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Union County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,811. Its county seat is Elk Point. Originally named Cole County, the named was changed to Union because of Civil War sentiment. It was founded on April 10, 1862. Union County is part of the Sioux City, IA–NE–SD Metropolitan Statistical Area. "Progressive Farmer" rated Union County second in the 2006 "Best Place to Live" in the U.S., because "its schools are good, its towns neat and its people friendly."
The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active since 2012. It officially began on June 1 and ended on November 30. It was an extremely active and tragic season. With a damage total of at least $282.16 billion (USD), it was the costliest season on record. With over 3,300 deaths, 2017 was the deadliest season since 2005. More than 99.7% of the season's damage was due to Harvey, Irma, and Maria. Nate, was the worst natural disaster in Costa Rican history. Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Nate had their names retired due to their high damage costs and loss of life. Featuring 17 named storms, 10 hurricanes, and 6 major hurricanes, the 2017 season is the fifth active season. Tropical Storm Arlene in April was the first storm of the season that formed on April 19. This was the third consecutive season in which storms form before the official start of the hurricane season. In late August, Hurricane Harvey became the first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States since Wilma in 2005 and the first Category 4 hurricane since Charley in 2004. It also tied the record for the costliest tropical cyclone on record along with the most rainfall dropped by a tropical cyclone in the United States. In early September, Hurricane Irma became the first Category 5 hurricane to impact the northern Leeward Islands on record. It later hit the Florida Keys as a Category 4 hurricane. Irma is the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean outside of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. In late September, Hurricane Maria became the first Category 5 hurricane to strike the island of Dominica on record; and later it made landfall in Puerto Rico as a high-end Category 4 hurricane. Most of the deaths from this season occurred from Maria, and caused a human crisis in Puerto Rico. In early October, Hurricane Nate became the fastest-moving hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico while also becoming the fourth hurricane of the year to make landfall in the contiguous United States. Slightly over a week later, Hurricane Ophelia became the
Bell Canada (commonly referred to as just Bell) is a Canadian telecommunications company. Its headquarters is on Nuns’ Island in Montreal, Quebec. It is the local exchange carrier for telephone and DSL internet in most of Canada east of Saskatchewan. It also serves Canada's northern territories. Its related company, Bell Aliant, provides services in Atlantic Canada. It provides mobile service through its Bell Mobility division. It also provides television through its Bell TV and Bell Fibe TV operations. Bell Canada was established on April 29, 1880. Bell Canada was originally known as The Bell Telephone Company of Canada. But in March 1968, the name was shortened to Bell Canada. The company also owns Bell Media. Bell Media has mass media properties, including the CTV Television Network. It also has significant interests in the Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club and Maple Leaf Sports &amp; Entertainment. Bell Canada is one of the main assets of the holding company BCE Inc. (Bell Canada Enterprises). BCE ranked at № 262 on the 2011 edition of the Forbes Global 2000 list.
Lavori Publici FC (or "Lavori Pubblici FC" in Italian language) was an historical football team in Mogadishu, that officially existed from 1947 to 1990. History. The football team was created in the late 1940s by a group of football fans representing all the Italian colonists of all Italian Somalia with the name "Genio Officina", as an antagonist to the AC Mogadiscio (the team of the Italians of only the capital Mogadishu) in the first amauteur championship of Somalia. The team was officially inscribed in the Somalia first league championship in 1952 as "Lavori Publici FC/Genio", winning the tournament of that year. The team had a lot of followers who were native Somalis and so survived until 1990 when the Somali civil war started, while the antagonist AC Mogadiscio disappeared when Italy gave the independence to Somalia in 1960 (and nearly all the Italians of Somalia left the country).
Damien Steven Hirst (born 7 June 1965) is an English artist. He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). They became famous during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist. In 2010 the "Sunday Times" estimated his wealth at £215 million. During the 1990s he worked together with famous art collector Charles Saatchi. Hirst and Saatchi had disagreements, and they ended their friendship in 2003. Death is a central theme in Hirst's works. He became famous for a series of artworks in which dead animals are preserved in formaldehyde. The animals included a sheep, a cow and a shark. The best-known of these was "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living". This was a tiger shark immersed in formaldehyde in a transparent display case. He has also made "spin paintings". These were created on a rotating canvas. And "spot paintings", which are rows of randomly coloured circles created by his assistants. In September 2008, Hirst sold all the artworks of a show during one auction at Sotheby's. This had never been done before by a living artist. The auction made him £111 million ($198 million), breaking the record for an auction by a single artist. It also broke Hirst's own record with £10.3 million for "The Golden Calf", an animal with 18-carat gold horns and hooves, preserved in formaldehyde. Since 1999 some of Hirst's works have been claimed to be plagiarised. It was discovered that his sculpture "Hymn" was closely based on a child's toy. Hirst was sued by the original creator of the toy, and the case was settled out-of-court.
Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha (; ) (4 April 1958 – 27 October 2018) was a Thai billionaire businessman. He was born in Bangkok. He was the founder, owner and chairman of King Power Duty Free. He was the owner of Premier League football club Leicester City since 2010. On 27 October 2018, Srivaddhanaprabha was killed in a helicopter that crashed outside the King Power Stadium in Leicester shortly after taking off. He was 60 years old.
On 27 October 2018, an AgustaWestland AW169 helicopter crashed shortly after take-off from the King Power Stadium, the home ground of Leicester City in Leicester, United Kingdom.  Club owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was on board, as well as two other passengers and two pilots. It was confirmed all 5 occupants died. In 2023 the AAIB disclosed that the crash was caused by the failure of the helicopter's tail rotor which led to a loss of yaw control.
Edgar Starr Harris Jr. (May 14, 1925 – October 13, 2018) was an American Air Force lieutenant general. He was born in Danville, Virginia. His last assignment was commander of Eighth Air Force, Strategic Air Command, with headquarters at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana.  During his over 30 years in the United States Air Force, Harris was also Chief of Staff and Vice Commander in Chief of the Strategic Air Command, where he spent most of his time during his service. Harris Jr. died on October 13, 2018 in Fort Worth, Texas at the age of 93.
Saint Cecilia () is the patroness of musicians. At her wedding she "sang in her heart to the Lord". Her feast day is celebrated in the Latin Catholic, Eastern Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches and in the Anglican Communion on November 22. She is one of seven women, excluding the Blessed Virgin, commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass. While the details of her story appear to be fictional, her existence and martyrdom are considered a historical fact. She is said to have been beheaded with a sword. An early Roman Christian church, Santa Cecilia, was founded in the fourth century in the Trastevere section of Rome, reputedly on the site of the house in which she lived. A number of musical compositions are dedicated to her, and her feast day has become the occasion for concerts and musical festivals.
Thuzana (; ), also known as the Myainggyi-ngu Sayadaw (; 1947 – 18 October 2018) was a Karen Theravada Buddhist monk. He worked in Myaing Gyi Ngu, Kayin State, Myanmar. He was the leader of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA), an ethnic insurgent group, until its dissolution in 2010. He was born in Kayin State. Thuzana was responsible for a 1992 campaign of constructing pagodas in Kayin State and held the title "Myaing Gyi Ngu Sayadaw". Thuzana died on 18 October 2018 at the age of 71 at the Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand.
Cornelius "Sonny" Fortune (May 19, 1939 – October 25, 2018) was an American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist. Fortune played soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones, clarinet, and flute. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Fortune can be heard on the albums "Big Fun", "Get Up With It", "Agharta" and "Pangaea", the last two recorded live in Japan. Fortune died at the age of 79 in New York City on October 25, 2018 from a stroke.
Friday the 13th is a 1980 American slasher movie produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham, and written by Victor Miller.  It stars Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram, Kevin Bacon, Jeannine Taylor, Mark Nelson, and Robbi Morgan. The movie tells the story of a group of teenagers who are murdered one by one by an unknown killer while attempting to re-open an abandoned summer camp. Released in May 1980, "Friday the 13th" was a major box office success, grossing over $39.7 million in the United States alone. This was the first movie in the a long series of sequels with the creation of serial killer Jason Voorhees.
Friday the 13th is an American horror franchise that is made up of twelve slasher movies, a television show, novels, comic books, video games, and tie‑in merchandise.  The franchise mainly focuses on the fictional character Jason Voorhees, who drowned as a boy at Camp Crystal Lake. The original movie, created to cash in on the success of "Halloween" (1978), was written by Victor Miller and was produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham. The films have grossed over $464 million at the box-office worldwide. Future. In October 2018, it was announced that LeBron James, through his production company Springhill Entertainment alongside Vertigo Entertainment, is in talks to co-produce the next movie in a possible reboot of the franchise.
Friday the 13th Part 2 is a 1981 American slasher movie produced and directed by Steve Miner, and the second installment in the "Friday the 13th" movie series. It is a direct sequel to "Friday the 13th". The movie marks the first appearance of Jason Voorhees as the killer; his mother was the killer in the last movie. Steve Daskewisz plays Jason. It was released on April 30, 1981.
Friday the 13th Part III (also known as Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D) is a 1982 American slasher movie directed by Steve Miner and produced by Frank Mancuso Jr.. It is the third installment in the "Friday the 13th" movie series. It stars Dana Kimmell, Richard Brooker, Paul Kratka, Larry Zerner, and Tracie Savage. The plot is about a teenage girl and her friends on vacation at a house on Crystal Lake, where a wounded Jason Voorhees is waiting to kill them. The movie marks the first time Jason Voorhees is wearing his signature hockey mask. It was released on August 13, 1982, grossing over $36.6 million at the US box office on a budget of $2.3 million. The movie was the first to remove "" from the number-one box office spot and became the second highest-grossing horror movie of 1982.
Jason X is a 2001 American science fiction slasher movie produced and directed by James Isaac. It is the tenth installment in the "Friday the 13th" movie series. It stars Kane Hodder in his fourth and final movie appearance as the undead mass murderer Jason Voorhees being in space. It received strongly negative reviews with a 19% on Rotten Tomatoes. Roger Ebert gave the movie 0.5 stars out of 4, quoting one of the movie's lines: "This sucks on so many levels."
Pamela Voorhees is a character from the "Friday the 13th" movie series. She first appeared in Sean S. Cunningham's original movie. Voorhees is the vengeful mother of Jason Voorhees, simply known as Mrs. Voorhees. The character was created by Victor Miller, and was played by Betsy Palmer in the original movie as well as briefly in "Friday the 13th Part 2" (1981). She was portrayed by Paula Shaw in "Freddy vs. Jason" (2003). Nana Visitor played Pamela Voorhees in the 2009 remake of "Friday the 13th".
Friday the 13th is a 2009 American slasher movie directed by Marcus Nispel and written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. The movie is a reboot of the "Friday the 13th" movie series. It stars Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Aaron Yoo, Amanda Righetti, Travis Van Winkle and Derek Mears as Jason Voorhees. "Friday the 13th" was released in theaters on Friday, February 13, 2009.
Child's Play (also called Chucky) is an American horror comedy franchise centered on a series of eight movies created by Don Mancini.  The movie mainly focus on Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif), an evil psychopathic doll who is a serial killer named Charles Lee "Chucky" Ray, known as the "Lakeshore Strangler", whose soul is transferred inside a "Good Guy doll" toy following a voodoo ritual in order to avoid going to Hell. In the 2019 reboot, Chucky (voiced by Mark Hamill) is an AI doll, gone out of control, and determined to kill people. The franchise through movies, merchandise, DVD sales and videos has made over $250 million.
Child's Play 3 is a 1991 American slasher movie and the third installment in the "Child's Play" movie series. The movie is written by Don Mancini, and directed by Jack Bender, with Brad Dourif returning as the voice of Chucky.  Although released only nine months later, the story takes place eight years following the events of 1990's "Child's Play 2".
George Donald Mancini (born January 25, 1963) is an American screenwriter and movie director. He is known for creating the "Child’s Play" franchise and its main antagonist character Chucky.
Seed of Chucky is a 2004 American comedy slasher movie. It is the fifth installment of the "Child's Play" series, and sequel to 1998's "Bride of Chucky". The movie was written and directed by Don Mancini, who created the series. The movie, shot in Romania, continues the series' evolution from horror to a horror-comedy. It was the last "Child's Play" movie to be released in theaters, with all future installments to be released directly to DVD.
Tiffany Valentine-Ray (also known as "The Bride of Chucky") is a murderous doll and a character in the "Child's Play" horror-comedy movie series. She is the wife of the serial killer doll Chucky. She is played by Jennifer Tilly in both live-action and voiceover in "Bride of Chucky", "Seed of Chucky", "Curse of Chucky", and "Cult of Chucky". As a human, Tiffany has bleached blonde hair and brown eyes, a gothic fashion style, and has a chest tattoo of a stabbed heart with "Chucky" written above it.
Curse of Chucky is a 2013 American slasher movie and the sixth installment of the "Child's Play" franchise. The movie was written and directed by Don Mancini, who created the franchise. It stars Brad Dourif as Chucky and Fiona Dourif as Nica Pierce. The movie made $3.4 million in DVD sales. The movie received strong positive reviews.
Cult of Chucky is a 2017 American slasher movie written and directed by Don Mancini. The seventh installment of the "Child's Play" franchise. It stars Brad Dourif as Chucky, with a supporting cast of Fiona Dourif, Alex Vincent, and Jennifer Tilly. It was released with rated and unrated versions distributed by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment via Blu-ray, DVD and VOD on October 3, 2017. As of October 2017, the movie has grossed $2 million from DVD and Blu-ray sales.
Frederick Segrest (December 21, 1926 – October 27, 2018), known professionally as Freddie Hart, was an American country musician and singer-songwriter. He was best known for his chart-topping country song and lone pop hit "Easy Loving," which won the Country Music Association Song of the Year award in 1971 and 1972. Hart died on October 27, 2018 in Burbank, California from pneumonia at the age of 91.
Loachapoka is a town in Lee County, Alabama, United States. It is located less than 1/2 mile west of the City of Auburn. The population was 160 as of the 2020 census. The name "Loachapoka" means "turtle killing place" in Muskogee, with "locha" meaning "turtle" and "poga" meaning "killing place."
Thank you is a common phrase used to show that a person is thankful of someone. It is a very old phrase, coming from as early as the 1400s. "Thank you" is often replied with "you're welcome".  To be polite, people often say "please" to request something to you. If they are satisfied, they will say "thank you" back to you. Common responses for "thank you" include "you're welcome", "don't mention it", or, more recently, "no problem". The phrase "thank you" can be modified to have a different meaning. For example, "no, thank you" or "no thanks" are often used to politely say no to an offer. Sometimes, the phrase "thank you" is modified to show that a person is not thankful of someone, such as the phrase "thanks for nothing".
Madan Lal Khurana (15 October 1936 – 27 October 2018) was an Indian politician. He was Chief Minister of Delhi from 1993 to 1996. He also was Governor of Rajasthan in 2004. He was the Union Minister of Parliamentary affairs and Tourism in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. He was a member of Rashtriya Swayansevak Sangh and Bharatiya Janata Party. Khurana died from a cerebral hemorrhage in New Delhi on 27 October 2018 at the age of 82.
Ntozake Shange ( ; October 18, 1948 – October 27, 2018) was an American playwright and poet. She wrote about race and Black power in much of her work. Shange is best known for the Obie Award-winning play "for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf". Her other works were "Sassafrass, Cypress &amp; Indigo" (1982), "Liliane" (1994), and "Betsey Brown" (1985). Shange died in her sleep October 27, 2018, aged 70, in an assisted living facility in Bowie, Maryland from stroke-related complications.
Bowie is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland. The population was 58,329 at the 2020 U.S. Census. It is the largest city in Prince George's County, and the fifth most populous city and third largest city by area in the U.S. state of Maryland. In 2014, CNN ranked Bowie 28th in its Best Places to Live in America list.
Luis Miguel Enciso Recio (8 April 1930 – 28 October 2018) was a Spanish historian and politician. He was born in Valladolid, Spain. He was a member of the Senate from 1977 to 1982, as a representative of the Union of the Democratic Centre. In 1999, Enciso was appointed to the Real Academia de la Historia. Enciso Recio died in Madrid on 28 October 2018 from complications of a fall at the age of 88.
Richard James Gill (4 November 1941 – 28 October 2018) was an Australian conductor of choral, orchestral and operatic works. He was known as a music educator and for his activism for music education of children. He was born in Sydney. He was awarded Order of Australia Medal in 1994. In 1969, he was the founding conductor of the Strathfield Symphony Orchestra in Sydney. He continued as conductor in 1973–74 and returned in 1979 to conduct the orchestra's 10th anniversary concert. In 2014, he was made musical director of the Sydney Chamber Choir. He composed the music for Brisbane Girls Grammar School school song, "Nil sine labore". Gill died in Sydney on 28 October 2018 from colorectal and peritoneal cancer at the age of 76.
Konstantīns Konstantinovs (, June 6, 1978 – October 28, 2018) was a Latvian-Russian powerlifter. His raw deadlift of , set in 2009, was formerly the raw deadlift world record. It is still the world record for the biggest raw deadlift without a belt in an official competition. He was born in Liepāja, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union. Konstantinovs won the 2002 WPC Junior World Powerlifting Championships and the 2003 GPC World Powerlifting Championships both in the weight class. Konstantinovs died on October 28, 2018 at the age of 40.
Colin Sylvia (8 November 1985 – 28 October 2018) was an Australian rules footballer. He played for the Melbourne Football Club and Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Sylvia was born in Mildura, Victoria. Sylvia was killed in a car crash near Mildura on 28 October 2018 at the age of 32.
Hari (born 26 December 1968) is an Indian movie director, best known for his action-masala in Tamil cinema. He made his directional debut in the movie "Thamizh" (2002).After this breakthrough, he gave many commercial success movies such as "Saamy" (2003), "Kovil" (2004), "Ayya" (2005), "Thaamirabharani" (2007), "Vel" (2007) and "Singam" (2010) movie. He has directed 15 movies. Background. Hari was born in the Thoothukudi District of Tamil Nadu, India. His father, Gopal, is a vessels merchant. Later, his family moved to Chennai, where Hari graduated with a degree in Commerce. Career. Hari first joined as an assistant, gaining experience by working with various directors; K. Natraj in " Valli", Nassar in "Avatharam" and Alex Pandian. Later, he assisted K. Balachander in his film "Kalki" and worked as an associate director with Saran in the films "Amarkalam", "Parthen Rasithen" and "Alli Arjuna". His first film, in 2002, was "Thamizh", with Prashanth and Simran. Film critic Balaji commented that it was "one of the few movies in recent times where a lot of importance seems to have been attached to the script. In spite of the flimsy story and routine screenplay where a youth grows to be a "dada", the dialogs elevate the quality of the movie and make it very enjoyable". His second film "Saamy", under the Kavithaalaya banner, starred Vikram. It was named the year's biggest hit, grossing 160 million. Its success led to remakes; in Telugu ("Lakshmi Narasimha"), Kannada ("Ayya") and Hindi languages ("Policegiri"). His next two films "Kovil", with Silambarasan and "Arul" also starred Vikram. In 2005,
Robert "Bob" Bushby (February 24, 1927 – October 14, 2018) was an American aircraft mechanic and aviator. He was born in Joliet, Illinois. He designed the Bushby Mustang II, later called the Mustang Aeronautics Mustang II. He started to learn to fly while in high school in Minooka, Illinois.  From 1955 until 1970, Bushby worked for the Sinclair Oil Co. in their engine research laboratory. Bushby was one of the original founders of the Experimental Aircraft Association in 1953.  Bushby died on October 14, 2018 in Joliet at age 91.
Zimmer's conjecture is a statement in mathematics "which has to do with the circumstances under which geometric spaces exhibit certain kinds of symmetries." It was named after the mathematician Robert Jeffrey Zimmer. The conjecture states that there can exist symmetries (specifically higher-rank lattices) in a higher dimension that cannot exist in lower dimensions. In 2017, the conjecture was proven by Aaron Brown and Sebastian Hurtado-Salazar of the University of Chicago and David Fisher of Indiana University.
Lion Airlines Flight 610 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by Lion Air from Soekarno–Hatta International Airport in Jakarta to Depati Amir Airport in Pangkal Pinang. It crashed shortly after takeoff on 29 October 2018. Wreckage from the aircraft was found offshore from the island of Java. All 189 people aboard died. According to "The Straits Times", 181 passengers, including 178 adults and three children, were on board the aircraft, as well as six cabin crew and two pilots.