QQ also has a weibo, but Sina is the juggernaut. Weibo is extremely popular and like most other new information technology, is quickly changing the face of public discourse in China. Well, in part. Like Twitter, a lot of the activity is just following famous people.
Ulithi was a major staging area for the U.S. Navy in the final year of the Second World War. Several sunken warships rest at the bottom of the Ulithi lagoon, including the USS Mississinewa (AO-59), a fleet oiler which sank fully loaded.
The only major operation by these surface ships between the Battle for Leyte Gulf and the Japanese surrender was the suicidal sortie in April 1945 (part of Operation Ten-Go), in which the battleship Yamato and her escorts were destroyed by American carrier aircraft.