The incident called to mind a 2003 nightclub fire in Rhode Island where pyrotechnics used by the heavy metal band Great White ignited a blaze that killed 100 people.

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Rhode Island also has a distinctive clam chowder: while Manhattan is red and New England white, the version here is clear.

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Huckabee announced he was giving up his bid for the White House after John McCain swept Tuesday's contests in Texas, Ohio, Vermont and Rhode Island, giving the Arizona senator the delegates needed to claim the party's nomination in September.

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The Spanish neoclassical structure was built in 1930 by the American architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White, which also built New York's original Pennsylvania Station and the Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island.

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