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Tropical Storm Nari was a Storm that devastated Japan.

Storm history 
On the afternoon of July 23, a tropical disturbance was formed in the southern waters of Japan, and the US Naval Research Laboratory gave a disturbance number of 91W. Soon after, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center rated the system "low" and upgraded to "Medium" at 10 am.
At 5 am on July 24, the Japan Meteorological Agency upgraded it to a tropical depression. At 8 o'clock in the morning, the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a gale warning, and the Central Meteorological Bureau of Taiwan upgraded it to a tropical depression, giving the number 11. At 11 am, the Hong Kong Observatory upgraded it to a tropical depression. In the afternoon, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center upgraded the rating to “High” and issued a tropical cyclone warning.
At 10 am on July 25, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center upgraded it to a tropical depression, giving the tropical cyclone number 07W. At 9 pm, the combined typhoon warning center upgraded the system to a tropical storm.

At 8 am on July 26, the Hong Kong Observatory upgraded it to a tropical storm. At 9 o'clock in the morning, the Japan Meteorological Agency upgraded it to a tropical storm, giving the international number 1906 and named it "Nari." The Hong Kong Observatory downgraded Nari to a tropical depression at 2 am on July 27 and downgraded it to a low pressure zone at 2 pm. At 6 o'clock in the morning, Nari landed in the south of Mie Prefecture, Japan. At 3 pm, the Japan Meteorological Agency downgraded to a tropical depression. On the morning of July 28, Nari completely dissipated.

Damage and impact 
The city of Wakayama recorded rainfall of 47.5 millimeters in an hour through to 9:05 a.m. A maximum instantaneous wind speed of 25 meters per second was registered at the cape of Shionomisaki in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, at around 5:20 a.m.

The storm, which was downgraded to a tropical depression at around 3 p.m., was projected to travel across the Tokai central region before reaching the seas east of the Kanto region by Sunday morning.

The agency warned residents in the Tokai and Kanto-Koshinetsu regions to be on high alert for heavy rain. 

Heavy rain and gusty winds spread across central Honshu through Saturday. Localized downpours will also spread over eastern Shikoku.

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Nari
A congressional caucus is a group of members of the United States Congress that meets to try to get common legislative goals. Officially, caucuses are created as congressional member organizations (CMOs) through the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. They are governed under the rules of these chambers. They are sometimes called conferences (especially Republican ones), coalitions, study groups, task forces, or working groups. Many other countries use the term parliamentary group—for example, the Parliament of the United Kingdom has many all-party parliamentary groups.

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Nelson Mandela Muntz  is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons.  Nelson is a school bully. Nelson constantly laughs at other people. He first appeared in the episode, Bart the General, in which Bart Simpson convinces everyone to fight back against Nelson. Nelson repeatedly throws Bart into a trash can.  He also is seen pushing people into lockers and torments other characters especially Milhouse Van Houten and more often minor character Martin Prince by giving them wedgies.  In the episode Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three Times Over, in a story called The Revenge of the Geeks, Milhouse gets revenge against all the bullies using a weapon that causes them to experience everything they did to the nerds.  Lisa Simpson convinces Milhouse to put down his weapon and Nelson shows up saying "you forgot about me because I had the mumps" and then uses Milhouse's weapon against Milhouse.  In the episode Dial N for Nerder, Martin Prince is seemingly killed by Bart Simpson and Lisa Simpson who then cover up what happened and Nelson tries to get to the bottom of it. It is revealed in the show that when he was a young child Nelson's father left to get a pack of cigarettes and never came back.  Nelson is poor. At one point Nelson dates Lisa Simpson.

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Avengers: Infinity War is a 2018 film for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It was positively welcomed from audiences, fans and film critics alike which praised its directing, story, humor, characters dynamic, emotional weight, Alan Silvestri's musical score, Thanos's rappresentation, CGI and the action scenes.  A sequel was made for it titled Avengers: Endgame.

Plot
The supervillain Thanos comes from a planet called Titan whose people are all dead because of overpopulation. To prevent the same thing from happening to other worlds, Thanos decides to kill half of all living beings on every planet in the entire Universe. To do that, Thanos tries to find six Infinity Stones and bring them together in a glove called an Infinity Gauntlet so that he can make anything he wants to happen with a snap of his fingers.

Thanos gets an Infinity Stone called the Power Stone by destroying the planet Xandar. He gets an Infinity Stone called the Space Stone by striking a deal with Loki in exchange for not killing Thor. He steals the Reality Stone from a person in space called the Collector, he gets the Soul Stone in exchange for killing his daughter Gamora. He strikes a deal with Dr. Strange to get the Time Stone in exchange for not killing Iron Man. He leads an alien invasion of Earth to get the Mind Stone from the robot superhero Vision by killing him. The Avengers, Spider-Man, Black Panther and the Guardians of the Galaxy all work together to stop Thanos.

Thanos then snaps his fingers and causes half of all living beings on every planet in the entire Universe to disappear from existence. There is a scene after the credits where Nick Fury successfully tries to signal someone who can do something about it but he gets killed by Thanos's snap.

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The Dublin and Monaghan bombings happened in Dublin and Monaghan, Republic of Ireland on 17 May 1974. The Ulster Volunteer Force used 3 car bombs in Dublin and another one in Monaghan to kill 33 people and injure nearly 300 others. The bombings were the deadliest attack in the Troubles. It was also the deadliest attack in the Republic of Ireland's history.

Sources
 Barron Report:

References

Other websites
 Justice for the Forgotten – organisation of victims of the bombings and relatives
 Key Events – The Dublin and Monaghan Bombs, 17 May 1974 – Conflict Archive on the Internet, University of Ulster
 1974 Dublin Bombings collection of 148 photographs on the Dublin City Council public libraries website

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Jack Ü is an American DJ duo, consisting of Mad Decent founder Diplo and Grammy award winning producer Skrillex, formed in 2013.

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American DJs
This is a list of presidents of the African country of Gabon.

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Beetham Tower (also known as the Hilton Tower) is a landmark 47-storey mixed use skyscraper in Manchester, England. Completed in 2006, it is named after its developers, the Beetham Organisation, and was designed by SimpsonHaugh and Partners. The development occupies a sliver of land at the top of Deansgate, hence its elongated plan, and was proposed in July 2003, with construction starting a year later.

At a height of , it is the tallest externally complete building in Manchester and tallest outside London in the United Kingdom. It was described by the Financial Times as "the UK's first proper skyscraper outside London". From 2006 to 2018, the skyscraper was the tallest building in Manchester and outside London in the United Kingdom. In November 2018 it was surpassed by the newly topped out South Tower at Deansgate Square; which is  tall.

As a result of the elongated floor plan, the structure is one of the thinnest skyscrapers in the world with a height to width ratio of 10:1 on the east west façade, but is noticeably wider on the north south façade. A four-metre cantilever marks the transition between hotel and residential use on the north façade, and a blade structure on the south side of the building acts as a façade overrun accentuating its slim form and doubles as a lightning rod. The skyscraper is visible from ten English counties on a clear day.

Floors 1 to 22 are occupied by the 279-bedroom four-star Hilton Manchester Deansgate Hotel. The 23rd floor has a four-metre cantilevered overhang with two glass windows in its floor, overlooking the ground from the skybar, Cloud 23, the only such bar in Manchester. The floor has a bar and lounge operated by Hilton. Floors 25 to 47 are occupied by residential apartments.

The top floor penthouse offers views of Greater Manchester, the Cheshire Plain, the Pennines and Snowdonia. The tower is known for emitting a loud unintentional hum or howl in windy weather, believed to emanate from the glass 'blade' atop the building. The hum has been recorded as a B below middle C and can be heard over large parts of the local area.

Architectural response to the skyscraper is polarised and interpretations vary. Some questioned its dominant appearance over the city – particularly over listed buildings with one author going as far to say the skyscraper instantly "torpedoed" any possibility of Manchester becoming a UNESCO World Heritage City – a status Manchester was previously on the United Kingdom shortlist for due its industrial past.

Others feel its dramatic appearance and peculiarity is reflective of Manchester, and that the Beetham Tower symbolises Manchester's reinvention as a post-industrial city - particularly since the bombing of 1996. Nevertheless, it has received praise and was awarded the best tall building in the world in 2007 by the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.

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Manchester
Buildings and structures in England
Blake Camp (born October 11, 1983) is an American soccer player.

Camp played some youth soccer in England and has trained with several prestigious professional clubs, including Manchester United and Blackburn Rovers in England, Real Valladolid in Spain, and Palmeiras in Brazil. After starring at Clarke Central High School in Georgia, where he was a four-time all-area performer, he played college soccer at Duke University. He became a regular starter and an all-ACC performer as a sophomore in 2003, then again in 2004 and 2005. In 2004, he was named to the NCAA Final Four All Tournament team. Camp was named to the Herman Trophy watch list in 2004 and 2005 and earned all-America honors as a junior and senior, finishing his collegiate career with 24 goals and the ACC Tournament MVP award as a senior.

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Zhongli District () is a district in Taoyuan City, Taiwan. Zhongli is spelled variously as Jungli, Jongli, Jhongli or Chungli on railway, bus stop and road signs. Historically, the city is the site of the Jungli Incident of 1977, the most significant event of the democratization movement prior to the 1980s. Ethnically, it is considered a kind of capital city for the Hakka Taiwanese, who live in great numbers here and nearby; a lot of the elderly could speak Hakka in addition to Mandarin and Taiwanese Hokkien. Recently many foreign workers (mainly from the Philippines and Thailand) have also settled in and around the city because of the heavy industries in the suburbs of the city. It is a center for foreign laborers. The city of Zhongli has 3 large parks and over 70 green reserves in the city for residents of Zhongli to enjoy.

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Acastus (; Ancient Greek: Ἄκαστος) is a character in Greek mythology.  He sailed with Jason and the Argonauts, and participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar.

Family 
Acastus was the son of Pelias, then king of Iolcus, and Anaxibia (Philomache in some traditions). Acastus with his wife Astydameia (also called Hippolyte, daughter of Cretheus) had two daughters: Sterope (Στερόπη) and Laodamia, and a number of sons. Another daughter, Sthenele (Σθενέλη), was given by the Bibliotheca as the wife of Menoetius and mother of Patroclus.

Mythology 
After the return of the Argonauts, Acastus's sisters were manipulated by Medea to cut their father Pelias in pieces and boil them. Acastus, when he heard this, buried his father, and drove Jason and Medea from Iolcus (and, according to Pausanias, his sisters also), and instituted funeral games in honor of his father.  He thereafter became king of Iolcus.

Acastus purified Peleus of the murder of King Eurytion of Phthia. Acastus's wife (variously named in mythology; often Astydamia, but sometimes Hippolyte, daughter of Cretheus) fell in love with Peleus but he scorned her. Bitter, she sent a messenger to Antigone, Peleus's wife and daughter of Eurytion, to tell her that Peleus was to marry Acastus's daughter, Sterope.

Astydamia then told Acastus that Peleus had tried to rape her. Acastus took Peleus on a hunting trip and hid his sword while he slept, then abandoned him on Mt. Pelion to be killed by centaurs.  The wise centaur Chiron (or the god Hermes) returned Peleus' sword and Peleus managed to escape. With Jason and the Dioscuri, Peleus sacked Iolcus, dismembered Astydamia (and, in some accounts, Acastus himself), and marched his army between the pieces. Their kingdom later fell to Jason's son Thessalus.

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People in Greek mythology
The Presidential Commission of Uganda held the office of President of Uganda between 22 May and 15 December 1980. It was made up of the following:

 Saulo Musoke
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 Yoweri Hunter Wacha-Olwol

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When William III died childless, the patrilineal ancestry of Orange-Nassau became extinct. In contrast to other provinces of the Dutch Republic, Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe had mostly drawn its stadtholders from the House of Nassau, that starting with John VI, the brother of William of Orange, and comprises in addition a matrilineal ancestry with the house of Orange-Nassau.

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The CIS Tower is an office skyscraper on Miller Street in Manchester, England. It was completed in 1962 and rises to 387 feet (118 m) in height. The Grade II listed building, which houses the Co-operative Banking Group, is Manchester's fifth-tallest building and the tallest office building in the United Kingdom outside London. The tower remained as built for over 40 years until maintenance issues on the service tower required an extensive renovation which included covering its facade in photovoltaic panels.

The office tower building rises above a five-storey podium block.

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The 1983 Cricket World Cup (officially the Prudential Cup '83) was the 3rd edition of the Cricket World Cup tournament. It was held from 9 June to 25 June 1983 in England and Wales and was won by India. Eight countries participated in the event.

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Kyle Elliot Korver (born March 17, 1981) is an American professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Creighton Bluejays and was drafted in the second round of the 2003 NBA draft by the New Jersey Nets. He was immediately traded to the Philadelphia 76ers. After four and a half seasons in Philadelphia, he was traded to the Utah Jazz. During his first stint with the Jazz, in 2009–10, Korver shot 53.6 percent from three-point range, which set an NBA single-season three-point field goal accuracy record. In 2010, he joined the Chicago Bulls. In 2012, he was traded to the Atlanta Hawks, where in 2015, he was named NBA All-Star. In 2017, he was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers, where he was a member of back-to-back Finals teams. In 2018, he was traded back to the Jazz.

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Clark County (county code CA) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2010, 2,215 people lived there. Its county seat is Ashland. Ashland is also the biggest city in Clark County.

Geography

The U.S. Census Bureau says that the county has a total area of . Of that,  is land and  (%) is water.

Major highways
Sources:  National Atlas, U.S. Census Bureau
 U.S. Route 54
 U.S. Route 160
 U.S. Route 183
 U.S. Route 283
 Kansas Highway 34

People

Government

Presidential elections
Before 1944, Clark County was a swing county. They voted the national winner in every presidential election from 1900 to 1940. From 1944 on, it has become very Republican in presidential elections (except from 1964 when Lyndon B. Johnson won).

Education

Unified school districts
 Minneola USD 219
 Ashland USD 220

Communities

Cities
 Ashland
 Englewood
 Minneola

References

More reading
 Plat Book of Clark County, Kansas; Dick Mackey; 37 pages; 1909.

Other websites

County
 
 Clark County - Directory of Public Officials
Maps
 Clark County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Highway Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Railroad Maps: Current, 1996, 1915, KDOT and Kansas Historical Society

Kansas counties
1867 establishments in Kansas
Marshall County (standard abbreviation: MS) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2010, 10,117 people lived there. The county seat is Marysville. Marysville is also the biggest city in Marshall County.

History
On May 30, 1879, the "Irving, Kansas Tornado" went through Marshall county. This tornado measured F4 on the Fujita scale. It had a damage path  wide and  long. Eighteen people were killed and sixty were injured.

Geography
The U.S. Census Bureau says that the county has a total area of . Of that,  is land and  (0.5%) is water.

People

Government

Presidential elections
Marshall County is very Republican county. The county has not been won by a Democratic candidate in a presidential election since 1932.

Education

Unified school districts
 Marysville USD 364 
 Vermillion USD 380
 Valley Heights USD 498
Historical
 Axtell USD 488 (Marshall County) and Sabetha USD 441 (Nemaha County) consolidated to create Prairie Hills USD 113.

Communities

Cities

 Axtell
 Beattie
 Blue Rapids
 Frankfort
 Marysville
 Oketo
 Summerfield
 Vermillion
 Waterville

References

More reading
 Atlas of Marshall County, Kansas; Anderson Publishing Co; 74 pages; 1922.
 Plat Book of Marshall County, Kansas; North West Publishing Co; 53 pages; 1904.
 Handbook of Marshall County, Kansas; Modern Argo; 12 pages; 1870s.

Other websites

County
 
 Marshall County - Directory of Public Officials
Historical
 Marysville Museum
Tornados
 Irving, KS Tornado
 Historical Tornado
Maps
 Marshall County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Highway Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Railroad Maps: Current, 1996, 1915, KDOT and Kansas Historical Society

1855 establishments in Kansas Territory
Hodgeman County (county code HG) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2010, 1,916 people lived there. Its county seat is Jetmore. Jetmore is also the biggest city in Hodgeman County.

History
Hodgeman County was created in 1867. It was named after Amos Hodgman, member of the 7th Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. The letter E was later added to the namesake's name.

Geography
The U.S. Census Bureau says that the county has a total area of . Of that,  is land and  (0.04%) is water.

People

Government

Presidential elections
Hodgeman County is very Republican. Only six Republican presidential candidates have failed to win the county from 1888 to the present, and no Democrat has to win even a quarter of the county's votes since Michael Dukakis in 1988. The last Democrat to win the county was Jimmy Carter in 1976.

Education

Unified school districts
 Hodgeman County USD 227 (Consolidated in 2011)

Communities

Cities
 Hanston
 Jetmore

References

Notes

More reading
 Handbook of Hodgeman County, Kansas; C.S. Burch Publishing Co; 34 pages; 1887.
 Standard Atlas of Hodgeman County, Kansas; Geo. A. Ogle & Co; 56 pages; 1907.

Other websites

County
 
 Hodgeman County - Directory of Public Officials
Maps
 Hodgeman County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Highway Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Railroad Maps: Current, 1996, 1915, KDOT and Kansas Historical Society

Kansas counties
1867 establishments in Kansas
Haskell County (county code HS) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2010, 4,256 people lived there. Its county seat is Sublette. Sublette is also the biggest city in Haskell County.

History
Haskell County was created in 1887. It was named for Dudley C. Haskell, a former member of Congress.

John M. Barry concluded that Haskell County was the where the first case of the 1918 flu pandemic (nicknamed "Spanish flu") happened, which killed between 21 and 100 million people.

The railroad and the development of oil and gas fields in the 1930s helped the economy of the area a lot. This helped overcome the "dust bowl" of that period. Haskell County was one of the hardest hit counties in the Midwest during the drought of 1930-1937.

Geography

The U.S. Census Bureau says that the county has a total area of . Of that,  is land and  (0.06%) is water.

Haskell County is the flattest county in Kansas.

People

Government

Presidential elections

Haskell County is very Republican. However, in 2016, the Democratic candidate (Hillary Clinton) got a higher share of the county's vote than Barack Obama did in 2012. The last time Haskell County was won by a democratic candidate was 1964 by Lyndon B. Johnson.

Education

Unified school districts
 Sublette USD 374
 Satanta USD 507

Communities

Cities
 Satanta
 Sublette

References

Other websites

County
 
 Haskell County - Directory of Public Officials
Maps
 Haskell County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Highway Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Railroad Maps: Current, 1996, 1915, KDOT and Kansas Historical Society

Kansas counties
1887 establishments in Kansas
Harper County (county code HP) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2010, 6,034 people lived there. Its county seat is Anthony. Anthony is also the biggest city in Harper County. The county was named after Sergeant Marion Harper of the 2nd Kansas Cavalry. He died of wounds suffered near Waldron, Arkansas, in December 1863.

History

19th century
In 1867, Harper County was created.

The original organization of Harper County was one of the biggest frauds in county government. In 1873, a group of three men organized Harper County. They designated the then-fake city of "Bluff City" as the county seat. The petition for organization used many names from a Cincinnati city directory to represent as residents of Harper County. In 1874, the state attorney general investigated. He didn't find any resident of the county. The "creators" of the county had sold $40,000 worth of bonds.

21st century
Due to new and high-paying jobs at oil fields and wind farms, Harper County had an economic boom. In 2012, rental housing and office space in towns such as Danville, Harper, and Anthony had become four times more expensive. However, by 2016, the oil fracking boom had ended. The economies of Harper County were hurt.

Geography
The U.S. Census Bureau says taht the county has a total area of . Of that,  is land and  (0.2%) is water.

People

Government

Presidential elections

Education

Unified school districts
 Anthony-Harper USD 361
 Attica USD 511

Communities

Cities
 Anthony
 Attica
 Bluff City
 Danville
 Harper
 Waldron

References

Notes

More reading
 Standard Atlas of Harper County, Kansas; Geo. A. Ogle & Co; 75 pages; 1919.
 Standard Atlas of Harper County, Kansas; Geo. A. Ogle & Co; 54 pages; 1902.

Other websites

County
 
 Harper County - Directory of Public Officials
 Harper County - Economic Development Council
Maps
 Harper County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Highway Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Railroad Maps: Current, 1996, 1915, KDOT and Kansas Historical Society

 
1867 establishments in Kansas
Hamilton County (county code HM) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2010, 2,690 people lived there. Its county seat is Syracuse. Syracuse is also the biggest city in Hamilton County. The county was created in 1873. It is named after Alexander Hamilton.

Geography
The U.S. Census Bureau says that the county has a total area of . Of that,  is land and  (0.1%) is water.

Major highways
 U.S. Highway 50
 U.S. Highway 400
 K-27

People

Government

Hamilton county is very Republican. The last time a democratic candidate has won Hamilton County was in 1976 by Jimmy Carter.

Presidential elections

Education

Unified school districts
 Syracuse USD 494

Communities

Cities
 Coolidge
 Syracuse

References

Other websites

County
 Hamilton County - Directory of Public Officials
Maps
 Hamilton County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Highway Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Railroad Maps: Current, 1996, 1915, KDOT and Kansas Historical Society

Kansas counties
1873 establishments in Kansas
Greenwood County (county code GW) is a county in the southeast part of the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2010, 6,689 people lived there. Its county seat is Eureka. Eureka is also the biggest city in Greenwood County.

In 1855, Greenwood County was created. It was named after Alfred B. Greenwood, a U.S. Congressman from Arkansas.

The first railroad in Greenwood County was built through that territory in 1879.

Geography
The U.S. Census Bureau says that the county has a total area of . Of that,  is land and  (0.8%) is water. It is the fifth-largest county in Kansas by area.

People

Government
Greenwood county is often carried by Republican Candidates. The last time a democratic candidate has carried this county was in 1936 by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Presidential elections

Education

Unified school districts
 Madison-Virgil USD 386
 Eureka USD 389
 Hamilton USD 390
 West Elk USD 282 (serving Severy and extreme southern GW county)

Communities

Cities
 Climax
 Eureka
 Fall River
 Hamilton
 Madison
 Severy
 Virgil

References

Notes

More reading
 Handbook of Greenwood County, Kansas; C.S. Burch Publishing Co; 37 pages; 1880s.
 Standard Atlas of Greenwood County, Kansas; Geo. A. Ogle & Co; 78 pages; 1922.
 Plat Book of Greenwood County, Kansas; North West Publishing Co; 58 pages; 1903.
 Handbook of Greenwood County, Kansas; C. S. Burch Publishing Co; 37 pages; 1880 to 1890.

Other websites

County
 
 Greenwood County - Directory of Public Officials
Maps
 Greenwood County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Highway Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Railroad Maps: Current, 1996, 1915, KDOT and Kansas Historical Society

 
1855 establishments in Kansas Territory
Sheridan County (standard abbreviation: SD) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2010, 2,556 people lived there. Its county seat is Hoxie.  The county was named after Phillip H. Sheridan, a general of the American Civil War era.

History

19th century
In 1873, the rest of the unorganized part of the state was divided into 22 new counties. This included Sheridan County.  Sheridan County was then organized in 1880. The county seat was in Kenneth.

20th century
The railroad was still used in Sheridan County until 1998. After flooding east of Plainville in the 1993 floods damaged the railroad, the railroad decided not to rebuild. The entire railroad from Plainville to Colby was abandoned by 1998.

Geography
The U.S. Census Bureau says that the county has a total area of . Of that,  is land and  (0.03%) is water.

People

Government

Presidential elections

Sheridan County is very Republican.

Education

Unified school districts
 Hoxie USD 412

Communities

Cities
 Hoxie
 Selden

References

More reading
 Standard Atlas of Sheridan County, Kansas; Geo. A. Ogle & Co; 58 pages; 1907.

Other websites

County
 
 Sheridan County - Directory of Public Officials
Other
 Discover Sheridan County
Maps
 Sheridan County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Highway Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Railroad Maps: Current, 1996, 1915, KDOT and Kansas Historical Society

Kansas counties
1873 establishments in Kansas
Sherman County (standard abbreviation: SH) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2010, 6,010 people lived there. Its county seat is Goodland. Sherman County was created by the Kansas Legislature in 1873. It is named after General William Tecumseh Sherman.

History

19th century
In 1886, Sherman County was created.

Geography
The U.S. Census Bureau says that the county has a total area of . Of that,  is land and  (0.02%) is water.

Sherman County is one of only four Kansas counties in Mountain Time. Since Sherman County is part of the Wichita media market, prime-time television in the county is aired from 6 to 9 p.m. local time, rather than 7 to 10 p.m. as is normal in the Central and Mountain time zones. However, cable providers carry the ABC and NBC affiliates from both Wichita and Denver. This allows viewers to view programs on those networks at the normal prime-time hours.

Major highways
  Interstate 70
  US-24
  K-27

People

Government
Sherman county is often won by Republican Candidates, like most rural counties. However, Lyndon B. Johnson barely won the county in 1964.

Presidential elections

Education

Unified school districts
 Brewster USD 314
 Goodland USD 352

Communities

Cities
 Goodland
 Kanorado

Related pages
 List of counties in Kansas

References

More reading
 Standard Atlas of Sherman County, Kansas; Geo. A. Ogle & Co; 61 pages; 1907.

Other websites

County
 
 Sherman County - Directory of Public Officials
Maps
 Sherman County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Highway Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Railroad Maps: Current, 1996, 1915, KDOT and Kansas Historical Society

Kansas counties
1886 establishments in Kansas
Kurdistan Vegans is the first vegan nonprofit organization working for animal rights in Iraq. It was established on June 24, 2018, by Zanko Bakhshi and Zhiar Ali, in Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The organization focuses on animal rights, and encourages environmental protection and choosing a healthy lifestyle by promoting veganism and abstaining from using animal products.

The organization had its first physical activity on November 1, 2018, on World Vegan Day in two cities of the Kurdistan region in Sulaymaniyah and Erbil. The events took place in Azadi Park in Sulaymaniyah and Sami Abdulrahman Park in Erbil and consisted of distributing pamphlet and booklets containing information about veganism and the vegan diet.

After and during the event, local TVs interviewed members of the organization and started shining a light on the philosophy of veganism.

History

Appearance

At first, the project started as a blog to inform the Kurdish people about veganism in 2017. Until its formal establishment, the activities of Kurdistan Vegans consisted of only online posting on platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. After Bakhshi came into contact with some animal rights activists, they decided to work more formally, as an organization, and like so the organization was certified by the Ministry of Nongovernmental Organizations on June 24, 2018.

World Vegan Day

The organization executed its first physical activity five months after its establishment on November 1, 2018, in Erbil and Sulaymaniyah. In Sulaymaniyah, the team consisted of five people led by the Vice President Zhiar Ali in Azadi Park, and in Erbil it consisted of 4 people led by the founder himself in Samy Abdulrahman Park. The event consisted of distributing pamphlets and booklets which contained information about veganism, a vegan diet, public figures who are vegan and such. The team also verbally explained and promoted veganism.

Goals and belief

Kurdistan Vegans’ philosophy is based on a moral philosophy called veganism. The organization believes that animals must not be used for human benefits in any way and that they “should not be exploited.” In an interview with Jiyan Media, Bakhshi said:

Vegans believe in a moral philosophy where the people who believe it not only take out animal products from their meals, but they stop using them for clothes as well, because we believe that as long as there are alternatives for those things, animals don’t want to be part of the abuse they go through in animal industries.

In another interview, Bakhshi explained the difference between veganism, the philosophy of the organization, and vegetarianism, and said: “you can look at vegetarianism as a diet, they are people who don’t eat meat only, but vegans stop using animal products altogether, such as eggs and dairy products [as well], because they believe that what’s going on in the bird farms are not less than killing.”

The organization and its members believe that using animals and their byproducts is wrong because of the unethical treatment and abuse farmed animals go through.

Sources

Animal rights
Jacques Necker was a banker from Geneva who became a finance minister for Louis XVI.

His dismissal on 1789 caused the Storming of the Bastille.

18th century in France
Finance
Gabriel Léon M'ba (February 9, 1902 in Libreville - November 28, 1967 in Paris) was the first  President of Gabon (1960 - 1967). The surname is also written 'M'Ba' and 'Mba'.

He was a member of the Fang people ethnic group. He was prime minister from May 21, 1957 to February 21, 1961 and became president upon independence from France on August 17, 1960. He was briefly toppled by a military coup d'etat in February 1964, and Jean-Hilaire Aubame was installed as president, but was restored within days through French intervention.

M'ba was reelected in March 1967, but died in November of that year and was succeeded by his vice president, Albert-Bernard Bongo (now Omar Bongo Ondimba).

Gabon's main airport, the Leon M'ba International Airport, is named for him. On November 27, 2007 President Bongo Ondimba attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a newly built Mausoleum for M'ba in Libreville. 

1902 births
1967 deaths
Presidents of Gabon
Prime Ministers of Gabon
Roman Catholics
Cancer deaths in France
El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba (born Albert-Bernard Bongo; 30 December 1935 – 8 June 2009) was a Gabonese politician who was President of Gabon for 42 years, from 1967 until his death in 2009. He was promoted to key positions as a young official under Gabon's first President Léon M'ba in the 1960s, before being elected Vice-President in his own right in 1966. In 1967, he succeeded M'ba to become the second President of Gabon, upon the latter's death.

Bongo died in hospital from a heart attack on 8 June 2009 in Barcelona, aged 73.

References 

1935 births
2009 deaths
African politicians
Converts to Islam
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Former Christians
Muslims
Freemasons
Presidents of Gabon
Vice presidents
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (acronym: WASP) is a term describing  White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. They are a social group of white protestants in the United States. They are often of British descent, and typically wealthy and well-connected. 

They are not so influential as they were.  However, WASPs are still well placed in major financial, business and legal firms, and in universities. Most U.S. presidents belong to this group. Exceptions include John F. Kennedy (who was a Catholic), Barack Obama (African American), and Joe Biden (also a Catholic).

References 

Social groups
United States
Osborne County (standard abbreviation: OB) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2010, 3,858 people lived there. The county seat is Osborne. Osborne is also the biggest city in Osborne County.

History
In 1867, Osborne County was created.

Geography
The U.S. Census Bureau says that the county has a total area of . Of that,  is land and  (0.2%) is water. The south fork of Solomon River goes through the county. The land has rolling hills and prairies.

The geodetic center of North America is within the county. The geographic center of the 48 contiguous states is in Smith County, which is close to Osborne County.

People

Government

Presidential elections

Osborne County is very Republican. No Democratic presidential candidate has won Osborne County since Woodrow Wilson in 1916.

Education

Unified school districts
 Waconda USD 272
Downs; extends into western Mitchell County
 Osborne USD 392
most of county including Alton and Portis
 Natoma-Paradise-Waldo USD 399
southwestern portion of county; also extends into Russell and Rooks counties

Communities

Cities
 Alton
 Downs
 Natoma
 Osborne
 Portis

References

Notes

More reading
 Handbook of Osborne County, Kansas; Junction Steam Print Press; 58 pages; 1880s.
 Standard Atlas of Osborne County, Kansas; Geo. A. Ogle & Co; 78 pages; 1917.
 Plat Book of Osborne County, Kansas; North West Publishing Co; 44 pages; 1900.

Other websites

County
 
 Osborne County - Directory of Public Officials
Maps
 Osborne County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Highway Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Railroad Maps: Current, 1996, 1915, KDOT and Kansas Historical Society

 
1867 establishments in Kansas
Osage County (county code OS) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2010, 16,295 people lived there. Its county seat is Lyndon. Its most populous city is Osage City. The county was originally organized in 1855 as Weller County, and was renamed in 1859 after the Osage River that runs through it, which is itself named for the Osage Native American Tribe.

History
In 1859, Osage County was created.

Geography
The U.S. Census Bureau says that the county has a total area of . Of that,  is land and  (2.0%) is water.

People

Osage County is included in the Topeka Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Government

Presidential elections
Osage County is strongly Republican. In only six presidential elections from 1888 to the present day has the county failed to back the Republican Party candidate, most recently in Lyndon B. Johnson's national landslide. of 1964.

Education

Unified school districts
 Osage City USD 420
 Lyndon USD 421 
 Santa Fe Trail USD 434 
 Burlingame USD 454 
 Marais des Cygnes Valley USD 456

Media
Osage County is served by a weekly newspaper, The Osage County Herald-Chronicle is a weekly newspaper for Osage County. The newspaper publishes about 4,500 papers, making it the 3rd biggest paid weekly newspaper in the state of Kansas.

The Herald-Chronicle was created by the merger of The Osage County Herald and The Osage County Chronicle in February 2007.

Communities

Cities

 Burlingame
 Carbondale
 Lyndon
 Melvern
 Olivet
 Osage City
 Overbrook
 Quenemo
 Scranton

References

Notes

More reading
 Standard Atlas of Osage County, Kansas; Geo. A. Ogle & Co; 80 pages; 1918.
 Descriptive Atlas of Osage County, Kansas; Geo. A. Ogle & Co; 67 pages; 1899.
 An Illustrated Historical Atlas of Osage County, Kansas; Geo. A. Ogle & Co; 46 pages; 1879.

Other websites

County
 
 Osage County - Directory of Public Officials
Other
 Osage County Historical Society
 Newspaper website
Maps
 Osage County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Highway Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Railroad Maps: Current, 1996, 1915, KDOT and Kansas Historical Society

 
1859 establishments in Kansas Territory
Comanche County (county code CM) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2010, 1,891 people lived there. Its county seat is Coldwater. Coldwater is also the biggest city in Comanche County. Comanche county is named after the Comanche Native Americans.

Geography
The U.S. Census Bureau says that the county has a total area of . Of that,  is land and  (0.2%) is water.

People

Government

Presidential elections

Education

Unified school districts
 Comanche County USD 300

Communities

Cities
 Coldwater
 Protection
 Wilmore

References

Notes

More reading
 Standard Atlas of Comanche County, Kansas; Geo. A. Ogle & Co; 42 pages; 1909.

Other websites

 County
 
 Comanche County - Directory of Public Officials
 Maps
 Comanche County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Highway Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Railroad Maps: Current, 1996, 1915, KDOT and Kansas Historical Society

1867 establishments in Kansas
Cloud County (county code CD) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2010, 9,533 people lived there. Its county seat is Concordia. Concordia is also the biggest city in Cloud County.

History

19th century
In 1867, Cloud County was created.

Cloud county was originally named "Shirley" county. However, civic leaders feared that sounded too much like the name of a prostitute. They changed the name to "Cloud" county. They named it after Colonel William F. Cloud.

Cloud County was created from the existing Washington County, Kansas. This was in a joint convention with Republic and Cloud counties.  The county was legally organized on September 6, 1866. Elk Creek was chosen as the temporary county seat.

In 1887, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway built a railroad from Neva (3 miles west of Strong City) to Superior, Nebraska.  This railroad connected Strong City, Neva, Rockland, Diamond Springs, Burdick, Lost Springs, Jacobs, Hope, Navarre, Enterprise, Abilene, Talmage, Manchester, Longford, Oak Hill, Miltonvale, Aurora, Huscher, Concordia, Kackley, Courtland, Webber, Superior.

Geography
The U.S. Census Bureau says that the county has a total area of . Of that,  is land and  (0.4%) is water.

Geographic features
The Republican River goes through the county. It enters from Republic County to the north. It exits to Clay County to the east. The Solomon River goes through the southwestern part of the county. It goes from Mitchell County to Ottawa County. Jamestown Lake is partially in the northwestern part of the county and partially in southwestern Republic county.

Major highways
U.S. Route 81 goes through Cloud County. It goes through Concordia and connects north to Belleville, Kansas or south to Salina, Kansas.  The southern part of the county also has U.S. Route 24,. It connectd Clay Center, Kansas from the east and Beloit, Kansas to the west.

There are four other state highways in the county: K-9, K-28, K-189, and K-194.

People

Government

Presidential elections

Education

Unified school districts
 Concordia USD 333
 Concordia Junior-Senior High School
 Concordia Middle School
 Southern Cloud County USD 334
 Clifton-Clyde USD 224

Colleges and Universities
 Cloud County Community College
 Historic
 Miltonvale Wesleyan College (closed 1972)
 Concordia Normal School (closed 1876)
 Concordia Business College (closed sometime after 1930)

Communities

Cities
 Aurora
 Clyde
 Concordia
 Glasco
 Jamestown
 Miltonvale
 Simpson (partly in Mitchell County)

Popular culture
Cloud County has also been listed as one of the places for Smallville in the Superman story line.

References

More reading
 Standard Atlas of Cloud County, Kansas; Geo. A. Ogle & Co; 89 pages; 1917.
 Standard Atlas of Cloud County, Kansas; Geo. A. Ogle & Co; 56 pages; 1901.
 Edward's Atlas of Cloud County, Kansas; John P. Edwards; 43 pages; 1985.

Other websites

County
 
 Cloud County - Directory of Public Officials
Maps
 Cloud County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Highway Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Railroad Maps: Current, 1996, 1915, KDOT and Kansas Historical Society

1867 establishments in Kansas
Coffey County (county code CF) is a county in Eastern Kansas. In 2010, 8,601 people lived there. Its county seat is Burlington. Burlington is also the biggest city in Coffey County.

History
In 1855, Coffey County was created.

Geography
The U.S. Census Bureau says that the county has a total area of . Of that,  is land and  (4.2%) is water.

Major highways
Sources:  National Atlas, U.S. Census Bureau
 Interstate 35
 U.S. Route 50
 U.S. Route 75
 K-31
 K-58

People

Government

Presidential elections

Education

Unified school districts
 Lebo-Waverly USD 243
 Burlington USD 244
 Leroy-Gridley USD 245

Communities

Cities
 Burlington
 Gridley
 Lebo
 Le Roy
 New Strawn
 Waverly

Famous people
 Alan L. Hart (1890–1962), transgender physician, radiologist, tuberculosis researcher, writer, and novelist

References

More reading
 Standard Atlas of Coffey County, Kansas; Geo. A. Ogle & Co; 69 pages; 1919.
 Plat Book of Coffey County, Kansas; North West Publishing Co; 40 pages; 1901.
 An Illustrated Historical Atlas of Coffey County, Kansas; Edwards Brothers; 44 pages; 1878.

Other websites

County
 
 Coffey County - Directory of Public Officials
Maps
 Coffey County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Highway Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Railroad Maps: Current, 1996, 1915, KDOT and Kansas Historical Society

Kansas counties
1855 establishments in Kansas Territory
Kearny County (county code KE) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2010, 3,977 people lived there. Its county seat is Lakin. Lakin is also the biggest city in Kearny County. The county is named after General Philip Kearny.

History
The original Kearney County was created on March 6, 1873. It was ended in 1883. The land area was divided between Hamilton and Finney counties. It was recreated with its original borders in 1887. It was organized on March 27, 1888.  The county is named after Philip Kearny. He was a U.S. Army officer in the Mexican–American War and a Union army general in the American Civil War. In 1889, the name was corrected to Kearny County.

Geography
The U.S. Census Bureau says that the county has a total area of . Of that,  is land and  (0.05%) is water.

Major highways
 U.S. Highway 50
 U.S. Highway 400
 K-25

Time zones
The west half of Kearny County observed Mountain Standard Time until October 28, 1990. This was when the Kansas Department of Transportation moved the entire county into the Central Time Zone, which 100 of the state's other 104 counties are in. Only four counties (Hamilton, Greeley, Wallace, and Sherman), all of which border Colorado, observe Mountain Time.

People

Kearny County is included in the Garden City, KS Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Government

Presidential elections

Education

Unified school districts
 Lakin USD 215
 Deerfield USD 216

Communities

Cities
 Deerfield
 Lakin

References

Notes

Other websites

County
 
 Kearny County - Directory of Public Officials
Maps
 Kearny County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Highway Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Railroad Maps: Current, 1996, 1915, KDOT and Kansas Historical Society

 
1873 establishments in Kansas