1) Guam. The World Factbook. 2003
... Background:Guam was ceded to the US by Spain in 1898. Captured by the Japanese in 1941, it was retaken by the US three years later. The military installation on...
2) Guam. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Guam, (gwam) (KEY) , the largest, most populous, and southernmost of the Mariana Islands (see also Northern Mariana Islands, an unincorporated territory of the United...
3) Guam. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...Guam (GWAHM) A self-governing island territory of the United States, located in the western Pacific Ocean. With important naval and air bases, Guam is an American...
4) Guam. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...United States, the largest and most southerly of the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. Discovered by Magellan in 1521, the island was ceded by Spain to...
5) Clear out for Guam (To). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...clearing outwards, some port should be named; and it became the habit of captains to name "Guam" (a small island of the Ladrone group) as the hypothetical destination....
6) Guamuchil. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
...Guamuchil (gwah-MOO-chil), city (1990 pop. 49,635), Salvador Alvarado municipio, Sinaloa, NW Mexico, on Mocorito R., on RR, and 60 mi/97 km NW of Culiacan Rosales;...
7) Agana. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Agaña, (aga´nya) (KEY) , Chamorro Hagatna, city (1990 pop. 4,785), capital of the island of Guam, W Pacific, in the Mariana Islands. It is the administrative center...
8) Rota. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...An island of the western Pacific Ocean in the southern Mariana Islands north of Guam. The Japanese used it as a base for their attack on Guam on December 11, 1941....
9) Mariana Islands. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...An island group in the western Pacific Ocean east of the Philippines. Guam, the largest island of the group, is independent of the others, which are known formally...
10) Marianas. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Marianas, see Northern Mariana Islands and Guam....
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