Fagaceae
Fagaceae An important family of evergreen or deciduous trees in which the leaves are
simple, with
stipules. The flowers are unisexual, often borne in catkins, and are apetalous, with an inferior
ovary. The fruit is a
nut within a
cupule, the fruits held in clusters of 1–4. Many of these trees yield valuable timber. There are 7 genera, including
Castanea (sweet chestnut),
Castanopsis,
Fagus (beech),
Lithocarpus,
Nothofagus (southern beech),
Quercus (oak), and
Trigonobalanus, with about 1050 species, concentrated in the northern hemisphere and absent from Africa.
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Kwajalein landowners reject US Compact terms.
News Wire article from: PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association; 4/12/2004; 700+ words
; ...Christopher Loeak led a large group of Kwajalein landowners to deliver a statement to...that restates their opposition to the Kwajalein agreement in the Compact of Free Association...governments. Since the early 1960s, Kwajalein has been the testing zone for all U...
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Bechtel-Lockheed Martin Team Awarded Kwajalein Atoll/Reagan Test Site Operations and Management Contract.
PR Newswire; 9/25/2002; 700+ words
; ...a Bechtel-Lockheed Martin company, Kwajalein Range Services, LLC, a contract for...Range Engineering Support Services at Kwajalein Atoll/Reagan Test Site. Located in...of Marshall Islands, the U. S. Army Kwajalein Atoll/Reagan Test Site is designed...
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The battle for Kwajalein
Magazine article from: Soldiers; 11/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; LANDING at Kwajalein Atoll's Bucholz Army Airfield today...the comforts of small-town America. Kwajalein was a World War I Japanese base with...staff of the island's newspaper, The Kwajalein Hour-lass. has been here collecting...
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Time to re-up at Kwajalein.
Magazine article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...baseball diamonds, the big island of Kwajalein looks like a Florida subdivision with...our 727 and a stewardess welcomes us to Kwajalein, announces the local time, and reminds...intercontinental ballistic missiles, Kwajalein Atoll is where it's at. A boomerang...
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VEHICLE REPAIR SHOP OPENS ON KWAJALEIN
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 4/2/2007; 700+ words
; ...officially open the U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll's (USAKA) newly constructed...Paint and Prep (VPP) Shop on Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall...Since the military began using Kwajalein in 1944, corrosive damage to vehicles...
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Uncertainties in Oceanic Radar Rain Maps at Kwajalein and Implications for Satellite Validation
Magazine article from: Journal of Applied Meteorology; 8/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ABSTRACT The Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, Tropical Rainfall...based on disdrometer data collected at Kwajalein, and a gap-filling estimate. The...oceanic ground validation site at the Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands of the...
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Kwajalein makes another US missile programme catch.
News Wire article from: PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association; 8/7/2003; 547 words
; 07 AUGUST 2003 MAJURO (Pacnews) - Kwajalein Missile Range in western Marshall Islands...from Vandenburg Air Force Base to the Kwajalein Range in about 30 minutes, according...world's largest catcher's mitt" the Kwajalein lagoon is the target and splashdown point...
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SMDC Keeps Work Going at Kwajalein Range Despite Protest.(Space and Missile Defense Command )
Newspaper article from: Defense Daily; 10/30/2002; 700+ words
; ...order that would have halted work at Kwajalein Atoll until the General Accounting Office...Friday that the override approval for Kwajalein Range Services' suspension of work was...yesterday. "Override approval means Kwajalein Range Services can proceed with transition...
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Continental defers cargo halt to Kwajalein Army base.
News Wire article from: PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association; 6/5/2007; 700+ words
; ...S. Armys missile testing range at Kwajalein Atoll in response to an offer by the...would not stop cargo service to and from Kwajalein as announced last week, Guam-based...telephone interview. Communications with Kwajalein test range Commander Colonel Stevenson...
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Kwajalein: More than rocket science
Magazine article from: Soldiers; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Missile Defense Test Site, or RTS, on Kwajalein Atoll. Lying some 2,500 miles southwest...contractor-operated RTS and U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll, or USAKA, part of the Army Space...Huntsville, Ala. Both are headquartered on Kwajalein Island, at the southern end of the atoll...
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Kwajalein
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Kwajalein , coral atoll, 6.5 sq mi (16.8 sq km...Islands . The largest atoll of the Marshalls, Kwajalein, consists of a group of 97 islets surrounding...U.S. antimissile-missile test base is on Kwajalein.
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Kwajalein, Battle of
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Kwajalein, Battle of (February 1944) the first prewar capture of a Japanese territory by American troops. Noted for intensive pre-invasion bombardment directed by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz , Kwajalein cost less than 500 American lives compared to over 7,000 by the Japanese.
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Marshall Islands
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Islands ETHNONYMS: Bikini, Enewetak, Kwajalein, Majuro, Ralik, Ratak Orientation...Majuro Atoll (19,664), and on Ebeye, Kwajalein Atoll (8,277), across from the missile testing and tracking center on the Kwajalein islet. In the 1850s and 1860s missionaries...
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Bikini
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...inadequate, they relocated again to Kwajalein Island in 1948 and then Kili later in...remained, although some also settled on Kwajalein and Jaluit. An organized attempt was...from Enewetak, Rongelap, Utirik, and Kwajalein who also received compensation, wealthier...
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Marshall Islands campaign
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...group of 36 Micronesian Pacific atolls includes Kwajalein, the world's largest. During the Pacific war...Infantry Divisions landed on the inner islands of Kwajalein Atoll, Kwajalein, and the twin islets of Roi-Namur, ULTRA intelligence...
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