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3 unusual facts about Vila, Solomon Islands


CRI Vila and Santo

CRI Vila and Santo at 102 FM is a radio station in Vila, Solomon Islands and Santo, Vanuatu.

Japanese destroyer Minegumo

However, that same night, Murasame and Minegumo were detected by the American Task Force 68 off Vila, after delivering supplies to the Japanese base there.

Japanese destroyer Oyashio

On the night of 7–8 May 1943, while on a troop transport run to Kolombangara, Oyashio struck mines when leaving Vila (Kolombangara).


.ki

From the early 1990s to the early 2000s the domain was managed on behalf of the Republic of Kiribati by an Australian ISP, Connect.com.au with the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency, based in Honiara, Solomon Islands as original sponsor, then transferred to the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources Development of Kiribati and finally to the Ministry of Communications, Transport, and Tourism Development.

2011 Oceanian Futsal Championship

The defending champions, the Solomon Islands, retained their title, defeating Tahiti by six goals to four in the final.

2013 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Final


Hugo Pado (Solomon Islands)

Agathis macrophylla

Agathis macrophylla, known as Pacific kauri, is a coniferous tree native to the islands of the southwestern Pacific Ocean in tropical humid lowlands and lower montane regions, notably in Fiji, Vanuatu, the Santa Cruz Islands, and the Solomon Islands.

Alexis Vila

In the finals, Vila faced Eduardo Dantas for the season 5 Bellator Bantamweight tournament championship.

Angus R. Goss

In the Battle of Tulagi, the Raiders were successful in liberating the island of Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, from Japanese occupation.

Bank South Pacific

It bought National Bank of Solomon Islands from the government of the Solomon Islands, and it acquired Habib Bank (Fiji), which had begun in 1991 as a branch of HBL Pakistan.

Commonwealth Bank

In 1981 the bank transferred its operations in the Solomon Islands to the National Bank of Solomon Islands, which operated as a joint venture (51-49, Commonwealth and Government of the Solomon Islands).

Cristian Hernandez Gonzalez

He began reading theology and philosophy since very little, knowing Plato, Aristotle, Heraclitus Saint Thomas de Aquino, Samuel Vila, Charles Spurgeon, Martin Luther, John Calvin.

Cuentos Chinos

The band is from Vila-real (Villarreal) and consists of Enrique Renau (voice and guitar), Alejandro Cardá (keyboards) and Juan Enrique Torner (bass guitar and backing vocals).

Curtas Vila do Conde

Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, created in 1993, is one of the most important cinematographic and cultural events in Portugal dedicated to short-films and annually produced in July, in the city Vila do Conde.

Cyclone Funa

On February 15 the Regional Specialized Meteorological Center in Nadi, Fiji (RSMC Nadi) and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC), reported that a tropical depression had developed within an monsoon trough, about 700 km (435 mi) to the northeast of Port Vila on the Vanuatuan island of Efate.

David Firisua

Firisua began his professional career with Laugu FC United in the Solomon Islands and joined in the Winter of 2003 New Zealand club Central United.

Finschia

Across various parts of New Guinea and the surrounding region's islands, collectively they have known distributions in Papua New Guinea and West Papua, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands, the Aru Islands, Palau and Vanautu.

Frederick Warren Purdy

On the night of 4–5 July Strong, a unit of a task force which bombarded Vila and Bairokc, to initiate the naval part of the campaign for Munda, was sunk.

GRES Unidos de Vila Isabel

The Venezuelan morningReportreported on its cover more than 500 people traveled to Rio de Janeiro, with all expenses paid by PDVSA to cheer the parade of Vila Isabel.Em 2007, with plot talking about theMetamorphoses, of Cid Carvalho, which debuted solo career, ending in 6th position.

Isidore Bonheur

Also in 1894, Bonheur was awarded the status of Knight in the Order of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa (Cavaleiro da Ordem de Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Vila Viçosa), Portugal.

John W. Roper

Previously, he had been given a Letter of Commendation for his services in the South Pacific Area, during which time he helped plan the Guadalcanal and Solomon Islands Campaigns.

Kadavu Fantail

It is closely related to the Streaked Fantail of the rest of Fiji, and forms a superspecies with the numerous island species of fantail ranging from the Solomon Islands (the Brown Fantail) to Samoa (the Samoan Fantail).

La Vila Olímpica del Poblenou

The Torre Mapfre is located in this neighborhood, while the Hotel Arts, the Casino Barcelona and the "Peix d'Or" (goldfish), a large metal sculpture designed by Frank Gehry, are located at one edge of the Barceloneta neighborhood, close to the border with the Vila Olímpica del Poblenou.

Makalom

Makalom is a small uninhabited island in the Reef Islands, in the Solomon Islands province of Temotu.

Manuel de Menezes, Duke of Vila Real

Initially, he was baptized Manuel of Noronha, but when his older brother (the 4th Marquis of Vila Real) died unexpectedly without issue in 1564, he inherited his house and changed his family name from Noronha to Menezes, once this was the name used by the Heads of the House of Vila Real.

Mary B. Moser

Daughter of Robert and Vila Mae Beck, Mary Margaret was born on October 12, 1924 in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania.

Missionaries of the Assumption

The sisters are present at the following ecclesiastical areas: Archdiocese of Davao, Diocese of Butuan, Prelature of Marawi, Diocese of Antipolo, and the Archdiocese of Honiara in the Solomon Islands.

Moi Torrallardona

In 2010, since Vila decided not to participate in the Dakar, Torrallardona took the start in the rally on a new team, driving an Iveco truck of Gérard de Rooy, who did not compete because of an injury, together with the French pilot Joseph Adua and the Polish mechanic Darek Rodewald.

Moorhen

Apart from the 1-3 extinctions in more recent times, another 1-4 species have gone extinct as a consequence of early human settlement: Hodgen's Waterhen (Gallinula hodgenorum) of New Zealand—which belongs in subgenus Tribonyx—and a species close to the Samoan Moorhen from Buka, Solomon Islands, which is almost certainly distinct from the Makira Moorhen as the latter cannot fly.

MV True North

Each year, she does one circumnavigation of Australia offering exclusive, luxury expeditions in Papua New Guinea, Cape York, Great Barrier Reef, Sydney, South Australia and, from 2010, Solomon Islands.

Oliveira do Douro

Oliveira do Douro, a parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia

Politics of Solomon Islands

Manasseh Sogavare, leader of the People's Progressive Party, was chosen Prime Minister by a loose coalition of parties.

RAAF Command

Responsibility for all Allied air operations south of the Philippines, as well as Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) units based in the Solomon Islands to support the Bougainville Campaign, was assigned to RAAF Command.

Robert Carney

He was twice decorated for engagements in the Solomon Islands campaign, earning the Bronze Star with Combat "V" for meritorious service as Commanding Officer of Denver while attached to a task group of Admiral William Halsey's Third Fleet during operations against the enemy Japanese-held Islands of Kolombangara, Shortland.

Robert Tasso

Tasso made his debut for Vanuatu on 8 July 2011, in the 2-1 defeat to Solomon Islands.

Shilling

In Vanuatu and Solomon Islands, selen is used in Bislama and Pijin to mean "money"; in Malaysia, syiling (pronounced like shilling) means "coin".

Sociedade Esportiva Vila Aurora

Sociedade Esportiva Vila Aurora, commonly known as Vila Aurora, is a Brazilian football club based in Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso state.

Solomon Archipelago

It includes the tropical ocean waters surrounding most of the Solomon Islands (excluding the Santa Cruz Islands, which are part of the Vanuatu marine ecoregion), and the waters surrounding the Bougainville, Buka, and Tabar Islands of Papua New Guinea.

T1-323

On 18 April 1943, T1-323, a Mitsubishi G4M1 (model 11) "Betty" long-range bomber, and a sister craft departed from Rabaul, were headed to Bougainville in the Solomon Islands off New Guinea, when a task group of P-38s intercepted and downed the planes over Buin, a large Japanese army base in southern Bougainville.

Teruo Akiyama

During the Solomon Islands campaign, on 6 July 1943, Akiyama commanded the 3rd Destroyer Squadron, which consisted of 10 destroyers loaded with 2,600 combat troops, bound for Vila on Kolombangara.

Tiradentes

Living in a state rich in gold, Tiradentes used the knowledge he acquired about minerals to enter the public service (he achieved the ranks of alferes, low in the hierarchy of the epoch), and he was sent to missions in cities along the road between Vila Rica (the capital of Minas Gerais) and Rio de Janeiro; this road was the "open vein" used to export most of the gold to Portugal.

Tofor

He was trained by United States soldiers for several months and saw active service in the Solomon Islands.

Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act

The Truth And Reconciliation Commission Act 2008 is an Act of the eighth National Parliament of Solomon Islands establishing the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Universidade Federal de São Paulo

Now, the university has six campuses, the oldest in Vila Clementino, in São Paulo (Health) and four more in Guarulhos (Humanities area), Diadema (Science, Engineering and related), Santos (Health), São José dos Campos (computational area) and Osasco (Business and related).

Vila do Bispo Municipality

In honour of the first claimant to land in Japan, and owing to recognition of twinning with Nishinoomote on the island of Tanegashima, the main square in Vila do Bispo was renamed Praça de Tanegashima.

Vila Nova de Gaia

Vila Nova de Gaia is the Portuguese municipality with the biggest number of Blue Flag beaches in 2009 and in 2010: 17 beaches along 17 km of seaside.

Vila Restal

A native of Earth and a member of the lowly Delta grade criminal underclass (similar to the classes established in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World), Vila is a petty thief who meets Blake in the detention cell awaiting transport to Cygnus Alpha.

VMSB-243

On October 26, 1943 the squadron departed for the South Pacific, The flying echelon of the squadron was based out of Munda (Solomon Islands) while the ground echelon was based at Efate.

Walden L. Ainsworth

On the night of 4–July 5, TF 18 moved up "the Slot" and bombarded Japanese positions at Vila on Kolombangara and at Baiko on New Georgia.

Youth Challenge Australia

In 1993 Australia completed its first of what was to be three consecutive Pacific projects in the Solomon Islands, with 16 Australians and 35 other participants from the Solomon's, Mexico and Canada.


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