Search results for "Hawaii (island)" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Hiroshima, whose name means “Broad Island,” is situated on the delta ... *United States Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii, United States *Russia Volgograd ...
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  • exclusively in the North Pacific, from Hawaii to Japan, Alaska, and California; ... two related species that breed on Campbell Island, the Campbell Albatross and ...
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  • as soon as they saw dead rats, and on the island of Formosa (Taiwan), residents ... The disease reached the Republic of Hawaii in December of 1899, and ...
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  • Japanese institutions and open the island nation to trade and improved ... * Han, Woo-Keun. The History of Korea. University of Hawaii Press ...
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  • #039;s to open his own pizzeria on Coney Island called Totonno's. While ... Canada, and Sweden, but notably not in Hawaii. This type is also common ...
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  • Honen was exiled to Shikoku Island and Shinran to Echigo Province ... Unno trans.. Buddhist Center Press, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1984. ...
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  • on most of the world's islands and island groups. The family contains ... populations (often endemic to a single island), and island tameness. Evolving ...
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  • East Asia, from 50°N latitude on Sakhalin Island in the Sea of Okhotsk, west ... traditionally used for tattooing in Japan, Hawaii, and elsewhere. ...
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  • for the tragedy is given, but the whole island sinks beneath the sea except ... In Hawaii, a human couple, Nu'u and Lili-noe, survived a flood ...
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  • of Japan, in the northern part of the main island of Japan. After wresting ... Century. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1981. ISBN 9780824806927 ...
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  • and sought refuge at Yashima, a small island in the Inland Sea. ... #039; fortress, just off the smaller island of Shikoku. ...
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  • of Sagami Bay with Mt. Fuji and Enoshima island in sight. ... coast, Inamuragasaki cape, Enoshima island, and Mt. Fuji. This is one ...
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  • Dutch and British installations from Wake Island to Australia to Ceylon (now ... on the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor island, the Japanese had secured ...
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  • territories in the Pacific, such as Hawaii and the Philippines, demanded ... a case was brought against the U.S. annexation of Hawaii. ...
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  • Atlantic Ocean from Foilhommerum, Valentia Island, in western Ireland to Heart ... This was completed in 1902–03, linking the U.S. mainland to Hawaii ...
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  • but it is separated from a mainland or island shore by a deep channel or ... the way around a lagoon without a central island. In other words, if a fringing ...
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  • in obtaining the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, Stalin agreed ... Korea, 1941-1950. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985. ISBN 0824809734 ...
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  • auratus was transported to Oahu, Hawaii in 1932 by people and continues to thrive there. Some poison dart frogs are also found on the Caribbean ...
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  • minor source of electric power (except in Hawaii), while nuclear power now ... safety, the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island, and the 1986 Chernobyl disaster ...
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  • , 2003, ISBN 9627283614), 12. Hong Kong Island was first occupied by British ... Hong Kong consists primarily of Hong Kong Island, Lantau Island, Kowloon ...
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  • Charlotte Islands, middle elevations of Hawaii, and the southeastern United ... at Blithewold Gardens, in Bristol, Rhode Island. Specimens also grow in the ...
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  • settled in New England, Baptists in Rhode Island, Quakers in Pennsylvania ... terms like "Providence" in Rhode Island. The theme of God ...
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  • Shinji, a poor fisherman on the remote island of Uta-jima, and his romance ... and raised as a pearl diver on another island. The beautiful Hatsue wins ...
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  • on the south. Alaska's Little Diomede Island in the middle of the Bering ... throughout North America), but Kodiak Island is home to the Kodiak bear ...
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  • people include Father Damien of Molokai, Hawaii; Dr. Albert Schweitzer in ... in the leper colony of Kalaupapa on the island of Molokai in Hawaii. He ...
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  • Northeast, to the southernmost area, the island of Hai Nan, capturing Wu ... 1966-1971. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0824818113. ...
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  • and Honolulu), the Helen Knudsen Estate in Hawaii and three condominiums in ... provided them safe passage to Hawaii. During his third term, Marcos ...
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  • Enomoto Takeaki fled to the northern island of Ezo (now known as Hokkaidō ... in 1875–1876, starting with the Ganghwa Island incident (江華島事件 ...
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  • Airport, Kowloon and Hong Kong Island. There are also frequent ... for modernization. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 9780824813734 ...
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  • Class Newman was sent to Barbers Point, Hawaii. He was subsequently assigned ... in the St. George section of Staten Island. Anne Marie Calzolari, ...
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  • [[Image:Hawaii Creek.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A rocky stream in Hawaii.]] ... Civilization and Nature (Washington, D.C.: Island Press [for] Shearwater Books ...
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  • serious engine problems traveling from Hawaii to San Francisco. His portrayal ... *Island in the Sky (1953) (also producer) *Hondo (1953) (also producer) ...
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  • Bay on Luzon, the country's largest island. Manila is the hub the Metro ... Kilometer Zero for road distances on the island of Luzon and the rest of ...
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  • and later the rest of the world. However island nations such as the English ... The U.S. was more successful in Hawaii. ===Conflicting national claims ...
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  • though confined to Yunnan and Hainan Island, contain a quarter of all ... of the ROC was forced to retreat to the island of Taiwan. On mainland China ...
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  • offshore and oceanic islands (including Hawaii). The larger species of Corvus ... Pacific island species *Mariana Crow, C. kubaryi *Hawaiian Crow or ...
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  • Xingzhonghui), which was founded in Hawaii by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen in November ... begun moving Nationalist troops to Taiwan Island. In December of 1949, he ...
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  • the Navy in 1945, where he played in a Hawaii-based Navy band. The group ... Coltrane died from liver cancer at Huntington Hospital in Long Island ...
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  • into the wall of the Temple of Isis on the island Philae in Egypt.]] ... Religions: Past and Present. University of Hawaii Press, 1993. ISBN 978-0824815462 ...
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  • currently live at the Sea Life Park in Hawaii, the first having been born ... * Robin's Island. 2007. [http://www.robins-island.org/dolphins_database ...
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  • a massive airborne invasion of the Greek island. Crete was defended by Greek ... a surprise air attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The raid resulted in two ...
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  • the south. The eastern two thirds of the island of Taiwan is dominated by ... Taiwanese indigenous peoples settled the island of Taiwan around 6 ...
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  • * Four states – North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin ... In ten states within the final category above – Arizona, Hawaii ...
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  • Roosevelts were vacationing at Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Roosevelt ... Fleet's base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, but these were ignored by ...
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  • While on a rest and recreation break in Hawaii from serving in the ... States agreed to limit arms sales to the island nation and China agreed to ...
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  • Most of the Eskimo peoples from the Aleutian Island eastward to Greenland ... [[Image:sea kayak hawaii.JPG|thumb|right|A paddler in a sit on top ...
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  • =====Oceanic island distribution===== on remote and recent volcanic islands like Hawaii could have arrived as airborne ...
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  • the contiguous U.S. Some come from Alaska, Hawaii, and other insular regions ... Archaeological sites on Morrison Island near Pembroke, within the ...
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  • Kyoto is located on the middle-western portion of the island of Honshū ... Religion & Culture (University of Hawaii Press, 1998, ISBN 0824820282), 11. ...
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  • in October 1943, and shipped out to Hawaii in January 1944. It was intended ... in Tokyo, Wagner College in Staten Island, New York and New Hampshire ...
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  • by US Air Force monitoring stations in Hawaii, Kwajalein, Ascension Island ... (using the ground antennas at Ascension Island, Diego Garcia, Kwajalein ...
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  • tourism, which is particularly lucrative on Phuket Island. ... * Winichakul, Thongchai. Siam Mapped. University of Hawaii Press, ...
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  • and eastern Canada. Although missing in Hawaii, coyotes have been seen in ... *Tiburon Island coyote, Canis latrans jamesi *Plains coyote, Canis ...
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  • [[Image:Dakota-Interment-Pike Island.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Dakota Concentration ... an exclusionary zone. Interestingly, Hawaii, despite a large Japanese ...
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  • Front, there are a number of isolated Island Ranges that dot the prairie ... with rolling tableland prairies, "island" mountain ranges, and ...
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  • New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico (Our ... As one historian wrote about Marinduque, the first island with concentration ...
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  • stone, such as the ones found on the island of Zapatera in Lake Nicaragua ... Image:CornIsland.JPG|Corn Island off the Atlantic Coast ...
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  • quot;. All states except Rhode Island agreed to send delegates. ... in 1959 until 1963 to 437 when Alaska and Hawaii were admitted to the Union. ...
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  • they found many new islands, including Hawaii, Easter Island (Rapa Nui ... * Bellwood, Peter. The Polynesians – Prehistory of an Island People ...
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  • Xi of Nan An, Fujian was buried at a Philippine island. ... Society (興中會; Hsing-chung hui) in Hawaii to promote the goal of a ...
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  • * Hickam AFB, Hawaii * Stockholm-Arlanda Airport, Sweden ... * Mataveri International Airport, Easter Island, Chile * Halifax International ...
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  • volcanic complex of this size on Earth is the Big Island of Hawaii. However, this is not because Venus is more volcanically active than Earth, but because ...
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  • base at Lae on the conquered part of the island of New Guinea. The military ... "If we allow Vietnam to fall, tomorrow we’ll be fighting in ...
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  • carrying every state except Minnesota, Hawaii, Maryland, West Virginia ... led the administration to invade the small island island, which successfully ...
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  • (50 meters) deep off the shores of the island of O'ahu in Hawaii. ... instead often used to transport supplies to island garrisons. ...
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  • of Ugra (Ugraparipṛcchā) (University of Hawaii Press, 2005, ISBN 0824830032 ... lands in Central Asia, as well as to the island of Sri Lanka. These two missions ...
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  • Mainly found in Southern California, but also in Arizona, Florida ... granite counter-tops, and breakfast bar/island. Penthouse residents ...
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  • established by him was at Tabennae, an island of the Nile in Upper Egypt ... Martial Arts. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0824831103. ...
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  • recuperated on Belle-Île, a small island off the coast of Brittany ... King Edward VII, who stopped by the island on a cruise aboard the royal ...
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  • only if the storm is passing over an island or a coastal area, or if ... 1992 was the most powerful storm to strike Hawaii in recorded history, hitting ...
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  • *Federations of Island, Peninsular and Continental Nations for World ... :*High School of the Pacific, Hawaii, high school program for students ...
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  • 7 (FASRON 7) at NAS San Diego (now known as NAS North Island). On ... to Naval Air Station Barbers Point in Hawaii, where it conducted fighter ...
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  • Jackson and Safechuck (right) in Honolulu, Hawaii (1988)]] ... *Miss Cast Away and the Island Girls (2004) *Michael Jackson's ...
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