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unusual facts about Kankoh-maru


Japanese barque Kankō Maru

Kankoh-maru is also the name of a Japanese spaceship project for space tourism.


Arthur Varley

However, on 12 September his transport, the Rakuyo Maru, carrying around 1,250 prisoners, was amongst those torpedoed off Hainan by the United States submarine USS Sealion.

Atago Maru

The Atago Maru was built as a general cargo freighter for the Japanese, and operated between Kobe / Yokohama and the west coast of the USA and Canada.

Bessie Head

Most of Bessie Head's important works are set in Serowe, in particular the three novels When Rain Clouds Gather, Maru, and A Question of Power.

Hindu temple architecture

Māru-Gurjara temple architecture originated somewhere in 6th century in and around areas of Rajasthan.

Japanese Cemetery Park

In 1832, he was a sailor on board the ship "Hojun-maru", which sailed from Ise Bay to Tokyo.

Japanese invasion of Thailand

Escort ship IJN Shimushu escorted transports Zenyo Maru, Miike Maru and Toho Maru to Nakorn Sri Thammarat, southern Thailand, with more of the 143rd Regiment

Japanese raiders in the Indian Ocean

The Aikoku Maru (Captain Tamotsu Oishi) and Hokoku Maru (Captain Hiroshi Imazato) commenced firing at 1200 hours and soon straddled the Ondina with their cruiser-armament.

Japanese submarine tender Karasaki

At the end of 1904, Karasaki Maru was sent to the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal for conversion into a submarine tender.

Japanese transport Aiyo Maru

Aiyo Maru was a 2,746 ton transport ship of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

Japanese transport Kembu Maru

Kembu Maru was a 953 ton transport ship of Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

Japanese warship Kanrin Maru

On 9 February 1860 (18 January in Japanese calendar), the Kanrin Maru, sailed by Katsu Kaishū (as ship captain), John Manjiro, Fukuzawa Yukichi, altogether 96 Japanese sailors, and the American officer John M. Brooke, left Uraga for San Francisco.

John Sipin

Sipin gained incredible popularity in Japan, and his huge mat of hair and beard gave him the nickname, Lion Maru (after the character in the children's television series Kaiketsu Lion-Maru).

Lisbon Maru

The UK band Fuck Buttons included a song called "The Lisbon Maru" on their album Tarot Sport.

Măru River

Măru River may refer to one of the following rivers in Romania

Maru, Kathmandu

The square is dominated by the massive pagoda roofs of Maru Satah (मरु सत:) (Kasthamandap) which stands on the northern side of the square.

Mayasan Maru

Also aboard was the 24th Sea Raiding Battalion with Maru-Ni explosive motorboats, 740 replacements for the Southern Army, 88 Army communications school graduates, various specialists in artillery, communications, engineering, ordnance and transport, and 204 horses.

Mining industry of Nigeria

Gold deposits are found in Northern Nigeria, most prominently near Maru, Anka, Malele, Tsohon Birnin Gwari-Kwaga, Gurmana, Bin Yauri, Okolom-Dogondaji, and Iperindo in Kwara Stateit is not very dominant in the country.

Monroe Salisbury

In June 1928, he returned to the U.S. at the Port of San Francisco, from Kobe, Japan, aboard the S.S. Taiyo Maru, and gave his U.S. address as Hemet, California.

Native American religion

The Bole-Maru Religion was a religious revitalization movement of the Maidu, Pomo, Wintun, and other tribes of north-central California in the 19th century.

No.18 Kyotoku-maru

Kyotoku-maru no. 18 is a fishing trawler which was swept inland during tsunami that followed the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, in the city of Kesennuma, Miyagi in Japan.

Rajesh Maru

Rajesh Jamandass Maru (born 28 October 1962 in Nairobi, Kenya) is a Kenyan born former English cricketer.

Seisho Maru

Seisho Maru and seven other ships formed convoy MI-27 which departed Moji for Miri, Borneo, on 15 November that same year.

Shelly Bay

Te Āti Awa settled on the bay before European arrival, Maru-Kai-Kuru was the name of the village sited at the northern end of the bay.

SS Ural Maru

On her last voyage, Ural Maru had departed Singapore bound for Takao in Taiwan and had called on Kuching and Miri in Japanese-occupied Sarawak, where she loaded Japanese wounded, nurses and a number of "comfort women".

Yamaya Tanin

Transferred to the converted passenger liner Saikyo-maru, Yamaya served as chief navigator during the First Sino-Japanese War and was present during the Battle of the Yalu on September 17, 1894, along with the belligerent Navy General Staff Admiral Kabayama Sukenori.


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