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Ballad of the Desert
Ballad of the Desert (also known as Damo Yao, or "大漠谣") is a two-volume Chinese Han dynasty romance novel written by author Tong Hua. Both parts were published by Henan Literature Publishers sequentially in 2006 and 2007. This novel is the first in the Love in the Han Dynasty trilogy. A notable feature of the series is the intertwining of the characters' stories between volumes, even though each novel is also a story in its own right.

The second novel in the trilogy, Song in the Clouds, was released on 1 September 2009, whilst the third novel, Sorrow Relieving Tune, is currently being written (the publishing date is not yet known).

Tong Hua (writer)
Ren Haiyan (Chinese: 任海燕; born 18 October 1980), known by her pen name Tong Hua (Chinese: 桐华; pinyin: Tónghuá) or Zhang Xiaosan (Chinese: 张小三; pinyin: Zhāngxiǎosān), is a Chinese contemporary romance novelist and screenwriter. She graduated from Peking University and emigrated to America in 2005. She currently lives in New York City.
North Dakota Department of Public Instruction
The North Dakota Department of Public Instruction (NDDPI), led by Kirsten Baesler, oversees the public school system in the U.S. state of North Dakota. The DPI also oversees the North Dakota State Library, the North Dakota School for the Blind, and the North Dakota School for the Deaf. The DPI is headed by the North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction. The DPI is headquartered in Bismarck.

Kirsten Baesler
Kirsten Baesler (born March 30, 1969) is the Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education since 2025, previously serving as the North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction, a position she held from her election in 2012 till 2025.

Baesler was nominated by president Donald Trump to be Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, succeeding acting assistant secretary Ian Rosenblum. She was confirmed on October 7, 2025 and is pending her official resignation's effective date and swearing in, with the Department of Education potentially hindered from swearing her in until the end of the 2025 United States federal government shutdown.
Bill Robb
William Edward Robb (20 October 1927 – 23 January 2012) was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.

Robb was educated at Leichhardt and Sydney Technical Colleges and was a proprietor of a hairdressing business from 1952 to 1973.  He married Heather in July 1950 and they had two sons.  He worked in the New South Wales Department of Public Works from 1974 to 1978.  Robb was the Labor Party member for Miranda from 1978 to 1984.

Electoral district of Miranda
Miranda is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Eleni Petinos of the Liberal Party.

Miranda is located in the north of Sutherland Shire on the south shore of Georges River.
FC Velké Meziříčí
FC Velké Meziříčí is a Czech football club located in Velké Meziříčí in the Vysočina Region. It currently plays in the Czech Fourth Division, having spent 8 seasons in the third tier of Czech football Moravian–Silesian Football League until 2023.

Velké Meziříčí
Velké Meziříčí (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvɛlkɛː ˈmɛzɪr̝iːtʃiː]; German: Groß Meseritsch) is a town in Žďár nad Sázavou District in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 12,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre with the castle complex is well preserved and is protected as an urban monument zone.
Juravinski Cancer Centre
The Juravinski Cancer Centre (JCC) is a comprehensive centre for cancer care and cancer research in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Operated by Hamilton Health Sciences, it is adjacent to the Juravinski Hospital, which provides emergency department facilities. The hospital was recently ranked 2nd in Canada for research according to Research Infosource Inc.

Juravinski Hospital and Juravinski Cancer Centre compose a full-service general hospital offering cancer care and orthopedics. The combination of inpatient and outpatient programs supports one of the largest comprehensive cancer centres in Canada, including community-based oncology clinics in Brantford and Burlington. The site's programs range from prevention, screening, and diagnosis to treatment including chemotherapy and the region's only radiation therapy program. The latter makes JCC a tertiary care centre for Ontario. The hospital is a teaching hospital for the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University.

Diagnosis
Diagnosis (pl.: diagnoses) is the identification of the nature and cause of a certain phenomenon. Diagnosis is used in a lot of different disciplines, with variations in the use of logic, analytics, and experience, to determine "cause and effect". In systems engineering and computer science, it is typically used to determine the causes of symptoms, mitigations, and solutions.
Dante Panzeri
Dante Panzeri (November 5, 1921 in Las Varillas, Córdoba – April 14, 1978 in Buenos Aires) was a sports journalist and columnist who was notable for the influence of his opinions and analysis about sports, specially in football, having changed the way of covering sports events in Argentina.

Panzeri is widely considered one of the most notable sports journalists ever in Argentina. Most his work was published on El Gráfico, where Panzeri worked for almost 20 years.

Columnist
A columnist is a person who writes for publication in a series, creating an article that usually offers commentary and opinions. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and other publications, including blogs. They take the form of a short essay by a specific writer who offers a personal point of view. Columns are sometimes written by a composite or a team, appearing under a pseudonym, or (in effect) a brand name. Columnists typically write daily or weekly columns. Some columns are later collected and reprinted in book form.
Alex Fernández (footballer, born 1970)
Manuel Alexander "Alex" Fernández (born 22 January 1970) is a retired Colombian football defender.

He was born in Medellín. He spent the main part of his career in Independiente Medellín from 1990 through 1999, except spells in Deportes Tolima in 1993 and Deportivo Cali in 1996–97. He then played for Millonarios F.C. from 1999 to 2001 and Deportes Quindío from 2001 to 2003.

He was capped for Colombia national football team, including at the 1995 Copa América. Your son is a footballer Bryan Fernández.

1995 Copa América
The 1995 Copa América football tournament was staged in Uruguay. The host country, Uruguay, won it for a record-tying 14th time by beating Brazil 5–3 in the penalty shootout after a 1–1 draw in the final. All 10 CONMEBOL members took part, with Mexico and the United States invited in order to reach 12 teams.

The United States was the surprise of the tournament, beating defending champions Argentina 3–0 and winning the group. The United States went on to defeat Mexico on penalties in the second round but then lost to Brazil 1–0 in the semi-finals. They then fell to Colombia 4–1 in the third-place game, finishing fourth overall.

In this edition of the tournament, extra time was not played if a match was drawn after 90 minutes. Instead it went straight to a penalty shootout.
KORKUT
The KORKUT is a Turkish all-weather-capable 35 mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) developed by Aselsan.

Designed to replace the aging M42A1 Duster systems of the Turkish Armed Forces, each Korkut system comprises one command and control vehicle and three weapons platforms. Each weapon platform carries a twin 2×35 mm Oerlikon KDC-02 cannon, manufactured under licence by MKEK. Each weapons system can fire up to 1,100 rounds a minute up to a range of 4 km. The command and control vehicle has an effective radar range of 70 km. The Weapon System Vehicle and Command-and-Control Vehicle configurations designed under the Korkut Project are based on the FNSS ACV-30 and is fully amphibious and have the capability of propelling themselves in deep water and rivers.

The Turkish Armed Forces has ordered 40 weapons systems, deliveries are scheduled to complete in 2022.

Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation
The Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation (Turkish: Makine ve Kimya Endüstrisi or MKE for short), established in 1950, is a reorganization of government-controlled group of factories in Turkey that supplied the Turkish Armed Forces with military products.
Saqiyat Najm
Saqiyet Nijm (Arabic: ساقية نجم)  is a Syrian village located in Al-Suqaylabiyah Nahiyah in Al-Suqaylabiyah District, Hama.  According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Saqiyet Nijm had a population of 1,932 in the 2004 census.

Al-Suqaylabiyah District
35°22′11″N 36°22′48″E﻿ / ﻿35.369722°N 36.38°E﻿ / 35.369722; 36.38

Al-Suqaylabiyah District (Arabic: السقيلبية As Suqailabiya) is a district (mantiqah) administratively belonging to Hama Governorate, Syria. At the 2004 official census, the district had a population of 240,091. Its administrative centre is the city of al-Suqaylabiyah. The district includes most of al-Ghab plain. It is currently controlled by the Syrian transitional government.
Crescent Rail Bridge
The Crescent Bridge carries a rail line across the Mississippi River between Davenport, Iowa, and Rock Island, Illinois. It was formerly owned by the Davenport, Rock Island and North Western Railway, a joint subsidiary of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, which was split in 1995 between then-joint owners Burlington Northern Railroad and Soo Line Railroad, with BN getting the bridge and the Illinois-side line, and Soo Line getting the Iowa-side line. Since then, after spinning off its lines in the area to I&M Rail Link, later Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad (a subsidiary of the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad), the lines were repurchased by the Canadian Pacific Railway, parent of the Soo Line.  Meanwhile, BN has merged into the BNSF Railway, the current owner of the bridge.

I&M Rail Link
The I&M Rail Link (reporting mark IMRL) was a railroad operating in the north central portion of the United States. The company commenced operations on April 5, 1997, acquiring lines from the Canadian Pacific Railway and Soo Line Railroad.

On July 31, 2002, the Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad took over the IMRL's operations.
2016 Dubai Tennis Championships – Men's doubles
Rohan Bopanna and Daniel Nestor were the defending champions, but chose not to compete together. Bopanna played alongside Florin Mergea, but lost in the first round to Nestor and Radek Štěpánek. Nestor and Štěpánek lost in the quarterfinals to Łukasz Kubot and Marcin Matkowski.
Simone Bolelli and Andreas Seppi won the title, defeating Feliciano López and Marc López in the final, 6–2, 3–6, [14–12].

Andreas Seppi
Andreas Seppi (born 21 February 1984) is an Italian former professional tennis player. He reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 18 on 28 January 2013. He became the first Italian to win a title on all three surfaces.
Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon
Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon (English: Weilbach's Biographical Dictionary of Artists) is a Danish biographical dictionary of artists and architects. The current edition, which is also freely accessible online, contains the biographies of some 8,000 Danish artists and architects.

Biographical dictionary
A biographical dictionary is a type of encyclopedic dictionary limited to biographical information. Many attempt to cover the major personalities of a country (with limitations, such as living persons only, in Who's Who, or deceased people only, in the Dictionary of National Biography). Others are specialized, in that they cover important names in a subject field, such as architecture or engineering.
Johannes Sellin
Johannes Sellin (born 31 December 1990) is a former German handball player and handball coach. As a player he played the German national team, and was part of the German team that won the 2016 European Men's Handball Championship.

Germany men's national handball team
The Germany national handball team is the country's national men's handball team and represents Germany in international tournaments in men's handball and is one of the most successful handball teams in the world, having won three World Championships and two European Championship.
Johnson County
Johnson County is the name of several counties in the United States:

Johnson County, Arkansas

Johnson County, Georgia

Johnson County, Illinois

Johnson County, Indiana

Johnson County, Iowa

Johnson County, Kansas

Johnson County, Kentucky

Johnson County, Missouri

Johnson County, Nebraska

Johnson County, Tennessee

Johnson County, Texas

Johnson County, Wyoming

Johnson County, Georgia
Johnson County is a county located along the Oconee River in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,189. The county seat is Wrightsville. Johnson County is part of the Dublin, Georgia, micropolitan statistical area.
Rashaant, Khövsgöl
Rashaant (Mongolian: Рашаант = in the spring) is a sum of Khövsgöl aimag. The area is about 1,980 km², of which 50 km² are farmland. In 2000, the sum had 3280 inhabitants. The town of Rashaant, the aimag center, is located in a high valley, 154 km southeast of Mörön and 518 kilometers from Ulaanbaatar and had 978 inhabitants in 2009.

Mörön
Mörön (Mongolian: Мөрөн ᠮᠥᠷᠡᠨ [mɵ́rʉɴ]; lit. 'River') is the administrative center of Khövsgöl, Mongolia. Before 1933, Khatgal had been the aimag capital.

It has 12,286 families and a population of 46,918, and is considered a major city such as Ulaanbaatar, Darhan, Erdenet and Choibalsan. In terms of administrative units, it is divided into 14 khoroo and covers approximately 102.9 km2. Demographics are split as 51.58% females to 48.42% males. 41.25% of the population is aged between 15 and 39.

Although a poorly developed town, Mörön has a hospital, a museum, a theatre, a post office, nine schools and fifteen kindergartens. It was connected to the Mongolian central power grid in 2004. The town has had a paved road connecting it to Mongolia's capital city Ulaanbaatar since December 2014, as a part of a government effort to extend paved roads from Ulaanbaatar to all Aimag capitals.
Victor Khanye Local Municipality
Victor Khanye Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala iVictor Khanye; Southern Ndebele: UMasipaladi weVictor Khanye; Afrikaans: Victor Khanye Munisipaliteit), formerly Delmas Municipality, is a local municipality within the Nkangala District Municipality, in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat is Delmas. The local municipality was one of the four to have passed the 2009-10 audit by the Auditor-General of South Africa, who deemed it to have a clean administration. The Victor Khanye Local Municipality is named after Victor Khanye, an ANC activist in the anti-apartheid campaign.

Auditor-General (South Africa)
The Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) is an office established by the 1996 Constitution of South Africa and is one of the Chapter nine institutions intended to support democracy, although its history dates back at least 100 years.

Tsakani Maluleke took over as Auditor-General on 1 December 2020. She replaced Thembekile Makwetu who was deputy auditor-general until he took over from Terence Nombembe whose contract ended in December 2013. Nombembe, who also served as deputy auditor-general prior to his appointment, replaced Shauket Fakie on his retirement in December 2006.
1969 Queen's Club Championships – Men's singles
There was no defending champion, as the 1968 final was cancelled due to rain.

Fred Stolle won the singles title at the 1969 Queen's Club Championships tennis tournament, defeating John Newcombe 6–3, 22–20 in the final.

Fred Stolle
Frederick Sydney Stolle, AO (8 October 1938 – 5 March 2025) was an Australian amateur world No. 1 tennis player and commentator. He was born in Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia. He was the father of former Australian Davis Cup player Sandon Stolle.
Mwanza flat-headed rock agama
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama (Agama mwanzae) or the Spider-Man agama, because of its coloration, is a lizard reptile in the family Agamidae, found in Tanzania, Rwanda, and Kenya.

It lives in semideserts and can often be seen in the heat of the day basking on rocks or kopjes. The male's head, neck, and shoulders are bright red or violet, while the body is dark blue. The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species. This lizard is often confused with the red-headed rock agama (Agama agama). Males preferably have around five breeding partners and are highly territorial. Once a male has won over a female, the lizard performs exotic head bobs and head swinging to court her.

The species has become a fashionable pet due to the male's coloration, which resembles the comic-book superhero Spider-Man.

Inselberg
An inselberg or monadnock (/məˈnædnɒk/ mə-NAD-nok) is an isolated rock hill, knob, ridge, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain.
If the inselberg is dome-shaped and formed from granite or gneiss, it can also be called a bornhardt, though not all bornhardts are inselbergs. An inselberg results when a body of rock resistant to erosion, such as granite, occurring within a body of softer rocks, is exposed by differential erosion and lowering of the surrounding landscape.
Acasă (album)
Acasă (Romanian pronunciation: [aˈkasə]; Home) is the third studio album by Romanian singer Smiley, released on November 21, 2013, by Cat Music and HaHaHa Production. The album peaked at number one in the Romania Top 100 charts with the main single, "Acasă", spending twenty-two weeks in the top 10 and twenty-three weeks altogether in the Romanian charts.

The album has won the 2014 Romanian Music Awards category for the Best Album. It also featured Dorian, Speak, Kaan, Alex Velea, Mihai Ristea, Don Baxter, Sore and Cabron as collaborators. The album's total of 17 pieces are equally interpreted in both English and Romanian languages. It also has a bonus track entitled "Nemuritori" (Immortals) released in the first quarter of 2014.

Romanian Music Awards
The Romanian Music Awards, or simply RMA, are a Romanian annual event awarding the best artists in Romania's music scene. It is organized by Music Channel Romania and has taken place in various locations in the country. It was held from 2002 until 2014, and returned in 2022.
2011 Tour of Azerbaijan (Iran)
Tour of Azerbaijan 2011 is the 26th round of Tour of Iran (Azerbaijan), which took between 13 May and 18 May 2011 in Iranian Azerbaijan. The tour had 6 stages in which Mehdi Sohrabi from Iran won in first place in over all classification of the tour.

Mehdi Sohrabi
Mehdi Sohrabi (Persian: مهدی سهرابی; born 12 October 1981) is an Iranian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Tommi's Radltankstelle Team. He was suspended from the sport from 2019 to 2023 following an anti-doping rule violation.
Kylecorragh Wood
Kylecorragh Wood is an old oak woodland along the freshwater stretches of the River Nore in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Located 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) west of New Ross, it consists of  100 acres (400,000 m2). Kylecorragh Woods are of regional importance as a relatively undisturbed example of the original deciduous woodland which covered the river valley.

The site is a  Natura 2000  "Old Oak Woodlands" habitat, and is a prominent feature in the "River Barrow and River Nore, Special Area of Conservation (SAC)" area, formally proposed in 2002. The woods contain oak and sycamore. The high canopy provides a damp ground for rich and varied flora, including common holly and hazel, blackthorn, gorse, and willow.

The National Parks and Wildlife Service responsibilities include the protection of the site. The local authority is Kilkenny County Council.

New Ross
New Ross (Irish: Ros Mhic Thriúin, formerly Ros Mhic Treoin) is a town in southwest County Wexford, Ireland, on the River Barrow on the border with County Kilkenny, 20 kilometres (12 mi) northeast of Waterford. In 2022, it had a population of 8,610, making it the fourth-largest town in the county.
Alcántara Dam
The Alcántara Dam, also known as the José María de Oriol Dam, is a buttress dam on the Tagus River near Alcántara in the province of Cáceres, Spain. It is named after the politician and captain of the Spanish electricity industry José María de Oriol y Urquijo. The dam regulates much of the flow of the Tagus River, the longest of the Iberian Peninsula. It was built in 1969 and is the second largest reservoir in Western Europe. In 2024, a pumped-storage project was approved to use the Alcántara reservoir as the upper reservoir, and Cedillo as the lower, with around 100 m height difference serving two reversible turbines at a combined 440 MW.

The Roman Alcántara Bridge is located 600 m downstream from the dam.

Hydraulic head
Hydraulic head or piezometric head is a measurement related to liquid pressure (normalized by specific weight) and the liquid elevation above a vertical datum.
It is usually measured as an equivalent liquid surface elevation, expressed in units of length, at the entrance (or bottom) of a piezometer. In an aquifer, it can be calculated from the depth to water in a piezometric well (a specialized water well), and given information of the piezometer's elevation and screen depth. Hydraulic head can similarly be measured in a column of water using a standpipe piezometer by measuring the height of the water surface in the tube relative to a common datum. The hydraulic head can be used to determine a hydraulic gradient between two or more points.
Antoni Bura
Antoni Bura (22 December 1898 – 13 December 1980) was a Polish bobsledder, mechanical engineer and independence activist. He competed in the four-man event at the 1928 Winter Olympics.

He was born in Karwina in the region of Cieszyn Silesia, a son of a carpenter. Bura graduated from Juliusz Słowacki Polish Grammar School in Orlová, then from the mechanical engineering at the Lwów Polytechnic in Lwów. During World War I, he was conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian Army and joined the Polish Military Organisation. Afterwards, he volunteered for the Polish forces in the Polish-Soviet War. For his actions, he was later awarded the Cross of Valour.

Orlová
Orlová (Czech pronunciation: [ˈorlovaː] ⓘ; Polish: Orłowa, German: Orlau) is a town in Karviná District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 28,000 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the town developed rapidly thanks to coal mining, but the mining also severely damaged the town. In the 21st century, the town is struggling with structural problems and high unemployment, and is infamously known as the worst town to live in in the Czech Republic according to the national Quality of Life Index.
Tony Eeles
Anthony George Eeles (born 15 November 1970) is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Born in Chatham, Eeles played for Gillingham between 1989 and 1994, scoring 5 goals in 73 appearances. While with the club, he spent time on loan to Cork City. He is credited as the scorer of one of Gillingham's most important goals, which maintained the Gills' Football League status, when he opened the scoring in a 2–0 home victory in 1993 over fellow relegation candidates Halifax Town.

After leaving Gillingham, Eeles played non-league football for Dover Athletic, Sittingbourne, Ashford Town (Kent). and Welling United.

In 2008, whilst working as a plasterer, he was taken seriously ill with dermatomyositis.

Welling United F.C.
Welling United Football Club is a semi-professional association football club, based in Welling in the London Borough of Bexley, England. The most prominent aspect of the club is its men's first team, who play in the Isthmian League Premier Division, the seventh level of the English football league system.