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.
Rhode Island (/ËroÊdËaÉªlÉnd/), officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. Rhode Island is the smallest in area, the eighth least populous, and the second most densely populated of the 50 U.S. states, following New Jersey. Its official name is also the longest of any state in the Union.