Pe·lew

(pə-lo͞o′, pē-)

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Pelew - a chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean

Belau, Palau Islands, Palau

Palau, Republic of Palau, TT - a republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States

Pacific, Pacific Ocean - the largest ocean in the world

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Undersecretary Ricardo Jalad, executive director of the NDRRMC and concurrent administrator of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD), identified the fatalities as Luisa Pelew, 54, of Bontoc, Mt.

NDRRMC: Two persons killed, another hurt due to 'Habagat'

Luisa Pelew was pronounced dead on arrival at the Bontoc General Hospital, where her co-teacher Frauline Magwa remains confined.

Teacher dies after boulder falls on van in Mountain Province

That, in turn, came with the division of a society into classes, and '[w]e have an instance in the natives of the Pelew islands ...

The Plum Tree and the Lean-to: A Case Study of Native Americans in 19th Century Economic Thought

Its empire eventually encompassed colonies, protectorates, and concessions in Togo, East Africa, Southwest Africa, Cameroon, Samoa, Kiautschou (modern-day Qingdao), the northeastern part of new Guinea, the islands of Opolu and Sawaii in Samoa, and the Caroline, Pelew, Marianne, and Marshall Islands in the Pacific (Henderson 66).

"The eyes are alive!" Envisioning history in Ernst Lubitsch's The Eyes of the Mummy (1918)

A supplement to the account of the Pelew Islands; Compiled from the journals of the Panther and Endeavour, two vessels sent by Honourable East India Company to those islands in the Year 1790; and from the oral communications of Captain H.

Last millennium climate change in the occupation and abandonment of Palau's Rock Islands

Indonesia, New nuinea, Pelew Id wegneri Willemse --Lateral margin of mesonotum spiny, the first few anterior teeth closely expanded basally and closely connected; anal segment cleft medially 11 11.

Systematic study of Megacrania species of Malo, New Hebrides (cheleutoptera: Phasmatidae)

Traces of the noble savage could still be found, as in the popular account by George Keate of the experience of Captain Wilson and his men marooned in 1783 on the Pelew (or Pelau) Islands in the Caroline Archipelago south-east of the Philippines--a work which appeared in 1788.

Pacific exploration as religious critique