By Walter Geiger. Brian Thomas Thompson, 25, was sentenced to six years in prison followed by nine years on probation by Judge Bill Fears Tuesday in Lamar superior court after pleading guilty to one count of first degree vehicular homicide in connection with a Jan. 31, 2015 crash that killed 21-year-old Kara Holland.
Autarky. Economic self-sufficiency. That is, a country has autarky when it does not need to engage in any sort of international trade. Rather, it produces all of its goods and services within the country. Autarky is rare in the modern world, but some examples include Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge and India prior to 1991.
The Big Dipper asterism. One of the best-known asterisms is the Big Dipper or Plough. It is composed of the seven brightest stars in Ursa Major, where they delineate the Bear's hindquarters and exaggerated tail, or alternatively, the handle forming the upper outline of the bear's head and neck.t may be part of an official constellation or it may be composed of stars from more than one constellation. Colloquial usage does not draw a sharp distinction between constellation in the sense of an asterism (pattern of stars) and constellation in the sense of an area of the sky surrounding an asterism.