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Cronies of Ferdinand Marcos
Certain associates of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, historically referred to using the catchphrase "Marcos cronies", benefited from their friendship with Marcos – whether in terms of legal assistance, political favors, or facilitation of business monopolies, during his administration. Marcos critics, and the local and international press began referring to these individuals as "cronies" during the latter days of the Marcos dictatorship, and the Philippine government – especially the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) – continued using the term after the ouster of Marcos in 1986.

These "cronies" were awarded government commissions, projects, and funds, many of which were later investigated for corruption, misuse of funds, and disregard of the Constitution of the Philippines. Marcos' cronies were given strategic positions both in the government and in private sectors in order for the Marcoses to seize control of the major industries of the country.

Bataan Nuclear Power Plant
The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) is a nuclear power plant on the Bataan Peninsula, 100 kilometers (62 mi) west of Manila, Philippines. Completed but never fueled, it is located on a 3.57 km2 (1.38 sq mi) government reservation at Napot Point in Barangay Nagbalayong, Morong, Bataan. It was the Philippines' only attempt at building a nuclear power plant. It was mothballed due to safety concerns in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine in 1986 and issues regarding corruption.
Parish of Houston
Houston Parish is a cadastral parish in Parkes Shire and Kennedy County, central New South Wales. It lies on the southern boundary of Alectown township, and its most prominent landmark is the Parkes radio telescope.    
Houson Parish, New South Wales is about 300 km (186 mi) west-northwest of New South Wales's capital city of Sydney, and is on the Goobang Creek.

Prior to European settlement, the Houston/Mcphail areas was inhabited by the Wiradjuri people. Major Thomas Mitchell and John Oxley were early explorers in the area. The area was first opened up in the 19th century gold rush of western New South Wales, with both companies and artisan mining striking rich veins at Mcphaile for about 20 years. A village soon sprung up but no evidence of the village remains today, and the main economic activity is wheat and sheep.

Alectown, New South Wales
Alectown is a town in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. The town is on the Newell Highway and in the Parkes Shire local government area, 382 kilometres (237 mi), west north west of the state capital, Sydney. The name is also applied to the surrounding rural locality, for postal and statistical purposes.
Gabdulla Tukay
Ğabdulla Möxəmmətğərif ulı Tuqay (April 26 [O.S. April 14] 1886 – April 15 [O.S. April 2] 1913) was a Tatar poet, critic, publisher, and towering figure of Tatar literature. Tuqay is often referred to as the founder of modern Tatar literature and the modern Tatar literary language, which replaced Old Tatar.

Tatar literature
Tatar literature (Tatar: татар әдәбияты) consists of literature in the Tatar language, a Turkic language spoken in the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia.  Tatar literature is a part of Tatar society and has been part of Tatar history since the existence of a Tatar state. Famous Tatar poets include Kasim Bikkulov, Ğabdulla Tuqay, and Näqi İsänbät.
Akira Iriye
Akira Iriye  (入江 昭, Irie Akira; October 20, 1934 – January 27, 2026) was an American historian specializing in diplomatic history, international and transnational history. He taught at University of Chicago and Harvard University until his retirement in 2005.

In 1988, Iriye served as president of the American Historical Association, the only Japanese citizen to do so, and also served as president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. In 2005, he was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Star, one of Japan's highest civilian honors. He was also awarded Japan's Yoshida Shigeru Prize for best book in public history. He also served as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences beginning in 1982.

Diplomatic history
Diplomatic history deals with the history of international relations between states. Diplomatic history can be different from international relations in that the former can concern itself with the foreign policy of one state while the latter deals with relations between two or more states. Diplomatic history tends to be more concerned with the history of diplomacy, but international relations concern more with current events and creating a model intended to shed explanatory light on international politics.
Fanny Blankers-Koen Games
The Fanny Blankers-Koen Games, abbreviated as FBK Games, is an annual track and field event at the Fanny Blankers-Koen Stadion in Hengelo, Netherlands. It is named after Fanny Blankers-Koen in 1981, but was named Adriaan Paulen Memorial after Adriaan Paulen between 1987 and 2000. It has been part of the World Athletics Continental Tour since 2021.

Adriaan Paulen
Adriaan "Adje" Paulen RMWO (Dutch: [ˈaːdrijaːn ˈɑtɕə ˈpʌulən]; 12 October 1902 – 9 May 1985) was a Dutch athlete who competed from 1917 to 1931. During World War II, he was part of the Dutch resistance in the Netherlands. Following World War II, Paulen became a sports official, becoming president of the IAAF (then International Amateur Athletic Federation), serving from 1976 to 1981.
Starzechowice
Starzechowice [staʐɛxɔˈvit͡sɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Fałków, within Końskie County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 5 km (3 mi) north of Fałków, 24 km (15 mi) west of Końskie, and 50 km (31 mi) north-west of the regional capital Kielce.

Gmina Fałków
Gmina Fałków is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Końskie County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Fałków, which lies approximately 24 kilometres (15 mi) west of Końskie and 46 km (29 mi) north-west of the regional capital Kielce.

The gmina covers an area of 132.1 square kilometres (51.0 sq mi), and as of 2006 its total population is 4,803.

The gmina contains part of the protected area called Przedbórz Landscape Park.
Manseibashi
Mansei Bridge (万世橋, Manseibashi) is a concrete single arch bridge across the Kanda River in Chiyoda, Tokyo. The bridge carries National Route 17 across the Kanda River. Two former public transport stations and a police station nearby are named after the bridge.

Various bridges made of wood or stone were the predecessors to the current bridge, which stands at the location of what was once one of Tokyo's city gates. The latest bridge was constructed in 1930.

Kanda River
The Kanda River (神田川, Kandagawa) stretches 24.6 km (15.3 mi) from Inokashira Park in Mitaka to the Sumida River under the Ryōgoku Bridge at the boundary of Taitō, Chūō, and Sumida. Its entire length lies within Tokyo, Japan. It drains an area of 105.0 km2 (40.5 sq mi). The government of Japan classifies it as a Class A river.
Pradeep Munidasa
Pradeep Munidasa (full name Puwakdandawe Katuwanagamage Nishantha Pradeep Munidasa; born 12 August 1978) was a Sri Lankan cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Kandy Cricket Club. He was born in Kandy.

Munidasa made a single first-class appearance for the side, during the 2002–03 season, against Kurunegala Youth Cricket Club. From the tailend, he scored 3 not out in the first innings in which he batted, and 5 runs in the second.

He bowled 6 overs in the match, conceding 36 runs.

Kandy Cricket Club
The Kandy Cricket Club, also known as Kandy CC, is a cricket club based in Kandy, Sri Lanka which plays in divisional cricket tournaments organized by the Kandy District Cricket Association (KDCA)  and Sri Lanka Cricket.
Listed buildings in Newby, Cumbria
Newby is a civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England.  It contains 14 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England.  Of these, two are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.  The parish includes the village of Newby and the surrounding countryside.  Most of the listed buildings are houses and associated structures, farmhouses and farm buildings, the other listing buildings consisting of the walls and memorials of a Friends' burial ground.

Newby, Cumbria
Newby is a village and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of the county of Cumbria, England.  It is about 7 miles (11 km) from the large town of Penrith and about 5 miles (8 km) from the small town of Appleby-in-Westmorland, and has a population of 164.  Nearby is Newby Beck. Newby has a post office. The population at the 2011 Census was less than 100 and data was included with Sleagill.
Ellenor Watson
Ellenor Catherine Watson OBE (née Squires, 22 April 1907 – 24 June 1966) was a notable New Zealand rural women's advocate and community leader. She was born in Nelson, New Zealand, in 1907.

In 1953, Watson was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal. In the 1963 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, in recognition of her service as national president of Women's Division of Federated Farmers.

1963 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)
The 1963 Queen's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of Elizabeth II, were appointments made by the Queen on the advice of the New Zealand government to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. They were announced on 8 June 1963.

The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.
The Bobby Limb Show
The Bobby Limb Show was an early Australian television music/variety series which aired from 1959 to 1961, and was later re-titled (with minor format changes) as The Mobil Limb Show from 1961 to 1964. It was hosted by Bobby Limb, and was produced by the Nine Network's TCN-9. Episodes included music, dancing, and comedy sketches.

Regulars in The Bobby Limb Show included Limb's wife Dawn Lake, Buster Fiddess, Johnny O'Connor, Darryl Stewart, Bill Newman, The Delltones, Tikky Taylor, and The Bobby Limb Show Band.

Regular guests in The Mobil Limb Show included Leonard Teale, Gaynor Bunning and Noel Brophy. Many episodes of both series exist as kinescope recordings

Dawn Lake's enduring character was Ethel, first appearing in the early 1960s in The Mobil Limb Show. As a simple housewife talking over the fence to a neighbour she would say, "You tell 'em, luv!". This was Ethel's catchcry.

Darryl Stewart
Darryl Stewart is an Australian singer who had a number 1 hit in 1955 with "A Man Called Peter", becoming the first Australian to top the local charts. That single was the first 45-rpm release in Australia. Stewart had many releases over the years, appeared often on TV and worked in stage musicals. He worked in the USA for a period in the late 1950s. In January 1957 he married Janet Cook, daughter of W. Cook.

He was a regular on The Bobby Limb Show.
Aleksandar Knjazev
Aleksandar Knjazev (Macedonian: Александар Књазев) is a Macedonian professional basketball coach and former player. He spent most of his playing career in KK Rabotnički Skopje, and as a team leader he helped its promotion to the First Yugoslav Basketball League in 1964. He was the first coach of the Macedonia national basketball team after the country's independence in 1992.

His son Gjorgji Knjazev was also a basketball player.

North Macedonia men's national basketball team
The North Macedonia men's national basketball team (Macedonian: Кошаркарска репрезентација на Северна Македонија, romanized: Košarkarska reprezentacija na Severna Makedonija) represents North Macedonia in international basketball and is controlled by the Basketball Federation of North Macedonia. They joined FIBA in 1993, after they gained independence from Yugoslavia. That same year the national team played their first official match against Estonia. Prior to 1993, Macedonian players took part on the Yugoslavia national team.

Macedonia debuted in their first international tournament at the EuroBasket in 1999. They have appeared five times at the event overall, with their top performance coming in 2011, finishing in fourth place.
Jacob Yoder
Jacob Yoder (August 11, 1758 – April 7, 1832) was a pioneer of Swiss descent. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania and died in Spencer County, Kentucky.

After serving through the American Revolutionary War in the Pennsylvania line, he built a large boat at Fort Red Stone (now Brownsville), on Monongahela River, which he freighted with flour and carried to New Orleans in May, 1782. With the profits of this venture he bought peltries which he sold in Havana, investing the proceeds in sugar for the Philadelphia market. This was the first attempt to navigate the Ohio and Mississippi rivers for commercial purposes. Subsequently, he settled in Spencer County, Kentucky, and took part in equipping and keeping in the field the military forces in the northwest territory.

He is known for his invention of the flatboat.

Beechland, the home in Spencer County, Kentucky which he built in 1804, survives and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Flatboat
A flatboat (or broadboat) was a rectangular flat-bottomed boat with square ends used to transport freight and passengers on inland waterways in the United States. The flatboat could be any size, but essentially it was a large, sturdy tub with a hull.

A flatboat was almost always a one-way (downstream) vessel, and was usually dismantled for lumber when it reached its destination.
Carneiro, Kansas
Carneiro is an unincorporated community in Ellsworth County, Kansas, United States.  It is located approximately 10 miles (16 km) east of Ellsworth, north of Mushroom Rock State Park and Kanopolis Lake.

Ellsworth County, Kansas
Ellsworth County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas.  Its county seat and most populous city is Ellsworth.  As of the 2020 census, the county population was 6,376.  The county was named after Fort Ellsworth.
Archbishop Michael of America
Archbishop Michael (May 27, 1892 – July 13, 1958), born Thucydides Konstantinides (Greek: Θουκυδίδης Κωνσταντινίδης), in Maroneia of Western Thrace, was the Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America from December 18, 1949, until his death on July 13, 1958. He succeeded Athenagoras who assumed the position of Patriarch of the Church of Constantinople in January 1949.

He was admitted to the Theological School of Halki in 1907. Archbishop Michael was ordained to the priesthood in 1919.  He was elected the Metropolitan of Corinth in 1939.

Archbishop Michael would have accepted the throne as Archbishop of America earlier in 1949, but he was not the first choice to replace Athenagoras I. Archbishop Timotheos Evangelinidis was elected to replace Athenagoras in June 1949, but suffered a series of heart attacks before taking the throne in America, and chose to remain the Metropolitan of Australia and New Zealand until his death later that year.

Halki seminary
The Halki seminary, formally the Theological School of Halki (Greek: Θεολογική Σχολή Χάλκης and Turkish: Ortodoks Ruhban Okulu), was founded on 1 October 1844 on the island of Halki (Turkish: Heybeliada), the second-largest of the Princes' Islands in the Sea of Marmara. It was the main school of theology of the Eastern Orthodox Church's Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople until the Turkish parliament enacted a law banning private higher education institutions in 1971. The theological school is located at the top of the island's Hill of Hope, on the site of the Byzantine-era Monastery of the Holy Trinity. The premises of the school continue to be maintained by the monastery and are used to host conferences. It is possible to visit the island where it is located via boat in approximately one hour from the shore of Istanbul. An international campaign to reopen this theological school is ongoing.
Sterling Renaissance Festival
Sterling Renaissance Festival is a Renaissance Festival that operates in Sterling, New York. Since 1976, it runs for seven consecutive weekends through July and August and features music, comedy, and interactive theatre performances as well as the work of artisans and craftspeople.

The COVID-19 pandemic caused the 45th festival to be cancelled in 2020; it was deferred to 2021.

Sterling, New York
Sterling is a town in Cayuga County, New York, United States. The population was 3,040 at the 2010 census. Located on the shore of Lake Ontario, the town is named after William Alexander, Lord Stirling, an American general of the Revolutionary War.
2016 WTA Finals – Singles
Dominika Cibulková defeated Angelique Kerber in the final, 6–3, 6–4 to win the singles tennis title at the 2016 WTA Finals. It was Cibulková's eighth and final WTA Tour singles title, before her retirement in 2019. For the second year in a row, the eventual champion lost two matches in the round-robin stage.

Agnieszka Radwańska was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Kerber.

Cibulková, Madison Keys, and Karolína Plíšková made their debuts in the event.

Dominika Cibulková
Dominika Cibulková (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈdɔminika ˈtsibulkɔʋaː]; born 6 May 1989) is a Slovak former professional tennis player. She is the 2016 WTA Finals champion, becoming the fourth player (after Serena Williams in 2001, Maria Sharapova in 2004 and Petra Kvitová in 2011) to win the tournament on her debut. She won eight WTA Tour singles titles and two on the ITF Circuit.

Cibulková reached the quarterfinals or better of all four Grand Slam tournaments at least once. One of her most notable achievements was a final appearance at the 2014 Australian Open. Although she lost to Li Na, she was the first female Slovak to reach the final of a Grand Slam tournament.
Belfaux-Village railway station
Belfaux-Village railway station (French: Gare de Belfaux-Village) is a railway station in the municipality of Belfaux, in the Swiss canton of Fribourg. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Fribourg–Ins line of Transports publics Fribourgeois. The station is 750 metres (2,460 ft) north of Belfaux CFF on the Fribourg–Yverdon line.

Belfaux
Belfaux (French: [bɛlfo]; Arpitan: Bélfox, locally Bifou [biˈfu] ⓘ) is a municipality in the district of Sarine in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. Its former German name was Gumschen, but this is no longer in use.
Munsö
Munsö is a village and a former island (the latter is also known as Munsön) in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County in Sweden. Because of post-glacial rebound, this island in Lake Mälaren is now connected to the island Ekerön.

The village has a 12th-century round church.

Ekerö Municipality
Ekerö Municipality (Swedish: Ekerö kommun) is a municipality in the province of Uppland in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. The name derives from the name of the main island within the municipality whose name is Ekerön, and literally means "Oak Island". Its seat is located in the town of Ekerö.

The King of Sweden resides in Ekerö Municipality, at Drottningholm Palace (see below).

Originally, when the first local government acts were implemented in Sweden in 1863, eight rural municipalities were created, each corresponding to an old parish. The municipal reform of 1952 grouped them in two new larger entities. The next reform in 1971 merged them into the present municipality.
Package cushioning
Package cushioning is used to protect items during shipment. Vibration and impact shock during shipment and loading/unloading are controlled by cushioning to reduce the chance of product damage.

Cushioning is usually inside a shipping container such as a corrugated box. It is designed to absorb shock by crushing and deforming, and to dampen vibration, rather than transmitting the shock and vibration to the protected item. Depending on the specific situation, package cushioning is often between 50 and 75 mm (2 and 3 in) thick.

Internal packaging materials are also used for functions other than cushioning, such as to immobilize the products in the box and lock them in place, or to fill a void.

Shipping container
A shipping container is a container with strength suitable to withstand shipment, storage, and handling. Shipping containers range from large reusable steel boxes used for intermodal shipments to the ubiquitous corrugated boxes. In the context of international shipping trade, "container" or "shipping container" is virtually synonymous with "intermodal freight container" (sometimes informally called a "sea can"), a container designed to be moved from one mode of transport to another without unloading and reloading.
1979 Beninese parliamentary election
Elections for the National Revolutionary Assembly were held in Benin on 20 November 1979. At the time, the country was a one-party state under the People's Revolutionary Party of Benin, with voters given the choice of approving the party's list of 336 candidates or not. The list was approved by 98% of voters, with an 81% turnout. Following the election, Mathieu Kérékou was elected President (unopposed) by the Assembly on 6 February 1980.

People's Revolutionary Party of Benin
The People's Revolutionary Party of Benin (French: Parti de la Révolution Populaire du Bénin, PRPB) was a political party in the People's Republic of Benin. It was founded in 1975 by Mathieu Kérékou, a General. Under the new constitution of 30 November 1975, the PRPB became the sole legal political party in the country. Ideologically, the party officially adhered to Marxism–Leninism, although it was broadly nationalist in pratice.
Murder in Mississippi (book)
Murder in Mississippi: The True Story of How I Met a White Supremacist, Befriended His Black Killer and Wrote this Book is a 2013 true crime book written by Australian comedian and documentary-maker John Safran. It was published as God'll Cut You Down in the US. The book won the 2014 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime.

The book chronicles the events of Rankin County white supremacist Richard Barrett's murder by 23-year-old African-American Vincent McGee and explores the relationship between the two men.

Richard Barrett (lawyer)
Richard Barrett (February 18, 1943 – April 22, 2010) was an American white nationalist, lawyer and self-proclaimed leader in the nationalist Skinheadz movement. Barrett was a speaker and editor of the All The Way monthly newsletter. He was general counsel of the white nationalist organisation, Nationalist Movement, which he founded in Mississippi.
Minnesota State Highway 16
Minnesota State Highway 16 (MN 16) is an 87.671-mile-long (141.093 km) two-lane highway in southeast Minnesota, which runs from its interchange with Interstate Highway 90 in Dexter and continues east to its eastern terminus at the Wisconsin state line concurrent with U.S. Highways 14 and 61 outside La Crescent just west of La Crosse, Wisconsin.

The route was designated as a National Scenic Byway in 2003 as the Historic Bluff Country Scenic Byway.  The roadway follows the route of old U.S. Highway 16.

Lanesboro, Minnesota
Lanesboro is a city in Fillmore County, Minnesota, United States. As of the 2020 census, Lanesboro had a population of 724. It was named after F. A. Lane, an early landowner.

The South Branch of the Root River flows through it, with a waterfall dam across from Sylvan Park. The Root River State Trail and other bike paths also serve the town. An Amish community is in the area and the town is home to many unique shops and restaurants, and a professional stage theater.