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2023 Asian Women's U16 Volleyball Championship
The 2023 Asian Women's U16 Volleyball Championship was the inaugural edition of the Asian Women's U16 Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Chinese Volleyball Association (CVA). The tournament was held in Hangzhou, China from 1 to 8 July 2023.

This tournament served as a qualification tournament for the FIVB Volleyball Girls' U17 World Championship. The top three teams of the tournament qualified for the 2024 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U17 World Championship as the AVC representatives.

Players must be born on or after January 1, 2007.

Time in China
The time in China follows a single standard time offset of UTC+08:00, where Beijing is located, even though the country spans five geographical time zones. It is the largest sovereign nation in the world that officially observes only one time zone.

The nationwide standardized time is named Beijing Time (BJT; Chinese: 北京时间) domestically and China Standard Time (CST) internationally. Daylight saving time has not been observed since 1991.

China Standard Time (UTC+8) is consistent across Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau. It is also equivalent with Taiwan, Philippines, Singapore, Brunei, most of Mongolia, Malaysia, Irkutsk Time of Russia, Western Australia, and Central Indonesia.
2024–25 Coppa Italia (women)
The 2024–25 season of the Coppa Italia, also known as Coppa Italia Frecciarossa for sponsorship reasons, was the 53rd season of Italy's national women's football cup competition.

The dates and seeding for the 2024–25 season was announced on 31 July 2024. The competition opened on 25 August 2024 with the preliminary round.

AS Roma were the defending champions, having won their second Coppa Italia in the 2023–24 season.

Juventus won their fourth Coppa Italia title and the domestic double, having also won the 2024–25 Serie A Femminile. Juventus defeated Roma 4–0 in the final at Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia in Como on 17 May.

Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia
Djarum Stadio - Giuseppe Sinigaglia  is a multi-use stadium in Como, Italy. It is primarily used for football matches as the home ground of Como 1907. The stadium has a capacity of 13,602 spectators.

Completed in 1927, it was built on the orders of Benito Mussolini and was designed by architect Giovanni Greppi. Its construction represented one of the first examples of rationalist architecture in Italy; it is named after rower and war hero Giuseppe Sinigaglia, a native of Como, who died in the First World War.

The stadium is owned by the Municipality of Como, which grants it for use by the Como football club for its home matches.
Meridian Power Station
Meridian Power Station is a natural gas-fired station owned by TransAlta and  Husky Energy, located just southeast of Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, Canada.  The station is operated by TransAlta Cogeneration.

Husky Energy
Husky Energy Inc. was a Canadian petroleum company that existed from 1938 to 2021. It operated in Western and Atlantic Canada, the United States and the Asia Pacific region, with upstream and downstream business segments. In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, Husky Energy was ranked as the 1443rd-largest public company in the world.

In January 2021, Husky was acquired by Cenovus Energy. Its retail operations were sold to Federated Co-operatives and Parkland Corporation later that year.
Jason Allen (politician)
Jason Allen (born March 13, 1963) is an American politician. He served as a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1999 to 2002 and a member of the state senate from 2003 to 2010. He represented the 37th district, which includes Grand Traverse, Antrim, Charlevoix, Emmet, Cheboygan, Presque Isle, Chippewa and Mackinac Counties.

After leaving the state legislature, Allen served as a senior policy advisor for the Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency, Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, State of Michigan. He served as the Michigan state director for USDA Rural Development during the first Trump administration.

Allen was a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 1st congressional district in 2010 and 2016, but lost the Republican primary both times.

Emmet County, Michigan
Emmet County is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the population was 34,112, making it the second-most populous county in Northern Michigan (behind Grand Traverse County). The county seat is Petoskey, which is also the county's largest city.

Emmet County is located at the top of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, bounded on the west by Lake Michigan and on the north by the Straits of Mackinac. Its rural areas are habitat for several endangered species. Long a center of occupation by the Odawa people, today the county is the base for the federally recognized Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians.
Iván Acosta
Iván Acosta Montalván is a Nicaraguan politician and the Minister of Finance in the administration of Daniel Ortega since February 2012.

Acosta was born in Bluefields on 28 September 1964. He has degrees in economics, and law, and a master's degree in business law. From the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua he holds a PhD in social sciences and a law degree. In 2011 he graduated with a master's degree in business law at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua. Supreme Court of Justice of Nicaragua empowered him to practice lawyer and notary public in 2006.

Acosta started working in the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit in 2007, including the portfolios of secretary general and deputy minister of finance in 2009. He was appointed as Minister of Finance in February 2012, and he is also the governor for Nicaragua in the World Bank and a member of the board of directors of the Central Bank of Nicaragua.

Bluefields
Bluefields  (Spanish pronunciation: [bluˈfjels]) is a city and municipality on the central Mosquito Coast, and capital of the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, Nicaragua. Historically, it held far greater significance as the political and administrative capital of the Kingdom of Mosquitia, which maintained independence and later protectorate status under Great Britain during the 17th to 19th centuries. Following the kingdom's annexation in 1894, the city became the capital of the Zelaya Department.
Balsley
Balsley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Darren Balsley (born 1964), pitching coach at Major League Baseball's San Diego Padres franchise

John H. Balsley (1823–1895), master carpenter and inventor

Phil Balsley (born 1939), the former baritone singer for the retired country vocal group The Statler Brothers

Thomas Balsley, American landscape architect

Alexandra Mountains
The Alexandra Mountains (77°25′S 153°30′W﻿ / ﻿77.417°S 153.500°W﻿ / -77.417; -153.500﻿ (Alexandra Mountains)) are a group of low, separated mountains in the north portion of Edward VII Peninsula, just southwest of Sulzberger Bay in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.
Le Cambout
Le Cambout (French pronunciation: [lə kɑ̃bu]; Breton: Ar C'hembod; Gallo: Le Canbót) is a former commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in northwestern France, within easy reach of the towns of Josselin, Loudeac, and Pontivy. On 1 January 2025, it was merged into the commune of Plumieux.

The commune is divided into many smaller settlements, among them Bourg, Bas Bourg, and Tréhorel.

Côtes-d'Armor
The Côtes-d'Armor (/koʊt dɑːrmər/ koht dar-mər, /-dɑːrmɔːr/ -⁠dar-mor; French pronunciation: [kot daʁmɔʁ] ⓘ; Breton: Aodoù-an-Arvor, [ˈoːdu ãn ˈarvor]), formerly known as Côtes-du-Nord until 1990 (Breton: Aodoù-an-Hanternoz, [ˈoːdu ãn ˌhãntɛrˈnoːs]), is a department in the north of Brittany, in northwestern France. In 2019, it had a population of 600,582.
Havilland Sands
Havilland Hubert Allport Sands  (26 March 1896 – 22 March 1970) was the Archdeacon of Southwark from 1955 to 1966.

Sands was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Oriel College, Oxford. After World War I service with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment he was ordained in 1922. Following a curacy at St John, Waterloo Road he was Priest in charge of All Saints, Windsor from 1930 to 1936 then Vicar of St Anselm's, Kennington Cross for thirty years. He was Rural Dean of Lambeth from 1943 to 1955 and an Honorary Canon of Southwark Cathedral from 1951.

Kennington Cross
Kennington Cross is a locality in the London Borough of Lambeth.
It is at the junction of two major roads, Kennington Lane that links Vauxhall Cross with the Elephant and Castle and Kennington Road that runs from Waterloo to Kennington Park.
At the junction are the Durning Library (London Borough of Lambeth), St Anselm's Church (Church of England) and The ArtsLav project, a nineteenth-century underground gents Victorian Lavatory converted into a small local arts venue. 
There are two large public houses, The Dog House, and The Tommyfield.
Mathias Dzon
Mathias Dzon (born 1947) is a Congolese politician who served in the government of the Republic of the Congo as Minister of Finance from 1997 to 2002. Subsequently he was the National Director of the Bank of Central African States (BEAC) from 2003 to 2008 and a candidate in the July 2009 presidential election, although he decided to boycott the election shortly before it was held. He is the President of the Patriotic Union for National Renewal (UPRN).

Bank of Central African States
The Bank of Central African States (French: Banque des États de l'Afrique centrale, BEAC; Spanish: Banco de los Estados de África Central) is a central bank that serves six central African countries which form the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo.
Antipodocottus megalops
Antipodocottus megalops is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. It is found on the continental shelf around New Zealand, at depths of between 400 and 600 m (1,300 and 2,000 ft).  Its length is up to 5 cm (2.0 in).

Sculpin
A sculpin is a type of fish that belongs to the superfamily Cottoidea in the order Perciformes. As of 2025, this superfamily contains 5 families, 112 genera, and 405 species.

Sculpins occur in many types of habitat, including ocean and freshwater zones. They live in rivers, submarine canyons, kelp forests, and shallow littoral habitat types, such as tidepools.
European Soundmix Show
The European Soundmix Show was an imitation talent competition held yearly from 1996 to 1999, with two special shows in 2001 and 2002.

The show was an international version of Joop van den Ende's "Henny Huisman Soundmixshow", which was aired on Dutch television the first time in 1985.

Various European countries competed with one participant each imitating a famous artist, and most often, the participant was the winner of the national competition the same or the previous year. Some participants were, however, chosen internally by the national television company, without any pre-selection.

The winner was chosen by a jury vote. Every country sent two jury members (except for 1996 when it was only one member), which together awarded their top-4 countries 5, 3, 2 and 1 point(s).

Joop van den Ende
Johannes "Joop" Adrianus van den Ende (born 23 February 1942) is a Dutch theatrical producer, co-founder of international television production company Endemol and founder/owner of Stage Entertainment, Europe's largest live entertainment company. Stage Entertainment was established in 1998 after being split off from the Live Entertainment Division of Endemol. The company has offices and theatres in eight countries (the Netherlands, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy and Russia).
The Koala
The Koala is a satirical comedy college newspaper that is distributed on the campuses of the University of California, San Diego, and San Diego State University (SDSU). The newspaper's staff occasionally refer to the organization as "The Motherfucking Koala" in its publications and informal constitution.

UC San Diego's branch was one of several campus newspapers partly or entirely funded by the Associated Students, until a decision by the organization to defund all 13 student media outlets. SDSU's branch briefly operated within SDSU Associated Students as a recognized student organization (RSO) until its status was revoked in 2007. Cal State San Marcos hosted a branch until it ceased publishing due to legal action involving its staff.

California State University, San Marcos
California State University San Marcos (CSUSM or Cal State San Marcos) is a public university in San Marcos, California, United States. It was founded in 1989 as the 21st campus in the California State University (CSU) system.

CSUSM offers 43 bachelor's degree programs, 24 master's degree programs, 8 credential programs, and 1 joint doctoral with the University of California, San Diego.

CSUSM is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) and also Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). The university had a total undergraduate enrollment of 15,431 students in fall 2024. In 2024, the university had 284 tenured faculty. The Cal State San Marcos Cougars compete in NCAA Division II as a member of the California Collegiate Athletic Association.
Ophryocystis elektroscirrha
Ophryocystis elektroscirrha (sometimes abbreviated OE or O.e.) is an obligate, neogregarine protozoan parasite that infects Danaus (tiger) butterflies. The species was first discovered in Florida, around the late 1960s. Since then, it has been found in every monarch population examined to date, including monarchs sampled in North America, Hawaii, Australia, Cuba, and Central and South America.

Dormant spores occur on the cuticles of butterflies, in between the butterfly's scales. They are small, brown or black objects about 1/100 the width of a butterfly scale.

Ophryocystis elektroscirrha was long thought to exclusively parasitize monarch (Danaus plexippus) and queen (Danaus gilippus) butterflies, however a study by Gao et al. (2020) discovered OE or an OE-like parasite on three noctuid moth species, and Parthenos sylvia, another butterfly in the monarch family.

Parthenos sylvia
Parthenos sylvia, the clipper, is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in south and southeast Asia, mostly in forested areas. The clipper is a fast-flying butterfly and has a habit of flying with its wings flapping stiffly between the horizontal position and a few degrees below the horizontal. It may glide between spurts of flapping.
Is Zat So?
Is Zat So? is a lost 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring George O'Brien, Edmund Lowe, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. It was produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation.

The film was based on a 1925 play of the same name by James Gleason and Richard Taber and produced by George Brinton McLellan, which ran for 634 performances at the 39th Street Theatre in New York and opened in the same year at the Adelphi Theatre The play starred Gleason, Sidney Riggs and a pre-talkies Robert Armstrong.

Robert Armstrong (actor)
Robert William Armstrong (November 20, 1890 – April 20, 1973) was an American film and television actor noted for playing Carl Denham in the 1933 version of King Kong by RKO Pictures. He delivered the film's famous final line: "It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast."
Joe Ng
Gideon Joseph Ng (born November 15, 1963) is a Chinese-Canadian table tennis player.

He competed at the 1988 (men's singles and doubles), 1992 (men's singles), and 1996 Summer Olympics (men's singles and doubles).

Table tennis at the 1992 Summer Olympics
The table tennis competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics consisted of four events. Bronze medal match was dropped with both losing semi-finalists receiving bronze medals, but it was brought back in Atlanta 1996.
Luther High School (Wisconsin)
Luther High School is a parochial school located in Onalaska, Wisconsin. It is associated with the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. The majority of the students come from a group of churches in the area with the same religious affiliation. Some students come from as far away as Tomah, Wisconsin or Lewiston, Minnesota.

The school's athletic teams participate in the Coulee Conference in the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA).

Parochial school
A parochial school is a private primary or secondary school affiliated with a religious organization, and whose curriculum includes general religious education in addition to secular subjects, such as science, mathematics and language arts. The word parochial comes from the same root as "parish", and parochial schools were originally the educational wing of the local parish church. Christian parochial schools are called "church schools" or "Christian schools."

In addition to schools run by Christian organizations, there are also religious schools affiliated with Jewish, Muslim, and other groups; however, these are not usually called "parochial" because of the term's historical association with Christian parishes.
Santel's SC
Santel's S.C. is a Belizean football team which currently competes in the Belize Premier Football League (BPFL) of the Football Federation of Belize.

The team is based in Santa Elena Town.  Their home stadium is Norman Broaster Stadium.

Football Federation of Belize
The Football Federation of Belize (FFB), formerly known as the Belize National Football Association (BNFA) and founded in 1980, is the governing body of football in Belize.  It is a member of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), CONCACAF, and Union Centroamericana de Fútbol (UNCAF).
3 Days to Go
3 Days to Go is a 2019 South African Indian drama film written and directed by producer Bianca Isaac on her directorial debut. The film stars Leeanda Reddy, Bollywood actress Lillete Dubey, Jailoshini Naidoo and Kajal Bagwandeen in the lead roles. The film was set in Durban and had its theatrical release on 25 January 2019.

Indian South Africans
Indian South Africans are South Africans who descend from indentured labourers and free migrants who arrived from British India during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The majority live in and around the city of Durban, making it one of the largest ethnically Indian-populated cities outside of India.

As a consequence of the policies of apartheid, Indian (synonymous with Asian) is regarded as a race group in South Africa.
Once a Thief and Other Themes
Once a Thief and Other Themes is an album of film and television themes by Argentine composer, pianist and conductor Lalo Schifrin recorded in 1965 and released on the Verve label. The album features rerecorded versions of Schifrin's themes from the motion pictures Once a Thief and Joy House and a theme inspired by the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E..

Once a Thief (1965 film)
Once a Thief is a 1965 crime film directed by Ralph Nelson and starring Alain Delon, Ann-Margret, Van Heflin, Jack Palance, and Tony Musante in his film debut. It was written by Zekial Marko, based on his 1961 novel Scratch a Thief. The movie was known in France as Les tueurs de San Francisco.

Nelson won the OCIC award at the 1965 San Sebastián International Film Festival for the film. The film was adapted in Telugu as Adrushtavanthulu.
Yevgeny Martynov
Yevgeny Martynov (born March 9, 1976) is a former competitive figure skater who represented Ukraine. He won gold at the 1998 Golden Spin of Zagreb, silver at the 1998 Nebelhorn Trophy, and two medals at the Prague Skate. He placed fifth at the 1995 World Junior Championships.

After retiring from competition, Martynov moved to the United States. He coaches in Naperville, Illinois. His past and present students include Bradie Tennell and Nicholas Vrdoljak. He is the father of American figure skater, Daniel Martynov.

Bradie Tennell
Bradie Tennell (born January 31, 1998) is an American figure skater. She is a 2018 Olympic team event bronze medalist, the 2025 Four Continents silver medalist and 2020 Four Continents bronze medalist, a four-time Grand Prix medalist, an eight-time Challenger Series medalist, and a two-time U.S. national champion (2018, 2021).

Tennell began skating when she was two years old, even though she learned to walk late and had to wear orthotics in her shoes to correct a pronation problem in her feet. Her first rink was in Crystal Lake, Illinois. She began working with coach Denise Myers when she was nine, up until August 2020. Tennell won her first competition at age ten as a juvenile and rose up the ranks, becoming a senior-level skater in November 2016. She spent the 2015–2016 and 2016–2017 seasons recovering from a back injury but came back in 2017, winning the gold medal at the 2018 U.S. Nationals and competing at the 2018 Olympics.
Þórey Edda Elísdóttir
Þórey Edda Elísdóttir (born 30 June 1977 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic former pole vaulter. Her personal best is 4.60 metres, achieved in July 2004 in Madrid. This is also the current national Icelandic record. At the 2008 Summer Olympics she did not qualify for final with the result 4.15 metres.

Þórey Edda got her university degree in engineering at the University of Iceland.

She stood as a candidate for the Left-Green Movement in the 2003 Icelandic parliamentary election but did not succeed in winning a seat.

2003 Icelandic parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 10 May 2003. The Independence Party remained the largest party in the Althing, winning 22 of the 63 seats.  The coalition government of the Independence Party and Progressive Party remained in office, with Davíð Oddsson continuing as prime minister.
Elisenda Grigsby
Julia Elisenda (Eli) Grigsby is an American mathematician who works as a professor at Boston College. Her research began with the study of low-dimensional topology, including knot theory and category-theoretic knot invariants.  She is currently working in the field of machine learning.

Low-dimensional topology
In mathematics, low-dimensional topology is the branch of topology that studies manifolds, or more generally topological spaces, of four or fewer dimensions. Representative topics are the theory of 3-manifolds and 4-manifolds, knot theory, and braid groups. This can be regarded as a part of geometric topology. It may also be used to refer to the study of topological spaces of dimension 1, though this is more typically considered part of continuum theory.
Villa Sola de Vega
Villa Sola de Vega is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico, part of the Sola de Vega District in the Sierra Sur Region. 
The meaning "Place of quails" comes from "zollin": quail and "tlán": place of.

Sierra Sur de Oaxaca
Sierra Sur  is a region in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. It includes the districts of Putla, Sola de Vega, Miahuatlán and Yautepec.  Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz is the largest city.
The region has 70 municipalities. A number of these are known for great poverty, such as Santa María Zaniza and Santa María Alotepec.
County of Lecce
The County of Lecce (Italian: Contea di Lecce) was a county located in Apulia, in south-eastern Italy, which existed from 1055 until 1463. Its capital was at the city of Lecce, and it was bounded by the territories of Brindisi to the north, Oria and Nardò to the west, and Soleto and Otranto to the south.

Brindisi
Brindisi (US: /ˈbrɪndɪzi, ˈbriːn-/ BRIN-diz-ee, BREEN-, Italian: [ˈbrindizi] ⓘ; Brindisino: Brìnnisi) is a city in the region of Apulia in southern Italy, the capital of the province of Brindisi, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. Historically, the city has played an essential role in trade and culture due to its strategic position on the Italian Peninsula and its natural port on the Adriatic Sea. The city remains a major port for trade with the Balkan Peninsula, Greece and the Middle East. Its industries include agriculture, chemical works, and the generation of electricity.

From September 1943 to February 1944, Brindisi was the provisional government seat of the Kingdom of Italy.