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Solomons Campaign (game)
Solomons may refer to: Places * Solomon Islands, a sovereign state * Solomon Islands (archipelago), an archipelago that includes the sovereign state nation of Solomon Islands and the Papua New Guinea island of Bougainville * British Solomon Islands, the Solomon Islands apart from Bougainville before 1978 * North Solomon Islands, the area of the Solomon Islands archipelago previously under German control and covering Bougainville and what are now the northwestern provinces of Solomon Islands * Solomons, Maryland, USA * Solomons Island: see Solomons, Maryland Military * Solomon Islands campaign, a World War II campaign People * Adolphus Solomons (1826–1910), American philanthropist *Adrian Solomons (1922–1991), Australian politician * Anzel Solomons (born 1978), South African chess master *Burt Solomons (born 1950), American attorney * David Solomons (accounting scholar) (1912–1995), British/American accounting scholar * David Solomons (photographer) (born 1965), Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania, to the east of Papua New Guinea and north-west of Vanuatu. It has a land area of , and a population of approx. 700,000. Its capital, Honiara, is located on the largest island, Guadalcanal. The country takes its name from the wider area of the Solomon Islands (archipelago), which is a collection of Melanesian islands that also includes the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (currently a part of Papua New Guinea), but excludes the Santa Cruz Islands. The islands have been settled since at least some time between 30,000 and 28,800 BCE, with later waves of migrants, notably the Lapita people, mixing and producing the modern indigenous Solomon Islanders population. In 1568, the Spanish navigator Álvaro de Mendaña was the first European to visit them. Though not named by Mendaña, it is believed that the islands were called ''"the Solomons"'' by those who later r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solomon Islands (archipelago)
The Solomon Islands (archipelago) is an island group in the western South Pacific Ocean, north-east of Australia. The archipelago is in the Melanesian subregion and bioregion of Oceania and forms the eastern boundary of the Solomon Sea. The many islands of the archipelago are distributed across Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands (country). The largest island in the archipelago is the Bougainville Island, which is a part of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (currently a part of Papua New Guinea) along with Buka Island, the Nukumanu Islands, and a number of smaller nearby islands. Much of the remainder falls within the territory of Solomon Islands and include the atolls of Ontong Java, Sikaiana, the raised coral atolls of Bellona and Rennell, and the high islands of Choiseul, Guadalcanal, Makira, Malaita, New Georgia, the Nggelas, Santa Isabel, and the Shortlands. Geography The Solomon Islands (archipelago) consists of over 1,000 islands, ranging fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Solomon Islands
The British Solomon Islands Protectorate was first declared over the southern Solomons in 1893, when Captain Gibson, R.N., of , declared the southern islands a British protectorate. Other islands were subsequently declared to form part of the Protectorate. Establishment and addition of islands After the Anglo-German Declarations about the Western Pacific Ocean, the Protectorate was first declared over the southern Solomons in 1893. The formalities in its establishment were carried out by officers of the Royal Navy, who hoisted the British flag and read Proclamations on twenty-one islands. In April 1896, Charles Morris Woodford was appointed as an Acting Deputy Commissioner of the British Western Pacific Territories. From 30 May to 10 August 1896, HMS ''Pylades'' toured through the Solomon Islands archipelago with Woodford, who had been sent to survey the islands and to report on the economic feasibility of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate. On 29 September 189 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Solomon Islands
The Northern Solomons were the more northerly group of islands in the Solomon Islands (archipelago) over which Germany declared a protectorate in 1885. Initially, the German Solomon Islands Protectorate included, in the south-east, Choiseul, Santa Isabel, and the Shortland Islands, along with Ontong Java Atoll. These were transferred to the British Solomon Islands Protectorate in 1900. The main island in the region, Bougainville, continued under German administration until World War I, when it fell to Australia, and after the war, it formally passed to Australian jurisdiction under a League of Nations mandate. Today, what were the North Solomon Islands are split between the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (Papua New Guinea) and the sovereign state of Solomon Islands. The latter gained independence in 1976 and succeeded the British Solomon Islands Protectorate known for decades before 1975 as the British Solomon Islands. History On 17 February 1568, the Spanis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solomons, Maryland
Solomons, also known as Solomons Island, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Calvert County, Maryland, United States. The population was 2,368 at the 2010 census, up from 1,536 in 2000. Solomons is a popular weekend destination spot in the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area. Geography Solomons is located at the southern tip of Calvert County at (38.336431, −76.464102). It includes Solomons Island and mainland on the north side of the mouth of Patuxent River, where it meets the Chesapeake Bay. It is just across from the U.S. Naval Air Station Patuxent River (on the south side of the mouth of the Patuxent River). According to the United States Census Bureau, the Solomons CDP has a total area of , of which is land and , or 14.76%, is water, consisting mainly of Back Creek, a tidal inlet that extends north from the Patuxent River. Climate The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solomon Islands Campaign
The Solomon Islands campaign was a major campaign of the Pacific War of World War II. The campaign began with Japanese landings and occupation of several areas in the British Solomon Islands and Bougainville, in the Territory of New Guinea, during the first six months of 1942. The Japanese occupied these locations and began the construction of several naval and air bases with the goals of protecting the flank of the Japanese offensive in New Guinea, establishing a security barrier for the major Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain, and providing bases for interdicting supply lines between the Allied powers of the United States and Australia and New Zealand. The Allies, to defend their communication and supply lines in the South Pacific, supported a counteroffensive in New Guinea, isolated the Japanese base at Rabaul, and counterattacked the Japanese in the Solomons with landings on Guadalcanal (see Guadalcanal campaign) and small neighboring islands on 7 August 1942. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolphus Solomons
Adolphus Simeon Solomons (October 26, 1826 – March 18, 1910) was a Jewish-American philanthropist. Life Solomons was born on October 26, 1826, in New York City, New York, the son of John Solomons and Julia Levy. His father was an English immigrant who conducted the '' New York Courier and Enquirer'' with James Watson Webb. Solomons studied at the University of the City of New York. He initially worked for a firm of wholesale importers of stationary and fancy goods. Within two years, he became its head bookkeeper and confidential man. When he was fourteen, he enlisted in the New York National Guard and became a color guard for the Third Regiment Washington Greys.He was promoted to sergeant five years later, and was discharged from service in 1847. In 1851, Secretary of State Daniel Webster appointed him "Special Bearer of Dispatches to Berlin." While working abroad, he visited a Jewish ward in a Frankfurt hospital and became inspired to establish a similar institution in New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Solomons
Sir Louis Adrian Solomons (9 June 1922 – 20 December 1991) was an Australian politician. He was a Country Party (later National Party) member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1969 to 1991. Solomons was born in Tamworth and educated at local high schools. He attended the University of New England and the University of Sydney, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1945 and a Doctor of Laws in 1949. He served in the 2nd Australian Infantry Force 1940–46, including overseas service with the 9th Australian Division. On 29 November 1944 he married Olwyn Bishop, with whom he had two sons. In 1949, the year he was admitted as a solicitor, he joined the Country Party. He was a member of the New South Wales Advisory Committee in the Australian Broadcasting Commission and chairman of Tamworth Celebrity Concerts from 1960 to 1967; he was also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1976. On 12 March 1969 Solomons was elected unopposed to the New S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anzel Solomons
Anzel Solomons ( Laubscher, born 6 January 1978) is a South African chess player. She received the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in 2003. Career She was awarded the title of Woman International Master for her victory in the FIDE Africa zone tournament in Botswana. In 2007, in Windhoek, Anzel Solomons won a silver medal in the African Women's Chess Championship. In 2008, in Nalchik Anzel Solomons participated in the Women's World Chess Championship, where she lost in the first round to Xu Yuhua. In 2011, she finished 2nd in the women's international Swiss-system tournament in Luanda Luanda () is the capital and largest city in Angola. It is Angola's primary port, and its major industrial, cultural and urban centre. Located on Angola's northern Atlantic coast, Luanda is Angola's administrative centre, its chief seaport .... In 2014, Anzel Solomons won her second silver medal in the African Women's Chess Championship. She has played for South Africa at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burt Solomons
Burt Rowe Solomons (born October 31, 1950) is an attorney from North Carrollton, Texas, who was from 1995 to 2013 a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 65 in suburban southeastern Denton County. Background Solomons was born and reared in Dallas, Texas, where he attended Thomas Jefferson High School. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in government in 1972 from Texas Tech University in Lubbock. He subsequently received a Master of Public Administration degree from Southern Methodist University in University Park outside Dallas, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Tulsa College of Law in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1978, Solomons was named assistant city attorney and was thereafter, briefly, the acting city attorney of Denton. He was the presiding municipal judge in Carrollton from 1987 to 1993 and an alternate municipal judge in Lewisville and Flower Mound. From 1993 to 1994, he was the president of the Texas Municipal Courts Associa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Solomons (accounting Scholar)
David Solomons (October 11, 1912 – February 12, 1995) was a British/American accounting scholar, known from his work on accounting and business management, its concepts, standards, history and politicization. Biography Born in London, Solomons obtained his BCom from the London School of Economics in 1932. In 1936 he obtained his Chartered Accountant licence for England and Wales, and became Associate of the Chartered Accountants. From 1936 to 1939 he was accountant at Lawrence Robson & Co in London, now Robson Rhodes. In the Second World War he served in the British Army, where he was captured in 1942 during the North African Campaign. In internment camps in Italy and Germany he lectured accounting and economics until his release in April 1945. On invitation of his undergraduate teacher Arnold Plant, Solomons started his academic career at the London School of Economics in 1946 as part-time lecturer. After the death of Stanley W. Rowland in 1947 he work full-time, and was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Solomons (photographer)
David Solomons (born 31 December 1965) is a British street photographer. He is known for his photographs in London, where he has made a trilogy of self-published books: ''Underground'' (2009), ''Up West'' (2015) and ''Kippers and Curtains'' (2018). He was a member of the In-Public street photography collective. ''Up West'' was shown in a solo exhibition at Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff, in 2010 and his work is held in the collection of the Museum of London. Life and work Solomons studied documentary photography at the University of South Wales in Newport between 1993 and 1996. During this period he changed from primarily photographing in black and white to the colour work he is mostly known for. His first major piece of work, ''Underground'', depicting people using the London Underground, was completed during his studies in Newport but not published for fifteen years. He was a member of the In-Public street photography collective, having joined in 2008. Books Books and zines by S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
