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The People of Sparks
The People of Sparks is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer Jeanne DuPrau,  published in 2004. It is the sequel to The City of Ember (2003) and the second "Book of Ember" in the series. It was followed by The Prophet of Yonwood (2006) and The Diamond of Darkhold (2008).

The Playtone Company, the production company that released the City of Ember film, also purchased the film rights to The People of Sparks, but after the box office failure of the first film, plans for the sequel were shelved.

Jeanne DuPrau
Jeanne DuPrau (born 1944 in San Francisco, California) is an American writer, best known for The Books of Ember, a series of science fiction novels for young people. She lives in Menlo Park, California.
Eric Michelman
Eric Michelman, a graduate from MIT, is credited with inventing the now commonplace computer input device known as the scroll wheel.  Scroll wheels are most often located between the left and right-click buttons on modern computer mice.

In 2015 Michelman founded More Than Scientists, a nonprofit outreach program for climate scientists to speak publicly about their personal views on climate change.

Scroll wheel
A scroll wheel is a wheel used for scrolling. The term usually refers to such wheels found on computer mice (where they can also be called a mouse wheel). It is often made of hard plastic with a rubbery surface, centred around an internal rotary encoder.  It is usually located between the left and right mouse buttons and is positioned perpendicular to the mouse surface. Sometimes the wheel can be pressed left and right, which is actually just two additional macros buttons.
Peter Trynchy
Peter Trynchy (August 22, 1931 – November 21, 2022) was a Canadian businessman, farmer and long serving municipal and provincial level politician from Alberta. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 until 2001. During his time in public office, Trynchy served many cabinet portfolios in the Alberta provincial government.

Whitecourt-Ste. Anne
Whitecourt-Ste. Anne was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first-past-the-post method of voting from 1993 to 2019.

Communities within the boundaries of the Whitecourt-Ste. Anne electoral district include Mayerthorpe, Onoway, and Whitecourt.
Battle of Nagara-gawa
The Battle of Nagara-gawa (長良川の戦い, Nagara-gawa no tatakai) took place along the banks of the Nagara River in the former Mino Province in April 1556. The site of the battle is in present-day Gifu city, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It was a battle between Saitō Dōsan and his son, Saitō Yoshitatsu, who had instigated a coup d'etat.

Saitō Dōsan
Saitō Dōsan (斎藤 道三; 1494 – May 28, 1556), also known as Saitō Toshimasa (斎藤 利政), was a Japanese samurai lord and daimyo during the Sengoku period. He was also known as the "Viper of Mino" (美濃の蝮, Mino no Mamushi) for his ruthless tactics. He was appointed Governor of Yamashiro by the Imperial Court. After entering monkhood in his later years, he was also called Saitō Yamashiro-nyudō-no-kami (斎藤山城入道守).

He has historical reputation as one of Japan's Three Great Villains (日本三大梟雄), a nickname which he shared with Matsunaga Hisahide and Ukita Naoie, due to their ambitious and treasonous personality, along with the habit of resorting to underhanded tactics and assassinations to eliminate their opposition.
Early Christmas Morning
"Early Christmas Morning" is a song by American recording artist Cyndi Lauper, from her sixth studio album and first Christmas album, Merry Christmas...Have a Nice Life (1998). Written by Lauper along with Jan Pulsford in 1996. It was only officially released in Japan.

There are two versions of the song. The second version includes a children's choir instead of the Japanese vocals used in the first version.

The track now appears on several Christmas compilation albums in the United Kingdom and Canada, including Holiday Wishes Favourites released in 2009 by Sony Music Entertainment.

Merry Christmas ... Have a Nice Life
Merry Christmas ... Have a Nice Life is the sixth studio album and first Christmas album released by Cyndi Lauper.  It combines original compositions by Lauper and collaborator Jan Pulsford with traditional Christmas songs. "Feels Like Christmas" previously appeared on Lauper's 1993 album Hat Full of Stars.
The album has sold 26,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The album was released for the first time on (limited green) vinyl, 1,000 pressings, in November 2019.
Lübben (Spreewald)
Lübben (Spreewald) (German pronunciation: [ˈlʏbn̩] ⓘ) or Lubin (Błota) (in Lower Sorbian) is a town of 14,000 people, capital of the Dahme-Spreewald district; it is in the historical Lower Lusatia region and is in the state of Brandenburg, in eastern Germany.

Lübben is situated in the Spree Forest biosphere reserve region, between the Upper and Lower Spree Forest.

The municipality is part of the Sorbian settlement area; the German and Lower Sorbian languages have equal status.

Paul Gerhardt
Paulus or Paul Gerhardt (12 March 1607 – 27 May 1676) was a German theologian, Lutheran pastor and hymnodist, considered Germany's greatest hymn writer. His songs and hymns were published in contemporary hymnals such as Praxis pietatis melica, and are still part pf modern hymnals. Hymn stanzas by him feature prominently in Bach's Passions and the Christmas Oratorio.
Rejsekort
Rejsekort (Official translation: Travel card) is an electronic ticket system for public transport in Denmark. The system is a collaborative work between DSB, HUR, Ørestadsselskabet, and various regional bus companies, and work on it started on August 18, 2003. In June 2005, Thales Group and Accenture were chosen as suppliers.

The total cost of the system will be between €200 and €270 million.

Thales Group
Thales S.A., trading as Thales Group (French pronunciation: [talɛs]), is a French multinational aerospace and defence corporation specialising in electronics.

It designs, develops and manufactures a wide variety of aerospace and military systems, devices and equipment but also operates in the cybersecurity and formerly civil ground transportation sectors. The company is headquartered in Paris' business district, La Défense, and its stock is listed on Euronext Paris.

Founded as Thomson-CSF in 1968, the group was rebranded Thales in 2000 due to the company's desire to simplify and improve the group's brand.

Thales is partially owned by the French state and operates in more than 68 countries. In 2023, the company generated €18,42 billion in revenue and was the 17th largest defence contractor in the world, with 53% of its total revenue generated from its military activities.
National Art Museum of China
The National Art Museum of China (NAMOC; 中国美术馆; 'China Art Museum') is the national art museum of China and one of the largest art museums in the nation. Located in Beijing and opened since 1963, it is a level-1 public welfare institution funded by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China.

The construction of the museum started in 1958, and concluded in 1962. It has a total land area of 30,000 square metres (320,000 sq ft). The museum was renovated between May 2004 and January 2005, and has been given an additional area of 5,375 square metres (57,860 sq ft).

Ministry of Culture and Tourism (China)
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People's Republic of China is a constituent department of the State Council of China in charge of culture and tourism.

The ministry was established on 19 March 2018 based on the Ministry of Culture and the China National Tourism Administration.
Neil Postman
Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003) was an American author, educator, media theorist, and cultural critic who eschewed digital technology, including personal computers and mobile devices, and was critical of the use of personal computers in schools. He is best known for 20 books about technology and education, including Teaching as a Subversive Activity (1970), The Disappearance of Childhood (1982), Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), Conscientious Objections (1988), Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (1992) and The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School (1995).

Cultural critic
A cultural critic is a critic of a given culture, usually as a whole. Cultural criticism has significant overlap with social and cultural theory. While such criticism is simply part of the self-consciousness of the culture, the social positions of the critics and the medium they use vary widely. The conceptual and political grounding of criticism also changes over time.
Central Bosnian cultural group
Central Bosnian culture (Serbo-Croatian: Srednjobosanska kulturna grupa) was a cultural group that emerged during the Bronze and Iron Ages. This group inhabited the upper and mid course areas of the Vrbas river (up to Jajce) and the Bosna river (up to Zenica, but excluding the Sarajevo plain), and constituted an independent cultural and ethnic community. Hillfort-type settlements were typical of this group and were often located close to major areas of cultivable land. The standard of housing in these settlements was high. Around 120 hill forts belonging to this culture have been identified in the area of Central Bosnia. This group is commonly associated with the later Illyrian tribe of Daesitiates.

Central Bosnia
Central Bosnia (Bosnian: Srednja Bosna, Croatian: Središnja Bosna) is a central subregion of Bosnia, which consists of a core mountainous area with several basins, valleys and mountains. It is bordered by Bosnian Krajina to the northwest, Tropolje (Livno area) to the west, Herzegovina to the south, Sarajevo to the east and Tuzla to the northeast. It is a part of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and is divided between the Central Bosnia Canton and the Zenica-Doboj Canton, with a population of around 800,000. The largest city in the region is Zenica, with the Sarajevo-Zenica basin being the most densely populated area. Its highest peaks are Vranica (2,110 m), Šćit (1,780 m) and Bitovnja (1,700 m).
Devanthakudu (1984 film)
Devanthakudu is a 1984 Indian Telugu-language action crime drama film directed by S. A. Chandrasekhar. The film stars Chiranjeevi and Vijayashanti. It is a remake of Chandrasekhar's own 1983 Kannada film Geluvu Nannade. The film was released on 12 April 1984 and emerged as a commercial success.

Siva Nageswara Rao
Siva Nageswara Rao is an Indian film director and screenwriter known for his work to Telugu cinema, particularly in the comedy genre. His notable films as a director include Money (1993), Money Money (1994), Lucky Chance (1994), Sisindri (1995), Pattukondi Chuddam (1997), Hands Up! (2000), Dhanalakshmi, I Love You (2002), Mr & Mrs Sailaja Krishnamurthy (2004), and Bhookailas (2007).
John Fox (writer)
John Fox (May 26, 1952  –  August 14, 1990) was an American novelist and short-story writer.  Fox was born in the Pelham Bay area of the Bronx and graduated from Cardinal Hayes High School and Lehman College.

Fox's only novel became famous and influential. The Boys on the Rock, detailed the coming out and falling in love of a gay teenage swimmer by the name of Billy Connors. The novel is set in the heady political atmosphere of 1968.  The author Edmund White described the book as “Some of the brightest, funniest, most touching writing about adolescence...And if ever a book will give straight readers an exact sense of what it's like to grow up gay, surely The Boys on the Rock will".

According to his obituary in The New York Times, Fox died of AIDS in his Manhattan home in 1990, aged 38.  He was survived by his parents, John Sr. and Joan, also of the Bronx; a brother, James, of Danbury, Connecticut; and a sister, Dorothy Schmidt of Malvern, Pennsylvania.

Pelham Bay (neighborhood), Bronx
Pelham Bay is a middle class residential neighborhood in the borough of the Bronx, in New York City. It is named for Pelham Bay Park, New York City's largest park, which lies on the neighborhood's northeastern border; and for Pelham Bay, a body of water in that park. The neighborhood is bounded roughly by Pelham Parkway on the north, the New England Thruway (I-95) on the east, the Bruckner Expressway (I-95) on the south, and the Hutchinson River Parkway on the west.

Pelham Bay is part of Bronx Community District 10, and its ZIP Code is 10461. Pelham Bay is patrolled by the 45th Precinct of the New York City Police Department.
Burma Star Association
The Burma Star Association is a British veterans' association for ex-servicemen and women of all services who served in the Burma Campaign of World War II. The criterion for membership is the award of the Burma Star for service in Burma during World War II for the necessary qualifying period or the Pacific Star with Burma Clasp.

The Association was formed on 26 February 1951 to promote comradeship and the welfare of its members. The arduous nature of the Burma Campaign has been recognised and permission granted to the members to wear a replica of the Burma Star in a lapel badge and cap badge.

The Association's Patron was Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh and its President was John Slim, 2nd Viscount Slim, the son of Bill Slim, who commanded the 14th Army in Burma.

On 1 April 2020 the Burma Star Association merged with the Burma Star Memorial Fund, which took over the work of the association and set up a scholarship scheme in honour of "Burma Star veterans".

William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
Field Marshal William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (6 August 1891 – 14 December 1970), usually known as Bill Slim, was a British military commander and from 1953 to 1960, the 13th governor-general of Australia.

Slim saw active service in both the First and Second World Wars and was wounded in action three times. During the Second World War he led the Fourteenth Army, the so-called "forgotten army" in the Burma campaign. After the war he became the first British officer who had served in the Indian Army to be appointed Chief of the Imperial General Staff.

In the early 1930s, Slim also wrote novels, short stories, and other publications under the pen name Anthony Mills.
Bohemia After Dark
Bohemia After Dark is an album by jazz drummer Kenny Clarke, featuring the earliest recordings with Cannonball Adderley and Nat Adderley. It was released by Savoy Records in September 1955.

The album, and its first track, are titled after the Café Bohemia a restaurant where, between 1955 and 1960, jazz live sessions were held.

Jerome Richardson
Jerome Richardson (November 15, 1920 – June 23, 2000) was an American jazz musician and woodwind player. He is cited as playing one of the earliest jazz flute recordings with his work on the 1949 Quincy Jones arranged song "Kingfish".
Koldichevo
Koldichevo (Kaldyčava/Koldychevo/Kołdyczewo) was the site of a Nazi concentration camp 16 kilometres (10 mi) north of Baranovichi, Belarus. About 22,000 people, mostly Jews, were killed in the camp between 1942 and 1944. The murders in the camp were done as part of The Holocaust in the Baranavichy District.

The Holocaust in Baranavichy district
The Holocaust in Baranavichy District refers to the systematic persecution and extermination of Jews in Baranavichy District of Brest Region in Belarus by Nazi Germany and its collaborators from 1941 to 1944 during World War II. This was part of the policy of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" and an integral part of the Holocaust in Belarus and the broader genocide of European Jewry.
2016 Regional Women's Championship
The 2016 Regional Women's Championship was a 50-over women's cricket competition that took place in the West Indies. It took place in July 2016, with 6 teams taking part and all matches taking place in Guyana. Trinidad and Tobago won the tournament, on better qualifying record after the final against Barbados was rained-off.

The tournament was followed by the 2016 Regional Women's Twenty20 Championship.

Trinidad and Tobago women's national cricket team
The Trinidad and Tobago women's national cricket team, also known as Trinidad and Tobago Red Force Divas, is the women's representative cricket team of the country of Trinidad and Tobago. They compete in the Women's Super50 Cup and the Twenty20 Blaze.

In 1973, they competed in the first World Cup, finishing fifth with two victories. Since, the West Indies have competed as a united team, and Trinidad and Tobago have only competed at domestic level.
Cyrus Hoopes House and Barn
Cyrus Hoopes House and Barn is a historic home and barn located in West Marlborough Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The house was built about 1825, with a major wing added about 1860.  The original section is three stories and four bays wide.  The wing added two additional bays.  The house had four bay wide porches and is constructed of stuccoed stone. It displays Greek Revival style design influences. The frame bank barn was built about 1887. It replaced an earlier barn that burned in a fire in 1884.  Also on the property are the remains of a limestone quarry and lime kiln.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

West Marlborough Township, Pennsylvania
West Marlborough Township is a township in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 814 at the 2010 census. East Marlborough and West Marlborough townships were carved out of the larger Marlborough Township in 1729.

West Marlborough Township is a second class township, governed by a three-member Board of Supervisors, who meet monthly at the township garage in the village of Doe Run. Other elected officials include an auditor, constable, and political party committee members. A Planning Commission is appointed by the supervisors and serve to advise the supervisors as to real estate subdivision, zoning, the township comprehensive plan, and similar matters.
Leticia Boscacci
Leticia Boscacci (born 8 November 1985) is an Argentine volleyball player who participated with the Argentina national team at the Pan-American Volleyball Cup (in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015), the FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix (in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016), the FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup (in 2011, 2015), the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in Italy, the 2015 Pan American Games in Canada, and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil.

At club level, she played for Alianza Jesús María, General Paz Juniors, Olímpico de Freyre, Banco Nación, Ícaro Alaró, CDU Granada, Haro Rioja, SES Calais, Cuesta Piedra, Volley Soverato, Olympiacos, Kanti and Alba Blaj before moving to Dinamo București in 2016.

Argentina women's national volleyball team
The Argentina women's national volleyball team represents Argentina in international women's volleyball and is controlled by the Argentine Volleyball Federation (Federación del Voleibol Argentino in Spanish, and abbreviated "FeVA").

It participates in the Summer Olympics, the world championships, and other international tournaments.
Flor Coffey
Florence Coffey (10 June 1920 – 25 April 2014) was an Irish hurler who played as a centre-back for the Tipperary senior team.

Born in Boherlahen, County Tipperary, Coffey first arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he first linked up with the Tipperary minor team before later joining the junior side. He made his senior debut during the 1943 championship. Coffey immediately became a regular member of the team and won two All-Ireland medals, one Munster medal and one National Hurling League medal.

As a member of the Munster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions, Coffey won one Railway Cup medal as a non-playing substitute. At club level he was a two-time Connacht medallist, firstly with Boherlahan–Dualla and later with Thurles Sarsfields.

Coffey retired from inter-county hurling following the conclusion of the 1953 championship.

Boherlahan–Dualla GAA
Boherlahan–Dualla GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club associated with the villages of Boherlahan and Dualla in County Tipperary, Ireland. The parish of Boherlahan–Dualla is a large parish in Tipperary, and Boherlahan-Dualla GAA club competes in the Mid-Tipperary Division. The Boherlahan–Dualla parish borders seven parishes from three separate divisions, Holycross–Ballycahill GAA and Moycarkey–Borris GAA to the north who play in the Mid-Tipperary division, to the west it borders Knockavilla–Donaskeigh Kickhams GAA, Clonoulty–Rossmore GAA, Golden–Kilfeacle GAA and Cashel King Cormacs GAA, all of whom play in the West Tipperary division, and to the east, Killenaule GAA who play in the South Tipperary division. The club is primarily involved in hurling, and throughout its history has produced many hurlers who have competed for the club and for the Tipperary county team. These include members of the Leahy, Maher, Coffey, and Power families.
Demirköy, Kırklareli
Demirköy (Turkish: Demirköy, "iron village"; known as Малък Самоков, Malak Samokov in Bulgarian) is a town in Kırklareli Province, in the Marmara region of Turkey. It is the seat of Demirköy District. Its population is 3,489 (2022). The inhabitants are mainly descendants of Pomak Muslims from the village of Tisovo and other villages from the Greek side of the Chech region who were settled in Demirköy during the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923/1924. Prior to that, the village was known as Samokov (Bulgarian: Самоков).

The mayor is Recep Gün, elected in 2019.

Mavrochori, Drama
Mavrochori (Greek: Μαυροχώρι, Katharevousa Μαυροχώριον), until 1927 known as Tisova (Greek: Τίσοβα, Bulgarian: Тисово), is an abandoned village in the Drama regional unit, Greece. The settlement, which became part of the community of Mylopetra in 1931, was dissolved in 1940.
Natalie Whitby
Natalie Michelle Whitby is a justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. Whitby was appointed as a justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia on 22 May 2023. Prior to her appointment to the Supreme Court of Western Australia, Whitby was a judge of the District Court of Western Australia.

Supreme Court of Western Australia
The Supreme Court of Western Australia is the highest state court in the Australian State of Western Australia. It has unlimited jurisdiction within the state in civil matters (although it usually only hears matters involving sums of A$750,000 or more), and hears the most serious criminal matters.
Trévilly
Trévilly (French pronunciation: [tʁeviji]) is a former commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Guillon-Terre-Plaine.

Guillon-Terre-Plaine
Guillon-Terre-Plaine (French pronunciation: [ɡɥijɔ̃ tɛʁ plɛn]) is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in central France. It was established on 1 January 2019 by merger of the former communes of Guillon (the seat), Cisery, Sceaux, Trévilly and Vignes.
Glossop line
The Glossop line is a railway line connecting the city of Manchester with the towns of Hadfield and Glossop in Derbyshire, England. It formed part of the historic Great Central Main Line between Manchester Piccadilly and Sheffield Victoria. Passenger services on the line are operated by Northern Trains.

Hadfield, Derbyshire
Hadfield is a town in the High Peak of Derbyshire, England; it had a population of 6,763 at the 2021 Census. It lies on the south side of the River Etherow, near to the border with Greater Manchester, at the western edge of the Peak District and close to Glossop. Hadfield doubled as the fictional town of Royston Vasey in the BBC comedy series The League of Gentlemen.