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Definition: Pearl Harbor |
Pearl HarborNoun1. A harbor on Oahu west of Honolulu; location of a United States naval base that was attacked by the Japanese on 7 Dec 1941. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Pearl Harbor |
| English words defined with "Pearl Harbor": Isoroku Yamamoto ♦ Tojo, Tojo Eiki, Tojo Hideki ♦ Yamamoto. (references) |
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Aerial view of Pearl Harbor, Ford Island in center. Arizona memorial is the small white blob just below island, on the right side. |
The harbour was teeming with pearl-producing oysters until the late 1800's. In the early days following the arrival of Captain James Cook, Pearl Harbor was not considered a suitable port due to the shallow water.
The United States of America and the Hawaiian Kingdom signed the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875 as Supplemented by Convention on December 6, 1884 and ratified in 1887. On January 20, 1887, the United States Senate allowed the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base (the US took possession on November 9 that year). As a result, Hawai'i obtained exclusive rights to allow Hawaiian sugar to enter the United States duty free. The Spanish-American War of 1898 and the need for the United States to have a permanent presence in the Pacific both contributed to the decision to annex Hawaii.
After annexation, Pearl Harbor was refitted to allow for more navy ships. Schofield Barracks, constructed in 1909 to house artillery, cavalry and infantry units, became the largest Army post of its day.
In 1917 Ford Island in the middle of Pearl Harbor was purchased for joint Army and Navy use in the development of military aviation. As Japanese presence increased in the Pacific, the US increased the ships' presence there.
With Japanese aggression rising towards the US in 1940, the US began training ops at the base. The attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan on 7 December 1941 brought the United States into World War II.
History of Pearl Harbor before 1941
Originally an extensive, shallow inlet or bay called Wai Momi, meaning "Water of Pearl", or Pu'uloa, by the Hawaiians, Pearl Harbor was regarded as the home of the shark goddess Ka'ahupahau and her brother Kahi'uka. Pearl Harbor after December 8, 1941
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Pearl Harbor is also the title of a 2001 film about the 1941 attack.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pearl Harbor."
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Screenplays | Did we give up when Pearl Harbor was bombed? (The New Guy; writing credit: David Kendall) When was Pearl Harbor, Price, or don't you know that? (Stalag 17; writing credit: Donald Bevan; Edmund Trzcinski) Ever since the dark days before Pearl Harbor, I have been proud to wear this uniform. (MASH; writing credit: Ring Lardner Jr.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Pearl Harbor Payback (1945) Since Pearl Harbor (1943) Remember Pearl Harbor (1942) | |
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 | U.S.S. ARIZONA Memorial at Pearl Harbor.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Picking up pilot and radio operator from recon airplane off Oahu Plane ran out of fuel and landed on water searching for Japanese fleet Picked up by EXPLORER 3 days after Pearl Harbor.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | A view of Pearl Harbor from the air.Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Retired Master Sgt. Disk Fiske, a Pearl Harbor survivor, reads a memorial plaque engraved on the eternal flame in the Headquarters Pacific Air Forces "Courtyard of Heroes" 59 years after the attack. Fiske was a bugler assigned to a marine detach. |
 | Captioned measured drawing of the 1984 and 1986 planimetric views of the top deck. The 1986 plan adds objects on the deck that were not originally recorded during the 1984 project. Delineated by Larry V. Nordby, Jerry L. Livingston, 1984; Larry V. Nordby, 1986. Drawings photographically reproduced and spliced onto the HAER Sheet by Robbyn Jackson, 1991. (Reproduction Number: HAER HI-13, sheet 3 of 4) This 1916 battleship is the final resting place for many of the 1,177 USS Arizona crewmen who died on December 7, 1941--the day of the Japanese air attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. Hit by a 1,760-pound bomb shortly after 8:00 a.m., the ship sank in less than nine minutes, leaving very little time for the crew to escape. By the end of the attack, the Pacific Fleet had lost many ships and more than two thousand personnel. The attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II. The USS Arizona received National Historic Landmark designation in 1989.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Storekeeper 2nd Class Francella Leigh, Yeoman 2nd Class Patricia McRae and Pharmacist's Mate 3rd Class Suzanne Hosmer (listed left to right) in their stateroom on board a transport, while they and other WAVES were en route to their new duty stations at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 8 January 1945.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Ensign George H. Gay at Pearl Harbor Naval Hospital, with a nurse and a copy of the "Honolulu Star-Bulletin" newspaper featuring accounts of the battle. He was the only survivor of the 4 June 1942 Torpedo Squadron Eight (VT-8) TBD torpedo plane attack on the Japanese carrier force. Gay's book "Sole Survivor" indicates that the date of this photograph is probably 7 June 1942, following an operation to repair his injured left hand and a meeting with Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.Credit: NAVY. |  | Three civilians were killed in this shrapnel-riddled car by a bomb dropped from a Jap plane eight miles from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Seamen at Kaneohe Naval Air Station decorate the graves of their fellow sailors killed at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 / Official U.S. Navy photograph.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Recreation building at housing area three for civil service employees at Pearl Harbor navy yard. This building houses a Marine theatre, a library and is adjacent to a large beer garden.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Ronald Reagan | We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country. |
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Economic History | Japan | The Japanese invasion of China in 1937 followed Japan's signing of the "anti-Comintern pact" with Nazi Germany the previous year and was part of a chain of developments culminating in the Japanese attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. (references) |
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John McCain | Well, I think there were several others after Pearl Harbor, but I do believe the Pearl Harbor commission was important. They may have made mistakes. |
Mark Shields | We have to take a break right now. But when we come back, we'll ask the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee about his investigation of what has been called the most massive intelligence failure in U.S. history since Pearl Harbor. |
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| Language | Translations for "Pearl Harbor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | пирл харбор. (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Rhombus laevis, Rhombus vulgaris, turbot lisse, VE barbue. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-h-l-o-p-r-r-r" | |
-3 letters: abhorrer, arboreal, harborer. | |
-4 letters: areolar, ephoral, laborer, parable, peroral, ropable. | |
-5 letters: aboral, arable, areola, arrear, arroba, barhop, barrel, bharal, boreal, earlap, harbor, harper, herbal, parlor, parole, parral, parrel, prober, raphae, roarer. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-h-l-o-p-r-r-r" | |
+3 letters: irreproachable, irreproachably. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 61 72 6C 48 61 72 62 6F 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01100001 01110010 01101100 00100000 01001000 01100001 01110010 01100010 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e a r l   H a r b o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0061 0072 006C 0048 0061 0072 0062 006F 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50716784782426784688184 |
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