hotchpotch/wikipedia-multilingual-ir-related-lead-pairs huggingface dataset:
Cross-check (chess)
In chess, a cross-check (or counter-check) is a tactic in which a check is played in response to a check, especially when the original check is blocked by a piece that itself either delivers check or reveals a discovered check from another piece. Sometimes the term is extended to cover cases in which the king moves out of check and reveals a discovered check from another piece (this is also known as a royal check); it does not generally apply to cases where the original checking piece is captured.

The cross-check is an essential tactic in winning some endgames such as those with two queens versus one, or a queen and pawn versus a queen.  In these cases, the defense usually tries for a perpetual check and sometimes the stronger side can stop it only by a cross-check.

King (chess)
The king (♔, ♚) is the most important piece in the game of chess. It may move to any adjacent square that is not controlled by an enemy piece; it may also perform, in tandem with the rook, a move called castling. If a player's king is threatened with capture, it is said to be in check, and the player must remove or evade the threat of capture immediately, such as by moving it away from the attacked square. If this cannot be done, the king is said to be in checkmate, resulting in a loss for the checkmated player. A player cannot make any move that places their own king in check. Despite this, the king can become a strong offensive piece in the endgame or, rarely, the middlegame.

In algebraic notation, the king is abbreviated by the letter K among English speakers. The white king starts the game on e1; the black king starts on e8. Unlike all other pieces, each player can have only one king, and the king is never removed from the board during the game.
Maar Tamater
Maar Tamater (Arabic: معرتماتر)  is a Syrian village located in Kafr Nabl Nahiyah in Maarrat al-Nu'man District, Idlib.  According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Maar Tamater had a population of 1,961 in the 2004 census.

Kafr Nabl Subdistrict
Kafr Nabl Subdistrict (Arabic: ناحية كفرنبل) is a Syrian nahiyah (subdistrict) located in Ma'arrat al-Nu'man District in Idlib.  According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Kafr Nabl Subdistrict had a population of 67,460 in the 2004 census.
Georgia State Route 91
State Route 91 (SR 91) is an 85.8-mile-long (138.1 km) south-to-north state highway in the southwest part of the U.S. state of Georgia. The highway travels from its southern terminus at the Florida state line, southwest of Donalsonville, where the roadway continues as Florida State Road 2 (SR 2), northeast through Albany to its northern terminus, an intersection with SR 32 at a point northeast of the city. It also travels through Donalsonville, Colquitt, and Newton.

Southwest Georgia
Southwest Georgia is a fourteen-county region in the U.S. state of Georgia, bordering Alabama and Florida. Colloquially referred to as SOWEGA, the region is anchored by Albany—its most populous city and the region's sole metropolitan statistical area. As of the 2020 United States census, Southwest Georgia's population was 352,426.
Ondobe Constituency
Ondobe is a constituency in the Ohangwena Region of Namibia. It had 16,286 registered voters in 2020.

Ondobe Constituency covers an area of 1,810 km2 (700 sq mi). It contains the village of Okanghudi, the birthplace of Hifikepunye Pohamba, the second President of Namibia. The constituency office is located at Oshandi. It had a population of 23,954 in 2011, up from 22,253 in 2001. When in 2003 Omulonga Constituency was created at the recommendation of the Third Delimitation Commission of Namibia, and in preparation of the 2004 general election, Ondobe lost part of its territory and its inhabitants to the new constituency.

The constituency is sharing boundaries with Cunene Province in southern Angola in the North, Omulonga Constituency in the South, Omundaungilo Constituency in the North-East part, Eenhana in the South-East and Oshikango in the West.

2004 Namibian general election
General elections were held in Namibia on 15 and 16 November 2004 to elect the president and members of the National Assembly. The National Assembly election resulted in a landslide win for SWAPO, which won 55 of the 78 seats with over 75% of the vote. SWAPO's candidate for president, Hifikepunye Pohamba, won the presidential election. Following his victory, Pohamba was sworn in as president on 21 March 2005 at Independence Stadium in Windhoek.
W.A.W.G. (We All We Got)
W.A.W.G. (We All We Got) is the ninth studio album by American hip-hop duo Tha Dogg Pound, composed of rappers Daz Dillinger and Kurupt. It was released on May 31, 2024, through Death Row Records in collaboration with Gamma. The album marks Tha Dogg Pound’s return to Death Row for the first time since their 1995 debut, Dogg Food.

Daz Dillinger
Delmar Drew Arnaud (born May 25, 1973), known professionally as Daz Dillinger or simply Daz (formerly Dat Nigga Daz), is an American rapper and record producer. As a member of Death Row Records in the early 1990s, he is credited with the label in pioneering West Coast hip hop and gangsta rap for mainstream audiences. Alongside Kurupt, he formed the hip hop duo Tha Dogg Pound in 1992, with whom he has released eight albums.

Arnaud learned production from Dr. Dre; his first major production credit was on Dre's debut solo album, The Chronic (1992). He further produced for his cousin, Snoop Dogg's debut album Doggystyle (1993), as well as Tupac Shakur's All Eyez on Me (1996). His debut studio album, Retaliation, Revenge and Get Back (1998) peaked within the top ten of the Billboard 200 and served as his only project with Death Row before founding his own label, Gangsta Advisory Records in 2000 and co-founding D.P.G. Recordz with Soopafly that same year.
Soccus
A soccus (pl. socci) or sýkkhos (Ancient Greek: σύκχος, pl. sýkkhoi), sometimes given in translation as a slipper, was a loosely fitting slip-on shoe in Ancient Greece and Rome with a leather sole and separate leather, bound without the use of hobnails. The word appears to originate from the languages of ancient Anatolia. They were worn by Ancient Greek comedic actors, contrasted with the cothurni worn by tragedians, and were borrowed into Latin and worn by the ancient Romans. The soccus was considered effeminate, and the emperor Caligula is described as having worn them, possibly as a form of insult. Later socci became popular with the general public, and several types were listed in the Edict of Diocletian. The word was adopted into West Germanic languages for similarly light footwear, eventually becoming English socks.

Effeminacy
Effeminacy or male femininity is the embodiment of feminine traits in boys or men, particularly those considered untypical of men or masculinity. These traits include roles, stereotypes, behaviors, and appearances that are socially associated with girls and women. Throughout Western civilization, men considered effeminate have faced prejudice and discrimination. Gay men are often stereotyped as being effeminate, and vice versa. However, femininity, masculinity, and other forms of gender expression are independent of sexual orientation.
Sphyrna arambourgi
Sphyrna arambourgi is an extinct species of hammerhead shark that lived in Miocene period. It coexisted with Megalodon, Physogaleus, Prionace glauca, Carcharhinus sp-f, Galeocerdo mayumbensis in Burdigalian and Langhian and other species.

Galeocerdo mayumbensis
Galeocerdo mayumbensis is an extinct species of tiger sharks that lived in the Miocene period. A relative of the tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier), it lived in North America, South America, mainland Africa and Madagascar. The teeth of G. mayumbensis are different from those of G. aduncus.
58957: The Bluegrass Guitar Collection
58957: The Bluegrass Guitar Collection is a compilation album by American guitarist Tony Rice, released in 2003. The title is derived from the serial number of a 1935 Martin D-28 guitar previously owned by the seminal bluegrass guitarist Clarence White and now owned by Rice.

Béla Fleck
Béla Anton Leoš Fleck (/ˈbɛɪlə/ BAY-lə; born July 10, 1958) is an American virtuoso banjo player whose work blends bluegrass with other genres, including jazz, and who is known for his work with the bands New Grass Revival and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. Fleck has won 17 Grammy Awards and been nominated 39 times.

In 2020, he was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame as a member of New Grass Revival.
Lauth
Lauth is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Benjamin Lauth (born 1981), German footballer

Bernard Lauth (1820–1894), American steel industry businessman

Ernest Alexandre Lauth (1803–1837), French anatomist

Franz Joseph Lauth (1822–1895), German Egyptologist

Frieda Lauth (1879–1949), South African botanical artist

Thomas Lauth (1758–1826), French anatomist

Frieda Lauth
Frieda Lauth (1879 London – 4 May 1949 Durban) was a South African botanical artist who emigrated to Natal with her parents in 1882. She worked as an assistant at the Natal Herbarium and is noted for her illustrations of Medley Wood's Natal Plants. She resigned in 1903 upon marrying Thomas Floyd, and later lectured in botany at the Durban Technical College.
Interlitteraria
Interlitteraria is a peer-reviewed journal published in Tartu, Estonia by Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus. The journal is an international refereed edition of the Chair of Comparative Literature of Tartu University and the Estonian Association of Comparative Literature. It focuses on the field of comparative literature.

The journal's editor-in-chief is Jüri Talvet.

Its first volume was published in 1996.

The journal is issued once or twice per year.

University of Tartu Press
University of Tartu Press (Estonian: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus) is a university press and publishing house owned by the University of Tartu, Estonia.

Tartu University Press dates its history back to 1632, when University of Tartu was founded. It is the largest university press in Estonia.

It produces academic books and journals, including the international journal of semiotics, Sign Systems Studies, Baltic Journal of Art History, a book series Tartu Semiotics Library (Estonian: Tartu Semiootika Raamatukogu), etc.

University of Tartu Press is a member of the Association of European University Presses.

The publishing house publishes dissertations, scientific literature and educational literature, as well as scientific serials and magazines. Since 2012, only pre-reviewed educational and research publications have been published under the Tartu University Press brand.

The press is a member of the Association of European University Presses.
Nathrau
Nathrau or Nathdau is a village in Jodhpur district of Rajasthan state, India, and is part of the tehsil Balesar. There are many government and private schools in the Nathrau village. This village is without a railway line. Other villages close by include Dewatu, Dechu, Gilakor, Lorta, Peelwa and Thadiya etc.

Nathrau is a land of agriculture belt.

Dewatu
Dewatu or Dewatoo is a village Panchayat in Balesar tehsil of Jodhpur district in Rajasthan state of India. It has a Government Senior Secondary School and many private schools.

According to the 2011 Census of India, Dewatu village's total population is 1833 and the number of houses is 340. Local language is Marwari.
Marcin Lijewski
Marcin Lijewski (born 21 September 1977) is a former Polish handball player and the current coach of Poland.
As a player he received a silver medal with the Polish team at the 2007 World Men's Handball Championship in Germany and a bronze medal at the 2009 World Men's Handball Championship in Croatia. He participated at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where Poland finished 5th.

Handball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
The men's handball tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held from August 10 to August 24, at the Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium and National Indoor Stadium in Beijing.  Twelve nations are represented in the men's tournament.

The four best teams from each group advanced to the quarterfinal round, 5th and 6th teams in each group are classified 9th-12th by the results of their group matches. The losers of quarterfinal matches competed in the 5th-8th place matches by the same elimination system as the winners of the quarterfinals.

This event was the last to be completed in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Berejiklian ministry (2017–2019)
The First Berejiklian  ministry was the 96th ministry of the Government of New South Wales, and was led by Gladys Berejiklian, the state's 45th Premier.

The Liberal–National coalition ministry was formed on 23 January 2017, immediately following the resignation of the previous Premier, Mike Baird. Berejiklian and Nationals leader, John Barilaro, were sworn in at Government House, Sydney by Governor David Hurley on the same day.

On 29 January, Premier Berejiklian announced a reorganisation of the ministry, with the full ministry sworn in by the Governor on 30 January 2017.

The ministry covered the period from 23 January 2017 until 23 March 2019 when the 2019 state election was held, resulting in the re-election of the Coalition; with Berejiklian as leader and the Second Berejiklian ministry being formed.

Mike Baird
Michael Bruce Baird (born 1 April 1968) is an Australian investment banker and former politician who was the 44th Premier of New South Wales, the Minister for Infrastructure, the Minister for Western Sydney, and the Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party from April 2014 to January 2017.

Baird represented the electoral district of Manly in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the Liberal Party from 2007 to 2017. Before becoming Premier, he was the Treasurer of New South Wales in the O'Farrell government between 2011 and 2014. On 19 January 2017, Baird announced his intention to step down and on 23 January he resigned as Premier and member for Manly.
Ngaygungu language
Ngaygungu (also known as Ngȋ-koong-ō) is a sleeping, Australian Aboriginal language  originally spoken by the Ngaygungyi, for which a wordlist was recorded from Atherton in the Wet Tropics of Queensland by Walter Edmund Roth in October 1898, later also recorded by Norman Barnett Tindale in 1938, but no longer spoken by any living speakers.

Walter Roth
Walter Edmund Roth (2 April 1861 – 5 April 1933) was a British colonial administrator, anthropologist and medical practitioner, who worked in Queensland, Australia and British Guiana between 1898 and 1928.

Roth and his brother, Henry Ling Roth, are the subject of a joint biography by Russell McDougall & Iain Davidson: The Roth Family, Anthropology, and Colonial Administration (2008).
Criterium DecisionPlus
Criterium DecisionPlus is decision-making software that is based on multi-criteria decision making.

The software implements the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
and the Simple Multi-Attribute Rating Technique (SMART)
and has been used in fields such as materials science 
and environmental management.

Criterium DecisionPlus is supplied by InfoHarvest Inc.

Analytic hierarchy process
In the theory of decision making, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), also analytical hierarchy process, is a structured technique for organizing and analyzing complex decisions, based on mathematics and psychology. It was developed by Thomas L. Saaty in the 1970s; Saaty partnered with Ernest Forman to develop Expert Choice software in 1983, and AHP has been extensively studied and refined since then. It represents an accurate approach to quantifying the weights of decision criteria. Individual experts’ experiences are utilized to estimate the relative magnitudes of factors through pair-wise comparisons. Each of the respondents compares the relative importance of each pair of items using a specially designed questionnaire. The relative importance of the criteria can be determined with the help of the AHP by comparing the criteria and, if applicable, the sub-criteria in pairs by experts or decision-makers. On this basis, the best alternative can be found.
Benzydamine
Benzydamine (also known as Tantum Verde and branded in some countries as Maxtra Gargle, Difflam and Septabene), available as the hydrochloride salt, is a locally acting nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) with local anaesthetic and analgesic properties for pain relief and anti-inflammatory treatment of inflammatory conditions of the mouth and throat. It falls under class of chemicals known as indazoles.

Hydrochloride
In chemistry, a hydrochloride is an acid salt resulting, or regarded as resulting, from the reaction of hydrochloric acid with an organic base (e.g. an amine). An alternative name is chlorhydrate, which comes from French. An archaic alternative name is muriate, derived from hydrochloric acid's ancient name: muriatic acid.
Gakutensoku
Gakutensoku (學天則, Japanese for "learning from the laws of nature"), the first robot to be built in the East, was created in Osaka in the late 1920s. The robot was designed and manufactured by biologist Makoto Nishimura (1883–1956, father of actor Kō Nishimura). Nishimura had served as a professor at Hokkaido Imperial University, studied Marimo and was an editorial adviser to the Osaka Mainichi newspaper (now the Mainichi Shimbun).

Mainichi Shimbun
The Mainichi Shimbun (毎日新聞, Mainichi Shinbun; Japanese pronunciation: [mai.ɲi.tɕi̥ ɕiꜜm.bɯɴ], lit. 'Daily Newspaper') is one of the major newspapers in Japan, published by The Mainichi Newspapers Co.

In addition to the Mainichi Shimbun, which is printed twice a day in several local editions, Mainichi also operates an English-language news website called The Mainichi (毎日; [mai.ɲi.tɕi], previously Mainichi Daily News, abbreviated MDN), and publishes a bilingual news magazine, Mainichi Weekly. It also publishes paperbacks, books and other magazines, including a weekly news magazine, Sunday Mainichi.

It is one of the four national newspapers in Japan; the other three are The Asahi Shimbun, the Yomiuri Shimbun and the Nihon Keizai Shimbun. The Sankei Shimbun and the Chunichi Shimbun are not currently in the position of a national newspaper despite a large circulation for both.
Pablo Bardauil
Pablo Bardauil (born December 23, 1963) is an Argentine film actor, director, and screenplay writer.

He was born in Buenos Aires and works in the cinema of Argentina. His directorial debut, Chile 672, earned him awards for Best Screenplay from the Cine Ceará (Brazil) and the Trieste Festival of Latin American Cinema (Italy).

Cinema of Argentina
Cinema of Argentina refers to the film industry based in Argentina. The Argentine cinema comprises the art of film and creative movies made within the nation of Argentina or by Argentine filmmakers abroad.

The Argentine film industry has historically been one of the three most developed in Latin American cinema, along with those produced in Mexico and Brazil. Throughout the 20th century, film production in Argentina, supported by the State and by the work of a long list of directors and actors, became one of the major film industries in the Spanish-speaking world. The Golden Age of Argentine cinema took place between the 1930s and 1950s.

Argentina has won eighteen Goya Awards for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film, which makes it the most awarded country. It is also the first Latin American country that has won Academy Awards, in recognition of the films The Official Story (1985) and The Secret in Their Eyes (2009).
Talk to Me (Damiano David, Tyla and Nile Rodgers song)
"Talk to Me" is a song by Italian singer-songwriter Damiano David, South African singer Tyla, and American musician Nile Rodgers, released on 11 September 2025, through Arista Records and Sony Music Italy. It is featured on the deluxe edition of David's debut studio album, Funny Little Fears (Dreams). A music video for the song premiered the following day, on 12 September, and on the same day, "Talk to Me" was sent to contemporary hit radio in Italy. David led the songwriting for the song, joined by John Hill and Sammy Witte, who also handled production. Sarah Aarons contributed additional songwriting.

Damiano David
Damiano David (Italian pronunciation: [daˈmjaːno ˈdaːvid]; born 8 January 1999) is an Italian singer and songwriter. He is the frontman of the rock band Måneskin, which won the Sanremo Music Festival 2021 and subsequently the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 representing Italy with the song "Zitti e buoni". In 2024, David started his solo musical career with the singles "Silverlines" and "Born with a Broken Heart", which preceded his debut studio album Funny Little Fears (2025). He embarked on his first solo concert tour in 2025.
Paul Strauss
Paul Eric Strauss (born April 11, 1964) is an American politician and attorney serving as the senior United States shadow senator from the District of Columbia since 1997. He succeeded Jesse Jackson, the first person to hold the elected position of a shadow senator for Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

Seniority in the United States Senate
United States senators are conventionally ranked by the length of their tenure in the Senate. The senator in each U.S. state with the longer time in office is known as the senior senator; the other is the junior senator. This convention has no official standing, though seniority confers several benefits, including preference in the choice of committee assignments, physical offices, and the member's desk assignment. When senators have been in office for the same length of time, a number of tiebreakers, including previous offices held, are used to determine seniority. By tradition, the longest serving senator of the majority party is named president pro tempore of the Senate, the second-highest office in the Senate and the third in the line of succession to the presidency of the United States.
Berkman
Berkman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Aaron Berkman (1900–1991), American painter

Alan Berkman (1945–2009), American physician and activist

Alexander Berkman (1870–1936), Russian-American anarchist

Bernece Berkman (1911–1988), American painter

Brenda Berkman (born 1951), American firefighter

Craig Berkman (born 1941), American venture capitalist

David Berkman (born 1958), American jazz pianist, composer, arranger and educator

Jenia Berkman (born 1991), Israeli footballer

Jim Berkman, American lacrosse coach

Lance Berkman (born 1976), American major league baseball player

Lisa Berkman (born 1950), American epidemiologist

Michael Berkman (born 1981), Australian politician

Ronald M. Berkman (born 1947), American academic administrator

Ted Berkman (1914–2006), American screenwriter

Bernece Berkman
Bernece Berkman (1911–1988), known as Bernece Berkman-Hunter after marriage, was an American painter born in Chicago, Illinois. She was inspired by what she saw in urban Chicago during the Great Depression and is best known for paintings depicting the plight of industrial workers and the poor.
Xenoscapa uliginosa
Xenoscapa uliginosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae. It is a perennial geophyte and is part of the fynbos ecoregion. The species is endemic to the Northern Cape and occurs on the Kamiesberge in Namaqualand. The plant is not threatened and is considered rare.

Namaqualand
Namaqualand (Khoikhoi: "Nama-kwa" meaning Nama Khoi people's land) is an arid region of Namibia and South Africa, extending along the west coast over 1,000 km (600 mi) and covering a total area of 440,000 km2 (170,000 sq mi). It is divided by the lower course of the Orange River into two portions – Little Namaqualand to the south and Great Namaqualand to the north.

Little Namaqualand is within the Namakwa District Municipality, forming part of Northern Cape Province, South Africa. It is geographically the largest district in the country, spanning over 26,836 km2. A typical municipality is Kamiesberg Local Municipality. The semidesert Succulent Karoo region experiences hot summers, sparse rainfall, and cold winters.

Great Namaqualand, in the Karas Region of Namibia, is sparsely populated by the Nama, a Khoikhoi people who have traditionally inhabited the Namaqualand region.