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Nagasaki   /nˌɑgɑsˈɑki/   Listen
Nagasaki

noun
1.
A city in southern Japan on Kyushu; a leading port and shipbuilding center; on August 9, 1945 Nagasaki became the second populated area to receive an atomic bomb.





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"Nagasaki" Quotes from Famous Books



... April, and from Nagasaki on his way to Shanghai the steamer that carried him was chased by two French gunboats. But, apparently much to his disappointment, she soon ran out of range of their guns. Though he did not know it then, with the enemy he had travelled so far to fight this was his first and last hostile meeting; ...
— Real Soldiers of Fortune • Richard Harding Davis
... from Wei-hai-wei to Kilung, at the north end of Formosa, is close upon a thousand miles, and Frobisher reckoned that it would take him some seventy hours to do the trip. On the other hand, the distance from the nearest Japanese port, Nagasaki, to the same spot was only about seven hundred miles; therefore if the proposed invading expedition sailed at the time when the Chih' Yuen left Wei-hai-wei, the probability was that the Japanese would be there first, in which case his task would be exceedingly ...
— A Chinese Command - A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas • Harry Collingwood


Words linked to "Nagasaki" :   metropolis, urban center, japan, city, port, Kyushu, Nihon, Nippon


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