Each step had a rise of 170 mm and a going of 250 mm.

The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that The Hunger Games are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.

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In the new Turkish alphabet each sound is represented by a single letter, sometimes with diacritical hooks.