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November 14

Who was the first female governor in Paraguay?

Hello. I am trying to find out the name of the first female governor in Paraguay. I just have a passing mention about the first woman in that position but no name. Regards, Thinker78 (talk) 04:23, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

María Cristina Villalba López was governor of Canindeyú during 2008–2013. The undated UN document is apparently from 2004 and specified a window "between 1998 and 2003", so there must have been an earlier female governor.  --Lambiam 15:00, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

According to this article, this mystery female governor was elected in 2003. That may help to narrow the search.  --Lambiam 15:16, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Mirta Ramona Mendoza Díaz was Governor of Concepción during 2003–2008.^[1]  --Lambiam 17:39, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

References

American breakfast lunch and dinner

According to many movies, TV series Americans eat only pizza, donut, burger, hotdog and drink only wine, beer, vodka all the time. Kids eat only cookies, fruit loops and ice cream.

Do young single Americans cook natural cereals, vegetables, meat, egg in home? Do they purchase natural raw fruits? Do the kids drink milk? 2409:40E1:1E:6CA6:ECCA:8C8E:34F:42D9 (talk) 07:38, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

This survey may answer your curiosity. NB Cookies and milk is a common children's snack, according to TV. AlmostReadytoFly (talk) 09:24, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Lots of Americans on TV drink other alcoholic drinks, especially bourbon. --142.112.221.156 (talk) 11:44, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

In summary, some do, some don't.  --Lambiam 12:33, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Another survey is here. Alansplodge (talk) 15:40, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

According to many other movies, TV series Americans eat only home-blended veggie drinks, and pretentious coffee. There's also a lot of Chinese and Mexican food, mostly take-away. Kids have breakfast cereal, and adults wierd kinds of alleged "omelette". Of course, police diets are much worse, but that probably applies everywhere. Johnbod (talk) 16:14, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

As a young single American, I have never eaten anything natural. If it isn't deep fried or alcoholic, I don't put it in my stomach. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 16:28, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

More info in Western pattern diet and its references.70.67.193.176 (talk) 16:49, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Edwin Mellen and Evans (1999)

So, while formatting the bibliography for Amur Annexation I realized that Russian expansion on the Amur, 1848–1860: the push to the Pacific. was published by Edwin Mellen Press, and Wikipedia actually helpfully shouted at me that it could be considered a vanity press. Does anyone have a copy, or know with more certainty whether we should use this source? I'd also appreciate more sources for the "aftermath" period in general. Remsense聊 12:24, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

The author, who died in died in 2018,^[2] held a PhD from the University of North Carolina, spoke Russian, was Professor of History at the University of Central Florida and is fondly remembered by some students for his classes on Russian history.^[3] Evans wrote several other Russia-related history books (The Petrasevskij circle: 1845–1849 (1974, Mouton; 2018 reprint, Walter de Gruyter), The Communist International, 1919–1943 (1973, Pageant–Poseidon), The Kievan Russian Principality, 860–1240 (1981, Associated Faculty Press), Russia and the Khanates of Central Asia to 1865 (1982, Associated Faculty Press), The Russo-Chinese Crisis: N. P. Ignatiev's Mission to Peking, 1859–1860 (1987, Oriental Research Partners)) published by reputable publishers. In this case I'd give primacy to the academic credentials of the author. And, according to WorldCat, the title is held at major university libraries across the world.  --Lambiam 13:56, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! That was my suspicion, that the author should be considered over the publishing house. Remsense聊 14:02, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

US casualties in the Pacific War

What are the US casualties in the Pacific War? The corresponding article indicates 93k dead Americans, but the trouble is that only combat losses are indicated there, and non-combat losses are ignored. Somewhere I came across the number of 161,000 dead, which seems very plausible. --17:39, 14 November 2023 Lone Ranger1999

The number of military personnel who were non-combat casualties (dying from natural causes or from non-combat injuries such as caused by vehicle accidents) can only have been a small fraction of the total number. More than 40% does not seem very plausible to me – what would have been the major causes of death? If civilian casualties are to be included, you run into a problem of defining "casualty in the Pacific War".  --Lambiam 12:32, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

I don't know the numbers here but disease and mistreatment of prisoners are common causes of death in war. In most wars in history they were probably the majority. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:43, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

And as a rule of thumb, in modern warfare it takes (I have been told) about 10 non-combat personnel to support one combatant in the field, so there is ten times as much scope for them to suffer accidents and disease. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.2.5.208 (talk) 02:34, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

No. Conditions at the front would be more conducive to accidents and especially disease. Clarityfiend (talk) 09:50, 16 November 2023 (UTC)