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Taissier Khalaf
Taissier Ahmad Khalaf (also written Taysir Khalaf), (Arabic: تيسير أحمد خلف, born in Quneitra 1967), is a Syrian-Palestinian novelist, critic and researcher. He has written over 50 books including his novels The Slaughter of the Philosophers and The Andalusian Messiah that were both nominated for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

International Prize for Arabic Fiction
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) (Arabic: الجائزة العالمية للرواية العربية), also known as "the Arabic Booker", is regarded as the most prestigious and important literary prize in the Arab world.

Its aim is to reward excellence in contemporary Arabic creative writing and to encourage the readership of high-quality Arabic literature internationally through the translation and publication of winning and shortlisted novels in other major languages. In addition to the prize itself, IPAF supports other literary initiatives. In 2009, IPAF launched its inaugural nadwa (writers' workshop) for emerging writers of fiction in Arabic.

The prize is administered by the Booker Prize Foundation in London, and is currently funded by Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi (DCT).

Each year, the winner of the prize receives US$50,000, and the six shortlisted authors receive US$10,000 each.
Bogdan Voitsekhovsky
Bogdan Vyacheslavovich Voitsekhovsky (Russian: Богдан Вячеславович Войцеховский; 1922–1999) was a Soviet and Russian scientist, specialist in the field of hydraulic impulse technique, explosion physics, atmospheric electricity, employee of the Institute of Hydrodynamics.

Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics
Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian: Институт гидродинамики имени М. А. Лаврентьева СО РАН) is the first research institute based in Akademgorodok of Novosibirsk, Russia. It was founded in 1957.
Gudrun Kadereit
Gudrun Kadereit (born 1969) is a German botanist, the Princess Therese von Bayern Chair of Systematics, Biodiversity and Evolution of Plants at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and the director of both the Botanical Garden Munich-Nymphenburg and the Botanical State Collection Munich.

Her research focuses on angiosperm phylogenetics, systematics and biogeography, in particular on the families Amaranthaceae, Melastomataceae, Crassulaceae, Aizoaceae and Zygophyllaceae but also on the evolution of C4 photosynthesis and Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM) and the evolution of seed traits.

Aizoaceae
The Aizoaceae (/ˌeɪzoʊˈeɪsi.iː, -ˌaɪ/), or fig-marigold family, are a large family of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing 135 genera and about 1,800 species. Several genera are commonly named ice plants or carpet weeds. The Aizoaceae are also referred to as vygies in South Africa. Some of the unusual  Southern African genera—such as Conophytum, Lithops, Titanopsis, and Pleiospilos (among others)—resemble gemstones, rocks, or pebbles, and are sometimes called living stones or mesembs (short for mesembryanthemums).
Harry S. Truman Bridge
The Harry S Truman Bridge is a vertical lift rail drawbridge over the Missouri River connecting Jackson County, Missouri with Clay County, Missouri in Kansas City, Missouri. It has a 427-foot main span, and is the tenth longest span in the United States.

The bridge was dedicated on May 23, 1945, for Jackson County native Harry S. Truman, who was president at the time.  It was built by the Milwaukee Railroad and Rock Island Line at a cost of $3 million or $2.5 million. It is 6 miles (9.7 km) from the ASB Bridge. It is connected to the Kansas City Terminal Railway network through Kansas City.

It is now used by the freight trains of the Canadian Pacific and Union Pacific Railroad to cross the Missouri River.

Jackson County, Missouri
Jackson County is located in the western portion of the U.S. state of Missouri, on the border with Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 717,204. making it the second-most populous county in the state (after St. Louis County in the east). The county seats are Independence and Kansas City, making Jackson County one of 33 U.S. counties with more than one county seat. The county was organized December 15, 1826, and named for former Tennessee senator Andrew Jackson, who would become President of the United States three years later in 1829.
Negovski Vrh
Negovski Vrh (pronounced [ˈneːɡɔu̯ski ˈʋəɾx]) is a small settlement in the Municipality of Benedikt in northeastern Slovenia. It lies in the Slovene Hills (Slovene: Slovenske gorice). The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The entire municipality is now included in the Drava Statistical Region.

Municipality of Benedikt
The Municipality of Benedikt (pronounced [bɛnɛˈdiːkt]; Slovene: Občina Benedikt) is a municipality in northeastern Slovenia. Its seat is the settlement of Benedikt. Before 1 January 1999 it was part of the Municipality of Lenart. It lies in the Slovene Hills (Slovene: Slovenske gorice). The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included in the Drava Statistical Region.
Castletown, County Limerick
Castletown (Irish: Baile an Chaisleáin, meaning 'town of the castle'), also known as Castletown Conyers, is an electoral division, townland and village in County Limerick, Ireland. The townland, which had a population of 143 as of the 2011 census, is in the civil parish of Corcomohide and the historical barony of Connello Upper.

Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes an ecclesiastical site (known locally as "the Abbey"), a motte, a castle and manor house. The entry for Castletown Conyers, in A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), associates this settlement with the Mac Einery family. Originally known as Kilmoodan, and later known as Castletown McEnery, the area became known as Castletown Conyers after the arrival of the Conyer family in the late 17th century. The Conyer family, landlords and occupiers of the estate's manor house, lived in the area until at least the late 19th century.

2011 census of Ireland
The 2011 census of Ireland was held on Sunday, 10 April 2011. It was administered by the Central Statistics Office of Ireland and found the population to be 4,588,252 people. Before the census, the latest population estimate was published in September 2010 and calculated that the Irish population had been 4,470,700 in April 2010. The previous census took place five years earlier, on Sunday, 23 April 2006. The subsequent census took place five years later, on 24 April 2016.

The 2011 census was held during the same year as the 2011 United Kingdom census in which the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency administered a census of Northern Ireland, covering those areas of the island that are not part of the Republic of Ireland.
Bursaspor TV
Bursaspor TV is a sports channel of Bursa based multi sports team Bursaspor.
The channel was launched in 2009 over satellite network services, cable service and streaming.

The television offers Bursaspor fans exclusive interviews with players and staff, full matches, including replays of all Süper Lig, Turkish Cup, and UEFA Cup games, in addition to vintage matches, footballing news, and other themed programming.

Turkish Cup
The Turkish Cup (Turkish: Türkiye Kupası) is an annual football cup competition in Turkey, organised by the Turkish Football Federation since 1962. During a period of sponsorship by Fortis, the competition was temporarily known as the Fortis Turkish Cup (Turkish: Fortis Türkiye Kupası). It is currently sponsored by the state-owned bank Ziraat Bankası and officially called the Ziraat Turkish Cup (Turkish: Ziraat Türkiye Kupası).

The tournament has been held under various formats, including a traditional knockout competition and group stages on an experimental basis. An expanded format was introduced for the 2012–13 season, with a record 156 teams participating. The structure included a round-robin group stage following five knockout rounds, with group winners and runners-up advancing to the semi-finals and final. The current holders of the cup are Galatasaray S.K..
Martin Spanjers
Martin Brian Spanjers (born February 2, 1987) is an American actor. He played Rory Hennessy on the ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules from 2002 to 2005, for which he won a Young Artist Award in 2004, and as Justin in Good Luck Charlie (2010–2014).

Young Artist Award
The Young Artist Award (originally known as the Youth in Film Award) is an accolade presented by the Young Artist Foundation, an American nonprofit organization founded in 1978 to honor excellence of youth performers, and to provide scholarships for young artists who may be physically disabled or financially unstable.

First presented in 1979, the Young Artist Awards was the first organization established to specifically recognize and award the contributions of performers under the age of 18 in the fields of film, television, theater, and music.

The 1st Youth In Film Awards ceremony was held in October 1979, at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Hollywood to honor outstanding young performers of the 1978/1979 season.
Selinus (Cilicia)
Selinus or Selinous (Ancient Greek: Σελινούς, romanized: Selinoús; Latin: Selinus; Neo-Babylonian Akkadian: 𒌷𒊓𒀠𒇻𒉌𒂊, romanized: Sallunê) was a port-town on the west coast of Rough Cilicia and later of Isauria, at the mouth of a small river of the same name, now called Musa Çay. It is located west of the modern city of Gazipaşa in Turkey.

Cilicia
Cilicia (/sɪˈlɪʃə/, sil-ISH-ə) is a geographical region of southern Anatolia in West Asia, extending inland from the northeastern coasts of the Mediterranean Sea. Cilicia borders Pamphylia to the west, Lycaonia and Cappadocia to the north, Commagene to the north-east, Syria to the east and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Cilicia has a population ranging over six million, concentrated mostly at the Cilician plain (Turkish: Çukurova). The region includes the provinces of Mersin, Adana, Osmaniye and Hatay.
Eugène Kalt
Eugène Jean Baptiste Kalt (24 February 1861, in Landser, Haut-Rhin – 9 May 1941) was a French ophthalmologist who developed the first known application of a contact lens for the correction of keratoconus. In 1888, he worked on a crude flat-fitting glass scleral lenses designed to "compress the steep conical apex thereby correcting the condition". His first lenses were crafted from the bottoms of glass test tubes.

Kalt was born in Landser in the Alsace region of France.

Test tube
A test tube, also known as a culture tube or sample tube, is a common piece of laboratory glassware consisting of a finger-like length or longer of glass or clear plastic tubing, open at the top and closed at the bottom.

Test tubes are usually placed in special-purpose racks.
2022 Massachusetts Senate election
The 2022 Massachusetts State Senate election was held on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, with the primary election having been held on Tuesday, September 6, 2022. Massachusetts voters selected all 40 members of the State Senate to serve two-year terms in the 2023–2024 Massachusetts legislature. The election coincided with United States national elections and Massachusetts state elections, including U.S. House, Governor, and Massachusetts House.

Democrats maintained their supermajority of 37 out of 40 seats. Simultaneously with gains in the state House, and Maura Healey's win in the gubernatorial race, Democrats won a trifecta in the state for the first time since 2014.

These were the first elections in Massachusetts following the 2020 United States redistricting cycle, which resulted in some members being assigned to new districts.

Massachusetts Democratic Party
The Massachusetts Democratic Party (MassDems) is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in Massachusetts. It is chaired by Steve Kerrigan and is the dominant party in the state, controlling all nine of the state's U.S. House seats, both U.S. Senate seats, all six elected statewide offices including the governorship, and supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature.
Operation Toral
Operation Toral was the codename for the British presence within Afghanistan post-2014 as part of NATO's Resolute Support Mission. UK forces had two major tasks: training and mentoring Afghan Forces, and providing force protection for NATO advisors via the Kabul Security Force/Kabul Protection Unit.

The operation drew to a close on 8 July 2021 with the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from the country. However, British troops were subsequently redeployed under Operation Pitting in August 2021 to evacuate British nationals and staff following the 2021 Taliban offensive.

2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment
The Second Battalion, Parachute Regiment (2 PARA), is a formation of the Parachute Regiment, part of the British Army, and subordinate unit within 16th Air Assault Brigade.

2 PARA is an airborne light infantry battalion capable of a wide range of operational tasks, based at Merville Barracks, Colchester Garrison, England. Personnel regularly deploy outside the United Kingdom on operations and training.
Everybody Loves Sausages
Everybody Loves Sausages is an album of cover songs by the Melvins, released on April 30, 2013. Like The Crybaby, it features guests on most of the tracks. It features the Melvins Lite on three tracks.

Three of the tracks had been previously released in splits. Black Betty previously appeared on a split 7-inch with the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion covering the same track. Female Trouble and Carpe Diem are featured on a split 12-inch with Redd Kross. A nine-part 7-inch Tribute series was released through Amphetamine Reptile Records between 2013 and 2015. Featuring ten songs from the album, seven of them featured bonus cover songs of each respective band.

Redd Kross
Redd Kross is an American rock band from Hawthorne, California, who had their roots in 1978 in a punk rock band called the Tourists, which was started by brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald while Steve was still in middle school. With the addition of friends Greg Hetson on guitar and John Stielow on drums, the band's first gig was opening for Black Flag. The band changed their name to Red Cross in 1979, and in 1982 changed the spelling due to threatened legal action by the charitable organization International Red Cross. The band has since released eight albums and three EPs. Their style was originally hardcore punk, but they have since branched out to touch on various rock and roll styles.
Shawneehaw Creek
The Shawneehaw Creek is a stream in the North Carolina High Country and is named after a Cherokee word for a tree that blooms early in the Spring, the current name for the tree is Serviceberry, or sarvisberry, and is located in the town of Banner Elk.  The headwaters begin from the Southeastern slopes of Beech Mountain in Watauga County, North Carolina and end at the Elk River in Avery County, North Carolina.The tree extend from North Carolina to Louisiana and Florida, and to 6000 feet.

Avery County, North Carolina
Avery County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,806. The county seat is Newland. The county seat was initially established in Elk Park when the county was first formed, but was moved to Newland upon completion of the courthouse in 1912. Founded in 1911, it is the youngest of North Carolina's 100 counties.
Maya (2018 film)
Maya is a 2018 romantic drama film written and directed by Mia Hansen-Løve. It had its world premiere in the Special Presentations section of the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was released in France on 19 December 2018 by Les Films du Losange and in Germany on 11 November 2021 by Weltkino Filmverleih.

Les Films du Losange
Les Films du Losange (French pronunciation: [le film dy lɔzɑ̃ʒ], lit. 'Lozenge Films'), also known as Le Losange, is a film production, film distribution and international sales company founded by Barbet Schroeder and Éric Rohmer in 1962.
2014 Open GDF Suez de Limoges – Doubles
Viktorija Golubic and Magda Linette were the defending champions, having won this tournament on the ITF Women's Circuit in 2013, however, neither player chose to participate.

Kateřina Siniaková and Renata Voráčová won the title, defeating Tímea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic in the final, 2–6, 6–2, [10–5].

Renata Voráčová
Renata Voráčová (Czech pronunciation: [ˈrɛnata ˈvoraːtʃovaː]; born 6 October 1983) is a Czech professional tennis player.

Voráčová has won eleven doubles titles on the WTA Tour and three on WTA 125 tournaments, as well as 15 singles and 58 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 11 October 2010, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 74. On 21 August 2017, she peaked at No. 29 in the WTA doubles rankings.
Herbert Siegert
Herbert Siegert (8 February 1920 – December 2008) was a German football manager.

Siegert led both Tennis Borussia Berlin and SpVgg Blau-Weiß 1890 Berlin to championship titles in the second tier Regionalliga in 1965 and 1973 respectively.

Blau-Weiß 1890 Berlin
Blau-Weiß 1890 Berlin was a German association football club based in the Mariendorf district of Berlin. The club was formed in 1927 from the merger of Berliner FC Vorwärts 1890, runner-up in the 1921 German championship, and Berliner TuFC Union, German champions of 1905. Blau-Weiß 90 spent one season in the German first division, the Bundesliga.
Kenneth Clements
Christianity portal

Kenneth John Clements (21 December 1905 - 8 January 1992) was an Anglican bishop in Australia.

Clements was educated at Highgate School and the University of Sydney. He trained for ordination at St John's College, Morpeth and was ordained in 1934 and became registrar for the Diocese of Riverina until 1937 when he was appointed Rector of Narrandera. He then held further incumbencies at Tumbarumba and Gunning. Later he was Archdeacon of Goulburn before his consecration to the episcopate as the bishop coadjutor in the Diocese of Goulburn on 29 June 1949. He succeeded, becoming diocesan Bishop of Grafton in 1956. Five years later he was translated to the (by then renamed) Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn – he was elected on 21 February, installed on 15 June 1961 and retired on 30 September 1971.

Anglican Diocese of Riverina
The Diocese of Riverina is one of 23 dioceses of the Anglican Church of Australia. The diocese covers 37% of New South Wales, including the Riverina and the far west of the state. The diocese was established in 1884 when the Diocese of Goulburn was divided.
Kallil Temple
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Kallil Temple is a Hindu–Jain temple located at Kerala, South India. It is 8 km away from Perumbavoor in Ernakulam district of Kerala. The name Kallil in Malayalam means 'in stone'. It is one of the most ancient Hindu temples in Kerala. It is one of the protected monuments in Kerala under Kerala State Department of Archaeology.

The temple, located in a 28-acre (113,000 m2) plot, is cut from a huge rock, and a climb of 69 steps leads to the temple. To reach the temple one has to travel a distance of about 2 km from Odakkali on the Aluva Munnar Road and 10 km from Perumbavoor. The temple is owned by the Kallil Pisharody family. The present Karanavar of the family turned over all the administrative control of the temple and all its belongings to 'Chenkottukonam Sree Ramadasashramam' but regained control due to some hassle between local people and Ashram authorities.

Pisharody
Pisharody (also spelled Pisharodi, Pisharadi, Pisharoty, or Pisharoti; colloquially known as Sharody) is a Hindu brahmin community found more in Kerala. Pisharodys are vaishnavites and were traditionally caretakers of Hindu temples and hails from the Sanyasi tradition of Muni Brahmin sect.  Most Pisharams (Pisharody ancestral households) are situated near temples.Traditionally they were Sanskrit scholars and majority of the community still does teaching as their major profession, but they moved into modern sciences, both subjective and objective.
Bachar Kouatly
Bachar Kouatly (Arabic: بشار قواتلي) (born 3 March 1958 in Damascus) is a French chess grandmaster, journalist and activist. He is  deputy president of FIDE.

He played three times for Lebanon in the World Junior Chess Championship (1975–1977), and represented Lebanon at the Chess Olympiad at La Valletta 1980. He won a zonal tournament at Qatar in 1981 and finished 14th at the 1982 Interzonal tournament in Toluca.

Kouatly won the French Chess Championship in 1979. He played for France in five Chess Olympiads (1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, and 1992).

He was awarded the titles of International Master in 1975 and Grandmaster in 1989.

Bachar Kouatly is an editor of Europe Échecs, a French–language chess magazine.

On December 10, 2016, he was elected President of the French Chess Federation. In 2018, he was elected the deputy president of the International Chess Federation.

Interzonal chess tournaments
Interzonal chess tournaments were tournaments organized by the World Chess Federation FIDE from the 1950s to the 1990s.  They were a stage in the triennial World Chess Championship cycle and were held after the Zonal tournaments, and before the Candidates Tournament. Since 2005, the Chess World Cup has filled a similar role.
Carlos Mastretta Aguilera
Carlos Mastretta Aguilera (born 26 January 1984) is a Mexican auto racing driver. His early racing career saw him compete in Formula Renault in Mexico and the United Kingdom. In 2005 he entered two rounds of the FIA World Touring Car Championship for GR Asia in a SEAT Toledo, with a best placed finish of fifteenth in his home race at Puebla. Mastretta went on to race in the 2006 Champ Car Atlantic Series, for five races, with a best result of sixth in Cleveland, OH.

Formula Renault
Formula Renault are classes of formula racing popular in Europe and elsewhere. Regarded as an entry-level series to motor racing, it was founded in 1971, and was a respected series where drivers can learn advanced racecraft before moving on to higher formulas.

Renault now backs the French F4 Championship and Formula Regional European Championship. The World Series by Renault once included Formula Renault 3.5 before becoming World Series Formula V8 3.5 in 2016, then folding in 2017.
Tomomi Adachi
Tomomi Adachi (足立 智美, Adachi Tomomi, born 1972 in Kanazawa, Ishikawa) is a Japanese vocal and electronics performer, composer, and instrument builder.

He has performed and recorded with artists such as Jaap Blonk, Nicolas Collins, Carl Stone, Noah Creshevsky, Yuji Takahashi, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Ute Wassermann, Jennifer Walshe, Zbigniew Karkowski, Butch Morris, Otomo Yoshihide. Adachi directed Japan's premiere of John Cage's Europera V and Variations VII. He was invited by Asian Cultural Council to New York from 2009 to 2010 and was a guest of the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm in 2012.

Variations (Cage)
Variations is a series of works by the American composer John Cage. A number of the pieces in the series are seminal examples of indeterminate music, others are happenings: performance pieces executed according to the score.
Alimardani
Alimardani (Persian: علیمردانی or علی‌مردانی) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Haman Alimardani (born 1977), Iranian fashion designer, graphic designer, and DJ

Hatef Alimardani (born 1976), Iranian film director and screenwriter

Mohsen Alimardani (born 1968), Iranian politician

Mohsen Alimardani
Mohsen Alimardani (Persian: ‌‌محسن علیمردانی; born 1968) is an Iranian conservative politician.

Alimardani was born in Zanjan. He is a member of the 9th Islamic Consultative Assembly from the electorate of Zanjan and Tarom with Mohammad Esmaeili. Alimardani won with 62,478 (30.76%) votes.