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Puran Mal
Raja Puran Mal (r. 1529 – January 1543) was a  Rajput ruler of Chanderi and Raisen, present-day town in Madhya Pradesh, India, during the Mughal Empire and the Suri dynasty.

He defeated Babur's Mughal army at Chanderi in 1529 and occupied the Chanderi Fort. Negotiations were made after Sher Shah Suri's attack on the fort in 1542 but Puran Mal was killed by conspiracists.

Though numerous other sources offer a different account, in which after the six-month long siege of Raisen, Puran Mal surrendered to Sher Shah and was thereafter executed.

Chanderi
Chanderi, is a town of historical importance in Ashoknagar District of the state Madhya Pradesh in India. It is situated at a distance of 127 km from Shivpuri, 38 km from Lalitpur, 57 km from Ashok Nagar, 348 km from Jhansi and 46 km from Isagarh.  It is surrounded by hills southwest of the Betwa River. Chanderi is surrounded by hills, lakes and forests and is spotted with monuments of the Malwa Sultanate and the Bundela Rajputs. It is also famous for ancient Jain Temples.
Its population in 2011 was 33,190.
Sharzhenga (river)
The Sharzhenga (Russian: Шарженга, Шарженьга) is a river in Nyuksensky, Babushkinsky, and Nikolsky Districts of Vologda Oblast in Russia. It is a left tributary of the Yug. It is 183 kilometres (114 mi) long, and the area of its basin is 1,500 square kilometres (580 sq mi). The main tributary is the Andanga (right).

The river basin of the Sharzhenga comprises the northwestern part of Nikolsky District and is located in the Northern Ridge chain of hills.

The source of the Sharzhenga is in the southern part of the Nyuksensky District. The river flows south, enters Babushkinsky District, and turns northeast. In the village of Logduz it turns southeast and enters Nikolsky District. Downstream from the village of Zelentsovo the valley of the Sharzhenga is almost continuously populated, and the forests on the river banks have been cut. The mouth of the Sharzhenga is downstream of the village of Kalinino, between the town of Nikolsk and the selo of Kichmengsky Gorodok.

Babushkinsky District, Vologda Oblast
Babushkinsky District (Russian: Ба́бушкинский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the oblast and borders with Nyuksensky District in the north, Kichmengsko-Gorodetsky District in the northeast, Nikolsky District in the east, Kologrivsky and Chukhlomsky Districts of Kostroma Oblast in the south, and with Totemsky District in the west. The area of the district is 7,761 square kilometers (2,997 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of imeni Babushkina. District's population: 12,779 (2010 Census); 14,994 (2002 Census); 18,037 (1989 Soviet census). The population of imeni Babushkina accounts for 31.6% of the district's population.
Ebbsfleet International railway station
Ebbsfleet International railway station is in Ebbsfleet Valley, Kent, 10 miles (16 kilometres) east of London, England, near Dartford and the Bluewater Shopping Centre to the west and Gravesend to the east. The station, part of the Thames Gateway urban regeneration project, is on the High Speed 1 (HS1) rail line, 300 metres (980 feet) south-west of Northfleet railway station, off the A2 trunk road, 5 mi (8.0 km) from its junction with the M25 motorway. It served as a primary park-and-rail service for the London 2012 Olympics.

Ebbsfleet International is owned by HS1 Ltd, which operates the High Speed 1 railway and St Pancras railway station, Stratford International, Ebbsfleet International and Ashford International.

A2 road (England)
The A2 is a major road in south-east England, connecting London with the English Channel port of Dover in Kent. This route has always been of importance as a connection between London and sea trade routes to Continental Europe. It was originally known as the Dover Road. The M2 motorway has replaced part of the A2 as the strategic route.

Unlike the other single digit A-roads in Great Britain, the A2 does not form a zone boundary. The boundary between Zones 1 and 2 is the River Thames.
Matt Chamberlain
Matthew Chamberlain (born April 17, 1967) is an American drummer, record producer, and songwriter. He came to prominence with Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, and has worked as a session musician for a wide range of artists including Pearl Jam, David Bowie, The Wallflowers, Elton John, Fiona Apple, Bob Dylan, Brandi Carlile, John Fogerty, Sarah McLachlan, and Soundgarden.

Ghost of a Dog
Ghost of a Dog is the second album by American alternative rock band Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, released in 1990.

In the printed lyrics that accompany the album, each song has a word with a single letter missing.  In order, they spell out "ghost of a dog."

The album sold about 500,000 copies. After a tour in support of the album, the band decided to take an indefinite hiatus.
Kevin Daum
Kevin Daum is an American author, columnist, entrepreneurship coach, marketer, and speaker. He currently writes for Inc.com and his columns have also appeared in the Huffington Post, Leader2Leader Magazine, and Smart Business Magazine.

Eric Corey Freed
Eric Corey Freed (born 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American architect and founding principal of organicARCHITECT, which focuses on biophilic and regenerative design. He has been considered to be one of the leading influential green architects worldwide.

Freed grew up in Philadelphia and went to Overbrook High School. He graduated from Temple University College of Architecture with honors in 1994 and later received his Masters in Ecological Design from San Francisco Institute of Architecture.
Kevin Nealon
Kevin Nealon (/ˈniːlən/; born November 18, 1953) is an American comedian and actor. He has earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination and two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.

He first gained widespread attention during his tenure as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1986 to 1995, where he anchored the show's news parody segment Weekend Update. After leaving SNL, he acted in several of the Happy Madison films, played Doug Wilson on the Showtime series Weeds, and provided the voice of the title character on Glenn Martin, DDS.

Sacred Heart University
Sacred Heart University (SHU) is a private Catholic university in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1963 by Walter W. Curtis, Bishop of the Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Sacred Heart was the first Catholic university in the United States to be staffed by the laity.

Sacred Heart is the second-largest Catholic university in New England, behind Boston College. It offers more than 80 degree programs to over 8,500 students at the bachelor's, master's and doctoral levels.
Creed Bratton
Creed Bratton (born William Charles Schneider; February 8, 1943) is an American actor and musician. He is a former member of the rock band the Grass Roots, but he is best known for playing a fictionalized version of himself on the NBC comedy The Office (2005–2013), which earned him five nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.

The Grass Roots
The Grass Roots are an American rock band that charted frequently between 1965 and 1975. The band was originally the creation of Lou Adler and songwriting duo P. F. Sloan and Steve Barri. In their career, they achieved two gold albums and two gold singles, and charted singles on the Billboard Hot 100 a total of 21 times. Among their charting singles, they achieved Top 10 three times, Top 20 six times and Top 40 14 times. They have sold over 20 million records worldwide.

Until his death in 2011, early member Rob Grill and a newer lineup of the Grass Roots continued to play many live performances each year. After his death, the group featured no original band members, with a lineup personally chosen by Grill carrying on the legacy of the group with nationwide live performances.
Subarna Golak
Subarna Golak (transl. The Golden Ball) is a 1981 Indian Bengali-language fantasy action comedy film directed by Manu Sen. Produced by Shailen Sarkar under the banner of Kalimata Productions, the film is based on the 1885 novel of the same name by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. It stars an ensemble cast of Dipankar De, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Utpal Dutt, Mahua Roy Chowdhury, Debashree Roy, Rabi Ghosh, Chinmoy Roy and Sulata Chowdhury. The film satirically plots Lord Shiva throwing a golden ball away which reaches earth and creates a number of errors.

Initially adapted as a stage play, the screenplay and dialogues of the film are jointly written and developed by Birendra Krishna Bhadra and Beenu Bardhan respectively for a film. Music of the film is composed by Hemanta Mukherjee, with lyrics penned by Shibdas Bandyopadhyay.

Birendra Krishna Bhadra
Birendra Krishna Bhadra (1905–1991) was a radio broadcaster, playwright, actor, narrator and theatre director from Kolkata, India and a contemporary of Pankaj Mallick and Kazi Nazrul Islam.
He worked for the All India Radio, India's National Radio broadcaster for several years during its early, starting 1930s, and during this period he produced and adapted several plays.

Today, he is most known for his soaring Sanskrit recitation and India's oldest radio show, Mahishashura Mardini (1931), a collection of shlokas and songs broadcast by All India Radio Calcutta (now Kolkata) at 4:00 am, in the dawn of Mahalaya. He also acted and directed several plays in Bengali theatre and even wrote the screenplay for the film, Nishiddha Phal (1955). A Bengali short film Birendra Krishna Bhadra - The Voice Since 1936 Was released In 2019 By Haalum Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
Expedition 68
Expedition 68 was the 68th long-duration expedition to the International Space Station. The expedition began upon the departure of Soyuz MS-21 on 29 September 2022 with ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti taking over as ISS commander and ended upon the uncrewed departure of Soyuz MS-22 on 28 March 2023.

Sergey Prokopyev (cosmonaut)
Sergey Valeryevich Prokopyev (Russian: Серге́й Вале́рьевич Проко́пьев; born 19 February 1975) is a Russian cosmonaut. On June 6, 2018, he launched on his first flight into space aboard Soyuz MS-09 and spent 197 days in space as a flight engineer on Expedition 56/57. On September 21, 2022, he launched aboard Soyuz MS-22 and returned onboard Soyuz MS-23 on September 27, 2023.
2016 Women's Cricket Super League
The 2016 Women's Cricket Super League, or 2016 Kia Super League for sponsorship reasons, was the first season of the Women's Cricket Super League (WCSL), a semi-professional women's cricket competition in England and Wales. The competition, run by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), consisted of six franchise teams playing in a Twenty20 format. Each team featured three or four players contracted to the England women's cricket team and three overseas international players. Three teams qualified from the league stage of the competition; the Southern Vipers went directly into the final, while the Loughborough Lightning and Western Storm met in a semi-final.

The Southern Vipers became the first WCSL champions, defeating Western Storm by seven wickets in the final. Stafanie Taylor, a West Indian overseas player for the Western Storm, was named as player of the tournament, after she finished as both the leading run-scorer and leading wicket-taker in the competition.

Surrey Stars
The Surrey Stars were an English women's Twenty20 cricket team based in South London that competed in the English women's Twenty20 competition, the Women's Cricket Super League. The Stars played their home matches at The Oval and Woodbridge Road, Guildford. They were captained by Nat Sciver and coached by Richard Bedbrook, working with Surrey's Director of Women's Cricket Ebony Rainford-Brent. The Stars won the 2018 Women's Cricket Super League, beating Loughborough Lightning in the final at the County Cricket Ground, Hove. In 2020, following reforms to the structure of women's domestic cricket, some elements of the Surrey Stars were retained for a new team, the South East Stars.
Basti (novel)
Basti (Urdu: بستی) is an Urdu language novel written by Intizar Hussain. This novel mapped the socio-psychological expressions of the India-Pakistan partition in 1947 and the creation of Bangladesh in 1971.

Basti is the first novel of Hussain's Partition trilogy, followed by Aagey Samandar Hai and Naya Ghar. The first edition was published in 1979 by Naqsh-e-Avval Kitab Ghar, Lahore 1979.

Basti has been translated into Hindi, Persian and English. The English translation by Frances W. Pritchett was published in 2012 and was nominated for the Man Booker Prize 2013.

Intizar Hussain
Intizar Hussain or Intezar Hussain (Urdu: انتظار حسین; 21 December 1925 – 2 February 2016) was a Pakistani writer of Urdu novels, short stories, poetry and nonfiction. He is widely recognised as a leading literary figure of Pakistan.

He was nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2013.
Delta, Ontario
Delta, Ontario, is a community in the Township of Rideau Lakes, Leeds and Grenville County in Eastern Ontario. The village is located between two lakes, Upper Beverley and Lower Beverley, along highway 42, approximately 15 kilometres west of Athens, Ontario and 28 kilometres east of Westport, Ontario.

Lower Beverley Lake
Lower Beverley Lake is a lake in Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Ontario, Canada, and was included in the original survey plan for the Rideau Canal.  It was struck from the final plan, and is separated from the Rideau system by a dam at Morton.

Upper and Lower Beverley Lakes were included in the original surveyed plans for the canal in the early 1800 but there would have been insufficient water to maintain the water levels in the summer and so the plans were altered.

Situated between the two lakes is the town of Delta, Ontario, named for the formation of land between the two lakes, and the historic Delta mill.
Robert Simpson (composer)
Robert Wilfred Levick Simpson (2 March 1921 – 21 November 1997) was an English composer, as well as a long-serving BBC producer and broadcaster.

He is best known for his orchestral and chamber music (particularly those in the key classical forms: 11 symphonies and 15 string quartets), and for his writings on the music of Beethoven, Bruckner, Nielsen and Sibelius. He studied composition under Herbert Howells. Remarkably for a living contemporary composer, a Robert Simpson Society was formed in 1980 by individuals concerned that Simpson's music had been unfairly neglected. The society aims to bring Simpson's music to a wider public by sponsoring recordings and live performances of his work, by issuing a journal and other publications, and by maintaining an archive of material relating to the composer. In 2021, he was featured as Composer of the Week on BBC Radio 3.

Hans Keller
Hans (Heinrich) Keller (11 March 1919 – 6 November 1985) was an Austrian-born British musician and writer, who made significant contributions to musicology and music criticism, as well as being a commentator on such disparate fields as psychoanalysis and football. In the late 1950s, he invented the method of "wordless functional analysis", in which a musical composition is analysed in musical sound alone, without any words being heard or read. He worked full-time for the BBC between 1959 and 1979.
2016 Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
The 2016 Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race was a road cycling one-day classic that took place on 31 January 2016 in Victoria, Australia. The race, which covered a distance of 174 kilometres (108 mi), started and finished in Geelong, where it used a circuit similar to that used in the 2010 world championships road race. It was the second edition of the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race.

The race was won in a solo attack by Peter Kennaugh (Team Sky). He attacked from a small group on the final climb and held off the chasers for the 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) to the finish line. He finished six seconds ahead of a group of 19 riders: the sprint for second was won by Leigh Howard (IAM Cycling) with Niccolò Bonifazio (Trek–Segafredo) third.

Peter Kennaugh
Peter Robert Kennaugh MBE (born 15 June 1989) is a Manx former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2010 and 2019 for Team Sky and Bora–Hansgrohe. In 2012 he won the gold medal as part of the Great Britain Team Pursuit team at the 2012 Summer Olympics, becoming the first Manxman in 100 years to win gold. On 5 April 2019, he announced that he was taking an indefinite break from professional cycling to focus on his mental health.
The Private Life of Samuel Pepys
The Private Life of Samuel Pepys is a 2003 British comedy television film directed by Oliver Parker and starring Steve Coogan, Lou Doillon and Nathaniel Parker. It portrays the historical diarist Samuel Pepys. It was aired on BBC Two on 16 December 2003, drawing an audience of 2.9 million viewers.

Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys FRS (/ˈpiːps/ PEEPS; 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English writer and Tory politician. He served as an official in the Navy Board and Member of Parliament, but is most remembered today for the diary he kept for almost a decade. Though he had no maritime experience, Pepys rose to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both Charles II and James II through patronage, diligence, and his talent for administration. His influence and reforms at the English Admiralty were important in the early professionalisation of the Royal Navy.

The detailed private diary that Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century and is one of the most important primary sources of the Stuart Restoration. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Anglo-Dutch War and the Great Fire of London.
Ferenc Novák (writer)
Ferenc Novák (Slovene: Franc Novak, Prekmurje Slovene: Ferenc Novak) (December 7, 1791 – January 21, 1836) was a Hungarian Slovene Roman Catholic priest and writer.

Novák was born in  Tesanócz, Kingdom of Hungary (today Tešanovci, Slovenia) to János and Julianna Novák, a petty noble family. His ordination took place on September 10, 1815. He served as a curate in Bellatincz (today Beltinci, Slovenia) - for 16 months and later became an administrator in Mártyáncz (today Martjanci, Slovenia) in 1816. In March 1817 he served as the parish priest of Turnicsa (today Turnišče, Slovenia).

Novák gathered old folk songs from the Slovene March. His work was also used by Stanko Vraz.

Tešanovci
Tešanovci (pronounced [ˈteːʃanɔu̯tsi]; Hungarian: Mezővár) is a village immediately east of Moravske Toplice in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia.

There is a small chapel in the village with a three-storey belfry, built in the early 20th century.
Last American Rock Stars
Last American Rock Stars is the debut studio album by American hip hop duo L.A.R.S., which consists of Detroit-based rappers Bizarre (of D12) and King Gordy (of the Fat Killahz). It was released on February 16, 2018, through Majik Ninja Entertainment. It features guest appearances from Boobie Trapp, Fury, G-Mo Skee, Trizz, Twista, and Twiztid. The album debuted at number six on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart in the US.

Music videos for "Suicide" and "Lit" were directed by Nick Margetic.

L.A.R.S.
L.A.R.S. (sometimes stylized as Lars, an acronym of Last American Rock Stars) is an American horrorcore duo, formed in Detroit, Michigan, consisting of rappers Bizarre (of D12) and King Gordy (of the Fat Killahz). They signed to Twiztid's independent record label Majik Ninja Entertainment on August 16, 2017.
Beauty's Rival in Palace
Beauty's Rival in Palace (Chinese: 美人心計; pinyin: Měirén Xīnjì; lit. 'Schemes of a Beauty') is a 2010 Chinese television series adapted from Xiao Qiying's short story Turbulence in the Empress' Chamber (未央沉浮). It was first broadcast on Shanghai TV Drama on 15 March 2010. The series was one of the highest-rated Chinese TV series in 2010.

Set in Chang'an, China during the beginnings of the Han dynasty, Beauty's Rival in Palace tells a dramatised account of Empress Dou (Ruby Lin) and how her efforts and achievements in the imperial court positively influenced the reign of her husband Emperor Wen (Sammul Chan), which paved the way for the creation of the Rule of Wen and Jing.

Wang Zhi (empress)
Empress Xiaojing (孝景皇后, 180s? BC – 25 June 126 BC), of the Wang clan, also known by her birth name Wang Zhi (王娡) and by the title Madame Wang (王夫人), was an empress during the Han dynasty. She was the second wife of Emperor Jing and the mother of Emperor Wu. She was also the first known empress of China who was previously married to another man before becoming empress.
Beowulf & Grendel
Beowulf & Grendel is a 2005 Canadian-Icelandic fantasy adventure film directed by Sturla Gunnarsson, loosely based on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. It stars Gerard Butler as Beowulf, Stellan Skarsgård as Hrothgar, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson as Grendel and Sarah Polley as the witch Selma. The screenplay was written by Andrew Rai Berzins. The soundtrack was composed by Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson.

The film was a cooperative effort among Eurasia Motion Pictures (Canada), Spice Factory (UK), and Bjolfskvida (Iceland), and it was filmed in Iceland.

In 2006, a documentary of the difficult making of Beowulf & Grendel, called Wrath of Gods, was released and went on to win six film awards in Europe and the U.S.

Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson
Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson (Icelandic: [ˈhɪlmar ˈœr̥tn̥ ˈhɪlmarsɔn] ⓘ; born 23 April 1958), also known as HÖH, is a musician, an art director, and allsherjargoði (chief goði) of Ásatrúarfélagið ("the Ásatrú Association").

Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson has worked with various musicians, such as Psychic TV, Current 93, Sigur Rós, Steindór Andersen and Eivør Pálsdóttir.
Mitch Shirra
Mitchell Owen Shirra (born 27 September 1958 in Auckland) is a New Zealand former motorcycle speedway rider who rode with the Coventry Bees, Reading Racers, Swindon Robins and Ipswich Witches in the British League. During his career he rode as and was better known as Mitch Shirra.  He earned 17 caps for the New Zealand national speedway team.

White City Stadium
White City Stadium in London, England, was built for the 1908 Summer Olympics. It hosted the finish of the first modern marathon and swimming, speedway, boxing, show jumping, athletics, stock car racing, concerts and a match at the 1966 World Cup.

From 1927, it was a venue for greyhound racing, hosting the English Greyhound Derby until its closure in 1984. The stadium was demolished in 1985 and the site is now occupied by White City Place.

White City was also used for stock car racing in the early seventies when Spedeworth promoted racing on Friday nights usually alternate Fridays to their Walthamstow promotions.
Chacko Randaaman
Chacko Randaaman (transl. Chacko, the second) is a 2006 Indian Malayalam-language action film directed by Sunil Karyattukara, written by Biju Devassi, and produced by Saji Nanthyattu. It stars Kalabhavan Mani in a triple role as a son, father and grandfather along with Mohini and Jyothirmayi in lead roles. Music was scored by Sundar C. Babu with lyrics by Vayalar Sharath Chandra Varma.

Kalabhavan Mani
Kunnisseri Veettil Raman Mani (1 January 1971 – 6 March 2016), better known by his stage name Kalabhavan Mani, was an Indian actor and singer. Mani started his career as a mimic with the Kalabhavan comedy troupe.  He had starred in over 250 films, including Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, and Telugu films, and was renowned for his humorous characters and villain roles.

Mani won National Film Award – Special Jury Award and Kerala State Film Awards for his performance as Ramu in Vasanthiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njaanum (1999). He was the first actor from kerala who won the National Film Award - Special Jury Award in the history of Malayalam film industry.