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Satellite image of Typhoon Gay near peak intensity (November 20, 1992)
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Typhoon Gay was the strongest and longest-lasting storm of the 1992 Pacific typhoon season. Forming in November near the International Date Line, Gay moved through the Marshall Islands as an intensifying typhoon, severely damaging crops and leaving 5,000 people homeless. The nation's capital of Majuro experienced power and water outages during the storm. There were no fatalities among Marshall Islands citizens, although the typhoon killed an American woman in a yacht. After passing through the country, Gay reached its peak intensity over open waters before weakening rapidly and striking Guam. Most of the weaker structures on that island had been destroyed during Typhoon Omar earlier in the year, and Gay caused little additional structural damage, but strong, salty winds defoliated plants. The typhoon briefly re-intensified before weakening and becoming extratropical south of Japan, where it brought flooding and power outages to Okinawa Prefecture. (Full article...)

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New Zealand singer and songwriter Lorde has received 29 awards from 83 nominations. Lorde released her debut EP, The Love Club EP, and her debut studio album, Pure Heroine, in 2013. She won a New Zealand Music Award for the former in 2013 and a Taite Music Prize for the latter in 2014. Her debut single "Royals" earned multiple awards and nominations from 2013 to 2014, including one APRA Award, one Billboard Music Award and one New Zealand Music Award. At the 2014 Grammy Awards, the single won in two categories: Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance. Lorde herself won one MTV Europe Music Award and two New Zealand Music Awards in 2013, as well as a Billboard Music Award for Best New Artist the following year. The 2014 single "Yellow Flicker Beat", from the soundtrack for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, earned Lorde a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song and a nomination for Best Song at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards in 2015. (Full list...)

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