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Macrocystis is a monospecific genus; the sole species is M. pyrifera.Some individuals are so huge that the thallus may grow to up to 60 m (200 ft). [6] The stipes arise from a holdfast and branch three or four times from near the base.
Bushemi was born in Centerville, Iowa, on April 19, 1917. [1] [2] He was the son of Italian immigrants, [3] the seventh of nine children (six boys and three girls).John's father, Pietro Buscemi, was a native of Calascibetta, Sicily, who immigrated to the United States in 1906, while John's mother, Angelina Cariota, arrived in 1909 with Pietro and Angelina's eldest son, Mario (later called ...
An alternative offset would be to cultivate kelp forests. Kelp can grow at 2 feet per day, 30 times faster than terrestrial plants. Planting kelp across 10% of the oceans (4.5 x the area of Australia) could provide the same offset. Additionally, the kelp would support a fish harvest of 2 megatons per year and reduce ocean acidification. Large ...
Fury in the Pacific is a 1945 American documentary short film about a pair of World War II battles in the Pacific: the Battle of Peleliu and the Battle of Angaur.It was co-produced by the United States Army, United States Navy, and the United States Marines, and directed by a series of combat cameraman — of whom nine became casualties of the battles they were filming. [1]
William Homer Genaust (12 October 1906 – 4 March 1945) was an American war photographer during World War II best known for filming the second U.S. flag-raising on top of Mount Suribachi on 23 February 1945, which was immortalized in Joe Rosenthal's famous photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima.
The Aleutian Islands campaign (Japanese: アリューシャン方面の戦い, romanized: Aryūshan hōmen no tatakai) was a military campaign fought between 3 June 1942 and 15 August 1943 on and around the Aleutian Islands in the American Theater of World War II during the Pacific War. It was the only military campaign of World War II fought ...
Various firearms used by the United States military during World War II, displayed at the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax County, Virginia. The following is a list of World War II weapons of the United States, which includes firearm, artillery, vehicles, vessels, and other support equipment known to have been used by the United States Armed Forces—namely the United States Army, United ...
Wilson's time exposure of Japanese attack on Marines at Bloody Nose Ridge, Fall, 1944, with dramatic tracer ammunition fire SSgt William G. Wilson, Combat Cameraman with 2nd Marine Air Wing in South Pacific, in 1944. Wilson began his film career as a combat cameraman with the United States Marine Corps in the South Pacific during World War II.