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John Sharples Jr.
John Sharples (24 January 1847 – 30 July 1913) was a Canadian business person and politician.

Born in Notre-Dame de Québec, the son of John Sharples and Honoria Ann Alleyn, Sharples was educated at Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal. In 1871, he joined his father's business. He was also the president of the Union Bank of Canada and of the Chronicle Printing Company. He was a member of the Quebec City Council from 1894 to 1898. He was mayor of Sillery, a post his father also held. He was appointed to the Legislative Council of Quebec for Stadacona in 1893. He served until his death in 1913. He was made a Knight of Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope Pius X in 1907.

Order of St. Gregory the Great
The Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great (Latin: Ordo Sancti Gregorii Magni; Italian: Ordine di San Gregorio Magno) was established on 1 September 1831, by Pope Gregory XVI, seven months after his election as Pope.

The order is one of the five orders of knighthood of the Holy See. The honor is bestowed upon Catholic men and women (and certain notable non-Catholics) in recognition of their personal service to the Holy See and to the Catholic Church, through their unusual labors, their support of the Holy See, and the examples they set in their communities and their countries.
Riparia, Washington
Riparia is an extinct town in Whitman County, in the U.S. state of Washington. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place.

A post office called Riparia was in operation between 1882 and 1963. The community most likely took its name from a nearby riparian zone.

Riparia was a railway stop along the Snake River approximately 81 miles Northeast of Pasco, WA.  The town featured a bridge across the Snake River and a hotel.

From April 6, 1917 (coinciding with the declaration of war on the German Empire) till October 16, 1917 a detachment of Company F 2nd Idaho Infantry garrisoned Riparia to guard railroad and waterway infrastructure from sabotage concerns.  September 19, 1917 the unit was redesignated Company F, 116th Engineer Regiment, 41st Division.

Whitman County, Washington
Whitman County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, the population was 47,973. The county seat is Colfax, and its largest city is Pullman.

The county was formed from Stevens County in 1871. It is named after Marcus Whitman, a Presbyterian missionary who, with his wife Narcissa, was killed in 1847 by members of the Cayuse tribe.

Whitman County comprises the Pullman, Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Rock art of the Chumash people
Chumash rock art is a genre of paintings on caves, mountains, cliffs, or other living rock surfaces, created by the Chumash people of Southern California. Pictographs and petroglyphs are common through interior California, the rock painting tradition thrived until the 19th century. Chumash rock art is considered to be some of the most elaborate and plentiful rock art tradition in the region.

The Chumash are probably best known for the pictographs, which were brightly colored paintings of humans, animals, and abstract circles. They were thought to be part of religious rituals and astrononomical events .

Julian Steward
Julian Haynes Steward (January 31, 1902 – February 6, 1972) was an American anthropologist known best for his role in developing "the concept and method" of cultural ecology, as well as a scientific theory of culture change.
Proteagailovca
Proteagailovca (Moldovan Cyrillic and Russian: Протягайловка, romanized: Protyagaylovka; Ukrainian: Протягайлівка, romanized: Protyagaylivka) is a village in the municipality of Bender (Tighina), Moldova. It had a population of 3,142 at the 2004 Census. The locality, although situated on the right (western) bank of the river Dniester, is under the control of the breakaway Transnistrian authorities. Proteagailovca is located immediately to the west of the city, and is the only other locality in the municipality, except the city of Bender itself.

Of the 3,142 inhabitants of Proteagailovca, 1,482 (47.17%) Russians, 658 (20.94%) Ukrainians, 756 (24.06%) are Moldovans, 163 (5.19%) Bulgarians, 25 (0.80%) Gagauzians, 19 (0.60%) Belarusians, 6 (0.19%) Germans, 2 (0.06%) Jews, and 31 (0.48%) others and non-declared.

Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet
The Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet is a Cyrillic alphabet designed for the Romanian language spoken in the Soviet Union (Moldovan) and was in official use from 1924 to 1932 and 1938 to 1989. It is still in use today in the breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria.
Lehto
Lehto is a Finnish surname  of Laine type literally meaning "grove". Notable people with the surname include:

Arlene Ione Lehto, American politician and businesswoman

JJ Lehto, Finnish racing car driver

Joni Lehto, Finnish ice hockey player

Katja Lehto, Finnish ice hockey player

Leevi Lehto, Finnish poet, translator, and programmer

Olli Lehto, Finnish mathematician

Pekka Lehto, Finnish film director

Petteri Lehto, Finnish ice hockey player

Rami Lehto, Finnish politician

Reino Ragnar Lehto, Finnish politician

Seppo Lehto, Finnish activist

Katja Lehto
Katja Maarit Lehto (born 14 August 1972) is a Finnish retired ice hockey player. She played with the Finnish national ice hockey team throughout the 1990s and won a bronze medal at the inaugural Olympic women's ice hockey tournament at the 1998 Winter Olympics. With the national team, she also won bronze at the IIHF Women's World Championships in 1999 and 2000, and gold at the 1995 IIHF European Women Championship.

Lehto’s club career was played in the Naisten SM-sarja with KalPa Naiset and JYP Naiset. After retiring from play, she worked as the general manager for JYP Naiset in the 2014-15 and 2015-2016 seasons.
2023 Giro di Sicilia
The 2023 Giro di Sicilia is a road cycling stage race that took place between 11 and 14 April 2023 on the island of Sicily in Italy. The race is rated as a category 2.1 event on the 2023 UCI Europe Tour calendar, and is the 27th edition of the Giro di Sicilia.

UCI race classifications
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the world's governing body in the sport of bicycle racing, classifies races according to a rating scale.

The rating is represented by a code made of two or three parts and indicates both the type or style of race (the first part), and its importance or difficulty (the second and third parts, lower being harder). The first part can be an integer or an abbreviation, and the second part, when present, are usually integers. Both parts are separated by a period or decimal point (.).

A higher rated race will result in the successful riders receiving more world ranking points.
Caxcan
The Caxcan are an ethnic group who are Indigenous to western and north-central Mexico, particularly the regions corresponding to modern-day Zacatecas, southern Durango, Jalisco, Colima, Aguascalientes, Nayarit. The Caxcan language is most often documented as an ancient variant of Nahuatl and is a member of the Uto-Aztecan language family. The last generation of natively fluent Caxcan language speakers came to an end in the 1890s. Despite this having long been conflated by anthropologists with an extinction of the Caxcan people themselves, much of Caxcan culture has persisted via oral tradition. There is currently an ongoing revitalization of Caxcan language, scholarship, and culture.

Colima
Colima, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Colima, is among the 31 states that make up the 32 federated entities of Mexico. It shares its name with its capital and main city, Colima.

Colima is a small state of western Mexico on the central Pacific coast, and includes the four oceanic Revillagigedo Islands. Mainland Colima shares borders with the states of Jalisco and Michoacán. In addition to the capital city of Colima, the main cities are Manzanillo, Villa de Alvarez and Tecomán. Colima is the fourth smallest state in Mexico and has the smallest population, but has one of Mexico's highest standards of living and the lowest unemployment. It is also the state with the highest murder rate per capita and one of the highest crime rates, due to its ports being a contested area for cartels.
Debout sur le Zinc
Debout Sur Le Zinc is a French music band.

After their first 1999 self-titled album, their subsequent album L’homme à tue-tête released in May 2001 gained them media acclaim and public popularity. By the time their 2004 album Des singes et les moutons enhanced their repertoire, they were selling out venues such as La Cigale and touring internationally.  Songs from their latest album Les Promesses were featured in their first concert at the oldest music hall in Paris, the Olympia, where they played to a full house on May 16, 2006.

The band acknowledges influences from traditional French music and Irish music, rock, klezmer, and many styles that are considered dance hall music, such as gypsy jazz, tango, waltz.

Tango music
Tango (/ˈtæŋɡoʊ/ or /ˈtɑːŋɡoʊ/; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈtaŋgo]) is a style of music in 24 or 44 time that originated in Uruguay and Argentina among European immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It has mainly Spanish, Italian, Gaucho, African, and French cultural roots. It is traditionally played on a solo guitar, guitar duo, or an ensemble, known as the orquesta típica, which includes at least two violins, flute, piano, double bass, and at least two bandoneóns. Sometimes guitars and a clarinet join the ensemble. Tango may be purely instrumental or may include a vocalist. Tango music and dance have become popular throughout the world.
Henry Butler (hurler)
Henry Butler (born 1948) is an Irish retired hurler who played as a goalkeeper for the Wexford senior team.

Born in Kilmuckridge, County Wexford, Butler first arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he first linked up with the Wexford minor team, before later joining the under-21 side. He made his senior debut during the 1976 championship. Butler went on to play a bit part for the team over the next few years, and won two Leinster medals as a non-playing substitute. He was an All-Ireland runner-up as a non-playing substitute on two occasions.

At club level Butler is a one-time All-Ireland medallist with Buffers Alley. In addition to this he also won two Leinster medals and ten championship medals.

Throughout his inter-county career Butler made 3 championship appearances for Wexford. His retirement came following the conclusion of the 1979 championship.

Wexford GAA
The Wexford County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Irish: Cumann Luthchleas Gael Coiste Chontae Loch Garman) or Wexford GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Wexford. The county board is also responsible for the Wexford county teams.

Wexford is one of the few counties to have won the All-Ireland Senior Championship in both football and hurling.

The county hurling team last won the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship in 1996.

The county football team has won five All-Ireland Senior Football Championships, with the most recent win achieved in 1918.
Cyfac
Cyfac International is a manufacturer of bicycles in La Fuye, Hommes in the Loire Valley of France.  The name is an acronym that translates from French to "Handmade Bicycle Frames".  "Cy" represents cycle (bicycle), "f" for fabriqué (made), "a" for "artisanal" (artisan), and the final C stands for cadres (frame). The Cyfac Postural System is a bicycle fitting system based on research at Lyon Center of Sports Medicine.

Loire Valley
The Loire Valley (French: Vallée de la Loire, pronounced [vale də la lwaʁ]), spanning 280 kilometres (170 mi), is a valley located in the middle stretch of the Loire river in central France, in both the administrative regions Pays de la Loire and Centre-Val de Loire. The area of the Loire Valley comprises about 800 square kilometres (310 sq mi). It is referred to as the Cradle of the French and the Garden of France due to the abundance of vineyards, fruit orchards (such as cherries), and artichoke and asparagus fields, which line the banks of the river. Notable for its historic towns, architecture, and wines, the valley has been inhabited since the Middle Palaeolithic period. In 2000, UNESCO added the central part of the Loire River valley to its list of World Heritage Sites.
2026 Speedway Grand Prix
The 2026 Speedway Grand Prix season will be the 32nd season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and will decide the 81st FIM Speedway World Championship. It will be the first series promoted by Mayfield Sports Events Ltd, who will take over from Discovery.

Bartosz Zmarzlik will be the defending champion having won the title in 2025. A win will mean he surpasses Tony Rickardsson and Ivan Mauger's record of six world championships. Brady Kurtz will also be aiming to become the first rider in history to win six consecutive Grand Prix in the season opener, having won the last five rounds in 2025.

Bartosz Zmarzlik
Bartosz Zmarzlik (Polish: ['bartɔʂ ˈzmarzlik] ⓘ; born 12 April 1995) is a Polish motorcycle speedway rider, a record-equalling six-time World Champion (2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025), three-time World Team Champion (2016, 2017, 2023), World Junior Champion (2015) and European Junior Champion (2012). He is the third Polish rider in history, after Jerzy Szczakiel and Tomasz Gollob, to win an individual World Championship title.

He was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta, V class in 2019 and won the Polish Sports Personality of the Year title in 2020 becoming the second speedway rider to accomplish this feat.
Lithophasia venosula
Lithophasia venosula is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Otto Staudinger in 1892. It is probably endemic of the Levant. Thus far it has only been recorded from Lebanon and the forests near Mount Meron in Israel.

Adults are on wing in October. There is probably one generation per year.

Otto Staudinger
Otto Staudinger (2 May 1830 – 13 October 1900) was a German entomologist and a natural history dealer considered one of the largest in the world specialising in the collection and sale of insects to museums, scientific institutions, and individuals.
Vondo Dam
Vondo Dam is an earth-fill type dam located on the Mutshindudi River near Sibasa, Limpopo, South Africa. It was established in 1985 and has been renovated in 1994. The dam serves mainly for irrigation purposes and its hazard potential has been ranked high (3).

Sibasa
Sibasa is a village in Limpopo Province, South Africa and the former capital city of the Venda Bantustan. When Venda, was declared independent in 1979, the capital was moved to Ṱhohoyanḓou.

The town is 72 km north-north-east of Louis Trichardt. It was named after a Venda chief, Tshivhase.
Niklas Seppänen
Niklas Seppänen  (born 30 June 1993) is a Finnish male volleyball player. He was part of the Finland men's national volleyball team at the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship in Poland. He played for Tours VB.

2014 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship
The 2014 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship was held in Poland from 30 August to 21 September 2014. The tournament featured 24 teams to determine the world champions in men's volleyball. In addition to the host nation Poland, 23 teams qualified for the tournament through continental and regional competitions. The matches took place in seven venues across seven Polish cities, with the final being played at Spodek, Katowice.

The tournament was won by the hosts Poland, who beat Brazil (who had won the previous three titles) in the final. Poland became the third team in the history of the competition to be crowned as champions in their own country, joining the Soviet Union (1952 and 1962) and Czechoslovakia (1966).

563,263 fans watched the matches during the 18-day event, smashing the previous records in the competition. In Italy four years earlier, the total was 339,324, while in Japan in 2006, it was 298,352.
Cake Day
Cake Day is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Phillip Thomas and released in 2020. The film stars Cameron Crosby as a recovering narcotics addict who is about to celebrate his five-year anniversary of sobriety in Narcotics Anonymous, but must struggle with whether or not to be honest in the meeting about the fact that he relapsed the night before.

The film's cast also includes Steven Roberts as his sponsor Bill and Diana Lepine-Thomas as his mother, as well as Spencer Foley, Bradley Stryker, Jeremy Wallace Maclean, John Duncan, Joe Buffalo, Blair Buchholz and Koshiki Tanaka in supporting roles.

The film premiered on March 11, 2020 at the Saguenay International Short Film Festival. It was subsequently screened at the 2020 Vancouver International Film Festival, where it won the award for Best British Columbia Short Film.

Crosby won the Leo Award for Best Actor in a Short Drama in 2021.

Joe Buffalo
Joe Buffalo (born 1976) is a Cree skateboarder and actor from Canada. He is most noted as a two-time Vancouver Film Critics Circle nominee for Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film, receiving nominations at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2016 for Hello Destroyer and at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2017 for Luk'Luk'I. He is a 2023 recipient of the Inspire Award in the sports category.
Meskala
Meskala is a small town and rural commune in Essaouira Province of the Marrakech-Tensift-Al Haouz region of Morocco. At the time of the 2004 census, the commune had a total population of 4,220 people living in 817 households.

2004 Moroccan census
The 2004 Moroccan census, formally the General Population and Housing Census for the year 2004, was held in Morocco in 2004, conducted by the High Planning Commission. The previous census was taken in 1994.
2012 Aegon Classic
The 2012 Aegon Classic was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 31st edition of the event. It took place at the Edgbaston Priory Club in Birmingham, United Kingdom, scheduled between 11 and 17 June 2012. Qualifier Melanie Oudin won the singles title.

Edgbaston Priory Club
The Edgbaston Priory Club is a private members' tennis, squash and leisure club in Birmingham, England. The club is the host of the annual WTA Tour stop, the Rothesay Classic.  The 'Ann Jones Court' stadium has a capacity of 2,500 people (1,000 permanent and 1,500 temporary).

The club has a fitness suite and class studio, a bar and bistro area, indoor and outdoor pools, 30+ tennis courts and 10 squash courts. It is considered one of the premier racquets clubs in the UK.
Veijo Viinikka
Veijo Viinikka (born 27 March 1966) is a Finnish professional darts player.

He competed in the 2011 PDC World Darts Championship, losing 4–2 to Roland Scholten in the preliminary round. He made his European Tour debut for German Darts Championship, but he lost to David Pallett in the first round. He made his PDC World Cup debut for Finland in 2020, but he and Marko Kantele lost to Germany 0–5.

PDC World Cup of Darts
The PDC World Cup of Darts is a team darts tournament organised by the Professional Darts Corporation, and was one of the three new tournaments introduced into the PDC calendar in 2010. It is broadcast live by Sky Sports.

The first edition was held in 2010 but due to the rescheduling of the Players Championship Finals in the PDC calendar, the second edition was played in Hamburg, Germany, in February 2012. In 2015, the event took place the Eissporthalle Frankfurt, where it stayed until returning to Hamburg in 2019 when it moved to the Barclaycard Arena. In 2020, the event was held at the Salzburgarena in Salzburg, Austria, and in 2021, it returned to Germany, this time in the Sparkassen-Arena, Jena, and in 2022 it returned to Frankfurt were it has been held since.

The competition succeeded the Jocky Wilson Cup; a one-off international match between England and Scotland held in Glasgow on 5 December 2009. England defeated Scotland by 6 points to 0.
Karditsomagoula
Karditsomagoula (Greek: Καρδιτσομαγούλα) is a large village in the Karditsa regional unit in Greece, with nearly 2,000 inhabitants. It is part of the municipality of Karditsa and is situated north of the central area of Karditsa, separated from it by the Greek National Road 30 (Arta - Trikala - Karditsa - Volos). It has a grid layout consisting of six 1,500-metre roads (North–South) and eleven 900-metre roads (East–West). It is located southeast of Trikala, southeast of Larissa, west of Palamas, northwest of Sofades, and northeast of the Plastiras Dam.

Farmlands dominate the area around Karditsomagoula, the main product being cotton covering 26,000 acres (105 square kilometres) of land.  Other products include cattle, fruit and vegetables, and some flowers. The whole population prior to the late-20th century, and much of the population today, are farmers.

Arta, Greece
Arta (Greek: Άρτα) is a city in northwestern Greece and the capital of the regional unit of Arta, in the region of Epirus. The city was known in antiquity as Ambracia (Ancient Greek: Ἀμβρακία) and had served as the capital of ancient Epirus. Arta is known for its medieval bridge over the Arachthos River, as well as for its ancient sites from the era of Pyrrhus of Epirus and its well-preserved 13th-century castle. Arta's Byzantine history is reflected in its many Byzantine churches; perhaps the best known is the Panagia Paregoretissa (Mother of God the Consoling), built in about 1290 by Despot Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas.
Jinn Mosque
The Jinn Mosque (Azerbaijani: Cin məscidi) is a former mosque, located on Gala turn, in the Palace of the Shirvanshahs in the Old City of Baku, in Azerbaijan.

The 14th century former mosque was registered as a national architectural monument by the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan dated August 2, 2001, No. 132. The Jin Mosque forms part of the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Palace of the Shirvanshahs.

Old City (Baku)
Old City or Inner City (Azerbaijani: İçərişəhər) is the historical core of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The Old City is the most ancient part of Baku, which is surrounded by walls. In 2007, the Old City had a population of about 3,000 people. In December 2000, the Old City of Baku, including the Palace of the Shirvanshahs and Maiden Tower, became the first location in Azerbaijan to be classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Laurence Shanet
Laurence Paul Shanet (born New York City, October 1, 1976) is an American commercial director and film director, also known under his working moniker Kranky. He has also directed music videos, internet content and stage plays, and worked at various times as a writer and producer, in both the advertising and entertainment industries. His work has won the 2004 Young Director Award at the Cannes Lions International Festival (sponsored by Commercial Film Producers of Europe), and is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (via their joint award with the Association of Independent Commercial Producers).

American Advertising Federation
The American Advertising Federation (AAF) is the nation's oldest national advertising industry trade association. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C. AAF has 15 district operations, each located in and representing a different region of the nation.
Fishwife (statue)
Fishwife (Danish: Fiskerkone) is a 1940 granite statue of a fishwife situated at Gammel Strand in Copenhagen, Denmark, commemorating the fact that the city's principal fish market was then located at the site. It represents one of the so-called Skovser Women who, wearing their traditional garments, used to dominate the market trade. The fish market closed in 1958.

Skovshoved
Skovshoved is a former fishing village on the Øresund coast north of Copenhagen, Denmark. The area is part of Charlottenlund postal district and Gentofte Municipality. Local landmarks include Skovshoved Church, Skovshoved Hotel and the listed Arne Jacobsen-designed Skovshoved Petrol Station from 1938.