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Majid Halvaei
Majid Halvaei (Persian: مجید حلوایی, born 7 February 1948) is a retired Iranian association football defender. Between 1970 and 1974 he played 15 international matches, at the 1970 Asian Games, 1972 Summer Olympics and 1972 AFC Asian Cup, which Iran won. Domestically he mostly stayed with PAS Tehran F.C.

He scored 2 international goals during his career. His first national goal was against Chile in Brazil Independence Cup. His second goal was against Brazil in 1972 Summer Olympics which was the only goal of the match and secured Iran's victory over Brazil.

Brazil Independence Cup
The Brazil Independence Cup was an international football tournament held in Brazil, from 11 June to 9 July 1972, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Brazilian Declaration of Independence. It was called the Minicopa by the Brazilians and the final was between Brazil and Portugal, in the Maracanã Stadium. Brazil won 1–0, with Jairzinho scoring in the 89th minute.

Brazil no longer had Pelé but still had Tostão, Jairzinho and Rivellino, the later two also played in the 1974 FIFA World Cup, in West Germany.

Despite Portugal's quality results and team, including Benfica players such as Eusébio, Jaime Graça, José Henrique, Humberto Coelho, Rui Jordão, and Toni, the team missed the World Cup 1974 and 1978 qualifying matches, so this tournament was their best result until the 1984 European Football Championship.
Mike Culverhouse
Mike Culverhouse was Chief Constable of the Isle of Man Constabulary from 1999 until his retirement on 31 December 2007.  He took over as Chief Constable following the retirement of Robin Oake QPM and was the first ever Chief Constable of the Isle of Man to be appointed who did not previously hold ACPO (i.e. Assistant, Deputy or full Chief Constable) rank, previously being a Chief Superintendent in the Merseyside Police.

Isle of Man Constabulary
The Isle of Man Constabulary (Manx: Meoiryn-Shee Ellan Vannin) is the national police service of the Isle of Man, an island of 85,000 inhabitants, situated approximately equidistant from Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England.
Bourgeois Tagg
Bourgeois Tagg was an American pop rock band headed by Brent Bourgeois and Larry Tagg and featuring guitarist Lyle Workman, drummer Michael Urbano, and keyboardist Scott Moon. The band is most remembered for their hit song "I Don't Mind at All" from their 1987 album Yoyo.

Yoyo (Bourgeois Tagg album)
Yoyo is a 1987 album by rock band Bourgeois Tagg, released by Island Records. It was their second and final album and produced by rock musician Todd Rundgren. A Bay Area band, the band had met Rundgren while he was living in Sausalito during that period. Several members of the band joined Rundgren for his 1989 album Nearly Human and the accompanying tour.
Statue of Eliza R. Snow
A bronze statue of Eliza Roxey Snow is installed in front of the Pioneer Memorial Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah. The artwork commemorates pioneer women. The statue was sculpted by Mormon artist Ortho Rollin Fairbanks in 1952.

Eliza R. Snow
Eliza Roxey Snow (January 21, 1804 – December 5, 1887) was one of the many wives of Joseph Smith and then Brigham Young after Smith's death. In the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), she was a well-known and significant figure. She wrote poetry, chronicled history, celebrated nature and relationships, and expounded scripture and doctrine. Snow was the second Relief Society general president of the LDS Church, which she reestablished in the Utah Territory in 1866. She was also the older sister of Lorenzo Snow, the LDS Church's fifth president.
Little Wars
Little Wars is a set of rules for playing with toy soldiers, written by English novelist H. G. Wells in 1913. The book, which had a full title of  Little Wars: a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books, provided simple rules for miniature wargaming.

It is mentioned in one of Wells' other books, Joan and Peter, where, during the Great War, a sensitive young man named Bunny Cuspard tries his best to compare his life in the army as a larger version of the manual.

Joan and Peter
Joan and Peter, a 1918 novel by H. G. Wells, is at once a satirical portrait of late-Victorian and Edwardian England, a critique of the English educational system on the eve of World War I, a study of the impact of that war on English society, and a general reflection on the purposes of education.  Wells regarded it as "one of the most ambitious" of his novels.
Ancient Diocese of Børglum
The former Diocese of Børglum (Danish: Børglum Stift) was a Roman Catholic diocese in Northern Jutland, Denmark. It has also been referred to as the Diocese of Vestervig or the Bishopric of Vendsyssel. The diocese included the historic districts of Vendsyssel, Hanherred, Thy, and Mors.

The diocese was first established in 1056, and was dissolved in 1536 during the Protestant Reformation. It was eventually replaced by the Diocese of Aalborg within the Church of Denmark.

Børglum Abbey
Børglum Abbey was an important Premonstratensian abbey of medieval Denmark, located in Børglum parish, in the commune of Hjørring, approximately five kilometers east of Løkken in north central Jutland (Region Nordjylland) from the 12th century until reformation.
Sawantwadi
Sawantwadi is a city located in Sawantwadi Taluka, in the state of Maharashtra  in Konkan region which is in the mid-western coast of India.

It is a prominent town in the vicinity of Moti Lake and is well known for its wooden handicrafts. The Palace of Sawantwadi is a popular tourist attraction and it is great heritage of Ganjifa and Laquerware.

Ganjifa
Ganjifa, Ganjapa or Gânjaphâ, is a card game and type of playing cards that are most associated with Persia and India. After Ganjifa cards fell out of use in Iran before the twentieth century, India became the last country to produce them. The form prevalent in Odisha is Ganjapa.
RD-193
The RD-193 (Russian: Ракетный Двигатель-193, romanized: Raketnyy Dvigatel-193, lit. 'Rocket Engine 193') is a high performance single-combustion chamber rocket engine, developed in Russia from 2011 to 2013. It is derived from the RD-170 originally used in the Energia launcher.

The RD-193 is fueled by a kerosene / LOX mixture and uses an oxygen-rich staged combustion cycle. RD-193 was proposed as a replacement for the NK-33, which is being used in the Soyuz-2-1v vehicle.

Soyuz 2.1v
The Soyuz‑2.1v (Russian: Союз‑2.1в, lit. 'Union‑2.1c', GRAU index: 14A15) was a Russian expendable small-lift launch vehicle, developed as a derivative of the Soyuz-2 series. It is notable for omitting the four strap-on boosters common to other R-7 family rockets, making it the first R-7 variant without them.

Developed by the Progress Rocket Space Centre (RKTs Progress) in Samara, the Soyuz‑2.1v was originally known as Soyuz‑1 during early development. Launches were conducted from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwest Russia, and were expected to also be conducted from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in eastern Russia, and the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, but none ever took place.
Nordland Township, Lyon County, Minnesota
Nordland Township is a township in Lyon County, Minnesota,  United States. As of the 2000 census, the township's population was 251.

Nordland Township was organized in 1873, and named after Nordland, in Norway, the native country of a large share of the early settlers.

Lyon County, Minnesota
Lyon County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,269. Its county seat is Marshall.

Lyon County comprises the Marshall Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Central Intelligence Group
In the United States, the Central Intelligence Group (CIG) was the direct successor to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), and the Strategic Services Unit (SSU), and the direct predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The official duties of CIG as quoted by Assistant Executive Director Sheffield Edwards:

The Central Intelligence Group is a recently created interdepartmental organization in which the State, War, Navy, and sometimes other departments participate. It coordinates all activities of the Government involved in obtaining and analyzing information about foreign countries which this country needs for its national security. It also furnishes interdepartmental analyses of this type of information or use by Government officials.

The supervising authority of the CIG was the National Intelligence Authority.

John L. Magruder
John Leslie Magruder (June 3, 1887 – April 30, 1958) was an American military and intelligence officer who was deputy director of the Office of Strategic Services and director of the Strategic Services Unit. He held the rank of brigadier general in the U.S. Army.
Liu Yongtan
Liu Yongtan (Chinese: 刘永坦; born 1 December 1936) is a Chinese electrical engineer. He is a radar technology and signal processing expert and a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Highest Science and Technology Award
The Highest Science and Technology Award (Chinese: 国家最高科学技术奖) also known as the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award, State Supreme Science and Technology Award, or China's Nobel Prize is the highest scientific award issued by the President of the PRC to scientists working in China. The award, given annually each January since 2000, is one of the five State Science and Technology Prizes established by the State Council of the People's Republic of China.

The award comes with a prize of 8 million RMB (about 1.16 million USD), with 10% of this awarded, as a bonus to the scientist and the remainder awarded to support the scientist's research.
The Hounds of the Morrigan
The Hounds of the Morrigan is a children's novel by the Irish writer Pat O'Shea. It was published in 1985, after taking thirteen years to complete. The novel recounts the adventures of 10-year-old Pidge and his younger sister, Brigit, battling with characters from Celtic mythology. It has been described by the novelist Anna Carey, writing in The Irish Times, as a "hilarious, scary fantasy novel ... possibly the greatest Irish children's book ever written".

Pat O'Shea (author)
Pat O'Shea (22 January 1931 – 3 May 2007) was an Irish children's fiction writer. She was born in Galway and was the youngest of five children. Her first novel was the best-selling The Hounds of the Morrigan, which took 13 years to complete. It was finally published in 1985 by Oxford University Press, translated into five languages, and is still considered a classic of children's literature.
YESCO
YESCO is a manufacturer of electric signs based in Salt Lake City, founded by Thomas Young in 1920. The company provides design, fabrication, installation and maintenance of signs.

Many notable sign projects have been produced by YESCO, including the NBC Experience globe in New York City, the historic El Capitan Theatre and Wax Museum marquees in Hollywood, the Reno Arch, and in Las Vegas, Vegas Vic, the Fremont Street Experience, the Astrolabe in The Venetian, the Wynn Las Vegas resort sign, the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, and the Aria Resort & Casino.

Reno Arch
The Reno Arch is an iconic landmark  in Reno, Nevada spanning Virginia Street at the intersection with Commercial Row. The current sign is the third version of the arch. It is owned and operated by the City of Reno. The original arch was built on October 23, 1926 to commemorate the completion of the Lincoln and Victory Highways. The current arch was installed on August 8, 1987, retrofitted with new lights on November 17, 2009 and had its design scheme revised to blue and silver on May 3, 2018. The arch is a prominent feature of downtown Reno and for most of its history has featured the city's motto, The Biggest Little City in the World.
Midpines, California
Midpines is a census-designated place in Mariposa County, California. It lies among the Sierra Nevada foothills of the central part of the state at an elevation of 2,687 feet (819 m), 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Mariposa, the county seat, and 22 miles (35 km) by road southwest of El Portal. It is composed of scattered residential areas along both sides of State Route 140, which is one of three principal routes to Yosemite National Park, some 30 miles (48 km) to the east of Midpines. The population was 379 at the 2020 census, down from 1,204 in 2010, when the CDP was drawn to cover significantly more area.

Midpines began as a resort, founded by Newell D. Chamberlain, in 1926. The first post office opened in 1929.

California State Route 140
State Route 140 (SR 140) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California, 102 miles (164 km) in length. It begins in the San Joaquin Valley at Interstate 5 near Gustine, and runs east into the Sierra Nevada range, terminating in Yosemite National Park. Though maps and signs may show the highway extending east inside the park from its entrance to Yosemite Valley, this segment is federally maintained and is not included in the state route logs.
Ahmed Arif
Ahmed Arif (21 April 1927 in Siverek – 2 June 1991 in Ankara) was a Turkish-Kurdish poet.

His father, Arif Hikmet, is an ethnic Turkmen from Kirkuk, and his mother Sayre is Kurdish. Ahmed Arif studied philosophy at Ankara University. Arif was arrested on political grounds in 1950 and spent time in prison until 1952. Published in various literary journals, his poems were widely read due to their original lyricism and imagery influenced by Anatolian folk cultures. He published only one collection of poetry: Hasretinden Prangalar Eskittim (Fetters Worn Out by Longing/1968) – a volume that has gone through a record number of printings.

He was among the contributors of the literary magazine Papirüs which was edited by Cemal Süreya.

Ankara University
Ankara University (Turkish: Ankara Üniversitesi) is a public research university in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. It was the first higher education institution founded in Turkey after the formation of the Turkish republic in 1923.
Bengawan Solo (song)
"Bengawan Solo" (lit. 'the great river of Solo') is an Indonesian Kroncong-style song written by a Javanese, Gesang Martohartono, in 1940. The song is a description of the longest river in the Indonesian island of Java, the Solo River.  The song became popular in Indonesia (and Asia as a whole) during the Second World War and was one of the songs promoted nationally in the newly-independent country after the war.

The song is the first song written  by an Indonesian in the Indonesian language to achieve widespread popularity in Indonesia. It also became popular in Japan, other Far East and Southeast Asian countries, and many versions of the song in different languages exist.

In October 2025, "Bengawan Solo" was recognized as a National Intangible Cultural Heritage of Indonesia by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Indonesia.

Surakarta
Surakarta (Javanese: ꦯꦸꦫꦏꦂꦠ, Pegon: سوراكارتا), known colloquially as Solo (Javanese: ꦱꦭ; Sålå), is a major city in Central Java, Indonesia. The 46.72 km2 (18.04 sq mi) city adjoins Karanganyar Regency and Boyolali Regency to the north, Karanganyar Regency and Sukoharjo Regency to the east and west, and Sukoharjo Regency to the south. On the eastern side of Solo lies Solo River (Bengawan Solo). Its metropolitan area, consisting of Surakarta City and the surrounding six regencies ("Greater Solo Area", formerly Special Region of Surakarta), was home to 6,837,753 inhabitants according to the official estimates for mid 2023, 526,870 of whom reside in the city proper.

Surakarta is the birthplace of the President of Indonesia from 2014 to 2024, Joko Widodo, as well as his son and current Vice President of Indonesia, Gibran Rakabuming Raka. The former served as Mayor of Surakarta from 2005 to 2012, as did the latter from 2021 to 2024.
Shizong County
Shizong County (simplified Chinese: 师宗县; traditional Chinese: 師宗縣; pinyin: Shīzōng Xiàn) is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Qujing, in the southeast of Yunnan province, China. It borders Luoping County to the east, Xilin County of Guangxi to the southeast, Qiubei County to the south, Luxi County, Yunnan to the southwest and Luliang County to the north.

Luxi County, Yunnan
Luxi County (simplified Chinese: 泸西县; traditional Chinese: 瀘西縣; pinyin: Lúxī Xiàn) is located in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China. Luxi was the capital of the medieval Yi Ziqi Kingdom.

Luxi County borders Qiubei County across the Nanpan River to the southeast, Shizong County to the northeast, Luliang County and Shilin County to the northwest, and Mile City to the south.
Curwensville Area School District
The Curwensville Area School District is a small, rural, public school district. It serves the residents of the Boroughs of Curwensville and Grampian and Ferguson Township, Greenwood Township, Penn Township and Pike Township in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. Curwensville Area School District encompasses approximately 115 square miles (300 km2). According to 2000 federal census data, Curwensville Area School District serves a resident population of 7,646. In 2009, Curwensville Area School District residents’ per capita income was $14,830, while the median family income in the District was just $38,107. In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010.

Clearfield County, Pennsylvania
Clearfield County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 80,562. The county seat is Clearfield, and the largest city is DuBois. The county was created in 1804 and later organized in 1822.

Clearfield County comprises the DuBois, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the State College–DuBois, PA Combined Statistical Area. The county is part of the North Central region of the commonwealth.
Florian Essenfelder
Florian Essenfelder (Germany, 7 November 1855 – Brazil, 19 January 1929) made pianos in Germany and Brazil. He was the founder of the piano company Essenfelder.

Son of Ferdinard Essenfelder and Maria Jacomowski Essenfelder, he was born in Friedland, East Prussia, Germany, since renamed Pravdinsk, Kaliningrad Oblast.

At the age of 27, he started making pianos for the German piano company C. Bechstein.

In 1889, he moved with his wife, Maria Jacomowski, and their sons to Buenos Aires, Argentina where he founded his first piano factory. In 1907 he moved to Curitiba, Brazil, where he founded the F. Essenfelder, one of the biggest piano companies internationally, in terms of quality during the early twentieth century. Most of the Curitiba are Essenfelders.

C. Bechstein
C. Bechstein Pianoforte AG (also known as Bechstein, German pronunciation: [ˈbɛçʃtaɪn]) is a German piano manufacturer of grand and upright pianos, established in Berlin in 1853 by piano designer Carl Bechstein.
Fletcher, North Carolina
Fletcher is a town in Henderson County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, Fletcher had a population of 7,987.

Fletcher is adjacent to Asheville Regional Airport, which serves western North Carolina. It is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Asheville Regional Airport
Asheville Regional Airport (IATA: AVL, ICAO: KAVL, FAA LID: AVL) is a Class C airport near the town of Fletcher, North Carolina, 9 miles (14 km) south of downtown Asheville. It is owned by the Greater Asheville Regional Airport Authority. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2019–2023 categorized it as a small-hub primary commercial service facility. In 2023 it served an all-time record number of passengers for the airport, 2,246,411, an increase of 22.2% over 2022.

The airport opened initially with a 6500-foot runway in 1961, replacing the former airport at 35°26′20″N 82°28′52″W﻿ / ﻿35.439°N 82.481°W﻿ / 35.439; -82.481﻿ (Former airport serving Asheville).
Aline Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert
Aline Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert née de Saint-Hubert  (22 August 1874 – 20 January 1947) was a Luxembourgish women's rights campaigner, socialite, philanthropist.  Mayrisch established many non-governmental organisations and was President of the Luxembourg Red Cross.  She married Émile Mayrisch.

Luxembourg Red Cross
The Luxembourg Red Cross (Luxembourgish and French: Croix-Rouge luxembourgeoise, German: Luxemburgisches Rotes Kreuz) is the Luxembourg-based National Society of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.  The society was established on 8 August 1914 by Émile and Aline Mayrisch.  They persuaded the mayor of Luxembourg City, the commander-in-chief of the army and representatives of the three churches to sign the founding certificate. Its president is currently Grand Duchess Maria Teresa.  Michel Simonis is the managing director.

The Grand Duchess was the guest of honour at an event to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Luxembourg Red Cross Bazaar in Limpertsberg in November 2016.
Synspective
Synspective is a publicly traded  space company formed in 2018 in Tokyo, Japan. The company specializes in synthetic aperture radar satellites, and operates a constellation of these satellites for advanced earth imaging.

Satellite constellation
A satellite constellation is a group of artificial satellites working together as a system. Unlike a single satellite, a constellation can provide permanent global or near-global coverage, such that at any time everywhere on Earth at least one satellite is visible. Satellites are typically placed in sets of complementary orbital planes and connect to globally distributed ground stations. They may also use inter-satellite communication.
Avondale Plantation Home
Avondale Plantation Home is a historic plantation house located along Andrews Road, about 0.87 miles (1.40 km) southeast of Louisiana Highway 10, and about 1.77 miles (2.85 km) east of Clinton, Louisiana.  It was built in 1825 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 17, 1982.

It is a one-and-a-half-story Greek Revival-style house which was, in 1982, located on an open hilltop near the town of Clinton.  In 1980 it was moved 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to its actual location, from the Avon Plantation site which had long earlier become a Boy Scout summer camp named Camp Avondale.

Istrouma Area Council
Istrouma Area Council serves Scouts in both Louisiana and Mississippi, primarily in the Greater Baton Rouge Area and Florida Parishes. Specifically, the council includes Scouts from the following parishes: Ascension, East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, West Feliciana, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, St. Helena, St. James, St. Tammany, Washington, and Tangipahoa. Wilkinson County is the sole Mississippi county in the council.
Tom Lenihan
Tom Lenihan (1908–1990) was a well known Irish traditional singer from Milltown Malbay, County Clare, Ireland.

Tom and Margaret Lenihan (born Vaughan) lived in a farmhouse in Knockbrack, a few miles outside Miltown Malbay. He was a farmer and the local butcher.

According to the sleevenotes of the CD Around the Hills of Clare:

Tom had a very large repertoire and positive ideas about singing. He insisted that the story was most important aspect; the singer's involvement with the song was paramount. To him it was vital that the singer used speech pat-terns, made sense of the words, singing them as close as possible to the way one would speak; to fit the tune to the words, not to make the words fit the tune. One can appreciate why Tom had so many narrative songs in his repertoire; his attitude to singing is illustrated on the two tracks of speech.

Milltown Malbay
Milltown Malbay (Irish: Sráid na Cathrach, meaning 'street of the stone ringfort'), also Miltown Malbay, is a town in the west of County Clare, Ireland, near Spanish Point. The population was 921 at the 2022 census.