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Usage examples of palau.

Early in the eighteenth century, the Jesuits placed missionaries on Palau and Ulithi in the Carolines, where most of them were murdered, thereby causing the plans to be discontinued.

Palau, where its crew spent several months living with the Palauans while building a small vessel, and as a result the East India Company surveyed Palau in.

Cheyne, indeed, a veteran of the Melanesian sandalwood trade, was killed on Palau in 1866 after a decade of failed commercial undertakings.

By the terms of this convention, the Marshalls, Carolines and Palau were defined as a German sphere, and the Gilbert and Ellice groups were to be considered British.

Carolines and Palau, where Germany acceded to Spanish claims of prior rights, but on terms which gave it wide privileges but no responsibilities.

Pacific territories, the Marianas, Carolines and Palau, were bought from Spain by Germany.

Now, while the Lansing was laboring toward Drake Passage, the Exeter was on a research cruise to Palau as part of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment, or WOCE.

On the way back east after Palau, the carrier planes were to demolish enemy air bases on Yap and Woleai.

By the afternoon of the twenty-eighth, an astounded enemy search pilot had reported the dozen carriers headed straight for Palau, and for a frantic day and a half the Japanese rushed preparations to meet them.

Peleliu is the second island from the south end, and between it and the much larger main island of Babelthuap lies the Western Lagoon, full of small, irregular islets and anchored shipping and Palau Harbor on the east side of the lagoon.

Hellcat swarm hit the islands of Palau, there were no enemy fighters on the ground.

Yap and the atolls of Ulithi and Ngulu to be certain that no support of any kind could come from them to the garrison at Palau, They hit Yap first, early on the afternoon of September 6, with thirty-five Hellcats carrying rockets, fragmentation clusters and plenty of .

I can find Corsica on the map, and the Palau Islands, which most people have never heard of, and I know what order all the planets are in.

It was her who planted the bomb that sank Marseilles, and her what strangled the poor Sultana of Palau Pinang.

No one had lifted a finger when Indonesia had forced the Mindanao Partition, then took over New Guinea, Palau, the Solomons, Sabah.