OpenLLM-France/wikimedia huggingface dataset:
# 2009 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship Division C

The 2009 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship Division C was the seventh edition of the Division C of the FIBA U18 European Championship, the third tier of the European under-18 basketball championship. It was played in Valletta, Malta, from 20 to 25 July 2009. The host team, Malta, won the tournament.

## Participating teams

* Andorra
* Gibraltar
* Malta
* Moldova
* Monaco
* San Marino
* Wales

## First round
### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Malta | 3 | 3 | 0 | 217 | 154 | +63 | 6 | Semifinals |
| 2 | Moldova | 3 | 2 | 1 | 183 | 181 | +2 | 5 | Semifinals |
| 3 | Monaco | 3 | 1 | 2 | 192 | 219 | −27 | 4 | 5th–7th place classification |
| 4 | San Marino | 3 | 0 | 3 | 194 | 232 | −38 | 3 | 5th–7th place classification |
* 20 July 2009
* Boxscore
| Moldova | 67–64 | Monaco |
* Ta Qali Sports Pavillion
* 20 July 2009
* Boxscore
| Malta | 76–66 | San Marino |
* Ta Qali Sports Pavillion
* 21 July 2009
* Boxscore
| San Marino | 56–77 | Moldova |
* Ta Qali Sports Pavillion
* 21 July 2009
* Boxscore
| Monaco | 49–80 | Malta |
* Ta Qali Sports Pavillion
* 22 July 2009
* Boxscore
| Monaco | 79–72 | San Marino |
* Ta Qali Sports Pavillion
* 22 July 2009
* Boxscore
| Malta | 61–39 | Moldova |
* Ta Qali Sports Pavillion

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Gibraltar | 2 | 2 | 0 | 142 | 119 | +23 | 4 | Semifinals |
| 2 | Andorra | 2 | 1 | 1 | 141 | 144 | −3 | 3 | Semifinals |
| 3 | Wales | 2 | 0 | 2 | 120 | 140 | −20 | 2 | 5th–7th place classification |
* 20 July 2009
* Boxscore
| Andorra | 64–79 | Gibraltar |
* Ta Qali Sports Pavillion
* 21 July 2009
* Boxscore
| Gibraltar | 63–55 | Wales |
* Ta Qali Sports Pavillion
* 22 July 2009
* Boxscore
| Wales | 65–77 | Andorra |
* Ta Qali Sports Pavillion

## 5th–7th place classification

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| 5 | Wales | 2 | 2 | 0 | 198 | 138 | +60 | 4 |
| 6 | Monaco | 2 | 1 | 1 | 136 | 165 | −29 | 3 |
| 7 | San Marino | 2 | 0 | 2 | 153 | 184 | −31 | 2 |
* 24 July 2009
* Boxscore
| Monaco | 57–93 | Wales |
* Ta Qali Sports Pavillion
* 25 July 2009
* Boxscore
| Wales | 105–81 | San Marino |
* Ta Qali Sports Pavillion

## Playoffs

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final | Final |
| A1 | Malta | 102 | | | |
| B2 | Andorra | 84 | | | |
| B2 | Andorra | 84 | A1 | Malta | 75 |
| | | | B1 | Gibraltar | 38 |
| B1 | Gibraltar | 59 | B1 | Gibraltar | 38 |
| A2 | Moldova | 57 | 3rd place match | 3rd place match | 3rd place match |
| | | | B2 | Andorra | 76 |
| | | | A2 | Moldova | 71 |

### Semifinals

* 24 July 2009
* Boxscore
| Malta | 102–84 | Andorra |
* Ta Qali Sports Pavillion
* 24 July 2009
* [ Boxscore]
| Gibraltar | 59–57 | Moldova |
* Ta Qali Sports Pavillion

### 3rd place match

* 25 July 2009
* Boxscore
| Andorra | 76–71 | Moldova |
* Ta Qali Sports Pavillion

### Final

* 25 July 2009
* Boxscore
| Malta | 75–38 | Gibraltar |
* Ta Qali Sports Pavillion

## Final standings

| Rank | Team |
| | Malta |
| | Gibraltar |
| | Andorra |
| 4 | Moldova |
| 5 | Wales |
| 6 | Monaco |
| 7 | San Marino |
# A Faithful Christmas

A Faithful Christmas is a Christmas album and the fifth studio album by American recording artist Faith Evans, released on October 25, 2005, by Capitol Records. Work on the album began in mid-2005 after the release of her fourth studio album The First Lady. A collection of holiday songs, it contains standards such as "White Christmas" and "Santa Baby" alongside two new compositions, "Happy Holiday" and "Christmas Wish", both of which were written by Evans and her daughter Chyna Griffin.

## Reception

Professional ratings :
| Review scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Entertainment Weekly | B− |
| People | |
The album received generally mixed reviews from critics. In his review for Allmusic, Andy Kellman from wrote that the album sounded "very uneven and hastily thrown together." He criticized A Faithful Christmas for switching between "thoroughly modern" and classic Christmas songs, calling Evans's original material on the album "spirited but bland." He however praised her "straightforward version" of "The Day That Love Began." Chris Willman from Entertainment Weekly found that "some of her beat-heavy originals are Faith-based fun [but] misses include an old James Brown Xmas tune with way more 'Good Gods!' than any non-Godfather should attempt." People magazine writer Chuck Arnold felt that "the girliness of "Santa Baby" and playfulness of Frank Sinatra's "Mistletoe and Holly" don't suit [Evans]. More fittingly, the CD closes with "O Come All Ye Faithful."

## Track listing

Sample credits
* "Soulful Christmas" contains a sample of the recording "Soulful Christmas" as performed by James Brown.
* "Christmas Wish" samples from "Merry Christmas Baby" as performed by James Brown.

## Charts

Chart performance for A Faithful Christmas :
| Chart (2005) | Peak position |
| US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) | 70 |
| US Top Holiday Albums (Billboard) | 7 |
# Altos de Lircay National Reserve

Altos de Lircay National Reserve is a 121.63 km$^2$ (46.96 sq mi) nature reserve located in Talca Province, Maule Region, Chile. It lies in a pre-Andean area close to Radal Siete Tazas National Park, as well as Descabezado Grande and Cerro Azul volcanoes.
The reserve is home to a significant variety of wildlife including rare and threatened animals such as the Tricahue parrot, Molina's hog-nosed skunk and plants such as the ciprés de la cordillera and roble Maulino. In the area can be found seven of the ten species of the genus Nothofagus occurring in Chile.
There are three major rivers in the reserve, the Lircay that is a tributary of the Claro River, the Claro that flows north to south through the reserve, and the Blanquillo that joins the latter river in the reserve.
# Amana anhuiensis

Amana anhuiensis is a Chinese plant species in the lily family, native to Anhui Province in eastern China.
# Atriplex littoralis

Atriplex littoralis, the grassleaf orache or grass-leaved orache (/ˈɒrətʃ/; also spelled orach) is a species of shrub in the family Amaranthaceae. It is 70–80 cm high and grows along beaches in many places in the world. It has narrow leaves and grey-green color. In northern Europe it has flowers from July until September.
# 2013 Team Long Track World Championship

The 2013 Team Long Track World Championship was the seventh annual FIM Team Long Track World Championship. The final took place on 18 August 2013 in Folkestone, England.

## Results

* Folkestone
* 18 August 2013
| Pos. | Team | Pts | riders |
| | Netherlands | 65 | Theo Pijper 30, Jannick de Jong 21, Dirk Fabriek 14 |
| | France | 63 | Dimitri Bergé 21, Mathieu Trésarrieu 16, Stephane Tresarrieu 16, Theo Di Palma 10 |
| | Great Britain | 49 | Glen Phillips 23, Paul Cooper 14, Richard Hall 10, Andrew Appleton 2 |
| 4 | Germany | 44 | Stephan Katt 16, Jörg Tebbe 13, Enrico Janoschka 8, Richard Speiser 7 |
| 5 | Australia | 36 | Cameron Woodward 25, Rodney McDonald 7, Hunter Anderson 4 |
| 6 | Finland | 28 | Markku Autio 16, Aarni Heikkila 7, Simo Pulli 5 |
| 7 | Czech Republic | 23 | Josef Franc 11, Karel Kadlec 8, Richard Wolff 4 |

## Scorers

Source:
# 2009 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship Division B

U18 European Championship Men 2009 - Division B was an under-18 men's basketball tournament that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina in July/August 2009. The tournament was won by Sweden who beat Poland 87-71 in the final. Sweden and Poland were promoted to Division A.

## Final ranking

1. Sweden
2. Israel
3. Slovenia
4. Poland
5. Hungary
6. Iceland
7. England
8. Georgia
9. Belgium
10. Denmark
11. Netherlands
12. Portugal
13. Austria
14. Switzerland
15. Estonia
16. Romania
17. Slovakia
18. Belarus
19. Bulgaria
20. Scotland
21. Macedonia
22. Ireland
23. Albania
24. Luxembourg
# Benjamin Nash

Benjamin Nash (5 March 1829 – 19 April 1890) was a tailor and politician in colonial South Australia.
He was born in Birmingham and emigrated to Melbourne in 1857 but in July, after only a few months in the gold diggings, moved to Rundle Street, Adelaide and set up a tailoring business.
He was prominent in the Voluntary Militia, and from 1858 to 1865 served with the West Adelaide Company under Colonel George Mayo. In 1859 he successfully tendered for the supply of the first uniforms for the Volunteer Military Force. In 1878 he was elected to the Walkerville District Council, and became its chairman.
He was elected to the seat of West Torrens and sat from April 1887 to April 1890. He failed in his bid to be reelected, and died of kidney failure ten days later. He was buried in West Terrace Cemetery's Catholic section. He had converted to that faith around two years before his death. He made a gift of an organ to St. Laurence's, his small local church.

## Family

He married Ann Ide; they lived at Sturt Street, Adelaide and had eight children:
* Joseph George Nash ( 1853 – 1909 ), an engineer, patented a novel sheep shearing handpiece. He has been credited with invention of the Totalizator.
* Charlotte Ann Nash (c. 1854 – 10 July 1911) married Thomas Carter (c. 1853 - 2 February 1923), on 20 February 1928; they lived at Roseworthy, then Palmerston Road, Unley. She died after being struck by a motor car while crossing Unley Road.
* Sarah Jane Nash(1860 – 1863)
* John Francis Nash (1862 – 1904) a tobacconist; married Rose Ann Mackell (1865 - ) on 3 June 1891, Sydney NSW
* Eliza Nash (1863 – 1863), twin
* Hannah Nash (1863 – 1863), twin
* Alice Mary Nash (c. 1864 – 13 January 1899)
* youngest daughter Agnes Jane Eily "Jenny" Nash (1867 – 1932) married John Joseph Leahy (1851 – 1910) a contractor, on 8 September 1888
# Best (After School album)

BEST is the second compilation Japanese album by South Korean girl group After School released on March 18, 2015 under Avex Trax. The album contains all of After School's Japanese singles. The limited edition comes in two versions with a DVD featuring After School 2nd Japan Tour Dress To Shine and also a DVD featuring all of After School's Japanese music videos up to 2014. The regular edition comes in CD-only version.

## Release history

| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
| Japan | March 18, 2015 | Avex Trax | CD+Live DVD Limited Edition | AVCD-93110/B |
| Japan | March 18, 2015 | Avex Trax | CD+MV DVD Limited Edition | AVCD-93111/B |
| Japan | March 18, 2015 | Avex Trax | CD only Edition | AVCD-93112 |
| Japan | March 18, 2015 | Avex Trax | Mu-mo Edition | AVC1-93113/B |
# 14th OTO Awards

14th OTO Awards
8 March 2014 (2014-03-08)
SND, Bratislava, Slovakia
Overall winner Marcel Merčiak
Hall of Fame Juraj Kukura
Život Award Pavol Barabáš
◄ 13th | 15th ►
The 14th OTO Awards, honoring the best in Slovak popular culture for the year 2013, occurred on 8 March 2014 at the Slovak National Theater in Bratislava. The ceremony broadcast live on Jednotka, with Adela Vinczeová and Matej Cifra hosting the show.

## Winners and nominees
### Main categories
#### Television

| News Host | News Reporter |
| ★ Lucia Barmošová Ľubomír Bajaník Ján Mečiar | ★ Jozef Kubáni Danica Kleinová Adam Zavřel |
| Sports Host | Sports Commentator |
| ★ Peter Varinský Lenka Čviriková (née Hriadelová) Marcel Merčiak | ★ Marcel Merčiak Peter Čambor Ján Plesník |
| Journalist | Entertainer |
| ★ Patrik Herman Ján Mečiar Zlatica Švajdová (née Puškárová) | ★ Andrej Bičan Martin Rausch Viliam Rozboril |
| Actor | Actress |
| ★ Lukáš Latinák Ján Jackuliak Tomáš Maštalír | ★ Helena Krajčiová Monika Hilmerová Diana Mórová |
| New Actor ||
| ★ Marcel Chlpík Sabína Grláková Juraj Loj ||
| Program | Show |
| ★ Srdce pre deti – JOJ Slovensko 2013 Advent – RTVS Trochu inak v SND – TA3 | ★ Milujem Slovensko – RTVS 5 proti 5 – RTVS Modré z neba – Markíza |
| Series ||
| ★ Búrlivé víno – Markíza Panelák – JOJ Profesionáli – JOJ ||

#### Music

| Male Singer | Female Singer |
| ★ Miroslav Žbirka Marián Čekovský Mário "Kuly" Kollár | ★ Celeste Buckingham Nela Pocisková Zuzana Smatanová |
| Band ||
| ★ Fragile Desmod Peter Bič Project ||

### Others

| Overall winner | ★ Marcel Merčiak |
| Hall of Fame | ★ Juraj Kukura |
| Život Award | ★ Pavol Barabáš |

## Superlatives
### Multiple nominees
#### 2 nominations

* Ján Mečiar
* Marcel Merčiak

## Reception
### TV ratings

The show has received a total audience of more than 551,000 viewers, making it the most watched television program within prime time in the region.
# 2014 Belarusian Super Cup

The 2014 Belarusian Super Cup was held on 15 March 2014 between the 2013 Belarusian Premier League champions winners BATE Borisov and the 2012–13 Belarusian Cup winners Minsk. BATE won the match 1–0, defending their title from the previous edition and winning the trophy for the fourth time.

## Match details

BATE: :
| GK | 35 | Germans Māliņš |
| DF | 33 | Dzyanis Palyakow |
| DF | 21 | Egor Filipenko |
| DF | 23 | Edhar Alyakhnovich |
| DF | 22 | Filip Mladenović |
| MF | 8 | Alyaksandr Valadzko |
| MF | 9 | Illya Aleksiyevich | | 56' |
| MF | 25 | Dzmitry Baha | 24' | 80' |
| MF | 17 | Alyaksandr Pawlaw | | 88' |
| MF | 10 | Sergey Krivets | | 77' |
| FW | 20 | Vitali Rodionov (c) |
| Substitutes: |||
| GK | 34 | Artem Soroko |
| MF | 2 | Dzmitry Likhtarovich | | 56' |
| DF | 3 | Vital Hayduchyk |
| MF | 7 | Aleksandr Karnitsky | | 77' |
| FW | 13 | Nikolay Signevich | 90+3' | 88' |
| DF | 14 | Anri Khagush |
| MF | 42 | Maksim Volodko | | 70' |
| Manager: |||
| Alyaksandr Yermakovich ||||
MINSK: :
| GK | 1 | Uladzimir Bushma |
| DF | 2 | Roman Begunov |
| DF | 11 | Alyaksandr Sachywka (c) |
| DF | 17 | Dmitry Lentsevich |
| DF | 3 | Miloš Rnić |
| MF | 20 | Ivan Maewski |
| MF | 77 | Dmytro Korkishko |
| MF | 8 | Predrag Ranđelović | 22' |
| MF | 9 | Sergey Pushnyakov | | 76' |
| MF | 5 | Yury Astravukh | | 68' |
| FW | 13 | Alyaksandr Makas | | 82' |
| Substitutes: |||
| GK | 30 | Denis Dechko |
| DF | 4 | Aleksandr Sverchinskiy |
| MF | 7 | Vital Kibuk | | 68' |
| MF | 15 | Ihar Makaraw | | 82' |
| MF | 16 | Igor Shumilov |
| FW | 22 | Valeriy Kutsenko | | 76' |
| DF | 33 | Dzmitry Zinovich |
| Manager: |||
| Andrey Skorobogatko ||||
# Amana Melome

Amana Melome is a Euro-Caribbean-American singer-songwriter currently based in Stockholm. She was born in Germany and raised around the world. After finishing high school in Florence, Italy she returned to America to earn her college degree and graduated from NYU, in New York City. Her music reflects her jazz heritage as she follows in the footsteps of her grandfather, the late bass player Jimmy Woode who was the youngest musician in Duke Ellington's orchestra and accompanied many jazz legends such as Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Miles Davis. Her late grandmother was also a jazz vocalist, and her aunt Shawnn Monteiro is still active in the jazz scene today.

## Early life

Born in Germany but raised around the world, Melome is a singer, songwriter, actress who sings in Italian, French, German, and English. Having grown up exposed to the music of her family, Melome followed in the footsteps of her grandfather Jimmy Woode, the youngest musician in Duke Ellington's band.

## Career

Melome moved to Los Angeles to pursue music after graduating, where she met Saverio "Sage" Principini and recorded her first album Indigo Red and her sophomoric album Phoenix Rising, both recorded at the infamous Henson Recording Studios in Hollywood. After a U.S. release on indie label Savana Records, Amana's Indigo Red became the first CD to be sold in Whole Foods Markets, as they coined her music as "organic" and had her perform a mini-tour of the west-coast stores. Indigo Red was released in Europe on Irma Records in 2008. Following the American and European release of her record, Melome was headlining festivals and clubs, performing for private events for Fendi and Christian Dior before she landed herself a lead role on the most popular Italian sitcom Un medico in famiglia which aired on national TV.
Melome's music is said to evoke the jazz roots of her family with a sound that is a mix of neo-soul, jazz and folk, occasionally mixed with world inspired by her many travels.
Melome has recently finished recording her third album Lock and Key at Manifest Studios in Los Angeles which is due for release in January 2015. The EP brings new collaborations and production by the talented duo Itai Shapira and Adam Berg of the Decoders, who have worked with the likes of Aloe Black and Rhye.

## Discography

* 2008: Indigo Red
* 2011: Phoenix Rising
* 2014: Lock and Key

### Singles

* 2008: Caterpillar, Bella Farfalla, Platonic
* 2011: Twisted
* 2014: Lock and Key
# Alampla arcifraga

Alampla arcifraga is a moth in the family Immidae. It is found in New Guinea and Taiwan.
# Atriplex pacifica

Atriplex pacifica is a species of saltbush known by the common names Davidson's saltbush, South Coast saltbush, and Pacific orach.
It is native to the coastline of Southern California, including the Channel Islands, and Baja California, where it grows in saline habitat on the immediate coastline, such as beach bluffs. It is an uncommon plant, chiefly because much of its native habitat has been drastically altered.
This is a mat-forming annual herb producing scaly, reddish green, prostrate stems 10 to 30 centimeters long. The leaves are less than 2 centimeters long, usually oval, with gray-green scaly undersides. Male flowers are borne in terminal spike inflorescences that emerge from the distal end of the branches, while female flower clusters appear proximally on the branches.
# Batayporã

Batayporã is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Its population is 11,349 (2020) and its area is 1,828 km$^2$.
The town was founded in 1954 by Jan Antonín Baťa as part of his expansion of the Bata shoe company, founded by his brother Tomáš.
Batayporã is surrounded by agricultural land. It is located south of Anaurilândia at the junction of MS-395 and MS-134 (BR376), paved single-lane highways.
Other towns in Brazil linked to Baťa include Anaurilândia, Batatuba, Bataguassu, and Mariápolis.
# Berg en Dal (village)

Berg en Dal is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is located to the southeast of the city of Nijmegen. The village lies in the municipality of Berg en Dal.
One of the attractions in the village is the Africa Museum, which consists of a number of African villages, rebuilt on a 1:1 scale. Another attraction is the small amusement park of Tivoli.

## History

The name of the village means "Mountain and Valley"; it refers to the hills in the neighbourhood. The name was first used in 1867. The village has its origins in the early Middle Ages, and developed on a hill along the road from Nijmegen to Kleve. It used to be surrounded by heath and contained little farms. In the early 19th century, it developed into a villa ward.
During Operation Market Garden, Berg en Dal was the scene of heavy fighting. The villagers were evacuated in November 1944. On 5 May 1955, an obelisk was revealed with the names of the 27 civilian casualties.
In 1949, Duivelsberg and Wylerberg were annexed from Germany. In 1954, the Africa Museum was opened. It was an initiative of Father Piet Bukkems and other missionaries who had worked in Africa to provide a visual display. Later, an African village was built in the museum.

## Gallery

* Berg en Dal, war memorial
* Real estate: Landgoed de Wychert
* Rust en Vrede
* View from the Duivelsberg
# ACMG

ACMG may refer to:
* Association of Canadian Mountain Guides
* American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics
# Bethylus

Bethylus is a genus of insects belonging to the family Bethylidae.
The species of this genus are found in Europe and Northern America.
Species:
* Bethylus apteryx Kieffer, 1905
* Bethylus berlandi Arlé, 1929
# Akuila

Akuila is a given name. Notable people with the given name include:
* Akuila Mafi (born 1969), Tasmanian-raised Tongan rugby union player
* Akuila Matanibukaca (born 1979), Fijian rugby union player
* Akuila Rokolisoa (born 1995), Fijian rugby union player
* Akuila Savu (1944–2014), Fijian economist
* Akuila Uate (born 1987), Fijian rugby union player
* Akuila Yabaki (fl. 2000), Fijian human rights activist
# Australhypopus

Australhypopus is a genus of mites in the family Acaridae.

## Species

* Australhypopus flagellifer Fain & Friend, 1984
# 2009 Najaf governorate election

The Najaf governorate election of 2009 was held on 31 January 2009 alongside elections for all other governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan and Kirkuk.

## Results

Summary of the 31 January 2009 Najaf governorate election results :
| Coalition 2005/2009 | Allied national parties | Leader | Seats (2005) | Seats (2009) | Change | Votes |
| State of Law Coalition | Islamic Dawa Party | Nouri Al-Maliki | – | 7 | +7 | 54,907 |
| Al Mihrab Martyr List | ISCI | Abdul Aziz al-Hakim | 19 | 7 | -12 | 50,146 |
| Independent Free Movement List | Sadrist Movement | Muqtada al-Sadr | – | 6 | +6 | 40,186 |
| Loyalty for Najaf | | Adnan al-Zurufi | 9 | 4 | -5 | 30,219 |
| National Reform Trend | National Reform Trend | Ibrahim al-Jaafari | – | 2 | +2 | 23,377 |
| Independent Najaf Union | | | – | 2 | +2 | 12,766 |
| Iraqi National List | Iraqi National Accord | | 3 | – | -3 | 6,640 |
| Islamic Virtue Party | Islamic Vertue Party | Abdelrahim Al-Husseini | 2 | – | -2 | 5,341 |
| Banner of the Independents | | | 4 | – | -4 | |
| Allegiance Coalition | | | 2 | – | -2 | |
| Iraq Future Gathering | | | 2 | – | -2 | |
| Other Parties | | | | | | |
| Total | Total | | 41 | 28 | -13 | 338,540 |
| Sources: this article – al Sumaria – New York Times - |||||
# ACME Comics & Collectibles

ACME Comics & Collectibles is a comics and collectibles store in Sioux City, Iowa. The store was awarded the 2004 "Spirit of Comics Retailer Award" at the Eisner Awards.

## History

The store was first established on April 1, 1995, by Fran and Kevin McGarry and is located on Pierce Street in Sioux City. Its selection of comic books and graphic novels come from 79 different publishers, ranging from major industry names such as Marvel Comics and DC Comics to small independent publishers. The store also carries a variety of other items, including collectible statues with Star Wars, Star Trek, Dragons, Fairies, and comic book themes; toys from MacFarlane Sports, MacFarlane Dragons, DC Direct, Marvel Select, Pirates of the Caribbean, etc.; artwork and collectible plates; trading cards that range from football, baseball, and hockey to Yu-Gi-Oh!, World of Warcraft, and Magic: The Gathering; games such as Munchkin and Dungeons & Dragons; and a variety of fantasy and Renaissance themed T-shirts, statues, and other paraphernalia.

## Events

ACME Comics & Collectibles participates in Free Comic Book Day every year. The store has also hosted several autograph signings from notable people such as Star Wars actors Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca, and Daniel Logan, who played Boba Fett. ACME Comics has also hosted an autograph-signing with best-selling author Jesse Leon McCann, author of the Krypto the Superdog comic book.

## Awards

In 2004, ACME Comics & Collectibles won the Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award from Comic-Con International in San Diego, California, after being a runner-up for the Eisner Award in 2002 and 2003. The award was presented by Joe Ferrara, owner of the Atlantis Fantasyworld comic book store in Santa Cruz, California. Named for comic book creator Will Eisner, the "Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award" recognizes "an individual retailer who has done an outstanding job of supporting the comics art medium both in the community and within the industry at large". U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley and Tom Harkin, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, Sioux City Mayor Dave Ferris, the Siouxland Chamber of Commerce, and House Speaker of Sioux City Christopher Rants, an ACME Comics customer, all wrote letters of support.