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African Footballer of the Year
The African Footballer of the Year award, presented annually to the best African footballer, has been conferred by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) since 1992. It has been included as part of the CAF Awards ceremony since 2000.

Samuel Eto'o and Yaya Touré have won the award the most times (four wins each). Two-time winner Didier Drogba is the player with the most runner-up appearances (four), most third place finishes (third), and most appearances in the top three (nine).

The France-born Frédéric Kanouté, Riyad Mahrez and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, England-born Ademola Lookman and Spain-born Achraf Hakimi are the only European-born players to win the award (both Kanouté and Aubameyang initially featured for France's U21 squad before going on to represent Mali and Gabon, respectively). The winner of the 2025 edition was Achraf Hakimi.

Mali national football team
The Mali national football team (Bambara:  Mali jamana ntolatantɔn, French: Équipe du Mali de football) represents Mali in men's international football and is governed by the Malian Football Federation. The team's nickname is Les Aigles. They represent the country at tournaments organized by both FIFA and the Confederation of African Football (CAF).

While Mali is a major youth football power in both Africa and the world, they have never qualified for any senior FIFA World Cup finals in history. They have qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations on 14 occasions.

Mali were suspended by FIFA on 17 March 2017 due to 'government interference' with the national football association, namely dissolving its executive committee. However, the side was re-instated by FIFA on 29 April after the executive committee was re-introduced by the Malian government.
2003 European Junior Canoe Slalom Championships
The 2003 European Junior Canoe Slalom Championships  were the 5th edition of the European Junior Canoe Slalom Championships. The event took place in Hohenlimburg, Germany from 10 to 13 July 2003 under the auspices of the European Canoe Association (ECA). A total of 8 medal events took place.

European Canoe Association
The European Canoe Association (ECA) is the umbrella organization for canoeing sport in Europe. It was founded in Rome, Italy, on December 11, 1993. The organization has 45 member countries. The association was recognized by the International Canoe Federation at the ICF congress in Acapulco in 1994.

In response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the ECA suspended the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes, and suspended all officials from Russia and Belarus from officiating at any ECA event and attending or taking part in any ECA meetings. In May 2023, the International Canoe Federation reinstated Russian and Belarusian athletes, shortly after a Russian missile attack forced cancellation of a canoe event in Ukraine.
Sangaldan
Sangaldan is a town near Ramban town in the Ramban district of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It falls in the Gool-Gulabgarh area of the Chenab valley.

Gool valley as it is locally and largely known is famous for its lush green hills, snow laden mountains trails and famous tourist destinations like Jabbad, Gool, Digham (Ghoda gali), Rama Kunda, Dagan Top etc.

Movalkote, a village near the Sangaldan Railway Station is also a very beautiful place to be. M

Gool falls within the political boundaries of jammu province but has historically, culturally been a part of kashmir valley. Sangaldan is one of several towns which are within the territory of Gool Sub-block.

Chenab Valley
The Chenab Valley, also known as the Chenab Region, is the river valley of the Chenab River flowing through the Kishtwar, Doda, and Ramban districts in the Jammu division of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
History of cricket in the West Indies
The history of cricket in the West Indies is covered in the following articles:

History of cricket in the West Indies to 1918

History of cricket in the West Indies from 1918–19 to 1945

History of cricket in the West Indies from 1945–46 to 1970

History of cricket in the West Indies from 1970–71 to 1980

History of cricket in the West Indies from 1980–81 to 1990

History of cricket in the West Indies from 1990–91 to 2000

History of cricket in the West Indies from 2000–01

History of cricket in the West Indies from 1980–81 to 1990
This article describes the history of West Indies cricket from 1981 to 1990.

During this decade, the West Indies cricket team dominated Test cricket.  Outstanding players of the time were the captain Viv Richards, opening batsmen Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes, wicketkeeper-batsman Jeff Dujon and a battery of fast bowlers headed by Malcolm Marshall and including Joel Garner, Michael Holding, Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh.  The only "achilles heel" in this outstanding team was the lack of a quality spin bowler.
Julia Soek
Julia Soek (born 12 December 1990) is a Dutch former racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI Women's WorldTeam Team DSM. She competed in the 2013 UCI women's team time trial in Florence. In September 2021 Soek announced that she would retire from competition at the end of the season. The following month it emerged that she would join Drops–Le Col as a directeur sportif for 2022. In the same year she followed a directeur sportif course at the World Cycling Centre in Switzerland. In 2023 she joined the new Dutch UCI Continental team TDT–Unibet Cycling Team as directeur sportif, and took over the role of head sports director the following year.

2013 UCI Road World Championships – Women's team time trial
The Women's team time trial of the 2013 UCI Road World Championships took place on 22 September 2013 in the region of Tuscany, Italy.

The course of the race was 42.79 km (26.6 mi) from the town of Pistoia to the Nelson Mandela Forum in Florence.
Kolonia Szczercowska
Kolonia Szczercowska [kɔˈlɔɲa ʂt͡ʂɛrˈt͡sɔfska] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Szczerców, within Bełchatów County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 4 km (2 mi) north-west of Szczerców, 20 km (12 mi) west of Bełchatów, and 55 km (34 mi) south-west of the regional capital Łódź.

Bełchatów County
Bełchatów County (Polish: powiat bełchatowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Łódź Voivodeship, central 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 Bełchatów, which lies 47 kilometres (29 mi) south of the regional capital Łódź. The only other town in the county is Zelów, lying 16 km (10 mi) north-west of Bełchatów.

The county covers an area of 969.21 square kilometres (374.2 sq mi). As of 2006 its total population is 112,640, out of which the population of Bełchatów is 62,062, that of Zelów is 8,173, and the rural population is 42,405.
Jan Kruliš
Jan Kruliš (born October 3, 1969) is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman.

Kruliš played in the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League and the Czech Extraliga for HC Kladno and HC Sparta Praha. He also played in the Japan Ice Hockey League for Furukawa Ice Hockey Club, the Austrian Hockey League for EHC Linz and the Elite Ice Hockey League for the Nottingham Panthers.

Japan Ice Hockey League
The Japan Ice Hockey League (JIHL) (日本アイスホッケーリーグ) was an annual ice hockey league that began in 1966 and ended in 2004 when it was replaced by Asia League Ice Hockey. Only Japanese teams competed in the JIHL.

Baseball and football have been the dominant Japanese sports for decades, but ice hockey in Japan started in the 1920s.

Teams have been competing in the All Japan Championships since 1930, making the tournament one of the oldest sporting competitions in the country.

Professional hockey arrived in 1966 with the Japan Ice Hockey League. Originally a five-team league, the JIHL expanded to six teams in 1974 and stayed that way until tough economic times led to budget cutbacks and eventually the demise of the league in 2004.

Organizers decided the sport could only prosper in Asia if teams in Japan, China and South Korea formed a multinational league, and in 2004 the 38-year-old JIHL was abandoned in favor of Asia League Ice Hockey.
Lindsay Gordon Scott
Lindsay Gordon Scott ARAIA (4 October 1898 – 4 January 1941) was an Australian architect best associated for his design of the Erskineville Town Hall and numerous surf pavilions in New South Wales, including several on the Northern Beaches of Sydney.

Collaroy, New South Wales
Collaroy is a suburb in northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Collaroy is 22 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Northern Beaches Council. It is part of the Northern Beaches region. Nicknamed "The Roy" by many of the locals.
Yvon Krevé
Henry Green-Dupré, known by his stage names of Yvon Krevé and Von Von le Vet, is a French Canadian hip hop artist of Haitian origin. Krevé was rose to notice following collaborations with the duo Sans Pression. His 2000 debut, L'accent grave, topped the Quebec sales charts and was nominated for an ADISQ hip-hop award in 2001, and won best francophone album at the Canadian Music Awards. and in 2009 was described in the newspaper La Presse as one of the five albums that had defined Quebec rap. A single from that album, "Yvon Krevé", reached number one on the countdown programme for Canada's leading francophone music video channel (Décompte MusiquePlus). The name is a play on words: while Yvon is a not-uncommon first name, it matches the informal Quebec French pronunciation of ils vont (they will). Thus the full name sounds like ils vont crever, or "they will die".

Wordplay
Wordplay (also: play-on-words) is a literary technique and a form of wit in which words used become the main subject of the work, primarily for the purpose of intended effect or amusement. Examples of wordplay include puns, phonetic mix-ups such as spoonerisms, obscure words and meanings, clever rhetorical excursions, oddly formed sentences, double entendres, and telling character names (such as in the play The Importance of Being Earnest, Ernest being a given name that sounds exactly like the adjective earnest).

Wordplay is quite common in oral cultures as a method of reinforcing meaning. Examples of text-based (orthographic) wordplay are found in languages with or without alphabet-based scripts, such as homophonic puns in Mandarin Chinese.
Ornain
The Ornain (French pronunciation: [ɔʁnɛ̃] ⓘ) is a 116 km long river in northeastern France, right tributary of the Saulx (Seine basin). It is formed near the village Gondrecourt-le-Château by the confluence of the small rivers Ognon and Maldite. It flows generally northwest. Its course crosses the following départements and towns:

Meuse: Gondrecourt-le-Château, Ligny-en-Barrois, Bar-le-Duc, Revigny-sur-Ornain

Marne

The Ornain flows into the Saulx in Pargny-sur-Saulx. The part of the Marne-Rhine Canal between Demange-aux-Eaux and Sermaize-les-Bains runs parallel to the Ornain.

Ligny-en-Barrois
Ligny-en-Barrois (French pronunciation: [liɲi ɑ̃ baʁwa] ⓘ, lit. 'Ligny in Barrois') is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

The town is in the arrondissement of Bar-le-Duc, beside the canal that links the rivers Rhine and Marne, fifteen kilometres to the south east of Bar-le-Duc: it is the administrative seat of the canton of Ligny-en-Barrois. The area of Ligny-en-Barrois is 32.26 km2.

A principal employer is the French Evobus motor bus assembly plant. Ligny is also the home town of the Essilor company which specialises in ophthalmic lens production.
Inverie Bay
Inverie Bay is a coastal embayment, on a chord of 2.12 miles, on a 207° orientation, on the northwestern coast of the sea loch in Loch Nevis, and is next to the village that takes its name, Inverie, within the Knoydart peninsula.

Inverie
Inverie (/ˌɪnvəˈriː/; Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Aoidh) is the main village on the Knoydart peninsula in the Scottish Highlands. It is located on the north side of Loch Nevis and, although on the mainland of Britain, the network of single-track roads surrounding the village is not connected to the rest of the British road network.

Inverie is only accessible by a 17-mile (27-kilometre) hike over mountainous terrain or by a regular 7-mile (11-kilometre) ferry from Mallaig. This physical isolation gives the village a Guinness National Record for remoteness within the United Kingdom.
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association
The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) certifies organic food and products throughout the State of Maine. It is a voluntary organization whose office is located in Unity, Maine. As of 2016, MOFGA certifies 480 producers and growers.

MOFGA also offers workshops and trainings related to organic agriculture, and organizes the annual Common Ground Country Fair.

Formed in 1971, MOFGA is one of the largest, and oldest, state organic associations in the United States. Currently MOFGA has two active satellite chapters located in Penobscot and Sagadahoc, although members live in every county of Maine as well as many other states.

Penobscot County, Maine
Penobscot County is a county in the U.S. state of Maine, named for the Penobscot people in Wabanakik. As of the 2020 census, the population was 152,199, making it the third-most-populous county in Maine. Its county seat is Bangor. The county was established on February 15, 1816, from part of Hancock County when the area was still part of Massachusetts. Penobscot County is home to the University of Maine.

Penobscot County comprises the Bangor, ME Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Sylph (ship)
Several ships have been named Sylph, for the Sylph, a mythological creature in western tradition.

Sylph (1791 ship) was launched at Whitby. She made one voyage for the British East India Company (EIC) to New South Wales and China. However, a French privateer captured her in 1798 as she was returning to England.

Sylph (1815 ship) was a brig of 150 tons (bm) launched at Chittagong. She was later renamed Laura, and was sold at Mauritius.

Sylph, of 233 tons (bm) and six guns was launched in 1812 and commissioned in Baltimore in 1814 as a privateer

Sylph (1831 ship) was a clipper ship built in Calcutta. Her primary role was to transport opium between various ports in the Far East. She disappeared  en route to Singapore in 1849.

Sylph (pilot boat) 19th-century pilot boat first built in 1834, by Whitmore & Holbrook.

Sylph (pilot boat)
The Sylph was a 19th-century pilot boat first built in 1834, by Whitmore & Holbrook for John Perkins Cushing as a Boston yacht and pilot-boat for merchant and ship owner Robert Bennet Forbes. She won the first recorded American yacht race in 1835. She was a pilot boat in the Boston Harbor in 1836 and 1837 and sold to the New York and Sandy Hook Pilots in October 1837. She was lost in winter of 1857 with all hands during a blizzard off Barnegat, New Jersey. The second Sylph was built in 1865 from a half-model by Dennison J. Lawlor. The third Sylph was built in 1878 at Nathaniel Porter Keen Shipyard on the Fore River in North Weymouth, Massachusetts for Boston Pilots. She was sold out of service in 1901, after 23 years of Boston pilot service.
Razors Edge World Tour
The Razors Edge World Tour was a concert tour played by the Australian hard rock band AC/DC, in support of their twelfth studio album The Razors Edge. This tour had 5 legs around the world lasting 12 months starting on 2 November 1990 in Worcester, Massachusetts, finishing on 16 November 1991 in Auckland, New Zealand.

Malcolm Young
Malcolm Mitchell Young (6 January 1953 – 18 November 2017) was an Australian musician who was a founding member of the hard rock band AC/DC. Young was a rhythm guitarist, songwriter, and backing vocalist in the band. Except for a brief absence in 1988, Young was a member of AC/DC from its formation in 1973 until his retirement in 2014. As a member of AC/DC, Young was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003. In 2023, Rolling Stone named Young and his younger brother and fellow AC/DC member Angus Young the 38th-best guitarists of all time.
Sir Alexander Maitland, 1st Baronet
Sir Alexander Maitland, 1st Baronet (21 March 1728 – 15 February 1820) was a general in the British Army and the first of the Maitland baronets of Clifton.  He was the fifth son of Charles Maitland, 6th Earl of Lauderdale.

General (United Kingdom)
General (or full general to distinguish it from the lower general officer ranks) is the highest rank achievable by serving officers of the British Army and the Royal Marines.  The rank can also be held by Royal Marines officers in tri-service posts, for example, Generals Sir Gordon Messenger and Sir Gwyn Jenkins, former Vice-Chiefs of the Defence Staff. It ranks above lieutenant-general and, in the Army, is subordinate to the rank of field marshal, which is now awarded as an honorary rank only.  The rank of general has a NATO-code of OF-9, and is a four-star rank.  It is equivalent to a full admiral in the Royal Navy or an air chief marshal in the Royal Air Force.

Officers holding the ranks of general, lieutenant-general and major-general are 'general officers' and may be addressed as 'general'.
CKKX-FM
CKKX-FM is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts a CHR/Top 40 format at 106.1 FM in Peace River, Alberta and has rebroadcasters in High Level, Fairview, High Prairie, and Manning. The station is branded as Kix FM and is owned by Peace River Broadcasting.

The station received approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in 1997.

Manning, Alberta
Manning is a town in northern Alberta, Canada. It is known as the "Land of the Mighty Moose".  It is on Highway 35 on the Notikewin River, approximately 73 km (45 mi) north of Peace River.

Manning is a service centre for the local agriculture, forestry and gas industries.  It also serves the nearby rural area within the County of Northern Lights including Deadwood, Hotchkiss, North Star and Notikewin.
Randall Cole
Randall Cole is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He is most noted for his 2008 film Real Time, for which he was a Genie Award nominee for Best Original Screenplay at the 29th Genie Awards in 2009.

Originally from London, Ontario, he is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre. He also wrote and directed the feature films 19 Months (2002) and 388 Arletta Avenue (2011), and was a writer for the horror television series Darknet.

Genie Awards
The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the best of Canadian cinema from 1980–2012. They succeeded the Canadian Film Awards (1949–1978). In 2013, the Academy merged the Genie Awards with its sister presentation for television, the Gemini Awards, to form the Canadian Screen Awards.

Genie Award candidates were selected from submissions made by the owners of Canadian films or their representatives, based on the criteria laid out in the Genie Rules and Regulations booklet which were distributed to Academy members and industry members. Peer-group juries, assembled from volunteer members of the Academy, met to watch the submissions and select a group of nominees. Academy members then voted on these nominations.
Volvo B30 engine
The B30 is an inline-six automotive petrol engine produced by Volvo starting in 1968. It was used primarily in the Volvo 164 sedan from 1969 through 1975. The engine also appeared in military, marine, industrial, agricultural, and powercraft applications.

Zenith Carburettor Company (British)
The Zenith Carburetter Company Limited was a British company making carburettors in Stanmore Middlesex, founded in 1912 as a subsidiary of the French Société du carburateur Zénith. In 1965, the company joined with its major pre-war rival Solex Carburettors, and over time, the Zenith brand name fell into disuse. The rights to the Zenith designs were owned by Solex UK (a daughter company of Solex in France).

While better known for its much later products, Zenith produced carburettors that were standard equipment on some very early, brass era automobiles, including the Scripps-Booth.
Cuéntame cómo pasó (Argentine TV series)
Cuéntame cómo pasó (transl. 'Tell me how it happened') is an Argentine television series broadcast by Televisión Pública Argentina. The series premiered on 21 August 2017, and ended on 21 December 2017.

Televisión Pública
Televisión Pública (Public Television, abbreviated TVP, callsign LS 82 TV Canal 7) is a publicly owned Argentine television network, the national public broadcaster. It began broadcasting in 1951, when LR3 Radio Belgrano Televisión channel 7 in Buenos Aires, its key station and the first television station in the country, signed on the air.
Pechea
Pechea is a commune in Galați County, Western Moldavia, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Lupele and Pechea.

At the 2021 census, the commune had a population of 10,197, of which 93.16% were Romanians.

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.
China vs. World Challenge
The China vs. World Challenge was an international table tennis competition organised by the Chinese Table Tennis Association (CTTA), the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) and Volkswagen.

Each "China vs. World Challenge" consist in a two-day team competition in Shanghai between a China and a World all-star teams.

Chinese Table Tennis Association
Chinese Table Tennis Association (Chinese: 中国乒乓球协会) is a national non-governmental, nonprofit sports organization in the People's Republic of China. It represents China in the International Table Tennis Federation and the Asian Table Tennis Union, as well as the table tennis sports in the All-China Sports Federation. As of 2025, its president is Wang Liqin.
Sadia Khan
Sadia Khan (born 9 October 1987) is a Pakistani television and film actress. She is best known for her role as Emaan in the Pakistani TV drama series Khuda Aur Muhabbat, in Season 1 and Season 2 of the show. She also played the role of Maryam in TV One's Maryam Periera (2018).

Khuda Aur Muhabbat season 2
Khuda Aur Muhabbat is a 2016 Pakistani spiritual romantic drama television series and second installment in Khuda Aur Mohabbat series, produced by Babar Javed. It features Imran Abbas, Sadia Khan and Kubra Khan in lead roles. The season premiered on 26 December 2016.