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1. Hiroshima and Nagasaki This has been a question that has been debated the moment the bomb was dropped on the Japanese homeland. No matter your viewpoint, the use of the atomic bomb was an awesome show of force, power, and genius. This development was an inevitable part of...
2. The New Zealand Tui Bird The tui is a well known and wonderful endemic New Zealand bird.  It is somewhat larger than a blackbird, and if seated on my shoulder would have its head level with the top of mine. They are rather common around the house, as we live in the Waita...
3. Let's Stop Polluting the Oceans! Plastics are devastating our oceans and sea creatures. A few months ago, I presented to a group of 7th graders about the harmful effects of plastics, especially in our oceans. Oprah also brought attention to the problem after seeing a video of the P...
4. Southern Cassowary A strange looking bird, isn't it? This bird is the flightless Southern Cassowary, or Casuarius casuarius, which belongs to the ratite family just like the Kiwi, Emu, and extinct Moa. It is native to Australia, Indonesia, and New Guinea, and is curren...
5. Snohomish County: Far From Ordinary! Snohomish (sno-HOH'-mish) County is located in northwest Washington State, nestled between the sparkling blue waters of Puget Sound and the rugged, snow-capped peaks of the Cascade Mountains. Just 15 miles north of Seattle, 100 miles south of Van...
6. John Keeble According to his blog John Keeble came into this world at 8.20am on July 6th 1959. With the confidence of youth he decided that he only had three possible career moves. The three options were: 1. Play soccer for Arsenal 2. Keep wicket for England...
7. World War II US Navy   This is a photo of the USS PCE 884 that my dad was on. This site has information about the US Navy in World War 2 I'm not an expert on this subject. It's something I was helping my dad with. Recently, he passed away and I am going to d...
8. Battleship USS Alabama (BB-60) The US Navy battleship USS Alabama (BB-60) was launched from the Norfolk Navy Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia on February 16, 1942 and was commissioned on August 16 of that same year.  In nearly five years of commissioned service, the USS Alab...
9. Nitro Fx Purchase your Nitro Fx Here! Nitro Fx takes Noni to the next level by maximizing a Nitric Oxide effect that helps support the defense, repair, and maintenance of nearly every cell and system of the body. Nobel Prize discovery led to the development o...
10. Top Cruiser Bikes, Best Buys, Auction Deals! Cruiser bikes, also referred to as beach cruisers, are single-speed bicycles with a straightforward steel construction, expressive styling and was most popular in the United States from the early 1930s through the 1950s. These bikes are now enjoying...
11. Pacific Fitness Home Gyms If you want a well rounded workout, choose Pacific Fitness home gym equipment that helps you get your heart rate up but that also helps you build muscle. If you need help deciding which pieces of Pacific Fitness home gyms to buy, contact Pacific Fitn...
12. Top Mountain Bikes, Best Buys, Auction Deals! The mountain bike has its origins in the modified heavy cruiser bicycles used for freewheeling down mountain trails in California, U.S.A. in the mid-late 1970s. At the time, there was no such thing as a mountain bike. The earliest ancestors of moder...
13. Midway Journey In the video further down on this page, Chris Jordan, environmental photographer, and five other media artists take us on a journey we will never forget. In September 2009 they visited the Midway Atoll, a set of islands in the Pacific Ocean, to docu...
14. The silence is deafening Whilst doing National Service in the Rhodesian army I got a few cuts and scrapes whilst skirmishing and unfortunately these turned septic. By the time I got into the army hospital my heart was starting to play up and this was wrongly diagnosed as Rhe...
15. Mount St. Helens VolcanoCams Mount St. Helens VolcanoCams, Washington, USA. Mount St. Helens is an active volcano located in the Northwestern United States. At 8:32 Sunday morning, May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted. Shaken by an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter sca...
16. Delicious Salmon Recipes "...salmon are among the oldest natives of the Pacific Northwest... and they inhabit and use nearly all the region's freshwater, estuarine and marine habitats... From a mountaintop where an eagle carries a salmon carcass to feed its young, out to the...
17. Go Cruising - Pacific Ocean to Caribbean via Panama Canal On 23rd April, 2008, I sailed through the Panama Canal from the Pacific Ocean to the Atalntic. It was on a voyage from Santaigo in, Chile, South America to Boston, USA on the cruise ship, Norwegian Dream. As I had written a book set on the Leeds/Live...
18. Rabaul, Papua New Guinea Rabaul is the main town on the province of East New Britain in Papua New Guinea. Until World War I Rabaul was the capital of German New Guinea. It suffered greatly in battles between the Japanese and the Allies during World War II and since then ha...
19. Background of World War Two World War II, or the Second World War, was a global military conflict, the joining of what had initially been two separate conflicts. The first began in Asia in 1937 as the Second Sino-Japanese War; the other began in Europe in 1939 with the German i...
20. Washington State Information and Resources Washington is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory and admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. In 2006, the Census Bureau estimated the state's po...