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Granite scam in Tamil Nadu
The granite scam was a corruption scandal that occurred in Tamil Nadu, India. It gained notoriety after former civil servant of Madurai Ubagarampillai Sagayam wrote a letter to the chief secretary of the State Industries Department on 19 May 2012, reporting major violations by many granite quarries in the Madurai district, estimating a loss of more than sixteen thousand crore rupees (~US$2.5 billion) to the state exchequer.

Some officials of the state-owned Tamil Nadu Minerals Limited (TAMIN) were accused of colluding with companies such as Mojang, allowing them to commit violations.

Rupee
Rupee (UK: /ˌruːˈpiː/, US: /ˈruːpiː/) is the common name for the currencies of India,  Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Seychelles, and Sri Lanka, and of former currencies of Afghanistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates (as the Gulf rupee), British East Africa, Burma, German East Africa (as Rupie/Rupien), and Tibet. In Indonesia and the Maldives, the unit of currency is known as rupiah and rufiyaa respectively, cognates of the word rupee.

The Indian rupee and Pakistani rupee are subdivided into one hundred paise (singular paisa) or pice. The Nepalese rupee (रू) subdivides into one hundred paisa (singular and plural) or four sukaas. The Mauritian, Seychellois, and Sri Lankan rupees subdivide into 100 cents.
Meng Xiaoxue
Meng Xiaoxue (Chinese: 孟晓雪, born 4 March 1985) is a retired Chinese female short track speed skater.

She was twice World Championships bronze medalist in relay competitions. Her best personal achievement was third place in a 500 m race during the 2008-09 World Cup. At the World Cup events, she had also three victories as well as one second place in relay competitions.

Short-track speed skating
Short-track speed skating is a form of competitive ice speed skating. In competitions, multiple skaters (typically between four and six) skate on an oval ice track with a length of 111.12 metres (364.57 ft). The rink itself is 60 metres (196.85 ft) long by 30 metres (98.43 ft) wide, which is the same size as an Olympic-sized figure skating rink and an international-sized ice hockey rink. Related sports include long-track speed skating and inline speed skating.
Trans-Continental Hustle
Trans-Continental Hustle is the fifth album by folk punk band Gogol Bordello, released on April 27, 2010.  Produced by Rick Rubin, Trans-Continental Hustle primarily draws inspiration from frontman Eugene Hütz's life in Brazil, where he had been living since 2008. This album is Gogol Bordello's major record label debut. The collaboration with Rubin was initiated after guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine saw Gogol Bordello perform in Los Angeles and recommended that Rubin look into the band. "Immigraniada (We Comin' Rougher)", the fifth track on the album, has received heavy airplay on Sirius XM Radio's Faction Channel 41 as well as other genre stations. At least two of Faction's shows have played the single, including The Jason Ellis Show and Faction with Christian James Hand.

Folk punk
Folk punk (originally known as rogue folk) is a fusion of folk music and punk rock, particularly characterized by a folk-inspired sound blended with punk-inspired lyrics. It was popularized in the early 1980s by the Pogues in England, and by Violent Femmes in the United States. Folk punk achieved some mainstream success in that decade. In more recent years, its subgenres Celtic punk and gypsy punk have experienced some commercial success.
Clifton Country Park
Clifton Country Park is a local nature reserve in the Irwell Valley at Clifton, Greater Manchester, England. Situated next to a double bend in the River Irwell, it is north east of the Manchester to Preston railway line and the A666, where it is accessible via Clifton House Road opposite Clifton Cricket Club. Junction 16 of the M60 motorway is only about ¼ mile away to the south east.

The park comprises 119 acres (48 ha) of wooded area, fields and lakes. Industrial heritage is also a feature of the park; the remains of Wet Earth Colliery can be found in the woods, along with Fletcher's Canal. The park also features two sculptures from the Irwell Sculpture Trail. There is a fairytale trail around the lake where wooden carvings are situated, including a full size Gruffalo.

Local nature reserve
Local nature reserve (LNR) is a statutory designation for certain nature reserves in Great Britain. The Wild Life Conservation Special Committee established them and proposed a national suite of protected areas comprising national nature reserves, conservation areas (which incorporated suggestions for Sites of Special Scientific Interest), national parks, geological monuments, local nature reserves and local educational nature reserves.

There are now over 1,280 LNRs in England, covering almost 40,000 hectares, which range from windswept coastal headlands and ancient woodlands to former inner city railways and long abandoned landfill sites.
Mathias Franzén (ice hockey)
Mathias Franzén (born 20 June 1992) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player, currently playing with Almtuna IS in the HockeyAllsvenskan. He played with AIK IF in the Elitserien (SEL) during the 2010–11 Elitserien season.

HockeyAllsvenskan
HockeyAllsvenskan (previously Allsvenskan and SuperAllsvenskan) is a professional ice hockey league, and the second-highest league in the Swedish ice hockey system, after the SHL. Since the 2009–10 season, the league has consisted of fourteen teams.
Edmund Lawrence (basketball)
Edmund Lawrence (December 8, 1952 – July 16, 2015) was an American professional basketball player at the center position. He attended McNeese State University where he was selected in the fifth round of the 1976 NBA draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers, but was waived by them before seeing playing time. Lawrence signed with the San Antonio Spurs after being placed on waivers by Cleveland. His tenure in San Antonio ended when he was again waived before the start of the 1980–81 season. He playing time in the NBA lasted three games in the 1980–81 season, which took place during a 10-day contract he signed with the Detroit Pistons.

Lawrence played for the Anchorage Northern Knights of the Continental Basketball Association during the 1980–81 season.

Anchorage Northern Knights
The Anchorage Northern Knights were a professional basketball team based in Anchorage, Alaska from 1977 to 1982. The team played in the Eastern Basketball Association (EBA) during the 1977–78 season. The next season, the league changed its name to the Continental Basketball Association (CBA). The Northern Knights were their division champions two years in a row (1979–1980) and won the 1980 CBA Finals. Throughout their history, the Northern Knights played their home games at West Anchorage High School Gymnasium.
Marcus Cotton
Marcus Glenn Cotton (born August 11, 1966) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) and Canadian Football League (CFL).

Cotton was born in Los Angeles,  California and prepped at Castlemont High School in Oakland. He played college football, and was All-Pac-10 (1986 and 1987), at the University of Southern California. As a junior he was honored by the Associated Press as a second-team All-American, and as a senior he was chosen for the first-team by the NEA/World Almanac.

Cotton was selected by the Atlanta Falcons in the second round of the 1988 NFL draft with the 28th overall pick. He spent four years in the NFL, splitting time between the Falcons, Cleveland Browns, and Seattle Seahawks. He recorded a career high nine sacks in 1989.

Cotton finished his career with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the CFL, where he logged four sacks in eleven games played over the 1994 and 1995 seasons.

Castlemont High School
Castlemont High School is a public high school in Oakland, California, United States, originally known as East Oakland High School.  It is part of the Oakland Unified School District. The Castlemont name was selected by a vote of the students.
Counties 2 Berks/Bucks & Oxon
Counties 2 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (West) / (East) (formerly Berks, Bucks & Oxon Premier) is a division at level 8 of the English rugby union system featuring teams principally from Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. Promoted teams usually move up to Counties 1 Southern North while relegated teams drop to Counties 3 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (North) or Counties 3 Berks/Bucks & Oxon (South) depending on location.

When the league was introduced in 1987 it was known as Bucks/Oxon 1 and was set up originally for teams from Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.  It was expanded to include teams from Berkshire (who had been playing teams from Dorset and Wiltshire) from the 2000–01 season onwards.

Rugby Football Union
The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is the national governing body for rugby union in England. It was founded in 1871, and was the sport's international governing body prior to the formation of what is now known as World Rugby (WR) in 1886. It promotes and runs the sport, organises international matches for the England national team, and educates and trains players and officials.

The RFU is an industrial and provident society owned by over 2,000 member clubs, representing over 2.5 million registered players, and forms the largest rugby union society in the world, and one of the largest sports organisations in England. It is based at Twickenham Stadium, London.

In September 2010 the equivalent women's rugby body, the Rugby Football Union for Women (RFUW), was able to nominate a member to the RFU Council to represent women's and girls' rugby. The RFUW was integrated into the RFU in July 2012.
Whipper Billy Watson
William John Potts, OOnt (June 25, 1915 – February 4, 1990) was a Canadian professional wrestler best known by his ring name "Whipper" Billy Watson. He was a two-time world champion, having held both the National Wrestling Association title and the National Wrestling Alliance title. On February 21, 1947, he became the first man to win a world heavyweight wrestling championship on TV.

Professional wrestling championship
In professional wrestling, a championship or title is a recognition promoted by professional wrestling organizations. Championship reigns are determined by professional wrestling matches, in which competitors are involved in predetermined rivalries; these narratives create feuds between the various competitors, which usually cast them as either faces (heroes), heels (villains), or more rarely tweeners (morally ambiguous). The bookers in a company, who decide the winners and where the storyline goes, will place the title on the most accomplished performer or the one they believe will generate fan interest in terms of event attendance and television viewership.
Sigurd Kloumann
Sigurd Kloumann (1 July 1879 – 18 January 1953) was a Norwegian engineer, hydropower developer and industrial leader.

Kloumann was born in Vadsø to Fredrik Julius Kloumann and Karen Johanne Anker Løwold. He was manager of Notodden salpeterfabrikk from 1904 to 1912, for Saudefaldene from 1913, and for Norsk Aluminium Company (NACO) from 1916 to 1945. He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1911, and was a Commander of the Swedish Order of Vasa.

In 1940 NACO was the largest producer of aluminium in Norway.: 17  During the German occupation of Norway, NACO collaborated with the occupants, and the company and its leaders were subject to investigation in the subsequent legal purge.: 359–378

Kloumann was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1925 as well as a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

German occupation of Norway
The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until the capitulation of German forces in Europe on 8 May 1945. Throughout this period, a pro-German government named Den nasjonale regjering ('the National Government') ruled Norway, while the Norwegian king Haakon VII and the prewar government escaped to London, where they formed a government in exile. Civil rule was effectively assumed by the Reichskommissariat Norwegen (Reich Commissariat of Norway), which acted in collaboration with the pro-German puppet government. This period of military occupation is, in Norway, referred to as the "war years", "occupation period" or simply "the war".
Rupinder
Rupinder is the first name of:

Rupinder Gill, Canadian writer

Rupinder Inderjit, Indian screenwriter

Rupinder Handa, Indian singer

Rupinder Nagra, Indian actor

Rupinder Rupi, Indian actress

Rupinder Pal Singh, Indian hockey player

Rupinder Singh, Indian politician

Rupinder Inderjit
Rupinder Inderjit is a film and television writer. He is best known for writing the screenplay for the 2019 Punjabi film Surkhi Bindi. His directorial debut was with the 2017 short film Khoon Aali Chithi.
Lady in Waiting (novel)
Lady in Waiting is a historical novel by Rosemary Sutcliff and first published in 1957.

It is set in the Elizabethan era and beginning of the Stuart period of England, telling the life story of Sir Walter Raleigh, primarily through the viewpoint of his wife, Bess Throckmorton.  This is the first of Sutcliff's five novels written and listed as expressly for 'adult' readership, and like her later 1967 adult novel The Flowers of Adonis, uses the technique of having the central character's narrative told by his relation to other characters.

Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, KG, PC (1 June 1563 – 24 May 1612) was an English statesman and alleged spymaster noted for his direction of the government during the Union of the Crowns, as Tudor England gave way to Stuart rule (1603). Lord Salisbury served as the Secretary of State of England (1596–1612) and  Lord High Treasurer (1608–1612), succeeding his father as Queen Elizabeth I's Lord Privy Seal and remaining in power during the first nine years of King James I's reign until his own death.

The principal discoverer of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, Robert Cecil remains a controversial historic figure as it is still debated at what point he first learned of the plot and to what extent he acted as an agent provocateur.
Max Volkhart
Max Volkhart (17 October 1848, Düsseldorf -  1924, Düsseldorf) was a German genre painter and etcher; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. He was heavily influenced by the Dutch Masters and many of his works are set in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Düsseldorf School of painting
The Düsseldorf School of painting is a term referring to a group of painters who taught or studied at the Düsseldorf Academy (now the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf or Düsseldorf State Art Academy) roughly between 1819 and 1918, first directed by the painter Wilhelm von Schadow.
The Lovely Feathers
The Lovely Feathers are a Canadian indie rock band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They have played the South by Southwest, Pop Montreal, and North by Northeast festivals several times. Their albums reached the top of Canadian and American college radio charts. They play eccentric indie pop with quirky lyrics.

North by Northeast
North by Northeast (or NXNE) is an annual music and arts festival held each June in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The festival's main focus is live music, particularly emerging talent. Acts that have had break out appearances at NXNE at small venues early in their careers include Lizzo, Daniel Caesar, Run the Jewels, The Lumineers, Grimes, Gary Clark Jr., The Arkells, Feist, and Billy Talent. In its return post-COVID, the festival embraced its roots as a discovery event, programming exclusively in Toronto's live music venues.

Previously, the festival has also featured an eSports gaming tournament, comedy, a conversations series, a flea market and more.
Potamojanuarius lamellatus
Potamojanuarius lamellatus is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Veronicellidae, the leatherleaf slugs.

The holotype is kept in Zoological Museum of Kiel University (Zoologisches Museums der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel) in Kiel, Germany (lot Mo-1392).

Slug
Slug or land slug is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word slug is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a small internal shell, particularly sea slugs and semi-slugs (this is in contrast to the common name snail, which applies to gastropods that have a coiled shell large enough that they can fully retract their soft parts into it).

Various taxonomic families of land slugs form part of several quite different evolutionary lineages, which also include snails. Thus, the various families of slugs are not closely related, despite the superficial similarity in overall body form. The shell-less condition has arisen many times independently as an example of convergent evolution, and thus the category "slug" is polyphyletic.
Swimming at the 1994 World Aquatics Championships
The Swimming portion of the 7th FINA World Aquatics Championships was held from September 5 to 11, 1994. The competition was swum in the outdoor pool at the Foro Italico. The competition consisted of 32 long course events: 16 for males and females each, 26 individual events and 6 relays in total. Events by stroke were:

freestyle: 50, 100, 200, 400, 800 (females), and 1500 (males);

backstroke: 100 and 200;

breaststroke: 100 and 200;

butterfly: 100 and 200;

individual medley (I.M.): 200 and 400;

relays: 4 × 100 free, 4 × 200 free, and 4 × 100 medley.

Medley swimming
Medley swimming is a combination of four different swimming strokes butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle (usually front crawl), into one race. This race is either swum by one swimmer as individual medley (IM) or by four swimmers as a medley relay.
Crackling bread
Bread flavored with cracklings is found in several cuisines:

Crackling bread, in the cuisine of the Southern United States is a cornbread incorporating cracklings.

Pompe aux grattons or brioche aux griaudes, in the cuisine of central France, is a bread, tart, or brioche incorporating cracklings. It is a specialty of the Bourbonnais.

Pan de chicharrones, in the cuisine of Argentina and the cuisine of Uruguay, is a wheat flour bread incorporating beef cracklings and tallow.

Uruguayan cuisine
Uruguayan cuisine is a fusion of cuisines from several European countries, especially of Mediterranean foods from Spain, Italy, Portugal and France. Other influences on the cuisine resulted from immigration from countries such as Germany and Scotland. Uruguayan gastronomy is a result of immigration, rather than local Amerindian cuisine, because of late-19th and early 20th century immigration waves.

The base of the country's diet is meat and animal products: primarily beef but also chicken, lamb, pig and sometimes fish. The preferred cooking methods for meats and vegetables are still boiling and roasting, although modernization has popularized frying. Although Uruguay has considerable native flora and fauna, with the exception of yerba mate, native plants and animals largely do not figure into Uruguayan cuisine. Popular sweets are membrillo quince jam and dulce de leche.
Here's Berlin
Here's Berlin or Hello Berlin, Paris Calling (French: Allo Berlin? Ici Paris!, German: Hallo hallo! Hier spricht Berlin!) is a 1932 French-German romantic comedy film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Josette Day, Germaine Aussey and Wolfgang Klein. It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Erich Czerwonski.

Julien Duvivier
Julien Duvivier (French: [ʒyljɛ̃ dyvivje]; 8 October 1896 – 29 October 1967) was a French film director and screenwriter. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930–1960. Amongst his most original films, chiefly notable are La Bandera, Pépé le Moko, Little World of Don Camillo, Panic (Panique), Deadlier Than the Male and Marianne de ma jeunesse.

Jean Renoir called him, a "great technician, [a] rigorist, a poet".
Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's hammer throw
The women's hammer throw event at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on 18–20 August at the Beijing National Stadium.

The qualifying standards were 69.50 m (A standard) and 67.00 m (B standard).

In 2016, it was announced that reanalysis of samples from 2008 resulted in doping violations by Aksana Miankova and Darya Pchelnik being detected, and they were disqualified.  Medals have been reallocated by IAAF.

Beijing National Stadium
The National Stadium (国家体育场, Guójiā Tǐyùchǎng), a.k.a. the Bird's Nest (鸟巢), is a stadium at Olympic Green in Chaoyang, Beijing, China. The National Stadium, covering an area of 204,000 square meters with an 80,000 person capacity (91,000 with temporary seating), broke ground in December 2003, officially started construction in March 2004, and was completed in June 2008.

The National Stadium is owned and operated by a partnership company between Beijing Municipal State-owned Assets Management Co Ltd (58%) and CITIC Group (42%).

The stadium was designed for the 2008 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. It was also used during the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.
Yousif Muhammed Sadiq
Yousif Muhammed Sadiq (Kurdish: یووسف محەممەد سادق, born 14 July 1978) is an Iraqi Kurdish politician and academic. A member of the Gorran Movement, he served as Speaker of the Kurdistan Region Parliament from 2014 to 2019, representing Sulaymaniyah Governorate. He later served as a member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq from 2018 to 2021.

Sadiq was born in Khurmal, in the Halabja Governorate.

Council of Representatives of Iraq
The Council of Representatives is the de facto unicameral legislature of Iraq. According to the Constitution of Iraq, it is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of the country. The Federation Council is the unconvened de jure upper house.

As of 2020, the Council of Representatives comprises 329 seats and meets in Baghdad inside the Green Zone.
John Albert Scorup House
The John Albert Scorup House is a historic house in Bluff, Utah. It was built in 1903-1904 for John Albert Scorup, a white settler of Ephraim, Utah whose parents were Danish-born converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Scorup became a cattleman and banker. He lived in Bluff with his first wife, Emma Bayless, and their six daughters until 1917, when he moved to Provo. The house was designed in the Late Victorian style and built by stone masons Nick Loveless (or Lovelace) and Ed Thompson. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Photos from 1982 show the building apparently vacant; the 2007 photo above shows it has been improved.

Provo, Utah
Provo (/ˈproʊ.voʊ/ PROH-voh) is a city in and the county seat of Utah County, Utah, United States. It is 43 miles (69 km) south of Salt Lake City along the Wasatch Front, and lies between the cities of Orem to the north and Springville to the south. With a population at the 2020 census of 115,162, Provo is the fourth-largest city in Utah and the principal city in the Provo-Orem metropolitan area, which had a population of 526,810 at the 2010 census. It is Utah's second-largest metropolitan area after Salt Lake City.

Provo is the home to Brigham Young University (BYU), a private higher education institution operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Provo also has the LDS Church's largest Missionary Training Center (MTC). The city is a focus area for technology development in Utah, with several billion-dollar startups. The city's Peaks Ice Arena was a venue for the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002.