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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules is a 2005 anthology of short stories edited by David Sedaris.

Sedaris published this book in order to support 826NYC, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center in Brooklyn, New York. All of his proceeds, after permission expenses, from Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules will benefit this organization designed to help students ages six to eighteen develop their writing skills through free writing workshops, publishing projects, and one-on-one help with homework and English-language learning. In the book's epilogue, Sarah Vowell describes 826NYC's work.

The book's title references a painting by Adriaen van der Werff.

Sarah Vowell
Sarah Jane Vowell (born December 27, 1969) is an American historian, writer, journalist, radio personality, social commentator, and actress. She has written seven nonfiction books on American history and culture. Vowell was a contributing editor for the radio program This American Life on Public Radio International from 1996 to 2008, where she produced commentaries and documentaries. She was the voice of Violet Parr in the 2004 animated film The Incredibles and its 2018 sequel.
Eggflip (restaurant)
Eggflip (stylized as EGGFLIP) is an American sandwich shop, specializing in Korean-style egg sandwiches, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Its menu consists primarily of breakfast sandwiches, bowls, and burritos. Chef and owner Flip Koumalasy opened the restaurant on March 18, 2024, in the second floor retail corridor of the Six Quebec residential building.

Breakfast sandwich
A breakfast sandwich is any sandwich filled with foods associated with breakfast. Breakfast sandwiches are served at fast food restaurants and delicatessens, sold in supermarkets, and commonly made at home. Different types of breakfast sandwich include the bacon sandwich, the egg sandwich,  the sausage sandwich, and various combinations like the bacon, egg and cheese sandwich. The breakfast sandwich is related to the breakfast roll.
Here East
Here East is a media complex located in the Olympic Park in East London, built specially for the 2012 London Olympics. It is located at the site of the former Hackney Wick Stadium close to the Riverbank Arena in Hackney Wick.

During the Olympics and Paralympics, the complex was named the London Olympics Media Centre. It was later refurbished and renamed to Here East.

Hackney Wick
Hackney Wick is a neighbourhood in East London, England. The area forms the south-eastern part of the district of Hackney, and also of the wider London Borough of Hackney. Adjacent areas of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, namely Fish Island, are sometimes also described as being part of Hackney Wick. The area lies 4.2 miles (6.8 km) northeast of Charing Cross.
Rasmus Christiansen (footballer, born 1989)
Rasmus Steenberg Christiansen (born 6 October 1989) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a defender for Icelandic club Grótta. He won the Icelandic championship in 2017 and 2018 with Valur.

Valur (men's football)
The Valur men's football team, commonly known as Valur (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈvaːlʏr̥], lit. 'Gyrfalcon'), is the men's football department of the Knattspyrnufélagið Valur multi-sport club. The club is based in Reykjavík, Iceland, and currently plays in the Besta deild karla, the top league of men's football in Iceland. The team plays its home games at Hlíðarendi in Reykjavík. The team's colours are red and white. Valur has spent most of its time in the top-flight of Icelandic football, spending only three seasons outside the top tier. Valur is one of the most successful football clubs in Iceland, with 23 Icelandic championships.
Stagecoach bus route 555
The Lakes Connection 555 is a bus route operated by Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire in Cumbria and Lancashire, England. The scenic route covers a distance of 45 miles (72 km) and runs between the towns of Keswick and Lancaster via Grasmere, Windermere, Kendal and Carnforth.

Windermere
Windermere (historically Winder Mere) is a ribbon lake in Cumbria, England. It is within the Lake District and is the largest lake in England by length, area, and volume, although considerably smaller than the largest Scottish lochs and Northern Irish loughs.

Windermere is about 11 miles (18 km) in length and 1 mile (1.6 km) at its widest, has a maximum depth of 64 metres (210 ft), and has an elevation of 39 metres (128 ft) above sea level. Its outflow is the River Leven, which drains into Morecambe Bay. For administrative purposes the lake is in the unitary authority area of Westmorland and Furness, and it historically formed part of the boundary between Westmorland and Lancashire.

The lake has been popular with tourists since the Kendal and Windermere Railway's branch line opened in 1847. The Freshwater Biological Association was established on the shore of Windermere in 1929 and much of the early work on lake ecology, freshwater biology and limnology was conducted here.
Dita Krūmberga
Dita Krūmberga (born 20 March 1984 in Riga) is a retired Latvian women's basketball player. She joined TTT Rīga in 2008. Previously she had played for SK Cēsis, as well as several other local and foreign clubs before 2000. She played in Mount St. Mary's NCAA team from 2004 until 2007.

Krūmberga contributed to the successes of the team in EuroBaskets 2007 and 2009. Krūmberga also played in the 2008 Summer Olympics.

TTT Riga
TTT Rīga is a professional women's basketball club based in Riga, Latvia. The abbreviation "TTT" stands for 'Tram and Trolley Trust'. The team held its first official game on 5 November 1958. The next 25 years are known as the First Golden Age of the club. Internationally, the club was also known as Daugava Riga, because Daugava was the predecessor of TTT Riga in the 1950s.
Adi Meyerson
Adi Meyerson (Hebrew: עדי מיירסון) is an American-Israeli jazz bassist, composer, and educator.

She was born in San Francisco, California, but grew up in Jerusalem, Israel. Meyerson started playing the double bass after graduating from high school and moved to New York City in 2012. She graduated from The New School in 2014 and earned a Master of Music at the Manhattan School of Music in 2020.

Meyerson released her first album, Where We Stand and her sophomore album, I Want to Sing My Heart Out in Praise of Life, in 2018 and 2021 respectively. She released her third album, Punctiform, in 2025. She is the leader of Dark Matter, an acoustic quartet. She is an educator and teaches at the Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) and Jazz House Kids.

Meyerson has been praised by critics for her compositional skills and her stylistic versatility. She has synesthesia, a perceptual condition, which she incorporates into her compositions.

Manhattan School of Music
The Manhattan School of Music (MSM) is a private music conservatory in New York City. The school offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in the areas of classical performance, jazz performance, contemporary performance, composition, and conducting, as well as a bachelor's in musical theatre.

Founded in 1917, the school is located on Claremont Avenue in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York City, adjacent to Broadway and West 122nd Street (Seminary Row). The MSM campus was originally the home to The Institute of Musical Art (which later became Juilliard) until Juilliard moved to the Lincoln Center area of Midtown Manhattan. The property was originally owned by the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum until The Institute of Musical Art purchased it in 1910. Many of the students live in the school's residence hall, Andersen Hall. The school is located close to Columbia University.
Ed Schieffelin
Edward Lawrence Schieffelin (1847–1897) was an American prospector and Indian Scout who discovered silver in the Arizona Territory, an event that led to the founding of Tombstone. He entered into a partnership with his brother Al and mining engineer Richard Gird in a handshake deal that produced millions of dollars in wealth for all three men. During the course of Tombstone's mining history, about US$85,000,000 in silver was produced from its mines.

Arizona Territory
The Territory of Arizona, commonly known as the Arizona Territory, was a territory of the United States that existed from February 24, 1863, until February 14, 1912, when the remaining extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Arizona. It was created from the western half of the New Mexico Territory during the American Civil War.
Rahim Yar Khan
Rahim Yar Khan (Urdu: رحیم یار خان, romanized: Rahīm Yār Khān; Urdu pronunciation: [ɾəɦiːm jɑːɾ xɑːn]) is a city in the Punjab, Pakistan. It is the 21st most populous city in Pakistan and is the capital of the Rahim Yar Khan District. The city's administration is divided into nine union councils. Originally named Noshehra, it was renamed to Rahim Yar Khan in honour of the son of Sadeq Mohammad Khan IV.

Sadeq Mohammad Khan IV
Sadiq Muhammad Khan IV (Urdu: صادق محمد خان چہارم;‎ 1861–1899) was the 12th Nawab of Bahawalpur who ruled the Bahawalpur State from 1879 to 1899 under the supervision of the British Raj. He died in 1899 and was succeeded by his eldest son Bahawal Khan V.
T. V. Ramprasadh
Thokur Vyasa Ramprasadh (born 13 May 1969) is an Indian Carnatic Vocalist, teacher and social entrepreneur.

His training started at home at the age of 3 from his father Shri Vyasa Rao. Around the age of seven more rigorous training from Mahalakshmi Natrajan (Bombay) a senior disciple of Shri T.M.Thiagarajan and later from Sharada Satyanarayana. Ramprasadh received his advanced training from maestros Padma Bhushan P. S. Narayanaswamy, Sangita Kalacharya S Rajam, T. V. Gopalakrishnan and R.R. Keshavamurthy.

T. V. Gopalakrishnan
Tripunithura Viswanathan Gopalakrishnan (born 11 June 1932 in Tripunithura, Kerala), known as TVG, is a Carnatic and Hindustani musician from Cochin, Kerala, India. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 2014.
Prem Pratigyaa
Prem Pratigyaa (transl. Promise of Love) is a 1989 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film starring Mithun Chakraborty and Madhuri Dixit. The film is directed by Bapu and written by Jainendra Jain. The film was a remake of the Tamil film Vandichakkaram and was a commercial success.

At the 35th Filmfare Awards, Dixit received a nomination for Best Actress for her performance in the film.

Filmfare Award for Best Actress
The Filmfare Award for Best Actress is given by Filmfare as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films, to recognise the actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a film released that year. The award was first presented in 1954 for the films released in 1953.
Syd Einfeld
Sydney David Einfeld AO (17 June 1909 – 16 June 1995) was an Australian politician and Jewish community leader. Einfeld is credited with changing Australia's immigration policy to provide a refuge for Holocaust survivors. As a result, Australia accepted more refugees per capita than any other country in the world, and more Jewish refugees than anywhere except Israel.

Immigration law
Immigration law includes the national statutes, regulations, and legal precedents governing immigration into and deportation from a country. Strictly speaking, it is distinct from other matters such as naturalization and citizenship, although they are sometimes conflated.  Countries frequently maintain laws that regulate both the rights of entry and exit as well as internal rights, such as the duration of stay, freedom of movement, and the right to participate in commerce or government.
1st Baltic Front
The First Baltic Front (Russian: Пéрвый Прибалтийский фронт) was a major formation of the Red Army during the Second World War. It was commanded by Army General Andrey Yeryomenko, succeeded by Army General Bagramyan. It was formed by renaming the Kalinin Front on 12 October 1943, and took part in several important military operations, most notably Bagration in the summer of 1944. The 1st Baltic Front also assisted in lifting the siege of Leningrad on 27 January 1944, as well as in Operation Samland, at that time known as the Samland Group, captured Königsberg in April 1945.

Army general
Army general or General of the army is the highest ranked general officer in many countries that use the French Revolutionary System. Army general is normally the highest rank used in peacetime.

In countries that adopt the general officer four-rank system, it is the rank of a general commanding a field army. However, in some countries such as Brazil, Ecuador and Peru, which have adopted the three-rank system, the rank of army general is immediately above that of divisional general. As such, it is the rank of commander of an army corps or larger formations. The equivalent position in the Commonwealth, U.S., and several other countries is simply general, four-star rank, or informally "full general".
Alton McCaskill
Alton McCaskill IV (born April 10, 2003) is an American college football running back for the Sam Houston Bearkats. He previously played for the Arizona State Sun Devils, Houston Cougars, and Colorado Buffaloes.

Colorado Buffaloes football
The Colorado Buffaloes football program represents the University of Colorado Boulder in college football at the NCAA Division I FBS level, and is a member of the Big 12 Conference.

The team was a charter member of the Big 12 before leaving to join the Pac-12 Conference after the 2010 season. After 13 seasons in the Pac-12, the team returned to the Big 12 in 2024. Before joining the Big 12, they were members of the Big Eight Conference.

The team has played at Folsom Field in Boulder, Colorado since 1924. Their all-time record is 735–556–36 (.577 winning percentage) as of the 2025 season. Colorado won the 1990 National Championship that was shared by Georgia Tech. The team is 27th on the all-time win list and 40th in all-time winning percentage, along with two Heisman Trophy winners, Rashaan Salaam in 1994 and Travis Hunter in 2024.
Manartain Mosque
The Manaratain Mosque (Arabic: مسجد المنارتين, lit. 'Mosque of the two towers') is a Sunni Islam mosque located in Medina, Saudi Arabia.

The mosque is named as "two towers" because it is located in between two mountains which were dubbed as two towers. The place has the old main street towards Mecca on the left hand side between Amberiye mosque and the two mosque ring lane, after the gas station. In the beginning, this mosque was built only by rocks, and seeing the importance of its historical value that exists in the region, it was restored and expanded during the rule of King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz in 2003.

Anbariya Mosque
The Anbariya Mosque (Arabic: مسجد العنبرية, romanized: Masjid al-‘Anbarīyah, Hejazi Arabic pronunciation: [mas.dʒɪd al.ʕam.ba.rij.ja]; Turkish: Amberiye Mescidi), also known as the Hamidiye Mosque, is a Sunni Islam mosque built by the Ottoman Turks in Medina, which is nowadays part of Saudi Arabia. It is named after the Anbariya Gate, next to which the mosque was located.

Built in 1908 by the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II, the Anbariya Mosque was a part of the Hejaz railway project next to al-Muazzim Railway Station, which houses the Hejaz Railway Museum.
Andrea Moody
Andrea Moody (born February 20, 1978) is a former freestyle swimmer from Canada, who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics for her native country. She finished in seventh place with the women's 4×100-metre freestyle relay team, swimming the third leg, alongside Shannon Shakespeare, Julie Howard and Marianne Limpert.  Moody was coached by Sam Montgomery.

Julie Howard
Julie Kathryn Howard (born October 23, 1976), later known by her married name Julie Johnson, is a former international butterfly and backstroke swimmer from Canada, who competed at two consecutive Summer Olympics.

At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, she was eliminated in the qualifying heats of the 100-metre butterfly and 100-metre backstroke.  Four years later at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States, Howard's best finish was the fifth place with the Canadian relay team in the 4×100-metre medley, alongside Sarah Evanetz, Guylaine Cloutier and Shannon Shakespeare.  In 1995 she won the silver medal in the 4×100-metre medley relay at the 1995 FINA Short Course World Championships, teaming up with Jessica Amey, Lisa Flood and Shannon Shakespeare.

She now teaches STRIDE and AIG in W.H. Robinson elementary school, and French at Markham District High School.
Dancing in the Rain (song)
"Dancing in the Rain" is a song recorded by Spanish singer Ruth Lorenzo, written by Lorenzo herself, Jim Irvin, and Julian Emery. It represented Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 held in Copenhagen, where it placed tenth with 74 points. It was released in Spain and the United Kingdom as a digital download on 18 February 2014, through Roster Music on iTunes.

Jim Irvin
James Lawrence Irvin is an English singer, songwriter, music journalist and podcast host. Irvin was a singer in the English new wave band Furniture, who had a UK hit single, in 1986 with Irvin's "Brilliant Mind". Irvin contributed to Melody Maker magazine, before becoming its reviews editor. Later he became the features editor of Mojo magazine. Irving has written or edited a number of books, including The Mojo Collection and Jeff Buckley: From Hallelujah To The Last Goodbye. Irvin returned to songwriting full-time in 2001 including the 2004 hit "The Weekend" by Michael Gray, and the song "Love", co-written with, and performed by, Unloved, introduced the Apple Keynote Speech in March 2019.
Ben Zion Abba Shaul
Ben Zion Abba Shaul (Hebrew: בן-ציון אבא-שאול‎; 31 July 1924 – 13 July 1998; on the Hebrew calendar: 29 Tammuz 5684 – 19 Tammuz 5758) (first name also spelled Ben Sion) was one of the leading Sephardic rabbis, Torah scholars and halakhic arbiters of his day, and the rosh yeshiva of Porat Yosef Yeshiva in Jerusalem for the last 15 years of his life. He was responsible for a religious revival among Sephardic Jews with his founding of Ma'ayan HaChinuch HaTorani, a network of Torah schools for Sephardic children in Israel, and was widely known for his ability to give blessings that were fulfilled.

Tammuz (Hebrew month)
Tammuz (Hebrew: תַּמּוּז‎, Tammūz), or Tamuz, is the tenth month of the civil year and the fourth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar, and the modern Assyrian calendar. It is a month of 29 days, which occurs on the Gregorian calendar around June–July.

The name of the month was adopted from the Assyrian and Babylonian month Araḫ Dumuzu, named in honour of the Mesopotamian deity Dumuzid.
Warrior (single album)
Warrior is the first single album by South Korean boy band B.A.P. The single album was released digitally on January 26, 2012, and contains four tracks. The accompanying CD of Warrior was released on February 2, 2012, when the album sold 10,000 copies in two days upon its release.  The album also debuted on Billboard's World Albums Chart at number 10. The lead single, "Warrior", was released on January 26, 2012 through various online digital stores. In March 2012, B.A.P released a follow-up single, "Secret Love". The single album peaked at number three on the Gaon Album Chart.

Circle Album Chart
The Circle Album Chart (Korean: 써클 앨범 차트), previously known as the Gaon Album Chart (가온 앨범 차트), is a record chart ranking the 100 most popular albums, extended plays and single albums in South Korea–based on their physical sales. It is a part of the Circle Chart, previously known as the Gaon Chart. It compiles shipments in weekly, monthly, and year-end formats with detailed album sales.
Tanintharyi Region
Tanintharyi Region, formerly Tenasserim Division and Tanintharyi Division, is a region of Myanmar, covering the long narrow southern part of the country on the northern Malay Peninsula, reaching to the Kra Isthmus. It borders the Andaman Sea to the west and the Tenasserim Hills, beyond which lie Thailand, to the east. To the north is the Mon State. There are many islands off the coast, the large Mergui Archipelago in the southern and central coastal areas and the smaller Moscos Islands off the northern shores. The capital of the division is Dawei (Tavoy). Other important cities include Myeik (Mergui) and Kawthaung. The division covers an area of 43,344.9 square kilometres (16,735.6 sq mi), and had a population of 1,406,434 at the 2014 Census.

Kra Isthmus
The Kra Isthmus  (Thai: คอคอดกระ, pronounced [kʰɔ̄ː kʰɔ̂ːt kràʔ]; Malay: Segenting Kra), also called the Isthmus of Kra in Thailand, is the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula.  The western part of the isthmus belongs to Ranong province and the eastern part to Chumphon province, both in Southern Thailand. At its narrowest point, between the Thai cities of Kra Buri and Chumphon, the coastal distance between the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand is only 44 km (27 mi).

The Kra Isthmus marks the boundary between two sections of the mountain chain which runs from Tibet through the Malay peninsula. The southern part is the Phuket Range, which is a continuation of the Tenasserim Hills, extending further northwards for over 400 km (250 mi) beyond the Three Pagodas Pass.

The Kra Isthmus is in the Tenasserim–South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests ecoregion. Dipterocarps are the dominant trees in the ecoregion.
Louise Holland Coe
Louise Holland Coe (November 26, 1894 – March 13, 1985) was the first woman elected to the New Mexico Senate and its first female president pro tempore. She was elected six years after women in the United States won the right to vote, and she was also the first woman Democratic candidate for the United States Congress, running in 1940.

New Mexico Senate
The New Mexico State Senate (Spanish: Senado de Nuevo México) is the upper house of the New Mexico State Legislature, the lower house being the New Mexico House of Representatives.The Senate consists of 42 members, with each senator representing an equal number of single-member constituent districts across the state. All senatorial districts are divided to contain a population on average of 43,300 state residents. Members of the Senate are elected to four-year terms without term limits.

The Senate convenes at the New Mexico State Capitol building in Santa Fe.
Komba BAKH
Komba BAKH is a Russian musical and artistic group which has released 55 albums and created a number of murals. Its members met while attending Lyceum 34 in Kostroma, and formed the group in 2000. After an education in art and music, they began creating pastel murals and founded a record company in 2001.

Kostroma
Kostroma (Russian: Кострома́, IPA: [kəstrɐˈma]) is a historic city and the administrative center of Kostroma Oblast, Russia. A part of the Golden Ring of Russian cities, it is located at the confluence of the rivers Volga and Kostroma. In the 2021 census, the population is 267,481.
The Scotsman Hotel
The Scotsman Hotel Edinburgh opened in 2001 in the Edwardian (1905) building which had housed The Scotsman newspaper for nearly a century. The hotel is located on North Bridge between the Royal Mile and Princes Street, thereby straddling  Edinburgh’s Medieval Old Town and Georgian New Town.

Old Town, Edinburgh
The Old Town (Scots: Auld Toun) is the oldest part of Scotland's capital city of Edinburgh. The area has preserved much of its medieval street plan and many Reformation-era buildings. Together with the 18th/19th-century New Town, it forms part of a protected UNESCO World Heritage Site.