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Erik Westrum
Erik Clinton Westrum (born July 26, 1979 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American former professional ice hockey center who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Phoenix Coyotes, Minnesota Wild, and Toronto Maple Leafs.

Minnesota Wild
The Minnesota Wild are a professional ice hockey team based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The Wild compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division in the Western Conference. The team plays its home games at the Grand Casino Arena, and is owned by Craig Leipold. The Wild are affiliated with the Iowa Wild of the American Hockey League (AHL) and the Iowa Heartlanders of the ECHL.

The Wild were founded on June 25, 1997, and began play in the 2000–01 season. The team was founded following the departure of the Minnesota North Stars, who were based in Minnesota from 1967 to 1993, when they relocated to Dallas, Texas, and became the Dallas Stars. The Wild made their first Stanley Cup playoffs appearance in 2003, making a surprise run to the Western Conference finals, but ultimately losing to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. The team have appeared in the playoffs a total of 14 times, and have won one division championship, in 2008.
Deggendorf Fire
The Deggendorfer SC (also known as Deggendorf Fire) is a professional ice hockey club based in Deggendorf, Bavaria, Germany. The club currently competes in Oberliga, the third level of ice hockey in Germany. The Fire was originally founded in 1973 with the current operations setup in 2002. Deggendorfer’s home arena is the Eissporthalle an der Trat, which holds 4,000 spectators. The club also operates junior ice hockey and figure skating programs.

Oberliga (ice hockey)
The Oberliga (English: Upper League) is the third tier of ice hockey in Germany, below DEL2 and above the Regionalliga. Since the 2015/16 season, the league has been split into two regionalised divisions, Nord (north) and Süd (south). The Oberliga was originally founded in 1948 and is administered by the German Ice Hockey Federation (DEB).
Bridgepointe Shopping Center
Bridgepointe Shopping Center is a shopping mall in San Mateo, California, United States. Opened in 1982 as San Mateo Fashion Island, it was originally an enclosed shopping mall featuring JCPenney, Bullock's, Liberty House, and Montgomery Ward as its anchor stores. Following the closures of Bullock's and Liberty House, the mall went into decline throughout the 1990s, leading to its closure and demolition in favor of a power center. Bridgepointe Shopping Center is owned and managed by CBRE Group. Major tenants of Bridgepointe Shopping Center include The Home Depot and Target.

San Mateo, California
San Mateo is the most populous city in San Mateo County, California, United States, on the San Francisco Peninsula. It is part of the San Francisco Bay Area metropolitan region, and is located about 20 miles (32 km) south of San Francisco. San Mateo borders Burlingame to the north, Hillsborough to the west, San Francisco Bay and Foster City to the east and Belmont to the south. The population was 105,661 at the 2020 census.  Some of the biggest economic drivers for the city include technology, health care and education.
Gambling Days Are Over
Gambling Days Are Over is the debut studio album by the Compulsive Gamblers. It was released in 1995 by Sympathy for the Record Industry. The album, with the exception of the last three songs, was recorded on an 8-track recorder in vocalist Jack Oblivian's apartment. The album was released after the band had already broken up, and was essentially a collection of the group's three 7-inch releases, "Church Goin'," "Joker," and Goodtime Gamblers." During the recording of the album the Compulsive Gamblers lineup consisted of Jack Oblivian and Greg Oblivian on guitar and vocals, Bushrod Thomas on drums, Fields Trimble on bass, and Greg Easterly on violin. The first three songs on the album are cover songs reflecting the band's diverse influences; the album contains covers by The Tornados, the Bar-Kays, and Tom Waits. The song "Sour and Vicious Man" was covered by Jay Reatard of the Reatards on their third album, Not Fucked Enough.

Bar-Kays
The Bar-Kays is an American funk band formed in 1964. The band had dozens of charting singles from the 1960s to the 1980s, including "Soul Finger" (US Billboard Hot 100 number 17, R&B number 3) in 1967, "Son of Shaft" (R&B number 10) in 1972, and "Boogie Body Land" (R&B number 7) in 1980. The Bar-Kays also served as the backing band for a variety of singers, including Isaac Hayes and Otis Redding.
Harrison Brunicke
Harrison Brunicke (born May 8, 2006) is a South African-born Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted by the Penguins in the second round, 44th overall, in the 2024 NHL entry draft and made his NHL debut with the team in 2025.

2024 NHL entry draft
The 2024 NHL entry draft was the 62nd entry draft for the National Hockey League. It was held on June 28–29, 2024, at Sphere in the Las Vegas Valley. As per their April 2024 agreement, all draft rights held by the deactivated Arizona Coyotes franchise were transferred to the new Utah Hockey Club. The San Jose Sharks held the first overall pick for the first time in franchise history. The first three selections were Macklin Celebrini by the San Jose Sharks, Artyom Levshunov by the Chicago Blackhawks, and Beckett Sennecke by the Anaheim Ducks.
Fabio Castellano
Fabio Castellano (born 14 March 1998) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Excluded club Turris.

Castellano began his footballing career with Atalanta, who he joined at the age of six, but never played for the club at senior level, instead making his professional debut while on loan at Pro Vercelli before signing for Ascoli in 2017.

Ascoli Calcio 1898 FC
Ascoli Calcio 1898 FC, commonly referred to as Ascoli, is an Italian football club based in Ascoli Piceno, Marche. The club was formed in 1898 and currently plays in Serie C.

The team traditionally play in vertical black and white stripes.
José Salcedo (film editor)
José Salcedo Palomeque (c. 1949 – 19 September 2017) was a Spanish film editor with over 120 feature film credits. He had an extended collaboration with the director Pedro Almodóvar, having edited all of Almodóvar's films from 1980 until his death.

Salcedo had been nominated many times for Goya Award for Best Editing, and won the award three times: for Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead (1995), and All About My Mother (1999). He was honored with the 2017 Gold Medal of the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España, which is the Spanish academy that awards the Goyas.

Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain
The Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain (Spanish: Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España) is a professional organisation dedicated to the promotion and development of Spanish cinema. Founded in 1986, it is responsible for the annual Goya Awards, Spain's principal film awards. It is headquartered in Madrid.

It is a founding member of the Film Academy Network Europe (FAN) and the Ibero-American Federation of Academies of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences (FIACINE).

Since 2022, the academy is presided by Fernando Méndez-Leite.
Barthélemy Mukenge
Barthélemy Mukenge Nsumpi Shabantu (3 August 1925 – 4 July 2018) was a Congolese politician who served as President of Kasaï Province from 11 June 1960 to January 1962 and July to September 1962. He was a president of the Association des Lulua-Frères, a Lulua ethnic syndicate, and a leading member of the Union National Congolaise. Though initially allied with nationalist Patrice Lumumba, he later denounced him and aligned himself with more moderate politicians. Following the division of Kasai Province in late 1962, Mukenge became Minister of Health and Minister of Social Affairs of the new Luluabourg Province. He later served as Governor of Kivu Province and on the Political Bureau of the Mouvement Populaire de la Révolution. He withdrew from politics in 1974 and died in 2018.

Lulua people
The Lulua people are a Bantu ethnic group settled along the Lulua River valley in south central Kasai-Occidental province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Lulua are in fact a collection of small groups whose home bordered by the larger Luba state and the related Songye people and Chokwe people, with whom they share a very similar culture, history, and language.

Lulua lands are bordered on the south by other small ethnic groups, including the Mbagani, Lwalwa, Southern Kete, and the Salampasu. Rural Lulua remain mostly farmers.
Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!!
Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!! (ダウンタウンのガキの使いやあらへんで!!, Dauntaun no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!!; lit. "Downtown's We Aren't Errand Boys!"), often abbreviated Gaki no Tsukai (ガキの使い) or just Gaki Tsuka (ガキ使), is a Japanese variety show hosted by popular Japanese owarai duo Downtown, with comedian Hōsei Tsukitei (formerly known as Hōsei Yamasaki) and owarai duo Cocorico co-hosting.  The program has been broadcast on Nippon TV since its pilot episode on October 3, 1989, and continues to this day, celebrating its 1000th episode on April 18, 2010. The program currently broadcasts on Nippon TV and its regional affiliates from 23:25 until 23:55 JST.

Owarai
Owarai (お笑い) is a broad word used to describe Japanese comedy as seen on television. The word owarai is the honorific form of the word warai (by adding o- prefix), meaning "a laugh" or "a smile". Owarai is most common on Japanese variety shows and the comedians are referred to as owarai geinin or owarai tarento. Presently Japan is considered to be in an "owarai boom", and many minor talents have been finding sudden fame after a gag or skit became popular.
Teodor Gotszalk
Teodor Paweł Gotszalk (20 June 1966 – 21 November 2025) was a Polish scientist who was head of Department of Nanometrology at Wrocław University of Science and Technology. He was also a corresponding member of Polish Academy of Sciences from 2022. Teodor Gotszalk worked in the area of nanotechnology and nanometrology, particularly scanning probe microscopy (SPM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and focused ion beam (FIB) techniques, and using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).

Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Wrocław University of Science and Technology (Polish: Politechnika Wrocławska) is a technological university in Wrocław, Poland. With buildings and infrastructures dispersed throughout the city, its main facilities are gathered at a central location near Plac Grunwaldzki, alongside the Oder river. It operates three regional branches in Jelenia Góra, Legnica, and Wałbrzych. Huffington Post UK named Wrocław University of Science and Technology in the top 15 of the World’s Most Beautiful Universities Rankings.
Notts, Lincs & Derbyshire/Leicestershire 2 West
Notts, Lincs & Derbyshire/Leicestershire 2 West was a tier 10 English Rugby Union league with teams from Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and the western region of Leicestershire taking part.  Promoted teams moved up to Notts, Lincs & Derbyshire/Leicestershire 1 West and there was no relegation.

The division was created in 2000, along with its counterpart Notts, Lincs & Derbyshire/Leicestershire 2 East, following the splitting of the East Midlands and Leicestershire leagues and the subsequent merging of the Leicestershire and Notts, Lincs & Derbyshire leagues.  After four seasons the league was discontinued following further restructuring and teams moved into the newly created Notts, Lincs, Derbyshire/North Leicestershire, Derbyshire/North Leicestershire and East Midlands/South Leicestershire 2 divisions.

Notts, Lincs & Derbyshire 3
Notts, Lincs & Derbyshire 3 was a tier 11 English Rugby Union league with teams from Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Derbyshire taking part.  Promoted teams moved up to Notts, Lincs & Derbyshire 2 and since the cancellation of Notts, Lincs & Derbyshire 4 at the end of the 1995–96 season there was no relegation.

At the end of the 1999–00 campaign the Notts, Lincs & Derbyshire leagues were merged with the Leicestershire leagues.  This meant that Notts, Lincs & Lincolnshire 3 was cancelled after 13 seasons and all teams transferred into the new Notts, Lincs & Derbyshire/Leicestershire leagues.
Cyborg IV
Cyborg IV is a science fiction/secret agent novel by Martin Caidin that was first published in 1975. It was the fourth and final book in a series of novels Caidin began in 1972 with Cyborg, profiling the adventures of astronaut Steve Austin, who becomes a spy for the American government after an accident that requires the replacement of numerous body parts with high-powered machines.

Cyborg IV was published after Caidin's original novel was adapted into a television series entitled The Six Million Dollar Man. Confusingly, its first paperback publication by Warner Books was issued as Volume 6 in Warners' Six Million Dollar Man book series (the only other Caidin work to be published in this series was High Crystal), even though Caidin's Cyborg continuity is separate from that of the other Six Million Dollar Man-branded novels by authors such as Mike Jahn and Jay Barbree which were novelizations based upon teleplays.

High Crystal
High Crystal is a science fiction/secret agent novel by Martin Caidin that was first published in 1974. It was the second sequel to Caidin's 1972 work Cyborg, which in turn was the basis for the television series The Six Million Dollar Man. Although published after the start of the television series, the book does not share continuity with it.
Chang Lih Kang
Chang Lih Kang (simplified Chinese: 郑立慷; traditional Chinese: 鄭立慷; pinyin: Zhèng Lìkāng, born 23 October 1980) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation in the Unity Government administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim since December 2022 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tanjong Malim since May 2018. He served as Member of the Perak State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Teja from March 2008 to May 2018. He is a member of the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the PH coalition and has served as a Vice President of PKR since December 2018.

Tanjong Malim (federal constituency)
Tanjong Malim is a federal constituency in Batang Padang District and Muallim District, Perak, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat since 1959.

The federal constituency was created in the 1958 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system.
Gérard Hoarau
Gérard Hoarau (7 December 1950 – 29 November 1985) was Seychellois opposition politician who led the Movement for the Resistance (Mouvement pour la Résistance, MPR), a London-based exile group that sought the peaceful overthrow of France-Albert René, who had come to power on 5 June 1977 in a coup d'état.

Hoarau was assassinated on 29 November 1985 by an unidentified gunman on the doorstep of his home in Edgware, in North London.

James Mancham
Sir James Richard Marie Mancham KBE (11 August 1939 – 8 January 2017) was a Seychellois politician who founded the Seychelles Democratic Party and was the first President of Seychelles from 1976 to 1977.
In His Steps (1936 film)
In His Steps is a 1936 American drama film directed by Karl Brown and starring Eric Linden, Cecilia Parker and Harry Beresford. It was distributed by the recently formed Grand National Pictures. The film's sets were designed by the art director Edward C. Jewell. It was based on the 1896 novel In His Steps by Charles Sheldon, which had previously been adapted into the silent film The Martyrdom of Philip Strong.

The Martyrdom of Philip Strong
The Martyrdom of Philip Strong is a 1916 American drama silent film directed by Richard Ridgely and written by Everett McNeil, Francis Neilson and Charles Sheldon. The film stars Robert Conness, Mabel Trunnelle, Janet Dawley, Bigelow Cooper, Helen Strickland and Frank A. Lyons. The film was released on November 3, 1916, by Paramount Pictures.
Royal Radnor Rifles
The Radnorshire Militia, later the Royal Radnor Rifles, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised from earlier precursors in the Welsh county of Radnorshire in the 17th century. Primarily intended for home defence, it served in Britain and Ireland through all of Britain's major wars. After a previous short-lived merger it was finally amalgamated into the Royal South Wales Borderers Militia in 1876.

Militia (United Kingdom)
The British Militia was the principal military reserve force of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Militia units were repeatedly raised in Great Britain during the Victorian and Edwardian eras for internal security duties and to defend against external invasions. The British Militia was transformed into the Special Reserve under the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 (7 Edw. 7. c. 9), which integrated all militia formations into the British Army.
Zhao Yongfu
Zhao Yongfu (simplified Chinese: 赵永甫; traditional Chinese: 趙永甫; pinyin: Zhào Yǒngfǔ) is a rear admiral (shao jiang) of the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) of China. He served as president of the PLA Naval Academy of Armament from 2008 to 2011, and as president of the PLA Naval University of Engineering from May 2011 to December 2014.

Jiang (rank)
Jiang (formerly romanized chiang and usually translated general or, for navies, admiral) is a general officer (or flag officer for navies) rank used by China and Taiwan. It is also used as jang in North and South Korea, shō in Japan, and tướng in Vietnam.
Theerathon Bunmathan
Theerathon Bunmathan (Thai: ธีราทร บุญมาทัน, RTGS: Thirathon Bunmathan, pronounced [tʰīː.rāː.tʰɔ̄ːn būn.māː.tʰān]; born 6 February 1990) is a Thai professional footballer who plays as a left back for Buriram United. He has also been used as a midfielder during the later of his career.

Theerathon is the first Thai player to win the J1 League with Yokohama F. Marinos in 2019.

J1 League
The J1 League (Japanese: J1リーグ, Hepburn: Jē-wan Rīgu), a.k.a. the J.League or the Meiji Yasuda J1 League (Japanese: 明治安田J1リーグ, Hepburn: Meiji Yasuda Jē-wan Rīgu) for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Japan and the highest level of the Japanese football league system.

Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the J2 League. Both the J1 and J2 leagues are operated by the Japan Professional Football League (日本プロサッカーリーグ, Nihon Puro Sakkā Rīgu).

Founded in 1992, it is one of the most successful leagues in Asian professional club football history. It was known as the J.League from 1993 to 1998 before becoming a two-division league, and as J.League Division 1 from 1999 to 2014. The current champions are Kashima Antlers, who won a record-extending ninth J.League title and a record-breaking ninth top flight title in the 2025 season.
Portugal at the 1952 Winter Olympics
Portugal sent a delegation to compete in the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway from 15 to 25 February 1952.  This was the nation's first time participating in the Winter Olympic Games, and it would be 36 years before they competed in the Winter Olympics again.  Portugal was represented in Oslo by a single alpine skier, Duarte Silva.  In his only event, the men's downhill, he came in 69th place.

Alpine skiing at the 1952 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill
The men's alpine skiing downhill was the third of six events of the alpine skiing programme at the 1952 Winter Olympics. It was held at Norefjell ski area on Saturday, 16 February, and started at 1 p.m. It followed the women's giant slalom on Thursday and men's giant slalom on Friday.

It was the second Olympic downhill race, which was first run as a separate event in 1948.

Defending world champion Zeno Colò of Italy won the gold, the only Olympic medal of his career; he was fourth in the other two events. More than a second behind was silver medalist Othmar Schneider, and Christian Pravda took the bronze.

The race's starting elevation was 940 m (3,084 ft) above sea level; the course length was 2.60 km (1.62 mi), with a vertical drop of 750 m (2,461 ft). Colò's winning time of 150.8 seconds yielded an average speed of 62.07 km/h (38.6 mph), with an average vertical descent rate of 4.97 m/s (16.3 ft/s).

Eighty-one alpine skiers from 27 nations competed.
Two Friends (1986 film)
Two Friends (stylized as 2 Friends) is a 1986 Australian television drama film directed by Jane Campion. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. The film is Campion’s first feature as a director.

Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard (French: [œ̃ sɛʁtɛ̃ ʁəɡaʁ]; 'A Certain Glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the salle Debussy, parallel to the competition for the Palme d'Or. This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob.

The section presents 20 films with unusual styles and non-traditional stories seeking international recognition.

Since 1998, the section has awarded the Un Certain Regard Prize to one film in the lineup, recognising emerging talent and innovative work. At the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, Killer by Darezhan Omirbaev was named the inaugural winner, while The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo by Diego Céspedes is the most recent winner (2025).
Bobby Geudert
Robert Geudert (April 9, 1900 – December 1984) was an American soccer goalkeeper who played in the National Association Football League, the first American Soccer League, and the Eastern Professional Soccer League.

Geudert's early career is not well documented, but by 1921 he was playing for New York F.C. in the National Association Football League. In 1922, New York became a founding member of the American Soccer League, and Geudert established himself as a regular first-team goalkeeper.

In 1924, Geudert moved to the New York Giants, where he played for three seasons. During the 1925–26 season, he was loaned to the Brooklyn Wanderers for one match. In August 1927, Bethlehem Steel F.C. signed Geudert as a backup to Dave Edwards. When Edwards was injured in October, Geudert appeared in 13 games for the club.

In the fall of 1928, Geudert joined New York Celtic, where he concluded his professional playing career.

National Association Football League
The National Association Football League (also spelled National Association Foot Ball League) (NAFBL) was a semi-professional U.S. soccer league which operated between 1895 and 1898. The league was reconstituted in 1906 and continued to operate until 1921.
Patrick Dorgu
Patrick Chinazaekpere Dorgu (born 26 October 2004) is a Danish professional football player who plays as a full-back, wing-back, or winger for Premier League club Manchester United and the Denmark national team.

Dorgu began his professional career at Lecce in 2023, where he played in two Serie A seasons, before moving to Manchester United in 2025.

Dorgu made his senior international debut for Denmark in 2024, in the UEFA Nations League.

US Lecce
Unione Sportiva Lecce (Italian pronunciation: [ˈlettʃe]) is a professional Italian football club based in Lecce, Apulia. The club play in Serie A for the 2025–26 season, the top level of the Italian football pyramid. Lecce plays its home games at Stadio Via del Mare, which has a capacity of 31,533 spectators.

The club was formed in 1927 upon an idea of 1908 and has spent a large part of their recent history bouncing between Italy's second division and Serie A, where the team debuted in the 1985–86 season. Its best Serie A finish is the ninth place obtained in the 1988–89 season. The club is 25th in the Serie A all-time table and is the second club from Apulia with appearances in the first two tiers of Italian football, with 19 Serie A seasons and 29 Serie B seasons.

Lecce won Serie B titles in 2022 and 2010, a Coppa Italia Serie C in 1975 and an Anglo-Italian Cup Semiprofessionals in 1976.

Lecce players and fans are nicknamed salentini or simply giallorossi or lupi.