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Mimaropa

MIMAROPA, also known as Southern Tagalog Islands, is a region of the Philippines. The provinces of the region are Occidental Mindoro, Oriental Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, and  Palawan. The capital is Calapan.

Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park and El Nido Marine Reserve Park are in the region.

History 
The MIMAROPA region was created by Executive Order No. 103 in 2002.

References 

Regions of the Philippines
Palawan

Palawan () is a province of the Philippines.  It is in the western MIMAROPA region.

List of municipalities
The province includes many local governments.

Mainland municipalities

Aborlan
Bataraza
Brooke's Point
Dumaran
El Nido (Bacuit)
Narra
Quezon
Rizal (Marcos)
Roxas
San Vicente
Sofronio Española
Taytay

Island municipalities

Agutaya
Araceli
Balabac
Busuanga
Cagayancillo
Coron
Culion
Cuyo
Kalayaan (Spratly Islands)
Linapacan
Magsaysay

References

Other websites

  Palawan Province website

Provinces of the Philippines
Asia-related lists
Kalayaan, Palawan

Kalayaan is a Philippine municipality in the province of Palawan.  It is in the eastern part of the South China Sea.

History
In 1978, the Presidential Decree No. 1596 established the municipality as part of Palawan.

Control of the seas around Kalayaan is disputed.  The 2010 Philippine census identifies a population of 200+ people.

Geography
Kalayaan is in the eastern part of the South China Sea.  The Phillipines claims that these mostly uninhabited off-shore islands are in an area which is distinct from the Spratly Islands.

Kalayaan has a land area of approximately 85 hectares.

Related pages
Spratly Islands

References

Other websites
 ""Kalayaan Islands group," Atlas of Philippine Coral Reefs

Settlements in the Philippines
1978 establishments in Asia
1970s establishments in the Philippines
San Diego Convention Center

The San Diego Convention Center is the main convention center in San Diego, California. It is in the Marina district of downtown San Diego. The center is managed by the San Diego Convention Center Corporation.

The convention center has  of exhibit area. As of 2009 it was the 24th largest convention center in North America. It was designed by Canadian architect Arthur Erickson.  The building can hold 125,000 people.

The center's best known feature is the Sails Pavilion. It is a  exhibit and special event area. The Sails Pavilion's roof includes Teflon-coated fiberglass "sails". They are intended to show San Diego's maritime history. The Pavilion was first built as an open-air facility under the roof. This made it hard to get people to use it. Because of this, the Pavilion area was enclosed in glass. This made it much more usable.

History
San Diego  approved the construction of a new convention center in 1983. It was built on land owned by the Port of San Diego. Construction of the building began in March 1987 and was finished in November 1989. The center was made larger in September 2001 by doubling its square footage.

Notable events hosted at the convention center include the Comic Con International convention. It hosted the 1996 Republican National Convention, which nominated Bob Dole and Jack Kemp for President and Vice President of the United States.

References

Other websites

 
 

Convention and exhibition centers in the United States
Buildings and structures in San Diego, California
1989 establishments in California
List of ports in England

This is a list of the seaports of England, clockwise, starting from the Scottish border.

Major ports
Listed clockwise around the English coast from the Scottish border.
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Sunderland
Hartlepool
Redcar

Humber
Kingston-upon-Hull
Immingham
Grimsby

East Anglia
Port of King's Lynn - King's Lynn docks, Norfolk
Great Yarmouth
Lowestoft
Felixstowe
Great Yarmouth
Lowestoft
Harwich

Thames estuary
Tilbury Docks
Port of London

Kent coast
Port of Medway - Sheerness docks
Port of Whitstable
Port of Ramsgate
Dover
Folkestone

South coast
Newhaven
Portsmouth
Southampton
Poole
Weymouth
Plymouth
Falmouth

Bristol Channel
Avonmouth
Bristol

Northwest England
Liverpool
Fleetwood
Barrow-in-Furness

Lists about England
Burning of Jaffna library

The burning of the Jaffna Public Library () was an attack at the central library in the city of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. It was one of the events that led up to the Sri Lankan Civil War. The first attack on the library building was on 1 June 1981. A group of Sinhalese rioters burned the library that was one of the important libraries in Sri Lanka and one of the biggest in Asia. 

This was one of the most violent examples of ethnic-based book burnings of the 20th century. At the time of its destruction, the library was one of the biggest in Asia, containing over 97,000 books and manuscripts. 

In 1984 the library was repaired. However, the civil war had begun the previous year. The building was burned several times during the years of fighting, until 1998 when the president tried to make peace between the Sinhalese and Tamil sides. In 2003 the rebuilt library reopened again.

References

Other websites 
About Jaffna Library in Tamil
Official website of the Jaffna library 
Jaffna library vandalized 2010
Documentary on the burning of the library by Someetharan 
History of the Jaffna public library 
Burning Books  - Reported by Kevin Sites

1981 crimes
1981 in Asia
1980s crimes in Asia
1980s fires
1980s riots
Arson
Attacks on buildings and structures in Asia
Attacks on buildings and structures in the 1980s
Building and structure fires in Asia
Jaffna District
June events
Libraries in Asia
Mass murder in Asia
Mass murder in the 1980s

Sri Lankan Civil War
Polk County, Iowa

Polk County is a county in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2010 census, 430,640 people lived there. It the most populous county in Iowa. The county seat is Des Moines,. Des Moines is also the capital city of Iowa. Polk County is one of the five counties that make up the Des Moines-West Des Moines Metropolitan Statistical Area.

History
Polk County was formed on January 13, 1846. It was named after President James K. Polk. The first courthouse was built in 1846. Construction of a second courthouse was begun in 1858.  It was finished in 1866.

Geography

The county has a total area of . Of this,  (or 96.19%) is land and  (or 3.81%) is water.  The county is bisected by the Des Moines River

Adjacent counties
Boone County  (northwest)
Story County  (north)
Jasper County  (east)
Marion County  (southeast)
Warren County  (south)
Madison County  (southwest)
Dallas County  (west)

Communities

Cities

Unincorporated communities

References

Other websites
 
Polk County government's website
[Historic Polk County Church: Ankeny Christian Church, Dave Clark pastor]

Iowa counties
1846 establishments in Iowa Territory
Book of hours

A book of hours is a breviary containing prayers, Psalms, antitphons, and other materials to be recited at the canonical hours. These books were popular during the Middle Ages for common use among the nobility and the clergy. One of the most famous is the Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry.

Books of the Roman Catholic Church
Breviary

A breviary is a liturgical book that contains the Divine Office assigned to the canonical hours. They must be recited by those in religious orders.

Books of the Roman Catholic Church
Christian worship and liturgy
Defender of the Faith

Defender of the Faith (Latin: Fidei Defensor) is a title belonging to the leader of the Church of England. It was originally conferred upon King Henry VIII of England by Pope Leo X on 11 October 1521 as a reward for the king having written a pamphlet in defense of the sacraments against Martin Luther (Declaration of the Seven Sacraments Against Martin Luther).  King James V of Scotland received a similar title from Pope Paul III. 

When Henry broke with the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Paul III took the title away. It was returned to the king by Parliament in 1544. The abbreviation Fid. Def. or the letters F.D. have appeared on British coinage from the time of George I. Defender of the Faith is a title still carried by British monarchs.

References

Titles
British royalty
Protestant Reformation
Johnson County, Kansas

Johnson County (county code JO) is a county in northeast Kansas. The county is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. It contains many of the richer suburbs of Kansas City. As of the 2010 census, 544,179 people lived there.  Its county seat is Olathe. The most populous city is Overland Park.

In 2010, Money magazine ranked Overland Park 7th and Shawnee 17th in its list of the 100 Best Cities in the United States in which to live.  In 2008 the same magazine had ranked Olathe 11th.

History

Johnson County is named for Thomas Johnson. It was one of the first counties in the Kansas Territory in 1855. The well known gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok lived in the county for a time. He was the constable of Monticello Township in 1858. Johnson County was the site of many battles dealing with slavery during Bleeding Kansas.

The county was mostly rural until the early 20th century. There was a large amount of urban development from 1914 though  World War II.  After the war, the development grew even greater.

Laws
Johnson County was a prohibition, or "dry", county until the Kansas Constitution was changed in 1986.

Geography
The county has a total area of . Of this,  (or 99.30%) is land, and  (or 0.70%) is water.

Adjacent counties
 Wyandotte County (north)
 Jackson County, Missouri (east)
 Cass County, Missouri (southeast)
 Miami County (south)
 Franklin County (southwest)
 Douglas County (west)
 Leavenworth County (northwest)

Cities and towns

Incorporated cities
Name and population (2010 Census Bureau):
 Overland Park,* 173,372
 Olathe, 125,872 (county seat)
 Shawnee,* 62,209
 Lenexa,* 48,190
 Leawood,* 31,867
 Prairie Village,* 21,447
 Gardner, 19,123
 Merriam,* 11,003
 Mission,* 9,323
 Roeland Park,* 6,731
 Bonner Springs (also in Wyandotte County and Leavenworth County)
 De Soto, 5,720
 Spring Hill, 5,437
 Fairway,* 3,882
 Mission Hills,* 3,498
 Edgerton, 1,671
 Westwood,* 1,506
 Lake Quivira,* 906 (also in Wyandotte County)
 Westwood Hills,* 359
 Mission Woods,* 178

*Cities included in Shawnee Mission. The main Shawnee Mission post office is in Mission.

Unincorporated places
 Bonita
 Clare
 Ocheltree
 Stanley
 Stilwell

Townships
Johnson County was divided into nine townships. Two of these no longer exist. They were made part of independent municipalities. All of the cities are considered governmentally independent. They are not included in the census numbers for the townships.

References

Other websites

Official sites
 Johnson County
 Johnson County History
 Johnson County Library
 Johnson County Genealogical Society and Library
 Frontier Military Historic Byway
Additional information
 Blue Skyways 
 Kansas Statistical Abstract 
Maps
 Johnson County Map, KDOT
 Kansas Highway Map, KDOT
 Kansas Railroad Map, KDOT
 Kansas School District Boundary Map , KSDE

1855 establishments in Kansas Territory
Lady chapel

A Lady chapel is a small chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It can also be called Mary chapel or a Marian chapel.

Churches
Lammas Day

Lammas Day is August 1. It is an old and seldom used name for the feast of Saint Peter-in-Chains.

References
 The Catholic Concise Encyclopedia. 1956. Simon & Schuster. p. 217.

Christian holidays
August events
Epic Mickey

Epic Mickey is a platform video game for the Nintendo Wii game console. It was developed by Junction Point Studios and published by Disney Interactive Studios. It was released in Europe on November 26, 2010, in North America on November 30, 2010, and in Japan on August 4, 2011.

The game stars Mickey Mouse, who accidentally damages a world of forgotten Disney characters and concepts. He uses a magic paintbrush to fight enemies. The game is intended to re-brand the Mickey Mouse character by focusing his adventurous side rather than his pleasant, cheerful side, doing so by showing him as an heroic character. The game is darker and more complex than previous Mickey Mouse games. It features the first appearance of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Disney's first successful cartoon character, as a major character since 1943.

A sequel, Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, was released for the Wii, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii U in 2012. And also Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion release in 2013, for Nintendo 3DS.

References

Other websites
Official U.S. website
Official UK Website

2010 video games
Disney video games
Wii games
Wii-only games
Platform games
Game & Wario

Game & Wario is a party video game in the Wario series released for the Wii U game console. It was developed by Nintendo Software Planning & Development and published by Nintendo. It was released in Japan on March 28, 2013, in North America on June 23, 2013, and in Europe on June 28, 2013. The game has 16 minigames which are played with the Wii U GamePad. Some minigames are single-player games, while others are multiplayer games that can be played with up to five players.

References

Other websites

Official website

2013 video games
Wii U games
Wario
Party video games
The Fir Tree

"The Fir Tree" is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. It was published with "The Snow Queen" in Copenhagen, Denmark on 21 December 1844. The story tells of a fir tree unhappy with his life in the forest. He is cut and taken to the city where he becomes a decorated Christmas tree. He is thrilled, but the excitement is shortlived. One day he is discarded.

Other websites

 "The Fir Tree" English translation by Jean Hersholt

Fairy tales
Works by Hans Christian Andersen
Jack and the Beanstalk

"Jack and the Beanstalk" is an English fairy tale. The story tells of a boy named Jack who climbs a magic beanstalk and finds treasures that make him rich, including a goose that lays golden eggs. In the process, he defeats a wicked giant. The story first appeared in print about 1730. It has been adapted to various media such as television programs and movies.

Fairy tales
Sonic Advance

Sonic Advance is a platform video game for the Game Boy Advance game console. It was developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega in Japan, by THQ in North America, and by Infogrammes in Europe and Australia. It was released in Japan on December 20, 2001, in North America on February 4, 2002, and in Europe on March 23, 2002. It is the first Sonic the Hedgehog game on the Game Boy Advance, and the second on a Nintendo console. A version titled Sonic N was later released for the N-Gage on October 7, 2003.

The game follows Sonic and his friends as they try to stop Dr. Eggman from taking over South Island. Four characters are playable in the game: Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy. Each character has their own special ability: Sonic can defeat enemies with a shield attack, Tails can fly, Knuckles can glide and climb on walls, and Amy can attack enemies with her hammer (the other characters defeat enemies by jumping on them). The game marks the first appearance of Amy in a 2D Sonic game.

Also featured in the game is the Tiny Chao Garden. Here, players raise a creature called a Chao as a digital pet. Rings that players collect in the main game can be used to buy things such as fruit and toys.

Other websites
Sonic Advance at MobyGames
Sonic Advance at GameFAQs

2001 video games
Sonic the Hedgehog games
Platform games
Game Boy Advance games
Lauren Storm

Lauren Marlene Storm (born January 2, 1987) is an American actress. She acts in movies and television. She played Taylor Hagen in the TV show Flight 29 Down. She played Teresa Kilmer in the 2009 movie I Love You, Beth Cooper. Storm was born in Chicago. She is also a painter.

References

Actors from Illinois
American movie actors
American television actors
1987 births
Living people
Equalization (audio)

In sound recording, equalization is the process commonly used to change the frequency response of an audio system using linear filters. An equalizer is the device which is used to control the frequencies.

Other websites 

Audio technology
Rocky Balboa (movie)

Rocky Balboa (also known as Rocky VI) is the sixth and final movie in the Rocky series, written, directed by and starring Sylvester Stallone.

Release Dates

References

2006 drama movies
2000s sports drama movies
Columbia Pictures movies
Rocky movies
Screenplays by Sylvester Stallone
Movies directed by Sylvester Stallone
Dani Filth

Dani Filth (born Daniel Lloyd Davey, born 25 July 1973) is an English heavy metal singer. He is the founder and lead singer of the extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. 

He co-wrote a book with Gavin Baddeley titled The Gospel of Filth which documented the history of the band. He also appeared in the movie Cradle of Fear where he portrayed The Man.  He has been accused of being a Satanist, but denounced the claims and said that he was "more of a Luciferian". He was ranked at #95 in the Top 100 Heavy Metal Vocalists by Hit Parader.

References

Other websites
Cradle of Filth website

1973 births
Living people
British esotericists
English singers
Heavy metal singers
People from Herefordshire
Scott Stapp

Scott Alan Stapp (born Anthony Scott Flippen, born August 8, 1973) is an American musician. He is the founder and lead singer of the rock band Creed. 

He won a Grammy Award with Creed for their 2000 single, "With Arms Wide Open". Throughout his career, he has been involved in many legal troubles and also attempted suicide twice. He credits rapper T.I. for saving his life.

He has since committed himself to sobriety and also shaved his head, which he used to demonstrate his "changed" personality. He was ranked at #68 in the Top 100 Heavy Metal Vocalists by Hit Parader.

References

Other websites
Official website

1973 births
Living people
American Christians
American heavy metal musicians
American rock singers
Grammy Award winners
People from Orlando, Florida
Singers from North Carolina
Abdominal compartment syndrome

Abdominal compartment syndrome occurs when the abdominal cavity (compartment) within the body becomes subject to increased pressure from within. This may be caused by internal bleeding, a blockage or fluid build-up in the intestines, or 'ascites' which is when fluid accumulates in the peritoneal cavity - the space between the lining of the abdomen (peritoneum) and the abdominal organs (the stomach, small and large intestines, pancreas, liver, and gallbladder).

This increased pressure causes the abdomen to distend or expand, stretching the skin and placing pressure on the abdominal organs, which can constrict the blood vessels which supply them. When the pressure reaches a level above that of the blood supply to the tissues and organs of the abdomen, ischemia will happen leading to organ dysfunction and eventually failure.

An operation called a decompressive laparotomy may need to be performed, where an incision is made to open the abdominal cavity. The incision is typically left open for a period of time to reduce the  pressure in the abdomen.

Abdominal compartment syndrome can be divided into three categories:

Primary or acute abdominal compartment syndrome occurs when injuries within the abdomen are responsible for the compartment syndrome
Secondary abdominal compartment syndrome occurs when there are no visible injury within the abdomen but injuries outside the abdomen cause fluid build-up inside the abdominal cavity
Chronic abdominal compartment syndrome occurs happens in association with diseases such as cirrhosis of the liver.

References

Syndromes
Vince Neil

Vincent Neil Wharton (born February 8, 1961 in Hollywood, California) is an American musician. He is the lead singer of the heavy metal band Mötley Crüe.

He joined Mötley Crüe in 1981 and released Too Fast for Love on November 10, 1981. He then went on to record Shout at the Devil, Theatre of Pain, Girls, Girls, Girls and Dr. Feelgood with Mötley Crüe before both Neil and Mötley Crüe parted ways. He then went on a solo career but rejoined Mötley Crüe when both their fortunes were declining. The band then released Generation Swine on June 24, 1997 but there was a lot of tension in the band and Tommy Lee left the band. Lee was replaced by Randy Castillo and the band recorded New Tattoo on July 11, 2000. The band went on hiatus after Castillo died of cancer on March 26, 2002. The band then released their ninth studio album Saints of Los Angeles on June 24, 2008.

He was ranked at #33 in the Top 100 Heavy Metal Vocalists by Hit Parader.

References

Other websites
Official website

1961 births
Living people
American heavy metal musicians
American racecar drivers
American rock singers
Singers from Los Angeles
Tower Heist

Tower Heist is a 2011 heist comedy movie directed by Brett Ratner. The movies stars Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Matthew Broderick, and Alan Alda. The movie received mixed reviews. Critic Roger Ebert gave the movie 2.5 out of 4 stars.

Cast 
 Ben Stiller as Josh Kovacs
 Eddie Murphy as Slide
 Casey Affleck as Charlie
 Alan Alda as Arthur Shaw
 Matthew Broderick as Mr. Fitzhugh
 Stephen McKinley Henderson as Lester
 Judd Hirsch as Mr. Simon
 Téa Leoni as FBI Agent Claire Denham
 Michael Peña as Enrique Dev'reaux
 Gabourey Sidibe as Odessa

Release Dates

References

2011 comedy movies
2011 crime movies
2010s criminal comedy movies
American criminal comedy movies
English-language movies
Heist movies
Midlife crisis movies
Movies directed by Brett Ratner
Movies set in New York City
Bogotá bag

A Bogotá bag is a sterile plastic bag used to temporarily close incisions in the abdomen.  It is generally a sterilized, 3 liter urological irrigation fluid bag, that is sewn to the skin or fascia of the anterior abdominal wall. It is called a 'Bogotá bag' because it was first used by Oswaldo Borraez, a doctor in Bogotá, Colombia.

Temporary abdominal closure techniques are used to postpone definite closure until predisposing factors causing pathologic elevation of intra abdominal pressure are resolved. These techniques include the Bogota bag, absorbable mesh, vacuum pack dressings, the Wittmann patch or velcro burr and the KCI VAC or Abthera dressings.

Temporary abdominal closure techniques are most commonly used in cases of abdominal compartment syndrome in which decompressive laparotomy is necessary to reduce intra abdominal pressure to restore system perfusion. 

The Bogota bag acts as a hermetic barrier that avoids evisceration and loss of fluids. Another advantage to the Bogota bag, is that the abdominal contents can be visually inspected. 

The bogota bag can be used in cases of 'burst abdomen' following laparotomies, especially those using a midline horizontal incision. Burst abdomen is usually characterized by a serosanguinous pink discharge from the wound, 6–8 days after surgery

References

Surgery
Medical equipment
Allan Arbus

Allan Franklin Arbus (February 15, 1918 – April 19, 2013) was an American actor and photographer. Arbus was known for his role as psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Freedman on the television series M*A*S*H.

Arbus was born on February 15, 1918 in New York City, New York to a Jewish family. He studied at DeWitt Clinton High School. 

Arbus was married to Diane Arbus from 1941 until they divorced in 1969. They had two children. Then he was married to Mariclare Costello from 1977 until his death in 2013. They had two children. 

Arbus died on April 19, 2013 from heart failure in his home in Los Angeles, California, aged 95.

References

Other websites

1918 births
2013 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American radio actors
American voice actors
American photographers
Jewish American actors
Actors from New York City
Westchester County, New York

Westchester County is a county in New York State, at the northern border of New York City. Nearly a million people live there. It acts as a suburb of New York, with many of its residents commuting to jobs there. The largest city is Yonkers, and other important cities include  White Plains and  New Rochelle. The County shares borders with Putnam County to the north, and Fairfield County, Connecticut to the East. The Hudson River is on the west.

New York (state) counties
Ricky Jay

Richard Jay Potash (June 26, 1946 – November 24, 2018), known professionally as Ricky Jay, was an American stage magician, actor, and writer.

In a profile for the New Yorker, Mark Singer called Jay "perhaps the most gifted sleight of hand artist alive." In addition to sleight of hand, Jay was known for his card tricks, card throwing, memory feats, and stage patter. He had also written extensively on magic and its history. His acting credits included The Prestige, The Spanish Prisoner, Mystery Men, Heist, Boogie Nights, Tomorrow Never Dies, House of Games, Magnolia, and Deadwood. In 2015, Jay was the subject of an episode of PBS' American Masters, making him the first magician to have ever been profiled in that series.

Early life
Jay was born Richard Jay Potash in Brooklyn, New York on June 26, 1946 to a Jewish family.

Personal life
Jay was married to Chrisann Verges.

Death
On November 24, 2018, Jay died in Los Angeles, California of natural causes at the age of 72.

References

Other websites
 
 Ricky Jay Archive at the Magic Newswire website 
 
 San Francisco Chronicle review of "Extraordinary Exhibitions: Broadsides From the Collection of Ricky Jay" during 2005 exhibition
 "Secrets of Magus" 1993 New Yorker profile

1946 births
2018 deaths
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
Jewish American actors
Jewish American writers
American magicians
Actors from New York City
Writers from New York City
Deaths from natural causes
Disease-related deaths in Los Angeles
Walter Huddleston

Walter Darlington "Dee" Huddleston (April 15, 1926 – October 16, 2018) was an American politician. He was a Democrat from the state of Kentucky. He represented Kentucky in the United States Senate from 1973 until 1985.

He lost his 1984 re-election campaign to Mitch McConnell.

Huddleston was born on April 15, 1926 in Burkesville, Kentucky. He studied at the University of Kentucky. Huddleston was married to Jean Huddleston from 1947 until her death in 2003.

Huddleston was the CEO of the First Financial Service Corporation. In 2012, Huddleston announced he was stepping down as CEO of First Financial Service Corporation for health reasons.

Huddleston died on October 16, 2018 in Warsaw, Kentucky at the age of 92.

References

1926 births
2018 deaths
US Democratic Party politicians
United States senators from Kentucky
Jocelyn Burdick

Jocelyn Birch Burdick (February 6, 1922 – December 26, 2019) was an American politician. She was the Senator of North Dakota from September 1992 through December 1992 for the Democratic Party.

Burdick was born on February 6, 1922 in Fargo, North Dakota. She studied at Principia College and at Northwestern University. Burdick was married to Quentin N. Burdick from 1960 until his death in 1992.

After the death of Fritz Hollings in April 2019, Burdick became the oldest living former United States Senator. She died eight months later on December 26, 2019 in Fargo at the age of 97.

References

1922 births
2019 deaths
US Democratic Party politicians
United States senators from North Dakota
People from Fargo, North Dakota
Greyhound racing

Greyhound racing is a sport in which greyhounds compete in a race around a track. The dogs chase a mechanical stuffed toy. It is a gambling sport. Animal groups such as PETA are unhappy about the way the dogs are treated.

Other websites
The Dogs
Greyhounds at Betfair

Sports involving animals
Metroid Fusion

Metroid Fusion is an action-adventure video game for the Game Boy Advance console. It was developed by Nintendo Research & Development 1 and published by Nintendo. It was released in North America on November 17, 2002, in Europe on November 22, 2002, in Australia on November 29, 2002, and in Japan on February 14, 2003. It is the fourth game in the main Metroid series.

In Metroid Fusion, Samus Aran is sent to the Biologic Space Laboratories space station because an explosion has happened there. The station contains X Parasites, viruses that can make a copy of the appearance and memories of living things that they are in. The Galactic Federation plans to capture the X Parasites to do further study of them. Because of how dangerous the X Parasites are, Samus has to destroy the space station to protect the federation from them.

Unlike the other Metroid games, Metroid Fusion focuses more on storyline than on exploration. The gameplay focuses on puzzle solving, platform jumping, and shooting enemies. Players have to find power-ups to get to new areas. Samus is able to absorb X Parasites to regain health, bombs, and missiles. Abilities new to the Metroid series include grabbing ledges and climbing ladders.

Metroid Fusion can be connected to Metroid Prime with the Nintendo GameCube-Game Boy Advance cable to unlock new features in Metroid Prime.

2002 video games
2003 video games
Game Boy Advance games
Virtual Console games
Metroid
Korean Democratic Party

Korean Democratic Party (, Hanja: ) was an early political party in Korea. Its abbreviation was KDP (, ). The party was founded in September 1945, in Seoul. The name was based on the United States Democratic Party. Its politics were conservative, economy liberalism and curture nationalism. In August 1948, it lost the elections for South Korea's first government. It formed the opposition party instead.

The first leader of the KDP was Song Jin-wu, but he was killed by extremist nationalists, in December 1945. The second leader was Chang Deok-su, who had studied politics in Europe and the United States. He was also killed by extremism nationalists, on 2 December 1947. The third leader was Kim Seong-su, a founding member. He was chairman of the Korean University.

Korean Democratic Party merged with the Great Korean People's Party in February 1949. They named the new party Democratic Peoples Party. In 1955, the Democratic Peoples Party was renamed the Democratic Party.

References 
 Korea Democratic Party 
 Korea Democratic Party 
 Democratic Peoples Party 
 Korea Democratic Party 

Political parties in South Korea
Korean Resistance Party

Korean Resistance Party (, ) was a Korean Resistance movement club and a early political party, from 1930 to 1969. Its abbreviation was KRP (, ). Its founders were Kim Gu and Cho So-ang. Korean Resistance Party was a conservative party, which supported anti-communism and nationalism.

References 

Political parties in South Korea
Politics of South Korea
Chrism

The chrism is a mixture of pure olive oil and balm (balsam). The two elements signify "fullness of grace".  The chrism is blessed by a bishop on Maundy Thursday. It is used to consecrate churches, chalices, the solemn blessing of bells, baptismal fonts, etc. It is also used in baptisms, confirmations, and other churchly functions.

Christian religious objects
Religious symbols
Celtic cross

The Celtic cross is an ancient cross of Irish origin. It has a circle about the juncture of the cross arms.

Related pages 
 Christian cross
 Latin cross
 Greek cross

Roman Catholicism
Christian symbols
Baptismal font

A baptismal font is a permanent or semi-permanent basin where baptisms are performed. It may be small for baptism by sprinkling or pouring of water, or large for baptism by submersion under water. 

Containers
Christian religious objects
Wagtail

Wagtails are small birds named for the movement of their long tails. Some types such as the white wagtail and Japanese wagtail are black and white.

Gallery
Here is a group of photos of a few of the many species of wagtail;

Other websites
RSPB

Passeriformes
Locating (physics)

The act of locating something, of finding or defining the location of something, is a basic idea of modern science. In physics to say what "to locate" or "location" means, we must explain with clear talk how we do the job of locating something.

For things about our size, we generally use two beginning points that everybody knows about, and then we measure from those points to the thing we want to give a location. We might start with the Plymouth Rock and the Blarney Stone. We could then say, "Captain Smith's ship is 1400 miles from Plymouth Rock going toward the Blarney Stone." Or, in another case we might say, "Captain Jones's ship can be found by drawing a line from Plymouth Rock to the Blarney Stone, finding a point 700 miles along this line from Plymouth Rock, taking a left turn of 90° upon reaching this point from Plymouth Rock, and then traveling an additional 90 miles.  

If we have some good way of knowing compass directions, we can say something like, "Go three miles north of that big white rock over there and then go two miles east from that point. That is where I put the gold."

Finding the location of something is ordinarily done by seeing it somewhere, hearing it somewhere, feeling it somewhere, etc. Sometimes we know where something is by looking at a photograph, finding it with radar, or pinging it with sonar.

It is much more difficult to locate an electron, a photon, or anything else about that small. We may construct a light source that only makes one photon at a time. We can aim the light source at a piece of photographic film, let the light source make one photon, and then develop the photographic film. If we had very sensitive photographic film that could be darkened by only one photon, then we would find a tiny speck of silver where the photon ended up. A silver atom is much larger than a photon, so there would be some fuzziness about where the photon ended up, but people probably would agree that the photon must have ended up somewhere within the target formed by the silver atom. However, all we can say is that the photon must have been at that point when it ended its existence. When a photon is absorbed by an electron it gives its energy to the electron and disappears. So when it was briefly at some definite place it immediately lost all of its motion. 

Another way to locate a photon is to make it go through a small place. Knowing when the light source sends out a photon, and knowing the speed of light, we can know when it must be going through a hole in a plate put in the center of its path to the film. We can gradually get closer and closer to finding out exactly where it is in the middle of its flight. However, the path that it will take from there on becomes progressively wild. That is because when a photon goes through a hole like that it experiences diffraction.

physics
Let 'Em In

"Let 'Em In" is a single released in 1976, performed by Paul McCartney. The song reached the Top 3 in the United States and across the United Kingdom. This single has been covered and sampled by other musicians.

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Pop songs
Trajectory

The Trajectory something follows is its path through space and time. If a cannon is fired, its shell will follow a certain path depending on how much gunpowder was used, how heavy the shell is, and the angle up and down that the cannon is aimed at.

Physics
Ed Dyas

Edmund C. Dyas (November 11, 1939 – January 23, 2011) was an American football player. He played college football from 1958 to 1960 for the Auburn Tigers. He finished fourth for the Heisman Trophy in his senior season. Dyas was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2009. 

Dyas became an orthopedic surgeon in Mobile, Alabama after his college football career. He died from stomach cancer on January 23, 2011 at the age of 71.

Other websites
 NFF profile 
 Dr. Ed Dyas Elected To College Football Hall of Fame 
 Notice of Dyas' death

1939 births
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Wayne County, Michigan

Wayne County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan.  As of the 2010 census, 1,820,584 people lived there. It is the 18th most-populous county in the United States. The county seat is Detroit which is the largest city in Michigan.

History

Wayne County was one of the first counties formed when the Northwest Territory was created. It was named for the American general "Mad Anthony" Wayne.  When it was created, the entire area of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan and small sections that are now part of northern Ohio, Indiana and Illinois were part of Wayne County. On August 15, 1796, the boundaries of Wayne County were set to begin at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River then west to Fort Wayne, then to the southernmost point of Lake Michigan and along the western shore north to the territorial boundary in Lake Superior and then along the territorial boundary through Lake Huron, Lake St. Clair, and Lake Erie back to the starting point.

On January 14, 1803, the Governor of Indiana Territory, William Henry Harrison, changed the boundary. This new boundary included Chicago, Illinois and a large strip of Wisconsin along Lake Michigan.

These boundaries were later changed again when Indiana and Illinois became states and as other counties were created in Michigan Territory.

Geography
The county has a total area of . Of this,  (or 91.36%) is land and  (or 8.64%) is water Parts of the Detroit River and Lake St. Clair are included in the county.

The eastern boundary is a water boundary in the Detroit River and Lake St. Clair with Essex County, Ontario, Canada.  Cars crosses this boundary at the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel and the Ambassador Bridge.

Grosse Ile is the largest island in Wayne County. It is connected to the mainland by the Wayne County Bridge and the Grosse Ile Toll Bridge.

Adjacent counties

Cities, villages, and townships

Cities

Townships

References

Other websites
Wayne County Government
Wayne County Local History

 History of the Wayne County Road Commission 
 Wayne County Road Commission Photos
 History: Facts about the World's First Mile of Concrete Highway 

Michigan counties
1810s establishments in Michigan Territory
1815 establishments
Greenville County, South Carolina

Greenville County is a county in the state of South Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, 451,225 people lived there.  It is the most populous county in the state. It is a part of the Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its county seat is the city of Greenville.

Geography 

The county has a total area of . Of this,  is land and  (0.61%) is water.

Adjacent counties 
Henderson County, North Carolina - north
Polk County, North Carolina - northeast
Spartanburg County, South Carolina - east
Laurens County, South Carolina - southeast
Abbeville County, South Carolina - south
Anderson County, South Carolina - southwest
Pickens County, South Carolina - west
Transylvania County, North Carolina - northwest

Communities
The 2010 Census lists six cities and 16 census designated places in Greenville County.

Cities

Unincorporated communities

References

Other websites 
 Greenville Area Development Corporation (GADC)

1786 establishments in the United States
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18th-century establishments in South Carolina
Metroid Prime Hunters

Metroid Prime Hunters is a first-person action-adventure video game for the Nintendo DS console. It was developed by Nintendo Software Technology and published by Nintendo. It was released in North America on March 20, 2006, in Europe on May 5, 2006, and in Japan on June 1, 2006. When the Nintendo DS launched in 2004, it included an early demo of Metroid Prime Hunters, which at that point was titled Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt.

Like the other titles in the Metroid Prime series, Metroid Prime Hunters is a first-person adventure game where the focus is on exploration and discovery. However, it differs from other titles in that there is no assisted aiming, a bigger focus on gameplay, and online multiplayer. Samus Aran, the main character that the player plays as, can access her gunship from anywhere. The game uses both screens of the Nintendo DS: the top screen is used to show Samus' health and the amount of a weapon remaining, while the bottom screen shows the radar. The player moves Samus with the D-pad, and aiming is done with the use of the touch screen on the Nintendo DS' bottom screen.

Online multiplayer can be played with up to four players. Players can play as Samus or one of six bounty hunters. Each bounty hunter has different forms and weapons. The game's host is able to set options for points and time limits, as well as determine whether or not players can use the radar. If less than four players join a game, computer-controlled characters are placed into the game. In multiplayer, the bottom screen shows the number of kills a player has made and the time remaining in the round.

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Metroid Prime
Local Government Area

A Local Government Area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country.  A local government is responsible for it.  Its size varies by country but it is generally a subdivision of a state, province,  or territory.

LGA is used as a general description in many places, including Australia, Gambia and Nigeria.

References

Related pages
 Municipal corporation
 County

Local government

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Drew LeBlanc

Drew LeBlanc (born June 29, 1989, in Duluth, Minnesota) is an American NHL ice hockey center that currently plays for the Chicago Blackhawks.

He was not drafted by a team but he signed a 1-year contract with the Blackhawks on April 12, 2013. He played college hockey at St. Cloud State University and won the Hobey Baker Award as the top National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men's ice hockey player in 2013.

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Memorial for the Yeshuv volunteers in World War II

The Memorial for the Yeshuv volunteers in World War II is a central memorial dedicated to the Jews from the British Army of British Mandate of Palestine that served in the British Army and who are not buried in Israel. Some of them were a part of the Jewish Infantry Brigade Group under the British army in Palestine. The memorial is located in the National Military and Police Cemetery in Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. On the black wall of the memorial are the names of the 572 fallen soldiers by the units of the British army in the World War II and there symbols. Under the wall is a stone with a sign of the Star of David with the word "Remember". The memorial was built in 1973 by the architect Dr. Asher Hirem that was planned the national military and police cemetery in Mount Herzl.

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 Palestine Jewish Volunteers movement during WW2  in the site of the Jewish Soldiers Museum in the World War 2 

Mandatory Palestine
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World War II memorials in Israel
Memorial for the Last of Kin

The Memorial for the Last of Kin is a memorial site for the last last remaining Jews from the Holocaust that died in the 1948 Arab–Israeli war without a family. The monument is located in Mount Herzl in Jerusalem in the memory path that connects the National Military and Police Cemetery to Yad Vashem.

The monument was built in 2004 by the sculptor Micha Ullman in two parts. One part is a board with a shape of a roof with names. The second part is a sculpture of reverse house.

Other websites

 the Memorial for the Last of Kin Stamp  in the Boleim website

Monuments and memorials in Mount Herzl
Mike Embley

Mike Embley (born 25 May 1955) is a retired British broadcast journalist. He was best known as a presenter for BBC World News, an international news and current affairs television channel operated by the BBC.

Earl life
Embley was born in London in 1955.

Career
Before joining the BBC, Embley began his career training as a newspaper journalist with Thomson daily papers in Wales, on the South Wales Echo and the Western Mail. He began broadcasting in 1983, working for BBC Wales' Wales Today, followed by the consumer affairs programme Watchdog in 1987, and Public Eye in 1989. Whilst working on Public Eye, he was the first news reporter with a foreign crew to reach the San Francisco to report on the earthquake. 

Embley later joined ITN's Channel Four News to work as a producer and reporter, before returning to the BBC as a reporter for the flagship One O'Clock, Six O'Clock and Nine O'Clock News bulletins. During this time, Embley also worked as a series presenter for Nature on BBC Two and made two films for Panorama.

Later career
Embley joined BBC World in 1995. After the program was replaced by two separate programs (BBC London and South East Today) in 2001, Embley rejoined BBC World as a presenter. Since then, he has also presented on the domestic BBC News Channel and carried out one-on-one interviews for the BBC programme HARDtalk, as well as reporting several series for the radio station BBC World Service.

Embley retired in April 2021.

References

Other websites
 Mike Embley profile at BBC News.com

1955 births
Living people
BBC television presenters
English journalists
English television presenters
Television personalities from Surrey
Television personalities from London
Anna Proclemer

Anna Proclemer (30 May 1923 – 25 April 2013) was an Italian actress. She was known for her role in Our Goddess.

Proclemer was born on 30 May 1923 in Trento, Italy. She studied at Rome University. Proclemer was married to Vitaliano Brancati from 1946 until his death in 1954. They had one daughter. She was partners with actor Giorgio Albertazzi. Proclemer died on 25 April 2013 from natural causes in Rome, Italy, aged 89.

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Vitaliano Brancati

Vitaliano Brancati (July 24, 1907 – September 25, 1954) was an Italian writer.  He was born in Pachino and died in Turin from a heart attack, aged 43. In 1950 he won the Bagutta Prize. Brancati was married to Anna Proclemer from 1946 until his death in 1954. They had one daughter.

Selected bibliography
 Don Juan in Sicily (1941)
 The Handsome Antonio (1949)
 Difficult Years (1948)
 Rome-Paris-Rome (1951)
 His Last Twelve Hours (1951)
 Easy Years (1953)
 The Art of Getting Along (1954)
 The Fervour of Paolo (1955)

Other websites
Sarah Zappulla Muscarà (a cura di), Vitaliano Brancati, Giuseppe Maimone Editore, Catania 1986
Sarah Zappulla Muscarà (a cura di), Narratori siciliani del secondo dopoguerra, Giuseppe Maimone Editore, Catania 1990

1907 births
1954 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Italian writers
Massimo Bontempelli

Massimo Bontempelli (May 12, 1878 – July 21, 1960) was an Italian poet, playwright, novelist and composer. He was influential in developing and promoting the literary style known as magical realism. He was born in Como and died in Rome.

Other websites
 Massimo Bontempelli Papers, 1865-1991. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California Collection details the creative output and life story of Italian writer and composer Massimo Bontempelli (1878-1960) through extensive correspondence and photographs (bulk 1920-1960), manuscripts, typescripts, drafts, clippings, and other media.

1878 births
1960 deaths
Italian poets
Italian playwrights
Italian composers
Italian writers
Beta Israel Memorial

Beta Israel Memorial is the central memorial dedicated to the Ethiopian Jews that were murdered on their way to Israel. The name "Beta Israel" is the name of the black Jewish community in Ethiopia. The memorial is located at the National Civil Cemetery of the State of Israel in Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. It was built in 2007 by the architect Gabriel Curtis. It replaced an earlier memorial that was built in 1989 for the Ethipean Jews, located in the Givat HaMatos neighborhood of Jerusalem. The memorial was built around a grass plaza with olive trees. In the entrance there is a big board that tells the story of the Jews in Ethiopia. On the edge of the plaza there are stones in the shape of graves, with names on them. Next to these, there is a stone structure in the shape of an Ethiopian village, with boards that tell the story of the Jews that were not able to get to Israel.

Other websites 

 State honors memory of Ethiopian Jews in YNETnews website

Monuments and memorials in Mount Herzl