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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- The capital of Kiribati, an island group of the western Pacific Ocean, formerly known as the Gilbert Islands. It was occupied by the Japanese in 1942 and retaken by U.S. Marines after a hard-fought battle in November 1943.
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- proper n. An atoll in the central Pacific Ocean belonging to the state of Kiribati.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. national capital of Kiribati
- n. battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943); United States Marines took the islands from the Japanese after bitter fighting
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In November he will be holding a meeting in Tarawa for the major CO2 polluter nations of the developed world to meet with the first victim states of the greenhouse century including his own, the Marshall Islands and the Maldives.
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More severe storms and typhoons bring about higher storm surges and floods in low-lying island such as Tarawa and Tuvalu near New Zealand.
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It was meant for the smith’s son, who was then an officer on an island called Tarawa.
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During the war, more than 400,000 American military personnel were stationed in New Zealand to prepare for crucial battles such as Tarawa and Guadalcanal.
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But then Cooper came along, and with no agent, no manager and about $160,000, Barber put together "Tarawa" and sold it to Military Channel parent Discovery Communications.
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And an additional distribution deal with SnagFilms. com and Hulu should bring "Tarawa" to an even wider audience around Memorial Day.
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•Military Channel has a star narrator tonight also: Ed Harris, who leads us through Return to Tarawa (10 ET/PT).
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The Central Pacific thrust began with landings on Tarawa and Makin in the Gilbert Islands in November 1943.
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Tarawa atoll could potentially be the largest identification of war-dead in
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Associated Press Two Marines participated in bitter fighting on the remote Pacific island of Tarawa in December 1943.
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