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The Hawaii islands is the product of the volcanoes. The archipelago, located 4,000 km (2,500 mi) away from California, was unknown to the Europeans until the voyages of James Cook, who stepped on the islands in 1778 (later, he was killed by the natives, during a visit in the archipelago). Cook named Hawaii the Sandw... |
4 April 2008
11:13 GMT |
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Today publisher Eidos Interactive announced that their 2007 war simulator Battlestations: Midway is set to get a sequel in the form of Battlestations: Pacific, sometime in 2008. The game is set to continue the realistic and gritty simulation of the War in the Pacific that the original game kicked off.Both the America... |
29 February 2008
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Vanuatu (formerly called New Hebrides before gaining independence in 1980) is located in southwestern Pacific, half way between Australia and Fiji. The archipelago is made of 80 islands and has a "Y" shape. The islands appeared following the crash of tectonic plates, forming huge mountains that are mainly covered by ... |
12 December 2007
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Before Columbus and the Vikings, other sailors could have entered the Americas: the Polynesians. This is strongly suggested by chickens grown by tribes in Peru and Chile, which do not have European ancestry, but Polynesian, but also by some cultural facts common to tribes of the Amazon and Malayo-Polynesians from Ind... |
1 October 2007
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First there were the German U-boats at your disposal in Silent Hunter III. The WWII inspired simulation games got to a new level at the time with a wonderful story straight from the bottom of the ocean. After a quick skydive from the Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII, Ubisoft promises a new time expensive adventure o... |
13 April 2007
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The deadliest conflict in the history books was definitely the Second World War. Between 1939 and 1945 the global population has decreased by over 62 millions (that's about 2.5%; also take into consideration that about 37 millions of the casualties were civilians). Spanning pretty much of the whole globe, World ... |
20 March 2007
10:22 GMT |
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