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AS Douanes (basketball)
Association Sportive des Douanes, commonly known as AS Douanes, is a Senegalese basketball club from Dakar. Part of the Senegalese national customs agency, the team plays in the national top division Nationale 1 (NM1) and in the Basketball Africa League (BAL).

AS Douanes is the most decorated club in Senegalese basketball, having collected 35 trophies in its existence. The club has won a record 11 NM1 championships, seven Senegalese Cups, thirteen Mayor's Cups and five Saint Michel Cups.

The most successful international performance of AS Douanes was in 2023, when they finished as runners-up of the 2023 BAL season. They also reached the quarter-finals in the 2021 season.

Home games of the team are generally played in the Marius Ndiaye Stadium, which has capacity for 3,000 people.

2023 BAL season
The 2023 BAL season, also known as BAL Season 3, was the third season of the Basketball Africa League (BAL). The season began on 11 March 2023 and ended on 27 May 2023. The playoffs were played in the BK Arena in Kigali, which hosted the final stage for a third season in a row. The regular season was played in Dakar, Senegal and Cairo, Egypt, both venues hosted a conference for a second year in a row.

Al Ahly defeated AS Douanes in the final, which was played in the BK Arena in Kigali, for a first-ever BAL title. As the winners, Al Ahly automatically qualified for the 2023 FIBA Intercontinental Cup Singapore.

US Monastir were the defending champions, having won their first title in the previous edition, but were eliminated in the Sahara Conference.
Kyōwa, Akita
Kyōwa (協和町, Kyōwa-machi) was a town located in Senboku District, Akita Prefecture, Japan.

In 2003, the town had an estimated population of 8,948 and a density of 36.12 persons per km2. The total area was 247.74 km2.

On March 22, 2005, Kyōwa, along with the city of Ōmagari; the towns of Kamioka, Nakasen, Nishisenboku, Ōta and Semboku; and the village of Nangai (all from Senboku District), merged to create the city of Daisen.

Nangai, Akita
Nangai (南外村, Nangai-mura) was a village located in Senboku District, Akita Prefecture, Japan.

In 2003, the village had an estimated population of 4,529 and a density of 45.82 persons per km2. The total area was 98.85 km2.

On March 22, 2005, Nangai, along with the city of Ōmagari; and the towns of Kamioka, Kyōwa, Nakasen, Nishisenboku, Ōta and Semboku (all from Senboku District), merged to create the city of Daisen.

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Mamta Mohandas
Mamta Mohandas (born 14 November 1984) is an Indian actress, producer and playback singer who primarily works in Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu films. Mamta is a recipient of several awards including a Kerala State Film Award and two Filmfare Awards South.

Mamta made her acting debut with Mayookham (2005) and had her breakthrough with Kadha Thudarunnu (2010), which earned her the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Malayalam and Kerala State Film Award for Second Best Actress. She has since appeared in successful films such as Arike (2012), My Boss (2012), Two Countries (2015), Udaharanam Sujatha (2017), Carbon (2018), Nine (2019), Kodathi Samaksham Balan Vakeel (2019), Forensic (2020), Jana Gana Mana (2022) and Maharaja (2024).

9 (2019 film)
9 (or Nine) is a 2019 Indian Malayalam-language science fiction horror film written and directed by Jenuse Mohamed. It was jointly produced by Prithviraj Productions and SPE Films India (Sony Pictures India), and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing International. The film stars Prithviraj Sukumaran, Wamiqa Gabbi, Alok Krishna, Mamta Mohandas, and Prakash Raj in lead roles. It marks the first regional Indian film production and distribution of Sony Pictures and the debut of Prithviraj Productions.

In the film, a global crisis arises when a comet passes very close to the Earth for nine days. The film explores Albert Lewis and his son Adam's lives, as a direct result of the comet. 9 was released in India and Gulf Cooperation Council territories on 7 February 2019.
Barbu Știrbey
Prince Barbu Alexandru Știrbey (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈbarbu ʃtirˈbej]; 4 November  1872 – 24 March 1946) was a Romanian aristocrat, politician, businessman and agriculturalist. He briefly served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Romania in June 1927.

Iuliu Maniu
Iuliu Maniu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈjulju maˈni.u] ⓘ; 8 January 1873 – 5 February 1953) was a Romanian lawyer and politician. He was a leader of the National Party of Transylvania and Banat before and after World War I, playing an important role in the Union of Transylvania with Romania.

Maniu served as Prime Minister of Romania for three terms during 1928–1933, and, with Ion Mihalache, co-founded the National Peasants' Party. Arrested by the ascendant communist authorities in 1947 as a result of the Tămădău affair, he was convicted of treason in a show trial and sent to Sighet Prison, where he died six years later.
Flying Wild Hog
Flying Wild Hog is a Polish video game developer headquartered in Warsaw. The studio was founded in April 2009, and its first title, Hard Reset, was released in 2011. It has since become known for its work on action games including Trek to Yomi (2022) and the Shadow Warrior series. The studio is also co-developing Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis (2026) with Crystal Dynamics.

Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis is an upcoming action-adventure game developed by Crystal Dynamics and Flying Wild Hog and published by Amazon Game Studios. The game is a remake of Tomb Raider (1996), featuring a blend of classic exploration, intricate puzzle-solving, and expanded storytelling. The narrative follows adventurer Lara Croft as she hunts for the scattered pieces of the Scion, an artifact of immeasurable power belonging to the lost civilization of Atlantis. Lara Croft will be voiced and performed by Alix Wilton Regan.

The project was first publicly referenced in 2022, when Crystal Dynamics announced it was developing a new Tomb Raider title using Unreal Engine 5 following its partnership with Amazon Game Studios. The game was revealed during The Game Awards 2025, alongside Tomb Raider: Catalyst (2027). It is expected to be released worldwide in 2026 for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S.
Paul Brest
Paul Brest (born 1940) is an American legal scholar. He is professor emeritus at Stanford Law School, where he served as dean from 1987 to 1999. After retiring as dean, he became president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation from 2000-2012, and then returned to Stanford, where he currently teaches.  Brest is recognized for his work in constitutional law, philanthropy, impact investing, and nonprofit strategy.

Stanford Law School
Stanford Law School (SLS) is the law school of Stanford University. Established in 1893, the school had an acceptance rate of 6.28% in 2021, the second-lowest of any law school in the country. George Triantis currently serves as Dean.

Stanford Law School employs more than 90 full-time and part-time faculty members and enrolls over 550 students who are working toward their Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree. Stanford Law also confers four advanced legal degrees: a Master of Laws (LL.M.), a Master of Legal Studies (M.L.S.), a Master of the Science of Law (J.S.M.), and a Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D.). Each fall, Stanford Law enrolls a J.D. class of approximately 180 students, giving Stanford the smallest student body of any law school ranked in the top fourteen (T14). Stanford also maintains eleven full-time legal clinics, including the nation's first and most active Supreme Court litigation clinic, and offers 27 formal joint degree programs.
Advanced Manufacturing Park
The Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) is a 150-acre (61 ha) manufacturing technology park in Waverley, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. It was partly funded by the European Regional Development Fund, with Yorkshire Forward, and developed by Harworth Group, previously the property development arm of UK Coal, on reclaimed opencast coal mine land close to the site of the battle of Orgreave.

Yorkshire Forward
Yorkshire Forward was the regional development agency (RDA) for the Yorkshire and the Humber region of the United Kingdom. It supported the development of business in the region by encouraging public and private investment in education, skills, environment and infrastructure. It was abolished on 31 March 2012 following the public spending review announced in 2010.
Weaning (TV series)
Weaning is a 2013 Chinese romance/family TV series starring Tong Liya and Lei Jiayin. While a love story at heart, the show also explores the Chinese issue of overprotective parents and overdependent children (some of whom need to be "weaned" in their 30s).

Tong Liya
Tong Liya (Chinese: 佟丽娅, born 8 August 1983) is a Chinese actress of Xibe ethnicity. She first gained recognition in The Queens (2008), followed by roles in the television series Palace (2011), Beijing Love Story (2012), Ordinary World (2015), Nirvana in Fire 2 (2017), Great Expectations (2018), as well as the film How Long Will I Love U (2018).
Lake Towada
Lake Towada (十和田湖, Towada-ko) is the largest crater lake in Honshū island, Japan. Located on the border between Aomori and Akita prefectures, it lies 400 meters (1,312 ft) above sea level and is 327 m (1,073 ft) deep, drained by the Oirase River. With a surface area of 61.1 km2 (23.6 sq mi), Towada is Japan's 12th largest lake; its bright blue color is due to its great depth. The lake is roughly circular, with two peninsulas extending from its southern shore approximately one-third into the center of the lake. The lake is a popular tourist destination.

Oirase River
The Oirase River (奥入瀬川, Oirase-gawa) is a river located in eastern Aomori Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan.

The Oirase River is the only river that drains Lake Towada, a large caldera lake that lies on the border of Aomori and Akita Prefectures. The river flows in a generally eastern direction, through the municipalities of Towada, Rokunohe, Oirase, and Hachinohe before exiting into the Pacific Ocean. The upper reaches of the river form a scenic gorge with numerous rapids and waterfalls, and is one of the major tourist attractions of the Towada-Hachimantai National Park. The lower reaches of the river are used extensively for irrigation.

In 1996 the sound of flowing water at the Oirase River was selected by the Ministry of the Environment as one of the 100 Soundscapes of Japan.
Romanian National Party
The Romanian National Party (Romanian: Partidul Național Român, PNR), initially known as the Romanian National Party in Transylvania and Banat (Partidul Național Român din Transilvania și Banat), was a political party which was initially designed to offer ethnic representation to Romanians in the Kingdom of Hungary, the Transleithanian half of Austria-Hungary, and especially to those in Transylvania and Banat. After the end of World War I, it became one of the main parties in Romania, and formed the government with Alexandru Vaida-Voevod between November 1919 and March 1920.

Alexandru Vaida-Voevod
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod or Vaida-Voievod (27 February 1872 – 19 March 1950) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian politician who was a supporter and promoter of the union of Transylvania (before 1920 part of  Hungary) with the Romanian Old Kingdom. He later served as 28th Prime Minister of Romania.
Jalayirid Sultanate
The Jalayirid Sultanate (Persian: جلایریان) was a Turco-Mongol dynasty of Mongol Jalayir origin, which ruled over modern-day Iraq and western Iran after the breakup of the Ilkhanate in the 1330s. It lasted about fifty years, until disrupted by Timur's conquests and the revolts of the Qara Qoyunlu Turkmen. After Timur's death in 1405, there was a brief attempt to re-establish the sultanate in southern Iraq and Khuzistan. The Jalayirids were finally eliminated by the Qara Qoyunlu in 1432.

The Jalayirids were Mongol and Turkicized and Turkic-speaking. They are credited with bolstering the Turkic presence in Arabic-speaking Iraq so much so that Turkic became the second-most-spoken language after Arabic. The Jalayirids were also culturally Persianate, and their era marks an important period in the evolution of Persian art, where it developed important aspects that would serve as the basis of later Persian paintings.

Shaikh Hasan Jalayir
Shaikh Hasan Jalayir (died October 9, 1374) was briefly Jalayirid ruler for one day. He was the eldest son of Shaikh Uways Jalayir. After his father died, Hasan succeeded him, but was immediately executed by his amirs (umara), who then put his brother Husain on the throne.

His father-in-law Qadi Shaykh Ali, leading ulama of Tabriz, protested this and was exiled to Damascus.
Daniel Mortensen
Daniel Andreas Mortensen (born 21 October 1994) is a Danish basketball player for Grindavík of the Icelandic Úrvalsdeild karla and the Denmark national team. He played college basketball for Wright State University and Barry University. In 2021, he won the Basketligaen championship with Bakken Bears and in 2022 he was named the Úrvalsdeild Foreign Player of the Year while playing for Þór Þorlákshöfn.

Bakken Bears
Bakken Bears is a Danish professional basketball club based in Aarhus. The club plays in the Basketligaen, the top-tier basketball league in Denmark.

Founded in 1953, the club has won the Basketligaen 20 times, holding the record for the most championships, and has also won 11 Danish Cups. Along with their domestic play, the club is a regular in European competitions. The Bears are a three-time semifinalist of the FIBA Europe Cup.
Sally Green
Sally Green (born 1961) is a British fantasy author. Her work includes the Half Bad trilogy, related short stories, and The Smoke Thieves trilogy. The Half Bad trilogy was adapted into the Netflix series The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself.

Half Bad
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Half Bad is a 2014 young adult fantasy novel written by English author Sally Green. It won the 2015 Waterstones Teen Book Prize and was shortlisted for the 2015 Branford Boase Award.

On 3 March 2014, the book set the Guinness World Record as the 'Most Translated Book by a Debut Author, Pre-publication', having sold in 45 languages prior to its UK publication by Penguin books.
Old McCulloch County Jail
The Old McCulloch County Jail is located in Brady, McCulloch County,  in the U.S. state of Texas.  It was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in McCulloch County, Texas in 1975, and became a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1976.  In 1963, the Texas Historical Commission designated the geographical center of Texas as being located 5 miles (8.0 km)  northwest of Brady. The old jail became the Heart of Texas Historical Museum in 1974. A granite monument to the center of Texas can be found on the grounds of the McCulloch County Courthouse.

Brady, Texas
Brady is a city in McCulloch County, Texas, United States. Brady refers to itself as the "Heart of Texas", as it is the city closest to the geographical center of the state, which is about 15 miles northeast of Brady. Its population was 5,118 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of McCulloch County.
2016 North Carolina Attorney General election
The 2016 North Carolina Attorney General election was held on November 8, 2016, to elect the Attorney General of North Carolina, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as elections to the United States Senate and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

Incumbent Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper chose not to run for re-election to a fifth term in office, and instead successfully ran for Governor.

Primary elections were held on March 15, 2016.

Democratic former state senator Josh Stein defeated Republican state senator Buck Newton in the general election. With a margin of 0.4%, this was the closest attorney general race of the 2016 election cycle.

Buck Newton
Eldon Sharpe "Buck" Newton III (born July 5, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician who serves as a Republican state senator in the North Carolina General Assembly (the state's legislature) representing N.C. Senate District 4 (Wilson, Greene and Wayne counties). Newton originally won a seat in the North Carolina Senate in the 2010 election by defeating the Democratic incumbent, Albin B. Swindell.

In 2016, Newton was the Republican nominee for North Carolina Attorney General, losing to Democrat Josh Stein by 25,000 votes, a 0.5% margin.

In 2022, Newton won a seat in North Carolina Senate District 4, defeating incumbent Democrat Toby Fitch by a 16 point margin.
Mariazell Basilica
Mariazell Basilica, also known as Basilica Mariä Geburt (Basilica of the Birth of the Virgin Mary), is a Roman Catholic church building in Mariazell, Austria. It is the most important Christian pilgrimage destination in Austria and one of the most visited shrines in Europe. In the church, a miraculous wooden image of the Virgin Mary is venerated.

Pope Pius X personally raised the sanctuary to the status of a minor basilica by a Motu proprio on 10 November 1907. Later, he ensured the coronation of the Marian image by a decree on 8 September 1908. Mariazell is the only church named as a national shrine of all German-speaking countries.

Mariazell
Mariazell (German pronunciation: [ˌmaʁiːaˈtsɛl] ⓘ; Central Bavarian: Mariazöö) is an Austrian city in the southeastern state of Styria. Well known for being a hub of winter sports and a pilgrimage destination, it is located 143 kilometres (89 miles) north of Graz. It is picturesquely situated in the valley of the Salza, amid the north Styrian Alps.

It is a site of pilgrimage for Catholics from Austria and neighboring countries. The object of veneration is an image of the Virgin Mary reputed to work miracles, carved in lime-tree wood. This was brought to the place in 1157, and is now enshrined in a chapel adorned with objects of silver and other costly materials. The large church of which the chapel forms part was erected in 1644 as an expansion of a smaller church built by Louis I, King of Hungary, after a victory over the Ottoman Empire in 1363.
Hocking County, Ohio
Hocking County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 28,050. Its county seat is Logan. The county was organized on March 1, 1818, from land previously included in Athens, Fairfield, and Ross counties. Its name is from the Hocking River, the origins of which are disputed but is said to be a Delaware Indian word meaning "bottle river". Hocking County is included in the Columbus, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Logan, Ohio
Logan is a city in Hocking County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. It is located along the Hocking River about 43 miles (69 km) southeast of Columbus. The population was 7,296 at the 2020 census.
The Ring (2002 film)
The Ring is a 2002 American supernatural horror film directed by Gore Verbinski, written by Ehren Kruger, and starring Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, and Brian Cox. The film follows Rachel Keller, a journalist who discovers a cursed VHS tape that causes its viewers to die seven days later. It is the first installment in the American Ring series and a remake of the 1998 Japanese film, itself based on the 1991 novel by Koji Suzuki.

The Ring was theatrically released in the United States by DreamWorks Pictures on October 18, 2002, to mixed-to-positive reviews from critics. The film grossed $249.3 million worldwide and won Best Horror Film and Best Actress (for Watts) at the 29th Saturn Awards. The success of The Ring inspired American remakes of several other Asian and Japanese horror films, including The Grudge (2004) and Dark Water (2005).

Ehren Kruger
Ehren Kruger (born October 5, 1972) is an American film screenwriter and producer. He is best known for writing three of the five installments in the original Transformers film series: Revenge of the Fallen, Dark of the Moon, and Age of Extinction, in addition to the American version of The Ring and its sequel The Ring Two and the American adaptation of Ghost in the Shell.

For his work on Top Gun: Maverick, Kruger was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Edward Small
Edward Small (born Edward Schmalheiser, February 1, 1891 – January 25, 1977) was an American film producer from the late 1920s through 1970, who was enormously prolific over a 50-year career. He is best known for the movies The Count of Monte Cristo (1934), The Man in the Iron Mask (1939), The Corsican Brothers (1941), Brewster's Millions (1945), Raw Deal (1948), Black Magic (1949), Witness for the Prosecution (1957) and Solomon and Sheba (1959).

Black Magic (1949 film)
Black Magic is a 1949 Italian–American adventure drama film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Orson Welles, Nancy Guild and Akim Tamiroff. Set in the 18th century, it chronicles the life of Joseph Balsamo, an illusionist and charlatan who also went by the alias of Count Cagliostro. It is an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' 1848 novel Joseph Balsamo.
Mapleton, North Dakota
Mapleton is a city in Cass County, North Dakota, United States. It sits on the banks of the Maple River. The population was 1,320 at the 2020 census. Mapleton serves as a bedroom community of the Fargo-Moorhead metropolitan area. The core cities are ten miles to the east of Mapleton.

Maple River (North Dakota)
The Maple River is a tributary of the Sheyenne River, about 198 miles (319 km) long, in the Red River Valley of eastern North Dakota in the United States.  Via the Sheyenne River, the Red River of the North, Lake Winnipeg and the Nelson River, the Maple is part of the watershed of Hudson Bay.
Lucky Daye
David Debrandon Brown (born September 25, 1985), known professionally as Lucky Daye, is an American R&B singer-songwriter from New Orleans. He signed with Keep Cool Records and RCA Records to release his first two extended plays, I (2018) and II (2019). The EPs were part of a series leading up to his debut studio album, Painted (2019). His third EP, Table for Two, won Best Progressive R&B Album at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. His second album, Candydrip (2022), was preceded by his first Billboard Hot 100 entry, "Over". His third album, Algorithm (2024), was nominated for Best R&B Album at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards and it’s lead single “That’s You” won Best Traditional R&B Performance.

Painted (Lucky Daye album)
Painted is the debut studio album by American singer Lucky Daye. It was released on May 24, 2019, by Keep Cool Records and RCA Records. The album was broken up into two EP's, a part of a series to lead up to his debut album.

The album received a nomination for Best R&B Album at the 62nd Grammy Awards, while the album's lead single "Roll Some Mo" received nominations for Best R&B Song and Best R&B Performance. Album cut "Real Games" received a nomination in the Best Traditional R&B Performance category. In honor of the album's first anniversary, a deluxe edition of Painted was released  in May 2020 including new mixes and alternative versions of previously released songs as well as four new tracks.