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Sailors SAILORS. Seamen, mariners. Vide Mariners; Seamen; Shipping Articles. and Marines aboard Tarawa Tarawa (tərä`wə, tăr`əwä), atoll (1990 pop. 28,802), capital of Kiribati, central Pacific, previously capital of the former British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. (LHA A popular freeware compression program developed by Haruyasu Yoshizaki that uses a variant of the LZW (LZ77) dictionary method followed by a Huffman coding stage. It runs on PCs, Unix and other platforms as its source code is also free. 1) became the focus of a film crew recently when National Geographic sent a team to get footage for a documentary about preparing for deployments. For a week, various Sailors and Marines allowed the crew to film aspects of their daily lifestyle and roles in training exercises, including mass casualty and search-and-rescue drills, and well deck and flight operations.
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