The North Carolina General Assembly election, 2002 was the first General Assembly election conducted using districts drawn following the 2000 Census.
These districts differed from past districts in that these were the first drawn so as to have each district elect only one member of the North Carolina General Assembly. Previously, some districts elected 2 or 3 members; the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that this was not allowed under the North Carolina Constitution of 1971.
These elections resulted in Democratic control of the North Carolina Senate with a 28-22 majority, but in an evenly split House of Representatives; consequently, the Democrats and Republicans shared leadership of the body.
In videogames and RPGs, airships may not be gas-filled zeppelins or dirigibles, but instead literal flying ships. Airships in games are notable because they featured as central plot-based craft in several seminal video games at the point when a mass consumer home-gaming market was forming; such as Super Mario Bros. 3, Final Fantasy, Crimson Skies, and Myst.
They are sometimes kept aloft by helicopter-like rotors mounted on masts, but more frequently not even such a slender concession to the real laws of aerodynamics is made. Airships allow the playable character party to pass about the world map relatively unimpeded by random encounters with monsters.
In J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, Rían was a woman of the First House of the Edain in the First Age. She was the daughter of Belegund of the House of Bëor and cousin of Morwen Edhelwen. Her son was Tuor Eladar and her great-grandson Elrond Half-elven.
Rían was only a young child during the Dagor Bragollach of , when her land was sacked and people slain or fled. Belegund then became a companion of his uncle Barahir and remained defending the land until they were slain in 460. Emeldir the Manhearted, wife of Barahir, led the remaining women and children to safety over the Ered Gorgoroth, and Rían was among those who in the end came to Hithlum.
She was well received there, and in 472 she wedded Huor of the House of Marach, whose brother Húrin was married to Rían's cousin Morwen and was now Lord of Dor-lómin. But two months after their wedding Huor went to the Nírnaeth Arnoediad, and was slain.
No news of the battle came to Dor-lómin, and pregnant Rían became distraught and fled into the wild. She was found by the Grey-elves and taken to their dwellings in the Mountains of Mithrim. Before the end of the year she gave birth to a son, Tuor, but left him to the fostering of the Elves and departed, seeking tidings of her husband. She came to the hill of slain, Haudh-en-Ndengin, amid the wastes of Anfauglith, and there she laid her down and died.
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