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  Guam - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
The Territory of Guam (Guåhån in Chamorro) is an island in the Western Pacific Ocean and is an organized unincorporated territory of the United States.
Guam is a relatively short flight from Japan compared to Hawaii, and a series of tourist hotels and golf courses were built to cater to the tourists.
Guam is the southernmost island in the Mariana Island chain and is the largest island in Micronesia.
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/g/u/a/Guam.html   (1298 words)

  
 Guam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guam (Chamorro: Guåhån), officially the U.S. Territory of Guam, is an island in the Western Pacific Ocean and is an organized unincorporated territory of the United States.
Guam, along with the rest of the Mariana and Caroline islands, was treated by Spain as part of their colony in the Philippines.
Guam is governed by a popularly elected governor and a unicameral 15 member legislature.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guam   (2788 words)

  
 Guam
Guam is the southernmost and largest island in the Mariana Archipelago with a total land area of approximately 212 square miles.
Guam is approximately 30 miles long, stretching from Ritidian Point in the north to the village of Merizo in the south.
A close scientific examination of Guam reveals four main physical divisions to the island: the northern limestone plateau, the dissected volcanic plateau in the south, the south-central basin area and the fringing reef areas of the coastal lowlands.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/guam.htm   (3623 words)

  
 Guam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Guam is the largest and most southern island in the Marianas Islands archipelago in the western north Pacific Ocean, covering 212 square miles, with a population of some 145,000 people.
Guam is the most developed island in Micronesia, it serves as a transportation and communications hub and is regarded as the 'gateway' to Micronesia.
Guam is a shoppers' paradise for the island has duty free status, which means you can pick up name brand merchandise and other items cheaper than in their country of origin.
www.pacificislandtravel.com /micronesia/about_destin/guam.html   (1663 words)

  
 Communications in Guam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As a result of Guam being added to the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) in 1997, calls made to the U.S., Canada, or other participating countries from Guam only require the caller to dial a 1 followed by the area code.
Before Guam's inclusion, calling the U.S. required dialing the international 011 first, thus resulting in higher long distance rates and less frequent calls to the U.S. by relatives in Guam.
Much of the mail to and from Guam routes through Hawaii and awaits cargo space on Continental Airlines which is contracted to deliver mail between Hawaii and Guam.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Communications_in_Guam   (451 words)

  
 Guam - Wikipedia Mirror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Guam (Chamorro: Guåhån), officially the Territory of Guam, is an island in the Western Pacific Ocean and is an organized unincorporated territory of the United States.
Guam was the southernmost island in the Marianas Group and this political change started Guam and the Northern Marianas (including Saipan and Tinian) down separate paths.
The Guam Organic Act of 1950 established Guam as an unincorporated organized territory of the United States, provided for the structure of the island's government, and granted the people United States citizenship.
www.wiki-mirror.be /index.php/Guam   (2003 words)

  
 Guam Army National Guard
Guam has the highest membership per capita of all Guard organizations in the nation: 1,100 Guard members for 160,000 residents or.69% of Guam's population are active Guard members.
Guam Guard soldiers and airmen were are able to mobilize in 24 hours or less, as seen after the July 2002 Typhoon Chata'an and the December 2002 Super Typhoon Pongsona, and performed myriad of missions including debris cleanup, traffic control, search and rescue, reverse osmosis water production/distribution, crowd control, building reconstruction and tactical communications.
Guam remains the first and only U.S. soil to this date, with a sizeable population, to ever be occupied by a foreign military power for 31 months where the indigenous people were subjected to countless atrocities by occupying enemy forces.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/arng-gu.htm   (1406 words)

  
 Why War? Keywords: Guam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
...at could be moved to Japan and B-52 or B-1B bombers that might be moved to Guam.
...aircraft carrier from the mainland and forward deploying them in Hawaii or Guam, in order to more rapidly cope with a crisis which can happen on the Korea...
Guam is served by Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport.
www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/places/Guam   (374 words)

  
 Guam travel guide - Wikitravel
Guam is an island in the western North Pacific Ocean, about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to the Philippines.
Guam is a territory of the United States of America.
Guam is one of many islands that make of Micronesia, which politically consists of Belau (Palau), the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Kiribati (anthropologically having affinities with Polynesia and Micronesia), the Marshall Islands, and several remote islands designated as the U.S.-administered islands of the Central Pacific.
wikitravel.org /en/Guam   (1339 words)

  
 Guam Travel Tips
Guam and its neighbours were branded Islas de los Ladrones (Islands of Thieves) from then on and the name stuck well into the 20th century.
The citizens of Guam went about electing their first governor in 1970, and then two years later headed back to the ballot box to elect their first delegate to the US House of Representatives (albeit a non-voting one).
Guam's only indigenous mammals are a couple of species of bats, and the island's birdlife has been devoured by the infamous brown tree snake.
www.southtravels.com /pacific/guam/traveltips.html   (2104 words)

  
 Yigo, Guam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yigo (pronounced dzi-go) is the northern most village of the American Island of Guam and is the site of Andersen Air Force Base.
Yigo is historically one of Guam's richest farming areas.
During World War II, the village was the site of a concentration camp during Japanese occupation of the island.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yigo,_Guam   (208 words)

  
 Guam
Guam is an inviting tropical playground, with turquoise waters welcoming swimmers and wind surfers, and coral reefs beckoning snorkelers and SCUBA divers.
The name Guam comes from the ancient Chamorro word "Guahan," meaning "we have." The Chamorro people arrived on Guam from the Malay Peninsula around 3000 BCE, and they occupied the island alone until Ferdinand Magellan landed there in 1521.
As Ben drove me around the southern part of the island, the road wound through rolling green hills and alongside rustic shorelines, passing small farms and houses painted the same brilliant colors as the bougainvillea growing in their yards.
www.travellady.com /Issues/Issue79/79R-Guam.htm   (1804 words)

  
 Guam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Territory of Guam (Guahan in Chamorro) is an island in the Western Pacific Ocean and is an organized unincorporated territory of the United States.
Guam's history of colonialism is the longest along the Pacific islands, starting with Ferdinand Magellan's visit in 1521 during his around the world voyage.
Guam became a spoil of war and the United States took control of the island in 1898 after the Battle of Guam of 1898 in the Spanish-American War.
www.info-pedia.net /about/guam   (445 words)

  
 Guam
Guam is the largest and most southern island in the Mariana Islands archipelago in the western north Pacific Ocean, covering 212 square miles with a population of some 150,000 people.
The most developed island in Micronesia, it serves as a transportation and communications hub and is regarded as the gateway to Micronesia.
We parked high on the hill overlooking much of Guam and I am sure she was coming on to me but I was married and nothing happened.
www.janeresture.com /guam/guam.htm   (1758 words)

  
 Guam - Information from Reference.com
A federal Guam National Wildlife Refuge in northern Guam protects the decimated sea turtle population in addition to a small colony of Mariana fruit bats.
GUAM (Azerbaijani language: GUAM, Ukrainian language: ГУАМ, Geo.: სუამი) is a regional organization of four CIS states: Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova.
On April 21, the GUAM countries formed a common front on several issues in the CIS Foreign Ministers Council that was held at that time in Moscow.
www.reference.com /search?r=11&q=Guam   (4465 words)

  
 Guam Passes Limited Prescriptive Authority Law
Last December, Guam became the first jurisdiction of the United States to enact legislation granting limited prescription privileges to clinical psychologists.
The Guam legislature unanimously overrode a gubernatorial veto in the final hours of its 1998 session to pass the bill.
The recent development in Guam ushered in a year when the directorate’s legal and regulatory affairs staff anticipates increasing state-level activity related to securing prescription privileges for licensed psychologists.
www.apa.org /practice/pu/feb99/guam.html   (311 words)

  
 Guampedia - Guam's Online Encyclopedia
She graduated from George Washington High School in 1971 and the University of Guam with a B.A. in Communications in 1980.
She was a graduate student in the Micronesian Studies program at the University of Guam in the 1990s.
She founded and managed the Gaseta, a newspaper for Chamorros away from home from her San Francisco office from 1985 to 1989, and was the first coordinator of the Guam Cultural Fair, held in Vallejo, California in 1989.
www.guampedia.com /biographies/shannonMurphy.htm   (170 words)

  
 CCU Guam
Founding president of the Guam Jaycees, and served as Vice-President for the Jaycee International, and also was a founding member of the Chamorro Cultural Association.
In this position, he oversees the operations of both the Guam Power Authority and Guam Waterworks Authority, with a combined operating budget of $350 Million, assets in excess of $1 Billion and approximately 770 employees.
Santos is a Graduate of the Communication Officer Electronic Warfare Analyst School, and the Joint Armed Forces Staff College, and his Marine Corps commission included staff and command assignment with the Fleet Marine Force from company size to division/wing level in command, control, communications and intelligence.
www.ccuguam.com /bios.html   (1069 words)

  
 Guam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The DARE Program, affiliated with the Guam Police Department, identifies children that are likely to have been led by their peers to experiment with tobacco, drugs, and alcohol, and to prevent substance abuse among school children.
The program allows trained staff to assist in strengthening the family units of these troubled youth through effective communication and the application of a customised structured environment that is constantly monitored to ensure compliance by both the clients and their parents/guardians.
The Program sets out to reduce crime, violence and drug use in the school and community by empowering the youth to fight for their schools, with the understanding that only a very small percentage of the students are causing all the trouble.
www.spc.org.nc /youth/Country_briefs/guam.htm   (1993 words)

  
 Guam Map >> U.S. Pacific Island Territory of Guam
Guam Terrain: volcanic origin, surrounded by coral reefs; relatively flat coralline limestone plateau (source of most fresh water), with steep coastal cliffs and narrow coastal plains in north, low hills in center, mountains in south
Guam Judicial branch: Federal District Court (judge is appointed by the president); Territorial Superior Court (judges appointed for eight-year terms by the governor)
Guam Flag description: territorial flag is dark blue with a narrow red border on all four sides; centered is a red-bordered, pointed, vertical ellipse containing a beach scene, outrigger canoe with sail, and a palm tree with the word GUAM superimposed in bold red letters; US flag is the national flag
www.cccarto.com /guam_map   (1103 words)

  
 Guam's Industry
The traditional and largest employer on island remains the government of Guam, which employs thousands, in jobs ranging from posts in the governor's office, to workers in the government-operated or auto-nomous telephone, water and power companies.
The University of Guam and Guam Community College attract students from Micronesia's five island nations.
These, along with Guam's modern satellite links, have made Guam the communications hub of the Pacific.
www.guam.navy.mil /Industry.htm   (222 words)

  
 Guam Visitors Bureau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Guam Visitors Bureau (GVB) has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for Marketing Representation in Korea in a form attached hereto as Exhibit A and specifically incorporated herein by its reference.
The successful offeror can start their Guam contractual work with this list and of course, expand it as they develop and implement marketing programs for the Guam account.
We also require them to regularly communicate via email and telephone with the travel agencies and provide in the monthly report details of their communication activities with the travel trade.
www.visitguam.org /about_gvb/?pg=korea_marketing_representation_rfp   (1491 words)

  
 Factsheets : Milstar Satellite Communications System : Milstar Satellite Communications System
Milstar is a joint service satellite communications system that provides secure, jam resistant, worldwide communications to meet essential wartime requirements for high priority military users.
Since the satellite actually processes the communications signal and can link with other Milstar satellites through crosslinks, the requirement for ground controlled switching is significantly reduced.
A key goal of Milstar is to provide interoperable communications among the users of Army, Navy, and Air Force Milstar terminals.
www.af.mil /factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=118   (457 words)

  
 Family Housing
The center encourages service members to work closely with their sponsors, whether the newcomer is a single military member or a military member traveling with a family.
The Navy Housing Welcome Center is currently located outside Naval Base Guam main gate at the Reserve Center Building, phone: (671) 333-2081 or (671) 333-2082.
A satellite office for the northern side of the island is currently located in Building 134, phone: (671) 355-5811 or (671) 355-5051.
www.guam.navy.mil /familyhousing.htm   (135 words)

  
 GUAM - REGIONAL RELEASES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Guam's shopping landscape has been accentuated with the entrance on October 7, of the newest corporate giant which has become the anchor store for Guam Premium Outlets in Tamuning.
The 13th Air Force was beefed up by the activation of the 613th Contingency Response Squadron on November 9 at Andersen AFB, Guam.
The primary responsibility of the 40 person unit is to provide the Pacific Command a "highly mobile, self-sustaining rapid-response unit…" According to Maj. Gen.
www.investguam.com /economic/regionalreleases.htm   (154 words)

  
 Guam Community College: Sign Language Interpreting
Individuals who become interpreters become communication and cultural mediators for deaf, hard of hearing and deaf-blind consumers in a variety of communication modalities within the educational and community setting.
Aspects of the deaf community and culture are incorporated.
The purpose of this course is to acquaint the student with the basics of interpreting, to understand what interpreting involves and the professional requirements for being an interpreter.
www.guamcc.net /eduprogram/Programs/sign.html   (1028 words)

  
 Welcome to Guam-ASP.NET
Particular attention is given to the development of XML Web services using for local businesses, and integration of.NET applications with many of the platforms in use today by Guam organizations.
With so little (if any) true e-commerce applications being in use now by Guam companies, this is the time to really capitalize on taking our collective game to the next level.
Guam's leading online source for news, information, and entertainment has implemented IT solutions to streamline its operations and service its viewers by using next-generation Web technology.
www.guam-asp.net   (432 words)

  
 GCN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Our mission is to facilitate increased public awareness of the issues concerning the Chamorro people and culture through education, coalition building, and advocacy.
Guam Communications Network (GCN) serves as a network to connect Chamorros in the community while providing a means to interact with their homeland.
Through it's Chamorro Arts and Cultural Center, GCN's mission is to encourage the promotion of the continuing practice and survival of the artistic expression of Chamorro folk, traditional and contemporary arts and artisans.
www.guamcomnet.org /about_us_mission.asp   (104 words)

  
 Guam Postcards and Picture Galleries
Guam is the largest and most southern island in the Mariana Islands archipelago in the western north Pacific Ocean.
It is the most developed island in Micronesia, it serves as a transportation and communications hub and is the gateway to Micronesia.
These depict the culture, history, geography and the lifestyle of the people of Guam.
www.janeresture.com /guam_gallery/index.htm   (221 words)

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