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Featured article: December 17, 2008

Lead actor Steve Sandvoss stars as Elder Aaron Davis

Latter Days is a gay romantic drama released in 2003. Set in Los Angeles, California, it portrays the seduction of Aaron Davis, a Mormon missionary, by Christian Markelli, a party animal who falls in love with him. The film, written and directed by C. Jay Cox, stars Steve Sandvoss (pictured) as Aaron, Wes Ramsey as Christian, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Elder Ryder, and Rebekah Johnson as Julie Taylor. Mary Kay Place, Amber Benson and Jacqueline Bisset have supporting roles. Latter Days premiered at the Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival on July 10, 2003. It was released across America over the next 12 months, and was released, mostly at gay film festivals, in a few other countries. It was the first film to openly show the clash between the principles of the Mormon church and homosexuality, and its exhibition in some states was polemic. Various religious groups demanded that the movie be withdrawn from theatres and DVD stores under boycott threats. The movie was not well received by film critics, although it was popular with most film festival attendees. In 2004 T. Fabris made Latter Days into a novel, which was published by Alyson Publications. (more...)

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The Eastern Imperial Eagle (Aquila heliaca) is a bird of prey from the Accipitridae family. It is a close relative to the Spanish Imperial Eagle and very similar to the Golden Eagle, but a little smaller and less powerful. The species can be found in Southeast Europe, West and Central Asia, but has nearly vanished from much of its former distribution area of Hungary and Austria.

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State name Date of First Original language Year of First Original language Language of origin Word of origin Meaning and Notes
Alabama
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April 19 1742 Choctaw albah amo "Thicket-clearers"[1] or "plant-cutters", from albah, "(medicinal) plants", and amo, "to clear". The modern Choctaw name for the tribe is Albaamu.[2]
Alaska
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December 2 1897 Aleut via Russian alaxsxaq via Аляска "Mainland" (literally "the object towards which the action of the sea is directed").[3]
Arizona
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February 1 1883 Basque aritz ona "The good oak".[4]
Papago ali-shonak "Small spring".[5]
O'odham via Spanish ali ṣona-g via Arizonac[6] "Having a little spring".[7]
Spanish Árida zona "Arid zone". The proper phrase would be "zona árida".
Arkansas
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July 20 1796 Kansa, via Illinois and French akaansa Borrowed from a French spelling of an Illinois rendering of the tribal name kką:ze (see Kansas, below), which the Miami and Illinois used to refer to the Quapaw.[7][8][9][10]
Kansa via French akakaze via Arcansas "land of downriver people"
Sioux akakaze "people of the south wind"
California
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May 22 1850 Spanish Unknown Probably named for the fictional Island of California ruled by Queen Calafia in the 16th century novel Las sergas de Esplandián by García Ordóñez de Montalvo.[11]
See also: Origin of the name California

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  1. ^ "Alabama: The State Name". Alabama Department of Archives and History. http://www.archives.state.al.us/statenam.html. Retrieved 2007-02-24. 
  2. ^ Bright (2004:29)
  3. ^ Ransom, J. Ellis. 1940. Derivation of the Word ‘Alaska’. American Anthropologist n.s., 42: pp. 550-551
  4. ^ Thompson, Clay (2007-02-25). "A sorry state of affairs when views change". Arizona Republic. http://www.azcentral.com/news/columns/articles/0225clay0225.html. Retrieved 2007-03-03. 
  5. ^ Jim Turner. "How Arizona did NOT Get its Name". Arizona Historical Society. http://arizonaoddities.com/2009/05/how-did-arizona-get-its-name/. Retrieved 2007-03-03. 
  6. ^ http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Arizona
  7. ^ a b Bright (2004:47)
  8. ^ Rankin, Robert. 2005. "Quapaw". In Native Languages of the Southeastern United States, eds. Heather K. Hardy and Janine Scancarelli. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, pg. 492
  9. ^ "Arkansas". Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2006. Archived from the original on 2009-10-31. http://www.webcitation.org/5kwsyG4Bp. Retrieved 2007-02-26. 
  10. ^ To appear. "Arkansas" in the Oxford English Dictionary
  11. ^ "California". Mavens' Word of the Day. 2000-04-26. http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20000426. Retrieved 2006-11-28. 
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