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3 unusual facts about Solomons


Dowell, Maryland

While many people consider Dowell to be a part of Solomons, Maryland, it maintains its own separate zip code, 20629.

Dowell is a small, rural unincorporated community in Calvert County, Maryland located immediately north of Solomons, Maryland.

Solomons United Methodist Church

Solomons United Methodist Church is an historic United Methodist church building located at 14454 Solomon's Island Road, South, in Solomons, Calvert County, Maryland.


347th Rescue Group

Headquarters moved up from New Caledonia at the end of 1943; and the following month the group moved from Guadalcanal to Stirling Island to support ground forces on Bougainville, assist in neutralizing enemy bases at Rabaul, and fly patrol and search missions in the northern Solomons.

Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli

Among his collectors was Oscar Wilde who, after going to prison in 1895, wrote of his bankruptcy in a letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, "De Profundis": "That all my charming things were to be sold: my Burne-Jones drawings: my Whistler drawings: my Monticelli: my Simeon Solomons: my china: my Library..."

Erechthias flavistriata

It is found in large parts of the Pacificm including the Marquesas, Rapa Iti, Fiji, the New Hebrides, the Kermadec Islands, the Solomons, Java and Malaya.

Foreign relations of Solomon Islands

In October 2008, Solomons Prime Minister Derek Sikua moved to establish economic relations with Caracas, hoping to benefit from comparatively cheap Venezuelan oil.

Grey-throated White-eye

It is found on Guadalcanal and Makira Islands in the Solomon Islands and on Bougainville Island, geographically part of the Solomons but belonging to Papua New Guinea.

Inocarpus fagifer

On Choiseul Island in the Solomons, a man who betrayed a tribal chief was suffocated by the flatulence produced as a result of the people around him eating the cooked kernels.

Ira Wolfert

He also wrote non-fiction, including the 1943 bestselling eyewitness account Battle for the Solomons and the 1945 American Guerrilla in the Philippines, which recounts the exploits of Navy officer Iliff David Richardson and was made into a 1950 film of the same name, starring Tyrone Power as Richardson.

Japanese aircraft carrier Chitose

She covered the Japanese landings in the East Indies and New Guinea from January–April 1942, and was damaged in the Eastern Solomons in August 1942.

Julian Salomons

Salomons was born at Edgbaston, Warwickshire, England, on 4 November 1836 as Julian Emanuel Solomons.

King Davids Peak

Like other features of the park, such as Herods Gate, Lake Salome, Solomons Jewels, Damascus Gate, the Pool of Bathesda, many features are named for places and people in the Bible.

Kolombangara

The Imperial Japanese Army used an airstrip on some flat ground at Vila on the south shore of the island, and in May 1943 based several military units with over ten thousand troops garrisoned on the southeast side of the island under the command of Major General Minoru Sasaki, in an attempt to establish a defense line through the Central Solomons.

Lascars in Fiji

On reaching Tikopia, a Polynesian outlier of the Solomons, three of the survivors, Martin Buchert, his Fijian wife and Lascar Joe were landed and the ships sailed to Sydney, passing the island of Vanikoro.

Lusby, Maryland

A large housing development called Chesapeake Ranch Estates is nearby, as well as the tourist resort town of Solomons.

Melanesian Brotherhood

The Brothers (or 'Tasiu', as they are more generally known in the islands) were responsible for the evangelisation of large areas of Guadalcanal, Malaita, Temotu, and other areas in the Solomons, for Big Bay and other places in Vanuatu, and the Popondetta area of Papua New Guinea.

Motor Torpedo Boat PT-59

PT-59 remained in the Solomons until August 1944, when she and five other 77-ft Elco PT Boats were transported back to the Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons Training Center at Melville, Rhode Island.

Oriole Whistler

The Oriole Whistler is found throughout the Solomons, except in the Santa Cruz Islands where the males are white-throated (populations from southern part of this island group are associated with the Melanesian Whistler, P. caledonica, while those from the northern and central part are associated with the White-throated Whistler, P. vitiensis).

Robert Ulanowicz

He served as Professor of Theoretical Ecology at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons, Maryland until his retirement in 2008.

Thomas Drant

Drant's unpublished works included a translation of the Iliad, as far as the fifth book, a translation of the Psalms, and the Book of Solomons Prouerbs, Epigrames, and Sentences spirituall, licensed for press in 1567.

Torres Islands

Despite the fact that they belonged to a broader regional complex of human and material exchanges that extended well into present-day Temotu province (in the Solomons), the Torres Islands eventually became part of the Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides in 1906, and were subsequently incorporated into the Republic of Vanuatu in 1980.

USS PC-1138

She operated on patrol and escort duties in the Solomons, occasionally sailing to islands to the south, until departing for Ulithi, where she arrived on 14 December.

William O. Brice

He also headed Marine Aircraft Group 14 during its support of the New Georgia and Bougainville invasions and directed all Solomons-based Army, Navy, Marine and New Zealand fighter operations against Rabaul, Japan's biggest base in the Southwest Pacific.


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