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David Ronald "Ronnie" Musgrove (born July 29, 1956) is an American lawyer and politician. He was the 29th Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from January 16, 1996 to January 11, 2000 and as the 62nd Governor of Mississippi from January 11, 2000 to January 13, 2004.

He was defeated by incumbent Senator Roger Wicker in a 2008 special election for one of Mississippi's seats in the U.S. Senate.

In 2014, he became founding partner of a new law firm in Jackson, Mississippi, Musgrove/Smith Law.

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Governors of Mississippi
Living people
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Daniel Kirkwood "Kirk" Fordice Jr. (February 10, 1934 – September 7, 2004), was an American politician and businessman. He was the 61st Governor of Mississippi from 1992 to 2000. He was the first Republican governor of the state since Reconstruction-era and the first governor elected to two consecutive four-year terms. Fordice was a staunch conservative.

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Oswego is a city in Labette County, Kansas, United States, and situated along the Neosho River. It is also the county seat of Labette County. In 2010, 1,829 people lived there.

History
The first newspaper was the Oswego Register. It was created in 1868 by E.R. Trask. The first church was the Congregational, which was created in May 1868. The Presbyterian church was created in July 1868. The first school was created in 1867. The public library association was created in 1877. It still exists as Oswego Public Library, which is a Carnegie Library. The telephone system was put in operation in 1882; the waterworks in 1887; and the first electric lights were turned on on July 12, 1888. The lights were turned off a few months later.

In 2011, the City Council voted to annex the Oswego Municipal Airport into the city limits. This made Oswego be in neighboring Cherokee County.

Geography
Oswego isat  (37.167728, -95.109453). The city is about  north of the Oklahoma state line and  west of the Missouri line. It is along the southern bluffs, overlooking the Neosho River valley. It is at the junction of U.S. Route 59 and U.S. Route 160. The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of . Of that,  is land and  is water.

Climate
Oswego has hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. The Köppen Climate Classification system says that Oswego has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.

People

2010 census
The 2010 census says that there were 1,829 people, 763 households, and 476 families living in Oswego.

Education

Schools
The Oswego-Service Valley Unified School District 504 serves Oswego.

Libraries
Oswego is served by the Oswego Public Library (OPL), which is a Carnegie Library. OPL has a big collection of books, DVDs, periodicals, audio books, and videos. Internet access is also available through the use of computers or the Library's free Wi-Fi.

Media
Labette Avenue is a weekly newspaper that covers mostly local stories and events. Labette Avenue is based in Oswego and serves the rural areas of Labette County, Kansas.

The Parsons Sun, a newspaper published every day in Parsons, also covers Oswego. The nearest major newspaper is the Joplin Globe.

Oswego is in the Joplin, Missouri/Pittsburg, Kansas broadcast market area. It gets most its television and radio signals from those two cities.  KGGF 690 AM Coffeyville covers SE Kansas and Broadcasts from its tower site in Mound Valley.

Related pages
 Great Flood of 1951

References

Other websites

City
 City of Oswego
 Oswego - Directory of Public Officials
Schools
 USD 504, local school district
Newspapers
 Taylor Newspaper
Historical
 Oswego Historical Society and Genealogical Department
Maps
 Oswego City Map, KDOT

Cities in Labette County, Kansas
County seats in Kansas
1867 establishments in Kansas
The Governor of Nevada is the chief magistrate of the U.S. state of Nevada, the head of the executive department of Nevada's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.

The current governor is Democrat Steve Sisolak, who took office on January 7, 2019.

List of governors
Prior to becoming a territory, parts of Nevada were part of Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory; see List of governors of Utah and List of governors of New Mexico.

References
The following is a list of the governors of the state of New Mexico (Spanish: Gobernadores de Nuevo México) and New Mexico Territory.

Governors of New Mexico

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References
David Francis Cargo (January 13, 1929 – July 5, 2013) was the 22nd governor of New Mexico, between 1967 and 1971.

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Bruce King (April 6, 1924 – November 13, 2009) was an American businessman and politician. He was a three non-consecutive four-year terms as the Governor of New Mexico. King was a member of the Democratic Party. He was the longest-serving governor in New Mexico history, with 12 years of service.

He died on November 13, 2009 in Stanley, New Mexico of heart failure at the age of 85.

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Allen Ingvar Olson (born November 5, 1938) is an American Republican politician and attorney. He was the 28th Governor of North Dakota from 1981 to 1985.

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The Governor of Oregon is the head of the executive branch of Oregon's state government and serves as the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The title of governor was also applied to the office of Oregon's chief executive during the provisional and U.S. territorial governments.

The current governor of Oregon is Kate Brown.

Related pages
List of Governors of Oregon

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William John Janklow (September 13, 1939January 12, 2012) was an American politician. He was a member of the Republican Party. He holds the record for the longest tenure as Governor of South Dakota: sixteen years in office. Janklow has the second longest gubernatorial tenure in post-Constitutional U.S. history at 5,851 days.

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Deaths from brain cancer
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Governors of South Dakota
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US Republican Party politicians
Lawyers from South Dakota
Gary Faye Locke (born January 21, 1950) is an American politician. He was the 10th United States ambassador to China (2011–14). He was the 21st Governor of Washington (1997–2005) and served in the Obama administration as United States Secretary of Commerce (2009–11).

Locke is the first governor in the United States of East Asian descent, and is the only Chinese American ever to have served as a governor of any state. He was also the first Chinese American to serve as the U.S. ambassador to China.

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Living people
Governors of Washington
United States Secretaries of Commerce
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Dixy Lee Ray (September 3, 1914 – January 2, 1994) was an American scientist and politician. She was the 17th Governor of the U.S. state of Washington. She was the state's first female governor and was in office during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.

Other websites
 Register of the Dixy Lee Ray Papers, 1937–1982
 

1914 births
1994 deaths
Governors of Washington
Scientists from Washington
People from Tacoma, Washington
US Democratic Party politicians
Booth Gardner (August 21, 1936 – March 15, 2013) was an American politician. He was the 19th governor of the U.S. state of Washington between 1985 and 1993. He also was the ambassador of the GATT. He was a Democrat.

Gardner died at his home in Tacoma, Washington on March 15, 2013, of Parkinson's disease. He was 76.

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Deaths from Parkinson's disease
Governors of Washington
Businesspeople from Washington
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US Democratic Party politicians
Cecil Harland Underwood (November 5, 1922 – November 24, 2008) was an American Republican Party politician. 

He was the 25th and 32nd Governor of West Virginia from 1957 to 1961, and from 1997 to 2001.

Underwood was both the youngest and the oldest person ever to serve as Governor of West Virginia. He was a Methodist.

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Governors of West Virginia
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William Gaston Caperton III (born February 21, 1940) is an American politician. He was the 31st Governor of West Virginia from 1989 to 1997. He was president of the College Board, which administers the nationally recognized SAT and AP tests, from 1999 to 2012.  

He is a member of the Democratic Party.

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Living people
Governors of West Virginia
People from Charleston, West Virginia
US Democratic Party politicians
Robert Ellsworth Wise Jr. (born January 6, 1948) is an American politician. He is a member of the Democrat, Wise was the 33rd Governor of West Virginia from January 2001 to January 2005. He also was in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 until 2001.

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1948 births
United States representatives from West Virginia
US Democratic Party politicians
Governors of West Virginia
Living people
Sharon Pratt (born January 30, 1944), formerly Sharon Pratt Dixon and  Sharon Pratt Kelly, is an American attorney and politician. She was the third Mayor of the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1995. Pratt was the first African American woman to serve as mayor of a major American city.

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1944 births
Living people
Mayors of Washington, D.C.
US Democratic Party politicians
Anthony Allen Williams (born July 28, 1951) is an American politician who was the fourth person to serve as Mayor of the District of Columbia, for two terms, from 1999 to 2007.

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Living people
Mayors of Washington, D.C.
Politicians from Los Angeles
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Togiola Talalelei A. Tulafono (born February 28, 1947) is an American Samoan politician and lawyer. He as the 56th Governor of American Samoa. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

Tulafono did not run for governor in 2012 as he was term-limited and could not seek a third consecutive term. He was an unsuccessful candidate for American Samoa's at-large congressional district in 2014.

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1947 births
Governors of American Samoa
Living people
US Democratic Party politicians
Lieutenant Governors of American Samoa
Roy Lester Schneider (born May 13, 1939) is a physician in the United States Virgin Islands who was the fifth elected governor of that territory from January 5, 1995 to January 4, 1999. He was the fifth elected governor of that territory and the 26th overall.

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Living people
American military personnel of the Vietnam War
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The 2021 Canadian federal election will take place on September 20, 2021 to elect members of the House of Commons to the 44th Parliament of Canada.

The latest date of the vote was scheduled for October 16, 2023, which is determined by the fixed-date provisions of the Canada Elections Act, which requires federal elections to be held on the third Monday in October in the fourth calendar year after the polling day of the previous election.

However, on August 15, 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau requested a dissolution of parliament from Governor General Mary Simon.  On September 20, Trudeau and the Liberal Party was projected to have won 155 seats, allowing them to form a minority government.

Opinion polling

Leadership polls 
Aside from conducting the usual opinion surveys on general party preferences, polling firms also survey public opinion on who would make the best Prime Minister:

October 2020 – present

August 2020 – October 2020

Notes

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2020s in Canada
2021 elections
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Canadian federal elections
The 2022 Australian federal election will be held on or before 21 May 2022 to elect members of the 47th Parliament of Australia. All 151 seats in the lower house, the House of Representatives, and half the seats in the upper house, the Senate, will be up for election.

The incumbent Coalition Government, led by Scott Morrison will be seeking a fourth three-year term against the opposition Labor Party, led by Anthony Albanese.

Polling

Notes

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21st century in Australia
The Liberal–National Coalition is an alliance of centre-right political parties that forms one of the two major groupings in Australian federal politics. Its main opponent is the Australian Labor Party (ALP). 

The Coalition has been in government since the 2013 federal election, most recently being re-elected in the 2019 Australian federal election. The group is led by Scott Morrison as Prime Minister of Australia since August 2018.

References

Political parties in Australia
Katter's Australian Party (KAP) is a political party in Australia. It was formed by the independent and former Nationals Member of Parliament for Kennedy Bob Katter, with a registration application lodged to the Australian Electoral Commission in 2011. 

Katter has been the party's federal parliamentary leader since that time, while his son Robbie is the leader in Queensland.

In February 2020, Bob Katter handed the leadership of the party to his son Robbie Katter, a Queensland state MP.

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2011 establishments in Australia
Political parties in Australia
Centre Alliance, formerly known as the Nick Xenophon Team (NXT), is a centrist Australian political party based in the state of South Australia. It presently holds two seats in the Australian Senate and one seat in the House of Representatives of Australia.

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Political parties in Australia
Pauline Lee Hanson (née Seccombe, formerly Zagorski; born 27 May 1954) is an Australian politician. She is the founder and leader of One Nation, a right-wing political party. She has been a Senator for Queensland since 2016.

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Living people
Politicians from Queensland
Fayette County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 295,803, making it the second-most populous county in the commonwealth. The city of Lexington is the county seat.

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Kentucky counties
1780s establishments in Virginia
1780 establishments in North America
Brickland MRT station (NS3A) is a future Mass Rapid Transit station on the North South line in Choa Chu Kang, Singapore.

History
The station was first announced on 25 May 2019 as part of the Land Transport Authority's (LTA) Land Transport Master Plan 2040.

References

Related pages
Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore)

Proposed railway stations in Singapore
Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations
The Maria Fire is a wildfire that is currently burning in the area of Somis, California on the top of South Mountain in Ventura County.

References

Ventura County, California
Fires in North America
The Tick Fire was a wildfire. It burned in Los Angeles County, California from October 24, 2019 to October 31, 2019. It burned several thousand acres. 

There was a mass evacuation of about 40,000 people from the Santa Clarita valley.

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Duane Vermeulen is a rugby player. He is won the Currie Cup twice. He plays for the south african national team.

Rugby players
Gabriel Jackson (March 10, 1921 – November 3, 2019) was an American Hispanist, historian and journalist. He was born in Mount Vernon, New York. He was a Professor Emeritus at University of California, San Diego. Jackson was a regular collaborator of the Spanish daily El País for many years.

In 1966 he was awarded the American Historical Association's Herbert Baxter Adams Prize.

Jackson died on November 3, 2019 at his home in Eugene, Oregon at the age of 98.

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Liliana Segre  (; born 10 September 1930) is an Italian politician. She was a Senator for Life named by President Sergio Mattarella on 19 January 2018.

Segre was born in Milan to a Jewish family. In 1943 she was arrested and deported to  Auschwitz. After 1990 she started to speak to the public, especially young people, about her experience.

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Umberto Bossi (born 19 September 1941) is an Italian politician. He is the former leader of the Northern League.. He was a critic of the European Union. 

Bossi was an unsuccessful candidate for president in 2006, loosing to Giorgio Napolitano.

He was found guilty of embezzlement of hundreds of thousands of euros in public funds. Bossi was sentenced to two years and six months' imprisonment in July 2017.

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Ramón Fonseca Mora (born 14 July 1952) is a Panamanian novelist and lawyer. He was the co-founder of Mossack Fonseca, a former law firm based in Panama with more than 40 offices worldwide.

He was minister-counselor of Juan Carlos Varela, and president of the Panameñista Party until he was fired in March 2016, due to the Brazilian Operation Car Wash.

In 2016, the law firm he owned was raided by police on due to money-laundering, bribery and corruption. Fonseca and his partner Jürgen Mossack were arrested and jailed in February 2017.

The Moccasck and his firm became globally known in 2016 when it found itself at the centre of the so-called Panama Papers affair, It uncovered the activities of the offshore finance industry. Mossack Fonseca set up more than 214,000 shell companies around the world, some of which were found to have been used for illegal purposes, including fraud and tax evasion.

Antonio Banderas played him in a Netflix movie about the Panama Papers titled The Laundromat (2019).

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People from Panama City
Operation Car Wash () is an ongoing criminal investigation by the Federal Police of Brazil, Curitiba Branch. It was initially judicially headed by Judge Sérgio Moro, and in 2019 by Judge Luiz Antonio Bonat.

It was a money laundering investigation, it expanded to investigate corruption at Petrobras, where executives allegedly accepted bribes in return for awarding contracts to construction firms at inflated prices. The investigation is called "Operation Car Wash" because it was first uncovered at a car wash in Brasília.

At least eleven other countries, mostly in Latin America, were involved, and the Brazilian company Odebrecht was deeply implicated.

Lava Jato indicted and jailed some well-known politicians, including former presidents Fernando Collor de Mello, Michel Temer and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Other South American presidents were also implicated such as Peru's Ollanta Humala, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Alan Garcia. 

During the governments of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Néstor Kirchner, Odebrecht was awarded overvalued contracts worth at least US$9.6 billion.

References

2010s in Brazil
The Laundromat is a 2019 American biographical comedy-drama movie directed by Steven Soderbergh. The screenplay was written by Scott Z. Burns. It stars Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, Jeffrey Wright, David Schwimmer, Robert Patrick, Matthias Schoenaerts, James Cromwell, and Sharon Stone.

The movie had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 1, 2019. It was released theatrically on September 27, 2019, before being released for digital streaming on October 18, 2019, by Netflix. The movie has received mixed reviews from critics.

The two men at the center of the movie, Jürgen Mossack and Ramón Fonseca Mora sued Netflix on October 16, 2019, trying to block the movie's release. They argued that the movie defamed them, but a judge dismissed the case.

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American comedy-drama movies
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St. Francis is a city in Cheyenne County, Kansas, United States. It is also the county seat of Cheyenne County. In 2010, 1,329 people lived there.

History
St. Francis was created in 1887. The city may have been named for the wife of its founder.

Geography
St. Francis is at  (39.771389, -101.800717). The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of . All of it is land.

Weather
St. Francis has a semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk). It has cold, dry winters and hot, humid summers.

People

2010 census
The 2010 census says that there were 1,329 people, 650 households, and 357 families living in St. Francis.

Famous people
 Ron Evans, astronaut and, as a member of Apollo 17, one of 24 people to have orbited the Moon
 Ray Stafford, Olympian

References

Other websites

City
 City of St Francis
 St. Francis - Directory of Public Officials
Schools
 USD 297, local school district
Maps
 St. Francis City Map, KDOT

Cities in Kansas
County seats in Kansas
Cheyenne County, Kansas
1887 establishments in Kansas
St. John is a city in Stafford County, Kansas, United States. It is also the county seat of Stafford County. In 2010, 1,295 people lived there.

History
The first settlement in what is today St. John was made in 1875 when William Bickerton of the Church of Jesus Christ created a religious group named Zion Valley. By 1879, Zion Valley had grown into a small town, and the residents renamed it St. John. It was named after then-governor John P. St. John, in order to try to become the county seat of Stafford County.

In 2015, the official government listing of places has been corrected to spell the town as "St. John" instead of "Saint John." The name was incorrectly changed by the United States Postal Service in the 1970s.

Geography
St. John is at  (38.0022371, -98.7600887). The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of . All of it is land.

People

2010 census
The 2010 census says that there were 1,295 people, 534 households, and 336 families living in St. John.

References

Other websites
City
 City of St. John
 St. John - Directory of Public Officials
Schools
 USD 350, local school district
Historical
 , from Hatteberg's People on KAKE TV news
 , from Hatteberg's People on KAKE TV news
Maps
 St. John City Map, KDOT

Cities in Kansas
County seats in Kansas
1875 establishments in Kansas
Scott City is a city in Scott County, Kansas, United States. It is also the county seat of Scott County. In 2010, 3,816 people lived there.

History

Early history
Scott City was created in 1885. Like Scott County, the city is named after United States General, Winfield Scott. In October 1884, two women from Chicago claimed the land that Scott City is on. They built a cabin. In February 1885, two men from Chicago came to the cabin and settled. Soon after, many people started coming to the county. Scott City was then created in 1885. Before being created, Mrs. M.E. De Geer, one of the women that came from Chicago, started a newspaper called the Western Times in March 1885. The county then started to fill quickly.

The Kansas Legislature created Scott County in 1873. At this time it was named in honor of General Winfield Scott. Since it was such a small town with so few people, there was no need for a local government. Therefore, it was connected to Ford County for judicial things.

Geography
Scott City is at  (38.4825192, −100.9070949). The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of . All of it is land. It is located in the Great Plains and at the elevation of 2979 ft.

Climate
The Köppen Climate Classification system says that Scott City has a semi-arid climate, abbreviated "BSk" on climate maps. The average temperature is 52.4 °F (11.34 °C) and has an average rain fall of 20.16 inches per year. The average snow fall for a year is 23 in. (.58 m).

People

2010 census
The 2010 census says that there were 3,816 people, 1,583 households, and 1,029 families living in Scott City.

Education

The USD 466 Scott County mascot is the beaver. A giant welded beaver is on display at the football field.

Infrastructure

Transportation 
K-96 and US-83 highways go through the Scott City.

The Scott City Airport is a publicly owned airport. It is in the south east part of Scott City.

Media
The Scott County Record is the local newspaper. This weekly publication has been in business since 1993. In 2016, editor Rod Haxton was honored by the Kansas Press Association with the Clyde M. Reed Master Editor Award.

Famous people
Ron Baker, former NBA player for the New York Knicks and Washington Wizards

Related pages
 El Quartelejo Ruins

References

Other websites
City
 
 Scott City - Directory of Public Officials
 Lake Scott State Park
 El Quartelejo Museum - local history
Schools
 USD 466, local school district
Maps
 Scott City Map, Scott City CofC
 Scott City Map, KDOT

Cities in Kansas
County seats in Kansas
1885 establishments in Kansas
Sedan is the biggest city in Chautauqua County, Kansas, United States. It is also the county seat of Chautaqua County. In 2010, 1,124 people lived there.

History
Sedan was created in 1871. The city was named after the 1870 Battle of Sedan. Sedan was incorporated as a city in 1876.

Geography
Sedan is at  (37.128472, -96.186220). It is a close middle-point between New York City and Los Angeles. The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of . All of it is land.

Climate
Sedan has hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. The Köppen Climate Classification system says that Sedan has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.

People

2010 census
The 2010 census says that there were 1,124 people, 482 households, and 269 families living in Sedan.

Education
Sedan is a part of USD 286 Chautauqua County. Chautauqua County schools were merged in Sedan through school unification.

Before school unification, the Sedan Blue Devils won the Kansas State High School class B baseball championship in 1973 and 2011.

Famous people
 Emmett Kelly, circus performer
 Elmer Riggs, paleontologist who died here
 Cassius Shartel, U.S. Representative of Missouri
 William Sproul, U.S. Representative of Kansas

References

Other websites

City
 City of Sedan
 Sedan - Directory of Public Officials
Schools
 USD 286, local school district
Maps
 Sedan City Map, KDOT

Cities in Kansas
County seats in Kansas
1871 establishments in Kansas
Chautauqua County, Kansas
Seneca is a city in Nemaha County, Kansas, United States. It is also the county seat of Nemaha County. In 2010, 1,991 people lived there.

History

Seneca was created in 1857. It was named after Seneca County, Ohio.

The first post office in Seneca was created in November 1858.

Seneca grew along the wagon route from St. Joseph, Missouri to Oregon and California. British explorer Richard Francis Burton was going to California in 1860. He went through town and noted: "... Seneca, a city consisting of a few shanties ..."

Seneca was a station on the Pony Express of the early 1860s. The station was in the Smith Hotel, at the present-day place of Fourth and Main Streets.

Seneca was incorporated as a city in 1870.

Geography
The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of . All of it is land.

People

2010 census
The 2010 census says that there were 1,991 people, 908 households, and 509 families living in Seneca.

Famous people
 Ira K. Wells, Judge, United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico
 Edward White, Philippine–American War veteran and recipient of the Medal of Honor

References

Other websites

City
 City of Seneca 
 Seneca - Directory of Public Officials
Schools
 USD 115, local school district
Maps
 Seneca City Map, KDOT

Cities in Nemaha County, Kansas
County seats in Kansas
1857 establishments in Kansas Territory
Sharon Springs is a city in Wallace County, Kansas, United States. It is also the county seat Wallace County. In 2010, 748 people lived there.

History
Sharon Springs was first called Eagle Tail station when it was created in 1868. It was renamed Sharon Springs in 1886, after Sharon Springs, New York. Sharon Springs was incorporated as a city in 1890.

In 2013, the biggest sinkhole in Kansas opened north of Sharon Springs. As of December 2013, the sinkhole was about  deep and  across.

Geography
Sharon Springs is at  (38.895513, -101.750881). The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of . All of it is land.

Climate
The Köppen Climate Classification system says that Sharon Springs has a semi-arid climate, abbreviated "BSk" on climate maps.

People

2010 census
The 2010 census says that there were 748 people, 327 households, and 197 families living in Sharon Springs.

Infrastructure
Sharon Springs is on U.S. Route 40.

References

Other websites

City
 City of Sharon Springs
 Sharon Springs - Directory of Public Officials
 Wallace County , Wallace County economic development alliance
 Wallace County, skyways.lib.ks.us
 Sharon Springs and Wallace County, kansastowns.us
Schools
 USD 241, local school district
Historic
 Historic Photograph of City
 Pet Kansas badger once roamed White House , Wichita Eagle
Maps
 Sharon Springs City Map, KDOT

Cities in Kansas
County seats in Kansas
1868 establishments in Kansas
Smith Center is a city in Smith County, Kansas, United States. It is also the county seat of Smith County. In 2010, 1,665 people lived there.

History
Smith Center was created in 1871. The first post office in Smith Center was created in January 1873. Like Smith County, Smith Center was named after Maj. J. Nelson Smith of the 2nd Colorado Cavalry. He was a pre-war native of Elwood, Kansas, who died leading his regiment on October 21, 1864 at the Battle of the Little Blue River.

Geography
Smith Center is at  (39.778550, -98.785141). The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of . All of it is land.

Smith Center is at the junction of U.S. Routes 281 and 36, about100 miles south of Grand Island, Nebraska and 77 miles north of Russell and Interstate 70.

People

2010 census
The 2010 census says that there were 1,665 people, 779 households, and 470 families living in Smith Center.

Education
Smith Center is part of Unified School District 237.

Famous people
 Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, silent film star
 Nolan Cromwell, NFL defensive back for the Los Angeles Rams
 Mitch Holthus, radio announcer for the Kansas City Chiefs
 Mark Simoneau, College Football Hall of Fame linebacker for Kansas State University; played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Atlanta Falcons, Philadelphia Eagles, New Orleans Saints and Kansas City Chiefs
 Steve Tasker, NFL wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills
 Albert F. "Jud" Wagner, Kansas' last confirmed World War I veteran

References

Other websites

City
 City of Smith Center
 Smith Center - Directory of Public Officials
Schools
 USD 237, local school district
 Historical
 Smith Center - History
 , from Hatteberg's People on KAKE TV news
 Historic Images - Wichita State University Libraries
Maps
 Smith Center City Map, KDOT

Cities in Smith County, Kansas
County seats in Kansas
1871 establishments in Kansas
Sublette is a city in Haskell County, Kansas, United States. It is also the county seat of Haskell County. In 2010, 1,453 people lived there.

History
Sublette was created in 1912. It was named after William Lewis Sublette, a French Huguenot who was a partner in the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. Sublette was a mountain man, fur trapper and pioneer who blazed a trail through the area and was known by the local natives as "Cut Face".

The first post office in Sublette was created in January 1913.

Geography
Sublette is at  (37.479660, -100.845034). The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of . All of it is land.

Climate
The Köppen Climate Classification system says that Sublette has a semi-arid climate, abbreviated "BSk" on climate maps.

People

2010 census
The 2010 census says that there were 1,453 people, 556 households, and 409 families living in Sublette.

Media
The Haskell County Monitor-Chief is the local newspaper.

Sublette is in the Wichita-Hutchinson, Kansas television market. KDGL-LD is licensed to Sublette Kansas and is the flagship station of High Plains Broadcasting, LLC.  KDGL broadcasts on RF channel 23 carrying 6 video streams.  Current Networks are Retro TV, Tuff TV, AMG TV, Launch TV, TheWalk TV, and PBJ TV.  KDGL uses TV23 as branding for all 5 licenses including Dodge City, Garden City, Liberal, and Ulysses.  Sublette was chosen for its central location in the Southwest Kansas Market and to streamline future news gathering for NewsWest23 newscasts.

Famous people
 Jack Christiansen, Hall of Fame football player for the Detroit Lions
 Shalee Lehning, former professional basketball player for the Atlanta Dream, and associate head coach on the Northern Colorado women's basketball team
 Otto Schnellbacher, (1923-2008), played both basketball and football (American) professionally
 Ted Trimpa, Democratic strategist and political consultant

References

Other websites

City
 Sublette - Directory of Public Officials
Schools
 USD 374, local school district
Maps
 Sublette City Map, KDOT

Cities in Kansas
County seats in Kansas
Syracuse is a city in Hamilton County, Kansas, United States. It is also the county seat of Hamilton County. In 2010, 1,812 people lived there.

History
Syracuse was first called Holidaysburg. It was created in 1873. It was renamed Syracuse before 1878. It was named after the city of Syracuse, New York.

Geography
Syracuse is at  (37.982938, -101.751224). It is along U.S. Route 50 and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. It is sixteen miles (twenty-six kilometers) away from the Colorado border. The Arkansas River goes south of the City of Syracuse. The countryside south of the Arkansas River has sandhills.  The "Syracuse Sand Dunes" is in these sandhills. It is a city park covering , including a  fishing pond.

The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of . All of it is land.

Weather
The Köppen Climate Classification system says that Syracuse has a semi-arid climate, abbreviated "BSk" on climate maps.

People

2010 census
The 2010 census says that there were 1,812 people, 715 households, and 460 families living in Syracuse.

Education
Syracuse High School is the unified high school for Hamilton County USD 494. The Syracuse school mascot is Bulldogs.

Related pages
 Santa Fe Trail

References

Other websites

City
 City of Syracuse
 Syracuse - Directory of Public Officials
Schools
 USD 494, local school district
Maps
 Syracuse City Map, 

Cities in Kansas
County seats in Kansas
1873 establishments in Kansas
Shirley Valentine is a one-character play by Willy Russell. It takes the form of a monologue by a middle-aged, working class Liverpool housewife. It focuses on her life before and after a transforming holiday abroad.

Plot
Shirley finds herself regularly alone and talking to the wall. She prepare an evening meal of egg and chips for her emotionally distant husband. Her best friend offers to pay for a trip-for-two to Greece. She leaves a note on the cupboard door in the kitchen. In Greece she rediscovers what she had been missing in England. She is so happy that she decides not to return. She leaves her friend at the airport and goes back to the hotel. She asks for a job.

Productions
Commissioned in 1986, by the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool. Noreen Kershaw starred. It was directed by Glen Walford. In 1988 it opened in London's West End at the Vaudeville Theatre. Pauline Collins starred. It was directed by Simon Callow. On 16 February 1989, the Broadway production, with Collins again directed by Callow, opened at the Booth Theatre. It ran for 324 performances. Ellen Burstyn replaced Collins later in the run. Loretta Swit starred in a US national tour in 1995.

From 26 March - 8 May 2010, as part of the Willy Russell season at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Meera Syal played Shirley in the production's first London West End revival. A West End transfer of the Menier Chocolate Factory production ran at the Trafalgar Studios from 20 July - 30 October 2010. Meera Syal reprised her role as Shirley; this production was adapted and broadcast by BBC Radio Four in 2010 and 2017.

A 30th Anniversary Tour, starring Jodie Prenger ran in the UK from March 2017 to November 2017.

Awards and nominations
 Awards
 1988 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy
 1988 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress
 1989 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play
 1989 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
 1989 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
 1989 Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut

Nominations
 1989 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play
 1989 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play 
 1989 Tony Award for Best Play

Film adaptation
Russell adapted his play for a 1989 film version, directed by Lewis Gilbert, with Collins again playing the title role.

Further reading

References

British plays adapted into movies
Plays by Willy Russell
Columbus is the second biggest city Cherokee County, Kansas, United States.  It is about 15 miles south-southwest of Pittsburg. It is also the county seat of Cherokee County. In 2010, 3,312 people lived there.

History
The first settlement at Columbus was created in 1868. The first post office in Columbus was created in 1869.

Columbus was a railroad junction for the Saint Louis and San Francisco, and the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas railroads. It was named Columbus by A.L. Peters, one of the European-American creators of the city. It was named after his hometown of Columbus, Ohio; the name is indirectly named after Christopher Columbus, the explorer. Coal, lead and zinc were found in the area. Columbus had a big trade in agricultural products. Its businesses had machine shops, grain elevators, flour mills, a cigar factory, bottle works (soft drinks), a canning factory, and a big brick-making factory.

In 1875, Robert A. Long and Victor Bell created the Long-Bell Lumber Company in Columbus. From one lumberyard, Long-Bell grew their businesses and holdings to become one of the biggest vertically integrated lumber companies in the United States. In 1956, it was bought by International Paper.

Geography
Columbus is at  (37.171379, -94.840704). The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of . All of it is land.

Weather
Columbus has hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. The Köppen Climate Classification system says that Columbus has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.

People

2010 census
The 2010 census says that there were 3,312 people, 1,424 households, and 850 families living in Columbus.

Famous people
 Marcellus Boss, 5th Civilian Governor of Guam
 Elizabeth W. Crandall, educator
 James Reed Hallowell, politician
 Robert A. Long, lumber baron, developer, investor, newspaper owner, and philanthropist
 Doro Merande, film, stage and television actress
 Merle Evans, bandleader for Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus
 Norma Terris, singer and actress
 Leland Justin Webb, 1st Mayor of Columbus, lawyer, served in American Civil War and 19th Kansas Cavalry Regiment
 Thomas Daniel Winter, US Representative from Kansas, 1939-1947.

References

Other websites

City
 City of Columbus
 Columbus - Directory of Public Officials
 Columbus Chamber of Commerce
Schools
 USD 493, local school district
Historical
 Historic Images of Columbus, Special Photo Collections at Wichita State University Library
Maps
 Columbus City Map, KDOT

Cities in Cherokee County, Kansas
County seats in Kansas
1868 establishments in Kansas
The Wii U GamePad is a tablet-like controller for the Wii U. It has a touch screen and gyroscopic controls. Many criticized it for its poor battery life.

Nintendo hardware
Video game controllers
The Nintendo GameCube controller is the main controller for the Nintendo GameCube. It features rumble in it. In December 2019, it was announced Nintendo will release the Super Smash Bros GameCube controller again.
The console was praised for its controller and it was normally used with Super Mario Sunshine And Super Smash Bros

References 

Video game controllers
Nintendo hardware
George Kenneth Tarasovic (May 6, 1930 – October 2019) was a college and professional American football player. He played 15 years in the National Football League with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Philadelphia Eagles, and Denver Broncos. He was born in Granville, New York. 

On November 7, 2019, it was announced that Tarasovic had died in October in Savannah, Georgia at age 89.

References

1930 births
2019 deaths
American football linebackers
Pittsburgh Steelers players
Philadelphia Eagles players
Denver Broncos players
Sportspeople from New York
Sportspeople from Pennsylvania
Granville, New York is a town on the eastern border of Washington County. It is also near Rutland County, Vermont. It is part of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town population was 6,456 at the 2000 census.

References

Towns in New York
Fort Edward is a town in Washington County, New York, United States. The population was 10,205 at the 2011 census. It is the county seat of Washington County.

References

Towns in New York
County seats in New York
Parsa District (, a part of Province No. 2 in Terai plain, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Birganj as its district headquarters, has an area of  and has a population (2001) of 497,219. According to the locals, Parsa is named after Parsagadhi temple in the district.

Geography and Climate

Demographics
At the time of the 2011 Nepal census, Parsa District had a population of 601,017. Of these, 78.1% spoke Bhojpuri, 6.4% Nepali, 5.1% Maithili, 3.8% Tharu, 2.2% Urdu, 1.3% Tamang, 0.8% Rajasthani and 0.7% Newari as their first language.

30.4% of the population in the district spoke Nepali, 5.4% Bhojpuri and 4.9% Hindi as their second language.

Administration 
VDC/s and Municipalities (blue) in Parsa District
The district consists of one metropolitan city, three urban municipalities and ten rural municipalities. These are as follows:

 Birgunj Metropolitan

 Bahudarmai Municipality
 Parsagadhi Municipality
 Pokhariya Municipality

 Bindabasini Rural Municipality
 Chhipaharmai Rural Municipality
 Jagarnathpur Rural Municipality
 Jirabhawani Rural Municipality
 Kalikamai Rural Municipality
 Pakaha Mainpur Rural Municipality
 Paterwa Sugauli Rural Municipality
 Sakhuwa Prasauni Rural Municipality
 Thori Rural Municipality

Former Village Development Committees (VDCs) and municipalities

 Alau,
 Amarpatti
 Auraha
 Bagahi
 Bagbana
 Bageshwari
 Bahauri Pidari
 Bahuarwa bhatha
 Basadilwa
 Basantpur
 Belwa Parsauni
 Beriya Birta
 Bhauratar
 Bhawanipur
 Bhedihari
 Bhisawa
 Bijbaniya
 Bindyabasini
 Biranchi Barwa
 Birganj Municipality
 Biruwa Guthi
 Bisrampur
 Chorani
 Deurbaana
 Dhaubini
 Gadi
 Gamhariya
 Ghoddauda Pipra
 Ghore
 Govindapur
 Hariharpur
 Hariharpur Birta
 Harapatganj
 Harpur
 Jagarnathpur Sira
 Jaimanglapur
 Janikatala
 Jhauwa Guthi
 Jitpur
 Kauwa Ban Kataiya
 Lahawarthakari
 Lakhanpur
 Lal Parsa
 Langadi
 Lipani Birta
 Madhuban Mathaul
 Mahadevpatti
 Mahuwan
 Mainiyari
 Mainpur
 Mikhampur
 Mirjapur
 Mosihani
 Mudali
 Nagardaha
 Nirchuta
 Nirmal Basti
 Pancharukhi
 Parsauni Birta
 Parsauni Matha
 Patbari Tola-Warwa
 Paterwa Sugauli
 Pidariguthi
 Pokhariya Municipality
 Phulwariya
 Prasurampur[katti baluwa]
 Ramgadhawa
 Ramnagari
 Sabaithawa
 Sakhuwa Prasauni
 Samjhauta
 Sankar Saraiya
 Sapauli
 Sedhawa
 Shiva Worga
 Sirsiya Khalwatola
 Sonbarsa
 Srisiya
 Subarnapur
 Sugauli Birta
 Sugauli Partewa
 Surjaha
 Thori
 Tulsi Barba
 Udaypur Dhursi

References

Districts of Nepal
City of Joy is a 1992 French-British drama movie. It was directed by Roland Joffé. The screenplay is by Mark Medoff.

It is based on the novel by Dominique Lapierre. The story looks at the life in Indian slums.

Plot
Hasari Pal (Om Puri) is a rural farmer. He moves to Calcutta with his wife Kamla (Shabana Azmi) and three children. They seek a better life. They are cheated out of their rent money and thrown out on the streets. It is difficult for Hasari to find a job. The family refuses to give up. They find their place in the poverty-stricken city.

At the same time, Max Lowe (Patrick Swayze) arrives in Calcutta. He is a US surgeon. He is upset after the loss of a young patient.
He seeks spiritual enlightenment. He encounters misfortune as soon as he arrives. He is tricked by a young prostitute. He is roughed up by thugs. He loses his documents and valuables.

Hasari comes to Max's aid. He takes the injured doctor to the "City of Joy". This is a slum area populated with lepers and poor people. This becomes their new home. Max spends a lot of time there. He does not want to become too involved with the residents because he is afraid of becoming emotionally attached to them. An Irish woman, Joan (Pauline Collins), runs the local clinic. She persuades Max to help.

Max begins to fit in with his fellow slum-dwellers. He becomes more optimistic. Ther people around him have much worse lives. Their hope give new strengths to the depressed doctor.

Cast
 Patrick Swayze as Max Lowe
 Om Puri as  Hasari Pal
 Pauline Collins as Joan Bethel
 Vishal Slathia as Joey Barton
 Shabana Azmi as  Kamla H. Pal
 Anashua Majumdar as Selima
 Ayesha Dharker as  Amrita H. Pal
 Santu Chowdhury as Shambu H. Pal
 Imran Badsah Khan as Manooj H. Pal
 Shyamanand Jalan as Mr. Ghatak, the godfather
 Anjan Dutt as Dr Sunil
 Art Malik as Ashok Ghatak
 Nabil Shaban as Anouar
 Sanjay Pathak as Shoba
 Debatosh Ghosh as Ram Chande
 Sunita Sengupta as Pormina
 Loveleen Mishra as Shanta
 Pavan Malhotra as Ashish
Iftekhar as Hasari's father
 Chitra Sen as the angry woman
 Dipti Dave as a school girl

Reception
The movie was not a box office success. The film grossed $14.7 million in the United States.

The film received mixed reviews. It received a 56% 'rotten' rating on review site Rotten Tomatoes.

References

Other websites
 
 City of Joy at Rotten Tomatoes
 City of Joy at Box Office Mojo

1992 movies
1992 drama movies
English-language movies
British drama movies
French drama movies
Movies set in India
Movies directed by Roland Joffé
Movies composed by Ennio Morricone
Movies based on books