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March 16, 1972. Designated CP. June 20, 1990. The Jean P. Haydon Museum is a museum in Pago Pago dedicated to the culture and history of the United States territory of American Samoa. It contains a collection of canoes, coconut-shell combs, pigs’ tusk armlets and native pharmacopoeia. [ 2] It also houses exhibits on natural history, tapa ...
American Samoa. American Samoa[ c] is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the Polynesia region of the South Pacific Ocean. Centered on 14.3°S 170.7°W, it is southeast of the island country of Samoa, east of the International Date Line and the Wallis and Futuna Islands, west of the Cook Islands, north of Tonga, and some ...
Famous Smoke Shop is one of the largest cigar mail order businesses in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The company was formed in October, 1939 in Midtown Manhattan as a cigar and gift shop . In 2000, increasing rents and taxes [ 4 ] forced the company to move its operations to Easton, Pennsylvania , [ 5 ] a state that currently imposes no ...
Pago Pago ( / ˈpɑːŋɡɔːˈpɑːŋɡɔː / PAHNG-gaw-PAHNG-gaw; Samoan: Samoan pronunciation: [ˈpaŋo ˈpaŋo]) [3] is the capital of American Samoa. It is in Maoputasi County on Tutuila, which is American Samoa's main island. Pago Pago is home to one of the deepest natural deepwater harbors in the South Pacific Ocean, sheltered from wind ...
The National Park of American Samoa was established on October 31, 1988, by Public Law 100-571 but the NPS could not buy the land because of traditional communal land system. This was resolved on September 10, 1993, when the National Park Service entered into a 50-year lease for the park land from the Samoan village councils.
First printing of the book. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation is a 1928 book by American anthropologist Margaret Mead based upon her research and study of youth – primarily adolescent girls – on the island of Taʻū in American Samoa. The book details the sexual life of teenagers in ...
See media help. " The Banner of Freedom " ( Samoan: "O Le Fuʻa o Le Saʻolotoga o Sāmoa" [o‿le fuʔa o‿le saʔolotoŋa o saːmoa] ), known also as " Sāmoa Tulaʻi " ( [saːmoa tulaʔi]; "Samoa, Arise") is the national anthem of Samoa. Both the words (which reference the country's flag) and the music were composed by Sauni Iiga Kuresa.
In 2012, American Samoa had the most expensive Internet access service in the U.S. according to Engadget.. Under Governor Togiola Tulafono investment in a fibre optic network to replace aging copper infrastructure across all the islands of American Samoa and the construction in 2015 of a 1.2 Gbit/s satellite uplink via O3b Networks which more than doubled available bandwidth to the rest of the ...