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# Lawn bowls at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Women's triples

The women's triples lawn bowling competition began on 4 October 2010. and finished on 10 October 2010.

## Results
### Qualifying – round robin
#### Section A

| Team | Players | P | W | L | F | A | Pts | Set Diff |
| England | Sian Gordon, Sandy Hazell, Jamie-Lea Winch | 8 | 7 | 1 | 162 | 110 | 14 | +10 |
| South Africa | Tracy-Lee Botha, Susan Nel, Santjie Steyn | 8 | 7 | 1 | 164 | 95 | 14 | +7 |
| Malaysia | Azlina Arshad, Zuraini Khalid, Nur Fidrah Noh | 8 | 6 | 2 | 159 | 111 | 12 | +8 |
| Papua New Guinea | Moata Apu, Elizabeth Bure, Geua Vada Tau | 8 | 5 | 3 | 124 | 135 | 10 | 0 |
| Wales | Isabel Jones, Kathy Pearce, Wendy Price | 8 | 4 | 4 | 140 | 116 | 8 | +2 |
| Cook Islands | Porea Elisa, Teokotai Jim, Kanny Vaile | 8 | 3 | 5 | 126 | 112 | 6 | –1 |
| Canada | Rachel Larson, Harriette Pituley, Erin Roth | 8 | 3 | 5 | 111 | 137 | 6 | –5 |
| Norfolk Island | Kitha Bailey, Margaret O'Brien, Anne Pledger | 8 | 1 | 7 | 84 | 205 | 2 | –12 |
| Brunei | Haja Ampuan Salleh, Hajah Haji Ibrahim, Hajah Muntol | 8 | 0 | 8 | 104 | 153 | 0 | –9 |

#### Section B

| Team | Players | P | W | L | F | A | Pts | Set Diff |
| India | Tania Choudhury, Rupa Rani Tirkey, Pinki | 8 | 6 | 2 | 166 | 102 | 12 | +9 |
| Australia | Claire Duke, Julie Keegan, Sharyn Renshaw | 8 | 6 | 2 | 173 | 101 | 12 | +8 |
| Scotland | Michelle Cooper, Lorraine Malloy, Lynn Stein | 8 | 6 | 2 | 141 | 104 | 12 | +7 |
| New Zealand | Genevieve Baildon, Karen Coombe, Dale Lang | 8 | 6 | 2 | 176 | 107 | 12 | +5 |
| Northern Ireland | Sandra Bailie, Mandy Cunningham, Barbara Logue | 8 | 4 | 4 | 122 | 134 | 8 | –2 |
| Jersey | Helen Greechan, Susan Noel, Joan Renouf | 8 | 4 | 4 | 124 | 160 | 8 | –6 |
| Namibia | Beatrix Lamprecht, Charlotte Morland, Lesley Vermueleen | 8 | 2 | 6 | 136 | 134 | 4 | –4 |
| Botswana | Tibone Fox, Ivy Morton, Nelly Senna | 8 | 1 | 7 | 105 | 141 | 2 | –5 |
| Niue | Faua Bell, Koumanogi Lepa, Anne Strickland | 8 | 1 | 7 | 69 | 229 | 2 | –12 |

### Knockout stages

| Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Gold Medal Match | Gold Medal Match | Gold Medal Match | Gold Medal Match | Gold Medal Match |
| A1 | England | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Bye | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Bye | | | | A1 | England | 6 | 13 | 2 | | | | | |
| | | | | | A2 | South Africa | 8 | 4 | 3 | | | | | |
| A2 | South Africa | 8 | 6 | 3 | A2 | South Africa | 8 | 4 | 3 | | | | | |
| B3 | Scotland | 3 | 7 | 1 | | | | | | | | | | |
| B3 | Scotland | 3 | 7 | 1 | | | | | | A2 | South Africa | 9 | 4 | 4 |
| | | | | | | | | | | B2 | Australia | 6 | 8 | 3 |
| B1 | India | | | | | | | | | | | | | | B2 | Australia | 6 | 8 | 3 |
| | Bye | | | | | | | | |
| | Bye | | | | B1 | India | 10 | 3 | | Bronze Medal Match | Bronze Medal Match | Bronze Medal Match | Bronze Medal Match | Bronze Medal Match |
| | | | | | B2 | Australia | 12 | 12 | |
| A3 | Malaysia | 6 | 6 | | B2 | Australia | 12 | 12 | | A1 | England | 9 | 7 | |
| B2 | Australia | 7 | 11 | | | | | | | B1 | India | 8 | 7 | |
# Cycling at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Women's sprint

The Women's individual sprint took place at 6 and 7 October 2010 at the Indira Gandhi Arena.

## Preliminaries

200 metre time trial, top 8 advanced to the quarterfinals.
| Rank | Rider | Time | Average Speed (km/h) |
| 1 | Anna Meares (AUS) | 11.140, CWG | 64.631 |
| 2 | Kaarle McCurloch (AUS) | 11.440 | 62.937 |
| 3 | Becky James (WAL) | 11.458 | 62.838 |
| 4 | Emily Rosemond (AUS) | 11.504 | 62.586 |
| 5 | Monique Sullivan (CAN) | 11.949 | 60.256 |
| 6 | Jenny Davies (SCO) | 12.353 | 58.285 |
| 7 | Charline Joiner (SCO) | 12.435 | 57.901 |
| 8 | Mahitha Mohan (IND) | 12.635 | 56.984 |
| 9 | Rameshwori Devi (IND) | 13.398 | 53.739 |
| 10 | Rejani Vijaya Kumari (IND) | 13.917 | 51.735 |

## Results
### Quarterfinals

The eight cyclists qualified were paired for a best two-out-of-three series of 200 metre races. None of the pairings required a third race.
| Heat | Rank | Name | Nation | Race 1 | Race 2 | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Anna Meares | Australia | 13.218 | 13.541 | Q |
| 1 | 2 | Mahitha Mohan | India | | | |
| 2 | 1 | Kaarle McCurloch | Australia | 12.446 | 12.282 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Charline Joiner | Scotland | | | |
| 3 | 1 | Becky James | Wales | 12.339 | 12.134 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Jenny Davies | Scotland | | | |
| 4 | 1 | Emily Rosemond | Australia | 11.816 | 12.549 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Monique Sullivan | Canada | | | |

### Race for 5th-8th Places

| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 5 | Monique Sullivan | Canada | 12.364 |
| 6 | Charline Joiner | Scotland | |
| 7 | Mahitha Mohan | India | |
| 8 | Jenny Davies | Scotland | |

### Semifinals

| Heat | Rank | Name | Nation | Race 1 | Race 2 | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Anna Meares | Australia | 11.717 | 11.748 | Q |
| 1 | 2 | Emily Rosemond | Australia | | | |
| 2 | 1 | Becky James | Wales | 12.039 | 11.959 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Kaarle McCurloch | Australia | | | |

### Finals

| Rank | Name | Nation | Race 1 | Race 2 |
| Gold Medal Races ||||||
| | Anna Meares | Australia | 11.525 | 11.549 |
| | Becky James | Wales | | |
| Bronze Medal Races ||||||
| | Emily Rosemond | Australia | | |
| 4 | Kaarle McCurloch | Australia | DSQ | DSQ |
# El Nasr Boys' School

El Nasr Boys' School (EBS; Arabic: مدارس النصر للبنين) is a PreK - Grade 12 school in Shatby, Alexandria, Egypt. Founded in 1929, it is one of the oldest schools in the city, and has more than 7,000 students each year.

## History

The school was founded in 1929 by the British while Egypt was under British occupation, as the "British Boys' School". After the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, it was renamed the El Nasr Boys' School. It was built in the Shatby area of Alexandria, between Abo Quer and Aflaton streets. Across the street is the El Nasr Girls' College. Also there is another El Nasr school in Heliopolis, Cairo. It provides primary, preparatory, secondary and IGCSE education.

## Education system

The school goes from kindergarten through high school, and offers an American Diploma and the IGCSE for boys and girls.

## School anthem

Usually, the school anthem is used only on primary stage. After that, in the preparatory and the senior stages, only the national anthem is used.

## Alumni

* Robert Bauval, Belgian author
* Ahmed Nazif, former Prime Minister of Egypt
* Amr Waked, Egyptian actor
* Islam El-Shater, Egyptian footballer
* Amr Warda, Egyptian football player
* Erol Gelenbe, French-Turkish Computer Scientist and Member of several National Academies of Science and Engineering
* Aly Atef, Egyptian famous computer scientist
# Oligarch (Kingdom of Hungary)

An oligarch or provincial lord (Hungarian: tartományúr) was a powerful lord who administered huge contiguous territories through usurping royal prerogatives in the Kingdom of Hungary in the late 13th and the early 14th centuries. The term petty king used to be used as well.

## List of oligarchs
### Interregnum (1301–1310)

* Amadeus Aba (Northeast Hungary)
* Stephen Ákos (Borsod)
* Stephen Babonić (Lower Slavonia)
* James Borsa (Transtisia)
* Matthew Csák (Northwest Hungary)
* Ugrin Csák (Upper Syrmia)
* Dujam Frankopan (Primorje)
* Ladislaus Kán (Transylvania)
* Henry Kőszegi (Southern Transdanubia and Upper Slavonia)
* Ivan Kőszegi (Western Transdanubia)
* Stephen Dragutin Nemanjić (Lower Syrmia)
* Nicholas Pok (Szamosköz)
* Dominic Rátót (Nógrád)
* Paul Šubić (Croatia and Bosnia)
* Theodore Vejtehi (Severin)
# House at 474 Ocean Avenue

House at 474 Ocean Avenue, also known as Luning House, is a historic home located at Lynbrook in Nassau County, New York. It was built about 1838 and is a two-story, frame Greek Revival style dwelling. It consists of a large three-bay center section with a two-story, two-bay wing. A single height porch runs the length of the house and has square support posts with distinctive scroll brackets. Also on the property is a contributing well house.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
# Duduzile

Duduzile (masculine: Duduzane) is a feminine given name, derived from the Nguni word duduza, meaning "to comfort." A shortened familiar version is Dudu. Notable people with the name include:
* Duduzile Manana, South African politician
* Duduzile Ngcobo (born 1967), South African actress
* Duduzile Sibiya (born 1957), South African politician
* Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla (born 1982), South African politician
# 2025 UEC European Track Championships – Men's individual pursuit

The men's individual pursuit competition at the 2025 UEC European Track Championships was held on 14 February 2025.

## Results
### Qualifying

The first two racers raced for gold, the third and fourth fastest rider raced for the bronze medal.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time | Behind | Notes |
| 1 | Josh Charlton | Great Britain | 3:59.997 | | QG |
| 2 | Ivo Oliveira | Portugal | 4:04.475 | +4.478 | QG |
| 3 | Michael Gill | Great Britain | 4:06.915 | +6.918 | QB |
| 4 | Renato Favero | Italy | 4:08.862 | +8.865 | QB |
| 5 | Lasse Norman Leth | Denmark | 4:09.800 | +9.803 | |
| 6 | Etienne Grimod | Italy | 4:09.838 | +9.841 | |
| 7 | Robin Juel Skivild | Denmark | 4:09.840 | +9.843 | |
| 8 | Bruno Keßler | Germany | 4:11.144 | +11.147 | |
| 9 | Noah Vandenbranden | Belgium | 4:12.230 | +12.233 | |
| 10 | Erwan Besnier | France | 4:13.458 | +13.461 | |
| 11 | Thibaut Bernard | Belgium | 4:16.236 | +16.239 | |
| 12 | Adam Woźniak | Poland | 4:17.299 | +17.302 | |
| 13 | Erik Martorell | Spain | 4:17.380 | +17.383 | |
| 14 | Noah Bögli | Switzerland | 4:17.415 | +17.418 | |
| 15 | Kacper Majewski | Poland | 4:17.498 | +17.501 | |
| 16 | Camille Charret | France | 4:17.950 | +17.953 | |
| 17 | Luca Bühlmann | Switzerland | 4:19.437 | +19.440 | |
| 18 | Leon Arenz | Germany | 4:20.919 | +20.922 | |
| 19 | Joan Martí Bennassar | Spain | 4:22.470 | +22.473 | |
| 20 | Vitālijs Korņilovs | Latvia | 4:31.427 | +31.430 | |

### Finals

| Rank | Name | Nation | Time | Behind |
| Gold medal final ||||||
| | Josh Charlton | Great Britain | 4:02.882 | |
| | Ivo Oliveira | Portugal | 4:03.631 | +0.749 |
| Bronze medal final ||||||
| | Michael Gill | Great Britain | 4:09.859 | |
| 4 | Renato Favero | Italy | 4:12.169 | +2.310 |
# Suluk, Syria

Suluk (Arabic: سلوك, romanized: Sulūk) is a town within the Tell Abyad District of Raqqa Governorate in Syria. Suluk is close to the border with Turkey. The population of the town is predominantly Arab.

## History

In the early 13th century, during Ayyubid rule, the medieval geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi noted that Suluk was "a town of Syria".

### Syrian civil war

In June 2015, Suluk was taken over by the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in the course of their Tell Abyad offensive. Kurdish YPG forces were accused of expelling the entire population of the town (35,000 people), although they allowed only 10,000 of them to return, Furthermore, Amnesty International accused YPG of "razing" nearby villages, and "ethnic cleansing" of Arabs. They have denied the Amnesty report, calling it "biased, unprofessional and politicized" as it made no mention of the human rights violations by the Islamic State.
On 27 February 2016, fighters of the Islamic State attacked Suluk, the village Hammam at‑Turkuman and Tall Abyad. At this point, the towns were not directly at the front to ISIL-held territory anymore and the jihadists were able to expel the Kurdish People's Protection Units in this surprise attack from Suluk and Hammam at-Turkuman. Kurdish security forces soon were able to encircle the attackers and recaptured the villages on March 3, 2016. One day before the recapture, IS jihadists executed 15 civilians with the charge of "Refusing to corporate with IS and helping the YPG earlier".
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 70 fighters from the Islamic State and 20 Kurdish fighters were killed during the clashes.
A spokesman of the YPG, Redur Xelil, accused Turkey of supporting the terrorists because some of them infiltrated from the Turkish border to the north. Turkey denied the accusations.
During the Turkish offensive in north-east Syria in October 2019, Suluk was captured by Turkey and the Syrian National Army.

## Climate

Climate data for Suluk :
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 10.7 (51.3) | 13.1 (55.6) | 17.7 (63.9) | 23.4 (74.1) | 29.9 (85.8) | 35.7 (96.3) | 39.2 (102.6) | 38.8 (101.8) | 34.6 (94.3) | 27.7 (81.9) | 19.5 (67.1) | 12.5 (54.5) | 25.2 (77.4) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 1.2 (34.2) | 2.2 (36.0) | 5.1 (41.2) | 9.1 (48.4) | 13.8 (56.8) | 18.3 (64.9) | 21.1 (70.0) | 20.6 (69.1) | 16.1 (61.0) | 11.1 (52.0) | 5.7 (42.3) | 2.6 (36.7) | 10.6 (51.1) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 60 (2.4) | 46 (1.8) | 44 (1.7) | 35 (1.4) | 25 (1.0) | 3 (0.1) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (0.0) | 17 (0.7) | 31 (1.2) | 52 (2.0) | 314 (12.3) |
| Source: Climate-Data ||||||||||||||
# Chiyo Nakamura

Chiyo Nakamura (Japanese: 中村チヨ, romanized: Nakamura Chiyo; 1906–1969) was a Japanese Nivkh shaman, craftswoman, performer, and writer of Nivkh folklore and songs.

## Early life

In September 1905, the year before Chiyo was born, Sakhalin island below the 50° north parallel became Japanese territory under the Treaty of Portsmouth.
In 1906, Chiyo was born in Shisuka, Karafuto Prefecture, Japan. Her father was a Santan person (Japanese: 山丹), born on Sakhalin and raised on the Asian mainland, who came to Shisuka in his 20s and married a Nivkh woman. Chiyo was named "Cho" (Japanese: チョ) when she was born; she was a member of the Nivkh Kenvng (Japanese: ケヌブン, romanized: Kenubun) clan. Chiyo also used the normative kanji spelling in Japanese: 千代 for her personal name, as well as the longer "Chiyoko" (Japanese: 千代子).
When Chiyo was born in 1906, the southern Poronay basin including Shisuka was a Nivkh enclave among settlements of Sakhalin Ainu and Oroks.

## Evacuation to Hokkaido

In August 1945, when Chiyo was about 39 years old, the Soviet Union invaded Karafuto and quickly conquered it. Between 1946 and 1948, Japanese inhabitants of Sakhalin (including Japanized indigenous people) who had not already been evacuated during World War II were deported to Japan under an agreement between the Soviet Union and the United States.
In 1947, Chiyo and her family, including two of her children, relocated from Otasu in Sakhalin to Hokkaido. First, they lived in Iwanai for about two years; then they moved to Abashiri, where several other Nivkh and Orok families also settled. Chiyo also had a third child; she hoped to be reunited her eldest son Igrain (イガライヌ; Japanese: 一郎, romanized: Ichirō) in Hokkaido, but he was exiled to Siberia and died in a Soviet camp.
In 1969, Chiyo died in Abashiri.

## Cultural works

In Abashiri, Chiyo led an amateur performance ensemble. Preserved at the Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples are photos of Chiyo's performances, along with her three wooden idols, shaman's belt, rattle, and tambourine beater. Her other artifacts, including handmade traditional fur clothing, have been displayed at the Hokkaido University Botanical Gardens Museum and at the Hokkaido Island Historical Museum. Chiyo also collaborated on linguistic research with Yonemura Kioe, director of the Abashiri City Local Museum.
Chiyo's main written work is "Gilyak Folklore" (Japanese: ギリヤークの昔話) (1992), posthumously published, which she dictated to Robert Austerlitz between 1956 and 1958. Her other dictations published in 1992 include "The Cowardly Santan," "Old Ainu Stories," two stories about an Ainu fox, "The Alcohol-Loving Ainu God," two stories about the Orok, and two stories about war between the Ainu and Orok.
# Suzanne Camelia-Römer

Susanne Camelia-Römer, officially Suzy F.C. Camelia-Römer (born 4 January 1959) is a Curaçao politician of the National People's Party (PNP) and a lawyer. She served two times as Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles in 25 November 1993 – 28 December 1993 (1st time ad interim) and 14 May 1998 – 8 November 1999 (2nd time). She was also Minister of Justice from 1992–1994 and Minister of National Recovery and Economic Affairs from 1999–2002. As of March 2016 she is the Minister for Traffic, Transport and Urban Planning of Curaçao. She kept this position in the Hensley Koeiman cabinet which was installed on 23 December 2016.
# Gavin Kliger

Gavin Kliger is an American software engineer, currently serving as special adviser to the director for information technology of the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and within the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

## Education and career

Kliger attended UC Berkeley, graduating in 2020. Kliger's LinkedIn lists him as later working as a software engineer at LinkedIn and Databricks.
On February 2, 2025, Wired reported Kliger was among a group of 19- to 24-year-old engineers to be appointed to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The same day, Kliger posted an article in his online newsletter titled "Why DOGE: Why I gave up a seven-figure salary to save America".
Before 1:00 AM on February 3, 2025, Kliger sent an email from a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) email address to all USAID employees ordering them to work from home, and not to come into the office. Kliger has no prior experience at the agency or in government. The move was criticized by USAID personnel and Democratic politicians, including Senator Chris Coons, who described the Trump administration as "trying to gut the agency altogether."
In the context of his employment by the government concerns have been raised about his amplification of extremist viewpoints including reposting content from white supremacist Nick Fuentes and misogynistic social media influencer Andrew Tate.
# Pijnacker

Pijnacker (Dutch pronunciation:) is a town in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is bordered by Zoetermeer to the north, by Nootdorp to the northwest, by Delfgauw to the southwest, by Rotterdam (specifically Overschie) to the south and by Berkel en Rodenrijs to the east.
Pijnacker was a separate municipality until 2002, when it merged with Nootdorp to form Pijnacker-Nootdorp, which is a part of Greater The Hague. However, Pijnacker does not border The Hague (Nootdorp does), and it does border Rotterdam especially since Nootdorp and Pijnacker, while technically contiguous, have about 2 km of nature between them. While it may then seem strange that the two towns would want to merge, they did so preemptively to avoid potential annexing by the cities.
Pijnacker has two stops on the Randstadrail E-lijn between The Hague and Rotterdam: Pijnacker Centrum and Pijnacker-Zuid.
In and around Pijnacker there are big and attractive nature areas, of which one is the Ackerdijkse Plassen, one of the most important bird areas in the Netherlands.

## Boroughs

* Centrum (Centre)
* Koningshof
* Noord (North)
* Klapwijk
* Tolhek
* Keijzershof
* Ackerswoude (partly build, not completed yet)
* Tuindershof (Hasn't been built yet)

## Significant structures

One of the dominant buildings in Pijnacker is H. Joannes de Dooper Catholic church on the main street of town, the Oostlaan. It is registered landmark, number 525173. Though once it was a parish with a full-time priest, the Church of Saint John the Baptist (Pijnacker) is now joined with the Church of Saint Bartholomew (Nootdorp) to form one parish within the "Parish Federation of Oostland" within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rotterdam.

## Notable residents

* Mabel Wisse Smit
* Demi Vollering
* Kurt Wubben
# Maritime history of Colonial America

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The history of ships in North America and the maritime history of Colonial America has a strong foundation.

## Description

The beginnings go back to at least as far as the first European contact with the Americas, when Leif Erikson established a short-lived settlement called Vinland in present-day Newfoundland. The existence of an actual shipping industry gradually came into being. Christopher Columbus was the first European to set foot on what would one day become U.S. territory when he came to Puerto Rico in 1493. In the 15th century, Europeans brought horses, cattle and hogs to the Americas.
Spanish explorers also reached the present-day United States. The first confirmed landing in the continental US was by a Spaniard, Juan Ponce de León, who landed in 1513 at a lush shore he christened La Florida. The Spanish sent some settlers, creating the first permanent European settlement in the continental United States at St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565 and later Santa Fe, New Mexico, San Antonio, Tucson, San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Most Spanish settlements were along the California coast or the Santa Fe River in New Mexico.
The first successful English colony was established in 1607, on the James River at Jamestown. It languished for decades until a new wave of settlers arrived in the late 17th century and set up commercial agriculture based on tobacco.
The connection between the American colonies and Europe, with shipping as its cornerstone, would continue to grow unhindered for almost two hundred years.
# Rudolf Schuster

Rudolf Schuster (born 4 January 1934) is a Slovak politician, who served as the second president of Slovakia from 1999 to 2004. He was elected on 29 May 1999 and inaugurated on 15 June. In the presidential elections of April 2004, in which he sought re-election, Schuster was defeated. He received only 7.4% of the vote, with three other candidates (more specifically Ivan Gašparovič, Vladimír Mečiar, and Eduard Kukan) receiving more than that. He was succeeded by Ivan Gašparovič.

## Life and career

Schuster was born in Košice. From 1964 to 1990, he was a member of the Communist Party of Slovakia. Before becoming president, he was Mayor (Slovak: primátor) of Košice in 1983–1986 and 1994–1999 respectively. He was also the last Communist president of the Slovak National Council (1989–1990), Ambassador of Czechoslovakia to Canada (1990–1992) and a leader of the Party of Civic Understanding (SOP – Strana občianskeho porozumenia, 1998–1999).
Schuster speaks German (including Mantak dialect), Slovak, Czech, Russian, English and Hungarian fluently.
Schuster's father's family is of Carpathian German origin, while his mother's family is of Hungarian origin. Rudolf Schuster was married in 1961 to Irena Trojáková (died 2008) and he has two children (son Peter and daughter Ingrid) and two granddaughters. In his private life, he is a sports fan, a traveller and a writer. He is also a camera fan.
In 1998, Schuster founded the centre-left Party of Civic Understanding. In 1999 he received honorary citizenship from Miskolc, as recognition of the good cooperation between the city and Košice during his mayorship.
In 2004, Schuster sought re-election in the 2004 presidential election and received 7.4% of the votes.

## Writing

Rudolf Schuster is a member of the Association of Slovak Writers. He has been author of film scripts for various television films. His most famous works are detective novels and travelogues mainly about Brazil and Canada.