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Upali Gunaratne
Kalupathirannehage Don Upali Gunaratne (born 10 March 1954) is a Sri Lankan politician and the chief organiser of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party in the Dompe electorate. He is a senior councilman on the Western Province Council and was a member of Parliament.

In 1985, Gunaratne became one of the youngest members of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party’s Executive Committee under the patronage of Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike. At the 10th parliamentary election, held on 16 August 1994, he was elected as a Member of Parliament from Gampaha District. Gunaratne polled 55,328 votes (6.17% of the total vote). He was elected to Western Province Council in March 2009, and was a Senior Councilor representing Gampaha District. (in office 2009-2020)

Gunaratne served as chairman of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, chairman of the Co-operative Wholesale Establishment and chairman of the National Savings Bank.

He is an old boy from S. Thomas’ College, Gurutalawa.

Gampaha Electoral District
Gampaha electoral district is one of the 22 multi-member electoral districts of Sri Lanka created by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. The district is conterminous with the administrative district of Gampaha in the Western province. The district currently elects 19 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 1,785,964 registered electors in 2020. The district is Sri Lanka's Electorate Number 02.
Budde–Singer Building
The Budde–Singer Building is a historic building located in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States.  This three story, brick Italianate structure was built in 1882. It replaced a similar building that had been built in 1856 and destroyed in a fire.  Its early Italianate style is unusual for this time period, but it fits into its streetscape with similarly designed buildings, including the neighboring Brazelton House Hotel.  The Budde–Singer Building features round arched windows with brick patterned hoodmolds on the second and third floors, and a bracketed wooden cornice.  The first floor storefront has been somewhat altered, and the exterior of the building has been painted since about 1909.  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

Mount Pleasant, Iowa
Mount Pleasant is a city in and the county seat of Henry County in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 9,274 in the 2020 census, an increase from 8,668 in the 2010 census. It was founded in 1835 by pioneer Presley Saunders.
Wakoklon Heelel Thilel Salai Amailon Pukok
The Wakoklon Heelel Thilen Salai Amailon Pukok Puya, shortly known as the Wakoklon, is one of the oldest scriptures (puyas) in Sanamahism, the Meetei religion of Ancient Kangleipak (Antique Manipur). It is verified that it was written in 1398 BC (3400 years ago) by the National Archives, New Delhi. The text is considered by the people and the Government of Manipur as the source of the Kanglei Eeyek (Meetei script). The Wakoklon recommends only 18 letters to be used in the Meetei writing system. One of the most important lines written in the text is "Konsen Tuleisengpa Sana Ee Mahi". The text also mentions about the ancestral rituals to please the deities.

Government of Manipur
The Government of Manipur (Meitei: Manipur Leingak; /mə.ni.pur lə́i.ŋak/), also known as the State Government of Manipur, or locally as State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Manipur and its 16 districts. It consists of an executive, led by the Governor of Manipur, a judiciary and a legislative branch (Manipur Legislative Assembly).

Like other states in India, the head of state of Manipur is the Governor, appointed by the President of India on the advice of the Central government. The post of governor is largely ceremonial. The Chief Minister is the head of government and is vested with most of the executive powers. Imphal is the capital of Manipur, and houses the Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) and the secretariat. The high court of manipur exercises the jurisdiction and powers in respect of cases arising in the State.
Midwest Christian College
Midwest Christian College was a private, Christian college established in 1946 in Oklahoma City.  During its first year, it enrolled thirty-three students. After peaking in the 1970s and '80s, it experienced a period of declining enrollment and financial difficulty.  It merged in 1985 with Ozark Bible College of Joplin, Missouri to form Ozark Christian College.

Joplin, Missouri
Joplin is a city in Jasper and Newton counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. Most of the city lies in Jasper County, with the southern portion extending into Newton County. With a population of 51,762 at the 2020 census, Joplin is the 12th most-populous city in the state. The city covers an area of 38.21 square miles (99.0 km2) on the outer edge of the Ozark Mountains in southwestern Missouri. Joplin is the principal city of the three-county Joplin metropolitan area, which is home to 210,077 people and is the fifth-largest metropolitan area in Missouri. In May 2011, a violent EF5 tornado killed more than 150 people and destroyed one-third of the city.
Ctenostomatida
The Ctenostomatida are an order of bryozoans in the class Gymnolaemata. The great majority of ctenostome species are marine, although Paludicella inhabits fresh water. They are distinguished from their close relatives, the cheilostomes, by their lack of a calcified exoskeleton. Instead, the exoskeleton is chitinous, gelatinous, or composed only of a soft membrane, and always lacks an operculum. Colonies of ctenostomes are often composed of elongated, branch-like stolons, although more compact forms also exist.

Stolon
In biology, a stolon (/ˈstoʊlɒn/ ⓘ from Latin stolō, genitive stolōnis – "branch"), also known as a runner, is a horizontal connection between parts of an organism. It may be part of the organism, or of its skeleton. Typically, animal stolons are exoskeletons (external skeletons).
Ash Creek, Minnesota
Ash Creek is an unincorporated community in Clinton Township, Rock County, Minnesota, United States. The community took its name from nearby Ash Creek, a tributary of the Rock River.

Ash Creek is located one mile east of U.S. Route 75, six miles south of Interstate 90 and three miles north of the Iowa state line.

Nearby places include Luverne, Steen, Kanaranzi, and Hills.

Interstate 90 in Minnesota
Interstate 90 (I-90) in the US state of Minnesota runs for 276 miles (444 km) across the southern side of the state, parallel to the Iowa state line. The route connects the cities of Worthington, Albert Lea, Austin, and Rochester. The city of Winona is also in close proximity to I-90, with about 10 miles (16 km) between the Interstate and the city.
A Map of the World
A Map of the World (1994) is a novel by Jane Hamilton. It was the Oprah's Book Club selection for December 1999. It was made into a movie released in 1999 starring Sigourney Weaver, Julianne Moore, David Strathairn, Chloë Sevigny, Louise Fletcher and Marc Donato with a soundtrack by Pat Metheny.

Pat Metheny
Patrick Bruce Metheny (/məˈθiːni/ məth-EE-nee; born August 12, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and composer.

He was the leader of the Pat Metheny Group (1977–2010) and continues to work in various small-combo, duet, and solo settings, as well as other side projects. His style incorporates elements of progressive and contemporary jazz, latin jazz, and jazz fusion. He has three gold albums and 20 Grammy Awards, and is the only person to have won Grammys in 10 categories.
WirelessHD
WirelessHD, also known as UltraGig, is a proprietary standard owned by Silicon Image (originally SiBeam) for wireless transmission of high-definition video content for consumer electronics products. The consortium currently has over 40 adopters; key members behind the specification include Broadcom, Intel, LG, Panasonic, NEC, Samsung, SiBEAM, Sony, Philips and Toshiba. The founders intend the technology to be used for Consumer Electronic devices, PCs, and portable devices.

The specification was finalized in January 2008.

LG
LG Corporation (or LG Group), formerly known as Lucky-Goldstar, is a South Korean multinational conglomerate founded by Koo In-hwoi in 1947 and managed by successive generations of his family. Headquartered in the LG Twin Towers building in Yeouido-dong, Yeongdeungpo District, in Seoul, it was the sixth-largest company in South Korea by revenue in 2023. LG develops, manufactures, and markets electronics, chemicals, household appliances, and telecommunications products. It operates subsidiaries in over 80 countries, including LG Electronics, Zenith, LG Display, LG Uplus, LG Innotek, LG Chem, LG Energy Solution, and LG AI Research.
Tamim Chowdhury
Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury (Bengali: তামিম আহমেদ চৌধুরী; 25 July 1986 – 27 August 2016), known by his kunya Abu Dujanah al-Bengali (Bengali: আবু দুজানাহ আল-বাঙালি), was a Bangladeshi-Canadian Islamist militant that was the head of military and covert operations of the Islamic State's Bengal Province. For a while, he was alleged to be the emir of the Islamic State's Bengal Province, Shaykh Abu Ibrahim al-Hanif. He was the alleged mastermind of the July 2016 Dhaka attack at the Holey Artisan Bakery, which resulted in 29 deaths. He was killed in a raid on an IS safehouse in Dhaka by Bangladeshi forces on 27 August 2016.

Kunya (Arabic)
A kunya (Arabic: كُنيَة) is an Arabic teknonym, an epithet mentioning a first born son, or sometimes daughter. Abū or Umm precedes the son's or daughter's name in the genitive case, for example Abu Bakr or Umm Kulthum. It is often used as a component of an Arabic name, and implies a familiar, but respectful relationship.
Wendy Okolo
Wendy A. Okolo is a Nigerian-American aerospace research engineer in the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center. She is the first Black woman to obtain a Ph.D. degree in aerospace engineering from University of Texas at Arlington. She was also the Special Emphasis Programs Manager for Women at Ames.

University of Texas at Arlington
The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA or UT Arlington) is a public research university in Arlington, Texas, United States. It is the second oldest university in the University of Texas System and was founded in 1895. It was in the Texas A&M University System for several decades until joining the University of Texas System in 1965.

The university is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". The fall 2024 campus enrollment consisted of 41,613 students making it the second largest university in the UT System after UT Austin, in North Texas and fifth-largest in Texas. UT Arlington is the third-largest producer of college graduates in Texas and offers over 180 baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral degree programs.

UT Arlington participates in 15 intercollegiate sports as a Division I member of the NCAA and Western Athletic Conference. UTA sports teams have been known as the Mavericks since 1971.
2017 Bangkok Challenger II – Doubles
Wesley Koolhof and Matwé Middelkoop were the defending champions but chose not to participate.

Sanchai and Sonchat Ratiwatana won the title after defeating Sadio Doumbia and Fabien Reboul 7–6(7–4), 7–5 in the final.

Sanchai Ratiwatana
Sanchai Ratiwatana (Thai: สรรค์ชัย รติวัฒน์, pronounced [sǎn.t͡ɕʰāj rá(ʔ).tī.wát]), nicknamed Tong (ต้อง, [tɔ̂ŋ]; born 23 January 1982), is a professional tennis player from Thailand. He turned professional in 2004.

In 2007, Sanchai and his twin brother Sonchat Ratiwatana won their first ATP doubles title in Bangkok. They won their second title at the Chennai Open in India in 2008.

He reached World No. 39, his best doubles ranking, on 28 April 2008.
2004–05 EHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup
The 2004–05 EHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup was the 29th edition of EHF's competition for women's handball national cup champions. It ran from October 8, 2004 to May 21, 2005.

1996 EHF Cup runner-up Larvik HK defeated 1996 Champions League champion Podravka Koprivnica to win its first European trophy. It was the third Cup Winners' Cup that went to Norway, after Bækkelagets SK's two titles in the late 1990s.

RK Podravka Koprivnica
Rukometni Klub Podravka Koprivnica is a Croatian women's handball club from Koprivnica. It is the most successful club in Croatian women's handball since formation of the league in 1992. The team currently competes in the Croatia women's first handball league. They have a fan club called Red Roosters formed in 2002.
Spin Little Pinball
"Spin Little Pinball" is a novelty musical number from the 1944 musical film Sensations of 1945 featuring Eleanor Powell in her last major film role prior to her retirement. In the number, Powell tap dances as if she were a life-size pinball, being bounced around inside a pinball machine. Receiving mixed reviews, the dance concept piece was a throwback to the Busby Berkeley-style of choreography of the 1930s. The song was written by popular songwriters Al Sherman and Harry Tobias.

Busby Berkeley
Berkeley William Enos (November 29, 1895 – March 14, 1976), known professionally as Busby Berkeley, was an American film director and musical choreographer. Berkeley devised elaborate musical production numbers that has often involved complex geometric patterns. His work used large numbers of showgirls and props as fantasy elements in kaleidoscopic on-screen performances.
Chevron Cars Ltd
Chevron Cars Ltd. is an English manufacturer of racing cars, founded by Derek Bennett in 1965.  Following Bennett's death in 1978, the firm has remained active in various guises.  The original company's designs and name continue to be used to build replacement parts and continuation models of earlier Chevrons.  In 2000, Chevron Racing Cars Ltd., founded by Vin Malkie acquired the trade mark Chevron Racing Cars Ltd and in addition to the company's other activities has designed and built new grand tourer racing cars under the Chevron name, as well as other continuation models of earlier Chevrons.

Formula Three
Formula Three (F3) is a third-tier class of open-wheel formula racing. The various championships held in Europe, Australia, South America and Asia form an important step for many prospective Formula One drivers.
Walking Papers (album)
Walking Papers is the debut album by the American rock band Walking Papers, released on August 6, 2013. USA Today called the album "powerful yet nuanced, a kind of rock confident enough in itself that it rarely needs force to make its point." Consequence of Sound was less charitable, saying "It’s a record that largely eschews typical hard rock fare, opting instead for a blues rock that slinks and wafts as much as it crunches and blusters."

Jeff Angell
Jeff Angell (born Jefferson Alan Angell, nicknamed "Junior" and "JdoubleA", on February 13, 1973, in Tacoma, Washington) is an American musician, best known for his songwriting, lead vocals and guitar playing in the Seattle, Washington bands Post Stardom Depression, The Missionary Position and Walking Papers.
Lake Plastiras (municipality)
Lake Plastiras (Greek: Λίμνη Πλαστήρα) is a municipality in the Karditsa regional unit, Thessaly, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Morfovouni. The municipal unit has an area of 198.350 km2. The municipality was named after the artificial Lake Plastiras, that was named in turn after the Greek general and three-time prime minister Nikolaos Plastiras.

Thessaly
Thessaly (/ˈθɛsəli/ THESS-ə-lee; Greek: Θεσσαλία, romanized: Thessalía [θesaˈli.a]; ancient Thessalian: Πετθαλία, Petthalía) is a traditional geographic and modern administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, Thessaly was known as Aeolia (Ancient Greek: Αἰολία, Aiolía), and appears in Homer's Odyssey.

Thessaly became part of the modern Greek state in 1881, after four and a half centuries of Ottoman rule. Since 1987 it has formed one of the country's 13 regions and is further (since the Kallikratis reform of 2011) sub-divided into five regional units and 25 municipalities. The capital of the region is Larissa. Thessaly lies in northern central Greece and borders the regions of Macedonia to the north, Epirus to the west, Central Greece to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the east. The Thessaly region also includes the Sporades islands.
Ismoil Jalilov
Ismoil Toʻlaganovich Jalilov (born 29 January 1948, Tashkent) is an Uzbek-Soviet opera singer and dramatic tenor. He was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Uzbek SSR (1982) and People's Artist of Uzbekistan (1999). Jalilov's repertoire was extensive and mainly included pieces from the world classics. He was an honorary professor of the Italian Music Academy Concordia-Roma and the State Conservatory of Uzbekistan, as well as the director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan.

Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic
The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (UzSSR), also known as Soviet Uzbekistan, the Uzbek SSR, or simply Uzbekistan and rarely Uzbekia, was a union republic of the Soviet Union. It was governed by the Uzbek branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the legal political party, from 1925 until 1990. From 1990 to 1991, it was a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with its own legislation.

Beginning 20 June 1990, the Uzbek SSR adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty within its borders. Islam Karimov became the republic's inaugural president.

On 31 August 1991, the Uzbek SSR was renamed the Republic of Uzbekistan and declared independence three months before the Soviet Union's dissolution on 26 December 1991.

Uzbekistan was bordered by Kazakhstan to the north; Tajikistan to the southeast; Kirghizia to the northeast; Afghanistan to the south; and Turkmenistan to the southwest.
Muskallonge Lake State Park
Muskallonge Lake State Park is a state park located in Luce County in the U.S. state of Michigan.  It is located in Deer Park about 16 miles (25.7 km) east of Grand Marais along H-58.

The park encompasses 217 acres (87.8 ha) between the shores of Lake Superior and Muskallonge Lake where Native Americans once had an encampment and where a station of the United States Life-Saving Service once stood.

Luce County, Michigan
Luce County (/luːs/ LOOS) is a county located in the Upper Peninsula in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,339, making it the second-least populous county in Michigan (behind Keweenaw County). The county seat is Newberry, Luce County's only incorporated community. The county was set off and organized in 1887 and named after former Michigan Governor Cyrus G. Luce. In 2002, Newberry was designated as the moose capital of Michigan by the state legislature. Luce County is served by The Newberry News, a weekly community newspaper that began in 1886.
Raanan Gillon
Raanan Evelyn Zvi Gillon FRCP (Hebrew: רענן אביגדור צבי גלעון; born April 1941) is emeritus professor of medical ethics at Imperial College London, and past president of the British Medical Association.

A general practitioner until his retirement in 2002, Gillon edited the Journal of Medical Ethics from 1980 to 2002, and from 1995 to 1999 was professor at Imperial. He is an author on several works on medical ethics including Philosophical Medical Ethics.

Gillon is credited with making "a major philosophical contribution to critical thinking about moral issues raised by the practice of medicine" and with being "the leading British advocate and interpreter of Beauchamp and Childress's four principles approach" to moral reasoning in healthcare.

Tom Beauchamp
Tom Lamar Beauchamp III (December 2, 1939 – February 19, 2025) was an American philosopher. He specialized in the work of David Hume, moral philosophy, bioethics, and animal ethics. Beauchamp was Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Georgetown University, where he was Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics.

Beauchamp authored or co-authored several books on ethics and on Hume, including Hume and the Problem of Causation (1981, with Alexander Rosenberg), Principles of Biomedical Ethics (1985, with James F. Childress), and The Human Use of Animals (1998, with F. Barbara Orlans et al). He was the co-editor with R. G. Frey of The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics (2011). He was also the co-editor of the complete works of Hume, The Critical Edition of the Works of David Hume (1999), published by Oxford University Press.
Jan Działyński (voivode, born 1590)
Jan Działyński (1590–1648) of Gozdawa coat of arms was a Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth noble and politician. He was a member of the Działyński family. He was a starost of Pokrzywno, Puck, and Kowalewo Pomorskie, and Voivode of Chełmno from 1647 to 1648.

He was a deputy to Sejm, a notable politician from Royal Prussia. He was a critic of Gdańsk, defender of Catholic faith, and founder of the collegium in Grudziądz. He is known to have been engaged in several court proceedings with various other nobles and even peasants.

He married twice and had no children.

Kowalewo Pomorskie
Kowalewo Pomorskie [kɔvaˈlɛvɔ pɔˈmɔrskʲɛ] is a town in north-central Poland, in Golub-Dobrzyń County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. It is the capital of the Gmina Kowalewo Pomorskie.

According to data from December 31, 2004, Kowalewo Pomorskie had 4,130 inhabitants.
Formosat-1
Formosat-1 (Chinese: 福爾摩沙衛星一號; pinyin: Fúěrmóshā wèixīng yīhào, formerly known as ROCSAT-1) was an Earth observation satellite operated by the National Space Program Office (NSPO; now the Taiwan Space Agency) of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to conduct observations of the ionosphere and oceans. The spacecraft and its instrumentation were developed jointly by NSPO and TRW using TRW's Lightsat bus, and was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, US, by Lockheed Martin on January 27, 1999. Formosat-1 provided 5½ years of operational service. The spacecraft ended its mission on June 17, 2004 and was decommissioned on July 16, 2004.

Ionosphere
The ionosphere (/aɪˈɒnəˌsfɪər/) is the ionized part of the upper atmosphere of Earth, from about 48 km (30 mi) to 965 km (600 mi) above sea level, a region that includes the thermosphere and parts of the mesosphere and exosphere. The ionosphere is ionized by solar radiation. It plays an important role in atmospheric electricity and forms the inner edge of the magnetosphere. It has practical importance because, among other functions, it influences radio propagation to distant places on Earth. Travel through this layer also impacts GPS signals, resulting in effects such as deflection in their path and delay in the arrival of the signal.
Holcombe, East Devon
Holcombe is a hamlet in Uplyme civil parish in the district of East Devon in the English county of Devon.

Holcombe is located northwest of the town of Lyme Regis about a mile west of Uplyme village. The Iron Age "Holcombe Mirror", now in the British Museum, was found on a farm here in 1970 by Devon Archaeological Society when excavating the site of a Roman villa.

Lyme Regis
Lyme Regis (/ˌlaɪm ˈriːdʒɪs/ LYME REE-jiss) is a town in west Dorset, England, 25 miles (40 km) west of Dorchester and east of Exeter. Sometimes dubbed the "Pearl of Dorset", it lies by the English Channel at the Dorset–Devon border. It has noted fossils in cliffs and beaches on the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site and heritage coast. The harbour wall, known as The Cobb, appears in Jane Austen's novel Persuasion, the John Fowles novel The French Lieutenant's Woman and the 1981 film of that name, partly shot in the town.

A former mayor and MP was Admiral Sir George Somers, who founded the English colonial settlement of Somers Isles, now Bermuda, where Lyme Regis is twinned with St George's. In July 2015, Lyme Regis joined Jamestown, Virginia in a Historic Atlantic Triangle with St George's. The 2011 census gave the urban area a population of 4,712, estimated at 4,805 in 2019.