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It think it was so that when the used phones or walkie talkies and they said im in Arizona that only the people at the base would know they were talking about the boats and not the state so if other countries or spies or something were listening that they would think they were in the state.. I think im not sure

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Because of the great quantity of pearls that were harvested there.

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because of the pearls harvested there

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The term Pearl Harbor comes from the Hawaiian word "Wai Momi," or "pearl water." The waters around the harbor used to be well-known for the abundance of pearl oysters.

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It is the name of the passage

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