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Alfred Burke Thompson
Alfred Burke Thompson (July 18, 1862 – August 2, 1942) was a barrister and political figure in Ontario, Canada. He represented Simcoe Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1898 to 1902 and from 1905 to 1919 and Simcoe East in the House of Commons of Canada from 1925 to 1935 as a Conservative member.

He was born in Penetanguishene, Canada West, the son of town mayor Alfred Andrew Thompson and the grandson of William Thompson. He was educated at Upper Canada College and Toronto University. Thompson served with the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada during the North-West Rebellion of 1885. In 1889, he married Kate W. May; he married Alberta Marie MacFayden in 1914 after his first wife's death.

Simcoe Centre (provincial electoral district)
Simcoe Centre was an electoral riding in Ontario, Canada. It was created in 1886 from parts of Simcoe South and Simcoe North It was abolished in 1996 before the 1999 election and merged into the riding of Barrie—Simcoe—Bradford.
Uzlovoy
Uzlovoy (Russian: Узловой; masculine), Uzlovaya (Узловая; feminine), or Uzlovoye (Узловое; neuter) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.

Urban localities

Uzlovaya, a town in Uzlovsky District of Tula Oblast; administratively incorporated as a town under district jurisdiction

Rural localities

Uzlovoy, Krasnodar Krai, a settlement in Bagovsky Rural Okrug of Mostovsky District of Krasnodar Krai

Uzlovoy, Orenburg Oblast, a settlement in Karavanny Selsoviet of Orenburgsky District of Orenburg Oblast

Uzlovoye, Guryevsky District, a settlement in Khrabrovsky Rural Okrug of Guryevsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast

Uzlovoye, Krasnoznamensky District, a settlement in Vesnovsky Rural Okrug of Krasnoznamensky District of Kaliningrad Oblast

Tula Oblast
Tula Oblast (Russian: Ту́льская о́бласть, romanized: Tulʹskaya oblastʹ) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia. It is geographically located in European Russia and is administratively part of the Central Federal District, covering an area of 25,700 square kilometers (9,900 sq mi). It has a population of 1,553,925 (2010 census). Tula is the largest city and the administrative center of the oblast.

Tula Oblast borders Moscow Oblast in the north, Ryazan in the east, Lipetsk in the southeast, Oryol in the southwest, and Kaluga in the west. Tula Oblast is one of the most developed and urbanized territories in Russia, and the majority of the territory forms the Tula-Novomoskovsk Agglomeration, an urban area with a population of over 1 million.
Monsen
Monsen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Arild Monsen (born 1962), Norwegian cross-country skier.

Fredrik Monsen (1878–1954), Norwegian politician.

Gabriel Monsen (1798–1882), Norwegian politician.

Georg Monsen (1922–2015), Norwegian football player.

Lars Monsen (born 1963), Norwegian journalist.

Lloyd Monsen (1931–2026), American soccer and baseball player.

Magdalon Monsen (1910–1953), Norwegian football player.

Marie Monsen (1878–1962), Norwegian Christian missionary.

Mogens Larsen Monsen (1727–1802), Norwegian timber trader.

Nina Karin Monsen (born 1943), Norwegian philosopher.

Ole Monsen Mjelde (1865–1942), Norwegian politician.

Otto Monsen (1887–1979), Norwegian track and field athlete.

Per Monsen (1913–1985), Norwegian editor.

Per Erik Monsen (1946–2008), Norwegian politician.

Randi Monsen (1910–1997), Norwegian illustrator.

Rolf Monsen (1899–1987), American Olympic skier.

Nina Karin Monsen
Nina Karin Monsen (born 29 May 1943) is a Norwegian moral philosopher and author. She has written several books, both non-fiction and fiction, and has been active in Norwegian public debate since the early 1970s.
Kingston Rhodes
Kingston Rhodes (born 25 October 1942) served as the Chairman of the United Nations International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) until 14 December 2018. Rhodes resigned after an inquiry by the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) into accusations of sexual harassment.

International Civil Service Commission
The International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) is a subsidiary body of the United Nations General Assembly, established pursuant to General Assembly Resolution 3357 (XXIX) of 18 December 1974. According to its statute, the ICSC is charged with the regulation and coordination of the conditions of service for the United Nations common system staff.

The ICSC, which has its headquarters in New York City, is composed of fifteen members, appointed by the General Assembly for four-year terms. The fifteen members include the chairman and the vice-chairman as full-time members.

The current Chairman is Larbi Djacta of Algeria and the current Vice-Chairman is Boguslaw Winid of Poland.
Sigmund Steinnes
Sigmund Steinnes (19 January 1959 – 15 November 2018) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

In the 2013 elections he was elected as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Troms. He met during 90 days of parliamentary session. In the 2011 elections he was elected as the mayor of Storfjord Municipality. He died of cancer on 15 November 2018, aged 59.

2011 Norwegian local elections
Nationwide local elections for seats in municipality and county councils were held throughout Norway on 12 September 2011. Several municipalities also opened the polling booths on 11 September. For polling stations this meant that two elections, the municipal elections and the county elections ran concurrently. In addition, an advisory referendum was held in Aust-Agder to determine whether to merge the county with Vest-Agder.

Overall, the Conservative Party made the greatest gains, and the Labour Party also advanced and remained the largest party. On the other hand, the Progress Party and the Socialist Left Party suffered severe setbacks.

Term of office was 1 January 2012 until 31 December 2015.
Gustav Paganetti-Hummler
Gustav Paganetti-Hummler (20 December 1871 – January 1949, Bad Vöslau) was an Austrian naturalist and entomologist.

Gustav Paganetti-Hummler was a bookseller mainly of natural history works and natural history specimen dealer. He had a large insect collection mainly of specimens from South Europe. As well as other works, he wrote an account of the Hemiptera of the Greek island Corfu (Beitrag zur Hemipterenfauna zu Corfu. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Insektenbiologie 1907:92-95.
His collection is in the Vienna Natural History Museum (parts in the German Entomological Institute) It is important since it contains insects from South of Vienna wetland habitats near Bad Vöslau which no longer exist.

Bookselling
Bookselling is the commercial trading of books, which is the retail and distribution end of the publishing process.

People who engage in bookselling are called booksellers, bookdealers, book people, bookmen, or bookwomen.
Bukit Mertajam
Bukit Mertajam is a suburb of Seberang Perai in the Malaysian state of Penang. It also serves as the seat of the Central Seberang Perai District. As of 2020, Bukit Mertajam had a population of 19,433.

Whilst founded in the 19th century as an agricultural area, Bukit Mertajam also evolved into a transportation hub, following the completion of a railway line towards Perai at the end of the century. To this day, its railway station remains a major Malayan Railway station within Seberang Perai.

Bukit Mertajam is also well known for its Catholic congregation, which is centred at the St. Anne's Church. The church is one of the focal locations within Southeast Asia for the annual Novena celebrations.

It is the birthplace of the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim.

Keretapi Tanah Melayu
Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) (lit. 'Malayan Railway Limited'; Jawi: كريتاڤي تانه ملايو برحد‎) or colloquially referred to simply as KTM, is the main railway operator in Peninsular Malaysia. The railway system dates back to the British colonial era, when it was first built to transport tin. Previously known as the Federated Malay States Railways (FMSR), the Malayan Railway Administration (MRA), and the Malayan Railway, KTM acquired its current name in 1962. The organisation was corporatised in 1992, but remains wholly owned by the Malaysian government.
Pamulaparthy
Pamulparthy or also known as Pamulaparthi is a village in Medak District of Telangana, India. It is situated 85km away from district headquarter Sangareddy. Pathur is the gram panchayat of Pamulaparthi village.

Former Chief Minister of Telangana, K Chandrasekhar Rao sanctioned "five crores for taking up various works like drainage system in the village, CC roads for the village, bus stand, a community hall, and land for the poor for construction of houses."

Sangareddy
Sangareddy, formerly Sangareddipet is a city and district headquarters of the Sangareddy district in the Indian state of Telangana. It was named on Rani Shankaramma's father name Sangareddy, Shankaramma was a ruler of Andole dynasty during the Nizam era.Sangareddy district is located in western part of Telangana state. Sengareddy is the largest city in the Sangareddy district and the sixth largest city in the state.
Arrondissement of Carcassonne
The arrondissement of Carcassonne is an arrondissement of France in the Aude department in the Occitanie région. Its INSEE code is 111 and its capital city is Carcassonne. It has 186 communes. Its population is 163,034 (2021), and its area is 2,309.7 km2 (891.8 sq mi).

It is the northernmost of the arrondissements of the department. The main cities in the arrondissement are Carcassonne (47,068 inhabitants in 2012), Castelnaudary (11,748 inhabitants) and Trèbes (5,280 inhabitants).

Castelnaudary
Castelnaudary (French: [kastɛlnodɑʁi] ⓘ; Occitan: Castèlnòu d'Arri) is a commune in the Aude department in the Occitanie region of southern France. It is located in the former province of the Lauragais and famous for cassoulet of which it claims to be the world capital, and of which it is a major producer.
Mazikeen
Mazikeen is a character who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. She is one of the Lilim, a child of Lilith. She first appeared in The Sandman (vol. 2) #22 (December 1990), and was created by Neil Gaiman and Kelley Jones. Her name comes from the term "Mazzikin", invisible demons which can create minor annoyances or greater dangers according to Jewish mythology.

Mazikeen appeared in the television series Lucifer (2016-2021), portrayed by Lesley-Ann Brandt, and in the drama series The Sandman (2022), portrayed by Cassie Clare.

Jewish mythology
Jewish mythology is the body of myths associated with Judaism. Elements of Jewish mythology have had a profound influence on Christian mythology and on Islamic mythology, as well as on Abrahamic culture in general. Christian mythology directly inherited many of the narratives from the Jewish people, sharing in common the narratives from the Old Testament. Islamic mythology also shares many of the same stories; for instance, a creation-account spaced out over six periods, the legend of Abraham, the stories of Moses and the Israelites, and many more.
Gonda, Republic of Buryatia
Gonda (Russian: Гонда) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative centre of Ulkhaaskoye Rural Settlement, Yeravninsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 507 as of 2017. There are 9 streets.

Buryatia
Buryatia, officially the Republic of Buryatia, is a republic of Russia located in the Russian Far East. Formerly part of the Siberian Federal District, it has been administered as part of the Far Eastern Federal District since 2018. To its north lie Irkutsk Oblast and Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world; Zabaykalsky Krai to the east; Tuva to the west and Mongolia to the south. Its capital is the city of Ulan-Ude. It has an area of 351,300 square kilometers (135,600 sq mi) with a population of 978,588 (2021 Census). It is home to the indigenous Buryats.
Vladimir Makhnutin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Makhnutin (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Махнутин; born 28 October 1987 in Chusovoy, Perm Krai), or Vladimir Machnutin, is a Russian luger who has competed since 1997. His best Luge World Cup finish was 15th in men's doubles in 2007–08.

Makhnutin's best finish at the FIL World Luge Championships was 16th in the men's doubles event twice (2007, 2008). He also finished 12th in the men's doubles event at the 2008 FIL European Luge Championships in Cesana.

Makhutin also qualified for the 2010 Winter Olympics where he finished tenth.

Chusovoy
Chusovoy (Russian: Чусово́й; Komi Permyak: Чусва, Čusva) is a town in Perm Krai, Russia, located at the confluence of the Usva and Vilva Rivers with the Chusovaya River, 140 kilometers (87 mi) east of Perm, the administrative center of the krai. Population:  46,735 (2010 Census); 51,615 (2002 Census); 57,874 (1989 Soviet census).
Fosse/Verdon
Fosse/Verdon is a 2019 American biographical drama miniseries, developed by Steven Levenson and Thomas Kail. Based on the biography Fosse by Sam Wasson, the series charts the troubled marriage and professional relationship of director/choreographer Bob Fosse and actress/dancer Gwen Verdon, played by Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams respectively. Norbert Leo Butz and Margaret Qualley are also featured as Paddy Chayefsky and Ann Reinking, respectively.

Fosse/Verdon premiered on FX on April 9, 2019, with its eighth and final episode airing on May 28. At the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards, Fosse/Verdon earned 17 nominations, including Outstanding Limited Series, with Williams winning Outstanding Lead Actress. Williams also won Best Actress at the 77th Golden Globe Awards and the 26th Screen Actors Guild Awards, where Rockwell won Best Actor.

26th Screen Actors Guild Awards
The 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2019, were presented on January 19, 2020 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was broadcast live on both TNT and TBS 8:00 p.m. EST / 5:00 p.m. PST. The nominees were announced on December 11, 2019.

Robert De Niro was announced as the 2019 SAG Life Achievement Award recipient on November 12, 2019.

Parasite made history by becoming the first foreign-language film to win Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
2012 WNBA season
The 2012 WNBA season was the 16th season of the Women's National Basketball Association. The regular season began on May 18 and concluded on September 23 and playoffs started on September 27 and concluded on October 21.

WNBA All-Star Game
The Women's National Basketball Association All-Star Game, commonly referred to as the  WNBA All-Star Game, is the annual all-star game hosted each July by the Women's National Basketball Association, showcasing the league's top players. It is the feature event of the WNBA All-Star Weekend, a three-day event which goes from Friday to Sunday in a selected WNBA city. The WNBA All-Star Game was first played at Madison Square Garden on July 14, 1999.
Ethel Duffy Turner
Ethel Evelyn Duffy Turner (1885 San Pablo – 1969 Cuernavaca) was an American journalist and writer. She was a witness to the events of the Mexican Revolution. She is known for her book Ricardo Flores Magón and the Mexican Liberal Party.

San Pablo, California
San Pablo (Spanish for "Saint Paul") is an enclave city in Contra Costa County, California, United States. The population was 32,127 at the 2020 census.  Currently, the city council consists of Mayor Elizabeth Pabon-Alvarado, Vice Mayor Rita Xavier, Abel Pineda, Patricia Ponce, and Arturo Cruz. Dorothy Gantt is the city Clerk. Viviana Toledo is the city treasurer.
Blyth's river frog
Blyth's river frog  (Limnonectes blythii), also known as Blyth's frog, giant Asian river frog or (ambiguously) giant frog, is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae found from Myanmar through western Thailand and the Malay Peninsula (Malaysia, Singapore) to Sumatra and Borneo (Indonesia). Earlier records from Laos and Vietnam are considered misidentifications.

Dicroglossidae
The frog family Dicroglossidae occurs in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia and Africa, with most genera and species being found in Asia. The common name of the family is fork-tongued frogs.

The Dicroglossidae were previously considered to be a subfamily in the family Ranidae, but their position as a family is now well established.
Samuel Allen Carson
Samuel Allen Carson (June 3, 1870 – February 27, 1949) was a politician from Alberta, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1921 to 1935 as a member of the United Farmers of Alberta.

United Farmers of Alberta
The United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) is an association of Alberta farmers that has served different roles in its 100-year history – as a lobby group, a successful political party, and as a farm-supply retail chain. As a political party, it formed the government of Alberta from 1921 to 1935.

Since 1935, it has primarily been an agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. As of 2019, UFA operates 34 farm and ranch supply stores in Alberta and over 110 fuel stations in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Tour de Snowy
The Tour de Snowy was an international women's road bicycle race held in the Snowy Mountains region of New South Wales, Australia from 1998 to 2002. The Tour had from five to nine stages and attracted professional cyclists from around the world as an important event in the women's road racing calendar.

Originally sponsored by the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority and the NSW Department of Sport & Recreation, the Tour De Snowy was discontinued in 2003 due to lack of sponsorship.

Race stage
A race stage, leg, or heat is a unit of a race that has been divided in several parts for the reason such as length of the distance to be covered, as in a multi-day event. Usually, such a race consists of "ordinary" stages, but sometimes stages are held as an individual time trial or a team time trial. Long races such as the Tour de France, Absa Cape Epic or the Giro d'Italia are known for their stages of one day each, whereas the boat sailing Velux 5 Oceans Race is broken down in usually four stages of several weeks duration each, where the competitors are racing continuously day and night. In bicycling and running events, a race with stages is known as a stage race. Other examples include ultramarathons and adventure racing.
Waterfort
Waterfort is a fort in Willemstad, Curaçao located on the eastern side of the Sint Anna Bay. It was built in 1827 to protect Willemstad against attack. In 1858, marines were stationed in the fort. During World War II, the fort was put into operation again. In 1955, the marines were moved to Marinebasis Parera, and Plaza Hotel Curaçao, a luxury hotel, was built in the fort.

Sint Anna Bay
Sint Anna Bay (Dutch: Sint Annabaai) is a deep channel approximately one mile long and up to 1,000 feet wide, located on the island of Curaçao between the two parts of Willemstad, Punda and Otrobanda.

The bay opens into the Caribbean Sea at the southern end, and into the Schottegat lagoon/industrial area to the north.
Electoral district of South-West Coast
The electoral district of South-West Coast is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It was created prior to the 2002 election in order to replace the abolished seats of Portland and Warrnambool.

The seat is dominated by the town of Warrnambool, but also includes Portland, Port Fairy, Koroit, Heywood and Macarthur.

South-West Coast is located in ancestrally Liberal territory, and was thus a natural choice for Portland's former member, Denis Napthine, to transfer for the 2002 election.  He barely held onto his seat in the Labor landslide of that year, seeing his margin reduced to only 0.7 percent.  However, it has reverted to its previous form as a safe Liberal seat. Napthine subsequently served as Premier of Victoria from 2013 to 2014. Following his government's election loss to Labor in November 2014, Napthine resigned from parliament on 3 September 2015. Roma Britnell retained the seat for the Liberals at the ensuing by-election on 31 October.

Koroit
Koroit /kəˈrɔɪt/ is a small rural town in western Victoria, Australia a few kilometres north of the Princes Highway, 18 kilometres (11 mi) north-west of Warrnambool and 272 kilometres (169 mi) west of Melbourne.  It is in the Shire of Moyne local government area located amidst rolling green pastures on the north rim of Tower Hill. At the 2021 census, Koroit had a population of 2,184. The town borrows its name from the Koroitch Gundidj people who occupied the area prior to European colonisation.
1940 Stanford Indians football team
The 1940 Stanford Indians football team, nicknamed the "Wow Boys", represented Stanford University as a member of the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) during the 1940 college football season. First-year head coach Clark Shaughnessy inherited a team that finished with a 1–7–1 record the previous season. He installed his own version of the T formation, a system that had largely fallen into disuse since the 1890s and was viewed as obsolete. The Indians shocked observers when they won all ten of their games including the Rose Bowl, which prompted several selectors to declare them the 1940 national champions. Stanford's dramatic reversal of fortunes prompted football programs across the nation to abandon the single-wing formation in favor of the newly reminted T formation.

1940 Santa Clara Broncos football team
The 1940 Santa Clara Broncos football team represented Santa Clara University as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach Buck Shaw, the team compiled a 6–1–1 record, outscored opponents by a total of 155 to 46, and was ranked No. 11 in the final AP poll.
Kumrat Valley
Kumrat (Gawri and Urdu: کُمراٹ) is an alpine valley in the Dir Kohistan tehsil of the Upper Dir District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. There is around 45 minutes drive to Kumrat Valley from the town of Thal on the banks of the Panjkora River. The valley is mainly populated by the Gawri people.

It is among the most popular tourist spots in the Malakand Division. Every summer season, thousands of tourists from different areas of Pakistan and abroad visit Kumrat Valley for its greenery and cool weather. Around Eid al-Fitr holidays, around 2,000 vehicles enter the region on a daily basis. It can only be accessed via four-wheel vehicles, as the road leading to it is unmetalled.

Malakand Division
Malakand Division is an administrative division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Malakand is the second-largest division by population while Mingora, its capital, is the third largest city in the province. CNIC code of Malakand Division is 15.
Pursuit of Equality
Pursuit of Equality is a 2005 American documentary film directed by Geoff Callan and Mike Shaw, about the struggle of same-sex couples for marriage equality in the United States. Its focus is mostly on the same-sex marriages performed in San Francisco from February 12 to March 11, 2004.

A major fundraising event for Equality California was also inspired by, and named after, the film. Callan, along with San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom and philanthropists Christopher Bently and Wilkes Bashford, hosted a wedding celebration titled The Pursuit of Equality in order to increase public awareness of this issue before the November 4th vote on California Proposition 8.

Wilkes Bashford
Wilkes Bashford was a clothing retailer headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. In November 2009, it was acquired by Mitchells Stores.

The flagship store was opened in 1966 by its namesake Wilkes Bashford. It is favored by some prominent individuals such as former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. The original store is in the Union Square Shopping District in San Francisco, California. Later the company expanded to Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, California.

It sold brands such as: Brioni, Brunello Cucinelli, Ermenegildo Zegna, Loro Piana, Kiton, Missoni, Pucci, Oxxford Clothes, Oscar de la Renta, Valentino, and more. The store has a shoe department featuring Manolo Blahnik, Christian Louboutin, Bontoni, John Lobb, and Gravati.

The store's namesake Wilkes Bashford died of prostate cancer on January 16, 2016, at the age of 82.