For each de jure and de facto sovereign state and dependent territory an article on elections in that entity has been included and information on the way the head of state, head of government, and the legislature is selected. Merged cells for "head of state" and "head of government" indicate the office is the same for that country; merged cells for "lower house" and "upper house" …

Typhoon Bopha, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Pablo, was the strongest tropical cyclone on record to ever affect the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, making landfall as a Category 5 super typhoon with winds of 175 mph (280 km/h). The twenty-fourth tropical storm, along with being the fourth and final super typhoon of the 2012 Pacific Typhoon season, Bopha originated …

The National Archives and Records Administration provides scanned and OCR'd NRHP nomination documents for a growing number of states. These may be viewed online and downloaded to your own computer. To use: Usually the following should work, because usually you will have the NRHP reference number for the property (e.g. from the county list-article of …

Arts and entertainment. Map (band), an indie band from California, US Map, a 1961 oil-on-canvas painting by Jasper Johns; Map (video games), also known as a level, area, or world Map, a character in Dora the Explorer "Map", song by Adam Lambert from the album Trespassing "Map", song by The Microphones from the album The Glow Pt. 2; Organizations. MAP Linhas Aéreas, …

The flag of South Carolina is a symbol of the U.S. state of South Carolina consisting of a blue field with a white palmetto tree and white crescent.Roots of this design have existed in some form since 1775, being based on one of the first Revolutionary War flags. While keeping most of its design intact since its adoption, it has varied over the years.

This is a list of airports in Papua New Guinea, sorted by location.. Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands (the western portion of the island is a part of the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua).It is located in the southwestern …

Vexillology (/ ˌ v ɛ k s ɪ ˈ l ɒ l ə dʒ i / veh-ksih-LO-luh-jee) is the study of the history, symbolism and usage of flags or, by extension, any interest in flags in general. The word is a synthesis of the Latin word vexillum (which refers to a kind of square flag which was carried by Roman cavalry) and the Greek suffix -logia ("study"). The first known usage of the word vexillology was ...

A Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) is a reimbursement designation from the Bureau of Primary Health Care and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.This designation is significant for several health programs funded under the Health Center Consolidation Act (Section 330 of the Public Health …

History. According to a geospatial survey conducted between 2007 and 2010 by the National Coordinating Agency for Survey and Mapping (Bakorsurtanal), Indonesia has 13,466 islands. However, according to earlier survey in 2002 by National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN), the Indonesian archipelago has 18,307 islands, and according to the CIA World …

The Legislative Yuan is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of China (Taiwan) located in Taipei.The Legislative Yuan is composed of 113 members, who are directly elected for 4-year terms by people of the Taiwan Area through a parallel voting system.. Originally located in Nanking, the Legislative Yuan, along with the National Assembly (electoral college) and the …