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2008 California's 12th congressional district special election
California's 12th congressional district special election, 2008 occurred on April 8, 2008. California's 12th congressional district was vacated following the death of Democrat Tom Lantos on February 11, 2008. The special election was called by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to fill the vacancy for the remainder of Lantos's term ending on January 3, 2009.
The special election took the form of an open primary. Another election would have taken place on June 3 had no candidate received a majority.

Democrat Jackie Speier won a majority of the votes in the open primary and therefore won the election.

California Democratic Party
The California Democratic Party, also known as the Democratic Party of California, is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of California. It is headquartered in Sacramento, California.

With 45.27% of the state's registered voters as of February 2025, the Democratic Party has the highest number of registrants of any political party in California. It is currently the dominant party in the state, and is one of the largest affiliates of the national Democratic Party. The party currently controls the majority of California's U.S. House seats, both U.S. Senate seats, the governorship, and has supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature.
Characters of Final Fantasy V
Final Fantasy V, a video game with a setting that spans two worlds and a back-story spanning a millennium, features an array of characters.  The game has five player characters, with as many as four in the party at a time.  The game contains a number of the Final Fantasy series' recurring characters, such as Cid, and even chocobos play some major roles.  Many other Final Fantasy V characters share similarities with those in other installments.  As with the characters of Final Fantasy VI and other games in the franchise, the promotional art for Final Fantasy V's came from Yoshitaka Amano, who has received praise for his contributions to the series.  However, the characters in Final Fantasy V and other aspects of the game are matters of conflicting opinions.

Backstory
In a narrative, a backstory or the background (information) is a set of events that establishes a character's past or that precedes and leads up to the main plot. In acting, it is the fictional history of a character before the main plot events that a performer creates during their preparation for the role.
Fred Young (New Zealand politician)
Frederick George Young (9 June 1888 – 14 February 1962) was a New Zealand hotel employee and manager, trade unionist, soldier, and politician.

He was born in the East End of London, England in 1888, and came to New Zealand about 1905.

He was appointed a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council by the First Labour Government from 8 September 1941 to 7 September 1948, and then from 8 September 1948 to 31 December 1950 when it was abolished. A hotel worker and unionist, he had been associated with John A. Lee, and had opposed Michael Joseph Savage on some issues.

In 1944 he stood unsuccessfully for the Auckland City Council on a Labour Party ticket.

1944 Auckland City mayoral election
The 1944 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1944, elections were held for the Mayor of Auckland plus other local government positions including twenty-one city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.
Mięsośnia
Mięsośnia [mjɛ̃ˈsɔɕɲa] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Głowno, within Zgierz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 10 km (6 mi) north-west of Głowno, 24 km (15 mi) north-east of Zgierz, and 29 km (18 mi) north of the regional capital Łódź.

Zgierz
Zgierz [zɡʲɛʂ] ⓘ is a city in central Poland, located just to the north of Łódź, and part of the Łódź metropolitan area. As of 2021, it had a population of 54,974. Located within the historic Łęczyca Land, it is the capital of Zgierz County in the Łódź Voivodeship.
2016 Miami Open – Men's singles
Two-time defending champion Novak Djokovic defeated Kei Nishikori in the final, 6–3, 6–3 to win the men's singles tennis title at the 2016 Miami Open. Djokovic completed his record fourth Sunshine Double with the win, and won his record-equaling sixth Miami Open title. It was also his third consecutive Sunshine Double. He did not lose a single set in the entire tournament.

For the first time in tournament history, no Americans reached the last-of-16 stage.

Kei Nishikori
Kei Nishikori (錦織 圭, Nishikori Kei; [ɲiɕi̥koꜜɾi keꜜː]; born 29 December 1989) is a Japanese professional tennis player. He is the only Japanese man in the Open Era to have been ranked in the top five in singles, reaching his career-high ranking of world No. 4 in March 2015, and the second man in history to do so after Jiro Sato. Nishikori has won twelve titles on the ATP Tour and was runner-up at the 2014 US Open, making him the only man representing an Asian country to contest a major singles final. He also became the first man from Asia to qualify for the ATP Finals, reaching the semifinals in 2014 and 2016.

In addition, Nishikori defeated Rafael Nadal to win the bronze medal in singles at the 2016 Summer Olympics, bringing Japan its first Olympic tennis medal in 96 years. He holds one of the highest percentages of deciding-set wins in the Open Era and has the third-highest win percentage in matches extending to five sets, with a record of 29–8 and a win percentage of 78.4%.
El Salam Canal
31°01′08″N 32°18′33″E﻿ / ﻿31.01889°N 32.30917°E﻿ / 31.01889; 32.30917

El Salam Canal (Arabic: ترعة السلام) is a canal built as a part of the Sinai Project. It starts at the Damietta branch of the Nile and stretches southwest towards Lake Manzala, then south to drain at El Sarow drainage. It then moves east and then again south to Hadoos drainage. It then moves east under the Suez Canal in four tunnels. It continues on the other side of the Suez Canal as the El-Sheikh Jaber canal.

Lake Manzala
Lake Manzala (Arabic: بحيرة المنزلة baḥīrat manzala), also Manzaleh, is a brackish lake, sometimes called a lagoon, in northeastern Egypt on the Nile Delta near Port Said and a few miles from the ancient ruins at Tanis. It is the largest of the northern deltaic lakes of Egypt. As of 2008 it is 47 km (29 mi) long and 30 km (19 mi) wide.
Peninsula Theatre
The Peninsula Theatre was a movie palace in Burlingame, California, that ran from 1926 to 1974.  In 1957, the name was changed to Fox Burlingame.  The theater was shuttered in 1974 and demolished in 1975 to make way for a shopping mall.

Los Angeles Public Library
The Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) is a public library system in Los Angeles, California, operating separate from the Los Angeles County Public Library system. The system holds more than six million volumes, and with around 19 million residents in the Greater Los Angeles area, it serves the largest metropolitan population of any public library system in the United States. The system is overseen by a Board of Library Commissioners with five members appointed by the mayor of Los Angeles in staggered terms, and operates 72 library branches throughout the city. In 1997 a local historian described it as "one of the biggest and best-regarded library systems in the nation."
Trobaugh-Good House
The Trobaugh-Good House is a historic house located at 1495 Brozio Lane in the Rock Springs Center for Environmental Discovery southwest of Decatur, Illinois. The house was built c. 1847–53 as part of the Ward Settlement, one of the first communities in the area which became Macon County; it is one of the few buildings from the settlement which still survives. The settlement was formed by migrants from the Upland South; Joseph M. Trobaugh, who first owned the house, was one of the later arrivals from the region. The house was originally a one-room log pen house, a typical construction style among the migrants. As larger houses became more popular in the area in the 1850s, the house gained two additions. The first addition added a lean-to kitchen in back of the house, while the second was a saddlebag extension, a common vernacular addition that gave the house a parlor.

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 1, 1996.

Macon County, Illinois
Macon County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 United States census, it had a population of 103,998. Its county seat and most populous city is Decatur.

Macon County comprises the Decatur, IL Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Amani Hooker
Amani Corvelle Hooker (born June 14, 1998) is an American professional football safety for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Iowa Hawkeyes, and was selected by the Titans in the 2019 NFL draft.

Shane Bowen
Shane Andrew Bowen (born December 9, 1986) is an American professional football coach who was most recently the defensive coordinator for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served as the defensive coordinator for the Tennessee Titans from 2021 to 2023 and as an assistant coach for the Houston Texans.
Bagrat I, Prince of Mukhrani
Bagrat, Prince of Mukhrani (Georgian: ბაგრატ I მუხრანბატონი, Bagrat I Mukhranbatoni), (c. 1487 – c. 1540) was the third son of King Constantine II of Georgia, of the Bagrationi dynasty, and the founder of the House of Mukhrani.

Kingdom of Kartli
The Kingdom of Kartli (Georgian: ქართლის სამეფო, romanized: kartlis samepo) was a late medieval and early modern monarchy in eastern Georgia, centred on the province of Kartli, with its capital at Tbilisi. It emerged in the process of a tripartite division of the Kingdom of Georgia in 1478 and existed, with several brief intervals, until 1762 when Kartli and the neighbouring Georgian kingdom of Kakheti were merged through dynastic succession under the Kakhetian branch of the Bagrationi dynasty. Through much of this period, the kingdom was a vassal of the successive dynasties of Iran, and to a much shorter period Ottoman Empire, but enjoyed intermittent periods of greater independence, especially after 1747.
Berlin-Charlottenburg station
Berlin-Charlottenburg is a railway station in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, Germany. The station is located on the Stadtbahn line, served by the S3, S5, S7, and S9 lines of the Berlin S-Bahn, as well as by Regional-Express and Regionalbahn trains operated 24/7 by Deutsche Bahn. The U-Bahn station Wilmersdorfer Straße (U7) can be reached via short footpath.

Regional-Express
In Germany, Luxembourg, Austria and Slovakia,  the  Regional-Express (pronounced [ʁeɡi̯oˈnaːlʔɛksˌpʁɛs] ⓘ; RE, or in Austria and Slovakia: REX) is a type of regional train. It is similar to a semi-fast train, with a top speed of 160 km/h (100 mph) and an average speed of about 70–90 km/h (45–55 mph) as it calls at fewer stations than Regionalbahn (in Austria: Regionalzug) or S-Bahn trains, but stops more often than Intercity or Intercity Express services.
Impendle Local Municipality
Impendle Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala wase Impendle) is a local municipality within the Umgungundlovu District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. During the 18th century, the Griquas ("Abatwas") used to hide in the mountain in the area because they were accused of stealing livestock from the farmers who decided to fight the Griquas in order to protect their livestock. The Griquas used war spears, and this conflict was called "an outside war", i.e. impiyasendle or impiendle.

The municipality is extremely diverse in its topography, climate and soils, and has a rich and complex natural environment. High-density settlements occur around Impendle, in villages such as Gomane, KwaNovuka, Similobha and Kamensi.

Zulu language
Zulu (/ˈzuːluː/ ZOO-loo), or isiZulu as an endonym, is a Southern Bantu language of the Nguni branch spoken in, and indigenous to, Southern Africa with about 13.56 million native speakers, who primarily inhabit the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The word "KwaZulu-Natal" translates into English as "Home of the Zulu Nation is Natal". Zulu is the most widely spoken home language in South Africa (24% of the population), and it is understood by over 50% of its population. It became one of South Africa's 12 official languages in 1994.

According to Ethnologue, it is the second-most widely spoken of the Bantu languages, after Swahili. Like many other Bantu languages, it is written with the Latin alphabet.

In South African English, the language is often referred to in its native form, isiZulu.
Maugerville Parish
Maugerville (/ˈmeɪdʒərvɪl/ MAY-jər-vil) is a geographic parish in Sunbury County, New Brunswick, Canada.

Prior to the 2023 governance reform, for governance purposes it was divided between the local service districts of Noonan and the parish of Maugerville (which further includes the special service area of Inner Maugerville), both of which were members of Capital Region Service Commission (RSC11).

Regional service commission
A regional service commission (RSC) is an administrative entity in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. As the name implies, an RSC administers services on a regional level. RSCs are not incorporated municipal entities and lack direct taxation powers. In 2023, major reforms to New Brunswick's local governance system took effect, with increased RSC responsibilities and some boundary adjustments.
Silas Tertius Rand Bill
Silas Tertius Rand Bill (September 9, 1842 in Liverpool, Nova Scotia- 21 December 1890) was a Nova Scotia born politician, merchant, ship-owner and glass sculptor. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1878 as a Member of the Liberal-Conservative Party to represent the riding of Queens. He assisted Peter Newsome with his work whilst visiting London, England.

He lived in Liverpool. Bill served as treasurer for Queens County. He never married.

Liverpool, Nova Scotia
Liverpool is a Canadian community and former town located along the Atlantic Ocean of the Province of Nova Scotia's South Shore. It is situated within the Region of Queens Municipality, which is the local governmental unit that comprises all of Queens County, Nova Scotia.
Ebstein
Ebstein is a surname. Notable people with this surname include:

Katja Ebstein (born 1945), German singer

Richard Ebstein (born 1943), American behavioral geneticist

Wilhelm Ebstein (1836–1912), German physician

Richard Ebstein
Richard Paul Ebstein (born February 19, 1943) is an American-israeli behavioral geneticist. He is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the National University of Singapore, as well as Professor Emeritus in the Psychology Department  at Hebrew University. He is known for his research on the genetics of human social behaviors, such as political ideology, novelty seeking, and dancing.
Bolshaya Dora
Bolshaya Dora (Russian: Большая Дора) is a rural locality (a village) in Sudskoye Rural Settlement, Cherepovetsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 55 as of 2002. There are 7 streets.

Vologda Oblast
Vologda Oblast (Russian: Вологодская область, romanized: Vologodskaya oblastʹ, IPA: [vəlɐˈɡotskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ]; Veps: Vologdan agj) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is Vologda. The oblast has a population of 1,202,444 (2010 Census). The largest city is Cherepovets, the home of the Severstal metallurgical plant, the largest industrial enterprise in the oblast.

Vologda Oblast is home to many historic monuments, such as the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, Ferapontov Monastery (a World Heritage Site) with the frescoes of Dionisius, the two medieval towns of Velikiy Ustyug and Belozersk, and the baroque churches of Totma and Ustyuzhna.

Large reserves of wood and fresh water are the main natural resources.
Von Meyer
Meyer is a German surname, often but not always used with the Nobiliary particle "von" (of).  Notable people sharing this surname include:

Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer (1801–1869), German palaeontologist, see m:de:Hermann von Meyer

Gustav Ritter von Meyer (1834-1909), Bavarian politician, see m:de:Gustav Ritter von Meyer

Carl Anton von Meyer (1795-1855), Russian botanist and explorer

Nobiliary particle
A nobiliary particle is a type of onomastic particle used in a surname or family name in many Western cultures to signal the nobility of a family. The particle used varies depending on the country, language and period of time. In some languages, it is the same as a regular prepositional particle that was used in the creation of many surnames. In some countries, it became customary to distinguish the nobiliary particle from the regular one by a different spelling, although in other countries these conventions did not arise, occasionally resulting in ambiguity. The nobiliary particle can often be omitted in everyday speech or certain contexts.
Odon Razanakolona
Odon Marie Arsène Razanakolona (born 24 May 1946, in Fianarantsoa) is a Madagascan Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Antananarivo from 2005 to 2023.

Razanakolona was ordained a priest on 28 December 1975, and earned a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Urban University in Rome in 1987, writing on "La loi de la gradualité et le mariage coutumier à Madagascar".

He was named Bishop of Ambanja in November 1998 and continued in the role until his appointment to Antananarivo in December 2005. He received the pallium on 30 June 2006.

He retired on 5 June 2023, when Pope Francis accepted his resignation.

Pontifical Urban University
The Pontifical Urban University, also called the Urbaniana after its names in both Latin and Italian, is a pontifical university that was under the authority of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. The university's mission is to train priests, religious brothers and sisters, and lay people for service as missionaries. Its campus is located on the Janiculum Hill in Rome, on extraterritorial property of the Holy See. It was formerly known as the Urban College, or Collegium Urbanum.
Keltie
Keltie is the surname of:

Clark Keltie (born 1983), English footballer

John Scott Keltie (1840–1927), Scottish geographer

Kate Keltie (born 1986), Australian actress

It is the given name of:

Keltie Duggan (born 1970), Canadian swimmer

Keltie Hansen (born 1992), Canadian freestyle skier

See also:

Keltie Glacier

Keltie Head

Kelty

Keltie Glacier
The Keltie Glacier (84°53′S 170°20′E﻿ / ﻿84.883°S 170.333°E﻿ / -84.883; 170.333) is a large Antarctic glacier, 30 nautical miles (56 km) long, draining from Pain Névé southwest around the southern extremity of the Commonwealth Range, and then northwest to enter Beardmore Glacier at Ranfurly Point. It was discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09, under Ernest Shackleton, who named it for Sir John Scott Keltie, Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, 1892–1915.
James Galloway (film editor)
James Galloway (February 16, 1928 – November 13, 1996) was a film editor who was nominated at the 46th Academy Awards. He was nominated for the film Jonathan Livingston Seagull. This was in the category of Best Film Editing.

He also has been nominated for multiple Emmy awards for made for TV films. He also contributed to TV shows like Remington Steele. Galloway died in 1996.

46th Academy Awards
The 46th Academy Awards were presented on Tuesday, April 2, 1974, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The ceremonies were presided over by Burt Reynolds, Diana Ross, John Huston, and David Niven.

The Sting won 7 awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for George Roy Hill. The Exorcist and The Way We Were were the only other films to win multiple awards. Marvin Hamlisch won 3 awards, making him the third person to achieve this feat and, to date, the only person who has won 3 Oscars in one year without winning Best Picture. As of 2025, it is the most recent ceremony in which the 3 highest-grossing films of the year were nominated for Best Picture (The Exorcist, The Sting and American Graffiti).
2015 Internationaux de Strasbourg – Doubles
The doubles tennis tournament at the 2015 Internationaux de Strasbourg took place in Strasbourg, France, as part of the 2015 WTA Tour.

Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua were the defending champions, but chose not to participate this year.
Chuang Chia-jung and Liang Chen won the title, defeating Nadiia Kichenok and Zheng Saisai in the final, 4–6, 6–4, [12–10].

Zheng Saisai
Zheng Saisai or Zheng Sai-Sai (Chinese: 郑赛赛; born 5 February 1994) is a Chinese tennis player. She has a best singles ranking of 34, achieved March 2020, and a career-high doubles ranking of No. world 15, achieved on 11 July 2016. In her career, she has won one singles title in 2019 (at the Premier event in Silicon Valley), and six doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She also reached the final of the 2019 French Open in doubles with compatriot Duan Yingying.

In addition, she won three singles and three doubles titles at WTA 125 tournaments, as well as twelve singles and nine doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

Playing for China Fed Cup team, Zheng has a win–loss record of 11–7 as of September 2024.
Eucalyptus extensa
Eucalyptus extensa is a species of mallet that is endemic to Western Australia. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, yellowish green flowers and hemispherical fruit with the valves extended well beyond the level of the rim.

Mallet (habit)
A mallet is a small-tree form of Eucalyptus found in Western Australia. Unlike the mallee, it is single-stemmed and lacks a lignotuber. Species of this form have a relatively long, slender trunk, steeply-angled branches, often a conspicuously dense terminal crown, and sometimes form thickets.

Mallet species include:

Brown mallet (Eucalyptus astringens)

Blue mallet, blue-leaved mallet, Gardner's mallet (Eucalyptus gardneri)

Green mallet (Eucalyptus clivicola)

Salt River mallet, Sargent's mallet (Eucalyptus sargentii)

Silver mallet (Eucalyptus falcata or Eucalyptus ornata)

Steedman's mallet (Eucalyptus steedmanii)

Swamp mallet (Eucalyptus spathulata)

White mallet (Eucalyptus falcata or Eucalyptus spathulata)

Fuchsia gum (Eucalyptus dolichorhyncha)
Richard Fairbank
Richard Dana Fairbank (born September 18, 1950) is an American billionaire businessman who co-founded Capital One with Nigel Morris in 1988. He was on the board of directors of MasterCard International from 2004 to 2006. He is a member of the Stanford Business School advisory council, the Financial Services Roundtable, and the board of directors of the BITS Technology Forum.

Fairbank has been awarded "Business Leader of the Year" by Washingtonian, and placed on lists including Worth's list of the top 10 CEOs and "50 Best CEOs."

Worth (magazine)
Worth is an American financial, wealth management, and life-style magazine founded in 1986 and purchased by Clarim Holdings in 2019. The magazine addresses financial, legal, and life-style issues for high-net-worth individuals. The content focuses on various topics including business, technology, philanthropy, finance, climate, and sustainability and life-style.