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Corinna Chong
Corinna Chong is a Canadian writer, whose novel Bad Land was longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize.

Originally from Calgary, Alberta, she currently lives in Kelowna, British Columbia, where she teaches English and fine arts at Okanagan College.

She previously published the novel Belinda's Rings in 2013, and the short story collection The Whole Animal in 2023. In 2021, she won the CBC Short Story Prize for her short story "Kids in Kindergarten", which was included in The Whole Animal.

Bad Land was published in August 2024 by Arsenal Pulp Press.

Giller Prize
The Giller Prize (formerly known as the Scotiabank Giller Prize from 2005 to 2025) is a literary award given to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection published in English (including translation) the previous year, after an annual juried competition between publishers who submit entries. The prize was established in 1994 by Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch in honour of his late wife Doris Giller, a former literary editor at the Toronto Star, and is awarded in November of each year along with a cash reward (then CAN$25,000) with the winner being presented by the previous year's winning author.

Since its inception, the Giller Prize has been awarded to emerging and established authors from both small independent and large publishing houses in Canada.

In February of 2025, the Giller Prize severed its relationship with Scotiabank, its main sponsor, after more than a year of protests.
Lakhpat Nagar railway station
Lakhpat Nagar railway station is a railway station on Lucknow–Gorakhpur line under the Lucknow NER railway division of North Eastern Railway zone. This is situated beside State Highway 9 at Amava, Mankapur in Gonda district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Mankapur
Mankapur is a town and a nagar panchayat in Gonda district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is a constituency of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly currently headed by BJP. It borders Gonda to the West, Rehra bazar to the North, Maskanwa to the East and Nawabganj to the South.
George Harris (cricketer, born 1880)
George Woodrouffe Harris (6 August 1880 – 10 July 1954) was an English first-class cricketer.

The son of Vincent Dormer Harris, he was born at Chelsea in August 1880. He was educated at Uppingham School, before matriculating to Caius College, Cambridge. In his final year at Uppingham, Harris made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Hampshire against Surrey at The Oval in the 1899 County Championship. Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed in Hampshire's first innings for 10 runs by Ernest Nice, while in their second innings he was dismissed without scoring by Tom Hayward. After graduating from Cambridge, Harris was in business as a merchant at Bishopsgate. In 1924, he was elected a fellow of the Zoological Society of London, in addition to being a member of the Linnean Society of London. Harris died at Chorleywood in July 1954.

1899 County Championship
The 1899 County Championship was the tenth officially organised running of the County Championship, and ran from 1 May to 6 September 1899. Surrey County Cricket Club won their sixth championship title, with Middlesex finishing as runners-up for the second season in a row. Worcestershire were admitted to the Championship, increasing the number of counties with first-class status to 15.
Kantilo
Kantilo is a town and Notified Area Council in Nayagarh district in the Indian state of Odisha. It is a holy place famous for "Lord Nilamadhab". It is an important commercial place in district of Nayagarh. It is also famous for its hand crafted utensils and other materials.

Nagar panchayat
A nagar panchayat (transl. 'town council') or town panchayat or Notified Area Council (NAC) in India is a settlement in transition from rural to urban and therefore a form of an urban political unit comparable to a municipality. An urban centre with more than 12,000 and less than 40,000 inhabitants is classified as a nagar panchayat. The population requirement for a town panchayat can vary from state to state.

Such councils are formed under the panchayati raj administrative system. In census data, the abbreviation T.P. is used to indicate a "town panchayat". Tamil Nadu was the first state to introduce the panchayat town as an intermediate step between rural villages and urban local bodies (ULB). The structure and the functions of the nagar panchayat are decided by the state government.
Mohammad Ramzan (cricketer)
Muhammad Ramzan (Urdu: محمد رمضان) (born 25 December 1970) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in one Test match in 1997.

Ramzan was a consistent player on the Pakistani domestic scene for a number of seasons most notably with United Bank Limited, Khan Research Labs and his home city Faisalabad. After many strong performances he was finally given his chance of a Test Match debut in 1997 alongside Azhar Mahmood and Ali Naqvi. He is considered by many within Pakistan cricket to have been unlucky not to have added to his single international cap.

Since moving to Scotland he has turned out as club professional for a number of clubs most notably Drumpellier, Poloc, Penicuik and Corstorphine.

United Bank Limited cricket team
United Bank Limited cricket team was a Pakistani domestic cricket team sponsored by United Bank Limited. The team was founded in 1975, and competed in various domestic competitions as a departmental team, principally in first-class cricket, winning nine championship trophies. Home matches were played at the United Bank Limited Sports Complex in Karachi.

UBL withdrew from domestic cricket in Pakistan in 1997 before returning in 2006, and regaining a place in first-class competition in 2011. In July 2018, United Bank Limited disbanded the team and pulled out of domestic circuit, with captain Younis Khan resigning, seemingly angered and hurt over failing to dissuade the bank against disbanding the team.
Geef Mij Maar Nasi Goreng
Geef Mij Maar Nasi Goreng (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɣeːf mə maːr ˌnɑsi ˈɡoːrɛŋ]; transl. "Just Give Me Nasi Goreng") is a song composed by Wieteke van Dort in 1977. She was born in 1943 in Surabaya, Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies, and moved to The Hague, The Netherlands, at the age of 14.

The song was written in Dutch and was sung with a thick Indies accent by Van Dort herself. She preserved her memories and love for various Indonesian dishes within the song, including nasi goreng, sambal, krupuk, lontong, pork sate, terasi, serundeng, milkfish, tahu petis, kue lapis, onde-onde, cassava, bakpau, ketan, and palm sugar.

Palm sugar
Palm sugar is a sweetener derived from any variety of palm tree. Palm sugar may be qualified by the type of palm, as in coconut palm sugar. While sugars from different palms may have slightly different compositions, all are processed similarly and can be used interchangeably.
Naya Muluk
Naya Muluk (Nepali: नयाँ मुलुक) is a geographical region of Nepal, which is situated in the south-western part of Nepal. The Terai land between Kali River and Rapti River was called "Naya Muluk" after 1860.

Gandaki River
The Gandaki River, also known as the Narayani and Gandak, is one of the major rivers in Nepal and a left-bank tributary of the Ganges in India. Its total catchment area is 46,300 km2 (17,900 sq mi), most of it in Nepal. In the Nepal Himalayas, the Gandaki is notable for its deep canyon. The basin also contains three mountains over 8,000 m (26,000 ft), namely Dhaulagiri, Manaslu and Annapurna Massif. Dhaulagiri is the highest point of the Gandaki basin. In its upper reaches, the river is known as Kali Gandaki (or Gandaki) as it flows through the Mustang District and the famous Kali Gandaki Gorge in Nepal.  When the river reaches the Terai plains of Nepal, it is referred to as the Narayani River. This name change typically occurs near the confluence with the Trishuli River at Devghat in Chitwan. Upon entering India, the river is known as the Gandak River.
49ers (album)
49ers is the debut album by Italian Italo house dance act 49ers, released in 1990 on the Island record label. It features the hit singles "Touch Me" (UK No. 3, AUS No. 18), "Don't You Love Me" (UK No. 12, US No. 78, AUS No. 61) and "Girl to Girl" (UK No. 31).

Italo house
Italo house (often simply referred to as "Italian" or "Italian house" in the UK) is a form of house music originating in Italy. Typically popular in Italy, Britain, and United States since the late 1980s, it fuses house music and Italo disco. The genre's main musical characteristic is its use of predominantly electronic piano chords in a more lyrical form than classic Chicago house records. The best known example is Black Box's "Ride on Time", but the genre became very popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s for the uplifting and anthemic tunes against the background of indie-dance.
O. R. Ramachandran
O. R. Ramachandran (1947 – 4 October 2024) was an Indian politician who was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as an Indian National Congress candidate from Cumbum constituency in 1991 election and as a Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) candidate in 1996 and 2001 elections.

Ramachandran died on 4 October 2024, at the age of 77.

Cumbum Assembly constituency
Cumbum is a state assembly constituency in Theni district in Tamil Nadu, part of Theni Lok Sabha constituency. Elections were not held in 1957 and 1962. It is one of the 234 State Legislative Assembly Constituencies in Tamil Nadu, in India.
Taungurung
The Taungurung people, also spelled Daung Wurrung, are Aboriginal people who are one of the Kulin nations in present-day Victoria, Australia. They consist of nine clans whose traditional language is the Taungurung language.

Their Country is to the north of the Great Dividing Range in the watersheds of the Broken, Delatite, Coliban, Goulburn and Campaspe Rivers. They lived to the north of, and were closely associated with, the Woiwurrung speaking Wurundjeri people.

They were also known by white settlers as the Devil's River Tribe or Goulburn River Tribe.

Delatite River
The Delatite River, an inland perennial river of the Goulburn Broken catchment, part of the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the lower South Eastern Highlands bioregion and Northern Country/North Central regions of the Australian state of Victoria. The headwaters of the Delatite River rise on the western slopes of the Victorian Alps and descend to flow into the Goulburn River within Lake Eildon.
Komakkambedu
Komakkambedu (KKB) is a village located 9 miles north of Thiruninravur. Most of the village is occupied by Vanniyar and Naidu caste.

This village is facing brain drain as many younger citizens have  relocated. Farming is the occupation of most of the villagers.

More than twenty Self Help Groups (SHG) exist for the welfare and development of women.

There are four temples in the village, namely Mariamman temple, Permal temple, Pillayar temple and Chelliamman temple. T

A part of village is named Indira Nagar consists of two streets and temples namely Pillayar temple and Om Sakthi temple.

Thiruninravur
Thirunindravur (also spelt Tiruninravur) is a locality in the western outskirts of Chennai city and falls under Tiruvallur district, Tamil Nadu. It lies within the Chennai Metropolitan Area (Greater Chennai), around 30 kilometers from the city center at Parry's Corner.  The neighbourhood is served by Thirunindravur railway station of Chennai suburban railway. Thiruninravur lake provides the neighbourhood with water. It serves as the connecting hub between Chennai and Tirupati. It is included in the region managed by the CMDA.
Heed the Call
Heed the Call is the 25th studio album by Christian music group the Imperials, released in 1979 on DaySpring Records. The group won their third Grammy Award for Best Gospel Performance, Contemporary or Inspirational for their album Heed the Call at the 22nd Grammy Awards and were named Male Group of the Year at the 11th GMA Dove Awards. The track "Praise the Lord" won Song of the Year the following year given to its writers Brown Bannister and Mike Hudson at the 12th GMA Dove Awards. The Imperials were the first group to have a number-one song ("Oh Buddha") on all three of the following charts: Contemporary, Inspirational, and Southern gospel. Heed the Call debuted and peaked at number 3 on Billboard magazine's inaugural Top Inspirational Albums chart on March 29, 1980.

22nd Annual Grammy Awards
The 22nd Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 27, 1980, at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, and were broadcast live on American television. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1979. This year was notable for being the first year to have a designated category for Rock music.

Album of the Year went to Phil Ramone and Billy Joel for 52nd Street, and Song of the Year went to Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald for "What a Fool Believes".
Izz al-Din al-Dawla
Izz al-Din al-Dawla is an Iraqi politician who served as the Minister of Agriculture from 21 December 2010 to 8 March 2013.

al-Dawla was elected to the Iraqi Council of Representatives in the December 2005 Iraqi parliamentary election as part of the Iraqi Accord Front. However, in 2008 he resigned from the Front to sit as an independent, complaining about the dominance of the Iraqi Islamic Party within the coalition. He competed in the 2010 Iraqi parliamentary election as part of the Iraqiyya coalition, and was appointed as one of the three Iraqiyya ministers in the government that was formed after the election.

al-Dawla resigned from his post as Minister of Agriculture on 8 March 2013 during a televised news conference as a protest against the killing of a protester by police in Mosul during the Sunni protests in Iraq.

Iraqi National Movement
The Iraqi National Movement (INM) (Arabic: الحركة الوطنية العراقية al-Ḥaraka al-Waṭaniya al-Iraqiyya), more commonly known as the al-Iraqiya List, was an Iraqi political coalition formed to contest the 2010 parliamentary election by Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi's Renewal List, the Iraqi National Accord led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and the Iraqi National Dialogue Front led by Saleh al-Mutlaq. The party included both Shi'a leaders (such as Allawi) and Sunni leaders (such as al-Mutlaq and al-Hashimi) and claimed to be secular and non-sectarian.

With 2,849,612 votes (24.7%) and 91 seats the Iraqiya List became the biggest list in the elections, winning two seats more than Nouri al-Maliki's State of Law Coalition, which won 89 seats and 2,792,083 votes (24.2%).
Wilson Wood (actor)
Wilson Wood (born Charles Woodrow Tolkien, February 11, 1915 – October 23, 2004) was an American character actor during the middle of the twentieth century.

Born in Huron, North Dakota on February 11, 1915, he made his film debut with a small role in 1946's Two Sisters from Boston, directed by Henry Koster. During his 17-year career he would appear in over 100 films, usually in smaller roles. In 1952 he would star in a serial for Republic Pictures. The 12 part series was titled, Zombies of the Stratosphere, which would be edited down and released in 1958 as a feature film, called Satan's Satellites. His final appearance would be in the 1962 film, Jumbo, starring Doris Day, Stephen Boyd and Jimmy Durante, in which Wood had a featured role. Wood was fourth cousin of Professor J. R. R. Tolkien. He died on October 23, 2004, in Culver City, California.

Two Sisters from Boston
Two Sisters from Boston is a 1946 American musical-comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Kathryn Grayson, June Allyson, Lauritz Melchior, Jimmy Durante and Peter Lawford. The film features songs by Sammy Fain and Ralph Freed.
Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Prestonsburg, Kentucky)
The Middle Creek National Battlefield Seated Lincoln Statue is a sculpture located in Prestonsburg, Kentucky at the Middle Creek National Battlefield. Originally commissioned by lawyer Eric Conn and established in Stanville, Kentucky, the statue was later sold and relocated.

The statue is 19 feet (5.8 m) in height including the base of the statue, and the Lincoln statue itself is six feet (1.8 m) high.  The statue has been called the 'Second Largest Seated Lincoln Statue in the World;' after the Abraham Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall. However, the seated Lincoln statue in Boise, Idaho, is taller at 9 feet (2.75 m) without a base.

Battle of Middle Creek
The Battle of Middle Creek was an engagement fought January 10, 1862, in Eastern Kentucky during the American Civil War.  It was the only battle personally commanded by future president James A. Garfield, then a colonel in the Union Army.
George Island (Lake Winnipeg)
George Island is a small island located within the north basin of Lake Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It lies approximately 400 kilometers (250 mi) north from Winnipeg, and approximately halfway between the community of Grand Rapids on the west shore and the community of Poplar River on the east shore of the lake. A lighthouse named George Island Light is located on the island. To the west of George Island lies Little George Island.

George Island is a popular stop-over because of its natural and sheltered harbour and the pristine sand beaches surrounding the island.

Grand Rapids, Manitoba
Grand Rapids is a town in Manitoba, Canada, on the northwestern shore of Lake Winnipeg where the Saskatchewan River enters the lake. As the name implies, the river had a significant drop at this point: more than 75 ft (23 m) in less than 3 mi (4.8 km). In modern days, a large hydroelectric plant has been built there. Cedar Lake, a short distance upriver, provides a natural water source for the plant. Provincial Trunk Highway 6, the region's primary roadway, crosses the Saskatchewan River at the Grand Rapids Bridge.

Grand Rapids was on the main canoe route toward the West, where Fort Bourbon once stood. It is also across the river from the Misipawistik Cree Nation.

In 1894, fire destroyed a number of buildings in the Grand Rapids docks. The steamboat Colvile also caught fire and was destroyed.
Alicia Zamora Villalva
Alicia Elizabeth Zamora Villalva (born 16 April 1964) is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). 
In the 2009 mid-terms she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies to represent the sixth district of Guerrero during the 61st Congress.

6th federal electoral district of Guerrero
The 6th federal electoral district of Guerrero (Spanish: Distrito electoral federal 06 de Guerrero) is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of eight such districts in the state of Guerrero.

It elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress for each three-year legislative period by means of the first-past-the-post system. Votes cast in the district also count towards the calculation of proportional representation ("plurinominal") deputies elected from the fourth region.

The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is María del Carmen Nava García of the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM)
The infernal names
The Infernal Names is a compiled list of adversarial or antihero figures from mythology intended for use in Satanic ritual. The following names are as listed in The Satanic Bible (1969), written by Church of Satan founder Anton Szandor LaVey. When calling the names, all of them may be recited, or a given number of those most significant to the respective working may be chosen.

Etruscan religion
Etruscan religion comprises a set of stories, beliefs, and religious practices of the Etruscan civilization, heavily influenced by the mythology of ancient Greece, and sharing similarities with concurrent Roman mythology and religion. As the Etruscan civilization was gradually assimilated into the Roman Republic from the 4th century BC, the Etruscan religion and mythology were partially incorporated into ancient Roman culture, following the Roman tendency to absorb some of the local gods and customs of conquered lands. The first attestations of an Etruscan religion can be traced back to the Villanovan culture.
Grain Belt Beer Sign
The Grain Belt Beer Sign is a historic sign on Nicollet Island in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It was originally built as a neon sign displaying a bottle cap of Grain Belt beer for the Marigold Ballroom in 1941.  At the time of its construction, it was one of the largest neon signs in the United States.  In 1950, it was moved to its current location on Nicollet Island.  After the Grain Belt brewery closed in the 1970s, the sign fell into disuse and disrepair. An effort to renovate and remodel the sign took place in the 2010s, with the sign undergoing conversion from neon to LEDs in 2017. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

Bottle cap
A bottle cap or bottle top is a common closure for the top opening of a bottle. A cap is sometimes colorfully decorated with the logo of the brand of contents. Metal caps with plastic backing are used for glass bottles, sometimes wrapped in decorative foil. Metal caps are usually either steel or aluminum, and of the crown cork type. Flip-top caps (like flapper closures) preceded such caps.

Plastic caps are used for plastic bottles, functioning as screw caps, or plastic caps may have a pour spout rather than being detachable. Plastic caps are commonly made from polyethylene or polypropylene, and caps for plastic bottles are often made of a different type of plastic from the bottle.

A cork stopper is another type of closure for the top of a bottle.
La Voz Senior (Mexican TV series)
La Voz Senior (Spanish for The Voice Senior) is a Mexican reality talent show that premiered on July 15, 2019 on Azteca Uno. It is based on and part of The Voice franchise created by television producer John de Mol.

When TV Azteca acquired the format of La Voz in 2019 from Televisa, they announced they would also produce La Voz Senior, for elders over 55.

Yahir
Yahir Othón Parra (born 21 March 1979), simply known as Yahir, is a Mexican singer and actor from Hermosillo, Sonora. He began his career as one of the participants in the music reality show La Academia in 2002 and in addition to Yuridia, also from Hermosillo, is one of the most popular stars to come from the show. He became a judge of the show's tenth season.
Bernard Beckerman
Bernard Beckerman (1921–1985) was a Shakespeare scholar, a theatre director. He was also the head of Hofstra University's department of drama, and later the Chair of Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature at the Columbia University's theater department.

Beckerman's books include Dynamics of Drama, Shakespeare at the Globe, and Theatrical Presentation: Performer, Audience and Act.

From 1950 to 1961, Beckerman directed all the plays at Hofstra's annual Shakespeare festival.  Beckerman was also responsible for introducing the Poo-wa-bah tradition at Hofstra, which continues to this day.
His wife was Gloria Brim (b.), Professor of literature at the Adelphi University, who married the cardiologist Jeremiah Stamler in 2004.

In 1982 he established the annual seminar on Shakespeare (582) at the Columbia University, during which, after his death, a Bernard and Gloria Beckerman Memorial Lecture is presented in honor of the founder.

Scholar
A scholar is a person who is a researcher or has expertise in an academic discipline. A scholar can also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher, or researcher at a university. An academic usually holds an advanced degree or a terminal degree, such as a master's degree or a doctorate. Independent scholars and public intellectuals work outside the academy yet may publish in academic journals and participate in scholarly public discussion.