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Definitions: Guadalcanal |
GuadalcanalNoun1. A mountainous island; the largest of the Solomon Islands in the independent state that is a member of the British Commonwealth. 2. A battle in World War II in the Pacific (1942-1943); the island was occupied by the Japanese and later recaptured by American forces. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: GuadalcanalSynonym: battle of Guadalcanal (n). (additional references) |
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A Spanish expedition discovered the island in 1568, but it later became part of the British Empire.
Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor and Singapore, the Japanese forces advanced into the South Pacific, reaching Guadalcanal in May 1942. United States forces chose Guadalcanal for their first major large-scale invasion of a Japanese-held island. Guadalcanal became a major turning-point in the war.
The Battle of Cape Esperance was fought on October 11, 1942 on the northwest coast of Guadalcanal. In the battle, United States Navy ships intercepted and defeated a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island. US forces reinvaded and, after six months of fighting, managed to halt the Japanese advance, driving Japan's troops into the sea on January 15, 1943.
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Guadalcanal is a wargame by Avalon Hill which simulates the Battle of Guadalcanal, during World War II. The game is designed for two or more players and details the battle primarily at the squadron level.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Guadalcanal."
Crosswords: Guadalcanal |
| English words defined with "Guadalcanal": battle of Guadalcanal. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Guadalcanal Diary (1943) | |
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 | Anti-aircraft battery at Guadalcanal commanded by Robert A. Earle Early use of C&GS by Marines. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | The Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship OCEANOGRAPHER at Tulagi Harbor, Guadalcanal during World War II. Hydrographers on the OCEANOGRAPHER named "Iron-Bottom Sound.". Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | At his field desk in the Division command tent on Guadalcanal, circa August-December 1942. Credit: NAVY. |  | Describes his submarine's successful third war patrol, during a press conference at Pearl Harbor, circa mid-February 1943. He is holding a rough chart of what appears to be a small part of the northern New Guinea coast. On the wall at right are charts of western New Guinea and of the Iron Bottom Sound area between Guadalcanal and Tulagi. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Halftone reproduction of a 1942 photograph, published in "Medal of Honor, 1861-1945, The Navy", page 257. Rear Admiral Scott was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for "extraordinary heroism and conspicuous intrepidity" during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 13 November 1942. Credit: NAVY. |  | On board USS Juneau (CL-52) at the time of her commissioning ceremonies at the New York Navy Yard, 14 February 1942. All were lost with the ship following the 13 November 1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. The brothers are (from left to right): Joseph, Francis, Albert, Madison and George Sullivan. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Dead Japanese soldiers strewn over a beach on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, while U.S. Marines get the lay of the land and consolidate their positions. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. A jeep which is unable to proceed along the jungle road which has been made impassable by rain. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Marines in combat. Fire in this fighter plane was quickly extinguished by Marines at the Guadalcanal airport after a Japanese bomb hit the hangar shown in the background. The plane was not seriously damaged. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Supplies arrive in Solomons. Landing barges bring in fresh supplies from freighters at Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons, where U.S. Army and Marine forces are now firmly entrenched. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Civil Liberties | Solomon Islands | Since the violent phase of the conflict on Guadalcanal began in 1998, an estimated 30,000 Malaitans, Guadalcanalese, and Western Province persons living on Guadacanal have been displaced from their homes as a result of armed conflict and intimidation. (references) |
Solomon Islands | The U.N. estimated that in 1999 some 15,000 to 20,000 Malaitans (20 percent of the population of Guadalcanal) were displaced, the majority of whom evacuated to Malaita, while as many as 12,000 Guadalcanalese fled their homes for other parts of that island. (references) | |
Solomon Islands | Displaced persons on Guadalcanal also lack effective police protection, since most local police were evacuated as a result of Guadalcanalese militant raids in 1999. Although a party to the 1951 U.N. Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, the Government has not enacted domestic legislation or procedures for making formal refugee determinations. (references) | |
Economic History | Solomon Islands | Cities: Capital -- Honiara (on the island of Guadalcanal), pop. (references) |
Solomon Islands | In 1998 Ross Mining of Australia began producing gold at Gold Ridge on Guadalcanal. (references) | |
Solomon Islands | The capital city of Honiara, situated on Guadalcanal, the largest island, has over 35,000 inhabitants. (references) | |
Human Rights | Solomon Islands | In May a police patrol boat fired upon a village on South Guadalcanal and killed several persons. (references) |
Solomon Islands | In June there was an unsuccessful attempt to kill the Guadalcanal Provincial Premier, Ezekiel Alebua. (references) | |
Solomon Islands | Militants have blocked the free and safe passage of relief supplies, food, and fuel, as well as access by humanitarian organizations to Guadalcanal. (references) | |
Minorities | Solomon Islands | Over the past century, and particularly since World War II, many persons from the poor, heavily populated island of Malaita have settled on Guadalcanal, the island on which the capital of Honiara is located. (references) |
Political Economy | Solomon Islands | Commercial export activities, which included some plantation production of copra, cocoa, and palm oil, a fish cannery, a gold mine on Guadalcanal, and small resort and diving enterprises, have ceased to operate; only the logging industry continued to operate, albeit at a reduced level. (references) |
Political Rights | Solomon Islands | Throughout 1999 Guadalcanalese militants forced thousands of Malaitans residing on Guadalcanal from their homes. (references) |
Worker Rights | Solomon Islands | Since 1998 ethnic tensions and conflict on Guadalcanal, the most economically developed island in the country, seriously have disrupted economic activity and have resulted in the loss of many formal employment opportunities. (references) |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Their lives ended in places called Belleau Wood, The Argonne, Omaha Beach, Salerno and halfway around the world on Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Pork Chop Hill, the Chosin Reservoir, and in a hundred rice paddies and jungles of a place called Vietnam. |
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| "Guadalcanal" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Guadalcanal" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 85.71% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 14.29% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Guadalcanal": battle of Guadalcanal. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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guadalcanal | 156 |
guadalcanal diary | 31 |
battle of guadalcanal | 31 |
2 guadalcanal | 31 |
campaign guadalcanal naval | 10 |
guadalcanal map | 9 |
uss guadalcanal | 8 |
battle guadalcanal naval | 5 |
2 guadalcanal war world | 4 |
guadalcanal picture | 4 |
campaign guadalcanal | 2 |
guadalcanal photo | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-c-d-g-l-l-n-u" | |
-4 letters: acaudal, lacunal. | |
-5 letters: callan, canula, caudal, glucan, lacuna, laguna, landau, unclad. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01110101 01100001 01100100 01100001 01101100 01100011 01100001 01101110 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G u a d a l c a n a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0075 0061 0064 0061 006C 0063 0061 006E 0061 006C |
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