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Vasile Bîtca
Vasile Bîtca (born 1 December 1971) is a Moldovan politician who served as Minister of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment from 18 February 2015 to 20 December 2017.

At the 2014 Moldovan parliamentary election he was elected as Member of Parliament of Moldova as candidate of the Democratic Party of Moldova, but in short time he left the office to become minister.

Between 2007 and 2011 Vasile Bîtca worked as Deputy Mayor of Nisporeni City, and between 2001 and 2015 he served as President of Nisporeni District.

Vasile Bîtca is married to Natalia Bîtcă, with whom he has four daughters.

On 18 May 2020, Bîtca joined, together with the politician Ghenadie Verdeș, the parliamentary group Pro Moldova, which became a political party on 22 June.

Modern Democratic Party
The Modern Democratic Party (Romanian: Partidul Democrat Modern, PDM) is a centre-right political party of the Republic of Moldova. It was founded and led by Andrian Candu, the former President of the Moldovan Parliament, under the original name of Pro Moldova. Boris Foca became the leader of the party in 2021 as acting president; under him, the party was renamed to the Modern Democratic Party in 2023.
Raditsa-Krylovka
Raditsa-Krylovka (Russian: Ра́дица-Кры́ловка) is an urban locality (urban-type settlement) under the administrative jurisdiction of the town of oblast significance of Bryansk of Bryansk Oblast, Russia. Population: 3,151 (2021 Census); 3,526 (2010 Census); 3,513 (2002 Census); 3,818 (1989 Soviet census).

Bryansk
Bryansk (Russian: Брянск, IPA: [brʲansk] Audio file "Ru-Bryansk.wav" not found) is a city and the administrative center of Bryansk Oblast, Russia, situated on the Desna River, 379 kilometers (235 mi) southwest of Moscow. It has a population of 379,152 at the 2021 census.

Bryansk is one of the oldest cities in the oblast, with 985 regarded as the year of foundation. It was part of the Kievan Rus', Mongol Empire and Lithuania during the medieval period, then was contested by Moscow and Poland–Lithuania in the early modern period, before ultimately passing to Russia, within which it was a major regional trading center.
Street dance
Street dance is an umbrella term for a large number of social dance styles such as: breakdancing, popping, locking, house dance, waacking, voguing, Hip Hop, etc. Social dance styles have many accompanying steps and foundations, created organically from a culture, a moment in time, a way of life, influenced by natural social interaction. A street dance is a vernacular dance in an urban context.  Vernacular dances are often improvisational and social in nature, encouraging interaction and contact with spectators and other dancers. These dances are a part of the vernacular culture of the geographical area that they come from.

Vernacular dance
Vernacular dances are dances which have developed 'naturally' as a part of 'everyday' culture within a particular community. In contrast to the elite and official culture, vernacular dances are usually learned naturally without formal instruction, along with other concepts of vernacular culture.

The word 'vernacular' is used here in much the same as it is in reference to vernacular language, defined in contrast to literary or cultured language.

Vernacular dances in urban context are commonly referred to as street dances.

Some folklorists suggest the term as a more universal replacement of the term "folk dance", while others use it to better delineate the concept of folk dance.

The term is attributed to Marshall and Jean Stearns (1968), who used  this term to characterize jazz dance (in its "street" form, in contrast to the show biz form).
Le Mesnil-Caussois
Le Mesnil-Caussois (French pronunciation: [lə mɛnil koswa] ⓘ) is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Noues de Sienne.

Noues de Sienne
Noues de Sienne (French pronunciation: [nu də sjɛn], literally Swamps of Sienne) is a commune in the department of Calvados, northwestern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2017 by merger of the former communes of Saint-Sever-Calvados (the seat), Champ-du-Boult, Courson, Fontenermont, Le Gast, Le Mesnil-Benoist, Le Mesnil-Caussois, Mesnil-Clinchamps, Saint-Manvieu-Bocage and Sept-Frères.
Ken Kelsch
Kenneth Arthur Kelsch ASC (July 8, 1947 – December 11, 2023) was an American cinematographer. He was best known for his guerilla filmmaking style and his career-spanning partnership with filmmaker Abel Ferrara, with whom he made more than a dozen films, including The Driller Killer (1979), Bad Lieutenant (1992), Dangerous Game (1993), The Addiction (1995), The Blackout (1997), and Welcome to New York (2014), as well as a segment of the HBO dark comedy drama anthology series Subway Stories (1997).

On television, Kelsch was the director of photography for the pilot episode of the CBS crime drama series Hack (2002) and the first and second seasons of the NBC supernatural procedural drama series Medium (2005–06). He was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Abel Ferrara’s The Funeral (1996).

Prior to his filmmaking career, Kelsch served in the United States Army Special Forces during the Vietnam War, as a member of MACV-SOG.

Subway Stories
Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground is a film made in 1997 and produced by Home Box Office for television.  It began as a contest among New Yorkers who submitted stories about their experiences within the New York City Subway.  HBO picked ten of the stories and cast mostly well-known or accomplished actors (such as Denis Leary, Bonnie Hunt, Rosie Perez and Bill Irwin), and ten well-respected directors (such as Jonathan Demme, Ted Demme, Abel Ferrara, Craig McKay, Julie Dash, and Bob Balaban).
Waiters' race
A waiters' race is a type of race that tests the speed that a waiter can carry a tray loaded with items such as coffee, water and croissants without tipping it. They are largely prevalent in France and held in Paris as the Course des Cafés, but have also been held worldwide, mainly by French diaspora on Bastille Day, with other adaptations involving localised items such as beer.

Waiting staff
Waiting staff (BrE), waiters (MASC) / waitresses (FEM), or servers (AmE) are those who work at a restaurant, a diner, or a bar and sometimes in private homes, attending to customers by supplying them with food and drink as requested. Waiting staff follow rules and guidelines determined by the manager. Waiting staff carry out many different tasks, such as taking orders, food-running, polishing dishes and silverware, helping bus tables, entertaining patrons, restocking working stations with needed supplies, and handing out the bill.

Waiting on tables is part of the service sector and among the most common occupations. In the United States, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that, as of May 2023, there were about 2.2 million people employed as servers in the country.

Many restaurants choose a specific uniform for their waiting staff to wear. Waiting staff may receive tips as a minor or major part of their earnings, with customs varying widely from country to country.
George Fayad
George Fayad FRCS, FICS, (born December 1963) is an ear nose and throat surgeon, who introduced the use of nasal titanium implants in the UK to open up the nasal valve and improve breathing in people with nasal valve dysfunction. In addition to general conditions of the ear, nose and throat, he treats snoring, sleep problems and vertigo. He also performs the operation of ear-pinning without an incision. He is chairman of the ENT department at the Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and head of the allergy clinic at Basildon Hospital.

He is one of the surgeons depicted in Henry Ward's 2010 painting The 'Finger-Assisted' Nephrectomy of Professor Nadey Hakim.

The 'Finger-Assisted' Nephrectomy of Professor Nadey Hakim
The 'Finger-Assisted' Nephrectomy of Professor Nadey Hakim and the World Presidents of the International College of Surgeons in Chicago, or, The Wise in Examination of the Torn Contemporary State is a painting by British artist Henry Ward depicting transplant surgeon Nadey Hakim demonstrating the removal of a living donor kidney. It is on display at Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

The painting uses Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632) as a reference, showing Hakim surrounded by the modern presidents and members of the International College of Surgeons in Chicago. It took one year to complete and was unveiled in 2010.

It was chosen to be included in the exhibition for the 2010 BP Portrait Awards and in Sandy Nairne's book 500 Portraits: 25 Years of The BP Portrait Award (2012).
Burn Notice season 3
The third season of the American television spy drama Burn Notice premiered on June 4, 2009, on the cable television channel USA Network. Season three consists of sixteen episodes, split between a nine-episode summer season and a seven-episode winter season.

Garret Dillahunt
Garret Lee Dillahunt (born November 24, 1964) is an American actor. He is best known for his work in television, including the roles Burt Chance on the Fox sitcom Raising Hope, for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series, Jack McCall and Francis Wolcott in Deadwood, and John Dorie in Fear the Walking Dead. He has also appeared in The 4400, ER, Against the Sun, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Burn Notice, Justified, and The Mindy Project. He starred in the Amazon Studios drama series Hand of God (2014–2017).

In film, Dillahunt has played supporting roles in No Country for Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Winter's Bone, Looper, and 12 Years a Slave.
Stadio Nereo Rocco
Stadio Nereo Rocco is a football stadium in Trieste, Italy. Opened in 1992, it is the home of Triestina, named after the club's former player and manager Nereo Rocco. The stadium is located in the Valmaura district on the southern outskirts of the city, close to the club's former venue Stadio Giuseppe Grezar.

Originally built with a capacity of 26,000, renovations done in 2018 before the venue hosted matches of the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship reduced the capacity to 21,000.

Cagliari played their final home games of the 2011–12 Serie A season at the ground, due to restoration of their Stadio Sant'Elia.

Nereo Rocco
Nereo Rocco (Italian pronunciation: [neˈrɛːo ˈrɔkko]; 20 May 1912 – 20 February 1979) was an Italian football player and manager. Regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time, he is famous for having been one of the most successful head coaches in Italy, winning several domestic and international titles during his tenure with AC Milan. At Padova, he was one of the first proponents of catenaccio in the country.
David Polonsky
David Polonsky (Hebrew: דוד פולונסקי; born 1973) is an Israeli book illustrator and artistic film director.

His illustrations appeared in all major Israeli magazines and newspapers and illustrated many children's books, for which he received multiple awards. He also directed children's animated TV films. He taught illustration at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.

In 2018, he illustrated Ari Folman's graphic novel adaptation of Anne Frank's diary. That same year, an English-language translation of The Heart-Shaped Leaf (written by Shira Geffen and illustrated by Polonsky) was published by Green Bean Books.

Ari Folman
Ari Folman (Hebrew: ארי פולמן; born December 17, 1962) is an Israeli film director, screenwriter,  and film-score composer. He directed the Oscar-nominated animated documentary film Waltz with Bashir (2008) and the live-action/animated film The Congress. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?
Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? (Italian: Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa?) is a 1968 Italian adventure comedy film co-written and directed by Ettore Scola. Production of the film started in 1965, with the working title Mister Sabatini, suppongo (Mister Sabatini, I Suppose). It started a trend in Italian cinema of using extremely long names for films.

The film was the sixth highest-grossing release at the Italian box office in the 1968–69 season. The plot is loosely based on books by Salgari, Verne and Conrad that Scola read as a child  and on Italian Disney comics artist Romano Scarpa's comic Topolino e il Pippotarzan (1957).

Ettore Scola
Ettore Scola (Italian: [ˈɛttore ˈskɔːla]; 10 May 1931 – 19 January 2016) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He received a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1978 for his film A Special Day and over the course of his film career was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
Joe's Bridge
Joe's Bridge is the nickname given to Bridge No.9 on the Bocholt-Herentals Canal, in the Belgian city of Lommel just south of the Belgian-Dutch border. The bridge was captured by British troops in September 1944, becoming the springboard for the ground offensive of Operation Market-Garden.

Bocholt–Herentals Canal
The Bocholt–Herentals Canal (also known locally as the Kempisch Kanaal or the Maas-Scheldekanaal) is a canal in Belgium that links the Zuid-Willemsvaart at Bocholt with the Albert Canal in Herentals, with a length of slightly over 60 kilometres. It is one of the seven canals linking the rivers Meuse and Scheldt.

During the Second World War the canal was an important launch point for Operation Market Garden.
Fort Caswell Rifle Range
The Fort Caswell Rifle Range located in Caswell Beach NC, is a discontiguous part of Fort Caswell which defended Confederate positions on the North Carolina coast during the Civil War and served both as an army training ground in World War I and a patrol/ communications base in World War II.  In 2013,  the rifle range which was constructed during WWI, along with Fort Caswell itself, was designated as a National Register of Historic Places property.

Fort Caswell Historic District
The Fort Caswell Historic District is located on the Atlantic Coast of North Carolina, US, and encompasses 2 sites, 43 buildings, and 23 structures. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. The fort itself was occupied by various branches of the U.S. armed forces for most of the period between 1836 and 1945 and is now a part of the North Carolina Baptist Assembly, a Christian retreat, owned and operated by the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina.  It is accessible by the public to a limited extent per the conditions set forth by the Assembly's Director.
Alkmaar Noord railway station
Alkmaar Noord railway station is a suburban railway station in the town of Alkmaar, Netherlands. The station opened on 26 September 1980 and is located on the Den Helder–Amsterdam railway. The train services are operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen.

Den Helder–Amsterdam railway
The Den Helder–Amsterdam railway is a railway line in the Netherlands running from Den Helder to Amsterdam, passing through Alkmaar and Zaandam. It is also called the Staatslijn K ("state line K") in Dutch. The line is 81 km long.

The following stations are on Staatslijn K:

Den Helder

Den Helder Zuid

Anna Paulowna

Schagen

Heerhugowaard

Alkmaar Noord

Alkmaar

Heiloo

Castricum

Uitgeest

Krommenie-Assendelft

Wormerveer

Zaandijk Zaanse Schans

Koog aan de Zaan

Zaandam

Amsterdam Sloterdijk

Amsterdam Centraal
State Highway 8 (Karnataka)
State Highway 8, also known as SH-8, is a State highway connecting Hirisave of Hassan district and Chettalli of Kodagu district, in the South Indian state of Karnataka. It has a total length of 184 kilometres (114 mi).

Major towns and villages on the highway are Hirisave, Shravanabelagola, Channarayapatna, Mudala Hippe, Holenarasipura, Arkalgud, Shanivarsante, Changadihalli, Kudrasthe, Vanagoor, Kundalli, Shanthalli, Thalthareshettahalli, Thakeri, Billigeri, Kumbur, Garagandoor, Suntikoppa and Chettalli.

Shanthalli
Shanthalli  is a village in Somwarpet taluk in Kodagu district of Karnataka, India.

It lies on SH-8. Shanthalli is located 11 km from taluk headquarter Somvarpete, 45 km from district headquarter Madikeri and 260 km from the state capital Bengaluru.

The village is famous for its annual fair of local deity, Lord Kumara Lingeshwara. Nearby tourist places are Mallalli Falls and Kumara Parvata hill located at 11 km and 14 km respectively.
Vladan Radača
Vladan Radača (Serbian Cyrillic: Владан Радача; born 15 July 1955) is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

At international level, Radača was capped five times by Yugoslavia in 1987 and 1988.

FK Rad
FK Rad (Serbian Cyrillic: ФК Рад) is a football club based in Banjica, Belgrade, Serbia. They compete in the Belgrade First League, the fifth tier of the national league system. It plays it home games at the King Peter I Stadium.

Founded in 1958, the club spent a total of 30 seasons in the top flight between 1987 and 2021, including five seasons in the Yugoslav First League, 12 seasons in the First League of Serbia and Montenegro, and 13 seasons in the Serbian SuperLiga.
Aga Khan Gold Cup
The Aga Khan Gold Cup was a tournament played in Dhaka, Bangladesh which invited the club sides from leading football nations of Asia to compete. Many renowned football pundits regard this competition as a predecessor of the AFC Champions League (held for the first time in 1967), since it was the first organized international competition that involved club teams around the continent. From the late 1950s to the early 1980s, it was a prestigious tournament among Asian clubs.

Mohammedan SC (Dhaka)
Mohammedan Sporting Club Limited is a Bangladeshi professional football club based in Dhaka. Founded in 1936, it is one of the oldest and the most successful football club in the country, with a support base in all parts of the country. The club currently competes in the Bangladesh Premier League.
Rankism
Rankism is "abusive, discriminatory, and/or exploitative behavior towards people because of their rank in a particular hierarchy".
Rank-based abuse underlies many other phenomena such as bullying, racism, supremacism (often white supremacy), xenophobia, hazing, ageism, sexism, ableism, sanism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia and transphobia. The term "rankism" was popularized by physicist, educator, and citizen diplomat Robert W. Fuller.

Robert W. Fuller
Robert Works Fuller (October 26, 1936 – July 15, 2025) was an American physicist, educator and social reformer. He was president of Oberlin College 1970–1974, where he championed diversity and curricular reform. He then worked for citizen diplomacy during the Cold War, helped found the Hunger Project, which worked to end world hunger, travelled and wrote widely advocating societies free from "Rankism," rank-based discrimination.

Fuller was a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The Night of the Witches
The Night of the Witches aka Night of the Sorcerers (Spanish: La Noche de los Brujos) is a 1974 horror film which starred Maria Kosti, Loli Tovar aka Maria Dolores del Loreto Tovar, Barbara King, Kali Hansa aka Marisol Hernandez, Jack Taylor, Simón Andreu, and Joseph Thelman. Written and directed by Amando de Ossorio, the premise of the movie is that a group of African explorers run afoul of a native cult. "Brujo" means a "male witch or warlock", so the title actually translates as "Night of the Warlocks", not "Night of the Witches".

Amando de Ossorio
Amando de Ossorio (6 April 1918 – 13 January 2001) was one of the foremost Spanish horror film directors during the European horror film surge in the 1970s, known especially for his "Blind Dead" tetralogy.
Seehorn, Illinois
Seehorn is an unincorporated community in northern Pike County, Illinois, United States.

The community lies just south of the Pike - Adams county line. It is on the eastern edge of the Mississippi River bottomlands approximately six miles northeast of Hannibal, Missouri.

Pike County, Illinois
Pike County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is located between the Mississippi River and the Illinois River in western Illinois. According to the 2020 United States census, it had a population of 14,739. Its county seat is Pittsfield.
1972 Tenerife Spantax Convair CV-990 crash
On December 3, 1972, a Convair CV-990 Coronado charter flight operated by Spantax from Tenerife to Munich with 148 passengers and 7 crew crashed while taking off from Tenerife-Norte Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, killing all 155 passengers and crew onboard. Many of the passengers were French tourists heading on a tour of Germany.

Spantax
Spantax S.A. was a Spanish leisure airline headquartered in Madrid that operated from 6 October 1959 to 29 March 1988. Spantax was one of the first Spanish airlines to operate tourist charter flights between European and North American cities and popular Spanish holiday destinations and was considered a major force in developing 20th-century mass tourism in Spain. Its popularity and image faded from the 1970s onward when a series of crashes and incidents revealed safety deficits, which, combined with rising fuel costs and increasing competition, resulted in the company facing severe financial difficulties that led to its demise in 1988.
Snelling & Dayton station
Snelling & Dayton is a bus rapid transit station on the Metro A Line in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

The station is located at the intersection of Dayton Avenue on Snelling Avenue, just south of Marshall Avenue. Both station platforms are located near-side of Dayton Avenue. The METRO B Line, an upcoming bus rapid transit line, is planned to share existing station infrastructure. The B Line is currently in early planning stages, and is expected to begin operation 2022 between Uptown, Minneapolis and Downtown Saint Paul.

The station opened June 11, 2016 with the rest of the A Line.

Metro A Line (Minnesota)
The Metro A Line is a bus rapid transit route in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul region of Minnesota, operated by Metro Transit as part of the Metro rapid transit network. The A Line operates a north-south route along Snelling Avenue, connecting 46th Street station in Minneapolis and Rosedale Center in Roseville, via Ford Parkway and the Intercity Bridge.

Metro Transit describes the A Line's service as "arterial bus rapid transit" (aBRT), which includes off-board fare collection, enhanced bus stops, and transit signal priority. The history of the Snelling Avenue transit corridor dates to 1905, when Twin City Rapid Transit streetcar service began. Streetcars were replaced by buses in 1952, and planning for upgraded bus service on the corridor began in the early 2000s. Construction cost approximately $27 million, and A Line service began in 2016.
Building the City of Light
"Building the City of Light" is a song from Scottish singer-songwriter Mike Scott, which was released as the second and final single from his first solo album Bring 'Em All In. It was written by Mike Scott, and produced by Scott and Niko Bolas. The song reached No. 60 in the UK Singles Chart and remained in the top 100 for two weeks.

Bring 'Em All In
Bring 'Em All In  is the debut solo studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter Mike Scott, released by Chrysalis on 18 September 1995. The cover and album photography were provided by Niko Bolas, Stefano Giovanni, Jeff Mitchell and Scott. The song "What Do You Want Me to Do?" was later covered by Rod Stewart.