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Railway Clearing House
The Railway Clearing House (RCH) was an organisation set up to manage the allocation of revenue collected by pre-grouping railway companies for the conveyance of passengers and goods over the lines (or using the rolling stock) of other companies. It went on to become the major regulatory body overseeing the day-to-day running of railways in Great Britain and setting common standards for railway companies, which ensured their safety and interoperability. The RCH also produced fare structures governing many aspects of rail transport at a national level and set limits on price increases for passenger travel.

Grand Junction Railway
The Grand Junction Railway (GJR) was an early railway company in the United Kingdom, which existed between 1833 and 1846. The line built by the company, which opened in 1837, linked the Liverpool and Manchester Railway to Birmingham via Warrington, Crewe, Stafford and Wolverhampton. This was the first trunk railway to be completed in England, and arguably the world's first long-distance railway with steam traction. It terminated at Curzon Street Station in Birmingham, which it shared with the London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR), whose adjacent platforms gave an interchange with full connectivity (with through carriages) between Liverpool, Manchester and London.

The company merged with its business partners in 1846 to form the London and North Western Railway (LNWR). The lines which comprised the GJR now form the central section of the West Coast Main Line.
Martin Evans (model engineer)
Martin Evans (1916 – 29 December 2003) was influential in the field of model engineering and locomotive design, and also worked as the technical editor and eventually managing editor of the English magazine Model Engineer. His editorship, along with other changes in staff, helped keep the magazine on track after experiencing some decline following the death of locomotive designer Curly Lawrence. Evans inaugurated the International Model Locomotive Efficiency Competition (IMLEC) in 1969. An erudite editor, Evans worked with a pool of other knowledgeable contributors during a time considered to be the height of British toolroom engineering. Evans retired from the magazine in June 1977, continuing his concentration on locomotive design. He died December 29, 2003.

2-8-0
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2-8-0 represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, usually in a leading truck, eight powered and coupled driving wheels on four axles, and no trailing wheels. In the United States and elsewhere, this wheel arrangement is commonly known as a Consolidation, after the Lehigh and Mahanoy Railroad’s Consolidation, the name of the first 2-8-0.

The notation 2-8-0T indicates a tank locomotive of this wheel arrangement, the "T" suffix indicating a locomotive on which the water is carried in side-tanks mounted on the engine rather than in an attached tender.

The Consolidation represented a notable advance in locomotive power. After 1875, it became "the most popular type of freight locomotive in the United States and was built in greater quantities than any other single wheel arrangement."
Parow, Germany
Parow is a village a few miles north of Stralsund in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is part of the municipality Kramerhof. First traces of settlements can be traced back to the Stone Age, based on findings of arrow heads, wedges and fireplaces. The German Navy's Engineering School (Marinetechnikschule) is at Parow. It moved from Kiel in 2002. The Minentaucher train there.

Minentaucher
Minentaucher is the German term for mine clearance divers. The Minentaucherkompanie is a specialist unit within the German Navy responsible for underwater and Land tasks including removing or salvaging underwater munitions such as mines and for servicing underwater drones. It is part of the Sea Battalion and is based in Eckernförde.
Cock Sparrer
Cock Sparrer (/ˈkɒk spɑːrə/) is an English punk rock band formed in 1972 in the East End of London. Although they have never enjoyed commercial success, they helped pave the way for the early '80s punk scene and the Oi! subgenre. Their songs have been covered by many punk, Oi!, and hardcore punk bands.

Their style is influenced by pub rock, glam rock and raw 1960s beat music as delivered by bands like the Small Faces and The Who. Their lyrics mostly deal with topics related to the daily lives of working class people. Their name derives from their original name, Cock Sparrow, a Cockney term of familiarity.

Cockney
Cockney is a dialect of the English language mainly spoken in London, particularly by Londoners from working-class and lower-middle-class families. The term Cockney is also used as a demonym for a person from the East End, or, traditionally, born within earshot of Bow Bells.

Estuary English is an intermediate accent between Cockney and Received Pronunciation, also widely spoken in and around London, as well as in wider South East England. In multicultural areas of London, the Cockney dialect is, to an extent, being replaced by Multicultural London English—a new form of speech with significant Cockney influence.
Words on Bathroom Walls (soundtrack)
Words on Bathroom Walls (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack accompanying the 2020 film Words on Bathroom Walls, directed by Thor Freudenthal and based on the novel of the same name by Julia Walton, starring Charlie Plummer, Andy García, Taylor Russell and AnnaSophia Robb. The album consisted of an original score and songs composed by the Chainsmokers and Andrew Hollander and released through Disruptor Records and Columbia Records on August 21, 2020 alongside the film.

AnnaSophia Robb
AnnaSophia Robb (born December 8, 1993) is an American actress, model, and singer. She began her career as a child actress making her feature film debut in Because of Winn-Dixie (2005). Robb then starred in a string of successful films playing notable roles such as Violet Beauregarde in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Leslie Burke in Bridge to Terabithia (2007), Sara in Race to Witch Mountain (2009), and surfer Bethany Hamilton in Soul Surfer (2011). She has also acted in Jumper (2008), The Way, Way Back (2013), and Rebel Ridge (2024).

On television, Robb took the lead role of Carrie Bradshaw on The CW's series The Carrie Diaries (2013–2014). She portrayed Samantha Parkington in the television movie Samantha: An American Girl Holiday (2004). Robb has acted in the PBS period series Mercy Street (2016–2017), the Hulu limited series The Act (2019), Hulu miniseries Little Fires Everywhere (2020), and the Peacock drama series Dr. Death (2021).
Danse avec les stars season 14
The fourteenth season of Danse avec les stars (the French version of Strictly Come Dancing) premiered in February 2025 on TF1, hosted by Camille Combal.

Things To Know
Florent Manaudou already appears on the show in season 8 for cheering Camille Lacourt and sharing a few steps with Candice Pascal during a game

Jean-Marc Généreux
Jean-Marc Généreux (/ʒɑ̃-maʁk ʒeneʁø/; born December 25, 1962) is a Canadian ballroom dance champion, choreographer and television personality from Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. He is most prominently known for his roles as judge and choreographer on the American and Canadian versions of So You Think You Can Dance, the French version of the hit television series Dancing with the Stars, and TVA’s hit dance competition series Révolution.
Ferdinand Renier
Ferdinand Renier (born 6 December 1906) was a Belgian weightlifter. He competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in the featherweight category (under 60 kg) and finished in 12th place, among 21 competitors.

Weightlifting at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's 60 kg
The men's featherweight event was part of the weightlifting programme at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. The weight class was the lightest contested, and allowed weightlifters of up to 60 kilograms (132 pounds). The competition was held on 21 July 1924.
Leah Ward Sears
Leah Ward Sears (née Leah Jeanette Sears; born June 13, 1955) is an American jurist and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.  Sears was the first African-American female chief justice of a state supreme court in the United States. When she was first appointed as justice in 1992 by Governor Zell Miller, she became the first woman and youngest person to sit on Georgia's Supreme Court.

Georgia Historical Society
The Georgia Historical Society (GHS), formerly the Georgia Historical Commission, is a statewide historical society in Georgia, United States. Headquartered in Savannah, Georgia, GHS is one of the oldest historical organizations in the United States. Since 1839, the society has collected, examined, and taught Georgia history through a variety of educational outreach programs, publications, and research services.
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is an Australian drama miniseries created by Sarah Lambert and based on the novel by Holly Ringland. All seven episodes were directed by Glendyn Ivin, and were released by Amazon Studios from 4 August to 1 September 2023.

The series received positive reviews for its direction and performances, in particular Weaver's. It received 12 nominations at the 13th AACTA Awards, including Best Miniseries, Best Lead Actress in Drama for Weaver, and Best Supporting Actress in Drama for Debnam-Carey and Leah Purcell.

AACTA Award for Best Miniseries or Telefeature
The AACTA Award for Best Miniseries or Telefeature, also known as AACTA Award for Best Telefeature or Mini Series, is an award that has been handed out to producers annually since 1986 by the Australian Film Institute (AFI), since 2011 the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA).
Mwata Bowden
Mwata Bowden (born October 11, 1947 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States) is an American jazz reeds player associated with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and an instructor in improvisational Jazz at the University of Chicago.  He is part of a group known as 8 Bold Souls but also frequently engages in collaborations with Tatsu Aoki, and helped establish the Miyumi Project which was a blend of music with different ethnic backgrounds, highlighting contributions from Japanese taiko drumming in the framework of jazz music.

As part of his regular repertoire, Mr. Bowden plays a range of saxophones and clarinets (including the E-flat clarinet, B-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, contra-alto clarinet, and contrabass clarinet), as well as flute, zamada, and didgeridoo.

He teaches young aspiring musicians in the Chicago area.  Mwata has a son who performs "Disco Poetry" under the name Khari B.

Contra-alto clarinet
The contra-alto clarinet, sometimes referred to as the E♭ contrabass clarinet, is a large clarinet pitched a perfect fifth below the B♭ bass clarinet. It is a transposing instrument in E♭ sounding an octave and a major sixth below its written pitch, between the bass clarinet and the B♭ contrabass clarinet.

The contra-alto clarinet is often used in clarinet choirs and ensembles of clarinets and saxophones. It may also be present in a wind band. The repertoire for contra-alto clarinet in the symphony orchestra is limited. In ensembles it is usually used in unison with the other woodwind instruments, such as (bassoon, bass clarinet and contrabass clarinet), or it plays the lower octave in addition.
WFIT
WFIT (89.5 FM) is a non-commercial radio station licensed to Melbourne, Florida, United States, and serving the Space Coast with a adult album alternative format. It is owned by the Florida Institute of Technology with studios and its broadcast tower at the WFIT Broadcast Center on the FIT campus on West University Boulevard. WFIT is funded in part by individual memberships, corporate underwriting, state and local grants, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Florida Tech.

WFIT's transmitter is on Science Circle, off South Babcock Street in Melbourne.

Non-commercial educational station
A non-commercial educational station (NCE station) is a radio station or television station that does not accept on-air advertisements (TV ads or radio ads), as defined in the United States by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and was originally intended to offer educational programming as part, or whole, of its programming. NCE stations do not pay broadcast license fees for their non-profit uses of the radio spectrum. Stations which are almost always operated as NCE include public broadcasting, community radio, and college radio, as well as many religious broadcasting stations.
Nearly all non-commercial radio stations derive their support from listener support, grants and endowments, such as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) that distributes supporting funds provided by Congress to support public radio.
Devil Hunters
Devil Hunters is a 1989 Hong Kong action film written and directed by Tony Lo and starring Alex Man, Sibelle Hu, Moon Lee and Ray Lui. The film was released as Ultra Force 2 in the west as a sequel to the film, Killer Angels which was released a few months earlier as Ultra Force. Although both films were directed by Lo and starred Lee, Devil Hunters is unrelated to Killer Angels.

Francis Ng
Francis Ng Chun-yu (Chinese: 吳鎮宇; born 21 December 1961) is a Hong Kong actor and director. He is known for his roles in the TVB series Old Time Buddy (1997) and Triumph in the Skies (2003), as well as in films such as Bullets Over Summer (1999), The Mission (1999), 2000 AD (2000), Juliet in Love (2000), and Infernal Affairs II (2003).
1988 Virginia Slims of Dallas – Doubles
Mary Lou Piatek and Anne White were the defending champions but only Piatek – now married with the surname of Daniels – competed that year with Barbara Gerken.

Daniels and Gerken lost in the first round to Hu Na and Stephanie Rehe.

Lori McNeil and Eva Pfaff won in the final 2–6, 6–4, 7–5 against Gigi Fernández and Zina Garrison.

Stephanie Rehe
Stephanie Rehe (born November 5, 1969) is an American former tennis player.

She played on the WTA Tour between 1985 and 1993, won five singles and two doubles titles, and reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 10, in March 1989.
Lee Jae-won (baseball)
Lee Jae-won (born February 24, 1988) is a South Korean professional baseball catcher for the SSG Landers of the KBO League.

He represented South Korea at the 2018 Asian Games.

After the 2018 season, he became a free agent and stayed at 6.9 billion won in total for four years.

SSG Landers
SSG Landers (Korean: SSG 랜더스; RR: SSG Laendeoseu) are a South Korean professional baseball team. The team was originally established as the SK Wyverns but was renamed as the SSG Landers in 2021 after Shinsegae acquired the team from SK Group. They are a member of the KBO League. Based in Incheon, they play their home games at Incheon SSG Landers Field.
Precisionist Stakes
The Precisionist Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.  A Grade III event open to horses, age three and up, it was contested over a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on Cushion Track synthetic dirt. The race was named for the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame horse, Precisionist who won this race in 1985 in which he set a Hollywood Park track record for the then one mile distance.

The race was run as the Mervyn Leroy Handicap at Hollywood Park Racetrack from inception in 1980 through 2013 when that racetrack closed. The original race was named for the American film director, Mervyn LeRoy who was a racing enthusiast and one of the track's founders. The Mervyn LeRoy Handicap carried a purse of $150,000 and was a prep to the Hollywood Gold Cup.

Elevated to a Grade I event in 1988, it was downgraded to Grade II status in 1991 then to Grade III in 2014.

Glossary of North American horse racing
The following is a glossary of North American horse racing.

Additional glossaries at:

Glossary of Australian and New Zealand punting

Glossary of equestrian terms

Parimutuel betting#Parimutuel bet types
Australian cricket team in 2007–08
This article contains information, results and statistics regarding the Australian national cricket team in the 2007–08 season. Statisticians class the 2007–08 season as those matches played on tours that started between September 2007 and April 2008.

Nathan Bracken
Nathan Wade Bracken (born 12 September 1977) is a former Australian cricketer. A tall left-arm fast-medium bowler, Bracken is capable of swinging the ball both ways. He has represented Australia in all forms of the game. Bracken represented New South Wales in Australian domestic cricket, Eastern Suburbs in Sydney Grade Cricket and also appeared for English County team Gloucestershire in 2004. On 28 January 2011 he announced his retirement from the game due to a chronic knee injury. On 9 February 2012 it was reported that he sued Cricket Australia over the latter's alleged incompetency in managing his knee injury. With his time representing Australia, Bracken won multiple ICC titles with the team: the 2003 Cricket World Cup, the 2007 Cricket World Cup, and the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy.
Canada at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics
Canada competed at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics in Gangwon, South Korea, from January 19 to February 1, 2024. This was Canada's fourth appearance at the Winter Youth Olympic Games, having competed at every Games since the inaugural edition in 2012.

The Canadian team consisted of 79 athletes (48 men and 31 women) competing in 12 sports. The country did not qualify athletes in skeleton or nordic combined, and chose not to send athletes in speed skating. Freestyle skier Charlie Beatty and curler Chloe Fediuk were the country's flagbearers during the opening ceremony. Meanwhile, figure skaters Kole Sauve and Annika Behnke were the country's flagbearers during the closing ceremony.

In March 2023, curler Lisa Weagle was named as the country's chef de mission.

Lisa Weagle
Lisa Colleen Weagle (born March 24, 1985) is a Canadian curler from Ottawa, Ontario. Weagle was the lead on the Rachel Homan team from 2010 until March 12, 2020, when the team announced they would be parting ways with her. She then joined Team Jennifer Jones for two seasons until the team disbanded on March 15, 2022. She then played lead for the 2024–25 season Team Laurie St-Georges from Quebec.

Weagle was known for her ability to make the eponymous "Weagle" shot (also known as a tick shot), which the Homan rink had used in high frequency while she was a member of the team.

In 2023, she coached the Kaitlyn Lawes rink.
Dioptric correction
Dioptric correction is the expression for the adjustment of the optical instrument to the varying visual acuity of a person's eyes. It is the adjustment of one lens to provide compatible focus when the viewer's eyes have differing visual capabilities. One result is less strain on the eyes that allow for optimal viewing and depth and contrast focusing when composing a photograph or viewing an item through a device made of lenses or lens elements.

Photograph
A photograph (also known as a photo, or more generically referred to as an image or picture) is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor. The process and practice of creating such images is called photography.

Photographs are now created using a smartphone or camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would perceive.
Andrejs Veckalns
Andrejs Veckalns (April 18, 1879 - May 18, 1942) was a Latvian politician, member of the Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party, and member of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th  Saeima (Latvian parliament), representing Social Democrats,  and Chairman of the Central Office of Latvian Trade Unions.

Knight of the Order of Lāčplēsis, awarded in 1927 for battles near Daugava in 1919.

After the first Soviet occupation of Latvia, in 1941 he together with his family was deported to Siberia and in 1942 he was executed in  Usollag Gulag labor camp near Solikamsk.

Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party
The Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Latvian: Latvijas Sociāldemokrātiskā strādnieku partija, LSDSP) is a social-democratic political party in Latvia and the second oldest existing Latvian political party after the Latvian Farmers' Union. It is currently represented with two seats in the parliament of Latvia as a part of the Union of Greens and Farmers alliance after an absence of 20 years. The party tends to hold a less Russophilic view than the Social Democratic Party "Harmony".
Ichimatsu Tanaka
Ichimatsu Tanaka (田中 一松, Tanaka Ichimatsu; December 23, 1895 – April 19, 1983) was a Japanese academic, art historian, curator, editor, and sometime public servant who specialized in the history of Japanese art.

Idemitsu Museum of Arts
Idemitsu Museum of Arts (出光美術館, Idemitsu Bijutsukan) is an art museum located in the Marunouchi area of Chiyoda, Tokyo. The museum holds only temporary exhibitions featuring its own collection.

The museum is temporarily closed since 25 December 2024 due to the demolition and reconstruction of the Teigeki building, and the reopening date has not been announced.
Samuel W. Block
Samuel W. Block (1911–1970) was an American lawyer and one of the name partners at Jenner & Block.

Block was born in 1911 in Saint Joseph, Missouri. He attended Yale University, receiving his A.B. in 1933. He then attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1936.

Upon graduation in 1936, Block moved to Chicago to join the firm of Poppenheusen, Johnston, Thompson and Cole (the predecessor firm of Jenner & Block). He became a partner at the law firm in 1948, and a name partner in 1964, when the firm became known as "Jenner & Block".

Block's practice focused on antitrust and securities litigation and takeovers, for clients such as Flying Tiger Line and Gulf+Western. Although he mainly focused on corporate transactions, his securities litigation practice did see him occasionally in court, even arguing before the Supreme Court of the United States, e.g. in Surowitz v. Hilton Hotels Corp., 383 U.S. 363 (1966).

St. Joseph, Missouri
St. Joseph is a city in and the county seat of Buchanan County, Missouri, United States. Located on the Missouri River, it is the principal city of the St. Joseph Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Buchanan, Andrew, and DeKalb counties in Missouri and Doniphan County, Kansas. As of the 2020 census, St. Joseph had a population of 72,473, making it the 8th most populous city in the state, and the 3rd most populous in Northwest Missouri. St. Joseph is located roughly 30 miles (48 km) north of the Kansas City, Missouri city limits and approximately 125 miles (201 km) south of Omaha, Nebraska.

The city was named after the town's founder Joseph Robidoux and the biblical Saint Joseph. In the nineteenth century, it was the death place of American outlaw Jesse James. It was also the starting point of the Pony Express serving the West. Today, St. Joseph is home to Missouri Western State University, which enrolls over 3,800 students.