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  Chamorro people
  The Chamorro people or Chamoru people are the indigenous people of the Mariana Islands, which include the American territory of Guam and the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Micronesia. Today, significant Chamoru populations also exist in several U.S. states including Hawaii, California, Washington, Texas and Nevada. According to the 2000 Census, approximately 65,000 people of Chamoru ancestry live on Guam and another 19,000 live in the Northern Marianas. Another 93,000 live outside the Marianas ( in Hawaii and West/Pacific coast of USA ). The Chamoru are primarily of Austronesian stock.
  http://wn.com/Chamorro_people
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  Ferdinand Magellan
  Ferdinand Magellan (, ; , ; c. 1480 – April 27, 1521) was a Portuguese explorer. He was born in Sabrosa, in northern Portugal, but later obtained Spanish nationality in order to serve King Charles I of Spain in search of a westward route to the "Spice Islands" (modern Maluku Islands in Indonesia).
  http://wn.com/Ferdinand_Magellan
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  John Byron
  Vice Admiral The Hon. John Byron, RN (8 November 1723 – 10 April 1786) was a Royal Navy officer. He was known as Foul-weather Jack because of his frequent bad luck with weather.
  http://wn.com/John_Byron
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  Mariana of Austria
  Mariana of Austria (22 December 1634 – 16 May 1696) was Queen consort of Spain as the second wife of King Philip IV, who was also her maternal uncle. At the death of her husband in 1665, Mariana became Queen regent, and she remained an influential figure during the reign of her son Charles II, the last Spanish Habsburg.
  http://wn.com/Mariana_of_Austria
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  Philip IV of Spain
  Philip IV (, 8 April 1605 – 17 September 1665) was King of Spain between 1621 and 1665, sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands, and King of Portugal (as Philip III, ) until 1640. Philip is remembered for his patronage of the arts, including such artists as Diego Velázquez, and his rule over Spain during the challenging period of the Thirty Years War (1618–48).
  http://wn.com/Philip_IV_of_Spain
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  Pope Leo XIII
  Pope Leo XIII (2 March 1810 - 20 July 1903), born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci to an Italian comital family, was the 256th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, reigning from 1878 to 1903 in succession to Pope Pius IX. Reigning until the age of 93, he was the oldest pope, and had the third longest pontificate, behind his immediate predecessor Pius IX and John Paul II.
  http://wn.com/Pope_Leo_XIII
• Samuel Wallis
  Samuel Wallis (23 April 1728 – London 21 January 1795) was a Cornish navigator who circumnavigated the world.
  http://wn.com/Samuel_Wallis
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  World War I
  World War I was a military conflict centered on Europe that began in the summer of 1914. The fighting ended in late 1918. This conflict involved all of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (centred around the Triple Entente) and the Central Powers. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilized in one of the largest wars in history. More than 9 million combatants were killed, due largely to great technological advances in firepower without corresponding ones in mobility. It was the second deadliest conflict in history.
  http://wn.com/World_War_I

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  Agat, Guam
  Agat () is a village on the island of Guam, an unincorporated territory of the United States. It is located south of Apra Harbor on the island's western shore.
  http://wn.com/Agat_Guam
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  Aguijan
  Aguijan is a small bean-shaped coralline island in the Northern Mariana Islands chain situated 8 km southwest of Tinian, from which it is separated by the Tinian Channel. It is only 7.09 km² (2.738 sq mi) in size and is nicknamed Goat Island due to the large number of feral goats present there. Much of the native vegetation on Aguijan has been destroyed by goats.
  http://wn.com/Aguijan
• Alamagan
  The Northern Marianas island of Alamagan is located north from Saipan and is 11.12 km² (4.295 sq mi) in area. The island's volcano (Bandeera Peak) has a large caldera at the summit. The volcano last erupted around 870 AD, with an error bar of 100 years. It involved pyroclastic flows, and had a VEI of 4. Any claims of historical eruptions are inaccurate, though uncertain eruptions have occurred as late as 1887.
  http://wn.com/Alamagan
• Carolines
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  Enola Gay
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  Germany
  Germany (), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (, ), is a country in Western Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The territory of Germany covers 357.021 km2 and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state of the European Union, and home to the third-largest number of international migrants worldwide.
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  Guam
  Guam (; Chamorro: ) is an island in the western Pacific Ocean and is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States. It is one of five U.S. territories with an established civilian government. The island's capital is Hagåtña (formerly Agana). Guam is the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands.
  http://wn.com/Guam
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  Hiroshima
  () is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshū, the largest island of Japan. It became the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States of America dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M. on August 6, 1945, near the end of World War II.
  http://wn.com/Hiroshima
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  Japan
  Japan (日本 Nihon or Nippon), officially the State of Japan ( or Nihon-koku), is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters that make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin" (because it lies to the east of nearby countries), which is why Japan is sometimes referred to as the "Land of the Rising Sun".
  http://wn.com/Japan
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  Mariana Trench
  The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the world's oceans, and the lowest elevation of the surface of the Earth's crust. It is located in the western Pacific Ocean, to the east of the Mariana Islands. The trench is about long but has a mean width of only . It reaches a maximum-known depth of about at the Vityaz-1 Deep and about at the Challenger Deep, a small slot-shaped valley in its floor, at its southern end. If Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth at , were set in the deepest part of the Mariana Trench, there would be of water left above it.
  http://wn.com/Mariana_Trench
• Merizo
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  Pacific Ocean
  The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.
  http://wn.com/Pacific_Ocean
• Pelew Islands
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  Philippine Sea
  The Philippine Sea is a marginal sea east and north of the Philippines occupying an estimated surface area of 2 Million mi² (5 Million km²) on the western part of the North Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by the Philippine archipelago (Luzon, Samar, Leyte and Mindanao) on the southwest; Palau, Yap, and Ulithi (of the Carolines) on the southeast; the Marianas, including Guam, Saipan, and Tinian, on the east; the Bonin and Iwo Jima on the northeast; the Japanese islands of Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyūshū on the north; the Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa, Miyako, and Yaeyama) on the northwest; and Taiwan in the extreme west.
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  Rota (island)
  Rota (Chamorro: Luta) also known as the "peaceful island", is the southernmost island of the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and the second southernmost of the Marianas Archipelago. It lies approximately 40 miles north-northeast of the United States territory of Guam. Songsong village is the largest and most populated followed by Sinapalo village (Sinapalu). In 1521, the first European to see Rota, was the lookout on Magellan's ship Victoria, Lope Navarro. However, Magellan's Armada of three ships didn't stop until they reached Guam, so the first European to arrive in Rota (in 1524), was Spanish navigator Juan Sebastian Elcano, who annexed it together with the rest of the Marianas Archipelago on behalf of the Crown of Spain. Rota has diverse flora and fauna. The current mayor is Melchor A. Mendiola, a local businessman.
  http://wn.com/Rota_(island)
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  Saipan
  Saipan () is the largest island of the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), a chain of 15 tropical islands belonging to the Marianas archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean (15°10’51”N, 145°45’21”E) with a total area of . The 2000 census population was 62,392.
  http://wn.com/Saipan
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  Spain
  Spain ( ; , ), officially the Kingdom of Spain (), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar; to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the northwest and west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal.
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  Tinian
  Tinian (, ) is one of the three principal islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands. It is perhaps best known for being the base from which the United States launched their atomic bomb attacks on Japan during World War II.
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  Umatac, Guam
  Umatac () is a village on the south-western coast of the island of Guam. The village's name is believed to be derived from the Chamorro word "umatalaf" meaning to catch guatifi, a type of fish.
  http://wn.com/Umatac_Guam

• 13th parallel north
• 144th meridian east
• 145th meridian east
• 146th meridian east
• 21st parallel north
• Agat, Guam
• Agrihan
• Aguijan
• Alamagan
• Anatahan
• archipelago
• Bockscar
• Capuchin Fathers
• Carolines
• Cebu
• Central Powers
• Chamorro people
• Chamorros
• cinerary urn
• Crozet Islands
• cryptogams
• Enola Gay
• Farallon de Pajaros
• Ferdinand Magellan
• geology
• German gold mark
• Germany
• Guam
• Hiroshima
• infectious disease
• Japan
• John Byron
• Lateen sail
• latte stone
• League of Nations
• leprosarium
• mandate territory
• Manila Galleon
• Mariana of Austria
• Mariana plate
• Mariana Trench
• Merizo
• mestizo
• Micronesia
• mountain range
• Nagasaki, Nagasaki
• New Guinea
• Pacific Ocean
• Pacific Plate
• Pagan Island
• Paul von Kirchhausen
• Pelew Islands
• Philip IV of Spain
• Philippine Sea
• Pope Leo XIII
• Prefect Apostolic
• Prefecture Apostolic
• Rota (island)
• Saint Lazarus
• Saipan
• Samuel Wallis
• serpentinite
• Spain
• Spanish-American War
• subduction
• Tinian
• trade wind
• Triple Entente
• Umatac, Guam
• Uracas
• Westphalia
• World War I
• World War II

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