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Paradais
Paradais (originally titled Páradais in Spanish) is a novel by Mexican author Fernanda Melchor. It was published in its original Spanish in 2021 by Literatura Random House. An English translation by Sophie Hughes was published in 2022 by Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Direction Books.

Benjamin P. Russell of the Houston Chronicle described the novel as a "commentary on" the "often haunting facts" of Mexico, stating "a more incisive commentary [...] would be hard to find."

This was the second Melchor novel to receive an officially published English translation.

Sophie Hughes
Sophie Hughes (born 1986) is a British literary translator who works chiefly from Spanish to English.

She is known for her translations of contemporary writers such as Laia Jufresa, Rodrigo Hasbún, Alia Trabucco Zerán and Fernanda Melchor. Her works have been shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, International Booker Prize, Man Booker International Prize, along with other awards. As of 2025, after being longlisted for the International Booker Prize for her translation of Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, Hughes has been nominated five times for the International Booker Prize, more than any other translator.
The Whitefield Brothers
The Whitefield Brothers are a German funk band. The band, which consists of brothers Jan and Max Weissenfeldt, was previously known as the "'Poets of Rhythm"' beginning in 1991. Under this name, they were signed to the Quannum Projects label after they were discovered by Lyrics Born. As the Whitefield Brothers, they released their debut album In the Raw in 2001 and their second album, Earthology, in 2010. The making of Earthology took 15 years, and the album received generally favorable reviews from music critics.

Quannum
Quannum (also known as Quannum MCs or Quannum Mechanics) is an American hip hop collective based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It has been active since 1992, when it was formed at UC Davis under the moniker Solesides Records. It is also the name of the independent record label, Quannum Projects, that releases their records, as well as those of a number of other artists. The label continues to be 100% independently owned and operated.
Melodeon Records
Melodeon Records is a record label set up in 1964 by Richard K. Spottswood.

Melodeon Records issued - among others - the first recordings after his 'rediscovery' of Skip James and the 1940 Library Of Congress Sessions of Blind Willie McTell. In 1970 the label was acquired by Arnold S. Caplin's Biograph Records.

Richard K. Spottswood
Richard K. "Dick" Spottswood (born April 17, 1937) is an American musicologist and author from Maryland who has catalogued and been responsible for the reissue of many thousands of recordings of vernacular music in the United States.
A Conspiracy So Immense
A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy is a Hardeman Prize-winning book by David Oshinsky first published in 1983 by Free Press and later reprinted by Oxford University Press. The book covers the life of Joseph McCarthy from his birth to his death.

David Oshinsky
David M. Oshinsky (born 1944) is an American historian, director of the Division of Medical Humanities at the NYU School of Medicine, and a professor in the Department of History at New York University.
Dooish
Dooish (Irish: Dubhais, meaning 'black hill-base') is a village and townland near Drumquin in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The townland is situated in the historic barony of Omagh West and the civil parish of Longfield West and covers an area of 845 acres. In the 2001 census it had a population of 93 people. It lies within the Omagh District Council area.

The population of the townland declined during the 19th century:

Omagh West
Omagh West (named after Omagh town) is a barony  in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is bordered by three other baronies in Northern Ireland: Strabane Lower to the north-east; Omagh East to the east; and Lurg to the south. It also borders two baronies in County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland: Tirhugh to the south-west; and Raphoe South to the north-west.
Tomonobu Itagaki
Tomonobu Itagaki (板垣 伴信, Itagaki Tomonobu; April 1, 1967 – c. October 2025) was a Japanese video game designer best known for creating the Dead or Alive series and also reviving the Ninja Gaiden franchise in 2004. In 2009, he was chosen by IGN as one of the top 100 game creators of all time.

Joining Tecmo in 1992, Itagaki produced two video game franchises that were critical and commercial successes, earning him several promotions; he headed Tecmo's development team, Team Ninja, and sat on the executive board. He left the company in June 2008 after 16 years of service, filing a lawsuit against its new president for withholding bonus pay. He formed a new company, Valhalla Game Studios, with several Team Ninja members and released Devil's Third. The company was dissolved in December 2021, although he had formed Itagaki Games earlier in 2021. Itagaki died in October 2025 at the age of 58.

Valhalla Game Studios
Valhalla Game Studios International Ltd. was a video game development, entertainment and holding company.

It was founded in 2008 as Valhalla Game Studios Co., Ltd. in Tokyo, Japan. An international division was later founded in British Columbia, Canada, which acquired all intellectual property and shares of the original Valhalla Game Studios and other affiliates, effectively making them subsidiaries of the Canadian company. To differentiate, the original Valhalla Game Studios is alternatively referred to as VGS Japan. VGS Japan is best known for Devil's Third, their flagship title which went through a long development cycle.

Valhalla's parent company, Wake Up Interactive, was acquired by Tencent for $44 million in November 2021. The following month, Wake Up merged the staff and operations of Valhalla Game Studios into another subsidiary, Soleil Ltd., effectively closing down Valhalla.
Norfolk station (MBTA)
Norfolk station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Norfolk, Massachusetts, served by the Franklin/Foxboro Line. The station has one platform which serves a single track, with a mini-high section for accessibility. The Norfolk County Railroad opened through the North Wrentham village of Wrentham in 1849. A branch line to Medway was open from 1852 to 1864. The station was renamed Norfolk along with the town in 1870. Several different railroads operated the line, with the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad running it for much of the 20th century. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) subsidies began in 1966, and the agency bought the line in 1973. The mini-high platform was added in 1990.

Massachusetts Route 115
Route 115 is a 10.87-mile-long (17.49 km) south–north highway in southeastern Massachusetts. The route connects several small towns in western Norfolk County, ending just into Middlesex County in Sherborn.
Wilbert Roget II
Wilbert Roget II (born December 7, 1983) is an American composer known for his work on video game music, particularly Mortal Kombat 11 (2019), Call of Duty: WWII (2017), Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris (2014), Helldivers 2 (2024), and Star Wars Outlaws (2024). His scores have won multiple awards and nominations from the Game Audio Network Guild, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, the BAFTA, and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

Game Audio Network Guild Awards
The Game Audio Network Guild Awards (shortened to the G.A.N.G. Awards) is an award show that celebrates excellence in video game audio. The awards, which started in 2004, are arranged by the Game Audio Network Guild and held annually during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The first four shows were held at the Fairmont San Jose, before moving to the Moscone Center from the fifth; due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 18th to 20th ceremonies were held virtually.
The Sweetest Thing This Side of Heaven
"The Sweetest Thing This Side of Heaven" is a love song by Chris Bartley, written and produced by Van McCoy. It was the title track of his Bartley's first LP, and became his only hit single. He was 17 at the time of its recording, and 18 at the time it became a hit.

"The Sweetest Thing This Side of Heaven" became a hit during the summer of 1967. It reached number 32 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. It was a much bigger R&B hit, reaching number 10 in the U.S. and number 14 in Canada.

Van McCoy
Van Allen Clinton McCoy (January 6, 1940 – July 6, 1979) was an American record producer, arranger, songwriter and singer. He is known for his 1975 internationally successful hit "The Hustle". He has approximately 700 song copyrights to his credit, and produced songs by such recording artists as Brenda & the Tabulations, David Ruffin, The Stylistics, The Presidents, Faith, Hope & Charity, New Censation, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Aretha Franklin, Peaches & Herb, Lesley Gore, and Stacy Lattisaw.
Listers: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching
Listers: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching is a 2025 documentary film created by brothers Owen and Quentin Reiser and published on YouTube. The film, released with an accompanying book entitled Field Guide of All the Birds We Found One Year in the United States, follows the brothers as they attempt a Big Year, a birdwatching term for an attempt to observe as many species of bird as possible in a calendar year. The film received positive reviews.

Big year
A big year is a personal challenge or an informal competition among birders who attempt to identify as many species of birds as possible by sight or sound, within a single calendar year and within a specific geographic area. Popularized in North America, big years are commonly carried out within a single U.S. state or Canadian province, or within larger areas such as the Lower 48 contiguous states, within the official American Birding Association (ABA) area, or sometimes the entire globe. The ABA big year record of 840 species was set by John Weigel of Australia in 2019. The big year world record of 6,852 species was set in 2016 by Arjan Dwarshuis of the Netherlands.
Linda Weiser Friedman
Linda Weiser Friedman (born 1953) is an author and academic. She is a Professor of Statistics and Computer Information Systems at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Friedman holds a PhD in Operations Research from New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering and a B.A degree in Statistics / Biology from Baruch College. Her research and teaching interests are varied and include business statistics, object-oriented programming, humor studies, Jewish studies, online education, social media, and all things technology. Her most recent book is God Laughed: Sources of Jewish Humor (ISBN 9781412853767), which Publishers Weekly called a "lighthearted but thoughtful study". She also writes fiction and poetry, and lives in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Borough Park, Brooklyn
Borough Park (also spelled Boro Park) is a neighborhood in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn, in New York City. The neighborhood is bordered by Bensonhurst to the south, Dyker Heights to the southwest, Sunset Park to the west, Kensington and Green-Wood Cemetery to the north, Flatbush to the east, and Mapleton to the southeast.

It is economically diverse and home to one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities outside Israel, with one of the largest concentrations of Jews in the United States. With Orthodox and Haredi families having an average of 6.72 children, Boro Park is experiencing a sharp growth in population.

The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community District 12, and its primary ZIP Code is 11219. It is patrolled by the 66th Precinct of the New York City Police Department. Politically, it is represented by the New York City Council's 38th, 39th, and 44th districts.
The Nittany Lion
"The Nittany Lion" is a traditional fight song played by the Penn State Blue Band at football games and other sporting events. During the pre-game show of home football games at Beaver Stadium, it is part of the traditional Lion Fanfare and Downfield. While it is not the official fight song of Penn State, it is one of the songs most widely associated with the university, and is also incorrectly referred to as  "Hail to the Lion" (or Lions). On Fridays and Saturdays, the clock tower in Penn State's Old Main plays a line of the chorus music at the fifteen-minute mark of each hour, and adds a line every 15 minutes until the whole chorus is played on the completion of the hour.

Penn State Blue Band
The Pennsylvania State University Marching Blue Band, known generally as the Penn State Blue Band or simply the Blue Band, is the marching band of Pennsylvania State University. Founded in 1899, it is the largest recognized student organization at the University Park campus of Penn State, with over 300 active student members. The primary function of the band is to support the Penn State Nittany Lions football team, performing for all home football games at Beaver Stadium.
Knifeandfork
Knifeandfork is an art collaborative formed in 2004 by American artists Brian House and Sue Huang.  Knifeandfork projects are concerned with the critical reconfiguration of media structures and contexts and the group is known for their unconventional use of mobile and new media in their artworks.

Knifeandfork work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 2009 under the Engagement Party program, the Beall Center for Art + Technology at the University of California, Irvine, and the Kulturhuset, Stockholm. Knifeandfork received a 2008 commission from Rhizome.

Brian House
Brian House (born Denver, Colorado) is a new media and sound artist. His early projects were formative examples of locative media art and digital media in social practice. His subsequent projects have focused on sound and data sonification in relation to nature and technology. His work has appeared in numerous exhibitions around the world, including at the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Ars Electronica and ZKM Center for Art and Media.
Erik Postma
Erik Postma (15 December 1953, Rotterdam - 25 September 2002, Middenbeemster) was a Dutch politician of the Democrats 66 party.

In 1992, he was elected city manager (gemeentesecretaris) of Budel. After the municipal reorganization of North Brabant on 1 January 1997, Budel was incorporated along with the municipality Maarheeze in the new municipality Cranendonck, and Postma was made city manager.

In April 1998 Postma was appointed mayor of the northern Dutch municipality of Beemster. During his mayoral term, he died suddenly of cardiac arrest in September 2002. He was succeeded in his position by Harry Brinkman. In 2014, a street in Beemster was named after him.

Beemster
Beemster (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbeːmstər] ⓘ) is a former municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. The Beemster is the first polder in the Netherlands reclaimed from a lake, the water extracted by windmills between 1609 and 1612. The original well-ordered landscape of fields, roads, canals, and dykes has been preserved intact. A grid of canals parallels the grid of roads in the Beemster. The larger feeder canals are offset by approximately one kilometer from the larger roads.

Beemster merged into the existing municipality of Purmerend on 1 January 2022.
Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School
Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School is a high school located in London, Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Thames Valley District School Board.  The school is named after Sir Frederick Banting, who won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin in 1923. The school was officially opened in 1969 with Lady Banting, widow of Sir Frederick Banting, in attendance. The founding principal (1968–1970) was George A. Robbins.   Banting is recognized for having a strong French Immersion program and a music program.

Currently 1,893 students from grade 9–12 are enrolled.

Irene Mathyssen, the former Member of Parliament for London-Fanshawe, taught English at the school until she was elected in the 2006 federal election.

Banting shares an almost exact floor plan with its sister school, Montcalm Secondary School.

The school participated in CBC's series The Greatest Canadian, in which Sir Frederick Banting was nominated.

Thames Valley District School Board
The Thames Valley District School Board (TVDSB; known as English-language Public District School Board No. 11 prior to 1999) is a public school board in southwestern Ontario, Canada.

The TVDSB serves an area over 7,000 square kilometres which includes urban, suburban and rural communities.  It spans three counties and includes the cities of London, St. Thomas, and Woodstock, plus the towns of Ingersoll, Tillsonburg, and Strathroy-Caradoc, as well as several smaller towns and villages.

As of 2024, the Board administered 160 schools (134 elementary and 26 secondary schools).  They also provide alternative education programs for approximately 40,000 students through adult day school, continuing education, general interest, night school and summer school courses.
Kōtarō Kiyomiya
Kōtarō Kiyomiya (清宮 幸太郎; born May 25, 1999) is a Japanese professional baseball first baseman for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). A left-handed batter and right-handed thrower, Kotaro stands 6 feet 0 inches (1.83 m) tall and weighs 225 pounds (102 kg). He was the first pick of the Fighters in the 2017 draft. He is the son of Japanese rugby union coach, Katsuyuki Kiyomiya.

Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
The Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (北海道日本ハムファイターズ, Hokkaidō Nippon-Hamu Faitāzu) are a Japanese professional baseball team based in Kitahiroshima, Hokkaidō, in the Sapporo metropolitan area. They compete in the Pacific League of Nippon Professional Baseball, playing the majority of their home games at ES CON Field Hokkaido. The Fighters also host a select number of regional home games in cities across Hokkaidō, including Hakodate, Asahikawa, Kushiro, and Obihiro. The team's name comes from its parent organization, Nippon Ham, a major Japanese food-processing company.

Founded in 1946, the Fighters called Tokyo home for 58 years, as co-tenants of the Tokyo Dome and Korakuen Stadium with the Central League's Yomiuri Giants near the end of their tenure in the capital city. The franchise has won three Japan Series titles, in 1962, 2006, and, most recently, 2016.
Don Newman (broadcaster)
Donald Kenneth Newman, OC (born 28 October 1940) is a retired senior parliamentary editor for CBC Television who also hosted CBC Newsworld's daily politics program CBC News: Politics. Newman is known for his signature introductory phrase to the viewer "Welcome to the Broadcast", in which he enunciates the first syllable of the last word more slowly than the rest of the greeting. The phrase became the title of his memoir, published in 2013.

CBC News Network
CBC News Network (formerly CBC Newsworld) is a Canadian English-language specialty news channel owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). It is Canada's first all-news channel, and the world's third-oldest television service of this nature (after CNN in the United States, and Sky News in the United Kingdom).

CBC News Network is funded by cable subscriber fees and commercial advertising, unlike the CBC's main television network, and it cannot directly receive operational funds from the corporation's public funding allotment. Nonetheless, the network benefits from synergies with other CBC services; such as the ability to share reporters and programs with the main network.

CBC News Network's French-language counterpart is Ici RDI, also owned by the CBC (or, Société Radio-Canada in French).
A Very Good Wife
A Very Good Wife is a 1693 comedy play by the English writer George Powell. It was first performed by the United Company at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane with a cast that included Powell as Courtwitt, John Hodgson as Wellborn, William Bowen as Squeezwit, George Bright as Venture, Joseph Haines as Sneaksby, Colley Cibber as  Aminadab, Susanna Mountfort as Annabella, Frances Maria Knight as Widow Lacy, Elinor Leigh as Mrs Sneaksby.

George Powell (playwright)
George Powell (1668? – 1714) was a 17th-century London actor and playwright who was a member of the United Company. He was the son of the actor Martin Powell, a long-standing member of the King's Company.
Gabby Mayo
Gabrielle Montoya Mayo (born January 26, 1989) is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. She attended Texas A&M University.

A native of Raleigh, North Carolina, Mayo attended Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School. She won a silver and a gold medal at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics.   She was Track and Field News "High School Athlete of the Year" in 2006.

Mayo was part of a US 4 × 100 m relay squad that established the second fastest Jr time over that distance. It was the World Jr Record. at the time.

Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School
Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School is a magnet high school in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. It opened in 1997 as a magnet school with a focus on math, science, and technology. The current magnet theme is University Connections, which focuses on providing students with interactions and experiences with colleges, universities, and workplace environments while still in high school.  The school operates on a modified calendar, with the fall semester usually starting in late July and with longer, more frequent breaks during the school year, completing classes before the end of May.
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot (French: L'histoire très bonne et très joyeuse de Colinot Trousse-Chemise) is a 1973 French comedy film directed and written by Nina Companéez. Francis Huster stars as the title character, Colinot. It was the final film appearance of Brigitte Bardot who retired from the entertainment industry when the film went into post-production.

Nina Companeez
Nina Companeez (26 August 1937 – 9 April 2015) was a French screenwriter and film director. Nina Companeez was the younger daughter of Russian Jewish émigré screenwriter Jacques Companéez and younger sister of contralto Irène Companeez. She was the mother of actress Valentine Varela.

Companeez was a long time collaborator of Michel Deville. She wrote scripts for 29 films and television shows. In April 2015, she died at the age of 77.
Unterems (electoral district)
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Unterems is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 25. It is located in northwestern Lower Saxony, comprising the district of Leer and the northern part of the district of Emsland.

Unterems was created for the 1980 federal election. Since 2002, it has been represented by Gitta Connemann of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

Gitta Connemann
Gitta Connemann (born 10 May 1964) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the German Parliament since 2002. Since 2021, she has been serving as the chairwoman of MIT, the pro-business wing in the CDU/CSU.