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.
Battle of Guadalcanal, (August 1942âFebruary 1943), series of World War II land and sea clashes between Allied and Japanese forces on and around Guadalcanal, one of the southern Solomon Islands, in the South Pacific. Japanese troops landed on Guadalcanal on July 6, 1942, and began constructing an airfield there.