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Battleship USS California sinking. California was hit by two bombs and two torpedoes. The crew might have kept her afloat, but were ordered to abandon ship just as they were raising power for the pumps.

Zeroes of the second wave preparing to take off from Shōkakufor Pearl Harbor.

A Japanese Mitsubishi A6M2 "Zero"fighter airplane of the second wave takes off from the aircraft carrier Akagion the morning of December 7, 1941.

Arizona during the attack.

Second wave composition.

The second wave consisted of 171 planes: 54 B5Ns, 81 D3As, and 36 A6Ms, commanded by Lieutenant-Commander Shigekazu Shimazaki. Four planes failed to launch because of technical difficulties. This wave and its targets comprised:

*. 1st Group– 54 B5Ns armed with 550 lb (249 kg) and 132 lb (60 kg) general-purpose bombs.

*. 27 B5Ns – aircraft and hangars on Kaneohe, Ford Island, and Barbers Point.

*. 27 B5Ns – hangars and aircraft on Hickam Field.

*. 2nd Group(targets: aircraft carriers and cruisers).

*. 78 D3As armed with 550 lb (249 kg) general-purpose bombs, in four sections (3 aborted).

*.3rd Group– (targets: aircraft at Ford Island, Hickam Field, Wheeler Field, Barber's Point, Kaneohe).

*.35 A6Ms for defense and strafing (1 aborted)The second wave was divided into three groups. One was tasked to attack Kāneʻohe, the rest Pearl Harbor proper. The separate sections arrived at the attack point almost simultaneously from several directions.

The Japanese attacked in two waves. The first wave was detected by U.S. Army radar at 136 nautical miles (252 km), but was misidentified as USAAF bombers arriving from the American mainland.


The first attack wave of 183 planes was launched north of Oahu, led by Commander Mitsuo Fuchida. Six planes failed to launch due to technical difficulties. It included:

*. 1st Group(targets: battleships and aircraft carriers).

*. 49 Nakajima B5N Kate bombers armed with 800 kg (1760 lb) armor-piercing bombs, organized in four sections (1 failed to launch).

*. 40 B5N bombers armed with Type 91 torpedoes, also in four sections.

*. 2nd Group (targets:Ford island and wheeler Field)

*. 51 Val dive bombers armed with 550 lb (249 kg) general-purpose bombs (3 failed to launch).

*. 3rd Group (targets: aircraft at Ford Island, Hickam Field, Wheeler Field, Barber's Point, Kaneohe)

*. 43 Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" fighters for air control and strafing (2 failed to launch).

* Date: December 7, 1941.


* Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, U.S.


* Result/Aftermath:

Japanese major tactical victory.

U.S. declaration of war on the Empire of Japan.

Germany and Italy declare war on the United States.

United States declares war on Germany.

United States declares war on Italy.

Entrance of the United States of America into World War II.

* Commanders and leaders:

U.S.: Husband E. Kimmel, Walter Short.

Japan: Chuichi Nagumo, Isoroku Yamamoto.


* Casualties and losses.

U.S.

2 battleships totally lost.
2 battleships sunk and recovered.
3 battleships damaged.
1 battleship grounded.
2 other ships sunk.
3 cruisers damaged.
3 destroyers damaged.
3 other ships damaged.
188 aircraft destroyed.
159 aircraft damaged.
2,403 killed.
1,178 wounded.

Japan.

4 midget submarines sunk.
1 midget submarine grounded.
29 aircraft destroyed.
64 killed.
1 captured.


The attack on Pearl Harbor, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against theUnited States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. Japan intended the attack as a preventive action to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan planned in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. Over the next seven hours there were coordinated Japanese attacks on the U.S.-held Philippines, Guam and Wake Island and on the British Empire in Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong. The attack commenced at 7:48 a.m. Hawaiian Time. The base was attacked by 353 Japanese fighter planes, bombers, and torpedo planes in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers. All eight U.S. Navy battleships were damaged, with four sunk. All but Arizona were later raised, and six were returned to service and went on to fight in the war. The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship, and one minelayer. 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed; 2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 others were wounded. Important base installations such as the power station, shipyard, maintenance, and fuel and torpedo storage facilities, as well as the submarine piers and headquarters building (also home of theintelligence section) were not attacked. Japanese losses were light: 29 aircraft and five midget submarines lost, and 64 servicemen killed. One Japanese sailor, Kazuo Sakamaki, was captured.

The attack took place before any formal declaration of war was made by Japan, but this was not Admiral Yamamoto's intention. He originally stipulated that the attack should not commence until thirty minutes after Japan had informed the United States that peace negotiations were at an end. The Japanese tried to uphold the conventions of war while still achieving surprise, but the attack began before the notice could be delivered. Tokyo transmitted the 5000-word notification (commonly called the "14-Part Message" ) in two blocks to the Japanese Embassy in Washington, but transcribing the message took too long for the Japanese ambassador to deliver it in time. (In fact, U.S. code breakers had already deciphered and translated most of the message hours before he was scheduled to deliver it.) The final part of the "14 Part Message" is sometimes described as a declaration of war. While it neither declared war nor severed diplomatic relations, it was viewed by a number of senior U.S government and military officials as a very strong indicator that negotiations were likely to be terminated and that war might break out at any moment. A declaration of war was printed on the front page of Japan's newspapers in the evening edition of December 8, but not delivered to the U.S. government until the day after the attack.


source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C6077065849

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Dance scene.

On the raft, looking at the stars.

On the raft.

Aston Martin.

Then and now.

Fueling vs charging.

SkinnyDude:
i don't mind working overtime.. i can even pack my bags and start leaving in the office....

Lol.

whitecloth:
Ah! Explorer, you need to be here, its like someone forgot to close the door or hell.

The heat for where i dey na D.I.E. For morning i go bath&i go dey sweat. Fan sef go make am worse cos na heat d fan go blow.
gidoka na so o, d heat give me inspiration sharply.

17. The past nine years have all been among the 25 hottest temperatures in history.
On the list of the 25 hottest years in the history of the Earth according to NASA, the last nine years are all included. This means that compared to the temperature of the world before, the world today is much hotter.


http://list25.com/25-alarming-global-warming-statistics/5/

16. More than 1 million species have already faced extinction due to global warming.
Global warming does not simply cause a significant increase in the temperature of the earth but also leads to the destruction of habitats and ecosystems. This explains why over a million species have already become extinct.

15. Scientists believed the temperature of the earth will soon become 5.8 degrees higher.

14. The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have decreased in mass. Data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment show Greenland lost 150 to 250 cubic kilometers (36 to 60 cubic miles) of ice per year between 2002 and 2006, while Antarctica lost about152 cubic kilometers (36 cubic miles) of ice between 2002 and 2005.

13. Of the land in California, 99.84 percent is experiencing drought.

12. The golden toad was the first species to go extinct because of climate change and habitat loss.

11. Over 100 million people living in coastal regions will be displaced by just a one-yard rise in sea levels.

2. 2014 was the world’s hottest year on record, surpassing the previous record set in 2010, tied with 2005.


3. Melting ice caps have caused sea levels in the north to rise. For the first time in hundreds of years, ships can pass through the fabled Northwest Passage above North America.


4. Among climate scientists, 97 percent agree that human-caused climate change is happening here and now. The sooner we act to slow the rate of climate change, the lower the risk and cost for future generations.


5. Cows produce more methane than the oil industry does: 20 percent of U.S. methane gas emissions is produced by farmed cattle burps and farts.


6. While the U.S. is trying to reduce their greenhouse gases, China plans to construct one coal-based electrical power station each week for the next 10 years.


7. Coal combustion creates 40 percent of electricity worldwide but also is responsible for "30 percent of total anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions worldwide, and 72 percent of CO2 emissions from global power generation," making renewable energy sources like wind or solar more cost-effective in the long run.


8. Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the acidity of surface ocean waters has increased by about 30 percent.


9. In 1896, Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius was the first to say that burning fossil fuels may eventually result in global warming.


10. The Montana Glacier National Park has only 25 glaciers left from the 150 that were there in the year 1910.

1. Approximately 600,000 deaths occurred worldwide as a result of weather-related natural disasters in the 1990s, where 95 percent of those deaths took place in developing countries.

Global warming and climate change affect absolutely everyone and everything on this planet, but with so many models, theories, and predictions, it can get confusing to know who or what to believe about the environment anymore. Global warming and climate change are terms for the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects. Multiple lines of scientific evidence show that the climate system is warming.
Future climate change and associated impacts will differ from region to region around the globe. Anticipated effects include warming global temperature, rising sea levels, changing precipitation, and expansion of deserts in the subtropics. Warming is expected to be greater over land than over the oceans and greatest in the Arctic, with the continuing retreat of glaciers, permafrost and sea ice. Other likely changes include more frequent extreme weather events including heat waves, droughts, heavy rainfall with floods and heavysnowfall, ocean acidification, and species extinctions due to shifting temperature regimes. Effects significant to humans include the threat to food security from decreasing crop yields and the abandonment of populated areas due to rising sea levels.
Here are some facts about climate change and global warming and how the phenomena are literally changing the planet.


http://www.techtimes.com/articles/55460/20150527/21-amazing-facts-global-warming-climate-change.htm

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When President Obama met Usain Bolt he could not resist joining the world-class sprinter in striking his pose.


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Tourists ride vintage American convertibles as they pass by the United States embassy in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016. President Barack Obama said that he will visit Cuba on March 21-22, making him the first sitting president in more than half a century to visit the island nation. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

The Amsterdam office is a feel good office, 'It is a place that makes the employee perform better by offering a work environment that meets their needs.'


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