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Harshana Suriyapperuma
Harshana Peiris Suriyapperuma (born 15 February 1973) is a Sri Lankan politician who is currently serving as the Secretary to the Ministry of Finance. He previously served as the deputy minister of finance and planning.

He was appointed as a Member of Parliament from the National List following the 2024 Sri Lankan parliamentary election, representing the National People's Power.

Suriyapperuma resigned from both his parliamentary seat and deputy ministerial post on 20 June 2025. On 23 June, he was appointed as the secretary to the Ministry of Finance.

National People's Power
The National People's Power (NPP), known in Sinhala as the Jathika Jana Balawegaya (JJB), is a centre-left to left-wing political alliance in Sri Lanka. It is the current ruling party of Sri Lanka, having won the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is the current leader of the party and Nihal Abeysinghe is the general secretary.

Established in 2019, the NPP is an alliance led by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna consisting of 21 different groups, including political parties and other organisations. It contests in elections under the compass symbol. Considered an electorally weak third-party prior to 2024, it briefly formed a minority government under president Anura Kumara Dissanayake following his election. In the subsequent parliamentary elections, the NPP became the largest party in the parliament for the first time with 159 seats, winning a supermajority.
Miquel Ensenyat
Miquel Ensenyat Riutort (born 30 October 1969) is a Spanish politician of the party Més per Mallorca. He was the mayor of Esporles (2005–2015), the president of the Island Council of Mallorca (2015–2019) and his party's leader in the Parliament of the Balearic Islands (2019–).

Més per Mallorca
Més per Mallorca (English: More for Majorca, MÉS) is a Majorcan political party and coalition formed by the Socialist Party of Majorca (PSM), IniciativaVerds (IV) and Entesa per Mallorca (ExM), as well as other small local parties around the island. It was established in 2010 by the PSM, Left Initiative (Iniciativa) and The Greens (EV) under the name PSM–Iniciativa–Verds. After the merger of Iniciativa and EV into IV in 2010, and with the incorporation of ExM in 2011, it was renamed as PSM–IniciativaVerds–Entesa. In 2013, the current name was adopted.
Palaeo-Yare
The Palaeo-Yare is a submerged river system in today's southern North Sea (part of Dogger Bank) that was above sea level during the early Middle Palaeolithic It is an extension of today's River Yare in Norfolk. Dredging of the sediments of submerged river system provides aggregates for construction and maintaining beaches, but has also been the source of archaeological finds showing human habitation of that area during the Middle Palaeolithic.

Dogger Bank
Dogger Bank (Dutch: Doggersbank, German: Doggerbank, Danish: Doggerbanke) is a large sandbank in a shallow area of the North Sea about 100 kilometres (55 nautical miles) off the east coast of England.

During the last ice age, the bank was part of a large landmass connecting mainland Europe and the British Isles, now known as Doggerland. It has long been known by fishermen to be a productive fishing bank; it was named after the doggers, medieval Dutch fishing boats especially used for catching cod.

At the beginning of the 21st century, the area was identified as a potential site for major UK offshore wind farm developments.
Love Ain't Gonna Wait for Us
"Love Ain't Gonna Wait for Us" is a song originally recorded by American country artist Billie Jo Spears. Written by Larry Butler and Ben Peters, the song was released as a single by United Artists Records in October 1978. It reached the top 30 of the American country chart later in the year and served as the title track for Spears's 1978 studio LP. It was given a positive review from Record World magazine.

Ben Peters
Benjamin James Peters (June 20, 1933 – May 25, 2005) was an American country music songwriter who wrote many #1 songs. Charley Pride recorded 68 of his songs and 6 of them went to #1 on the American country charts. Peters was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1980.

Peters was briefly a recording artist himself; his only charting hit was his own composition "San Francisco is a Lonely Town", which hit #46 on the country charts in 1969.
Baby Cakes (film)
Baby Cakes is a 1989 American romantic comedy-drama television film directed by Paul Schneider, written by Joyce Eliason, and starring Ricki Lake and Craig Sheffer. It is a remake of the 1985 German film Sugarbaby and aired on CBS on Valentine's Day, February 14, 1989.

The film inspired the 2004 song of the same name by the UK Garage act 3 of a Kind.

Paul Schneider (director)
Paul Schneider is an American film and television director. Some of his directorial credits include Baywatch, Beverly Hills, 90210, L.A. Law and JAG. He has also directed a number of television films, including You Lucky Dog and Can of Worms for Disney Channel.
Henri Naisseline
Henri Naisseline (born 21 May 1911 - 1973 ) was a New Caledonian politician.  He served for some time as chief of the Guhama region on the island of Maré.  His son, Nidoïsh, succeeded him as chief before going on to a career in island politics.

Naisseline rallied to the Free French movement in 1940 and later joined the Caledonian Communist Party in 1945. He was elected to the territorial assembly in 1957 as a Gaullist and was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1959.

Maré Island
Maré Island (French: Île de Maré, Nengone: Nengone, Dehu: Mengone) is the second-largest of the Loyalty Islands, in the archipelago of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. The island is part of the commune (municipality) of Maré, in the Loyalty Islands Province of New Caledonia.
Equivalent Royal Navy ranks in the Merchant Navy
These are the equivalent Merchant Navy and Royal Navy ranks officially recognised by the British Government in the Second World War.

Naval Auxiliaries were members of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and crews of Admiralty cable ships or merchant ships or commissioned rescue tugs requisitioned by the Royal Navy and coming under naval discipline.

Cable layer
A cable layer or cable ship is a deep-sea vessel designed and used to lay underwater cables for telecommunications, for electric power transmission, military, or other purposes. Cable ships are distinguished by large cable sheaves for guiding cable over bow or stern or both. Bow sheaves, some very large, were characteristic of all cable ships in the past, but newer ships are tending toward having stern sheaves only, as seen in the photo of CS Cable Innovator at the Port of Astoria on this page. The names of cable ships are often preceded by "C.S." as in CS Long Lines.

The first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid by cable layers in 1857 to 1858. It briefly enabled telecommunication between Europe and North America before misuse resulted in failure of the line. In 1866 the SS Great Eastern successfully laid two transatlantic cables, securing future communication between the continents.
Living in a Box (album)
Living in a Box is the debut album from British pop group Living in a Box. It was released on Chrysalis Records on 27 April 1987, and features their biggest U.S. hit, the self-titled single, which reached a peak of number 17 that year.

In the UK, the album peaked at number 25, while the title track reached number 5. A second single, "Scales of Justice" went top 30. A third track, "So the Story Goes," the single version of which featured additional vocals from singer Bobby Womack (though Womack is not featured on the album version), hit number 34 in the U.K., while peaking at 81 in the U.S.  The fourth and final single taken from the disc, "Love is the Art" reached number 45. The CD version has the bonus track "Superheroes" (Darbyshire/Vere/Critchlow).

Bobby Womack
Robert Dwayne Womack (/ˈwoʊmæk/ WOH-mak; March 4, 1944 – June 27, 2014) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Starting in the early 1950s as the lead singer of his family musical group the Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career spanned more than 60 years and multiple styles, including R&B, blues, doo-wop, gospel, funk, and soul.

Womack was a prolific songwriter who wrote and originally recorded "It's All Over Now" with his brothers, the Valentinos (a song that later became the Rolling Stones' first UK number one hit) and New Birth's "I Can Understand It". As a singer, he is most notable for the hits "Lookin' for a Love", "That's the Way I Feel About Cha", "Woman's Gotta Have It", "Harry Hippie", "Across 110th Street", and his 1980s hits "If You Think You're Lonely Now" and "I Wish He Didn't Trust Me So Much".

In 2009, Womack was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame in 2025.
Jujubinus geographicus
Jujubinus geographicus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. It occurs off the Philippines.

The size of the shell varies between 4.5 mm and 5.7 mm.

Trochidae
The Trochidae, common name top-snails or top-shells, are a family of various sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subclass Vetigastropoda. This family is commonly known as the top-snails because in many species the shell resembles a toy spinning top.
Canton of Fameck
The canton of Fameck is an administrative division of the Moselle department, northeastern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Fameck.

It consists of the following communes:

Fameck

Florange

Mondelange

Richemont

Uckange

Richemont, Moselle
Richemont (French: [ʁiʃmɔ̃]; outdated German: Reichersberg [ˈʁaɪçɐsˌbɛʁk]) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est, France. The localities of the commune are Bévange and Pépinville (German: Pepinsdorf).
Barnwell, California
Barnwell, originally a rail camp named Summit, then Manvel, was a former railhead serving local mining camps, now a ghost town, in San Bernardino County, California.  It lies at an elevation 4806 feet in the New York Mountains.

New York Mountains
The New York Mountains are a small mountain range found in northeastern San Bernardino County in California, US.  The range's northeastern area lies in southeastern Nevada. The range lies just south of the small community of Ivanpah, and north of the Lanfair Valley. The mountains are part of the mountain ranges, cones, mountains, and landforms in the Mojave National Preserve. The mountains reach an elevation of 7,533 feet (2,296 m), and run in a mostly southwest-northeasterly direction between the Providence Mountains and the McCullough Range approximately five miles into Nevada and border the northwest corner of the Piute Valley of Nevada–California.

The New York Mountains are part of the southeast border of the Great Basin Divide. The Piute Wash Watershed empties eastward into the Colorado River.
The Aliened American
The Aliened American was a newspaper in Cleveland. It was the city's first Black newspaper and is believed to have been the third African American newspaper in the United States. Its first edition was published on April 9, 1853. William H. Day was the editor-in-residence and was assisted by Samuel Ringgold Ward, a former slave living in Toronto, and Rev. James W. C. Pennington of New York. Day moved to Buxton, Ontario, in 1855. It was printed on a monthly basis for one more year as the People's Exposition.

In the first issue, it stated that Black Americans had been made into "aliens—through their Law, their Public Opinion and their Community-Regulations." "Song of the Aliened American" was written by Joshua McCarter Simpson (to the tune of "My Country, 'Tis of Thee"). The term "alien" is used to refer to the descendants of enslaved people and Jefferson's concept of inalienable rights.

Samuel Ringgold Ward
Samuel Ringgold Ward (October 17, 1817 – c. 1866) was an African American who escaped enslavement to become an abolitionist, newspaper editor, labor leader, and Congregational church minister.

He was author of the influential book Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: his anti-slavery labours in the United States, Canada and England, written after his speeches throughout Britain in 1853. It enabled him to raise funds for the Anti-Slavery Society of Canada, where many escaped slaves from the USA were arriving in the 1850s.
Wonderful Copenhagen
"Wonderful Copenhagen" is a song and single written by Frank Loesser performed by Danny Kaye with Gordon Jenkins and his orchestra and released in 1953.

It was taken from the 1952 film,  Hans Christian Andersen and is considered to be the best known song in the film. It occurs in the film where Andersen, played by Kaye, is about to be expelled from Odense and his apprentice Peter advocates going to Copenhagen.

The single reached number five in the UK Singles Chart in 1953 during a 10-week stay on the chart.

Gordon Jenkins
Gordon Hill Jenkins (May 12, 1910 – May 1, 1984) was an American arranger, composer, and pianist who was influential in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s. Jenkins worked with The Andrews Sisters, Johnny Cash, The Weavers, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Judy Garland, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, Harry Nilsson, Peggy Lee and Ella Fitzgerald.
Treaty of Stuhmsdorf
The Treaty of Stuhmsdorf, was signed on 12 September 1635 in Sztumska Wieś, Poland, between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden. With the latter weakened by its involvement in the Thirty Years' War, it extended the 1629 Truce of Altmark for 26+1⁄2 years, with Sweden making significant concessions.

Although the Commonwealth regained many territories lost during the Polish–Swedish War (1600–1629), in return Sweden secured its acquisitions in the Baltic Sea. This allowed them to focus on the Holy Roman Empire without worrying about a possible new front. The truce lasted until the outbreak of the Second Northern War in 1655.

Jerzy Ossoliński
Prince Jerzy Ossoliński h. Topór (15 December 1595 – 9 August 1650) was a Polish  nobleman (szlachcic), Crown Court Treasurer from 1632, governor (voivode) of Sandomierz from 1636, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire since 1634, Crown Deputy Chancellor from 1639, Great Crown Chancellor from 1643, starost of Bydgoszcz (1633), Luboml (1639), Puck and Bolim (1647), magnate, politician, statesman and diplomat. Famous for being extensively educated, he was a skillful politician and a persuasive public speaker.

He is the founder of the Baroque church in Klimontów.
Profit Island
Profit Island, originally known as Islands No. 123 and 124, then Prophet Island, and also known as Browns Island and Isle de Iberville, is a 2,300-acre (930 ha) island of the Mississippi River in North America. The island is part of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States, and is located "just off the mouth of Thompson Creek, which breaks through the Tunica Hills from the uplands of southern Mississippi and the northern Florida parishes." Along with Middle Ground Island, Choctaw Island, Big Island, and Island No. 8, Profit is one of the "first-order islands" of the Mississippi that host 2,000 acres or more of forest.

East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
East Baton Rouge Parish (French: Paroisse de Bâton-Rouge Est; Spanish: Parroquia del Este de Bastón Rojo) is the most populous parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Its population was 456,781 at the 2020 census. The parish seat is Baton Rouge, Louisiana's state capital. East Baton Rouge Parish is located within the Greater Baton Rouge area.
San Donnino Martire, Montecchio
San Donnino Martire is a late-Renaissance style, Roman Catholic parish church located on Via Franchini in the town of Montecchio Emilia, in the Province of Reggio Emilia, region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

Province of Reggio Emilia
The province of Reggio Emilia (Italian: provincia di Reggio nell'Emilia; Emilian: pruvînsa ed Rèz) is a province in the region of Emilia-Romagna in Italy. The capital city is the eponymous Reggio Emilia.

It has a population of 530,740 in an area of around 2,292 square kilometres (885 mi2) across its 42 municipalities.

The province is home to the historical Canossa Castle, property of the countess Matilde; it is where the Walk to Canossa of Henry IV occurred. Representatives of the free municipalities of Reggio, Modena, Bologna and Ferrara met in Reggio Emilia's Sala del Tricolore in 1797 to proclaim the Repubblica Cispadana, adopting the three colour green-white-red flag to represent their newly formed Republic; it was later adopted in 1848 as the national flag.
Turanana cytis
Turanana cytis, the Persian odd-spot blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Hugo Theodor Christoph in 1877. It is found in Turkey, the Kopet-Dagh and Iran (the Alborz and Zagros Mountains).

The larvae feed on Acantholimon species.

Acantholimon
Acantholimon (prickly thrift) is a genus of small flowering plants within the plumbago or leadwort family, Plumbaginaceae. They are distributed from southeastern Europe to central Asia, and also cultivated elsewhere in rock gardens.
Republica
Republica are an English alternative rock band formed in 1994. They reached the height of their popularity from 1996 to 1999. The band went on hiatus in 2001 and reunited in 2008.

The Republica sound was described by the band as "technopop punk rock". The current line-up consists of Saffron (vocals), Tim Dorney (keyboards), and Johnny Male (guitar).

The Fat of the Land
The Fat of the Land is the third studio album by English electronic music group the Prodigy, released on 30 June 1997 through XL Recordings. The album received critical acclaim and topped the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200. As of 2019 it has sold over 10 million copies worldwide, and is their best-selling album.
Ningo-Prampram
The Ningo-Prampram Constituency is one of the constituencies represented in the Parliament of Ghana. The constituency derives its name from the two towns located within the constituency. The towns are the much larger and older Ningo and the relatively younger Prampram which is much smaller. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. Ningo-Prampram  is located in the Ningo-Prampram District of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.  Central University College has a campus at Miotso near Prampram and plans are underway to relocate its other campuses to Ningo-Prampram. Hope City which was initially planned to be built at Kasoa has also been relocated here. Plans are also underway to build the new international airport at a location near Ningo.

Central University (Ghana)
The Central University is a Private university in Ghana, founded by the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC). It was founded as a pastoral training institute by Mensah Otabil in 1988. In June 1991, it was known as the Central Bible College. It later became the Central Christian College in 1993 and eventually became the Central University College in 1998. In 2016, Central University College attained the status of a fully-fledged University thus now Central University. The stated aims of the university is to provide an "integrated and biblically-based tertiary education with particular reference to the needs of the African continent". It is currently the biggest private university in Ghana.
Amsvartnir
In Norse mythology, Ámsvartnir (Old Norse "pitch black") is a lake containing the island Lyngvi, where the gods bound the wolf Fenrir. The lake is only referenced in the Prose Edda, book Gylfaginning, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. In the book, the enthroned figure of High tells Gangleri (king Gylfi in disguise) that the gods and Fenrir fared across Amsvartnir to get to Lyngvi, and there bound Fenrir.

Since Amsvartnir is only mentioned in Gylfaginning, Rudolf Simek theorizes that Snorri invented the lake.

High, Just-as-High, and Third
Hár [ˈhɑːrː], Jafnhár [ˈjɑvnˌhɑːrː], and Þriði [ˈθriðe] (anglicized as Thridi) are three men on thrones who appear in the Prose Edda in the Gylfaginning ("The Beguiling of Gylfi"), one of the oldest and most important sources on Norse mythology.  Their names translate as High, Just-as-High, and Third in Old Norse, respectively.  In the story, King Gylfi, calling himself Gangleri, engages in a test of wisdom with the three, asking them detailed questions about the Æsir, their deeds, and their future.  The three respond until the final segment, in which the three men and the great hall suddenly disappear.

While the Gylfaginning never says so directly, some scholars believe the intent is that all three are manifestations of Odin, and thus would be able to answer Gangleri's questions in such detail, including ones on the eventual fate of the Æsir.
Su'ad Ahmed Farah
Su'ad Ahmed Farah or Ma'am Su'ad Ahmed Farah (in Somali as Marwo Sucaad Axmed Faarax), is the regional vice-president of one of the nine divisions (kililoch) of Ethiopia: The Somali regional state. She is a member of the Somali regional parliament and a member of the ruling party; the Ethiopian Somali People's Democratic Party (ESPDP).

Regions of Ethiopia
Ethiopia is a federation subdivided into ethno-linguistically based regional states (Amharic: plural: ክልሎች kililoch; singular: ክልል kilil; Oromo: singular: Naannoo; plural: Naannolee) and chartered cities (Amharic: plural: አስተዳደር አካባቢዎች astedader akababiwoch; singular: አስተዳደር አካባቢ astedader akabibi). This system of administrative regions replaced the provinces of Ethiopia in 1992.

There are twelve regional states and two chartered cities (Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa). Being based on ethnicity and language, rather than physical geography or history, the regions vary enormously in area and population; the most notable example is the Harari Region, which has a smaller area and population than either of the chartered cities.
Thelma Madine
Thelma Madine-Akin (née Makin) is a wedding dressmaker born in Liverpool. She rose to fame after appearing as the traveller wedding dressmaker in My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, a Channel 4 documentary on Irish Travellers as they prepare for marriage. She is best known for her outlandish creations, including a palm tree wedding gown with Swarovski crystals.

Wedding dress
A wedding dress or bridal gown is the dress worn by the bride during a wedding ceremony. The color, style and ceremonial importance of the gown can depend on the religion and culture of the wedding participants. Wedding dresses hold a significant place in fashion, symbolizing personal expression, and cultural traditions, and societal values. In Western culture, the wedding dress is most commonly white, a fashion made popular by Queen Victoria when she married in 1840. In Eastern cultures, brides often choose red to symbolize auspiciousness. These wedding dresses often represent a blend of heritage and contemporary trends, making them a pivotal aspect of bridal fashion and a reflection of  evolving style in society.
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 11th Bristol district
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 11th Bristol district in the United States is one of 160 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court. It covers part of Bristol County. Democrat Chris Hendricks of New Bedford has represented the district since 2019.

Massachusetts Democratic Party
The Massachusetts Democratic Party (MassDems) is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in Massachusetts. It is chaired by Steve Kerrigan and is the dominant party in the state, controlling all nine of the state's U.S. House seats, both U.S. Senate seats, all six elected statewide offices including the governorship, and supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature.