The fact that China ( which is obsessed by Formosa -- to Khrushchev a very small matter ) should be supported by North Korea and North Vietnam is highly indicative.

The Chinese, North Vietnamese and North Koreans, on the other hand, feel that, militarily, Russia is strong enough to support them in the `` just wars of liberation '' they would like to embark on before long: with China attacking Formosa and the North Koreans and North Vietnamese liberating the southern half of their respective countries.

This leader must be a man who lives above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, that the East German government does not exist, that events in Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that either China or Russia wants or expects war.

* 1895 – The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as its president.

Taiwan ( historically called " Formosa " especially prior to 1945, from Portuguese: Ilha Formosa, " Beautiful Island ") is an island and an archipelago in East Asia, composed of Taiwan Island and several much smaller islands such as the Penghu Islands, Orchid Island, Green Island, and Hsiao Liuchiu.

* Fort Santo Domingo is built in Formosa by the Spanish settlers.

This is a photograph of an aboriginal hunting party with their Formosan Mountain Dog in Muzha District | Ba ̍ k-sa, by John Thomson ( photographer ) | John Thomson, 1871: " A Native Hunting Party Baksa Formosa 1871 " 木柵原住民的狩獵祭典.

Presbyterian missionary George Leslie Mackay in From far Formosa ( 1896 ) reported that " if a savage is killed inland, the heart is eaten, flesh taken off in strips, and bones boiled to a jelly and preserved as a specific for malarial fever ".

An interesting feature of the Portuguese coast is Ria Formosa with some sandy islands and a mild and pleasant climate characterized by warm but not very hot summers and generally mild winters.

* Formosa Province, Argentina, which is also the antipodes of northern Taiwan.

* The eastern city of Formosa is the home of Madame Tang and her dragon in the video game Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow based on the Disney films

The Overseas Compatriot Youth Formosa Study Tour to Taiwan, informally known as the Love Boat, is currently a four-week summer program for about 400 – 600 college-aged Overseas Chinese.

The Taiwan Strait or Formosa Strait, formerly known as the Black Ditch, is a wide strait separating the island of Taiwan from the Asian mainland.

It is possible to circumvent S. 5 of the Firearms Act 1968 by making up pepper spray in an innocuous container ( for example a water pistol or washing-up liquid bottle ) as per R. v. Formosa and R. V. Upton, and this may be used for self-defense purposes on private property ( it would constitute an offensive weapon in a public place ).

Koxinga ( Lord of the Imperial Surname ) is the customary Western spelling of the popular appellation of Zheng Chenggong, a Chinese military leader who was born in 1624 in Hirado, Japan to Chinese merchant / pirate Zheng Zhilong and his Japanese wife, and died in 1662 on the Island of Formosa ( Taiwan ).

VIA Technologies Inc. () is a Taiwanese manufacturer of integrated circuits, mainly motherboard chipsets, CPUs, and memory, and is part of the Formosa Plastics Group.

* Formosa becomes the first horse to win four classic races in a single year, although one victory is a dead heat.

Formosa Province () is a province in northeastern Argentina, part of the Gran Chaco Region.

The capital is Formosa.

It coincidentally is the antipode to Taiwan, which was formerly known as " Formosa ".

Formosa is the capital city of the Argentine province of Formosa, on the banks of the Paraguay River, about from Buenos Aires, on National Route 11.

American consul James W. Davidson described in The Island of Formosa ( 1903 ) how the Han Chinese in Taiwan ate and traded in their aboriginal victims ' flesh, a practice also mentioned by Owen Rutter in Through Formosa ( 1923 ), whose account bears some similarities to Davidson's.

Some Dutch missionaries were killed by aboriginals to whom they tried to convert: " The catechist, Daniel Hendrickx, whose name has been often mentioned, accompanied this expedition to the south, as his great knowledge of the Formosa language and his familiar intercourse with the natives, rendered his services very valuable.

The loss of the outpost on Formosa to Koxinga and related internal turmoil in China ( where the Ming dynasty was being replaced with the Qing dynasty ) brought an end to the silk trade after 1666.

Other colonial powers also tried to grow coca ( including the British in India ), but with the exception of the Japanese in Formosa, these were relatively unsuccessful.

When a war warning from Gen. George C. Marshall was received in the Philippines on 28 November ( Philippine time ), the next day FEAF began dispatching two B-17s a day on reconnaissance flights of the sea lanes north of Luzon, but with orders not to overfly Japanese territory on Formosa.

The campaign began in late May 1895 with a Japanese landing at Keelung, on the northern coast of Taiwan, and ended in October 1895 with the Japanese capture of Tainan, the capital of the self-styled ' Republic of Formosa '.

However, Nimitz and MacArthur initially had opposing plans, with Nimitz's plan centered on an invasion of Formosa, since that could also cut the supply lines to Southeast Asia.

By this time he had shifted his supposed homeland from Japan to the even more remote island of Formosa ( present day Taiwan ), and developed more elaborate customs, such as following a foreign calendar, worshipping the Sun and the Moon with complex propitiatory rites of his own invention, and even speaking an invented language.

According to Psalmanazar, Formosa was a prosperous country with a capital city called Xternetsa.

Prior to the escalation of World War II to the Pacific and East Asia, the Japanese planners regarded it as self-evident that the conquests secured in Japan's earlier wars with Russia ( South Sakhalin and the Kwantung Leased Territory ), Germany ( the South Pacific Mandate ) and China ( Manchuria ) would be retained, as well as Korea ( Chōsen ), Taiwan ( Formosa ), the recently seized additional portions of China and occupied French Indochina.

15 of Taiwan's most important political leaders, a group of writers and intellectuals, associated with the Formosa magazine were arrested.

Light frost is possible in Formosa, especially in the outskirts of the city further away from the river ; however, air temperatures seldom fall below 0 ° C, every few years at most, with a record low of-2 ° C ( 28F ).

Frequent conferences have been held with the Foreign Powers, who all aver that the People of Formosa must establish their independence before the Powers will assist them.

An official seal has been cut, and on the second day of fifth moon, at the ssu hour a. m. 25 May, it will be publicly presented with all respect by the notables and people of the whole of Formosa.

The Ch ' ing garrison of Formosa amounted to around 50, 000 soldiers, armed for the most part with modern repeating rifles.

Terry's Japanese Empire: including Korea and Formosa, with Chapters on Manchuria, the Trans-Siberian Railway, and the Chief Ocean Routes to Japan: a Guidebook for Travelers.

After playing a part in organizing the December 10, 1979 pro-democracy rally subsequently known as the Kaohsiung Incident, ( also known as the Formosa Incident or Meilitao Incident ), an arrest warrant was issued charging Shih with treason, and following 26 days on the run he was again arrested and sentenced to life in prison.

On 8 August 1999, China Airlines formally merged its subsidiary, Mandarin Airlines, with Formosa Airlines under the Mandarin name.

* After being alerted of the Japanese attack on Hawaii, the B-17s of the 19th Bombardment Group at Clark Field were ordered into the air on the morning of 8 December while FEAF commander Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton sought approval to attack Japanese airfields on Formosa in accordance with pre-war war plans.

* January 3 – 4 – U. S. Navy Task Force 38 begins its support of the U. S. invasion of Lingayen Gulf with carrier air strikes against Japanese forces and facilities on Formosa, the Pescadores, the Sakishima Gunto, and Okinawa, with the loss of 22 U. S. aircraft.