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Fort railway station bombing
The Fort railway station bombing was a suicide bombing of a commuter train while it was stopped at the Fort railway station, the main station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on February 3, 2008. The bombing killed 12 civilians and injured more than 100. Killed in the attack were eight school children of D. S. Senanayake College's baseball team and their coach/teacher-in-charge.

The government said that the attack was carried out by a female suicide bomber, belonging to LTTE, who got down from a train and exploded during rush hour on Platform 3.

Secretary of Defence Gotabaya Rajapaksa directed the Criminal Investigation Department to investigate the bombing which led to the arrest of two suspects alongside explosives hidden in Colombo and the discovery of small business premises run by a LTTE cell. The cell leader had left the country after the bombing.

Criminal Investigation Department (Sri Lanka)
The Criminal Investigation Department (known as CID) of the Sri Lanka Police Service is responsible for carrying out investigations  throughout the island into serious crimes, including murders, rape and organized crime cases of a very serious nature that require special skills and complex detection. At times, the CID carries out investigations pertaining to national security.

It is the premier investigation arm of the Sri Lanka Police Department and was established in 1870.

It is headed by a director, who was of a Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Grade. However, since the late 1970s, the position of Deputy Inspector General of Police - CID (DIG/CID) was established.

The CID was modeled after the British Police Criminal Investigation Department and hence constitute the plain clothes detectives of the Sri Lanka police. The CID has the power to arrest any person from anywhere in Sri Lanka without getting approval from any Range DIG.
Ainārs Ķiksis
Ainārs Ķiksis (born 10 February 1972) is a Latvian former track cyclist. He competed at the 1992, 1996 and the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Ķiksis won a silver medal in the keirin at 1998 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.

1998 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
The 1998 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Bordeaux, France from August 26 to August 30, 1998. Twelve events were contested, eight for the men and four for the women. France dominated most of the events, taking home half of the gold medals on offer.
Girolamo da Sommaia
Girolamo da Sommaia (Florence, 17 June 1573 – Pisa, 1635) was an Italian jurist, diarist, bibliophile, and administrator. He is best known for his detailed diary chronicling his student years in Salamanca (1603–1607), which provides a rare portrait of intellectual and daily life in early 17th-century Spain.

Bookworm
A bookworm or bibliophile is an individual who loves and frequently reads or collects books. Bibliophilia or bibliophilism is the love of books.

Bibliophiles may have large, specialized book collections. They may highly value old editions, autographed copies, or illustrated versions. Bibliophilia is distinct from bibliomania, a compulsive obsession to collect books which can affect interpersonal relationships or health. The term "bibliophile" has been in use since 1820 and has been associated with historical figures like Lord Spencer and J.P. Morgan, who were known for their extensive book collections.
Oksana Franko
Oksana Omelianivna Franko (Ukrainian: Оксана Омелянівна Франко; 19 March 1939 – 17 September 2021) was a Ukrainian historian, ethnologist, archivist, educator, public figure. Doctor of Historical Sciences (2000), Professor (2004). Full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. Honorary citizen of Kalush (1997). Wife of Dmytro Danyliuk; granddaughter of Onufrii Franko (brother of Ivan Franko).

Shevchenko Scientific Society
The Shevchenko Scientific Society (Ukrainian: Наукове товариство імені Т.Шевченка в Україні, romanized: Naukóve tovarýstvo imeni T.Shevchénka v Ukraini), founded in 1873, is a Ukrainian scientific society devoted to the promotion of scholarly research and publication.

Unlike the government-funded National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the society is a public organization. It was reestablished in Ukraine in 1989 during the  fall of the Soviet Union, after being exiled from Ukraine since 1940. The society now has branches in several countries around the globe, such as the United States, Canada, Australia, and France.

The organisation is named after the famous Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, Taras Shevchenko.
Aegiphila mollis
Aegiphila mollis (syn. Aegiphila salutaris) is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is native to Central and South America. Its common names include contra culebra and totumillo.

This plant is a tree or shrub.

The species is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.

Flora Brasiliensis
Flora Brasiliensis is a book published between 1840 and 1906 by the editors Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, August Wilhelm Eichler, Ignatz Urban and many others. It contains taxonomic treatments of 22,767 species, mostly Brazilian angiosperms.

The work was begun by Stephan Endlicher and Martius.
Von Martius completed 46 of the 130 fascicles before his death in 1868, with the monograph being completed in 1906.

It was published by the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Paul MacDonald (canoeist)
Christopher Paul MacDonald MBE (born 8 January 1960) is a New Zealand sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He is widely regarded as one of New Zealand's most successful international athletes and holds innumerable international speed records in canoeing.

MacDonald had experience in surf lifesaving when he started kayaking in the late 1970s.

Canoeing
Canoeing is an activity which involves paddling a canoe with a single-bladed paddle. In some parts of Europe, canoeing refers to both canoeing and kayaking, with a canoe being called an 'open canoe' or 'Canadian'.

A few of the recreational forms of canoeing are canoe camping and canoe racing.  Other forms include a wide range of canoeing on lakes, rivers, oceans, ponds and streams.
HNLMS Johan Maurits van Nassau (1932)
HNLMS Johan Maurits van Nassau (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Johan Maurits van Nassau), named after John Maurice of Nassau, was a Dutch gunboat that served in the early part of World War II, when it was sunk. She was the sole ship of her class, which was developed from the earlier Flores class.

John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen
John Maurice of Nassau (Dutch: Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen [ˈjoːɦɑ ˈmʌurɪts fɑ ˈnɑsʌu ˈsiɣə(n)]; German: Johann Moritz von Nassau-Siegen; Portuguese: João Maurício de Nassau-Siegen; French: Jean-Maurice de Nassau-Siegen; 17 June 1604 – 20 December 1679), called "the Brazilian" for his fruitful period as governor of Dutch Brazil, was Count and (from 1664) Prince of Nassau-Siegen. He served as Herrenmeister (equivalent to Grand Master) of the Order of Saint John (Bailiwick of Brandenburg) from 1652 until his death in 1679.

The former residence of John Maurice in The Hague, Netherlands, is now the home of the Royal Cabinet of Paintings, named Mauritshuis, which means "Maurice House" in Dutch.
Automate (mythology)
Automate (Ancient Greek: Αὐτομάτη means 'acting of one's own will, of oneself') was one of the Danaids in Greek mythology. According to Apollodorus and others, she killed the (mythical) Egyptian king Busiris, who was betrothed to her. But according to the geographer Pausanias, she was married to Architeles, the son of Achaeus, who emigrated from Phthiotis in Thessaly to Argos with Archander.

Thessaly
Thessaly (/ˈθɛsəli/ THESS-ə-lee; Greek: Θεσσαλία, romanized: Thessalía [θesaˈli.a]; ancient Thessalian: Πετθαλία, Petthalía) is a traditional geographic and modern administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, Thessaly was known as Aeolia (Ancient Greek: Αἰολία, Aiolía), and appears in Homer's Odyssey.

Thessaly became part of the modern Greek state in 1881, after four and a half centuries of Ottoman rule. Since 1987 it has formed one of the country's 13 regions and is further (since the Kallikratis reform of 2011) sub-divided into five regional units and 25 municipalities. The capital of the region is Larissa. Thessaly lies in northern central Greece and borders the regions of Macedonia to the north, Epirus to the west, Central Greece to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the east. The Thessaly region also includes the Sporades islands.
Caffé Vita Coffee Roasting Company
Caffe Vita Coffee Roasting Company, commonly known as Caffe Vita, is an American coffee roasting company based in Seattle, Washington. Part of the third wave of coffee movement, it has been named one of 10 places offering "the best coffee in America."

Caffe Vita was founded in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood in 1995 by Mike McConnell. McConnell was an early proponent of developing direct relationships with coffee farmers and bypassing the fair trade of coffee, thus pioneering the Farm Direct movement.

On January 1, 2020, local restaurateur Deming Maclise took over ownership at Caffe Vita.

Queen Anne, Seattle
Queen Anne is a neighborhood in northwestern Seattle, Washington. Queen Anne covers an area of 2.8 square miles (7.3 km2), and has a population of about 34,000.  It is bordered by Belltown to the south, Lake Union to the east, the Lake Washington Ship Canal to the north and Interbay to the west.

The neighborhood is built on a hill, now named Queen Anne Hill, which became a popular spot for the city's early economic and cultural elite to build their mansions. Its name is derived from the Queen Anne architectural style in which many of the early homes were built.
Willemsoord, Steenwijkerland
Willemsoord is a village in the Dutch provinces of Overijssel and Friesland. For the most part it lays within the municipality Steenwijkerland, and small part lays within the municipality of Weststellingwerf. It was founded in 1820 as an orphanage and colony of the Society of Humanitarianism.

A settlement developed around the colony. In 1840, it was home to 925 people. In 1851, a church was built. In 1923, the Society was disbanded and its possessions were sold. In 1942, the national repository of art was built near Willemsoord. It housed over 3,000 art pieces in a bomb resistant bunker-like building.

Society of Humanitarianism
The Society of Humanitarianism (Dutch: Maatschappij van Weldadigheid) was a Dutch private organization set up in 1818 by general Johannes van den Bosch to help poor families, mostly from the big cities, improve their lot in the aftermath of the Napoleonic French occupation by granting them farming land. He petitioned William I of the Netherlands for its formation and bought uncultivated land in Drenthe for the poor to exploit. The Estate 'Westerbeeksloot' in what is now Frederiksoord was the society's administrative center. The estate at Frederiksoord and the colonies built by the Society at Wilhelminaoord, Wortel and Veenhuizen were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2021 for their testimony to a unique 19th century philosophical movement and their outstanding urban planning.
John J. Snow Jr.
John Joyner Snow Jr. (born October 24, 1945) is an American politician, attorney, and former football player who served as a member of the North Carolina Senate, for the 50th district from 2005 to 2011. His district included Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Swain and Transylvania counties. Snow was the co-chair of the Subcommittee on Justice and Public Safety.

Haywood County, North Carolina
Haywood County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 62,089. The county seat and its largest community is Waynesville.

Haywood County is part of the Waynesville, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Château La Tour Blanche
44°32′34″N 0°21′03″W﻿ / ﻿44.5428°N 0.3507°W﻿ / 44.5428; -0.3507

Château La Tour Blanche, or La Tour-Blanche, is a sweet white wine ranked as Premier Cru Classé (French, “First Growth”) in the original Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855. Belonging to the Sauternes appellation in Gironde, in the region of Graves, the winery is located in the commune of Bommes.

Uniquely among classed growth wineries, the estate is the property of the French state, and the site of the La Tour Blanche School of Viticulture and Oenology.

Gironde
Gironde (/ʒɪˈrɒnd/ zhih-ROND, US usually /dʒɪˈ-/ jih-; French: [ʒiʁɔ̃d] ⓘ; Occitan: Gironda, pronounced [dʒiˈɾundɔ]) is the largest department in the southwestern French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Named after the Gironde estuary, a major waterway, its prefecture is Bordeaux. In 2019, it had a population of 1,623,749. The famous Bordeaux wine region is in Gironde. It has six arrondissements, making it one of the departments with the most arrondissements (Nord also has six, while Pas-de-Calais has the most of any department, with seven).
Andy Styan
Andrew Styan (born 12 December 1947) is a British fell runner who was the national champion in 1979.

He first made an impact in fell running when he won at Burnsall in 1974, his fast descent moving him up from sixth position at the high point of the race to first place at the finish.

He won the Langdale Horseshoe in 1977, when he set the still-standing record of 1:55:03. He believed he was able to run so quickly due to the good conditions and the very strong competition on the day from Billy Bland, Alan McGee and Mike Short.

In addition to Langdale, Styan performed well in many other events, especially in the long races. His victories included the Ennerdale Horseshoe, Wasdale, Duddon Valley, the Edale Skyline and the Isle of Jura.

He was the runner-up in the British Fell Running Championships in 1978, then improved to be the champion the following year.

Styan was editor of The Fell Runner between 1979 and 1982.

Ennerdale Horseshoe Fell Race
The Ennerdale Horseshoe Fell Race is an annual Lake District fell race held in June, starting and finishing at the Scout Camp near Ennerdale Water. The route is approximately 36.8 kilometres (22.9 mi) in length with 2,290 metres (7,510 ft) of ascent and takes in checkpoints at Great Borne, Red Pike, Blackbeck Tarn, Green Gable, Kirk Fell, Pillar, Haycock, Iron Crag and Crag Fell.
J. P. Moreland
James Porter Moreland (born March 9, 1948) is an American philosopher, theologian, and  Christian apologist. He is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology at Biola University in La Mirada, California.

Moreland specializes in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and Christian philosophy, having had his work published in journals such as Metaphilosophy and the American Philosophical Quarterly. He has also had his work published by presses such as Intervarsity Press, NavPress, Zondervan, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Rutgers University Press, and Prometheus.

In 2018, he edited The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism.

La Mirada, California
La Mirada is a city in southeast Los Angeles County, California United States, and is one of the Gateway Cities, on the border with Orange County. The population was 48,008 at the 2020 census. The La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and the Splash! La Mirada Regional Aquatics Center are two of its major attractions. It is the home of Biola University, an evangelical Christian institution of higher education.
Saša Gedeon
Saša Gedeon (born 29 August 1970) is a Czech film director, screenwriter, and actor. He graduated from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in 1995. That year, he won the Findling Award for his film Indiánské léto at the Cottbus Film Festival.
His 1999 film, Návrat idiota, won him the São Paulo International Film Festival International Jury Award, as well as several Czech Lion Awards.

Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Czech: Filmová a televizní fakulta Akademie múzických umění v Praze) or FAMU is a film school in Prague, Czech Republic, founded in 1946 as one of three branches of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. It is the fifth oldest film school in the world. The teaching language on most courses at FAMU is Czech, but FAMU also runs certain courses in English. The school has repeatedly been included on lists of the best film schools in the world by The Hollywood Reporter.

In the 1960s and 1970s, several young directors from Yugoslavia were FAMU students (Rajko Grlić, Srđan Karanović, Emir Kusturica, Goran Marković, Goran Paskaljević and Lordan Zafranović). All of these directors would become very successful in the following decades, prompting the coinage of the term Praška filmska škola ("Prague film school"), or Praški talas ("Prague wave"), which is sometimes considered a prominent subgenre of the Yugoslav cinema.
Kołodziejski
Kołodziejski (feminine: Kołodziejska; plural: Kołodziejscy) is a Polish-language occupational surname derived from the occupation of kołodziej ("wheelwright"). Notable people with this surname include:

Chris Kolodziejski (born 1961), American football player

Cindy Kolodziejski (born 1962), German-born ceramic artist

Henryk Kołodziejski (1884–1953), Polish historian and statesman

Katarzyna Kołodziejska (born 1985), Polish handball player

Leslie Kolodziejski (born 1958), American professor of electronics engineering

Michał Kołodziejski (born 1975), Polish diplomat

Witold Kołodziejski (born 1966), Polish journalist and statesman

Michał Kołodziejski
Michał Kołodziejski (born 12 February 1975) is a Polish diplomat specializing in the Asia-Pacific region. He served as the Ambassador of Poland to Australia from 2017 to 2022 and has been the Consul General in Hong Kong and Macau since 2023.
Main Square (Toronto)
Main Square is a complex of four apartment buildings in Toronto, Canada. The three-hectare site houses about 2000 people. It is located in the eastern part of the city at the intersection of Main Street and Danforth Avenue.

The complex is located just north of the railway lines and the Danforth GO Station and just south of the Main Street subway station. It consists of four towers, the tallest being 29 stories. At ground level, there is also a shopping plaza along Danforth and a city-run community centre.

Main Street station (Toronto)
Main Street is a station on Line 2 Bloor–Danforth in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is located on the east side of Main Street a short distance north of Danforth Avenue. Connections to GO Transit's commuter train service on the Lakeshore East line can be made at Danforth GO Station, approximately 300 metres to the south on the east side of Main Street.
Top Division Men One
The Top Division Men One (TDM1), also known as the Belgian Second Division or the Tweede Nationale, is the second level of men's basketball in Belgium and the highest amateur level in Flanders.

The league features 14 teams and the champion has the right to promote to the Pro Basketball League (PBL).

Pro Basketball League
The Pro Basketball League (PBL), was the highest tier level professional basketball league in Belgium for clubs. In 2021, the league was succeeded by the Belgian-Dutch BNXT League.

The league is organized by the Basketball League Belgium. The current president of the league is Maarten Bostyn.

The most successful team in the league is Oostende, which holds the record for the most league titles won, with 26, and the now defunct team of Racing Mechelen is second, with 15.
Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database
The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database or ABVD is a large database of basic vocabulary lists that mainly covers the Austronesian languages. It also has a comprehensive inventory of basic vocabulary lists for Kra–Dai languages, Hmong–Mien languages, Japonic languages, and other languages of East Asia. It is currently the largest lexical database of Austronesian languages in terms of the number of languages covered.

Hmong–Mien languages
The Hmong–Mien languages (also known as Miao–Yao and rarely as Yangtzean) are a highly tonal language family of southern China and northern Southeast Asia. They are spoken in mountainous areas of southern China, including Guizhou, Hunan, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi, Guangdong and Hubei provinces. The speakers of these languages are predominantly "hill people", in contrast to the neighboring Han Chinese, who have settled the more fertile river valleys. Since their migration about four centuries ago, Hmong–Mien populations have also established communities in northern Vietnam and Laos.
Solomon Nason
Solomon L. Nason (December 16, 1825 – April 1, 1899) was an American farmer and lumberman from Nasonville, Wisconsin who served one term as a Greenback Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing Clark, Lincoln, Taylor and Wood counties.

Taylor County, Wisconsin
Taylor County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 19,913. Its county seat is Medford. It is mostly rural, lying roughly where corn and dairy farms to the south give way to forest and swamp to the north.
Moses Opondo
Moses Opondo (born 28 October 1997) is a Ugandan professional footballer who plays for FC Fredericia and the Uganda national team.

Born in Uganda, Opondo moved to Denmark with his mother when he was four years old.

Danish Superliga
The Danish Superliga (Danish: Superligaen, pronounced [ˈsuˀpɐliːˌkɛˀn̩]) is a professional association football league in Denmark and the highest level of the Danish football league system. The league is currently contested by 12 teams each year, with 2 teams relegated. It is the current Danish football championship tournament, and administered by the Divisionsforeningen.
Mount Tabor
Mount Tabor (/ˈtʌbər/; Hebrew: הַר תָּבוֹר, romanized: Har Tavor; Arabic: جبل طابور, romanized: Jabal Ṭābūr), sometimes spelled Mount Thabor, is a large hill of biblical significance in the Lower Galilee, Israel, at the eastern end of the Jezreel Valley, 18 kilometres (11 miles) west of the Sea of Galilee.

In the Hebrew Bible (Joshua, Judges), Mount Tabor is the site of the  battle of Mount Tabor between the Israelite army under the leadership of Barak and the army of the Canaanite king of Hazor, Jabin, commanded by Sisera.

Mount Tabor is one of the mountains identified as the site of the Transfiguration of Jesus.

Northern District (Israel)
The Northern District (Hebrew: מחוז הצפון, romanized: Mekhoz HaTzafon; Arabic: منطقة الشمال, romanized: Minṭaqat ash-Shamāl) is one of Israel's six administrative districts. The Northern District has a land area of 4,473 km2, making it the second largest district in Israel.

The Golan Heights has been run as a sub-district of the North District of Israel since the 1981 Golan Heights Law was passed, although the claim is only recognized by the United States while United Nations Security Council condemned the annexation in its Resolution 497 without enforcing it. The Golan Heights covers a land area of 1,154 km2 and the remainder of the Northern District covers 3,324 km2 (3,484 km2 including water).
Boudjellil
Boudjellil (Arabic: بوجليل; Kabyle: At Bujlil) is a commune in northern Algeria in the Béjaïa Province.

Boudjellil is home to the community of Béni Mansour, where the regional Béni Mansour–Bejaïa railway connects to the Algiers–Skikda main line.

Kabyle language
Kabyle (/kəˈbaɪl/) or Kabylian (/kəˈbɪliən/; native name: Taqbaylit [θɐqβæjlɪθ] ⓘ) is a Berber language spoken by the Kabyle people in the north and northeast of Algeria. It is spoken primarily in Kabylia.

Estimating the number of Berber speakers is very difficult and figures are often contested. A 2004 estimate was that 9.4% of the Algerian population spoke Kabyle. The number of diaspora speakers has been estimated at one million.