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A tsunami warning has been issued for the coasts of Japan and Russia after a massive earthquake measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale struck in the northern Pacific Ocean. The earthquake hit some 600 kilometers (370 miles) northeast of Japan's main northern island of Hokkaido. Hokkaido authorities said they were issuing mandatory evacuation orders for 10 municipalities.

DEFINITION: (adjective) Intended to instruct. SYNONYMS: didactical. USAGE: "The principal difficulty in your case," remarked Holmes, in his didactic fashion, "lay in the fact of there being too much evidence."

Virgil was a Roman poet and the author of the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid. The Aeneid, Rome's national epic, tells the legendary story of the Trojan hero Aeneas, who travels to Italy and is reborn as the creator of Imperial Rome. What later Christian poet portrayed the pagan Virgil as the guide to Hell in his great literary classic The Divine Comedy?

The Brazilian Republic was declared by Deodoro da Fonseca, a military strongman who played a key role in the overthrow of Pedro II and who subsequently became the first president of Brazil. However, the rivalry of the states and the power of the army in government, especially under Fonseca's unpopular Jacobinist successor, Floriando Peixoto, caused the political situation to remain uneasy. The expanding market for what Brazilian products brought considerable wealth to the republic?

Good Samaritan laws in the US are laws protecting those who choose to aid people that are injured or ill. The laws are intended to reduce bystanders' hesitation to assist strangers in emergency situations out of a fear of being prosecuted for injury or wrongful death. In other countries, Good Samaritan laws require reasonable action from bystanders, such as calling the authorities. Who was investigated for violation of French Good Samaritan law in connection with Princess Diana's death?