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1979 XV FIBA International Christmas Tournament
The 1979 XV FIBA International Christmas Tournament "Trofeo Raimundo Saporta" was the 15th edition of the FIBA International Christmas Tournament. It took place at Sports City of Real Madrid Pavilion, Madrid, Spain, on 24, 25 and 26 December 1979 with the participations of Spanish club sides Real Madrid and Joventut Freixenet, a Soviet Union senior national team, and an American AiA amateur team.

FIBA International Christmas Tournament
FIBA International Christmas Tournament also known as the Christmas Tournament (Torneo de Navidad) was a men's basketball international friendly competition at the club level (and in some editions with national teams), organized by FIBA at its first decades through the Commission of International Organizations under the hand of Raimundo Saporta, club director and president of the International Commission of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), and with the authorization and support of R. William Jones, its general secretary, so it had the officiality of FIBA in its first decades of life, being also the starting point of the FIBA Intercontinental Cup, whose first edition appears in the history of this competition. After 1980, the tournament transitioned to being an festive exhibition, although it still garnered attention and popularity.
Henry Nuttall
Henry Nuttall (6 February 1855 – 8 October 1945) was an English professional cricketer who played 14 first-class cricket matches for Kent County Cricket Club between 1889 and 1894. Nuttall played as a wicket-keeper.

Nuttall was born at Crayford in Kent in 1855. He made his first-class debut for Kent against Yorkshire in 1889 at Mote Park. He went on to make a total of 14 appearances for them, his final match coming in May 1894 against Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).

Nuttall died at Bedgebury Cross in Kent in October 1945 aged 90.

Mote Park (cricket ground)
Mote Park, also known as The Mote, is a cricket ground in Maidstone in the English county of Kent. It is inside the grounds of the Mote Park and is owned by The Mote Cricket Club. The ground is also used by the Mote Squash Club and Maidstone rugby club. It was used by Kent County Cricket Club as one of their out-grounds for county cricket matches. The club played over 200 first-class cricket matches on the ground between 1859 and 2005.

The ground is located around 0.8 miles (1.3 km) south-east of the centre of Maidstone on the western fringe of Mote Park. The A229 road runs 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the east of the ground, Maidstone Leisure Centre is immediately to the south of the ground and Maidstone Grammar School just south-west of the site. Originally the ground was separated from the urban area of Maidstone by farmland, but 20th century housing has been built up to the western edges of the site.
Baseball at the 2003 Pan American Games
Baseball at the 2003 Pan American Games was contested between teams representing Bahamas, Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and the United States. The 2003 edition was the 14th Pan American Games, and was hosted by Santo Domingo.

Cuba entered the competition as the eight-time defending champions, having won each gold medal dating back to 1971. They successfully defended their title, with the United States finishing second.

Bahamas national baseball team
The Bahamas national baseball team represents the Bahamas in international baseball competitions. The team is administered by the Bahamas Baseball Association (BBA).

The team played in the 2009 World Baseball Challenge, but went 0-6. They were managed by Jeffrey Francis.

The Bahamas have participated in three editions of the Caribbean Baseball Cup, hosting all three tournaments. Their best finish came in 2022, when the team placed fourth.
Women Is Losers
Women Is Losers is a 2021 American drama film written and directed by Lissette Feliciano. Starring Lorenza Izzo, Bryan Craig, Chrissie Fit, Simu Liu, Steven Bauer, Liza Weil, Cranston Johnson, Alejandra Miranda, Shalim Ortiz and Lincoln Bonilla, it follows the life of a young woman from her formative years to adulthood in 1960s San Francisco. The film's title is derived from a Janis Joplin song.

The film premiered at South by Southwest on March 16, 2021, and was released on October 25, 2021, on HBO Max.

Chrissie Fit
Chrissie Fit (born April 3, 1984) is an American actress and singer. In 2007, Fit rose to prominence after she was cast as the character Mercedes Juarez in the medical drama, General Hospital. She also played the roles of CheeChee in the DCOMs Teen Beach Movie and Teen Beach 2, and Florencia "Flo" Fuentes in Pitch Perfect 2 and Pitch Perfect 3.
Pallalcesto Amatori Udine
Pallalcesto Amatori Udine, better known by the sponsorship name Snaidero Udine, was an Italian professional basketball club based in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

In 2011, following the dissolution of the club, a new team, APU Udine, was founded.

Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Italian: [friˈuːli veˈnɛttsja ˈdʒuːlja]) is one of the 20 regions of Italy and one of five autonomous regions with special statute. The regional capital is Trieste on the Gulf of Trieste, a bay of the Adriatic Sea.

Friuli-Venezia Giulia has a population of 1,194,095 in an area of 7,924.36 square kilometres (3,059.61 sq mi) as of 2025. A natural opening to the sea for many central European countries, the region is traversed by the major transport routes between the east and west of Southern Europe. It encompasses the historical-geographical region of Friuli and a small portion of the historical region of Venezia Giulia—also known in English as the Julian March—each with its own distinct history, traditions and identity.
Wushu at the 1998 Asian Games
Wushu was contested by both men and women at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand from December 16 to December 19, 1998. It was competed in the disciplines of Taijiquan, Changquan, Nanquan and sanshou. All events were held at Thammasat Gymnasium 6. Changquan event consisted of Changquan, one long weapon discipline and one short weapon discipline.

Nanquan (martial art)
Nanquan refers to a classification of Chinese martial arts that originated in Southern China.

The southern styles of Chinese martial arts are characterized by emphasis on "short hitting" and specific arm movements, predominantly in southern styles such as Hung Kuen, Choi Lei Fut, Hak Fu Mun, Wuzuquan, Wing Chun, and so on.
Lynne Yamamoto
Lynne Yamamoto (born 1961) is a New England-based artist and educator known for sculpture, architectural structures and installations. Her work uses material and spatial strategies to connect ordinary personal histories and objects to broader events and sociocultural themes such as migration, cross-cultural influence, nationality, labor and domestic life. Art historian Margo Machida writes of her work, "Through evocative assemblies of objects, a hands-on artisanal use of materials and a research-based investigative approach, the artist suggests the generative possibilities of the local when conceived within larger contexts."

Yamamoto's work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum, among others.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) is a contemporary art museum with two locations in Los Angeles, California. The main branch is located on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, near the Walt Disney Concert Hall. MOCA's original space, initially intended as a temporary exhibit space while the main facility was built, is now known as the Geffen Contemporary and located in the Little Tokyo district of downtown Los Angeles. Between 2000 and 2019, it operated a satellite facility at the Pacific Design Center facility in West Hollywood.

The museum's exhibits consist primarily of American and European contemporary art created after 1940. Since the museum's inception, MOCA's programming has been defined by its multi-disciplinary approach to contemporary art.
The Idylls of the Queen
The Idylls of the Queen: A Tale of Queen Guenevere is a 1982 fantasy mystery novel set in the framework of the King Arthur myths written by American author Phyllis Ann Karr. It was first published in paperback by Ace Books in June 1982, and reprinted by Berkley Books in 1985. A trade paperback edition was published by Wildside Press in 1999. The novel's title is inspired by Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Arthurian poetry collection Idylls of the King.

Wildside Press
Wildside Press is an independent publishing company in Cabin John, Maryland. It was founded in 1989 by John Betancourt and Kim Betancourt. While the press was originally conceived as a publisher of speculative fiction in both trade and limited editions, its focus has broadened since then, both in content and format.

Its website notes publication of works of mystery, romance, science fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction, as well as downloadable audiobooks and CDs, ebooks, magazines, and physical books. Wildside Press has published approximately 10,000 books through print on demand and traditional means.
Traitor Draža Mihailović
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Traitor Draža Mihailović: In the Hands of the Authority of People's Power is a book by communist Yugoslav figure Aleksandar Ranković written about the trial of  World War II Chetnik leader Draža Mihailović that denounces Mihailović.

Aleksandar Ranković
Aleksandar Ranković (nom de guerre Marko, nicknamed Leka; Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Ранковић Лека; 28 November 1909 – 19 August 1983) was a Serbian and Yugoslav communist politician, considered to be the third most powerful man in Yugoslavia after Josip Broz Tito and Edvard Kardelj. Ranković was a proponent of a centralized Yugoslavia and opposed efforts that promoted decentralization that he deemed to be against the interests of the Serbian people; he ensured Serbs had a strong presence in Serbia's Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo's nomenklatura. Ranković cautioned against separatist forces in Kosovo who were commonly suspected of pursuing seditious activities.

The popularity of Ranković in Serbia became apparent at his funeral in 1983, which large numbers of people attended. Many considered Ranković a Serbian "national" leader. Ranković's policies have been perceived as the basis of the policies of Slobodan Milošević.
Belcher's and Broadfield Woods
Belcher's and Broadfield Woods is a 14.4-hectare (36-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Halstead and Braintree in Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust as the Brookes Nature Reserve.

The site is coppice woodland on chalky boulder clay. There is a variety of woodlands types, such as wet ash and maple, pedunculate oak and hornbeam, and acid birch, ash and lime. The ground flora includes species which are locally uncommon, including greater butterfly-orchid and bird's-nest orchid. There is also a variety of butterflies, and ponds which have frogs and newts.

The site is crossed by footpaths.

Quercus robur
Quercus robur, the pedunculate (or "English") oak, is a species of flowering plant in the beech and oak family, Fagaceae. It is a large tree, native to most of Europe, North Africa and western Asia, and is widely cultivated in other temperate regions. It grows on soils of near neutral acidity in the lowlands and is notable for its value to natural ecosystems, supporting a very wide diversity of herbivorous insects and other pests, predators and pathogens.
Steve Kost
Steve Kost is an American metal artist known for his sculptures made from scrap and upcycled materials. Kost uses typewriter parts, sewing machine components, and farming tools, emphasizing themes of movement and symmetry. Kost's art has been exhibited in various regional and national venues, particularly at veteran-focused art events and institutions.

Upcycling
Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products perceived to be of greater quality, such as artistic value or environmental value.
2023 Canadian Figure Skating Championships
The 2023 Canadian Figure Skating Championships were held on January 9-15, 2023 in Oshawa, Ontario. Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance at the senior, junior, and novice levels. The results were part of the Canadian selection criteria for the 2023 World Championships, the 2023 Four Continents Championships, and the 2023 World Junior Championships.

Oshawa was announced as the host in April 2022. The city hosted the event once before in 1952. Competitors qualified at the Skate Canada Challenge in December.

Skate Canada Challenge
The Skate Canada Challenge is an annual domestic figure skating competition hosted by Skate Canada. It is typically held in November or December with the location differing by year. Medals may be awarded in men's singles, women's singles, ice dance, and pair skating at the senior, junior, and novice. The results of the Skate Canada Challenge are used to determine entries for the Canadian Championships.
Al Basra-class offshore support vessel
The Al Basra-class offshore support vessel (manufacturer designates as RiverHawk OSV 60) is a 60-meter (200 ft) multi-function offshore support vessel, providing a wide range of capabilities from command and control, to support and protection of oil/Gas installations, to acting as a "mothership" for patrol boats. Vessels of the class are operated by the United States Navy and the Iraqi Navy.

Platform supply vessel
A platform supply vessel (PSV) is a ship specially designed to supply offshore oil and gas platforms and other offshore installations. They typically range from 50 to 100 metres (160 to 330 ft) in length and are distinguished by the large open deck area used to store supplies and house equipment and to allow for efficient loading and offloading. The primary function for most of these vessels is logistic support and transportation of goods, tools, equipment, and personnel to and from their destination.

They belong to the broad category of offshore vessels (OSVs) which includes Service Operation Vessels  (SOVs), Construction Support Vessels (CSVs), well stimulation vessels (WSVs) and anchor handling tug supply vessels (AHTSVs).
Fotunu'upule Auelua
Fotunu'upule Auelua (known as Fotu) is an Australian former rugby union player. He played at Number 8. He previously played for Brumbies in Super Rugby,  Dax, Toulon and NTT Communications Shining Arcs.

West Harbour RFC
The West Harbour Rugby Football Club is a professional Australian rugby union club based in Concord, New South Wales. Founded in 1900 as the Western Suburbs District R.U.F.C., the club is one of the oldest in Australia and competes in the Shute Shield, the premier New South Wales club competition.

The club's home ground is Concord Oval, which holds a significant place in Australian rugby history as a key venue for the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1987.
Criminal Minds season 15
The fifteenth season of Criminal Minds was ordered on January 10, 2019, with an order of 10 episodes. The season premiered on January 8, 2020, and concluded on February 19, 2020.

It was the final season to air on CBS, and was intended to be the final season overall. Two years later, Criminal Minds returned for a sixteenth season in 2022 on Paramount+.

Rachael Leigh Cook
Rachael Leigh Cook (born October 4, 1979) is an American actress and model. She has starred in the films The Baby-Sitters Club (1995), She's All That (1999), and Josie and the Pussycats (2001), and in the television series Into the West and Perception. She is also the voice behind various characters in Robot Chicken and Tifa Lockhart in the Final Fantasy series, starting with the English version of the film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Since 2016, her television appearances have primarily been made-for-TV movies on the Hallmark Channel.
Andørja Church
Andørja Church (Norwegian: Andørja kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Ibestad Municipality in Troms county, Norway. It is located in the village of Engenes on the northwestern tip of the island of Andørja. It is the church for the Andørja parish which is part of the Trondenes prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland. The white, wooden church was built in a long church style in 1914 using plans drawn up by the architect S. Kristensen. The church seats about 325 people. The church was consecrated on 11 October 1914 by the Bishop Gustav Dietrichson.

Troms
Troms (Norwegian: [trʊms] ⓘ; Northern Sami: Romsa; Kven: Tromssa; Finnish: Tromssa) is a  county in northern Norway. It borders Finnmark county to the northeast and Nordland county in the southwest. Norrbotten Län in Sweden is located to the south and further southeast is a shorter border with Lapland Province in Finland. To the west is the Norwegian Sea (Atlantic Ocean). The county had a population of 169,610 in 2024.

The entire county, which was established in 1866, is located north of the Arctic Circle. The Troms County Municipality is the governing body for the county, elected by the people of Troms, while the Troms county governor is a representative of the King and Government of Norway.

From January 2020 to December 2023, Troms was merged with the neighboring Finnmark county to create the new Troms og Finnmark county. This merger was reversed by the government resulting from the 2021 Norwegian parliamentary election.
Gerald T. Whelan
Gerald T. Whelan  (May 14, 1925 – January 2, 1993) was an American politician who served as the 30th lieutenant governor of Nebraska from 1975 to 1979.

Whelan was born in Hastings, Nebraska on May 14, 1925.  He graduated from University of Nebraska–Lincoln, obtained a law degree from Creighton University, and practiced law in Hastings.

In 1960, Whelan won the Democratic nomination to run for Nebraska's 1st congressional district, and lost to incumbent Republican Phillip Hart Weaver in the general election.

Whelan, with the endorsement of Democratic governor J. James Exon, beat longtime Nebraska politician Terry Carpenter in the Democratic primary in May 1974 for lieutenant governor, and went on to win the general election.  In the 1978 election, Whelan ran for Nebraska Governor, but lost to Charles Thone.

Charles Thone
Charles Thone (January 4, 1924 – March 7, 2018) was an American Republican politician. He was the 34th governor of Nebraska, serving from 1979 to 1983. He previously served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Nebraska's 1st congressional district, from 1971 to 1979.
Mattis Mathiesen
Mattis Leonid Rakov Alexevitch Mathiesen (30 June 1924 – 9 October 2010) was a Norwegian photographer and film director.

He hailed from Ålesund. His grandfather was a Russian immigrant. Mathiesen stayed in the United Kingdom during the Second World War, where he learned photography.

He worked in the company Teamfilm. He did the photography for, among others, Elskere (1963) and Vildanden (1963, TV 1989). In 1970 he won the Aamot-statuetten. He was also the photographer for the Olsenbanden films. He was the producer of Viva Villaveien! (1989) and distributor of Fredrikssons fabrikk (1994).

He lived in Bærum, and died in October 2010.

Elskere
Elskere (English: Lovers) is a 1963 Norwegian drama film directed by Nils R. Müller, starring Ingerid Vardund and Wenche Myhre. Ludvina (Vardund) is considered a woman of loose morals in her small home town, and her only real friend is the orphaned girl Grethe (Myhre). When Ludvina becomes pregnant, she decides to raise the child without the help of a man.
Flesh and Sand
Flesh and Sand (Spanish: Carne y arena) is a 2017 American short virtual reality project written and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu that plunges  "viewers into the harsh life of an immigrant". It was created by Iñárritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki in collaboration with ILMxLAB with support from Legendary Entertainment and the Fondazione Prada in Italy.

Flesh and Sand (Carne y arena) premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival as part of the official selection and was the first virtual reality project to ever be featured at the festival. It was later featured at the Prada Foundation in Milan, attracting significant international attention for its highly innovative character as well as its strong political message. It was awarded the first Special Achievement Academy Award in over 20 years by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Legendary Entertainment
Legendary Entertainment, LLC (also known as Legendary Pictures or simply Legendary) is an American mass media and film production company based in Burbank, California, founded by Thomas Tull in 2000. The company has often collaborated with the major studios, including Warner Bros. Pictures, Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures and Paramount Pictures, as well as streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu.

In 2016, Legendary became a subsidiary of the Chinese conglomerate Wanda Group, with American equity firm Apollo buying a minority stake in 2022. In 2024, Legendary Entertainment bought out Wanda's stake, making Legendary and Apollo equal partners.
David Dunlap (rower)
David Coombs Dunlap (November 19, 1910 – December 16, 1994) was an American rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.

In 1932, he won the gold medal as member of the American boat in the eights competition.

Rowing at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's eight
The men's eight competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles took place at the Long Beach Marine Stadium. It was held from 10 to 13 August. There were 8 boats (72 competitors) from 8 nations, with each nation limited to a single boat in the event. The event was won by the United States, the nation's fourth consecutive and sixth overall victory; the Americans had won every time they competed (missing 1908 and 1912). Silver went to Italy, that nation's second medal in the men's eight after a bronze in 1924. Canada repeated as bronze medalists, stretching their podium streak in the event to three Games.
Murder in Mississippi (book)
Murder in Mississippi: The True Story of How I Met a White Supremacist, Befriended His Black Killer and Wrote this Book is a 2013 true crime book written by Australian comedian and documentary-maker John Safran. It was published as God'll Cut You Down in the US. The book won the 2014 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime.

The book chronicles the events of Rankin County white supremacist Richard Barrett's murder by 23-year-old African-American Vincent McGee and explores the relationship between the two men.

John Safran
John Michael Safran (Hebrew: יְהוֹשֻׁעַ ספרן, romanized: Yehoshua Safran; born 13 August 1972) is an Australian radio personality, satirist, documentary maker and author, known for combining humour with religious, political and ethnic issues. First gaining fame appearing in Race Around the World in 1997, Safran went on to produce a series of documentaries, television shows and host radio programs.

Safran is known for his television stunts, which include placing a fatwa on Australian television host Rove McManus, sneaking nine young men into an exclusive Melbourne nightclub by disguising them as members of American nu metal band Slipknot, running through Jerusalem wearing nothing but the beanie and scarf of St Kilda Football Club, driving a remote-controlled seagull with a cigarette onto the Melbourne Cricket Ground, and his confrontation with A Current Affair host Ray Martin.

He currently works as a journalist and author. He released his latest book, Squat, in October 2024.