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Nattandiya
Nattandiya (Sinhala: නාත්තන්ඩිය) is a town, situated in the Puttalam District, of North Western Province, Sri Lanka. The town is located 25 km (16 mi) away from Negombo, on Colombo-Negombo-Kuliyapitiya main road.

7°25′N 79°52′E﻿ / ﻿7.417°N 79.867°E﻿ / 7.417; 79.867

Sinhala script
The Sinhalese script (Sinhala: සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව, romanized: Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāwa), also known as Sinhala script, is a writing system used by the Sinhalese people and most Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka and elsewhere to write the Sinhalese language as well as the liturgical languages Pali and Sanskrit. The Sinhalese Akṣara Mālāva, one of the Brahmic scripts, is a descendant of the Ancient Indian Brahmi script. It is thought to be derived from Grantha script.
Batsauce
Britt Traynham, better known by his stage name Batsauce, is an underground hip hop producer from Jacksonville, Florida, who lives nomadically and is usually located in Berlin, Southeast Asia, or camping in the Northwest in his Volkswagen van. He is signed to Galapagos4 and has released several records with his wife Lady Daisey and with Typical Cats member Qwazaar.

Volkswagen Transporter
The Volkswagen Transporter, based on the Volkswagen Group's T platform, now in its seventh generation, refers to a series of vans produced for over 70 years and marketed worldwide.

The T series is now considered an official Volkswagen Group automotive platform. and generations are sequentially named T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6 and T7. Pre-dating the T platform designations, the first three generations were named Type 2, indicating their relative position to the Type 1, or Beetle.  As part of the T platform, the first three generations are retroactively named T1, T2 and T3.

The Transporter is the best-selling van in history with over 12 million units sold worldwide, and it comprises a gamut of variants including vans, minivans / minibuses, campervans, and chassis cab and pickup trucks. Competitors include the Ford Transit, Toyota HiAce and Mercedes-Benz Vito.
Iceberg A-76
Iceberg A-76 was a large iceberg which briefly held the title for the world's largest floating iceberg. It calved from the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

A-76, effectively a piece of floating ice shelf, detached from the western side of the ice shelf. It floated through the Weddell Sea and by 2023 had reached the South Atlantic near South Georgia, carried by currents and winds. The iceberg was about 170 km (110 mi) long and 25 km (16 mi) wide, and is described as being shaped like a "giant ironing board", and roughly the size of the English county of Cornwall. The size at calving was an estimated 4,320 km2 (1,670 sq mi).

It was first spotted by Keith Makinson, a polar oceanographer with the British Antarctic Survey in May 2021.

By day 148, the iceberg consisted of three fragments, A-76a, A-76b, and A-76c.

British Antarctic Survey
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of global issues, and to provide an active presence in the Antarctic on behalf of the UK. It is part of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). With over 400 staff, BAS takes an active role in Antarctic affairs, operating five research stations, one ship and five aircraft in both polar regions, as well as addressing key global and regional issues. This involves joint research projects with over 40 UK universities and more than 120 national and international collaborations.

Having taken shape from activities during World War II, it was known as the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey until 1962.
St Paul's Anglican Church, East Brisbane
St Paul's Anglican Church is a heritage-listed Anglican church and columbarium at 554 Vulture Street East, East Brisbane, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Atkinson & Conrad and built in 1924 by J Hood. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 7 February 2014.

Course (architecture)
A course is a layer of the same unit running horizontally in a wall. It can also be defined as a continuous row of any masonry unit such as bricks, concrete masonry units (CMU), stone, shingles, tiles, etc.

Coursed masonry construction arranges units in regular courses. In contrast, coursed rubble masonry construction uses random uncut units, infilled with mortar or smaller stones.

If a course is the horizontal arrangement, then a wythe is a continuous vertical section of masonry one unit in thickness. A wythe may be independent of, or interlocked with, the adjoining wythe(s). A single wythe of brick that is not structural in nature is referred to as a masonry veneer.

A standard 8-inch CMU block is exactly equal to three courses of brick. A bond  (or bonding) pattern) is the arrangement of several courses of  brickwork.

The corners of a masonry wall are built first, then the spaces between them are filled by the remaining courses.
Cookie poll
A cookie poll is the practice in the United States of predicting a presidential election based on cookie sales.

In a cookie poll, bakeries offer confections decorated with either the candidate's name or image, or the color of the candidate's party. Customers purchase the cookie for the candidate they support and tallies are used to forecast a winner. In the name of fairness and accuracy, cookie polls are only considered legitimate if cookies representing both candidates are sold; bakeries will stop the polling once a supply of any one candidate's cookies are depleted beyond a certain point.

This poll is unscientific and not controlled for any factor beyond consumer habits, but many bakeries across the U.S. claim success at predicting elections for the last several voting cycles,  including one bakery in Ohio that accurately foresaw the last nine elections.  Other bakeries use it as a platform to encourage voter participation.

Customer
In sales, commerce, and economics, a customer (sometimes known as a client, buyer, or purchaser) is the recipient of a good, service, product, or an idea, obtained from a seller, vendor, or supplier via a financial transaction or an exchange for money or some other valuable consideration.
Shizuka Ishikawa
Shizuka Ishikawa (石川 静, Ishikawa Shizuka; born March 29, 1971), also known under the name Chizuru Kusaka (日下 千鶴, Kusaka Chizuru), is a Japanese voice actress who specializes in voicing characters in adult video games. She is a member of the Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society.

Eroge
An eroge (エロゲー, erogē, pronounced [eɾoɡe(ː)]), also called an H-game (エッチゲーム, ecchi game), is a Japanese genre of erotic video game. The term encompasses a wide variety of Japanese games containing erotic content across multiple genres. The first eroge were created in the 1980s, and many well-known companies in the Japanese gaming industry originally produced and distributed them. Some eroge are primarily focused on erotic content, while others, such as Key's Kanon, only contain occasional scenes in an otherwise non-erotic work. Games in the latter category are often re-released with sexual content removed for general audiences. Throughout its history, the genre has faced controversy for its use of explicit sexual content, and as a result has been banned from several console platforms.
Boston accent
A Boston accent is a local accent of Eastern New England English, native specifically to the city of Boston and its suburbs. Northeastern New England English is classified as traditionally including New Hampshire, Maine, and all of eastern Massachusetts, while some uniquely local vocabulary appears only around Boston. A 2006 study co-authored by William Labov claims that the accent remains relatively stable, though a 2018 study suggests the accent's traditional features may be retreating, particularly among the city's younger residents, and becoming increasingly confined to the historically Irish-American neighborhood of South Boston.

Phoneme
A phoneme (/ˈfoʊniːm/) is a set of similar speech sounds that are perceptually regarded by the speakers of a language as a single basic sound—a smallest possible phonetic unit—that helps distinguish one word from another. All languages contain phonemes (or the spatial–gestural equivalent in sign languages), and all spoken languages include both consonant and vowel phonemes. Phonemes are studied under phonology, a branch of linguistics (a discipline encompassing language, writing, speech and related matters).

Phonemes are often represented, when written, as a glyph (a character) enclosed within two forward-sloping slashes /. For example, /k/ represents the phoneme or sound used at the beginning of the English-language word cat (as opposed to, say, the /b/ of bat).
Abdullah Albsais
Abdullah Albsais (born 1980) is a Kuwaiti poet and novelist. He studied in Canada and Kuwait.

His books include:

Al-Diwaniyya (short stories, 2011)

The Wall (short stories, 2012)

Ponderings (poetry, 2017)

Prodigal Memories (sometimes translated as Stray Memories) (novel, 2014)

The Taste of Guilt (novel, 2016)

M for Murderer: S for Sa’id (novel, 2019)

His work has been described as combining interest in literature and philosophy with folk stories. During his youth, he participated in poetry competitions.

His 2019 novel M for Murderer: S for Sa'id was longlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2021. He also won an award in 2017 at the Sharjah Book Fair.

His 2014 novel was banned by authorities in Kuwait, particularly the Kuwaiti Ministry of Information, for raising an allegedly "sensitive" topic.

International Prize for Arabic Fiction
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) (Arabic: الجائزة العالمية للرواية العربية), also known as "the Arabic Booker", is regarded as the most prestigious and important literary prize in the Arab world.

Its aim is to reward excellence in contemporary Arabic creative writing and to encourage the readership of high-quality Arabic literature internationally through the translation and publication of winning and shortlisted novels in other major languages. In addition to the prize itself, IPAF supports other literary initiatives. In 2009, IPAF launched its inaugural nadwa (writers' workshop) for emerging writers of fiction in Arabic.

The prize is administered by the Booker Prize Foundation in London, and is currently funded by Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi (DCT).

Each year, the winner of the prize receives US$50,000, and the six shortlisted authors receive US$10,000 each.
Palatine uprising
The Palatine uprising (German: Pfälzischer Aufstand or Pfälzer Aufstand) was a rebellion that took place in May and June 1849 in the Rhenish Palatinate, which was then an exclave territory of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Related to uprisings across the Rhine in Baden, it was part of the widespread Imperial Constitution Campaign (Reichsverfassungskampagne). Revolutionaries worked to defend the constitution and to secede from the Kingdom of Bavaria.

Daniel Fenner von Fenneberg
Daniel Fenner von Fenneberg (c. 1820 – 1863) was an Austrian Army officer.

He served as an officer in the Austrian Army and commanded the Vienna National Guard in 1848.  Later he was the Commander in Chief of the National Guard in Vienna in 1848.  During the uprising of the citizens of Vienna in 1848, the National Guard fought on behalf of the insurgency in Vienna.  In 1849, Fenner became Commander-in-Chief and Chief of Staff of the insurgent army of the Provisional Government in the Palatinate.
James Richardson (presenter)
James Oliver Richardson OSI (born 29 May 1966), also known as AC Jimbo, is an English television presenter and journalist.

He is best known as a former presenter of Channel 4's Football Italia programme and former host of The Guardian Football Weekly podcast. He currently hosts BT Sport's The UEFA Champions League Goals Show, World's Strongest Man for Channel 5 and The Totally Football Show podcast. He is also employed by the Premier League, featuring in content related to Fantasy Premier League and for overseas-rights holders.

He is an AS Roma fan and multilingual, speaking his native English, Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Order of the Star of Italy
The Order of the Star of Italy (Italian: Ordine della Stella d'Italia [ˈordine della ˈѕtɛlla diˈtaːlja]) is an Italian order of chivalry that was founded in 2011. The order was reformed from the 1947 Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity by the 11th President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano. The emphasis of the reformed award was shifted from post-war reconstruction to the preservation and promotion of national prestige abroad, promoting friendly relations and co-operation with other countries and ties with Italy.
Freek Vrugtman
Freek Vrugtman (6 July 1927 – 3 March 2022) was a Canadian botanist and horticulturist. Vrugtman was Curator at both University of British Columbia Botanical Garden in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Royal Botanical Gardens (RBG) in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. For 45 years he served as the International Registrar for Hybrid Cultivars of Lilacs in the Genus Syringa.

Burlington, Ontario
Burlington is a city at the west end of Lake Ontario in Ontario, Canada. Part of Halton Region, it borders Hamilton to the south, Milton to the northwest, and Oakville to the northeast. It is part of the Greater Toronto Area, the Hamilton census metropolitan area, and the Golden Horseshoe urban region. Burlington was founded in 1874, and gained city status in 1974. With a population of 186,948 as of 2021, Burlington is the twenty-eighth-most populous municipality in Canada.
Cushing sisters
The Cushing Sisters were three 20th-century American socialites. They were the daughters of neurosurgeon Harvey Williams Cushing and Katharine Stone Crowell:

Minnie Benedict Cushing (1906–1978), philanthropist and art collector.

Betsey Cushing (1908–1998), philanthropist.

Barbara 'Babe' Cushing (1915–1978), fashion editor and style celebrity.

The Cushing Sisters were raised by a mother who saw "marriage as a form of female self-expression", and always sought to achieve success through exceptional husbands. None of them attended college.

In 2000, Lifetime had started producing a movie about the sisters with Rita Wilson as executive producer. Lifetime saw it as "a sweeping piece. Their story covers the '40s, '50s and '60s in New York."

The three daughters of Robert Warren Miller (Pia Getty, Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece, Alexandra von Fürstenberg) were compared to the Cushing sisters by Vanity Fair.

Alexandra von Fürstenberg
Alexandra Natasha von Fürstenberg (née Miller; born October 3, 1972) is a Hong Kong-born American heiress, socialite, entrepreneur and furniture designer based in Los Angeles. She is the youngest daughter of American billionaire and DFS Group co-founder Robert Warren Miller.
Extra (supermarket)
Extra was a retail chain in the German food sector that was part of REWE Group from July 1, 2008, til it ceased to exist in 2009. The company was previously among Metro Group.
After it serves as a great supplier of food

Chain store
A chain store or retail chain is a retail outlet in which several locations share a brand, central management, and standardized business practices. They have come to dominate many retail markets, dining markets, and service categories in many parts of the world. A franchised retail establishment is one form of a chain store.  In 2005, the world's largest retail chain, Walmart, became the world's largest corporation based on gross sales.
Santissime Stimmate di San Francesco
The Ss. Stimmate di San Francesco ("Church of the Holy Stigmata of St. Francis") is a church in central Rome, Italy, in the Rione Pigna, sited where previously there was a church called Ss. Quaranta Martiri de Calcarario. It is located on Via dei Cestari, near the corner with Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and across the street and diagonal from the Largo di Torre Argentina.

The first church in this location was consecrated in 1297. In 1597, the land was given by Pope Clement VIII to the Confraternita delle Ss.Stimmate; the construction of a new building was completed in 1714, from designs by Giovanni Battista Contini.
Among the people buried in the church is the famous eighteenth-century painter Jacopo Zoboli, a member of the Confraternity from 1718 until his death.

Pietro da Cortona
Pietro da Cortona (Italian: [ˈpjɛːtro da (k)korˈtoːna]; 1 November 1596 or 1597 – 16 May 1669) was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture. He was also an important designer of interior decorations.

He was born Pietro Berrettini, but is primarily known by the name of his native town of Cortona in Tuscany. He worked mainly in Rome and Florence. He is best known for his frescoed ceilings, such as the vault of the salone or main salon of the Palazzo Barberini in Rome and carried out extensive painting and decorative schemes for the Medici family in Florence and for the Oratorian fathers at the church of Santa Maria in Vallicella in Rome.  He also painted numerous canvases. Only a limited number of his architectural projects were built, but nonetheless they are as distinctive and as inventive as those of his rivals.
Palmbach
Palmbach is the smallest district of the Baden-Württemberg city of Karlsruhe. The Waldensian town of Palmbach is located on the southeastern edge of the urban area and was incorporated into the city of Karlsruhe on January 1, 1975. Naturally, it is located in the northern Black Forest, is the highest residential area in Karlsruhe and has been part of the Central/North Black Forest Nature Park since January 2021.

Palmbach is located directly at the Karlsbad motorway exit of the Bundesautobahn 8 and is one of the high-altitude districts of Karlsruhe that are called "mountain villages" in the region.

Black Forest
The Black Forest (German: Schwarzwald [ˈʃvaʁtsvalt] ⓘ) is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. It is the source of the Danube and Neckar rivers.

Its highest peak is the Feldberg with an elevation of 1,493 metres (4,898 ft) above sea level. Roughly oblong in shape, with a length of 160 kilometres (100 miles) and breadth of up to 50 km (30 mi), it has an area of about 6,009 km2 (2,320 sq mi).

Historically, the area was known for forestry and the mining of ore deposits, but tourism has now become the primary industry, accounting for around 300,000 jobs. There are several ruined military fortifications dating back to the 17th century.
Sameera Sadamal
Sameera Sadamal (born 24 December 1993) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He made his List A debut for Matale District in the 2016–17 Districts One Day Tournament on 18 March 2017. He made his Twenty20 debut for Kalutara Town Club in the 2017–18 SLC Twenty20 Tournament on 24 February 2018.

Matale District
Matale District (Sinhala: මාතලේ දිස්ත්‍රික්කය, Tamil: மாத்தளை மாவட்டம்) is a district in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. It is one of 25 districts of Sri Lanka. The administrative capital and largest city of the district is Matale.

The district is considered to be the centremost region of the island and has a total area of 1,993 km2 (770 sq mi). It is in the northern part of the Central Province. Sharing borders with 6 other districts, the Matale district is bordered by Anuradhapura to the north, Polonnaruwa to the northeast, Badulla and Ampara to the east, Kurunegala to the west and Kandy to the south.
Turkish Coal Operations Authority
The Turkish Coal Operations Authority (TKİ) is the state-owned enterprise which mines lignite coal in Turkey. Turkey is the third-largest lignite producer in the world, with 7% of total production.   In 2018 TKI mined 30 Mt of which 16 Mt was open pit and 14 Mt underground: and in the same year 20 Mt was sold, 12.6 Mt to power plants and 7.4 Mt to industry and households.  TKİ is on the Global Coal Exit List compiled by the NGO Urgewald. It employs about 4000 people.: 34

Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources
The Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (Turkish: Enerji ve Tabii Kaynaklar Bakanlığı) is the government ministry of Republic of Turkey responsible for natural resources and energy in Turkey. The ministry is headed by Alparslan Bayraktar. Despite the ministry being represented on the Climate Change and Air Management Coordination Board, the European Commission has criticised the lack of co-ordination between policy on climate change in Turkey and the energy policy of Turkey. The net zero by 2053 target was reportedly set without consulting the ministry, and as of 2023 the ministry has not published a plan to meet the target.
2000–01 Division 1 (Senegal)
The 2000-01 Division 1 season was the 36th of the competition of the first-tier football in Senegal.  The tournament was organized by the Senegalese Football Federation.  The season began on 11 November and finished on 24 June 2000.  ASC Jeanne d'Arc won the eighth title and participated in the 2002 CAF Champions League the following year.  ASEC Ndiambour participated in the 2002 CAF Cup of Cups and SONACOS in the 2002 CAF Winners' Cup.

The season would again feature fourteen clubs.

ASC Diaraf was the defending team of the title.  The season featured 182 matches and scored 221 goals, more than last season.

Ligue 1 (Senegal)
Ligue 1 is the top division of the Senegal Football Association, it was founded in 1960. The league also hosts a domestic cup, the Coupe de la Ligue. Football clubs from the Senegal Premier League also compete for the Senegal FA Cup. In the 2023-24 Ligue 1 season, a total of 182,915 paying visitors attended the clubs.
East Buckhead
East Buckhead is a term sometimes used in the Atlanta area for what is now the westernmost part of the city of Brookhaven, Georgia. This includes areas bordering Buckhead on the east including parts of the Buford Highway corridor closest to the DeKalb County/Fulton County line, Lenox Park (DeKalb County, Georgia) and the area in between.

Buford Highway
Buford Highway (also Buford Highway Corridor), a.k.a. the DeKalb International Corridor, and in the 1990–2000's as the DeKalb County International Village district, is a community and major arterial road northeast of the city of Atlanta, celebrated for its ethnic diversity and spanning multiple counties including Fulton, DeKalb, and Gwinnett counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. The area generally spans along and on either side of a stretch of Georgia State Route 13 (SR 13) in DeKalb County. It begins just north of Midtown Atlanta, continues northeast through the towns of Brookhaven, Chamblee, Doraville, and Norcross.  The name of the corridor originates from the name of the highway which connects to the city of Buford.
Creative Loafing's Atlanta edition named Buford Highway Atlanta's "best neighborhood for diversity" in their March 2012 Neighborhood Guide. The population exceeds 50,000.
Cat Island (Mississippi)
Cat Island is a barrier island off the Gulf Coast of the United States, one of the Mississippi–Alabama barrier islands. The island's name comes from French explorers who mistook raccoons (which were not introduced to Europe until the 20th century) for cats.  It is unknown who discovered Cat Island. It is within the jurisdiction of Harrison County, Mississippi.  The western half and southern tip of the island is part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore.

Harrison County, Mississippi
Harrison County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, Harrison County is the second-most populous county in Mississippi with a population of 208,621; although the most recent population estimate from 2024 suggests Harrison County has overtaken Hinds County to become the state's most populous county, with a population of 213,730.  Its county seats are Biloxi and Gulfport. The county is named after U.S. President William Henry Harrison. Harrison County is part of the Gulfport-Biloxi metropolitan area. The county was severely damaged from both Hurricane Camille on August 17, 1969, and Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005, causing catastrophic effects.