* Ada International Airport or Saipan International Airport, Saipan Island, Northern Mariana Islands

By the summer of 1944, victories in the Southwest and Central Pacific had brought the war closer to Japan, with American bombers able to strike at the Japanese main islands from air bases secured during the Mariana Islands campaign ( June — August 1944 ).

* Northern Mariana Islands — became a commonwealth in 1978.

** Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

By 1993, the Federal Emergency Management Agency had made the program available nationwide ; by 2012, CERT programs were offered in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.

* Mariana Islands

It is in the Pacific Ocean, at the southern end of the Mariana Trench near the Mariana Islands group.

Pohnpei ( then including Kusaie ), Truk, Yap, Palau, the Marshall Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands, together constituted the TTPI.

The neighboring trust districts of Palau, the Marshall Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands chose not to participate.

: Largest and southernmost island in the Mariana Islands archipelago ; strategic location in western North Pacific Ocean.

There is a significant movement in favor of the Territory becoming a commonwealth, which would give it a political status similar to Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Competing movements exist, which advocate political independence from the United States, statehood, or a combination with the Northern Mariana Islands as a single territory ( not necessarily commonwealth ).

In 1899, Spain sold its remaining Pacific islands — the Northern Mariana Islands, Caroline Islands and Palau — to Germany and Spanish colonial possessions were reduced to Spanish Morocco, Spanish Sahara and Spanish Guinea, all in Africa.

Examples include the Mariana Islands, the Aleutian Islands and most of Tonga in the Pacific Ocean.

* 1944 – World War II: Battle of Saipan – American forces take Saipan in the Mariana Islands.

* Commonwealth Day ( Northern Mariana Islands )

* Wiles, Gary J .; Worthington, David J .; Beck, Robert E. Jr .; Pratt, H. Douglas ; Aguon, Celestino F. & Pyle, Robert L. ( 2000 ): Noteworthy bird records for Micronesia, with a summary of raptor sightings in the Mariana Islands, 1988-1999.

In 1927 Hubbard's father was sent to the U. S. Naval Station on Guam in the Mariana Islands of the South Pacific.

These exceptions include the Northern Mariana Islands which is a commonwealth in political union with the United States with the status of unincorporated organized territory.

The Northern Mariana Islands does elect its own governor to serve as territorial head of government, but it remains a U. S. territory with its head of state being the President of the United States and federal funds to the Commonwealth administered by the Office of Insular Affairs of the United States Department of the Interior.

A film shot in Lunsar, Sierra Leone, by Mariana van Zeller in 2007 discusses how girls who bleed excessively are regarded as witches.

The islands are part of the island arc that is formed on the over-riding plate, the Mariana Plate, on the western side of the trench.

The movement of these plates is also indirectly responsible for the formation of the Mariana Islands ( which are caused by volcanism as a result of subduction of water trapped in minerals ).

As of February 2012, at least three other teams are planning piloted submarines to reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

Today, most of Micronesia are independent states, except for Guam and Wake Island, which are U. S. territories, and for the Northern Mariana Islands, which are a U. S. commonwealth.

Filipinos are the largest overall ethnic group in the Northern Mariana Islands, making up over 29 % of the population.

The Northern Mariana Islands are a commonwealth in political union with the United States.

North of the equator and west of the International Date Line are the numerous small islands of Micronesia, including the Caroline Islands, the Marshall Islands and the Mariana Islands.

With the exception of the Northern Mariana Islands, which is an American commonwealth, these are all associated states of the United States.

With the exception of the territorial courts ( Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands ), federal district judges are Article III judges appointed for life, and can be removed involuntarily only when they violate the standard of " good behavior.

* Gulches are: Cataño, Del Obispo, Del Inglés, Frontera and Mariana

Due to the presence of the Camp Pendleton U. S. Marine Corps Base in the neighboring city of Oceanside, Vista has one of the largest mainland U. S. communities of Pacific Islanders primarily Micronesian peoples ( i. e. Guam and Northern Mariana Islands ) and Samoan Americans ; and even 2. 5 percent of Vista's population are American Indians mostly originated from the Southwest and Western interior.

* They legally reside in one of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Northern Mariana Islands, or are the child of military parent ( s ) assigned to permanent duty outside of the US, or are a student ( certain restrictions apply ) temporarily abroad.

Two kinds of arcs are generally observed on Earth: island arcs that formed on oceanic lithosphere, such as the Mariana or Tonga island arcs, or continental arc that formed on the continent, such as the Cascade Volcanic Arc.

Just south of Minami-Iō-jima are the Mariana Islands.

* Bird House, where guests and birds are separated by piano wire, features birds as varied as Bald Eagle, Rhinoceros Hornbill, Hyacinth Macaw, Burrowing Owl, Toco Toucan, Cape Thick-Knee, Golden Pheasant, Kookaburra, Mariana Fruit-dove, King Vulture, Horned Guan, Superb Starling, Tawny Frogmouth, and the Guam Kingfisher, which is Extinct in the Wild.

Å and å are also used in the practical orthography of Chamorro, a language indigenous to the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam.

Other important composers of this period are Gabriel Fernandes da Trindade, who composed the only Brazilian chamber music from the 19th century which has survived to the present times, and João de Deus de Castro Lobo, who lived in the cities of Mariana and Ouro Preto, which were decadent at this time.

The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands ( CNMI ) immigration system is antithetical to the principles that are at the core of the US immigration policy.

When ordinary citizens are confronted with tyranny, he wrote, ordinary citizens have to suffer it ( whereas in the Mandate of Heaven and in the theology of the Jesuits Bellarmine and Mariana, they have the right to rebellion and tyrannicide ), but magistrates have the duty to " curb the tyranny of kings ," as had the Tribunes in ancient Rome, the Ephori in Sparta, and the Demarchs in ancient Athens -- and indeed the Censorate of China.

The spatial structure and positioning of the mirror's reflection are such that Philip IV and Mariana appear to be standing on the viewer's side of the pictorial space, facing the Infanta and her entourage.

From his period as Court Painter are the portraits of Philip IV, Prince Baltasar Carlos, the Infante Don Carlos and Queen Mariana of Austria, together with a sizeable collection of portraits of court dwarves such as Pablo de Valladolid.