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Steven Blaney
Steven Blaney PC (born April 8, 1965) is a Canadian businessman and politician who has been the mayor of Lévis, Quebec, since 2025. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as the Minister of Public Safety Canada from 2013 to 2015 and previously as the Minister of Veterans Affairs and Minister of State for La Francophonie in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper from 2011 to 2013. He represented the Québec riding of Lévis—Bellechasse in the Canadian House of Commons from 2006 to 2021. Despite his anglophone-sounding name, Blaney is a Francophone; his English has a marked Quebecois accent. He ran in the 2017 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election, being eliminated in the 7th round of voting.

Public Safety Canada
Public Safety Canada (PS; French: Sécurité publique Canada, SP) is the department of the Government of Canada responsible for (most) matters of public safety, emergency management, national security, and emergency preparedness in Canada.

The department is responsible to Parliament through the minister of public safety and emergency preparedness.
Middleburg Academy
Middleburg Academy (formerly Notre Dame Academy, a girl's Catholic boarding school, until it became co-educational in the 1990s, it then became a day school with an enrollment of approximately 150, until it was purchased by Middleburg Academy) was a co-educational, nonsectarian, independent secondary school,  set on a historic campus of more than 95 acres (38 ha) in Middleburg, Virginia. On June 17, 2020, Middleburg Academy announced its full closure.

Middleburg, Virginia
Middleburg is a town in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, Middleburg had a population of 669. It is the southernmost town along Loudoun County's shared border with Fauquier County.

Middleburg is known as the "Nation's Horse and Hunt Capital" for its foxhunting, steeplechases, and large estates.  The Middleburg Historic District, comprising the 19th-century center of town, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Voodoo Glow Skulls
Voodoo Glow Skulls are an American ska punk band formed in 1988 in Riverside, California, by brothers Frank, Eddie, and Jorge Casillas and their longtime friend Jerry O'Neill. Voodoo Glow Skulls first played at backyard parties and later at Spanky's Café in their hometown of Riverside, where they played shows with the Angry Samoans, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Firehose, Murphy's Law, and The Dickies.

Asian Man Records
Asian Man Records is a DIY record label run by Mike Park in San Jose, California. Park started a record label and began releasing music in 1989 under the name Dill Records, with the Asian Man label established in May 1996.
Verax (film)
Verax is a five-minute 2013 short film about the Edward Snowden leaking event in Hong Kong. Produced by amateur filmmakers in Hong Kong, it was posted to YouTube in June 2013. The name of the film originates from Snowden's codename for himself, which means "truth teller" in Latin. It was produced by the group J.Shot Videos. According to the producers, this was the first film ever produced about Snowden.

Hong Kong Police Force
The Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) is the primary law enforcement, investigative agency, and largest disciplined service under the Security Bureau of Hong Kong.

Pursuant to the one country, two systems principle, the HKPF is officially independent of the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China, which under usual circumstances may not interfere with Hong Kong’s local law enforcement matters. All HKPF officers are employed as civil servants and therefore required to pledge allegiance to the Hong Kong Basic Law.

The HKPF consists of approximately 34,000 officers, including the Hong Kong Auxiliary Police Force, civil servants, and its Marine Region (3,000 officers and 143 vessels as of 2009).
Tom Clancy's EndWar
Tom Clancy's EndWar  is a strategy video game available on Microsoft Windows and all seventh-generation platforms except the Wii, with the timing and flow of gameplay differing across platforms.  The console and PC version is a real-time tactics game designed by Ubisoft Shanghai, while the handheld versions feature turn-based tactics. It was released on Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, and Xbox 360 in November 2008. A Windows version was released in February 2009.

A sequel was in the works, but due to the game's commercial failure, it was officially cancelled on February 8, 2010.

Turn-based tactics
Turn-based tactics (TBT) is a sub-genre of strategy video games. They are turn-based simulations of operational warfare and military tactics in generally small-scale confrontations as opposed to more strategic considerations of turn-based strategy (TBS) games.  Turn-based tactical gameplay is characterized by the expectation of players to complete their tasks using only the combat forces provided to them in a generally realistic (or at least believable) manner.
Rosborough
Rosborough is the surname of the following people

Henry Rosborough Swanzy (1843–1913), Irish ophthalmic surgeon

Jim Rosborough (born 1944), American basketball coach

Patty Rosborough, American stand-up comedian

Samuel Rosborough Balcom (1888–1981), Canadian politician

Samuel Rosborough Balcom
Samuel Rosborough Balcom (March 24, 1888 – May 4, 1981) was a Canadian politician, businessman and pharmacist. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in a June 19, 1950 by-election as a Member of the Liberal Party representing the riding of Halifax, after Isnor was called to the Senate. He was re-elected in 1953 and defeated in 1957. Prior to his federal political experience, he was a commanding officer in medical stores during World War II between 1942 and 1942. Between 1944 and 1945, he was chief medical stores inspection officer in the Canadian Army.
Krzyżowice, Brzeg County
Krzyżowice [kʂɨʐɔˈvit͡sɛ] (German Kreisewitz) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Olszanka, within Brzeg County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

The name of the village is of Polish origin and comes from the word krzyż, which means "cross".

Brzeg County
Brzeg County (Polish: powiat brzeski [ˈpɔvʲat ˈbʐɛskʲi]) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Opole Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Brzeg, which lies 39 kilometres (24 mi) north-west of the regional capital Opole. The county also contains the towns of Grodków, lying 22 km (14 mi) south of Brzeg, and Lewin Brzeski, 17 km (11 mi) south-east of Brzeg.

The county covers an area of 876.52 square kilometres (338.4 sq mi). As of 2019 its total population is 90,054, out of which the population of Brzeg is 35,890, that of Grodków is 8,595, that of Lewin Brzeski is 5,736, and the rural population is 39,833.
Joug
The joug or Scots pint or Scottish pint (Scottish Gaelic: pinnt) was a Scottish unit of liquid volume measurement that was in use from at least 1661 – possibly as early as the 15th century – until the early 19th century, approximately equivalent to 1696 mL or roughly three imperial pints.

The standard was held at Stirling and thereby called the Stirling Jug. It went astray in 1745 and its loss was hidden by replacement by a standard pewter jug of roughly the same size. The error was discovered by Rev Alexander Bryce in 1750, who after a long search found the damaged jug in the attic of a Mr Urquhart, a coppersmith in Stirling, and restored the standard.

Bakers used the measure until the late 19th century.

One joug was sixteen Scottish gills (of approximately 106 mL each)

One joug was four mutchkins (of approximately 424 mL each)

One joug was two chopins (of approximately 848 mL each)

Eight jougs made a Scottish gallon (approximately 13.568 L)

Alexander Bryce (minister)
Alexander Bryce (1713–1786) was a Church of Scotland minister, mathematician, astronomer, scientist and poet who was Chaplain in Ordinary to King George III from 1770 to 1786.

He was a polymath and a friend of Robert Wallace and Colin Maclaurin.

In 1772 he explained the principles of creating an altimeter ultimately put into use to create the instruments.
Cameron Dantzler
Cameron Dantzler Sr. (born September 3, 1998) is an American professional football cornerback for the Louisville Kings of the United Football League (UFL). He played college football for the Mississippi State Bulldogs and was selected in the third round of the 2020 NFL draft by the Minnesota Vikings.

Mississippi State Bulldogs football
The Mississippi State Bulldogs football program represents Mississippi State University in the sport of American football. The Bulldogs compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as well as the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They also have won one SEC championship in 1941 and a division championship in 1998. The Bulldogs have 27 postseason bowl appearances. The program has produced 38 All-Americans (three consensus), 171 All-SEC selections, and 124 NFL players (11 first-round draft picks). The Bulldogs’ home stadium, Davis Wade Stadium at Scott Field, is the second oldest in the NCAA Division I FBS.
Tiancun Road Subdistrict
Tiancun Road Subdistrict (Chinese: 田村路街道; pinyin: Tiáncūnlù Jiēdào) is a subdistrict on the southwest of Haidian District, Beijing, China. It borders Sijiqing Town in the north, Shuguang and Balizhuang Subdistricts in the east, Yongding Road, Wanshou Road and Laoshan Subdistricts in the south, and Bajiao Subdistrict in the west. As of 2020 it had a population of 108,088.

The subdistrict was established in 2000, and was named for the Tiancun (Chinese: 田村; lit. 'Farmland Village') Road that passed through it.

Haidian, Beijing
Haidian (Chinese: 海淀区; pinyin: Hǎidiàn Qū) is a northwest urban district of Beijing, bordering Xicheng and Fengtai.

It is 431 km2 (166 sq mi) in area, making it the second-largest district in urban Beijing area (after Chaoyang), and is home to 3,133,469 inhabitants as of November 2020. According to the latest 2025 census data, the population of Haidian District is 3.122 million.
Alakdana
Alakdana (international title: The Lady Scorpion) is a 2011 Philippine television drama fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mac Alejandre, it stars Louise delos Reyes in the title role. It premiered on January 24, 2011 on the network's Dramarama sa Hapon line up. The series concluded on May 13, 2011 with a total of 78 episodes.

The series is streaming online on YouTube.

Philippine television drama
Philippine television drama, also known as teleserye is a form of melodramatic, serialized, televised fiction in the Philippines. Teleserye is derived from two Filipino words: "tele", short for "telebisyón" (television), and "serye" (series).

Teleseryes share characteristics with and have roots similar to soap operas and telenovelas. They have evolved into a genre with unique characteristics, however, and often reflect Filipino social reality. Teleseryes are aired in the afternoon and prime time, five days a week. Their audience crosses age and gender lines, and they have the highest advertising rates in the Philippine television industry. Series last from three months to a year or longer, depending on ratings.

Philippine TV dramas also include serials and anthologies, usually shown weekly. These dramas have a finite number of episodes and usually last one season, again depending on ratings.
Dittmar
Dittmar is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Andy Dittmar (born 1974), athlete

Chris Dittmar (born 1964), squash player

G. Walter Dittmar (1872–1949), dentist

Gudrun Klaus-Dittmar, sprint canoer

Hans Dittmar (1902–1967), sailor

Heini Dittmar (1912–1960), glider pilot

Kurt Dittmar (1891–1959), general

Louise Dittmar (1807–1884), German feminist and philosopher

Sabine Dittmar (born 1964), German politician

Trudy Dittmar (born 1944), author

Wally Dittmar (died 1983), football player

William Dittmar (1833–1892), scientist

William Dittmar
William Dittmar (1833 – 1892) was a German-born scientist renowned as a chemical analyst. He was based largely in Scotland. He did much analytical work on the findings from the Challenger expedition.

He was the first to confirm the Principle of Constant Proportions, a theory first conjectured in 1865 by Johan Georg Forchhammer regarding the major ions of sea-water: that whilst salinity varied across the oceans, the ratios of ionic abundance remained constant. As a result, this principle is often called "Dittmar's Principle" or "Forchhammer's Principle". 
His research also included calculations of the atomic weight of platinum, and the examination of hydrates, carbonates and peroxides of the alkali metals.
Mechi Zone
Mechi (Nepali: मेची अञ्चल Listenⓘ) was one of the fourteen zones of Nepal until the restructuring of zones to provinces, comprising four districts; namely Ilam, Jhapa, Panchthar and Taplejung. Its headquarters are at Ilam. It comes under the Eastern Development Region of Nepal. The Indian state of Bihar is to the south, West Bengal and Sikkim in the east and Tibet to the north. The largest town is Damak in the Terai. The majority of the population in Mechi are Limbu, Chettri, Bharmin, Maithil and Meche.

Damak Municipality
Damak (Nepali: दमक) is one of the oldest municipalities in Jhapa District of Koshi Province in eastern Nepal. It is situated between the Ratuwa River in the east and the Maawa River in the west. It has Sivalik Hills in its north and ends with the intersection of Ratuwa River and Maawa River in the south. Mahendra Highway, the longest highway of Nepal, bisects the municipality. It is the city in Jhapa District with a population of 107,410 in 2021.
Symptosuchus
Symptosuchus is an extinct genus of goniopholidid mesoeucrocodylian. It is known from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina. Argentine paleontologist Florentino Ameghino named the genus in 1899, along with the type species S. contortidens. It was formally described by Carlos Rusconi in 1934.

Mesoeucrocodylia
Mesoeucrocodylia is the clade that includes Eusuchia and crocodyliforms formerly placed in the paraphyletic group Mesosuchia. The group appeared during the Early Jurassic, and continues to the present day.
1990 Newsweek Champions Cup – Singles
Stefan Edberg defeated Andre Agassi in the final, 6–4, 5–7, 7–6(7–1), 7–6(8–6) to win the men's singles tennis title at the 1990 Indian Wells Masters.

Miloslav Mečíř was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Richey Reneberg.

Miloslav Mečíř
Miloslav Mečíř (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈmilɔslaw ˈmetʂiːr̝̊]; born 19 May 1964) is a Slovak former professional tennis player. He won the men's singles gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games, representing Czechoslovakia, and contested two major singles finals. In 1987 he won the WCT Finals, the season-ending championship for the World Championship Tennis tour. His son Miloslav Jr. is also a former professional tennis player.
Fred Morgan (sport shooter)
Fred Hilton Morgan (30 June 1893 – 29 July 1980) was a South African sport shooter who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.

In 1920 he won the silver medal with the South African team in the team 600 metre military rifle, prone competition. He also participated in the following events:

Team 300 and 600 metre military rifle, prone - fifth place

Team 300 metre military rifle, standing - ninth place

Team 300 metre military rifle, prone - eighth place

Team 50 metre small-bore rifle - eighth place

Team free rifle - tenth place

50 metre small-bore rifle - result unknown

300 metre free rifle, three positions - result unknown

Shooting at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's 300 metre free rifle, team
The men's 300 metre team free rifle was a shooting sports event held as part of the Shooting at the 1920 Summer Olympics programme. It was the fourth and final appearance of the event. The competition was held on 31 July, 1920. 70 shooters from 14 nations competed. The event was won by the United States, in its first (and only) appearance in the men's team free rifle. Norway finished with four podium appearances (all at silver or better) in the four appearances of the event, taking silver in 1920. Switzerland earned bronze, its first medal in the event since gold in 1900.

Albert Helgerud and Gudbrand Skatteboe each won their third medal in the event, matching Ole Sæther (1900, 1908, and 1912) for the most ever won; each of those Norwegian shooters had one gold and two silver medals. Østen Østensen earned his second medal, the seventh and last man to achieve multiple medals in the event.
Frederick of Denmark (bishop)
Frederick of Denmark (13 April 1532 – 7 October 1556) was the youngest son of Frederick I of Denmark and Sophie of Pomerania. He was the Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim and Bishop of Schleswig. Frederick was born on 11 April 1532 as the youngest son of Frederick I of Denmark and Sophie of Pomarania. As the youngest son, he was proclaimed the Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim and Bishop of Schleswig. He died on 7 October 1556 unmarried. He probably died of natural causes although not much is known about him.

Prince-Bishopric of Hildesheim
The Prince-Bishopric of Hildesheim (German: Hochstift Hildesheim, Fürstbistum Hildesheim, Bistum Hildesheim, Fürstentum Hildesheim) was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire from the Middle Ages until its dissolution in 1803. The Prince-Bishopric must not be confused with the Diocese of Hildesheim, which was larger and over which the prince-bishop exercised only the spiritual authority of an ordinary bishop.
Chilla-Kimsa Chata mountain range
The Chilla-Kimsa Chata mountain range (also spelled Kimsachata, Aymara and Quechua kimsa three, Pukina chata mountain, "three mountains", Hispanicized spellings Quimsachata, Quimsa Chata) is situated in Bolivia south east of Wiñaymarka Lake, the southern part of Lake Titicaca, in the La Paz Department, Ingavi Province. The range is named after one of highest mountains, the Kimsa Chata complex rising up to 4,735 metres (15,535 ft) about 15 km south of  Tiwanaku.

The range stretches from north to south-east almost parallel to the Taraco range north of it. Wakira River flows through the valley between the two ranges and Jach'a Jawira flows along its southern slopes.

Wiñaymarka Lake
Wiñaymarka Lake (also: Huiñaymarca) is the southern branch of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia and Peru. The lake is hypothesised to have dried up during the  Middle Formative Period as a result of a long-term drop in precipitation in the Altiplano from 400 to 200 BCE.
WLR FM
WLR FM, or more commonly WLR (Waterford Local Radio) is the local radio station covering Waterford City and County, Ireland. It was named the IMRO (Irish Music Rights Organisation) "Local Station of the Year" in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024. In addition to the official franchise area, the station also has a considerable listenership in South County Kilkenny and East County Cork. Licensed by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland since 1989, WLR was originally a pirate radio station.

WLR broadcasts on three frequencies: 95.1 MHz for most of the county (and a low-power transmitter also on 95.1 MHz for Waterford city centre), 97.5 MHz for Waterford city and much of East Waterford, and a low-power transmitter on 94.8 MHz to cover the East Waterford coast. In September 2018, WLR launched a new Country and Irish digital radio station Absolute Irish Radio.

Pirate radio in Ireland
Pirate radio in Ireland has had a long history, with hundreds of pirate radio stations having operated within the country.

Due to past lax enforcement of the rules, the lack of commercial radio until 1989, and the small physical size of the country, pirate radio stations proliferated for a number of years. A small number of stations also attempted television broadcasts although most of these ventures were short-lived.
Harry Carter (politician)
Harry Charles Carter (5 May 1874 – 25 July 1952) was an Australian politician.

He was born at Attleborough, Norfolk, England, to farming bailiff Edward Carter and Dinah Louisa, née Woor. He was educated locally and emigrated to Sydney in 1892, working as a farm hand near Singleton and as a bookkeeper near Quirindi. From 1895 he ran his own property, Yarraman North near Quirindi, which he purchased outright in 1909. On 25 April 1900 he married Elsie Maude Tate, with whom he had four children. He served on Tamarang Shire Council from 1914 to 1928, and later expanded his holdings to include an additional property called Woorak. In 1927 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Country Party member for Liverpool Plains, serving until his retirement in 1941. Carter died at Willoughby in 1952.

Tamarang Shire
Tamarang Shire is a former local government area in New South Wales, Australia.

Tamarang Shire included a long narrow strip of land stretching across the southern Liverpool Plains,  east and west of, but not including Quirindi, New South Wales,  which had a separate municipal local government area.  There were several villages, but no significant towns, in the shire.

It was merged with Quirindi Municipality in 1981 to form Quirindi Shire,  which was subsequently merged with parts of several other shires to form Liverpool Plains Shire, in 2004.
Tillard
Tillard is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Charles Tillard (1851–1944), English cricketer

Conrad Tillard (born 1964), American Baptist minister, radio host, author, activist, and politician

Elliot Tillard (1880–1967), English first-class cricketer

James Tillard, first person to land on Sabrina Island in the Azores

John Tillard (1924–2019), former English cricketer

Violet Tillard (1874−1922), English suffragette, nurse and pacifist

Sabrina Island (Azores)
Sabrina Island (Portuguese: Ilha Sabrina) was an islet formed during the months of June and July 1811 by a submarine volcanic eruption off the coast of Ponta da Ferraria, São Miguel Island, Azores. The first person to land on the island was Commander James Tillard, captain of the British warship HMS Sabrina, who hoisted the Union Jack on the island and claimed sovereignty for Great Britain. A diplomatic row with Portugal over the issue ensued, which the island's sinking back into the sea rendered moot.
Poduri
Poduri is a commune in Bacău County, Western Moldavia, Romania. It is composed of seven villages: Bucșești, Cernu, Cornet, Negreni, Poduri, Prohozești, and Valea Șoșii.

The Poduri archeological site of the Late Neolithic Cucuteni-Trypillian culture is significant due to its thirteen habitation levels that were constructed on top of each other over many years.

Western Moldavia
Western Moldavia (Romanian: Moldova Occidentală, Moldova de Apus, or Moldova de Vest), also known as Romanian Moldavia, is the core historic and geographical part of the former Principality of Moldavia situated in eastern and north-eastern Romania. Until its union with Wallachia in 1859, the Principality of Moldavia also included, at various times in its history, the regions of Bessarabia (with the Budjak), all of Bukovina, and Hertsa; the larger part of the former is nowadays the independent state of Moldova, while the rest of it, the northern part of Bukovina, and Hertsa form territories of Ukraine.

Romanian Moldavia consists of eight counties, spanning over 18% of Romania's territory. Six out of the 8 counties make up Romania's designated Nord-Est development region, while the two southern counties are included within Romania's Sud-Est development region. It comprises roughly 48.67% of the wider region of Moldavia.