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Zhang Cong
Zhang Cong (1475–1539), also known as Zhang Fujing, was a Chinese scholar-official who held high office during the early reign of the Ming emperor Jiajing. After the Jiajing Emperor ascended the throne, Zhang supported him in the Great Rites Controversy, which led to a highly successful career. From 1527 to 1535, with some interruptions, he served as grand secretary, and in 1529 he became the head of the Grand Secretariat. From the early 1530s, the Emperor paid less attention to Zhang and showed more favor to another official, Xia Yan. Zhang resigned as grand secretary in 1535, and he died four years later.

Scholar-official
The scholar-officials, also known as literati, scholar-gentlemen or scholar-bureaucrats (Chinese: 士大夫; pinyin: shì dàfū), were government officials and prestigious scholars in Chinese society, forming a distinct social class.

Scholar-officials were politicians and government officials appointed by the emperor of China to perform day-to-day political duties from the Han dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty in 1912, China's last imperial dynasty. After the Sui dynasty these officials mostly came from the scholar-gentry (紳士 shēnshì) who had earned academic degrees (such as xiucai, juren, or jinshi) by passing the imperial examinations. Scholar-officials were the elite class of imperial China. They were highly educated, especially in literature and the arts, including calligraphy and Confucian texts. They dominated the government administration and local life of China until the early 20th century.
J. P. Primm
J. P. Primm (born September 17, 1989) is an American basketball player, having previously played for the men's basketball teams of the UNC Asheville Bulldogs. Primm, at 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m), plays the position of point guard and shooting guard.

UNC Asheville Bulldogs men's basketball
The UNC Asheville Bulldogs men's basketball team is the men's basketball team that represents the University of North Carolina at Asheville in Asheville, North Carolina, United States. Their current head coach is Mike Morrell. The school's team currently competes in the Big South Conference. The Bulldogs have appeared five times in the NCAA tournament, most recently in 2023.
Christopher Riffe
Christopher Riffe (1764-1850) accompanied Col. William Casey (great-grandfather of Mark Twain) to Kentucky in 1784. Riffe lived at Bryan's Station, Boonesborough, Logan's Station and Carpenter's Station. He bought 800 acres (3.2 km2) of land from the grandfather of Abraham Lincoln. Riffe became the first Euro-American settler of Casey County in 1793. He was the first State Representative from Casey County, serving seven terms. He fought in the Battle of the Thames in the Kentucky Sixth Regiment. He was Lieutenant-General of the Kentucky State Militia.

During his time as Lincoln County representative, Riffe, who was described as "a burly German of almost gigantic size and herculean strength", sat between rivals Humphrey Marshall and Henry Clay in the House chamber, and once broke up a fight between the two men.

Casey County, Kentucky
Casey County is a county located in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 15,941.  Its county seat is Liberty. The county was formed in 1806 from the western part of Lincoln County and named for Colonel William Casey, a pioneer settler who moved his family to Kentucky in 1779. It is the only Kentucky county entirely in the Knobs region. Casey County is home to annual Casey County Apple Festival. It is considered part of the Appalachian region of Kentucky.
Algarve International Circuit
The Algarve International Circuit (Portuguese: Autódromo Internacional do Algarve), also known as the Portimão Circuit, is a 4.653 km (2.891 mi) race circuit located in Portimão, Algarve region, Portugal. The development includes a karting track, off-road track, technology park, five-star hotel, sports complex and apartments.

The circuit was designed by Ricardo Pina, Arquitectos. The construction was finished in October 2008 and the circuit was homologated by both the FIM on 11 October 2008 and the FIA two days later. The total cost was €195 million (approximately $250 million).

Science park
A science park (also called a research park, technology park, technopark, technopolis, technopole, or a science and technology park [STP]) is a property-based development that accommodates and fosters the growth of tenant firms and is affiliated with a university, government, or private research body based on proximity, ownership, and/or governance. This is so that knowledge can be shared, innovation promoted, technology transferred, and research outcomes progressed to viable commercial products. Science parks are also often perceived as contributing to national economic development, stimulating the formation of new high-technology firms, attracting foreign investment and promoting exports.
Leo Esser
Leo Esser (born February 17, 1907, date of death unknown) was a German diver who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1932 he finished fifth in the 3 metre springboard event. Four years later he finished sixth in the 3 metre springboard competition.

Diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard
The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was split into two sets of dives on separate days:

Compulsory dives (Monday, 10 August)
Divers performed five pre-chosen dives (one from each category) – a running straight somersault forward, standing header backward with pike, running straight isander-half gainer, standing backward spring and forward somersault with pike, and running pike dive with half-screw forward.

Facultative dives (Tuesday, 11 August)
Divers performed five dives of their choice (one from each category and different from the compulsory).

Twenty-four divers from 15 nations competed.
SbX
sbX is a bus rapid transit (BRT) service in San Bernardino and Loma Linda, California, United States. It is operated by Omnitrans, a public transportation agency in southwestern San Bernardino County. It intended to be a brand of BRT service that will eventually traverse major surface streets throughout Omnitrans' service area.

The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), under its BRT Standard, has given the initial sbX corridor (the Green Line) corridor a Bronze ranking.

Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) is an American non-governmental non-profit organization that focuses on developing bus rapid transit (BRT) systems, promoting biking, walking, and non-motorized transport, and improving private bus operators margins.  Other programs include parking reform, traffic demand management, and global climate and transport policy. According to its mission statement, ITDP is committed to "promoting sustainable and equitable transportation worldwide."

In addition to its role supporting and consulting local governmental efforts to develop more sustainable transportation, ITDP publishes the magazine Sustainable Transport annually, produces the BRT Standard and other research, and sits on the committee for the annual Sustainable Transport Award.
Pavlo Nakonechnyy
Pavlo Nakonechnyy (born 12 July 1997) is a Ukrainian strongman and powerlifter.

He is best known for his prowess in deadlifting, having pulled 390 kg (860 lb) in powerlifting and 454 kg (1,001 lb) in strongman standards.

Strongman
Strongman is a competitive strength sport that tests athletes' physical strength and endurance through a variety of heavy lifts and events. Strongman competitions are known for their intensity, pushing athletes to their physical and mental limits. In modern strongman, athletes compete to score points based on their relative position in an event. An athlete who engages in the sport of strongman is also called a 'strongman'. They are often regarded as some of the strongest men of the world.
2019 Strade Bianche
The 13th edition of the Strade Bianche was held on 9 March 2019. Starting and finishing in Siena, Italy, it was the fifth event of the 2019 UCI World Tour. It was won by Julian Alaphilippe, followed by Jakob Fuglsang. Wout van Aert was third.

Wout van Aert
Wout van Aert (born 15 September 1994) is a Belgian professional road and cyclo-cross racer who rides for UCI WorldTeam Visma–Lease a Bike. Van Aert won three consecutive men's races at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in 2016, 2017, and 2018.

Having initially prioritised competing in cyclo-cross, Van Aert  terminated his contract with Vérandas Willems–Crelan in 2018 and  joined Team Jumbo–Visma in March 2019, on a three-year deal. Van Aert has since taken more than fifty professional road wins, including ten stage victories at the Tour de France between 2019 and 2025 (also winning the points classification in 2022), and won Milan–San Remo – one of the five Cycling monuments – in 2020.

Following the 2022 Tour de France, where Van Aert won three stages, several media outlets labeled him as "one of the most complete cyclists of his generation". His rivalry with Mathieu van der Poel in cyclo-cross is considered among the greatest and longest lasting rivalries in the sport.
A Hawk and a Hacksaw
A Hawk and a Hacksaw is an American folk duo from Albuquerque, New Mexico, currently signed to L.M. Duplication. The band consists of accordionist Jeremy Barnes, who was previously the drummer for Neutral Milk Hotel and Bablicon, and violinist Heather Trost. The music is inspired by Eastern European, Turkish and Balkan traditions, and is mostly instrumental. They have released six albums and have toured internationally. The first four albums and an EP were released on The Leaf Label and afterwards on their own label L. M. Duplication.

Turkish folk music
Turkish folk music (Turkish: Türk Halk Müziği) is the traditional music of Turkish people living in Turkey influenced by the cultures of Anatolia and former territories in Europe and Asia. Its unique structure includes regional differences under one umbrella. It includes popular music from the Ottoman Empire era. After the foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923, Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ordered a wide-scale classification and archiving of samples of Turkish folk music from around the country, which, from 1924 to 1953 collected more than 10,000 folk songs. Traditional folk music was combined with Western harmony and musical notation to create a more modern style of popular Turkish music.
Sigrid Johnson
Sigrid Johnson (born 17 March 2006) is a Swedish actress. She won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance as Sasha in Comedy Queen. She portrayed "Jojo" on Jana: Marked for Life (2024).

Guldbagge Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
The Guldbagge for Best Actress in a Leading Role is a Swedish film award presented annually by the Swedish Film Institute (SFI) as part of the Guldbagge Awards (Swedish: "Guldbaggen") to actresses working in the Swedish motion picture industry.
Robert Hastang, 1st Baron Hastang
Robert Hastang, 1st Baron Hastang  (died 1304), Lord of La Desiree, Badenhall, Chebsey and Leamington Hastang was an English noble. He fought in the wars in Scotland. He was a signatory of the Baron's Letter to Pope Boniface VIII in 1301.

Barons' Letter of 1301
The Barons' Letter of 1301 was written by 103 English, Scottish, Norman and Welsh, earls and barons loyal to King Edward I. The letter was addressed to Pope Boniface VIII as a repudiation of his claim of feudal overlordship of Scotland (expressed in the Bull Scimus Fili), and as a defence of the rights of King Edward I of England as overlord of Scotland. The letter survives in two copies, known as A and B, both held in the National Archives at Kew under the reference E 26. Historically they were held amongst the documents in the Exchequer, Treasury of the Receipt department.
Babu Varghese
Babu Varghese (28 January 1951, Kerala, India – 18 October 2011) helped to make the South Indian state of Kerala, and in particular the image of houseboats on the Kerala backwaters, a notable tourist destination.

Houseboat
A houseboat is a boat that has been designed or modified to be used primarily for regular dwelling. Most houseboats are not motorized, as they are usually moored or kept stationary, fixed at a berth, and often tethered to land to provide utilities. However, many are capable of operation under their own power.

Houseboats are largely found on small inland rivers, lakes, and streams, and in coastal harbours, especially where there is good fishing, in many countries.
Bangarang (Doomtree song)
"Bangarang" is a song by Minneapolis indie hip hop collective Doomtree. It was released as a single from their 2011 second album No Kings on May 28, 2012.

The song was written by Cecil Otter, Sims and Mike Mictlan.  The recording for the album was produced by Cecil Otter and Lazerbeak. The song is frequently featured in the band's live shows.

Mike Mictlan
Michael Thomas Marquez (born July 8, 1982), better known by his stage name Mike Mictlan ([ˈmikt͡ɬaːn]), is a rapper from Los Angeles, California, who is currently based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

He is a founding member of the indie hip hop collective Doomtree and the hip hop duo The Mercenaries. Mike Mictlan has released four solo albums and is currently signed to Doomtree Records. City Pages listed him as the 10th best Minnesota rapper in 2012.
Ian Chaplin
Ian Chaplin is an Australian jazz saxophonist. Chaplin, Scott Tinkler, Phillip Rex and Scott Lambie won the 1998 ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album with their album The Future In Today. The Ian Chaplin Quartet was nominated for same award in 1997 with Tjapangati.

Chaplin has been a member of Paul Grabowsky's Sextet, the Australian Art Orchestra, Decoy, and was a band member on Tonight Live with Steve Vizard.

Scott Tinkler
Scott Tinkler (born 1965, Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian trumpeter and composer. Tinkler has done a range of projects with the composer and violinist John Rodgers, working in ensembles such as Ellision, Hydromus Krysogast and the Antripodean Collective. Notably, Rodgers composed Glass, a concerto featuring Tinkler as soloist performed with the London Sinfonietta, which premiered at the 2010 Adelaide Festival of Arts.

He plays regularly in Australia in duos, trios and quartets with musicians including Marc Hannaford, Simon Barker, Paul Grabowsky, Erkki Veltheim, Ken Eadie and Carl Dewhurst. Tinkler is also involved in an ongoing solo project that uses extended and prepared techniques; his first solo trumpet album called Backwards was released by Extreme in 2007, followed by the self-released album Goose to Goose in 2021. He is a founding member and previous Associate Artistic Director of the Australian Art Orchestra
Looking Back – The Best of Daryl Hall + John Oates
Looking Back – The Best of Daryl Hall + John Oates is a greatest hits album by American pop rock duo Daryl Hall and John Oates. It was released in 1991. It contains tracks from ten Hall & Oates albums spanning 1973's Abandoned Luncheonette to 1990's Change of Season.

Janna Allen
Janna Allen (May 12, 1957 – August 25, 1993) was an American songwriter. She is best known as a co-writer of some of the biggest hits recorded by Hall & Oates, in collaboration variously with Daryl Hall, John Oates and her sister Sara Allen, who was Hall's longtime girlfriend and the person for whom the duo's hit song "Sara Smile" was written.

Among Janna Allen's most successful co-written songs for Hall & Oates were "Kiss on My List" and "Private Eyes", both of which reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1981. She worked as a receptionist at the time of the two songs' release. She also co-wrote Hall & Oates' top 10 singles "Did It in a Minute" and "Method of Modern Love".

Allen also wrote songs with such artists as Cheap Trick, Peter Wolf and Joan Jett.

Allen died of leukemia at the age of 36 in 1993.
Ward W. Reese
Ward Winter Reese (February 12, 1870 – August 17, 1927) was an American college football coach and reverend of the Episcopal Church. He served as the head football at the Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1895, compiling a record of 3–5–1.

Reese was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and attended Harvard Divinity School. He served as archdeacon of the Episcopal Diocese of Utah and rector of St. Pauls Episcopal Church in Salt Lake City and was later rector of Christ Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Reese died on August 17, 1927, in Bowling Green.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Lancaster is a city in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. With a population of 58,039 at the 2020 census, it is the eighth-most populous city in the state. It is a core city within South Central Pennsylvania, with 552,984 residents in the Lancaster metropolitan area.

Settled in the 1720s, Lancaster is one of the oldest inland cities in the US. It served as the capital of Pennsylvania from 1799 to 1812. The city's primary industries include healthcare, tourism, public administration, manufacturing, and both professional and semi-professional services. Lancaster is located 59 miles (95 km) southwest of Allentown and 61 miles (98 km) west of Philadelphia and is a hub of Pennsylvania Dutch Country.
Martin Stephani
Martin Stephani (born November 2, 1915, in Eisleben; died June 9, 1983, was a German conductor and professor. He served as a music consultant ("Musikreferent") in the SS "Führungshauptamt", conductor of the Waffen-SS Symphony Orchestra, and, after World War II, director of the Northwest German Academy of Music (Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie) in Detmold.

Detmold
Detmold (German pronunciation: [ˈdɛtmɔlt] ⓘ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of 74,229. It was the capital of the small Principality of Lippe from 1468 until 1918 and then of the Free State of Lippe until 1947. Today it is the administrative center of the district of Lippe and of the Regierungsbezirk Detmold. The Church of Lippe has its central administration located in Detmold. The Reformed Redeemer Church is the preaching venue of the state superintendent of the Lippe church.
Wolffe
Wolffe is a surname of English and Jewish (Ashkenazic) origin. Variant of Wolf, Wolff or Wolfe . Notable people with the surname include:

Alan Wolffe (1959–2001), British cell biologist

Jabez Wolffe (1876–1943), British swimmer who attempted to swim the English Channel many times

James Wolffe (born 1962), Scottish lawyer

Richard Wolffe (born 1968), British-American journalist, MSNBC commentator and author

Andrew Wolffe (born1964), Scottish Designer

Richard Wolffe
Richard L. Wolffe (born 17 September 1968) is a British and American journalist, MSNBC commentator, and author of the Barack Obama books Renegade: The Making of a President (Crown, June 2009) and Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House (Crown, November 2010). Richard Wolffe is a US columnist for The Guardian. He was most recently vice-president and executive editor of MSNBC.com.
Watmough
Watmough is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Anthony Watmough, Australian rugby league footballer

Chris Watmough, English cricketer

David Watmough, Canadian playwright, short story writer, and novelist

Dickie Watmough, English footballer and cricketer

John Goddard Watmough, American politician

David Watmough
David Arthur Watmough (August 17, 1926 – August 4, 2017) was a Canadian playwright, short story writer and novelist.

Watmough was born in London, England, and attended King's College London. He has worked as a reporter (the Cornish Guardian, a 'Talks Producer' (BBC Third Programme) and an editor (Ace Books). He immigrated to Canada in 1960, to Kitsilano in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he lived for 40 years with his partner, ex-Californian Floyd St. Clair (1930–2009), an opera critic and, from 1963 till his retirement in 1996, a University of British Columbia French professor. He became a Canadian citizen in 1967.

Watmough lived from 2004 to 2009 in Boundary Bay and before his death had been living at Crofton Manor, a Vancouver assisted-living facility.

In 2008 he published his autobiography, "Myself Through Others: Memoirs".
Frederick Gymer Parsons
Frederick Gymer Parsons FRCS FZS (1863 – 11 March 1943) was a British writer and scientist, specialising in the fields of anatomy and anthropology. He contributed numerous anatomical articles to the 1911 eleventh edition of Encyclopædia Britannica.

Zoological Society of London
The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) is a charity and organization devoted to the worldwide conservation of animals and their habitats. It was founded in 1826. Since 1828, it has maintained London Zoo, and since 1931 Whipsnade Zoo.
2025 Hauraki District Council election
The 2025 Hauraki District Council election was a local election held from 9 September to 11 October in the Hauraki District of New Zealand as part of that year's nation-wide local elections. Voters elected the mayor of Hauraki and 13 district councillors for the 2025–2028 term of the Hauraki District Council. Postal voting and the first-past-the-post voting system were used.

Incumbent mayor Toby Adams won re-election to a third term.

The council introduced a Māori ward for the term following this election. In a referendum on its future held at this election, as part of a nation-wide series of referendums, voters elected to remove the Māori ward.

Hauraki District Council
Hauraki District Council (Māori: Kaunihera o te Rohe o Hauraki) is the territorial authority for the Hauraki District of New Zealand. The council consists of the mayor of Hauraki and 13 ward councillors.
Electoral district of Middle Harbour
Middle Harbour was an electoral district for the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, named after Middle Harbour, Sydney and was originally created in the 1904 re-distribution of electorates following the 1903 New South Wales referendum, which required the number of members of the Legislative Assembly to be reduced from 125 to 90. It consisted of part of the abolished seat of Warringah with the balance of Warringah going to St Leonards. In 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation, it was absorbed into North Shore. It was recreated in 1988, replacing Willoughby, and abolished in 1991, being replaced by Willoughby.

Middle Harbour
Middle Harbour (or Warrin ga), a semi-mature tide dominated drowned valley estuary, is the northern arm of Port Jackson, an inlet of the Tasman Sea located north of Sydney central business district on the coast of New South Wales, Australia.

Middle Harbour has its source in the upper reaches of Garigal National Park where it forms Middle Harbour Creek and flows southeast to become Middle Harbour at Bungaroo and travels for approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) before reaching its mouth at Port Jackson between Grotto Point near Clontarf and Middle Head.

The catchment area of Middle Harbour is approximately 100 square kilometres (39 sq mi).