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Avoca railway station
Avoca railway station is a railway station on the Avoca line in the town of Avoca, Victoria. It was  first opened on Saturday, 21 October 1876 however was closed for gauge conversion on Friday, 14 April 1995. Again the railway was opened on Sunday, 28 April 1995, then the line was booked out of service on Friday, 21 January 2005. Although no longer in use, Avoca retains a brick station building, platform and goods shed.

In 2017, there was a proposal entitled the, Murray Basin rail project designed to link Mildura to Portland with standard gauge track to carry grain and mineral sands.  This upgrading will include the Maryborough to Ararat section of the line, past the site of the disused Avoca station.

Portland, Victoria
Portland (/ˈpɔːrtlənd/ PORT-lənd) is a city in Victoria, Australia, and is the oldest European settlement in the state. It is also the main urban centre in the Shire of Glenelg and is located on Portland Bay. As of the 2021 census the population was 10,016, increasing from a population of 9,712 taken at the 2016 census.
Isaac Fontaine
Isaac Henry Sedric Fontaine IV (born April 16, 1975) is an American former professional basketball player. Born in Sacramento, California, he played collegiately at Washington State University. He played in the NBA for the Memphis Grizzlies during the 2001–02 season, playing six games. The following season, in 2002–03, he played with the Mobile Revelers of the NBA Development League.

Fontaine won a Continental Basketball Association (CBA) championship with the Connecticut Pride in 1999.

Connecticut Pride
The Connecticut Pride (from 1993 to 1994 the Hartford Hellcats) were an American professional basketball team based in Hartford, Connecticut, that was a member of the Continental Basketball Association (CBA).  They played in Hartford from 1993 to 2000, primarily at the Connecticut State Arsenal and Armory, and also at the Hartford Civic Center and the University of Hartford Sports Center.  Its final season, from 2000 to 2001, was played at the New Haven Coliseum.

The team was previously known as the Albany Patroons, Capital Region Pontiacs, and Hartford Hellcats. With the collapse of the CBA during the 2000/01 season, the team joined the International Basketball League.
Ropata Te Ao
Ropata Te Ao (died 23 April 1908) was a nineteenth-century Māori member of the House of Representatives.

His father was Te Aotuta-hanga and his mother was Te Raute. Te Ao was an elder of the Ngāti Raukawa tribe and lived in Ōtaki on the Kāpiti Coast.

He represented the Western Maori electorate from 1893 after the retirement of Hoani Taipua, to 1896 when he was defeated by Henare Kaihau. He was related to Te Puke Te Ao, who had represented the Western Maori electorate from 1884 until his death in 1886.

Te Ao died on 23 April 1908.

1896 New Zealand general election
The 1896 New Zealand general election was held on Wednesday, 4 December in the general electorates, and on Thursday, 19 December in the Māori electorates to elect a total of 74 MPs to the 13th session of the New Zealand Parliament. A total number of 337,024 (76.1%) voters turned out to vote.

1896 was the year the limit of £200 was placed on each candidate's campaign spending.
Carla Turcotte
Carla Turcotte (born 1992) is a Canadian actress. She is most noted for her performance in the film Sashinka, for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actress at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards and a Prix Iris nomination for Best Actress at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards.

Originally from Dégelis, Quebec, she got her start as a teenager acting in the locally-produced films of Rafaël Ouellet, most notably appearing as herself in the documentary-drama hybrid Finissant(e)s.

She has also appeared in the television series District 31, Vertige, Unité 9, Les invisibles, Portrait-Robot, Mégantic, Aller Simple (2022) and Classé secret (2023), and the films Nelly and Flashwood.

7th Canadian Screen Awards
The 7th Canadian Screen Awards were presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television on March 31, 2019, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2018.

Nominations were announced by the Academy on February 7, 2019. Early coverage of the nominations highlighted the fact that the Best Picture category consisted entirely of French-language films from Quebec, with not a single English-language film named in the category. This was also the first year that the ceremony did not have a host.
Kashima Line
The Kashima Line (鹿島線, Kashima-sen) is a railway line operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It links Katori Station in Katori, Chiba with Kashimajingū Station in Kashima, Ibaraki. Services continue one station further past Kashimajingū to Kashima Soccer Stadium Station on days when soccer matches are being held at the adjacent Kashima Soccer Stadium.

The line features 3 large bridges - the Tone River Railway Bridge over the Tone River, the Hitachitone River Railway Bridge over the Hitachitone River (the boundary between Chiba Prefecture and Ibaraki Prefecture), and the 1.236 km (4,060 ft) long Kitaura Railway Bridge over Lake Kitaura (itself part of Lake Kasumigaura, Japan's second largest lake).

Lake Kasumigaura
Lake Kasumigaura (霞ヶ浦, Kasumigaura) is the second-largest lake in Japan, located 60 km to the north-east of Tokyo.

In a narrower sense and officially, Lake Kasumigaura refers to a waterbody with an area of 167.63 km2. In a wider sense, Lake Kasumigaura can also refer to a group of contiguous lakes, which includes Lake Kasumigaura proper, hereby referred to as Nishiura (西浦), and two smaller lakes, Kitaura (北浦; 35.16 km2 ) and Sotonasakaura (外浪逆浦; 5.85 km2 ), and also encompasses the rivers connecting them. In this case the total area is 220 km2.

About 45% of the land surrounding the lake is natural landscape and 43.5% is agricultural land.
Olav Oksvik
Olav Berntsen Oksvik (7 May 1887 – 16 September 1958) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour and Social Democratic Labour parties. He served as a member of the Parliament of Norway from 1928 until 1952 and then as the County Governor of Møre og Romsdal county from 1952 until his death in 1958.

In 1928 he helped launch the newspaper Romsdal Folkeblad. In January 1941 he was ordered by Nasjonal Samling to become mayor of Bolsøy Municipality, which he categorically refused. He temporarily served as the acting Minister of Agriculture from 1947 to 1948 in place of Kristian Fjeld.

Bolsøy Municipality
Bolsøy is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The 271-square-kilometre (105 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964. The area is now part of Molde Municipality in the traditional district of Romsdal. The administrative centre was Bolsøy on the island of Bolsøya where the Bolsøy Church is located.

Prior to its dissolution in 1964, the 270.7-square-kilometre (104.5 sq mi) municipality was the 304th largest by area out of the 689 municipalities in Norway. Bolsøy Municipality was the 97th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of about 7,888. The municipality's population density was 29.1 inhabitants per square kilometre (75/sq mi) and its population had increased by 30.9% over the previous 10-year period.
Jonathan Yavin
Jonathan (Yonatan) Yavin (Hebrew: יונתן יבין; born June 17, 1972), is an Israeli author of 18 books, for children, young adults and fiction. He is also a public speaker and lecturer, journalist, columnist, translator, op-ed writer and radio host. His books have been translated into English, Arabic, French, German, Chinese, Japanese and Croatian. He is the recipient of the Israeli Prime Minister literary Award 2012. As journalist, he wrote mainly for Haaretz and Yedioth Ahronoth. In 2022 he became a publisher, having founded Mellel Publishing House.

Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works
The Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works, also known as the Levi Eshkol Literary Award, named after Israel's third Prime Minister, is an annual award granted to writers in the Hebrew language. The prize was established in 1969.
Tsitsikamma National Park
The Tsitsikamma National Park is a protected area on the Garden Route, Western Cape and Eastern Cape, South Africa. It is a coastal reserve well known for its indigenous forests, dramatic coastline, and the Otter Trail. On 6 March 2009 it was amalgamated with the Wilderness National Park and various other areas of land to form the Garden Route National Park.

The park covers an 80 kilometres (50 miles) long stretch of coastline. Nature's Valley is at the western end of the park, and the main accommodation is at Storms River Mouth. Near the park is the Bloukrans Bridge, the world's highest bridge bungee jump at 216 metres (709 ft).

The word "Tsitsikamma" originates from the Khoekhoe language tjisi, meaning "ten", and ǁamma, meaning "water", referring to the Tsitsikamma River. Other meanings are 'place of much water' and 'waters begin'.

Bungee jumping
Bungee jumping (/ˈbʌndʒi/), also spelled bungy jumping, is an activity that involves a person jumping from a great height while connected to a large elastic cord. The launching pad is usually erected on a tall structure such as a building or crane, a bridge across a deep ravine, or on a natural geographic feature such as a cliff. It is also possible to jump from a type of aircraft that has the ability to hover above the ground, such as a hot-air-balloon or helicopter. The thrill comes from the free-falling and the rebound. When the person jumps, the cord stretches and the jumper flies upwards again as the cord recoils, and continues to oscillate up and down until all the kinetic energy is dissipated.
Požganica
Požganica is a novel by Slovenian author Prežihov Voranc. It was first published in 1939, but was based on a short story first published in 1920. The author presents the work happening in Carinthia after the First World War with the Carinthian Plebiscite and, consequently, the fate of the Carinthian Slovenes under Austria.

1920 Carinthian plebiscite
The Carinthian plebiscite (German: Kärntner Volksabstimmung, Slovene: Koroški plebiscit) was held on 10 October 1920 in the area in southern Carinthia predominantly settled by Carinthian Slovenes. It determined the final border between the Republic of Austria and the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Yugoslavia) after World War I. The predominantly Slovene-speaking plebiscite area voted to remain part of Austria with a 59% majority.
Mitlödi railway station
Mitlödi railway station (German: Bahnhof Mitlödi) is a railway station in the municipality of Glarus Süd in the Swiss canton of Glarus. It is an intermediate stop on the Weesen to Linthal railway line, and serves the village of Mitlödi.

The station is served by Zürich S-Bahn service S25 between Zurich and Linthal, and by St. Gallen S-Bahn service S6 between Rapperswil and Schwanden. Both services operate once per hour, combining to provide two trains per hour between Ziegelbrücke and Schwanden.

Rapperswil
Rapperswil (Swiss Standard German: [ˈrapərsˌvɪl]; Swiss German: [ˈrɑpːərʃˌʋiːl] or [ˈrɑpːərsˌʋiːl]; short: Rappi) is a former municipality and since January 2007 part of the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the constituency of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland, located between Obersee and the main part of Lake Zurich.
St Anne's College, Leuven
St Anne's College was one of the colleges of Leuven University, now listed as built heritage of Flanders, Belgium.

The college was founded in 1553 through a bequest by Nicolas Goblet, licentiate in canon law and provost of the chapter of Notre Dame de Dinant. It was intended to provide accommodation for poor students of philosophy, theology, and law, particularly those from Bouvignes-sur-Meuse or the County of Namur. In 1597 the college moved to a new building, which was extensively renovated in the mid-18th century. The college was closed in 1797 and the building was sold in 1806. It has since then been in private hands and currently houses a notary's office.

Collegiate Church of Our Lady, Dinant
50°15′40″N 4°54′43″E﻿ / ﻿50.261012°N 4.9120°E﻿ / 50.261012; 4.9120

The Collegiate Church of Our Lady of Dinant (French: Collégiale Notre-Dame de Dinant) is a Roman Catholic collegiate church located in Dinant, a city in Wallonia (southern Belgium), on the banks of the river Meuse. The 13th-century Gothic building replaced a 10th-century Romanesque church which collapsed in 1228, leaving only the north door. Its most iconic part is the separate 16th-century pear-shaped bell tower.
Pop. 1280
Pop. 1280 is a crime novel by Jim Thompson published in 1964.

Set in the fictional town of Pottsville during the early 20th century, the novel follows Nick Corey, a seemingly dim-witted sheriff whose pleasant exterior hides a scheming, psychopathic personality. He holds a deeply cynical view of his town and views his place there as enforcing the law as little as possible. Through the course of the novel Nick commits a series of increasingly egregious crimes against deserving and innocent people alike and expertly manipulates those around him to avoid accountability and realize his desires.

The book's critical reception has been largely positive. NPR's Stephen Marche described it as Thompson's "true masterpiece, a preposterously upsetting, ridiculously hilarious layer cake of nastiness, a romp through a world of nearly infinite deceit." Charlie Higson noted that "The book manages to switch between hilarious and horrific in a startling manner."

Sheriffs in the United States
Sheriffs in the United States are the chiefs of law enforcement of a county. A sheriff is usually either elected by the populace or appointed by an elected body.

Sheriffs' offices are typically tasked with operating jails, security at courthouses and county buildings, protection of judges and juries, preventing breaches of the peace, and coordinating with city police departments. Sheriff's offices may also be responsible for security at public events and areas.

A sheriff's subordinate officers are referred to as deputies and they enforce the law in accordance with the sheriff's direction and orders.
Adrano
Adrano (Italian: [aˈdraːno]; Adernò until 1929; Sicilian: Ddirnò), ancient Adranon, is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Catania on the east coast of Sicily.

It is situated around 41 kilometres (25 mi) northwest of Catania, which was also the capital of the province to which Adrano belonged, now a metropolitan city. It lies near the foot of Mount Etna, at the confluence of the Simeto and Salso rivers. It is the commercial center for a region where olives and citrus fruit are grown. Neighbouring towns include: Biancavilla, Bronte, Paternò, Randazzo, Santa Maria di Licodia and Centuripe.

Bronte, Sicily
Bronte (Arbëreshë Albanian: Brontë) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Catania, in Sicily, southern Italy. The town is situated approximately 16 kilometres (10 mi) west-northwest from Mount Etna, on the side of the valley of the Simeto river, and about 32 kilometres (20 mi) west from Giarre and Sicily's eastern coast. Bronte's economy relies mostly on farming, particularly of pistachio nuts. The town was settled and historically inhabited by the Arbëreshë community.
Clarabella (song)
"Clarabella" is a pop song composed by Frank Pingatore and recorded by the Jodimars (a group made of former members of Bill Haley & His Comets) in 1956. Today, it is best known for being recorded by the Beatles for the radio programme Pop Go the Beatles on 2 July 1963, which was broadcast on the 16th of that month. It was released commercially on compact disc much later, on the 1994 compilation album Live at the BBC, although years earlier a similar rendition by Billy Preston (who would later work with the Beatles on their later recordings) was performed on a 1965 episode of Shindig!. In 2003 the White Stripes recorded a performance of the song live in concert.

The Jodimars
The Jodimars was an American rock 'n' roll band that was formed in the summer of 1955 and remained active until 1958. The band was created by former members of Bill Haley & His Comets who had quit that group in a salary dispute. The name of the group was derived from the first letters of the first names of the founding members: Joey Ambrose (real name Joey d'Ambrosio) (saxophone), Dick Boccelli (under the name "Dick Richards") (vocals and drums), and Marshall Lytle (string bass). Other members included Chuck Hess (guitar), Jim Buffington (drums), Bob Simpson (Piano), and Max Daffner (drums).
Mall/SW 4th Ave and Mall/SW 5th Ave stations
Mall/SW 4th Avenue and Mall/SW 5th Avenue were a pair of light rail stations in Portland, Oregon, United States, served by TriMet as part of MAX Light Rail. Built into the sidewalks on Southwest Yamhill and Morrison streets between 4th and 5th avenues in downtown Portland, the west end of both stations was at the southbound street of the Portland Transit Mall.

MAX began operating in 1986 without stations at this location to make way for the Morrison Street redevelopment project. The stops were infilled during the construction of Pioneer Place and opened on March 26, 1990. On March 1, 2020, TriMet closed the stations in an effort to speed up MAX trains in downtown. The Mall stations were served by the Blue and Red lines upon closing, and they had also been served by the Yellow Line from May 2004 to August 2009.

Sidewalk
A sidewalk (North American English), pavement (British English, South African English), or footpath (Irish English, Indian English, Australian English, New Zealand English) is a path along the side of a road. Usually constructed of concrete, pavers, brick, stone, or asphalt, it is designed for pedestrians. A sidewalk is normally higher than the roadway, and separated from it by a curb. There may also be a planted strip between the sidewalk and the roadway and between the roadway and the adjacent land.
Aqqaluk Lynge
Aqqaluk Lynge (born in 1947 in Aasiaat, Greenland) was the president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (formerly the Inuit Circumpolar Conference) from 1995 to 2002. He is a former member of the Inatsisartut and one of the founders of the Greenlandic political party Inuit Ataqatigiit. An indigenous Kalaaleq, in 2004 Lynge became a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which is an advisory body to the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council. He was a visiting fellow at the Dartmouth College Institute of Arctic Studies in 2008 and received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from the college in 2012. Lynge has also become known as an author of poetry and essays, published in Greenlandic, Danish, English and French.

United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII or PFII) is the UN's central coordinating body for matters relating to the concerns and rights of the world's indigenous peoples. There are more than 370 million indigenous people (also known as native, original, aboriginal and first peoples) in some 70 countries worldwide.

The forum was created in 2000 as an outcome of the UN's International Year for the World's Indigenous People in 1993, within the first International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995–2004). It is an advisory body within the framework of the United Nations System that reports to the UN's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
Christie Film Company
34°05′54″N 118°19′21″W﻿ / ﻿34.098280°N 118.322558°W﻿ / 34.098280; -118.322558

Christie Film Company was an American  pioneer motion picture company founded in Hollywood, California by Al Christie and Charles Christie, two brothers from London, Ontario, Canada. It made comedies.

While Charles served almost exclusively in administration, it was Al Christie who made the films. Al had worked with David Horsley at his Centaur Film Company in Bayonne, New Jersey and moved to California on October 27, 1911, to run Nestor Studios, the first ever motion picture studio in Hollywood.  The firm closed in 1933.

David Horsley
David Horsley (March 11, 1873 – February 23, 1933) was an English-American pioneer of the film industry. He founded the Centaur Film Company and its West Coast branch, the Nestor Film Company,  which established the first film studio in Hollywood in 1911.
Cristian Bălgrădean
Cristian Emanuel Bălgrădean (Romanian pronunciation: [kristiˈan bəlgrəˈde̯an]; born 21 March 1988) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Liga III club Unirea Alba Iulia.

Since making his debut in the first division in 2010, Bălgrădean has amassed over 200 matches in the competition for Dinamo București, Universitatea Craiova, FCSB, and CFR Cluj, among others. With the former team, he won the Cupa României and the Supercupa României in 2012, and with the latter the Liga I and the Supercupa României in 2021.

Bălgrădean registered his full debut for the Romania national team in November 2011, in a 3–1 friendly victory over Greece.

CSM Unirea Alba Iulia
Clubul Sportiv Municipal Unirea Alba Iulia, commonly known as Unirea Alba Iulia (Romanian pronunciation: [uˈnire̯a ˌalba ˈjuli.a]), is a Romanian professional football club based in Alba Iulia, Alba County, founded in 1924 and currently playing in the Liga III.

The team from Cetatea Marii Uniri (lit. 'The Citadel of Great Union') plays in black and white, and its home ground is Cetate Stadium (lit. 'Citadel'), which has a capacity of 18,000 seats. Among the club’s greatest achievements are a 6th-place finish in the Romanian top division at the end of the 2003–04 season, and reaching the semi-finals in 1990–91 and the quarter-finals in 2024–25 of the Romanian Cup.
Greg Barton (American football)
Greg Lee Barton (July 14, 1946 – August 26, 2019) was an American football quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) who played for the Detroit Lions. He was traded from the Lions to the Philadelphia Eagles for a 1971 second-round selection (30th overall–Dave Thompson) and 1972 second- and third-round picks (40th and 65th overall–to Atlanta Falcons and Ken Sanders respectively) on January 28, 1971. He led the 1964 Long Beach Vikings football team to the junior college national championship, and also played college football for the Tulsa Golden Hurricane. He also played in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for two seasons as part of a quarterbacking tandem with starter Joe Theismann for the Toronto Argonauts and in the World Football League (WFL) for the Portland Storm.

1971 NFL draft
The 1971 NFL draft was held January 28–29, 1971, at the Belmont Plaza Hotel in New York City, New York.  The Boston Patriots, who did not officially change their name to New England Patriots until after the draft, used the first overall pick to select quarterback Jim Plunkett, the Heisman Trophy winner. It was the first draft where the first three selections were quarterbacks (Plunkett, Archie Manning, and Dan Pastorini).

During round 17, after Falcons coach Norm Van Brocklin had yelled to his staff "Do we want the roughest, toughest s.o.b. in the draft?!", the team drafted the then-64-year-old actor John Wayne, though saying he was from "Fort Apache State" (Wayne actually played football at USC); NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle rejected the selection.