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Only season with a Category 5 hurricane in November, which was the longest lasting category 5, at 3.6 days. First season to have multiple (more than one) Category 5 hurricanes. 1933: 20 11 6 258.57 651 $86.6M 5 "Tampico" 4 "Chesapeake–Potomac" 5 "Cuba–Brownsville" 4 "Treasure Coast" 4 "Outer Banks" 5 "Tampico"
The areas marked in purple are where the merger is complete for most speakers. Based on Labov , Ash, and Boberg 2006: 68. Southern American English is a group of dialects of the English language spoken throughout the Southern states of the United States, from West Virginia and Kentucky to the Gulf Coast , and from the mid-Atlantic coast to ...
Only royalty and a few others to whom they granted permission could wear gold ornaments on their feet. This would normally be considered breaking the appreciation of the sacred metals. Even though the majority of the Indian population wore jewellery, Maharajas and people related to royalty had a deeper connection with jewellery.
The king foresaw that these policies might create discontent, especially in the army, and he therefore convened a special meeting of officials to explain why the cuts were necessary. In his address he stated the following, "I myself know nothing at all about finances, and all I can do is listen to the opinions of others and choose the best...
American Samoa [c] is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the Polynesia region of the South Pacific Ocean.Centered on , it is 40 miles (64 km) southeast of the island country of Samoa, east of the International Date Line and the Wallis and Futuna Islands, west of the Cook Islands, north of Tonga, and some 310 miles (500 km) south of To
The Weimar Republic, [d] officially known as the German Reich, [e] was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) [1] is an American rock singer and songwriter whose career spans sixty years. With a raspy voice and a stage show that features numerous props and stage illusions, [2] Cooper is considered by many music journalists and peers to be "The Godfather of Shock Rock". [3]
A degree of uncertainty surrounds the origin of the English word "saffron". It might stem from the 12th-century Old French term safran, which comes from the Latin word safranum, from the Persian (زعفران, za'farān), [10] from the Persian word zarparān (زرپران) meaning "gold strung" (implying either the golden stamens of the flower or the golden colour it creates when used as flavour).