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Mudcat Grant
James Timothy "Mudcat" Grant Jr. (August 13, 1935 – June 11, 2021) was an American baseball pitcher who played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB).  He played for the Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins, Los Angeles Dodgers, Montreal Expos, St. Louis Cardinals, Oakland Athletics, and Pittsburgh Pirates from 1958 to 1971. He was a two-time All-Star.

In 1965, Grant became the first black pitcher to win 20 games in a season in the American League and the first black pitcher to win a World Series game for the American League.  He pitched two complete-game World Series victories in 1965, hit a three-run home run in game 6, and was named The Sporting News American League Pitcher of the Year.

Baseball Reliquary
The Baseball Reliquary is a nonprofit educational organization "dedicated to fostering an appreciation of American art and culture through the context of baseball history and to exploring the national pastime’s unparalleled creative possibilities." The Reliquary was founded in 1996 in Monrovia, California, and since 2015 has been located at Whittier College in Whittier, California. The organization is funded in part by a grant from the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture. Since 1999, the Reliquary has maintained an “alternate hall-of-fame” called the Shrine of the Eternals.
Benton School District (Wisconsin)
Benton School District is a school district headquartered in Benton, Wisconsin. It serves grades K-12.

As of 2015 the high school has 96 students.

To ensure its continued operation despite the small size of its student body, the school district shares functions with other school districts: the operator of the cafeteria originates from the Southwestern Wisconsin School District, the high school's students partake in some classes and several athletic teams of Shullsburg High School, and Benton High places its students in the American football team of Scales Mound High School in Scales Mound, Illinois.

Scales Mound High School
Scales Mound High School, or SMHS, is a public four-year high school located at 210 Main Street in Scales Mound, Illinois, a village in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, in the Midwestern United States. SMHS serves the community and surrounding area of Scales Mound. The campus is located 25 miles east of Dubuque, Iowa, and serves a mixed village and rural residential community.
Dhaasippen
Dhaasippen, also Dhaasippenn (transl. Dancing Girl) is a 1943 Tamil-language film directed by Ellis R. Dungan and produced by Bhuvaneswai Pictures. The lead actors are T. R. Mahalingam and M. G. Ramachandran. The film was scored by Lalitha Venkatraman and S. Rajeswara Rao. The film has had three other titles: Jyothi Malar, Dasi Penn and Thumbai Mahatmyam, and Jothi Malar (ஜோதி மலர்). The film is based on a folk tale about a girl becoming a devadasi and dedicating her life to worshipping Lord Shiva and refusing to follow the traditional path of marrying a man. Dhaasippen performed well and became a box office hit. But no print of the film is known to survive, making it a lost film.

Ellis R. Dungan
Ellis Roderick Dungan (May 11, 1909 – December 1, 2001) was an American film director, who was well known for working in Indian films, predominantly in Tamil cinema, from 1936 to 1950. He was an alumnus of the University of Southern California and moved to India in 1935. During his film career in South India, Dungan directed the debut films of several popular Tamil film actors, such as M. G. Ramachandran in Sathi Leelavathi, T. S. Balaiya, Kali N. Ratnam and N. S. Krishnan.
There's Nothing Better Than Love
"There's Nothing Better Than Love" is a 1987 song by American recording artist Luther Vandross, with guest vocals by actor/dancer/singer Gregory Hines. The single peaked at number 1 on the Billboard R&B chart for one week, and peaked at number 50 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Gregory Hines
Gregory Oliver Hines (February 14, 1946 – August 9, 2003) was an American dancer, actor, choreographer, and singer. He is one of the most celebrated tap dancers of all time. As an actor, he is best known for History of the World, Part I (1981), Wolfen (1981), The Cotton Club (1984), White Nights (1985), Running Scared (1986), A Rage in Harlem (1991), The Gregory Hines Show (1997–1998), playing Ben on Will & Grace (1999–2000), and for voicing Big Bill on the Nick Jr. animated children's television program Little Bill (1999–2004).

Hines starred in more than 40 films and also appeared on Broadway. He received many accolades, including a Daytime Emmy Award, a Drama Desk Award, and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award and four Primetime Emmy Awards.
Caquinte language
Caquinte (Caquinte Campa), also Poyenisati, is an Arawakan language of Peru. It is spoken along the Poyeni, Mayapo, Picha, Yori, and Agueni rivers, with some speakers along parts of the Sensa and Vitiricaya rivers, within Junín, Peru. It is an endangered language.

Caquinte people are a division of the Campa Indians. They mostly live outside the "regional cash economy". They raise manioc as protein staple, being a subsistence agricultural community. There are approximately 1,000 people with "sporadic" outside contact.

Arawakan languages
Arawakan (Arahuacan, Maipuran Arawakan, "mainstream" Arawakan, Arawakan proper), also known as Maipurean (also Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúre), is a language family spoken among various Indigenous peoples in South America. Branches migrated to Central America and the Greater Antilles and Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean and the Atlantic, including what is now the Bahamas. Most present-day South American countries are known to have been home to speakers of Arawakan languages, with the exceptions of Ecuador, Uruguay, and Chile. Maipurean may be related to other language families in a hypothetical Macro-Arawakan stock.
Great Uncles of the Revolution
Great Uncles of the Revolution is a Canadian band that consists of Jesse Zubot, a violinist/mandolinist, and Steve Dawson, a guitarist/dobro player. Their musical style draws on contemporary bluegrass and jazz.

Steve Dawson (Canadian musician)
Steve Dawson is a Canadian guitarist, singer, and music producer. Dawson has produced albums by Jim Byrnes, Kelly Joe Phelps, Old Man Luedecke, The Sojourners, and The Deep Dark Woods. He has won two Juno Awards. He frequently collaborates with keyboardist Chris Gestrin, bassist Keith Lowe and drummer Geoff Hicks.  He has been a member of the duo Zubot & Dawson, and of the group The Great Uncles of the Revolution.
Témiscouata Regional County Municipality
Témiscouata (French pronunciation: [temiskwata]) is a regional county municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. It is located southeast of Rivière-du-Loup, bordering New Brunswick, and is centred on Lake Témiscouata.  Its seat is Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac.

Major industries include forestry, agriculture and maple syrup products.

Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac
Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac (French pronunciation: [temiskwata syʁ lə lak], lit. 'Temiscouata on the Lake') is a municipality in Quebec, Canada, situated in the MRC of Témiscouata in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region. The city was created on May 5, 2010, from the mergers of the city of Cabano and Notre-Dame-du-Lac. The new city was called Cabano–Notre-Dame-du-Lac until November 13, 2010.

This region is part of traditional Wolastoqey territory.
Cameron County, Texas
Cameron County is the southernmost county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 421,017. Its county seat is Brownsville.

The county was founded in 1848 and is named for Captain Ewen Cameron, a soldier during the Texas Revolution and in the ill-fated Mier Expedition. During the later 19th century and through World War II, Fort Brown was a US Army outpost here, stimulating the development of the city of Brownsville.

Cameron County comprises the Brownsville–Harlingen, TX metropolitan statistical area, as well as the Brownsville–Harlingen–Raymondville combined statistical area, which itself is part of the larger Rio Grande Valley region.

The second-largest city in the county is Harlingen.

The county is home to the SpaceX Starbase spaceport, situated in Boca Chica; it is also the residence of Elon Musk.

Fort Brown
Fort Brown (originally Fort Texas) was a military post of the United States Army in Cameron County, Texas, during the latter half of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century. Established in 1846, it was the first US Army military outpost of the recently annexed state. Confederate Army troops stationed there saw action during the American Civil War. In the early 20th century, it was garrisoned in relation to military activity over border conflicts with Mexico. Surviving elements of the fort were designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1960.
Lushan County, Henan
Lushan County (simplified Chinese: 鲁山县; traditional Chinese: 魯山縣; pinyin: Lǔshān Xiàn) is a county in Pingdingshan, in southwest-central Henan Province, China, with a population of 830,000. This county is known for housing the Spring Temple Buddha, a giant statue of Buddha.

As of 2012, this county is divided to 4 subdistricts, 5 towns and 15 townships.

Subdistricts

Towns

Townships

Spring Temple Buddha
The Zhongyuan Buddha (Chinese: 中原大佛; pinyin: zhōngyuán dàfó; lit. 'Big Buddha of the Great Plains' and simplified Chinese: 鲁山大佛; traditional Chinese: 魯山大佛; pinyin: Lǔshān dàfó) or better known in English as the Spring Temple Buddha is a colossal statue depicting Vairocana Buddha located in Foquan Temple (Chinese: 佛泉寺; pinyin: fó quán sì; lit. 'Buddha Natural-Spring Temple') in the Zhaocun township of Lushan County, Henan, China, built between 1997 and 2008. It is located within the Fodushan Scenic Area, close to National Freeway 311. At 128 metres (420 ft), excluding a 25 metres (82 ft) lotus throne, it is the second-tallest statue in the world after the Statue of Unity in Gujarat, India, which surpassed it in 2018 with a height of 182 metres (597 ft).
Maximilian Mundt
Maximilian Mundt (born April 1996) is a German actor, photographer, and filmmaker. He is primarily known for his role as Moritz Zimmerman on the German-language Netflix series How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast).

How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)
How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) is a German coming-of-age dark humor crime television series co-created by Philipp Käßbohrer and Matthias Murmann. The first season, consisting of six episodes, was released on 31 May 2019, on Netflix. The series stars Maximilian Mundt, Lena Klenke, Danilo Kamperidis, Damian Hardung, Luna Baptiste Schaller, Leonie Wesselow and Bjarne Mädel. The second season premiered on Netflix on 21 July 2020. On 28 July 2020, Netflix renewed the series for a third season. It premiered on July 27, 2021. On 12 August 2022, for dwdl.de, creators Matthias Murmann and Philipp Käßbohrer said in an interview that Netflix gave the green light for a fourth season. The fourth and final season was released on April 8, 2025.

A spin-off prequel feature film, Buba, with Bjarne Mädel reprising his role as the titular character from the first season, was released by Netflix on August 3, 2022.
Nidal Algafari
Nidal Algafari (Bulgarian: Нидал Алгафари, Arabic: نضال الغفاري; born December 18, 1965) is a Bulgarian director, former executive director of the Bulgarian National Television and political PR of Arab descent. He is a NATFIZ graduate. His father is Syrian, and his mother is Bulgarian. He is married to Madlen Algafari, with whom they have a son and a daughter.

Author and director of the student-run TV program Ku-Ku. Chief editor of 'Show and entertainment programs' for BNT. Director of a feature film 'La donna e mobile'. Producer and director of TV broadcasts 'Nablyudatel' (Bulgarian: Наблюдател, literally 'Observer') and 'Anonsi' (Bulgarian: Анонси, Future events or Announcements). Nidal Algafari is director of the documentary film 'Syria - history and legends'. From June 2002 to May 2004 he was the executive director of the Bulgarian National Television.

Arabs in Bulgaria
Arabs in Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Араби в България, Arabic: العرب في بلغاريا) are the people from Arab countries, particularly Lebanon, Syria, the Palestine, Iraq, and Jordan and also small groups from Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya and Sudan, who emigrated from their native nations and currently reside in Bulgaria. In the over forty-year history of this community, 11,400 Arabs have migrated to Bulgaria. According to other data from two teams of anthropologists and sociologists, the number of Arabs in Bulgaria who are legal residents and officially have work permits was 17,000 in 2004. (the number 17,000 includes not only Arabs but also Kurds, Afghans, Berber and others.)

In addition, Bulgaria has people from Arab countries, who have the status of refugees (refugees of the Syrian civil war, but only 10% of them are Syrian Arabs, the other 90% of them are Syrian Kurds) or illegal immigrants trying to immigrate to Western Europe.
Operation Love
Operation Love (プロポーズ大作戦, Puropōzu Daisakusen) is a Japanese TV drama series  that was aired on Fuji TV. The series started on April 16, 2007 and ended with 11 episodes on June 24, 2007. A special (SP) aired on  March 25, 2008.

A Korean remake of the series, Operation Proposal, starring Yoo Seung-ho and Park Eun-bin, aired in 2012.  A Chinese remake of the same title, Operation Love starring EXO's Lay and Chen Duling, aired in 2017.

Yoo Seung-ho
Yoo Seung-ho (/juː sʊŋhɔː/; Korean: 유승호; born August 17, 1993) is a South Korean actor. Known for his roles in film and television, he has received two nominations at the Baeksang Arts Awards and was nicknamed "Nation's Little Brother" in his home country. Yoo rose to fame as a child actor in the film The Way Home (2002), and has since starred in the television series The Emperor: Owner of the Mask (2017), I'm Not a Robot (2017), and Moonshine (2021–2022).
Congal Cáech
Congal Cáech (also Congal Cláen) was a king of the Cruthin of Dál nAraidi in the medieval Irish province of Ulaid, from around 626 to 637. He was king of Ulaid from 627–637 and, according to some sources, High King of Ireland.

Dál nAraidi
Dál nAraidi (Old Irish: [d̪aːl ˈn̪aɾaðʲi]; "Araide's part") or Dál Araide, sometimes latinised as Dalaradia or anglicised as Dalaray, was a Cruthin kingdom, or possibly a confederation of Cruthin tribes, in north-eastern Ireland during the Middle Ages. It was part of the over-kingdom of Ulaid, and its kings often contended with the Dál Fiatach for the over-kingship of the province. At its greatest extent, the borders of Dál nAraidi roughly matched those of County Antrim, and they seemed to occupy the same area as the earlier Robogdii of Ptolemy's Geography, a region shared with Dál Riata. Their capital was Ráth Mór outside Antrim, and their eponymous ancestor is claimed as being Fiachu Araide.
At Your Inconvenience
At Your Inconvenience is the second studio album by British rapper Professor Green, released on 28 October 2011. "At Your Inconvenience" was released as a promotional single on 26 July. The first official single "Read All About It" was released on 21 September 2011. Some guests from his debut album appear on the album, including Ed Drewett, Fink and Emeli Sandé; new guests include Slaughterhouse and Bad Meets Evil member Royce da 5'9", Kobe, Luciana, Ruth Anne, Sierra Kusterbeck and Haydon. Upper Clapton Dance originally featured on Green's debut mixtape Lecture #1. 
As of 6 September 2014, the album has sold 280,000 copies in the UK.

Professor Green
Stephen Paul Manderson (born 27 November 1983), better known by his stage name Professor Green or simply Pro Green, is an English rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, television personality and mental health activist from London.

Growing up on a council estate in Clapton, east London, Green went on to become a multi-platinum artist, with 3.5 million combined sales in the UK. He is the former co-host of Lip Sync Battle UK on Channel 5. His autobiography featured on the Times bestseller list, and he is a supporter of the suicide prevention charity CALM.
AAA Americas Trios Championship
The AAA Americas Trios Championship was a six-man tag team title contested for in the Mexican lucha libre promotion AAA. The last recorded title defense for Los Villanos (Villano III, Villano IV and Villano V) was in 1997; no official announcement has been made but the title was quietly eliminated at some point after 1997 when Los Villanos stopped working for AAA. Being a professional wrestling championship, it was not won legitimately: it is instead won via a scripted ending to a match or awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline.

Villano IV
Tomás Díaz Mendoza (born April 9, 1965), best known by his ring name Villano IV (Spanish: "Villano Cuarto"; English: "Villain the fourth"), is a former Mexican luchador. He has wrestled for Universal Wrestling Association (UWA), Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). The other sons of Ray Mendoza who have used the name "Villano" include Villano I, Villano II, Villano III, and Villano V. He is the last surviving member of the Villanos siblings.
Snorum
Snorum is a village, nowadays more like a farm, in Jörns socken, Skellefteå Municipality, Västerbotten County, Sweden.

The village got its name in the 19th century when a geographical surveyor played with the childish rhyme Snipp, snapp, snorum, hej basalorum and named five new populated places in the Jörn Parish each after a word in the rhyme. Snipp, Snapp, Hej and Basalorum are four other villages in the vicinity.

Snip-snap-snorum
Snip-snap-snorum, or snip-snap-snorem (sometimes unhyphenated), is a matching-type card game, mostly played by children, and has several variants.  The game dates to at least the 17th century in Franconia, and probably derives from a more ancient drinking and gambling game. References to "snip, snap, snorum", which seems to be the original English spelling, go back to at least 1755.
Guy–Perkins High School
Guy–Perkins High School is a comprehensive six-year public high school in Guy, Arkansas, United States. It is one of four public high schools in Faulkner County and is the sole high school administered by Guy–Perkins School District serving grades 7 through 12. The school's varsity athletic teams have won 12 state championship titles, primarily in basketball.

Guy–Perkins School District
Guy–Perkins School District is a public school district based in Guy, Arkansas, United States. The school district encompasses 46.38 square miles (120.1 km2) of land serving all or portions of the Faulkner County communities in and around Guy, Twin Groves, Greenbrier, Damascus, and Quitman.

Guy–Perkins School District employs over more than 80 faculty and staff on a full time equivalent basis to provide educational programs for students ranging from prekindergarten through twelfth grade at its consolidated facility serving its elementary and secondary schools that enroll more than 450 students. The Guy–Perkins School District is a member of the Arch Ford Education Service Cooperative.

All schools in the district are accredited by the Arkansas Department of Education.
The Big Cat (film)
The Big Cat is a 1949 American outdoor action film in Technicolor directed by Phil Karlson. The cast included Lon McCallister, Peggy Ann Garner, Preston Foster, Forrest Tucker, Skip Homeier, and Gene Reynolds.

Karlson said the film "was a complete social statement. That was my answer to John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath."

Phil Karlson
Philip N. Karlstein (July 2, 1908 – December 12, 1982), known professionally as Phil Karlson, was an American film director, noted for his gritty crime films and films noir. His notable works included Kansas City Confidential (1952), Scandal Sheet (also 1952), 99 River Street (1953), Hell's Island (1955), The Phenix City Story (also 1955), Tight Spot (also 1955), and 5 Against the House (also 1955).

Karlson's other films including Gunman's Walk (1958), Hell to Eternity (1960), The Young Doctors (1961), the Elvis Presley vehicle Kid Galahad (1962), the Dean Martin spy comedy The Silencers (1966), the horror film Ben (1972), and the original Walking Tall (1973).
William, son of Freskin
William, son of Freskin (died c. 1203), Lord of Duffus and Strathbrock, was a Scoto-Flemish noble.

He was the eldest son of Freskin, a Flemish settler who arrived in Scotland in the reign of King David I of Scotland. William obtained a grant from King William I of Scotland, of the lands of Strathbrock in West Lothian, as well as Duffus, Roseisle, Inchkeil, Machir and Kintrae in Moray, between 1165 and 1171.

Roseisle
Roseisle is an area in the west of the Laich of Moray near Elgin, Moray in the parish of Duffus. The area includes the former farms at Oldtown, Easter Backlands of Roseisle, the three farms on the Bank of Roseisle and the clachan of the College of Roseisle.
Blackie's Redemption
Blackie's Redemption, also known by its working title Powers That Pray, is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by John Ince. It stars Bert Lytell, Alice Lake, and Henry Kolker, and was released on April 14, 1919.

Bert Lytell
Bertram Mortimer Lytell (February 24, 1885 – September 28, 1954) was an American actor in theater and film during the silent film era and early talkies. He starred in romantic, melodrama, and adventure films.
Edith Sitwell
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents and lived much of her life with her governess. She never married but became passionately attached to Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew, and her home was always open to London's poetic circle, to whom she was generous and helpful.

Sitwell published poetry continuously from 1913, some of it abstract and set to music. With her dramatic style and exotic costumes, she was sometimes labelled a poseur, but her work was praised for its solid technique and painstaking craftsmanship. She was a recipient of the Benson Medal of the Royal Society of Literature.

Benson Medal
The Benson Medal is a medal awarded by the Royal Society of Literature in the UK.

It was founded in 1916 by A. C. Benson, who was a Fellow of the Society, to honour those who produce "meritorious works in poetry, fiction, history, and belles-lettres". The medal has been awarded several times to writers in other languages, and is occasionally awarded to those who are not writers, but who have done conspicuous service to literature.

The medal is awarded at irregular intervals for lifelong achievement. Recipients include:

Stella Benson (no relation),
Edmund Blunden,
Anita Desai,
Maureen Duffy,
E. M. Forster,
Christopher Fry,
John Gawsworth,
Nadine Gordimer,
Philip Larkin,
R. K. Narayan
A. L. Rowse,
George Santayana,
Wole Soyinka,
Lytton Strachey,
SuAndi,
J. R. R. Tolkien, 
Helen Waddell and
Rebecca West.

In November 2020, the new design for the medal by Linda Crook was unveiled. The design includes books on one side, and people on the other.