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Dharwad district
Dharwad district or Dharawada is an administrative district of the state of Karnataka in southern India. The administrative headquarters of the district is the city of Dharwad, also known as Dharwar. Dharwad is located 425 km northwest of Bangalore and 421 km southeast of Pune, on the main highway between Chennai and Pune, the National Highway 4 (NH4).

Before 1997 the district had an area of 13738 km2. In 1997, the new districts of Gadag and Haveri were carved out of Dharwad's former territory, and a portion of Dharwad district was combined with lands formerly part of three other districts to create the new district of Davanagere.

Sawai Gandharva
Ramachandra Kundgolkar Saunshi, popularly known as Sawai Gandharva and Ram-bhau (19 January 1886 – 12 September 1952), was a popular  Hindustani Classical vocalist from Karnataka. He was a master in the genre of Kirana Gharana style. He was one of the foremost disciples of Ustad Abdul Karim Khan, and was the guru of Bharat Ratna laureate Pandit Bhimsen Joshi.

Sawai Gandharva is best known for popularizing the stylings of the Kirana Gharana through his accomplished disciples, including Pt. Bhimsen Joshi, Dr. Gangubai Hangal, Firoz Dastur, and Basavaraj Rajguru.
Shenandoah Mountain salamander
The Shenandoah Mountain salamander (Plethodon virginia) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae native to the eastern United States.  It should not be confused with the Shenandoah salamander (P. shenandoah), which inhabits Shenandoah National Park, east of Shenandoah Mountain.

Eastern United States
The Eastern United States, often abbreviated as simply the East, is a macroregion of the United States located to the east of the Mississippi River. It variably includes between 17 and 26 states and Washington, D.C., the national capital.

As of 2011, the Eastern United States had an estimated population exceeding 179 million, representing the majority (over 58 percent) of the total U.S. population.

The three most populous cities in the Eastern United States are New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia.
Oksana Livach
Oksana Vasylivna Livach (Ukrainian: Оксана Василівна Лівач; born 14 May 1997 in Dolyna, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian freestyle wrestler. She is a member of Spartak Lviv sports club. She is a bronze medalist of the 2018 World Championships and 2019 European champion.

In 2021, Livach won the silver medal in her event at the Poland Open held in Warsaw, Poland. She competed in the 50 kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.

2022 World Wrestling Championships
The 2022 World Wrestling Championships was the 17th edition of the World Wrestling Championships of combined events and was held between 10 and 18 September 2022 in Belgrade, Serbia.

The UWW Bureau approved the candidature of Belgrade, Serbia as the host of the 2023 Senior World Championships. However, due to the restrictions on Russia for hosting World Championships in 2021–2022, Belgrade replaced the former city of Krasnoyarsk as the World Championships host for 2022. In addition, Russian and Belarusian athletes have been banned from 2022 World Championships.
Wangen an der Aare
Wangen an der Aare is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2024 the former municipality of Wangenried merged to form the municipality of Wangen an der Aare.

This small town lies between Olten and Solothurn in rural surroundings on the Aare, a major river of the west-central lowland region of Switzerland, the Mittelland. An ancient wooden covered bridge crosses the Aare at this point. Wangen an der Aare was the administrative centre of the former district of the same name.

Aare
The Aare (Swiss Standard German: [ˈaːrɛ] ⓘ) or Aar (Swiss Standard German: [aːr] ⓘ) is the main tributary of the High Rhine (its discharge even exceeds that of the latter at their confluence) and the longest river that both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland.

Its total length from its source to its junction with the Rhine comprises about 295 kilometres (183 mi), during which distance it descends 1,565 m (5,135 ft), draining an area of 17,779 km2 (6,865 sq mi), almost entirely within Switzerland, and accounting for close to half the area of the country, including all of Central Switzerland.

There are more than 40 hydroelectric plants along the course of the Aare.

The river's name dates to at least the La Tène period, and it is attested as Nantaror "Aare valley" in the Berne zinc tablet.

The name was Latinized as Arula/Arola/Araris.
M&M Boys
The "M&M Boys" were the duo of New York Yankees baseball players Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, who were teammates from 1960 to 1966. They gained prominence during the 1961 season, when Maris and Mantle, batting third and cleanup (fourth) in the Yankee lineup respectively, both challenged Babe Ruth's 34-year-old single-season record of 60 home runs.  The home run lead would change hands between the two teammates numerous times throughout the summer and fueled intense scrutiny of the players by the press. Maris eventually broke the record when he hit his 61st home run on the final day of the season, while Mantle hit 54 before he was forced to pull out of the lineup in September because of an abscessed hip.

Maris' record stood for 37 years until it was broken in 1998 by Mark McGwire, who later admitted to taking performance enhancing drugs during much of his career. Maris and Mantle still hold the single-season record for combined home runs by a pair of teammates, with 115.

Cleanup hitter
In baseball, a cleanup hitter is the fourth hitter in the batting order. The cleanup hitter is traditionally the team's most powerful hitter. His job is to  "clean up the bases", that is, drive in base runners.
Albany Empire (AFL)
The Albany Empire was a professional arena football team based in Albany, New York, that began play in the Arena Football League (AFL) in 2018.  Home games were played at MVP Arena located in downtown Albany.

The Empire was Albany's third arena football team and second AFL team; it succeeded the original Albany Firebirds who began AFL play in 1990 and enjoyed great success, most notably winning ArenaBowl XIII, before moving to Indianapolis following the 2000 season, and later the Albany Conquest who played in the af2 developmental league from 2002 until that league folded after the 2009 season (and was known as the Firebirds for that last season).

Indiana Firebirds
The Indiana Firebirds were a team in the Arena Football League. The team was based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Home games were played at the Conseco Fieldhouse, also the home of the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association and Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association.
Alyxia bracteolosa
Alyxia bracteolosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae, native to the Solomon Islands and south-western Pacific (Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu and Wallis and Futuna). It was first described by Louis Claude Richard in 1862.

Louis Claude Richard
Louis Claude Marie Richard (French pronunciation: [lwi klod maʁi ʁiʃaʁ]; 19 September 1754 – 6 June 1821) was a French botanist and botanical illustrator. The standard author abbreviation Rich. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Julio César Pinheiro
Julio César Pinheiro García (born August 22, 1976) is a Brazilian former professional footballer who last played for Kyoto Purple Sanga in the J1 League. He also played for Atletico Celaya (his first team in Mexico) CF Monterrey, Cruz Azul, UNAM Pumas in Mexico CA Osasuna and CD Logrones in Spain.

He is a Mexican naturalized citizen.

CD Logroñés
Club Deportivo Logroñés, S.A.D. was a Spanish football team based in Logroño, in the autonomous community of La Rioja. Founded in 1940, it last played in Regional Preferente de La Rioja.

Due to financial problems, since 2009 the club has not played in any competition. The club, who appeared in nine La Liga seasons, was replaced by UD Logroñés and SD Logroñés.
Russian submarine Perm
Perm is a nuclear attack submarine of the 4th generation of the Russian Navy. It is the sixth ship of Project 885. It is being built according to the modernized Project 885M (08851) Yassen-M. It is the second submarine named after the city of Perm, following the B-292 Perm of Project 671RTMK, which was in service from 2002 to 2005.

Perm, Russia
Perm (Russian: Пермь, IPA: [pʲermʲ] ⓘ, IPA: [pʲerʲmʲ]; Komi-Permyak: Перем; Komi: Перым), originally known as Yagoshikha (Ягошиха; 1723–1781) and briefly as Molotov (Молотов; 1940–1957), is the administrative centre of Perm Krai in the European part of Russia. It sits on the banks of the Kama River near the Ural Mountains, covering an area of 799.68 square kilometres (308.76 square miles). With over one million residents Perm is the 15th-largest city in Russia and the 5th-largest in the Volga Federal District.
Lol:-)
LOL:-) is a Canadian silent comedy television series created by Pierre Paquin and Denis Savard. It premiered on February 27, 2011. The series stars Réal Bossé, Martin Drainville, Antoine Vézina, Sylvie Moreau, Sharlene Royer and Julie Ménard. It airs on The Comedy Network and CTV Two in English Canada.

LOL:-) presents visual comedy clips without dialogue. Each clip averages 15 to 90 seconds in length. Because the series has little to no dialogue, it can be sold in multiple markets without a language barrier; it is a staple series of the American Spanish-language network Estrella TV.

Réal Bossé
Réal Bossé is a Canadian actor from Quebec who performs mostly in francophone films and television. The son of farmers, Bossé grew up in Rivière-Bleue, Quebec.  He won a Jutra Award in 2008 as Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Continental, a Film Without Guns, as well as two Gémeaux Award in 2011 for writing and acting in the television series 19-2. Bossé was part of the cast of The Decline (film), which was released in 2020. He is also a writer and actor on File D'Attente, a dramatic comedy airing in Quebec.
Edward Percy Stebbing
Edward Percy Stebbing FRSE FRGS FZS (4 January 1872 – 21 March 1960) was a pioneering English forester and forest entomologist in India. He was among the first to warn of desertification and desiccation and wrote on "The encroaching Sahara".

In 1935, he wrote of the "desert whose power is incalculable and whose silent and almost invisible approach must be difficult to estimate." He suggested that this was man-made and this led to a joint Anglo-French forestry mission from December 1936 to February 1937 that toured northern Nigeria and Niger to assess the danger of desertification.

Desiccation
Desiccation is the state of extreme dryness, or the process of extreme drying. A desiccant is a hygroscopic (attracts and holds water) substance that induces or sustains such a state in its local vicinity in a moderately sealed container. The word desiccation comes from Latin  de- 'thoroughly' and  siccare 'to dry'.
Skagway–Fraser Border Crossing
The Skagway–Fraser Border Crossing connects the communities of Skagway, Alaska and Carcross, Yukon on the Canada–United States border. Alaska Highway 98 on the American side joins Yukon Highway 2 on the Canadian side. The border is near the summit of White Pass on the Klondike Highway, where the elevation is 3,292 feet (1,003 m). The border divides Alaska Time Zone from Pacific Time Zone. The highway, completed in 1979, was initially seasonal, but has been open year-round since 1986.

White Pass
White Pass, also known as the Dead Horse Trail (elevation 873 m or 2,864 ft), is a mountain pass through the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains on the border of the U.S. state of Alaska and the province of British Columbia, Canada. It leads from Skagway, Alaska, to the chain of lakes at the headwaters of the Yukon River (Crater Lake, Lake Lindeman, and Bennett Lake).
The Beauty Shop (film)
The Beauty Shop is a lost 1922 American silent comedy film directed by Edward Dillon and written by Doty Hobart based upon the play of the same name by Channing Pollock and Rennold Wolf. The film stars Raymond Hitchcock, Billy B. Van, James J. Corbett, Louise Fazenda, Madeline Fairbanks, and Marion Fairbanks. The film was released on May 14, 1922, by Paramount Pictures.

Channing Pollock (writer)
Channing Pollock (March 4, 1880 – August 17, 1946) was an American playwright, critic and screenwriter, whose works included The Evil Thereof (1916) and the memoir The Footlights, Fore and Aft (1911). Pollock is perhaps best remembered in connection with a review of one of his later plays, in which Dorothy Parker wrote "The House Beautiful is the play lousy."

Pollock began his career in 1896 as the dramatic critic at The Washington Post, and later worked at the Washington Times.
Kuramochi
Kuramochi (written: 倉持) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Akira Kuramochi (倉持 明, born 1952), Japanese baseball player

Asuka Kuramochi (倉持 明日香, born 1989), Japanese idol, singer and actress

Fusako Kuramochi (倉持 房子, born 1955), Japanese manga artist

Miho Kuramochi (倉持 美穂, born 1998), Japanese tennis player

Yuka Kuramochi (倉持 由香, born 1991), Japanese gravure idol, television personality and actress

Fusako Kuramochi
Fusako Kuramochi (くらもち ふさこ, Kuramochi Fusako, real name 倉持房子 Kuramochi Fusako, born 14 May 1955 in Shibuya, Tokyo) is a Japanese shōjo manga artist. While still in high school, she made her professional debut with Megane-chan no Hitorigoto, published in the Autumn 1972 issue of Bessatsu Margaret. She won the magazine's gold medal for amateur manga artists. Afterwards, Kuramochi studied Japanese painting at Musashino Art University, but left before graduation to pursue her career full-time.

Her manga Tennen Kokekkō received the 1996 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo manga, and was adapted as a live-action movie in 2007. Her series A-Girl was adapted as an anime OVA in 1993. Her manga Hana ni Somu won the Grand Prize category of the 21st Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2017.
Kenya Mountain
Kenya Mountain is a non-fiction book written by E. A. T. Dutton about his trip up Mount Kenya in 1926. The original book was published in 1929 by Jonathan Cape in London, and contains a preface by Dutton and an introduction by Hilaire Belloc. There is also a fold out map of the route taken by Melhuish and Dutton in 1926.

Map
A map is a symbolic depiction of interrelationships, commonly spatial, between things within a space. A map may be annotated with text and graphics. Like any graphic, a map may be fixed to paper or other durable media, or may be displayed on a transitory medium such as a computer screen. Some maps change interactively. Although maps are commonly used to depict geographic elements, they may represent any space, real or fictional. The subject being mapped may be two-dimensional such as Earth's surface, three-dimensional such as Earth's interior, or from an abstract space of any dimension.

Maps of geographic territory have a very long tradition and have existed from ancient times. The word "map" comes from the medieval Latin: Mappa mundi, wherein mappa meant 'napkin' or 'cloth' and mundi 'of the world'. Thus, "map" became a shortened term referring to a flat representation of Earth's surface.
Battery Giant
Battery Giant is a privately owned battery retail franchise based in Troy, Michigan. Founded in 2007 as an e-commerce based retailer, the company now operates locations throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, and Panama. Not affiliated with Giant Battery Co.

Troy, Michigan
Troy is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. A northern suburb of Detroit, Troy is located about 15 miles (24 km) north of downtown Detroit. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 87,294, making Troy the largest community in Oakland County and 13th-most populous municipality in the state.

Troy was organized as a township in 1827, and sections of the township were later incorporated into the cities of Birmingham, Clawson, and Royal Oak. The remainder of the township was incorporated as the city of Troy in 1955.
Mandane (Cilicia)
Mandane (Ancient Greek: Μανδάνη) was a town on the coast of ancient Cilicia, between Celenderis, and Cape Pisidium or Posidium (modern Kızıl Burun), from which it was only 7 stadia distant. William Smith conjectured it to be the same place as the Myanda or Mysanda mentioned by Pliny the Elder; and if so, it must also be identical with the town of Myus (Μυούς) mentioned in the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax between Nagidus and Celenderis. Modern scholarship does not accept the identity.

Mandane is located near Akyaka in Asiatic Turkey.

Aydıncık, Mersin
Aydıncık is a municipality and district of Mersin Province, Turkey. Its area is 352 km2, and its population is 11,468 (2022). It is on the Mediterranean coast, 173 km (107 mi) from Mersin and 325 km (202 mi) from Antalya.

Aydıncık has also been called in Armenian Կելենդերիդա, and Gilindire, from Kelenderis (Greek: Κελένδερις).

This remote coastline is mostly unspoilt and 38 kilometers long, including some sandy beach, and the town of Aydıncık is spread along the coast near a small point, Sancak Burnu.
1995 Micronesian congressional term referendum
A referendum on congressional terms was held in the Federated States of Micronesia on 7 March 1995. The proposal to set a four-year term for all members of the Congress required the approval of three-quarters of the voters in at least three of the four states. However, it was only approved by a majority of voters (but not the 75% required) in Kosrae and Yap.

Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia
The Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia has 14 non-partisan members: ten members elected for a two-year term in ten single-seat constituencies and four members elected for a four-year term, one from each state at-large.
Elaine Davis (politician)
Elaine Davis (born July 25, 1967) is an American politician. She is a Republican, and represents parts of western and southern Knox County in the 18th district of the Tennessee House of Representatives. She assumed office on January 10, 2023.

Tennessee House of Representatives
The Tennessee House of Representatives is the lower house of the Tennessee General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Tennessee. The House convenes, along with the Senate, at the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville.
False Appearances
False Appearances is a 1789 comedy play by the British politician and general Henry Seymour Conway, inspired by the 1740 French play  Trompeurs Dehors by Louis de Boissy. It appeared at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London on 20 April 1789. The Irish premiere took place at the Crow Street Theatre in Dublin on 13 July 1789 The original Drury Lane cast included John Philip Kemble as Marquis, Richard Wroughton as Baron, William Parsons as Governor, John Bannister as Abbé, Robert Palmer as Robert, Elizabeth Farren as Countess, Anna Maria Crouch as Lucile, Priscilla Kemble as Caelia and Jane Pope as Lisette. The epilogue was written by John Burgoyne.

Crow Street Theatre
Crow Street Theatre was a theatre in Dublin, Ireland, on Crow Street in the Temple Bar area of the city, originally opened in 1758 by the actor Spranger Barry. From 1788 until 1818 it was a patent theatre.
Artec 3D
Artec 3D is a developer and manufacturer of 3D scanning hardware and software. The company is headquartered in Luxembourg, with offices also in the United States (Santa Clara, California), China (Shanghai), Japan (Tokyo), Portugal (Lisbon) and Montenegro (Bar). Artec 3D's products and services are used in various industries, including engineering, healthcare, media and design, entertainment, education, fashion and historic preservation. In 2013, Artec 3D launched an automated full-body 3D scanning system, Shapify.me, that creates 3D portraits called "Shapies."

In January 2026, the Russian government declared Artec 3D an "undesirable organization": the company supplied 3D scanners to Ukraine to preserve their cultural heritage and document war crimes and incidents committed during the Russo-Ukrainian war, such as Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.

Bar, Montenegro
Bar (Montenegrin: Bar, Бар, pronounced [bâr], Italian: Antivari, Albanian: Tivari) is a town and seaport in Coastal region of Montenegro. It is the capital of the Bar Municipality and a center for tourism. According to the 2023 census, the city proper had 15,868 inhabitants, while the total population of Bar Municipality was 46,171.
Zhi-Gin Lam
Zhi-Gin Andreas Lam (Chinese: 林志堅, pronounced [tɕiː˧ kiːn˥˧ lɐm˨˩]; born 4 June 1991) is a German professional footballer who plays as a full-back or midfielder for Oberliga Hamburg club TuS Dassendorf.

Hong Kong Premier League
The Hong Kong Premier League (Chinese: 香港超級聯賽) is a Hong Kong professional football league organised by the Football Association of Hong Kong. It is currently sponsored by the BOC Life and officially known as the BOC Life Hong Kong Premier League (Chinese: 中銀人壽香港超級聯賽). The inaugural season began in September 2014. It is the top-division football league in Hong Kong.
Melrose Symphony Orchestra
The Melrose Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is the oldest continuing all-volunteer orchestra in the United States of America.  Based at Memorial Hall in Melrose, Massachusetts, the orchestra has performed in recent years a Fall and Winter classical concert, as well as a Holiday and May Pops.  Several musicians and performers have also played with the orchestra as soloists, including Gary Burton and Boris Goldovsky. Players include adults from all over Massachusetts, as well as a few gifted student musicians from local schools.  Currently, the orchestra is conducted by Yoichi Udagawa and the general manager of the orchestra is Jessi Eisdorfer.

Pops orchestra
A pops orchestra is an orchestra that plays popular music (generally traditional pop) and show tunes as well as well-known classical works. Pops orchestras are generally organized in large cities and are distinct from the more "highbrow"  symphony or philharmonic orchestras which also may exist in the same city. This is not to say that the distinction is complete; many symphony orchestras (for instance, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and Kansas City Symphony) put on pops performances with some regularity, while other pops orchestras are actually second identities of the "highbrow" orchestra and composed largely of the same players (for instance, the Boston Pops Orchestra is composed primarily of Boston Symphony Orchestra members).
8 Million Ways to Die
8 Million Ways to Die is a 1986 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, and Andy Garcia. It was Ashby's final film, and the first attempt to adapt the Matthew Scudder detective stories of Lawrence Block for the screen. The screenplay was written by Oliver Stone, an uncredited Robert Towne and David Lee Henry (R. Lance Hill using a pseudonym).

Neo-noir
Neo-noir is a film genre from the 1970s, in the era of New Hollywood, which is primarily associated with the subversion and visual style of classic film noir tropes, adapting the themes of 1940s and 1950s American film noir for contemporary audiences, often with vibrant colors and high-contrast, more graphic depictions of violence or sexuality, thematic motifs, and nonlinear narrative or editing.

During the 1970s and the mid 1980s, the term "neo-noir" surged in popularity, fueled by movies such as Roman Polanski’s Chinatown (1974), Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), Sydney Pollack's Absence of Malice (1981), Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982), Paul Verhoeven's The Fourth Man (1983 film) and David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986). The French term film noir translates literally to English as "black film", indicating sinister stories often presented in a shadowy cinematographic style. Neo-noir has a similar style but with updated themes, content, style, and visual elements.