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Thomas Hopkins (water polo)
Thomas Hopkins (born 13 April 1984) is an American water polo player. He is 5'11”  and 185 lbs. He was a member of the United States men's national water polo team and competed at the 2007 FINA Men's Water Polo World League.

He studied at the Coronado High School. He played college water polo at Stanford University. He competed at the 2004 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship and 2005 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship.

2005 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship
The 2005 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship was the 37th annual NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship to determine the national champion of NCAA men's collegiate water polo. Tournament matches were played at the Kinney Natatorium at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania from December 3–4, 2005.

USC defeated Stanford in the final, 3–2, the game winning goal scored by Pavol Valovic, to win their third national title. The Trojans (26–1) were coached by Jovan Vavic.

The Most Outstanding Players of the tournament were Adam Shilling and Juraj Zatovic from USC. Additionally, two All-Tournament Teams were named: a First Team (with seven players including Shilling and Zatovic) and a Second Team (with eight players).

The tournament's leading scorer, with 5 goals, was Cutberto Hernandez from Loyola Marymount.
Hôtel de Ville, Montbéliard
The Hôtel de Ville (French pronunciation: [otɛl də vil], City Hall) is a municipal building in Montbéliard, Doubs, eastern France, standing on Rue de l'Hôtel de Ville. The building was designated a monument historique by the French government in 1939.

Montbéliard
Montbéliard (French: [mɔ̃beljaʁ] ⓘ; traditional German: Mömpelgard) is a town in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France, about 13 km (8 mi) from the border with Switzerland. It is one of the two subprefectures of the department.
Musashi (kickboxer)
Akio Mori (森 昭生, Mori Akio, born October 17, 1972), better known by the ring name Musashi (武蔵), is a Japanese former professional karateka and kickboxer. He is a four-time K-1 Japan tournament champion, a former WAKO Heavyweight Muay Thai champion and two-time K-1 World Grand Prix finalist. Following a 14-year career, he announced his retirement at a press conference in Tokyo on August 26, 2009.

He holds notable wins over Ray Sefo, Peter Aerts, Masaaki Satake and Rick Roufus.

Loudness (band)
Loudness (Japanese: ラウドネス, Hepburn: Raudonesu) is a Japanese heavy metal band formed in 1981 by guitarist Akira Takasaki and drummer Munetaka Higuchi. They were the first Japanese metal act signed to a major label in the United States. Loudness subsequently released twenty-six studio albums (five licensed in America) and nine live albums by 2014 and reached the Billboard Top 100 during their heyday as well as charting on Oricon dozens of times. Despite numerous line-up changes in the band's history, leaving Takasaki as the sole constant member, the band continued their activities throughout the 1990s, finally reuniting the original line-up in 2000. This incarnation released a further seven albums until November 30, 2008, when original drummer Munetaka Higuchi died from liver cancer at a hospital in Osaka at age 49. He was replaced by Masayuki Suzuki.
Men's AHF Cup
The Men's AHF Cup is a quadrennial international men's field hockey competition in Asia organized by the Asian Hockey Federation. The tournament was founded in 1997 and serves as a qualification tournament for the next Men's Asia Cup.

Asian Hockey Federation
The Asian Hockey Federation (AHF, formerly ASHF) is the governing body for the sport of field hockey in Asia. It now has 34 member associations in 2025. It is affiliated to the International Hockey Federation. The current president is Fumio Ogura and the patron is Al-Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah.
2023 World Series of Darts Finals
The 2023 Jack's World Series of Darts Finals was the ninth staging of the World Series of Darts Finals tournament, organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. The tournament took place at the AFAS Live, Amsterdam, Netherlands, from 15 to 17 September 2023. It featured a field of 24 players.

Gerwyn Price was the defending champion, after beating Dirk van Duijvenbode 11–10 in the 2022 final. However, he lost 4–6 to Keegan Brown in the second round.

Michael van Gerwen won his fifth World Series Finals title, defeating Nathan Aspinall 11–4 in the final.

Nathan Aspinall
Nathan Paul Aspinall (born 15 July 1991) is an English professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, where he is ranked world number fourteen; he reached a peak ranking of world number four in 2024. Nicknamed "the Asp", he has won two PDC major televised titles: the UK Open in 2019 and the World Matchplay in 2023. Aspinall has won a total of 11 PDC titles in his professional career, including three European Tour titles on the 2025 PDC Pro Tour. He won his first World Series of Darts title at the 2019 US Darts Masters.

In the PDC World Darts Championship, Aspinall is a two-time semi-finalist with back-to-back semi-final appearances in 2019 and 2020.
Battle of Middleburg
The Battle of Middleburg took place from June 17 to June 19, 1863, in Loudoun County, Virginia, as part of the Gettysburg campaign of the American Civil War.

Confederate Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, screening Robert E. Lee's invasion route, sparred with Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton's Union cavalry. On June 17, Col. Alfred N. Duffié's isolated 1st Rhode Island Cavalry Regiment was attacked by the brigades of Thomas T. Munford and Beverly Robertson. The 1st Rhode Island was routed, taking about 250 casualties. On June 19, J. Irvin Gregg's brigade advanced, driving Stuart's cavalry one mile beyond the town. Both sides were reinforced, and mounted and dismounted skirmishing continued. Stuart was gradually levered out of his position but fell back to a second ridge, still covering the approaches to the Blue Ridge gap.

Loudoun County, Virginia
Loudoun County (/ˈlaʊdən/) is in the northern part of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. In 2020, the census returned a population of 420,959, making it Virginia's third-most populous county. The county seat is Leesburg. Loudoun County is part of the Washington–Arlington–Alexandria, DC–VA–MD–WV Metropolitan Statistical Area.

As of 2023, Loudoun County had a median household income of $156,821, the highest of any county or county equivalent in the nation.
Słajkowo
Słajkowo [swai̯ˈkɔvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Choczewo, within Wejherowo County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.

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

Gmina Choczewo
Gmina Choczewo (Kashubian: Chòczewò) is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Wejherowo County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the village of Choczewo, which lies approximately 28 kilometres (17 mi) northwest of Wejherowo and 64 km (40 mi) northwest of the regional capital Gdańsk.

The gmina covers an area of 183.23 square kilometres (70.7 sq mi), and its total population was 5,503 as of 2006.
Frazier Thomas
William Frazier Thomas (June 13, 1918 – April 3, 1985) was a Chicago television personality. Although Thomas wrote nine children's books, he was best known for  creating, hosting, writing and producing the long-running children's television program Garfield Goose and Friends on WGN-TV.

The Bozo Show
The Bozo Show is a children's television program that aired on WGN-TV in Chicago and nationally on its superstation feed (now NewsNation) from 1960 to 2001. It was based on a children's record-book series, Bozo the Clown by Capitol Records. The series was a locally produced version of the internationally franchised Bozo the Clown format and is the longest-running in the franchise. Recognized as the most popular and successful locally produced children's program in the history of television, it only aired under this title for 14 of its 40+ years: it also aired under the titles Bozo (1960–1961), Bozo's Circus (1961–1980), and The Bozo Super Sunday Show (1994–2001).
Thirst Trap: A Corporate Love Story
"Thirst Trap: A Corporate Love Story" is the fourth episode of the thirty-fifth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons, and the 754th episode overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on October 29, 2023. The episode was directed by Timothy Bailey and written by Rob LaZebnik.

In this episode, Mr. Burns funds a questionable company that turns salt water into drinking water. Elizabeth Banks guest starred as Persephone. "The Simpsons" title does not appear in the episode. The episode received mixed reviews.

The Simpsons season 35
The thirty-fifth season of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons aired on Fox between October 1, 2023, and May 19, 2024. The thirty-fifth season was the first of two seasons ordered by Fox. It was produced by Gracie Films and 20th Television Animation. The primary showrunner for the season was Matt Selman.

Work from episodes from the season was nominated for two Emmy Awards, four Writers Guild of America Awards, and one Humanitas Prize.
Valencia de Alcántara Synagogue
The Valencia de Alcántara Synagogue (Spanish: Sinagoga de Valencia de Alcántara) is a former Jewish synagogue, located in Valencia de Alcántara, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain.

While no documentary evidence attests to the building being a synagogue, it was identified as such by academics Carmen Balesteros and Jorge Oliveira. Evidence included its dating from the late 15th century when Jews settled near the Portuguese border due to increased persecution in Castile, and its architectural similarity to the Synagogue of Tomar in Portugal. After the expulsion of Jews in 1492, it was used for various purposes, mainly as a slaughterhouse for swine.

Valencia de Alcántara
Valencia de Alcántara (Spanish: [baˈlenθja ðe alˈkantaɾa] ⓘ) is a municipality located in the  province of Cáceres, in the  autonomous community  of 
Extremadura, Spain. It is near the  Portuguese  border (District of Portalegre), separated from it by the Sever.
Science Hack Day
Science Hack Day is a hack day specifically for "making weird, silly or serious things with science". The first was organized by Jeremy Keith and held at the London offices of The Guardian newspaper over the weekend 19/20 June 2010.

The event was attended by around 100 participants who had 24 hours to build new hacks. Many stayed overnight at the venue and over 25 hacks were built, submitted and demo'ed by the end of the weekend.

Soon thereafter a second Science Hack Day was organized by Ariel Waldman in San Francisco, and several years since, often filling up with a waitlist. Since that first year, more than 50 Science Hack Day events have taken place around the world, including a recent 2020 March Science Hack Day Dublin.

The events are attended by a diverse range of science enthusiasts.

Jeremy Keith (web developer)
Jeremy Keith is an Irish web developer, writer, speaker, and musician. He authors a popular blog, and has written several books including DOM Scripting, a guide to web design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model. He curated the dConstruct conference, and co-founded Clearleft in 2005 with Andy Budd and Richard Rutter.
Vladimir Fere
Vladimir Georgievich Fere (Russian: Владимир Георгиевич Фере; 20 May [O.S. 7 May] 1902 in Kamyshin – 2 September 1971 in Moscow) was a Russian composer. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory in 1925 and later taught there.

He was a member of a Kirghiz Republic collective assigned by the Soviet government under a plan to integrate national cultures into the arts. Kyrgyz composer Abdylas Maldybaev provided folk melodies and composed music which was organized and prepared by Fere and Russian composer Vladimir Vlasov into six Soviet state opera and other works. Their first full opera was Ai-churek. The collective is usually hypenated as Vlasov-Fere-Maldi'bayev and also composed the Kirghiz national anthem.

Anthem of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic
The State Anthem of the Kirghiz SSR was the regional anthem of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic, a constituent republic of the Soviet Union. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the anthem has since been replaced by the State Anthem of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Paper Orchid
Paper Orchid is a 1949 British crime film directed by Roy Ward Baker, with a script written by Val Guest. It featured Hugh Williams, Hy Hazell and Garry Marsh, and was based on the 1948 novel of the same title by Arthur La Bern. It featured an early film appearance by Sid James, who later found success through the Carry On series.

It was shot at the Walton Studios just outside London. The film's sets were designed by the art director Bernard Robinson.

Roy Ward Baker
Roy Ward Baker (born Roy Horace Baker; 19 December 1916 – 5 October 2010) was an English film director.

He was known professionally as Roy Baker until 1967, when he adopted Roy Ward Baker as his screen credit.
Topchanchi Wildlife Sanctuary
Topchanchi Wildlife Sanctuary is an 8.75 km2 (3.38 sq mi) protected area located near the town of Topchanchi, Jharkhand. The sanctuary is situated alongside National Highway 2. Land in the sanctuary mainly consists of dry mixed deciduous forests with dry peninsular sal forests.

Chota Nagpur Plateau
The Chota Nagpur Plateau (IPA: [t͡ʃʰoːʈaː naːɡpʊɾ]) is a plateau in eastern India, which covers much of Jharkhand state as well as adjacent parts of Chhattisgarh,  Odisha, West Bengal and Bihar. The Indo-Gangetic Plain lies to the north and east of the plateau, and the basin of the Mahanadi River lies to the south. The total area of the Chota Nagpur Plateau is approximately 65,000 square kilometres (25,000 sq mi).
Richard Evers
Richard Evers (born May 31, 1959) is a Canadian publisher, programmer, technology consultant and author.  Evers was editor and publisher of The Transactor and Transactor for the Amiga. He has worked for a number of Canadian technology companies, including Research in Motion, where he edited the BlackBerry Developer Journal. He is president of Northern Blue Publishing in Waterloo, Ontario, and co-author of Professional BlackBerry (Wrox) and co-author of The Trackers. He later founded Kryptera, an encryption technology for data at rest.

Evers has served as technical editor of BlackBerry for Dummies (2011; ISBN 9781118100356); BlackBerry Pearl 3G for Dummies (2011; ISBN 9780470964729); BlackBerry Java Application Development (2010; ISBN 9781849690201); BlackBerry ALL-IN-ONE for Dummies (2010; ISBN 9780470531204); BlackBerry Curve for Dummies (2010; ISBN 9780470587447); BlackBerry Storm for Dummies (2009; ISBN 9780470422205); and Mobile Guide to BlackBerry (2005).

The Transactor
The Transactor was a computer magazine directed at users of Commodore home computers.

In contrast to other Commodore-focused publications such as Commodore Magazine and COMPUTE!'s Gazette, The Transactor's popularity was based on its coverage of deep technical issues and hardware hacking. INFO called The Transactor "the undeniable authority" on "Commodore programming and hardware information".
Capital Bikeshare
Capital Bikeshare (also abbreviated CaBi) is a bicycle-sharing system that serves Washington, D.C., and certain counties of the larger metropolitan area. As of August 2025, it had 800+ stations and more than 8,000 bicycles. Opened in September 20, 2010, the system is the largest municipality-owned bikeshare system in the United States.

Washington metropolitan area
The Washington metropolitan area (also referred to as the National Capital Region, Greater Washington, or locally as the DMV, short for District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia) is the metropolitan area comprising Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States, and its surroundings. The metropolitan area includes all of Washington, D.C., and parts of Maryland, Virginia and even West Virginia.

The United States federal government defines the area as the Washington–DC, VA–MD–WV metropolitan statistical area. It anchors the southern end of the densely populated Northeast megalopolis and is part of the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area, the country's third-largest. The area's estimated total population of 6,304,975 (as of 2023) makes it the country's seventh-most populous metropolitan area. It is one of the country's most educated and affluent metropolitan areas.
Hyde Jekyll, Me
Hyde Jekyll, Me (Korean: 하이드 지킬, 나; RR: Haideu Jikil, na) is a 2015 South Korean television series starring Hyun Bin and Han Ji-min. It is based on Lee Choong-ho's webtoon Dr. Jekyll Is Mr. Hyde (지킬박사는 하이드씨), which gave a romantic comedy spin on the literary character. The series aired from January 21 to March 26, 2015 on SBS's Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 (KST) for 20 episodes and received generally negative reviews from critics.

Sung Joon
Bang Sung-joon (born July 10, 1990), credited mononymously as Sung Joon, is a South Korean actor and model. He became best known for his leading roles in the television series Flower Band (2012), Can We Get Married? (2012) and I Need Romance 3 (2014). He also appeared in the films Dangerously Excited (2012), Horror Stories 2 (2013), Pluto (2013) and The Villainess (2017). His recent works include starring in web series Island (2022-2023) and Call lt Love (2023) as well as in the television series The Fiery Priest 2 (2024).
Francisco Sánchez Villanueva y Vega
Francisco Sánchez Villanueva y Vega (1581–1658) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop (Personal Title) of Islas Canarias (1635–1651), Archbishop (Personal Title) of Mazara del Vallo (1630–1635), and Archbishop of Taranto (1627–1630).

Archdiocese of Taranto
The Archdiocese of Taranto (Latin: Archidioecesis Tarentina) is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in southern Italy, on a bay in the Gulf of Taranto.

Its suffragan sees are the dioceses of Castellaneta and Oria.
Rappin'
Rappin' is a 1985 American film directed by Joel Silberg, written by Adam Friedman and Robert J. Litz, produced by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus and starring Mario Van Peebles. The film is a sequel to Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, and is also known as Breakdance 3. Although it features Ice-T (who featured in Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo), Rappin' has a plot unconnected to the previous two films and features different lead characters and locations. It is also considered to be a companion piece to the documentary Breakin' 'n' Enterin'.

Joel Silberg
Joel Silberg (Hebrew: יואל זילברג‎; 30 March 1927 – 18 February 2013) was a film, television and stage director and screenwriter in Israel and the United States. He made films in Israel including so-called Bourekas films. He then directed films in the U.S. during the 1980s, including Breakin' and Lambada. Both have been described as exploitation films. In 2008 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israel Film Academy.
Hugh Syme
Hugh Syme is a Canadian Juno Award-winning graphic artist and member of the Premier Artists Collection (PAC), best known for his artwork and cover concepts for rock and metal bands. He is also a musician and has contributed as a keyboard player on several Rush albums.

Juno Awards of 1991
The Juno Awards of 1991, representing Canadian music industry achievements of the previous year, were awarded on 3 March 1991 in Vancouver, British Columbia at a ceremony in the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Paul Shaffer was the host for the ceremonies, which were broadcast on CBC Television.

This was the first time the award ceremonies were hosted away from Toronto. A category for rap music also made its debut at these 1991 awards.
Veera Kesari
Veera Kesari (pronunciationⓘ) is a 1963 Indian Kannada-language swashbuckler film  directed by B. Vittalacharya and produced by Sundarlal Nahatha and Doondi. The film stars Rajkumar, T. N. Balakrishna, Udaykumar and R. Nagendra Rao. The musical score was composed by Ghantasala. S. Siddalingaiah served as the assistant director. B. Vittalacharya also shot the film simultaneously in Telugu as Bandipotu, starring N. T. Rama Rao.

Critics have described Veera Kesari as a "clever adaptation of the adventures of Robin Hood,"  with the romantic subplot inspired by William Shakespeare's  The Taming of the Shrew. The film's climax scene was shot in Eastmancolor. It was a major box office success. Midway through production, director  Vittalacharya, who was suffering from typhoid, asked his friend, M. R. Vittal to complete the shoot. Vittal directed a significant portion of the film, including the song "Mellusire Savigaana",  but declined to be credited as the director.

M. R. Vittal
M. R. Vittal was an Indian film director and screenwriter who worked primarily Kannada cinema. He directed over 18 films in his career, with most of them being very successful and attaining a cult status. In a career spanning two decades, Vittal won three National Award and three Karnataka State Awards for his films.

Vittal is considered one of the "doyens" of Kannada cinema and is considered to have "carved a niche in the Kannada film industry by exhibiting a rare insight and boldness" while selecting the themes for his films. Most of his films were based on novels written by eminent scholars. Popular directors such as K. S. L. Swamy and K. V. Jayaram worked as assistant directors under the guidance of Vittal.
Zhang Chen (volleyball)
Zhang Chen (born 28 June 1985) is a Chinese volleyball player. He is part of the China men's national volleyball team. On club level he plays for Jiangsu.

Zhang Changning is his younger half-sister. They have different biological mothers.

China men's national volleyball team
The China men's national volleyball team (Chinese: 中国国家男子排球队) represents China in international volleyball competitions and friendly matches, governed by Chinese Volleyball Association.  The team now ranks 24th in the FIVB World Rankings and the current head coach is Vital Heynen.

The team competed twice in the Olympic Games, finishing in eighth place at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, and fifth place in the 2008 Summer Olympics at home in Beijing. China have been consistently competing the FIVB World Championship, with a best of seventh place in both 1978 and 1982. On a continental level, China won three gold medals at the Asian Games, in 1986, 1990 and 1998. China also won 3 gold medals at the Asian Championship in 1979, 1997 and 1999.
Mule Bone (album)
Mule Bone is an album by American blues artist Taj Mahal. All lyrics are by Langston Hughes. Taj Mahal was nominated for a Grammy Award for his music for the Broadway staging of the play of the same name.

Taj Mahal (musician)
Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr. (born May 17, 1942), better known by his stage name Taj Mahal, is an American blues musician. He plays the guitar, piano, banjo, harmonica, and many other instruments along with singing and whistling, often incorporating elements of world music into his work. Mahal has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music over the course of his more than 50-year career by fusing it with nontraditional forms, including sounds from the Caribbean, Africa, India, Hawaii, and the South Pacific.