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2008 New Orleans Saints season
The 2008 season was the New Orleans Saints' 42nd in the National Football League (NFL), their 33rd playing home games at the Louisiana Superdome and their third under head coach Sean Payton. The Saints improved on their 7–9 record from the 2007 season with an 8–8 record, however, they would miss the playoffs for the second consecutive season. This was the only season under Drew Brees that they finished last in the division, and the Saints would not finish last in the division again until 2024. Despite this, Brees became just the second quarterback to throw for over 5,000 passing yards and won the NFL Offensive Player of the Year Award.

The Saints played the AFC West this season, beating three out of the four teams in that division. They lost to the Denver Broncos, but won against the San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders, and Kansas City Chiefs.

2007 New Orleans Saints season
The 2007 season was the New Orleans Saints' 41st season in the National Football League (NFL), their 32nd playing home games at the Louisiana Superdome and their second under head coach Sean Payton. The team tried to improve upon its 10–6 record in 2006 and its third division title—the Saints' first in the NFC South. Their other two division titles were in the NFC West, prior to the league's 2002 realignment. After opening up the pre-season in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game against the Pittsburgh Steelers on August 5, 2007, the Saints ended with a 3–2 pre-season record. The Saints opened the regular season with a nationally televised game against the defending Super Bowl XLI champion Indianapolis Colts, but ultimately had a disappointing season, finishing 2007 with a 7–9 record and were officially eliminated from postseason contention for the first time since 2005. The Saints also had no player make the Pro Bowl for the first time since their 1–15 1980 season.
Bastow
Bastow is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Darren Bastow (born 1981), English footballer

Ian Bastow (born 1971), English footballer

James Austin Bastow

John Bastow (1850–1927), English cricketer

Tommy Bastow (born 1991), English actor and musician

Darren Bastow
Darren Bastow (born 22 December 1981 in Torquay) is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League as a midfielder for Plymouth Argyle. He currently plays for South Devon League club Upton Athletic.
Tullstorp Runestone
The Tullstorp Runestone is a Viking Age memorial runestone, listed as DR 271 in the Rundata catalog, that is located in Tullstorp, which is about twenty kilometers east of Trelleborg, Skåne County, Sweden, and in the historic province of Scania.

Skåne County
Skåne County (Swedish: Skåne län [ˈskôːnɛ ˈlɛːn]), sometimes referred to as Scania County or just Scania in English, is the southernmost county, or län, of Sweden, mostly corresponding to the traditional province of Scania. It borders the counties of Halland, Kronoberg and Blekinge and connects to Capital Region, Denmark by the Öresund Bridge across the Øresund strait. The seat of residence for the Skåne Governor is the city of Malmö. The headquarters of Skåne Regional Council are located in both Kristianstad and Malmö.

The present county was created in 1997 when Kristianstad County and Malmöhus County were merged; it covers around 3% of Sweden's total area, while its population of 1.3 million comprises 13% of Sweden's total population.
Dhahran Burial Mounds
The Dhahran Burial Mounds (Arabic: مدافن الظهران) is an Arabian archaeological site located in the southern part of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The site comprises a large settlement dating back to the third millennium BCE, featuring approximately 900 burial mounds. An ancient trade route, which connected the site to the Ain Al-Sayh settlement in the south and likely to a seaport known as Dhahran, runs through the site.

3rd millennium BC
The 3rd millennium BC spanned the years 3000 to 2001 BC. This period of time corresponds to the Early to Middle Bronze Age, characterized by the early empires in the Ancient Near East. In Ancient Egypt, the Early Dynastic Period is followed by the Old Kingdom. In Mesopotamia, the Early Dynastic Period is followed by the Akkadian Empire. In what is now Northwest India and Pakistan, the Indus Valley Civilization developed a state society.

World population growth relaxed after the burst due to the Neolithic Revolution.
World population was largely stable, at roughly 60 million, with a slow overall growth rate at roughly 0.03% p.a.
Hüttenstollen
The Hüttenstollen, also Straßberger Hüttenstollen, was the central drainage adit (tunnel) in the Straßberg mining field and was also part of the Lower Harz Pond and Ditch System in the Harz Mountains of Germany. The adit lies at a depth of 50 m (160 ft) and is 750 m (2,460 ft) long. The pit water was drained into the Selke. The drainage ditches were the Straßberger Flösse and the Stollgraben.

Harz
The Harz (German: [haːɐ̯ts] ⓘ), also called the Harz Mountains, is a highland area in northern Germany. It has the highest elevations for that region, and its rugged terrain extends across parts of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia. The name Harz derives from the Middle High German word Hardt or Hart (hill forest). The name Hercynia derives from a Celtic name and could refer to other mountain forests, but has also been applied to the geology of the Harz. The Brocken is the highest summit in the Harz with an elevation of 1,141.1 metres (3,744 ft) above sea level. The Wurmberg (971 metres (3,186 ft)) is the highest peak located entirely within the state of Lower Saxony.
Underclass All-American
Underclass All-American is an honorific for high school and college athletes for excellence in competition. The athletes recognized with this title are considered the best players of a specific season in their sport that are members of a given class other than the senior class.  These athletes are considered All-Americans for their class and are termed Junior All-Americans, Sophomore All-Americans and Freshman All-Americans or All-Freshman, All-Sophomore and All-Junior honorees.

College sports
College sports or college athletics encompasses amateur sports played by non-professional, collegiate and university-level student athletes in competitive sports and games. College sports have led to many college rivalries.

College sports trace their roots back to the early 19th century. Originating from public schools in Britain, varsity matches between Oxford University and Cambridge University spread to Harvard University and Yale University, which influenced the development of college sports in the United States, and to college sports in Commonwealth, European, and other countries, such as Japan.
Stamullen
Stamullen (Irish: Steach Maoilín, meaning 'Mullen's house') is a village in County Meath, Ireland on the border with County Dublin. It lies just off the M1 motorway 32 km north of Dublin city centre and beside the Delvin River. In the late 1990s and early 21st century, it expanded significantly with the development of numerous housing estates in the area.

Delvin River
The River Delvin (Irish: An Ailbhine) is a river of northern County Dublin, about 18 kilometres (11 mi) long and forming much of the Dublin-Meath boundary;: 2  it is thus largely under the responsibility of Fingal County Council, sometimes shared with Meath County Council.
Jan Keizer (referee)
Johannes "Jan" Nicolaus Ignacius Keizer (6 October 1940 – 18 November 2024) was a Dutch football referee. He refereed two matches in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, and one match in the 1984 UEFA European Football Championship in France.

Keizer was a FIFA referee during the period from 1974, to 1987. He officiated the final at the 1984 Olympic tournament between France and Brazil, and served as a referee in the 1983 FIFA World Youth Championship, UEFA Euro 1980 qualifying, UEFA Euro 1984 qualifying, UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying, 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification, 1982 World Cup qualification, and 1986 World Cup qualification.

Keizer died on 18 November 2024, at the age of 84.

1982 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)
Listed below are the dates and results for the 1982 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the European zone (UEFA). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1982 FIFA World Cup qualification.

A total of 32 UEFA teams entered the qualifying competition. Moreover, Israel were also assigned to the European zone despite not being a UEFA member. The European zone was allocated 14 places (out of 24) in the final tournament. Spain, the hosts, qualified automatically, leaving 13 spots open for competition between 33 teams.

The 33 teams were divided into 7 groups. The teams would play against each other on a home-and-away basis. The number of teams and spots for each group were as follows:

Groups 1 to 6 had 5 teams each. The group winners and runners-up would qualify.

Group 7 had 3 teams. The group winner would qualify.
Gan Thiam Poh
Gan Thiam Poh PBM (Chinese: 颜添宝; pinyin: Yán Tiānbǎo; born 23 October 1963) is a Singaporean businessman and retired politician. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he was the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Fernvale division of Ang Mo Kio Group Representation Constituency (GRC) between 2020 and 2025. He also represented the Sengkang South division of Ang Mo Kio GRC between 2015 and 2020, and the Punggol South division of Pasir Ris–Punggol GRC between 2011 and 2015.

Fernvale, Singapore
Fernvale is a neighbourhood of Sengkang New Town in Singapore. It is located between Sungei Punggol and the proposed Sengkang West Industrial Estate. The house numbers of the public apartment blocks in Fernvale begin with the number '4' (4xx). Fernvale is the newest neighbourhood in Sengkang Town to be completed by the Housing and Development Board (HDB). Seletar Mall, a new shopping amenity which houses Sengkang's first cineplex, is located within this neighbourhood. In 2017, a proposed community facility to be located next to Seletar Mall was announced, which houses a community club, childcare centre, hawker centre and wet market. The community facility which was slated to be ready by the second half of 2020, had stopped construction in April 2020 due to the COVID-19 measures set by the government. Construction of the facility has since continued in the second half of 2020 and was completed in 2022.
Terres Inovia
Terres Inovia is a French agricultural research institute carrying out applied research on oilseed plants and protein crop. It was created in June, 2015 by merging:

the CETIOM, the French research institute on oilseed crops;

the UNIP, the French research institute on protein crops.

Terres Inovia main tasks are to conduct research and to disseminate technical knowledge to farmers. It has partnerships with other French research institutes such as INRA and Arvalis Institut du Végétal; also, it participates to European research projects (e.g. the Feed-a-Gene project).
The crops studied are:

oilseed crops:
rapeseed
sunflower
soybean
flax (especially for production of linseed oil)

protein crops:
pea
faba bean
lupin

hemp.

Protein crop
Protein crops are crops that provide substantial protein, a large class of naturally occurring complex combinations of amino acids. Such crops, including various oilseeds and grains, are important in meeting the nutrient requirements of farm animals. EU Common Agricultural Policy designates certain protein crops as eligible for support, such as peas, field beans, and sweet lupins.
Anurag Saikia
Anurag Saikia (born in December 1988) is an Indian film score composer, music director, music producer and instrumentalist from Moran, Assam, India. He is one of the youngest composers to be awarded Rajat Kamal for Best Non-Feature Film Music Direction for the film Yugadrashta.

His mother Dipali Saikia, is an All India Radio artist and teacher and his father Dr. Anil Saikia is an academician, who was conferred the Pratima Barua Pandey memorial Award on 27 December 2011 for his contributions towards the preservation and popularization of folk culture and music of the State of Assam.

After completing graduation from Cotton College, Anurag was admitted into the Swarnabhumi Academy of Music (SAM), Chennai. One of the latest movies he composed music for, is Thappad. He has worked with many popular artists like Sonu Nigam, Arijit Singh etc.

Saikia is known for his initiative of syncing Borgeets to the symphonic orchestra.

Music director
A music director, musical director or director of music is a person responsible for the musical aspects of a performance, production, or organization. This would include the artistic director and usually chief conductor of an orchestra or concert band, the director of music of a film, the director of music at a radio station, the person in charge of musical activities or the head of the music department in a school, the coordinator of the musical ensembles in a university, college, or institution (but not usually the head of the academic music department), the head bandmaster of a military band, the head organist and choirmaster of a church, or an organist and master of the choristers (the title given to a director of music at a cathedral, particularly in England).
Titus Alone
Titus Alone is a novel written by Mervyn Peake and first published in 1959. It is the third work in the Gormenghast trilogy. The other works are Titus Groan and Gormenghast. With the trilogy, a fourth work, the novella Boy in Darkness, and a fifth, the fragment Titus Awakes, are often considered part of a larger "Gormenghast series". It was re-edited by Langdon Jones in 1970 using the original manuscript.

In this novel, Titus has left the Medieval castle where he was raised and explores strange areas of his native world. He finds himself wandering in a modern city with skyscrapers and flying machines. After a brief romantic relationship with an older woman, Titus discovers a hidden area of tunnels and halls beneath the city's only river. It is populated by the city's outcasts, runaways and derelicts.

Death ray
The death ray or death beam is a theoretical particle beam or electromagnetic weapon first theorized around the 1920s and 1930s. Around that time, inventors such as Guglielmo Marconi, Nikola Tesla, Harry Grindell Matthews, Edwin R. Scott, Erich Graichen and others claimed to have invented it independently. In 1957, the National Inventors Council was still issuing lists of needed military inventions that included a death ray.

While based in fiction, research into energy-based weapons inspired by past speculation has contributed to actual weapons used by modern militaries sometimes called a sort of "death ray", such as the United States Navy and its Laser Weapon System (LaWS) deployed in mid-2014. Such armaments are technically known as directed-energy weapons.
Pinkie's Corner
Pinkie's Corner in Chase County, Nebraska was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. It is an example of an early rural auto roadside business.

It was the 1920s–30s business site of handyman and inventor C. Roy Elvis "Pinkie" Hedges.

Pinkie became known as a "Supreme Do-It-Yourselfer", including in generating and using electricity before rural electrification became general.  The site is a monument to resourcefulness during the hard times of the Great Depression.

Rural electrification
Rural electrification is the process of bringing electrical power to rural and remote areas. Rural communities are suffering from colossal market failures as the national grids fall short of their demand for electricity. As of 2019, 770 million people live without access to electricity – 10.2% of the global population. Electrification typically begins in cities and towns and gradually extends to rural areas, however, this process often runs into obstacles in developing nations. Expanding the national grid is expensive and countries consistently lack the capital to grow their current infrastructure. Additionally, amortizing capital costs to reduce the unit cost of each hook-up is harder to do in lightly populated areas (yielding higher per capita share of the expense). If countries are able to overcome these obstacles and reach nationwide electrification, rural communities will be able to reap considerable amounts of economic and social development.
Nunziata d'Antonio
Nunziato d'Antonio di Domenico, known as Nunziata (1468–1525) was an Italian painter, fireworks artist, and bombardier of Renaissance Florence. None of Nunziata's works can be identified today. Most of what we know about him comes from a single passage by Giorgio Vasari, in the 1568 edition of the Vite, within the Life of Ridolfo, David, and Benedetto Ghirlandaio. Too young to have known Nunziata personally, Vasari shaped him into a literary character: the joking painter in the tradition of Franco Sacchetti's novelle about Giotto and the fabled Buffalmacco. Nunziata belonged to the class of plebeian artists, and Vasari generally omitted their works. His story represents a part of Florentine art outside Vasari's canon, that became art history. His son Antonio, also a painter, left to work in England in 1519, and as Anthony Toto became a court artist or Serjeant Painter to Henry VIII and Edward VI.

Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Italian: Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori) is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art", "some of the Italian Renaissance's most influential writing on art", and "the first important book on art history".

Vasari published The Lives in two editions with substantial differences between them; the first edition, two volumes, in 1550 and the second, three volumes, in 1568 (which is the one usually translated and referred to). One important change was the increased attention paid to Venetian art in the second edition, even though Vasari still was, and has ever since been, criticised for an excessive emphasis on the art of his native Florence.
Swimming at the 1987 Pan American Games – Women's 100 metre freestyle
The women's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1987 Pan American Games took place on 9 August at the Indiana University Natatorium. The last Pan American Games champion was Carrie Steinseifer of US.

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both lengths being in freestyle.

Swimming at the 1983 Pan American Games – Women's 100 metre freestyle
The women's 100-metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1983 Pan American Games took place on 17 August. The last Pan American Games champion was Cynthia Woodhead of the US.

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both lengths being in freestyle.
Brian Derksen
Brian Derksen (born November 27, 1951) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman.

During the 1973–74 season, Derksen played one game in the World Hockey Association with the Los Angeles Sharks.

Los Angeles Sharks
The Los Angeles Sharks were an ice hockey team that played in the World Hockey Association (WHA) from 1972 to 1974.  Their primary home arena was the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena but they sometimes played at the Long Beach Sports Arena when the Sports Arena had other contractual obligations.  After the 1973–74 season, the franchise moved to Detroit to become the Michigan Stags and again mid-season to Baltimore to become the Baltimore Blades.

The franchise was originally meant to be called the Los Angeles Aces, but took the "Sharks" name after the proposed San Francisco Sharks franchise (not to be confused with the current NHL San Jose Sharks) was transferred to Quebec and became the Nordiques before the WHA began play. They kept the original colors from the name Aces; red and black being the colors of the suits in a deck of cards.
Namibia–Palestine relations
Namibia–Palestine relations refer to foreign relations between Namibia and Palestine.

Namibia supports a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Hanan Jarrar is the ambassador of Palestine to Namibia based in South Africa.

Hanan Jarrar
Hanan Na'eem Ameen Jarrar, (Arabic: حنان نعيم أمين جرار; Born on 14 February 1975 in Jenin) is a Palestinian politician and diplomat serving as Palestinian Ambassador to South Africa and non-resident Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Namibia, Malawi and Lesotho. On 28 December 2019, she was appointed as Ambassador to South Africa by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. On 28 January 2020, she presented her credentials to the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa.
Andrea Mangelli
Andrea Mangelli (died 30 October 1655) was a papal diplomat. An Italian, he began his diplomatic career in 1642 as auditor of the nunciature in Madrid, where the nuncio was Giovanni Battista Pamphili (later Pope Innocent X).

In 1651 Mangelli was appointed internuncio to Brussels, arriving at his new posting in 1652. He served in Brussels until 1655. It was during his time as the pope's diplomatic representative in Flanders that the Jansenist controversy came to a head, with extraordinary measures taken to bring Jacobus Boonen, archbishop of Mechelen, and Anthonius Triest, Bishop of Ghent, into line with the papal condemnation of Cornelius Jansen's Augustinus. This also entailed jurisdictional disputes about authority over the Flemish church between Mangelli and Charles de Hovyne, president of the Privy Council in Brussels.

Mangelli died in Brussels on 30 October 1655. His correspondence as internuncio was published in 1993.

Cornelius Jansen
Cornelius Jansen (/ˈdʒænsən/; Dutch: [ˈjɑnsə(n)]; Latinized name Cornelius Jansenius; also Corneille Jansen; 28 October 1585 – 6 May 1638) was the Dutch Catholic bishop of Ypres in Flanders and the father of a theological movement known as Jansenism.
Nic Cester
Nicholas John Cester (born 6 July 1979) is an Australian musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist, known for being the frontman and lead singer in rock band Jet alongside his younger brother Chris. Cester is also a founder of the Australian supergroup The Wrights. Jet's track "Are You Gonna Be My Girl", has won APRA Awards for 'Most Performed Australian Work Overseas' in 2006 and 2007.

Vox (company)
Vox is a British musical equipment manufacturer founded in 1957 by Thomas Walter Jennings in Dartford, Kent, England. The company is most famous for making the Vox AC30 guitar amplifier, used by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, Queen, Dire Straits, U2, and Radiohead; the Vox Continental electric organ, the Vox wah-wah pedal used by Jimi Hendrix, and a series of innovative electric guitars and bass guitars. Since 1992, Vox has been owned by the Japanese electronics firm Korg.