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Corridor Cities Transitway
The Corridor Cities Transitway (CCT) was a proposed 15-mile (24 km) bus rapid transit line in Maryland that would have run from the Shady Grove Metro station in Gaithersburg northwest to Clarksburg. The proposed master plans for Montgomery County and Frederick County had provided for the eventual extension of the CCT northward along I-270 into Frederick City. The Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) removed the project from its priority list in 2016 and from the Consolidated Transportation Plan in 2019. “'From all indications, the project is dead,' said state Del. Kirill Reznik (D-Montgomery)."

In 2022 the Montgomery County Government approved an alternative transit plan.

Maryland Department of Transportation
The Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) is an organization comprising five business units and one Authority:

Maryland Transportation Authority (Transportation Secretary serves as chairman of the Maryland Transportation Authority)
Maryland Transportation Authority Police

Maryland Transit Administration
Maryland Transit Administration Police

Maryland Port Administration

State Highway Administration

Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration

Maryland Aviation Administration
Lufkin Foresters
The Lufkin Foresters were a minor league baseball team based in Lufkin, Texas that played in the East Texas League in 1946 and in the Lone Star League in 1947 and 1948.

In 1950, the Lufkin Angels played a partial season as members of the six–team Class C level Gulf Coast League, before the team relocated to become the Leesville Angels.

Leesville Angels
The Leesville Angels were a minor league baseball franchise based in Leesville, Louisiana. In 1950, the Angels played a partial season as members of the Class C level Gulf Coast League after the Lufkin Angles franchise relocated to Leesville during the season. The Angels qualified for the Gulf Coast League playoffs.

The Leesville Angels hosted minor league home games at the Leesville City Park.
Claudiosaurus
Claudiosaurus (after the discoverer Claude Germain and saurus, 'lizard') is an extinct genus of diapsid reptiles from the Late Permian Sakamena Formation of the Morondava Basin, Madagascar. It has been suggested to be semi-aquatic.

Lopingian
The Lopingian,  informally the Late or Upper Permian, is the uppermost series/last epoch of the Permian, and last epoch of the Paleozoic. The Lopingian was preceded by the Guadalupian and followed by the Early Triassic.

The name was introduced by Amadeus William Grabau in 1931 and derives from Leping, Jiangxi in China. It consists of two stages/ages. The earlier is the Wuchiapingian and the later is the Changhsingian.

The International Chronostratigraphic Chart (v2018/07) provides a numerical age of 259.1 ±0.5 Ma. If a Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) has been approved, the lower boundary of the earliest stage determines numerical age of an epoch. The GSSP for the Wuchiapingian has a numerical age of 259.8 ± 0.4 Ma.

Evidence from Milankovitch cycles suggests that the length of an Earth day during this epoch was approximately 22 hours.
2021 Colorado State Rams football team
The 2021 Colorado State Rams football team represented Colorado State University in the 2021 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Rams were led by second–year head coach Steve Addazio and played their home games at Sonny Lubick Field at Canvas Stadium in Fort Collins, Colorado, as members of the Mountain Division of the Mountain West Conference.

Fort Collins, Colorado
Fort Collins is a home rule city in Larimer County, Colorado, United States, and serves as the county seat and most populous municipality of the county. It is the fourth-most populous city in Colorado with a population of 169,810 at the 2020 census, while the Fort Collins, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area has an estimated 375,000 residents.

Situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, Fort Collins is located 60 mi (97 km) north of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver and is a major city of the Front Range Urban Corridor. It is a prominent college town, home to Colorado State University, a public research university and the second-largest university by enrollment in Colorado.
James Castle (politician)
James Nathan Castle (May 23, 1836 – January 2, 1903) was a U.S. representative from Minnesota.

Castle was born in Shefford in Lower Canada where he attended the public schools, and then studied law. He moved to Afton, Minnesota, in 1862 and taught school. He completed his law studies and was admitted to the bar. He began practicing in Stillwater starting in 1865.

Castle was elected county attorney in 1866 to fill the unexpired term of his deceased brother. He was then elected Washington County Attorney in 1868, to the Minnesota Senate in 1868, 1878, and 1882, elected as a Democrat to the 52nd United States Congress (March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893). While in congress, he was the chairman of the United States House Committee on Mileage (52nd Congress). He ran unsuccessfully for reelection in 1892.

He returned to the practice of law until his death in Stillwater in 1903. He is buried in Fairview Cemetery.

Stillwater, Minnesota
Stillwater is a city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of Washington County. It is in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, on the west bank of the St. Croix River, across from Houlton, Wisconsin. Stillwater's population was 19,394 at the 2020 census. Stillwater is often called "the birthplace of Minnesota" due to its role in the establishment of the state.
Tomáš Vondráček
Tomáš Vondráček (born February 16, 1991) is a Czech professional ice hockey player. He currently plays with HC Dynamo Pardubice of the Czech Extraliga (ELH).

Vondráček made his Czech Extraliga debut playing with HC Kometa Brno debut during the 2012–13 Czech Extraliga season.

Czech Extraliga
The Czech Extraliga (Czech: Extraliga ledního hokeje, ELH) is the highest-level ice hockey league in the Czech Republic. It was created in 1993 following the peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia midway through the 1992–93 Czechoslovak Extraliga season (which all Slovak and Czech teams played to completion). The league's season usually takes place between September and April and features 14 teams.

Teams from the ELH participate in the IIHF's annual European tournament in the CHL. During the 2022–23 CHL season, the ELH was ranked the No. 5 league in Europe, allowing them to send their top three teams to compete in the CHL.
Kevin Bowe
Kevin Bowe (born February 27, 1961) is an American songwriter, record producer and musician from Minneapolis. He is best known for his work with prominent rock and blues artists including Paul Westerberg and the Replacements; writing songs for hit albums by Jonny Lang and Kenny Wayne Shepherd; as well as Etta James' Grammy-winning Let's Roll. He has contributed to dozens of albums over his career, including several of his own as a bandleader; he has appeared on many film and television soundtracks including ESPN and The Sopranos. His songs have been covered by many prominent rock and blues artists, including Joe Cocker, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Robben Ford, and John Mayall.

John Mayall
John Brumwell Mayall OBE (29 November 1933 – 22 July 2024) was an English blues and rock musician, songwriter and producer. In the 1960s, he formed John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, a band that has counted among its members some of the most famous blues and blues rock musicians of all-time. A singer, guitarist, harmonica player, and keyboardist, he had a career that spanned nearly seven decades, remaining an active musician until his death aged 90. Mayall has often been referred to as the "godfather of the British blues", and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the musical influence category in 2024.
The Fruitful Vine
The Fruitful Vine is a 1921 British silent drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Basil Rathbone, Valia and Irene Rooke. From the silent era, probably the most notable thing about the film was an early appearance of British actor Rathbone, who was later to become famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes. It is an adaptation of the 1911 novel The Fruitful Vine by Robert Hichens.

Basil Rathbone
Philip St. John Basil Rathbone MC (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967) was an English actor. Born in South Africa and raised in Derbyshire, he rose to prominence in the United Kingdom as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in more than 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers, and, occasionally, horror films.

Rathbone frequently portrayed suave villains or morally ambiguous characters, such as Mr. Murdstone in David Copperfield (1935), Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (1936) and Sir Guy of Gisbourne in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). His most famous role was that of Sherlock Holmes in fourteen Hollywood films made between 1939 and 1946 and in a radio series.

Rathbone's later career included roles on Broadway, as well as self-ironic film and television work. In 1948, he shared the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play with two others. He was also nominated for two Academy Awards and honoured with three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Waiting in the Summer
Waiting in the Summer (あの夏で待ってる, Ano Natsu de Matteru) is a 2012 Japanese anime television series animated by J.C.Staff, produced by Genco and Geneon, and directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai. The screenplay was written by Yōsuke Kuroda with original character design by Taraku Uon, who both contributed in the creation of the Please! franchise (Please Teacher! and Please Twins!). The 12-episode series aired in Japan between January and March 2012 on TV Aichi and KBS. Sentai Filmworks has licensed the anime for release in North America. The staff of the anime returned to produce an original video animation episode in August 2014. A manga adaptation illustrated by Pepako Dokuta was serialized in ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Daioh magazine.

TV Aichi
Aichi Television Broadcasting Company, Ltd. (TVA; Japanese: テレビ愛知株式会社, romanized: Terebi Aichi kabushiki gaisha), also referred to as TV Aichi (テレビ愛知, Terebi Aichi), with the callsigns JOCI-DTV (channel 10) is a Japanese television station in Nagoya serving as the affiliate of the TX Network for the Aichi prefecture. TVA started broadcasting in 1983. Nikkei, Inc. is the biggest shareholder of TVA.
Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100-metre freestyle relay
The men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 27 July 2024 at Paris La Défense Arena, which was converted to a swimming pool for the swimming events.

The United States were considered the most likely to win the event by SwimSwam and Swimming World, though Australia, China and Great Britain were also considered likely to win medals. In the heats (preliminary rounds), the US, Great Britain, Australia and China all qualified in addition to others, including Germany, which qualified with a new national record. Spain also broke their national record but did not qualify.

In the final, China's Pan Zhanle set a new 100 metres freestyle Olympic record of 46.92 as the first swimmer for the Chinese relay, but the US won gold with a time of 3:09.28. Australia won silver with 3:10.35 and Italy won bronze with 3:10.70, while Germany beat their national record again to finish in seventh. The win gave the US their first gold of the 2024 Games.

Pan Zhanle
Pan Zhanle (Chinese: 潘展乐, born 4 August 2004) is a Chinese freestyle swimmer, Olympic champion, and current world record holder of the 100 metre freestyle event. In 2023, Pan became the first swimmer in history to have all three achievements of reaching sub-22 seconds in the 50 metre freestyle, sub-47 seconds in the 100 metre freestyle, and sub-1:45 in the 200 metre freestyle. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, he won gold in the 100 metre freestyle, breaking his own world record in the process.
Courtney Nevin
Courtney Jade Nevin (/ˈnɛvɪn/ NEV-in; born 12 February 2002) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a full-back for Damallsvenskan club Malmö FF and the Australia national team. She has previously played for Western Sydney Wanderers and Melbourne Victory in the W-League, as well as Damallsvenskan side Hammarby IF and Women's Super League (WSL) side Leicester City.

Malmö FF (women)
Malmö Fotbollförening (Swedish: [ˈmâlːmøː ˈfûːtbɔlːfœˌreːnɪŋ]), commonly known as Malmö FF ([ˈmâlːmøː ɛfɛf]), Malmö, or MFF ([ɛmɛfɛf]), are a women's association football team from Malmö, who compete in the Damallsvenskan, the highest level of women's football in Sweden. Formed on 26 November 2019 and affiliated with the Scania Football Association, Malmö FF are based in Malmö, Scania.
Ali Budesh
Ali Baba Budesh (1957 – 14 April 2022) was an Indian criminal and extortionist who became active in the 1990s and was based in Bahrain. He left Mumbai in the late 1980s, reportedly to avoid action by the Mumbai Police, and subsequently established a base of operations in Manama. He later died while in a coma due to complications associated with diabetes.

Chhota Shakeel
Chhota Shakeel (born Mohammed Shakeel Babu Miyan Shaikh; 31 December 1955) is an Indian crime boss and a high-ranking leader of the D-Company, a criminal group based in South Asia. He joined the D-Company in 1988 under the kingpin Dawood Ibrahim, and was reportedly responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the criminal group. Shakeel became one of the most-wanted men in India after his alleged participation in the 1993 Bombay bombings. He is also wanted by the U.S. government for international drug trafficking.

He has been sanctioned under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act in the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List by the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control.
Yogya Brahmin
Yogya Brahmin (Maithili: योग्य ब्राह्मण) is a second sub-class within the traditional Maithil Brahmins community in the Mithila region of the Indian subcontinent. In the traditional hierarchy of the Maithil Brahmins community, Yogyas are placed after the Shrotriyas. This sub-class of the Maithil Brahmins community is also known as Bhalmanush. The Brahmins belonging to this sub-class are scholars devoted to learning Vedic texts.

Shrotriya
Shrotriya (Sanskrit: श्रोत्रिय) is a sub-class in the tradition of Maithil Brahmins. It is one of the four major sub-classes within the Maithil Brahmins community. These Brahmins are Maithil Agnihotris fully devoted to religious worships from the sunrise to the sunset. They are locally also called as Soit. During monarchy in the region, the kings were pleased to hear the deep faith of Shrotriyas in the Vedic Karmas. These Shrotriya Brahmins are regarded as high and novel class of Brahmins in the region. This class of Shrotriya Brahmins is mentioned in the text Ashtavakra Gita.

श्रोत्रियं देवतां तीर्थमङ्गनां भूपतिं प्रियम् ।
दृष्ट्वा सम्पूज्य धीरस्य न कापि हृदि वासना ॥
śrotriyaṃ devatāṃ tīrthamaṅganāṃ bhūpatiṃ priyam .
dṛṣṭvā sampūjya dhīrasya na kāpi hṛdi vāsanā.
1996 U.S. Women's Open
The 1996 U.S. Women's Open was the 51st U.S. Women's Open, held May 30 to June 2 at Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club in Southern Pines, North Carolina.

Defending champion Annika Sörenstam retained the title, six strokes ahead of runner-up Kris Tschetter. It was the second of her ten major titles; her third came nearly five years later. ESPN and NBC Sports televised the tournament.

Sörenstam was the sixth of seven to win consecutive titles at the U.S. Women's Open, most recently accomplished by Karrie Webb in 2001, also at Pine Needles. The championship returned to the venue for a third time in 2007, won by Cristie Kerr.

This was the first women's major with a winner's share of $200,000 or more; the U.S. Women's Open became the tour's richest major this year, passing the LPGA Championship.

1996 LPGA Championship
The 1996 LPGA Championship was the 42nd LPGA Championship, played May 9–12 at DuPont Country Club in Wilmington, Delaware.

Laura Davies won the second of her two LPGA Championship titles at even par, one stroke ahead of runner-up Julie Piers. It was the third of Davies' four major titles. Rain and wind hampered play; the first round was delayed until Friday and the second round was not completed until Sunday morning; the championship was reduced to 54 holes and ended on Sunday. It was the first women's major in twelve years to have a winning score of par or above, last at the 1984 U.S. Women's Open.

This was the third of eleven consecutive LPGA Championships at DuPont Country Club.
Ceramus
Ceramus or Keramos (Ancient Greek: Κέραμος) is a city on the north coast of the Ceramic Gulf—named after this city—in ancient Caria, in southwest Asia Minor; its ruins can be found outside the modern village of Ören, Muğla Province, Turkey.

Aphrodisias
Aphrodisias (/æfrəˈdɪsiəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδισιάς, romanized: Aphrodisiás) was a Hellenistic Greek city in the historic Caria cultural region of western Asia Minor, today's Anatolia in Turkey. It is located near the modern village of Geyre, about 100 km (62 mi) east/inland from the coast of the Aegean Sea, and 230 km (140 mi) southeast of İzmir.

Aphrodisias was named after Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, who had here her unique cult image, the Aphrodite of Aphrodisias. According to the Suda, a Byzantine encyclopedic compilation, before the city became known as Aphrodisias (c. 3rd century BC) it had three previous Greek names: Lelégōn Pólis (Λελέγων πόλις, "City of the Leleges"), Megálē Pólis (Μεγάλη Πόλις, "Great City"), and Ninóē (Νινόη).

Sometime before 640, in the Late Antique period when it was within the Byzantine Empire, the city was renamed Stauropolis (Σταυρούπολις, "City of the Cross").

In 2017, it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage Site list.
Vitamin She
Vitamin She (Gujarati: વિટામીન શી) is a 2017 Gujarati romantic comedy-drama film directed by Faisal Hashmi and produced by Sanjay Raval. The film stars Dhvanit Thaker, with the story based on a male protagonist and his experience with love. The film also explores psychological differences between men and women. The film was released on 28 July 2017 and received a tremendous response from its audience. Vitamin She had a six-week theatre run and was declared a super hit. According to various theater owners in Gujarat, Vitamin She was one of the best produced Gujarati films in recent years after Bey Yaar, Chhello Divas, Gujjubhai The Great and Karsandas Pay & Use and made theatres crowded once again. It became the 7th highest grossing Gujarati film.

Chhello Divas
Chhello Divas – A New Beginning (transl. The Last Day – A New Beginning) is a Gujarati coming of age comedy film, written and directed by Krishnadev Yagnik. The film stars Malhar Thakar, Yash Soni, Mitra Gadhavi, Aarjav Trivedi, Rahul Raval, Janki Bodiwala, Kinjal Rajpriya, and Netri Trivedi. The plot revolves around the lives of eight friends in their last year of college.

The film premiered on 20 November 2015 and garnered critical acclaim. The film was remade in Hindi as Days of Tafree.
Matas (drug store)
Matas is a Danish business, founded in 1949, that operates a chain of drug stores across Denmark. The store's motto is "Good Advice Makes the Difference". The chain consists of 263 stores, employs approximately 2,500 people and has an annual revenue of approximately 4.3 billion kr (About US$630 million). Matas also sells personal hygiene products and other home goods. The main types of merchandise sold in stores are make-up products and cosmetics, such as hair colouring, lipsticks and rouge. In addition, most, if not all, Matas shops have a chemical department, where one can find both household chemicals and more rare and exotic chemicals for home chemists, in accordance to the drysalter roots of the store. Other things sold by the retailer include: vitamin supplements, herbal remedies (such as ginseng extracts), and liquorice root.

Drysalter
Drysalters were dealers in a range of chemical products, including glue, varnish, dye and colourings. They might supply salt or chemicals for preserving food and sometimes also sold pickles, dried meat or related items. The name drysalter or dry-salter was in use in the United Kingdom by the early 18th century when some drysalters concentrated on ingredients for producing dyes, and it was still current in the first part of the 20th century.
China Cinda Asset Management
China Cinda Asset Management Co., Ltd., doing business as Cinda or China Cinda, is a Chinese distressed asset management company headquartered in Beijing.

The corporation was founded as a state-owned enterprise and a bad bank for China Construction Bank in 1999. The bank was created by a debt-to-equity swap in which non-performing loans were converted into shares. In 2010, the corporation became a company limited by shares.

In 2013, some of the shares in Cinda were floated on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. In 2015 Cinda acquired the Nanyang Commercial Bank from fellow state-controlled financial conglomerate the Bank of China (Hong Kong).

In February 2024, Cinda, along with China Orient Asset Management and China Great Wall Asset Management, was transferred from the Ministry of Finance to Central Huijin Investment.

China Construction Bank
The China Construction Bank Corporation (CCB) is a Chinese partially state-owned multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Beijing, China. It is one of the "big four" banks in China, and is the third largest bank in the world by total assets behind the Agricultural Bank of China and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. The bank has approximately 13,629 domestic branches. In addition, it maintains overseas branches in London, Barcelona, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Zurich, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, New York City, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo, Melbourne, Kuala Lumpur, Santiago de Chile, Brisbane, Sydney and Auckland. Its total assets reached CN¥ 8.7 trillion in 2009, and it is considered a systemically important bank by the Financial Stability Board. Its headquarters is in Xicheng District.
Celine Rattray
Celine Rattray (born 1975) is an English film producer who co-founded the production company Maven Pictures. In 2010, she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for The Kids Are All Right. In 2020, she and Trudie Styler launched Maven Screen Media, a multi-platform UK production company.

The Kids Are All Right (film)
The Kids Are All Right is a 2010 American comedy drama film directed by Lisa Cholodenko and written by Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg. It is among the first mainstream movies to show a same-sex couple raising two teenagers.  A hit at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, it opened in limited release on July 9, 2010, expanded to more theaters on July 30, 2010, and was released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 16, 2010.

The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Annette Bening was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Musical or Comedy. The film also received 4 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, at the 83rd Academy Awards.
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth
George Morgan Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, KT, PC, DL, FRSE (16 January 1921 – 3 October 2008) was a British politician and journalist who served as a Labour MP. He was a member of Harold Wilson's cabinet, and later became a European Commissioner.

In the 1980s, he joined the Social Democratic Party. Following the SDP's merger with the Liberal Party, he became a Liberal Democrat and sat as a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords.

European commissioner
A European commissioner is a member of the 27-member European Commission, the executive cabinet of the European Union. Their role is broadly equivalent to ministers at the national level, with each holding responsibility for a specific Directorate-General or group of them. The commission is led by the President of the European Commission, who serves as head of government for the European Union.