Pacific island Magellan visited in 1521

Usage examples of cebu.

From another pocket of the case he pulled out a one-way ticket on Philippines Airline Flight 434 from Manila to Cebu City in the southern Philippines.

Flight 434 was a two-leg hop, from Manila to Cebu City and then on to Narita Airport in Japan.

Edwardo Reyes came over the PA to announce that the three-hundred-mile flight to Cebu would take just over forty minutes.

But back in Cebu, as Yousef rushed across the airport terminal to make the next flight out, Haruki Ikegami, a soft-spoken twenty-four-year-old Japanese engineer, had just made it through the metal detector.

Trial records and documents from the Philippine National Police show that Nichols was in Cebu City at the same time as Yousef in December 1994 - staying in a section of the Visayas island group that was a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism.

In 1989, after divorcing his first wife, a Las Vegas real estate broker named Lana Padilla, he married Marife Torres, a nineteen-year-old Filapina from Cebu City.

From 1990 to 1994 he made at least four trips to the Philippines and lived with Marife for a time in Cebu City, not far from where the Abu Sayyaf terror group was active.

Nichols stayed in Cebu City from late November until January 16, 1995 - the same period when Yousef was in Manila planning the plot against the pope, the Bojinka airline bombings, and the suicide hijackings.

Meanwhile, after Nichols left Manila, a phone card used by him and McVeigh in the name of Darryl Bridges showed a total of seventy-eight calls to a guest house in Cebu where Marife had been staying.

Jones was convinced that Nichols had gone to Cebu on that last trip to study bomb making from the master himself: Ramzi Yousef.

Terry goes to Cebu, and when he comes back he helps build a device with the same kind of design and explosive power as the Trade Center bomb.

Makiem have effectively allied and coordinated with the Cebu and the Agitar.

For one thing, he found out that Agitar was allied with Makiem, a hex whose dominant race were giant frogs, and Cebu, a race of flying reptiles of some sort.

Makiem on the ground, and to the great, red-eyed flying triangles that were the Cebu, it was an awesome sight, even taking into account their different concepts of what was grand.

Their only hope was to get inside the Cebu defensive screen and strike the great pegasi down by bullet or stinger, even though the latter method would mean their own deaths as well.