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1997 Houston mayoral election
The 1997 Houston mayoral election took place on November 4, 1997 to elect the successor to term-limited Mayor Bob Lanier. With no candidate receiving a majority of the votes, a run-off was held on December 6, 1997. The ultimate result was Lee Brown winning the election. The election was officially non-partisan.

Lee Brown won the run-off election, making him the first African-American mayor of Houston.

Bob Lanier (politician)
Robert Clayton Lanier (March 10, 1925 – December 20, 2014) was an American businessman and politician who served as mayor of Houston, Texas, from 1992 to 1998. Before becoming mayor, Lanier had a notable career as a lawyer, banker, and real estate developer. He also held significant public service positions, including chairman of the Texas Highway Commission and chairman of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO). As mayor, he focused on improving infrastructure, public safety, and the city’s diversity. Lanier was re-elected in 1993 and 1995, and after leaving office, remained active in real estate and public policy. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living former mayor of Houston.
Gadget Man
Gadget Man (previously Stephen Fry: Gadget Man) is a British television series, which aired from 19 November 2012 to 22 June 2015 on Channel 4 and was presented by Stephen Fry in the first series and Richard Ayoade in the remaining three. Each episode presented a variety of innovative products related to the episode's theme. The series was mainly filmed in and around The Lime Works, a 1930s art deco converted water tower in Norton, Kent.

Since the Stephen Fry: Gadget Man series was first broadcast, the franchise has also been expanded by Channel 4/North One to include Travel Man with Ayoade and current presenter Joe Lycett, and new commission Hobby Man, with Alex Brooker from Channel 4's Friday-night comedy show The Last Leg.

Alex Brooker
Alexander James Brooker (born 15 May 1984) is an English journalist and presenter best known for his television work with Channel 4.

Since 2012 Brooker has co-hosted The Last Leg, a Channel 4 panel show with Adam Hills and Josh Widdicombe, He co-presented Channel 4 ski-jumping show The Jump with Davina McCall in 2014. In 2016 he began presenting The Superhumans Show for Channel 4 daytime. 
In February 2018 Brooker signed with Leeds Rhinos' Foundation PDRL (Physical Disability Rugby League) team.
Succumbs
Succumbs is R.E.M.'s first commercially available full-length movie. Released in October 1987 by UNI/A&M, it contains video footage shot by R.E.M.'s lead singer Michael Stipe dating back to the early-1980s, while the band was still recording under the I.R.S. Records label. Stipe collaborated with local Athens, Georgia artist James Herbert, who directed Left of Reckoning.

Succumbs offers a glimpse of the unique feel of the band before their commercial success. It was released only on VHS and laserdisc, however, all the videos contained in this package are included on the When the Light Is Mine DVD, released in September 2006.

An introductory clip at the beginning of the collection features guitarist Peter Buck and the band's then-manager, Jefferson Holt, introducing "citizens of the future" to an "outmoded artform" called the "video", predicting it would have a staying power similar to that of Nehru jackets and other forgotten fads.

I.R.S. Records
I.R.S. Records is a record label founded by Miles Copeland III and Jay Boberg in 1979. I.R.S. produced some of the most popular bands of the 1980s, and was particularly known for issuing records by college rock, new wave and alternative rock artists, including R.E.M., the Go-Go's, Wall of Voodoo, and Fine Young Cannibals. Currently the label is distributed by parent company Universal Music Group.
Fábrica Argentina de Aviones
31°26′35.6″S 64°16′20.9″W﻿ / ﻿31.443222°S 64.272472°W﻿ / -31.443222; -64.272472

The Fábrica Argentina de Aviones SA (mostly known for its acronym FAdeA, officially Fábrica Argentina de Aviones "Brigadier San Martín" S.A.), is Argentina's main aircraft manufacturer. Founded on 10 October 1927 and located in Córdoba, for most of its existence it was known as "Fábrica Militar de Aviones" (FMA) until its privatization in the 1990s to Lockheed Martin. In 2009, the concession ended and the company is now wholly owned by the Argentine government.

Government of Argentina
The government of Argentina,  within the framework of a federal system, is a presidential representative democratic republic. The president of Argentina is both head of state and head of government. Executive power is exercised by the president. Legislative power is vested in the National Congress. The Judiciary is independent from the Executive and from the Legislature, and is vested in the Supreme Court and the lower national tribunals. From the own government is also called Presidency of the Nation (Spanish: Presidencia de la Nación).
Tapihritsa
Tapihritsa or Tapahritsa (c 7th ~ 8th century)  was a Bon practitioner who achieved the Dzogchen mastery of the rainbow body and consequently, as a fully realised trikaya Buddha, is invoked as an iṣṭadevatā (Classical Tibetan: yi dam) by Dzogchen practitioners in both Bon and Tibetan Buddhism. He is known for his achievement of the rainbow body.

The historical Tapihritsa was born in Zhangzhung to a family of nomad. Tapihritsa's principal teacher was Dawa Gyaltsen.

Tapihritsa was contemporaneous with Ligmincha, King of Zhangzhung, and Trisong Detsen, Emperor of Tibet.

Classical Tibetan
Classical Tibetan is a liturgical language of Tibetan Buddhism that dates from the 9th century. It particularly refers to the language of early canonical texts translated from other languages, especially Sanskrit. It is one of the handful of 'living' classical languages along with Arabic, Ge'ez, and New Persian, though it meaningfully differs from Modern Standard Tibetan.
Jazirat Badiyah
Jazirat Badiyah (Arabic: جزيرة البدية, romanized: Jazīrat Badīyah) is an island or peninsula near Al Badiyah and Zubara in the Emirate of Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.

The terrain rises to 61 meters.

Al Bidya
Al Bidya (Arabic: ٱلْبَدِيَة) also Al-Badiyah or Al-Bidyah (ٱلْبِدْيَة) is a settlement in the Emirate of Fujairah, the United Arab Emirates. It is the site of a historical mosque of the same name, which is the oldest functional mosque in the country, dating back to the 15th century.
Boston Pizza Cup
The Boston Pizza Cup is the Alberta provincial championship for men's curling, run by Curling Alberta. The winner represents Team Alberta at the national men's championship, called the Montana's Brier.  Currently sponsored by restaurant chain Boston Pizza, under former sponsors, the championship was known as the Alberta Kia Cup and the Safeway Select. Prior to obtaining a title sponsor, the tournament was called the Alberta Tankard.

The Brier
The Brier (French: Le Brier), known since 2024 as the Montana's Brier for sponsorship reasons, is the annual Canadian men's curling championship, sanctioned by Curling Canada. The Brier has been held since 1927, traditionally during the month of March.

The winner of the Brier goes on to represent Canada at the World Curling Championships of the same year. The Brier is the best supported curling competition in terms of paid attendance, attracting crowds far larger than even those for World Championships held in Canada.

Its current main sponsor is Montana's, a Canadian restaurant chain. "Brier" originally referred to a brand of tobacco sold by the event's first sponsor, the Macdonald Tobacco Company.
Darion Duncombe
Darion Duncombe (born January 16, 1990) is a male track and field athlete from Freeport, Bahamas who mainly competes in the 100 m and 200 and 400 m. He attended Sunland Baptist Academy and Tabernacle Baptist High on Grand Bahama before going on to compete for Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Duncombe won a gold medal in the Heptathlon at the 2009 CARIFTA Games in Vieux Fort, Saint Lucia. Duncombe also won a bronze medal in the boys 4 × 400 m relay at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Port of Spain, Trinidad.

Duncombe also played as a running back for the Bahamas American Football Jr team at the IFAF 2009 Junior World Championship Qualification Tournament game held in Panama City, Panama. Bahamas played the Mexico National team.

Vieux Fort, Saint Lucia
Vieux Fort is a town located near the southernmost point of Saint Lucia, a Caribbean island nation. It is named after a fort that used to watch out towards Saint Vincent towards the south. The population of the town was 4,574 in 2000
while the surrounding district of Vieux Fort has a total population of about 15,132 in 2010.
HMS Byron
HMS Byron was a US-built Captain class frigate of the Royal Navy during World War II. Named after Vice Admiral The Honourable John Byron whose frequent encounters with bad weather in ensuing years won him the sobriquet, "Foul Weather Jack".
Originally laid down as DE-79, a turbo-electric (TE) type Buckley-class destroyer escort, she was diverted to the Royal Navy and named HMS Byron before the launch.

John Byron
Vice-Admiral of the White John Byron (8 November 1723 – 1 April 1786) was a Royal Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator. He earned the nickname "Foul-Weather Jack" in the British press due to his frequent encounters with bad weather at sea. As a midshipman, Byron sailed in a squadron under George Anson on his voyage around the world, though Byron's ship, HMS Wager, made it only to southern Chile, where it was wrecked. He returned to England with the captain of the ship.

Byron was appointed governor of Newfoundland following Hugh Palliser, who left in 1768. He circumnavigated the world as a commodore with his own squadron in 1764–1766. Byron fought in several battles of the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence, and rose to vice admiral before his death in 1786. His grandsons include the poet Lord Byron and the admiral and explorer George Byron, 7th Baron Byron. One of Byron's great-granddaughters was the mathematician and informatics pioneer Ada Lovelace.
Henrietta Wood
Henrietta Wood (c. 1819 – 1912) was an American woman held as a slave who won the largest verdict ever awarded for slavery reparations in the United States. Born as a slave in Kentucky, but freed as an adult, Wood was later kidnapped and sold back into slavery. After the American Civil War, Wood successfully sued her kidnapper and won financial damages.

Reparations for slavery
Reparations for slavery are financial compensation, legal remedy of damages, public apology and guarantees of non-repetition of enslavement. Victims of slavery can refer to historical slavery or ongoing slavery in the 21st century. Some reparations for slavery date back to the 18th century.
Zehra Çırak
Zehra Çırak (Istanbul, 1960) is a Turkish-German writer. She moved to Germany with her family when she was three years old, and grew up in Karlsruhe. She has lived in Berlin since 1982. She started publishing in the magazine Flugfänger. Çırak was awarded the Friedrich-Hölderlin-Förderpreis in 1993 and the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize in 2001. In 2004 she won the Hölderlin Prize, and the Poetry Award of Amistade Multietnica Poeta Anima Istranza, Olbia in 2005.

Adelbert von Chamisso Prize
The Adelbert von Chamisso Prize (German: Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Preis) was a German literary award established in 1985, given to a work whose author's mother tongue is not German, as was the case for Adelbert von Chamisso. It was offered by the Robert Bosch Stiftung.

In addition to the main prize with a prize money of €15,000, one or more promotional prizes ("Förderpreise") with a prize money of €7,000 and sometimes an honorary award ("Ehrengabe") were given.

The prize was created by Harald Weinrich.

In 2016, the Robert Bosch Stiftung announced that the prize would be discontinued after the final 2017 award, saying that it had now fulfilled its original objective.
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Santa Fe
The Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Santa Fe Campus (in Spanish: Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Santa Fe) commonly shortened as Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Santa Fe, ITESM Campus Santa Fe or Tec Santa Fe, is a campus of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education private university system in Santa Fe, Mexico City, Mexico. It provides professional studies as well as high school programs. International programs are also available. The campus features modern architecture by the renowned Ricardo Legorreta, having more than 30,000 square meters of construction, with more than 3,000 students.

University system
A university system is a set of multiple affiliated universities and colleges that are usually geographically distributed. Typically, all member universities in a university system share a common component among all of their various names. Usually, all member universities of a university system are governed by a system-wide governing body, such as a board of trustees or a board of regents.
Kimbriell Kelly
Kimbriell Kelly is an American journalist and expert on public records requests, currently working as the Editor in Chief of Chicago Public Media. She is a former Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at the Washington Post.

Chicago Public Media
Chicago Public Media (CPM) is a not-for-profit radio and print media company. CPM operates as the primary National Public Radio member organization for Chicago.  It owns three non-commercial educational FM broadcast stations and one FM translator.  In addition to local news and information productions, it produces the programs Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! for NPR stations, and This American Life which is distributed by PRX to other radio stations.  On January 30, 2022, Chicago Public Media acquired the Chicago Sun-Times daily newspaper.
Harry Page Woodward
Henry Page Woodward (16 May 1858 – 8 February 1917) was a British-born Australian  geologist, mining engineer and public servant. He was a fellow of the Geological Society of London, the Royal Geographical Society and the Imperial Institute, as well as a justice of the peace of the then Colony of Western Australia. Woodward was born in Norwich, Norfolk, England, the eldest son of geologist Henry Woodward, and died in West Perth, Western Australia.

In his Annual General Report of the Government Geologist, 1890 he was the first to note the potential of the Pilbara iron ore reserves:

This is essentially an iron ore country. There is enough iron ore to supply the whole world, should the present sources be worked out.

The report was ignored and it wasn't till 1961 that Lang Hancock could capitalise on his re-discovery and laws that enabled his profitable exploitation of the iron ore.

Mining engineering
Mining engineering is the extraction of minerals from the ground. It is associated with many other disciplines, such as mineral processing, exploration, excavation, geology, metallurgy, geotechnical engineering and surveying. A mining engineer may manage any phase of mining operations, from exploration and discovery of the mineral resources, through feasibility study, mine design, development of plans, production and operations to mine closure.
Colesbukta
Colesbukta is a bay at the southern side of Isfjorden, in Nordenskiöld Land at  Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The bay is about 4.5 kilometers wide. A railway for coal transport was earlier operated between Grumantbyen and shipment facilities in Colesbukta. The valley Colesdalen debouches into Colesbukta.

The cabin built by the Russian geologist Vladimir Rusanov in 1912 at the entrance to Colesbukta has been turned into a small self-guided museum. Other buildings and facilities in the old Soviet settlement remain abandoned.

Isfjorden (Svalbard)
Isfjorden is the second longest fjord in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. It lies on the west side of Spitsbergen, an island in the Arctic Ocean about midway between Norway and the North Pole, and the largest in the archipelago.  The mountain of Alkhornet stands on the northern side of the entrance to the fjord, as does the coastal plain of Daudmannsøyra. A portion of Isfjorden is included in the national parks of Norway as Nordre Isfjorden Land National Park. Around the fjord lie many of the largest settlements in Svalbard: Barentsburg, Longyearbyen (on the Adventfjorden) and Pyramiden.
Hackett's Marsh
Hackett's Marsh is a  20.4-hectare (50-acre) Local Nature Reserve in Bursledon in Hampshire. It is owned by Hampshire County Council and managed by  Hampshire Countryside Service. It is part of Solent and Southampton Water Ramsar site and  Special Protection Area, of Solent Maritime Special Area of Conservation and of Lincegrove and Hackett's Marshes Site of Special Scientific Interest.

This site has saltmarshes and species-rich grassland. Its diverse insects, which include some species which are nationally rare, provide an important source of food for waders, such as golden plovers, black-tailed godwits and curlews.

Special Area of Conservation
A special area of conservation (SAC) is defined in the European Union's Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC), also known as the Directive on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Fauna and Flora. They are to protect the 220 habitats and approximately 1,000 species listed in annex I and II of the directive which are considered to be of European interest following criteria given in the directive. They must be chosen from the sites of Community importance by the member states and designated SAC by an act assuring the conservation measures of the natural habitat.

SACs complement special protection areas and together form a network of protected sites across the European Union called Natura 2000.  This, in turn, is part of the Emerald network of Areas of Special Conservation Interest (ASCIs) under the Berne Convention.
1994 Bahia gubernatorial election
1994 Bahia gubernatorial election was held in the Brazilian state of Bahia on October 3, alongside Brazil's general election, with a second round on November 15. PFL candidate, Paulo Souto, was elected on November 15, 1994.

Democrats (Brazil)
The Democrats (Portuguese: Democratas, DEM) was a centre-right political party in Brazil that merged with the Social Liberal Party to found the Brazil Union in 2021. It was founded in 1985 under the name of Liberal Front Party (Partido da Frente Liberal, PFL) from a dissidence of the defunct Democratic Social Party (PDS), successor to the National Renewal Alliance (ARENA), the official party during the military dictatorship of 1964–1985. It changed to its current name in 2007. The original name reflected the party's support of free market policies, rather than the identification with international liberal parties. Instead, the party affiliated itself to the international federations of Christian-democratic (CDI) and conservative parties (IDU). The Democrats' identification number is 25 and its colors are green, blue, and white.

In October 2021, the party announced its merger with the Social Liberal Party into the new Brazil Union (Portuguese: União Brasil, UNIÃO) party.
October 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
October 7 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 9

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 21 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For October 8th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 25.

Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar describes and dictates the rhythm of the life of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Passages of Holy Scripture, saints and events for commemoration are associated with each date, as are many times special rules for fasting or feasting that correspond to the day of the week or time of year in relationship to the major feast days.

There are two types of feasts in the Orthodox Church calendar: fixed and movable. Fixed feasts occur on the same calendar day every year, whereas movable feasts change each year. The moveable feasts are generally relative to Pascha (Easter), and so the cycle of moveable feasts is referred to as the Paschal cycle.
Yume Hirano
Yume Hirano (平野優芽; born 15 March 2000) is a Japanese rugby sevens player.

Hirano competed in the women's tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She captained Japan at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town.

She led Japan at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

Japan women's national rugby sevens team
The Japan women's national rugby sevens team has competed in competitions such as the Hong Kong Women's Sevens.

In 2012-13 they played two World Series tournaments, placing 13th in China. In the 2013–14  season they placed 7th at São Paulo and 8th at Atlanta. They were not invited to any World Series tournament in 2014–15. Japan played the full 2015–16 World Series, with a best result of 9th at the Dubai Sevens, and finished 11th in the overall standings.

Japan qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics after winning the 2015 ARFU Women's Sevens Championships. The team won over Kenya but lost twice to Brazil, finishing 10th in the tournament. In 2021, the Sakura's lost all of their five games and finished last at the 2020 Olympics.
Anastasiya Verameyenka
Anastasiya Uladzimirawna Verameyenka (Belarusian: Анастасія Уладзіміраўна Верамеенка, Russian: Анастасия Владимировна Веремеенко, born 10 July 1987) is a Belarusian professional women's basketball player who plays for Horizont Minsk. Veremeyenka was part of the Belarus women's national basketball teams that won a bronze medal at EuroBasket Women 2007 and placed sixth at the 2008 Olympics. Her elder brother Vladimir Veremeenko is also a professional basketball player.

EuroBasket Women 2007
The 2007 European Women Basketball Championship, commonly called EuroBasket Women 2007, was the 31st regional championship held by FIBA Europe. The competition was held in Italy and took place from September 24, 2007 to October 7, 2007. Russia won the gold medal and Spain the silver medal while Belarus won the bronze. Amaya Valdemoro from Spain was named the tournament MVP.
Stomopteryx gaesata
Stomopteryx gaesata is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in the Taurus Mountains in Asia Minor. It has also been recorded from India.

The wingspan is about 27 mm. The forewings are pale whitish ochreous with the basal third of the costal edge dark fuscous. The veins are tinged with brownish, on the posterior half of the wing marked with lines of scattered dark fuscous scales, towards the apex and upper part of the termen enlarged and connected by some suffused dark fuscous sprinkles. There is a strong black streak along the fold from near the base to near the middle of the wing, and one in the disc from above the apex of this to three-fourths, these representing the stigmata. The hindwings are grey.

Taurus Mountains
The Taurus Mountains (Turkish: Toros Dağları or Toroslar; Kurdish: Çiyayên Torosê) are a mountain complex in southern Turkey, separating the Mediterranean coastal region from the central Anatolian Plateau. The system extends along a curve from Lake Eğirdir in the west to the upper reaches of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in the east. It is a part of the Alpide belt in Eurasia.