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Barry McKenzie
Barry McKenzie (full name: Barrington Bradman Bing McKenzie) is a fictional character created in 1964 by the Australian comedian Barry Humphries, suggested by Peter Cook, for a comic strip, written by Humphries and drawn by New Zealand artist Nicholas Garland in the British satirical magazine Private Eye. He was subsequently featured in theatre and in two films in the 1970s, and portrayed by Australian singer Barry Crocker.

Barry Crocker
Barry Hugh Crocker AM (born 4 November 1935) is an Australian Gold Logie-winning character actor, television personality, singer, and variety entertainer with a crooning vocal style.

Crocker is known for his iconic Australian films during the 1970s, including The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972) and its sequel, Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974). Crocker was also the presenter and leading performer on the TV series The Sound of Music, taking over from entertainer Bobby Limb.

His singing talents eventually earned him over 30 Gold records. In 1971, Sound of Music was the 11th-most-popular show in the country. Crocker sang the theme tune to the Australian soap opera Neighbours between 1985 and 1992. Crocker published an autobiography called Bazza – The Adventures of Barry Crocker in 2003. In 2023, he published Last of the Entertainers: A Star-Studded Story Across Sixty-Five Years of Television, Stage, Screen and in Recording.
Rajasinha I
Rajasinghe I also known as the lion of Sitawaka  (Sinhala:පළමුවන රාජසිංහ) was a king of Sitawaka, known for his patriotism and fight against the Portuguese invasion of Sri Lanka. Born as Tikiri Bandara to King Mayadunne, he received the name "Rajasinha" (meaning the Lion King) after the fierce Battle of Mulleriyawa.

Battle of Mulleriyawa
The Battle of Mulleriyawa (Sinhala: මුල්ලේරියාව සටන) in 1559 was part of the Sinhalese–Portuguese War. It was one of the most decisive battles in Sri Lankan history and considered as the worst defeat of the Portuguese during that period. According to local chronicles, the marshlands of Mulleriyawa turned red with blood after the annihilation of the Portuguese. With this victory, Sitawaka emerged as a military power which was able to challenge the Portuguese expansion.
Franco Abbiati
Franco Abbiati (14 September 1898 – 22 January 1981) was an Italian musicologist.

Abbiati was born in Bergamo. He studied composition at the musical high school in Turin. He worked as a music critic for the Corriere della Sera for thirty-six years.

The Franco Abbiati Prize is named after him.

Franco Abbiati Prize
The Franco Abbiati Prize (Italian: Premio Franco Abbiati della critica musicale italiana) is an annual award that has been presented by the National Association of Music Critics in Italy since 1980. Named after the Italian musicologist Franco Abbiati, past winners of the award have included Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Leonard Bernstein, Myung-whun Chung, Valery Gergiev, Carlo Maria Giulini, Sergiu Celibidache, John Eliot Gardiner, Leonidas Kavakos, Carlos Kleiber, Evgeny Kissin, Radu Lupu, Zubin Mehta, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Seiji Ozawa, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Muti, Maurizio Pollini, András Schiff, Grigory Sokolov, Jeffrey Tate, Alpesh Chauhan, Arcadi Volodos, and Krystian Zimerman, among many others.
Clemens Center
The Clemens Center is a concert and theater center in Elmira, New York. It is named after Samuel Clemens, whose pen name was Mark Twain and was often resident in Elmira when writing his books.  The Clemens Center partners with local educators through the Mary Tripp Marks School-Time Series to allow students to experience live theater.

Elmira, New York
Elmira (/ɛlˈmaɪrə/) is a city in and the county seat of Chemung County, New York, United States. It is the principal city of the Elmira, New York, metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses Chemung County. The population was 26,523 at the 2020 census, down from 29,200 at the 2010 census, a decline of more than 7 percent.

The City of Elmira is in the south-central part of the county, surrounded on three sides by the Town of Elmira.  It is in the Southern Tier of New York, a short distance north of the Pennsylvania state line.

The city was the site of the Elmira Prison, a prisoner-of-war camp that held over 12,000 captured Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War. Elmira College is located within the city.
Mike Dorreen
Michael Thomas Dorreen (born 19 January 1967) is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played at representative level for New Zealand and Canterbury, and at club level for Addington (of the Canterbury Rugby League), Hawkes Bay, Auckland Warriors, Sydney Tigers and Hunter Mariners, as a centre.

Hawke's Bay rugby league team
The Hawke's Bay rugby league team are a New Zealand rugby league team that represents the Hawke's Bay Rugby League in New Zealand Rugby League competitions. They are nicknamed the Unicorns. They competed in the Lion Red Cup between 1994 and 1996.
Province of Posen
The Province of Posen (German: Provinz Posen; Polish: Prowincja Poznańska) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1848 to 1920, occupying most of the historical Greater Poland. The province was established following the Poznań Uprising of 1848 as a successor to the Grand Duchy of Posen, which in turn was annexed by Prussia in 1815 from Duchy of Warsaw. It became part of the German Empire in 1871. After World War I, Posen was briefly part of the Free State of Prussia within Weimar Germany, but was dissolved in 1920 after the Greater Poland Uprising broke out and most of its territory was incorporated into the Second Polish Republic. The remaining German territory was re-organized into Posen-West Prussia in 1922.

Posen (present-day Poznań, Poland) was the provincial capital.

Greater Poland Uprising (1848)
The Greater Poland uprising of 1848 or Poznań Uprising (Polish: powstanie wielkopolskie 1848 roku / powstanie poznańskie) was an unsuccessful military insurrection of Poles against forces of the Kingdom of Prussia, during the Revolutions of 1848. The main fighting in the Prussian Partition of Poland was concentrated in the Greater Poland region but some fighting also occurred in Pomerelia. In addition, protests were also held in Polish inhabited regions of Silesia.
2024 Open de Roanne
The 2024 Open Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes de Roanne, was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hardcourts. It was the third edition of the tournament which was part of the 2024 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Roanne, France between 6 and 13 October 2024.

Matteo Martineau
Matteo Martineau (born 16 January 1999) is a French tennis player who competes on the ATP Challenger Tour.
He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 170 achieved on 1 July 2024. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 220 achieved on 20 May 2024.
Assault on Death Mountain
Assault on Death Mountain, also known as Shadow Warriors: Assault on Death Mountain, is a 1999 Canadian–American made-for-television action film directed by Jon Cassar, starring Terry "Hulk" Hogan, Carl Weathers and Shannon Tweed. It is a sequel to Assault on Devil's Island and, like the previous installment, was billed as a "Nitro Original", an attempt to expand the WCW Nitro professional wrestling brand into dramatic programming.

Jon Cassar
John Francis "Jon" Cassar (born 27 April 1958) is a Maltese-Canadian television director and producer, known for his work on the first seven seasons of 24. In 2006, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for his work on the episode "Day 5: 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.". In 2011, he produced and directed all episodes of the Canadian-American miniseries The Kennedys, for which he won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Television Film and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries or Movie.
Tatiana Bulanova
Tatyana Ivanovna Rudneva (Russian: Татьяна Ивановна Руднева; née Bulanova (Буланова); born 6 March 1969 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) is a Russian singer recognized for her strong, melancholic romance ballads, catchy electro-pop beats and techno remixes. She shot to fame in 1990 when she started her singing career with the band Letniy sad (Russian: Летний сад). Tatyana and Letniy sad had 10 hit albums together between 1990 and 1996. Since 1996, she has maintained her popularity and released a further 18 hit solo albums. She was named a Meritorious Artist of Russia (2004).

After her marriage to Russian football player, Vladislav Radimov (Russian: Владислав Радимов), she took some time to focus on her family, typically performing in the "All-Stars" shows instead of solo concerts. Bulanova and Radimov divorced in 2016. They have one son, Nikita. This was Bulanova's second marriage.  In June 2023, she married former tennis player Valery Rudnev.

Vladislav Radimov
Vladislav Nikolayevich Radimov (Russian: Владисла́в Никола́евич Ради́мов, IPA: [vlədʲɪˈslaf nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ rɐˈdʲiməf]; born 26 November 1975) is a Russian football coach and a former player who played midfielder. He was previously the captain of FC Zenit Saint Petersburg and is a former Russian international player. He was a right-sided midfielder or playmaker. At Zenit Saint Petersburg he often played a free playing holding midfielder (like a deep lying playmaker) or a central midfielder.
Warriors of the Apocalypse
Warriors of the Apocalypse is a 1985 science fiction action film directed by Bobby A. Suarez. It is also known as Time Raiders, Operation Overkill and Searchers of the Voodoo Mountain. It may have been inspired by Anabasis (Xenophon)

Bobby A. Suarez
Roberto A. Suarez (November 27, 1942 – February 8, 2010), commonly referred to as "Bobby" or "BAS", was a Filipino film producer, director and screenwriter who achieved international recognition for movies now regarded as cult classics.
If You'd Only Believe
"If You'd Only Believe" is an inspirational pop song written by Roxanne Seeman, Billie Hughes, and Jermaine Jackson. It was produced by Michael Omartian, with The Jacksons as co-producer, on their 2300 Jackson Street album.

"If You'd Only Believe" was the finale song for The Jackson Family Honors television special. Michael Jackson joined his family and guest artists including Celine Dion, Smokey Robinson, Gladys Knight, Bruce Hornsby and Dionne Warwick on stage to sing it. The show was filmed at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

The Jackson Family Honors
The Jackson Family Honors is a 1994 Jackson family reunion television special, starring Michael Jackson, tribute honorees Elizabeth Taylor and Berry Gordy, and celebrity guests performers.  It was billed as a humanitarian event to raise money for charities. The musical benefit was filmed on February 19, 1994 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.  It was broadcast on February 22, 1994 on NBC.
Adil Shahi–Portuguese conflicts
The Adil Shahi–Portuguese conflicts were various armed engagements that took place in India between the Portuguese Empire and the Sultanate of Bijapur, ruled by the Adil Shahi dynasty, whose rulers were known to the Portuguese as Hidalcão.

The Sultanate of Bijapur was one of the Deccan Sultanates. The Portuguese first clashed with the forces of Bijapur in 1506 at the siege of Angediva. The Portuguese governor of India Afonso de Albuquerque captured Goa in 1510 after its ruler was found to be harbouring mercenaries there and preparing an expedition to send against the Portuguese.

Goa became the capital of the Portuguese State of India and head of all Portuguese possessions in Asia until 1961, though the Sultanate of Bijapur ceased to exist when it was conquered by the Mughal Empire in 1686.

Yusuf Adil Shah
Yusuf Adil Shah (1450 – 5 December 1510), referred as Yusuf Adil Khan or Hidalcão by the Portuguese, was the founder of the Adil Shahi dynasty that ruled the Sultanate of Bijapur for nearly two centuries. As the founder of the Adil Shahi dynasty, Yusuf Adil Shah is credited with developing the town of Bijapur and elevating it to significant status.
Kong: The Animated Series
Kong: The Animated Series is an animated television series that follows King Kong, the title character based on the 1933 film of the same name. The series was a co-production between BKN International, Ellipsanime, and M6, and premiered in France on the latter network on May 2, 2001.

Kong: The Animated Series was the first show produced by BKN to not air in syndication.

Alex Doduk
Alexander Doduk is an American voice actor and former child actor who is well known for his roles in the films: Barbie in the Nutcracker (2001), Scary Godmother (2003), The Impossible Elephant (2001) and in the animated series Brain Powered. He was the first voice of Lan Hikari for 14 episodes (1-5, 9–17) on the English version of Megaman NT Warrior before Brad Swaile became the voice for Lan. Doduk has voiced in other English dubs of anime, such as Inuyasha and the Ocean dub of Escaflowne. He was also José on Cybersix. He provided the voice of Vega Obscura in the English version of Zoids: New Century Zero. In 2000, Doduk voiced Jake Spankenheimer in Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.

Doduk retired from acting in 2003. He became a police officer for the Edmonton Police Service as an adult. In November 2019, Doduk was arrested for punching and hitting a man with a police baton. The event was recorded through security footage. In June 2025, he was acquitted of all assault charges.
The Propeller Group
The Propeller Group is a cross-disciplinary structure for creating art projects. The collective is headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and works in conjunction with creative individuals in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Dinh Q. Lê
Dinh Q. Lê (Vietnamese: Lê Quang Đỉnh; 1968 – 6 April 2024) was a Vietnamese American multimedia artist, best known for his photography work and photo-weaving technique. Many of his works consider the Vietnam War, known as the American War in his native country, as well as methods of memory and how it connects to the present. Other series of his, such as his From Hollywood to Vietnam, explore the relation of pop culture to personal memory and the difference between history and its portrayals in media. In 2009, the Wall Street Journal described him as "one of the world's most visible Vietnamese contemporary artists".
Festivali i Këngës 64
Festivali i Këngës 64 was the 64th edition of the annual Albanian music competition Festivali i Këngës, organised by Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH). It was held between 17 and 20 December 2025 at the Palace of Congresses in Tirana and was hosted by Arilena Ara and Salsano Rrapi. The winner of the competition, Alis with "Nân", will represent Albania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026.

Alis (singer)
Alis Kallaçi (born 2002 or 2003), known mononymously as Alis, is an Albanian singer and songwriter. He won the fifth season of the Albanian television music competition X Factor. He will represent Albania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 with the song "Nân".
Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze
Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze // ⓘ (18 January 1963 – 31 December 2007) was a Nigerian philosopher. Eze was a specialist in postcolonial philosophy. He wrote as well as edited influential postcolonial histories of philosophy in Africa, Europe, and the Americas.  He brought Immanuel Kant's racism to light among Western thinkers in the 1990s, an area of Kant's life that Western philosophers often gloss over. Influences in his own work include Paulin Hountondji, Richard Rorty, David Hume, and Immanuel Kant.

At the time of his death, Eze was Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, where he also founded and edited the journal Philosophia Africana . He died on December 31, 2007, in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania after a short illness.

Philosophia Africana
Philosophia Africana is a peer-reviewed academic journal of Africana philosophy established in 1998. It was published at DePaul University under the editorship of Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze until his death in 2007, and was subsequently edited by K. Kalumba (Ball State University). The journal won the 2002 Council of Editors of Learned Journals award for Best New Journal. It ceased publication of new issues in Fall 2016, and restarted in 2019, still under the editorship of Kibujjo Kalumba, at Penn State University Press. Online access to published issues up to volume 18 is provided by the Philosophy Documentation Center, and after that access is at the Scholarly Publishing Collective.
La Tribu de Dana
"La Tribu de Dana" (pronounced [la tʁiby də dana], literally Dana's tribe) is a 1998 song by French hip hop band Manau  for their debut album Panique celtique, on which it features as the second track. Initially released as a single in July 1998, it was an immediate success, particularly in France, where it topped singles charts for many months and became one of the best-selling singles in France at the time.

Manau (band)
Manau (French pronunciation: [mano]) is a Breton hip-hop band formed in 1998, known for their fusing of traditional Celtic melodies with modern hip-hop beats. It was initially composed of Martial Tricoche, Cédric Soubiron, and Hervé "R.V." Lardic until Lardic's departure and replacement by Gregor Gandon. Although the band is currently based in Paris, all of the members can trace their roots back to Brittany. The group's name comes from the old Gaelic name for the Isle of Man.
Anna Ljunggren
Anna-Kristin Ljunggren (born 13 June 1984 in Narvik) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Nordland in 2005. At 21, Ljunggren became the youngest parliamentarian in Norwegian history, along with Trond Jensrud, who was 21 when he was elected in 1989.

On the local level she was a member of the executive committee of the municipal council of Narvik Municipality from 2003 to 2005.

Anna Ljunggren is the daughter of Per Åge Ljunggren, associate professor and rector at the Narvik University College.

Nordland (Storting constituency)
Nordland (Lule Sami: Nordlánnda; Southern Sami: Nordlaante; Northern Sami: Nordlánda) is one of the 19 multi-member constituencies of the Storting, the national legislature of Norway. The constituency was established in 1921 following the introduction of proportional representation for elections to the Storting. It is conterminous with the county of Nordland. The constituency currently elects eight of the 169 members of the Storting using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2025 parliamentary election it had 181,846 registered electors.
Kaka Point
Kaka Point is a small town at the northern edge of The Catlins, an area of the southern South Island of New Zealand. It is located 15 kilometres (9.3 miles) south of Balclutha and 8 km north of the headland of Nugget Point. It has a seasonally fluctuating population, and there are numerous cribs (holiday homes) at the settlement. The settlement's best−known resident was Māori poet Hone Tuwhare, who lived in Kaka Point for many years until he died in 2008. Kaka Point is named for the kākā bird, whose signature call is "ka-aa."

There is a restaurant, a motel, bed and breakfasts establishments, and a camping grounds in Kaka Point.

Hone Tuwhare
Hone Peneamine Anatipa Te Pona Tuwhare (21 October 1922 – 16 January 2008) was a noted Māori New Zealand poet. He is closely associated with The Catlins in the Southland region of New Zealand, where he lived for the latter part of his life.
2017 Ecuadorian general election
General elections were held in Ecuador on 19 February 2017 alongside a referendum on tax havens. Voters elected a new President and National Assembly. Incumbent President Rafael Correa of the PAIS Alliance was not eligible for re-election, having served three terms. In the first round of the presidential elections, PAIS Alliance candidate Lenín Moreno received 39% of the vote. Although he was more than 10% ahead of his nearest rival, Guillermo Lasso of the Creating Opportunities party, Moreno was just short of the 40% threshold required to avoid a run-off. As a result, a second round was held on 2 April. In the second round Moreno was elected president with 51.16% of the vote.

Creating Opportunities
Creating Opportunities (Spanish: Creando Oportunidades, CREO, the acronym means lit. 'I believe', and also means lit. 'I create') is a centre-right to right-wing political party in Ecuador. In the 2021 general election, its leader, Guillermo Lasso was elected for president.
Biographical Dictionary of Ecuador
The Biographical Dictionary of Ecuador (Spanish: Diccionario Biográfico del Ecuador) is a biographical dictionary in 22 volumes written by Rodolfo Pérez Pimentel. The first volume was published in 1987 with later volumes coming out into the 2000s.

Rodolfo Pérez Pimentel
Rodolfo Pérez Pimentel (born November 2, 1939, in Guayaquil) is an Ecuadorian lawyer, historian, and biographer. He was declared the lifetime chronicler of the city of Guayaquil, and is a member of the National Academy of Ecuadorian History. He was the 2005 recipient of the Premio Eugenio Espejo in Literature, awarded to him by President Alfredo Palacio.
Charles L. Copeland
Charles L. "Charlie" Copeland (born February 1963) is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the Delaware Senate as minority leader and also as chair of the Delaware Republican Party.

Republican State Committee of Delaware
The Republican State Committee of Delaware is the affiliate of the United States Republican Party in Delaware. It has five regional offices in Kent County, Western New Castle County, Central New Castle County,  Northern New Castle County, and Sussex County. The party has historically had weak electoral power in the state.
Unnamed Press
Unnamed Press is an independent publisher based in Los Angeles, California. Unnamed Press publishes literary fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on debuts by women, underrepresented voices and people of color, as well as internationally focused speculative and fantasy.  Its art director, Jaya Nicely, is an LA-based illustrator and designer.

Kazi Anis Ahmed
K. Anis Ahmed (Bengali:কাজী আনিস আহমেদ) is a Bangladeshi writer and publisher. He is the author of four works of fiction, including Carnivore (HarperCollins UK, 2025). He is the co-founder and publisher of the English-language daily newspaper Dhaka Tribune and the online news portal Bangla Tribune. He is also a co-founder and President of the Board of Trustees of the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh.
Marianne of My Youth
Marianne of My Youth (French: Marianne de ma jeunesse, German: Marianne) is a 1955 French–West German romantic drama film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Marianne Hold, Horst Buchholz and Pierre Vaneck. It was released in separate French language and German language versions. It is based on a 1932 novel Schmerzliches Arkadien by Peter von Mendelssohn.

It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and on location at Hohenschwangau Castle and at Schloss Fuschl in Salzburg. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Jean d'Eaubonne and Willy Schatz. Marcel Ophüls was the assistant director on the production.

Peter von Mendelssohn
Peter von Mendelssohn (1908–1982) was a German writer and historian. Of Jewish heritage he was forced to leave Germany following the Nazi Party's rise to power in 1933. He became a prominent member of the exile community, along with figures such as Thomas Mann. In 1936 settled in Britain where he became a naturalised subject. His 1932 novel Schmerzliches Arkadien was adapted into a 1955 film Marianne of My Youth.

After the Second World War he served as a press officer with the Allied Control Council in Düsseldorf. He subsequently returned to live in Munich in 1970, where he died twelve years later. He was married to fellow exile and writer Hilde Spiel.