OpenLLM-France/wikimedia huggingface dataset:
# Dorkovo Museum

Dorkovo Museum in Dorkovo, Bulgaria, established in 2013 in a domed wooden structure, has a display of fossils collected from the Pliocene geological epoch of about five million years ago around the village of Dorkovo, a life-size model of a gomphothere, related to elephants, and a diorama.

## History

During 1983 a team of paleontologists from Bulgaria and France carried out excavations in and around Dorkovo in the Rhodope Mountains which unearthed fossils of 5-million-year-old prehistoric mammals of the Pliocene geological epoch. The study was supported by the National Museum of Natural History. The museum was created only 30 years later at the site by the National Museum of Natural History, artists and those associated with the excavations at Dorkovo to display the fossils, a gomphothere model and other animal sculptures, and a diorama based on the Pliocene animals and forest. Funding for the museum was provided under the regional development of the European Union (EU).
The museum was inaugurated on 19 September 2013 by Rosen Plevneliev, President of Bulgaria. It is located 150 kilometres (93 mi) from Sofia in the village of Dorkovo, Rakitovo Municipality between the town of Velingrad and the Batak Reservoir, in the Pazardzhik region.

## Features

The museum, set amidst the forest, showcases of some of the fossil findings of the excavations, which revealed mostly gomphotheres (extinct elephant relatives). It is housed in a domed structure made of wood both on the inner and outer surfaces, which measures 300 square metres (3,200 sq ft). Apart from the fossils collected from the field, the major attraction in the museum is model of a gomphothere of the species of Anancus arvernensis, which was made by the Simeon Stoilov Studio. It measures 4 metres (13 ft) in height. The diorama on the interior wooden walls of the museum measures 6 metres (20 ft) and was painted there by Velizar Simeonovski, the "painter-animalist" of the Field Museum, Chicago, and shows examples not only of proboscideans but also monkeys, Hipparion horses, and forests.

## Gallery

* Anancus arvernensis
* Fossil remains
* A diorama
# Ameselum

Ameselum (Greek: Ἀμήσελον) was an ancient town of Sicily, on the road between Centuripae (modern Centuripe) and Agyrium (modern Agira). The town was taken in 269 BCE by the forces of Hiero II of Syracusae.
# Valenzuela Gateway Complex

The Valenzuela Gateway Complex, also known as the Valenzuela Gateway Complex Terminal or Valenzuela Gateway Complex (VGC) Central Integrated Terminal, is an inter-regional intermodal transit hub in Valenzuela, Metro Manila, Philippines. It is planned to be one of three provincial bus stations serving Metro Manila and the main terminal for province-bound and incoming buses from the Central and Northern Luzon regions.

## Location

The Valenzuela Gateway Complex Terminal is located on a 5-hectare (12-acre) site in Paso de Blas, east-central Valenzuela. It is situated alongside the East Service Road of the North Luzon Expressway, at its junction with Paso de Blas Road at the Paso de Blas (Valenzuela City) Interchange, and opposite Puregold Paso de Blas. Nearby landmarks include the Malinta Market and the 60-hectare (150-acre) former Plastic City manufacturing estate, which is being redeveloped by Ayala Land into a mixed-use urban complex.

## History

The Valenzuela terminal started its interim operation on August 15, 2018. A provincial bus ban on EDSA was announced earlier in the month, with the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) announcing that nine bus companies serving the provinces of Bataan, Bulacan, Pampanga, Zambales, Pangasinan, Baguio, Ilocos Sur, and Cagayan Valley, along with 1,954 buses, would be accommodated at the new terminal. The terminal is part of a traffic reduction plan by the MMDA, which aims to free up the busy highway of approximately 2,276 northbound provincial buses. The plan also includes the construction of two other provincial bus terminals in the southern part of the region for southbound provincial buses and the eventual closure of all 46 bus terminals along EDSA.
The ban on provincial buses along EDSA was deferred until the completion of certain facilities and infrastructure at the Valenzuela terminal. The House of Representatives of the Philippines also expressed its concern over the designation of the Valenzuela terminal as Metro Manila's northern terminal, citing its limited space, lack of infrastructure, and narrow streets, among other issues.
In March 2019, the MMDA announced the relocation of all provincial bus operators to the three designated provincial bus terminals, including Valenzuela, and the permanent closure of all EDSA bus terminals starting in June 2019.

## Services

VGC services the following routes:

### Buses

* Mega Manila Consortium Corporation operates three bus routes of the rationalized bus transit, going to and from Alabang, Araneta City Cubao, and PITX, respectively.
* Buses passing through Bagong Silang, Monumento, Novaliches, Sapang Palay, and Santa Cruz also stop at this terminal.

### Jeepneys

* Modern and traditional jeepneys operate routes to and from Monumento, Bocaue, Marilao, and Santa Maria (Caypombo).
# Mount Pleasant Cemetery (Seattle)

Mount Pleasant Cemetery is a cemetery in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood, in the U.S. state of Washington. It opened in 1879.
The cemetery contains the remains of the unknown dead of the 1906 SS Valencia disaster, as well as many early Seattle pioneers, and Filipino-American author and activist Carlos Bulosan. A memorial to the dead of the 1916 Everett Massacre is located in the northeast section of the cemetery. During World War II, the cemetery served as a site for anti-aircraft defenses.
# Sapna

Sapna (Serbian Cyrillic: Сапна) is a town and municipality located in Tuzla Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

## History

People have lived in the Sapna region since the earliest days. In the Middle Ages, Sapna was an important transit route between the then towns of Zvornik and Teočak. When the Ottoman Turks came, the area was placed under the administrative unit called the Zvornik Sandžak, which was created between 1478 and 1483. During Austro-Hungarian rule this was part of the Zvornik Kotar, and in early Yugoslavia it was part of the Zvornik Srez.
Before the Bosnian War, Sapna was part of the Zvornik municipality. But, as a result of the Dayton Agreement, the Zvornik municipality was divided between the two entities, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska, so Sapna became a municipality itself, comprising the portion of Zvornik municipality that remained in the Federation of BiH. Sapna officially became a municipality on March 8, 1998.

## Settlements

The other villages within Sapna Municipality are Baljkovica, Goduš, Hanđelići, Kobilići, Kovačevići, Međeđa, Nezuk, Rastošnica, Selimovići, Skakovica, Vitinica and Zaseok.

## Demographics

Before the war, Sapna had a population of 13,500, with a density of 114,4 people per km$^2$. Both the town and municipality also have the highest percentage of Bosniaks relative to population in all of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

### Town of Sapna, census 2013

total: 2,027
* Bosniaks — 2,023 (99.8%)
* Serbs — 0 (0.0%)
* Croats — 0 (0.0%)
* others and unknown — 4 (0.2%)

### Municipality of Sapna, 2013

total: 11,178
* Bosniaks — 10,827 (96.9%)
* Serbs — 234 (0.0%)
* Croats — 3 (0.0%)
* others and unknown — 114 (1.0%)
# Thomas Liene Ness

Thomas Liene Ness (born 5 October 1998) is a Norwegian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Arendal.

## Career

Ness started his career with Jerv. Between 2018 and 2020, he played college soccer in the US for UCF Knights. On 9 April 2022, he made his Eliteserien debut for Jerv in a 4–0 loss against Lillestrøm.
On 18 December 2023, Arendal announced the signing of Liene Ness.
# WWRB

35°37′22″N 86°00′51″W﻿ / ﻿35.622794°N 86.014127°W﻿ / 35.622794; -86.014127
WWRB was a shortwave international broadcasting station known as both "World Wide Religious Broadcasting" and (to a lesser extent) "World Wide Radio Broadcasting" broadcasting from Morrison, Tennessee. It was a subsidiary of Airline Transport Communications Incorporated. The station featured primarily Christian religious programming.
WWRB quietly ceased shortwave broadcasting at the end of 2020 and continued operating solely as an Internet station. Owner David Frantz died January 2, 2022.

## Transmitters

WWRB uses four 100 kW to 150 kW transmitters and six antennas to provide their services to regions of the world specifically requested by broadcasters. WWRB operated 24 hours a day, seven days a week, changing frequencies as shortwave propagation changes to maintain their target reception areas. Their main targeted services are titled Global-I through Global-IV.
* Global-I served Europe, Middle East, Africa
* Global-II served Australia and was leased part-time by Churches of Christ in 2011.
* Global-III served Europe, Middle East, Northern Africa, Canada, and Asia and was leased full-time by Overcomer Ministry
* Global-IV served Canada, and Asia and was leased full-time by Overcomer Ministry for a time. Was leased to a propagation study as of 2012.

## Historical Frequencies

* Global-I: 2012: 3.215 and 3.195 MHz, 45° Dual feed Rhombic antenna
* Global-II: 2012: 5.05 MHz, 150° Dual feed wide spaced Yagi antenna
* Global-III: 2012: 9.285 and 3.185 MHz, 340° Dual feed rhombic antenna
* Global-IV: 2012: Leased for a shortwave propagation study
WWRB was last listed on the FCC frequency schedule in northern Summer 2021: 5.05 MHz from 2200-1300 UTC. In February 2023, the 5.05 frequency was reallocated to WRMI, where it is used by Ted Randall (former engineer of 5.085 WTWW) for his "WRMI Legends" oldies service. 3.215 has since been reallocated to WWCR.
# Oli Wilson

Oli Wilson is a New Zealand ethnomusicologist and a member of The Chills. He was recently (2025) beaten at golf on the Wainuiamata Course - 99 to 97 by Mr David Boogie.

## Academic career

Wilson was raised in Palmerston North, the son of deer researcher Peter Wilson, who retired as professor emeritus at Massey University. He graduated with a Bachelor of Music from the University of Otago in 2007, and completed his PhD there in 2012 with a thesis entitled Ples and the production of Lokal music in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. His PhD work while based at the University of Papua New Guinea studied the production of pop music (known as Lokal music) in Port Moresby.
After working as a lecturer in Otago University's Music Department, Wilson joined Massey University's College of Creative Arts in 2015 as programme leader of the new Wellington-based commercial music degree. He is currently an Associate Professor and Director of Research at the College of Creative Arts.

## Research

One of Wilson's research areas is the transformation of the music industry in Papua New Guinea with the increasing access to recording technology. He studies the way the music industry operates, both in New Zealand and overseas, from the viewpoint of a practising musician and an ethnographer.
Wilson is currently the co-editor of the journal Perfect Beat: The Asia Pacific Journal of Contemporary Music and Popular Culture.

## Music

A classically trained pianist, Wilson was a founder member of the four-piece Dunedin self-described "doom pop" band Knives at Noon, and played keyboards on their EP Glitter Guts.
Since 2010 Wilson has been a keyboard player for the iconic Dunedin band The Chills. He toured Australia and New Zealand with both Knives at Noon and The Chills, and has toured Europe, Britain, and the US with the latter.

## Selected research

* Wilson, Oli (2013). "Popular Music as Local Culture: An Ethnographic Study of the Album Matha Wa! by the Band Paramana Strangers from Papua New Guinea". Musicology Australia. 35 (2): 253–267. doi:10.1080/08145857.2013.844516. S2CID 191333378.
* Wilson, O. R.; Holland, M. (April 2015). "Technostalgia in new recording projects by the 1980s 'Dunedin Sound' band The Chills". Journal on the Art of Record Production. 9. ISSN 1754-9892.
* Wilson, Oli (5 September 2014). "Selling Lokal Music: A Comparison of the Content and Promotion of Two Locally Recorded and Released Albums in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea". Journal of World Popular Music. 1 (1): 51–71. doi:10.1558/jwpm.v1i1.51. ISSN 2052-4919.
# Czechoslovak Women's Basketball Championship

The Czechoslovak Women's Basketball Championship was the premier women's basketball league in former Czechoslovakia. Founded in 1933, it was disestablished 60 years later following the country's dissolution and replaced by the Czech League and the Slovak Extraliga replacing it. Sparta Praha was the most successful team in the championship with 23 titles between 1948 and 1987, followed by Slovan Orbis and Slavia VŠ Praha with nine. While the championship was mostly dominated by Czech teams, its four last editions were won by
Slovakia's ŠKP Banská Bystrica and Ružomberok.
# Tommy Runar

Tommy Runar (born 25 April 1982) is a retired Norwegian football goalkeeper. Runar played for Jerv, joining Start in 2004. He spent the majority of the 2008 season on loan at Fredrikstad, serving as cover for Lasse Staw.
He retired after the 2012 season, and has since worked as goalkeeping coach for FK Jerv and Amazon Grimstad.

## Career statistics

| Club | Season | League | League | Cup | Cup |
| Club | Season | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Start | 2004 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Start | 2005 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Start | 2006 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Start | 2007 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Start | 2008 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FFK | 2008 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Start | 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Career total | Career total | 12 | 0 | 8 | 0 |

## Honours
### Club

Fredrikstad
* Tippeligaen:
** Runner-up (1): 2008

## Personal life

He is member of an Humanity Organisation Start Life Support and founded in Mbale, Uganda, a football camp, along with Kaspar Strømme.
# Synergie Monegasque

Synergie Monégasque (SM) is a Monegasque political association that runs for general elections as a part of conservative alliance Horizon Monaco.

## History and Elections

Monegasque Synergy was established in 2005.
In 2008, it was running for elections in a union of three independent movements along with Promotion of the Monegasque Family (PFM) and Association of Non-Attached Monegasques, however they didn't get any seat in the National Council.
In 2013, Monegasque Synergy joined newly formed alliance Horizon Monaco (HM) composed of such political associations as Rally and Issues (Rassemblementet Enjeux pour Monaco), Union for the Principality (Union pour la Principauté) and some independent candidates.
In 2018, Monegasque Synergy again ran for elections as a part of HM and received 3 seats in the Parliament.

## Overview

As stated on the association's official website, Monegasque Synergy aims to federate Monegasques around the notions of civic spirit, exemplarity, participation and involvement, as well as calls on Monegasque people's involvement in order to meet the expectations of Monegasque Sovereign and thus build together a model of society.
According to the declaration of the Monegasque Synergy the purpose of association is to “promote the ideals of ethics and progress, with respect for Monegasque institutions, in total loyalty to the person of the Sovereign Prince and to his family, by building a true democracy of responsibility in political life, economic and social of the Principality, to contribute to the defense of the rights of the nationals and all those which live on the Monegasque territory".
# A with breve (Cyrillic)

The Cyrillic script :
Slavic letters :
| А | А̀ | А̂ | А̄ | Ӑ | Ӓ | Б | В |
| Г | Ґ | Д | Ђ | Ѓ | Е | Ѐ | Е̂ |
| Е̄ | Ё | Є | Є́ | Ж | З | З́ | Ѕ |
| И | І | І́ | Ї | Ꙇ | Ѝ | И̂ | Ӣ |
| Й | Ӥ | Ј | К | Л | Љ | М | Н |
| Њ | О | О̀ | О̂ | О̄ | Ӧ | П | Р |
| С | С́ | Т | Ћ | Ќ | У | У̀ | У̂ |
| Ӯ | Ў | Ӱ | Ф | Х | Ц | Ч | Џ |
| Ш | Щ | Ꙏ | Ъ | Ъ̀ | Ы | Ь | Ѣ |
| Э | Ю | Ю̀ | Я | Я̀ | ʼ | ˮ | |
Non-Slavic letters :
| А̊ | А̃ | Ӓ̄ | Ӕ | Ә | Ә́ | Ә̃ | Ӛ |
| В̌ | Ԝ | Г̑ | Г̇ | Г̣ | Г̌ | Г̂ | Г̆ |
| Г̈ | Г̊ | Ҕ | Ғ | | Ӻ | Ғ̌ | Ғ̊ |
| Ӷ | Г̡ | Д́ | Д̌ | Д̈ | Д̣ | Д̆ | Ӗ |
| Е̃ | Ё̄ | Є̈ | Ԑ | Ԑ̈ | Җ | Ӝ | Ӂ |
| Ж̣ | Ҙ | Ӟ | З̌ | З̣ | З̆ | Ӡ | И̃ |
| И̇ | Ҋ | Қ | Ӄ | Ҡ | Ҟ | Ҝ | К̣ |
| К̊ | Қ̊ | Ԛ | ᴫ | Л́ | Ӆ | Ԯ | Ԓ |
| Л̈ | Ӎ | ᵸ | Н́ | Ӊ | Ң | Ԩ | Ӈ |
| Ҥ | О̆ | О̃ | Ӧ̄ | Ө | Ө̄ | Ө́ | Ө̆ |
| Ӫ | Ԥ | П̈ | Р̌ | Ҏ | С̌ | Ҫ | С̣ |
| С̱ | Т́ | Т̈ | Т̌ | Т̇ | Т̣ | Ҭ | Ᲊ |
| У̃ | У̌ | Ӳ | У̊ | Ӱ̄ | Ұ | Ү | Ү́ |
| Х̣ | Х̱ | Х̮ | Х̑ | Х̌ | Ҳ | Ӽ | Х̊ |
| Ӿ | Ӿ̊ | Һ | Һ̈ | Ԧ | Ц̌ | Ц̈ | Ҵ |
| Ҷ | Ҷ̣ | Ӵ | Ӌ | | Ҹ | Ч̇ | Ч̣ |
| Ҽ | Ҿ | Ш̣ | ꚜ | Ы̆ | Ы̄ | Ӹ | ꚝ |
| Ҍ | Ҩ | Э̆ | Э̄ | Э̇ | Ӭ | Ӭ́ | Ӭ̄ |
| Ю̆ | Ю̈ | Ю̄ | Я̆ | Я̄ | Я̈ | Ӏ | |
Archaic or unused letters :
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List of Cyrillic letters
List of Cyrillic multigraphs :
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A with breve (Ӑ ӑ; italics: Ӑ ӑ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It may be a homoglyph of the Latin letter A with breve (Ă ă Ă ă) unless the typeface distinguishes between the Latin and Cyrillic breve.
It is used in the Chuvash and Khanty alphabets. It appears in some Nenets dictionaries as well.
In certain orthographical varieties of Bulgarian, such as in the Primer with Various Instructions, this letter was used for the sound /ɤ/. In modern Bulgarian, this sound is represented by the letter Ъ.

## Usage

In Chuvash, ⟨ӑ⟩ represents the mid central vowel [ə], as ⟨a⟩ in word "era". It is always reduced and can occur stressed only in the first syllable of a polysyllabic word. The sound varies in its phonetic realization from a reduced /i/ or [ə] (like the pronunciation of ⟨a⟩ in English "sofa") to a labialized version of the ⟨a⟩ in English "all" (with rounded lips). It is sometimes so reduced as to sound coalesced with the following consonant as in сӑтел table, /stel/.

## Computing codes

Character information :
| Preview | Ӑ | Ӑ | ӑ | ӑ |
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE |
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1232 | U+04D0 | 1233 | U+04D1 |
| UTF-8 | 211 144 | D3 90 | 211 145 | D3 91 |
| Numeric character reference | &#1232; | &#x4D0; | &#1233; | &#x4D1; |
# Kurdish calendar

The Kurdish calendar (Kurdish: ڕۆژژمێری کوردی) is a calendar used in the Kurdistan region of Iraq alongside the Islamic and Gregorian calendar.

## History

The start of the calendar is marked by the Battle of Nineveh, a conquest of the Assyrians by the Medes in 612 BC.

### Months

The names for the months are often derived from society's events in that month.
| Order | Days | Native Script | Romanized | Likely Meaning |
| 1 | 31 | خاکەلێوە | Xakelêwe | |
| 2 | 31 | گوڵان | Gulan | Likely derived from the Kurdish word 'Gul' meaning flower. |
| 3 | 31 | زەردان | Zerdan / Cozerdan | |
| 4 | 31 | پووشپەڕ | Pûşperr | |
| 5 | 31 | گەلاوێژ | Gelawêj | Named after the Gelawêj star (Sirius) that becomes visible in this month. |
| 6 | 31 | خەرمانان | Xermanan | Likely derived from the word Kurdish word 'Xerm' meaning warm. |
| 7 | 30 | بەران | Beran / Rezber | |
| 8 | 30 | گێزان | Gêzan / Xezelwer | |
| 9 | 30 | ساران | Saran / Sermawez | |
| 10 | 30 | بەفران | Befran / Befranbar | Likely derived from the word 'Befr' meaning snow. |
| 11 | 30 | ڕێبەندان | Rêbendan | |
| 12 | 29/30 | ڕەشەمە | Reşeme | |
# Pat McNamara (speed skater)

Pat McNamara (December 2, 1925 – October 24, 2011) was an American speed skater. He competed at the 1952 and 1956 Winter Olympics.
# In Goa News

In Goa News is a Panaji based 24-hour Marathi news and entertainment television channel owned by Anil Lad. It is watched by approximately 200,000 viewers on Goa's cable network and through internet worldwide. It is the first channel from Goa to broadcast live television on the internet. It is also available on Jio TV.

## Programmes

* Ruchik
* Healthy Living
* Test Drive
* Women in Goa
* Smart Gruhini
* Aaji Baicha Batwa

## Crew

* Anil Lad
* Yati Lad
* Akshay Lad
* Shobha Lad
* Rakesh Agarwadekar
* Sharmila Mandrekar
* Prathamesh Murgod
* Leena Bandekar
* Sagar Mulvi
* Swati Volvoikar
* Digambar Bhagat
# Frederick Kempster

Frederick Kempster (1889–1918) was an English showman, renowned for his extreme height and also known as the English Giant or Blackburn Giant. He was 7 ft 9.3 in (2.37 m) tall, had an arm span of 8 ft 4.5 in (2.55 m) and weighed 170 kilograms (370 lb).
Between 1967 and 1993 Kempster appeared in the Guinness Book of Records as one of the tallest men in England.

## Early life

Kempster was born on 13 April 1889 in London to Joseph and Jane Kempster and was the second youngest of four sons and three daughters. His mother described him as "a jolly, laughing boy, of a very liberal and generous disposition".
On Christmas Day 1897, his father died and eight-year-old Kempster and his two-year-old brother George were placed by their mother in the care of a Barnardo's orphanage in September 1898. As a boy, he was smaller than average for his age, being just over 4ft tall at the age of 9 and a half.
Shipped off to Canada by the charity, Kempster returned to England on 12 November 1904, aged 15. He was by now suffering from a congenital knee problem leading to ligament problems and growth at the upper end of the tibia. This uncontrolled growth was to lead to his increasing height.
He lived with his sister, Ruth, in Wiltshire and by the age of 22 he was said to stand just less than 7 ft 4 in (2.24 m) and he started to get both public and press attention leading to him seeing his unusual height as a means to make a living. By 1913 he stood slightly over 7 ft 9.3 in (2.37 m).

## Circus life

In June 1911, Kempster joined the Astley and Co.'s American Circus at Chigwell in Essex as a professional giant. In March 1914, he went on a tour of Europe and differing sources alleged his height anywhere from 8 ft 4in to 8 ft 8in. Often the circus' management would exaggerate Kempster's height to entice more visitors.
At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Kempster was in Germany and was placed under house arrest in Berlin by the German authorities. He was released after a month and returned to Britain where he was interviewed by the London press. He visited his brother, George, who was recovering in hospital after being wounded in France in 1916. Kempster continued to tour around Britain in 1917 and contracted influenza in Blackburn.

## Death and burial

Kempster died, aged 29, in the Queen's Park Hospital, Blackburn in 1918 and was buried in a 9 ft (2.7 m) coffin in a 10 ft (3.0 m) grave in Blackburn Cemetery. Case notes from the hospital state Kempster was 7 ft 9.3 in (2.37 m) when he died. His grave stone also calls him 'The British Giant'.
# Dharti Pakar

Dharti Pakar (also spelt Dharti Pakad; transcribed as Dhartipakar and Dhartipakad as well) (etymology: Dharti = Earth; Pakar = Grasp: "One who clings on") is the nickname of at least three perennial candidates in India who contested unsuccessfully in several elections against top political leaders.
A satirical television show looking at the electoral politics was named Dharti Pakar after a man named Kaka Joginder Singh, whose nickname was Dharti Pakad. Mohan Lal, a cloth merchant from Bhopal, also had the nickname of Dharti Pakar for contesting elections against five different Prime Ministers and losing the deposit in all these elections. Nagarmal Bajoria is also known by the nickname of Dharti Pakar; he contested from over 278 constituencies and used donkeys for campaigning in an election. There are others who have contested several elections (see this for example) unsuccessfully, but not necessarily known by the sobriquet.
Dharti Pakar is also a popular nickname in office politics referring to individuals who have no case for meaningful existence in the prevailing environment.