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Maryland Route 261
Maryland Route 261 (MD 261) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The highway runs 12.86 miles (20.70 km) from MD 263 near Parran north to MD 778 at Friendship. MD 261 connects Prince Frederick with and serves as the main street through the Chesapeake Bay beach communities of Chesapeake Beach and North Beach in northeastern Calvert County and Rose Haven in southeastern Anne Arundel County. The highway was constructed from north of its present terminus through Chesapeake Beach in the early 1930s. The road was built as MD 613 east from Friendship in the mid-1930s and extended east to Rose Haven in the late 1940s. MD 261 was extended south to its present terminus near Parran and north through North Beach to Rose Haven in the mid-1950s. MD 261 took over MD 613 west to Friendship in the early 1960s.

Maryland Route 263
Maryland Route 263 (MD 263) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland.  Known as Plum Point Road, the state highway runs 6.17 miles (9.93 km) from MD 2/MD 4 near Huntingtown east to a dead end at Plum Point.  MD 263 also connects Prince Frederick with the northeastern Calvert County towns of Chesapeake Beach and North Beach; access to the towns is provided through a connection with MD 261 at Parran.  The state highway was constructed in the late 1920s.
Lasithi Plateau
The Lasithi Plateau (Greek: Οροπέδιο Λασιθίου, Oropedio Lasithiou) is a high endorheic plateau, located in the Lasithi regional unit in eastern Crete, Greece. Since the 1997 Kapodistrias reform, it is a municipality whose seat is Tzermiado and the second biggest village is Agios Georgios. The municipality has an area of 129.9 km2
².

Endorheic basin
An endorheic basin (/ˌɛndoʊˈriː.ɪk/ EN-doh-REE-ik; also endoreic basin and endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water (such as rivers and oceans). Instead, the water drainage flows into permanent and seasonal lakes and swamps that equilibrate through evaporation. Endorheic basins are also called closed basins, terminal basins, and internal drainage systems.

Endorheic regions contrast with open lakes (exorheic regions), where surface waters eventually drain into the ocean. In general, water basins with subsurface outflows that lead to the ocean are not considered endorheic; but cryptorheic. Endorheic basins constitute local base levels, defining a limit of the erosion and deposition processes of nearby areas. Endorheic water bodies include the Caspian Sea, which is the world's largest inland body of water.
Glengarry Highland Games
The Glengarry Highland Games consist of a series of traditional Scottish competitions held annually in Maxville, Ontario, Canada, usually held the first weekend in August. The games span two days and with an attendance of over 20,000, are the largest Highland Games outside of Scotland. The Glengarry Highland Games are primarily intended to be a showcase of traditional Scottish heavy events, Highland Dance, pipe and drum competitions.

Highland dance
Highland dance or Highland dancing (Scottish Gaelic: dannsa Gàidhealach) is a style of competitive dancing developed in the Scottish Highlands in the 19th and 20th centuries, in the context of competitions at public events such as the Highland games. It was created from the Gaelic folk dance repertoire, but formalised with the conventions of ballet, and has been subject to influences from outside the Highlands. Highland dancing is often performed with the accompaniment of Highland bagpipe music, and dancers wear specialised shoes called ghillies or pumps. It is now seen at nearly every modern-day Highland games event.

Highland dance should not be confused with Scottish country dance, cèilidh dancing, or clog dancing, although they too may be performed at Highland games and like competitions.
Anthonie Beerstraaten
Anthonie Beerstraaten (4 February 1646, in Amsterdam – before 1665), is seen a Dutch Golden Age painter but he probably died at the age of six. Anthonie is not mentioned anywhere in the Amsterdam City Archives. His works are confused with those of Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten and Abraham Jansz. Beerstraaten, who were his father and his brother.

The RKD has registered two paintings signed Anthonie Beerstraten: one is a view of a southern seaport from 1664 (currently location Enkhuizen) and the other a view of a church in Aarlanderveen in the former city hall of Alphen aan den Rijn.

Based on these two paintings C. Hofstede de Groot an early Dutch art historian, suggested these paintings as by Anthonie if they were a poorer grade than ones already attributed to Abraham.

Abraham Beerstraaten
Abraham Beerstraaten (1643 in Amsterdam – 1666), was a Dutch Golden Age painter of winter scenes.

Abraham was baptized in the Noorderkerk on 4 October as the son of Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten. In 1662, together with his father, he traveled to Friesland, Groningen and many other places in Holland. He died before September 1666. Abraham Storck who cooperated with him, inherited his unfinished paintings of the town hall.

Almost all sources and literature give divergent and often contradictory information. His works are confused with those of his father and brother Anthonie Beerstraaten.
Vitaljina
Vitaljina is a village in the municipality of Konavle, in Dubrovnik-Neretva County, Croatia. Connected by the D516 state road, it is the southernmost settlement in Croatia, located between the Adriatic Sea and Montenegro. As of 2021, the population of Vitaljina was 153.

The village has faced attacks from numerous groups in its history. In the 16th century, raiders and pirates targeted the village because it was close to the Dalmatian coast. When the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) invaded Croatia during the Croatian War of Independence, Vitaljina was the first village attacked in Dubrovnik-Neretva County. The JNA occupied and destroyed the village during the war.

Konavle
Konavle (pronounced [kɔ̌naːv̞lɛ]) is a municipality and a small Dalmatian subregion located southeast of Dubrovnik, Croatia.

The region is administratively part of the Dubrovnik-Neretva County and the center of the municipality is Cavtat.
Blake Sennett
Blake Sennett (born September 22, 1973) is an American musician and actor who serves as the lead guitarist for indie rock band Rilo Kiley, as well as the lead singer/guitarist for his alt-rock side project the Elected. Until 2017 he led Night Terrors of 1927 with Jarrod Gorbel. In addition to being a musician, Sennett was a teen actor, appearing on the television shows Salute Your Shorts and Boy Meets World. As an actor, Sennett originally went by the names Blake Soper and Blake Swendson.

The Honorary Title
The Honorary Title was an American alternative indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York, United States.  The band released their first self-titled EP "The Honorary Title" in 2003 and then their first album in 2004, Anything Else but the Truth, which was later re-released with five additional songs and two bonus videos. In early 2007 the EP, "Untouched and Intact" arrived introducing four songs, three of which were re-released in the group's latest album, Scream & Light Up the Sky, which was released on August 28, 2007.
Amor a la Mexicana
Amor a la Mexicana (English: Mexican-style love) is the sixth studio album by Mexican singer Thalía, released on 24 June 1997, by EMI Latin. Recording took place in the Crescent Moon Studios, Miami, with producers Emilio Estefan, Kike Santander, Bernardo Ossa, Pablo Flores, Roberto Blades and Javier Garza.  It blends various genres incorporating elements cumbia, salsa, and balladry.

Upon its release, the album received positive reviews and entered the top 10 on both the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts. It was later certified two times platinum by RIAA. The lead single, "Amor a la Mexicana", was particularly praised for showcasing Thalía's artistic evolution. Worldwide it sold two million copies, making it one of Thalía's best-selling releases and one of the best-selling Latin albums of its era.

According to Luca Villa from Billboard, Thalía's album played a key role in popularizing and globalizing Mexican culture.

Amor a la Mexicana (song)
"Amor a la Mexicana" (Love, Mexican-Style) is a song by Mexican artist Thalía written by Mario Puparro and produced by Emilio Estefan Jr. It was the first single from her fifth studio album of the same title. It is recognized as one of Thalía's signature songs and it's one of the biggest classics of Mexican pop music. Cuca's Fiesta Mix was released in Europe as a single. The single was certified Gold in France for more 250,000 Copies.
Middle East South Asia Conference
The Middle East South Asia Conference (MESAC) is an athletic and academic conference consisting of six international schools in the Middle East and India. The conference was formed in 2010 for the purpose of creating a smaller, more intimate medium for athletic and academic competitions compared to the conference's predecessor, EMAC. Events are hosted at one of the conference's six schools in India, Oman, Qatar, and the UAE. From 2017 to 2019, students from the American School of Doha couldn't travel to the UAE, and as a result could not attend any of the events hosted in the UAE schools.

Eastern Mediterranean Activities Conference
The Eastern Mediterranean Activities Conference (EMAC) was a regional sports and activities league founded in 1978 that hosted tournaments in a wide range of athletic and academic activities. The conference consisted of mostly American schools, with some British schools, from mostly 11 nations - Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Syria, and the UAE. At its peak, 27 schools were a part of the conference. Occasionally, schools who were not EMAC members and even from other countries (like Saudi Arabia) were allowed to participate in certain tournaments as affiliates. EMAC ceased to exist as a conference in 2011.
Ragnhild Bente Andersen
Ragnhild Bente Andersen (born 31 March 1965) is a Norwegian orienteering competitor and World champion. She won a gold medal in relay at the 1987 World Orienteering Championships, together with Bratberg, Olsvik and Volden. She received a silver medal in relay in 1991, together with Sandstad, Arnesen and Bratberg.

Andersen won the overall Orienteering World Cup in 1990.

Brit Volden
Brit Volden (born 4 April 1960) is a Norwegian orienteering competitor. Her achievements include two individual silver medals, and one gold and one silver medal in the relay at the World Orienteering Championships. She also won the unofficial World Cup in 1983 and placed second overall in 1984 and 1988.

Winning two Nordic titles and five individual national titles, she was awarded the King's Cup trophy two times.
Lance Ratchford
Lance Ratchford (born October 5, 1988) is an American baseball coach and former infielder, who is the current head baseball coach of the Marist Red Foxes. He played college baseball at Mansfield University of Pennsylvania from 2008 to 2010 before transferring to Keystone College. He has also been the head coach of the SUNY Cobleskill Fighting Tigers (2019–2022). Under Ratchford the Fighting Tigers captured back to back Conference Division Titles in 2021 and 2022. After the 2022 season Ratchford was named North Atlantic Conference (NAC) Coach of the Year.

Marist Red Foxes baseball
The Marist Red Foxes baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of Marist University in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. The team is a member of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. The team plays its home games at James J. McCann Baseball Field in Poughkeepsie, New York. Baseball was added to the Marist Athletic Department in the fall of 1990 and their inaugural season was 1991. The Red Foxes are coached by Lance Ratchford.
Neerpelt
Neerpelt (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈneːrpɛlt] ⓘ, lit. 'Lower Pelt') is a town in Pelt and a former municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg. In 2018, the municipality had a total population of 17,174. The total area is 42.78 km2.

Effective 1 January 2019, Neerpelt and Overpelt were merged into the new municipality of Pelt.

Pelt (municipality)
Pelt (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈpɛlt] ⓘ) is a municipality in the Belgian province of Limburg. It arose on 1 January 2019 from the merging of the municipalities of Neerpelt and Overpelt.

After Neerpelt and Overpelt had previously agreed in principle to a merger, the new name of the municipality was announced on 4 November 2017 after a local referendum on the question. Out of the three possibilities Dommelpelt, Pelt or Pelten more than 74 percent of the votes eventually went to Pelt. The name goes back to the Romans, who called the sandy area Palethe, meaning boggy land.

The municipal councils definitively approved the merger on 18 December 2017. Neerpelt and Overpelt thus ceased to exist on 31 December 2018. A day later, on 1 January 2019, Pelt officially became a new municipality in Limburg.

The merged municipality has an area of 83.63 km2 and counts more than 32,000 inhabitants.
Narva culture
The Narva culture or eastern Baltic was a European Neolithic archaeological culture in present-day Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Kaliningrad Oblast (former East Prussia), and adjacent portions of Poland, Belarus and Russia. A successor of the Mesolithic Kunda culture, the Narva culture continued up to the start of the Bronze Age. The culture spanned from c. 5300 to 1750 BC. The technology was that of hunter-gatherers. The culture was named after the Narva River in Estonia.

Narva (river)
The Narva, formerly also Narwa or Narova, is a river in northeastern Estonia flowing 77 kilometres (48 mi) north from Lake Peipus to the Baltic Sea. It is the largest Estonian river by discharge and forms part of the Estonia–Russia border.

The river gives its name to the archaeological (Neolithic) Narva culture, as well as the city of Narva. Narva is the third most populous urban area in Estonia and faces the Russian town of Ivangorod across the river.

At the coast, the river passes part of the Estonian resort town of Narva-Jõesuu. Its mouth opens into WNW-facing Narva Bay of the Gulf of Finland. The Narva gives the second-greatest discharge into the Gulf of Finland after the Neva River.
Mônica da Silva
Mônica Pinto da Silva Driscoll, known professionally as Mônica da Silva, is a Brazilian-American singer-songwriter and musician, performing both as a solo artist and as a member of the indie duo Complicated Animals. Da Silva's sound can be classified as International Fusion, as it is influenced by Brazilian music, namely Bossa Nova, but also incorporates elements of Lounge, Electronica, Indie Pop, MPB, and Worldbeat. Da Silva has released two solo albums Miles From Nowhere and Brasilissima. Her compositions have been featured in TV & Film, such as the Golden Globe Award winning film Lady Bird (2017), and the Paramount Network series American Woman (2018).

Bruce Driscoll
Bruce Driscoll is an American record producer, songwriter, guitarist, film composer, and vocalist.

He is one-half of French & American indie pop, folk duo Freedom Fry and co-founder of Alternative rock band Blondfire. His other writing or production credits include Avicii, Arty, Fredrika Stahl, Ivy, Sleepy Rebels, Stroik, Westrin and Mowry, and the Voyces.
John Carlson (ice hockey)
John Carlson (born January 10, 1990) is an American professional ice hockey player who is a defenseman and alternate captain for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted by the Capitals in the first round, 27th overall, in the 2008 NHL entry draft after playing a year in the United States Hockey League (USHL) with the Indiana Ice. Before reaching the NHL, Carlson played junior hockey in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) with the London Knights and played professionally with the Capitals' American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Hershey Bears. He also participated internationally for the United States in the 2010 World Juniors and 2014 Winter Olympics. Carlson won the Stanley Cup as a member of the Capitals in 2018, as the highest-scoring defenseman during the playoffs.

Matt Niskanen
Matthew Norman Niskanen (born December 6, 1986) is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman. He played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Dallas Stars, Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals, and Philadelphia Flyers from 2007 to 2020.

After his NHL player career, Niskanen began role as head coach of the Rock Ridge Wolverines Boys Hockey team in Virginia in 2024.

He was drafted by the Stars in the first round, 28th overall, in the 2005 NHL entry draft. Niskanen won the Stanley Cup as a member of the Capitals in 2018.
Ancient Cotta
Cotta or Cotte was an ancient town built by Romans in the 1st century AD, in the province of Mauretania Tingitana, intended to function primarily as a garum factory. The town was likely abandoned in the 3rd century AD. Its ancient ruins are now located on the Atlantic coast of modern-day Morocco a few kilometers south of Cap Spartel, and include the garum factory, an olive press, a temple, a villa and a bath complex.

Lixus (ancient city)
Lixus (Berber : ⵍⵓⴽⵓⵙ, Phoenician: 𐤋𐤊𐤅𐤔) is an ancient city founded by Phoenicians (8th–7th century BC) before the city of Carthage.  Its distinguishing feature is that it was continuously occupied from antiquity to the Islamic Era, and has ruins dating to the Phoenician (8th–6th centuries BC), Punic (5th–3rd centuries BC), Mauretanian (2nd century BC–AD 50), Roman (AD 50–6th century AD) and Islamic (12th–15th centuries AD) periods.
Adventures of Captain Fabian
Adventures of Captain Fabian or Adventure in New Orleans is a 1951 American adventure film directed by William Marshall and starring Errol Flynn, Micheline Presle, Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead and Victor Francen.

Micheline Presle
Micheline Presle (French pronunciation: [miʃlin pʁɛːl]; born Micheline Nicole Julia Émilienne Chassagne; 22 August 1922 – 21 February 2024) was a French actress. She was sometimes billed as Micheline Prelle. Starting her career in 1937, she starred or appeared in over 150 films appearing first in productions in her native France and also in Hollywood during the era of Classical Hollywood Cinema, before returning again to Europe, especially French films from the mid-1960s until 2014.
A Notorious Gentleman
A Notorious Gentleman is a 1935 American drama film directed by Edward Laemmle and written by Leopold Atlas, Rufus King and Robert Tasker. The film stars Charles Bickford, Helen Vinson, Onslow Stevens, Dudley Digges, Sidney Blackmer and John Darrow. The film was released on January 21, 1935, by Universal Pictures. The film was remade in 1946 as Smooth as Silk.

Smooth as Silk
Smooth as Silk is a 1946 American noir film directed by Charles Barton and starring Kent Taylor, Virginia Grey, and Milburn Stone. The film is also known as Notorious Gentleman as it is a version of 1935 film A Notorious Gentleman. The film focuses on the murder of a theater producer (John Litel) committed by a lawyer (Kent Taylor), after the lawyer's bride, an actress (Virginia Gray), left him for the producer to win a role in his new musical. Despite the fascinating plot and tense intrigue, this film failed to attract much attention.
Harry Steele (businessman)
Harold Raymond Steele, OC (June 9, 1929 – January 28, 2022) was a Newfoundland-born Canadian businessman, entrepreneur, and officer in the Royal Canadian Navy.  He had business ventures in transportation, hotels and radio, most notably Newfoundland Capital Corporation and Eastern Provincial Airways.

Stingray Radio
Stingray Radio Inc. is a Canadian radio broadcasting conglomerate owned by Stingray Group. It owns and operates 101 radio stations in Canada, making it the largest radio conglomerate in Canada. It also once owned two now-defunct television stations in Lloydminster. The majority of its stations are situated in Atlantic and Western Canada, with its largest presences being in the provinces of Alberta and Newfoundland.

The company was founded in 1986 by Harold R. Steele as Newfoundland Capital Corporation Ltd. based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, later operating under the names Newcap Broadcasting and Newcap Radio. In October 2018, Newcap was acquired by Stingray. As a result of the acquisition, the Steele family became Stingray Group's largest third-party shareholder.
Elliniko Metro
Elliniko Metro (Greek: Ελληνικό Μετρό), formerly Attiko Metro (Αττικό Μετρό) until May 2023, is a Greek State-owned company who is responsible for the development and construction of the Athens Metro and the Thessaloniki Metro, as well as the Athens Tram.

Headquartered in the Ellinoroson neighbourhood of the center of Athens, the Greek government created the company in July 1991: Elliniko Metro's original purpose was to oversee the delivery of the Base Project of the Athens Metro, which opened in three stages, in 2000 and 2003. Elliniko Metro also owned and operated the Athens Metro and Tram until June 2011, when STASY took over that role.

Athens Tram
The Athens Tram is the modern public tram network system serving Athens, Greece. The system is owned and operated by STASY, which replaced Tram S.A. in June 2011.

STASY operates a fleet of 25 Alstom Citadis and 35 Sirio vehicles, which serve two tram lines and 60 stops. The tram network spans a total length of 27 kilometres (16.8 mi) throughout ten Athenian suburbs. This network runs from Syntagma (central Athens) to the coastal suburb of Palaio Faliro, where the line splits in two branches: the first ends as soon as it meets the Athens coastline at Pikrodafni Station (where it meets the other line), while the other exclusively runs between the Athens riviera (toward the southern suburb of Voula) and the port of Piraeus. The network covers the majority of the city's Saronic Gulf coastline. Athens' tram system provides average daily service to 65,000 passengers, and employs 345 people.
Jarena Lee
Jarena Lee (February 11, 1783 – February 3, 1864) was the first woman preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). Born into a free Black family in New Jersey, Lee asked the founder of the AME church, Richard Allen, to be a preacher. Although Allen initially refused, after hearing her preach in 1819, Allen approved her preaching ministry. A leader in the Wesleyan-Holiness movement, Lee preached the doctrine of entire sanctification as an itinerant pastor throughout the pulpits of the African Methodist Episcopal denomination. In 1836, Lee became the first African American woman to publish an autobiography.

Juliann Jane Tillman
Juliann Jane Tillman was an American preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She is known for her lithograph portrait printed in 1844 in Philadelphia, which is held in the Library of Congress, and is often referenced by historians discussing 19th-century women preachers.
Randy the Band
Randy the Band is an album by Swedish punk rock band Randy, released in October 2005 by Ny Våg Records and Epitaph Records/Burning Heart Records. As of July 2020, it is Randy's latest album.

The album produced one single, "Razorblade," for which the band recorded a music video.

Randy (band)
Randy is a Swedish punk rock band from Hortlax, formed in 1992. While never achieving mainstream success, Randy have developed a cult following in the punk community over the years and were particularly successful in their homeland. They were particularly well-known for writing catchy songs with politically conscious messages, often broaching topics like income inequality, socialism, working-class revolutions throughout European history, and Karl Marx and Marxism.

Randy were signed by Burning Heart Records, a sub-label of Epitaph Records, in the early 2000s. They have released six studio albums. The latest album, Randy the Band, was released in 2005 on Burning Heart and Fat Wreck Chords.