The following articles deal with the rank of lieutenant colonel (or its equivalent)Lieutenant-colonel (Canada)Lieutenant-colonel (France)Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)Lieutenant colonel (United S ...
Main article: Lascars in FijiIndians had been employed for a long time on the European ships trading in India and the East Indies. Many of the early voyages to the Pacific either started or terminated ...
The Tabua is a much revered whale's tooth which is used in both public and private occasions or ceremonies. The tooth is considered sacred.Yaqona (pronounced yung-gohna), otherwise known as kava - ano ...
The phrase coup d'?tat (French pronunciation: ?) is French, literally meaning a "stroke of state" or in practice a "blow against the state". In French the word "?tat", denoting a sovereign politica ...
Main article: Military unrest since the 2000 Fijian coup d'étatA long-running conflict between the government and military of the Republic of the Fiji Islands (Fiji) reached crisis point in early Dec ...
The election result and Chaudhry's subsequent appointment as Prime Minister angered hardline Fijian nationalists. His government's hints at land reform caused further alarm. When a group led by George ...
Both before and after Fiji gained its independence from the United Kingdom in 1970, tensions between the indigenous Fijian and Indo-Fijian ethnic groups (comprising an estimated 46% and 49% of the 198 ...
The Auckland Council is the local council with jurisdiction over the city of Auckland, along with surrounding rural areas, parkland, and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf.From 1989 to 2010 Auckland was ...
The isthmus was settled by Māori around 1350, and was valued for its rich and fertile land. Many pā (fortified villages) were created, mainly on the volcanic peaks. Māori population in the area is ...
French agents posing as interested supporters or tourists toured the ship while it was open to public viewing. DGSE agent Christine Cabon, posing as environmentalist Frederique Bonlieu, volunteered to ...
Pitjantjatjara (English /p?t??nt???t?ɑ?r?/, Aboriginal pronunciation: or ) is the name of both an Aboriginal people of the Central Australian desert, and their language (for which see Pitja ...
After an air burst, fission products, un-fissioned nuclear material, and weapon residues vaporized by the heat of the fireball condense into a fine suspension of small particles 10 nm to 20 ?m in dia ...
The 82-ton "Mike" device was essentially a building that resembled a factory rather than a weapon. It has been reported that Soviet engineers derisively referred to Mike as a "thermonuclear installati ...
A number of possible variations to the weapon design have been proposed:Either the tamper or the casing have been proposed to be made of uranium-235 (highly enriched uranium) in the final fission jack ...
A thermonuclear weapon is a nuclear weapon design that uses the energy from a primary fission reaction to compress and ignite a secondary nuclear fusion reaction, from which most of the bomb's explosi ...
