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Gilberts and which
Although the indigenous Gilbertese language name for the Gilbert Islands proper is Tungaru, the new state chose the name " Kiribati ," the Gilbertese rendition of " Gilberts ," as an equivalent of the former colony to acknowledge the inclusion of islands which were never considered part of the Gilberts chain.
On 20 September 1979, representatives of the United States and Kiribati met on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilberts group of Kiribati, and signed a treaty of friendship between their two nations ( commonly referred to as the Treaty of Tarawa of 1979 ) by which the United States recognized Kiribati's sovereignty over Malden and thirteen other islands in the Line and Phoenix Islands groups.
Gilberts Hill acquired its name from the post Office and grocers shop, once run by Samuel and Phoebe Gilbert which closed in 1975.
Jonh Gilberts memorial at St James church in Sydney is inscribed with the following Latin phrase " Dulce et decorum est pro scientia mori " which is translated as " it is sweet and fitting to die for science.
After Carlson's raid, the Japanese reinforced the Gilberts, which had been left lightly guarded.
The Gilberts lay within 200 miles ( 300 km ) of the Southern Marshalls and were well within range of United States Army Air Forces B-24 aircraft based in the Ellice Islands, which could provide bombing support and long-range reconnaissance for operations in the Gilberts.
After the massacre, seamen who were housed on the island escaped in a small, open launch, towing two lifeboats They sailed to Nonouti, in the Southern Gilberts, where they were met by the Degei, commanded by Captain Jack Webster in which they returned from Nonouti to Fiji.

Gilberts and 27
The sixteen islands of the Gilberts were declared a British protectorate by Captain Davis, RN, of between 27 May and 17 June 1892.

Gilberts and .
After their losses in the Solomons, Gilberts, Marshalls and Marianas, the Imperial Army assembled a research team to develop a new island defense strategy.
In November 1943, Allied forces threw themselves against Japanese positions at Tarawa Atoll in the Gilberts, resulting in some of the bloodiest fighting of the Pacific campaign.
The previous flag ( with the Gilberts ) was also based on the Union Flag but with the coat of arms created by Sir Arthur Grimble in 1932, the resident commissioner of the British colony.
Immediately after the end of the official search, Putnam financed a private search by local authorities of nearby Pacific islands and waters, concentrating on the Gilberts.
Gilberts is a village in Kane County, Illinois, United States.
Gilberts is located at ( 42. 100511 ,-88. 366057 ).
* Gilberts Corners – A hamlet on Route 77.
Although many of the Gilberts fought for America in the Revolutionary War, Abijah Gilbert did not relocate his family until 1790.
The Gilberts purchased more land in later years.
From 20-November 23, 1943, the U. S. forces landed in the Gilberts ( Tarawa and Makin ), and the Enterprise joined in providing close air support to the Marines landing on Makin Island.
When the Gilberts fell to the United States, the Imperial Japanese Army assigned the 1st Amphibious Brigade, a unit formed from the 3rd Independent Garrison unit previously stationed in Manchukuo, to defend the atoll.
They are the main part of Republic of Kiribati (" Kiribati " is the Gilbertese rendition of " Gilberts " ) and include Tarawa, the site of the country's capital and residence of almost half of the population.
The International Hydrographic Organization ( IHO ) considers the Gilberts wholly within the South Pacific Ocean, however.
A group of the southern Gilberts is called the Kingsmill Group, a name that in the 19th century applied to all of the Gilberts.
The Gilberts form a continuous chain of seamounts with the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands to the north.
" The Gilberts & Marshalls " in Life Magazine, May 22, 1944.

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These frequencies are amplified and detected by the FM receiver after each burst of transmitted energy and, after the `` pill '' has been calibrated, precise internal pressure indications can be obtained.
Ludwig von Mises argued in Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth that the pricing systems in socialist economies were necessarily deficient because if a public entity owned all the means of production no rational prices could be obtained for capital goods as they were merely internal transfers of goods and not " objects of exchange ," unlike final goods.
Gnosis itself is and was obtained through understanding at which one can arrive via inner experience or contemplation such as an internal epiphany for example.
Gnosis itself is obtained through understanding at which one can arrive via inner experience or contemplation such as an internal epiphany of intuition and external epiphany such as the Theophany.
In 1958 the renamed Sudanese Republic obtained complete internal autonomy and joined the French Community.
The Japanese are said to have obtained an Enigma machine as early as 1937, although it is debated whether they were given it by their German ally or bought a commercial version which, except for plugboard and internal wirings, was essentially the German Army / Air Force machine.
He obtained 15 billion of debt adjustment that needed to be borne by banks and investors, another 15 billion of capital increase claimed to the State since it was still the majority shareholder, and an additional 15 billion of cash to be found from internal savings.
Broadcast of a false order in a broken naval code would have been against the British Naval Staff's policy as noted by Rear-Admiral Herbert Hope " In a very few months we obtained a very good working knowledge of the organisation, operations, and internal economy of the German Fleet.
He considered that, besides the evangelical arguments in support of freedom from slavery, internal security, particularly from potential French interests, could be obtained in the British West Indian Islands by improving the conditions of slaves.
Although animal test data were still more easily obtained than cadaver data, the fact that animals were not people and the difficulty of employing adequate internal instrumentation limited their usefulness.
His party was the first to move the motion for Nigeria's independence in the federal parliament and he obtained internal self-government for the Western Region in 1957.
: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of legislation to protect ( a ) whistleblowers and ( b ) press freedom following the injunctions obtained in the High Court by ( i ) Barclays and Freshfields solicitors on 19 March 2009 on the publication of internal Barclays reports documenting alleged tax avoidance schemes and ( ii ) Trafigura and Carter-Ruck solicitors on 11 September 2009 on the publication of the Minton report on the alleged dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast, commissioned by Trafigura.
In order to obtain a qualification, all the internal units for that qualification must be passed, and a passing grade must be obtained on the terminal examination.
In the internal PLD vote Danilo Medina obtained 28. 45 % of the votes against President Fernández ' 71. 55 %.
Although equipartition provides a simple derivation of the ideal-gas law and the internal energy, the same results can be obtained by an alternative method using the partition function.
In January he advised a great national assembly that he had obtained an imperial edict from the Sultan ending all direct obligations of Serbian peasants to their former Turkish lords, guaranteeing Ottoman recognition of Serbian autonomy in most matters of internal administration, and offering Serbia the prospect of territorial aggrandizement, as well as the express right to institute schools, courts, and a governmental administration of her own.
Funding was ultimately obtained from sources internal and external to Germany.
* Reports of mock executions carried out by the US Marines on detainees in Iraq surfaced in December 2004, as the American Civil Liberties Union published internal documents of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service ( NCIS ) obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
In the application domains ( oven, burner, engine with internal combustion, fire-fighting ), we use the notion of calorific power, what is basically the enthalpy of the chemical reaction per unit of weight of combustible or the obtained energy given by the combustion of one kilogram of combustible, expressed in kilojoules per kilogram ( kJ / kg or kJ • kg-1 ).
The high yields of final ligation product obtained, even in the presence of internal Cys residues in either / both segments, is the result of the irreversibility, under the reaction conditions used, of the second ( S-to-N acyl shift ) amide-forming step.
It was also alleged the federal police knew of the time and place of the planned attack ; according to internal police documents obtained by Novaya Gazeta, the Moscow MVD knew about the hostage taking four hours in advance, having learned this from a militant captured in Chechnya.
According to internal union documents obtained by the newspaper, Raynor disbursed the money without the required approval from Wilhelm.
Covert censorship of mail between Northern Ireland and the south was effected by warrants obtained by G2, who also obtained warrants from the Minister for Justice for internal mail oversight.

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