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Jamie MacDonald (footballer)
James MacDonald (born 17 April 1986) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Lowland Football League side Heart of Midlothian B.

MacDonald has previously played for Heart of Midlothian, Queen of the South, Falkirk and Alloa Athletic, Kilmarnock, Raith Rovers and Greenock Morton, and has played in three Scottish Cup finals with different clubs, winning the competition in 2012. He also represented Scotland at under-21 level.

Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C.
Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club, commonly known as Caley Thistle, Inverness CT or just Inverness, is a professional football club based in Inverness, Scotland. The team competes in Scottish League One, the third tier of the Scottish Professional Football League, and plays its home games at Caledonian Stadium.

Inverness Caledonian Thistle won the Scottish Cup in 2015, were runners-up in 2023 and were also runners-up in the Scottish League Cup in 2014. They have also won the Scottish Challenge Cup three times and the Scottish Football League First Division twice. Its highest Premiership position is third in 2014–15.
Ottiglio
Ottiglio is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 50 kilometres (31 mi) east of Turin and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) northwest of Alessandria.

Ottiglio borders the following municipalities: Casorzo, Cella Monte, Cereseto, Frassinello Monferrato, Grazzano Badoglio, Moncalvo, Olivola, and Sala Monferrato.

The actor Ernest Borgnine became honorary citizen in 2006, because his father Camillo Borgnino born in Ottiglio.

Grazzano Badoglio
Grazzano Badoglio (Grazzano Monferrato until 1939) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Asti in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 50 kilometres (31 mi) east of Turin and about 15 kilometres (9 mi) northeast of Asti.  Grazzano, which developed round the abbey founded in 961 by Aleramo, Marquess of Montferrat, was the birthplace of Pietro Badoglio, for whom it was later renamed.
Turonian
The Turonian is, in the ICS' geologic timescale, the second age in the Late Cretaceous Epoch, or a stage in the Upper Cretaceous Series. It spans the time between 93.9 ± 0.2 Ma and 89.8 ± 0.3 Ma (million years ago). The Turonian is preceded by the Cenomanian Stage and underlies the Coniacian Stage.

At the beginning of the Turonian an oceanic anoxic event (OAE 2) took place, also referred to as the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary event or the "Bonarelli Event". Sea level fall took place in the latter part of the Turonian from the highstand at the beginning of the Turonian.

International Commission on Stratigraphy
The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), sometimes unofficially referred to as the International Stratigraphic Commission, is a daughter or major subcommittee grade scientific organization that concerns itself with stratigraphical, geological, and geochronological matters, worldwide.

It is the largest subordinate body of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). The ICS is essentially a permanent working subcommittee, which meets far more regularly than the quadrennial meetings scheduled by the IUGS, when it meets as a congress or membership of the whole.
Midget Farrelly
Bernard "Midget" Farrelly AM (13 September 1944 – 6 August 2016) was the first world surfing champion.

Farrelly, was the first Australian to win a major surfing title, the 1962 Makaha International Surfing Championships, the unofficial world surfing championship of the day. In 1964 he won the inaugural World Surfing Championship at Manly Beach in Sydney.

Farrelly was also the first president, in 1961, of Australia's oldest surfboard riders club, Dee Why Surfing Fraternity, which still operates under the same name today. He presented a ten-part television series about surfing in Australia, The Midget Farrelly Surf Show, for the ABC in 1967.

Farrelly was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1985 and into the Surfing Walk of Fame at California's Huntington Beach in 2007. Farrelly died on 6 August 2016, aged 71,  from stomach cancer and liver failure.

Farrelly was posthumously inducted as a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours.

World Surfing Games
The ISA World Surfing Games, formerly known as the ISA World Surfing Championships, are organized by world governing body of surfing, the International Surfing Association (ISA), which is recognized by the International Olympic Committee.
Taniec z gwiazdami season 6
The 6th season of Taniec z Gwiazdami, the Polish edition of Dancing With the Stars, started on 9 September 2007 and ended on 25 November 2007. It was broadcast by TVN. Katarzyna Skrzynecka and new presenter Piotr Gąsowski were the hosts, and the judges were: Iwona Szymańska-Pavlović, Zbigniew Wodecki, Beata Tyszkiewicz and Piotr Galiński.

On 25 November, Anna Guzik and her partner Łukasz Czarnecki were crowned the champions.

International standard waltz
Waltz is one of the five dances in the Standard (or Modern) category of the International Style ballroom dances. It was previously referred to as slow waltz or English waltz.

Waltz is usually the first dance in the dancesport competition rounds.  It is danced exclusively in the closed position, unlike its American Style counterpart.
Paul Phillips (bodhran)
Paul Phillips (1959–2007) was one of Ireland's most popular and respected bodhrán players and teachers, immersed in the drum as an art form and in particular in the development and promotion of the style of play known as top-end. He shared stages at various times with Mary Bergin, Lunasa, Michael McGoldrick, Sean Ryan, Gerry O'Connor, Steve Cooney, Seamus Tansey and more. He was a regular member of Darragh Folk and Reely Jiggin. Phillips taught and toured widely across Europe, the United States and even as far afield as Timbuktu in the Sahara in 2006, bringing the drum to ever wider audiences. He was an experienced teacher and Comhaltas adjudicator and taught at many of the main summer schools in Ireland.

Phillips died suddenly on 16 September 2007. He had been playing music in the company of friends and was returning home to his wife Oonagh when he had a heart attack.

Michael McGoldrick
Michael McGoldrick (born 26 November 1971, in Manchester, England) is a folk musician who plays Irish flute, uilleann pipes, low whistle and bodhran. He also plays other instruments such as acoustic guitar, cittern, and mandolin.
Kuching Waterfront
The Kuching Waterfront (Malay: Tebingan Kuching), also known as the Kuching Esplanade (Malay: Tebingan Sungai Kuching) is a 1 kilometre and 890 metre long waterfront promenade and pedestrian walkway located in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. It is situated along the southern bank of the Sarawak River and has since become the foremost tourist's destination in the state.

Sidewalk
A sidewalk (North American English), pavement (British English, South African English), or footpath (Irish English, Indian English, Australian English, New Zealand English) is a path along the side of a road. Usually constructed of concrete, pavers, brick, stone, or asphalt, it is designed for pedestrians. A sidewalk is normally higher than the roadway, and separated from it by a curb. There may also be a planted strip between the sidewalk and the roadway and between the roadway and the adjacent land.
The Magic Friend
"The Magic Friend" is a song by Belgian/Dutch Eurodance band 2 Unlimited. It was released in August 1992 by Byte Records as the fourth and final single from their debut album, Get Ready! (1992). The UK release once again omitted Ray Slijngaard's rap, which lasted for 16 bars three times through, but did include some of the vocals from Anita Doth, with the "mocking chorus echoes" being abandoned as only Ray's part remains, thus leaving Anita's sole vocals as "disembodied whispers" during the middle eight. The single experienced chart success in many European countries, including Finland, where it topped the chart. Its accompanying music video was directed by David Betteridge and filmed in Australia. The Dutch leading afternoon radio program on national pop outlet Radio 3 FM/Hilversum renamed itself "The Magic Friend", after the single.

Eurodance
Eurodance (sometimes referred to as Euro-NRG) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s in Europe. It combines many elements of rap, techno and Eurodisco. This genre of music is heavily influenced by the use of rich vocals, sometimes with rapped verses. This, combined with cutting-edge synthesizers, strong bass rhythm and melodic hooks, establishes the core foundation of Eurodance music.
Kohilan Pillay Appu
Kohilan Pillay a/l Appu (born 1967) is a Malaysian politician and teacher who served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs II in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under Prime Minister Najib Razak and former Minister Anifah Aman from April 2009 to May 2013, Deputy Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities under Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and former Minister Peter Chin Fah Kui from March 2008 to April 2009 and Senator from February 2008 to February 2014. He is a member of Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC), a component party of Barisan Nasional (BN) and was a member of Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Gerakan).

Malaysian Indian Congress
The Malaysian Indian Congress (abbrev: MIC; Malay: Kongres India Se-Malaysia), formerly known as Malayan Indian Congress, is a Malaysian political party. Founded in 1946 to advocate for Indian independence from British colonial rule, it turned its focus to the struggle for independence of Malaya (now Malaysia). It positioned itself to represent the Indian community in Malaya and was a founding member of the Alliance along with the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) and Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), which later became Barisan Nasional. Previously seen as the political representative of Malaysian Indians, it has become increasingly marginalised electorally since 2008.
2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 1 – Men's 1000 metres
The men's 1000 metres race of the 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup 1, arranged in the Olympic Oval, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, was held on 14 November 2015.

Gerben Jorritsma of the Netherlands won the race, while Pavel Kulizhnikov of Russia came second, and Kjeld Nuis of the Netherlands came third. Mika Poutala of Finland won the Division B race.

Pavel Kulizhnikov
Pavel Aleksandrovich Kulizhnikov (Russian: Павел Александрович Кулижников; born 20 April 1994) is a Russian speed skater. He won the men's 500 metres event at the 2015 World Single Distance Championships as well as the 2015 World Sprint Championships, becoming the youngest winner since speed skating icon Eric Heiden of the United States. In 2015, he became the first speed skater to finish the 500-meter in under 34 seconds with a world record of 33.98. In 2020 he became the first speed skater to break 1:06 in the 1000 metres. At the 2016 World Single Distance Championships, Kulizhnikov won the men's 500 m and 1000 m, becoming the first man to win gold in both distances at the same speed skating World Single Distances Championships.
Ross Dunlop
Ross James Craufurd Dunlop MNZM (born 1954 or 1955) is a New Zealand local-body politician. He was mayor of the South Taranaki District from 2007 to 2019. In December 2024, Dunlop was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to local government.

South Taranaki District
South Taranaki is a territorial authority on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island that contains the towns of Hāwera (the seat of the district), Manaia, Ōpunake, Patea, Eltham, and Waverley. The District has a land area of 3,575.46 km2 (1,380.49 sq mi) and a population of 29,800 (June 2025).  It is part of the greater Taranaki Region.

The district straddles the boundary separating the Wellington and Taranaki provinces, resulting in the town of Waverley celebrating Wellington Anniversary Day in January, and the town of Patea 15 kilometres away celebrating Taranaki Anniversary Day in March.

Council facilities include the South Taranaki LibraryPlus which includes libraries in Manaia, Kaponga, Patea, Eltham, Opunake, Hāwera and Waverley.
Melnychenko
Melnychenko (Ukrainian: Мельниченко) or Melnichenko is a surname of Ukrainian-language origin. Derived from мельник, it means descendant of a miller. It is common in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus. Notable people with the surname include:

Anastasia Melnichenko (born 1984), Ukrainian activist

Andrey Melnichenko (born 1972), Belarusian-Russian billionaire

Hanna Melnychenko (born 1983), Ukrainian heptathlete

Ilona Melnichenko, Ukrainian ice dancer for the Soviet Union

Maksym Melnychenko (born 2005), Ukrainian footballer

Mykola Melnychenko (born 1966), Ukrainian security service officer

Serhii Melnychenko (born 1991), Ukrainian photographer, dancer

Volodymyr Melnychenko (1931–2023), Ukrainian visual artist, sculptor and architect

Yuriy Melnichenko (born 1972), Kazakhstani wrestler

Andrey Melnichenko (industrialist)
Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko (Russian: Андрей Игоревич Мельниченко, romanized: Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko; Belarusian: Андрэй Iгаравiч Мельнічэнка, romanized: Andrey Iharavich Myel′nichenka; born 8 March 1972) is a Russian-Emirati billionaire entrepreneur. He is the founder and ex-beneficiary of fertilizer producer EuroChem Group and coal producer SUEK, and was a non-executive director in both companies until 9 March 2022.

In 2022 Forbes and Bloomberg estimated his net worth at $15.8 billion and $17.4 billion respectively, which makes him one of the richest persons in Russia. In the 2023 ranking, for the first time, he took first place among Russian billionaires with a fortune of $25.2 billion (58th place in the world).

According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index his net worth is about $21.9 billion as of February 2024.

As per Forbes list of The Richest People In The World, dated 8 March 2024, Andrey Melnichenko ranked #91 with a net worth of $21.1 Billion.
Thamen
Thamen is a former village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It was located north of Uithoorn.

Thamen was a separate municipality until 1820, when it was merged with Uithoorn. Until 1819 both Thamen and Uithoorn were municipalities of the province of Utrecht.

Utrecht (province)
Utrecht (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈytrɛxt] ⓘ), officially the Province of Utrecht (Dutch: Provincie Utrecht), is a province of the Netherlands. It is located in the centre of the country, bordering the Eemmeer in the north-east, the province of Gelderland in the east and south-east, the province of South Holland in the west and south-west and the province of North Holland in the north-west and north. The province of Utrecht has a population of about 1,388,000 as of January 2023. With a land area of approximately 1,484 square kilometres (573 sq mi), it is the second smallest province in the country. Apart from its eponymous capital, major cities and towns in the province are Amersfoort, Houten, IJsselstein, Nieuwegein, Veenendaal and Zeist. The busiest railway station in the Netherlands, Utrecht Centraal, is located in the province of Utrecht.
Mahmoud Omidsalar
Mahmoud Omidsalar (Persian: محمود امیدسالار; born November 26, 1950) is an Iranian literary critic and Jordan Center for Persian Studies' Scholar in Residence. He is known for his research on Persian epic and Shahnameh in particular.
He is an editor of the Encyclopaedia Iranica and an author of The Comprehensive History of Iran.
He has criticized Eurocentrism and Orientalism in his works.

Shahnameh
The Shahnameh is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 50,000 distichs or couplets (two-line verses), the Shahnameh is one of the world's longest epic poems, and the longest epic poem created by a single author. It tells mainly the mythical and to some extent the historical past of Iran from the creation of the world until the Muslim conquest in the seventh century. Iran, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and the greater region influenced by Persian culture such as Armenia, Dagestan, Georgia, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan celebrate this national epic.

The work is of central importance in Persian culture and Persian language. It is regarded as a literary masterpiece, and definitive of the ethno-national cultural identity of Iran.
Hunterhouse College
Hunterhouse College is a cross-community all-girls' grammar school based in Finaghy, Belfast, Northern Ireland. 
It was formed from the amalgamation of two local schools – Ashleigh House School and Princess Gardens School in 1987.

As the headmistresses from both schools had the surname "Hunter" at the time of the merger, and an original headmistress was Anna Hunter, the combined school took the name "Hunterhouse College".

Hunterhouse now has its first ever headmaster. Mr Andrew Gibson has been the Principal since September 2008 and was previously Vice-Principal at Grosvenor Grammar.

In 2012 Hunterhouse celebrated its 25 Anniversary year including a concert at the Ulster Hall, Belfast, which past Hunterians, Princess Gardens and Ashleigh House pupils attended.

From 1966 to 1975, Jean Crawford Cochrane was the headmistress of Ashleigh House.

The popular comedy series Derry Girls is filmed here.

Finaghy
Finaghy (/ˈfinəxi/
 or /ˈfɪnəki/; from Irish an Fionnachadh, meaning 'the white field') is an electoral ward in the Balmoral district of Belfast City Council, Northern Ireland. It is based on the townland of Ballyfinaghy (from Irish Baile an Fhionnachaidh). There has been a small community living in the area since the 17th century, and it has been involved in the production of linen, which was key to the Lagan Valley area at the time.
Snoddy (surname)
Snoddy is a Scottish surname. Notable people with this name include:

Alan Snoddy, Northern Irish football referee

Raymond Snoddy, British journalist and media commentator

Stephen Snoddy, British curator of contemporary art

Aengus Ó Snodaigh, Irish politician bearing the Irish translation of the name Angus Snoddy.

William Snoddy (born 1957), American sprint athlete

Raymond Snoddy
Matthew Raymond Snoddy OBE, (born 1946), commonly known as Raymond Snoddy, is a British news media journalist, television presenter, author and media commentator.  From its inception in 2004, until January 2013, he was the original and sole presenter of the BBC News 24's weekly viewer right-to-reply programme NewsWatch. Snoddy started his journalistic career writing for a number of publications on issues relating to the news industry, and continues in this vein.
Antonio Salazar (baseball)
Antonio Salazar Calzado  (born 15 October 1965) is a Spanish former baseball center fielder. He played with Spain at the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona. He played six games and had 6 hits in 19 at-bats.

After retiring, he coached for the Spanish national team at the 2005 and 2007 editions of the Baseball World Cup. In 2021 he was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Royal Spanish Baseball and Softball Federation.

Royal Spanish Baseball and Softball Federation
The Royal Spanish Baseball and Softball Federation (Spanish: Real Federación Española de Béisbol y Sófbol) is the national governing body of baseball and softball in Spain. The association was established in 1944 and it is headquartered in Madrid.

The Royal Spanish Baseball and Softball Federation is responsible for the men's national baseball team, women's national baseball team, the men's national softball team, the women's national softball team and overseeing the División de Honor de Béisbol, Spain's top baseball competition.
The Hard and the Easy
The Hard and The Easy is the seventh studio album by Great Big Sea. It was released on October 11, 2005 in Canada and October 25, 2005 in the US. It reached gold status by October 25, 2005.

The album is a compilation of traditional Newfoundland songs, many of which were collected together in the Gerald S. Doyle song books. Its title is derived from a line in the folk song "Tickle Cove Pond", which appears as the closing track on the album.

The album was nominated for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year by a group at the 2006 Juno Awards.

Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Group
The Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Group was presented annually at Canada's Juno Awards to honour the best album of the year in the roots and/or traditional music genres. The award was first presented in 1996 under the name Best Roots & Traditional Album - Group, and adopted its current name in 2003. Prior to 1996, the Junos presented only a single award in the category, inclusive of both groups and solo artists, under the name Best Roots & Traditional Album.

Beginning with the 2016 ceremony, two new awards categories (Contemporary Roots Album of the Year and Traditional Roots Album of the Year) were introduced to "ensure two genres of music are not competing against each other in the same category".
Elk Creek (Turkey River tributary)
Elk Creek is a stream in Clayton County, Iowa and Delaware County, Iowa, in the United States. It is a tributary of the Turkey River.

Elk Creek was so named in 1834 when a pioneer saw a herd of elk there.

Delaware County, Iowa
Delaware County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,488. The county seat is Manchester. The county takes its name after the U.S. state of Delaware.
Sejm Constituency no. 31
Sejm Constituency no. 31 is a constituency of the Sejm (lower house of Polish parliament) in the Silesian Voivodeship, electing twelve deputies. It covers area of counties: Bieruń-Lędziny, Chorzów, Katowice, Mysłowice, Piekary Śląskie, Ruda Śląska, Siemianowice Śląskie, Świętochłowice and Tychy.

Siemianowice Śląskie
Siemianowice Śląskie (Polish pronunciation: [ɕɛmjanɔˈvit͡sɛ ˈɕlɔ̃skʲɛ]; German: Siemianowitz-Laurahütte; Silesian: Śymjanowice Ślůnskje) also known as Siemianowice is a city in Upper Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice, in the core of the Metropolis GZM - a metropolis with a population of 2 million people and is located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Brynica river (tributary of the Vistula).

It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship since its formation in 1999, previously in Katowice Voivodeship, and before then in the Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship. Siemianowice is one of the cities of the 2.7 million conurbation, the Katowice urban area, at the heart of the greater Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area populated by about 5,294,000 people. The population of the city is 65,684 (2021). Siemianowice Śląskie borders six cities: Piekary Śląskie, Chorzów, Czeladź, Będzin, Wojkowice, and the voivodeship capital Katowice.