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Dan Britt
Daniel Turner Britt is Pegasus Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences at the University of Central Florida (UCF).  He studies the composition and mineralogy of bodies within the Solar System including the Moon, Mars and the asteroids.  He has worked on four NASA missions and has an asteroid named after him: 4395 Danbritt.

In 2022, the American Society of Civil Engineers awarded him their Outstanding Technical Contribution Award for his work at the Exolith Lab at UCF which has produced tons of "space dirt" – synthetic regolith which reproduces the properties of the surface material on other worlds such as Mars.

Regolith
Regolith (/ˈrɛɡəlɪθ/) is a blanket of unconsolidated, loose, heterogeneous superficial deposits covering solid rock. It includes dust, broken rocks, and other related materials and is present on Earth, the Moon, Mars, some asteroids, and other terrestrial planets and moons.
Selfe
Selfe is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

James Selfe (born 1955), South African politician

Ray Selfe (1837–1873), English lawyer and politician

Norman Selfe (1839–1911), Australian engineer

William Lucius Selfe (1845-1924), British judge

Ray Selfe
Ray Selfe was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, actor and movie theatre owner.

Selfe was born into a working-class family in Croydon, Surrey and at the age of ten found a passion for film. Selfe was later expelled from Pitman's College at the age of fourteen and became a projectionist at a local movie theatre and ran a mobile cinema, taking film shows to youth clubs. In 1950, he had a brief national service in the RAF and was later discharged on medical grounds.

As a filmmaker, Selfe later went on to work on such films as Four Dimensions of Greta (1972), White Cargo (1973), Emmanuelle in Soho (1981) and Don't Open till Christmas (1984).

During Selfe's later years, he gained respect within the industry as a private film archive curator.

Selfe died of a heart attack at age 69.
1988 in paleontology
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1988.

Burrow
A burrow is a hole or tunnel excavated into the ground by an animal to construct a space suitable for habitation or temporary refuge, or as a byproduct of locomotion. Burrows provide a form of shelter against predation and exposure to the elements, and can be found in nearly every biome and among various biological interaction types, including symbiosis and competition. Many animal species are known to form burrows. These species range from small amphipods, to very large vertebrate species such as the polar bear. Burrows can be constructed into a wide variety of substrates and can range in complexity from a simple tube a few centimeters long to a complex network of interconnecting tunnels and chambers hundreds or thousands of meters in total length; an example of the latter level of complexity, a well-developed burrow, would be a rabbit warren.
Michele Geraci
Michele Geraci (born 1967) is an Italian politician and economist who focuses on policy-oriented research on international trade, EU-China relations, AI, universal basic income and other current affairs. He served as the Undersecretary of State at the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, responsible for foreign trade and foreign direct investments in the Conte Government, was the architect of Italy's participation in China's Belt and Road Initiative, and was a nominee for the role of Prime Minister of Italy.

China–European Union relations
China–European Union relations are the bilateral relations between the European Union (EU) and the People's Republic of China (PRC or China), established in 1975 between China and the European Community, which later became the EU. The EU is China's largest trading partner, and China is the EU's largest trade partner.

Since March 2019, the European Union has referred to China as "a cooperation partner…, a negotiating partner…, an economic competitor…, and a systemic rival". The EU has put an arms embargo and numerous anti-dumping measures against the PRC in place. The EU has become increasingly critical of the PRC for its support of Russia in its invasion of Ukraine.
Greater bandicoot rat
The greater bandicoot rat or Indian bandicoot rat (Bandicota indica) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae found in Bangladesh, China, India, eastern Pakistan, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
It can grow to about 30–45 cm without including the tail which can grow to 28 cm. These should not be confused with marsupial bandicoots which inhabit Australia and neighbouring New Guinea, which were named after the bandicota rats.

Muridae
The Muridae, or murids, are either the largest or second-largest family of rodents and of mammals, containing approximately 870 species, including many species of mice, rats, and gerbils found naturally throughout Eurasia, Africa, and Australia.

The name Muridae comes from the Latin mus (genitive muris), meaning "mouse", since all true mice belong to the family, with the more typical mice belonging to the genus Mus.
North Carolina General Assembly of 1783
The North Carolina General Assembly of 1783 was the state legislature that convened in Hillsboro, North Carolina from April 18, 1783, to May 17, 1783.  Members of the North Carolina Senate and the North Carolina House of Commons were elected by eligible North Carolina voters.  This was the last assembly to meet during the American Revolution.  Much of their time was devoted to taking care of the North Carolina soldiers that fought in the war.

The General Assembly elected Alexander Martin of Guilford County as governor on April 26, 1782.  James Glasgow was Secretary of State.  James Iredell was Attorney General.  There  was no Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina until 1868.

Guilford County, North Carolina
Guilford County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 541,299, making it the third-most populous county in North Carolina. The county seat and largest community is Greensboro. Since 1938, an additional county court has been located in High Point. The county was formed in 1771. Guilford County is included in the Greensboro-High Point, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point, NC Combined Statistical Area.
White Mountain (Olympic Mountains)
White Mountain is a 6,378-foot (1,944-metre) mountain summit located in the Olympic Mountains, in Jefferson County of Washington state. Situated in Olympic National Park, its nearest higher neighbor is Mount LaCrosse, 0.95 mi (1.53 km) to the northeast, and an unnamed glacier lies in the north cirque between the two peaks. The Anderson massif lies 3.1 mi (5.0 km) to the north of White Mountain. Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains into tributaries of the Quinault River and Duckabush River.

Jefferson County, Washington
Jefferson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, the population was 32,977. The county seat and only incorporated city is Port Townsend. The county is named for Thomas Jefferson.

Jefferson County was formed out of Thurston County on December 22, 1852, by the legislature of Oregon Territory, and included the northern 4,854-square-mile (12,571.8 km2) portion of the Olympic Peninsula. On April 26, 1854, the legislature of Washington Territory created Clallam County from the northwestern 2,670-square-mile (6,915.3 km2) portion of this original area.

The Hood Canal Bridge connects Jefferson County to Kitsap County, Washington. The Coupeville-Port Townsend route of the Washington State Ferries connects the county to Whidbey Island in Island County, Washington.
Statue of Peter Muhlenberg
Peter Muhlenberg, or John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg,  is an 1889 marble sculpture depicting the American clergyman, soldier, and politician of the same name by Blanche Nevin, installed in the United States Capitol's crypt, in Washington, D.C., as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection. It is one of two statues donated by the state of Pennsylvania. The statue was accepted into the collection on February 28, 1889, by Pennsylvania Congressman Daniel Ermentrout.

Nevin produced the statue in Carrara, Italy, likely utilizing the skilled marble carvers there. Rubenstein in her work American Women Sculptors calls the statue a “rather effeminate figure in colonial garb,” while Taft in his History of American Sculpture is less kind, calling the statue “insignificant”.

Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein
Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein (December 14, 1921 – November 7, 2013) was an American teacher of art and art history and an early innovator in the teaching of women-in-art history courses.  She was born to Lillian Kaufman and Aaron Streifer in Harlem, New York, and moved to Brooklyn shortly thereafter.
1985 Toronto municipal election
The 1985 Toronto municipal election was held to elect members of municipal councils, school boards, and hydro commissions in the six municipalities that made up Metropolitan Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The election was held on November 12, 1985.

June Rowlands
June Rowlands (née Pendock; May 14, 1924 – December 21, 2017) was a Canadian politician who was the 60th mayor of Toronto from 1991 to 1994. She was the first woman to serve as Toronto's mayor. Rowlands also served as a city councillor and was chair of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Commission.
Minister for Multiculturalism
The Minister for Multiculturalism is a minister of the Government of New South Wales with responsibility for social policy and welfare, including multiculturalism in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

The Minister since 5 April 2023 is Steve Kamper, who also holds the Small Business, Lands and Property, and Sport portfolios.

The Minister assists the Minister for Families, Communities and Disability Services administer her portfolio through the Department of Communities and Justice.

Minister of the Crown
Minister of the Crown is a formal constitutional term used in Commonwealth realms to describe a minister of the reigning sovereign or viceroy. The term indicates that the minister serves at His Majesty's pleasure, and advises the sovereign or viceroy on how to exercise the Crown prerogatives relating to the minister's department or ministry.
The Other (1999 film)
The Other (Arabic: الآخر, translit. El akhar, French: L'Autre) is a 1999 French-Egyptian drama film directed by Youssef Chahine. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. Lebanese soprano Majida El Roumi sang "Adam W Hanan", an Egyptian song included in the film.

Youssef Chahine
Youssef Chahine (Arabic: يوسف شاهين [ˈjuːsɪf ʃæˈhiːn]; 25 January 1926 – 27 July 2008) was an Egyptian film director. He was active in the Egyptian film industry from 1950 until his death in 2008. He directed twelve films included in a list of Top 100 Egyptian films published by the Cairo International Film Festival. A winner of the Cannes 50th Anniversary Award (for lifetime achievement), Chahine was credited with launching the career of actor Omar Sharif. A well-regarded director with critics, he was often present at film festivals during the earlier decades of his work. Chahine gained his largest international audience as one of the co-directors of 11'9"01 September 11 (2002).
West Geauga Local School District
The West Geauga Local School District is a school district located in northwestern Geauga County, Ohio. The school district serves students in grades K-12 living in Chesterland, Russell, Newbury and parts of Chargin, Munson and Hunting Valley townships. The district consists of one high school, one middle school and two elementary schools. All buildings and offices are located in Chesterland aside from Westwood Elementary, which is located in Novelty, Ohio.

Newbury Center, Ohio
Newbury Center is an unincorporated community in Geauga County, in the U.S. state of Ohio. As the name suggests, it is located in the center of Newbury Township. Newbury Center is part of Greater Cleveland and the larger Cleveland–Akron–Canton Combined Statistical Area.
WLVN (FM)
WLVN (104.9 MHz) is a radio station licensed to Woodbury, Tennessee, United States. Together with WLVU (97.1 FM), licensed to Belle Meade, it broadcasts the K-Love network of contemporary Christian music to the Nashville metropolitan area.

Nashville metropolitan area
The Nashville metropolitan area (officially the Nashville–Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area) is a metropolitan statistical area in north-central Tennessee. Its principal city is Nashville, the capital of and largest city in Tennessee. With a population of over 2 million, it is the most populous metropolitan area in Tennessee. It is also the largest metropolitan area in Tennessee in terms of land area.

The Office of Management and Budget defines the metro area for statistical use by the United States Census Bureau and other agencies. The area is the 35th largest metropolitan area in the United States. The metropolitan statistical area was first designated in 1950 and initially included only Davidson County. As surrounding counties increased in population and densities and in the number of their residents employed in Davidson County, the OMB added new counties to the MSA. Today, the metro area includes Davidson and 13 other counties.
Sigma3 Cancri
Sigma3 Cancri is a solitary, yellow-hued star in the zodiac constellation of Cancer. Its name is a Bayer designation that is Latinized from σ3 Cancri, and abbreviated Sigma3 Cnc or σ3 Cnc. With an apparent visual magnitude of +5.24, it is a dim star that is visible to the naked eye. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 10.75 mas as seen from Earth, it is located approximately 303 light-years (93 pc) from the Sun. The star's proper motion makes it a candidate for membership in the IC 2391 supercluster.

This is an evolved, G-type giant star with a stellar classification of G9 III. At the estimated age of 420 million years it is a red clump star on the horizontal branch, which indicates it is generating energy through helium fusion at its core. Sigma3 Cancri has 2.8 times the mass of the Sun and has expanded to 10.3 times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 72 times the solar luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,170 K.

IC 2391
IC 2391 (also known as the Omicron Velorum Cluster or Caldwell 85) is an open cluster in the constellation Vela consisting of hot, young, blueish stars, some of which are binaries and one of which is a quadruple.  Persian astronomer A. a.-R. al-Sufi first described it as "a nebulous star" in c. 964.  It was re-found by Abbe Lacaille and cataloged as Lac II 5.
Talmer Bancorp
Talmer Bancorp was a bank holding company headquartered in Troy, Michigan. It was the parent company of Talmer Bank & Trust and operated banks in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. In 2016, it was acquired by Chemical Financial (now TCF Financial Corporation).

Bank holding company
A bank holding company is a company that controls one or more banks, but does not necessarily engage in banking itself. The compound bancorp (banc/bank + corp[oration]) or bancorporation is often used to refer to such companies as well, particularly in the United States.
Halfpenny (surname)
Halfpenny is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Ben Halfpenny, English rugby league footballer of the 1920s and 1930s

Brian Halfpenny (1936-2024), British Anglican priest

Bronwyn Halfpenny (born 1963), Australian politician and daughter of John Halfpenny

Chelsea Halfpenny (born 1991), English actress

Jill Halfpenny, English actress

John Halfpenny (1935-2003), Australian trade unionist and father of Bronwyn Halfpenny

Leigh Halfpenny, Welsh rugby footballer

William Halfpenny,  English 18th-century architectural designer

Chelsea Halfpenny
Chelsea Halfpenny (born 26 September 1991) is an English actress, known for her roles as Amy Wyatt in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale and Alicia Munroe in the BBC drama Casualty. She played Jenna Hunterson in the 2022 UK tour of Waitress.
Darunta
Darūnṭa (Pashto: درونټه) (or Khayrow Khel), also spelled Daruntah or Derunta, is a village in Jalalabad District of Nangarhar province. It is located next to Jalalabad city on route AO1 in Afghanistan.

Numerous remains of stupas from the 1st century BCE- 1st century CE, can be found around Darunta, such as in Bimaran.

It gave its name to the Darunta training camp, allegedly affiliated with al Qaeda, located north of the village, across the Darunta Dam.

Bihsud District
Bihsud District (Pashto: بهسود, formerly Jalalabad District) (Persian: ولسوالی بهسود) is a district of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.  The district, which contains 40 main villages, is located around the city Jalalabad, spanning both sides of the Kabul River.  The district was previously a unit which contained the city of Jalalabad, but in 2004 the city became independently administered under the municipality system, and the portions of the district not contained within the city became Bihsud District.  Oranges, rice, and sugarcane grow in the fertile district, and the capital city has cane-processing and sugar-refining as well as papermaking industries. The district's year-round summery weather attracts many visitors.
Sault Ste. Marie Transit Services
Sault Ste. Marie Transit Services is a local public transportation service serving the city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario providing seven major bus routes and two community bus routes serviced by a fleet of 27 buses and 2 minibuses. The Parabus service consists of 11 vehicles.

Minibus
A minibus, microbus, minicoach, or short bus is a passenger-carrying motor vehicle that is designed to carry more people than a multi-purpose vehicle or minivan, but fewer people than a full-size bus. In the United Kingdom, the word "minibus" is used to describe any full-sized passenger-carrying van or panel truck. Minibuses have a seating capacity of between 12 and 30. Larger minibuses may be called midibuses. Minibuses are typically front-engine step-in vehicles, although low floor minibuses are particularly common in Japan.
Davie Cairns
David Cairns (born 9 February 1951) is a Scottish retired footballer who made over 140 appearances in the Scottish League for Cowdenbeath as a left back. He also played for Brechin City, Berwick Rangers, Forfar Athletic, Raith Rovers and East Fife.

East Fife F.C.
East Fife Football Club is a semi-professional football club established in 1903 in Methil, Fife, Scotland. They are members of the Scottish Professional Football League and compete in Scottish League One, the third tier of the Scottish football league system.

The club were the first to win the Scottish League Cup three times and the first of only two sides from the second tier of the Scottish league system to win the Scottish Cup. This makes them the most successful club in Fife in terms of major honours won.

East Fife are one of four SPFL clubs based in Fife, but are the only one to bear the name of the area. The three others are Dunfermline Athletic, Kelty Hearts and the Kirkcaldy-based Raith Rovers (Cowdenbeath play in the Lowland Football League), all of whom have historically shared rivalries with East Fife.
Cyrtandra munroi
Cyrtandra munroi is a rare species of flowering plant in the African violet family known by the common names Lanaihale cyrtandra and Munro's cyrtandra. It is endemic to Hawaii, where it is known from the islands of Lanai and Maui. There are fewer than 50 individuals remaining in the wild. It is a shrub with hairy leaves and white flowers. It was federally listed as an endangered species in 1992. Like other Hawaiian Cyrtandra it is called ha`iwale.

The wet forests where this plant occurs are destroyed and degraded by several processes, such as deer and exotic plant species.

Gesneriaceae
Gesneriaceae, the gesneriad family, is a family of flowering plants consisting of about 152 genera and ca. 3,540 species in the tropics and subtropics of the Old World (almost all Didymocarpoideae) and the New World (most Gesnerioideae), with a very small number extending to temperate areas. Many species have colorful and showy flowers and are cultivated as ornamental plants.
2002 Idea Prokom Open – Women's doubles
Joannette Kruger and Francesca Schiavone were the defending champions, but did not compete this year.

Svetlana Kuznetsova and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario won the title by defeating Evgenia Kulikovskaya and Ekaterina Sysoeva 6–2, 6–2 in the final.

Evgenia Kulikovskaya
Evgenia Borisovna Kulikovskaya (Russian: Евгения Борисовна Куликовская; born 21 December 1978) is a former professional tennis player from Russia.

She reached her highest singles ranking of No. 91 in June 2003. She had more success in doubles, winning four doubles titles on the WTA Tour and reaching the top 50.

A rarity among tennis players, Kulikovskaya is ambidextrous; she played with two forehands and no backhand, switching her racket hand depending on where the ball was coming from.
Aggeé Aje Matembo
Aggeé Aje Matembo is a Congolese politician. In 2019, he was appointed as the Minister of  Land Development of Democratic Republic of the Congo, under Ilunga government that ran from September 2019 to April 2021, as well as a member of parliament. He is a member of Union for Democracy and Social Progress.

Union for Democracy and Social Progress
The Union for Democracy and Social Progress (French: Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social, UDPS) is a major political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Founded in 1982, amid the one-party rule of Mobutu Sese Seko and his Popular Movement of the Revolution, it is the country's oldest existing party. During the presidency of Joseph Kabila, it was the largest opposition party in the country. The party identifies as social democratic.

The party is led by Félix Tshisekedi, who has served as President of the DRC since his election in 2018. Tshisekedi's assumption of the presidency was the first peaceful transition of power in the country since it became independent from Belgium in 1960. He was reelected in 2023. His father Étienne Tshisekedi previously led the party.
August 2009 Egyptian hostage escape
On August 13, 2009, Egyptians captured by Somali pirates and held hostage for ransom attacked their captors, using whatever was at their disposal before seizing weapons from the pirates. They managed to overpower their captors and reach Aden, Yemen, in what was described a "daring and dramatic escape."

Ransom
Ransom refers to the practice of holding a prisoner or item to extort money or property to secure their release. It also refers to the sum of money paid by the other party to secure a captive's freedom.

When ransom means "payment", the word comes via Old French rançon from Latin redemptio, 'buying back'; compare "redemption".