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Denmark–Iran relations
The first Persian envoy to Denmark arrived in 1691 in order to negotiate the release of the Iranian-owned cargo of a Bengali ship seized by the Danish fleet. The Iranian diplomat had been issued with diplomatic credentials by Suleiman I of Persia (Shah 1666–1694) and opened negotiations with King Christian V of Denmark. He was unable to secure the release of the cargo.

Credential
A credential is a piece of any document that details a qualification, competence, or authority issued to an individual by a third party with a relevant or de facto authority or assumed competence to do so.

Examples of credentials include academic diplomas, academic degrees, certifications, security clearances, identification documents, badges, passwords, user names, keys, powers of attorney, and so on. Sometimes publications, such as scientific papers or books, may be viewed as similar to credentials by some people, especially if the publication was peer reviewed or made in a well-known journal or reputable publisher.
Jordin Sparks (EP)
Jordin Sparks is an EP by American Idol season 6 winner Jordin Sparks. Sparks performed a song for the show each week of the season, and each song appeared on the show's website the day after the performance for sale as a studio version. The EP is a compilation of the four most downloaded of Sparks' songs, all of which are covers of other artists, plus "This Is My Now", an original single written by Jeff Peabody and Scott Krippayne, which she sang in the finale to win. It is considered a promo EP for her debut full-length album.

Scott Krippayne
Scott Krippayne (born July 23, 1970) is an American singer and songwriter. He is better known for his contributions towards other artists, as over 150 of his songs have been recorded by others including Point of Grace, John Tesh, Avalon, Jaci Velasquez, FFH, True Vibe and Sandi Patty.

In 2007, he wrote the song "This Is My Now", which was chosen as the coronation song for the final of American Idol Season Six, and sung by the Top 2 Jordin Sparks and Blake Lewis. In 2014, Krippayne received a Daytime Emmy nomination for writing the theme music for Paw Patrol. He has also authored two books: Hugs for Teens and More Than a Story.
Tolen Toktasynov
Tolen Mukhamediuly Toktasynov (Kazakh: Төлен Мұхамедиұлы Тоқтасынов; 9 October 1962 – 6 October 2024) was a Kazakh engineer and politician. A member of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan and the Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan, he served in the Mäjilis from 2000 to 2004.

Toktasynov died on 6 October 2024, at the age of 61.

Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan
Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan (Kazakh: Қазақстанның демократиялық таңдауы, romanized: Qazaqstannyñ demokratialyq tañdauy, QDT; Russian: Демократический выбор Казахстана, ДВК, romanized: Demokraticheskiy vybor Kazakhstana, DVK) is a political party in Kazakhstan. It was founded by Mukhtar Ablyazov, a businessman and a former minister and Galymzhan Zhakiyanov, who was the akim of Pavlodar Region. The QDT embraced a number of influential politicians and wealthy businessmen of the country who grew disillusioned with the inner circles of President Nazarbayev. The movement adopted a strong anti-Nazarbayev stance and criticized the corruption and nepotism of the president and his clique. The party seeks to peacefully topple the current Kazakh regime and to transform Kazakhstan into a parliamentary republic.
Patrick Nixon
Patrick Michael Nixon CMG OBE (1 August 1944) is a former British diplomat.

He was educated at Downside School and Magdalene College, Cambridge.

He was Ambassador and Consul-General in Doha, Qatar, from 1987 to 1990, British High Commissioner to Zambia from 1994 to 1997, and British Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates from 1998 to 2003.

He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1984 New Year Honours, and a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 1989 Birthday Honours.

Downside School
Downside School (formally The College of St Gregory the Great, Downside but simply referred to as Downside) is a Catholic public school, for pupils aged 11–18 in Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Somerset, England. It was established in 1614 and is located in the Diocese of Clifton.

Originally a school for English Catholic boys, it was established by English and Welsh monks living in exile at Douai, France. The monastic community returned to England in 1795, with both the community and its school initially housed in the Shropshire home of Sir Edward Smythe, a former pupil. By 1814, the abbey and school had been re-established at their present site, in Somerset. Downside School became fully co-educational in all year groups in 2005.
John Lowe (MP)
John Lowe (1628–1667) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1667.

Lowe was the eldest son of John Lowe of Salisbury, Wiltshire and his wife Mary Grove, daughter of William Grove of Shaftesbury. His father, who was a barrister, died in about 1636. Lowe was as student of Middle Temple from 1646 to 1647. He was J.P. for Wiltshire from July 1660 to 1662 and commissioner for assessment for Wiltshire from August 1660 until his death. He was knighted on 19 April 1661. In 1661, he was elected Member of Parliament for Shaftesbury in the Cavalier Parliament. He was also commissioner  for assessment for Dorset from 1661 to his death and for Salisbury from 1661 to 1663 and from 1664 until his death.

Lowe died at the age of about 38.

Lowe married  Helen Hyde, daughter of Lawrence Hyde of Heale, Wiltshire, by 1655. They had a son and daughter and she died on 6 October 1661.

Shaftesbury (UK Parliament constituency)
Shaftesbury was a parliamentary constituency in Dorset. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of England, Great Britain and the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1295 until 1832 and one member until the constituency was abolished in 1885.
Khara-Shibir
Khara-Shibir (Russian: Хара-Шибирь; Buryat: Хара Шэбэр, Khara Sheber) is a rural locality (an ulus) in Zaigrayevsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 175 as of 2010. There is 1 street.

Zaigrayevsky District
Zaigrayevsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-one in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia. It is located in the center of the republic. The area of the district is 6,605 square kilometers (2,550 sq mi). Its administrative center is the urban locality (an urban-type settlement) of Zaigrayevo. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 49,975, with the population of Zaigrayevo accounting for 11.2% of that number.
Ambrose Alli University Library
Ambrose Alli University Library, situated in its parent institution, was established after the formation of the university in 1982 by the then Governor of Bendel State (now Edo and Delta state), Professor Ambrose Folorunso Alli (1979 – 1983).

Mid-Western Region, Nigeria
The Mid-Western Region was a division of Nigeria from 1963 to 1991, from 1976 being known as the Bendel state.

It was formed in June 1963 from Benin and Delta provinces of the Western Region, and its capital was Benin City. It was renamed a province in 1966, and in 1967 when the other provinces were divided into several states, it remained territorially intact, becoming a state.

During the Nigerian Civil War, the Biafran forces invaded the new Mid-Western state, en route to Lagos, in an attempt to force a quick end to the war. While under a short-lived Biafran occupation, the state was declared the "Republic of Benin". As Nigerian forces retook the region, the republic collapsed only a day after the declaration when Nigerian troops captured Benin City.

In 1976, the state was renamed Bendel, and in 1991 was divided into Delta State and Edo State.
Viktoriia Paziuk
Viktoriia Paziuk (born 11 February 1985 in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian basketball player for the Ukrainian national team. During her professional career, she has played for various Ukrainian teams. In the 2022/23 season, she was in the squad of the Team of Poltava Oblast.

Paziuk played only on few occasions for the national team. She became more prominent as a 3x3 basketball player. Paziuk competed for the national 3x3 team at the inaugural European Championships in 2014. Paziuk is a 2015 European Games silver medallist.

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (Ukrainian: Івано-Франківська область, romanized: Ivano-Frankivska oblast), also referred to as Ivano-Frankivshchyna (Івано-Франківщина) or simply Frankivshchyna, is an oblast (region) in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. It has a population of 1,351,822 (2022 estimate).

The area, also known as Prykarpattia, was part of the historical region of Galicia, where the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia flourished. After World War I, the area became part of the Second Polish Republic and was administered as part of Stanisławów Voivodeship until the invasion of Poland. The area was annexed by the Soviet Union and was known as Stanislav Oblast until 1962, when its administrative center was renamed after the Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko. Kolomyia was a historical center of the oblast and remains a major cultural center of Pokuttia, the traditional name for the southern part of the oblast.
Trazan & Banarne
Trazan & Banarne was a Swedish children's television series which was broadcast from 1976 to 1982 on Sveriges Television. For its first season from 1976 to 1977, it was part of the Jullovsmorgon series. The title characters were played by Lasse Åberg (Trazan Apansson) and Klasse Möllberg (Banarne), and they recorded many songs together with the band Electric Banana Band.

The TV series also broadcast TV series such as Lucky Luke.

Tarzan
Tarzan (John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, a feral child raised in the Congo Basin by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization, only to reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer.

Created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan first appeared in the novel Tarzan of the Apes (magazine publication 1912, book publication 1914), and subsequently in 23 sequels, several books by Burroughs and other authors, and innumerable works in other media, both authorized and unauthorized.
Balzan Futsal Club
Balzan Football Club (futsal) was the futsal section of Balzan F.C., based in Balzan, Malta. Active from 2000 to 2015, the team competed in the Maltese Futsal League and quickly established itself as one of the country’s top futsal sides. During its short but successful existence, Balzan Futsal won multiple domestic titles and participated in the UEFA Futsal Champions League. The club ceased operations in 2015 following structural changes in Maltese futsal.

Balzan
Balzan (Maltese: Ħal Balzan) is a municipality in the Northern Region of Malta, and together with Attard and Lija, forms part of the "Three Villages" (Maltese: It-Tliet Irħula). The village originally consisted of a group of small dwellings and farms but eventually grew, becoming a parish in the 17th century. As of 2022, the town registered a population of 4,821 inhabitants.
Jeremiah Goodman
Jeremiah Goodman (October 22, 1922 – September 7, 2017) was an illustrator who signed his work with his first name only. Goodman used his unique painting style to create the essence of a building's interior. His painting interprets the plans of both architects and interior designers. He painted original portraits of spaces for both commercial and private clients. For almost twenty years he created the covers for Interior Design magazine, and also books on interiors and for murals.

Bruce Weber (photographer)
Bruce Weber (born March 29, 1946) is an American fashion photographer and film director known for his work with fashion brands and magazines.

Weber has directed several films, including Let's Get Lost (1988), a documentary about jazz musician Chet Baker, and Chop Suey (2001), a portrait of a wrestler. Let's Get Lost received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature and a Cinecritica Award at the Venice Film Festival. Weber is also the founder and co-owner of Little Bear Press, which publishes books and the independent arts magazine All-American.

Weber has been accused of sexual assault by more than 20 models, and has been the subject of three lawsuits, all of which have reached settlements. He currently resides in Miami and is married to Nan Bush, who is also his agent.
Willard Bond
Willard Bond (June 7, 1926 in Colfax, Washington – May 19, 2012 in Yountville, California) was an American painter who was particularly known for his watercolor and oil paintings of yachting life. Raised in Lewiston, Idaho, he served in the United States Navy during World War II before studying art at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Pratt Institute in New York.

Yountville, California
Yountville (/ˈjɔːntvɪl/ or /ˈjaʊntvɪl/) is an incorporated town in Napa County, in the Wine Country of California, United States. Located in the North Bay region of the Bay Area, the population was 3,436 at the 2020 census. Almost a third of the town's population lives at the Veterans Home of California. Yountville is a popular tourist destination, particularly for its wineries and its famed Michelin-starred restaurant, The French Laundry.
Mont lin maya
Mont lin maya (Burmese: မုန့်လင်မယား; pronounced [mo̰ʊɴ lɪ̀ɴməjá]; also spelt mont lin mayar) is a traditional Burmese street snack or mont. The Burmese name literally means "husband and wife snack", and is also known as mont ok galay (မုန့်အုပ်ကလေး, lit. 'little covered snack') or mont maung hnan (မုန့်မောင်နှံ, lit. 'couple snack') in Mawlamyine and Upper Myanmar.

The dish consists of crisp, round savory pancakes made with a batter consisting of rice flour, quail eggs, chickpeas, and spring onions, fried in a special metal pan.

Chickpea
The chickpea or chick pea (Cicer arietinum) is an annual legume of the family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae, cultivated for its edible seeds. Its different types are variously known as gram, Bengal gram, chana dal (চানা ডাল), garbanzo, garbanzo bean, or Egyptian pea. It is one of the earliest cultivated legumes, the oldest archaeological evidence of which was found in Syria.

Chickpeas are high in protein. The chickpea is a key ingredient in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisines, used in hummus, and, when soaked and coarsely ground with herbs and spices, then made into patties and fried, falafel. As an important part of Indian cuisine, it is used in salads, soups, stews, and curries. In 2023, India accounted for 75% of global chickpea production.
Free State Stadium
The Free State Stadium (Afrikaans: Vrystaatstadion), currently known as the Toyota Stadium for sponsorship reasons and formerly known as Vodacom Park, is a stadium in Bloemfontein in the Free State of South Africa, used mainly for rugby union and also sometimes for association football. It was originally built for the 1995 Rugby World Cup, and was one of the venues for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

The primary rugby union tenants of the facility are the Free State Cheetahs, which participate in South Africa's domestic competition, the Currie Cup. Previously, the Cheetahs represented the Free State and Northern Cape provinces in the international Pro14 competition.

Until their sale before the start of the 2021–22 South African Premiership, the primary association football tenant was Bloemfontein Celtic, who played in South Africa's domestic South African Premiership.

South African Premiership
The South African Premiership, also known as the Betway Premiership for sponsorship reasons, and commonly referred to as the PSL after its governing body, is a professional soccer league in South Africa and the highest level of the South African soccer league system. It has been organised since 1996.

The 2024–25 season started on 14 September 2024, Mamelodi Sundowns successfully defended the title in 2025 which they've held continuously since the 2017–18 season.
Acer alaskense
Acer alaskense is an extinct maple species in the family Sapindaceae described from a fossil leaf.  The species is solely known from the Latest Paleocene sediments exposed in the Matanuska River Valley, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska. It is the type species for the extinct section Alaskana.

Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska
Matanuska-Susitna Borough (often referred to as the Mat-Su Borough) is a borough located in the U.S. state of Alaska. Its borough seat is Palmer, and the largest incorporated community is  Wasilla. As of the 2020 census, the borough's population was 107,081.

The borough is part of the Anchorage Metropolitan Statistical Area, along with the municipality of Anchorage on its south.

The Mat-Su Borough is designated as so because it contains the entire Matanuska and Susitna Rivers. They empty into Cook Inlet, which is the southern border of the Mat-Su Borough. It is one of the few agricultural areas in Alaska.
American Classical Music (Ahmad Jamal album)
American Classical Music is a live album by American jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal. In 1984, it was re-released as Goodbye Mr. Evans.

It was recorded at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall in July 1982 and released by Shubra Productions later that year.

In 1984, Black Lion Records released the album, everywhere but in the USA, as Goodbye Mr. Evans. The name refers to the ballad of the same title written by saxophonist Phil Woods to honor the jazz pianist Bill Evans, who had died in 1980.

Ahmad Jamal
Ahmad Jamal (born Frederick Russell Jones; July 2, 1930 – April 16, 2023) was an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, and educator. For six decades, he was one of the most successful small-group leaders in jazz. He was a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Jazz Master and won a Lifetime Achievement Grammy for his contributions to music history.
Cenozoic Research Laboratory
The Cenozoic Research Laboratory (Chinese: 新生代地质与环境研究室) of the Geological Survey of China was established within the Peking Union Medical College in 1928 by Canadian paleoanthropologist Davidson Black and Chinese geologists Ding Wenjing and Weng Wenhao for the research and appraisal of Peking Man fossils unearthed at Zhoukoudian.

Peking Union Medical College
Peking Union Medical College is a public medical college located in Dongcheng district, Beijing, China. It is administered by the State Council's health administration department. It operates under an integrated management system with the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, serving as China's highest-level medical research and medical education institution. The college is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Construction.

Peking Union Medical College was formally dedicated in 1921, and is China's earliest medical institution to offer an 8-year medical education program and undergraduate nursing education. Due to cooperation with Tsinghua University for education, it was renamed Peking Union Medical College, Tsinghua University in 2006. Students and graduate students in both clinical and non-clinical medical programs will receive diplomas and degrees from both Tsinghua University and Peking Union Medical College upon graduation.
Siriwardene
Siriwardene is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Buddhi Siriwardene (fl. 1959–1992), Sri Lankan air force officer

Prathapa Siriwardene (born 1989), Sri Lankan cricketer

Shashikala Siriwardene (born 1989), Sri Lankan cricketer

Prathapa Siriwardene
Prathapa Siriwardene (born 2 July 1989) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler who plays for Singha Sports Club. He was born in Galle.

Siriwardene made his List A debut during the 2009–10 season, against Seeduwa Raddoluwa. From the tailend, he scored 7 runs. He took figures of 0–19 with the ball from two overs of bowling.
Račji Dvor Mansion
Račji Dvor Mansion (Slovene: dvorec Račji dvor, literally "Ducks' Court Mansion") is a 17th-century mansion standing on a plain at the western edge of the town of Maribor, Slovenia, at the address of Raški dol 1. It has been protected as a cultural monument of national significance.

National heritage site
A national heritage site is a heritage site having a value that has been registered by a governmental agency as being of national importance to the cultural heritage or history of that country. Usually such sites are listed in a heritage register that is open to the public, and many are advertised by national visitor bureaus as tourist attractions.

Usually such a heritage register list is split by type of feature (natural wonder, ruin, engineering marvel, etc.). In many cases a country may maintain more than one register; there are also registers for entities that span more than one country.
Church of St. Catherine, Dnipro
The Church of St. Catherine (Ukrainian: Кірха Святої Катерини, romanized: Kirkha Sviatoi Kateryny) is a 19th-century Evangelical Lutheran church of the German Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Ukraine (GELCU) in Dnipro, Ukraine. It is also called the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Catherine. It was the first church to be opened in independent Ukraine. It is located on Dmytro Yavornytsky Avenue, next to the Maxim Gorki Theater and Lazar Hloba Park.

Declaration of Independence of Ukraine
The Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine was adopted by the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR (Verkhovna Rada) on 24 August 1991.

The Act reestablished Ukraine's state independence from the Soviet Union. The declaration was affirmed by a majority of Ukrainians in all regions of Ukraine by an independence referendum on 1 December, followed by international recognition starting on the following day. Ukrainian independence led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union by 26 December 1991.
Charles P. Otstott
Charles Paddock Otstott (born 2 June 1937) is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Army who served as Deputy Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 1990 to 1992. He is a 1960 graduate of the United States Military Academy with a B.S. degree in engineering. Otstott later earned an M.S. degree in engineering from Purdue University in 1967. He is also a graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College and the National War College.

United States Army Command and General Staff College
The United States Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC or USACGSC) is a staff college for United States Army located at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The college was established in 1881 by William Tecumseh Sherman as the School of Application for Infantry and Cavalry (later simply the Infantry and Cavalry School), a training school for infantry and cavalry officers.

In 1907 it changed its title to the School of the Line. The curriculum expanded throughout World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War and continues to adapt to include lessons learned from current conflicts. It provides Professional Military Education to officers of the United States Army, as well as foreign military officers.

In addition to the main campus at Fort Leavenworth, the college has satellite campuses at Fort Belvoir, Virginia; Fort Lee, Virginia; Fort Gordon, Georgia; and Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. The college also maintains a distance-learning modality for some of its instruction.
Chinese ferret-badger
The Chinese ferret-badger (Melogale moschata), also known as the small-toothed ferret-badger, is a member of the Mustelidae, and widely distributed in Southeast Asia. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List and considered tolerant of modified habitat.

The Chinese ferret-badger is densely distributed from Northeast India north to Central China south to northern Indochina. The Formosan ferret-badger (M. subaurantiaca) of Taiwan was formerly considered conspecific, but is now thought to be a distinct species.

Mustelidae
The Mustelidae (/mʌˈstɛlɪdiː/; from Latin mustela, weasel) are a diverse family of carnivoran mammals, including weasels, badgers, otters, polecats, martens, grisons, and wolverines. Otherwise known as mustelids (/ˈmʌstɪlɪdz/), they form the largest family in the suborder Caniformia of the order Carnivora with about 66 to 70 species in nine subfamilies.