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John Thornton (Canadian politician)
John Thornton (April 3, 1823 – February 17, 1888) was an American-born merchant, farmer and political figure in Quebec. He represented Stanstead in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1875 to 1878 and from 1881 to 1886 as a Conservative.

He was born in Derby, Vermont, the son of John L. Thornton and Dolly Bagley, and was educated there and at Stanstead College. He came to Lower Canada in 1841 and set up business at Barnston, later moving to Coaticook. Thornton sold equipment used in the construction of the railway between Richmond and Stanhope. In 1847, he married Lucy Baldwin. He served on the council for Barnston township, was mayor of Coaticook in 1872 and 1873 and was warden for Stanstead County from 1872 to 1874. He was defeated by Henry Lovell when he ran for reelection in 1878. Thornton died at Coaticook at the age of 64.

Conservative Party of Quebec (historical)
The Conservative Party of Quebec (French: Parti conservateur du Québec) was a political party in Quebec, Canada, from 1867 until 1936, when it merged with members of the Action libérale nationale to form the Union Nationale.
Miles Koules
Miles Koules (born June 25, 1994) is an American former professional ice hockey winger and film producer. He has played for the Binghamton Devils of the American Hockey League (AHL) and for HIFK in the Finnish top tier league Liiga. Internationally, he has represented the United States at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge.

Koules is the founder of Koulest Productions, a film production company where he partnered with his father Oren Koules.

World U-17 Hockey Challenge
The World U-17 Hockey Challenge, originally known as the Quebec Esso Cup, is an international ice hockey tournament held annually in Canada. Prior to 2011, the tournament did not operate during years in which the Canada Winter Games were held. As such, the World Under-17 Challenge was held three out of every four years. It is organized by Hockey Canada and is the first major international competition for male hockey players under the age of 17. The tournament is the first step in Hockey Canada's Program of Excellence and is used to identify players moving on to the U18 and National Junior Team.
2000–01 Primera B Nacional
The 2000–01 Argentine Primera B Nacional was the 15th season of second division professional of football in Argentina. A total of 30 teams competed; the champion and runner-up were promoted to Argentine Primera División.

2001–02 Argentine Primera División
The 2001–02 Argentine Primera División was the 111th season of top-flight football in Argentina. The season ran from August 17, 2001 to May 19, 2002.

Racing Club de Avellaneda won the Apertura (its 16th league title, after 35 years with no domestic championships) and River Plate the Clausura (32nd title) championships, while Belgrano (C) and Argentinos Juniors were relegated to the second division.

In continental cups, Copa Sudamericana replaced Copa Mercosur, last held in 2001.
Chorus Limited
Chorus is New Zealand’s largest telecommunications infrastructure company. It builds and operates nationwide fibre broadband and copper telecommunication networks. It is listed on the NZX and ASX stock exchange and is in the NZX 50 Index.

The company owns the majority of the country’s telephones lines, exchange equipment, and is responsible for building the majority of the country’s fibre-optic, Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) network. As of 2024, the network covers up to 87% of New Zealanders, with at 75% uptake.

By law, it cannot sell directly to consumers, but instead provides wholesale services to retailers.

Fiber-optic cable
A fiber-optic cable, also known as an optical-fiber cable, is an assembly similar to an electrical cable but containing one or more optical fibers that are used to carry light. The optical fiber elements are typically individually coated with plastic layers and contained in a protective tube suitable for the environment where the cable is used. Different types of cable are used for fiber-optic communication in different applications, for example long-distance telecommunication or providing a high-speed data connection between different parts of a building.
Wellesley Hills station
Wellesley Hills station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. It serves the Framingham/Worcester Line. It is located off Washington Street (MA-16) in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Wellesley Hills has two low platforms serving the line's two tracks; it is not accessible. Designed in 1885 and completed in 1886, the station was the last of nine stations that H.H. Richardson designed for the Boston and Albany Railroad. It replaced a previous station, built in 1834 with the completion of the Boston and Worcester Railroad.

Massachusetts Route 16
Route 16 is a 59.8646-mile-long (96.3427 km) east–west state highway in Massachusetts. It begins in the west at an intersection with Route 12 and Route 193 in Webster, just north of the Connecticut state border.  It runs in a generally southwest-northeast routing through a number of Boston's suburbs and runs to the west and then north of the city before ending in Revere at an intersection with Route 1A and Route 60.

From Watertown eastward, Route 16 is a multi-lane arterial road, although it is not limited access for any significant length. Segments of Route 16 through this area are also known as the Mystic Valley Parkway, the Alewife Brook Parkway, and the Revere Beach Parkway, among other names.

From the western end of the Route 135 concurrency in Wellesley to Route 30 (Commonwealth Avenue) in Newton, the route serves as a part of the Boston Marathon, from the halfway point to just before Mile 18 and the hills.
Greenwood Park Sofa
Greenwood Park Sofa, also known as Limestone Sofa, is a 2004 limestone sculpture of a couch by Robert Huff, installed in Columbus, Ohio. Formerly installed in its namesake pocket park on High Street for a decade, the artwork "became the locus for reports of public urination, intimidation and petty theft on the sidewalk and in the parking lot behind it", according to Tracy Zollinger Turner of the Short North Gazette. The work was later restored by the artist and installed outside the Cultural Arts Center in Downtown Columbus.

Couch
A couch, also known as a sofa, settee, chesterfield, or davenport, is a cushioned piece of furniture that can seat multiple people. It is commonly found in the form of a bench with upholstered armrests and is often fitted with springs and tailored cushion and pillows. Although a couch is used primarily for seating, it may be used for sleeping. In homes, couches are normally put in the family room, living room, den, or lounge. They are sometimes also found in non-residential settings such as hotels, lobbies of commercial offices, waiting rooms, and bars. Couches can also vary in size, color, and design.
Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's shot put
The women's shot put event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 16 August at the Beijing Olympic Stadium. The qualifying standards were 18.35 m (60 ft 2 in) (A standard) and 17.20 m (56 ft 5 in) (B standard).

The event was won by Valerie Vili (née Adams) of New Zealand, with a best throw of 20.56 metres.

In 2016 it was announced that a reanalysis of samples resulted in doping violations by Natallia Mikhnevich and Nadzeya Ostapchuk. They were disqualified from the competition and the silver and bronze medals were reallocated by the IAAF (now World Athletics).

Beijing National Stadium
The National Stadium (国家体育场, Guójiā Tǐyùchǎng), a.k.a. the Bird's Nest (鸟巢), is a stadium at Olympic Green in Chaoyang, Beijing, China. The National Stadium, covering an area of 204,000 square meters with an 80,000 person capacity (91,000 with temporary seating), broke ground in December 2003, officially started construction in March 2004, and was completed in June 2008.

The National Stadium is owned and operated by a partnership company between Beijing Municipal State-owned Assets Management Co Ltd (58%) and CITIC Group (42%).

The stadium was designed for the 2008 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. It was also used during the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.
Allan Black
Allan Adamson Black (1832 − 4 December 1865) was a botanist who served as the first curator at Kew. The plant genus Allanblackia was named after him posthumously by Professor Daniel Oliver. The species Austrosteenisia blackii is also named after him.

Black was the fourth son of Reverend John Black of Perthshire, Scotland. In 1853, Black became the first curator of the Herbarium Hookerianum at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where he served until 1863–64. He left Kew due to tuberculosis (then called "consumption") and it was thought that a tropical climate would help him and was posted Superintendent to the Lalbagh Botanical gardens. In 1864 he published Report of the Mysore Government Garden at Bangalore for 1863-64. He died on a journey from Rangoon to the Andamans while aboard HMS Dalhousie off the Cocos Islands on 4 December 1865. He was buried on Table Island, Cocos group.

Lal Bagh
Lalbagh Botanical Garden or simply Lalbagh (lit. 'red garden'), is a botanical garden in Bengaluru, India. It was originally built by Hyder Ali in 1760, during the Sultanate of Mysore . The garden was later managed under numerous British superintendents before Indian Independence. It was responsible for the introduction and propagation of numerous ornamental plants as well as those of economic value. It also served a social function as a park and recreational space, with a central glass house dating from 1890 which was used for flower shows. In modern times, it hosts two flower shows coinciding with the week of Republic Day (26 January) and Independence Day (15 August). As an urban green space along with Cubbon Park, it is also home to numerous wild species of birds and other wildlife. The garden also has a lake adjoining a large rock on which a watchtower had been constructed during the reign of Kempegowda II.
Dibyendu Adhikari
Dibyendu Adhikari (born 24 December 1976) is an Indian politician from the state of West Bengal in India. He was elected to Lok Sabha from Tamluk in 2019 as a member of Trinamool Congress.

Dibyendu Adhikari's father Sisir Adhikari and elder brother Suvendu Adhikari were also elected in Lok Sabha or West Bengal Vidhan Sabha.

Dibyendu was Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) in West Bengal from Dakhin Kanthi constituency from 2009 to 2016. In 2016 he was elected to Lok Sabha from Tamluk parliamentary constituency of West Bengal on TMC ticket in a by-election when the seat fell vacant due to the resignation of the sitting MP Suvendu Adhikari, who is Dibyendu Adhikari's elder brother. He is also councillor of Contai Municipality.

Contai
Contai, also known as Kanthi (Bengali pronunciation: [kañtʰi]), is a coastal and subdivisional city and a municipality in East Midnapore district, West Bengal, India. It is the headquarters of the Contai subdivision.
Reductive dehalogenases
Reductive dehalogenases (EC 1.97.1.8) are a group of enzymes utilized in organohalide respiring bacteria.  These enzymes are mostly attached to the periplasmic side of the cytoplasmic membrane and play a central role in energy-conserving respiratory process for organohalide respiring bacteria by reducing organohalides. During such reductive dehalogenation reaction, organohalides are used as terminal electron acceptors. They catalyze the following general reactions:

R-X + 2 e− + 2 H+ →  R-H + H-X

X-RR-X + 2 e− + 2 H+ →  R=R + 2X−

These membrane-associated enzymes have attracted great interest for the detoxification of organohalide pollutants. Organohalide pollution is a serious global environmental issue affecting soil and groundwater; and reductive dehalogenases offer a promising natural tool for bioremediation.

Electron acceptor
An electron acceptor is a chemical entity that accepts electrons transferred to it from another compound. Electron acceptors are oxidizing agents.

The electron accepting power of an electron acceptor is measured by its redox potential.

In the simplest case, electron acceptors are reduced by one electron.  The process can alter the structure of the acceptor substantially. When the added electron is highly delocalized, the structural consequences of the reduction can be subtle. The central C-C distance in the electron acceptor tetracyanoethylene elongates from 135 to 143 pm upon acceptance of an electron.  In the formation of some donor-acceptor complexes, less than one electron is transferred.  TTF-TCNQ is a charge transfer complex.
Ispiritista: Itay, May Moomoo
Ispiritista: Itay, May Moomoo!  is a 2005 Filipino comedy horror fantasy film directed by Tony Y. Reyes, based on a story concept by Reyes, Antonio P. Tuviera, and Nino Tuviera-Rodriguez, with a screenplay by Reyes and R.J. Nuevas, and starring Vic Sotto, Cindy Kurleto, Iza Calzado and BJ Forbes.

R.J. Nuevas
Robert Joseph Nuevas is a Filipino television writer and film writer. He is a resident writer of GMA Network, for which he created the graphic novel-themed series Impostora.

He has adapted, for television, three of Carlo J. Caparas' graphic novels: Bakekang in 2006, Kamandag in 2007 and Ang Babaeng Hinugot sa Aking Tadyang in 2009. He is also writing the screenplay for the big-budget movie adaptation of Caparas' most famous work, Ang Panday.
Cubillas de los Oteros
Cubillas de los Oteros (Spanish pronunciation: [kuˈβiʎas ðe los oˈteɾos]) is a municipality located in the province of León, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2010 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 167 inhabitants.

Province of León
León (UK: /leɪˈɒn/, US: /leɪˈoʊn/; Spanish: [leˈon]; Leonese: Llión [ʎiˈoŋ]; Galician: [leˈoŋ]) is a province of northwestern Spain in the northern part of the Region of León and in the northwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León.

About one quarter of its population of 463,746 (2018) lives in the capital, León. The climate is dry, cold in winter and hot in summer. This creates the perfect environment for wine and all types of cold meats and sausages like the leonese "Morcilla" and the "Cecina".

There are two famous Roman Catholic cathedrals in the province, the main one in León and another in Astorga. The province shares the Picos de Europa National Park (in the Picos de Europa mountain range) with Cantabria and Asturias. It has 211 municipalities.
Slowly, Slowly (Magnapop song)
"Slowly, Slowly" is a 1994 single by Magnapop from the album Hot Boxing, released by Play It Again Sam Records on CD (catalogue number 450.0257.22 - BIAS 257 CD) and 12" gramophone record (450.0257.30 - BIAS 257), as well as a limited-edition white vinyl version (450.0257.38 - BIAS 257 X.) A promo CD edition was released by Priority Records as DPRO 50804. A recording of the song is also featured on the live album Magnapop Live at Maxwell's 03/09/2005. A music video was created for the song in 1994 and it was featured on the 1995 soundtrack to the film Mad Love.

Mad Love (1995 film)
Mad Love is a 1995 American teen romantic drama film directed by Antonia Bird and starring Drew Barrymore and Chris O'Donnell. It was written by Paula Milne. The original music score is composed by Andy Roberts.
English furniture
English furniture has developed largely in line with styles in the rest of Northern Europe, but has been interpreted in a distinctive fashion. There were significant regional differences in style, for example between the North Country and the West Country. Salisbury and Norwich were prominent early centres of furniture production.

West Country
The West Country is a loosely defined area within South West England, usually taken to include the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Bristol, with some considering it to extend to all or parts of Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire. The West Country has a distinctive regional English dialect and accent, and is also home to the Cornish language.
Marc Gold
Marc Gold PC (born June 30, 1950) is a Canadian law professor and politician who  served as Representative of the Government in the Senate from 2020 until his retirement in 2025. Gold sat as the senator for Stadacona, Quebec since his appointment on the advice of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2016. He was a member of the Independent Senators Group (ISG) caucus from 2016 to 2020 but then sat as an Independent. Prior to his appointment as a senator, Gold taught law and was appointed associate dean at Osgoode Hall Law School.

King's Privy Council for Canada
The King's Privy Council for Canada (French: Conseil privé du Roi pour le Canada), sometimes called His Majesty's Privy Council for Canada or simply the Privy Council (PC), is the full group of personal advisors to the monarch of Canada on state and constitutional affairs. Practically, the tenets of responsible government require the sovereign or his viceroy, the governor general, almost always to follow only that advice tendered by the Cabinet: a committee within the Privy Council composed usually of elected members of Parliament. Those summoned to the Privy Council are appointed for life by the governor general on the advice of the prime minister. The group is composed predominantly of former Cabinet ministers, with some others having been inducted as an honorary gesture. Privy counsellors are accorded the use of an honorific style and post-nominal letters, as well as various signifiers of precedence.
Mohamed Ali El Admi
Mohamed Ali El Admi (Arabic: محمد علي العظمي; born Mohamed Ali Ould el Wali and commonly known by his nom de guerre Omar Hadrami) is a Sahrawi politician and ex-senior member of the Polisario Front, which he co-founded.

El Admi joined Morocco in 1989 and settled in Rabat. He has been accused of many human rights violations including alleged war crimes, torture of Moroccan prisoners of war and Sahrawi dissidents in the refugee camps.

In January 2014, Mohammed VI appointed him as the Wali (governor) of the Guelmim-Es Semara region.

Sahrawis
The Sahrawis, or Sahrawi people (Arabic: صحراويون, romanized: Ṣaḥrāwīyūn; Spanish: saharauis), are an ethnic group native to the western part of the Sahara desert, which includes the Western Sahara, southern Morocco, much of Mauritania, and along the southwestern border of Algeria. They are of mixed Hassani Arab and Sanhaji Berber descent, as well as West African and other indigenous populations.

As with most peoples living in the Sahara, the Sahrawi culture is a mix of Arab colonial and indigenous African elements. Sahrawis are composed of many tribes and are largely speakers of the Hassaniya dialect of Arabic.
Rainham and Wennington (ward)
Rainham and Wennington is an electoral ward in the London Borough of Havering. The ward was first used in the 2002 elections. It returns three councillors to Havering London Borough Council. There was a revision of ward boundaries in 2022.

At the first five general borough elections the ward returned councillors standing as "Independent Residents Association" candidates who were not aligned with the Havering Residents Association council grouping that most residents association councillors in Havering have joined. By-elections in 2003 and 2004 were won by the Labour Party candidates but they did not retain their seats at the next election in 2006. The election in 2022 was won for the first time by three Conservative Party candidates. However, in the aftermath of the 2022 Wennington wildfire all three switched parties and joined the Havering Residents Association group on the council.

2002 London local elections
Local government elections took place in London, and some other parts of the United Kingdom on Thursday 2 May 2002. Ward changes took place in every borough, following a series of reviews and 32 statutory instruments which reduced the total number of councillors by 56 from 1,917 to 1,861.

All London borough council seats were up for election. The London Conservatives narrowly won the popular vote across the city by a margin of 871 votes, increased their number of councillors by 115 and won control of 4 more councils. However, London Labour won a plurality of council seats (866) and councils (15), though this was a decline from the 1,050 councillors and 18 councils they had won in 1998. It was the first time ever that a political party had won the most seats and councils in a London borough election whilst losing the London-wide popular vote.

In Hackney there was also a mayoral referendum vote.
Neal Pattman
Neal Pattman (January 10, 1926 – May 4, 2005) was an American electric blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter. Sometimes billed as Big Daddy Pattman, he is best known for his self-penned tracks, "Prison Blues" and "Goin' Back To Georgia".  In the latter, and most notable stages of his long career, Pattman worked with Cootie Stark, Taj Mahal, Dave Peabody, Jimmy Rip, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Guitar Gabriel, and Lee Konitz.

Electric blues
Electric blues is blues music distinguished by the use of electric amplification for musical instruments.  The guitar was the first instrument to be popularly amplified and used by early pioneers T-Bone Walker in the late 1930s and John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters in the 1940s.  Their styles developed into West Coast blues, Detroit blues, and post-World War II Chicago blues, which differed from earlier, predominantly acoustic-style blues.  By the early 1950s, Little Walter was a featured soloist on blues harmonica using a small hand-held microphone fed into a guitar amplifier.  Although it took a little longer, the electric bass guitar gradually replaced the stand-up bass by the early 1960s.  Keyboards, especially electric organs and electric pianos, later became widely used in electric blues.
Pamintuan
Pamintuan is a Kapampangan language surname meaning "to obey", "to serve" or "to give service to". Notable people with the surname include:

Edgardo Pamintuan Sr. (born 1949), Filipino lawyer and politician

Edu Pamintuan, Filipino politician

Mariel Pamintuan (born 1998), Filipino actress

Amy Pamintuan, Filipino journalist

Marlo Mortel (born 1993), Filipino actor, TV host, musician, entrepreneur, and singer-songwriter

Carlos Celdran (1972-2019), Filipino artist, tour guide, segment TV host and cultural activist

Nicolasa Dayrit Panlilio (1874-1945), Filipina non-combatant in the Philippine–American War

Carlos Celdran
John Charles Edward "Carlos"  Pamintuan Celdran (November 10, 1972 – October 13, 2019) was a Filipino artist, tour guide, segment TV host and cultural activist. He was known for "Walk This Way", a guided tour of the Manila districts of Intramuros, Binondo, and Quiapo using a combination of music, visuals, and history lectures to immerse tourists into what life was like during the Spanish and American colonization periods of the Philippines. He was also known for engaging in a controversial protest, known colloquially as his "Dámaso stunt", in the Manila Cathedral in September 2010, leading to his arrest for "offending religious feelings" as per Article 133 of the Revised Penal Code. In January 2019, the conviction forced Celdran to go on self-exile in Madrid, Spain, where he died of cardiac arrest on October 13 of that year.
Alexander Grin House Museum
There are four Alexander Grin House Museums. The first one is a house museum in the last place of residence of Russian writer Alexander Grin which was in Staryi Krym, Crimea.

There is another Grin museum in Crimea in the nearby city of Feodosia. There is a third Alexander Grin museum in Russia, in Vyatka.

In 2010, a fourth museum was opened at the birthplace of the writer, in Slobodskoy, Kirov Oblast in Russia.

Slobodskoy, Kirov Oblast
Slobodskoy (Russian: Слободско́й) is a town in Kirov Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Vyatka River, 35 kilometers (22 mi) northeast of Kirov. Population:  33,981 (2010 Census); 33,477 (2002 Census); 39,249 (1989 Soviet census).