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About US is an initiative by The Washington Post to explore issues of identity in the United States. Sign up for the newsletter. Even during childhood, the family funeral business had a special place in Spencer Leak Jr.s life.

In September 1944, after two years of suffering in POW camps in the Philippines, U.S. Army Lt. George Washington Pearcy was being transferred to one of Japans hell ships, bound for captivity in the enemys home islands.

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Additionally well-known is her portrayal of Elegance Van Owen on the well-liked NBC program L.A. Law. She won a Golden Globe in 1988 for L.A. Law for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Arrangement Dramatization. In the four years that followed, she received a Golden Globe Award nomination as well.

As scorching heat grips large swaths of the Earth, a lot of people are trying to put the extreme temperatures into context and asking: When was it ever this hot before? Globally, 2023 has seen some of the hottest days in modern measurements, but what about farther back, before weather stations and satellites?