Korea adopts romanization formula for Korean words
South Korea's education ministry adopts a romanization scheme that largely mirrors the McCune Reischauer system with minor changes, prioritizes letter-by-letter transcription of names, places family names first, and hyphenates given names, aiming to reduce foreign confusion ahead of the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
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Seoul
South Korea
Inchon
Ministry of Education
Incheon
Uyongbu
Euijeongbu
McCune-Reinschauer
McCune-Reischauer
Kyongyu
Gyeongju
Korea
Syngman Rhee
Rhee
Lee
Korea Herald
Herald
Foster mother Nora Griffin shaped by decades of teaching
In Jonesboro Arkansas Nora Griffin spent over forty years teaching at North Elementary and other schools while serving as a foster mother to 14 children. She recalls bringing students home for shelter and care, with long-term placements lasting years and short stays addressing urgent needs from poor or troubled backgrounds.
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Jonesboro. Ark
Nora Griffin
North Elementary
Jonesboro
Paragould
Leachville
Griffin
Ciidren
Grifin
Craighead County
Giif
Jim
James
Farrville
North School
Jim Hoffman
Hoffman
Disease helped Spanish conquest says Santa Fe scholar
Santa Fe researcher Daniel Reff argues Old World diseases aided conquest of the Andes and the Sonora coast well before Spaniards arrived, with smallpox influenza measles and typhoid spreading ahead of missions. He notes epidemics and population declines, citing Jesuit reports from 1590 to 1680 and a 5 000 man Indian army decimated by malaria as frontier expansion began.
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Santa FE
Europe
New World
Daniel Reff
Mexico
Reiff
School of American Research
Reff
Anzona
New Mexico
Northwest Mexico
Northwest
Sonora
Sinalas
Gulf of California
Mexico City
Sinaloa
Malana
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Rock Creek
Maryland
Rock Creek School
Frederick
Jack Derr
Liberty Elementary Pta
Liberty Elementary School
PTA
Walter E Brithart
New Market Middle School
Kevin C. Castner
Linganore High School
Mrs Griffindz
Rome
Radio J
Radio Shack
Micronia
Woofer
Dolby NA
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
Save
Tandy Corporation
Cuicorp
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