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Definition: Kwajalein |
KwajaleinNoun1. An atoll in the western Marshall Islands that was used as a Japanese air and naval base during World War II. 2. World War II (January 1944); American forces landed and captured a Japanese air base. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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 | Launch hydrography three-point sextant fix Surveying lagoon at Kwajalein Island Party off of PIONEER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | V. Ralph Sobieralski checking Precision Depth Recorder On PIONEER during Kwajalein Island cable route survey. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | The RONALD H. BROWN meets up with the NOAA Ship KA'IMIMOANA south of Kwajalein Island in the equatorial Pacific during KWAJEX (RB-99-05). After months in tropical waters, the BROWN is in need of a little paint. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Tour Kwajalein Island, Marshalls, on 5 February 1944, following its capture. They are accompanied by a Brigadier General. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Crew members on USS Wileman (DE-22) celebrate upon hearing of Japan's acceptance of surrender terms, circa 15 August 1945. Photographer was from Naval Air Station, Ebeye Island, Kwajalein. Credit: NAVY. |  | Receives the first United States' colors to fly over Japanese territory that had been captured by U.S. forces, at the Navy Department, 29 February 1944. This flag had been raised over Kwajalein on 31 January 1944, during ceremonies on the first day of landings there. Presenting the flag is Captain James H. Doyle, USN. Credit: NAVY. |
 | On board ship off Kwajalein, during the Marshalls operation, 18 February 1944. Credit: NAVY. |  | Part of the Inf. Co. of 7th Div., U.S. Army halts in its advance on Kwajalein Island while a tank blasts a path into Jap[anese] positions / official U.S. Army photograph. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Firing an anti-tank gun (37mm), American troops of the 7th Infantry Division begin blasting some Jap[anese] out of a pillbox on Kwajalein Atoll / official U.S. Army photograph. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Since 1944, when the U.S. captured Kwajalein from the Japanese, it has been used for military purposes, while escaping the tragic fate of nearby Bikini Atoll. Eleven of the 97 islands comprising Kwajalein Atoll are now leased by the United States from the RMI government to accommodate the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, or RTS (RTS is formerly known as Kwajalein Missile Range, KMR). RTS includes radar installations, optics, telemetry, and communications equipment which are used for ballistic missile and missile interceptor testing and space operations support.
Kwajalein Island is the southern-most, and the largest, of the islands in the Kwajalein atoll. The nothern-most, and second largest, island is Roi-Namur. These are the two main islands used by the U.S. U.S. staff and their families are accommodated in trailers or hard housing. The population of Kwajalein island is approximately 2,500. The neighboring island Ebeye has the largest population in the atoll, with approximately 10,000 residents.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Kwajalein."
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Economic History | Marshall Islands | The U.S. Department of Defense controls the use of some islands within Kwajalein atoll. (references) |
Marshall Islands | It is sustained by government expenditures and the U.S. Army installation at Kwajalein Atoll. (references) | |
Marshall Islands | U.S. Marines and Army troops took control from the Japanese in early 1944, following intense fighting on Kwajalein and Enewetak atolls. (references) | |
Political Economy | Marshall Islands | The population of approximately 51,000 is of Micronesian origin and concentrated primarily on the Majuro and Kwajalein Atolls. (references) |
Women | Marshall Islands | In September the Parliament passed a law making prostitution illegal; however, it exists on the Majuro and Kwajalein Atolls. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Kwajalein" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Kwajalein" is used about 2 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) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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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kwajalein | 183 |
bucholz kwajalein mh | 37 |
kwajalein atoll | 32 |
island kwajalein | 20 |
hotel kwajalein | 13 |
hourglass kwajalein | 11 |
island kwajalein marshall | 10 |
kwajalein range services | 9 |
job kwajalein | 8 |
employment kwajalein | 6 |
kwajalein missile range | 4 |
kwajalein picture | 4 |
high kwajalein school | 3 |
kwajalein map | 3 |
department kwajalein police | 2 |
kwajalein school | 2 |
kwajalein weather | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-j-k-l-n-w" | |
-2 letters: jawlike, jawline. | |
-3 letters: alkane, alkine, awaken, kalian, knawel, lawine, welkin, winkle. | |
-4 letters: akela, alane, alien, alike, aline, anile, ankle, awake, elain, inkle, jawan, kanji, lanai, liana, liane, liken, waken. | |
-5 letters: akin, alae, alan, anal, anew, anil, elan, ilea, ilka, jail, jake, jane, jean, jink, kail, kain, kale, kana, kane, kiln, kina, kine, knew, lain. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 77 61 6A 61 6C 65 69 6E |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.- .--. .- .--- .- .-.. . .. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001011 01110111 01100001 01101010 01100001 01101100 01100101 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K w a j a l e i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 0077 0061 006A 0061 006C 0065 0069 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)458967766778717580 |
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