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Ali Abdul Karim
Ali Abdul Karim (Arabic: علي عبد الكريم) (born 1953 in Latakia, Syria) is a Syrian diplomat. He was the first Syrian ambassador to Lebanon. Before that he served as the ambassador to Kuwait and as the general manager of the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), and official Syrian Television.

He holds a B.A. in Arabic Literature from the University of Damascus.

In 2011, Abdul Karim was one of three senior Syrian officials sanctioned by the United States in response to the violent crackdown against anti-government protestors by the government of former president Bashar al-Assad. Abdul Karim's US assets were frozen and business transactions with him were banned.

Syrian Arab News Agency
The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) (Arabic: الوكالة العربية السورية للأنباء (سانا), romanized: al-Wakālah al-ʿArabīyah as-Sūrīyah lil-ʾAnbāʾ (SĀNĀ)) is a Syrian state-owned news agency, linked to the country's ministry of information. It was established on 24 June 1965.

SANA publishes more than 500 news stories and 150 photos on a daily basis and operates in multiple languages: Arabic, English, French, Kurdish, Spanish, and Turkish. SANA published a Persian and Russian language versions, along with a Hebrew language version of their website since 2014, but all three editions were ended on 10 August 2025. The agency is also a member of the Federation of Arab News Agencies (FANA).
Richard Halliburton
Richard Halliburton (January 9, 1900 – presumed dead after March 24, 1939) was an American travel writer and adventurer who, among numerous journeys, swam the length of the Panama Canal and paid the lowest toll in its history, 36 cents, in 1928. He disappeared at sea while attempting to sail the Chinese junk Sea Dragon across the Pacific Ocean from Hong Kong to the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, California.

Ghazi of Iraq
Ghazi ibn Faisal (Arabic: غَازِيّ إبْنِ فَيْصَل, romanized: Gâzî ibn-i Faysal) (21 March 1912 – 4 April 1939) was King of Iraq from 1933 to 1939 having been briefly Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Syria in 1920. He was born in Mecca, and was the only son of Faisal I. He died in a car accident in Baghdad in 1939, where he was succeeded by Faisal II.
North Fork Coquille River
The North Fork Coquille River is a 53-mile (85 km) tributary of the Coquille River in the southern Oregon Coast Range in the U.S. state of Oregon. It begins at an elevation of about 1,700 feet (520 m) above sea level and drops to 13 feet (4.0 m) near Myrtle Point, where it joins the South Fork Coquille River to form the main stem.

Myrtle Point, Oregon
Myrtle Point is a city in Coos County, Oregon, United States, established in 1887. The population was 2,475 at the 2020 census. Located in the Coquille River Valley, Myrtle Point is part of the Coos Bay/North Bend/Charleston Metropolitan Statistical Area, which consists of all of Coos County.
Koźlice, Zgorzelec County
Koźlice [kɔˈʑlit͡sɛ] (German: Köslitz, Upper Sorbian: Kožlici) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zgorzelec, within Zgorzelec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the German border.

Gmina Zgorzelec
Gmina Zgorzelec is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Zgorzelec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, on the German border. Its seat is the town of Zgorzelec, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina.

The gmina covers an area of 136.02 square kilometres (52.5 sq mi), and as of 2019 its total population is 8,504.
The Pinkertons
The Pinkertons is a Canadian Western police procedural television series which features crime cases of the Pinkerton detective agency. The show is officially licensed with the Pinkerton detective agency, and features stories based on actual cases from the Pinkerton detective agency archives dating to the 1860s.

The program is produced by Rosetta Media and Buffalo Gal Pictures, in partnership with Channel Zero.  Production of this first-run syndicated television show was announced in April 2014, and filming began the following August.

Buffalo Gal Pictures
Buffalo Gal Pictures is an independent TV and film production company based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

The company has produced 20 feature films, 10 television dramas, 8 documentaries, and over 50 hours of television series. In 2004, it premiered the Isabella Rossellini film The Saddest Music in the World at the Sundance Film Festival.

In 2013, Buffalo Gal Pictures produced Seances, a lost film project by Guy Maddin, in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada.

Its subsidiaries include Insidious Pictures, which focuses on horror; and Kistikan Pictures Inc., dedicated to Indigenous content for film and television, in partnership with actress Tina Keeper.

The company was named "Buffalo Gal" to represent Manitoba, as well as symbolizing the western with a feminine touch.
Newtown Castle
Newtown Castle is a 16th-century tower house, located close to the village of Ballyvaughan within the Burren area of County Clare, Ireland. Uniquely for a tower house of its type in Ireland, it is cylindrical in shape above a square pyramidal base. It is today part of the Burren College of Art.

The Burren
The Burren (/ˈbʌrən/ BURR-ən; Irish: Boirinn, meaning 'rocky district') is a karst/glaciokarst landscape centred in County Clare, on the west coast of Ireland. It measures around 530 square kilometres (200 mi2), within the circle made by the villages of Lisdoonvarna, Corofin, Gort and Kinvara. The area includes such natural features as Mullaghmore hill and Ailladie cliffs, and historic monuments such as Poulnabrone dolmen and Caherconnell Stone Fort.
The Burren National Park covers a small part of the Burren and is the smallest of the eight National Parks in Ireland, while the adjacent territory, including the Cliffs of Moher, is included in the Burren and Cliffs of Moher Geopark.
Stephen M. Daniels
Stephen Manley Daniels (born March 28, 1947) is an American lawyer. He served on the Republican staff of the United States House Committee on Government Operations from 1973 to 1987, after which he was appointed to the General Services Board of Contract Appeals (GSBCA). He was appointed chair of the board on December 22, 1992, and served until January 6, 2007, when he was appointed member and chair of the GSBCA's successor, the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals.

Daniels was born in Boston and grew up in Los Angeles. He attended Palisades High School, Yale College, and Yale Law School. He is married to Maygene Frost Daniels, the former chief archivist of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Maygene Daniels
Maygene Frost Daniels (born March 31, 1948) is an American art historian who was President of the Society of American Archivists. She was the chief archivist at the National Gallery of Art in Washington and has written  books on being an archivist and art history.
Hermes Volley Oostende
Hermes Volley Oostende is a volleyball team based in Ostend (Oostende), Belgium. The club was founded in 1955, but consisted only of one men's team until 1963, when also a women's team was erected.

The women's A squad currently plays at the highest level of Belgian volleyball, Ere Divisie. They have also achieved a spot in the 2011-12 Challenge Cup with their performances of the past season, they were third in the Belgian playoffs. Hermes Oostende also has a B squad in the first national league, the 2nd tier of the Belgian volleyball league pyramid. The C, D and E team play in lower provincial leagues.

At the men's side, Hermes Volley Oostende A plays in the highest Flemish league (the 4th tier of the Belgian volleyball league), aiming for promotion this season. The B squad plays in the second provincial league.

Ostend
Ostend (/ɒstˈɛnd/ ost-END; Dutch: Oostende [oːstˈɛndə] ⓘ West Flemish: Ostende; French: Ostende [ɔstɑ̃d] ⓘ; lit. 'East End') is a coastal city and municipality in the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It comprises the boroughs of Mariakerke, Raversijde, Stene and Zandvoorde, and the city of Ostend proper – the largest on the Belgian coast.
The Conscience of a Conservative
The Conscience of a Conservative is a 1960 book published under the name of Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater who was the 1964 Republican presidential candidate. It helped revive the American conservative movement and make Goldwater a political star, and it has influenced countless conservatives in the United States, helping to lay the foundation for the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s.

The book was largely ghostwritten by L. Brent Bozell Jr., brother-in-law of William F. Buckley Jr. Bozell and Buckley had been members of Yale's debate team. They had co-authored the controversial book, McCarthy and His Enemies, in 1955. Bozell had been Goldwater's speechwriter in the 1950s and was familiar with many of his ideals.

L. Brent Bozell Jr.
Leo Brent Bozell Jr. (/boʊˈzɛl/; January 15, 1926 – April 15, 1997) was an American conservative activist and Catholic writer, and former United States Merchant Mariner. He was a conservative Catholic, and a strong supporter of the anti-abortion movement. In 1966, he co-founded the Catholic magazine Triumph, which published for a decade until its dissolution in 1976.
Maya Kannadi
Maya Kannadi (transl. Mirror of Illusion) is a 2007 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by Cheran and produced by Subbu Panchu. Cheran also plays the lead role with Navya Nair. Ilaiyaraaja scores the music, while R. Sarathkumar, Arya and Malavika make cameo appearances in the film.

Subbu Panchu
Subramaniam Panchu Arunachalam, credited as Subbu Panchu or P. Ar. Subramaniam (born 20 November 1969), is an Indian actor and film producer. Son of noted writer-producer Panchu Arunachalam, Subbu first appeared as a child artist in the Malayalam film Daisy, before working in the production department of his father's P. A. Art Productions. He returned to acting with the television series Arasi and shot to fame following his performance in the 2010 comedy film Boss Engira Bhaskaran. Subbu has occasionally worked as a voice actor and choreographer as well.
Samuel Adegboyega
Samuel Gbadebo Adegboyegalistenⓘ, MON (1 April 1896 – 23 October 1979) was a Nigerian Christian clergyman widely regarded as one of the founding fathers of Pentecostalism in Nigeria. He is the first territorial chairman of the Lagos and Western/Northern Areas Territory (LAWNA) field of The Apostolic Church Nigeria.

Adegboyega
AdegboyegaAdegboyegaⓘ is a Nigerian given name and surname of Yoruba origin primarily used in southwestern Nigeria. It combines the Yoruba words "ade" (meaning "crown"), "gbe" (meaning "carry"), "oye" (meaning "chieftaincy" or "honour"), and "ga" (meaning "tall" or "elevated"). Together, Adegboyega translates to "the crown has elevated (our) honour." Morphologically, it is written as "adé-gbé-oyè-ga."
Michael (1996 film)
Michael is a 1996 American fantasy comedy film directed by Nora Ephron. The film stars John Travolta as the Archangel Michael, a crass and uncouth but wise and well-meaning warrior who is sent to Earth to do various tasks, including mending some wounded hearts. The cast also includes Jean Stapleton, Andie MacDowell, William Hurt, Bob Hoskins, Joey Lauren Adams, and Robert Pastorelli as people who cross Michael's path.

The original music score was composed by Randy Newman. The dance scene and other location shots were filmed at the community center of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in New Corn Hill, Texas, and on country roads near Walburg, Texas, as well as at Texas' Gruene Hall.

Jean Stapleton
Jean Stapleton (born Jeanne Murray; January 19, 1923 – May 31, 2013) was an American character actress of stage, television and film. Stapleton is best known for her portrayal of Edith Bunker, the perpetually optimistic and devoted wife of Archie Bunker, on the 1970s sitcom All in the Family. The role earned her three Emmys and two Golden Globes for Best Actress in a comedy series.
Kowareta Piano to Living Dead
Kowareta Piano to Living Dead (壊れたピアノとリビングデッド; Broken Piano and the Living Dead) is the fourteenth studio album by the Japanese rock band Mucc, released on February 13, 2019 by Danger Crue. It is a "horror concept album.

Mucc
Mucc (Japanese: ムック, Hepburn: Mukku; stylized as MUCC) is a Japanese visual kei rock band, formed in Ibaraki Prefecture in 1997. The classic line up of Tatsuro on vocals, Miya on guitar, Yukke on bass, and Satochi on drums was solidified in 1999 following the departure of original bassist Hiro. After 24 years, Satochi retired from the music industry in October 2021, leaving Mucc a trio. They have released 17 studio albums, with 2020's Aku being their highest-charting. Although predominately a heavy band both lyrically and musically, Mucc is known for switching between music genres and styles frequently. Kerrang! included their fourth studio album Kuchiki no Tō (2004) on a list of 13 essential Japanese rock and metal albums.
In the Beginning (Peter Gossage book)
In the Beginning is a 2001 New Zealand children's book by Peter Gossage, a New Zealand author. The book is a retelling of the Māori creation story and is sculpted around Māori mythology. Gossage writes about the struggle of Ranginui and Papatūānuku's children who are tired of living in the dark and trying to part their parents to allow light into Aotearoa.

Peter Gossage
Peter Gossage (22 October 1946 – 30 July 2016) was a New Zealand author and illustrator. Known for his children's picture books based on Māori mythology, Gossage published over 20 books with deceptively simple storytelling popular inside and outside of classrooms. He is best known for his book How Māui Slowed the Sun. He worked on travelling displays outside of his books and also worked in television as a graphic and scenic artist on the TV2 show Happen Inn.

RNZ called Gossage "An author and illustrator responsible for helping popularise Māori tales in schools and homes."
Square Dance (ballet)
Square Dance is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster 
George Balanchine to Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto Grosso in B minor and the first movement of his Concerto Grosso in E major, Op. 3, nos. 10 and 12, respectively; in 1976 he added Arcangelo Corelli's Sarabanda, Badinerie e Giga, second and third movements. The premiere took place on November 21, 1957, at City Center of Music and Drama, New York, with lighting by Nananne Porcher. The original version placed the musicians on stage with a square dance caller calling the steps; from its 1976 revival the caller was eliminated, the orchestra placed in the pit, and a solo added for the premier danseur to the Corelli Sarabanda. The Pacific Northwest Ballet restored the caller for one performance at the 2007 Vail International Dance Festival.

New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein.  Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. Léon Barzin was the company's first music director.  City Ballet grew out of earlier troupes: the Producing Company of the School of American Ballet, 1934; the American Ballet, 1935, and Ballet Caravan, 1936, which merged into American Ballet Caravan, 1941; and directly from the Ballet Society, 1946.
2023 Hamburg Ladies & Gents Cup
The 2023 Hamburg Ladies & Gents Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2023 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2023 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Hamburg, Germany between 16 and 22 October 2023.

Julia Avdeeva
Julia Antonovna Avdeeva (Russian: Юлия Антоновна Авдеева; born 6 July 2002) is a Russian professional tennis player.

She has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of No. 188, achieved on 20 May 2024, and a doubles ranking of No. 365, achieved on 16 September 2024.
Leksand
Leksand (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈlɛ̂kːsand] ⓘ) is a locality and the seat of Leksand Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 5,934 inhabitants in 2010. Leksand is situated on the southern branch of lake Siljan, where it flows into river Österdalälven.

Siljan (lake)
Siljan, in Dalarna in central Sweden, is Sweden's seventh largest lake. The cumulative area of Siljan and the adjacent, smaller lakes Orsasjön and Insjön is 354 km2 (137 sq mi). Siljan reaches a maximum depth of 134 m (440 ft), and its surface is situated 161 m (528 ft) above sea level. This renders the lowest point of the basin at 27 metres (89 ft) above sea level. The largest town on its shore is Mora.
European Junior and U23 Canoe Slalom Championships
The European Junior and U23 Canoe Slalom Championships is an annual international canoeing and kayaking event organized by the European Canoe Association (ECA). The Junior Championships were first held in 1995 and then every two years until 2003. The Under-23 Championships were first held in 2002 as part of the senior championships that year. Since 2004 the junior and U23 age categories are held annually together as part of the same event. Athletes under the age of 18 are eligible for the junior category.

European Canoe Association
The European Canoe Association (ECA) is the umbrella organization for canoeing sport in Europe. It was founded in Rome, Italy, on December 11, 1993. The organization has 45 member countries. The association was recognized by the International Canoe Federation at the ICF congress in Acapulco in 1994.

In response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the ECA suspended the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes, and suspended all officials from Russia and Belarus from officiating at any ECA event and attending or taking part in any ECA meetings. In May 2023, the International Canoe Federation reinstated Russian and Belarusian athletes, shortly after a Russian missile attack forced cancellation of a canoe event in Ukraine.
John Brady (showman)
John Brady is an Australian whip cracking expert. He has performed in leading shows, fairs and special events, as well as in many television shows and films, including being a stuntman in the Clint Eastwood film Paint Your Wagon.

In September 1974, John and Vi Brady performed at Expo '74 in Spokane, Washington, United States, "billed as Australia's stockwhip champions, [they] flicked cigarettes and handkerchiefs from each others mouths and pockets and did boomerang stunts".

Brady's television appearances include You Asked for It and It's Incredible.

In 2002 Brady performed original routines with both stockwhips and rope tricks during the musical theatre show, The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular, as well as playing the character Saltbush Bill in the show.

Because of his rope tricks and whipcracking expertise, John Brady has been inducted into the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame in Longreach, Queensland, Australia. DVDs have been released of his whip-cracking.

The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular
The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular, based on Banjo Paterson's poem The Man from Snowy River, was a popular musical theatre production which toured Australian capital cities twice during 2002. Kevin Jacobsen and David Atkins were the executive producers for the show. David Atkins and Ignatius Jones were co-directors and co-writers. Extra dialogue was written for the show by Jonathan Biggins and Phillip Scott.

The stage musical has no relationship to the 1982 film The Man from Snowy River, or the 1988 sequel The Man from Snowy River II, or the television series The Man from Snowy River.

All poetry narrated in the musical was written by Banjo Paterson, including the lyrics to the songs "Waltzing Matilda" (with music written by Marie Cowan), and "As Long as Your Eyes Are Blue" (the music to which was "Clancy's Theme", which was written by Bruce Rowland for the film The Man from Snowy River).
Seesaw (album)
Seesaw is a cover album of soul and blues classics recorded by American singer Beth Hart and blues rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa in 2013. It follows up on the success of their initial collaboration for the Don't Explain cover album in 2011. Seesaw was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Blues Album of 2013.

Joe Bonamassa
Joseph Leonard Bonamassa (/ˌbɑːnəˈmɑːsə/ BAH-nə-MAH-sə; born May 8, 1977) is an American blues rock guitarist, singer and songwriter. He started his career at age twelve, when he opened for B.B. King. Since 2000, Bonamassa has released fifteen solo albums through his independent record label J&R Adventures, of which eleven have reached No. 1 on the Billboard Blues chart.

Bonamassa has played alongside many notable blues and rock artists, and has earned three Grammy Awards nominations. Among guitarists, he is known for his extensive collection of vintage guitars and amplifiers.

In 2020, Bonamassa created Keeping the Blues Alive Records, an independent record label that promotes and supports the talent of blues musicians.  Notable artists include Dion, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Joanna Connor, and Larry McCray. Bonamassa produces and collaborates on many of the projects.
Hot Butter
Hot Butter was an American instrumental band fronted by the keyboard player and studio musician Stan Free. The other band members were John Abbott (arranger, guitar), brothers Bill (producer, engineer, percussion) and Steve Jerome (producer, electric piano), Danny Jordan (producer) and Dave Mullaney (arranger, ondioline); also joined in studio by Tony Spinosa (percussion). They were best known for their 1972 version of the Moog synthesizer instrumental song "Popcorn", originally recorded by its composer, Gershon Kingsley, in 1969. The track became an international hit, selling a million copies in France, 250,000 in the United Kingdom, and over two million worldwide.

Tequila (The Champs song)
"Tequila" is a 1958 Latin-inspired instrumental song written by Chuck Rio and recorded by American rock and roll band The Champs. It became a No. 1 hit on both the pop and R&B charts at the time of its release and continues to be strongly referenced in pop culture to this day.

In 1958, "Tequila" won a Grammy for Best Rhythm & Blues Performance at the 1st Annual Grammy Awards. In 2001, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Tomoko Watanabe (wrestler)
Tomoko Watanabe (渡辺智子, Watanabe Tomoko) is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to the Japanese promotion Marvelous That's Women Pro Wrestling. A veteran of the Japanese independent scene, Watanabe is known for her tenures with now-defunct promotions All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling and JWP Joshi Puroresu.

World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana
World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana (ワールド女子プロレス・ディアナ, Wārudo Joshi Puroresu Diana) often abbreviated simply as Diana is a Japanese joshi puroresu or women's professional wrestling promotion based in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan. It was founded by Kyoko Inoue in 2010.
Rajawali Medan
Rajawali Medan is an Indonesian professional basketball team currently playing in the Indonesian Basketball League (IBL). The team is based in the city of Medan, making them the only team in the league from the island of Sumatra.

In November 2023, the team owners acquired Evos Thunder Bogor's IBL license and renamed the franchise Rajawali Medan for the 2024 season.

Indonesian Basketball League
The Indonesia Basketball League (IBL; Indonesian: Liga Bola Basket Indonesia) is the preeminent men's professional basketball league in Indonesia, founded by Indonesian Basketball Association (Perbasi) in 2003. From 2010 to 2015 it was known as the National Basketball League (NBL) and organised by DBL Indonesia. In 2016, PT Bola Basket Indonesia acquired Starting5 and after that PT Bola Basket Indonesia assigned by PP Perbasi to organised the league.