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** Keewatin Region, Northwest Territories, partially overlapped the District of Keewatin, but was a distinct entity
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** Keewatin Region, Nunavut-alternative name of Kivalliq Region, a Nunavut region mostly coterminal with the above
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** Dagaa Oromo, who live in and east of Dire Dawa, north of Harar, and as far as the northeastern corner of the Oromia Region
** Arsi Oromo, who primarily live in the Arsi Zone of the Oromia Region ( which is named for them ) as well as the Bale Zone
** and Northwest
** Northwest fiddling, with influences from both Ozark and Midwestern fiddle styles, though with a strong emphasis on competitive playing like Texas fiddling.
** Republic Airlines ( 1979-1986 ), a defunct airline purchased by Northwest Airlines that ceased operating in 1986
** At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 ( a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 ) collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 ( a Boeing 727 ) on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crewmembers on Flight 1482.
** Winnipeg General Strike: Royal Northwest Mounted Police fire a volley of bullets into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two.
** The infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U. S. Pacific Northwest with wind gusts up to 170 mph ( 270 km / h ); 46 are killed, 11 billion board feet ( 26 million m³ ) of timber is blown down, with $ 230 million U. S. in damages.
** During a severe thunderstorm over Washington, a man calling himself D. B. Cooper parachutes from the Northwest Orient Airlines plane he hijacked, with US $ 200, 000 in ransom money, and is never seen again ( as of March 2008, this case remains the only unsolved skyjacking in history ).
** Soviet satellite Cosmos 954 burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering debris over Canada's Northwest Territories.
** Northwest Airlines Flight 255 ( a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 ) crashes on takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan just west of Detroit killing all but one ( 4-year old Cecelia Cichan ) of the 156 people on board.
** Industry and Occupations Photographs An ongoing and expanding collection devoted to the workers in the Pacific Northwest from 1880s-1940s.
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