By midnight, Agathe and I were standing in a long queue of well-dressed partiers outside Kaivohuone, a trendy night club located just off the park of the same name. Formerly a restaurant, this 165-year-old building is the summer haunt of Helsinkiâs young and fabulous, and well worth the wait.
On May 29, 1790, Rhode Island became the 13th and last state to ratify the Constitution. Rhode Island's official nickname is The Ocean State, a reference to the fact that the state has several large bays and inlets that amount to about 14% of its total area. Rhode Island covers 1,214 square miles (3,144 km2), of which 1,045 square miles (2,707 km2) are land.
Climate of Rhode Island Topographic features-Rhode Island, the smallest of states, shares the southeastern corner of New England with a portion of Massachusetts. The State extends for 50 miles in a north-south direction and has an average width of about 30 miles.nnual precipitation averages 42 to 46 inches over most of the State, with a tendency for decreasing amounts from west to east. It varies from about 40 inches in the immediate southeastern Bay area and on Block Island to 48 inches in the western uplands.