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England men's national field hockey team
The England men's national field hockey team competes in most major international tournaments except the Olympic Games. England's only appearance at the Olympics was at London 1908 when they won gold; since then English players have competed at the Olympics as part of the combined Great Britain national field hockey team.

England's best finish in the Hockey World Cup was as runners-up to champions Australia in 1986, which was also held in London. They won the bronze medal at the inaugural Commonwealth Games hockey tournament in 1998 in Kuala Lumpur, as well as in 2014 in Glasgow and in Birmingham in 2022.

Men's FIH Hockey World Cup
The Men's FIH Hockey World Cup is an international field hockey competition organised by the International Hockey Federation. The tournament was started in 1971. It is held every four years, bridging the four years between the Summer Olympics. Pakistan is the most successful team, having won the tournament four times. The Netherlands, Australia, and Germany have each won three titles. Belgium and India have both won the tournament once.

The 2023 tournament was held in Bhubaneswar and Rourkela, India from 13 to 29 January. Germany defeated Belgium in a penalty shoot-out 5–4 after the match ended in a 3–3 draw to win their third World Cup title. The World Cup expanded to 16 teams in 2018.
Kenichi Matsuoka
Kenichi Matsuoka (松岡 健一, Matsuoka Ken'ichi; born June 7, 1982) is a professional Japanese baseball player and coach. He pitched for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows from 2005 through 2018, and has been a pitching coach for the Swallows since the 2019 season.

Matsuoka played the one season with the Waikiki BeachBoys of the now defunct Hawaii Winter Baseball league, an MLB off-season developmental league that sought to develop Japanese players much like the Arizona Fall League.

Matsuoka was picked up by the Swallows in 2005 as a pre-round draft pick from Kyushu Tokai University.

Waikiki BeachBoys
The Waikiki BeachBoys were a minor league baseball team in the Hawaii Winter Baseball league. They were based in Honolulu, Hawaii.  The BeachBoys name derives from the "Beach Boys of Waikiki," a group credited with the rebirth of surfing in Hawaii.

The BeachBoys played their home games at the Les Murakami Baseball Stadium.
Withybed Wood
Withybed Wood is a small, yet important patch of woodland located in the lee of Warren Hill, part of Hengistbury Head, Dorset. It is not to be confused with an area of the Wyre Forest in Shropshire, which also has the same name.

Wyre Forest
52°23′6″N 2°22′7″W﻿ / ﻿52.38500°N 2.36861°W﻿ / 52.38500; -2.36861

Wyre Forest /ˈwaɪər ˈfɒrɪst/ is a large, semi-natural (partially unmanaged) woodland and forest measuring 26.34 square kilometres (10.17 sq mi) which straddles the borders of Worcestershire and Shropshire, England. Knowles Mill, a former corn mill owned by the National Trust lies within the forest.
Rob the Robot (TV series)
Rob the Robot is a Canadian-Singaporean-British-Australian animated television series based on the children's book series of the same name by John Magart, that originally aired from September 6, 2010, to February 25, 2013. It also aired on Australia's Seven Network and ABC Me in Brisbane (BTQ-7 Brisbane), and is currently on America's Vme Kids. The series is a co-production between Amberwood Entertainment and Singapore's One Animation and was commissioned by Canada's TVO, British Columbia's Knowledge Network, CBC's Radio Canada Television, and Access. 104 episodes were produced.

Vme Kids
Vme Kids is a Spanish-language children's television channel operated by V-me Media, catering to the needs of preschool-aged Hispanic and Latino Americans. The channel launched exclusively through AT&T U-verse cable systems on September 1, 2010, and has expanded its carriage since then.
2018 Fukuoka International Women's Cup – Doubles
Junri Namigata and Kotomi Takahata were the defending champions, but both players chose to participate with different partners. Namigata partnered Arina Rodionova, while Takahata played alongside Megumi Nishimoto. Takahata and Nishimoto beat Namigata and Rodionova in the first round, however they lost to Tara Moore and Amra Sadiković in the quarterfinals.

Naomi Broady and Asia Muhammad won the title after defeating Moore and Sadiković 6–2, 6–0 in the final.

Naomi Broady
Naomi Broady (/ˈbroʊdi/ BROH-dee; born 28 February 1990) is a British former tennis player.

She won one WTA Tour doubles title, as well as nine singles titles and 20 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 7 March 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 76. On 22 May 2017, she peaked at No. 56 in the doubles rankings.
Ufa electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)
The Ufa electoral district (Russian: Уфимский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election.

The electoral district covered the Ufa Governorate. Ufa was a multinational constituency. List 1, the 'Federalists-Bashkirs' (fielded by the Ufa Governorate Secretariat of the Bashkir Central Council), was headed by Ahmet-Zaki Ahmetšachovič Validov. The SR list was dominated by leftist elements.

In the Ust-Katav volost (hosting the Ust-Katav Wagon-Building Plant), out of 5,062 votes cast, 4,222 votes went to the Bolshevik list and 750 to the SR list. In the Zlatoust uezd, the Bashkir Federalist list obtained 58.2% of the vote, in the Sterlitamak uezd they obtained 50.8% of the vote.

Ust-Katav Wagon-Building Plant
The Ust-Katav Wagon-Building Plant, officially the Ust-Katavskiy Carriage Works named after S. M. Kirov (Russian: Усть-Катавский вагоностроительный завод имени С. М. Кирова, romanized: Ust'-Katavskiy Vagonostroitel'nyy Zavod imeni S. M. Kirova) is a railroad carriage works in Ust-Katav, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.

From 1947 to the end of the 20th century (before the series KTM-8), the factory built trams under the brand name KТМ, which is often used as an informal designation for subsequent models with digital items (e.g. tram 71-619 is also known as KTM-19).
Graham Hicks
Graham Hicks (born 15 November 1985 in Morecambe, Lancashire) is an English strongman and powerlifter.

A Britain's Strongest Man champion and a two time Europe's Strongest Man bronze medalist, he is one of the best deadlifters in strongman.

Strongman
Strongman is a competitive strength sport that tests athletes' physical strength and endurance through a variety of heavy lifts and events. Strongman competitions are known for their intensity, pushing athletes to their physical and mental limits. In modern strongman, athletes compete to score points based on their relative position in an event. An athlete who engages in the sport of strongman is also called a 'strongman'. They are often regarded as some of the strongest men of the world.
Maybole railway station (1856–1860)
Maybole railway station was a railway station serving the village of Maybole, South Ayrshire, Scotland. The station was originally part of the Ayr and Maybole Junction Railway (worked and later owned by the Glasgow and South Western Railway).

Ayr and Maybole Junction Railway
The Ayr and Maybole Junction Railway (A&MJR) was a railway in Ayrshire, Scotland that provided services between Ayr and Maybole. It opened in 1856 and was seen as a link in providing a through line between Glasgow and Portpatrick, then the ferry port for the north of Ireland.

Although a short line, it succeeded in achieving profitability, eventually being absorbed on generous terms by the Glasgow and South Western Railway.

The line is still in use today as part of the Glasgow South Western Line.
2012 CECAFA Cup statistics
The following are the statistics for the 2012 CECAFA Cup, which took place in Kampala, Uganda from 24 November to 8 December 2012. All statistics are correct as of 20:00 UTC+3 on 8 December 2012. Goals scored from penalty shoot-outs are not counted.

Somalia national football team
The Somalia national football team (Somali: Kooxda Qaranka Soomaaliya) represents Somalia in international football and is controlled by the Somali Football Federation (SFF), a member of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). Somalia's first national team captain was Mohamed Shangole, while its longest serving captain has been Hasan Babay.
Andy Qunta
Anderson Amos Temba "Andy" Qunta (born 9 January 1951) is an English singer, songwriter, composer and musician. In a career spanning more than 40 years, Qunta is best known as the keyboardist of the Australian rock band Icehouse from between 1982 and 1988. As a popular musician, he has been influenced by artists including the Who, Cliff Richard, Jimi Hendrix, Genesis, Manfred Mann, Yes, Todd Rundgren and Queen.

Manfred Mann
Manfred Mann were an English-based rock band formed in London in 1962. They were named after their keyboardist Manfred Mann. The group had two lead vocalists: Paul Jones from 1962 to 1966 and Mike d'Abo from 1966 to 1969. Other members of various group line-ups were Mike Hugg, Mike Vickers, Dave Richmond, Tom McGuinness, Jack Bruce and Klaus Voormann.

Prominent in the Swinging London scene of the 1960s, the group regularly appeared in the UK Singles Chart. Their breakthrough hit "5-4-3-2-1" (1964) was the theme tune for the ITV pop music show Ready Steady Go!. The band achieved a UK and US No. 1 hit with "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" (1964) and two further UK No. 1 singles, "Pretty Flamingo" (1966) and "Mighty Quinn" (1968).
Sena, Yemen
Sena, officially known as Sana, (Yemeni Arabic: صناء, IPA: [sˤɑnaːʔ]; Old South Arabian: 𐩮𐩬𐩱 ṣnʾ) is an ancient abandoned town in Yemen located in the remote eastern Hadramaut valley. This village is distinct from the similarly named capital of Yemen, Sana'a (Arabic),  and the town of Sanāw in Oman.

The locality of Sena is frequently mentioned in the history of the Lemba people; who patrilineally primarily descend from Ancient Semitic traders who migrated to Africa and intermarried with Bantu women somewhere along the Swahili Coast, who then migrated both interolaterally and southwards into Southern Africa.

South Semitic languages
South Semitic is a putative branch of the Semitic languages, which form a branch of the larger Afroasiatic language family, found in (North and East) Africa and Western Asia. The grouping is controversial and several alternate classifications supplanting South Semitic have been proposed in recent decades.
Ovsiyenko
Ovsiyenko (Ukrainian: Овсієнко) is a Ukrainian surname. It is shared by the following people:

Tatyana Ovsiyenko, Russian singer; see Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest

Vasyl Ovsienko (Ovsiyenko), member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group

Volodymyr Ovsienko (Ovsiyenko) (b. 1978), Ukrainian association football player

Yevgeny Ovsiyenko (b. 1988), Russian association football player

Ukrainian Helsinki Group
The Ukrainian Helsinki Group (Ukrainian: Українська Гельсінська Група, romanized: Ukrainska Helsinska Hrupa) was founded on November 9, 1976, as the Ukrainian Public Group to Promote the Implementation of the Helsinki Accords on Human Rights (Ukrainian: Українська громадська група сприяння виконанню гельсінських угод, romanized: Ukrainska hromadska hrupa spryiannia vykonanniu helsinskykh uhod) to monitor human rights in Ukraine. The group was active until 1981 when all members were jailed.

The group's goal was to monitor the Soviet Government's compliance with the Helsinki Accords, which ensure human rights. The members of the group based the group's legal viability on the provision in the Helsinki Final Act, Principle VII, which established the rights of individuals to know and act upon their rights and duties.
Solid Ground (John Anderson album)
Solid Ground is the thirteenth studio album by American country music artist John Anderson. It was released in 1993 under BNA Records. The album includes the singles "Money in the Bank" (his final Number One hit), I've Got It Made", "I Fell in the Water", and "I Wish I Could Have Been There". Also included is "Bad Love Gone Good", which was written by Dave Robbins, Van Stephenson, and Henry Paul, who comprised the band BlackHawk at the time. They later recorded this song on their 1995 album Strong Enough.

BNA Records
BNA Records, formerly known as BNA Entertainment, was a label group that shared ties with Arista Nashville and RCA Nashville from parent company Sony Music Nashville, which itself is a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, BNA featured country music acts on its roster. The company derived its name from the IATA and ICAO airport codes for Nashville International Airport.

The label was founded by Boomer Castleman, who sold it to BMG Music in 1993. The first act signed was B. B. Watson.

In August 2011, Sony Nashville announced a major corporate restructuring which included the merger of Columbia Nashville into BNA. The BNA name was retired in June 2012, with the last remaining artists moving to a newly re-established Columbia Nashville.
Vincent Gregory
Vincent "Vince" Gregory (July 20, 1948 – October 21, 2022) was an American law enforcement officer and politician who served as a member of the Michigan Senate from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, Gregory served as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2009 to 2011. He also served as a deputy in the Wayne County Sheriff's Department for 30 years, and was the Democratic nominee for Oakland County Sheriff in 2020.

Southfield, Michigan
Southfield is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. An inner-ring suburb of Detroit, Southfield lies roughly 15 miles (24.1 km) northwest of downtown Detroit. The city had a population of 76,618 at the 2020 census.

Southfield home to multiple business districts, including the Southfield City Centre (an edge city which contains the tallest building in Detroit's suburbs) and the area surrounding the former Northland Center shopping mall. It is also home to  Lawrence Technological University. The city was originally part of Southfield Township before incorporating in 1958. The autonomous city of Lathrup Village is an enclave within Southfield.
Fanisławiczki
Fanisławiczki [faniswaˈvit͡ʂki] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Łopuszno, within Kielce County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 9 km (6 mi) south-east of Łopuszno and 22 km (14 mi) west of the regional capital Kielce.

Łopuszno
Łopuszno [wɔˈpuʂnɔ] is a town in Kielce County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Łopuszno. It lies approximately 27 km (17 mi) west of the regional capital Kielce.
Lục Yên district
Lục Yên is a former rural district of Yên Bái province, in the Northeast region of Vietnam. As of 2019, the district had a population of 108,817. The district covers an area of 811 km2. The district capital lies at Yên Thế. Numerous quarries in the district produce gemstones such as rubies, spinel, and tourmaline.

Northeast (Vietnam)
Đông Bắc (literally "Northeast" from Chinese: 東北; pinyin: Dōngběi) is the region to the north of the Red River Delta in Vietnam, bordering China. It is called Northeast to distinguish it from the Tây Bắc (Chinese: 西北; pinyin: Xīběi) or "Northwest", but it is actually in the north and northeast of Hanoi, wider than Việt Bắc (Chinese: 越北联区; pinyin: Yuè Běi Lián Qū) or "Northern Vietnam". The Northeast is one of three sub-regions of Northern Vietnam (the other two sub-regions are the Northwest and the Red River Delta). Sometimes the Northeast includes the Red River Delta.
Piparwani
Piparwani village is located in Kurai Tehsil of Seoni district in Madhya Pradesh, India. It is situated 27 km away from sub-district headquarter Kurai and 60 km away from district headquarter Seoni. As per 2009 statistics, Peeparwani is the gram panchayat of the Piparwani village. The total geographical area of the village is 607.94 hectares.

There are about 629 houses in Piparwani village. Seoni is the nearest town to Piparwani which is approximately 60 km away. The major road that passes through this village is Khawasa-Tirodi road, which connects National Highway 44 ( Formerly NH7) and Balaghat-Tumsar road. Piparwani is located near the Seoni-Balaghat district boundary in the south direction.

Piparwani panchayat includes three villages - Piparwani, Paraspani and Dagitola.

Balaghat
Balaghat is a city and a municipality in Balaghat district, in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Balaghat District. Wainganga River flows beside the town. The nearest airport is Birsi (Gondia).

The headquarters of the district was originally called "Burha" or "बूढ़ा". Later, however, this name fell into disuse and was replaced by "Balaghat", which was originally the name of the district only. Balaghat is known for its tile factories, rice mills and forests.
Ve Skerries
The Ve Skerries or Vee Skerries (Old Norse: Vestan sker, West Skerries) are a group of low skerries (rocky islands) three miles (4.8 km) north west of Papa Stour, on the west coast of Shetland, Scotland. They define the southwest perimeter of St Magnus Bay.

Marine Accident Investigation Branch
The Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) is a UK government organisation, authorised to investigate all maritime accidents in UK waters and accidents involving UK registered ships worldwide. Investigations are limited to establishing cause, promoting awareness of risks and preventing recurrence. It may also participate in other maritime investigations where British citizens are involved or where the UK has a substantial interest.
Medo Yhokha
Medo Yhokha is an Indian politician who is serving as Member of Nagaland Legislative Assembly from Southern Angami-I Assembly constituency. In November 2020, he was named Advisor to the Chief Minister of Nagaland.

Chief Minister of Nagaland
The Chief Minister of Nagaland is the chief executive of the Indian state of Nagaland. As per the Constitution of India, the governor is a state's de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the Nagaland Legislative Assembly, the state's governor usually invites the party (or coalition) with a majority of seats to form the government. The governor appoints the chief minister, whose council of ministers are collectively responsible to the assembly. Given that he has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.

Since 1963, eleven people belonging to seven parties have served as chief minister of Nagaland. The first three belonged to the Nagaland Nationalist Organisation, including the inaugural officeholder P. Shilu Ao. The current incumbent is Neiphiu Rio of the Naga People's Front, in office since 8 March 2018.
Snohomish River
The Snohomish River is a river in Snohomish County, Washington, formed by the confluence of the Skykomish and Snoqualmie rivers near Monroe. It flows northwest entering Port Gardner Bay, part of Puget Sound, between Everett and Marysville. The Pilchuck River is its main tributary and joins the river at Snohomish. The river system drains the west side of the Cascade Mountains from Snoqualmie Pass to north of Stevens Pass.

Measured at Monroe, the Snohomish River has an average annual flow of 9,500 cubic feet per second (270 m3/s).  In comparison, the Columbia River, Washington's largest river, has an average flow of about 265,000 cubic feet per second (7,500 m3/s).

Stevens Pass
Stevens Pass (elevation 4,061 ft (1,238 m)) is a mountain pass through the Cascade Mountains located at the border of King County and Chelan County in Washington, United States. U.S. Route 2 travels over the pass, reaching a maximum elevation of 4,061 feet (1,238 m).  The Pacific Crest Trail crosses the highway at Stevens Pass. The BNSF Railway's Cascade Tunnel lies 1,180 feet (400 m) below the pass summit.

The pass is near Stevens Pass Ski Area, which is on Cowboy Mountain and Big Chief Mountain.
Kalahari Salt Pans
The Kalahari Salt Pans is the largest network of salt pans in the world.

The Kalahari Salt Pans are made up of the following:

The Makgadikgadi salt pans which were once part of the ancient and massive Makgadikgadi lake, that has dried up in the last 10000 years.

The Nxai salt pans to the north of the Makgadikgadi salt pans

The Sua pans

The Ntwetwe pans to the east of the Makgadikgadi salt pans

Ntwetwe Pan
The Ntwetwe Pan is a large salt pan within the Makgadikgadi region of Botswana. The Ntwetwe is one of three large pans within the Makgadikgadi, the other two being Nxai Pan and Sua Pan.  Ntwetwe Pan is now a seasonal lake which fills up in the rainy season. Ntwetwe was first described to the European world by David Livingstone, pursuant to his explorations in this region. Significant archaeological recoveries have occurred within the Nwetwe Pan, including Stone Age tools from people who lived in this area, in an earlier time of prehistory when a large year-round lake occupied the Nwetwe Pan area within the Makgadikgadi.
Éloi Painchaud
Éloi Painchaud is a Canadian musician from Quebec, best known as a member of the bands Okoumé and Salebarbes with his brother Jonathan Painchaud.

He has also been a composer of music for film. Alongside the band Les Colocs, he won a Prix Jutra for Best Original Music at the 12th Jutra Awards in 2010 for Through the Mist (Dédé à travers les brumes), and he was the co-writer  with his wife Jorane of "L'hymne", sung by Fred Pellerin and Céline Dion for the film Snowtime! (La guerre des tuques 3D).

He has been a Prix Jutra/Iris nominee for Best Original Music on two other occasions, receiving nods at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021 for Target Number One with Jorane and Jean-Phi Goncalves, and at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022 for The Time Thief (L'arracheuse de temps) with Pellerin.

Through the Mist
Through the Mist (French: Dédé, à travers les brumes) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jean-Philippe Duval and released in 2009. A biopic of rock musician Dédé Fortin of Les Colocs, the film stars Sébastien Ricard as Fortin.

The film's cast also included Joseph Mesiano as Mike Sawatzky, Yan Rompré as Serge Robert, Dimitri Storoge as Patrick Esposito Di Napoli and Bénédicte Décary as Nicole Bélanger, as well as Claudia Ferri, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Isabelle Brouillette and Louis Saia. However, Bélanger criticized the film as inaccurate.
Jon Hirschtick
Jon Hirschtick is a CAD software developer, founder and former CEO of SolidWorks, a popular solid modeling 3D CAD and CAE system for Microsoft Windows, and Onshape, a cloud platform for product development that includes tools for CAD, data management, collaboration, workflow, analytics, etc.

MIT Blackjack Team
The MIT Blackjack Team was a group of students and ex-students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and other leading colleges; they used card counting techniques and more sophisticated strategies to beat casinos at blackjack worldwide. The team and its successors operated successfully from 1979 through the beginning of the 21st century. Many other blackjack teams around the world have been formed with the goal of beating the casinos.