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Donna Strickland
Donna Theo Strickland (born May 27, 1959) is a Canadian optical physicist and pioneer in the field of pulsed lasers. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, together with Gérard Mourou, for the practical implementation of chirped pulse amplification. She is a professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.

Strickland served as fellow, vice president, and president of Optica (formerly OSA), and is currently chair of its Presidential Advisory Committee. In 2018, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women. She has gone on to have the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Prize being set in her name.

Optica (society)
Optica, founded as the Optical Society of America (later the Optical Society), is a professional society of individuals and companies with an interest in optics and photonics. It publishes journals, organizes conferences and exhibitions, and carries out charitable activities.
Karl August Devrient
Karl August Devrient (5 April 1797 – 3 August 1872) was a German stage actor best known for performances of Schiller and Shakespeare. He was related to other notable German actors, including:

his uncle Ludwig;

his brothers Philipp Eduard and Gustav Emil;

his wife, operatic soprano Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient;

his sons, Friedrich and Max;

his nephew, Otto.

There is a collection relating to his life at the Österreichisches Theatermuseum.

Otto Devrient
Otto Devrient (born 3 October 1838 in Berlin; † 23 June 1894 in Stettin) was a German actor and playwright.

Devrient was the son of Philipp Eduard Devrient. He first went on stage in 1856, training in Stuttgart, Berlin and Leipzig. In 1863, he entered the Hoftheater in Karlsruhe, and moved to the Hoftheater in Weimar in 1873 as character role actor and director.

There, he made an impression with his staging of Goethes Faust. In 1876, he became chief director of the Hoftheater in Mannheim, in 1877 intendant of the new municipal theatre in Frankfurt, and after a tour through Berlin, Cologne, and Düsseldorf, he settled in Jena, where he received a PhD h.c.. In 1884, he became director of the Hoftheater in Oldenburg.
Stringer (TV series)
Stringer is an Australian television series that aired on ABC in 1988. It featured Derrick O'Connor as Frank Buchanan, a war correspondent who returns to Sydney and teams up with taxi driver Yannis Moustakas, played by Nicholas Papademetriou.

It was also noted for its music which was directed by Martin Armiger and featured Wendy Matthews and Kate Ceberano. The soundtrack album, titled You've Always Got the Blues, won two ARIA Music Awards in 1989.

Nicholas Papademetriou
Nicholas Papademetriou is an Australian actor of Greek Cypriot descent with many television, film and theatre credits. He is a graduate of Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. He has had an extensive career in film and television since he graduated in 1984, but is best known as a stage actor, having appeared in productions in Australia, London, New York and Edinburgh.
Fishy Tales
Fishy Tales is a 1937 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas.  and written by Jack Jevne. starring Eugene Lee, George McFarl, and Carl Switzer. It was the 157th Our Gang short to be released.

Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer
Carl Dean Switzer (August 7, 1927 – January 21, 1959) was an American child actor, comic singer, dog breeder, and guide. He was best known for his role as Alfalfa in the Our Gang series of short-subject comedies.

Switzer (rhyming with "Schweitzer", as pronounced in the Our Gang shorts Framing Youth and Alfalfa's Aunt) began his career as a child actor in 1934. He appeared in the Our Gang shorts as Alfalfa, one of the series' most popular and best-remembered characters. After outgrowing the series in 1940, Switzer struggled to find substantial roles, but was typecast as a juvenile actor. As an adult, he appeared mainly in bit parts and B-movies. He later became a dog breeder and hunting guide.

Switzer married heiress Diantha Collingwood in 1954 and they had one son. He was shot and killed by Moses "Bud" Stiltz in 1959 due to a disagreement regarding a business arrangement.
Sam Rukundo
Sam ("Rocky") Rukundo (born May 18, 1980 in Kampala) is a Ugandan boxer. He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native African country. There he was stopped in the quarterfinals of the lightweight  (– 60 kg) division by Russia's Murat Khrachev.

Rukundo qualified for the 2004 Athens Games by ending up in second place at the 2nd AIBA African 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Gaborone, Botswana. In the final he was defeated by Mauritius' Michael Medor.

After representing his native country at the Athens Olympics, Rukundo decided to turn pro, under the training of James Cook, and under the management of Mickey Helliet. He made his debut on the September 4 the same year, and moved to Sweden to improve as a professional fighter.

He has been African lightweight champion.

Michael Medor
Michael Medor (born 23 May 1982 in Port Louis) is an amateur Mauritian lightweight boxer. Medor qualified for the Mauritian squad in the men's lightweight division (60 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens after claiming the title and receiving a berth from the second AIBA African Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Gaborone, Botswana. He lost the opening match to Mongolia's Uranchimegiin Mönkh-Erdene in the preliminary round of thirty-two with a scoring decision of 23–29. Medor was also appointed as the Mauritian flag bearer by the National Olympic Committee in the opening ceremony.
Placerita Canyon State Park
Placerita Canyon State Park is a California State Park located on the north slope of the western San Gabriel Mountains, in an unincorporated rural area of Los Angeles County, near the city of Santa Clarita. The park hosts a variety of historic and natural sites, as well as serving as a trailhead for several hiking trails leading into the San Gabriel Mountains.

Golden Oak Ranch
Golden Oak Ranch is an 890-acre (360-hectare) movie ranch owned by the Walt Disney Studios subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company that serves as a filming location and backlot. The ranch is off of Placerita Canyon Road outside of Newhall, Santa Clarita, California, less than an hour north of Los Angeles; its entrance is not far from Placerita Canyon Road's intersection with California State Route 14.

The ranch is on land that was part of the Rancho San Francisco land grant. Its name honors the first discovery of gold in California at the site by Francisco Lopez, years before the discovery that precipitated the California Gold Rush. The ranch has a heliport, grassy meadows, two creeks, a waterfall, and various Western sets.
Trish Morrissey
Trish Morrissey (born 1967) is an Irish artist who combines performance, photography, and film on long-term projects involving self-portraiture. She lives in London. Morrissey's work is held in the collection of the Science Museum Group.

A survey of her work to date, Trish Morrissey, Autofictions, Twenty Years of photography and Film, is currently being exhibited at Impressions Gallery in Bradford, until October 2023.

Science Museum Group
The Science Museum Group (SMG) consists of five British museums:

The Science Museum in South Kensington, London

The Science and Industry Museum in Manchester

The National Railway Museum in York

The Locomotion Museum (formerly the National Railway Museum Shildon) in County Durham

The Science and Media Museum (formerly the National Media Museum and the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television) in Bradford

Items in the SMG collection that are not on display are usually stored at the National Collections Centre in Swindon, Wiltshire.
Sherrie Sprenger
Sherrie Sprenger is a business owner and Republican politician from the US state of Oregon. A native of Linn County, she served in the Oregon House of Representatives for the 17th District from 2008 to 2021.

Oregon House of Representatives
The Oregon House of Representatives is the lower house of the Oregon Legislative Assembly, the upper house being the Oregon State Senate. There are 60 members of the House, representing 60 districts across the state, each with a population of approximately 65,000. The House meets in the west wing of the Oregon State Capitol in Salem.

Members of the House serve two-year terms without term limits. In 2002, the Oregon Supreme Court struck down Oregon Ballot Measure 3 (1992), that had restricted State Representatives to three terms (six years) on procedural grounds.

In the current legislative session, Democrats have 37 seats, a slim 2 seat supermajority, while the Republicans have a minority of 23 seats.
5 Star Specials
5 Star Specials is a Philippine television drama anthology series broadcast by TV5. It aired from March 22, 2010 to September 1, 2010, replacing Kuwentong Talentado and was replaced by Lady Dada. The drama anthology features prime talents in their various portrayals.

Lady Dada
Lady Dada is a Philippine television sitcom series broadcast by TV5. Directed by Joyce Bernal, it stars Ryan Agoncillo, Mylene Dizon and Keempee de Leon. It aired from September 8 to October 6, 2010, and was replaced by The Broken Hearts Club.
Jim Tatum (baseball)
James Ray Tatum (born October 9, 1967) is an American former professional baseball utility player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers, Colorado Rockies, Boston Red Sox, San Diego Padres, and New York Mets. Tatum also played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yakult Swallows and in the KBO League for the LG Twins.

Tokyo Yakult Swallows
The Tokyo Yakult Swallows (Japanese: 東京ヤクルトスワローズ, Hepburn: Tōkyō Yakuruto Suwarōzu) are a Japanese professional baseball team competing in Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League. Based in Shinjuku, Tokyo, they are one of two professional baseball teams in Tokyo, the other being the Yomiuri Giants. They have won nine Central League championships and six Japan Series championships. Since 1964, they have played their home games at Meiji Jingu Stadium.

The Swallows are named after their corporate owners, Yakult Honsha. From 1950 to 1965, the team was owned by the former Japanese National Railways (known as Kokutetsu (国鉄) in Japanese) and called the Kokutetsu Swallows; the team was then owned by the newspaper Sankei Shimbun from 1965 to 1968 and called the Sankei Atoms. Yakult purchased the team in 1970 and renamed it the Yakult Atoms, before renaming it again as the Yakult Swallows in 1974, and then the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in 2006.
1997 Salem Open
The 1997 Salem Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Hong Kong that was part of the World Series of the 1997 ATP Tour. It was the 22nd edition of the tournament and was held from 7 April through 132 April 1997. First-seeded Michael Chang won the singles title.

Michael Chang
Michael Te-pei Chang (born February 22, 1972) is an American former professional tennis player and coach. He was ranked world No. 2 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in 1996. Chang is the youngest man in history to win a singles major, winning the 1989 French Open at 17 years and 109 days old. He won a total of 34 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including seven Masters titles, and was a three-time major runner-up.

Chang was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2008. He coached Kei Nishikori from 2014 to 2025, and currently coaches Learner Tien.
Pedro García Aguado
Pedro Francisco García Aguado (born 9 December 1968) is a Spanish former water polo player and TV personality.

He was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Four years earlier, when Barcelona hosted the Games, he was on the side that won the silver medal. In total, García competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988.

After his retirement from sports, he has had a successful second career in TV, coming back into the public conscience on Cuatro reality show Hermano mayor. After presenting other shows on the Mediaset network, he moved to Atresmedia, before becoming Director of Youth for the Community of Madrid. In 2024, he won the reality show Supervivientes.

Cuatro (TV channel)
Cuatro (stylized as cuatro°, "Four") is a Spanish free-to-air television channel that was launched in November 2005. Owned by Mediaset España, the Spanish subsidiary of the Italian Mediaset group, it is broadcast on TV frequencies licensed to the previous owner PRISA TV in 1990 and previously used by them for the analogue transmission of their subscription channel Canal+.
Judy Shapiro-Ikenberry
Judy Shapiro-Ikenberry (born September 3, 1942) is a former long-distance runner. Shapiro-Ikenberry won the 1967 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) Las Vegas Marathon, and was the first USA Marathon Championships winner for women in 1974, at the AAU National Women's Marathon.  She also won the 1977 US National 50-Mile Track Ultramarathon Championship.

USA Marathon Championships
The USA Marathon Championships is the annual national championships for marathon running in the United States. The race serves as a way of designating the American national champion for the marathon. The men's race was first contested in 1925 and a women's race was added to the program in 1974.

Since 1968, in years which the Summer Olympics are held the event serves as a way of selecting the athletes who will represent the United States at the Olympic Games, with the top three eligible finishers selected to be on the Olympic team and the fourth and fifth eligible finishers being designated as alternates. During these years, the race is more commonly referred to as the United States Olympic trials and it is much more competitive.
Jacques d'Arc
Jacques (or Jacquot) d'Arc (sometimes spelled Darc, Dars, Tart, Tarc, Darx, or Day; 1375–1431) was a farmer from Domrémy, France, who was the father of the French military leader and Catholic saint Joan of Arc. D'Arc is most known for being an influence on his daughter Joan's life, developing her leadership abilities through his example as a local government and military leader as well as restricting her ambitions with his controlling behaviour that resulted in a strained relationship between them.

Domrémy-la-Pucelle
Domrémy-la-Pucelle (French pronunciation: [dɔ̃ʁemi la pysɛl] ⓘ, lit. 'Domrémy [of] the Maid') is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France.

The village, originally named Domrémy, is the birthplace of Joan of Arc. It has since been renamed Domrémy-la-Pucelle after Joan's nickname, la Pucelle d'Orléans ("the Maid of Orléans").
Suicide of Kurt Cobain
On April 8, 1994, Kurt Cobain, the lead singer and guitarist of the American rock band Nirvana, was found dead at his home on Lake Washington Boulevard in the Denny-Blaine (also called Harrison) area of Seattle, Washington. Forensic investigators and a coroner later determined that Cobain had died on approximately April 5, three days prior to the discovery of his body. The Seattle Police Department incident report stated that Cobain was found with a Remington Model 11 20-gauge shotgun across his body and had suffered a visible gunshot wound to the head; a suicide note had been discovered nearby. Seattle police confirmed his death as a suicide.

Following his death, conspiracy theories that Cobain was murdered were spread and reported to the FBI, partially due to an Unsolved Mysteries episode dedicated to Cobain's death.

Browning Auto-5
The Browning Automatic 5, more commonly referred to as the Auto-5 or simply A-5, is a recoil-operated semi-automatic shotgun designed by John Browning and manufactured by Fabrique Nationale de Herstal. It was the first successful semi-automatic shotgun design, and remained in production until 1998. The name of the shotgun designates that it is an autoloader with a capacity of five rounds, four in the magazine and one in the chamber. Remington Arms and Savage Arms sold variants called the Remington Model 11 and Savage Model 720 that were nearly identical but lacked the magazine cutoff found on the Browning.
William Borthwick Johnstone
William Borthwick Johnstone, RSA (21 July 1804 – 5 June 1868) was a Scottish landscape and historical painter, art collector, and gallery curator. He played an important role in the formation of the National Gallery of Scotland, and served as its first principal curator.

Scottish National Gallery
The National (formerly the Scottish National Gallery) is the national art gallery of Scotland. It is located on The Mound in central Edinburgh, close to Princes Street. The building was designed in a neoclassical style by William Henry Playfair, and first opened to the public in 1859.

The gallery houses Scotland's national collection of fine art, spanning Scottish and international art from the beginning of the Renaissance up to the start of the 20th century.

The National is run by National Galleries Scotland, a public body that also owns the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Because of its architectural similarity, the National is frequently confused by visitors with the neighbouring Royal Scottish Academy Building (RSA), a separate institution which works closely with the National.
Kulasekhar
Kulasekhar (15 August 1971 – 26 November 2024) was an Indian lyricist known for his works in Telugu cinema. He wrote lyrics for over 100 films and had multiple collaborations with director Teja and music director R. P. Patnaik.

Kulasekhar began suffering from memory loss in 2008 due to a mental health condition. This coincided with his directorial debut, Premalekha Rasa (2007), which turned out to be an unsuccessful venture and did not receive a theatrical release for a long time. In 2013, he was arrested for temple theft, later deemed mentally unstable, and sent for treatment. He faced few more arrests for theft accusations, struggled with multiple health problems, and ultimately died in 2024.

Teja (director)
Teja (born Jasti Dharma Teja; 22 February 1966) is an Indian director, cinematographer, screenwriter, and producer known for his work primarily in Telugu cinema. He is a recipient of a Nandi Award for Best Director and a Filmfare Award for Best Director – Telugu.

He began his career as a cinematographer with Ram Gopal Varma's bilingual film Raat (1992). He went on to work on over ten films in Hindi and Telugu, including Money (1993), Tere Mere Sapne (1996), Ghulam (1998), Sangharsh (1999), and Krodh (2000).

Teja transitioned to direction and initially gained recognition for making low-budget romantic dramas that became highly successful. He made his directorial debut with Chitram (2000), followed by Nuvvu Nenu (2001) and Jayam (2002), which earned him further acclaim.  His other notable films include Avunanna Kaadanna (2005) and Nene Raju Nene Mantri (2017).
Pasturo
Pasturo (Valassinese Lombard: Pastür) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Lecco in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 60 kilometres (37 mi) northeast of Milan and about 11 kilometres (7 mi) north of Lecco.

As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,798 and an area of 22.1 square kilometres (8.5 sq mi).

Pasturo borders the following municipalities: Ballabio, Barzio, Cremeno, Esino Lario, Introbio, Mandello del Lario, Primaluna.

Ballabio
Ballabio (Valassinese Lombard: Balàbi) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Lecco in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 50 km (31 mi) northeast of Milan and about 6 km (3.7 mi) north of Lecco in the Valsassina.

Historically, it has been a center for production of cheese, brands from the area including Galbani and Locatelli.
Haydar Saltık
Ali Haydar Saltık (1923, Istanbul – 8 April 2011) was a Turkish general. He was Commander of the First Army of Turkey (1981 – 1983) and then Commander of the Turkish Army (1983 – 1985). He was Secretary-General of the Presidential Council.

In September 1979 General Kenan Evren ordered a hand-written report from Saltık on whether or not a coup was in order, or if the government merely needed a stern warning. The report, which recommended preparing for a coup, was delivered in six months. Evren kept the report in his office safe, and launched the 1980 Turkish coup d'état.

Kenan Evren
Ahmet Kenan Evren (17 July 1917 – 9 May 2015) was a Turkish military officer who served as the 7th president of Turkey from 1982 to 1989. He assumed the post by leading the 1980 military coup.

On 18 June 2014, a Turkish court sentenced him to life imprisonment and demotion of his military rank, (down to private from army general) for leading the military coup in 1980. He was found guilty of obstructing democracy by deposing the prime minister Süleyman Demirel and of abolishing the parliament, senate and the constitution. This sentence was under appeal at the time of his death.
Raipur–Dhamtari branch line
Raipur–Dhamtari Railway line or Raipur–Dhamtari Narrow Gauge line was a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow-gauge branch line in Chhattisgarh, India. Constructed and operated by Bengal Nagpur Railway, the line opened in 1900, connecting Raipur to Dhamtari over a distance of approximately 56 km via Kurud. In 1909, a further extension created the Rajim Branch—an 18‑km spur from Abhanpur to Rajim—bringing the total network length to around 74 km. Passenger and freight services, initially steam-powered and later dieselised, served numerous small towns and villages in the region. The narrow-gauge service was discontinued in mid‑2017 to facilitate conversion to broad gauge and redevelopment work including an expressway between Raipur Junction and Telibandha.

Raipur–Naya Raipur Expressway
The Raipur–Naya Raipur  Expressway, also known as Atal Path Expressway, is an access-controlled, six-lane, 12.7-kilometre (7.9 mi) expressway connecting Raipur to Naya Raipur in the state of Chhattisgarh in India. It is done along with a bigger project of Raipur–Visakhapatnam Expressway, a six lane road. for the economic corridor.

It has been made to ease the traffic in the GE road, or NH-53, and provide faster access to Dhamtari road from Raipur Junction Railway Station. It serves 4 flyovers and 1 elevated corridor crossing over the GE road in between two ends of expressway.

As part of the Smart City, Atal Nagar (Naya Raipur) is also being developed in 2025.
Hello Maker
Hello Maker (stylised as HELLO MAKER) is the second studio album by English Christian worship collective Bright City, issued through its imprint label, Bright City Collective, on 7 July 2017. Jonny Bird handled the production of the album alongside executive producers Martin Smith, Paul Nelson and Sarah Bird.

Martin Smith (English musician)
Martin James Smith (born 6 July 1970) is an English vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and producer, best known as the frontman of the Christian rock and worship band Delirious?. He has been a solo artist since Delirious?' disbandment in 2009.
Tovarich (film)
Tovarich (the Russian word for "comrade" or "friend") is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Anatole Litvak, based on the 1935 play by Robert E. Sherwood, which in turn was based on the 1933 French play Tovaritch by Jacques Deval. It was produced by Litvak through Warner Bros., with Robert Lord as associate producer and Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner as executive producers. The screenplay was by Casey Robinson from the French play by Jacques Deval adapted into English by Robert E. Sherwood. The music score was by Max Steiner and the cinematography by Charles Lang.

The film stars Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer with Basil Rathbone, Anita Louise,  Melville Cooper, Isabel Jeans, Morris Carnovsky and Curt Bois in his American debut role.

Isabel Jeans
Isabel Jeans (16 September 1891 – 4 September 1985) was an English stage and film actress known for her roles in several Alfred Hitchcock films and her portrayal of Aunt Alicia in the 1958 musical film Gigi.