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	Medinilla -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Medinilla (Medinilla magnifica in the Family (A family of trees and bushes and herbs of order Myrtales; many are cultivated as ornamentals) Melastomataceae) is a bush that blooms with light purple to vivid pink flowers.
		It is native to the (A republic on the Philippine Islands; achieved independence from the United States in 1946) Philippines.
		The genus was named in 1820 after governor J. de Medinilla of the (A chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia (including Guam and the Northern Marianas) halfway between New Guinea and Japan; discovered by Magellan in 1521) Mariana Islands.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/me/medinilla.htm (110 words)

	Pagan, Northern Marianas, a Close-Up Look at an Active Volcano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The islands of the Marianas (which include Guam at the southernmost end), are arranged in two parallel arcs.
		Closest to the trench is the inactive frontal arc, which runs north from Guam to Medinilla, and then continues underwater in a series of seamounts.
		To the west runs the active volcanic arc, going from Farallon de Pajaros in the north to Anatahan in the south, where the chain passes underwater.
	www.heptune.com /pagan.html (1158 words)

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