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# Mandy Hering

Mandy Hering (born 11 March 1984) is a German retired handball player. She played her entire senior career for Frankfurter HC. She also played for the German national team.
She represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, where the German team placed 11th. She participates at the 2009 World Women's Handball Championship in China.

## Career

Hering started playing handball aged 9 in her hometown club HV Guben. In 1998 she joined Frankfurter Handball Club, where she broke through on the first team in 2000, aged 16. In 2004 she won the German championship and in 2003 she won the DHB-Pokal. She retired after the 2011-2012 season.
She debuted for the German national team on November 9th 2002 against Romania.
# Steven Cazzulino

Steven Cazzulino (born 1 February 1987) is an Australian cricketer. He played 13 first-class matches for Tasmania between 2010 and 2014.
# Danny Evans (cricketer)

Daniel Evans (born 24 July 1987) is a former English first-class cricketer.
Evans is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler who has represented Middlesex since 2007. A graduate of the Durham cricket Academy who represented the England Under-19 XI in 2006.
He has taken 32 wickets in thirteen first-class matches with a personal best of six wickets for 35 runs.
# Chuden Kabimo

Chuden Kabimo is an Indian Nepali language writer and journalist based in Kalimpong, India. Kabimo has authored two books. He is best known for his 2018 novel Faatsung, originally written in Nepali and translated into English as Song of the Soil in 2021.
He won the prestigious Yuva Puraskar in 2018 for his debut book, a collection of short stories titled 1986. His second book Faatsung was published in 2018 and was shortlisted for the Madan Puraskar for the same year. The English translation of the book Song of the Soil, translated by Ajit Baral was also shortlisted for the JCB Prize. Both of his first two works centered around the Gorkhaland movement in India.

## Notable works

* 1986, a short story collection
* Song of the Soil, novel, originally published in Nepali as Faatsung in 2018.
* Urmaal, published in 2025

## Awards

* Winner – Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar for Nepali (2018) for 1986.
* Nominated – Madan Puraskar (2018) for Faatsung.
* Nominated – JCB Prize (2022) for Song of the Soil.
# Irv Stein

Irvin Michael Stein (May 21, 1911 – January 7, 1981) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played in 1932 with the Philadelphia Athletics. He batted and threw right-handed.
# Georgia Yellow Hammers

The Georgia Yellow Hammers were an old-time string and vocal quartet from Gordon County, Georgia from the 1920s. The group featured Charles Moody, Jr. on guitar; Bud Landress on banjo; Phil Reeve on guitar; and Bill Chitwood on fiddle. All members may have been multi-instrumentalists. Tony Russell's notes accompanying the 2004 compilation CD "Old Mountain" identify the personnel on "The Picture on the Wall" (Victor 20943, 9 Aug.1927) as Landress, fiddle and lead vocal; Reeve, guitar and vocal; C. Ernest Moody, banjo-ukulele and vocal; and Clyde Evans, guitar and vocal.

## Collaboration with the Baxters

The group often played with Andrew and Jim Baxter from Curryville, GA (also in Gordon County). Curryville was also home to music legend Roland Hayes. Andrew Baxter's unique style of fiddle is heard an early recording of a band favorite entitled "G-Rag". The Baxters were African Americans, which was an unusual collaboration for the time period. The band released one of the top selling records of 1920s southern music with 1927's release "The Picture on the Wall"/"My Carolina Girl". The 1927 recording session with the Baxter's took place in Charlotte, NC, and was a rare integrated session, uncommon even through the mid to late 20th century. Andrew and Jim Baxter were a well known duo for the time in their own right around Northwest Georgia.

## Legacy

The band is nationally recognized as an important 1920s "old-time" band. Their songs can still be heard from early recordings on such sites as YouTube.com and others. The song "Drifting Too Far From The Shore" written by member Charles Moody has been covered by such artists as Jerry Garcia, Emmylou Harris, Phil Lesh & Friends, Hank Williams, and many others, as well as being a standard in many gospel hymnals. The Calhoun High School football stadium in Calhoun, Georgia is also named after the guitar player and founding member Phil Reeve.
Georgia Yellow Hammers recorded songs including:
Mary, Don't You Weep
I'm S-A-V-E-D
Pass around the Bottle
Fourth of July at a County Fair (1927)
Going to Ride That Midnight Train
Tennessee Coon (1927)
My Carolina Girl (1927)
G Rag with Andrew Baxter (1927 Aug. 9)
Peaches down in Georgia
Picture on the Wall (1928)
# Lara Ricote

Lara Ricote is a Mexican-American comedian based in the Netherlands.

## Early life

Ricote is the daughter of actress Gabriela Rivero [es] and photographer Luis Francisco Ricote. She grew up in Miami before moving to the Netherlands to study politics at the University of Amsterdam.

## Career

Ricote began performing improv and stand-up comedy while studying in Amsterdam. She has performed in both English and Spanish.
In 2021, Ricote won the Funny Women Stage Award. At the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, she performed her debut solo show GRL/LATNX/DEF and won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer.
In May 2022, Ricote featured in Rosie Jones's Disability Comedy Extravaganza, a comedy special broadcast on Dave. In October the same year, she appeared on the panel shows Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable and Question Team, also both broadcast on Dave.
In February 2024, Ricote appeared on series U of BBC Two's QI as a guest panelist.

## Personal life

Ricote lives in Amsterdam. She has degenerative hearing loss and uses hearing aids; she has described herself as hard of hearing.
# Bruce Wightman

Bruce Wightman (8 March 1925 – 8 January 2009) was a New Zealand actor and expert on Bram Stoker who co-founded the Dracula Society.

## Early life

Coming from a theatrical family, Wightman spent most of his adult life on stage, touring many theatres. In England, he appeared in many films (listed below) and TV shows including ITV Television Playhouse, Hancock's Half Hour, Sunday Night Theatre, Dixon of Dock Green, Armchair Theatre, No Hiding Place, Citizen James, Boyd Q.C., The Rag Trade, Suspense, Taxi!, First Night, Crane, Danger Man, Sykes and a..., The Dick Emery Show, Doctor Who, Theatre 625 and Comedy Playhouse.

## The Dracula Society

With fellow actor Bernard Davies, Wightman formed The Dracula Society in October 1973, whose purpose was to encourage popular interest in Gothic literature as opposed to Gothic movies. The society was founded to organise Dracula-themed tours of Transylvania, which Bruce ran during the 1970s and 1980s, being awarded Guide of Honour, Romania in February 1981.
The society meets regularly five times a year but also organises occasional one-off events, and trips to locations in the UK and Europe. Honorary members include Caroline Munro, Mark Gatiss, Monty Berman, Michael Carreras and horror legends Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee (as its president).
Wightman became interested in Dracula after seeing the 1931 film adaptation as a young man (calling its star, Bela Lugosi, the definitive Dracula). In 1977, Wightman appeared in the BBC's adaptation of Count Dracula (playing a coach passenger), as well as working in an advisory capacity on the production.

## Later life

In the 1990s, Wightman lived in Bulgaria, working as a journalist and art critic. He returned to his native New Zealand in 2001 to continue writing about the career of Bram Stoker. However, he was living in Australia at the time of his death in 2009. He is buried in Emu Park Cemetery.

## Filmography

* Blood of the Vampire (1958) - Third Guard (as Bruce Whiteman)
* I'm All Right Jack (1959) - Shop Steward
* Caught in the Net (1960) - Tom
* Suspect (1960) a.k.a. The Risk - Phil the Barman
* Jigsaw (1962) - 3rd Press Man (uncredited)
* Ladies Who Do (1963) - Bulldozer Driver
* You Must Be Joking! (1965) - Cleaner at Racetrack (uncredited)
* Runaway Railway (1966) - Llewellyn
* Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974) - Café Owner
# Berne, Iowa

Berne is an unincorporated community in Crawford County, in the U.S. state of Iowa.

## History

Berne was platted in 1899. It was named after Bern, in Switzerland.
Berne's population was 11 in 1915, and just 6 in 1925. The population was 25 in 1940.
# Marjorie Blankstein

Marjorie B. Blankstein, CM OM (née Rady; born 1929) is a fundraiser, community activist and volunteer. Through her mother Rose, she is a member of the wealthy Bronfman family and a niece of Samuel Bronfman.
Blankstein was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She attended Grosvenor, Robert H. Smith and Kelvin High schools. She graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1950. She obtained her Master of Social Work degree in 1952. After her graduation, she married architect Morley Blankstein. She has three sons, two daughters and seven grandchildren.
She has been very active in the community, and currently serves as a board member of the Rady Jewish Community Centre and the Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice. She also serves as a member of the Capital Campaign Advisory Council for Friends of the Ralph Connor House Inc. She was the Honorary Co-Chair of the Words and Deeds Leadership Award Dinner honouring the Richardson family in October 2007. She was among five honourees at the first Spirit of Leadership awards luncheon held in Winnipeg on March 14, 2008.
In the past, she has been involved with over 30 different community organizations, ranging from Jewish Child and Family Service, Age and Opportunity Centre Inc., Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, LEAF to the United Way of Winnipeg. She became a Member of the Order of Canada in 1982. She is also an honorary life member of Jewish Child and Family Service and was the first recipient of the Sol Kanee Distinguished Community Service Medal from the Winnipeg Jewish Community Council. She has been honoured with the Queen's Silver Jubilee and 125th Anniversary of Confederation Commemorative medals and has been recognized as the YM/YWCA Woman of the Year (Community Service category) in 1978, Volunteer of the Year (by the Association of Fundraising Professionals of Manitoba) in 2000 and with a Distinguished Service Award from the University of Manitoba in 2003.
Blankstein has continued to receive recognition throughout the 21st Century, including receiving an honorary degree from the University of Manitoba in 2014 and honors at the Rady JCC Sports Dinner in 2019.
# Worthing, Norfolk

Worthing is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hoe and Worthing, in the Breckland district, in the county of Norfolk, England. The civil parish of Worthing is now merged with that of the neighbouring village of Hoe, though the ecclesiastical parishes are still separate (see below). In 1931 the parish had a population of 120. On 1 April 1935 Worthing was abolished and merged with Hoe, the renamed parish is now called "Hoe and Worthing".

## Parish church

Its church, dedicated to St. Margaret, is one of 124 extant round-tower churches in Norfolk. Once a larger building, the upper section of the round tower was removed in the 18th-century, and the chancel was demolished at a date between 1721 and 1820. What remains is the original nave, and the lower section of the tower, together with the small porch. The church features in Pevsner.
The parish of Worthing is now part of the Heart of Norfolk Benefice, a group of thirteen parishes and churches which operate collectively, with a shared parish priest. The benefice is part of the Diocese of Norwich. The church is open daily, thanks to an automated keyless entry system installed by the PCC.

## Railway

The Mid-Norfolk Railway operates a heritage railway service to a location near to the village, just a few yards to the north of Worthing level crossing. Regular services currently stop at Dereham railway station, but special sightseeing trains continued northwards to Worthing on 19 May 2018. Although no station is available, Worthing is indicated on the Mid-Norfolk Railway's timetable as the northerly limit of operations.

## Facilities

Apart from the church and the railway, local community facilities have closed. Worthing's two pubs, The Tanners Arms and The Swan Inn, had both closed by the mid 1960s, and are now private houses. The village store, blacksmiths, and fishmongers have all closed, as have employers including the gravel pits and the tannery which provided much employment during the twentieth century. In August 1966 the local Dereham Times newspaper ran an illustrated article under the title Worthing hamlet is in its death throes, reporting Worthing's population as 120 in 1931, 57 in 1963, and just 43 in 1965. The local postman was quoted as stating that he delivered post to only 23 occupied dwellings in Worthing.
# Ulrich Taffertshofer

Ulrich Taffertshofer (born 14 February 1992) is a German professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or centre-back for Segunda Federación – Group 3 club Atlético Baleares.

## Club career

On 13 June 2023, Taffertshofer signed a two-year contract with VfB Lübeck.
In July 2024, Taffertshofer joined Spanish Segunda Federación – Group 3 club Atlético Baleares.

## Personal life

Taffertshofer's younger brother Emanuel is a youth exponent from 1860 Munich as well and plays for their first team in the 2. Bundesliga.
# Cacho (footballer, born 2002)

Airam Guzmán Castillo (born 31 July 2002), commonly known as Cacho, is a Canario footballer who plays as a winger for CD Tenerife B.

## Club career

Born in Santa Cruz de La Palma, La Palma, Canary Islands, Cacho was a CD Mensajero youth graduate. He made his first team debut on 23 September 2018, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 2–2 Tercera División away draw against Atlético Tacoronte.
On 17 November 2018, Cacho moved to UD Las Palmas and returned to the youth setup. He returned to Mensa in the following year, and started to feature more regularly until renewing his contract with the club on 5 July 2021.
On 20 July 2022, Cacho signed for CD Tenerife and was initially assigned to the reserves in Tercera Federación. He made his professional debut the following 25 March, replacing Aitor Sanz late into a 1–0 Segunda División away loss against Deportivo Alavés; by doing so, he became the first player from his native island to play for the main squad since 1989.
# James Calata

James Arthur Calata OLG (1895 – 1983) was a South African priest and politician. He was the Secretary-General of the African National Congress from 1936 to 1949. He was appointed a canon of the Grahamstown Cathedral making him the first Black canon in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.

## Early life

James Arthur Calata was born in Debe Nek, near King William's Town in the Eastern Cape on 22 July 1895. His father, James was an uneducated farmer and a Presbyterian. His mother Eliza, reached Standard 4, practiced as a midwife and was an Anglican. He was educated at St Matthew's College in Keiskammahoek, from 1911 to 1914 and later worked as a teacher for a number of years. He married Miltha Mary Koboka in 1918, they went on to have three daughters. He was grandfather of Fort Calata who was also a politician.

## Career

Calata became deacon in the Anglican Church in 1921, ordained priest in 1926, and worked briefly in Port Elizabeth, until he was sent to serve as a minister at St. James Mission in Cradock during 1928. During this time he served as president of the Inter-denominational African Ministers' Federation (IDAMF). He ministered in Cradock for forty years, then, after the removal of his congregation in the mid-1960s as a result of the Group Areas Act, he became the priest of the Church of the Ascension in the township of Lingelihle.
He joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1930 and was elected as the Cape President from 1930 to 1949. In 1935, contracted tuberculosis, and was given two years’ leave by the church. He became Secretary-General of the ANC from 1936 to 1949, in his capacity as Secretary-general he was a signatory of the 1949 Program of Action. In 1940 he was instrumental in persuading A.B. Xuma to stand for the presidency. He did not stand for re-election as secretary-general during the national conference of December 1949 but, he remained a member of the national executive until 1956. He had been chosen as ANC's senior chaplain in 1950 and he later also acted as Congress speaker.
He was banned during the Defiance Campaign in 1952, although he was later allowed to continue conducting services. In 1956 he was arrested at the time of the Treason trials and was imprisoned for a short while before being acquitted. His license to marry and permission to keep communion wine were withdrawn. During the 1960s he was restricted to the Cradock district.
His wife Miltha was a leader of those who defied apartheid laws and was later arrested. He also founded a choir, Congress Choir which he also composed songs for, that became prominent and allowed the choir to tour the Cape to raise funds for the ANC and for school bursaries.
He was a canon of Grahamstown cathedral from 1959, later during the 1960s he served on the council of St. Peter's, the Anglican College within the Federal Theological Seminary in Alice. He was kept under surveillance and lived under a banning order during 1968. In the 1970s, he allowed his home to be used as an underground library by the ANC and the youth of his community.
# Russians in Afghanistan

There are currently estimated to be 1,500 Russians in Afghanistan, which in this article refers not only to ethnic Russians, but also to any citizens of Russia.
In the 1960s and 1970s, due to cooperation between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, there were roughly 10,000 Russian expatriate engineers, interpreters, construction workers, and other similar professionals living in the country, a figure which had grown to 15,000 by the eve of the Soviet–Afghan War in 1979. However, they mostly left the country during or after the war.
There was also some Russian-language media, but it closed down during the period of Taliban government in the late 1990s.
Some Russians remained. A peculiar example of one is Noor Mohammad, previously named Sergei Yurevich Krasnoperov, who lives in Afghanistan and considers himself a proud Afghan. He fought in the Soviet–Afghan War, before converting to Islam and deserting to the Mujahideen. After the war, he decided not to return to Russia. He now has a wife and 6 children in Afghanistan. According to estimates there are about 500 Russian derserters or POWs now living in Afghanistan, who have even converted to Islam and married local woman and seemingly integrated into Afghan society. Nikolai Bistrov, was personal bodyguard of Ahmad Shah Massoud, Khakim Bakhretdinov is now Sheikh Abdula, Sergei Kransnoperov, whose local name is Noormomad lives in Chaghcharan, and Alexander Levenets, whose local name is Ahmad has done Hajj to Mecca. Many deserters chose not to return as they feared not to be hailed as "war heroes," despite the amnesty for them announced in 1989. While most are happy, some like Gennady Tsevma or Nek Mohammad, originally from Ukraine are not happy yet chose to stay back.
In Balkh Province, near the border with Uzbekistan, there are also reported to be numerous Russian businessmen, who have established ventures in the food, transport, and tourism industries. There are also Russian Jews with dual Russian and Israeli passports, who have been reported to be occasionally harassed by the local security forces following discovery of Israeli citizenship. Afghanistan does not recognise Israeli passports, although bribery is not uncommon.
It was not immediately clear how the Taliban’s return to power in 2021 would affect the Russian community. On 19 October, 'Minnews' reported that the "Russian diaspora in Afghanistan have been little affected by the changes".
# 1918 Cuban parliamentary election

Mid-term parliamentary elections were held in Cuba on 1 November 1918 in order to fill half the seats in the House of Representatives. The National Conservative Party was the biggest winner, taking 33 of the 61 seats.

## Results

| Party | Party | Seats |
| | National Conservative Party | 33 |
| | Liberal Party of Cuba | 20 |
| | Unionist Liberal Party | 6 |
| | Provincial Liberal Party | 2 |
| Total | Total | 61 |
| Source: Nohlen |||
# Esme Stephens

Esme Stephens was a New Zealand jazz singer who was the vocalist on the first pop disc recorded in New Zealand by His Master's Voice and on the first multi-track recording in New Zealand.

## Biography

Esme was born in Auckland, where she spent the entirety of her life. At the age of 17, Esme auditioned to appear on jazz musician Theo Walters' 1ZB radio show. When Artie Shaw visited Auckland in 1943, he was asked to add a female vocalist to some recordings, and the radio producer involved contacted Esme. The group recorded renditions of White Christmas and This Love of Mine which were pressed on an Acetate disc. During World War II, Esme performed live extensively in and around Auckland with artists such as Freddie Gore, Len Hawkins and Dale Alderton. In the late 1940's, Esme recorded for HMV what is considered the first pop record recorded in the country titled 'You Can In Yucatan', originally performed by Desi Arnaz and His Orchestra. Esme was later signed by Stebbing Records, where she recorded several 78 rpm records during the studio's short history. She appeared on these records alongside artists such as Julian Lee, Buddy Kaine, Crombie Murdoch and jazz singer Mavis Rivers. In 1952, she was the vocalist on the first multi-track recording in New Zealand, a cover of The Andrews Sisters hit "Between Two Trees". She was accompanied by the Guitars of Buddy Kaine.

## Personal life

Esme married Dale Alderton, a musician whom she had played alongside for most of her career. Esme died on 2 June 1992 at the age of 68. She was buried at Waikumete Cemetery under her maiden name.
# Aegista stenomphala

Aegista stenomphala is a species of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family of Camaenidae.

## Distribution

This species occurs in Shikoku, Japan.