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.
The United States Census Bureau estimates that the population of Rhode Island was 1,056,298 on July 1, 2015, a 0.35% increase since the 2010 United States Census. The center of population of Rhode Island is located in Providence County, in the city of Cranston.