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Culture of Jersey
The culture of Jersey is the culture of the Bailiwick of Jersey. Jersey has a mixed Franco-British culture; however, modern Jersey culture is dominated by British cultural influences and has also been influenced by immigrant communities such as the Bretons and the Portuguese (mainly from Madeira).

Jersey's culture is strongly influenced by its distinct political culture, such as having its own currency and postal service, and its important industries such as agriculture and finance.

Political culture
Political culture describes how culture impacts politics. Every political system is embedded in a particular political culture.
Political culture is what the people, the voters, the electorates believe and do based on their understanding of the political system in which they have found themselves.  These may be regarded as being bad or good placed side by side with global best practices or norms.
Cataby Important Bird Area
Cataby Important Bird Area is a 314 ha tract of land lying about 2 km south of the town of Cataby, adjacent to the Brand Highway, in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.  It has been classified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports up to 24 breeding pairs of short-billed black cockatoo, an endangered species that nests in remnant patches of eucalypt woodland and isolated paddock trees, and feeds in native shrublands.  The area also supports the restricted-range western corella and a globally significant population of the regent parrot.

Wheatbelt (Western Australia)
The Wheatbelt is one of nine regions of Western Australia defined as administrative areas for the state's regional development, and a vernacular term for the area converted to agriculture during colonisation. It partially surrounds the Perth metropolitan area, extending north from Perth to the Mid West region, and east to the Goldfields–Esperance region.  It is bordered to the south by the South West and Great Southern regions, and to the west by the Indian Ocean, the Perth metropolitan area, and the Peel region.  Altogether, it has an area of 154,862 square kilometres (59,793 sq mi) (including islands).

The region has 42 local government authorities, with an estimated population of 75,000 residents. The Wheatbelt accounts for approximately three per cent of Western Australia's population.
Easton Press
Easton Press, a division of MBI, Inc., based in Norwalk, Connecticut, is a publisher specializing in premium leather-bound books. In addition to canonical classics, religion, poetry and art books, they publish a selection of science fiction and popular literature.

Some of Easton Press's products are arranged in monthly subscription series.

Because Easton Press purchased Heritage Press and Heritage Press published less expensive editions of books published by The Limited Editions Club, the interior printed content of all three is usually identical.  Vintage Limited Editions Club books are in some cases valuable.  Vintage Heritage Press offers same content at low prices.  And Easton Press the identical contents but with premium quality paper, ribbon markers, high quality leatherbound exteriors and 22K gold exterior decorations.

Norwalk, Connecticut
Norwalk is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The city, part of the New York Metropolitan Area, is the sixth-most populous city in Connecticut as of the 2020 census, with a population of 91,184.

Norwalk is on the northern shore of Long Island Sound and was first settled in 1649.
Jan van Wyk
Jan Johannes van Wyk (born 17 October 1969) is a Namibian politician who has served as a Member of the National Assembly of Namibia since 2015, first as a representative for the United People's Movement (UPM) and later for the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) from 2020 onwards. He is the UPM's current vice-president and former national chairperson. Van Wyk represented the UPM on the Rehoboth Town Council from 2010 to 2015 and was the UPM's sole parliamentary representative before the party formed a pact with the PDM ahead of the 2019 general election.

National Assembly (Namibia)
The National Assembly is the lower chamber of Namibia's bicameral Parliament. Its laws must be approved by the National Council, the upper house. Since 2014, it has a total of 104 members. 96 members are directly elected through a system of closed list proportional representation and serve five-year terms. Eight additional members are appointed by the President. Since March 2025, SWAPO member Saara Kuugongelwa has been the Speaker of the National Assembly.

Namibia's National Assembly emerged on Independence Day on 21 March 1990 from the Constituent Assembly of Namibia, following the elections of November 1989. That election, under guidelines established by the United Nations, included foreign observers in an effort to ensure a free and fair election process. The current National Assembly was formed following elections on 27 November 2024.
Conference USA Men's Soccer Player of the Year
The Conference USA Men's Soccer Player of the Year was an annual award given to the best overall player in Conference USA (C-USA) during the NCAA Division I men's soccer season. From C-USA's formation in 1995 until the conference dissolved its men's soccer league after the 2021 season, the Conference awarded the season's best offensive player with Offensive Player of the Year and the best defensive player with the Defensive Player of the Year. Starting in 2009, the additional Player of the Year award was created to recognize the best overall player.

Louisville Cardinals men's soccer
The Louisville Cardinals men's soccer team represents the University of Louisville in all NCAA Division I men's college soccer competitions. The team presently competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The team currently plays in the soccer-specific Lynn Stadium on the campus.
John Canning Studios
John Canning & Co., formerly John Canning Studios, is a historic building restoration, conservation and preservation company located in Cheshire, Connecticut. It is led by David Riccio, Dorothea Hennessey, and John Canning.

John Canning & Co. has worked on historic, landmark, and other buildings across the United States, such as the restoration of decorative finishes at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, the restoration of the ceiling mural at Grand Central Terminal, the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a new church in La Crosse, Wisconsin designed by Duncan Stroik, and Hulihe'e Palace on the Big Island, involving restoration of lime plaster.

Conservation and restoration of cultural property
The conservation and restoration of cultural property focuses on protection and care of cultural property (tangible cultural heritage), including artworks, architecture, archaeology, and museum collections. Conservation activities include preventive conservation, examination, documentation, research, treatment, and education. This field is closely allied with conservation science, curators and registrars.
Jeong Byeong-uk
Jeong Byeong-uk (Korean: 정병욱; Hanja: 鄭炳昱; Korean pronunciation: [t͡ɕʌŋ.bʌŋ.uk]; March 25, 1922 – October 12, 1982) was a scholar of Korean literature, bibliographer, and folklorist. He graduated from the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Seoul National University. He worked as a professor at Pusan National University, Yonsei University, and Seoul National University. Specializing in classical Korean poetry, he laid the groundwork for the study of both Korean classical poetry and novels. After Korea's liberation from Japan in 1945, he authored The Theories of Korean Classical Poetry (한국고전시가론, 1976) and Reappreciation of Korean Classics (한국고전의 재인식, 1979). He also contributed to the preservation, research, and popularization of pansori by writing Korean Pansori (한국의 판소리, 1980). He is known to have been a close friend of the poet Yun Dong-ju and published the first edition of Yun Dong-ju's Sky, Wind, Stars, and Poem (하늘과 바람과 별과 시, 1948).

Harvard–Yenching Institute
42°22′39″N 71°06′50″W﻿ / ﻿42.377552°N 71.113923°W﻿ / 42.377552; -71.113923

The Harvard–Yenching Institute is an independent foundation dedicated to advancing higher education in Asia in the humanities and social sciences, with special attention to the study of Asian culture.  It traditionally had close ties to Harvard University and the now-defunct Yenching University, and its offices are located on the Harvard campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but it is not part of Harvard.
Charles J. G. Verge
Charles J. G. Verge is a Canadian philatelist who signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 2020.

In 2006, he won the Geldert Medal for his article on Jan Gabriel Perold who served as president of the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada from 1928 to 1930.

Philately
Philately (/fɪˈlætəli/; fih-LAT-ə-lee) is the study of postage stamps and postal history. It also refers to the collection and appreciation of stamps and other philatelic products. While closely associated with stamp collecting and the study of postage, it is possible to be a philatelist without owning any stamps. For instance, the stamps being studied may be very rare or reside only in museums.
Electra-Afikim
Electra-Afikim (Hebrew: אלקטרה-אפיקים, lit. 'lit. routes'), known also as Afikim, is an Israeli bus company that operates on routes connecting the Gush Dan and Sharon plain regions with the western Samaria region of the West Bank, as well as lines in Ashdod, Yavne, Rosh HaAyin and other locations.

Sharon plain
32°24′00″N 34°52′59″E﻿ / ﻿32.400°N 34.883°E﻿ / 32.400; 34.883

The Sharon plain (Hebrew: הַשָּׁרוֹן, romanized: HaSharon; Arabic: سهل الشارون, romanized: Sahl al-Shārūn) is the central section of the Israeli coastal plain. The name Sharon is derived from the Akkadian word "A-Sharanu" which literally translates to a "thick forest," which the area was until its deforestation in the late 19th century. The plain lies between the Mediterranean Sea to the west and the Samarian Hills, 15 km (9.3 mi) to the east. It stretches from Nahal Taninim, a stream marking the southern end of Mount Carmel in the north, to the Yarkon River in the south, at the northern limit of Tel Aviv, over a total of about 90 km (56 mi). The level of the Sharon plain is connected to the level of the Mediterranean Sea by the Sharon Escarpment.

Parts of the plain are included in the Central, Haifa and Tel Aviv Districts of Israel.
Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdɔn dʒoˈvanni]; K. 527; full title: Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, literally 'The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni') is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanish legend about a libertine, Don Juan, as told by playwright Tirso de Molina in his 1630 play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra. It is a dramma giocoso blending comedy, melodrama and supernatural elements (although the composer entered it into his catalogue simply as opera buffa). It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the National Theatre (of Bohemia), now called the Estates Theatre, on 29 October 1787. Don Giovanni is regarded as one of the greatest operas of all time and has proved a fruitful subject for commentary in its own right; critic Fiona Maddocks has described it as one of Mozart's "trio of masterpieces with librettos by Da Ponte".

Fiona Maddocks
Fiona Maddocks is a British music critic and author who specializes in classical music. Described as "one of the UK's leading writers and commentators on classical music", Maddocks has been chief music critic of The Observer since 2010. She held a central role in founding three media companies: BBC Music Magazine, Channel 4 and The Independent.

Previously arts feature writer for the Evening Standard, Maddocks has also written for The Guardian and The Times. Her publications include a survey on the Medieval composer Hildegard of Bingen, a collection of interviews with Harrison Birtwistle, an anthology of 100 pieces recommended pieces, a guide to 20th-century classical music, and a study on Sergei Rachmaninoff's life outside of his native Russia.
Kottai Mariamman
Kottai Mariamman is a 2001 Indian Tamil-language Hindu devotional film written and directed by Rama Narayanan. The film featured Roja in the title role alongside Karan and Devayani. The film, which had music composed by Deva, released in December 2001.  The film was dubbed in Telugu as Ammoru Thalli 2001, in Hindi as Jai Maa in 2001 and as Durga Maiya in  2002, in Odia as Devi Shakti in 2001 and in Bhojpuri as Jai Maa in 2006. The film received positive reviews from critics.

Rama Narayanan
Rama Narayanan (3 April 1949 – 22 June 2014) was an Indian film director and film producer. In the 1980s, he was known as a director who specialized in shooting commercial films in which animals played vital roles, while in the 1990s, several of his films were based on Hindu devotional subjects.
WVTK
WVTK (92.1 MHz) is an FM radio station airing a classic hits radio format, licensed to Port Henry, New York, near the New York State/Vermont border.  It is owned by Vox AM/FM, LLC.

WVTK has an effective radiated power of 18,000 watts, most of which radiates into the Champlain Valley. The signal can be heard clearly in Middlebury, Bristol, Brandon, Vergennes and Charlotte, Vermont, along with Port Henry, Ticonderoga and Essex, New York. WVTK's business offices and broadcast studios are located in the Historic Marble Works Complex in Middlebury. The broadcast tower is located off Edgemont Road in Port Henry.

The station positions itself as "Addison County's Radio Station".  WVTK serves as the voice of the Middlebury College Panthers hockey and football teams, as well providing coverage for local area high school football, hockey, and basketball coverage.

Port Henry, New York
Port Henry is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 1,194 at the 2010 census.

Port Henry lies on the eastern side of the town of Moriah and is approximately one hour's drive (52 miles or 84 km) south of Plattsburgh. It is 44 miles (71 km) by road south-southwest of Burlington, Vermont, 115 miles (185 km) north of Albany and 113 miles (182 km) south of Montreal, Quebec.
Jacques Bretel
Jacques Bretel or Jacques Bretex (dates of birth and death unknown) was a French language trouvère, best known for having written le Tournoi de Chauvency.

His only known work, signed and dated in 1285, le Tournoi de Chauvency is a long poem of about 4,500 verses recounting the events of a tournament held during six days of feasting given by Louis V, Count of Chiny, in October 1285 at Chauvency-le-Château. It is without doubt a masterpiece of French Middle Ages literature and, in any case, one of the best digests of courtly art of the period.

His origin is unknown, but Tournoi de Chauvency is written in Old French combined with words in the western Lorraine dialect.

Le Tournoi de Chauvency is kept in a manuscript (reference: Douce 308) at the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.

Tournament (medieval)
A tournament, or tourney (from Old French torneiement, tornei), was a chivalrous competition or mock fight that was common in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (12th to 16th centuries). It is a type of hastilude.

Tournaments included mêlée, hand-to-hand combat, contests of strength or accuracy, and sometimes jousts. Some considered the tournaments to be frivolous pursuits of celebrity, and even a potential threat to public order; but the shows were popular and often put on in honor of coronations, marriages, births, recent conquests or peace treatises, or to welcome ambassadors, lords, or others considered to be of great importance. Other times tournaments were held for no particular reason or simply for entertainment.
Jurong, Jiangsu
Jurong (Chinese: 句容; pinyin: Jùróng) is a county-level city under the administration of Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province, China.

In 129 BC, the then Prince of Changsha Liu Fa's son, Dang became the Marquis of Jurong. As he died soon, the lands enfeoffed to him became Jurong county in the next year. Jurong was under the jurisdiction of Nanjing historically, but it was annexed to the Prefecture of Zhenjiang in 1950, then Zhenjiang in 1983. The county was converted into a county-level city in 1995.

Shanghai–Nanjing Riverside high-speed railway
The Shanghai–Nanjing Riverside high-speed railway (Chinese: 沪宁沿江高速铁路; pinyin: Hù–Níng Yánjiāng Gāosù Tiělù) is a high-speed railway line in Jiangsu, China. The line is 278.53 kilometres (173.1 miles) long and has a design speed of 350 kilometres per hour (220 mph). It was opened for operation on 28 September 2023.
Minister of the Navy (Netherlands)
The minister of the navy (Dutch: Minister van Marine) of the Netherlands was the minister responsible for the Ministry of the Navy and the Royal Netherlands Navy. Created in 1855, the position was abolished with the creation of the position of Minister of Defence in 1928, then reestablished in 1941 upon the abolition of the Ministry of Defence. When the Ministry of Defence was reestablished in 1948, the position of Minister of the Navy again was abolished.

The first minister of the navy was Abraham Johannes de Smit van den Broecke, while the last one was Alexander Fiévez, a member of the Catholic People's Party.

Catholic People's Party
The Catholic People's Party (Dutch: Katholieke Volkspartij, KVP) was a Catholic Christian democratic political party in the Netherlands. The party was founded in 1945 as a continuation of the interwar Roman Catholic State Party, which was in turn a successor of the General League of Roman Catholic Electoral Associations. The party was in government throughout its existence. In 1977, a federation of parties including the Catholic People's Party, the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) and the Christian Historical Union (CHU) ran together under the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) banner. The three participating parties formally dissolved to form the CDA in 1980.
Green Bay Chill
The Green Bay Chill was a women's American football team in the Legends Football League (formerly Lingerie Football League) that played from 2011 to 2014. The Chill played in Green Bay, Wisconsin, at the Resch Center from 2011 to 2013. In 2014, the team moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with home games at U.S. Cellular Arena. Their first game in the 2014 season was set to take place in the U.S. Cellular Arena but it was rescheduled to July 12 citing lack of ticket sales. The July 12 game was the only Chill game played at the arena. The team was coached by former Green Bay Packer defensive tackle Gilbert Brown.

Women's gridiron football
Women's gridiron football, more commonly known as women's tackle football, women's American football, women's Canadian football, or simply women's football, is a form of gridiron football (American or Canadian) played by women. Most leagues play by similar rules to the men's game. Women primarily play on a semi-professional or amateur level in the United States. Very few high schools or colleges offer the sport solely for women and girls. However, on occasion, it is permissible for a female player to join the otherwise male team.
Kampong Buang Tekurok
Kampong Buang Tekurok (Malay: Kampung Buang Tekurok) is a village-level subdivision of Lumapas, a mukim (subdistrict) of Brunei–Muara District, Brunei. The postcode for Kampong Buang Tekurok is BJ2524.

Villages of Brunei
A village (Malay: kampung or kampong) is the third and lowest administrative division of Brunei. It is headed by a village head (ketua kampung). Several villages are grouped together to form a mukim. A village is generally the traditional rural settlement, in particular in the sense of a kampong or Malay traditional village, but it may also be an urbanised settlement within or near the capital city or a town, or part of the public housing estates. The population varies from hundreds to a few thousands.
Metexilisia
Metexilisia is a monotypic moth genus in the subfamily Arctiinae. Its single species, Metexilisia citrago, is found in Madagascar. Both the genus and species were first described by Hervé de Toulgoët in 1958.

Hervé de Toulgoët
Hervé de Toulgoët (28 March 1911 – 14 September 2009) was a French entomologist. He specialised in moths of the families Arctiidae and Zygaenidae. He also studied the beetle genus Carabus. He was written about by Paul Thiaucourt and Jocelyne Navatte.

According to Navatte's note, Toulgoët published 179 works. On the genus Carabus, he published a catalogue of the types of the Paris National Museum of Natural History collection. On the Zygaenidae he published a note on some Moroccan species. His other works are mainly on Arctiidae.
Kirk House
Kirk House can refer to:

In the United States ordered by state

Bartlett-Kirk House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Batesville, Arizona

Col. Edward N. Kirk House, listed on the NRHP in Sterling, Illinois

Sennett and Bertha Kirk House, listed on the NRHP in Garnett, Kansas

Elisha Kirk House, listed on the NRHP in Calvert, Maryland

Kirk House (Narrowsburg, New York), listed on the NRHP in Sullivan County, New York

John W. and Thomas F. Kirk House, listed on the NRHP in St. Paul, Oregon

William Kirk House, listed on the NRHP in Turbotville, Pennsylvania

Kirk's Cabin Complex, listed on the NRHP in Moab, Utah

Lilly Kirk House, listed on the NRHP in Bothell, Washington

Kirk House (Narrowsburg, New York)
Kirk House is a historic home located at Narrowsburg in Sullivan County, New York, United States.  The original section was built in the 1840s as a one-story frame schoolhouse.  It was moved to its present site in 1875 and a second story was added the following year.  It measures 32 by 20 feet (9.8 by 6.1 m), three bays in length and two bays wide.  It was coated with stucco in the 1920s.  It features a center entrance and foll width, one story porch with Italianate style detailing.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
WMGJ
WMGJ (1240 AM, "Magic 1240 AM") is a radio station licensed to serve Gadsden, Alabama, United States.  The station is owned by Floyd L. Donald Broadcasting Co., Inc. Operations Manager is David Lawson.

Gadsden, Alabama
Gadsden is a city in and the county seat of Etowah County in the U.S. state of Alabama. It is located on the Coosa River about 56 miles (90 km) northeast of Birmingham 90 miles (140 km) southwest of Chattanooga, Tennessee. 72 Miles (117Km) Southeast of Huntsville It is the primary city of the Gadsden Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of 103,931. The population was 33,945 at the 2020 census.

In the 19th century, Gadsden was Alabama's second-most important center of commerce and industry, trailing only the seaport of Mobile. The two cities were important shipping centers: Gadsden for riverboats and Mobile for international trade.

From the late 19th century through the 1980s, Gadsden was a center of heavy industry, including the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and Republic Steel.  In 1991, following more than a decade of sharp decline in industry, Gadsden was awarded the honor of All-America City by the National Civic League.
2016 USA Women's Sevens
The 2016 USA Sevens was the third tournament within the 2015–16 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series. It was held over the weekend of 8–9 April 2016 at Fifth Third Bank Stadium in the Atlanta suburb of Kennesaw, Georgia. Australia won the tournament, defeating New Zealand by 24–19 in the final.

Kennesaw, Georgia
Kennesaw is a suburban city northwest of Atlanta in Cobb County, Georgia, United States, located within the greater Atlanta metropolitan area. Known from its original settlement in the 1830s until 1887 as Big Shanty, it became Kennesaw under an 1887 charter. According to the 2020 census, Kennesaw had a population of 33,036, a 10.9% increase in population over the preceding decade. Kennesaw has an important place in railroad history. During the Civil War, Kennesaw was the staging ground for the Great Locomotive Chase on April 12, 1862. Kennesaw is home to Kennesaw State University, an R2 research institution and the third-largest public university in the state of Georgia.