Before departing for Samoa, Mead had a short affair with the linguist Edward Sapir, a close friend of Ruth Benedict.

Before returning to WWE, he became the ROH World Champion when he wrestled in an elimination four-way match against then champion CM Punk, Samoa Joe, and Christopher Daniels on August 12, 2005 in Dayton, Ohio.

Before the arrival of European explorers in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the Tongans were in frequent contact with their nearest Oceanic neighbors, Fiji and Samoa.

Division six will be headed by the Coast Guard, followed by the reserve forces of all services, five states, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the trust territories and the Canal Zone.

American Samoa is an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the United States, administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, US Department of the Interior.

The Secretary promulgated the Constitution of American Samoa which was approved by a Constitutional Convention of the people of American Samoa and a majority of the voters of American Samoa voting at the 1966 election, and came into effect in 1967.

The islands of Manihiki and Rakahanga trace their origins to the arrival of Toa ( an outcast from Rarotonga ) and Tupaeru ( a woman of high-ranking in the Puaikura tribe of Rarotonga ) The remainder of the northern islands were probably settled by expeditions from Samoa and Tonga.

The genetic evidence was interpreted as showing the Southeast Asian Nicobar Pigeon to be their closest living relative, followed by the Crowned Pigeons of New Guinea and the superficially Dodo-like Tooth-billed Pigeon from Samoa.

The books The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia, by Bronisław Malinowski, Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict, and Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead ( two of Boas's students ) are classic examples of anti-ethnocentric anthropology.

Similarly, the northern islands were probably settled by expeditions from Samoa and Tonga.

The lagoon was used in 1937 and 1938 as a halfway station between Hawai ' i and American Samoa by Pan American Airways flying boats ( Sikorsky S-42B ).

Arms races are not necessarily induced by man ; a well-documented example involves the spread of a gene in the butterfly Hypolimnas bolina suppressing male-killing activity by Wolbachia bacteria parasites on the island of Samoa, where the spread of the gene is known to have occurred over a period of just five years

Niue was settled by Polynesians from Samoa around 900 AD.

* 1918 – The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7, 542 ( about 20 % of the population ) by the end of the year.

The entire island group, inclusive of American Samoa, was called “ Navigators Islands ” by European explorers before the 20th century because of the Samoans ' seafaring skills.

The oldest date so far from pre-historic remains in Samoa has been calculated by New Zealand scientists to a likely true age of circa 3, 000 years ago from a Lapita site at Mulifanua during the 1970s.

Mission work in Samoa had begun in late 1830 by John Williams, of the London Missionary Society arriving in Sapapali ' i from The Cook Islands and Tahiti.

By that time, the Samoans had gained a reputation of being savage and warlike, as violent altercations had occurred between natives and French, British, German and American forces, who, by the late nineteenth century, valued Samoa as a refueling station for coal-fired shipping and whaling.

The Tripartite Convention of 1899 partitioned the Samoan Islands into two parts: the eastern island group became a territory of the United States ( the Tutuila Islands in 1900 and officially Manu ' a in 1904 ) and is today known as American Samoa ; the western islands, by far the greater landmass, became known as German Samoa after Britain vacated all claims to Samoa and accepted termination of German rights in Tonga and certain areas in the Solomon Islands and West Africa.

This firstly recognized the authority and identity of principal districts of Samoa through their spokesmen – Tumua ma Pule, Itu ’ au ma Alataua, Aiga-i-le-Tai, and the Va ' a-o-Fonoti – and the highest titles which were bestowed by these groups.

* January 15 – George Landenberger, United States Navy Captain and the 23rd Governor of American Samoa ( b. 1879 )

* May 12 – George Landenberger, United States Navy Captain and the 23rd Governor of American Samoa ( d. 1936 )

Principal U. S. Officials include Ambassador William P. McCormick ( accredited to both New Zealand and Samoa ; resident in Wellington ) and Chargé d ' Affaires George W. Colvin Jr.

* Schnee, Dr. Heinrich ( Deputy Governor of German Samoa and last Governor of German East Africa ), German Colonization, Past and Future – The Truth about the German Colonies, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1926.

* George Landenberger, 23rd Governor of American Samoa

* George Brown ( missionary ) ( 1835 – 1917 ), English missionary to Fiji, Samoa

Alumni of BYU-H include Medal of Honor recipient George E. Wahlen, delegate to Congress from American Samoa Eni Fa ' aua ' a Hunkin Faleomavaega, Jr. ' 64, and three-time national volleyball coach of the year Mike Wilton ' 72.

In 1927, alarmed at the growing strength of the Mau, George Richardson, the administrator of Samoa, changed the law to allow the deportation of Europeans or part-Europeans charged with fomenting unrest.

# Missionary Life in Samoa, being the Life of George Archibald Lundie ( her son ).

Samoa went into half time with a 28 – 8 lead despite a George Ndaira try for Lebanon on the 18th minute and an Adnan Saleh try very near to half-time.

1839-1879 Reverend George Pratt served as a missionary in Samoa for many years, at the station at Matautu on Savai ' i island.

In American Samoa, Governor Aitofele Sunia declared a state of emergency after the cyclone, and later President George W. Bush declared the U. S. territory a disaster area.

* George Stowers-New Zealand Secondary Schools, NZ U21's, Counties, Chiefs, Ospreys, Pacific Islanders, Manu Samoa

* November 23 – Charles Armijo Woodruff, 11th Governor of American Samoa ( b. 1884 )

* American Samoa ( IOC country code ), an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa ( formerly known as Western Samoa )

In Samoa the constellation is called Sumu (" triggerfish ") because of its rhomboid shape, while α and β Centauri are called Luatagata ( Two Men ), just as they are in Tonga.

* former German Samoa ( New Zealand / United Kingdom ) 17 December 1920 a League of Nations mandate, renamed Western Samoa ( as opposed to American Samoa ), from 25 January 1947 a United Nations trust territory until its 1 January 1962 independence

Palmyra is one of the Northern Line Islands ( southeast of Kingman Reef and north of Kiribati Line Islands ), located almost due south of the Hawaiian Islands, roughly halfway between Hawaii and American Samoa.

Samoa (; Samoan: Sāmoa, ), officially the Independent State of Samoa ( Samoan: Malo Sa ' oloto Tuto ' atasi o Sāmoa ), formerly known as Western Samoa, is a country encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean.

The new Fa ’ alupega of German Samoa, which in its first line recognises the Kaiser ( Kaisa ), apparently required Malietoa Tanunafili and Tupua Tamasese to be sworn on oath to become advisors to the governing council:

The Tripartite Convention gave control of the islands west of 171 degrees west longitude to Germany, ( later known as Western Samoa ), containing Upolu and Savaii ( the current Samoa ) and other adjoining islands.

In the late 1960s, Potlatch Forests, Inc. ( a US company ), upgraded the harbour and airport at Asau on the northern coast of Savai ' i and established a timber operation, Samoa Forest Products, for harvesting tropical hardwoods.

* Treaty of Berlin ( 1889 ), which recognized the independence of Samoa

* Treaty of Berlin ( 1899 ), which resulted in the partition of Samoa between Germany and the United States

FIPS PUB 5-1 ( published on June 15, 1970 and superseded by FIPS PUB 5-2 on May 28, 1987 ) stated that certain numeric codes " are reserved for possible future use in identifying American Samoa ( 03 ), Canal Zone ( 07 ), Guam ( 14 ), Puerto Rico ( 43 ), and Virgin Islands ( 52 )", but these codes were omitted from FIPS PUB 5-2 without comment.