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unusual facts about Tau, American Samoa


Inter Island Airways

Inter Island Airways received its air carrier certificate in September 1995 and began providing domestic passenger and cargo air service between Pago Pago (Tutuila Island), and Tau (in the Manu'a Islands).


Alpha Sigma Nu

The society, known as Alpha Sigma Tau until 1930, spread from Marquette to Creighton University, to St. Louis University and to the University of Detroit in its first decade.

American Airlines

In 1970 American Airlines had flights from St. Louis, Chicago, and New York to Honolulu and on to Sydney and Auckland via American Samoa and Nadi, Fiji.

Axial ratio

Alternatively, polarization can be represented as a point on the surface of the Poincaré sphere, with 2\times \tau as the longitude and 2\times \epsilon, where \epsilon=ArcCot(\pm AR), as the latitude.

Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu Province

In 1979, Vũng Tàu was broken away from Đồng Nai and merged with the Côn Đảo islands (formerly part of Hậu Giang Province), forming the new Vũng Tàu–Côn Đảo "special zone".

Blue-crowned Lorikeet

The Blue-crowned Lorikeet (Vini australis) is a parrot found throughout the Samoa and Tonga islands and Lau archipelago, including: ʻAlofi, Fotuhaʻa, Fulago, Futuna, Haʻafeva, Niuafoʻou, Moce, Niuē, Ofu, Olosega, Sāmoa, Savaiʻi, Tafahi, Taʻu, Tofua, Tonga, Tungua, ʻUiha, ʻUpolu, Varoa, Vavaʻu, and Voleva.

Brian J.G. Pereira

In addition, Pereira was a member of the advisory boards of Amgen and Sigma-Tau Pharmaceuticals along with several other organizations.

Cantonese slang

In Hong Kong slang terms for members of minority groups include "gweilo," (ghost man) meaning White people, "ga tau" and "lo baat tau" (carrot head) meaning Japanese people, "bak gwei" (white devil) meaning Caucasians, "hak gwei" (black devil) meaning Black people, "bun mui" meaning Filipina domestic employees, and "ah cha" meaning Indian people and Pakistani people.

Carl R. Fellers Award

The award is named after Carl R. Fellers, a food science professor who chaired the food technology department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and when the first Phi Tau Sigma chapter was founded in 1953.

Dinohippus

Astrohippus, Calippus, Equus (synonymized with Allozebra, Asinus, Onager, Plesippus, Neohippus, Equus semiplicatus, Equus tau), Hippidion, Onohippidium, Pliohippus, Protohippus (syn. Eoequus)

Douhua

In Singapore and Malaysia it is more commonly known by its names tow huay or tau huay in Min Nan, or by the Cantonese name (tau fu fa) with the Cantonese variation being more common in Malaysia, in fact it is almost exclusively known as tau fu fa there while tau huey is generally associated with Singapore.

Élie Barnavi

He became the science director of the Museum of Europe in Brussels in 1998, and was the Israeli ambassador to France between 2000 and 2002, after which he resumed teaching at TAU and returned to his work at the museum.

Equini

Astrohippus, Calippus, Dinohippus, Equus (synonymized with Allozebra, Asinus, Onager, Plesippus, Neohippus, Equus semiplicatus, Equus tau), Hippidion, Onohippidium, Pliohippus, Protohippus (synonymized with Eoequus).

Ezra Vogel

While attending Ohio Wesleyan, Vogel was a member of the Beta Sigma Tau fraternity (that later merged with the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity).

Hòa Hưng

Hòa Hưng, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu, a commune and village in Xuyên Mộc District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu Province

Ismael D'Angelo Herrera

He was also called up to American Samoa's 2011 Pacific Games squad, along with PanSa East team-mates Terence Sinapati, Travis Pita Sinapati and Pesamino Victor.

Jennifer Sherrill

Other Alpha Sigma Tau sisters from the same university include Terri Utley (Miss USA 1982) and Jessica Furrer (Miss Arkansas USA 2005).

Junior Seau Pier Amphitheatre

The featured speaker was United States Representative Eni Faleomavaega (D-Samoa).

Justin Manao

Justin Manao (born 25 March 1993) is an American Samoan international footballer who plays college soccer in the United States for PLU Lutes, as a defender.

KMB Route 70

54 Luen Wo Hui Playground Sha Tau Kok Road Luen Wo Hui

Lambda Tau Omega

Lambda Tau Omega (ΛΤΩ) is a multicultural sorority founded in 1988 at Montclair State College, now known as Montclair State University, in Montclair, New Jersey.

Largemouth triplefin

The largemouth triplefin, Ucla xenogrammus, is a fish of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Ucla, found in the Pacific Ocean from Viet Nam, the Philippines, Palau and the Caroline Islands to Papua New Guinea, Australia (including Christmas Island), and the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tonga, east to American Samoa and Rapa, at depths of between 2 and 41 m.

Lo Wai

Lo Wai (老圍), a walled village in Lung Yeuk Tau, Fanling, Hong Kong

Luj Yaj

He gained notoriety when two of his songs appeared in a Hmong dubbed Thai film called "Kev Hlub Txiav Tsis Tau".

Michael J. Kirwan

The primary educational television station in American Samoa bears Kirwan's name.

Nancy L. Ward

Prior to her selection by Paulison, Ward served as the FEMA regional director for region IX (which serves AZ, CA, Guam, HI, NV, CNMI, RMI, FSM and American Samoa).

Pacific sheath-tailed bat

The Pacific sheath-tailed bat or Polynesian sheath-tailed bat (Emballonura semicaudata) is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae found in American Samoa, Fiji, Guam, Micronesia, Palau, Samoa (where it is called pe'a vai, tagiti or pe'ape'a vai), Tonga, and Vanuatu.

Paris By Night 103

04. Hai Chuyến Tàu Đêm (Trúc Phương) - Quang Lê

Phi Sigma Tau

The emblem of Phi Sigma Tau is in the shape of a pentagon; each of the five angles contains a symbol that represents one of the five streams of world thought: Chinese, Indian, Islamic, Hebrew, and Greek.

Philip N. Diehl

Diehl graduated from Lubbock High School in Lubbock, Texas and earned a B.A. degree from Austin College where he was a member of Sigma Tau Epsilon and active in political organizing on campus and in the community.

Robert Dean Frisbie

In 1943, diagnosed with tuberculosis, Frisbie was evacuated by then U.S. Navy Lieutenant James Michener to a hospital on American Samoa.

Scouting in American Samoa

For Boy Scouts, the Aloha Council has designated a full-time senior Scout District Executive for American Samoa, John Mills, in efforts to elevate the local Scouting program.

Seth Galloway

Seth Jordan Galloway (born January 12, 1987 in Evansville, Indiana) is an American Samoan association football player.

Sha Tau Kok Public Pier

The pier is used for loading and unloading goods and berthing of kaitos operating between Sha Tau Kwok and Kat O, Sam A and other northeast rural areas.

Sigma Delta Tau

Christy Carlson Romano - (Gamma Tau, Columbia/Barnard) actress on Disney's hit television show "Even Stevens"

Siosa'ia Ma'ulupekotofa Tuita

He currently lives with his wife, HRH Princess Salote Mafile'o Pilolevu Tuita, and their family, dividing their time between residences in Tau'akipulu and Hillsborough, California.

Sixto González

In 1983, he traveled to Massachusetts and enrolled in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at MIT and joined the Mu Tau chapter of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity.

Student social organizations at the College of Wooster

In 1891, the Tau Chapter of Theta Nu Epsilon (ΘΝΕ) was established at the college by members of the Alpha Chapter at Wesleyan University.

Tau Cross

a tau-rho ligature used to abbreviate the Greek word for cross in very early New Testament manuscripts such as P66, P45 and P75.

Tau Gamma Phi

This gave birth to the Junior Tau Gamma Phi founded at San Beda College - High School department, where Bro.

Tau neutrino

The tau neutrino is last of the leptons, and is the second most recent particle of the Standard Model to be discovered.

The Fall of Hyperion

Severn, accompanied by Gladstone's aide Leigh Hunt, farcast to Tau Ceti Center, but instead arrive on a world that is an apparent analog of 19th century Earth and, in particular, the city of Rome, where the historical Keats died.

The Painted Turtle

The Painted Turtle was founded in 1999 by Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity Alumnus Paul Newman and Page and Lou Adler.

Ursinus College

The Ursinus College Greek community consists of six sororities, including Kappa Delta Kappa, Phi Alpha Psi, Sigma Sigma Sigma, Tau Sigma Gamma, Upsilon Phi Delta, and Omega Chi, and eight fraternities, including Alpha Phi Epsilon, Beta Sigma Lambda, Delta Pi Sigma, Kappa Alpha Psi, Phi Kappa Sigma, Pi Omega Delta, Sigma Pi and Sigma Rho Lambda.

William Shernoff

His most successful case was in the early 1990s related to Cyclone Val, a tropical cyclone that devastated American Samoa in December 1991.


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