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Harry Parker (swimmer)
Henry Parker (c. 1849 – 4 December 1932) was an English swimmer who won the amateur one-mile championship three consecutive times, from 1870 to 1872. These races were held on the River Thames, from Putney to Hammersmith.

By the 1890s, Parker was the lessee of the bathing pools at the Tunnels Beaches at Ilfracombe, where he was billed as an "expert swimmer and instructor" and "one of the foremost professors of ornamental swimming."

Harry's younger sister, Emily Parker, was also an accomplished swimmer.

Harry and his wife Ellen's son, Henry Lloyd Parker, was also an accomplished swimmer and escapologist.

Ilfracombe
Ilfracombe (/ˈɪlfrəkuːm/ IL-frə-koom) is a seaside resort and civil parish on the North Devon coast, England, with a small harbour surrounded by cliffs.

The parish stretches along the coast from the 'Coastguard Cottages' in Hele Bay toward the east and 4 miles (6 km) along the Torrs to Lee Bay toward the west. The resort is hilly and the highest point within the parish boundary is 'Hore Down Gate', 2 miles (3 km) inland and 860 feet (270 m) above sea level.

The landmark of Hillsborough Hill dominates the harbour and the site of an Iron Age fortified settlement. In the built environment, the architectural-award-winning Landmark Theatre has a distinctive double-conical design. The 13th-century parish church, Holy Trinity, and the St Nicholas's Chapel (a lighthouse) on Lantern Hill, have been joined by Damien Hirst's statue of Verity as points of interest.
Place de Wagram
The Place de Wagram is a square in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, at the junction of the Boulevard Malesherbes, the Boulevard Pereire and the Avenue de Wagram. It forms one end of the Avenue de Wagram (the other is the Place de l'Étoile) and was renamed after the 1809 French victory at Wagram in 1868.

48°53′15″N 2°18′17″E﻿ / ﻿48.8874°N 2.3047°E﻿ / 48.8874; 2.3047

17th arrondissement of Paris
The 17th arrondissement of Paris (XVIIe arrondissement) is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, it is referred to as le dix-septième (pronounced [lə di sɛtjɛm]; "the seventeenth").

The arrondissement, known as Batignolles-Monceau, is situated on the right bank of the River Seine. In 2019, it had a population of 166,543. It borders the inner suburbs of Neuilly-sur-Seine, Levallois-Perret and Clichy in Hauts-de-Seine to the northwest, as well as Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine in Seine-Saint-Denis to the northeast.
P. B. Kaviratne
Ratnayake Mudiyanselage Punchi Banda Kaviratne (3 February 1936) was a Sri Lankan politician. He was the Minister of Cultural Affairs and member of Parliament of Sri Lanka from Rattota representing the United National Party.

He was elected to parliament from Rattota in the 1977 general election defeating S. B. Yalegama and retained his seat in the 1970 general election, but lost it in the 1977 general election and was re-elected in the 1989 general election. Sanjeeva Kaviratne was his son.

United National Party
The United National Party (UNP; Sinhala: එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය, romanized: Eksath Jāthika Pakshaya, Tamil: ஐக்கிய தேசியக் கட்சி, romanized: Aikkiya Tēciyak Kaṭci) is a centre-right political party in Sri Lanka. Founded in 1946, the party was one of Sri Lanka's two main parties for several decades, serving as either the country's ruling party or as part of its governing coalition for several periods of the country's independent history. After suffering a major split in the lead-up to the 2020 parliamentary elections, the UNP saw a collapse in parliament, with the party only winning one national list seat and losing all its votes to the new Samagi Jana Balawegaya alliance. Currently, the UNP is a notable third party in Sri Lankan politics.

The UNP has been led by former president Ranil Wickremesinghe since 1994. The party is a member of the International Democracy Union.
Canadian Pickers
Canadian Pickers (internationally known as Cash Cowboys) was a Canadian television reality series filmed in Calgary, Alberta, which currently airs reruns on History.  The show was also previously shown on DTour and Historia. The series was canceled on November 19, 2013, with the final episodes airing on December 23, 2013.

Television in Canada
Television in Canada officially began with the sign-on of the nation's first television stations in Montreal and Toronto in 1952. As with most media in Canada, the television industry, and the television programming available in that country, are strongly influenced by media in the United States and the United Kingdom, perhaps to an extent not seen in any other major industrialized nation. As a result, the government institutes quotas for "Canadian content". Nonetheless, new content is often aimed at a broader North American audience, although the similarities may be less pronounced in the predominantly French-language province of Quebec.
Larry A. Thompson
Larry A. Thompson (born August 1, 1944) is an American film producer, manager, lawyer, author, and motivational speaker. Long known for his work in Hollywood, he has twice been a Republican candidate for the United States House of Representatives.

Kitty Kelley
Katherine Kelley (born April 4, 1942) is an American journalist and author of best-selling unauthorized biographies of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, the British royal family, the Bush family, and Oprah Winfrey.

For the Sinatra biography, Kelley won praise for the quality of her research and willingness to risk a lawsuit, but critics have not rated her other works as highly. She has been described as a "professional sensationalist" and the "consummate gossip monger".
Théâtre Malakoff
The Théâtre Malakoff was a theatre venue now disestablished, formerly located at 56 bis Avenue de Malakoff (today Avenue Raymond-Poincaré) in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.

On 22 December 1912, Aurélien Lugné-Poe premiered there the play The Annunciation of Marie by Paul Claudel with the company of the Théâtre de l'Œuvre.

Paul Claudel
Paul Claudel (French: [pɔl klodɛl]; 6 August 1868 – 23 February 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.
Boğaziçi, İslahiye
Boğaziçi, historically Kerküt, is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of İslahiye, Gaziantep Province, Turkey. Its population is 3,118 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (belde). It is populated by Turks.

İslahiye
İslahiye is a municipality and district of Gaziantep Province, Turkey. Its area is 865 km2, and its population is 67,650 (2022). It is a railway border crossing into Syria. Near İslahiye is the site of ancient Nicopolis.

The railway station of Islahiye is the last stop on the railway to Damascus in Syria. Since March 2001, a regular train line runs once a week between Syria and Iran via Islahiye. The state road D.825, which connects Gaziantep with Antakya, runs through İslahiye.

The town is inhabited by Yörüks of the Aydınlı tribe. English traveler Mark Sykes recorded İslahiye as a town inhabited by Turks in early 20th century.

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck İslahiye on 6 February 2023, causing widespread devastation in the town and many deaths.
2018–19 North Carolina Central Eagles men's basketball team
The 2018–19 North Carolina Central Eagles men's basketball team represented North Carolina Central University in the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. They played their home games at McDougald–McLendon Gymnasium in Durham, North Carolina, and were led by 10th-year head coach LeVelle Moton. They finished the season 18-16, to finish a tie for 3rd place. In the MEAC tournament, they defeated Delaware State, North Carolina A&T, and Norfolk State to win the MEAC Tournament. Therefore, they received an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament as a 16th seed. However, they lost to fellow 16th seed North Dakota State in the First Four.

2018–19 North Dakota State Bison men's basketball team
The 2018–19 North Dakota State Bison men's basketball team represented North Dakota State University in the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bison, led by fifth-year head coach David Richman, played their home games at the Scheels Center in Fargo, North Dakota as members of the Summit League. They finished the season 19–16, 9–7 in Summit League play, to finish in a tie for third place. As the No. 4 seed in the Summit League tournament, they defeated Oral Roberts, Western Illinois and Omaha to win the tournament championship. As a result, they received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament as the No. 16 seed in the East region. There the Bison lost to overall No. 1 seed Duke.
North Central Historic District
North Central Historic District can refer to:

North Central Historic District (Alexandria City, Alabama), listed on the NRHP in Alabama

North Central Avenue Streetscape Historic District, Phoenix, AZ, listed on the NRHP in Arizona

North Central Historic District (Baltimore, Maryland), listed on the NRHP in Maryland

National Register of Historic Places listings in Alabama
This is a list of buildings, sites, districts, and objects listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama.           This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted December 12, 2025.
Carol (soundtrack)
Carol: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the 2015 film Carol. The compact disc includes the original score composed by Carter Burwell, and additional music performed by The Clovers, Billie Holiday, Georgia Gibbs, Les Paul and Mary Ford, and Jo Stafford. It was released in both digital download and compact disc formats by Varèse Sarabande on November 20, 2015. A double album vinyl of the soundtrack was released on June 24, 2016.

Carter Burwell
Carter Benedict Burwell (born November 18, 1954) is an American film composer. He received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Score for Todd Haynes's Carol (2015) and Martin McDonagh's films Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) and The Banshees Of Inisherin (2022). He has frequently collaborated with the Coen brothers, having scored most of their films. He has also scored films by other directors such as Bill Condon, Spike Jonze, James Foley, Brian Helgeland, and John Lee Hancock.
Al-Khandaq al-Sharqiyah
35°23′20″N 36°18′25″E﻿ / ﻿35.388889°N 36.306889°E﻿ / 35.388889; 36.306889

Al-Khandaq al-Sharqiyah (Arabic: الخندق الشرقي) is a Syrian village located in the Suqaylabiyah Subdistrict of the al-Suqaylabiyah District in Hama Governorate. Its population in 2004 was 737.

Hama Governorate
Hama Governorate (Arabic: مُحافظة حماة Muḥāfaẓat Ḥamā) is one of the fourteen governorates of Syria. It is situated in western-central Syria, bordering Idlib and Aleppo Governorates to the north, Raqqa Governorate to the east, Homs Governorate to the south, and Tartus and Latakia Governorate to the west. It is the only Governorate (excluding Damascus) that does not border a foreign country. Measures of its area vary from 8,844 km2 to 8,883 km2, with its capital being the city of Hama, also notably being the only Governorate with no land borders with any foreign countries.
Rudnik, Łódź Voivodeship
Rudnik (Polish pronunciation: [ˈrudɲik]) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Będków, within Tomaszów Mazowiecki County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) east of Będków, 16 km (10 mi) north-west of Tomaszów Mazowiecki, and 33 km (21 mi) south-east of the regional capital Łódź.

Tomaszów Mazowiecki
Tomaszów Mazowiecki (pronounced [tɔˈmaʂuf mazɔˈvjɛt͡skʲi] ⓘ, Yiddish: טאָמעשעוו or Tomashuv) is a town in central Poland with 60,529 inhabitants (2021). It is the fourth most populous city in the Łódź Voivodeship and the second with free public transport. It is the seat of Tomaszów County.

In Tomaszów Mazowiecki there is the first (and the only) all-year speed skating track in Poland - Ice Arena Tomaszów Mazowiecki, which has hosted the World Championships. In autumn, the city hosts the international Love Polish Jazz festival, organized by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
Mark Embree
Mark Embree is professor of computational and applied mathematics  at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. Until 2013, he was a professor of computational and applied mathematics at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

Mark Embree was awarded Man of the Year and Outstanding Student in the College of Arts and Sciences at Virginia Tech in 1996.  He was also a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he completed his doctorate.

Blacksburg, Virginia
Blacksburg is an incorporated town in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States, with a population of 44,826 at the 2020 census. Blacksburg and the surrounding county is dominated economically and demographically by the presence of Virginia Tech.

Blacksburg, Christiansburg, and the city of Radford are the three principal jurisdictions of the Blacksburg-Christiansburg metropolitan area, which encompasses those jurisdictions and all of Montgomery, Pulaski, and Giles counties for statistical purposes. The MSA has an estimated population of 181,863 and is currently one of the faster-growing MSAs in Virginia.
Hutchinson's facies
Hutchinson's facies is a facial appearance involving drooping eyelids and immobile eyes in external ophthalmoplegia. This sign is associated with neurosyphilis. It is named in honour of the English physician Jonathan Hutchinson (1828–1913).

When the ophthalmoplegia is complete, the physiognomy of the patient has a special character, known as Hutchinson's facies. The eyelids are half closed, so that the patient appears to be asleep; they partially cover the cornea. As the patient tries to remedy the blepharoptosis by contraction of the frontalis muscle, the brow is wrinkled and the eyebrows are arched. If the upper eyelids are raised, the eyeballs are immobile, "as though formed of wax" (Benedikt). When the paralysis affects all the external muscles, the eyes are directed straight forwards. The look is, however, somewhat vague, because the optical axes are not absolutely parallel.

Cornea
The cornea is the transparent front part of the eyeball which covers the iris, pupil, and anterior chamber. Along with the anterior chamber and lens, the cornea refracts light, accounting for approximately two-thirds of the eye's total optical power. In humans, the refractive power of the cornea is approximately 43 dioptres. The cornea can be reshaped by surgical procedures such as LASIK.

While the cornea contributes most of the eye's focusing power, its focus is fixed. Accommodation (the refocusing of light to better view near objects) is accomplished by changing the geometry of the lens.  Medical terms related to the cornea often start with the prefix "kerat-" from the Greek word κέρας, horn.
Ymer Dishnica
Ymer Dishnica (21 February 1912 – 22 September 1998) was an Albanian politician and physician.  He served as Minister of Health from 1944 to 1946 and as Chairman of the Constituent Assembly from 1946 to 1947.

Ymer Dishnica was born in 1912 in Dishnicë village, 4 km away from Korçë. He took his elementary studies in Korçë, and after attended the Albanian National Lyceum which he finished in 1932. In 1932–1941 he studied medicine in France, respectively in the University of Lyon and after that the University of Paris.

Dishnica was active during World War II, by joining the National Liberation Movement forces. He was the head of the NLM delegation in the Conference of Mukje, negotiating an unified front with Balli Kombëtar, for which he would be criticized by Enver Hoxha. He was later expelled from the Party of Labour of Albania and served as a doctor in a hospital in Tirana.

Balli Kombëtar
The Balli Kombëtar (literally National Front) was an Albanian nationalist, collaborationist, and anti-communist resistance movement during the Second World War. It was led by Ali Këlcyra and Midhat Frashëri. The movement was formed by liberal nationalists, and other sections of society in Albania who were opposed to communism.

The motto of the Balli Kombëtar was: Shqipëria Shqiptarëve, Vdekje Tradhëtarëve (Albania to the Albanians, Death to the Traitors). Eventually, the Balli Kombëtar joined the Nazi Germany-established puppet government as part of the German occupation of Albania and fought as an ally against communist guerrilla groups. The Balli Kombëtar engaged in significant acts of terror culminating in atrocities committed against Serb and Greek civilians.
Pleasant Valley, Minnesota
Pleasant Valley is an unincorporated community in Wrenshall Township, Carlton County, Minnesota, United States.

The community is located between Wrenshall and Holyoke at the junction of Carlton County Roads 1 and 112; near State Highway 23 (MN 23).

Pleasant Valley is five miles south of Wrenshall.

Minnesota State Highway 23
Minnesota State Highway 23 (MN 23) is a state highway that stretches from southwestern to northeastern Minnesota. At 343.723 miles (553.169 km) in length, it is the second longest state route in Minnesota, after MN 1.

This route, signed east–west, runs roughly diagonally across Minnesota from southwest to northeast. It indirectly connects Duluth to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and passes through the cities of St. Cloud, Willmar, and Marshall.

MN 23 runs north from its interchange with Interstate 90 (I-90), 1.05 miles (1.69 km) east of the South Dakota line and 13 miles (21 km) east of Sioux Falls and then continues north and east across Minnesota to its terminus at its interchange with I-35 in Duluth.
Yasutoshi Kamata
Yasutoshi Kamata (鎌田安利, Kamata Yasutoshi; July 10, 1940 – March 25, 2016), known as The Osaka Ripper, was a Japanese serial killer responsible for the murder and dismemberment of four women and one girl in Osaka between 1985 and 1994. The case was designated by the National Police Agency as "Metropolitan Designated Case No. 122".

At the time of the incident, the Osaka Prefectural Police considered it one its most important cases, investigated alongside the Glico Morinaga case.

National Police Agency (Japan)
The National Police Agency (Japanese: 警察庁, Hepburn: Keisatsu-chō) is the central coordinating law enforcement agency of the Japanese police system. Unlike national police in other countries, the NPA does not have any operational units of its own aside from the Imperial Guard; rather, it is responsible for supervising Japan's 47 prefectural police departments and determining their general standards and policies, though it can command police agencies under it in national emergencies or large-scale disasters. It is under the National Public Safety Commission of the Cabinet Office.

As of 2017, the NPA has a strength of approximately 7,800 personnel: 2,100 sworn officers, 900 guards, and 4,800 civilian staff.
Baltimore and Philadelphia Railroad
The Baltimore and Philadelphia Railroad (reporting mark B&P) was a railroad line in the United States, built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the Maryland-Delaware state line, where it connected with the B&O's Philadelphia Branch to reach Baltimore, Maryland. It was built in the 1880s after the B&O lost access to its previous route to Philadelphia, the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad (PW&B). The cost of building the new route, especially the Howard Street Tunnel on the connecting Baltimore Belt Line, led to the B&O's first bankruptcy. Today, the line is used by CSX Transportation for freight trains.

Reporting mark
A reporting mark is a code used to identify owners or lessees of rolling stock and other equipment used on certain rail transport networks.  The code typically reflects the name or identifying number of the owner, lessee, or operator of the equipment, similar to IATA airline designators.

In North America, the mark, which consists of an alphabetic code of two to four letters, is stenciled on each piece of equipment, along with a one- to six-digit number. This information is used to uniquely identify every such rail car or locomotive, thus allowing it to be tracked by the railroad it is traveling over, which shares the information with other railroads and customers.  In multinational registries, a code indicating the home country may also be included.
Ottoman–Persian War (1505–1517)
The Ottoman–Persian War was a series of military conflicts fought between the Ottoman Empire and the Safavid dynasty of Iran during the reign of Sultan Bayezid II and his son Selim I. Sparked by sectarian and territorial rivalries, the wars culminated in major Ottoman victories, including the pivotal Battle of Chaldiran (1514) and the subsequent conquest of Eastern Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia. These campaigns marked the beginning of a long-standing Ottoman–Persian rivalry that would last until 1918

Battle of Ovacık (1515)
The Battle of Ovacık took place between the Ottoman army under the command of Bıyıklı Mehmed Pasha and the Safavid army under the command of Nur Ali Khalifa, and ended the life of Nur Ali along with the rebellion.
Shoorsen Nagar
Shoorsen Nagar, formerly known as Salempur Rajputana is a census town in the Roorkee Municipal Corporation of Roorkee in Haridwar district of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is an area in Roorkee, Ramnagar. Shoorsen Nagar is famous for its ameliorative, productive and progressive industrial area. This is a town with Hindu majority most people here are of Kuhada, Daharia, Rada and Gadadiya (Jambuwal) gotra and are part of Saini community. A minority of Muslims and Kashyaps and other Scheduled castes also exist in the village.

Gotra
In Hindu culture, the term gotra (Sanskrit: गोत्र) is considered to be equivalent to lineage. It broadly refers to people who are descendants in an unbroken male line from a common male ancestor or patriline. Generally, the gotra forms an exogamous unit, with marriage within the same gotra being regarded as incest and prohibited by custom. The name of the gotra can be used as a surname, but it is different from a surname and is strictly maintained because of its importance in marriages among Hindus, especially among castes. Pāṇini defines gotra as apatyam pautraprabhrti gotram (IV. 1. 162), which means "the word gotra denotes the descendance (or descendants), apatya, of a couple consisting of a pautra, a son and a bharti, a mother, i.e. a daughter-in-law."  (Based on Monier Williams Dictionary definitions.)
Serake Leeuw
Serake Jacob Leeuw (born 6 December 1960) is a South African politician and former trade unionist. He represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 1994 to 2000, gaining election in 1994 and 1999. He was a member of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, where Andrew Feinstein said he was one of Parliament's "leading lights".

Leeuw left the National Assembly after the 2000 local elections, on 6 December 2000, in order to become Mayor of Matjhabeng Local Municipality in the Free State. During his term as mayor, the municipality faced violent service delivery protests in 2005.

During apartheid, Leeuw was a founding member of the Post and Telecommunication Workers' Association (POTWA) and served as POTWA regional treasurer from 1986 to 1992. He is also a former regional chairperson of the Congress of South African Trade Unions in the Northern Cape and Free State region.

Matjhabeng Local Municipality
Matjhabeng Municipality (Sotho: Masepala wa Matjhabeng; Xhosa: uMasipala wase Matjhabeng; Afrikaans: Matjhabeng Munisipaliteit) is a local municipality within the Lejweleputswa District Municipality, in the Free State province of South Africa. The municipality includes Welkom, Virginia, Odendaalsrus and Allanridge. Matjhabeng is a Sesotho word meaning "where nations meet". It is derived from the migrant labour system where people from various countries like Lesotho, Mozambique, etc. met to work in the mines.