When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Nuclear weapons tests in Australia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_tests_in...

    Two separate atomic test projects occurred at the islands, the first being Operation Hurricane and the second being Operation Mosaic.Following the second Mosaic explosion, the radioactive cloud that was supposed to be taken away from the site, was sent back by wind that was not anticipated by the British scientists.

  3. Operation Totem - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Totem

    Operation Totem was a pair of British atmospheric nuclear tests which took place at Emu Field in South Australia in October 1953. They followed the Operation Hurricane test of the first British atomic bomb, which had taken place at the Montebello Islands a year previously.

  4. Meriam people - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriam_people

    A shared totem among all eight Meriam tribes is a shark. [10] This totem arises from a story in which a father and son got lost while hunting and waited for sharks to rescue them. [10] Therefore, sharks are seen as a totem animal who would protect the Meriam people and not attack them. [10]

  5. Micronesian mythology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronesian_mythology

    House of Taga is located near San Jose Village, on the island of Tinian, United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, in the Marianas Archipelago. The site is the location of a series of prehistoric latte stone pillars which were quarried about 4,000 feet (1,200 m) south of it. Only one pillar is left standing erect.

  6. Pacific Proving Grounds - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Proving_Grounds

    On July 18, 1947, the United States convinced the United Nations to designate the islands of Micronesia as the Strategic Trust Territory.This was the only trust ever granted by the U.N. [1] The directive stated that the United States should "promote the economic advancement and self-sufficiency of the inhabitants, and to this end shall... protect the inhabitants against the loss of their lands ...

  7. Melanesian mythology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanesian_mythology

    In the Admiralty Islands, one myth exists about a lonely man who longed for a wife and so commanded a carved wooden figure of a woman to come to life. In the Banks Islands, the deity Qat is described as the first to make humans, cutting wood out of the dracaena tree and forming it into six figures, three men and three women. After hiding them ...

  8. Island Paradise Animal Booster Totem allows you to ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/2010/11/09/island-paradise-animal...

    Unlike most games on Facebook that encourage mass animal collection, Island Paradise actually limits you on how many harvestable animals you can have on your tropical island at any time.

  9. Totem - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totem

    A totem (from Ojibwe: ᑑᑌᒼ or ᑑᑌᒻ doodem) is a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, lineage, or tribe, such as in the Anishinaabe clan system.