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Speaker of the House of Assembly (Turks and Caicos Islands)
The speaker of the House of Assembly is the presiding officer of the Turks and Caicos Islands' House of Assembly, the legislature of the British Overseas Territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands. The current speaker, Gordon Burton, was elected speaker on 4 March 2021.

The speaker presides over the House's debates, including determining which members may speak. The speaker is also responsible for maintaining order during debate, and may punish members who break the rules of the House. The speakers remain strictly non-partisan.

Parliament of the Turks and Caicos Islands
The Parliament of the Turks and Caicos Islands is the legislature of the British Overseas Territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands. The name of the house was changed from the Legislative Council of the Turks and Caicos Islands to House of Assembly of the Turks and Caicos Islands following the implementation of the new constitution on 9 August 2006. The current name was adopted on 10 December 2024.

In August 2009, the United Kingdom suspended the Turks and Caicos' self-government after allegations of ministerial corruption. The prerogative of the ministerial government and the House of Assembly were vested in the islands' governor until a general election was held in November 2012.
Max Mara
Max Mara (Italian pronunciation: [maks ˈmaːra]) is an Italian fashion business that markets upscale ready-to-wear clothing. It was established in 1951 in Reggio Emilia by Achille Maramotti (7 January 1927 – 12 January 2005). As of October 2024 the company has 502 stores in 69 countries. It sponsors the Max Mara Art Prize for Women.

Max Mara Art Prize for Women
The Max Mara Art Prize for Women is a biennial arts prize awarded to a young female artist working in the United Kingdom.: 86  It is organized by the Max Mara fashion company and the Whitechapel Gallery in London. The prize includes a six-month residency in Italy, during which the artist creates an art project to be exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery and at the Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy.

Between 2006 and 2020 the winners of the prize were Margaret Salmon, Hannah Rickards, Andrea Büttner, Laure Prouvost, Corin Sworn, Emma Hart, Helen Cammock and Emma Talbot.
Poshekhonsky Uyezd
Poshekhonsky Uyezd (Пошехонский уезд) was one of the subdivisions of the Yaroslavl Governorate of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the northern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Poshekhonye.

Yaroslavl Governorate
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Yaroslavl Governorate (Russian: Ярославская губерния, romanized: Yaroslavskaya guberniya)  was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, located in European Russia in the Upper Volga Region. It existed from 1777 to 1929; its seat was in the city of Yaroslavl.
Castalia, North Carolina
Castalia (pronounced "Cas-tale-yuh"), is a town in Nash County, North Carolina, United States. It is part of the Rocky Mount, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, Castalia had a population of 264.

Rocky Mount metropolitan area
The Rocky Mount, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties – Edgecombe and Nash – in eastern North Carolina, anchored by the city of Rocky Mount. As of the 2010 census, the MSA had a population of 152,392. It is commonly referred to as the Twin Counties.
Balkan jazz
Balkan jazz is an umbrella term for jazz from different parts of the Balkan peninsula in southeastern Europe. Jazz in the region may incorporate various types of Balkan music, especially folk musics (including "gypsy style"). It has embraced improvisation and originality, much like jazz traditions in the Americas and elsewhere. Characteristic features can include use of unusual meters ("odd rhythms"), sometimes played very fast. There are many venues for Balkan jazz, which is also frequently played at weddings and big celebrations. The clarinet is often a key instrument in keeping with folk music traditions, and the accordion, drum, bass and electric guitar are also widely used.

Pioneers of Balkan jazz in Europe include Duško Gojković (English spelling Dushko Goykovich) from Serbia, Milcho Leviev, Martin Lubenov and Anatoly Vapirov from Bulgaria, or Adrian Gaspar from Romania.

Balkan music
Balkan music is a type of music found in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. In its broadest sense, it encompasses a variety of music styles across the countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia, as well as in European Turkey. The music is characterised by complex rhythm. Famous bands in Balkan music include Taraf de Haïdouks, Fanfare Ciocărlia, and No Smoking Orchestra.
Kattakurgan
Kattakurgan (Uzbek: Каттақўрғон, Kattaqoʻrgʻon) is a city in the Samarqand Region of Uzbekistan, in the Zarafshon River valley. Administratively, it is a district-level city, that includes the urban-type settlement Ingichka. It has 90,600 inhabitants (2021). It is located on the road and railway between Bukhara and Samarkand.

Ingichka
Ingichka (Uzbek: Ingichka/Ингичка, Russian: Ингичка) is an urban-type settlement in Samarkand Region, Uzbekistan. Administratively, it is part of the city Kattakurgan. The town population in 1989 was 9,676 people.
Association of Cricket Umpires and Scorers
The Association of Cricket Umpires and Scorers (commonly abbreviated as the ACU&S) was established in 1953 by the umpire Tom Smith as the Association of Cricket Umpires (the scorers were included in the title several years later), in order to provide training and advice to cricket officials. It had a membership exceeding 8,000 in countries all over the world before it was merged with the ECB Officials Association on 1 January 2008.

The ACU&S also had the duty of assigning qualified umpires and scorers to cricket matches around the world. It was funded by membership fees, sponsorship, advertising in its quarterly newsletter How's That, and the profits from selling official umpire and scorer accessories and clothing.

Umpire (cricket)
In cricket, an umpire (from the Old French nompere meaning not a peer, that is, not a  member of one of the teams, impartial) is a person who has the authority to make decisions about events on the cricket field according to the Laws of Cricket. Besides making decisions about legality of delivery, appeals for wickets and general conduct of the game in a legal manner, the umpire also keeps a record of the deliveries and announces the completion of an over.

The umpires in cricket are not to be confused with the referee who usually presides only over international matches and makes no decisions affecting the outcome of the game.
The Tinderbox
"The Tinderbox" (Danish: Fyrtøjet) is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a soldier who acquires a magic tinderbox capable of summoning three powerful dogs to do his bidding. When the soldier has one of the dogs transport a sleeping princess to his room, he is sentenced to death but cunningly summons the dogs to save his life.

In the Aarne-Thompson tale index, "The Tinderbox" is type 562: The Spirit in the Blue Light. Other tales of this type include The Three Dogs and The Blue Light.

The Three Dogs
The Three Dogs is a German fairy tale.  Andrew Lang included it in The Green Fairy Book, listing his source as the Brothers Grimm.  A version of this tale appears in A Book of Dragons by Ruth Manning-Sanders.

It is Aarne-Thompson type 562, The Spirit in the Blue Light.  Other tales of this type include The Blue Light and The Tinderbox.
Silver Star (NZR train)
The Silver Star was a luxury passenger train that ran overnight between Auckland and Wellington on the North Island Main Trunk (NIMT) railway of New Zealand, operated by New Zealand Railways (NZR). The train ran from Monday 6 September 1971 until Sunday 8 June 1979. It replaced the Night Limited express passenger trains which provided a faster service than the ordinary express trains, by stopping at only six intermediate stations (Palmerston North, Marton, Taumarunui, Taihape, Te Kuiti, Frankton) en route and not hauling a postal (sorting) van as on previous trains.

Designed as a "hotel on wheels", the service was unsuccessful and attempts to re-use the rolling stock were thwarted by the presence of asbestos in the carriages. NZR eventually sold the carriages to the Eastern and Oriental Express, where they remain in use.

New Zealand DA class locomotive
The New Zealand DA class locomotive is a class of diesel-electric mainline locomotives operated on the New Zealand railway system between 1955 and 1989. Consisting of 146 locomotives, it is the most numerous class to ever operate in New Zealand, with five more locomotives in service than the AB class steam locomotive.

The class is an A1A-A1A version of the Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) G12 model, with the design altered slightly to run on New Zealand's 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) rail system, and fit the small loading gauge. They were introduced between 1955 and 1967 in three phases, and were the first class of diesel locomotives to seriously displace steam traction.

Between 1978 and 1983, 85 locomotives were rebuilt as the DC class, of which some are still in use. All but one of the remaining locomotives were withdrawn by 1989, with six preserved. The last locomotive was refitted for shunting duties and was rebuilt as DAR517.
Hadrien Ghomi
Hadrien Ghomi (born 6 April 1989) is a French politician from La République En Marche! and a former member of the National Assembly from Seine-et-Marne's 8th constituency from 2022 to 2024.

In the 2022 election he was elected in the second round by a majority of just four votes. He was unseated by Ecologists candidate Arnaud Bonnet in the 2024 French legislative election.

Arnaud Bonnet
Arnaud Bonnet (born 23 February 1977) is a French politician from The Ecologists. In the 2024 French legislative election, he was elected member of the National Assembly for Seine-et-Marne's 8th constituency.
EurekaBank
EurekaBank was a Foster City, California, based bank, with primary operations in the San Francisco Bay Area. Formerly known as Eureka Federal Savings and Loan, based out of San Carlos, California, and known for a scandal in the 1980s involving John DeLorean (maker of the car made famous by the movie Back to the Future). The bank  operated 36 branches in the region, and was one of the largest local banks. Its overall existence was short, as it was acquired by Bay View Bank in 1998, less than ten years after it was founded as a replacement to the failed Eureka Federal Savings.

Eureka Federal Savings
Eureka Federal Savings was an American thrift based in San Carlos, California which operated primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area, with 35 branches at the thrift's height.

Founded in 1890, it was one of the oldest savings and loan organizations in California. Being a savings and loan, it was known primary for interest bearing accounts, certificates of deposit, and home loans, before its eventual downfall in 1988.
Boledehi
Boledehi (بلیده ای) is a term referring to a group of Hakoms who are Khans and Sardars of Baloch tribe in Sarbaz and Chah Bahar, Makran region of Sistan and Baluchistan province of Iran.

For centuries, Boledehies were the Hakims (princes) of Dashtyari, Bahu and Rask. Their Hakimate in Bahu collapsed due to emigration and the attack of a Jadgali-speaking Baloch tribe known as the Sardarzahi (or Saddazahi), but they remained as influential hakims in Sarbaz and Nikshahr.

Makran
Makran (Balochi: مکران), also mentioned in some sources as Mecran and Mokrān, is the southern coastal region of Balochistan. It is a semi-desert coastal strip in the Balochistan province in Pakistan and in Iran, along the coast of the Gulf of Oman. It extends westwards, from the Sonmiani Bay to the northwest of Karachi in the east, to the fringes of the region of Bashkardia/Bāšgerd in the southern part of the Sistan and Baluchestan province of modern Iran. Makrān is thus bisected by the modern political boundary between Pakistan and Iran. In January 2025, a government spokesperson informed that Iran is investigating the possibility of moving its capital to the Makran region.
Belz
Belz (Ukrainian: Белз, IPA: [bɛlz] ⓘ; Polish: Bełz; Yiddish: בעלז) is a small city in Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine, located near the border with Poland between the Solokiya River (a tributary of the Bug River) and the Richytsia stream. Belz hosts the administration of Belz urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its population is approximately 2,191 (2022 estimate).

Sholom Rokeach
Sholom Rokeach (1781 – September 10, 1855), also known as the Sar Sholom (Hebrew: שר שלום, "Angel of Peace"), was the first rebbe (hereditary hasidic leader) of the Belz dynasty .

Belzer Hasidim call him "Der Ershter Rov" (the first rabbi); in the city of Belz itself he was called "Der Alter Rov" (the old rabbi) in deference to Yoel Sirkis, who presided as rabbi of Belz in the sixteenth century.
St. John's School, Cyprus
St. John's School is a secondary school located within the British military complex Episkopi Cantonment in Cyprus  and is run by the Service Children's Education (SCE). It is one of two schools serving the military families and employees of the Western Sovereign Base Area (WSBA). Younger children attend Episkopi Primary School.

It is a sister school of King Richard School, the main secondary school at the Dhekelia Garrison, Eastern Sovereign Base Area (ESBA).

King Richard School, Cyprus
King Richard School is a secondary school located operated by MOD Schools in Cyprus. It serves military families based at the British Eastern Sovereign Base Area (ESBA) in Dhekelia and the nearby Ayios Nikolaos Station. It is a sister school of St. John's School in the Western Sovereign Base Area (WSBA) in Episkopi.
Nat Cohen
Nat Cohen (23 December 1905 – 10 February 1988) was a British film producer and executive. For over four decades he was one of the most significant figures in the British film industry, particularly in his capacity as head of Anglo-Amalgamated and EMI Films; he helped finance the first Carry On movies and early work of filmmakers such as Ken Loach, John Schlesinger, Alan Parker and David Puttnam. In the early 1970s while head of EMI Films he was called the most powerful man in the British film industry. He's been called "an unsung giant of British film who never got his due from the establishment in part because of (possibly unconscious) anti-Semitism... the ability to be a successful studio head is very rare and most only last a few years. Cohen did it successfully at various companies for over two decades."

Bryan Forbes
Bryan Forbes born John Theobald Clarke; 22 July 1926 – 8 May 2013) was an English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist described as a "Renaissance man" and "one of the most important figures in the British film industry".

Forbes directed the film The Stepford Wives (1975) and wrote and/or directed several other critically acclaimed films, including Whistle Down the Wind (1961), Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) and King Rat (1965). He also scripted several films directed by others, such as The League of Gentlemen (1960), The Angry Silence (1960) and Only Two Can Play (1962).
Lebak Bulus Bank Syariah Indonesia MRT station
Lebak Bulus MRT Station (or Lebak Bulus Bank Syariah Indonesia MRT Station, with Bank Syariah Indonesia granted for naming rights) is a rapid transit station on the North-South Line of the Jakarta MRT in Jakarta, Indonesia. The station is located in Lebak Bulus, Cilandak, South Jakarta and has only two railway lines, both of which are straight lines. The station is located not far from Lebak Bulus Terminal. MRT Jakarta users can also continue their journey with the Transjakarta Corridor 8 bus rapid transit service via the Lebak Bulus BRT station. Located in the South Jakarta, it is the terminus of the North-South Line, however the track does continue east, towards Lebak Bulus Depot as a maintenance facility for the Jakarta MRT train, which is located on the former Lebak Bulus Stadium land.

Lebak Bulus (Transjakarta)
Lebak Bulus is a Transjakarta bus rapid transit station located on Pasar Jumat Street, Lebak Bulus, Cilandak, South Jakarta, Indonesia. It is the southern terminus of Corridor 8 and is located near the Lebak Bulus MRT station on the MRT North-South Line.
Ron, Karnataka
Ron is a taluka headquarters in Gadag district, Karnataka in India.

Bhimsen Joshi was born in Ron in his mother’s house. Giraddi Govindraj, R. C. Hiremath (Kannada Scholar), Rajshekhar Bhoosanoormath, B. V. Mallapur (Kannada Scholar) and Alur Venkatrao were born in Ron Taluka.

Bhimambika temple, Itagi
Bhimambika temple or Bheemavva temple, is a popular Mutt and temple located in the temple town of Itagi in Gadag District, Ron Taluk in Karnataka. It is About 13 km from Gajendragad Kalkaleshwara temple.
Iwerne Minster
Iwerne Minster (/ˈjuːɜːrn/ YOO-ern) is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England. It lies on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, approximately midway between the towns of Shaftesbury and Blandford Forum. The A350 main road between those towns passes through the edge of the village, just to the west. In the 2011 Census the civil parish had a population of 978.

Talbot (dog breed)
The Talbot (also known as the St. Hubert Hound) was a  type of hunting hound common in England during the Middle Ages. It is depicted in art of the period as small to medium-sized, white in colour, with short legs, large powerful feet, a deep chest with a slender waist, long drooping ears, and a very long curled tail. It is shown in one well-known example at Haddon Hall with a fierce facial expression. It is now extinct, but is believed to be an ancestor of the modern Beagle and Bloodhound. It is uncertain whether it was a scenthound (bred for the quality of its nose), a sighthound (bred for the quality of sight and speed), or a dog used for digging out quarry, nor is it known what type of quarry it hunted, whether deer, fox, boar, etc.
Suarlée
Suarlée (French pronunciation: [sɥaʁle]; Walloon: Swarlêye) is a sub-municipality of the city of Namur located in the province of Namur, Wallonia, Belgium. It was a separate municipality until 1977. On 1 January 1977, it was merged into Namur.

Namur
Namur (French: [namyʁ] ⓘ; Walloon: Nameur; Dutch: Namen [ˈnaːmə(n)] ⓘ) is a city and municipality in Wallonia, Belgium. It is the capital both of the province of Namur and of Wallonia, hosting the Parliament of Wallonia, the Government of Wallonia and its administration.

Namur stands at the confluence of the rivers Sambre and Meuse and straddles three different regions – Hesbaye to the north, Condroz to the south-east, and Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse to the south-west. The city of Charleroi is located to the west. The language spoken is French.

The municipality consists of the following sub-municipalities: Beez, Belgrade, Boninne, Bouge, Champion, Cognelée, Daussoulx, Dave, Erpent, Flawinne, Gelbressée, Jambes, Lives-sur-Meuse, Loyers, Malonne, Marche-les-Dames, Namur proper, Naninne, Saint-Servais, Saint-Marc, Suarlée, Temploux, Vedrin, Wépion, and Wierde.
Archdiocese of Philadelphia
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia (Latin: Archidiœcesis Philadelphiensis) is a diocese of the Catholic Church in southeastern Pennsylvania in the United States. The seat of the archbishop is the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia. Nelson J. Pérez is the archbishop.

Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul (Philadelphia)
The Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul is the see church for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia in the United States. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the cathedral was dedicated in 1864 and designated a minor basilica by the Vatican in 1976.

The basilica is the largest Catholic church in the State of Pennsylvania, with a seating capacity of 2,000.

Saints Peter and Paul was designed by Napoleon LeBrun. Construction began in 1846. Its dome and Palladian facade, designed by John Notman, were added after 1850. The interior was decorated by Constantino Brumidi. Construction finished in 1864.

The cathedral is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It has hosted papal masses by Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis. As of 2025, the rector of the basilica is Reverend Gerald Dennis Gill.
Donald John Lewis
Donald John Lewis (25 January 1926 – 25 February 2015), better known as D.J. Lewis, was an American mathematician specializing in number theory.

Lewis received his PhD in 1950 at the University of Michigan under supervision of Richard Dagobert Brauer, and subsequently was an NSF fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1952–1953), an NSF senior fellow (1959–1961), a senior visiting fellow at Cambridge University (1965, 1969), a visiting fellow at Oxford University (1976), and Humboldt Awardee (1980, 1983).

He chaired the Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan (1984-1994), and served as director of the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation (NSF). He was long active in the American Mathematical Society (AMS), and in 1995 received its Distinguished Public Service Award.

Richard Brauer
Richard Dagobert Brauer (February 10, 1901 – April 17, 1977) was a German and American mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular representation theory.
Nahar Singh Mahal
Nahar Singh Mahal is located at Ballabhgarh in Faridabad district of Haryana. This fort was built by the forefathers of Raja Nahar Singh around 1739 AD, and after whom Ballabgarh was named, the construction however continued in parts till about 1850. The fort is also known as Raja Nahar Singh Palace.

Nahar Singh
Raja Nahar Singh(6 April 1821 - 9 January 1858) was ruler of the princely state of Bhallabgarh in Haryana. He is known for his struggle against the East India Company in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. In the honour of his legacy the Nahar Singh Stadium and Raja Nahar Singh metro station are named after him.
Costa Rican peso
The peso was the currency of Costa Rica between 1850 and 1896. It was initially subdivided into 8 reales and circulated alongside the earlier currency, the real, until 1864, when Costa Rica decimalized and the peso was subdivided into 100 centavos. The peso was replaced by the colón at par in 1896

Costa Rican colón
The colón (plural: colones; sign: ₡; code: CRC) is the currency of Costa Rica. It was named after Christopher Columbus, known as Cristóbal Colón in Spanish. A colón is divided into one hundred céntimos.
Triple Five Group
Triple Five Group is a Canadian conglomerate based in Edmonton, Alberta, which specializes in shopping centres, entertainment complexes, hotels, and banks, along with running three indoor amusement parks. The company owns and operates the three largest malls in North America: the West Edmonton Mall in Alberta, the Mall of America in Minnesota, and American Dream in New Jersey, each of which contains a wide variety of entertainment attractions alongside traditional retail.

Edmonton City Centre
Edmonton City Centre is a multi-structure retail and office tower complex in the downtown core of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, extending west from Churchill Square. Originally named Edmonton Centre, it started operation in 1974 with the opening of the then-named City Centre Place office tower, expanding through construction and the 1999 acquisition of the interconnected Eaton Centre (with the expanded complex being renamed Edmonton City Centre), into a multi-level shopping mall, three office towers, and two hotel towers.