The 2010 census says that there were 71 people, 35 households, and 21 families living in Virgil.
Victoria, Kansas
Victoria is a city in Ellis County, Kansas, United States. In 2010, 1,214 people lived there.
A group of British people led by a Scotsman named George Grant created Victoria in 1873. They created it on land he had bought from the Kansas Pacific Railway. They named the settlement after Queen Victoria. Grant wanted Victoria to be a ranching community. He was apparently responsible for bringing the first Aberdeen Angus cattle to the United States. Most of the colonists, however, were remittance men more interested in sports and dancing than in raising animals. Their families soon learned of this and lowered the remittances. This caused most of the colonists to leave by 1880. Some returned to Britain; others left for South America.
In 1876, Volga Germans from villages near Saratov, Russia created the settlement of Herzog one half mile north of Victoria. Herzog's Roman Catholic settlers built a many churches. Herzog grew quickly and later took over Victoria, eventually taking the older settlement's name. Herzog was officially renamed Victoria in 1913.
In 1942, the U.S. Army built Walker Army Airfield 3 miles northeast of Victoria. During World War II, thousands were put there at the airfield. The military closed the base in 1946.
In 1966, Interstate 70 reached Victoria, going north of the city.
Victoria is at (38.853588, -99.147456). It has an elevation of 1,926 feet (587 m). It is on Kansas Highway 255 (K-255) south of Interstate 70 in northwestern Kansas. Victoria is about east of Hays (the county seat), northwest of Wichita, and west of Kansas City.
The city is about north of the Smoky Hill River in the Smoky Hills region of the Great Plains. The city is on the east side of the North Fork of Big Creek, part of the Smoky Hill River watershed.
The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of . All of it is land.
The 2010 United States Census says that there were 1,214 people, 496 households, and 316 families living in Victoria.
Interstate 70 and U.S. Route 40 go concurrently east-west about one mile north of Victoria. K-255 goes north-south from I-70 to Victoria's northern city limits.
The Kansas Pacific (KP) line of the Union Pacific Railroad goes northeast-southwest through the southern part of the city.
Water, sewage, and trash are done of the city government. Midwest Energy, Inc. gives electric power. Local residents mostly use natural gas for heating fuel; service is provided by Kansas Gas Service.
Victoria is in the Wichita-Hutchinson, Kansas television market.
LGBT rights
Rights affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people vary greatly in different countries and places. In some places same-sex marriage is legal, but in others homosexuals may be punished by death.
As of 2019 same-sex marriage is legal in 28 countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, the United States and Uruguay. However six countries have the death penalty for same-sex sexual acts: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Nigeria (the northern states), Sudan and Somalia (Jubaland region. The death penalty is a possible punishment in six other countries: Afghanistan, Brunei, Mauritania, Pakistan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
In 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council recognized the rights of LGBT people. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a report documenting violations of the rights of LGBT people. This included hate crimes, criminalization of homosexual activity, and discrimination. The United Nations asked all countries to make laws protecting basic LGBT rights.
Vining, Kansas
Vining is a city in Clay and Washington counties in Kansas, United States. In 2010 census, 45 people lived there.
Vining was first called West Clifton. It was planned out as West Clifton in 1877. It was renamed Vining in 1881, in honor of E. P. Vining, a railroad worker.
Vining was once an important shipping point. This was because it was on the Republican River and at the junction of two railroads.
The post office in Vining closed in 1955.
Vining is at (39.567460, -97.293109). The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of . All of it is land. The city is located next to Clifton.
The 2010 census says that there were 45 people, 24 households, and 13 families living in Vining.
Viola, Kansas
Viola is a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States. In 2010, 130 people lived there.
Viola had its start when the Englewood branch of the Santa Fe railroad was extended to that point.
The first post office at Viola was created in 1877, but the post office was called Peotone until 1899.
Viola is at (37.483526, -97.644918). It is southwest of Wichita on Highway 42 at the intersection of Highway 49. The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of . All of it is land.
The 2010 census says that there were 130 people, 51 households, and 37 families living in Viola.
Viola is served by USD 356 Conway Springs.
Wormwood (Bible)
Worm means bitterness in Hebrew. It is mentioned in the bible in the Book of Revelation.
It says "The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter". ()
Tom Spurgeon
Thomas Spurgeon (December 16, 1968 – November 13, 2019) was an American writer, historian and editor. He worked in the field of comics, known for his five-year run as editor of "The Comics Journal" and his blog "The Comics Reporter". He was a three time winner of the Eisner Award. Spurgeon was born in Muncie, Indiana.
Spurgeon died on November 13, 2019 in Columbus, Ohio at age 51.
Mümtaz Soysal
Osman Mümtaz Soysal (15 September 1929 – 11 November 2019) was a Turkish professor, political scientist, politician, human rights activist, ex-prisoner of conscience, senior advisor, columnist and author.
Soysal was the 30th Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1994. He was a Member of Parliament at Constituent Assembly in 1961 and Grand National Assembly from 1991 to 1999.
He was elected to Amnesty International International Executive Committee in September 1974. He was the vice-chairman of Amnesty International from 1976 to 1978. He became the first winner of the UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education in 1978.
Soysal died at the age of 90 on 11 November 2019 at his home in Beşiktaş, Istanbul, Turkey.
Niall Tóibín
Niall Tóibín (; 21 November 1929 – 13 November 2019) was an Irish comedian and actor. He was known for his roles on "Ryan's Daughter", "Bracken", "The Ballroom of Romance", "The Irish R.M.", "Caught in a Free State", "Ballykissangel", "Far and Away", and "Veronica Guerin".
Tóibín died in Dublin on 13 November 2019, eight days before his 90th birthday.
Protobothrops elegans
Protobothrops elegans is a venomous pitviper species endemic to Japan in the southern Ryukyu Islands. No subspecies are currently recognized. Common names include: elegant pitviper, , and elegant tree viper."
Fob
Fob or FOB may refer to:
List of mountain peaks by prominence
This is a list of the 125 most prominent mountain peaks. Topographic prominence of a peak is the independence of the summit from whatever is around it. It is "the elevation difference between the summit and the lowest contour line encircling it and no higher summit".
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