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Palau: Experience the wonders of this tropical paradise

Palau’s 500 tropical islands offer endless attractions across both land and sea. Visitors will find a wide variety of experiences, from the wildly adventurous to the luxuriously relaxing.
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Local media identify man killed by wounded Andersen Air Force Base guard

The Defense Department civilian security guard stabbed Thursday morning while apprehending an intruder at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam is recovering, Air Force officials said this week.
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Man shot by security forces dies after intruding into Andersen Air Force Base on Guam

An intruder who fled from police into Andersen Air Force Base Wednesday evening and stabbed a Defense Department civilian security forces member has died from gunshot wounds inflicted by security forces.
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Kantan Chamorita: Impromptu verse making

Kantan Chamorita is the contemporary name given to traditional call-and-response, impromptu verse-making. Practitioners refer to the genre as ayotte’, meaning to throw (verses) back and forth. Early missionaries of the 17th century observed the practice of poetic debate that took place between clans who gathered to compete to see who could sing...
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Remote Island Micro-Brewery has been Refreshing Divers for 20 Years

Beer and seafaring. They go together like fish and chips. Since the 5th millennium B.C. when beer was first fermented by the Mesopotamians, the two have been irrevocably entwined.
KONQER Enduro competitor Billy Navarette traverses the Monkey Kong obstacle during KONQER Guam’s recent K11 Obstacle Course Challenge, as part of the 2019 Apocalypse Tour.
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Konqer to host first-ever OCR Enduro Championship in Rota

KONQER, Guam’s original obstacle course race (OCR), continues its expansion across Micronesia with the first-ever Enduro Championship (E1) event on Rota on September 14, according to KONQER chief experience officer Kaz Endo.
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Get to know Guam: Inarajan (Inalåhan) Old-world Spanish-style charm

The village’s Chamorro name, Inalåhan, probably refers to the åla or large woven coconut-leaf harvest baskets for which the village was noted. The name could also be derived from the word hålla, meaning to pull something or move something with a rope tied to it.
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Pirates, Buccaneers, and Privateers of Guam

Although the word ‘pirate’ is used in early documents, secondary literature on Guam’s history has also referred to these pirates as ‘adventurers’, ‘buccaneers’ and ‘privateers’ which refer to the same profession of, among other things, preying upon and stealing from ships, with the primary objective being Spanish galleons carrying gold and silver.

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