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Mehrkampf-Meeting Ratingen
The Stadtwerke Ratingen Mehrkampf-Meeting is an annual track and field meeting for decathlon and heptathlon held in Ratingen, Germany. Established in 1997, it is part of the World Athletics Combined Events Tour and takes place in May.

Ratingen
Ratingen (German pronunciation: [ˈʁaːtɪŋən] ⓘ; Limburgish: Rotinge) is a town in the district of Mettmann in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It lies in the northwestern part of Berg about 12 km northeast of Düsseldorf.
1968–69 Irish Cup
The 1968–69 Irish Cup was the 89th edition of the Irish Cup, the premier knock-out cup competition in Northern Irish football.

Ards won the cup for the 3rd time, defeating Distillery 4–2 in the final replay at Windsor Park after the first game ended in a draw.

The holders Crusaders were eliminated in the quarter-finals by Ards.

Ards F.C.
Ards Football Club is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club playing in NIFL Championship. The club is based in Newtownards, but plays its home matches at Clandeboye Park in Bangor, which it rents from rivals Bangor to play home games.  The club colours are red and blue.
Country Junction
Country Junction is a general store located in Forest Inn, Pennsylvania, near Lehighton. It was founded in 1983 as a thermal insulation installing company named "The Service Team." After customer requests, it starting stocking a multitude of retail items and thus changed its name into what it is today. The original store was destroyed by a fire in 2006, and was replaced by the current store in 2010.

It sells a multitude of items including flowers, jewelry, furniture, pets, pet supplies, wine, fudge, prepared food, hardware equipment, and building materials. The store also lets customers rent construction machines. Additionally, they still have installation services for a variety of products.

Forest Inn, Pennsylvania
Forest Inn is a village located in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, south of Beltzville Lake. Country Junction retail store is located in the village.

Forest Inn uses the Lehighton zip code of 18235 and is located on U.S. Route 209.
Chris Vermeulen
Christopher Vermeulen (born 19 June 1982) is a retired Australian motorcycle racer. He competed in the Supersport World Championship and the Superbike World Championship before racing in the premier MotoGP class between 2005 and 2009, most prominently as a member of the Suzuki MotoGP team, winning the 2007 French Grand Prix.

Vermeulen won the World Supersport Championship for the Ten Kate Honda team in 2003. He then raced in the Superbike class in 2004 and 2005 for the Ten Kate Honda team, finishing as series runner-up in 2005. From 2006 he joined the elite MotoGP series, for the Rizla Suzuki MotoGP Team. During his career, Vermeulen was regarded as a wet-weather expert and is affectionately nicknamed 'Vermin' on account of his last name.

Supersport World Championship
The Supersport World Championship, abbreviated to WorldSSP, is a motorcycle racing competition on hard-surfaced circuits, based on mid-sized sports motorcycles. Competition machines were originally based on production-based motorcycles with 600 cc to 955 cc engines, depending on the number of cylinders. After trials in UK national series British Supersport, from 2022 the regulations have changed to allow eligibility of larger-displacement engines, to reflect the engine sizes being produced and encourage different manufacturers.

The championship runs as a support class to the Superbike World Championship, which is similarly based on large production-based sports motorcycles. The championship, organized and promoted as its parent series by FGSport—renamed Infront Motor Sports in 2008—until 2012 and by Dorna from the 2013 season onwards, is sanctioned by the FIM.
Bedel Pass
Bedel Pass (Kyrgyz: Бедел ашуусу, بەدەل اشۇۇسۇ; Uyghur: بەدەل ئېغىزى; Chinese: 别迭里山口) is a mountain pass in the Tian Shan Mountains range between Kyrgyzstan and China's Xinjiang. It has an elevation of 4,284 meters (14,055 ft). The pass linked China to Barskon, a settlement on the southern shore of lake Issyk-kul.

Barskoon
Barskoon (Kyrgyz: Барскоон; Russian: Барскаун, romanized: Barskaun; Persian: بارسغان) is a settlement on the southern shore of Lake Issyk Kul in the Issyk-Kul Region of Kyrgyzstan. Its population was 9,040 in 2021. It is on the A363 highway between Bökönbaev to the west and Kyzyl-Suu to the east.
2021–22 División de Honor de Hockey Hierba
The 2021–22 División de Honor de Hockey Hierba was the 56th season of the División de Honor de Hockey Hierba, the premier men's field hockey league in Spain. The season began on 8 May 2022 and finished with the championship final on 8 May 2022.

Club de Campo were the defending champions. Atlètic Terrassa won their 22nd title by defeating Real Club de Polo in the final 6–5 in a shoot-out after the match finished 2–2.

Atlètic Terrassa Hockey Club
Atlètic Terrassa Hockey Club, also known as Atlètic Terrassa, is a professional field hockey club based in Terrassa, Catalonia, Spain. The club was founded in 1952. Their senior men's field hockey team play in the División de Honor and the Copa del Rey. They have also regularly represented Spain in the Euro Hockey League.  Their senior women's field hockey team play in the División de Honor and in the Copa de la Reina. In addition to field hockey, the club also organises teams in various other sports and activities including tennis, padel, basketball, futsal, swimming, gymnastics and golf.
Sverre Reiten
Sverre Reiten (14 December 1891 – 12 July 1965) was a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party. He was born in Grytten Municipality.

He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Møre og Romsdal in 1945, but was not re-elected in 1949. Instead he served the terms 1954–1957 and 1958–1961 as a deputy representative.

Reiten was a member of the executive committee of the municipal council of Øre Municipality in 1928–1931 and 1937–1940, later serving as mayor in 1945, 1951–1955 and 1955–1957 and deputy mayor in 1945–1946. He was also the county mayor of Møre og Romsdal in the periods 1951–1955 and 1955–1957.

Øre Municipality
Øre is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1965 when it was merged into Gjemnes Municipality. The 230.5-square-kilometre (89.0 sq mi) municipality was located south and west of the Batnfjorden, to the northeast of the town of Molde. The administrative centre was the village of Øre.

Prior to its dissolution in 1965, the 230.5-square-kilometre (89.0 sq mi) municipality was the 318th largest by area out of the 525 municipalities in Norway. Øre Municipality was the 444th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of about 1,596. The municipality's population density was 6.9 inhabitants per square kilometre (18/sq mi) and its population had decreased by 6.1% over the previous 10-year period.
Jean-Louis Dubreton
Jean-Louis Dubreton (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ lwi dybʁətɔ̃]; 18 January 1773 – 27 May 1855) enlisted in the French army in 1790 and served during the French Revolutionary Wars where he gained advancement. During the War of the First Coalition he fought against the allies in the north and against the War in the Vendée. By 1801 he commanded a battalion in Italy. The year 1803 found him leading a regiment during the failed French occupation of Santo Domingo.

During the Napoleonic Wars, Dubreton served in Holland and Germany, becoming a general officer in 1811. Later he transferred to Spain where he won fame by leading the defenders during the Siege of Burgos, one of Wellington's rare setbacks. Promoted, he commanded a division at Dresden, Leipzig, and Hanau in the autumn of 1813. King Louis XVIII appointed him to several military posts and, in 1819, to the Chamber of Peers, a lawmaking body. Dubreton is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe on Column 35.

Battle of Hanau
The Battle of Hanau was fought from 30 to 31 October 1813 between Karl Philipp von Wrede's Austro-Bavarian corps and Napoleon's retreating French during the War of the Sixth Coalition.

Following Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Leipzig earlier in October, Napoleon began to retreat from Germany into France and relative safety. Wrede attempted to block Napoleon's line of retreat at Hanau on 30 October. Napoleon arrived at Hanau with reinforcements and defeated Wrede's forces. On 31 October Hanau was in French control, opening Napoleon's line of retreat.

The Battle of Hanau was an important tactical victory allowing Napoleon's depleted army to retreat onto French soil to prepare to face an invasion of France.
Edgbaston Waterworks
Edgbaston Waterworks (Edgbaston Pumping Station) (grid reference SP0455386465) lies to the east of Edgbaston Reservoir, two miles west of the centre of Birmingham, England.

The buildings were designed by John Henry Chamberlain and William Martin around 1870. The engine house, boiler house, and chimney are Grade II listed buildings. The site is operated by Severn Trent Water. Despite the close proximity to Edgbaston Reservoir there is no current or historical connection of the water. This waterworks manages domestic water supply whereas the reservoir was built to feed the canal system.

It has been suggested, but not proven, that the towers of Perrott's Folly and Edgbaston Waterworks may have influenced references to towers in the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien, who lived nearby as a child.

John Henry Chamberlain
John Henry Chamberlain (21 June 1831 – 22 October 1883), generally known professionally as J. H. Chamberlain, was a British nineteenth-century architect based in Birmingham.

Working predominantly in the Victorian Gothic style, he was one of the earliest and foremost practical exponents of the ideas of architectural theorist John Ruskin, who selected Chamberlain as one of the trustees of his Guild of St George. Chamberlain's later work was increasingly influenced by the early Arts and Crafts movement.

The majority of Chamberlain's buildings were located in and around Birmingham, where he was a major figure in civic life and an influential friend of many of the Liberal elite who dominated the city under Mayor Joseph Chamberlain (to whom he was unrelated).
Mubarak Ali (cricketer)
Mubarak Ali was an Indian cricketer. He played in 42 first-class matches between 1934 and 1937. He took a hat-trick in the 1936–37 Ranji Trophy playing for Nawanagar against Western India. The three hat-trick wickets were separated by the Nawanagar innings; Mubarak Ali picked two wickets with successive balls in the first innings and the third with the first ball of the second innings.

1936–37 Ranji Trophy
The 1936–37 Ranji Trophy was the third edition of India's first-class cricket championship. Matches were played from 3 December 1936 to 10 February 1937 with a total of 17 teams participating. The sides were divided into four zonal groups, but the tournament utilised a knockout format. Fifteen of the 1935–36 teams returned but Northern India did not. The two newcomers were Bihar and Nawanagar, who won the title at the first attempt after defeating Bengal by 256 runs in the final.
By the Way (Theory of a Deadman song)
"By the Way" is the sixth single from the Canadian rock band Theory of a Deadman's third studio album Scars & Souvenirs, released on May 18, 2009. The song features Chris Daughtry and Robin Diaz on back-up vocals. It is about a girl leaving her boyfriend without saying anything to him and he now thinks about her all the time and wishes she'd come back. The Scars & Souvenirs album title comes from a line in this song: "Piled up from the years, all those scars and souvenirs".

Scars & Souvenirs
Scars & Souvenirs is the third album by Canadian rock band Theory of a Deadman, and was released on April 1, 2008. It has so far been the band's most successful album to date and has spawned many hit singles. A special edition CD/DVD of the album was released on October 20, 2009. It features bonus and acoustic tracks (some were released on the iTunes version of the album), the band's entire video catalog, and numerous making-of and behind-the-scenes features. Bonus video includes "Haciendas," Tyler's special send-up of MTV's Cribs.
Maokong gondola station
Maokong Station is the terminal station of the Maokong Gondola of the Taipei Rapid Transit System, located in Wenshan District, Taipei, Taiwan. It provides access to the town of Maokong, which the station is named after.

Wenshan District
Wenshan District (Chinese: 文山區; pinyin: Wénshān Qū) is a district in Taipei, Taiwan. It is the southernmost district of the twelve districts in Taipei. Wenshan previously referred to the region south of the Taipei Basin (including Xindian and Pinglin).
Blackfoot (band)
Blackfoot is an American Southern rock band from Jacksonville, Florida, formed in 1970. Though they primarily play with a Southern rock style, they are also known as a hard rock act. The band's classic lineup consisted of guitarist and vocalist Rickey Medlocke, guitarist Charlie Hargrett, bassist Greg T. Walker and drummer Jakson Spires.

They had a number of successful albums during the 1970s and early 1980s, including Strikes (1979), Tomcattin' (1980) and Marauder (1981).

Bobby Barth
Bobby Barth (born December 5, 1952, in Coffeyville, Kansas, United States) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist.  As a player, Barth is most known for his emotional melodic style and his slide work.
Love Story (video game)
Love Story, stylized as Ø Story, is a Japanese exclusive adventure interactive movie video game developed by General Entertainment and published by Enix on April 27, 2000. It was the first Enix game published on the PlayStation 2, and was part of the campaign to promote the release of the console in Japan.

The player takes the role of a young man who dies in a motorcycle accident. He is sent back to earth as a ghost by Ai, the angel of love, who tells him that he may revive if he gains the love of a girl named Rina within six days. The female cast of the game is composed of Japanese television actresses and models. Reviews of the game range from average to negative, with criticism of the game's graphics and acting.

Aya Hirayama
Aya Hirayama (平山 あや, Hirayama Aya; born January 13, 1984) is a Japanese actress who has appeared in various films including Waterboys (2001) and Lovers' Kiss (2003). Hirayama was born in Kuroiso, Tochigi, Japan, which is now part of Nasushiobara.

Aya made her acting debut in 1999 with Tengoku no Kiss, a Nippon Television drama, at the age of 15. Subsequently, she established herself as a television regular with appearances in many Japanese TV dramas. In 2001, Hirayama played significant parts in the television drama Fighting Girl and the film Waterboys. Hirayama's most notable acting role to date is her leading appearance as Yoko in the 2004 South Korean movie Fighter in the Wind. In 2005, Hirayama played the title character Haruka in the Japanese television drama Haruka 17.
Rein Jan Hoekstra
Rein Jan Hoekstra (25 November 1941 – 11 January 2025) was a Dutch jurist. He was born in Dokkum. He graduated from the University of Groningen in 1965, majoring in Law. He later worked as an attorney (1965–1970), Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers in 1983, and Secretary General at the Ministry of General Affairs (1986–1994). In 1994, he became a member of the Raad van State, the highest administrative court in the Netherlands.

In 2003 he was an informateur for the Crown along with Frits Korthals Altes of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), helping to form the second Balkenende cabinet. On 25 November 2006 he was again appointed by the Queen as informateur, during the 2006-2007 Dutch cabinet formation after the parliamentary elections of 2006, helping to form the fourth Balkenende cabinet.

Rein Jan Hoekstra was a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). He was married and had one daughter.

Hoekstra died on 11 January 2025, at the age of 83.

Dokkum
Dokkum (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈdɔ.kʏm] ⓘ) is a Dutch fortified city in the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân in the province of Friesland. It has 12,669 inhabitants (February 8, 2020). The fortifications of Dokkum are well preserved and are known as the bolwerken (bulwarks). It is the fifth most popular shopping city in Friesland. It also had the smallest hospital in the Netherlands.
Bystra, Pomeranian Voivodeship
Bystra [ˈbɨstra] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pruszcz Gdański, within Gdańsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.

For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.

Gmina Pruszcz Gdański
Gmina Pruszcz Gdański is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Gdańsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the town of Pruszcz Gdański, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina.

The gmina covers an area of 142.56 square kilometres (55.0 sq mi), and as of 2016 its total population is 28,001.
Katharine Wildish
Katharine "Kat" Wildish (born 21 September 1959) is a ballerina from Tampa, Florida, U.S. She danced with the New York City Ballet (1981–1983), American Ballet Theatre (1985–1987), and performed as a guest artist for a number of companies worldwide before retiring from stage work in 2007.

Wildish is a Master Teacher of Ballet, certified from primary through Level 7 (the highest) of the ABT National Training Curriculum, and a proponent of dance education and performance for adults.

Wildish has also functioned as a director, producer, and choreographer.

American Ballet Theatre
American Ballet Theatre (ABT) is a classical ballet company based in New York City. Founded in 1939 by Lucia Chase and Richard Pleasant. Through 2019, it had an annual eight-week season at the Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center) in the spring and a shorter season at the David H. Koch Theater in the fall; the company tours around the world the rest of the year. The company was scheduled to have a 5-week spring season at the MET preceded by a 2-week season at the Koch Theater beginning in 2020.   ABT is the parent company of the American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, and was recognized as "America's National Ballet Company" in 2006 by the United States Congress.
Ikawa Line
The Ikawa Line (井川線, Ikawa-sen) is a railway line of the Ōigawa Railway. It runs from Senzu Station in Kawanehon, Shizuoka, the end station of the Ōigawa Main Line, and terminates at Ikawa Station in Aoi-ku, Shizuoka. The line has 61 tunnels and 51 bridges along its 25.5 kilometer length and includes the only rack-and-pinion railway section currently operating in Japan.

In September 2022, the Ōigawa Main Line suffered substantial damage from Tropical Storm Talas. Rail services between Kawane-Onsen Sasamado and Senzu Station were suspended until further notice. Steam locomotives were changed to only operate between Shin-Kanaya and Kawane-Onsen Sasamado. Ōigawa Railway advises customers intending to travel beyond Ieyama Station to the Ikawa Line, towards Senzu and the Sumata Gorge area, to transfer to Kawanehon Town's community buses at Ieyama Station, which provide connections to Senzu Station.

Ikawa Station
Ikawa Station (井川駅, Ikawa-eki) is a railway station Aoi Ward, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, operated by Ōigawa Railway. At an altitude of 636 metres (2,087 ft), it is the highest railway station in Shizuoka Prefecture.
Simina Grigoriu
Ana Simina Grigoriu (born 8 May 1981 in Bucharest) is a Romanian-Canadian DJ and music producer from Toronto specializing in electronic techno music. She has lived and worked in Berlin, Germany, since 2008.

Romanian Canadians
Romanian Canadians (French: Canadiens d'origine roumaine; Romanian: Canadieni români)  are Canadian citizens of Romanian descent or Romania-born people who reside in Canada.

According to the 2021 Canadian census, there are 215,885 Romanian-Canadians.
The Vigilantes Ride
The Vigilantes Ride is a 1943 American Western film directed by William Berke and written by Ed Earl Repp. The film stars Russell Hayden, Dub Taylor, Bob Wills, Shirley Patterson, Tris Coffin and Jack Rockwell. The film was released on December 23, 1943, by Columbia Pictures.

Ed Earl Repp
Ed Earl Repp (May 22, 1901 – February 14, 1979) was an American writer, including screenwriter and novelist.

His stories appeared in several of the early pulp magazines including Air Wonder Stories, Science Wonder Stories and Amazing Stories. After World War II, he began working as a screenwriter for several western movies.
Tony Rome
Tony Rome is a 1967 American neo-noir mystery crime thriller film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Frank Sinatra in the title role, alongside Jill St. John, Sue Lyon and Gena Rowlands. It was adapted from Marvin H. Albert's novel Miami Mayhem.

The story follows the adventures of Miami private investigator Tony Rome (Sinatra) in his quest to locate a missing diamond pin that belongs to a wealthy heiress.

A sequel, Lady in Cement, was made in 1968, again featuring Sinatra as Tony Rome, and co-starring Raquel Welch and Dan Blocker. Appearing in both films was Richard Conte as Miami police lieutenant Dave Santini.

Both films are examples of a late-1960s neo-noir trend that revived and updated the hard-boiled detective and police dramas of the 1940s. Other films in this genre include Harper (1966), The Detective (1968), which also starred Sinatra, as well as Point Blank (1967), Bullitt (1968), Madigan (1968) and Marlowe (1969).

Marvin Albert
Marvin H. Albert (January 22, 1924 – March 25, 1996) was an American writer of mystery, crime and adventure novels including ones featuring Pete (Pierre-Ange [French: Stone Angel]) Sawyer, a French-American private investigator living and working in France.
Frode Scheie
Frode Scheie (born 19 March 1967) is a Norwegian handball coach and former player.

He made his debut on the Norwegian national team in 1995, and played 105 matches for the national team between 1995 and 2002. He participated at the 1999 World Men's Handball Championship where the Norwegian team placed 13th, and he served as captain for Norway at the 2000 European Men's Handball Championship. Scheie has been sports commentator for the television channel TV 2 Norway and for Viasat.

Scheie was awarded the Håndballstatuetten trophy from the Norwegian Handball Federation in 2013.

In the 2020s, Scheie entered politics for the Pensioners' Party. He was elected to Frogn municipal council.

Norway men's national handball team
The Norway men's national handball team represents Norway at international handball competitions, and is governed by the Norges Håndballforbund (NHF). The most successful era of men's Norwegian handball team was between 2015 and 2020, led by former coach Christian Berge and star player Sander Sagosen. In that period, they won two silver medals at the World Championship and played two semifinals of the European Championship winning one bronze medal.
Kamba people
The Kamba or Akamba (sometimes called Wakamba) people are  Bantu peoples ethnic group who predominantly live in Kenya stretching from Nairobi to Tsavo and northwards to Embu, in the southern part of the former Eastern Province. This land is called Ukambani and constitutes Makueni County, Kitui County and Machakos County. They also form the second largest ethnic group in 8 counties including Nairobi and Mombasa counties.

Embu, Kenya
Embu is the largest town in Embu County located approximately 125 kilometres (78 mi) northeast of Nairobi towards Mount Kenya. With a population of 64,979 its the 36th largest urban center in Kenya and the 11th largest in Mount Kenya region . Its a major economic hub in the mount kenya region. Embu served as the provincial capital of the former Eastern Province and currently serves as the headquarters of Embu County in Kenya.It provides an avenue for trade, tourism and highway transit between the national capital and the Northern Frontier.