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MR 2251−178
MR 2251−178 is a relatively nearby radio-quiet quasar located at a distance of z=0.064 in the constellation Aquarius. It has the record of having the largest ionized nebula surrounding it with it having the mass of 6 million solar masses. A spiral complex that extends for over 200 kiloparsecs also surrounds the quasar.

The quasar is a small but gas-rich spiral galaxy that has much of its gas ionized from a recent galactic merger event with a nearby galaxy called G1. It is located on the outskirts of an irregular cluster of galaxies. This cluster has approximately 50 galaxies within it.

Aquarius (constellation)
Aquarius is an equatorial constellation of the zodiac, between Capricornus and Pisces. Its name is Latin for "water-carrier" or "cup-carrier", and its traditional astrological symbol is  (♒︎), a representation of water. Aquarius is one of the oldest of the recognized constellations along the zodiac (the Sun's apparent path). It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations. It is found in a region often called the Sea due to its profusion of constellations with watery associations such as Cetus the whale, Pisces the fish, and Eridanus the river.

At apparent magnitude 2.9, Beta Aquarii is the brightest star in the constellation.
Au Départ
Au Départ, Ltd. (French pronunciation: [o depaʁ]; which translate as "At the departure") is a Parisian trunkmaker founded in Paris in 1834. Au Départ is considered as one of four greatest French trunk-makers alongside Louis Vuitton, Goyard and Moynat.

Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré
The Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré (pronounced [ʁy dy fobuʁ sɛ̃t‿ɔnɔʁe]) is a street located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. Relatively narrow and undistinguished, especially in comparison to the nearby Avenue des Champs-Élysées, it is cited as being one of the most luxurious and fashionable streets in the world due to the presence of major global fashion houses, including the Élysée Palace (official residence of the President of France), the Hôtel de Pontalba (residence of the United States Ambassador to France), the Embassy of Canada, the Embassy of the United Kingdom, as well as numerous art galleries.

The Rue Saint-Honoré, of which the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré is now an extension, began as a road extending west from the northern edge of the Louvre Palace. Saint Honoré, Honorius of Amiens, is the French patron saint of bakers.
Bizhou, Heilongjiang
Bizhou (Chinese: 碧洲; pinyin: Bìzhōu) is a town of Xinlin District the south-central part of Da Hinggan Ling Prefecture, Heilongjiang province, China, located 40 kilometres (25 mi) south of the prefectural seat. As of 2013, it has one residential community (社区) under its administration.

Xinlin District
Xinlin (Chinese: 新林区; pinyin: Xīnlín Qū) is a de facto district of Daxing'anling Prefecture, Heilongjiang province, China. Xinlin District is not an official administrative entity; it is de jure under the jurisdiction of Huma County.
The Vanguard Years (Doc Watson album)
The Vanguard Years is the title of an album by American folk music, old-time music  and blues artist Doc Watson, released in 1995.

This four CD collection contains 64 tracks which he recorded between 1963 and 1968 during his years with Vanguard Records. It includes guests such as Gaither Carlton, Clarence White and Merle Travis. There are 16 previously unreleased live performances of duets with Doc and his son, Merle.

The Delmore Brothers
Alton Delmore (December 25, 1908 – June 9, 1964) and Rabon Delmore (December 3, 1916 – December 4, 1952), billed as The Delmore Brothers, were country music pioneer singer-songwriters and musicians who were stars of the Grand Ole Opry in the 1930s.  The Delmore Brothers, together with other brother duos such as the Louvin Brothers, the Blue Sky Boys, the Monroe Brothers (Birch Monroe, Charlie Monroe and Bill Monroe), the McGee Brothers, and The Stanley Brothers, had a profound impact on the history of country music and American popular music. The duo performed extensively with old time fiddler Arthur Smith as the Arthur Smith Trio throughout the 1930s.
Greeff's giant gecko
Greeff's giant gecko (Hemidactylus greeffii), also known commonly as Greeff's gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is found on islands in the Gulf of Guinea off the west coast of Africa.

São Tomé (island)
São Tomé, at 854 km2 (330 sq mi), is the largest island of São Tomé and Príncipe and is home in May 2018 to about 193,380 or 96% of the nation's population. The island is divided into six districts. It is located 2 km (1¼ miles) north of the equator.
BBC Persian
BBC Persian (Persian: بی‌بی‌سی فارسی) is the Persian language broadcast station and subsidiary of BBC World Service. It broadcasts political, social, economical and sport news relevant to Iran, Afghanistan, and the world. Its headquarters are in London, United Kingdom.

Persian language has one of the fewest native and total speakers in the BBC World Service, with 35 million native speakers (in Iran), 12 million native speakers (in Afghanistan) and 9 and 5 million native speakers in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan respectively. The total native and secondary speakers of Persian language encompasses approximately 120 million speakers. This is in contrast with Hindi/Urdu, which has around 1.5 billion native speakers and more than 2 billion total speakers.

BBC Urdu
BBC Urdu (Urdu: بی بی سی اردو) is a digital television station covering the Indian subcontinent in the Urdu language. It was the Urdu language station of the BBC World Service, accompanied by its website, which served as a news portal and provided online access to radio broadcasts. The radio service was broadcast from Broadcasting House in London and Pakistan as well as from a BBC South and East Asia bureau in New Delhi, India. It also has a children's channel CBeebies. The target audience were Pakistani and Indian viewers.
Northumberland Bestiary
The Northumberland Bestiary (MS 100) is an illuminated manuscript and bestiary dating from 1250-1260.  It was originally known as the Alnwick Bestiary (MS 447) as it resided in Alnwick Castle from the eighteenth century until 1990 when it was sold to a private collection. In 2007 it was acquired by the Getty Museum and still resides there today.

Sources for the Northumberland Bestiary include the Greek Physiologus and Hexaemeral literature. Bestiaries traditionally fall into four families however the Northumberland Bestiary is a transitional manuscript which draws upon the first and second families of manuscripts. It is a small Quarto measuring around 21 x 15 cm.

The bestiary contains chapters regarding the creation of man, naming the animals, beasts, birds, fish, serpents, the condition of man, and trees. In modern scholarship, the Northumberland Bestiary and other bestiaries entries on Hyenas has been an area of research for Jewish histories.

Couplet
In poetry, a couplet (/ˈkʌplət/ CUP-lət) or distich (/ˈdɪstɪk/ DISS-tick) is a pair of successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open).  In a formal (closed) couplet, each of the two lines is end-stopped, implying that there is a grammatical pause at the end of a line of verse. In a run-on (open) couplet, the meaning of the first line continues to the second.
Niederalpl Pass
Niederalpl Pass (el. 1221 m.) is a high mountain pass in the Austrian Alps in the Bundesland of Styria.

It is traversed by State Highway 113 with a maximum grade of 10 percent. It connects Wegscheid and Mürzsteg. At the pass, there are two restaurants and several ski lifts. Neighboring peaks are the Hohe Veitsch and the Tonion.

Hohe Veitsch
The Hohe Veitsch (1,981 m) is the highest mountain in the Mürzsteg Alps, in the Austrian state of Styria.
It is a limestone massif, rich in wildflower meadows and good views, and runs from west (main summit, 1,981 m (AA)) to east (plateau at about 1,500 metres) to the Klein-Veitsch Alm, a distance of around 5.5 km.
Jake Paul vs. Gervonta Davis
Jake Paul vs. Gervonta Davis was a scheduled exhibition boxing match between YouTuber Jake Paul and WBA lightweight champion Gervonta Davis. The bout was scheduled to take place on November 14, 2025 at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida. The event was to be streamed globally on Netflix. The event was cancelled in light of allegations being brought up against Gervonta Davis.

Lamont Roach Jr.
Lamont Roach Jr. (born August 18, 1995) is an American professional boxer. He held the World Boxing Association (WBA) super featherweight title from 2023 to 2025.

Roach was a decorated amateur, winning gold medals at the National Golden Gloves and USA Boxing Youth National Championships in 2013. He made his professional debut the following year, shortly after signing with Golden Boy Promotions, while studying at the University of Maryland. He went undefeated in his first 20 fights (19 wins, 1 draw), collecting three minor belts before he unsuccessfully challenged Jamel Herring for his WBO super featherweight title in 2019.
Curling at the 2026 Winter Olympics
The curling competitions of the 2026 Winter Olympics were held at the Cortina Olympic Stadium in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Curling competitions took place every day of the Games, from 4 to 22 February. This was the ninth time that curling has appeared on the Olympic program.

Ten nations competed in each of the three categories: men's, women's, and mixed doubles. There were 120 quota spots (60 per sex) distributed to the sport of curling, however athletes could compete in both men's/women's and mixed doubles if their nation has qualified and the athlete is nominated for both events by their NOC. A total of three events were contested, one for men, one for women, and one mixed.

Curling at the Winter Olympics
Curling was included in the program of the inaugural Winter Olympic Games in 1924 in Chamonix although the results of that competition were not considered official by the International Olympic Committee until 2006. Curling was a demonstration sport at the 1932 Games, and then again after a lengthy absence in 1988 and 1992. The sport was finally added to the official program for the 1998 Games in Nagano.

Until 2018, only men's and women's events were contested. An additional event, mixed doubles, was rejected for 2010 because the Olympic Programme Commission felt it had not developed enough, but was approved for the 2018 Winter Olympics at an IOC Executive Board meeting in June 2015.

The related ice stock sport (Eisstockschießen in German) was a demonstration event in 1936 and 1964. These events are not considered additional demonstrations of curling.
USS Niobrara
USS Niobrara (AO-72) was a T3 Kennebec-class oiler constructed for the United States Navy during World War II.  She was the only U.S. Navy ship named for the Niobrara River in Nebraska.

The ship was laid down on 29 June 1942 by Bethlehem Steel Co., Sparrows Point, Maryland, as a type T3-S-A1 tanker named SS Citadel, under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 520). Launched on 28 November 1942, sponsored by Mrs. Mark O'Dea, she was acquired by the Navy and commissioned as USS Niobrara  on 13 March 1943.

T3 tanker
The T3 tanker, or T3, are a class of seaworthy large tanker ships produced in the United States and used to transport fuel oil, gasoline or diesel before and during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. The T3 tanker classification is still used today. The T3 tanker has a full load displacement of about 24,830 tons.
Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank Head Office Building
The Mizuho Bank Uchisaiwaichō Head Office Building (みずほ銀行内幸町本部ビル, Mizuho Ginkō Uchisaiwaichō Honbu Biru) was a 143 m (469 ft) tall office skyscraper in Tokyo, Japan. At 38 stories the building was the 86th tallest building in Tokyo. It contained 1.4 million sq ft (134,974 m²) of office space, 100% of which was now occupied by Mizuho Bank, the consumer banking arm of the second-largest Japanese financial conglomerate Mizuho Financial Group, while still called the DKB Head Office from time to time.

The building was built in Chiyoda at 1 Uchisaiwaichō in 1981, when it was called the Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank Head Office Building. It was designed by architects Yoshinobu Ashihara & Partners and developed by Shimizu Corporation, one of the “big five” real estate developers in Japan. Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (“DKB”) combined with Fuji Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan in 2000 to form Mizuho Financial Group.

The building was closed prior to its demolition in 2022.

Yasuda / Fuji Bank
The Yasuda Bank (Japanese: 安田銀行) from 1880 to 1948, then Fuji Bank (富士銀行) from 1948 to 2000, was one of the largest Japanese banks for much of the 20th century, together with Dai-Ichi Bank, Mitsubishi Bank, Mitsui Bank, and Sumitomo Bank. It was the main bank of the Yasuda zaibatsu until World War II, and afterwards of the Fuyo Group.

The Fuji Bank combined with Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan in 2000 to form Mizuho Financial Group, and changed its name to Mizuho Corporate Bank in 2002 after transferring its retail banking operations to Mizuho Bank.
Geology of Bulgaria
The geology of Bulgaria consists of two major structural features. The Rhodope Massif in southern Bulgaria is made up of Archean, Proterozoic and Cambrian rocks and is a sub-province of the Thracian-Anatolian polymetallic province. It has dropped down, faulted basins filled with Cenozoic sediments and volcanic rocks. The Moesian Platform to the north extends into Romania and has Paleozoic rocks covered by rocks from the Mesozoic, typically buried by thick Danube River valley Quaternary sediments. In places, the Moesian Platform has small oil and gas fields. Bulgaria is a country in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east.

Moesian plate
The Moesian plate, also known as the Moesian platform, is a microcontinent and crustal block in the southwestern part of the East European Craton. It extends 600 kilometers east to west and up to 300 kilometers north to south and lies beneath Romania and Bulgaria.
Lockwood/Eastwood station
Lockwood/Eastwood is a light rail station in Houston, Texas on the METRORail system. It is served by the Green Line and is located on Harrisburg Boulevard at Hagerman Street in the East End. The station is named for nearby Lockwood Drive as well as Eastwood Park.

Lockwood/Eastwood station opened on May 23, 2015 as part of the Green Line's first phase.

METRORail Green Line
The Green Line is a 3.3 mi (5.3 km) METRORail light rail/streetcar line operated by METRO in Houston, Texas, serving the East End area. The first seven-station segment of this line opened on  May 23, 2015. The two-station eastern end of this route was delayed due to issues over crossing Union Pacific Railroad tracks, but eventually opened in January 2017.
Shmuel Abba Twersky
Abba Avraham Shmuel Twersky (1872–1947), known as Shmuel Abba Twersky, was a Rebbe of the Makarover Hasidic dynasty. He succeeded his father as Makarover Rebbe of Berdichev, Ukraine, in 1920, and presided as Makarover Rebbe of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, from 1927 to 1947.

Rebbe
A rebbe (Yiddish: רבי, romanized: rebe) or admor (Hebrew: אדמו״ר) is the spiritual leader in the Hasidic movement, and the personalities  of its dynasties. The titles of rebbe and admor, which used to be a general honorific even before the beginning of the movement, became, over time, almost exclusively identified with its Tzadikim.
Royal Châtelet S.C.
Royal Châtelet-Farciennes Sporting Club was a defunct Belgian football team from Châtelet, Hainaut, Belgium, last playing in the 2018–19 Belgian First Amateur Division before merging with R.O.C. de Charleroi-Marchienne to become R. Olympic Charleroi Châtelet Farciennes.

Châtelet, Belgium
Châtelet (French pronunciation: [ʃatlɛ] ⓘ; Walloon: Tcheslet) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. It lies on the river Sambre.

As of January 1, 2018, Châtelet had a total population of 36,101. The total area of the municipality is 27.03 km2 which gives a population density of 1,336 inhabitants per km2.

The municipality consists of the following districts: Bouffioulx, Châtelet, and Châtelineau.  Châtelet was a long established independent city prior to its fusion with the other entities.
1999 Women's South American Volleyball Championship
The 1999 Women's South American Volleyball Championship was the 23rd edition of the Women's South American Volleyball Championship, organised by South America's governing volleyball body, the Confederación Sudamericana de Voleibol (CSV). It was held in Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela

Women's South American Volleyball Championship
The Women's South American Volleyball Championship is the official competition for senior women's national volleyball teams of South America, organized by the Confederación Sudamericana de Voleibol (CSV). The initial gap between championships was variable, but since 1967 they have been awarded every two years. The competition has been dominated by Brazil and Peru.
African bush squirrel
The African bush squirrels are a genus of squirrels, Paraxerus, in the subfamily Xerinae. They are only found in Africa. The 11 species in this genus are:

Alexander's bush squirrel (P. alexandri)

Boehm's bush squirrel (P. boehmi)

Smith's bush squirrel (P. cepapi)

Cooper's mountain squirrel (P. cooperi)

Striped bush squirrel (P. flavovittis)

Black and red bush squirrel (P. lucifer)

Ochre bush squirrel (P. ochraceus)

Red bush squirrel (P. palliatus)

Green bush squirrel (P. poensis)

Swynnerton's bush squirrel (P. vexillarius)

Vincent's bush squirrel (P. vincenti)

Striped bush squirrel
The striped bush squirrel (Paraxerus flavovittis) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae found in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania. Its natural habitats are moist savanna and plantations.
Bakudi railway station
Bakudi railway station is a railway station on the Rampurhat-Sahibganj section under the Malda railway division of Eastern Railway zone. It is situated beside National Highway 80 at Bakudi in Sahebganj district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

Malda railway division
Malda railway division is one of the four railway divisions under the jurisdiction of Eastern Railway zone of the Indian Railways. This railway division was formed in 1975 and its headquarters is located at Malda in West Bengal, India.

Asansol railway division, Sealdah railway division and Howrah railway division are the other railway divisions under the ER Zone headquartered at Kolkata.
2024 U Sports Women's Volleyball Championship
The 2024 U Sports Women's Volleyball Championship was held from March 15 to March 17, 2024, in Hamilton, Ontario, to determine a national champion for the 2023–24 U Sports women's volleyball season. The second-seeded UBC Thunderbirds defeated the fourth-seeded Alberta Pandas 3–1 to win the program's 14th national championship, which extended their record for the most in U Sports women's volleyball. The Thunderbirds became the first team to repeat as champions since UBC won their sixth consecutive championship in 2013.

U Sports women's volleyball
U Sports women's volleyball is the highest level of amateur play of indoor volleyball in Canada and operates under the auspices of U Sports (formerly Canadian Interuniversity Sport). 43 teams from Canadian universities are divided into four athletic conferences, drawing from the four regional associations of U Sports: Canada West Universities Athletic Association (CW), Ontario University Athletics (OUA), Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ), and Atlantic University Sport (AUS). Following intra-conference playoffs, eight teams are selected to play in a national tournament to compete for the U Sports women's volleyball championship.
Junkers J 2
The Junkers J 2 was the first all-metal aircraft intended as a dedicated military aircraft design, the first all-metal aircraft meant to be a fighter aircraft, and was the direct descendant of the pioneering J 1 all-metal aircraft technology demonstrator design of 1915.

MG 08
The MG 08 (German: Maschinengewehr 08, lit. 'Machine gun 08') is a heavy machine gun (HMG) which served as the standard HMG of the Imperial German Army during World War I. It was an adaptation of Hiram Maxim's 1884 Maxim gun design, and was produced in a number of variants during the war. The MG 08 also saw service during World War II in the infantry divisions of the German Army, although by the end of the war it had mostly been relegated to second-rate "fortress" units.

Designated after 1908, the year it was adopted by the Imperial German Army, the MG 08 was a development of the license-made MG 01, which was a slight development of the MG 99 The MG 08's rate of fire depends on the lock assembly used and averages 500 rounds per minute for the Schloss 08 and 600 rounds per minute for the Schloss 16. Additional telescopic sights were also developed and used in large quantities during World War I to enable the MG 08 to be used in long-range direct fire and indirect fire support roles.
Emilia Solórzano Alfaro
Emilia Solórzano Alfaro (December 8, 1835 – July 18, 1914) was the First Lady of Costa Rica during the periods of 1870–1876 and 1877–1882.

She was born in Alajuela on December 8, 1835, to her parents, Rafael del Pilar Solórzano y Alvarado and María Canuta Alfaro y González. She married Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez in Alajuela on April 18, 1857. This marriage resulted in five children: Angélica (who later married President Saturnino Lizano Gutiérrez), Rudesindo, Rosario, Emilia and Isabel Guardia Solórzano.

She became First Lady on August 10, 1870, and left the post on May 8, 1876. She regained the title on September 23, 1877, to July 6, 1882. As First Lady, she attended the wedding between Alfonso XII of Spain and Mercedes of Orléans and the crowning of Pope Leo XIII. She negotiated the 1878 establishment of the Order of Sion, which opened secondary schools in Alajuela and San José.

She died in San José on July 18, 1914.

First ladies and gentlemen of Costa Rica
First Lady or First Gentleman of Costa Rica (Spanish: Primera dama o Primer caballero de Costa Rica) is the title of the wife or husband of the president of Costa Rica. Traditionally, the president's wife was colloquially known as la presidenta ("the president", with a feminine -a ending). The current term was first used under Federico Alberto Tinoco Granados.
Ponerinae (plant)
Ponerinae is a subtribe of the Orchidaceae tribe Epidendreae. The Ponerinae are characterized by sympodial stems that do not form pseudobulbs, bear two or more leaves, and a racemose or paniculate inflorescence carrying flowers with four or six pollinia.

It comprises four genera:

Helleriella

Isochilus

Nemaconia

Ponera, the type genus

Nemaconia
Nemaconia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Orchidaceae.

Its native range is Mexico to Southern Tropical America.

Species:

Nemaconia dressleriana (Soto Arenas) Van den Berg, Salazar & Soto Arenas

Nemaconia glomerata (Correll) Van den Berg, Salazar & Soto Arenas

Nemaconia graminifolia Knowles & Westc.

Nemaconia longipetala (Correll) Van den Berg, Salazar & Soto Arenas

Nemaconia pellita (Rchb.f.) Van den Berg, Salazar & Soto Arenas

Nemaconia striata (Lindl.) Van den Berg, Salazar & Soto Arenas
2001 Sparkassen Cup (tennis)
The 2001 Sparkassen Cup (tennis) was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts in Leipzig, Germany. It was part of the Tier II category of the 2001 WTA Tour. The tournament was held from 24 September until 30 September 2002. First-seeded Kim Clijsters won the singles title and earned $90,000 first-prize money.

2001 WTA Tour
The WTA Tour is the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). The WTA Tour includes the four Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Tier I, Tier II, Tier III, Tier IV and Tier V events. ITF tournaments are not part of the WTA Tour, although they award points for the WTA World Ranking.