In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Mardil Voronwë was the first Ruling Steward of Gondor.
Mardil 'the Faithful' was born in T.A 1960. The position of Steward was already hereditary since the days of his grandfather Pelendur and Mardil inherited the title of Steward from his father Vorondil the Hunter in T.A. 2029. He was Steward during the last part of the reign of King Eärnil II and throughout the reign of Eärnur, Eärnil's son.
Mardil had the difficult task of restraining Eärnur's urge to fight the Witch-king of Angmar, the chief of the Ringwraiths, who accused Eärnur after the Battle of Fornost of being afraid to fight him.
The King of Minas Morgul (one of the titles of the Ringwraith) reminded Eärnur of this and challenged him at the start of his reign (T.A. 2043). Although Eärnur wanted to fight the King of Morgul he was restrained with difficulty by Mardil. But when the King of Morgul issued another challenge in 2050, Eärnur would not be restrained. He marched to Minas Morgul and was never seen again.
Eärnur had never married and had no children, so Mardil took it upon himself to rule Gondor. There was no one with a clear and unassailable claim to the throne, so the rule of the Stewards was a way of averting civil war. Because the fate of the King was unknown, Mardil made an oath to rule until "the King returns". This oath would be sworn by all of the Ruling Stewards.
Mardil ruled Gondor with a steady hand and earned the nickname Voronwë, which means "the Steadfast" in Quenya.
It was soon learned that Eärnur had met certain death at Minas Morgul, and upon Mardil's death in T.A. 2080, his son Eradan succeeded him as the second Ruling Steward of Gondor.
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Under Ash (arabic name: "Taht-al-ramad", تحت الرماد) is a first-person shooter sometimes explained to be a response to how Arabs are pictured in computer games in general and America's Army in particular. Like America's Army, it is considered to be video game propaganda; however, it differs from America's Army in that it is not available for free.
The player takes the role of Ahmed, a Palestinian opposed to Israeli occupation (Zionists). Through the course of the game, Ahmed progresses from throwing rocks at Israeli soldiers to destroying Israeli military positions. The game has been criticized for being too hard, and is designed so that it's easy to be killed. If you shoot a civilian, the game ends automatically. In the end it isn't even possible to achieve a victory.
The game was published by Dar al-Fikr, a Syrian publishing company, and the first pressing of ten thousand copies sold out in a week.
Its relevance to the fighting in the Middle East makes it a controversial video game. The game is made with a similar motive to games like Delta Force (an American game featuring Arabs as the enemy) or America's Army (a recruitment FPS produced by the United States Navy and published by the United States Army).
Under Ash was followed up with Under Siege.
Television shows made for audiences in the fifty states & D.C. of the United States and the U.S. in general are listed in the Fifty States & D.C. section. Shows made for audiences in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico are listed in the Puerto Rico section.
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Floriberta Jiménez Tomás (sometimes called Floriberta Jiménez Torres) (born 1990) is a Mexican girl who spent approximately 42 hours under extreme heat inside an SUV vehicle after crossing illegally to San Ysidro, California. She was found alive.
She is a native of San Jorge, Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. She managed to survive her ordeal despite being without water or food for the 42 hours after she crossed the United States-Mexico border. On August 9, 2003, two people who had been in the car with her were arrested, and the vehicle was towed away. The persons arrested failed to tell police, however, that someone was still inside the sport utility van. She had boarded the van in Tijuana.
She was found by a federal worker on August 11, in the Otay Mesa vicinity, where the van had been taken by custom officials. She was sent to a hospital, where she was checked and found in good condition.
Alberto Lozano, spokesman for the Mexican consulate's office in San Diego, declared that It's miracle that she's alive and well.
Her case made the news world wide, such newspapers as Puerto Rico's El Vocero and others reporting about it.