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William Christian Bullitt Jr.
William Christian Bullitt Jr. (January 25, 1891 – February 15, 1967) was an American diplomat, journalist, and novelist. He is known for his special mission to negotiate with Lenin on behalf of the Paris Peace Conference, often recalled as a missed opportunity to normalize relations with the Bolsheviks. He was also the first U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union and the U.S. ambassador to France during World War II. In his youth, he was considered a radical, but he later became an outspoken anticommunist.

John Reed (journalist)
John Silas Reed (October 22, 1887 – October 17, 1920) was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist. Reed first gained prominence as a war correspondent during the Mexican Revolution for Metropolitan and World War I for The Masses. He is best known for his coverage of the October Revolution in Petrograd, Russia, which he wrote about in his 1919 book Ten Days That Shook the World.

Reed supported the Soviet takeover of Russia, even briefly taking up arms to join the Red Guards in 1918. He hoped for a similar communist revolution in the United States, and co-founded the short-lived Communist Labor Party of America in 1919. He died in Moscow of spotted typhus in 1920. At the time of his death, he may have soured on the Soviet leadership, but he was given a hero's burial by the Soviet Union and is one of only five Americans buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.
Tavakkolabad, Rudbar-e Jonubi
Tavakkolabad (Persian: توكل اباد, also Romanized as Tavakkolābād; also known as Moţaharābād) is a village in Rudbar Rural District, in the Central District of Rudbar-e Jonubi County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 46, in 9 families.

Rudbar Rural District (Rudbar-e Jonubi County)
Rudbar Rural District (Persian: دهستان رودبار) is in the Central District of Rudbar-e Jonubi County, Kerman province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Firuzabad. The previous capital of the rural district was the village of Eslamabad.
Dar Khalifa
Dar Khalifa (Arabic: دار خليفة), or The Caliph's House, is a large, historical landmark and private home in walled grounds. It is located in Ain Diab, an affluent suburb of Casablanca that was also host to a sprawling shanty town until the area was redeveloped. Constructed in a traditional Moroccan style, with numerous "riads", or garden courtyards, the property extends to some 5000 square metres, and is situated on a cliff overlooking the Atlantic shore. As its name suggests, the mansion was once owned by a wealthy Khalif or ruler.

It is now home to the author Tahir Shah who is renovating the property, and it will become the headquarters of the educational and cultural non-profit organisation, The Scheherazade Foundation.

Jason Webster (author)
Jason Webster is an Anglo-American author who writes on Spain. He was born in California to British parents in 1970. He has spent most of his adult life in Spain, having settled in Valencia with his Spanish wife, actress and dancer Salud Botella. He is a director of The Scheherazade Foundation.
New Zealand women's cricket team in England in 2026
The New Zealand women's cricket team is scheduled to tour England in May 2026 to play the England women's cricket team. The tour will consist of three One Day International (ODI) and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. The ODI series will form part of the 2025–2029 ICC Women's Championship. The T20I series will serve as preparation for both teams ahead of the 2026 Women's T20 World Cup. In July 2025, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) confirmed the fixtures for the tour, as a part of the 2026 home international season.

2025–2029 ICC Women's Championship
The 2025–2029 ICC Women's Championship is the fourth edition of the ICC Women's Championship, a One Day International (ODI) cricket competition that is being contested by eleven teams, to determine qualification for the 2029 Women's Cricket World Cup. Each team will play a total of eight three-match series, with four of them played at home, and four played away.

In November 2024, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that they were expanding the Women's Championship from ten teams to eleven teams, therefore including Zimbabwe in future editions of the competition.
Cat Burns
Catrina Burns-Temison (born 6 June 2000) is a British singer-songwriter who gained prominence with her 2020 single "Go". The song's popularity increased in 2022 through TikTok, eventually reaching number two on the UK singles chart. It was described by Sony Music as a blend of gospel and pop influences with guitar-led indie music.

Notably, she has been nominated three times for the Brit Awards. Starting with her debut single "Fallen Out of Love" in 2017, Burns has continued to release music and attract a following in the music community. She released her debut album, Early Twenties, in July 2024.

BRIT School
BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology is a British performing and creative arts secondary school located in Selhurst, Croydon, England, with a mandate to provide education and vocational training for the performing arts, music, music technology, theatre, musical theatre, dance, applied theatre, production arts, creative arts, film and media production, digital arts, visual arts and design. Selective in its intake but free to attend, the school is notable for its celebrity alumni.

Opened on 22 October 1991 under the City Technology College programme, the school is funded by the British Government with support from the British Record Industry Trust (BRIT) and other charity partners and donations and maintains an independent school status from the local education authority.
Sandon, Hertfordshire
Sandon is a village and civil parish in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. The village lies 4 miles (6 km) north-west of Buntingford, its post town, and 5 miles (8 km) east of Baldock. The parish also includes the hamlets of Green End and Roe Green, and Blagrove Common, a nature reserve. The population of the parish was 493 at the 2021 census.

Baldock
Baldock (/ˈbɔːldək/ BAWL-dək) is a historic market town in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. The River Ivel rises from springs in the town. It lies 33 miles (53 km) north of London and 14 miles (23 km) north northwest of the county town of Hertford. Nearby towns include Royston to the northeast, Letchworth and Hitchin to the southwest and Stevenage to the south. In 2021 it had a population of 10,615.
Cordova Army Airfield
Cordova Army Airfield is a former United States Army airfield located one nautical mile (1.8 km) east of the central business district of Cordova, a city in the Chugach Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. Following its closure, it was redeveloped into Cordova Municipal Airport

Cordova, Alaska
Cordova (/kɔːrˈdoʊvə, ˈkɔːrdəvə/ kor-DOH-və, KOR-də-və) is a port city in Chugach Census Area, Alaska, United States. It lies near the mouth of the Copper River, at the head of Orca Inlet on the east side of Prince William Sound. The population was 2,609 at the 2020 census, up from 2,239 in 2010.

No roads connect Cordova to any other Alaskan communities (besides Eyak), so a plane or ferry is required to travel there.
Fitzroy River Barrage (Western Australia)
The Fitzroy River Barrage is a dam type structure built as part of the Camballin Irrigation Scheme in Western Australia.

It was a series of collapsible shutters which were designed to collapse when the river level was approximately twelve inches over the shutters. The structure was intended to divert the water in the Fitzroy River to be stored in the Seventeen Mile Dam, by flowing up Uralla Creek, unnaturally in the opposite direction.

The barrage was built by the Public Works Department of Western Australia and was designed to hold 4.58 x 106 cubic metres of water.

A small village was erected at the barrage site during the construction phase. Presently there is still the superstructure remaining along with the stilted shed which was used as a machinery shed. The Department of Water currently still maintains a small shed on the site for its stream gauging equipment.

Public Works Department (Western Australia)
The Public Works Department (PWD) was the state government agency of Western Australia responsible for providing and maintaining public infrastructure such as dams, water supplies, schools, hospitals, harbours and other public buildings. The department is no longer operational, having its responsibilities reassigned to other state government departments and corporate entities since 1985.
Scotland at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Scotland competed at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 11 September until 21 September 1998.

Scotland came 11th overall in the medal table with 3 gold, 2 silver and 7 bronze medals.

Squash at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
The inaugural squash competition at the 1998 Commonwealth Games took place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 11 September until 21 September 1998. There were no bronze medal play off matches because both losing semi-finalists were awarded a bronze medal.
Hlaváček
Hlaváček (feminine: Hlaváčková) is a Czech surname, a diminutive form of Hlaváč. Notable people with the surname include:

Andrea Hlaváčková (born 1986), Czech tennis player

Běla Hlaváčková (born 1976), Czech Paralympic swimmer

Evan Hlavacek (born 1974), American football player

Ilona Hlaváčková (born 1977), Czech swimmer

Jana Hlaváčková (born 1981), Czech tennis player

Jitka Hlaváčková, Czech figure skater

Joseph F. Hlavacek (1921–1982), American painter

Karel Hlaváček (1874–1898), Czech poet

Ladislav Hlaváček (1925–2014), Czech footballer

Leoš Hlaváček (born 1963), Czech sport shooter

Martin Hlaváček (born 1980), Czech politician

Michaela Hlaváčková (born 1989), Slovak model

Oldo Hlaváček (1934–2025), Slovak actor and screenwriter

Petr Hlaváček (1950–2014), Czech footwear researcher

Hlaváč
Hlaváč (feminine: Hlaváčová) is a Czech surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Jan Hlaváč (born 1976), Czech ice hockey player

Jana Hlaváčová (1938–2024), Czech actress

Jana Galíková-Hlaváčová (born 1963), Czech orienteerer

Miloslav Hlaváč (1893–1975), Czech sport shooter

Vít Hlaváč (born 1997), Czech racewalker

Yvette Tulip Hlaváčová (born 1975), Czech swimmer
Calke
Calke is a small village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. It includes the historic house Calke Abbey, a National Trust property, although the main entrance to its grounds is from the neighbouring village of Ticknall, where the population of Calke is included. The settlement name Calke means "calc" (Anglian) Chalk, lime, limestone. Results from the 2011 census shows Calke to contain around 10 households with a population of about 24.

Calke Abbey
Calke Abbey is a Grade I listed country house near Ticknall, Derbyshire, England, in the care of the charitable National Trust.

The site was an Augustinian priory from the 12th century until its dissolution by Henry VIII. The present building, named Calke Abbey in 1808, was never actually an abbey, but is a Baroque mansion built between 1701 and 1704.

The house was owned by the Harpur family for nearly 300 years until it was passed to the Trust in 1985 in lieu of death duties. Today, the house is open to the public and many of its rooms are deliberately displayed in the state of decline in which the house was handed to the Trust.
Stefanos Bastas
Stefanos Bastas (Greek: Στέφανος Μπάστας) is a Greek semi-professional rugby league footballer who plays as a prop for Rhodes Knights in Greece. He began playing rugby league at the age of 18 in Greece with the Rhodes Knights. As of 2021, he is the most capped player for the Greek National Rugby League Team.

Rhodes Knights
Rhodes Knights Rugby League is an amateur Greek Rugby league club from Rhodes, Greece. Knights compete in the Greek Rugby League Association's 2017 Championship, which are currently in first place. They competed and were declared undefeated champions of 2014 and 2015 Hellenic Rugby League Federation's 1st Championship Division and 2016 Greek Rugby League Association's Championship. They are 2015 Greek Rugby League Challenge Cup holders.
CGM48
CGM48 (read C.G.M. Forty-eight) is a Thai idol girl group. It is the first domestic sister group of the Thai idol group BNK48, and the eighth international sister group of AKB48, after Indonesia's JKT48, China's SNH48 (former), Thailand's BNK48, Philippines's MNL48, China's TSH48,  Taiwan's TPE48, and Vietnam's SGO48 (disbanded). The group is named after Chiang Mai, a city in Northern Thailand, where it will be based.

SGO48
SGO48 (short for Saigon 48, read S.G.O. Forty-Eight) was a Vietnamese idol girl group based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, the seventh international sister group of AKB48 (after Indonesia's JKT48, China's SNH48 (former), Thailand's BNK48, the Philippines MNL48, China's TSH48, and Taiwan's TPE48). The group debuted on December 22, 2018 and disbanded on their third anniversary, December 22, 2021.

Originally consisting of 29 first-generation members, SGO48 had 20 as of April 2021, thus becoming the Vietnamese girl group with the most members.
St. Paul's School for Girls (Maryland)
St. Paul's School for Girls (grades 5–12) is an independent college-preparatory school in Brooklandville, Maryland, founded in 1959 to replace an older girls' school which had been closed.

St. Paul's School for Girls shares a campus with St. Paul's School for Boys (all boys, grades 5–12), founded in 1849, and with St. Paul's Pre and Lower School (coed, six weeks through grade 4). In July 2018, the schools unified under the umbrella of The St. Paul's Schools, with a single board of trustees and one president, but each school retains its individual traditions and its gender-specific programs.

Brooklandville, Maryland
Brooklandville is an unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States near the intersection of Jones Falls Expressway and the Baltimore Beltway. The general area is a part of Lutherville, and some addresses in the area are considered to be in Lutherville, though Brooklandville has a postal zone and post office of its own (zip code 21022). Some notable landmarks in the area, including the St. Paul's Schools are technically within Brooklandville, as noted by their mailing addresses. However, addresses within the main office complex in the area, Green Spring Station, are considered to be within Lutherville.
Democratic Alignment (1950)
The Democratic Alignment (Greek: Δημοκρατική Παράταξη, ΔΠ; DP) was a coalition of left-wing parties in Greece in the 1950s. It was established in order to participate in the 1950 elections and was formed by the Socialist Party led by Alexandros Svolos and the Left Liberals led by Stamatis Hatzibeis. The coalition was also supported by the outlawed Communist Party.

In the elections the coalition received 9.7% of the vote and won 18 seats. Prior to the 1951 elections the coalition merged into United Democratic Left.

1951 Greek parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 9 September 1951. They resulted in an ambivalent outcome, consisting a narrow and pyrrhic, as proven later, victory for the ruling center-liberal parties of Sophoklis Venizelos and Nikolaos Plastiras.
Itasy Region
Itasy is a region in central Madagascar. It borders Analamanga region in northeast, 
Vakinankaratra in south and Bongolava in northwest. The capital of the region is Miarinarivo, and the population was 897,962 in 2018. It is the smallest of all the 22 regions in area with 6,993 km2 (2,700 sq mi), and is the most densely populated region after Analamanga.

Regions of Madagascar
Madagascar is divided into 24 regions (faritra). The regions are de facto first-level administrative divisions of the country, although they are formally subordinate to the six provinces.

The subdivision of Madagascar's provinces into regions dates to 2004, when 22 regions were established. In 2021, Vatovavy-Fitovinany was split into the regions of Fitovinany and Vatovavy. The law creating Ambatosoa from the northern part of Analanjirofo was enacted in 2023 and the new region was inaugurated in 2025.

The table below records the area of the regions using the current borders, along with the population within those borders as recorded in the 2018 census.
1905 Grand National
The 1905 Grand National was the 67th renewal of the Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England, on 31 March 1905.

It was won by Kirkland, a 6/1 shot that had been trained in Wales. He was the first Welsh-trained horse to have won the Grand National, and was ridden by Frank Mason.

Aintree Racecourse
Aintree Racecourse is a racecourse in Aintree, Merseyside, England, near to Liverpool. The racecourse is the venue for the Grand National steeplechase, which takes place annually in April over three days. Aintree also holds meetings in May, October (Sunday), November and December (both Saturdays).

The Aintree Racecourse had suffered three major disruptions in post-war history, starting with the 1993 Grand National due to a series of false starts and no winner was announced, followed by the 1997 Grand National, postponed to Monday because of an IRA bomb threat and the 2023 Grand National was delayed due to Animal Rights protesters.
Georgia Engelhard
Georgia E. Engelhard Cromwell (November 19, 1906 – September 14, 1986) was an American mountaineer in the Canadian Rockies and the Selkirk and Purcell ranges.  She was the first female climber to ascend many of the peaks in the Rockies and was the leading female amateur climber of her day.  She was also an accomplished painter and photographer.

Mount Victoria (Bow Range)
Mount Victoria, 3,464 metres (11,365 ft), is a mountain on the border between British Columbia and Alberta in the Canadian Rockies.  It is located just northeast of Lake O'Hara in Yoho National Park and is also part of Banff National Park and is on the Continental Divide (which is the definition of the interprovincial boundary in this region). The mountain has two peaks, the south being the highest while the north peak is slightly lower at 3,388 metres (11,115 ft).

The mountain is located on the western buttress of Abbot Pass while Mount Lefroy lies on the eastern side.

The mountain was named by J. Norman Collie in 1897 for Queen Victoria.

The first successful ascent was made in 1897 by J. Norman Collie, Arthur Michael, Charles Fay, and Peter Sarbach.
2009 European Curling Championships
The 2009 Le Gruyère European Curling Championships were held in Aberdeen, Scotland from 4 to 12 December 2009. The A-Group tournament took place at the Linx Ice Arena, and the B-Group are playing at Curl Aberdeen.

A total of 51 teams from 30 European countries were competing.

European Curling Championships
The European Curling Championships are annual curling tournaments held in Europe between various European nations. The European Curling Championships are usually held in early to mid December. The tournament also acts as a qualifier for the World Championships, where the top eight nations qualify. Starting in the 2026–27 curling season, the event changed into a standalone event, where the top 10 European member associations in previous season’s World Championships qualify.

In November 1974, a six-nations tournament was held in Zürich, Switzerland which included Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, France, Italy, and Norway. In March 1975, it was decided that the championships would be competed in December.  At the semi-annual general meeting in Gävle, Sweden in April 2004, a new competition called the European Mixed Curling Championships was formed.
Jan Werner Danielsen
Jan Werner Danielsen, known professionally as Jan Werner, (10 April 1976 – 28 September 2006) was a Norwegian pop singer, also known for his interpretations of musical, classical, and rock standards. He was famous for his powerful voice which stretched over four and a half octaves. His breakthrough came after winning two important talent contests, most notably on national television in the show Talentiaden (NRK) in 1994. The same year, he represented Norway at the Eurovision Song Contest, with Elisabeth Andreasson.

He was one of the most popular and highest-selling recording artists in Norway at his death at the age of 30.

Secret Garden (duo)
Secret Garden is an Irish-Norwegian band specialised in new-age music, led by the duo consisting of Irish violinist and singer Fionnuala Sherry and Norwegian composer, arranger and pianist Rolf Løvland.

The group came to fame when they won the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest, representing Norway with the composition "Nocturne".  In the course of a partnership lasting over 25 years, they have sold millions of albums worldwide, many of which went platinum in numerous countries.
Peter Graulund
Peter Graulund (born 20 September 1976) is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a striker. He played for Danish clubs Vejle Boldklub, Brøndby IF and AGF, German side VfL Bochum, and Swedish club Helsingborgs IF. He played six games and scored two goals for the Denmark national under-21 football team.

Graulund was a fan favourite at AGF, not only because of his goal scoring abilities but also due to his notorious fighting spirit. He was considered to be one of the best strikers in the Danish Superliga and is seventh on the list of top goalscorers all-time in the league. On 29 August 2011, he scored his 100th goal in the league in a win over AC Horsens. Graulund announced his retirement due to injuries on 12 October 2012.

2000–01 Danish Superliga
The 2000–01 Danish Superliga season was the 11th season of the Danish Superliga league championship, governed by the Danish Football Association. It took place from the first match on July 22, 2000 to final match on June 13, 2001.

The Danish champions qualified for the second UEFA Champions League 2001-02 qualification round, while the second to third placed teams qualified for the first qualification round of the UEFA Cup 2001-02. The fourth and fifth placed teams qualified for the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2001, while the two lowest placed teams of the tournament was directly relegated to the Danish 1st Division. Likewise, the Danish 1st Division champions and runners-up were promoted to the Superliga.
Law & Order: UK series 2
The second series of Law & Order: UK premiered on ITV on 11 January 2010 and concluded on 15 February 2010.

In January 2010, The Sunday Telegraph said that the show's "second season, which begins...with a PC killed at Waterloo Station, grips from the outset."

Law & Order: UK
Law & Order: UK (stylised as Law & Order | UK) is a British police procedural and legal television programme broadcast from 2009 to 2014 on ITV, adapted from the American series Law & Order. Financed by the production companies Kudos Film and Television, Wolf Films, and Universal Television, the series originally starred Bradley Walsh, Freema Agyeman, Jamie Bamber, Ben Daniels, Harriet Walter and Bill Paterson. Dominic Rowan, Georgia Taylor, Paul Nicholls, Ben Bailey Smith, Sharon Small, Peter Davison and Paterson Joseph joined the cast in later series. This is the first American drama television series to be adapted for British television, while the episodes are adapted from scripts and episodes of the parent series.

Series 1 was broadcast in 2009. In June 2014, broadcaster ITV and producer Kudos issued a joint press release announcing that series 8 would be "the last to be transmitted for the foreseeable future."