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Souvenir (song)
"Souvenir" is a song written by Paul Humphreys and Martin Cooper of English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), and released as the first single from the group's 1981 album Architecture & Morality. Sung by Humphreys, the track is characterised by its use of slowed-down choral loops, and showcases OMD's early approach of utilising a synthesizer hook in place of a vocal chorus. The song has garnered praise from critics and fellow artists.

"Souvenir" became an international hit for the band. Peaking at number 3 on the UK Singles Chart, it remains the group's highest-charting single in their home country, along with 1991's "Sailing on the Seven Seas". The song also reached the top 10 in several European countries, including topping the charts in Spain and Portugal.

Hook (music)
A hook is a musical idea, often a short riff, passage, or phrase, that is used in popular music to make a song appealing and to "catch the ear of the listener." The term generally applies to popular music, especially rock, urban, dance, and pop. In these genres, the hook is often found in, or consists of, the chorus. A hook can be either melodic or rhythmic, and often incorporates the main motif for a piece of music.
Slovakia men's national basketball team
The Slovakia men's national basketball team (Slovak: Slovenské národné basketbalové mužstvo) represents Slovakia in international basketball competition. The supervising body is the Slovak Basketball Association (SBA).

Slovakia is one of the newest national basketball teams in the world, having split from Czechoslovakia following the dissolution of the unified state in 1993. They joined FIBA later that year, and played in their first international match against Bosnia and Herzegovina. Slovakia to date does not have much history on the international level. Although they have attempted to qualify for major tournaments such as EuroBasket and the FIBA World Cup, but have yet to reach qualification.

Bosnia and Herzegovina men's national basketball team
The Bosnia and Herzegovina men's national basketball team (Bosnian: Košarkaška reprezentacija Bosne i Hercegovine / Кошаркашка репрезентација Босне и Херцеговине) represents Bosnia and Herzegovina in international basketball competitions, and is governed by the Basketball Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Until 1992, Bosnian basketballers played for Yugoslavia.

Bosnia and Herzegovina reached their first international tournament at the EuroBasket in 1993. They have competed 11 times at the event overall. The team has yet to qualify on the global level to play at the FIBA World Cup.
Monique Taylor
Monique Taylor (born June 28, 1972) is a Canadian politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who represented the riding of Hamilton Mountain. She was an MPP from 2011 to 2025.

Hamilton Mountain (provincial electoral district)
Hamilton Mountain is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1967. The riding is located in the Hamilton, Ontario region.

The socio-economic composition of the Hamilton Mountain is diverse, having low-income public housing residents and million-dollar estates, highly paid unionized workers and small-wage unskilled workers, and well-established families and recent immigrants.
Jo Coffey
Joanna Suzanne Coffey (born 26 August 1976) is an English comedian, actress and writer. After beginning her career in stand-up comedy and performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, she has since gone on to appear in various television shows including EastEnders, Avoidance, The Witcher: Blood Origin and Extraordinary. Since 2023, she has portrayed the role of Wendy Whitwell in the BBC school drama Waterloo Road.

Avoidance (TV series)
Avoidance is a British comedy drama television series made for BBC One starring Romesh Ranganathan, Lisa McGrillis, Mandeep Dhillon, Jessica Knappett and Kieran Logendra. The first series was broadcast from 10 June 2022. A second series was commissioned in May 2023 and was broadcast from 5 April 2024.
Piedfort
A piedfort (UK: /piˈeɪfɔːrt, ˈpiːɛdˌfɔːrt/, US: /piˌeɪˈfɔːr, piˈeɪfɔːr/; French: pied-fort or piéfort [pjefɔʁ]) is an unusually thick coin, often exactly twice the normal weight and thickness of other coins of the same diameter and pattern. Piedforts are not normally circulated, and are only struck for presentation purposes by mint officials (such as patterns), or for collectors, dignitaries and other VIPs. Piedfort is less commonly spelled "piefort".

Very important person
A very important person (VIP or V.I.P.) or personage is a person who is accorded special privileges due to their high social rank, status, influence, or importance. The term was not common until sometime after World War II when it was popularised by Royal Air Force pilots.

Examples include celebrities, heads of state or government, other high-ranking politicians, or any other socially notable person who receives special treatment for any reason. The special treatment usually involves separation from common people, and a higher level of comfort or service.
Irina Slavina (journalist)
Irina Vyacheslavovna Murakhtaeva (Russian: Ирина Вячеславовна Мурахтаева; née Kolebanova; 8 January 1973 – 2 October 2020), known professionally as Irina Slavina, was a Russian journalist from Nizhny Novgorod city, public and political figure, and editor-in-chief of the Koza Press.

On 2 October 2020, Irina Slavina died through self-immolation in front of the building of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (opposite the Gorkovskaya metro station).

Self-immolation
Self-immolation is the act of setting oneself on fire. It is mostly done for political or religious reasons, often as a form of protest or in acts of martyrdom, and known for its disturbing and violent nature.
Khooni Khanjar
Khooni Khanjar (Fighting Blade) is a 1930 Indian silent film directed by V. Shantaram.
The film was a costume action drama film co-directed by Keshavrao Dhaiber. It was produced by Prabhat Film Company. The cinematography was by Sheikh Fattelal and Vishnupant Govind Damle. The cast included Mane Pahelwan, Ganpat G. Shinde, P. Jairaj, Sakribai and Shankarrao Bhosle.

Shantaram had formed Prabhat Film Company in 1929 with Dhaiber, Damle and Fattelal and their first film Gopal Krishna was a big success commercially, which helped them produce five silent films in 1930–31. Khooni Khanjar was the first of them followed by Rani Saheba (1930), Udaykal (1930), Chandrasena (1931) and Zulum (1931).

Gopal Krishna (1929 film)
Gopal Krishna (Child Krishna) is an Indian religious silent film made in 1929. It was directed by V. Shantaram for his newly formed Prabhat Film Company. The film was a "solo debut" for Shantaram, after co-directing Netaji Palkar (1927) with K. Dhaiber for the Maharashtra Film Company. The story was written by Shivram Vashikar and the cast composed of Suresh, Kamaladevi, Anant Apte, Sakribai and G.R. Mane.

The story was about the child (Gopal) Krishna and his fight with King Kamsa of Mathura. Made in the Pre-Independence era, the film was cited as representing the "Gandhian anti-colonial nationalism". Shantaram stated that he had meshed the Puranic story with "topical allusions". The film was a success as was the Talkie remake  Gopal Krishna (1938).
Dikkiloona
Dikkiloona  is a 2021 Indian Tamil-language science fiction comedy film written and directed by Karthik Yogi in his directoral debut . The film stars Santhanam in a triple role alongside, Anagha and Shirin Kanchwala, while Yogi Babu, Harbhajan Singh, Rajendran and Anandaraj play supporting roles. The film features music composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja, with cinematography and editing were performed respectively by Arvi and Jomin. The film was released on ZEE5 on 10 September 2021, coinciding with the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi, and received mixed to positive reviews from critics.

Harbhajan Singh
Harbhajan Singh (born 3 July 1980), also known by the nickname Bhajji, is a former Indian cricketer. He later became a politician, serving as a Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha. He is also a film actor, a television celebrity, and a cricket commentator.

Harbhajan played for India from 1998 to 2016 as an off spin bowler. In domestic cricket, he played for the Punjab cricket team; and in the Indian Premier League for the Mumbai Indians, Chennai Super Kings, and Kolkata Knight Riders. Considered one of the best Indian spin bowlers of his era, he was on the Indian teams that won the 2007 T20 World Cup and the 2011 Cricket World Cup, and also the team that were joint-winners with Sri Lanka of the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy. He was also a lower-order batter, having two centuries in tests with a top score of 115.
Cloghan railway station
Cloghan railway station served the village of Cloghan in County Donegal, Ireland.

The station opened on 3 June 1895 on the Donegal Railway Company line from Glenties to Stranorlar.

It closed on 15 December 1947 when the County Donegal Railways Joint Committee  closed the line from Glenties to Stranorlar in an effort to save money.

Freight services on the route continued until 10 March 1952.

Stranorlar
Stranorlar (Irish: Srath an Urláir) is a town, townland and civil parish in the Finn Valley of County Donegal, in Ireland. Stranorlar and Ballybofey (located on the other side of the River Finn) form the twin towns of Ballybofey–Stranorlar.
Robert Bernecky
Robert (Bob) Bernecky is a Canadian computer scientist notable as a designer and implementer of APL.  His APL career started at I.P. Sharp Associates (IPSA) in 1971.

Bernecky's first published APL work concerned with speeding up the iota and epsilon (index-of and membership) primitives functions by orders of magnitude. While at IPSA, he was a colleague of Roger Hui, Dick Lathwell, Eugene McDonnell, Roger Moore, Arthur Whitney, and APL inventor Ken Iverson.

He continued on after IPSA was acquired by Reuters on 1987-04-01, and left Reuters in 1990 to found Snake Island Research.  He conducts research into functional array languages, APL compiler, and parallel-processing technology to this day.

Bernecky holds the Master of Science degree from the University of Toronto.

Arthur Whitney (computer scientist)
Arthur Whitney (born October 20, 1957) is a Canadian computer scientist most notable for developing three programming languages inspired by APL: A+, k, and q, and for co-founding the U.S. companies Kx Systems and Shakti Software.
Susan W. Pope
Susan Joan Wetzel Pope (born September 10, 1942 in Summit) is an American politician from Wayland, Massachusetts. Pope represented the 13th Middlesex district as a Republican in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1997 to 2006.

Wayland, Massachusetts
Wayland is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The town was founded in 1638, and incorporated in 1780 and was originally part of neighboring Sudbury (incorporated 1639). At the 2020 United States census, the population was 13,943. It contains the census-designated place of Cochituate.
Premier Secondary Boarding School
Premier Secondary Boarding School (Nepali: प्रिमियर माध्यमिक विधालय) is a boarding school in Rajbiraj, Nepal. The school was established in 1998. The founder of the school is Rajesh Karna. The school has around 500 students. It is one of the school who produces reasonable percentage of results in School Leaving Certificate exams. Abhishek Shrivastav from the school topped Saptari district in SLC 2072 BS and get awarded by PABSON ( Private & Boarding Schools' Organization Nepal). The school provides qualitative education to all the studying students.

The school offers education in English medium with Nepali taught as vernaculars. Other subjects are taught as per the norms of the Department of Education in Nepal.

Department of Education (Nepal)
Department of Education (Nepali: शिक्षा विभाग), abbreviated as DoE, is the executive department of the Ministry of Education, Nepal government responsible for the management and upkeep of the Nepalese system of education. It is the main implementation agency of Nepali educational plan and policy and is responsible for the basic and secondary education system in Nepal.
Tan Chok Kian
Alphonsus Tan Chok Kian PPA(E) PPA(P) (15 February 1931 – 20 December 2015) was a Singaporean civil servant and the first chairman of Post Office Savings Bank from 1972 to 1986, after it became a statutory board of the Ministry of Communications.

Tan was permanent secretary for the Ministry of National Development (1970–1971), Ministry of Finance (1971–1975), Ministry of Social Affairs (1975–1977) and Ministry of Culture (1976–1977).

Tan also served as chairman of Acma Limited (1972–1989), Central Provident Fund (1980–1986) and the Stock Exchange of Singapore (1986–1989). He was a director of SAL Industrial Leasing Limited, and the Development Bank of Singapore (1971–1981).

Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports
The Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) was a ministry of the Government of Singapore tasked with building a "cohesive and resilient" society in Singapore.

On 1 November 2012, the MCYS was restructured and became the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF). Several portfolios such as Youth Development and Sports was shifted to a new Ministry, the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY).
Ellington Indigos
Ellington Indigos is a 1958 jazz album by Duke Ellington.

The stereo CD reissue released by Columbia (CK 4444) in 1987 contains a track listing and cover art that is drastically different from the original mono LP. A change in song order and two additional songs – "Night and Day" and "All The Things You Are" – were added to the CD, while "The Sky Fell Down" was omitted.

Night and Day (song)
"Night and Day" is a popular song by Cole Porter that was written for the 1932 musical Gay Divorce. It is perhaps Porter's most popular contribution to the Great American Songbook and has been recorded by dozens of musicians. NPR says "within three months of the show's opening, more than 30 artists had recorded the song."

Fred Astaire introduced "Night and Day" on November 29, 1932, when Gay Divorce opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

The song was so associated with Porter that when Hollywood filmed his life story in 1946, with Cary Grant, the movie was entitled Night and Day.
Polly Hurry
Polly Hurry (2 May, 1883, Kyneton - 5 August 1963, Frankston), was an Australian painter. She was a founding member of the Australian Tonalist movement and part of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society.

Alice Marian Ellen Bale
Alice Marian Ellen Bale, known as A. M. E. Bale, (11 November 1875 – 14 February 1955) was an Australian artist, the editor of the Victorian Artists' Society's journal VAS and a foundation member of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society. In her will, she left an endowment for the A. M. E. Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize to support Australian artists. The endowment funds a scholarship and two prizes.
Ron Hooker
Ronald William Hooker (22 February 1935 – 22 February 2019) was an English cricketer. Hooker was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. A successful all-rounder, Hooker played for the first-class county Middlesex and later for the minor county Buckinghamshire, in a career which spanned from 1956 to 1975. He was born in Lower Clapton, London.

Buckinghamshire County Cricket Club
Buckinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of twenty National County clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Buckinghamshire.

The team is currently a member of the National Counties Championship Eastern Division and plays in the NCCA Knockout Trophy. Buckinghamshire played List A matches occasionally from 1965 until 2005 but is not classified as a List A team per se.

The club plays its matches around the county at various locations including at Wormsley on the Getty Estate. Until 1979 it played regularly at Ascott Park, the home of the Rothschild family which was prominent in the club's foundation.
Orate fratres
Orate fratres is the incipit of a request for prayer that the priest celebrating Mass of the Roman Rite addresses to the faithful participating in it before saying the Prayer over the Offerings, formerly called the Secret. It thus corresponds to the Oremus said before the Collect and the Postcommunion, and is an expansion of those shorter exhortations. It has gone through several alterations since the Middle Ages.

Collect
The collect (/ˈkɒlɛkt/ KOL-ekt) is a short general prayer of a particular structure used in Christian liturgy.

Collects come up in the liturgies of Catholic, Lutheran, or Anglican churches, among others.
Zah Frazier
Zahquan Frazier (born October 5, 2000) is an American professional football cornerback for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Southern Illinois Salukis, Coffeyville Red Ravens and UTSA Roadrunners. Frazier was selected by the Bears in the fifth round of the 2025 NFL draft.

2025 NFL draft
The 2025 NFL draft was the 90th annual meeting of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible players. The draft was held at Lambeau Field and its adjacent Titletown District in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on April 24–26, 2025. The Tennessee Titans held the first overall pick and selected Cam Ward, a quarterback from the Miami Hurricanes.

For the first time in the common draft era, the 2025 draft commenced with all teams holding their original selections in the first round. After the draft had begun, the Jacksonville Jaguars, Cleveland Browns, Philadelphia Eagles, and Kansas City Chiefs traded picks within the first round while the Houston Texans and Los Angeles Rams traded out of the first round. This was the first draft in NFL history to have every player selection come from an NCAA Division I FBS or FCS program.
2009 Rostov-on-Don bus crash
The 2009 Rostov bus crash was a collision between a bus and a Mercedes-Benz Actros 1841LS oil tanker near Samarskoye village, Azovsky District, Rostov Oblast, Russia. 21 people died, and 8 others were injured.

Azovsky District
Azovsky District (Russian: Азо́вский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the forty-three in Rostov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the oblast. The area of the district is 2,862 square kilometers (1,105 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Azov (which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 93,579 (2010 Census);  92,568 (2002 Census); 83,393 (1989 Soviet census).
Lin Ding
Lin Ding (林鼎) (courtesy name Huanwen (煥文); 891-February 25, 944) was an official of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period Wuyue state, serving as the chancellor of the state during the reign of its second king Qian Yuanguan (né Qian Chuanguan) and probably during the reign of its third king Qian Hongzuo.

Wuyue
Wuyue (simplified Chinese: 吴越; traditional Chinese: 吳越; pinyin: Wúyuè; Wu Chinese pronunciation: [ŋu²³³.ɦyøʔ²³]) was a dynastic state of China and one of the Ten Kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of Chinese history. It was ruled by the Qian clan of Haiyan (海鹽錢氏), whose family name remains widespread in the kingdom's former territory.
Gabrielle LeDoux
Gabrielle LeDoux (born March 24, 1948) is an American politician, a member of the Republican Party, and former member of the Alaska House of Representatives. She lives in Anchorage. LeDoux is a former maritime attorney, having practiced law in Kodiak and Anchorage.

In March 2020, it was announced that she was charged with voter misconduct and unlawful interference with voting after an investigation by the FBI and the Alaska State Troopers.

Alaska House of Representatives
The Alaska House of Representatives is the lower house in the Alaska State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Alaska. The House is composed of 40 members, each of whom represents a district of approximately 17,756 people per 2010 census figures.  Members serve two-year terms without term limits. With 40 representatives, the Alaska House is the smallest state legislative lower chamber in the United States. The House convenes at the State Capitol in Juneau.
2025 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Olympic Trials
The 2025 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Olympic Trials were held from December 30, 2024, to January 4, 2025, at Queens Place Emera Centre in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. The winning team of Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant represented Canada at the 2025 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, where they also qualified to represent Canada for the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Unlike previous Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials, athletes were permitted to play in both the Mixed Doubles and Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, and if successful, represent Canada and compete in both mixed doubles and the four-person team events at the 2026 Winter Olympics. This rule change also was part of the rationale to change the timing of these trials to be held 14 months in advance of the Olympics, so there would be little disruption to the training and preparation of four-person teams for the 2025 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, held in November 2025.

2025 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials
The 2025 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials (branded as the 2025 Montana's Canadian Curling Trials for sponsorship reasons) were held from November 22 to 29 at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The winners of the men's and women's events represented Canada at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
Hand on the Pump
"Hand on the Pump" is a single by hip hop group Cypress Hill, released from their self-titled debut album. While still successful, the song did not reach the popularity of previous singles "How I Could Just Kill a Man" and "The Phuncky Feel One". The song was re-recorded and released as a single in 1992 under the name "Hand on the Glock"; this version was also released on the "Latin Lingo" single.

The Phuncky Feel One
"The Phuncky Feel One" is the second single of rap group Cypress Hill's self-titled debut album. It was released in 1991 as a single and featured the previous single of the album, "How I Could Just Kill a Man" as a B-side. It's produced by the producer of Cypress Hill, DJ Muggs and is three minutes and twenty-eight seconds long. The song also topped the Hot Rap Singles's charts.

An extended version of this track appears on the UK CD single of "When the Shit Goes Down".
I Started a Joke
"I Started a Joke" is a song by the Bee Gees from their 1968 album Idea, which was released as a single in December of that year in the United States. The song is the last Bee Gees single to feature Vince Melouney's guitar work, as he left the band in early December after this song was released as a single. It was not released as a single in the United Kingdom, which saw a version released by Heath Hampstead under the Polydor label.

The song's B-side was "Kilburn Towers", except in France, where "Swan Song" was used. "I Started a Joke" was written by Robin Gibb mainly, with help from Barry and Maurice on the bridge. It was produced by the Bee Gees with Robert Stigwood.

Robert Stigwood
Robert Colin Stigwood (16 April 1934 – 4 January 2016) was an Australian music entrepreneur, film producer, and impresario, long based in the United Kingdom. He was best known for managing musicians such as Cream, Andy Gibb, and the Bee Gees; theatrical productions such as Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar; and film productions, including Grease and Saturday Night Fever.

One journalist referred to him as "one of the entertainment industry’s most powerful tycoons," and Playbill called him as "omnipresent in the 1960s and 1970s, with stakes in some of the biggest going concerns in music, theatre and film."