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The Combat of the Thirty
The Combat of the Thirty (French: Le Combat des Trente) is an 1857 history painting by the French artist Octave Penguilly L'Haridon. It depicts the Combat of the Thirty fought on 26 March 1351 during the War of the Breton Succession. A notable scene in the History of Brittany, it featured a pre-arranged fight between selected fighters on either side.

The painting was exhibited at the Salon of 1857 in Paris. Today it is on display at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper.

Salon of 1857
The Salon of 1857 was an art exhibition  held in Paris. Part of the regular tradition of Salons It was held at the Palace of Industry built for the Exposition Universelle in 1855. Organised by the Académie des Beaux-Arts, it opened on 15 June 1857. The Salon reverted to its traditional formal after the Salon of 1855, part of the Exposition Universelle, which had featured a large number of retrospective works from both France and elsewhere.

Amongst paintings on display were The Congress of Paris by Édouard Dubufe depicting the diplomatic gathering of the same name that brought an end to the Crimean War. Jean-Léon Gérôme enjoyed great public success with The Duel After the Masquerade. Jules Verne reviewed the Salon in a series of articles.
Nedstrand
Nedstrand (locally, Stranda) is a village in Tysvær Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The village is on the Nedstrand peninsula's southeast coast, at the confluence of the Nedstrandsfjorden and Vindafjorden. The village of Hindaråvåg and the Nedstrand Church both lie just west of Nedstrand.

The 0.37-square-kilometre (91-acre) village has a population (2025) of 271 and a population density of 732 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,900/sq mi).

The village is a regular ferry stop on routes to the Sjernarøyane islands (across the Nedstrandsfjorden) and to the village of Hebnes (across the Vindafjorden in Suldal Municipality). Both of those stops have other connections all over the region.

Rogaland
Rogaland (Norwegian: [ˈrûːɡɑlɑn] ⓘ) is a county in Western Norway, bordering the North Sea to the west and the counties of Vestland to the north, Telemark to the east and Agder to the east and southeast. As of 1 January 2024, it had a population of 499,417 people.

The administrative centre of the county is the city of Stavanger, which is the third largest city in Norway.
On Approval (1930 film)
On Approval is a 1930 British comedy film directed by and starring Tom Walls and also featuring Yvonne Arnaud, Winifred Shotter and Robertson Hare, the same artistes responsible for the Aldwych farces. It was based on the play On Approval by Frederick Lonsdale, as was the 1944 film On Approval.

It was made at British and Dominion's Elstree Studios with sets designed by Lawrence P. Williams.

The 1932  book "The Face of London" by Harold Clunn Pub. Simpkin Marshall, features, opposite page 224, a picture, probably taken in Aug. or Sept. 1930, of the New Victoria Picture Theatre, Vauxhall Bridge Road. Displayed in large letters is ON APPROVAL the film being presented by the cinema at that time.

Aldwych farce
The Aldwych farces were a series of twelve stage farces presented at the Aldwych Theatre, London, nearly continuously from 1923 to 1933. All but three of them were written by Ben Travers. They incorporate and develop British low comedy styles, combined with clever word-play. The plays were presented by the actor-manager Tom Walls and starred Walls and Ralph Lynn, supported by a regular company that included Robertson Hare, Mary Brough, Winifred Shotter, Ethel Coleridge, and Gordon James.

The farces were so popular that touring companies were sent to present them in the British provinces.  Most of the Aldwych farces were adapted for film in the 1930s, starring the original stage casts as far as possible. The plays were later seen in television versions and some enjoyed revivals.
Belgrade, Missouri
Belgrade is an unincorporated community in south central Washington County, Missouri, United States. It is located on Missouri Supplemental Route C, approximately five miles (8.0 km) west of Caledonia and ten miles (16 km) south of Potosi.

Washington County, Missouri
Washington County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 23,514.  The county seat and largest city is Potosi.  The county was officially organized on August 21, 1813, and was named in honor of George Washington, the first President of the United States.
Sant'Omobono Terme
Sant'Omobono Terme (previously Sant'Omobono Imagna; Bergamasque: Sant' Imbù) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 50 kilometres (31 mi) northeast of Milan and about 15 kilometres (9 mi) northwest of Bergamo.

Sant' Omobono Imagna borders the following municipalities: Bedulita, Berbenno, Brembilla, Corna Imagna, Costa Valle Imagna, Roncola, Rota d'Imagna. The former commune of Valsecca was merged with Sant'Omobono in 2014.

Brembilla
Brembilla was a comune in the province of Bergamo, in Lombardy, Italy. It was situated 15 km northwest of Bergamo. In 2014, the municipality of Gerosa was merged with Brembilla to create a new municipality, named Val Brembilla.
Tragedy of Hyderabad (book)
Tragedy of Hyderabad is a history book by the last Prime Minister of Hyderabad, Mir Laiq Ali. The book was written and published in 1962 and accounts the events that followed the independence of the Hyderabad State and India from the British Empire, as outlined in the Independence of India Act, which reveals that the princely states were given the choice to either join India, Pakistan, or remain independent; Hyderabad chose independence. Dr. Enugu Narasimha Reddy translated the book into Telugu as 'Hyderabad Vishaadham'.

Mir Laiq Ali
Mir Laiq Ali (1903 – 24 October 1971) was the last Prime Minister of Hyderabad State under the rule of the Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan. His official title was "President of the Executive Council of the Nizam of Hyderabad".
Tonight the Stars Revolt!
Tonight the Stars Revolt! is the second major label studio album by American rock band Powerman 5000. It was released on July 20, 1999, by DreamWorks Records. Having sold over one million copies and achieving platinum status, this would become the group's most successful release and featured such hits as "Nobody's Real" and "When Worlds Collide".

The album shares the same title as a story by Gardner Fox published in the pulp science fiction magazine Planet Stories (1952).

DreamWorks Records
DreamWorks Records (often referred in copyright notices as SKG Music, LLC) was an American record label founded in 1996 by David Geffen, Mo Ostin, his son Michael Ostin and Lenny Waronker as a subsidiary of DreamWorks Pictures. The label operated until January 9, 2005, when it was sold to Universal Music Group. The label itself also featured a Nashville, Tennessee-based subsidiary, DreamWorks Nashville, which specialized in country music and was shut down in 2005 then moved to MCA Nashville. The company's logo was designed by Roy Lichtenstein and was his last commission before his death on September 29, 1997. DreamWorks Pictures's DreamWorks Records catalogue is managed by Music Corporation of America, while its DreamWorks Nashville catalogue is managed by MCA Nashville.
Abbey of San Pedro de Siresa
The Abbey of San Pedro de Siresa (Aragonese: Monesterio de Sant Per de Ciresa, Spanish: Monasterio de San Pedro de Siresa) is a monastery in the Valle de Hecho, (Aragon, Spain). It was constructed between the 9th and 13th centuries, and is the northernmost monastery in Aragon.

County of Aragon
The County of Aragon (Aragonese: Condato d'Aragón) or County of Jaca (Aragonese: Condato de Chaca) was a small Frankish marcher county in the central Pyrenean valley of the Aragon river, comprising Ansó, Echo, and Canfranc and centered on the small town of Jaca (Iacca in Latin and Chaca in Aragonese), an area now part of Spain. It was created by the Carolingians late in the 8th or early in the 9th century, but soon fell into the orbit of the Kingdom of Navarre, into which it was absorbed in 922. It would later form the core of the 11th century Kingdom of Aragon.
Helen of Troy (film)
Helen of Troy  is a 1956 American-Italian-French epic historical drama film, based on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. It was directed by Robert Wise, from a screenplay by Hugh Gray and John Twist, adapted by Hugh Gray and N. Richard Nash. The music score was composed by Max Steiner and the cinematography by Harry Stradling Sr, who shot the film in CinemaScope. The movie has been called "a forgotten Robert Wise epic".

The film stars Rossana Podestà, Stanley Baker, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Jacques Sernas, with Niall MacGinnis, Maxwell Reed, Nora Swinburne, Robert Douglas, Torin Thatcher, Harry Andrews, Janette Scott, Ronald Lewis, Eduardo Ciannelli, Esmond Knight and Brigitte Bardot as Andraste, Helen's handmaiden, her first film production shot outside France.

Harry Andrews
Henry Stewart Fleetwood Andrews, CBE (10 November 1911 – 6 March 1989) was an English actor often known for his film portrayals of tough military officers. His performance as Regimental Sergeant Major Wilson in The Hill (1965) earned Andrews the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor and a nomination for the 1966 BAFTA Award for Best British Actor. The first of his more than 80 film appearances was in The Red Beret in 1953.

Prior to his film career, Andrews was a theatre actor, appearing at such venues as the Queen's Theatre, the Lyceum Theatre and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in the UK as well as theatres in New York City, Paris, Antwerp and Brussels. Andrews made his London theatre debut in 1935 at the St James's Theatre and his New York City debut in 1936 at the Empire Theatre.

Andrews was awarded the CBE in 1966.
A World Apart (1988 film)
A World Apart is a 1988 anti-apartheid drama film directed by Chris Menges, and starring Barbara Hershey, David Suchet, Jeroen Krabbé, Paul Freeman, Tim Roth and Jodhi May. Written by Shawn Slovo, it is based on the lives of Slovo's parents, Ruth First and Joe Slovo.  The film was a co-production between companies from the UK and Zimbabwe, where it was filmed. It features Hans Zimmer's first non-collaborative film score. The movie was filmed on location in northeastern Zimbabwe.

The film received acclaim, winning BAFTA Awards for Best Screenplay for Shawn Slovo and Best Supporting Actor for David Suchet, as well as the Special Grand Prize of the Jury at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.

Jeroen Krabbé
Jeroen Aart Krabbé (Dutch pronunciation: [jəˈrun ˈaːrt krɑˈbeː]; born 5 December 1944) is a Dutch actor, film director and painter with a successful career in both Dutch- and English-language films. He is best known to international audiences for his leading roles in the Paul Verhoeven films Soldier of Orange (1977) and The Fourth Man (1983), for playing the villain General Georgi Koskov in the James Bond film The Living Daylights (1987) and his parts in The Prince of Tides (1991), The Fugitive (1993), and Immortal Beloved (1994). His 1998 directorial debut, Left Luggage, was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival.
Howlett Line
The Howlett Line was a critical Confederate earthworks dug during the Bermuda Hundred Campaign of the United States Civil War in May 1864. Specifically, the line stretched across the Bermuda Hundred peninsula from the James River to the Appomattox River.
  It was named for the Dr. Howlett's House that overlooked the James River at the north end of the line. The Howlett Line became famous as the "Cork in the Bottle" by keeping  the 30,000-man strong General Butler's Army of the James at bay.

Bermuda Hundred, Virginia
Bermuda Hundred was the first administrative division in the English colony of Virginia. It was founded by Sir Thomas Dale in 1613, six years after Jamestown. At the southwestern edge of the confluence of the Appomattox and James Rivers opposite City Point, annexed to Hopewell in 1923, Bermuda Hundred was a port town for many years. The terminology "Bermuda Hundred" also included a large area adjacent to the town. In the colonial era, "hundreds" were large developments of many acres, arising from the English term to define an area which would support 100 homesteads. The port at the town of Bermuda Hundred was intended to serve other "hundreds" in addition to Bermuda Hundred.

The area of the peninsula between the James and Appomattox Rivers on which Bermuda Hundred is located was part of the Bermuda Hundred Campaign of May 1864 during the American Civil War.

No longer a shipping port, Bermuda Hundred is now a small community in the southeastern portion of Chesterfield County.
VMFA-115
Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 115 (VMFA-115) was a United States Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet squadron. Officially nicknamed the "Silver Eagles" and on occasion Joe's Jokers after their first commanding officer Major Joe Foss, the squadron was last based at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina and fell under the command of Marine Aircraft Group 31 (MAG-31) and the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (2nd MAW).  The squadron participated in combat operations during World War II, the Korean and Vietnam Wars and has deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom with a final deployment in 2008 to Al Asad Airbase in western Iraq. The Squadron radio callsign was "Blade".

Joe Foss
Joseph Jacob Foss (April 17, 1915 – January 1, 2003) was a United States Marine Corps Major and a leading Marine fighter ace in World War II. He received the Medal of Honor in recognition of his role in air combat during the Guadalcanal campaign. In postwar years, he was an Air National Guard Brigadier General, served as the 20th Governor of South Dakota (1955–1959), president of the National Rifle Association of America (NRA) and the first commissioner of the American Football League. He also was a television broadcaster.
Ford C. Quillen
Ford Carter Quillen (September 21, 1938 – January 18, 2026) was an American attorney and Democratic Party politician.

A native of Gate City in Scott County, Virginia, Quillen was first elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1969, where he continued to serve until his decision to retire and not seek reelection in 1993.

When Speaker A. L. Philpott stepped down due to poor health in 1991, Quillen, as Chair of the House Privileges and Elections Committee, became his temporary replacement until Tom Moss's election in November.

Quillen was the grandfather of three-time NBA Slam Dunk Contest champion Mac McClung. He died in Kingsport, Tennessee, on January 18, 2026, at the age of 87.

Gate City, Virginia
Gate City is a town in Scott County, Virginia, United States. The population was 2,043 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Scott County.

Gate City is part of the Kingsport–Bristol–Bristol metropolitan area, which is a component of the "Tri-Cities" region.

Some scenes from The River were shot here.
Alison Elder
Alison Elder is an English former cricketer who played as a batter and occasional wicket-keeper. She appeared in four One Day Internationals for England in 1990, making her debut against The Netherlands. In total she scored 43 runs, with a best of 37 not out, and took six catches. She played domestic cricket for East Anglia and Yorkshire.

East Anglia Women cricket team
The East Anglia Women's cricket team was the women's representative cricket team for East Anglia. They competed in the Women's Area Championship from 1980 to 1996 and in the Women's County Championship from 1997 to 2000, after which they were replaced by Hertfordshire. They reached the final of the Women's Area Championship in 1982, and competed in Division Two of the County Championship in their final season of existence.
Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You)
"Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You)" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys. The song is a medley of U2's "Where the Streets Have No Name" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You", a 1967 song by Frankie Valli, though in an arrangement informed by the 1982 disco version of the song by the Boys Town Gang rather than the original. The song accompanied "How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?", the third single from their fourth studio album, Behaviour (1990), as a double A-side in the United Kingdom (both singles were released separately in the United States). Released in March 1991 by Parlophone, the song became the duo's 15th consecutive top-20 entry in the UK, peaking at number four on the UK Singles Chart.

Behaviour (Pet Shop Boys album)
Behaviour (released as Behavior in the United States) is the fourth studio album by the English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released on 22 October 1990 by Parlophone. A Japanese special edition included a bonus mini CD, exclusive artwork and printed lyrics in a white velvet-like box.
Burao Airport
Burao Airport (IATA: BUO, ICAO: HCMV) is an airport in Burao, Somaliland. It is situated less than one kilometre north-east from the New Bridge at the City Center. As of 2012, the airport's facilities are undergoing major renovations, supervised by the ICAO.

Somaliland made in 2024 Somaliland airlines as the national carrier funded and created by the Somaliland government, with likely plane orders of Boeing 777 and Airbus A330 with only light planes only to train pilots, Somaliland airlines plans to be the national carrier with links to  Eastern Africa and Middle east.

Burao
Burao, also spelt Bur'o or Bur'ao (Burr-OH; Somali: Burco, IPA: [Burˈʕo], Arabic: برعو), is the capital of the Togdheer region and the second largest city in Somaliland. Burao was the site of the declaration of an independent Somaliland on 18 May 1991.
Budslaw
Budslaw or Budslau is an agrotown in Myadzyel District, Minsk Region, Belarus. It is located 150 kilometres (93 mi) north of the capital Minsk.

The main landmark is the Catholic Minor Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary consecrated in 1643. The church is known for the icon of Our Lady of Budslau. The annual celebration in honor of the icon (Budslaw Fest), which takes place on July 2, was added to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List in 2018.

Our Lady of Budslau
Our Lady of Budslau (Belarusian: Будслаўскі абраз Маці Божай, romanized: Budslaŭski abraz Maci Božaj, lit. 'Budslau icon of the Mother of God') is a venerated icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary enshrined  within the Basilica of the Our Lady of Assumption in the village of Budslau, Belarus.
Ali H. Sayed
Ali H. Sayed (born São Paulo, Brazil, to parents of Lebanese descent) is the dean of engineering at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), where he teaches and conducts research on Adaptation, Learning, Statistical Signal Processing, and Signal Processing for Communications. He is the Director of the EPFL Adaptive Systems Laboratory. He has authored several books on estimation and filtering theories, including the textbook Adaptive Filters, published by Wiley & Sons in 2008.
Professor Sayed received the degrees of Engineer and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, in 1987 and 1989, respectively, and the Doctor of Philosophy degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1992.

Signal processing
Signal processing is an electrical engineering subfield that focuses on analyzing, modifying and synthesizing signals, such as sound, images, potential fields, seismic signals, altimetry processing, and scientific measurements. Signal processing techniques are used to optimize transmissions, digital storage efficiency, correcting distorted signals, improve subjective video quality, and to detect or pinpoint components of interest in a measured signal.
World of Outlaws Late Model Series
The World of Outlaws Late Model Series is a Dirt Super Late Model touring series currently owned and sanctioned by the World Racing Group.  The series competes on dirt ovals across the United States, primarily throughout the East Coast and the Midwest. The series has also raced in Canada in previous years.

Dirt track racing
Dirt track racing is a form of motorsport held on clay or dirt surfaced banked oval racetracks. Dirt track racing started in the United States before World War I and became widespread during the 1920s and 1930s using both automobiles and motorcycles, spreading throughout Japan and often running on horse racing tracks. There are a myriad of types of race cars used, from open wheel Sprint cars and Modifieds to stock cars. While open wheel race cars are purpose-built racing vehicles, stock cars (also known as fendered cars) can be either purpose-built race cars or street vehicles that have been modified to varying degrees. There are hundreds of local and regional racetracks throughout the United States and also throughout Japan. The sport is also popular in Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom.
William C. Newland
William Calhoun Newland (October 8, 1860 – November 18, 1938) was an American attorney who served a term as the 11th  Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina (1909–1913).

A Democrat, Newland had previously served as mayor of his hometown, Lenoir, North Carolina twice from 1887 to 1888 and from 1901 to 1903, and was elected to terms in the North Carolina Senate (1881–1882) and in the North Carolina House of Representatives (1889–1890, 1903–1904). While in the General Assembly, Newland introduced and sponsored the bill that established Appalachian State University.
In 1904, Newland lost a close race for Congress to E. Spencer Blackburn.

The town of Newland, North Carolina was named after him as part of a political deal to secure his aid in passage of the bill that established Avery County in 1911. Newland is the seat of Avery County.

Newland, North Carolina
Newland is a town in and the county seat of Avery County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 715 at the 2020 census. By elevation, Newland is the highest county seat located east of the Mississippi River.
Andrés Pico
Andrés Pico (November 18, 1810 – February 14, 1876) was a Californio who became a successful rancher, fought in the contested Battle of San Pascual during the Mexican–American War, and negotiated promises of post-war protections for Californios in the 1847 Treaty of Cahuenga. After California became one of the United States, Pico was elected to the state assembly and senate. He championed the Pico Act of 1859, seeking to split California into two parts in the interest of fair tax representation of the Californios in the southern third of the state. He was appointed as the commanding brigadier general of the state militia during the American Civil War.

History of the San Fernando Valley
The history of the San Fernando Valley from its exploration by the 1769 Portola expedition to the annexation of much of it by the City of Los Angeles in 1915 is a story of booms and busts, as cattle ranching, sheep ranching, large-scale wheat farming, and fruit orchards flourished and faded.  Throughout its history, settlement in the San Fernando Valley (usually called simply "The Valley") was shaped by availability of reliable water supplies and by proximity to the major transportation routes through the surrounding mountains.