As a parent of 3 young kids few maps have resonated as much as the map above showing where people are getting less than 7 hours sleep a night, the amount the Center for Disease Control (CDC) considers enough. The map itself was from 2014, but I’ve managed to find the 2020 data b...
Obvious omissions from the map include Hawaii (location of Pearl Harbor), Midway and many missing ships from the Baltic Sea campaigns. This is presumably due to the fact that these wrecks are not part of either database at the time of the maps creation (2004). To learn more have a look...
Hawaii is the only state to have no SPLC-recognized hate groups. No time to hate when you’re on island time perhaps? Fascinating! California has the highest total number of hate groups out of all the states at 77, with Florida and Texas not too far behind with 58 and 57, respectively...
View footage of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the strike that provoked the U.S. into entering World War IILearn about the Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, by watching historical footage and viewing the USSArizonaNational Memorial there. ...
Pearl Harbor attack, surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese on December 7, 1941, which precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. Learn more about the details and signific
having neutralized American military power in Hawaii through thePearl Harbor attackand in thePhilippinesthrough attacks onManila. Shortly thereafter, the Japanese controlled the peninsula,Singapore, and Borneo. Pro-communist, predominantly Chinese guerrillas waged resistance in Malaya, and a brief Chinese-...
The territory’s capital is the city of Puducherry in the Puducherry sector, just north of Cuddalore. The original name of the territory, Putucceri, is derived from the Tamil words putu (“new”) and ceri (“village”). The French corrupted this to Pondichéry (English: Pondicherry), ...
Eric K. Shinseki(born November 28, 1942,Lihue,Hawaii[U.S.]) is a U.S. Army officer who was the first Asian American to achieve the rank of four-stargeneral. He commandedNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO) peacekeeping forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1997–98), served as army chief of...
of theU.S. Navy Department, and theatollbecame a connecting point for thesubmarine cablebeing laid betweenHawaiiand thePhilippines. It was not until the advent ofair transportationthat the real significance of Midway was appreciated. By 1935 the islands had become a regular stopover point for ...