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Slovakia at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Slovakia competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the nation's eighth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics after gaining its independence from the former Czechoslovakia.

Slovakia left the Olympics with only a bronze medal, won by Matej Beňuš in Men's C-1 slalom canoeing, marking the country's least successful Summer Olympics since its independence. Despite the single medal, Slovak athletes produced multiple surprises and high finishes in their respective disciplines, including Richard Tury in Men's street skateboarding, Anna Karolína Schmiedlová in Women's tennis singles, or Vanesa Hocková and Danka Barteková in Women's skeet shooting.

Matej Beňuš
Matej Beňuš (born 2 November 1987) is a Slovak slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2002.

A three-time Olympian, Beňuš won a silver medal in the C1 event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and a bronze medal in the same event at the 2024 Summer Olympics. He also won 12 medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with nine golds (C1 team: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019), one silver (C1 team: 2022) and two bronzes (C1: 2011, C1 team: 2021). He is a four-time overall World Cup champion in the C1 class (2010, 2015, 2019, 2024). At the European Championships he won a total of 15 medals (8 golds, 3 silvers and 4 bronzes), including a silver in the C1 team event at the 2023 European Games in Kraków.
Ceramica
Ceramica was a museum in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, which explored the history of the area's pottery industry. It was located in the former Burslem Town Hall.

Exhibits included displays about ceramics manufacturers Wade Ceramics, Royal Doulton, Sadlers, Dudson, Steelite, Royal Stafford, Moorland, Burleigh Pottery, Moorcroft and Cobridge Stoneware. There were interactive displays and video presentations for children on ceramic history and local history.

The museum was set up using National Lottery money from the Millennium Commission and managed by a Trust. In March 2011 the museum closed as a result of a significant drop off in paying visitors following the closure of adjacent pottery manufacturers. The Trust was wound up and the buildings returned to the City Council. The main building, the former Town Hall, is now home to Haywood Academy sixth form college whilst the modern extension was demolished as uneconomic to repair.

Steelite
Steelite International is a British ceramics manufacturer headquartered in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. They specialise in alumina-strengthened vitreous tableware for the hospitality industry.

The company had a turnover of £117 million in 2016. In 2017, it supplied tableware to more than 140 countries, and employed more than 1,000 people. Production output was reported to be around 550,000 pieces per week. Steelite International America is headquartered in Youngstown, Ohio.
Kolle
Kolle is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname:

Andy Kolle (born 1982), American boxer

Helmut Kolle (1899–1931), German painter

Jorge Kolle Cueto (died 2007), Bolivian politician

Oswalt Kolle (1928–2010), German sex educator

Rikkie Kollé (born 2001), Dutch model

Given name:

Kirsti Kolle Grøndahl (born 1943), Norwegian politician

Jorge Kolle
Jorge Kolle Cueto (20 April 1930 – 4 March 2007) was a Bolivian communist politician. Kolle was one of the founding members of the Communist Party of Bolivia in 1950. He held the position of First Secretary of the party and edited the central party organ, Unidad. He also had an influence in the miners and factory workers trade union movement. Kolle was a senator from 1982 to 1985.
Tobacco (musician)
Thomas Fec (born February 6, 1980), better known by his stage name Tobacco (stylized in all caps), is an American electronic musician. He is the frontman of the psychedelic rock band Black Moth Super Rainbow, in addition to working as a solo artist.
In late 2018, he teamed up with rapper Aesop Rock to become the music duo Malibu Ken, releasing a self-titled album in January 2019.

Anticon
Anticon (often styled as anticon.) was an independent record label/collective based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1998 by seven musicians and manager Baillie Parker. It was collectively owned among six musicians, co-founder Parker, and manager Shaun Koplow. The original musicians signed to Anticon were once referred to as the Anticon collective. Following the death of one of its founding members in 2018, the label dissolved.
Irene Whitfield Holmes
Irene Whitfield Holmes (née Irène Thérèse Whitfield; 26 October 1900 – 10 May 1993) was an American ethnomusicologist, educator, and a significant collector of Cajun, Creole, and Louisiana French folk songs.

Cajun music
Cajun music (French: Musique cadienne), an emblematic music of Louisiana played by the Cajuns, is rooted in the ballads of the French-speaking Acadians of Canada. Although they are two separate genres, Cajun music is often mentioned in tandem with the Creole-based zydeco music. Both are from southwest Louisiana and share French and African origins. These French Louisiana sounds have influenced American popular music for many decades, especially country music, and have influenced pop culture through mass media, such as television commercials.
WNGE
WNGE (99.5 FM, "99.5 K-Rock") is a radio station licensed to Negaunee, Michigan, broadcasting an active rock format. The station first went on the air in July 2001. The station transmits its signal from an antenna with a height of 430 feet (130 m) with an effective radiated power of 3,600 watts located atop a hill in Marquette Township just west of the city of Marquette.

In July 2020, WNGE changed their format from classic hits to active rock, branded as "99.5 K-Rock". The format moved from sister station WUPK 94.1 FM, which switched to soft adult contemporary as "The Breeze."

Negaunee, Michigan
Negaunee (/nəˈɡɔːni/ nə-GAW-nee or locally /ˈnəˈɡɒni/ nə-GON-ee) is a city in Marquette County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 4,627 at the 2020 census. The city is located at the southwest corner of Negaunee Township, which is administratively separate, in the Upper Peninsula. The city is home to a luge track. The name "Negaunee" comes from an Anishinabemowin (Ojibwe) word nigani, meaning "foremost, in advance, leading," which was determined to be the closest Ojibwe translation for "pioneer". Within the city limits is Teal Lake.
Petr Kafka
Petr Kafka (born October 2, 1989) is a Czech professional ice hockey player. He is currently a free agent having last played for HC Košice of the Slovak Extraliga.

Kafka previously played HC Sparta Praha, HC Kladno, HC '05 Banská Bystrica, HC Olomouc and HC Vítkovice

HC Olomouc
HC Olomouc is a professional ice hockey team in the Czech Extraliga, from the city of Olomouc. They won the Extraliga championship in the 1993/1994 season. In 1997, the club sold the Extraliga license to HC Karlovy Vary, and was thus relegated to the second-level league. They returned to the Extraliga in 2014.
Ken Rose (figure skater)
Ken Rose (born May 16, 1986) is a Canadian former competitive figure skater. He is the 2006 Merano Cup champion and 2003 Canadian junior national champion. He won a pair of bronze medals on the ISU Junior Grand Prix circuit and placed 13th at the 2004 World Junior Championships. Rose began skating at age seven and was coached by Linda Bridge for many years. He later trained at the Mariposa School of Skating under Doug Leigh.

After retiring from competition, Rose became a skating coach at the Richmond Training Centre in Richmond Hill, Ontario. His wife, Danielle, is also a coach at the club. Ken and Danielle took over as owners and directors of the Richmond Training Centre in 2022.

Richmond Hill, Ontario
Richmond Hill (2021 population: 202,022) is a city in south-central York Region, Ontario, Canada. Part of the Greater Toronto Area, it is the York Region's third most populous municipality and the 27th most populous municipality in Canada. Richmond Hill is situated between the cities of Markham and Vaughan, north of Thornhill, and south of Aurora.

Richmond Hill has seen significant population growth since the 1990s. It became a city in 2019 after being a town since 1957. The city is home to the David Dunlap Observatory telescope, the largest telescope in Canada.
John Alexander (priest)
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John Alexander (2 September 1833 – 10 September 1908) was an Irish Anglican priest who served as Dean of Ferns from 1899 until his death in 1908.

Alexander was born and raised in the parish in Ferns, County Wexford, the son of John Alexander, LL.D, and Mary Molony. His father was rector of Carne and was rumoured to be in consideration for the Dean of Ferns in 1862.  The family was of Scottish descent and descended from the Alexanders of Menstrie.

He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1858.  After curacies at Dysart Enos, Stradbally and Callan he was  Rector of Corclone from 1869 to 1876; and then of Mulrankin until his appointment as Dean.

In 1866, he married Caroline Jacob, daughter of Dr. John Edmund Jacob. Their son, Major R. G. C. Alexander of the Royal Garrison Artillery, married Daysie Hudson-Kinahan, daughter of Sir Edward Hudson-Kinahan, in 1909.

Alexanders of Menstrie
The Alexanders of Menstrie, also known as the House of Alexander, are a sept of Clan MacAlister of Scotland. The family is said to descend from Somerled, Lord of the Isles. The seat of the clan was at Menstrie Castle in Menstrie, Clackmannanshire. Descendants of the Alexanders of Menstrie have become prominent in Ireland, England and the United States.
Ivan Gavran
Ivan Gavran (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Гавран; born 12 April 1980) is a former Serbian footballer who played for Napredak Kruševac and Dobrudzha Dobrich amongst other clubs.

Born in Pristina (SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia), he previously played with FK Priština in the First League of FR Yugoslavia, FK Napredak Kruševac Austrian second division with FC Kärnten, Bosnia and Herzegovina with NK Žepče, FC Spartak Varna, Bulgarian third division with FC Dobrudzha Dobrich., Serbian League West with Šumadija Radnički. Since ending his playing career he has become youth team coach at FK Župa Aleksandrovac.

FK Priština
FK Priština (Serbian Cyrillic: ФК Приштина) was a football club based in Pristina. They competed in the First League of FR Yugoslavia for three seasons between 1992 and 1999, before withdrawing due to the Kosovo War.
Polybahn
The Polybahn, also known as the UBS Polybahn, is a funicular in the city of Zurich, Switzerland. The line links the Central square with the terrace (Polyterrasse) by the main building of ETH Zurich, which was formerly called Eidgenössisches Polytechnikum, and from which the railway derives its name. The top station is also close to the Natural History Museum.

Previous names for the line include the SBG Polybahn and the Zürichbergbahn. The line is owned by the banking group UBS AG, and operated on their behalf by the municipal transport operator Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich.

The Polybahn is one of two funiculars within the city of Zurich, the other being the Rigiblick funicular in the city's northern suburbs. Additionally, the city's Dolderbahn rack railway was originally a funicular, until its conversion to rack working in the 1970s.

Funicular
A funicular (/fjuːˈnɪkjʊlər, f(j)ʊ-, f(j)ə-/ few-NIK-yoo-lər, f(y)uu-, f(j)ə-), or funicular railway, is a type of cable railway system that connects points along a railway track laid on a steep slope. The system is characterized by two counterbalanced carriages (also called cars or trains) permanently attached to opposite ends of a haulage cable, which is looped over a pulley at the upper end of the track. The result of such a configuration is that the two carriages move synchronously: as one ascends, the other descends at an equal speed. This feature distinguishes funiculars from inclined elevators, which have a single car that is hauled uphill.

The term funicular derives from the Latin word funiculus, the diminutive of funis, meaning 'rope'.
Fin
A fin is a thin appendage or component attached to a larger body or structure. Fins typically function as foils that produce lift or thrust, or provide the ability to steer or stabilize motion while traveling in water, air, or other fluids. Fins are also used to increase surface areas for heat transfer purposes, or simply as ornamentation.

Fins first evolved on fish as a means of locomotion. Fish fins are used to generate thrust and control the subsequent motion. Fish and other aquatic animals, such as cetaceans, actively propel and steer themselves with pectoral and tail fins. As they swim, they use other fins, such as dorsal and anal fins, to achieve stability and refine their maneuvering.

The fins on the tails of cetaceans, ichthyosaurs, metriorhynchids, mosasaurs and plesiosaurs are called flukes.

Metriorhynchidae
Metriorhynchidae is an extinct family of specialized, aquatic metriorhynchoid crocodyliforms from the Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous period (Bajocian to early Aptian) of Europe, North America and South America. The name Metriorhynchidae was coined by the Austrian zoologist Leopold Fitzinger in 1843. The group contains two subfamilies, the Metriorhynchinae and the Geosaurinae. They represent the most marine adapted of all archosaurs.
Franz Nikolaus Novotny
Franz Nikolaus Novotny (also Novotný, Novittni, Novotni, Nowotny) (6 December 1743, Eisenstadt, Kingdom of Hungary – 25 August 1773) was an Austrian organist and composer of Bohemian descent at the Esterházy court in Schloss Esterházy in Eisenstadt.

Novotny's grandfather had served at the court as a bass singer; his father, Johann Novotný (1718–1765), a pupil of Gregor Werner, was also a court organist. Franz Nikolaus succeeded his father in that post on 30 August 1765, having before worked in the court treasury. He composed mainly church music and his work was esteemed by Joseph Haydn.

Esterházy
The House of Esterházy, also spelled Eszterházy (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈɛstɛrhaːzi]), is a Hungarian noble family with origins in the Middle Ages. From the 17th century, the Esterházys were the greatest landowner magnates of the Kingdom of Hungary, during the time that it was part of the Habsburg monarchy and later Austria-Hungary. During the history of the Habsburg Empire, the Esterházy family were consistently loyal to the Habsburg rulers. The Esterházys received the title of Graf (Count) in 1626, and the Forchtenstein line received the title of Fürst (Prince) from the Holy Roman Emperor in 1712. The Esterházy family’s estate is today Austria’s largest private landholding.
Pulkovsky meridian Municipal Okrug
Pulkovsky meridian Municipal Okrug (Russian: муниципа́льный о́круг Пу́лковский меридиа́н) is a municipal okrug in Moskovsky District, one of the eighteen low-level municipal divisions  of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 43,259, down from 46,515 recorded during the 2002 Census.

Until August 2008, it was known as Municipal Okrug #47 (муниципальный округ №47).

Federal cities of Russia
In the Russian Federation, a city of federal importance (Russian: город федерального значения, romanized: gorod federalnogo znacheniya), also known as a federal city, is a city that has a status of both an inhabited locality and a constituent federal subject. Russia has three federal cities: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Sevastopol, which was annexed in 2014 but remains internationally recognised as part of Ukraine.

Moscow and Saint Petersburg are the largest cities in the country: Moscow is the national capital and Saint Petersburg is a former Russian capital and an important port city by the Baltic Sea. Currently, Sevastopol houses the Sevastopol Naval Base, the main port of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
Barry Schweid
Barry Schweid (July 30, 1932 – December 10, 2015) was an American journalist. As a correspondent for the Associated Press (AP), he reported on politics and international diplomacy from the 1950s until his retirement in 2012.

Schweid was born in Manhattan, New York City. He attended Stuyvesant High School (class of 1949), Columbia University (class of 1953), where he worked on the Columbia Daily Spectator, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (1954). After Columbia, he served in the U.S. Army as a public relations specialist before joining the Associated Press.

Among many other stories, Schweid covered the shuttle diplomacy efforts of Henry Kissinger.

Schweid retired in 2012. He died on December 10, 2015, from "complications of a degenerative neurological condition." After his death, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry released a statement calling Schweid "an Associated Press legend and the longtime dean of the State Department press corps".

Columbia Daily Spectator
The Columbia Daily Spectator (known colloquially as Spec) is the student-run newspaper of Columbia University. Founded in 1877, it is the second-oldest continuously operating college news daily in the nation after The Harvard Crimson, and has been legally independent from the university since 1962. It is published at 120th Street and Claremont Avenue in New York City. During the academic term, it is published online Sunday through Thursday and printed weekly. In addition to serving as a campus newspaper, the Spectator also reports the latest news of the surrounding Morningside Heights community. The paper is delivered to over 150 locations throughout the Morningside Heights neighborhood.
Maria Bal
Jadwiga Maria Kinga Bal (Balowa) of Zaleszczyki, née Brunicka (26 July 1879 – 1 January 1955) was a Polish baroness and a lifelong muse of Jacek Malczewski, considered Poland's national painter. She served as the live model for a series of his symbolic portrayals of women, as well as nude studies and mythological beings. Most were completed before the interwar period when Poland had not yet achieved independence.

Model (art)
An art model is a person who poses, often nude, for visual artists as part of the creative process, providing a reference for the human body in a work of art. The importance of the human figure in Western art begins with the Ancient Greeks, which was rediscovered in the Renaissance, art modelling then becoming an occupation. With few exceptions, models remained anonymous until the 19th century.

Modern nude models have most often been employees of art schools, and paid by the hour to pose. As an occupation, modeling requires the often strenuous 'physical work' of holding poses for the required length of time, the 'aesthetic work' of performing a variety of interesting poses, and the 'emotional work' of maintaining a socially ambiguous role. While the role of nude models is well-established as a necessary part of artistic practice, public nudity remains transgressive, and models may be vulnerable to stigmatization or exploitation.: 1
Ransäter
Ransäter (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈrǎnːsɛtɛr]) is a smaller locality in Munkfors Municipality, Sweden. In 2010, it had a population of 114.

Ransäter is the birthplace of Erik Gustaf Geijer, Sten Bergman, and Tage Erlander.

Urban areas in Sweden
An urban area or tätort (lit. 'dense locality') in Sweden has a minimum of 200 inhabitants and may be a city, town or larger village. It is a purely statistical concept, not defined by any municipal or county boundaries. Larger urban areas synonymous with cities or towns (Swedish: stad for both terms) for statistical purposes have a minimum of 10,000 inhabitants. The same statistical definition is also used for urban areas in the other Nordic countries.

In 2018, there were nearly two thousand urban areas in Sweden, which were inhabited by 87% of the Swedish population.

Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. The official term in English used by Statistics Sweden is, however, "locality" (Swedish: ort). It could be compared with "census-designated places" in the United States.
Tourism in Islamabad
Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, is home to numerous tourist attractions. Daman-i-Koh, Margalla Zoo, Pakistan Monument, Faisal Mosque, Shakarparian, Lok Virsa Museum and Rawal lake view point are among the top tourist attractions in Islamabad. It also acts as a stop for journeys to Murree and Northern Pakistan when travelling from Pakistani provinces of Punjab, Sindh, and sometimes even Balochistan.

Northern Pakistan
Northern Pakistan (Urdu: شمالی پاکستان ALA-LC: śimālī Pākistān) is a tourism region in the northern and north-western parts of Pakistan, comprising the administrative units of Gilgit-Baltistan (formerly known as Northern Areas), Azad Kashmir, Malakand and Hazara Division in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Islamabad Capital Territory and the Murree District in Punjab. The first two territories are Pakistani-administered sectors of the wider Kashmir region. Northern Pakistan is a mountainous region straddling the Himalayas, Karakoram and the Hindu Kush mountain ranges, containing  many of the highest peaks in the world and some of the longest glaciers outside polar regions. Northern Pakistan accounts for a high level of Pakistan's tourism industry.
2004 Mercedes-Benz Cup – Doubles
Jan-Michael Gambill and Travis Parrott were the defending champions, but Gambill did not participate this year.  Parrott partnered Robby Ginepri, losing in the first round.

Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan won in the final 6–3, 7–6(8–6), against Wayne Arthurs and Paul Hanley.

Paul Hanley (tennis)
Paul Jason Hanley (born 12 November 1977) is a retired professional male tennis player from Australia, specialising in doubles and owning 26 ATP titles in this discipline.

He made the 2005 Wimbledon and 2011 Australian Open finals in mixed doubles, playing with Tatiana Perebiynis and Chan Yung-jan respectively, falling short on both occasions.  His best results came alongside Wayne Arthurs and Kevin Ullyett, with whom Hanley formed long-term doubles partnerships. Hanley has an 8–4 win–loss record on the Australian Davis Cup Team.  The Australian's highest doubles ranking was World Number 5.  His parents, Jay and Judy, co-own a tennis centre, which is one of the main reasons why Hanley pursued a career in the sport.
Senate district 20 – Prague 4
Senate district 20 – Prague 4 is an electoral district of the Senate of the Czech Republic, which is entirely located in the Capital City of Prague. Since 2018, former presidential candidate and former president of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Jiří Drahoš has been a senator for the district.

Senate of the Czech Republic
The Senate (Czech: Senát Parlamentu České republiky, lit. 'Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic') is the upper house of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. The seat of the Senate is Wallenstein Palace in Prague.
Eli Gabay
Eli Gabay (also credited as Eli Gabe; born 1 June 1959) is a Canadian actor.

He is known for voicing Quetzal, the teacher at School in the Sky, as well as voicing Max and Emmy's father, in Dragon Tales. He voices a gangster named Abrego in the anime, Black Lagoon. Gabay loaned his voice in other anime such as Earth Maiden Arjuna, Master Keaton and Shakugan No Shana.

Besides animation, Gabay has played live-action roles such as Miguel in Bordello of Blood, the pilot in The Edge and Carlos in the NC-17 movie Bliss. Gabay has also appeared in TV shows, such as The Commish and ReGenesis.

The Commish
The Commish is an American comedy-drama television series that aired on ABC in the United States from September 28, 1991, to January 11, 1996. The series focuses on the work and home life of a suburban police commissioner in fictional Eastbridge, New York. The show was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia.