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Maksis Kazāks
Maksis Kazāks (10 May 1912 – 19 June 1983) was a Latvian basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1936 Summer Olympics. He also participated in EuroBasket 1939, where Latvia won the silver medal.

EuroBasket 1939
The 1939 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1939, was the third FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by FIBA. Eight national teams affiliated with the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) took part in the competition.  Defending champions Lithuania hosted the tournament, held in Kaunas Sports Hall.
Velvet Chains
"Velvet Chains" is a song written by Kevin Welch and Ron Hellard, and recorded by American country music artist Gary Morris.  It was released in November 1982 as the first single from the album Why Lady Why.  The song reached #9 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

Why Lady Why (album)
Why Lady Why is the second studio album by American country music artist Gary Morris. It was released on August 17, 1983, via Warner Bros. Records. The album includes the singles "Velvet Chains", "The Love She Found in Me", "The Wind Beneath My Wings" and "Why Lady Why", the album's title track.
Café Las Violetas
The Café Las Violetas (Spanish: Confitería Las Violetas) building includes a restaurant and cafe on the corner of  Avenida Medrano and Avenida Rivadavia in the  Almagro neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Avenida Medrano
Avenida Medrano is an arterial road in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was named after the politician Pedro Medrano. It runs through both the Almagro and Palermo neighborhoods. The arterial road runs northbound, with traffic going in the opposite direction. The avenue is characterized by its old banana grove, which was planted at the end of the 19th century. The trees protect the road from the sun during summer and are left completely bare after fall and during winter.

The use of the road is mainly residential, though all along it there are various neighborhood retail commerce zones, along with some other stores from large scale chains.
Anthropos phonetic alphabet
The Anthropos phonetic alphabet is a phonetic transcription system that was to be used in the journal Anthropos, originally published by Wilhelm Schmidt in 1907. Transcription is italic, without other delimiters. It shares similarities with Karl Richard Lepsius' Standard Alphabet or some Americanist phonetic notations Edward Sapir and Franz Boas introduced to the United States.

Anthropos (journal)
Anthropos is a biannual multilingual peer-reviewed academic journal covering anthropology, ethnology, and linguistics research. It was established in 1906 by Wilhelm Schmidt.

Originally intended to publish research by Catholic missionaries, the journal quickly became one of the most influential publications in the fields of ethnology and anthropology, while maintaining its religious study origins. In 1931 Schmidt, Martin Gusinde, Paul Schebesta, and Wilhelm Koppers founded the Anthropos Institute, which became the journal's publisher.
Shediac Bay
Shediac Bay is a tidal embayment, an extension of the Northumberland Strait in New Brunswick, Canada.

It is located about 50 km (31 mi) north-east of Moncton. The nearest population centre is Shediac. There is a large island in the bay, Shediac Island.

There is one major beach, Parlee Beach, which runs close. The bay contains Shediac Harbour which is a popular touristic, boating and fishing area. The Canadian Coast Guard maintain an inshore rescue boat station (CCG IRB Shediac) at Pointe du Chêne.

Shediac
Shediac (official name in both French and English; Shédiac is colloquial French) is a town in Westmorland County, New Brunswick known as the "Lobster Capital of the World". It hosts an annual festival every July which promotes its ties to lobster fishing. At the western entrance to the town is a 90-ton sculpture called The World's Largest Lobster. It is believed that chiac, a well-known Acadian French patois, was named after Shediac.

Since its founding it has expanded several times, most recently in 2023, when it annexed all or part of four local service districts. Revised census figures have not been released.
Bjørn Inge Mo
Bjørn Inge Mo (16 March 1968 – 10 July 2022) was a Norwegian politician. A member of the Labour Party, he was mayor of Kåfjord Municipality from 2003 to 2015 and served in the Sámi Parliament of Norway from 2017 to 2020.

Mo died on 10 July 2022 at the age of 54.

Kåfjord Municipality
Kåfjord (Norwegian), Gáivuotna [ˈkaːjːvuo̯tna] (Northern Sami), or Kaivuono (Kven) is a municipality in Troms county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Olderdalen. Other notable villages include Løkvollen, Manndalen, Birtavarre, Trollvik, Samuelsberg, Nordmannvik, and Djupvik.

The 991-square-kilometre (383 sq mi) municipality is the 116th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Kåfjord is the 283rd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 1,974. The municipality's population density is 2 inhabitants per square kilometre (5.2/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 11.1% over the previous 10-year period.
Art Directors Club Hall of Fame
The Art Directors Club Hall of Fame was established in 1971, by the Art Directors Club of New York, a professional organization in the design and creative industries. The Art Directors Club selects its honorees from those "who have made significant contributions to art direction and visual communications, and whose lifetime achievements represent the highest standards of creative excellence."

In addition to designers usually notable within the communities of design and advertising, the honorees include more popular artists who have affected the broader field of visual culture, including, for example, Issey Miyake, Jim Henson and Andy Warhol.

On its website, the Art Directors Club maintains a biography of each of the Hall of Fame honorees.

In a video shown at the 2010 Hall of Fame gala, George Lois speaks a little bit about the award and its history. In the video, Lois calls the Hall of Fame honors "the Oscars of the advertising business."

Art Directors Club of New York
The Art Directors Club of New York is an organization for art directors in New York City. It was founded in 1920, and has grown as an industry group, promoting art directors' work through exhibitions and awards, including the annual DESI award for design excellence.
Devakottai Road railway station
Devakottai Road railway station (station code:DKO) is an NSG6 category Indian railway station in Madurai railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is located in southern suburb of Karaikudi Municipal Corporation, serves Devakottai and southern suburban parts of Karaikudi in Sivaganga district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

Since this station comes under the Karaikudi LPA area, Karaikudi Chamber of commerce is requesting the board to improvise the developments of Devakottai Station and to continue the survey for new track works towards Ramanathapuram.

Devakottai
Devakottai is a first-grade municipality in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Located in the Sivaganga district, the town is situated close to the Karaikudi, near Rameswaram National Highway Road (NH-210). It is one of the major cities comes under the Chettinad area with rich heritage of houses built with limestone called "Karai Veedu". This Region is one of the towns in Chettinad belt. The town is famous for its ancient temple Sri Meenakshi Sundareswarar temple also known as Nagara Sivan Kovil.

As of 2011, the town had a population of 51,865.
Batchellerville Presbyterian Church
Batchellerville Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church on Co. Rt. 7 in Batchellerville, Saratoga County, New York.  It was built in 1867 and is a rectangular, timber-framed church in the Greek Revival style.  It was moved to its present site in 1931.  It features a two-stage, louvered belfry topped by a bell cast metal roof.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

Edinburg, New York
Edinburg is a town in northwestern Saratoga County, New York, United States. It is located in the Adirondack Park. The Batchellerville Bridge crosses Great Sacandaga Lake, connecting parts of the town on either shore.
The Fair at Sorochyntsi (short story)
"The Fair at Sorochyntsi" is the first story in the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka written in 1829–1832 by Nikolai Gogol. Later in the 19th century the story was adapted as an opera of the same name by Modest Mussorgsky (left unfinished by the composer, and completed by other hands).

Velyki Sorochyntsi
Velyki Sorochyntsi (Ukrainian: Великі Сорочинці; formerly referred to simply as Sorochyntsi) is a village in Myrhorod Raion, Poltava Oblast, central Ukraine. It formerly had town status. It hosts the administration of Velyki Sorochyntsi rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The village is famous as the birthplace of the writer Nikolai Gogol (April 1 [O.S. March 20] 1809) and the location of the Sorochyntsi Fair. In 1925–1931, the town was called Neronovychi after the Bolshevik activist Yevhen Neronovych, who was executed by Ukrainian military forces in the town in 1918.

The population as of 2013 was estimated at 3,809, down from 4,231 in the 2001 census.

The name of the village came either from the Slavic word soroka (magpie) or sorochka (shirt). There are many legends explaining the name of the village as the location of the Magpie's kingdom or of some magical shirt.
Huehuetenango
Huehuetenango ([weweteˈnaŋɡo]) is a city and municipality in the highlands of western Guatemala. It is also the capital of the department of Huehuetenango. The city is situated 269 kilometres (167 mi) from Guatemala City, and is the last departmental capital on the Pan-American Highway before the Mexican border at La Mesilla. Its primary export is coffee.

La Mesilla
La Mesilla is a village in La Democracia municipality, Huehuetenango Department,  Guatemala. It is the home of Peñarol La Mesilla football club.

La Mesilla lies close to the border with Mexico, between Huehuetenango city and Comitán, Mexico.
Pop's Props Pinocchio
The Pop's Props Pinocchio is a single seat, open-cockpit, mid-wing, single-engine monoplane that was inspired by the Fokker Eindecker and first flown in 1994. The aircraft was produced by Pop's Props of Cooksville, Illinois and made available as plans or in kit form. The company is no longer in business and the aircraft kit is no longer available.

The aircraft was designed for the FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles category, including the category's 254 lb (115 kg) empty weight limit. The standard empty weight of the Pinocchio is 254 lb (115 kg).

Volkswagen air-cooled engine
The Volkswagen air-cooled engine is an air-cooled, gasoline-fuelled, boxer engine with four horizontally opposed cast-iron cylinders, cast aluminum alloy cylinder heads and pistons, magnesium-alloy crankcase, and forged steel crankshaft and connecting rods.

There are two distinct families/variations of the aircooled engine, namely Type 1 and Type 4. The Type 3 engine is a variation of the Type 1 engine with a pancake cooling arrangement.

Variations of the engine were produced by Volkswagen plants worldwide from 1936 until 2006 for use in Volkswagen's own vehicles, notably the Type 1 (Beetle), Type 2 (transporter), Type 3, and Type 4. Additionally, the engines were widely used in industrial, light aircraft and kit car applications.
Apocalyptic literature
Apocalyptic literature is a genre of prophetical writing that developed in post-Exilic Jewish culture and was popular among millennialist early Christians. Apocalypse (Ancient Greek: ἀποκάλυψις, romanized: apokálupsis) is a Greek word meaning "revelation", "an unveiling or unfolding of things not previously known and which could not be known apart from the unveiling".

As a genre, apocalyptic literature details the authors' visions of the end times/end of the age as revealed by an angel or other heavenly messenger. The apocalyptic literature of Judaism and Christianity embraces a considerable period, from the centuries following the Babylonian exile down to the close of the Middle Ages.

Book of Zechariah
The Book of Zechariah (/ˌzɛk.əˈraɪ.ə/; Biblical Hebrew: זְכַרְיָה‎, romanized: Zəḵaryāh); also Zachariah or, in the Septuagint and Vulgate, Zacharias (/ˌzæk.əˈraɪ.əs/; Koine Greek: Ζαχαρίας, romanized: Zakharías; Late Latin: Zacharias), is a Jewish text attributed to Zechariah, a Hebrew prophet of the late 6th century BC. In the Hebrew Bible, the text is included as part of the Twelve Minor Prophets, itself a part of the second division of that work. In the Christian Old Testament, the Book of Zechariah is considered to be a separate book and consists of fourteen chapters.
2020–21 Ghana Women's Premier League
The 2020–21 Ghana Women's Premier League (GWPL) is the top division league for women. The league was launched in 2012 and it is currently in its 8th season. Hasaacas Ladies were crowned champions after beating Ampem Darkoa FC 4–0 in the Championship final.

Hasaacas Ladies F.C.
Sekondi Hasaacas Ladies F.C. is a Ghanaian professional women's football club based in Sekondi-Takoradi in the Western Region of Ghana. The club features in the Ghana Women’s Premier League. The club was formed as a women's club by Sekondi Hasaacas F.C. football management. It is currently the most successful women's club in Ghana after winning the Women's League on 4 occasions.
Judgement Day (1940 film)
Judgement Day (German: Das jüngste Gericht) is a 1940 German comedy drama film directed by Franz Seitz and starring Hans Holt,  Olly Holzmann and Susi Nicoletti. Location shooting took place in Waidhofen . The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Ledersteger and Ernst Richter. It was produced in Vienna by Wien-Film, a company set up following the German annexation of Austria. It was shot at the Rosenhügel  and Sievering Studios in the city.

Hans Ledersteger
Hans Ledersteger (1898–1971) was an Austrian art director who worked for many years in the German film industry. While mainly employed in Germany, he occasionally also worked in other countries such as Italy and his native Austria including on some post-war Heimatfilm. He worked on around eighty films as Art Director or production designer during his career. He was married to the actress Irmgard Alberti. Their daughter was the actress Barbara Valentin.
Pai Hsien-yung
Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai (Chinese: 白先勇; pinyin: Bái Xiānyǒng; Wade–Giles: Pai Hsien-yung; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Pe̍h Sian-ióng; born July 11, 1937) is a Taiwanese writer who has been described as a "melancholy pioneer". He was born in Guilin, Guangxi at the cusp of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Pai's father was the Kuomintang (KMT) general Bai Chongxi (Pai Chung-hsi), whom he later described as a "stern, Confucian father" with "some soft spots in his heart." Pai was diagnosed with tuberculosis at the age of seven, during which time he would have to live in a separate house from his siblings (of which he would have a total of nine). He lived with his family in Chongqing, Shanghai, and Nanjing before moving to the British-controlled Hong Kong in 1948 as CPC forces turned the tide of the Chinese Civil War. In 1952, Pai and his family resettled in Taiwan, where the KMT had relocated the Republic of China after defeat by the Communists in 1949.

Guilin
Guilin (Standard Zhuang: Gveilinz), formerly romanized as Kweilin, is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is situated on the west bank of the Li River and borders Hunan to the north. Its name means "forest of sweet osmanthus", owing to the large number of fragrant sweet osmanthus trees located in the region. The city has long been renowned for its scenery of karst topography.

Guilin is one of China's most popular tourist destinations, and the epithet "By water, by mountains, most lovely, Guilin" (山水甲天下) is often associated with the city. The State Council of China has designated Guilin a National Famous Historical and Cultural City, doing so in the first edition of the list.
The Truth (TRU album)
The Truth is the sixth and final studio album released by New Orleans rap group, TRU. It was released on February 22, 2005, on The New No Limit  and was produced by Master P, Drumma Boy, Kaos, Myke Diesel and Bass Heavy. Compared to the previous two TRU albums, The Truth only found minor success selling 45,000 copies, peaking at No. 54 on the Billboard 200, No. 15 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and No. 2 on the Independent Albums. A Chopped and screwed version of the album mixed by Michael 5000 Watts was released on April 26, 2005. By December 2005 the album sold about 200,000 copies.

TRU (band)
TRU (an abbreviation of The Real Untouchables) was an American hip hop group, with members from New Orleans, Louisiana and Richmond, California, active from 1989 to 2005. Between 1992 and 1997 the band dwindled from a dozen members to just the main three brothers, Master P, C-Murder, and Silkk the Shocker.

The group released six albums, incorporating the typical No Limit formula of G-funk rhythms married to hardcore gangsta lyrics.
Kilole, Tanga
Kilole is an administrative ward in Korogwe Urban District of Tanga Region in Tanzania. 
The ward covers an area of 83.5 km2 (32.2 sq mi), and has an average elevation of 320 m (1,050 ft). According to the 2012 census the ward has a total population of 8,208.

Korogwe Town Council, Tanga
Korogwe Urban District (or Korogwe Town Council) is one of the eleven districts of the Tanga Region of Tanzania. The District covers an area of 225.3 km2 (87.0 sq mi). Korogwe Urban District is bordered to the north by Korogwe Rural District and to the south by Handeni Rural District. The administrative capital of the district is Korogwe town.
According to the 2012 Tanzania National Census, the population of Korogwe Urban District was 68,308.
DeLand House Museum
The DeLand House Museum is located at 137 West Michigan Avenue, DeLand, Florida. Built in 1886 by Henry Addison DeLand, it changed hands numerous times until it was donated to the city of DeLand in 1988. It opened as a Victorian era historic house museum in 1990. The museum also contains materials related to the history of western Volusia County, and is operated by the West Volusia Historical Society.

DeLand, Florida
DeLand is a city in and the county seat of Volusia County, Florida, United States. It is a part of the Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, DeLand had a population of 37,351.

The city was founded in 1876, and was named for its founder, Henry Addison DeLand. DeLand is home to Stetson University, Florida's oldest private college, as well as the Museum of Art - DeLand. The DeLand Municipal Airport serves as an uncontrolled general-aviation reliever airport to commercial operations at Daytona Beach International Airport (DAB), Orlando Sanford International Airport (SFB), and Orlando International Airport (MCO).
NBA on ESPN
NBA on ESPN is an American television sports presentation show broadcast by ESPN. It aired from 1982 to 1984. The show returned on October 30, 2002. It consists of branding used for the presentation of National Basketball Association (NBA) games.

ABC began televising NBA games under full ESPN production in 2006 (ABC Sports aired NBA games under the title of the NBA on ABC from 2002 to 2006). On October 6, 2014, ESPN and the NBA renewed their agreement through 2025, and on July 24, 2024, its agreement was renewed through 2036.

Richard Jefferson
Richard Allen Jefferson Jr. (born June 21, 1980) is an American former professional basketball player who played small forward. He played for eight teams in his 17-season career in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Jefferson played college basketball for the Arizona Wildcats, and was selected with the 13th overall pick in the first round by the New Jersey Nets in the 2001 NBA draft. He was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team following his first season. Jefferson played seven seasons for the Nets, reaching the NBA Finals in each of his first two seasons. He later played for the Milwaukee Bucks, San Antonio Spurs, Golden State Warriors, Utah Jazz, Dallas Mavericks, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Denver Nuggets. He won an NBA championship with the Cavaliers in 2016 and a bronze medal as a member of the United States national team in the 2004 Summer Olympics. Jefferson retired from the NBA in 2018, becoming a basketball analyst for ESPN in 2019.
Kawato Station
Kawato Station (川跡駅, Kawato-eki) is a junction passenger railway station located in the city of Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the private transportation company,  Ichibata Electric Railway.

Izumo, Shimane
Izumo (出雲市, Izumo-shi) is a city in Shimane Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 July 2023, the city had an estimated population of 172,841 in 69,435 households and a population density of 280 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 624.36 square kilometers (241.07 sq mi).
Fear of Mirrors
Fear of Mirrors is a novel by Tariq Ali published in 1998.

The story is set in Germany after 1990 German reunification. While Germany may be reunited, the life of former East German dissident Vladimir Meyer has fallen apart.

His wife has deserted him. He has been fired from his university for being a Marxist. His son, Karl, is now a moderate, up-and-coming Social Democrat. In the pages of this political meditation, Vladimir tries to discover whether his father was really Ludwik, the famous Communist spy purged at the time of the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939. The question has gained urgency since Vladimir learned that his mother was an informer for the Russians for years and spied even on him. Ali folds his drama around the tight, cult-like atmosphere of Communist Party life, peopled by idealists who find their lives encumbered by betrayals, power grabs and corruption and who, in the post-communist era, must come to terms with their complicity with Stalinism.

Ignace Reiss
Ignace Reiss  (1899 – 4 September 1937) – also known as "Ignace Poretsky," "Ignatz Reiss," "Ludwig," "Ludwik", "Hans Eberhardt," "Steff Brandt," Nathan Poreckij, and "Walter Scott (an officer of the U.S. military intelligence)" – was one of the "Great Illegals" or Soviet spies who worked in third party countries where they were not nationals in the late 1920s and 1930s. He was known as a nevozvrashchenec ("unreturnable").

An NKVD team assassinated him on 4 September 1937 near Lausanne, Switzerland, a few weeks after he declared his defection in a letter addressed to Joseph Stalin. He was a lifelong friend of Walter Krivitsky; his assassination influenced the timing and method of Whittaker Chambers's defection a few months later.
Irondro
Irondro is a village in the region of Vatovavy in Madagascar. It belongs to the municipality of Antsenavolo and the district of Mananjary/ It is situated at the crossroad of the Route nationale 25  between Ranomafana, Ifanadiana  and Mananjary and is the startpoint of the Route nationale 12 to Manakara (118km) and Farafangana.

Manakara
Manakara is a city in Madagascar. It is the capital of the Fitovinany Region and of the district of Manakara Atsimo. The city is located at the east coast near the mouth of the Manakara River and has a small port. Its temperature on average is 27 degrees Celsius, the high is 32 and low is 10.