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Percival Pickering
Percival Andree Pickering (8 February 1810 – 7 August 1876) was an English first-class cricketer and lawyer.

Pickering made a single appearance in first-class cricket in 1846 for the Surrey Club against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord's. He batted in both Surrey Club innings', being dismissed without scoring by William Hillyer in their first-innings, while in their second-innings he was dismissed by Jemmy Dean for 3 runs.

Pickering married Anne Maria Spencer-Stanhope. The couple had four children: the Pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn De Morgan, chemist and horticulturist Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering; Rowland Neville Umfreville (1861–1931) and the author Anna Pickering. He died at Dover in August 1876. His brother, William, was fundamental in the formation of Surrey County Cricket Club.

William Pickering (cricketer)
William Percival Pickering (25 October 1819 – 16 August 1905) was an English cricketer with amateur status. He was one of the founders of Surrey County Cricket Club in 1845 and later, having emigrated to Canada, played a significant role in the beginnings of international cricket especially through his proposal to fund an English tour of North America. Pickering is recorded in 29 matches from 1840 to 1848 which are designated by CricketArchive, totalling 445 runs at the low average of 9.67 with a highest score of 51 not out, holding 17 catches and taking 7 wickets.
Santa's workshop
In Christmas folklore and legends, Santa's Workshop is the workshop where Santa Claus and his elves live and make the toys and presents given out at Christmas. The exact location of Santa's workshop varies depending upon local culture, however it is generally said to be somewhere around or on the North Pole. There are at least eight claimed locations for his workshop. For example, people in Canada send letters to Santa's Workshop at his North Pole location in Canada, with the unique postal code of "H0H 0H0", stylized as H0 H0 H0. In the United States, the workshop is considered to be a sprawling commune located at the North Pole. Some people in the United Kingdom and Finland believe that Father Christmas' Workshop is located in Northern Finland in Korvatunturi, Lapland. In addition to housing the factory where toys are either manufactured or distributed by the elves, the complex also houses the residence of Santa, his wife, companions, and all of the reindeer.

Korvatunturi
Korvatunturi is a fell in Lapland, on the border between Finland and Russia. Its Finnish part is within Urho Kekkonen National Park in the municipality of Savukoski. In Finnish the name Korvatunturi means "Ear Fell", referring to the mountain's distinctive profile.

Korvatunturi stands 486 metres (1,594 ft) above sea level; it has three peaks, with the middle peak crossing Finland and Russia's borders. Since Korvatunturi straddles the border of the country, all visitors are required to obtain written permission from the Finnish Border Guard. There are also no roads that directly lead to the fell, but there are hike trails that provide access, such as the one found in the Savukoski area.
Oowekyala
Oowekyala /uːˈwiːkjələ/, also Ooweekeeno and ’Wuik̓ala in the language itself, is a dialect (or a sublanguage) of Heiltsuk–Oowekyala, a Northern Wakashan language spoken around Rivers Inlet and Owikeno Lake in the Central Coast region of the Canadian province of British Columbia, spoken by the Wuikinuxv, whose government is the Wuikinuxv Nation.

The name is also spelled Wuikala, Wuikenukv, Oweekeno, Wikeno, Owikeno, Oowekeeno, Oweekano, Awikenox, Oowek'yala, Oweek'ala.

Rivers Inlet
Rivers Inlet is a fjord in the Central Coast region of the Canadian province of British Columbia, its entrance off Fitz Hugh Sound, about 125 km (78 mi) southwest of the community of Bella Coola and about 65 km (40 mi) north of the northern tip of Vancouver Island and the western entrance of the Queen Charlotte Strait.

Rivers Inlet was a major fishing area with huge salmon runs. At one time it had the second largest sockeye salmon run only to the Fraser River. A total of 19 Canneries were built in the area starting late in the 1890s. Three canneries remained as they dotted the shorelines until their closure by consolidation through the monopoly of companies, and the consolidation around large centralized ice plants in the 1950s.
Perfect Stranger (Cheap Trick song)
"Perfect Stranger" is a song by the American rock band Cheap Trick, which was released in 2006 as the lead single from their fifteenth studio album Rockford. It was written by Linda Perry, Robin Zander, Rick Nielsen, Tom Petersson and Bun E. Carlos, and produced by Perry.

Robin Zander
Robin Wayne Zander (born January 23, 1953) is an American musician who is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the rock band Cheap Trick. Zander joined Cheap Trick in 1974 and, as of 2026, remains a member of the band. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016 as a member of Cheap Trick. Zander is also a solo artist.
David Poltorak
David Poltorak (born 1 January 1954) is an Australian television game show contestant and question writer. He became the grand champion of Sale of the Century in 1986, setting a world record for winnings on a television game show at the time. He later worked as a question writer for The Oz Game, Sale of the Century, The Einstein Factor, Temptation, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and Millionaire Hot Seat. Nicknamed The Professor, he has been featured as a chaser on The Chase Australia since 2024.

Millionaire Hot Seat
Millionaire Hot Seat, also known as Hot Seat, is an Australian television quiz show. The show was a spin-off of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and began airing on the Nine Network on 20 April 2009. As with the original Australian version of the show, it was hosted by Eddie McGuire and followed a similar format.

In 2025, it was announced that actress Rebecca Gibney would be hosting a revival of the program on Network 10, which premiered on 2 February 2026.
332d Airlift Flight
The 332d Airlift Flight is an inactive United States Air Force unit.  it was first organized in India in 1944 as the 11th Combat Cargo Squadron.  As the 332d Troop Carrier Squadron it remained in China through 1947.  The squadron was activated again for the Berlin Airlift from 1948 to 1949.

The squadron was active again from 1955 to 1958 as an assault airlift unit, operating the Fairchild C-123 Provider.  Its last period of active service was from 1993 to 2004 providing operational support airlift with C-21 Learjets.

Fairchild C-123 Provider
The Fairchild C-123 Provider is an American military transport aircraft designed by Chase Aircraft and built by Fairchild Aircraft for the U.S. Air Force. In addition to its USAF service, which included later service with the Air Force Reserve and the Air National Guard, it went on to serve the U.S. Coast Guard and various air forces in Southeast Asia. During the War in Vietnam, the C-123 was used to deliver supplies, to evacuate the wounded, for agent insertions behind enemy lines, and was also used to spray Agent Orange.
Starship Mine
"Starship Mine" is the 144th episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the 18th episode of the sixth season. The episode marked an early appearance of actor Tim Russ in the Star Trek canon prior to his being cast as Tuvok on Star Trek: Voyager, and same for Patricia Tallman, later starring as Lyta Alexander on Babylon 5.

Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet crew of the Federation starship Enterprise-D. In this episode, while the Enterprise is evacuated for hazardous maintenance, Captain Picard must, alone, contend with thieves posing as a work crew aboard the ship. The plot has been noted for its similarity to the 1988 action film Die Hard.

Starfleet
Starfleet is a fictional organization in the Star Trek media franchise. Within this fictional universe, Starfleet is a uniformed space force maintained by the United Federation of Planets (often called "the Federation" in the franchise) as the principal means for conducting deep space exploration, research, defense, peacekeeping, and diplomacy (although Starfleet predates the Federation, having originally been an Earth organization, as shown by the television series Star Trek: Enterprise). While most of Starfleet's members are human and it has been headquartered on Earth, hundreds of other species are also represented. Most of the franchise's protagonists are Starfleet commissioned officers.
Dorothy Awes Haaland
Dorothy Awes Haaland (October 3, 1918 – February 23, 1996 ) was an American lawyer and politician. She served in the final Alaska Territorial Legislature when Alaska was still the Territory of Alaska. In 2009, she was added to the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame. She was the first woman to be admitted to the Alaska Bar Association.

Alaska Women's Hall of Fame
The Alaska Women's Hall of Fame (AWHF) recognizes women natives or residents of the U.S. state of Alaska for their significant achievements or statewide contributions. It was conceived by the board of directors of the Alaska Women's Network (AWN) in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Alaska's statehood. The large inaugural class of fifty women were inducted weeks after that anniversary, on March 6, 2009, with subsequent classes inducted every year since. As of the class of 2015, 135 women and one organization, the Sisters of Providence, have been honored. The principal organizations involved with the AWHF are the Zonta Club of Anchorage, the YWCA, Alaska Women for Political Action, the Anchorage Women's Commission, the University of Alaska Anchorage, Alaska Women's Network and the ATHENA Society.
2001 Baltika Cup
The 2001 Baltika Cup was played between 18 and 22 December 2001. The Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden and Russia played a round-robin for a total of three games per team and six games in total. All of the matches were played in Luzhniki Palace of Sports in Moscow, Russia. Czech Republic won the tournament. The tournament was part of the 2001–02 Euro Hockey Tour.

2001–02 Euro Hockey Tour
The 2001–02 Euro Hockey Tour was the sixth season of the Euro Hockey Tour. The season consisted of four tournaments, the Česká Pojišťovna Cup, Sweden Hockey Games, Baltica Brewery Cup, and the Karjala Tournament.
Stert and Westbury Railway
The Stert and Westbury Railway was opened by the Great Western Railway Company in 1900 in Wiltshire, England. It shortened the distance between London Paddington station and Weymouth, and since 1906 has also formed part of the Reading to Taunton line for a shorter journey from London to Penzance.

Weymouth railway station
Weymouth is the main railway station serving the town of Weymouth, in Dorset, England; the other is at Upwey, which is located north of the town centre. It is the southern terminus of both the South West Main Line, 142 miles 64 chains (229.8 km) down the line from London Waterloo, and the Heart of Wessex Line from Bristol Temple Meads and Gloucester, 168 miles 63 chains (271.6 km) from London Paddington.
Beatriz Monteiro
Beatriz Gonçalves Monteiro (born February 23, 1999) is a Portuguese actress. She gained prominence when interpreting Lua and Vitória in the series Chiquititas and Floribella. Among several projects, she rose to national fame by participating in Pai à Força for almost 4 years.

She is currently studding Theatre Arts in London.

Floribella
Floribella is a soap opera that was produced in Brazil, Portugal and Chile. Each of those countries had their own cast, but the show had exactly the same name. Although they had the same name, all of them came from the first and original Argentine soap opera called Floricienta, created by Cris Morena.
Traversata
Traversata is an album by American mandolinist David Grisman, Italian mandolinist Carlo Aonzo, and Italian guitarist Beppe Gambetta, playing guitar, mandolin, and the 14-string harp guitar.

The album comprises Italian-American instrumentals from the early part of the 20th century when Italians migrated in large numbers to the U.S. They called their trip overseas a traversata. In addition to traditional Italian folk music, the album includes versions of "Pickin' the Guitar" by Nick Lucas and "April Kisses" by Eddie Lang.

Harp guitar
The harp guitar is a guitar-based stringed instrument generally defined as a "guitar, in any of its accepted forms, with any number of additional unstopped strings that can accommodate individual plucking." The word "harp" is used in reference to its harp-like unstopped open strings. A harp guitar must have at least one unfretted string lying off the main fretboard, typically played as an open string.

This family consists of many varieties of instrument configurations.  Most readily identified are American harp guitars with either hollow arms, double necks or harp-like frames for supporting extra bass strings, and European bass guitars (or contraguitars).  Other harp guitars feature treble or mid-range floating strings, or various combinations of multiple floating string banks along with a standard guitar neck.
.284 Winchester
The .284 Winchester (7.21x55mmRB) is a rebated rim rifle cartridge introduced by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company in 1963.

The .284 Winchester was designed to duplicate the performance of the .270 Winchester and .280 Remington cartridges from the new Winchester Model 100 autoloader and Winchester Model 88 lever-action rifles. The result was a 7 mm cartridge of comparable overall length to the .308 Winchester with greater case capacity and power potential.

.284 Winchester has enjoyed a resurgence due to interest from long-range competitive shooters. Winchester has continued to produce brass cases for this cartridge since 1963.

.270 Winchester
The .270 Winchester is a rifle cartridge developed by Winchester Repeating Arms Company in 1923, and it was unveiled in 1925 as a chambering for their bolt-action Model 54 to become arguably the flattest shooting cartridge of its day, only competing with the .300 Holland & Holland Magnum, also introduced in the same year.

The .270 Winchester was derived from the  .30-06 Springfield and the bore diameter was likely inspired by 7mm Mauser. The .270 Winchester uses a .270 inch (6.86 mm) bore diameter and a .277 inch (7.04 mm) bullet diameter.
Anglo-Russian Commission
The Anglo-Russia Commission was an office of the British Department of Information established in Saint Petersburg in 1915 that was involved in arranging war supplies from the United Kingdom to Russia.

It was tasked with "propaganda distribution, use of literature and art therefore, political intelligence, and, as agent for the War Office, the dissemination of military news to non-military and non-Dominion authorities"

The office was closed in the early days of March 1918 when it was reported to have "left British propaganda in Russia almost at a standstill".

Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)
The Ministry of Information (MOI), headed by the Minister of Information, was a United Kingdom government department created briefly at the end of the First World War and again during the Second World War. Located in Senate House at the University of London during the 1940s, it was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda. The MOI was dissolved in March 1946, with its residual functions passing to the Central Office of Information (COI); which was itself dissolved in December 2011 due to the reforming of the organisation of government communications.
Rivière des Rosiers
The rivière des Rosiers (in English: River of Roses) is a tributary of the Nicolet River which flows on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. The Rosiers River flows through the municipalities of Tingwick, Kingsey Falls, Warwick, Sainte-Élizabeth-de-Warwick and Saint-Albert-de-Warwick, in the Arthabaska Regional County Municipality (MRC), in the Centre-du-Québec region, in Quebec, in Canada.

Kingsey Falls
Kingsey Falls, Quebec is a town in Centre-du-Québec, Quebec, Canada, with a population of 1,986 according to the 2021 census. It is 30 km east of Drummondville and west of Route 116. One of the largest employers in the community is Cascades, which is headquartered there.
1898 Toronto municipal election
Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Canada, on January 3, 1898. Mayor John Shaw was first elected mayor by Toronto City Council after his predecessor, Robert John Fleming, resigned on August 5, 1897, to accept an appointment as assessment commissioner. Shaw was returned to office in the 1898 election by defeating former alderman Ernest A. Macdonald, who was making his second attempt to be elected mayor. The main issues of both the mayoralty and aldermanic campaigns were a proposal to build the James Bay Railway from Toronto to James Bay and proposals to get hydroelectric power from Niagara Falls so that the city could have access to less expensive electricity, with Shaw favouring both proposals, along with almost all aldermen who were elected.

Toronto City Council
Toronto City Council is the governing body of the municipal government of Toronto, Ontario. Meeting at Toronto City Hall, it comprises 25 city councillors and the mayor of Toronto. The current term began on November 15, 2022.
The Rare, the Raw and the Rest
The Rare, the Raw and the Rest is a 1999 compilation album by British hard rock band Thunder.  It is a collection of b-sides, studio out-takes and live tracks recorded during the time that the band was signed to EMI Records, many of which were either unreleased or were unavailable on CD prior to their inclusion on this compilation.  The album was compiled by the band's lead guitarist & primary songwriter Luke Morley.

Luke Morley
Luke Morley (born 19 June 1960) is the guitarist, chief songwriter and producer for the hard rock band Thunder from 1989 to present (with a break from 1999–2002, and 2009–2011). Previous to that he was a member of 1980s group, Terraplane who subsequently became Thunder.
Lighthouse (Lost)
"Lighthouse" is the fifth television episode of the American Broadcasting Company's sixth season of the serial drama television series Lost and 108th episode overall. The episode aired on February 23, 2010, on ABC in the United States and 2 hours earlier on A in Canada due to the 2010 Winter Olympics. The episode was written by showrunners and executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and was directed by Jack Bender. The episode is centered on Jack Shephard.

In 2007, the ghost of Jacob (Mark Pellegrino) instructs Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (Jorge Garcia) to bring Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) to an unspecified place. Meanwhile, Jin-Soo Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim) finds Claire Littleton (Emilie de Ravin) after 3 years of disappearance, but begins to question her sanity. In the "flash-sideways", Jack deals with the issues of parenthood.

Mark Pellegrino
Mark Ross Pellegrino (born April 9, 1965) is an American actor of film and television. He is best known for his work as Lucifer in Supernatural, Paul Bennett in Dexter, Jacob in Lost, James Bishop in Being Human, Clayton Haas in Quantico, Joe Messing in Mulholland Drive, and Deputy Bill Standall in 13 Reasons Why.
Neil Brand (cricketer)
Neil Brand (born 12 April 1996) is a South African cricketer who is the current stand-in Captain of the South African National Cricket Team. He is a left-handed batsman and a left-arm orthodox bowler. He initially moved to King's College, Taunton, with a hope to qualify to play for the England cricket team, before returning to South Africa at the end of 2017.

Brand made his first-class debut for Cardiff MCCU against Glamorgan on 2 April 2015. He made his List A debut for Northerns in the 2017–18 CSA Provincial One-Day Challenge on 25 March 2018.

In September 2018, Brand was named in Northerns' squad for the 2018 Africa T20 Cup. He made his Twenty20 debut for Northerns in the 2018 Africa T20 Cup on 14 September 2018. In April 2021, he was named in Northerns' squad, ahead of the 2021–22 cricket season in South Africa.

Northerns cricket team
Northerns (formerly North Eastern Transvaal and Northern Transvaal) has played first-class cricket in South Africa since December 1937. Its territory is the area north of Johannesburg, including Pretoria.

For the purposes of the SuperSport Series, Northerns has merged with Easterns (formerly Eastern Transvaal) to form the Titans.
Patricia E. McQuistion
Patricia E. McQuistion is a United states Lieutenant General lieutenant general of the United States Army. She served as deputy commander and chief of staff for the United States Army Materiel Command from 2012 until her retirement in 2015.

United States Army Materiel Command
The United States Army Materiel Command (AMC) is the primary provider of materiel to the United States Army via its contracting support brigades.

AMC operates depots; arsenals; ammunition plants; and other facilities, and maintains the Army's prepositioned stocks, both on land and afloat. The command is also the Department of Defense Executive Agent for conventional ammunition and the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile.

AMC is responsible for the business of selling United States Army equipment and services to allies of the United States and negotiates and implements agreements for co-production of U.S. weapons systems by other states.
Pico da Cruz (village)
Pico da Cruz is a settlement in the northeastern part of the island of Santo Antão, Cape Verde. In 2010 its population was 138. It is situated 6 km southwest of Pombas and 10 km northeast of the island capital Porto Novo. Its elevation is about 1,400 meters. The village is named after the nearby mountain Pico da Cruz. It lies in the Cova-Paul-Ribeira da Torre Natural Park.

Cova-Paul-Ribeira da Torre Natural Park
Cova-Paul-Ribeira da Torre Natural Park, in the east of the island of Santo Antão, is one of ten "natural parks" in the country of Cape Verde. Its area is 20.92 km2 (8.08 sq mi), of which 8.91 km2 (3.44 sq mi) in the municipality of Ribeira Grande, 8.85 km2 (3.42 sq mi) in the municipality of Paul and 3.16 km2 (1.22 sq mi) in the municipality of Porto Novo. Since 2016, the natural park is on the tentative list of World Heritage Sites.
Hrolleifsdalur
Hrolleifsdalur is a valley that leads from Sléttuhlíð on the east side of Skagafjörður, Iceland heading to the southeast end of Tröllaskagi mountain range. The valley is said to be named after the settler Hrolleifur mikli Arnhallsson. There were a few farms in Hrolleifsdalur, but they have all since been abandoned.

The Hrolleifsdalsá river runs through the valley and then into the ocean in the southern part of Sléttuhlíð. There are some remnants of the forests in the valley, the only ones which can be found in Skagafjörður, except for the ones in Vesturdalur, called the Geirmundarhólsskógur forest. Hrolleifsdalur has been protected for many years, but there have been difficulties because of many heavy snows in the valley.

There is a small amount of geothermal energy in Hrolleifsdalur and a lake that formed in a borehole on the land of the abandoned farm Bræðraá, which now leads to Hofsós.

Vesturdalur
Vesturdalur ("west valley") is a valley that runs from the head of Skagafjörður, Iceland and cuts far into the central highlands. Austurdalur valley runs parallel to it. The valleys are surrounded by tall, steep mountains.
John Hales (MP for New Shoreham)
John Hales (2 March 1648 – 8 October 1723) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1679 to 1685.

Hales was an elected Member of Parliament (MP) for New Shoreham in 1679, and held the seat till 1685.

Hales died in October 1723, aged 75. His brother Edward Hales was on the Admiralty commission, and his cousin Edward Hales was MP for Hythe.

Sir Edward Hales, 3rd Baronet
Sir Edward Hales, 3rd Baronet (28 September 1645 – October 1695) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1679 to 1681. He became a Catholic and supported King James II at the time of the Glorious Revolution.