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.

Later on, when Nemo finally did reach Slumberland, he was constantly being woken up by Flip, a character who originally wore a hat that had ' Wake Up ' written on it.

The territorial claim by the Republic of the Marshall Islands on Wake Atoll leaves a certain amount of ambiguity regarding the actual or hypothetical role of the US military, responsible under agreement for the defense of Marshallese territory, in the event of any strategic crisis or hostilities involving Wake.

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

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

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.

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.

Laptops powered by the Intel Centrino Processor Technology or newer ( with explicit BIOS support ) allow waking up the machine using wireless Wake on Wireless LAN ( WoWLAN ).

The Intel adapter allows " Wake on Directed Packet ", " Wake on Magic Packet ", " Wake on Magic Packet from power off state ", and " Wake on Link ".

Wake Island is a volcanic island that has become an atoll

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

* 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.

* 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.

While the batholith extends into regions north and south of Wake County, the bedrock formation is particularly visible in the form of rocky outcrops within the town limits and the immediate vicinity.

If Ulysses is the story of a day, Finnegans Wake is a night epic, partaking in the logic of dreams and written in an invented language which parodies English, Irish and Latin and is called Joycespeak, deemed virtually unreadable at the time of its release, it became a cult classic with the emergence of the beat generation, particularly William S. Burroughs, in the 1950s and 1960s.

Despite the name, the segment occasionally airs at times that do not end in " 8 " ( such as 9: 27, 9: 57, etc., usually no more than two minutes before the " 8 " s in an hour ), particularly during original long-form programming and weekday morning forecast programs Wake Up with Al and Day Planner.

Running the powercfg / lastwake command in a CMD prompt will list the " Wake Source ".

The only hint to the manner of the first Despair's death is given by Daniel in his conversation with Lyta Hall during The Wake: " The person who was responsible for the death of the first Despair will take the rest of eternity to die.

Variety reported on June 27, 2011 that Osment will star in Wake the Dead, a modern day retelling of the Frankenstein story, with production to begin the last quarter of 2011.

The 11-day mission was the second flight of the Wake Shield Facility ( WSF ), a saucer-shaped satellite that will fly free of the Shuttle for several days.

* December 21 – 22 – Aircraft from the Japanese carriers and strike Wake Island, which will fall to the Japanese on December 23.

The other programs ( Wake Up, Music That Matters, and Mo ’ Glo ) will be produced specifically for Radio New York, but not available to Seattle or online listeners.

Variety have reported that Wake the Dead will be the next to enter production with Jay Russell in the directors chair.

" Harold Bloom called the book " Joyce's masterpiece ", and wrote that " aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon Wake would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante.

While these sketches would eventually be incorporated into Finnegans Wake in one form or another, they did not contain any of the main characters or plot points which would later come to constitute the backbone of the book.

Some Wake critics, such as Finn Fordham, argue that HCE's initials come from the initials of the portly politician Hugh Childers ( 1827 – 96 ), who had been nicknamed " Here Comes Everybody " for his size.

" In 1994, in The Western Canon, Harold Bloom wrote of Finnegans Wake: " aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante ," and in 1998 the Modern Library placed Finnegans Wake seventy-seventh amongst its list of " Top 100 English-language novels of the twentieth century.

Wake Forest has won a total of eight national championships in four different sports ; four of these championships have come in the past six years.

Harvey Mudd College, along with Wake Forest University, long held out as the last four-year colleges or universities in the U. S. to accept only SAT and not ACT test scores in their admissions process.

In the subsequent draft, the Hornets used their first round pick to select point guard Chris Paul out of Wake Forest University.

The Bulls had two 1st round picks in the 2009 NBA Draft and decided to take Wake Forest stand out forward James Johnson and athletic USC forward Taj Gibson.

Geert Lernout asserts that the Wake had, at this early stage, " a real focus that had developed out of the HCE Comes Everybody " sketch: the story of HCE, of his wife and children.

Abigail and Roger, The Airbase, As Good Cooks Go, the 1960 adaptation of The Citadel, the 1956 adaptation of David Copperfield, The Dark Island, The Gnomes of Dulwich, Hurricane, For Richer ... For Poorer, Hereward the Wake, The Naked Lady, Night Train To Surbiton, Outbreak of Murder, Where do I Sit ?, and Witch Hunt have all been wiped with no footage surviving while four out of seven episodes of the paranormal anthology series Dead of Night were wiped.

Graham, who supported school desegregation, was labelled by Smith ( a conservative Democratic lawyer and former president of the American Bar Association ) as a " dupe of communists " and a proponent of the " mingling of the races ", as played out on fliers including the phrase " Wake Up, White People " in the virtually all-white Democratic primaries.

He describes the " troops " at AMC as more like the Wake Island Marines in battle, " with almost no resources, and fighting a vastly superior enemy, they were able to roll out an impressive succession of new products ".

In this capacity he brought out a series of masques and pastoral tragi-comedies — of which were printed The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses ( 1604 ); The Queen's Arcadia, an adaptation of Guarini's Pastor Fido ( 1606 ); Tethys ' Festival or the Queenes Wake, written on the occasion of Prince Henry's becoming a Knight of the Bath ( 1610 ); and Hymen's Triumph, in honour of Lord Roxburghe's marriage ( 1615 ).

With tensions high and war imminent, Halsey was ordered to take his command,, out of Pearl Harbor to ferry aircraft to reinforce Wake Island, which Naval intelligence had thought would be the target of a Japanese surprise attack.

Instead of returning to Pearl Harbor on December 6 as planned, she was still 150 miles out at sea when she received word that the surprise attack anticipated was not at Wake Island, but at Pearl Harbor itself.

Serving as commander, Carrier Division 2 aboard his flagship Enterprise, Halsey led a series of hit-and-run raids against the Japanese, striking the Gilbert and Marshall islands in February, Wake Island in March, and carrying out the Doolittle Raid in April against targets on the Japanese homeland.

Halsey led a series of hit and run raids against the Japanese, striking the Gilbert and Marshall islands in February, Wake Island in March, and carrying out the Doolittle Raid in April against targets on the Japanese homeland.

In 1941, Carroll O ' Connor enrolled at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, but dropped out when the United States entered World War II.

* Jeff Fatt's shtick on The Wiggles is falling asleep at odd times, leading the other Wiggles and the audience to call out the catchphrase " Wake Up Jeff!

* Artificial bladders: Anthony Atala ( Wake Forest University ) has successfully implanted artificially grown bladders into seven out of approximately 20 human test subjects as part of a long-term experiment.

Evatt faced Wake again in the double dissolution election of 1951 and was nearly defeated, seeing her off by only 243 votes ( out of over 41, 600 cast )

The first two years of the event did not sell out the small capacity stadium, drawing only 7, 362 to the 1946 match when the Wake Forest Demon Deacons defeated the South Carolina Gamecocks, 26 – 14.

North Carolina beat # 14 Wake Forest and # 6 Duke to close out the regular season and clinch the top seed in the ACC tournament.

The mission carried the Wake Shield Facility experiment and a SPACEHAB module into orbit, and carried out a live bi-directional audio and downlink link-up with the cosmonauts aboard the Russian space station Mir.

A 2010 game, Alan Wake, features a writer going on vacation, only to find out that the lake he lives near has the power to turn everything he writes into existence.

Dratch's recurring characters included Boston teen Denise ; Sheldon, the junior-high-school boy from Wake up, Wakefield ; the Lovers ( with Will Ferrell, as two pretentious professors ); Abe Scheinwald, a Hollywood producer ; and Debbie Downer, a depressed woman who creeped others out with disturbing non sequiturs.

Just prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, most of the ships on the Yangtze River Patrol were brought out of China, with only the smallest gunboats, Wake ( the renamed Guam ) and Tutuila remaining behind.

The expedition then headed back out into the Pacific, including a visit to Wake Island in 1841, and returned by way of the Philippines, the Sulu Archipelago, Borneo, Singapore, Polynesia and the Cape of Good Hope, reaching New York on June 10, 1842.

On 23 April President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines announced that no more than 2500 Vietnamese evacuees would be allowed in the Philippines at any one time, further increasing the strain on MAC which now had to move evacuees out of Saigon and move some 5000 evacuees from Clark Air Base on to Guam, Wake Island and Yokota Air Base.