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Island under Japanese rule, 1895–1945
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formosa
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Formosa is a popular surname in Malta . Formosa is also common in Spain , Portugal , Spanish colonies and other Mediterranean countries. The name derives from the Latin name Formosus and Spanish word "fermoso", meaning "beautiful".
Usage examples of formosa.
Formosa, as much afraid of being seen by a Dutch or English merchant ship as a Dutch or English merchant ship in the Mediterranean is of an Algerine manof-war.
Nepal and Thibet to the east of China and Formosa, and through Assam and Cachar south-eastward to Tenasserim and Siam.
At 0930 two flights of bombers from Formosa struck Baguio and the Tugugarao airfield in northern Luzon.
Lambertia formosa, little casuarinas, wild currants, or Leucopogon richei and bracken fern, were matted with kennedya, well out in crimson and black flowers, and here and there rising through them stood the gorgeous crimson waratah.
April 1 Okinawa, largest of the Ryukyu chain lying between Formosa and the southern tip of Japan, had been invaded and was currently being fought for in the fiercest, costliest and most savagely defended of all the island battles.
Picuda, Redfish and Spadefish, on 8 September, east of Formosa, sank three or four merchant ships out of a single convoy.
Pyramids of Egypt, the marketplace in old Tangiers, maybe an island off the coast of Formosa, or Turtleback Lane in Lovell on a thunderstruck afternoon in the summer of 1977.
He had now been in Formosa about two months and had studied the Chinese language every waking hour, but it was very difficult, and he found his usually ready tongue wofully handicapped.
Or I can go out on lifeguard station off Formosa as ordered, for the air strikes.
It also shone on the Formosa and on Oswald's Club, and the court-house where divorces came off a disassembly line, and on other places where people sought happiness.
Every pass of the reconsats over the Middle East and now the Formosa Strait resulted in copious numbers of download pictures, literally thousands of images which photo-interpretation specialists had to examine one by one in their new building close to Dulles Airport.
He had himself crushed most of Japan's residual air strength in the Formosa operation.
This view did not seem strange to Billy because he had been born here after his family and the other Formosa refugees had settled into these temporary quarters, hastily constructed on the ships that had been rotting, unwanted, at their mooring up the river at Stony Point ever since the Second World War.
The whole story is preserved in the Peking Academy and the historical archives of Taipeh in Formosa.