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Valka district
Valka district (Latvian: Valkas rajons) was an administrative division of Latvia, located in Vidzeme region, in the country's north-east. The district's area was 2441 km2. The population was 31,314 inhabitants in 2008.
The district contained 4 towns and 17 parishes.  The towns are: Valka (6459), Smiltene (5996), Strenči (1474), and  Seda (1692).

Districts were eliminated during the administrative-territorial reform in 2009.

Strenči
Strenči (pronounced [ˈstrentʃi] ⓘ; German: Stackeln) is a town in Valmiera Municipality in the Vidzeme region of Latvia. It is located about 130 km (81 mi) northeast of Riga, about 20 km (12 mi) northeast of Valmiera and about 30 km (19 mi) southwest of Valka.

Strenči is known as the raftsmen capital of Latvia, due to the town's location on the Gauja river and historical role in timber rafting. However it is also widely known in Latvia for its psychiatric hospital, "Strenču psihoneiroloģiskā slimnīca, VSIA" which was built in 1907 on the initiative of the Livonian Knighthood.

Strenči is bordered by the North Vidzeme Biosphere Reserve.
Assyrian folk dance
Assyrian folk dances are sets of dances that are performed throughout the world by Assyrians, mostly on occasions such as weddings, community parties and other jubilant events.

Assyrian folk dances are mainly made up of circle dances like ballet that are performed in a line, which may be straight, curved, or both. Most of the dances allow unlimited number of participants, with the exception of the Sabre Dance, which require three at most. Assyrian dances would vary from weak to strong, depending on the mood and tempo of a song.

Assyrian folk dances belong to five metric groups: 24 (10 dances), 44 (6 dances), 68 (13 dances), 98 (1 dance), 108 (1 dance). The tempo would usually range from slow (70 beats per minute) to very fast (140 beats).

Bridegroom
A bridegroom (often shortened to groom) is a man who is about to be married or who is newlywed.

When marrying, the bridegroom's future spouse is usually referred to as the bride.  A bridegroom is typically attended by a best man and groomsmen.
Torgdragargränd
Torgdragargränd (Swedish: "Market Draughter's Alley") is an alley in Gamla stan, the old town in Stockholm, Sweden. Stretching from the street Västerlånggatan to the square Kornhamnstorg, it forms a parallel street to Tyska Brinken and Funckens Gränd. Prior to 1981, Torgdragargränd was closed with a gate at Kornhamstorg and a low building at the other end. The present name commemorates the people working at the market next to the alley.

Alley
An alley or alleyway is a narrow lane, path, or passageway, often reserved for pedestrians, which usually runs between, behind, or within buildings in towns and cities. It is also a rear access or service road (back lane), or a path, walk, or avenue (French allée) in a park or garden.

A covered alley or passageway, often with shops, may be called an arcade. The origin of the word alley is late Middle English, from Old French: alee "walking or passage", from aller "to go", from Latin: ambulare "to walk".
2013 USL Pro season
The 2013 USL Pro season was the 27th season of third-division soccer in the United States and is the third season of the United Soccer Leagues' (USL) PRO professional competition. The number of teams increased from eleven to thirteen with Phoenix FC and VSI Tampa Bay FC joining the league as expansion franchises.

Rochester Rhinos
The Rochester Rhinos, originally known as the Rochester Raging Rhinos, were an American soccer team based in Rochester, New York, United States. The club won the 1999 U.S. Open Cup, marking the only time a non-MLS team has won the U.S. Open Cup since MLS started play in 1996.

Founded in 1996 as the Rochester Raging Rhinos, they changed their name to Rochester Rhinos to start the 2008 season. The club began a four-year hiatus after the 2017 USL season in the second tier of the United States soccer league system. The team then rebranded as Rochester New York FC and played its first and only season in MLS Next Pro in 2022, but departed before the beginning of the 2023 season.

The club was affiliated with the youth club Empire United Soccer Academy, which rebranded as Rochester New York FC Youth and continues to operate as a separate club. The youth club currently has a team in the United Premier Soccer League.
Hoosiers (film)
Hoosiers (released in some countries as Best Shot) is a 1986 American sports drama film written by Angelo Pizzo and directed by David Anspaugh in his feature directorial debut. It tells the story of a small-town Indiana high school basketball team and its journey to the state championship finals. It is inspired in part by the Milan High School team who won the 1954 state championship against Muncie Central High School.

Gene Hackman stars as Norman Dale, a new coach with a spotty past. The film co-stars Barbara Hershey and Dennis Hopper, whose role as the basketball-loving town drunk earned him an Academy Award nomination. Jerry Goldsmith was also nominated for an Academy Award for his score. In 2001, Hoosiers was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

Muncie Central High School
Muncie Central High School (MCHS) in Muncie, Indiana is a public high school. Opened in 1868, the school is today part of the Muncie Community Schools Corporation.

It is the sole comprehensive high school of its school district, which covers the vast majority of Muncie.
South Bar Lake
South Bar Lake is located near Empire, Michigan. It is approximately 69 acres (28 ha) in size and has a maximum depth of 13 feet (4.0 m). It is used for recreational purposes, and there is a public swimming beach on the west side of the lake in a village park. The lake contains various fish including bluntnose minnow, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, yellow perch, Johnny darter, and Iowa darter.

Etheostoma exile
Etheostoma exile, the Iowa darter, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a darter from the subfamily Etheostomatinae, part of the family Percidae, which also contains the perches, ruffes and pikeperches. It is native to the lakes and streams of Iowa, along with about 17 other species of darters.

In some parts of its range, the Iowa darter is also known as the weed darter, red-sided darter, or yellowbelly. Iowa darters, like many other darters, are about 2–3 in (51–76 mm) in length and may be easily confused with other darters of similar color.
Paseo del Mar
Paseo del Mar is a street in the Palos Verdes Peninsula of Los Angeles, California, specifically stretching from Palos Verdes Estates, through Rancho Palos Verdes, to San Pedro that goes along the Pacific Ocean. The street continues to the west as Palos Verdes Drive and ends in the east just past Gaffey Street near The Sunken City.

In the early 1980s, due to the disrepair of water mains and storm drains by the city and the California Water Service Company, a landslide destabilized the cliffs and destroyed several homes.

By 1984 the area surrounding Paseo del Mar and Palos Verdes Drive was used as the location for the headquarters of The Avengers and later home of Tony Stark (Iron Man) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

In November 2011, part of the street fell into the ocean in a landslide, permanently splitting the road.

The Avengers (comic book)
The Avengers is an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics that features the superhero team Avengers. The series first appeared in The Avengers no. 1 in September 1963, created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby. It was developed as a team title that brought together established Marvel characters. It has since become one of the publisher’s longest-running and most prominent franchises.

The series has been relaunched and renumbered multiple times, reflecting changes in creative direction, continuity and publishing strategy. Its roster has included various characters, including Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, Ant-Man, the Wasp, and Captain America, along with many others added over time. Stories usually focus on large-scale threats which individual heroes cannot face alone, a structure that helped define the team’s role in the larger Marvel Universe.
Emmy Snook
Emmelia Anne Snook (born 4 October 1973) is an Australian former representative rower. In a short six year career at the elite level, Snook was a twelve-time national champion, represented four times at World Rowing Championships and competed in the women's coxless four event at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Australian Institute of Sport
The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is a high performance sports training institution in Australia. The institute's 66-hectare (163-acre) headquarters were opened in 1981 and are situated in the northern suburb of Bruce, Canberra. The AIS is a division of the Australian Sports Commission (ASC).
Jaap Edenbaan
The Jaap Edenbaan (translated: Jaap Eden track) is an ice rink located in the Watergraafsmeer, a neighborhood of eastern Amsterdam. The rink is named after the famous Dutch ice skater Jaap Eden.

It contains a 400-meter lane and Jaap Edenhal. The hall is the home of the Amsterdam Tigers of the BeNe League. There is also a rink for children and beginners beside the course proper, and a climbing wall.

When the Jaap Eden baan opened in December 1961, it was the first artificial 400-meter ice rink in the Netherlands and the third in the world. The ice is created by spraying water on concrete that rests on a framework of some 269 tubes filled with evaporating ammonia. Built on an existing athletic track, it was originally intended to be dismantled every summer, but the process required so much work that it was only done once.

Central European Hockey League
The Central European Hockey League (formerly: BeNe League/Beneliga) is the highest-level professional ice hockey league in Belgium and the Netherlands from 2015. The league was founded in 2015 as BeNe League/Beneliga, following a merger between the Belgian Hockey League and the Dutch Eredivisie and thus became the top tier of the sport in both nations. In terms of league structure, the BeNe League is made up of 11 teams, 6 from the Netherlands and a further 5 from Belgium, and they all play in a single group. The league featured a mix of Belgian, Dutch, European and overseas players. In 2023 two German clubs joined the league.
Hemipenthes
Hemipenthes is a large genus of flies belonging to the family Bombyliidae (bee-flies). There are many described species, distributed throughout the Holarctic realm. These are small to large robust flies with a body length of 5–14 mm. A number of species formerly in this genus were moved to a separate genus, Ins in 2020.

Larvae are hyperparasites of parasitic Hymenoptera.

Carl Robert Osten-Sacken
Carl Robert Osten-Sacken or Carl-Robert Romanovich, Baron von der Osten-Sacken, Baron Osten Sacken (21 August 1828, – 20 May 1906) was a German-Russian diplomat and entomologist. He served as the Russian consul general in New York City during the American Civil War, living in the United States from 1856 to 1877. He worked on the taxonomy of flies in general and particularly of the family Tipulidae (crane flies).
Valerie Fleming
Valerie Fleming (born December 18, 1976) is an American former bobsledder who has competed since 2003. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, she won a silver in the two-woman event with teammate and future wife Shauna Rohbock.

Fleming also won three bronze medals at the FIBT World Championships (Two-woman: 2005, 2007; Mixed team: 2009).

Born in San Francisco, Fleming lives in Park City, Utah.

FIBT World Championships 2007
The FIBT World Championships 2007 took place in St. Moritz, Switzerland for the record twenty-first time, doing so previously in 1931 (Four-man), 1935 (Four-man), 1937 (Four-man), 1938 (Two-man), 1939 (Two-man), 1947, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1965, 1970, 1974, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1989 (Skeleton), 1990 (Bobsleigh), 1997 (Bobsleigh), 1998 (Skeleton), and 2001 (Men's bobsleigh). The mixed team event consisting of one run each of men's skeleton, women's skeleton, 2-man bobsleigh, and 2-women bobsleigh debuted at these championships.
Capablanca Memorial
The Capablanca Memorial is a chess tournament that has been held annually in Cuba since 1962 in honor of José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera. At the time, it was the best paid tournament in the world.  Since 1974 B and C tournaments have been held.

Vasily Smyslov
Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Смысло́в, romanized: Vasíliy Vasíl'yevich Smyslóv; 24 March 1921 – 27 March 2010) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster who was the seventh World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958. He was a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on eight occasions (1948, 1950, 1953, 1956, 1959, 1965, 1983, and 1985). Smyslov twice tied for first place at the USSR Chess Championships (1949, 1955), and his total of 17 Chess Olympiad medals won is an all-time record. In five European Team Championships, Smyslov won ten gold medals.

Smyslov remained active and successful in competitive chess well over the age of sixty. Despite his failing eyesight, he remained active in the occasional composition of chess problems and studies until shortly before his death in 2010. Besides chess, he was an accomplished baritone singer.
Packard 1A-2500
The Packard 1A-2500 is an American V-12 liquid-cooled aircraft engine designed by Packard in 1924 as a successor to the World War I-era Liberty L-12. Five aero variants were produced, of which the 3A-2500 was the most numerous.  Three marine versions, used most prominently in American World War II PT-boats, the 3M-2500, 4M-2500, and 5M-2500, were also derived from it.

Liquid cooling
Liquid cooling refers to cooling by means of the convection or circulation of a liquid.

Examples of liquid cooling technologies include:

Cooling by convection or circulation of coolant, including water cooling

Liquid cooling and ventilation garments, worn by astronauts

Liquid metal cooled reactors

Radiators (engine cooling)

Cooling towers
Balmer (surname)
Balmer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Billy Balmer (1875–1961), English footballer who played for Everton

Bob Balmer (1882–?), English footballer who played for Everton

Charles Balmer (1817–1892), German-born American musician

Earl Balmer (1935–2019), former NASCAR Cup Series driver

Edwin Balmer (1883–1959), American science fiction writer

Jack Balmer (1916–1984), English football player

Jacqueline Balmer or Jacquie de Creed (1957–2011), British stuntwoman

John Balmer (1910–1944), Royal Australian Air Force officer

Johann Jakob Balmer (1825–1898), Swiss mathematician and physicist

Kofi Balmer (born 2000), Northern Irish footballer

Lori Balmer, Australian pop singer

Randall Balmer (born 1954), American author

Robert Balmer (1787–1844), Scottish theologian

Thomas A. Balmer (born 1952), Oregon Chief Justice

Bob Balmer
Robert Balmer (born 1 January 1882) was an English professional footballer who played for Everton between 1903 and 1912. His brother Billy and nephew Jack were also professional footballers.

In the 1903–04 season Balmer scored an own goal, the final goal of an FA Cup game, allowing Tottenham Hotspur to progress to the next round.
Vikas Minar
Vikas Minar (The Tower of Progress) is a 23-storey building in Delhi that houses offices of the Delhi Development Authority. Built in 1976, it was designed by Habib Rahman and was at completion the first building in Delhi to surpass the Qutb Minar in height.

Delhi Development Authority
The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) is a statutory body established under the Delhi Development Act, 1957, under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India to "promote and secure the development of Delhi". It is tasked with large-scale land acquisition for affordable housing in Delhi, as well as planning, development and construction of residential projects and commercial lands. Its responsibilities included providing public facilities like roads, bridges, drains, underground water reservoirs, community centres, sports centres, and green belts  within the National Capital Territory of Delhi, India.
Mir Sheref
Mir Sheref, also Mir Şeref, was a Kurdish prince of the regions of Jizra in the 16th-17th century. He was recorded circa 1602–1603 in a travelogue of the peregrinations of the Ottoman official Hadim Yusuf Pasha.

Mir Sheref's daughter is reported to have married Nasuh Pasha, an Ottoman statesman of Albanian origin. This apparently brought Nasuh Pasha great wealth and power, and this alliance supported his involvement in an expedition in Persia in 1606.

Nasuh Pasha
Nasuh Pasha was an Ottoman statesman of Albanian origin. He was grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 5 August 1611 until 17 October 1614. He was from Gümülcine (modern Komotini) and was a damat to the Ottoman dynasty, as he married an Ottoman princess. He was executed for corruption by Ahmed I in 1614.
Emilia Pisani Belserene
Emilia Pauline Pisani (Lee) Belserene (December 12, 1922 – December 11, 2012) was an American astronomer specializing in the observation of variable stars and recognized as an expert on RR Lyrae variable stars. She became known for her work as the director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory in Nantucket and for her biographical writings on Maria Mitchell.

RR Lyrae variable
RR Lyrae variables are periodic variable stars, commonly found in globular clusters and other old stellar populations in galaxies. They are used as standard candles to measure (extra) galactic distances, assisting with the cosmic distance ladder. This class is named after the prototype and brightest example, RR Lyrae.

They are pulsating horizontal branch stars of spectral class A or F, with a mass of around half the Sun's. They are thought to have shed mass during the red-giant branch phase, and were once stars at around 0.8 solar masses.

In contemporary astronomy, a period-luminosity relation makes them good standard candles for relatively nearby targets, especially within the Milky Way and Local Group. They are also frequent subjects in the studies of globular clusters and the chemistry (and quantum mechanics) of older stars.
The Wrong Boy
The Wrong Boy, published in 2000, is playwright Willy Russell’s first novel.

Russell is mainly known for his plays Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine which have both been made into films, and Blood Brothers, a musical.

The Wrong Boy, like Educating Rita & Our Day Out, is about education; this time about a teenage boy who falls foul of the British educational system, and how he eventually ‘makes good’.

Shirley Valentine
Shirley Valentine is a one-character play by Willy Russell. Taking the form of a monologue by a middle-aged, working class Liverpool housewife, it focuses on her life before and after a transforming holiday abroad.
Rob Chiarelli
Rob Chiarelli (born January 13, 1963) is an American record producer, mix engineer, musician, published author and multiple Grammy Award winner. Widely recognized as a music producer for Will Smith and Men in Black II (2002), Chiarelli's work appears on numerous gold and platinum albums and motion picture soundtracks, including twenty Grammy winners.

Charlie Wilson (singer)
Charles Kent Wilson (born January 29, 1953), also known as Uncle Charlie, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer who served as lead vocalist for the Gap Band from its 1967 formation until its 2010 disbandment. As a solo act, Wilson has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards and 11 NAACP Image Awards (including two wins), received a 2009 Soul Train Icon Award, and was a recipient of a BMI Icon Award in 2005. In 2009 and 2020, he was named Billboard magazine's No. 1 Adult R&B Artist, and his song "There Goes My Baby" was named the No. 1 Urban Adult Song for 2009 in Billboard.

On June 30, 2013, BET honored Wilson with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Wilson is the national spokesman of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, where there is a Creativity Award in his name. The organization donates hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to cancer research across the United States.
Metropolitan Water Board Railway
The Metropolitan Water Board Railway was a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge industrial railway built to serve the Metropolitan Water Board's pumping station at Kempton Park near London. The line was opened in 1916 to deliver coal to the pumping engines and closed shortly after the Second World War.  A short part is operating once again to give rides to the public, under a new name, the Kempton Steam Railway

Metropolitan Water Board
The Metropolitan Water Board was a municipal body formed in 1903 to manage the water supply in London, UK. The members of the board were nominated by the local authorities within its area of supply. In 1904 it took over the water supply functions from the eight private water companies which had previously supplied water to residents of London. The board oversaw a significant expansion of London's water supply infrastructure, building several new reservoirs and water treatment works.

The Metropolitan Water Board was abolished in 1974 when control was transferred to the Thames Water Authority, which was subsequently re-privatised as Thames Water.
Northwest Territories general election, 1905
In late 1905, two general elections were held in what was the Northwest Territories up to 1 September 1905.

The Alberta general election on 9 November, and

the Saskatchewan general election on 13 December.

1905 Saskatchewan general election
The 1905 Saskatchewan general election was the first provincial election in the newly created Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It was held on 13 December 1905 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.  Walter Scott led the Liberal Party of Saskatchewan to victory over the Provincial Rights Party of Frederick W. A. G. Haultain, and became the first Premier of the new province.
Shiranuka, Hokkaido
Shiranuka (白糠町, Shiranuka-chō)  is a town located in Kushiro Subprefecture, Hokkaidō, Japan.  As of 31 October 2025, the town had an estimated population of 6,874 in 3900 households, and a population density of 10.9 people per km2. The total area of the town is 773.13 km2 (298.51 sq mi).

Nemuro Main Line
Nemuro Main Line (根室本線, Nemuro Honsen) is a railway line in Hokkaido. Following the closure of the Furano-Shintoku section on 1 April 2024 the line is operated by Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido) in two sections, being Takikawa to Furano and Shintoku to Nemuro (including Obihiro and Kushiro). Nemuro is the most easterly situated station on the Japanese rail system.
Moirangthem
Moirangthem is a Meitei ethnic family name (surname). People with this family name include:

Moirangthem Kirti Singh, Indian scholar

Moirangthem Inao, Indian playwright

Moirangthem Maniram Singha, Indian filmmaker

Moirangthem Nara, Indian politician

Moirangthem Mandakini Devi, Indian footballer

Moirangthem Gouramangi Singh, Indian footballer

Moirangthem Govin Singh, Indian footballer

Moirangthem Loken Meitei, Indian footballer

Moirangthem Jayananda Singh, Indian footballer

Moirangthem Meghachandra, Indian politician

Moirangthem Thoiba Singh, Indian footballer

Meitei people
The Meitei people, also known as Meetei people, are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group native to the Indian State of  Manipur. They form the largest and dominant ethnic group of Manipur in Northeast India. They speak the Meitei language (officially called Manipuri), one of the 22 official languages of the Republic of India and the sole official language of government of Manipur.
The Meiteis primarily settled in the Imphal Valley region in modern-day Manipur, though a sizeable population has settled in the other Indian states of Assam, Tripura, Nagaland, Meghalaya, and Mizoram. There is also a notable presence of Meiteis in the neighbouring countries of Myanmar and Bangladesh. The Meiteis represent about 53% of Manipur's population.