OpenLLM-France/wikimedia huggingface dataset:
# Sergio Noja Noseda

Sergio Noja Noseda (7 July 1931 – 31 January 2008) was an Italian professor of Arabic language and literature and Sharia.

## Life

Noja Noseda was born in Pola, the son of Ugo Noja and Rina Noja Amati (also known as Amabile), descending from an ancient family of aristocratic origins coming from Spain in the 16th century which eventually settled in Italy. After High School, he attended the Bocconi University in Milan where he graduated in Economics. During this period he also served as president of the "Società della Taula" (The Bocconi University Senior Society). At the same time as he made a career in a private company, Philips Italia, which would carry him to the rank of director general, he always had a deep interest in oriental studies. He was directed and taught by Monsignor Giovanni Galbiati in the study of the Arabic language. Having been first appointed Professor of Islamic law at the University of Turin, he later became Professor of Arabic language and literature at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan where he maintained the chair in Arabic language and literature for more than twenty years.
He died in a car accident in 2008, aged 76.
# Giuseppe Valentini (albanologist)

Giuseppe Valentini (Albanian: Zef Valentini; July 1900 – 16 November 1979) was an Italian priest and albanologist of the 20th century.
He was born in 1900 in Padova where he studied theology as a Jesuit priest. In 1922 he moved to Albania as a missionary and actively participated in magazines such as Lajmetari i Zemres s'Jezu Krishtit, and Leka, which he directed since 1932. During World War II he became a professor of the Albanian language in the University of Palermo.
Valentini is the author of several important works on Albanian history, law, numismatics, and sacred art.
In 1940 Valentini was one of the founders and general secretary of the Royal Institute of the Albanian Studies, the predecessor institute of the Academy of Sciences of Albania.

## Sources

* 1 2 Robert Elsie (2010). Historical Dictionary of Albania. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 464. ISBN 978-0-8108-6188-6.
* ↑ Agency for Research, Technology and Innovation of Albania (2013). "Instituti i Studimeve Shqiptare". for Research, Technology and Innovation of Albania. Archived from the original on 2017-04-05. Retrieved 2013-10-12.
# Marco La Piana

Marco La Piana (1883–1958) was an Italian scholar of Arbëresh origin. La Piana gave his contribute through his studies on Albanian language and Arbëresh dialects.

## Biography

La Piana was born in Piana degli Albanesi (Albanian: Hora e Arbëreshëvet) near Palermo in Sicily. He is the author of a number of studies in Albanian philology, including Il catechismo albanese di Luca Matranga, 1592, da un manoscritto Vaticano (The Albanian Catechism of Lekë Matrënga, 1592, from a Vatican Manuscript), Grottaferrata 1912, Prolegomeni allo studio della linguistica albanese (Introduction to the Study of Albanian Linguistics), Palermo 1939, and Studi linguistici albanesi: i dialetti siculo-albanesi (Albanian Linguistic Studies: The Albanian Dialects of Sicily), Palermo 1949.
# Oreste Vaccari

Oreste Vaccari (1886 - 1980) was an Italian Orientalist and linguist.
He was a pupil at the Royal Oriental Institute of Naples during the second decade of the 20th century, where his instructors included Afevork Ghevre Jesus, who taught him Amharic and eventually became the chargé d'affaires of the Ethiopian delegation to Rome. After his studies, Vaccari obtained a posting in Japan as a correspondent for The Japan Times and Mail, and also taught foreign languages at the Athénée Français of Tokyo, being fluent in French and English besides his native Italian. In 1935, he married a Japanese woman, Enko Elisa Vaccari (1896-1983), who had graduated in English from Jissen Women's College, and would support him in his various linguistic projects during the rest of his career. Vaccari was responsible for translating Blattengeta Heruy Welde Sellase's Mahidere Birhan: Hagre Japan (The Document of Japan) (1934), a seminal work in Japanese-Ethiopian relations, from the original Amharic into English, which was then rendered into Japanese by his wife. During the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, Vaccari wrote defenses of Italy's actions.
Together with his wife, Vaccari prepared many books to help foreign learners of Japanese, and his most popular works included the New Up-to-date English-Japanese Conversation Dictionary and Vaccari's Concise English-Japanese Japanese-English Dictionary (all published by Maruzen). In 1972, the couple began work on Vaccari's Standard Japanese-English Dictionary (ヴァカーリスタンダード和英辞典 Vakāri Sutandādo Wa-Ei Jiten), considered to be the culmination of their lifetime's study. After Oreste began to suffer deteriorating health in 1975 (dying in 1980), the task of completing the Dictionary fell to Elisa. The Dictionary was finished in 1982, before Elisa's death the following year. Elisa's will provided that the dictionary be published with the money she bequeathed, and directed that the royalties be used to fund scholarships for foreign students of Japanese, in cooperation with the Jochi Corporation with which the Vaccaris had been closely associated. Sophia University of Tokyo finally published the Dictionary in 1990.
# Simon C. Dik

Simon Cornelis Dik (September 6, 1940 in Delden – March 1, 1995 in Holysloot) was a Dutch linguist, most famous for developing the theory of functional grammar. He occupied the chair of General Linguistics at University of Amsterdam between 1969 and 1994. During these 25 years he developed the theory of functional grammar, the foundations for which had been laid in his 1968 dissertation on coordination.
Two years before his death, Dik fell ill. As much as his illness allowed, he worked on developing his theory until his death. The second part of his work, The Theory of Functional Grammar, was published posthumously in 1997.

## Career

Simon Dik took a degree in classical language. His PhD dissertation was done under the supervision of Anton Reichling, and after it he became chair of general linguistics in Amsterdam at only 28 years old, which was a point of discussion. During the 70s and 80s he worked on formulating his theory of functional grammar, including various discussions with proponents of generative grammar which formed a big part of linguistics departments in the Netherlands. He was the supervisor of Kees Hengeveld who then became his closest collaborator, and helped part II of The theory of functional grammar materialize as Dik fell ill in 1992.

## Selected publications

* The Theory of Functional Grammar (Part I: The Structure of the clause), 1989 ISBN 90-6765-432-9
* The Theory of Functional Grammar (Part II: Complex and Derived Constructions), 1997 ISBN 3-11-015404-8 (pt. I); ISBN 3-11-015403-X (pt. I paperback); ISBN 3-11-015406-4 (pt. II); ISBN 3-11-015405-6 (pt. II paperback)
# F. B. J. Kuiper

Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus Kuiper (/ˈkaɪpər/ KY-pər, Dutch:; July 7, 1907 – November 14, 2003) was a Dutch scholar in Indology, and "one of the last great Indologists of the past century ... His very innovative work covers virtually all the fields of Indo-Iranian and Indo-Aryan philology, linguistics, mythology and theater, as well as Indo-European, Dravidian, Munda and Pan-Indian linguistics".

## Biography

Kuiper was born in The Hague, studied Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, and Indo-European linguistics at Leiden University, and in 1934 completed his doctoral thesis on the nasal presents in Sanskrit and other Indo-European languages. After give years as a high school teacher of Latin and Greek at the lyceum of Batavia (Jakarta), Indonesia, in 1939 he was appointed Professor of Sanskrit at Leiden University.
Kuiper was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences between 1937 and 1939, when he resigned. He became a member again in 1948. He was a Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion. He died in Zeist and was buried in the Rijnhof cemetery at Leiden.
# Hachinohe City Museum

Hachinohe City Museum (八戸市博物館, Hachinohe-shi Hakubutsukan) opened in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, Japan in 1983. The displays document the archaeology, history, and folkways of the area, the collection including an assemblage of artefacts excavated from the Tangotai Kofun Cluster that has been designated an Important Cultural Property.
# Barbara Benkstein

Barbara Benkstein (née Lenk; born 4 October 1982) is a German politician for the AfD and, since 2021 member of the Bundestag, the federal diet.

## Life and politics

Benkstein was born in 1982 in the East German city of Dresden.
From 2009 to 2012 she worked as a librarian in the library of the Nuremberg University of Music. From 2012 to 2015 she studied library and information management in Stuttgart (MA). From 2015 to 2020 she headed the library of the Dresden University of Fine Arts.
She was elected directly to the Bundestag in 2021. In December 2024, Benkstein announced that she isn't seeking re-election for Bundestag.
# Harutiun Svadjian

Harutiun Svadjian (1831 in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire – 1874 in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire), was an Armenian writer, political activist, teacher, and considered one of the founders of Armenian political humorist literature.
# Otgonbaataryn Sergelen

Otgonbaataryn Sergelen (born January 9, 1989) is a Mongolian professional basketball player. He currently plays for the SBL Khasyn Khuleguud Becks club of the Mongolian National Basketball Association (MNBA).
He went to the Mongolian Railway College in Ulaanbaatar.
Sergelen Otgonbaatar represented Mongolia's national basketball team at multiple occasions such as the 2011 East Asian Basketball Championships in China. Later, he represented Mongolia at the 2012 Asian Beach Games, also in China, where he led Mongolia to the bronze medal, the country’s first basketball medal in history. At the 2014 Asian Games in South Korea, he was Mongolia’s best passer as he averaged 2.8 assists per game.
# Mass media in Mauritania

The mass media in Mauritania is undergoing a shift into a "freer journalistic environment", while becoming increasingly open to private sector.
The laws governing media are the most liberal in the Sub-Saharan Africa region. As of 2010, Reporters Without Borders ranked Mauritania 99 out of 178 in its worldwide index of press freedom. In 2024, it was ranked 33rd out of 180 countries. Salka mint Sneid was a Mauritanian radio presenter, who was twice President of the Women's Network of Journalists of Mauritania.
A setback for press freedom occurred in 2009, when Hanevy Ould Dehah, editor of the website Taqadoumy, was imprisoned for several months, with an arbitrarily extended prison sentence, on the grounds of offending morals. Journalists may be banned in Mauritania for publishing work that undermines Islam.
After the 2008 military coup, the new regime clamped down on some radio and television journalists, while other media enjoyed freedom of speech, notably "Le Calame" and "La Tribune". Poorly paid journalists often edit work on demand by politicians or business interests. Self-censoring and lack of sources for articles are other problems marring balanced reporting in Mauritania.

## Print

Print media are enjoying a period of freedom under the current government, and freedom of speech is, for the most part, flourishing. The most popular print publications in Mauritania today are sensationalist newspapers called "peshmergas".
* Akhbar Nouakchott, daily, in Arabic
* Le Calame (Al-Qalam), weekly, in Arabic and French OCLC 887897109
* Chaab, daily, in Arabic
* L'Eveil-Hebdo, weekly
* Horizons, daily, in French
* Journal Officiel, Government journal of record OCLC 45951100
* Al-Mourabit
* Nouakchott Info, daily, in French
* Le Quotidien de Nouakchott
* Rajoul Echaree.

## Television

Mauritania's TV stations are state-owned. In 2010, however, the government passed legislation to open broadcasting to the private sector. Mauritania's public television station also has six regional stations that offer local programming.
* Television de Mauritanie (TVM), in Arabic and French
News agencies:
* Mauritanian News Agency (AMI), public agency
* Maurinews, privately owned.

## Radio

Mauritania's radio stations are state-owned. In 2010, however, the government passed legislation to open broadcasting to the private sector.
* Radio Mauritanie, in Arabic and French
* Radio France Internationale
* BBC World Service, FM 106.9 in Nouakchott and 102.4 in Nouadhibou
Agence Indépendante d'information ALAKHBAR. Première agence d’information indépendante en Mauritanie. Elle publie en Arabe et en Français.

## Telecommunications

Mauritel, which was privatized in 2001, maintains a monopoly over fixed-line service.
Mobile phone service is mostly restricted to urban areas, where 70 out of 100 people have mobile phones. Moroccan-owned Maroc Telecom operates in Mauritania, as well as Burkina Faso, Gabon and Mali.
# Rakhiv Raion

Rakhiv Raion (Ukrainian: Рахівський район, Romanian: Raionul Rahău, Hungarian: Rahói járás) is a raion in Zakarpattia Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is Rakhiv. Population: 82,034 (2022 estimate).
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Zakarpattia Oblast was reduced to six. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 92,543 (2020 est.).

## Administrative division

City: Rakhiv (Rahó, Rachov between 1920–1938 and 1944–1945)
Urban-type settlements:
* Kobyletska Poliana (Gyertyánliget, Poľana Kobilská)
* Velykyi Bychkiv (Nagybocskó, Veľký Bočkov)
* Yasinia (Kőrösmező, Jasyna)
Villages:
* Bilyn (Bilin, Bilina)
* Bila Tserkva (Tiszafejéregyház, Bilá Cirkev)
* Bohdan (Tiszabogdány, Bila Tisa)
* Breboia (Bértelek, Preboja)
* Chorna Tysa (Feketetisza, Mogelki (between 1920–1938), Černá Tisa (1944–1945))
* Dilove (Terebesfejérpatak, Trebušany)
* Dobrik (Dobrikdülő, Dobrik)
* Hoverla (Hóvár, Hoverla)
* Khmeliv (Komlós, Chmely)
* Kosivska Poliana (Kaszómező, Kosovská Poľana)
* Kostylivka (Barnabás, Berlebaš)
* Kruhlyi (Körtelep, Kruhlý)
* Kvasy (Tiszaborkút, Kvásy)
* Lazeshchyna (Mezőhát, Lazeština)
* Luhy (Láposmező, Luhy)
* Luh (Tizsalonka, Luh)
* Plaiuts (Plajuc, Gandal)
* Rosishka (Rászócska, Rosuška)
* Roztoky (Nyilas, Rostoka)
* Sitnyi (Szitni, Sitný)
* Serednie Vodiane (Középapsa, Stredná Apša)
* Stebnyi (Dombhát, Stebna)
* Strymba (Almáspatak, Strimba)
* Trostianets (Trosztyanec, Trsťenec)
* Verkhnie Vodiane (Felsőapsa, Vyšná Apša)
* Vilkhovatyi (Kiscserjés, Vilchovatý)
* Vodytsia (Kisapsa, Apšica)
* Vydrychka (Vidráspatak, Vydryčka)
Note: Hungarian name of places are given in parentheses at first. Slovakian name of ones were valid between 1920–1938 and 1944–1945.

## Demographics

In the 2001 census, the population of Rakhiv Raion was 90,900 which included:
* 83.8% Ukrainians (76,200)
* 3.2% Hungarians (2,900)
* 11.6% Romanians (10,500)
* 0.8% Russians (800)
According to the 2001 census, the majority of the Rahău district's population spoke Ukrainian (84.63%), with Romanian (11.59%) and Hungarian (2.48%) speakers in the minority.
# Newmarket North Mall

37°1′30.2″N 76°26′23″W﻿ / ﻿37.025056°N 76.43972°W﻿ / 37.025056; -76.43972 Newmarket North Mall was a mall located in Hampton, Virginia, that was developed by The Hahn Company and opened in 1975. Its three anchors were Leggett, Miller & Rhoads, and Sears.
In 1989, Goodman Segar Hogan bought the property and began a two-year, $9 million renovation and expansion project. In 1990, when the renovation was nearly complete, the mall was renamed "Newmarket Fair."
Due to Patrick Henry Mall's opening in bordering Newport News, Virginia, in 1987, Newmarket Fair languished, leaving Sears, which was among 235 properties Sears Holdings spun off in 2015 into Seritage Growth Properties, is the only remaining retail anchor tenant. However, on October 15, 2018, this location was announced as one of a number of stores closing as part of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing by Sears Holdings. The store ultimately closed on January 6, 2019. There is one remaining retail establishment left, Piccadilly Cafeteria, which is the only remaining Piccadilly in Virginia.
In 2000, Washington, D.C.–based companies NetCenter Partners and Hampton Partners purchased the 900,000-square-foot (84,000 m$^2$) property on 53 acres (210,000 m$^2$) and converted it into a business center with supporting retail, personal services and food service amenities called NetCenter.
# Jazzmeia Horn

Jazzmeia Horn (born 1991) is an American jazz singer and songwriter. She won the Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition in 2015.
Horn's repertoire includes jazz standards and covers of songs from other genres, including by artists such as Stevie Wonder. She has been compared to jazz vocalists such as Betty Carter, Sarah Vaughan, and Nancy Wilson.

## Early life

Horn was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, United States. She attended the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas.

## Music career

Horn moved to New York City in 2009. She attended the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. During her first semester in New York City, she formed a trio featuring Javier Santiago, Nadav Lachishe, and Cory Cox.
Her first live radio show was in the fall of 2009 on the Junior Mance WBGO radio show in Newark, New Jersey, and she has performed at The Apollo, Ginny's Supper Club, and the Metropolitan Room. Horn has since received many accolades from jazz critics.
In 2014, Horn toured internationally in England, France, Russia, South Africa, and Austria.
She was featured as one of the stars in South Australia's Generations in Jazz 2017, singing with artists such as James Morrison, Wycliffe Gordon, Gordon Goodwin and Ross Irwin among others.
In 2017, Horn also released her first album. Entitled A Social Call, it was ranked the number 1 album for 2017 on the JazzWeek website. The album tour took her throughout the U.S., Asia (Macau), and Europe (London, Paris, and Milan).
A Social Call earned Horn her first Grammy nomination in 2018. She performed at the 60th Grammy Award Ceremony on January 28, 2018.
Her follow-up album, Love & Liberation, earned Horn her second Grammy nomination in 2020 for best jazz vocal album.

## Discography

* A Social Call (2017), Prestige
* Love & Liberation (2019), Concord Jazz
* Dear Love with Her Noble Force (2021), Empress Legacy Records
* Messages (2024), Empress Legacy Records

## Awards

* 2008, 2009 – Downbeat Student Music Award's Recipient
* 2010 – Downbeat Vocal Jazz Soloist Winner
* 2012 – Winner of the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, Rising Star award
* 2013 – Winner of the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition
* 2015 – Winner of the Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition
* 2018 – DownBeat, Rising Star Female Vocalist Winner
# Grant Wehrli

Grant Wehrli is a former member of the Illinois House of Representatives. A Republican, he represented the 41st district from 2015 to 2021. The 41st district is located in the Naperville area. In the 2020 general election, Democratic candidate Janet Yang Rohr defeated Wehrli.

## Electoral history

Illinois 41st State House District General Election, 2014 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Grant Wehrli | 24,447 | 67.65 |
| | Democratic | Ed Agustin | 11,690 | 32.35 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 36,137 | 100.0 |
Illinois 41st State House District General Election, 2016 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Grant Wehrli (incumbent) | 42,654 | 100.0 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 42,654 | 100.0 |
Illinois 41st State House District General Election, 2018 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Grant Wehrli (incumbent) | 24,798 | 52.00 |
| | Democratic | Val Montgomery | 22,890 | 48.00 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 47,688 | 100.0 |
# Killer Kau

Sakhile Hlatshwayo (5 July 1998 – 9 August 2021), known professionally as Killer Kau, was a South African singer, dancer and record producer best known for his hit songs "Tholukuthi Hey" and "Amaneighbour"

## Early life and career

Killer Kau was born on 5 July 1998 in Soweto, South Africa. He grew up singing in church before he joined the Stay PC church choir, singing baritone. He also went on to join the African Heavenly Soul Singers male choir.
His music career began when he was still attending school and when he wrote his matric in 2017. He rose to fame when he posted a video singing his song "Tholukuthi Hey", which went viral and caught the attention of DJ Euphonik.

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award ceremony | Prize | Result |
| 2019 | Dance Music Awards South Africa | Best Amapiano Record | Won |
| 2021 | SA Amapiano Music Awards | Best Amapiano Collaboration | Won |

## Death

On 09th August 2021, Killer Kau died in a car crash on his way to a gig, alongside amapiano musician Mpura and the upcoming artists The Voice, Thando Tot and Thando Td. The car crash left only one female alive, the lady claimed to be one of Mpura and Killer Kau friends.
# Swan Lake (South Dakota)

Swan Lake, South Dakota is a small natural lake located north-northwest of the city of Viborg, South Dakota. The lake is surrounded by cabins and is used for recreational purposes.

## History

It is called Swan Lake because it is shaped like a swan. From the 1920s until the late 1970s there was a resort at Swan Lake on the south side of the lake. It included a pavilion that sold food and it had a band stand, dance floor and roller skating rink on the same floor. Cabins were rented out and bands performed at the pavilion. There was a bath house to rent swim suits, several boats for rent and bait could also be bought. The pavilion was built after World War I and owned by the Ebersen family. On 2/1/1921 the pavilion was purchased by Peter N. Hansen and his wife Claudine whose children Erna, Art, Lorna, and Earl grew up on the resort. They owned it until about 1946. Some other owners of the Swan Lake Resort over the years were a Bill and Mary Myreholt and Waldo and Marilyn Jorgensen. The cabins were sold to individuals during the 60's and 70's. The pavilion burned down around 1979. Today there is a place called the Shore Store on the east side of the lake. The shore store is still open, at 3 daily.
On June 7, 1965, an F4 tornado hit the north side, causing one fatality, with damage estimated between 500,000 and 5 million dollars.
# Halime Hatun

Halime Hatun (Ottoman Turkish: حلیمه خاتون, "the patient/gentle one") was, according to Ottoman folklore, the wife of Ertuğrul (13th century) and the mother of Osman I.

## Biography

Her origins are unknown. She is variously referred to as "Hayme Ana" in later legends, and is not mentioned at all in any historical Ottoman texts. Hayme Ana is also a traditional name of Ertuğrul's mother.
Historian Heath W. Lowry, among other Ottoman scholars, states that Osman I's mother is unknown. The burial place of Halime Hatun, which was added in the late 19th century by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, is located in the garden of the Ertuğrul Gazi's grave in Söğüt, present-day Turkey. According to historian Cemal Kafadar, the 19th century "recovery" and "rebuilding" of this tomb by the Sultan, with the name added later, was politically motivated. Additionally, according to author Turgut Güler, "Hayme Ana", buried in Domaniç, was most likely the wife of Ertuğrul.

## Gevaş tomb

A türbe (tomb) was built for a Halime Hatun in Gevaş in 1358. This Halime is said to have been the daughter of a Seljuk ruler, Melik Izeddin, and perhaps a member of the Karakoyunlu dynasty.

## In popular culture

Esra Bilgiç appeared as Halime Hatun in the Turkish TV series Diriliş: Ertuğrul. In the show, she is depicted as a Seljuk princess.