The three books that make up the trilogy are The Wild Shore, The Gold Coast and Pacific Edge.

Pacific Edge is also realistic insofar as conflicts about diverging interests play a big role.

Pacific Edge was the winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1991.

These books, especially Pacific Edge, can be seen as forerunners to Robinson's Mars trilogy.

Many other Rock and Roll drummers have switched to or began with Ludwig drums during their careers: Brian Bennett of the Shadows, Ian Paice of Deep Purple, Simon Kirke of Bad Company, Nick Mason of Pink Floyd, Ronnie Tutt with Elvis Presley, Aynsley Dunbar of Journey, Jefferson Starship, Peter Criss ( before switching to Pearl ) and his successor, Eric Carr of KISS, Lars Ulrich of Metallica ( before switching to Tama ), Herman Rarebell of Scorpions, Graeme Edge of the Moody Blues, Roger Pope of Hookfoot, Elton John and Hall and Oates, Scott Rockenfield of Queensryche, Carl Palmer of Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Asia, Alan White of Yes, Matt Frenette of Loverboy, Steve Negus of Saga, Rick Allen of Def Leppard, Will Berman of MGMT, Rob Bennett of The Pacific Raiders, Carlton Barret ( Bob Marley and the Wailers ) and Baxter Mawoza of Synthesisare.

In 2009, Boorman undertook a journey titled Right to the Edge: Sydney to Tokyo By Any Means, travelling from Sydney to Tokyo via the Pacific Rim.

* Julia Whitty — The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific ( nonfiction )

Nearly all the former League of Nations mandates had become sovereign states by 1990, including all of the former United Nations Trust Territories with the exception of a few successor entities of the gradually dismembered Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ( formerly Japan's South Pacific Trust Mandate ).

There were roughly 200, 000 Pacific walruses according to the most recent ( 1990 ) census-based estimate.

She became a film star in Europe with a string of successful films, including L ' étudiante ( 1988 ), Pacific Palisades ( 1990 ), and Fanfan ( 1993 ).

In 1990, she starred in Pacific Palisades and La note bleue, her third film directed by her companion.

However, he eventually sired a number of major stakes winners, including 1986 Horse of the Year Lady's Secret, 1988 Preakness and Belmont Stakes winner Risen Star, 1990 Melbourne Cup winner Kingston Rule, which broke the course record in Australia's richest race, and the 1994, 1995 winner of the G1 Pacific Classic, Tinners Way, born in 1990 to Secretariat's last crop.

By 1990 Japan was ranked third, behind the then-Soviet Union and the United States, in total defense expenditures, and the United States urged Japan to assume a larger share of the burden of defense of the western Pacific.

As of the census of 1990 the racial makeup of the county was 87. 43 % White ( non-Hispanic ), 7. 06 % Black or African American, 0. 33 % Native American, 0. 06 % Asian, 0. 10 % Pacific Islander, 4. 62 % from other races, and 1. 01 % from two or more races.

As of the census of 1990, the racial makeup of the county was 92. 32 % White ( non-Hispanic ), 0. 15 % Black or African American, 0. 95 % Native American, 0. 33 % Asian, 0. 01 % Pacific Islander, and 1. 1 % from two or more races.

According the census of 1990 the racial makeup of the county was 64 % non-Hispanic White or European American, 33. 9 % non-Hispanic Black or African American, 0. 26 % Native American, 0. 91 % Asian, 0. 00 % Pacific Islander, 0. 4 % from other races, and 0. 51 % from two or more races.

As of the census of 1990 the racial makeup of the county was 54. 9 % White ( non-Hispanic ) or European American, 43. 71 % Black or African American, 0. 28 % Native American, 0. 35 % Asian, 0. 03 % Pacific Islander, 0. 2 % from other races, and 0. 75 % from two or more races.

Great Southern Paper was acquired by Georgia Pacific in 1990.

Wallowa was known for its lumber mills and logging prior to about 1990, at which time the Union Pacific Railroad ran trains through the county several times a day.

The federal courts upheld the OCC ’ s approval of Security Pacific ’ s securitization activities, with the Supreme Court refusing in 1990 to review a 1989 Second Circuit decision sustaining the OCC ’ s action.

* The UN Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ( originally comprising Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands and Palau ), after Allied military occupations, since 18 July 1947, had a dozen high commissioners, also presiding over the splitting off of Palau and Marshall Islands in 1980 and the 10 May 1979 granting of autonomy to the Federated States of Micronesia ( former Ponape, Truk and Yap districts of the Trust Territory ) until on 3 November 1986 the Trust Territory was dissolved by the U. S. ( a single Director of the Office of Transition, Charles Jordan, stepped in from 3 November 1986 – 30 September 1991, a while after the 22 December 1990 proclamation of final independence as the UN Security Council ratified the termination of US trusteeship ).

2: The Pacific War, 1942-1945 with Mark Jacobsen and John Horsfield ( 1990 )

* 1990 Pacific Cup

In January 1990, Cathay Pacific, Swire Group and CITIC Pacific acquired an 89 percent stake in the airline, with CITIC Pacific holding 38 percent ; while the family of the airline's chairman Kuang-Piu Chao reduced their holding from 22 percent to 6 percent, with the remainder held by minor shareholders.

His later films include Sunday Bloody Sunday ( 1971 ), The Day of the Locust ( 1975 ), Marathon Man ( 1976 ), Yanks ( 1979 ), " An Englishman Abroad ", The Falcon and the Snowman ( 1985 ), Pacific Heights ( 1990 ), the TV play A Question of Attribution ( 1991 ), The Innocent ( 1993 ) and The Next Best Thing ( 2000 ).

* Pacific Heights ( 1990 )

Hedren is the mother of actress Melanie Griffith, with whom she shares credits on several productions, notably Pacific Heights ( 1990 ).

Jacob Bjerknes in 1969 contributed to an understanding of ENSO by suggesting that an anomalously warm spot in the eastern Pacific can weaken the east-west temperature difference, disrupting trade winds that push warm water to the west.

When the circulations intensify, the westerly winds within the equatorial Pacific can further increase and shift eastward, playing a role in El Niño development.

Nevertheless, drought conditions do occur periodically throughout FSM, especially when the El Niño condition moves into the Western Pacific, when groundwater supplies can dwindle to emergency proportions.

The best wood for the purpose is Pacific willow, but others such as alder or buckthorn can be used.

In December there is a very pronounced sunshine gradient between the Sea of Japan and Pacific coasts, the former side can receive less than 30 hours and the Pacific side as much as 180 hours.

With roots that can be traced back to the opium trade, today, Jardines is a Fortune Global 500 company that consists of Jardine Pacific, Jardine Motors Group, Jardine Strategic, Dairy Farm, Hongkong Land, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Jardine Cycle & Carriage and Astra International.

Breeding colonies can be found in the Pacific from the Kuril Islands, around the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk throughout the Bering Sea and the Aleutian Islands to southeast Alaska, and in the Atlantic from the Gulf of St. Lawrence through Greenland and the coast of Ireland down to Portugal, as well as in the high Arctic islands.

Like non-Latinos, a Latino can be of any race or combination of races: White / Caucasian, Black / African American, Asian, Native American, Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific Islander American, or two or more races.

In the Pacific coast the machete has a long history of use and can be seen as part of the everyday dress of the rural male inhabitants, especially in the provinces of Manabi, Los Rios and Guayas.

Walter Kerr's article in the New York Times on the original 1976 production said " But no amount of performing, or of incidental charm, can salvage " Pacific Overtures.

On Earth, elemental sulfur can be found near hot springs and volcanic regions in many parts of the world, especially along the Pacific Ring of Fire ; such volcanic deposits are currently mined in Indonesia, Chile, and Japan.

* 06: 25 UT As Vostok 1 begins its diagonal crossing of the Pacific Ocean from Kamchatka peninsula to the southern tip of South America, Gagarin asks, " What can you tell me about the flight?

Adult males in the Pacific can weigh more than and, among pinnipeds, are exceeded in size only by the two species of elephant seals.

While some outsized Pacific males can weigh as much as, most weigh between.

Only the Secretary of Defense ( or the President ) can authorize the transfer of operational control of forces between the three Military Departments ( Departments of the Army, Navy & Air Force ) and the currently nine Combatant Commands ( Africa Command, Central Command, European Command, Northern Command, Pacific Command, Southern Command, Special Operations Command, Strategic Command, Transportation Command ), and between the Combatant Commands.

Although the Pacific Extension was privately funded, predecessor roads did benefit from the federal land grant act, so it can not be said to have been built without federal aid.

The remnants of tropical cyclones from the East Pacific can very occasionally make their way into the city during September and October.

Thus a better understanding of the possible links between El Niño, Western Pacific Warm Pool, Indonesian Throughflow, wind pattern off western Australia, and ice volume expansion and contraction can be obtained by studying the behaviour of the LC during Quaternary at close stratigraphic intervals.

Colombian music can be divided into four musical zones: the Atlantic coast, the Pacific coast, the Andean region and Los Llanos.

Gold Coast can be reached from Brisbane by Pacific Motorway M1 ( blue ) and Pacific Highway ( Highway 1 ) from Sydney and Newcastle.

Studies of the relative motions of the Pacific and North American plates have shown that only about 75 percent of the motion can be accounted for in the movements of the San Andreas and its various branch faults.

* The desert is located on the leeward side of the Chilean Coast Range, so little moisture from the Pacific Ocean can reach the desert.

In Hawaiian mythology, according to Tregear, the legends about Kaha ’ i are ' extremely fragmentary and vague ', but they indicate that Hema traveled to ' Kahiki ' ( perhaps Tahiti, but more probably to kahiki ' the distance ', as kahiki can be understood to include all of the islands in the Pacific Ocean ) to receive a tribute called palala for the birth of his son Kaha ’ i. There he was captured by the Aiaia ( a bird, messenger of the god Kane ), died, and was buried in Ulu-paupau.