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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Ge'ez: ቴዎድሮስ አድሓኖም ገብረኢየሱስ, sometimes spelled ቴድሮስ ኣድሓኖም ገብረየሱስ; born 3 March 1965) is an Ethiopian public health official, researcher, diplomat, and the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) since 2017. He is the first African to become WHO Director-General, receiving an endorsement for the role by the African Union. Tedros played a role in the response to the Ebola virus epidemic, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 2022–2023 mpox outbreak.

Prior to serving as Director-General, he held two high-level positions in the government of Ethiopia: Minister of Health from 2005 to 2012 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2016. Tedros was included in Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2020.

David Nabarro
Sir David Nunes Nabarro KCMG CBE (26 August 1949 – 25 July 2025) was a British Special Envoy on Covid-19 for the World Health Organization. He made his career in the international civil service, working for either the Secretary-General of the United Nations or the Director-General of the World Health Organization. From February 2020, he helped the DGWHO deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Georgia State Route 61
State Route 61 (SR 61) is a 107.1-mile-long (172.4 km) state highway that travels south-to-north through portions of Carroll, Douglas, Paulding, Bartow, Gordon, and Murray counties in the western and northwestern parts of the U.S. state of Georgia. The highway connects the Carrollton area with the Tennessee state line, via Villa Rica, Dallas, Cartersville, and Chatsworth. The portion of the highway from just northeast of Carrollton to Villa Rica was formerly the path of US 78S. When that highway was decommissioned, it was redesignated as US 78 Alternate.

Cartersville, Georgia
Cartersville is a city in and the county seat of Bartow County, Georgia, United States; it is located within the northwest edge of the Atlanta metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 23,187.
Daveyton
Daveyton is a township in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality of Gauteng in South Africa. It borders Etwatwa to the north-east, Springs to the south and Benoni to the south-west. It is approximately 18 kilometres north-east of Benoni and 45 kilometers east of Johannesburg.

Benoni, South Africa
Benoni is a town on the East Rand, Gauteng, South Africa, some 26 kilometres (16 mi) east of Johannesburg, within the City of Ekurhuleni municipality.

Benoni was also the setting for the MTV-inspired movie Crazy Monkey: Straight Outta Benoni, released internationally in 2005.
Ray D. Hahn
Ray Dreyer Hahn (November 19, 1897 – November 8, 1989) was an American football and basketball player and coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the South Dakota School of Mines—now known as South Dakota School of Mines and Technology—from 1929 to 1934 and Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas from 1938 to 1942 and again from 1946 to 1956, compiling a career college football coaching record of 70–104–4.

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
The South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (South Dakota Mines, SD Mines, or SDSM&T) is a public university in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States. It is governed by the South Dakota Board of Regents and was founded in 1885. South Dakota Mines offers bachelor's, master’s, and doctoral degrees.
Shireen Mirza
Shireen Mirza is an Indian actress. Shireen is well known and popular for her role as Simran "Simmi" Bhalla in Ye Hai Mohabbatein. Shireen has also worked in a Netflix web series called Dharamkshetra, Dhhai Kilo Prem, 24 and films like Main Nahin Anna, Not Today and Vartamaan.

Yeh Hai Mohabbatein
Yeh Hain Mohabatein (transl. This Is Love) is an Indian romance drama produced by Ekta Kapoor under Balaji Telefilms, it starred Divyanka Tripathi Dahiya, Karan Patel, Ruhanika Dhawan, Anita Hassanandani and Aditi Bhatia. The story was initially based on Manju Kapur's 2011 novel Custody, with Yeh Hai Mohabbatein continuing beyond Custody's story in later episodes.
Paku Alam VIII
Prince Paku Alam VIII, 8th Duke of Pakualaman (10 April 1910 – 11 September 1998) was Duke of Pakualaman serving as the second Governor of Yogyakarta. He was the son of Paku Alam VII and Gusti Bendara Raden Ayu Retno Poewoso. His child's name was Gusti Raden Mas Harya Sularso Kunto Suratno and his adult name was Kanjeng Gusti Pangeran Adipati Arya Prabu.

He acceded to the throne of the Duchy of Pakualaman (Kadipaten Pakualaman) on 12 April 1937 with the official name Kanjeng Gusti Pangeran Adipati Arya Paku Alam VIII. The Pakualaman dates from 1812 and is an enclave within the Yogyakarta Sultanate.

He died in office in 1998 and was buried in the family graveyard at Girigondo.

Paku Alam VIII was a major figure in the independence struggle. His contribution, together with that of Hamengkubuwono IX, led to Yogyakarta gaining status as a Special Region where the Sultan and the Prince serve respectively as governor and vice-governor for life.

Paku Alam VII
Paku Alam VII, 7th Duke of Pakualaman He acceded to the throne in 1903, and died in 1937.

Pakualaman (also written Paku Alaman) became a small hereditary Duchy within the Sultanate of Yogyakarta, as a mirror-image of Mangkunegaran in the territory of the Susuhunanate of Surakarta.

On the 25th anniversary of his rule in 1931, six years before his death, he was celebrated with special events and a book.

The Pakualaman dates from 1812 and is an enclave within the Yogyakarta Sultanate. Paku Alam VII was succeeded by his son, Paku Alam VIII.
Issei Onitsuka
Issei Onitsuka (鬼塚一聖, Onizuka Issei) is a Japanese retired professional wrestler. He is best known or his time with Gleat where he is a former G-Rush Champion and G-Infinity Champion. He is also known for his stint tenures with Wrestle-1 and All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW).

Shigehiro Irie
Shigehiro Irie (入江 茂弘, Irie Shigehiro; born March 28, 1988) is a Japanese professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist best known for his work in DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). Irie has also competed for All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW), and a number of North American independent promotions in the past.
King Huanhui of Han
King Huanhui of Han (Chinese: 韓桓惠王; pinyin: Hán Huánhuì Wáng; died 239 BC), personal name unknown, was a monarch of the Han state. He was the son of King Xi, whom he succeeded in 272 BC. During King Huanhui's reign, Han Fei submitted numerous proposals to enact Legalism. In 246 BC, King Huanhui sent Zheng Guo west to the Qin state to construct a canal with the intention of wasting Qin's resources. The canal came to be known as the Zheng Guo Canal.

In 262 BC, Qin sent Bai Qi to invade Han and took Yewang. To broker peace, King Huanhui ceded Shangdang Commandery to Qin. The people of Shangdang refused to be ruled by Qin but also lacked the military strength for defense. Shangdang's governor-general Feng Ting (馮亭) surrendered instead to the Zhao state. Zhao accepted the surrender and sent Lian Po to defend Changping; the Battle of Changping ensued.

King Huanhui died in 239 BC and was succeeded by his son, Han An.

An, King of Han
Han An, commonly known as "An, King of Han" (Chinese: 韓王安; pinyin: Hán Wáng Ān; died 226 BCE), was the final ruler of the Han state, ruling from 238 BC to 230 BC. He was the son of King Huanhui, whom he succeeded to the Han throne.

In 233 BC, Han An sent Han Fei to the Qin state to request to be a vassal. However, Han Fei was executed. In 231 BC, Han An offered Nanyang (南陽), an area around modern-day Mount Wangwu, to Qin. In the 9th month of the same year, Qin sent Metropolitan Superintendent (内史) Teng (騰) to receive the area.

In 230 BC, Qin sent Teng to attack the Han state. Han An was captured and the Han state ceased to exist. Qin then created Yingchuan Commandery from the conquered Han territory.

In 226 BC, ex-Han nobility launched a failed rebellion, and Han An died the same year.
Sports Vision
Sports Vision Management Group, Inc., also known simply as Sports Vision, is a sports organization in the Philippines which mainly specializes in volleyball. The organization currently operates the women's Premier Volleyball League, the men's Spikers' Turf, and the collegiate V-League and its Visayas counterpart. It has also helped organize events held in the country such as the 2025 AVC Women's Volleyball Champions League.

Premier Volleyball League
The Premier Volleyball League (PVL) is the top-level professional women's volleyball league in the Philippines organized by the Sports Vision Management Group, Inc. The PVL was established in 2004 as the inter-collegiate Shakey's V-League (SVL) until  it rebranded to the current entity in 2017. Prior to becoming a full-fledged professional league in 2021, the PVL was open to participation of corporate owned semi-professional clubs and non-collegiate teams backed by local governments.

The PVL previously operated men's and collegiate divisions before they were spun-off into Spikers' Turf and the V-League, respectively, both are also operated by Sports Vision.

The Creamline Cool Smashers are the most successful team with ten titles, which included the league's only Grand Slam in the 2024 season.
Jason Li
Jason Yat-Sen Li (Chinese: 李逸仙; born 28 September 1972) is an Australian businessman and politician. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly at the 2022 Strathfield state by-election.

Li was a republican delegate to the 1998 Australian Constitutional Convention. He was one of the founders of the Unity Party and stood unsuccessfully as the party's lead Senate candidate at the 1998 federal election. He later joined the ALP and was an endorsed candidate at the 2013 and 2019 federal elections, prior to his election to state parliament in 2022.

Unity Party (Australia)
The Unity Party was a small multiculturist party in Australia, formed in 1997 and primarily active in the state of New South Wales. It was formed with the aim of opposing the rise of the controversial anti-immigration politician Pauline Hanson. Although initially billed as a party to unite Australians of all ethnicities against racism, Unity failed to draw significant support outside Australia's East Asian ethnic communities. After the demise of Pauline Hanson as a political force (prior to her return to politics in the late 2010s), Unity shifted focus onto ethnic community affairs at a local government level.
Kodinsk
Kodinsk (Russian: Коди́нск) is a town and the administrative center of Kezhemsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Angara River, 735 kilometers (457 mi) north of Krasnoyarsk. Population:  14,830 (2010 census); 14,746 (2002 census); 14,050 (1989 Soviet census).

Kezhemsky District
Kezhemsky District (Russian: Ке́жемский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the east of the krai and borders with Evenkiysky District in the north, Irkutsk Oblast in the east and south, and Boguchansky District in the west. The area of the district is 34,541 square kilometers (13,336 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Kodinsk. Population:  22,072 (2010 Census); 24,997 (2002 Census); 31,233 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Kodinsk accounts for 67.2% of the district's total population.
Starstruck (2022 TV series)
Starstruck is a British television talent series that has aired on ITV since 12 February 2022. It features a singing contest in which members of the public impersonate showbiz stars. The series is presented by Olly Murs with a judging panel, in the first series, consisting of Adam Lambert, Beverley Knight, Jason Manford and Sheridan Smith. Smith left the show after the first series due to other commitments and was replaced by Shania Twain. The series is described by some media outlets as a revived and reformatted version of Stars in Their Eyes. In September 2023, it was announced that the show had been cancelled after two series.

Jason Manford
Jason John Manford (born 26 May 1981) is an English comedian, singer, presenter and actor.

Manford was a team captain on the Channel 4 panel show 8 Out of 10 Cats from 2007 until 2010 and has presented television shows for the BBC and ITV including Comedy Rocks (2010–2011), The One Show (2010), Show Me the Funny (2011), A Question of Sport: Super Saturday (2014), Bigheads (2017) and Children in Need (2022), and was one of four judges on ITV's Starstruck (2022).

Manford has starred in stage musicals in the West End and across the UK such as Sweeney Todd, The Producers, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Guys and Dolls, Curtains and The Wizard of Oz.
Elizabeth Milbank Anderson
Elizabeth Milbank Anderson (December 20, 1850 – February 22, 1921), American philanthropist and advocate for public health and women's education, was the daughter of Jeremiah Milbank (1818–1884), a successful commission merchant, manufacturer and investor, and Elizabeth Lake (1827–1891).  Anderson established in 1905 one of the first foundations funded by a woman, the Memorial Fund Association (renamed the Milbank Memorial Fund in 1921), with gifts of $9.3 million by the time of her death.  Anderson in her lifetime supported a wide range of health and social reform efforts during the Progressive Era, from tuberculosis and diphtheria eradication to relief work for European children following World War I, for which she was made in 1919 a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French government.

Milbank Quarterly
The Milbank Quarterly is a quarterly peer-reviewed healthcare journal covering health care policy. It was established in 1923 and is published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the Milbank Memorial Fund, an endowed national foundation funded by Elizabeth Milbank Anderson that supports research of issues related to population health and health policy. It covers topics such as the impact of social factors on health, prevention, allocation of health care resources, legal and ethical issues in health policy, health and health care administration, and the organization and financing of health care.

The Milbank Memorial Fund has historically funded controversial health care practices, including the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, in which African Americans were systematically and deceptively denied critical care for the benefit of the white scientific community. In June 2022, it apologized to descendants of the study’s victims for its role in the study.
SECR L class
The SECR L class was a class of 4-4-0 steam tender locomotive built for express passenger service on the South Eastern and Chatham Railway.  Although designed by Harry Wainwright, they were built during the Maunsell era.

Harry Wainwright
Harry Smith Wainwright (16 November 1864 – 19 September 1925) was an English railway engineer, and was the Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway from 1899 to 1913. He is best known for a series of simple but competent locomotives produced under his direction at the company's Ashford railway works in the early years of the twentieth century. Many of these survived in service until the end of steam traction in Britain in 1968, and are regarded as some of the most elegant designs of the period.
James S. Voss
James Shelton Voss (born March 3, 1949) is a retired United States Army colonel and NASA astronaut. During his time with NASA, Voss flew in space five times on board the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. He also served as deputy of Flight Operations for the Space Station Program Mission Integration and Operations Office.

He was a Scholar in Residence at the University of Colorado until his retirement in May 2025.

Yuri Usachov
Yury Vladimirovich Usachov (Russian: Юрий Владимирович Усачёв; born October 9, 1957) is a former cosmonaut who resides in Star City, Moscow. Usachov is a veteran of four spaceflights, including two long-duration missions on board the Mir Space Station and another on board the International Space Station. During his career, he also conducted seven spacewalks before his retirement on April 5, 2004.
Killings in Southern Kaduna
The immediate origins of killings in Southern Kaduna especially in the 2010s and early 2020s can be traced to the events that brought in Goodluck Jonathan into power in 2010 as the President of Nigeria, and escalated after the presidential election in 2011, which he won.

Southern Kaduna People's Union
Southern Kaduna People's Union (SOKAPU) is a socio-cultural organization, acting as an umbrella body representing the people of Southern Kaduna, Kaduna State, Nigeria. In a statement made by the chairman of Southern Kaduna Leadership Council (SKLC), Ishaya Dary Akau, in September 2022, SOKAPU was mentioned as a member of the council. However, many are uncomfortable with the SOKAPU being berated as a member of the SKLC. As of March 2024, the SOKAPU National President was Samuel Tabara Kato.
San Juanico Strait
San Juanico Strait (Waray: Sulang han San Juanico) is a narrow strait in the Eastern Visayan region in the Philippines. It separates the islands of Samar and Leyte and connects Carigara Bay (Samar Sea) with the San Pedro Bay (Leyte Gulf). It is about 38 kilometres (24 mi) long. At its narrowest point, the strait is only 2 kilometers (1.2 mi) wide.

The strait is crossed by the San Juanico Bridge. The HVDC Leyte–Luzon power line also crosses the strait through an overhead line at 11°23′36″N 124°59′04″E﻿ / ﻿11.39333°N 124.98444°E﻿ / 11.39333; 124.98444, using a tower on an uninhabited island in the strait. The Tacloban City harbor, the main port of the Eastern Visayas, is on Cancabato Bay at the southern entrance of the strait.

San Pedro Bay (Philippines)
San Pedro Bay is a bay in the Philippines, at the northwest end of Leyte Gulf. It measures about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi; 8.1 nmi) east to west and 20 kilometres (12 mi; 11 nmi) north to south. The bay is bounded by two islands, by Samar the north and east and by Leyte on the east. It is connected by San Juanico Strait to Carigara Bay, an arm of the Samar Sea. The largest city on the bay is Tacloban City, the capital of the province of Leyte in the administrative region of Eastern Visayas.

During World War II, the bay was part of a large United States Navy base, the Leyte-Samar Naval Base.
Ruddy Lugo
Ruddy Joraider Lugo (born May 22, 1980) is a Dominican-American former professional baseball relief pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Oakland Athletics. Julio Lugo, who played in MLB for 12 seasons as a shortstop, was his older brother.

Julio Lugo
Julio Cesar Lugo (November 16, 1975 – November 15, 2021) was a Dominican professional baseball shortstop. He played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Astros, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Los Angeles Dodgers, Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles, and Atlanta Braves. He was the elder brother of pitcher Ruddy Lugo.
Mattō, Ishikawa
Mattō (松任市, Mattō-shi) was a city in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.

In 2003, the city had an estimated population of 66,520 and a population density of 1,109.96 persons per km2. The total area was 59.93 km2.

The city was founded in 1970. On February 1, 2005, Mattō, along with the towns of Mikawa and Tsurugi, and the villages of Kawachi, Oguchi, Shiramine, Torigoe and Yoshinodani (all from Ishikawa District), was merged to create the city of Hakusan, and no longer exists as an independent municipality.

Oguchi, Ishikawa
Oguchi (尾口村, Oguchi-mura) was a village located in Ishikawa District, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.

As of 2003, the village had an estimated population of 698 and a population density of 5.08 persons per km2. The total area was 137.52 km2.

On February 1, 2005, Oguchi, along with the city of Mattō, the towns of Mikawa and Tsurugi, and the villages of Kawachi, Shiramine, Torigoe and Yoshinodani (all from Ishikawa District), was merged to create the city of Hakusan and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
Ziaul Ahsan
Ziaul Ahsan (born 4 December 1970) is a former two-star officer of Bangladesh Army and the antecedent director general of National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre. Ahsan is notorious for his extrajudicial and enforced disappearance assignments while tenuring at Rapid Action Battalion under the regime of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. He was relieved of his duties and detained forthwith after the Student–People's uprising. The Daily Amar Desh alleged that he killed a total of 1,030 enforced disappeared persons during his career at the order of Sheikh Hasina.

National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre
The National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre is a national-level intelligence agency of Bangladesh responsible for monitoring, collecting, and recording information and communication data. It is also responsible for the interception of electronic communication such as phone calls, emails, and social media accounts.
Beetle Bailey
Beetle Bailey is an American comic strip created by cartoonist Mort Walker, published since September 4, 1950. It is set on a fictional United States Army post. In the years just before Walker's death in 2018 (at age 94), it was among the oldest comic strips still being produced by its original creator. Over the years, Mort Walker had been assisted by (among others) Jerry Dumas, Bob Gustafson, Frank Johnson and Walker's sons, Neal, Brian and Greg Walker, who are continuing the strip after his death.

Hägar the Horrible
Hägar the Horrible is the title and main character of an American comic strip created by cartoonist Dik Browne and syndicated by King Features Syndicate. It first appeared on February 4, 1973  (in Sunday papers) and the next day in daily newspapers, and was an immediate success. Following  Browne's retirement in 1988, his son Chris Browne continued the strip until his 2017 retirement, with artwork by Gary Hallgren.  Currently, it is written and drawn by staff members of Browne Creative Enterprises, run by Bob Browne and his sister Tsuiwen "Sally" Browne-Boeras, the two surviving children of Dik Browne. As of 2010, Hägar is distributed to 1,900 newspapers in 56 countries and translated into 12 languages. The strip is a caricature commenting on modern-day life in the United States through a loose interpretation of Viking Age Scandinavian life.
Martin Škoula
Martin Škoula (born October 28, 1979) is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman, who enjoyed a lengthy career in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Colorado Avalanche, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Dallas Stars, Minnesota Wild, Pittsburgh Penguins and the New Jersey Devils. He won the Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche in 2001.

Alexei Ponikarovsky
Alexei Ponikarovsky (Ukrainian: Олексій Володимирович Понікаровський, Oleksiy Volodymyrovych Ponikarovskyi; born 9 April 1980) is a Ukrainian–Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins, Los Angeles Kings, Carolina Hurricanes, New Jersey Devils and Winnipeg Jets, having originally been drafted in the third round, 87th overall, by the Maple Leafs at the 1998 NHL entry draft. He also holds Russian citizenship.
Dudley Smith
Sir Dudley Gordon Smith (14 November 1926 – 14 December 2016) was a British Conservative politician who served as a junior minister under Edward Heath. He was a Member of Parliament for a total of 35 years, latterly for Warwick and Leamington, which he represented for almost 30 years before he lost his seat in the Labour landslide in the 1997 general election.

Warwick and Leamington
Warwick and Leamington is a constituency in Warwickshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since the 2017 general election by Matt Western of the Labour Party. As its name suggests, it encompasses the towns of Warwick and Leamington.

From 1923 to 1957, the seat was held by Anthony Eden (Sir Anthony Eden from 1954), who served as Prime Minister from 1955 to 1957.