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17 unusual facts about Pacific


101 East

The show launched in November 2006, at the same time as Al Jazeera English itself, and remains the channel's flagship Asia-Pacific current affairs show.

2012 Rose Bowl

The Oregon Ducks, winners of the Pac-12 Championship game, represented the Pac-12 Conference, while the Wisconsin Badgers represented the Big Ten after winning the Big Ten Championship Game.

Teams playing in the Rose Bowl game were the winners of the Pacific-12 and Big Ten conference championship games, unless one team (or both teams) play in the BCS National Championship game.

Atlantic and Pacific Railroad

The new branch, defined by state law to lie south of the Osage River, began at Franklin (now Pacific) on the main line and headed west-southwesterly across the state.

Bois-Franc, Quebec

Industrial Park "Réjean Lafrenière" is home to the oriented strand board factory Louisiana-Pacific Canada ltd.

Central Indo-Pacific

The Central Indo-Pacific is a biogeographic region of the Earth's seas, comprising the tropical waters of the western Pacific Ocean, the eastern Indian Ocean, and the connecting seas.

F. James McDonald

McDonald served on the boards of companies such as Georgia-Pacific, Halliburton, H.J. Heinz and KMart.

Indo-Pacific

The Indo-Pacific, sometimes known as the Indo-West Pacific, is a biogeographic region of the Earth's seas, comprising the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, the western and central Pacific Ocean, and the seas connecting the two in the general area of Indonesia.

Manhattan Research

Manhattan Research, LLC is an American think tank organization based in New York, New York that provides information on issues, attitudes and trends related to technology use and adoption by consumers and health professionals in the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

Oughtibridge

Before this there were converting and two paper machines, the site having several owners after the Dixons, namely British Tissues, Jamont UK and Fort James, and is now part of the Georgia-Pacific group.

Patrick J. Campbell

In 1983, Campbell initiated a boycott of the Louisiana-Pacific Corporation, accusing the company of failing to pay fair wages to 1,500 lumber workers represented by the union.

Reveries

Reveries is the debut studio album by the Swedish band Pacific!, released in 2008 by Dolores Recordings.

Singapore Think Tanks

The School exists to develop a community of scholars and policy analysts at the forefront of Asia-Pacific security studies and international affairs.

U.S. Bancorp Tower

During the 1980s and 1990s, the top floors held the headquarters of Louisiana-Pacific.

Virginia State Route 139

The state highway heads northeast as two-lane Allen Road, which intersects a railroad spur that serves the adjacent Georgia-Pacific plant.

Western Indo-Pacific

The Western Indo-Pacific is a biogeographic region of the Earth's seas, comprising the tropical waters of the eastern and central Indian Ocean.

Yahoo! Messenger

The story prompted several advertisers, including Pepsi and Georgia-Pacific, to pull their ads from Yahoo.


463d Airlift Group

The "Swoose" Group was commanded by Col. Frank Kurtz, a pre-war Olympic swimmer and pilot of the famed B-17 "The Swoose" in the Pacific during 1941–42.

465th Air Refueling Squadron

Following months of delays, the squadron arrived in the Pacific Theater, being assigned to Ie Shima in the Ryukyu Islands on 28 June 1945 from Saipan/Tinian.

Abronia umbellata

Originally described by the British botanist Aylmer Lambert, Abronia umbellata was collected in 1786 from Monterey, California by the gardner Jean Nicolas Collignon of the French La Pérouse expedition, which had stopped at the capitol of Alta California as part of a journey of scientific exploration spanning the Pacific Ocean.

Albert Falvey Webster

He was consumptive and went to California by way of the isthmus of Panama, and died on his way from San Francisco to Honolulu, and was buried in the Pacific.

Aleksei Birilev

In May 1905 he was appointed commander of the Pacific Fleet, and departed for Vladivostok where he was supported to assume command of the Second Pacific Squadron from Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky on its arrival.

Alfred Wolcott Gibbs

He was instrumental in the design of a number of important PRR locomotive classes, including the E6 4-4-2 "Atlantic" type, the K4s 4-6-2 "Pacific" type, and the L1s 2-8-2 "Mikado" type.

Allardice

Anarchias allardicei, a.k.a. Allardice's moray, a Pacific moray eel species

Amblyeleotris rubrimarginata

Amblyeleotris rubrimarginata is a species of goby found on reefs or in sea grass beds in the western Pacific from New Caledonia to the Great Barrier Reef and around New Guinea, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.

BatDiv

BatDiv3 had been part of the Pacific Fleet until 20 May 1941 when its three ships were transferred to the Atlantc Fleet for Neutrality Patrol duty.

Bill Lann Lee

He has received many honors for his outstanding career in civil rights law, including the Thurgood Marshall Medal of Justice (1998), the Trailblazer Award from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (1999), and the John Randolph Distinguished Service Award, U. S. Department of Justice (2001).

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

Other multi-state organizations include CareFirst in the Mid-Atlantic, The Regence Group in the Pacific Northwest, and Highmark which serves Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia.

Brian Jean

Jean has a Bachelor of Science degree from Warner Pacific in Portland, Oregon, a Master of Business Administration degree and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Bond University in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Broadfin sawtail catshark

The broadfin sawtail catshark is found in the northwestern Pacific from Sagami Bay off southeastern Honshu, Japan to the East China Sea, including the Ryukyu Islands and the Kyushu-Palau Ridge.

Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants

CICPA became a member of the Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants (CAPA) and the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) in October 1996 and May 1997 respectively, and has developed friendly cooperation and communications with more than 50 professional accountancy organizations in other jurisdictions.

Copper rockfish

It is very widespread in its distribution, known from the very northern reaches of the Gulf of Alaska, to the Pacific side of the Baja California peninsula, north of Guerrero Negro.

Empress of China

RMS Empress of China, three Canadian Pacific Steamships ocean liners, one from 1891 to 1912, the other two briefly named Empress of China in 1921

Eva L. Baker

Baker has conducted studies of performance standards and national assessment policies for the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Education Forum Project, and the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association.

Fernanda

Hurricane Fernanda has referred to ten tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean

Foreign relations of Tonga

Tonga's foreign policy as of January 2009 has been described by Matangi Tonga as "Look East" – namely, as establishing closer diplomatic and economic relations with Asia (which actually lies to the north-west of the Pacific kingdom).

Geography of Guam

: Commercial fishing (mostly servicing and unloading of longline fleets and commercial vessels), recreational fishing of Indo-Pacific Blue Marlin (Makaira mazara), Wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri), Mahi-mahi (Coryphaena hippurus), Yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares), and deepwater reef fish, tourism (especially from Japan but increasingly from China and South Korea).

Henry Martyn Lazelle

After serving as an inspector for the Division of the Pacific and the Department of the Columbia, Lazelle represented the U. S. Army as an observer during the maneuvers of the British Army in India from November 1885 to March 1886.

Jeff Haslam

He has worked at most of Edmonton's theatres, including the Citadel Theatre (Burn This, Hello Dolly and Little Shop of Horrors - for which he won his third Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award), Theatre Network (Habitat), Shadow Theatre (Almost Maine), Edmonton Opera (South Pacific and HMS Pinafore) as well as with playwrights Marty Chan, Conni Massing, Lyle Victor Albert, Raymond Storey, Doug Curtis, Jocelyn Ahlf, Cathleen Rootsaert and Belinda Cornish.

Jeff Raikes

In 1992 the Pacific Northwest was in danger of losing the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball franchise.

John C. Goss

John C. Goss (born October 21, 1958, in Landstuhl, Germany) is an American artist and author and has lived most of his life in the Asia/Pacific region (Hawaii, Los Angeles, Bangkok).

Juan Bautista Topete

He was sent out to the Pacific in command of the frigate "Blanca," and was present at the bombardment of Valparaíso and Callao, where he was badly wounded, and in other engagements of the war between Chile and Peru.

Lawrence Olson

He served in naval intelligence as a lieutenant with the Pacific Fleet Radio Unit, Station HYPO, at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Lempa

Lempa River, Central American waterway flowing 422 km from its sources between Sierra Madre and Sierra del Merendón in southern Guatemala (30.4 km), where it is known as Río Olopa, through Honduras (31.4 km) and El Salvador (360 km) to Pacific Ocean; forms small part of Honduras-El Salvador boundary, where it is called Río Lempa

Mopac

The Mopac Expressway, State Highway Loop 1 in Austin, Texas, named after the Missouri Pacific railroad whose tracks bisect the expressway.

New Zealand Post Office

Telecom was sold to two United States Baby Bells, and PostBank was sold to the Pacific banking conglomerate Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, ANZ.

Odostomia pratoma

The type specimen was found in the Pacific Ocean off Santa Rosa Island, California

Pacific Environment

That same year, Pacific Environment worked with the Udege people in the Russian Far East to protect the three-million-acre (1.2-million-hectare) upper Bikin Watershed against logging by the Hyundai Corporation.

Pacific herring

Along the North American Pacific Coast, some of the principal areas are San Francisco Bay, Richardson Bay, Tomales Bay and Humboldt Bay.

PARTA

Pacific Islands Forum, an inter-governmental organization of countries in the Pacific Ocean

Phillip Shriver

During World War II, he served as a lieutenant (j.g.) in the U.S. Navy aboard the Pacific Fleet destroyer USS Murray and participated in the Iwo Jima and Okinawa campaigns.

Polynesian rat

It cannot swim over long distances, so is considered to be a significant marker of the human migrations across the Pacific, as the Polynesians accidentally or deliberately introduced it to the islands they settled.

Regis Ghezelbash

He has been the key-person in initiating cultural bridges and cooperations between France, Eurasia and the Asia-Pacific cultures through cinematographic initiatives such as the French-Kazak movie Ulzhan and French-Korean movie “Filmaker”.

Richard Urquhart Goode

In 1889, he was appointed a geographer with the Survey and was placed in charge of surveys of the Pacific Coast States - California, Oregon, and Washington.

Road Rules: South Pacific

Road Rules: South Pacific is the twelfth season of MTV's reality show Road Rules that takes place in the South Pacific.

Robsart, New Mexico

Robsart may have been named by the Southern Pacific Railway after Amy Robsart from the Sir Walter Scott book Kenilworth, as Robsart, Saskatchewan received its name from the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Roosterfish

The roosterfish, Nematistius pectoralis, is a game fish found in the warmer waters of the East Pacific from Baja California to Peru.

Russian submarine Forel

It was then sent via the Trans-Siberian Railway to Vladivostok, arriving on 29 September, and joined the Siberian Flotilla on 2 October, becoming the first Russian submarine in the Pacific.

Shelford Girls' Grammar

Robyn Christine Robinson AM - President and South Pacific Liaison Officer of the Critical Incident Stress Management Foundation Australia; Former Clinical Director of the Victorian Ambulance Crisis Counselling Unit; Former Senior Lecturer/Deputy Director of the Soc.

Silver-banded whiting

The silver-banded whiting is known only from a single island in the Western Central Pacific; Lumbucan Island in Palawan, a province of the Philippines.

Simon Schama's Power of Art

It aired in Poland on TVP2 in February and March 2008, on PBS in the US and re -broadcast in September 2008 on TVOntario in Canada, ABC1 in Australia, Australia Network in the Asia-Pacific region, TV ONE in New Zealand and on ET1 in Greece.

Skovorodino, Amur Oblast

An oil pipeline is currently under construction from Tayshet north of Lake Baikal to Skovorodino; it is intended for oil to be transported from here by rail to the port of Nakhodka on the Pacific, as well as to China.

Soulcatcher

A Soulcatcher (Haboolm Ksinaalgat, 'keeper of breath') is an amulet (Aatxasxw) used by the shaman (Halayt) of the Pacific Northwest Coast of British Columbia and Alaska.

Spotted houndshark

The spotted houndshark, Triakis maculata, is a hound shark of the family Triakidae found on the continental shelves in the eastern Pacific from the Galapagos Islands and Peru to northern Chile, between latitudes and 30° S.

Tubuai Rail

The species was named after David Steadman in recognition of his contributions to Pacific paleo-ornithology and the understanding of the radiation of Gallirallus-like rails.

University of San Diego High School

Bruce Binkowski - Executive Director, Pacific Life Holiday Bowl, Long time stadium announcer for San Diego Padres

Walther Linis

They started in France and sailed through the Suez Canal to Arabia where they unloaded oil and continued over the Pacific shoreline to San Diego in California and on into the Panama Canal to the Gulf island of Aruba, waterless island but they could get oil board and then took 12 trips between many U.S. cities in the east shore, the boat went several times to the port of Tampico in Mexico from 1957-58.