Western Honolulu is an area of Honolulu, made up of the neighborhoods between Downtown Honolulu and Pearl Harbor.Aiea Photo: Avriette, CC BY-SA 3.0. ʻAiea is a census-designated place located in the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.Pearl...
If you're interested in learing more about Oahu's agricultural history (think: pineapples and sugarcane), then visiting Central Oahu's Dole Plantation and Hawaii Plantation Village may be worth considering. However, the region's Pearl Harbor attractions – which are just north of the airport and...
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...
Alaska lies in the north-west of Canada which is separated by Bering Strait from Russian Federation and second one is Hawaii – it is a group of islands located in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The capital city of the US is Washington DC, however, the largest city is New York. Other highly ...
A PBY-5 Catalina taxiing across Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, in Feb 1942. Photo taken from the carrier USS Enterprise. Famous WW2 Quote "Since peace is now beyond hope, we can but fight to the end." Chiang Kaishek, 31 Jul 1937 ...
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. ...
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-...
Shortly after itsattack on Pearl Harborin December 1941, Japan gained control over much ofSoutheast Asiaand the central Pacific. The Japanese sphere of control extended west to Burma (Myanmar), south to theDutch East Indies(nowMalaysia) andNew Guinea, and east toWake Island. However, the Unite...
be used, however, by commercial aircraft for emergency landings. In 1975 Vietnamese refugees were housed on Wake Island before transport was arranged to the United States. A similar operation in 1995 ended with the repatriation of stranded Chinese refugees who had been en route toHawaiiby boat....