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    Cocos Fire, originally known as the Twin Oaks Fire, was a wildfire that ignited on May 14, 2014 in San Marcos, California, in the hills south of California...
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    preceded by a precursor fire that ignited on May 5. The Bernardo Fire has been declared accidental, and officials believe the Cocos Fire was intentionally set...
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    The Battle of Cocos was a single-ship action that occurred on 9 November 1914, after the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney, under the command of John...
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    Coconut (redirect from Cocos nucifera)
    The coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the palm tree family (Arecaceae) and the only living species of the genus Cocos. The term "coconut" (or...
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    boundaries around the Pacific Ocean. These include: the Antarctic, Nazca and Cocos plates subducting beneath the South American plate; the Pacific and Juan...
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    least 19 more individual wildfires, with ten of them receiving names. The Cocos Fire, which was the most destructive with 40 structured being destroyed, was...
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    SMS Emden (category Shipwrecks of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands)
    Zhemchug and the French destroyer Mousquet. Müller then took Emden to raid the Cocos Islands, where he landed a contingent of sailors to destroy British facilities...
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    November 1914, she defeated the German cruiser SMS Emden at the Battle of Cocos. During 1915 and 1916, Sydney operated on the North America and West Indies...
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    The Ayesha owned by Clunies-Ross of Cocos Keeling Islands was a wooden topsail schooner, which was commandeered by a landing party of the German light...
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  • (cocos2d-x)[citation needed] Cookie Run: OvenBreak Fire Emblem Heroes Magia Record Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery (cocos creator) FlyMe2theMoon (cocos2d) Starling...
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    Northern Territory (Alice Springs, Darwin) 08 90 Kalgoorlie 08 91 Derby [inc. Cocos/Keeling & Christmas Islands.] 08 92 Perth 08 93 Perth 08 94 Perth 08 95...
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  • time, Ceylonese units were deployed outside Ceylon in formation until the Cocos Islands Mutiny after which deployment overseas of Ceylonese units was stopped...
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    Queensland) A manually controlled Fire Danger Rating Sign new system since 2022 An electronically controlled Fire Danger Rating Sign new system since...
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    northern South America. Two species are found on Pacific islands: one on Cocos Island (S. laeve) and one in Indonesia and the Philippines (S. commutatum)...
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  • Gratien Fernando (category History of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands)
    Gratien Hubert Fernando CGA (1915 – 5 August 1942) was the leader of the Cocos Islands Mutiny and an agitator for the independence of Sri Lanka from the...
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  • August 2017. Retrieved 3 May 2017. "Inner West Council Administrator Under Fire for Same-Sex Marriage Support". Archived from the original on 16 July 2016...
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    China Bay RAF Vavuniya Ceylon (1942–1945) – now SLAF Vavuniya RAF Cocos Islands Cocos (Keeling) Islands (1942–46) RAF Aboukir Egypt 1916–47, home to the...
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  • plate. It is approximately 1000 kilometers long. It overlies the Rivera and Cocos slabs. It’s a unique volcanic belt, as it is not parallel to the Middle...
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    McDonald Islands, the Indian Ocean territories (Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands), Norfolk Island, and the Australian Antarctic Territory...
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    the southwest, as well as maritime border with Ecuador to the south of Cocos Island. It has a population of around five million in a land area of nearly...
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    Islands, Costa Rica's Cocos Island and Colombia's Malpelo Island (all oceanic) as making up a Spanish language segment of Oceania. Cocos Island and Malpelo...
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    Great Kanto Earthquake struck the city, and the earthquake and subsequent fire killed an estimated 105,000 citizens. The loss amounted to 37 percent of...
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    rugged south of the island is a result of more recent volcanic activity. Cocos Island off the southern tip of Guam is the largest of the many small islets...
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    regarded as part of Southeast Asia. Similarly, Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands have strong cultural ties with Maritime Southeast Asia...
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    expedition to the Arctic Circle and participated in a treasure hunt on Cocos Island. He wrote several books relating to his experiences in polar exploration...
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    white beaches. The vegetation consists mainly of higher pandanus, coconut, (Cocos nucifera) and associated species of coastal forests. The low vegetation...
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    North American plate along the San Andreas Fault, and a boundary with the Cocos plate. The south-eastern side is a divergent boundary with the Nazca plate...
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    America formed by subduction of the Cocos Plate underneath the Caribbean Plate. These volcanoes are part of the Ring of Fire around the Pacific Ocean. Volcán...
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    Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney and was defeated in the Battle of Cocos by the Australian ship's heavier guns (6-inch with Emden only 4-inch guns))...
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    chromatography". Food Quality and Safety. 2 (4): 199–204. doi:10.1093/fqsafe/fyy013. "Cocos nucifera". Fao.org. Archived from the original on 14 October 2012. Retrieved...
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