of 75 square miles (193 km²) and lies just outside of the hurricane belt. Unlike much of the Caribbean region, Aruba has a dry climate and is considered a generally flat, river-less island renowned for its white, sandy beaches. This setting has strengthened tourism, which is its number one economic strength and has earned it the name, "the Las Vegas of the Caribbean."
Popular Article: Cambrian
The Cambrian period is an interval of about 54 million years defined on the geologic time scale as spanning roughly from 542 to 488 million years ago (mya), and being noteworthy as the earliest geologic period in which the fossil record contains clear traces of abundant and diverse forms of multicellular life more complex than sponges or medusoids (jellyfish-like animals). The Cambrian period is the first or earliest of six periods making up the Paleozoic era within the Phanerozoic eon, which includes the present time. During the Cambrian period, there was an unparalleled explosion of life, referred to as the Cambrian explosion.
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Although Albert Bierstadt's paintings were not fully recognized in his lifetime, he is now regarded as one of the greatest landscape artists in history. (source: Albert Bierstadt)
