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Kokichi Nishimura. Kōkichi Nishimura (西村幸吉, Nishimura Kōkichi, 8 December 1919 – 25 October 2015) was a Japanese soldier and businessman who devoted his post-retirement years to traveling to Papua New Guinea to recover the remains of his former comrades and other Japanese soldiers who died during the Second World War.
The Falling Man is a photograph taken by Associated Press photographer Richard Drew of a man falling from the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in New York City. The unidentified man in the image was trapped on the upper floors of the North Tower , and it is unclear whether he fell while searching for safety or he jumped to ...
The indigenous peoples of Western New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, commonly called Papuans, [1] are Melanesians.There is genetic evidence for two major historical lineages in New Guinea and neighboring islands: a first wave from the Malay Archipelago perhaps 50,000 years ago when New Guinea and Australia were a single landmass called Sahul and, much later, a wave of Austronesian ...
Papua New Guinea, [ note 1] officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, [ 13][ note 2] is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia ).
The term may be often found in many historical works dealing with Papua New Guinea. Andrew Strathern [ 3 ] applies the concept of big-men to a community in Mount Hagen , Papua New Guinea. Traditionally, among peoples of non- Austronesian -speaking communities, authority was obtained by a man (the so-called "big man") recognised as "performing ...
New Guinea located in relation to Melanesia. Papua New Guinea map of Köppen climate classification. New Guinea is an island to the north of the Australian mainland, south of the equator. It is isolated by the Arafura Sea to the west, and the Torres Strait and Coral Sea to the east.
Lae, Papua New Guinea [1] 20 km walk (road) 2:12:13 Joe Kaikai: 14 September 1991 South Pacific Games: Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea [1] 50 km walk (road) 4×100 m relay: 40.29 Papua New Guinea Allan Akia Peter Pulu Amos Ali Sabul Babo: 24 August 1995 South Pacific Games: Pirae, French Polynesia [1] 4×200 m relay: 1:26.96 Papua New Guinea ...
The Huli are an indigenous Melanesian ethnic group who reside in Hela Province of Papua New Guinea. They speak mainly Huli and Tok Pisin; many also speak some of the surrounding languages, and some also speak English. They are one of the largest cultural groups in Papua New Guinea, numbering over 250,000 people (based on the population of Hela ...