One of the early successes of hydroponics occurred on Wake Island, a rocky atoll in the Pacific Ocean used as a refuelling stop for Pan American Airlines.

Hydroponics was a necessity on Wake Island because there was no soil, and it was prohibitively expensive to airlift in fresh vegetables.

Wake Island is a volcanic island that has become an atoll

* 1899 – The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.

The islands share maritime boundaries with the Federated States of Micronesia to the west, Wake Island to the north, Kiribati to the south-east, and Nauru to the south.

The islands are located north of Nauru and Kiribati, east of the Federated States of Micronesia, and south of the U. S. territory of Wake Island, to which it lays claim.

The Marshall Islands also lays claim to Wake Island.

Wake Island, an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States governed by the Office of Insular Affairs, is claimed as a territory of the Marshall Islands.

The United States and the Marshall Islands governments both claim Wake Island, which puts the United States ' armed forces in the ambiguous position of defending US territory while acting as guarantor ( under the Compact of Free Association ) of the territorial integrity of a state with which it is involved in a territorial dispute.

* the United States, which took control of Guam following the Spanish-American War of 1898, and colonized Wake Island ;

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.

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* 1945 – Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U. S. Marines.

Wake Island (; also known as Wake Atoll ) is a coral atoll having a coastline of in the North Pacific Ocean, located about two-thirds of the way between Honolulu, to the east and Guam, to the west.

The largest island, Wake Island, is the center of activity on the atoll and is the location of Wake Island Airfield, which has a runway.

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* September 4 – WWII: Japanese forces surrender on Wake Island after hearing word of their country's surrender.

* December 23 – WWII: A second Japanese landing attempt on Wake Island is successful, and the American garrison surrenders after a full night and morning of fighting.

* January 17 – The United States takes possession of Wake Island.

Aerial overview of the Wake Island atoll, part of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument.

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The name was coined by Gell-Mann and is a reference to the novel Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce (" Three quarks for Muster Mark!

The origin of the legend is claimed by some to have stemmed from actual outlaws, or from tales of outlaws, such as Hereward the Wake, Eustace the Monk, Fulk FitzWarin and William Wallace.

This novel was later an important influence on Joyce's Finnegans Wake and is set in Chapelizod, where Le Fanu lived in his youth.

Wake is reserved for a group of vultures that are feeding.

For statistical purposes, Wake is grouped as one of the United States Minor Outlying Islands.

In case the computer being woken is communicating via Wi-Fi, a supplementary standard called Wake on Wireless LAN ( WoWLAN ) must be employed.

The term " Wake on LAN " is a trademark of IBM Corporation.

While WoL hardware / firmware is arguably performing the role of a " server ", web based interfaces which act as a gateway through which users can issue WoL packets without downloading a local client often become known as " The Wake On LAN Server " to users.

On Mac OS X Snow Leopard, the service is called Wake On Demand or Bonjour Sleep Proxy and is synonymous with the Sleep Proxy Service.

Wake on Directed Packet is particularly useful as the machine will automatically come out of standby or hibernation when it is referenced, without the user or application needing to explicitly send a magic packet.

* March 20 – A new capital of North Carolina and county seat of the newly formed Wake County is established after North Carolina State Senator and surveyor William Christmas submits his design for the city.

Bloomsbury ( later known as Wake Courthouse ) is made the informal county seat.

The title of the novel is paraphrased in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake at 203. 21 as " Nanon L ' Escaut ", which also refers to the 17th-century French courtesan Ninon de l ' Enclos and to the Escaut River.

When Major General Clarence L. Tinker of Pawhuska, Oklahoma became the first American general killed in World War II ( June 7, 1942 ) near Wake Island, the airfield was renamed in his honor.

The campaigns of August 1942 to early 1944 had driven Japanese forces from many of their island bases in the south and central Pacific Ocean, while isolating many of their other bases ( most notably in the Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Admiralty Islands, New Guinea, Marshall Islands, and Wake Island ), and in June 1944, a series of American amphibious landings supported by the US 5th Fleet's Fast Carrier Task Force captured most of the Mariana Islands ( bypassing Rota ).

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A successful radio actor and stage performer whose credits included the hit Broadway show Lady in the Dark and the 1942 film Wake Island.

In 1942, Donlevy starred in Wake Island and The Glass Key.

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He received Oscar nominations for his scripts for Wake Island ( 1942 ) and The Great Escape.

On 7 June 1942, he led a flight of B-24 Liberators on a long-range strike against Japanese forces on Wake Island during World War II.

The Strange Case of Mr. Wilder's New Play and Finnegan's Wake " in the issue for December 19, 1942, with a second part in the February 13, 1943 issue.

Among her other films are The Sisters ( 1938 ), Now, Voyager ( 1942 ), Mrs. Parkington ( 1944 ), Gambler's Choice ( 1944 ), Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), Wake Up and Dream ( 1946 ), Caged ( 1950 ), There's No Business Like Show Business ( 1954 ), Vertigo ( 1958 ), Auntie Mame ( 1958 ), Pillow Talk ( 1959 ), Summer and Smoke ( 1961 ), and 7 Faces of Dr. Lao ( 1964 ).

Fitch's flagship, Saratoga, figured prominently in the abortive attempt to reinforce Wake Island in December 1941 and was later torpedoed off Oahu in late January 1942, seriously cutting American carrier strength in the Pacific at a critical period.

With his sinister portrayal of the psychopathic detective in I Wake Up Screaming ( 1941 ), he followed that up with the successful screwball comedy Rings on Her Fingers ( 1942 ) playing a con artist opposite Gene Tierney.

In 1957, he won the Academy Award for Best Writing / Best Screenplay for Around the World in Eighty Days and in 1942 he was nominated as Best Director for Wake Island.

Farrow resumed his directing career with Paramount for whom he made Wake Island ( 1942 ), which earned him an Oscar nomination.

* Oscar nomination and New York Film Critics Circle Award for directing Wake Island ( 1942 ).

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Slowly rebuilding as personnel and aircraft became available, the squadron, now under the command of Major Luther S. Moore was deployed in May 1942 to Palmyra Atoll in the South Pacific and adopted the name " Avengers " in memory of those squadron members who were killed or captured on Wake Island.