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John McKinnon (Nova Scotia politician, born 1832)
John McKinnon (July 14, 1832 – 13 August 1907) was a farmer, trader and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Inverness County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1874 to 1878 and from 1886 to 1894 as a Liberal member.

He was born in Whycocomagh, Nova Scotia, the son of Laughlin McKinnon, a Scottish immigrant, and Annie McLean. He was educated in Halifax. McKinnon married Harriet McQueen. He served as a member of the province's Executive Council from 1875 to 1878. McKinnon ran for reelection unsuccessfully in 1878 and 1882.

Nova Scotia Liberal Party
The Nova Scotia Liberal Party (officially the Liberal Association of Nova Scotia) is a centrist provincial political party in Nova Scotia, Canada and the provincial section of the Liberal Party of Canada. The party currently holds two seats in the Legislature, under the interim leadership of Iain Rankin. The party was in power most recently from the 2013 election until the 2021 election.

The party is the only party in the province with uninterrupted presence in the legislature since confederation. It has formed the Government of Nova Scotia for 90 of the approximately 160 years since it became a province of Canada. It won 25 of the province's 42 elections, but was supplanted by the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party as the official opposition for three consecutive elections in 1999, 2003 and 2006, and again in the most recent election in 2024.
Al-Ankawi
Al-Ankawi (Arabic: العنكاوي) is a Syrian town located in the Ziyarah Subdistrict of the al-Suqaylabiyah District in Hama Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Ankawi had a population of 2,298 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims.

The settlement has been shelled repeatedly  by the Syrian government in recent years.

Al-Ziyarah Subdistrict
Al-Ziyarah Subdistrict (Arabic: ناحية الزيارة) is a Syrian nahiyah (subdistrict) located in Al-Suqaylabiyah District in Hama.  According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Ziyarah Subdistrict had a population of 38,872 in the 2004 census. By July of 2023, the subdistrict's population had declined to 4,699 as a consequence of the Syrian Civil War. The subdistrict is named after the town of al-Ziyarah, and its biggest town is Qastun.
Governor's School for the Arts
The Governor's School for the Arts is a regional secondary arts school sponsored by the Virginia Department of Education and the public school divisions of Chesapeake, Franklin, Isle of Wight County, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Southampton County, Suffolk, and Virginia Beach. It is one of 19 Virginian academic-year Governor's Schools and provides intensive educational opportunities for identified gifted students in instrumental music, vocal music, dance, musical theatre, theatre & film, and visual arts. The school is housed in the historic Monroe Building in downtown Norfolk.

Of the 97 student reviews of the School's programs on the School Report Site, Niche, all are average or above with 58 ranking the school as "excellent."

Isle of Wight County, Virginia
Isle of Wight County is a county in the Hampton Roads region of the U.S. state of Virginia. It is named after the Isle of Wight, England, south of the Solent, from where many of its early colonists had come. As of the 2020 census, the population was 38,606. Its county seat is Isle of Wight, an unincorporated community. Isle of Wight County is in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its northeastern boundary is on the coast of Hampton Roads waterway.
Björn Engwall
Senior Colonel Björn Engwall (24 September 1917 – 24 June 2005) was a Swedish Coastal Artillery officer. He served as commanding officer of Vaxholm Coastal Artillery Regiment in Vaxholm from 1967 to 1969 and as Defence District Commander of Karlskrona Defence District and commanding officer of Blekinge Coastal Artillery Defence in Karlskrona from 1969 to 1977.

Vaxholm
Vaxholm is a city, urban area and the seat of Vaxholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. It occupies bigger amount of islands of which the most populated are Vaxön, Resarö, Rindö and Kullö which is known for its nature reserve. The name Vaxholm comes from Vaxholm Fortress, which was constructed in 1549 on the adjacent islet of Vaxholmen.

For historical reasons it has always been referred to as a city, despite the small number of inhabitants, which as of 2020 total was 6,151. Vaxholm Municipality prefers to use the designation Vaxholms stad (City of Vaxholm) for its whole territory, including 64 islets in the Stockholm archipelago, a usage which is somewhat confusing.
Glaucium oxylobum
Glaucium oxylobum, called Lotus sweetjuice, is a species of flowering plant in the horned poppy genus which is native to Afghanistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. It was originally described by Pierre Edmond Boissier and Friedrich Alexander Buhse in 1860 in the 12th volume of the Nouveaux mémoires de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou.

Friedrich Alexander Buhse
Friedrich Alexander Buhse (30 November 1821, Riga – 29 December 1898) was a Baltic-German botanist.

From 1840 he studied botany at the universities of Dorpat, Berlin and Heidelberg, receiving his PhD in 1843. In 1847-49, with Pierre Edmond Boissier, he collected plants in Transcaucasia and Persia. In 1852 he became a correspondent member of the Société linnéenne de Lyon.

With Boissier he circumscribed many species of plants. The botanical genus Buhsia (family Capparaceae) was named in his honor by Alexander Bunge.
Wiedźmin (album)
Wiedźmin is a 2001 album with music of Grzegorz Ciechowski for the film The Hexer, directed by Marek Brodzki, which was an adaptation of the collection of short stories by Andrzej Sapkowski of the same title.  The album contains 22 compositions. In 2002, Ciechowski received (posthumously) the Polish Film Awards for the album in the "Best Score" category.

The album has been certified "gold" by the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry.

Marek Brodzki
Marek Brodzki (born 25 December 1960) is a Polish film director and television director. He directed the film and series versions of Wiedźmin aka The Hexer and the series Miasteczko. He has worked as First Assistant Director with top Polish directors Andrzej Wajda and Krzysztof Zanussi and has specialized as a Polish First Assistant Director and Second Unit Director on international productions made in Poland notably including Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List and has a long working relationship with German director Volker Schlöndorff. October 2015 he was awarded the Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis.
Frenchy D'Amour
Theophile D. "Frenchy" D'Amour (October 10, 1912–September 7, 1995) was a Canadian curler. He skipped the first team from British Columbia to win the Brier, Canada's national men's curling championship in 1948.

Skip (curling)
In the sport of curling, the skip is the captain of a team. The skip determines strategy, and holds the broom in the house (target area) to indicate where a teammate at the other end of the curling sheet (playing area) should aim the stone. The skip usually throws the last two stones in the fourth position, but may play in any other position.

Sometimes "skipper" is used; it can also be abbreviated as "S". It's also used as a verb ("skips", "skipped", "skipping").

It is conventional to identify a team by the name of the skip.
1951 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race
The men's road race at the 1951 UCI Road World Championships was the 18th edition of the event. The race took place on Sunday 2 September 1951 in Varese, Italy. The race was won by Ferdinand Kübler of Switzerland.

Varese
Varese (UK: /vəˈreɪzeɪ, -zi/ və-RAY-zay, -⁠zee, US: /vɑːˈreɪseɪ/ var-AY-say; Italian: [vaˈreːze] ⓘ or [vaˈreːse]; Varesino: Varés [ʋaˈreːs]; Latin: Baretium; archaic German: Väris) is a city and comune in north-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 55 km (34 mi) north-west of Milan. The population of Varese in 2018 was 80,559.

It is the capital of the Province of Varese. The hinterland or exurban part of the city is called Varesotto.
James Thome Farm
The James Thome Farm is a historic farm located in Eighty Four, Pennsylvania. It was designated as a historic residential landmark/farmstead by the Washington County History & Landmarks Foundation, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Eighty Four, Pennsylvania
Eighty Four is a census-designated place in Somerset, Nottingham, North Strabane, and South Strabane townships in Washington County, Pennsylvania. It lies approximately 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Pittsburgh and is in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.  The population was 645 at the 2020 census.

Eighty Four contains the 84 Lumber company's headquarters. Eighty Four is a part of the Canon-McMillan, Trinity, Ringgold, and Bentworth school districts.

Eighty Four is accessible via PA Route 519 and PA Route 136 and interstates 79 and 70. The closest international airport is the Pittsburgh International Airport approximately 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Eighty Four in Findlay Township, Pennsylvania.
Blue in the Face
Blue in the Face is a 1995 American comedy film directed by Wayne Wang and Paul Auster. It stars Harvey Keitel leading an ensemble cast, including Giancarlo Esposito, Roseanne Barr, Michael J. Fox, Lily Tomlin, Victor Argo, Mira Sorvino, Lou Reed, Keith David, Jim Jarmusch, Jared Harris, RuPaul, and Madonna.

Blue in the Face was filmed over a five-day period as a follow-up to Wang's 1995 film Smoke. During production of Smoke, Keitel and the others ad-libbed scenes in-character between takes and a sequel was made using this improvised material.

Lily Tomlin was nominated for an American Comedy Award as "Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture" for her performance in this picture.

Blue in the Face features songs by singer Selena.  Her bilingual duet with David Byrne, "God's Child (Baila Conmigo)", appears on the film's soundtrack.

American Comedy Awards
The American Comedy Awards were a group of awards presented annually in the United States recognizing performances and performers in the field of comedy, with an emphasis on television comedy and comedy films. They were first presented in May 1987, billed as the "first awards show to honor all forms of comedy." In 1989, after the death of Lucille Ball, the statue was named "the Lucy" to honor her.

The awards ceased after 2001. NBC revived the awards for a single year in May 2014.
Engers
Engers is a district of Neuwied on the right banks of the river Rhine in Germany located next to Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Engers has 5,367 inhabitants. It is highwater-endangered by its direct contact with the river Rhine.

Koblenz
Koblenz (UK: /koʊˈblɛnts/ koh-BLENTS, US: /ˈkoʊblɛnts/ KOH-blents, German: [ˈkoːblɛnts] ⓘ; Moselle Franconian: Kowelenz) is a city in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, on the banks of the rivers Rhine (Middle Rhine) and Moselle, a multinational tributary.

Koblenz was established as a Roman military post by Drusus c. 8 BC. Its name originates from the Latin (ad) cōnfluentēs, meaning "(at the) confluence". The actual confluence is today known as the "German Corner", a symbol of the unification of Germany that features an equestrian statue of Emperor William I. The city celebrated its 2,000th anniversary in 1992.

The city ranks as the third-largest city by population in Rhineland-Palatinate, behind Mainz and Ludwigshafen am Rhein, with 115,298 residents (as of 2023). Koblenz lies in a narrow flood plain between high hill ranges, some reaching mountainous height, and is served by an express rail and autobahn network. It is part of the populous Rhineland.
Glenelly (District Electoral Area)
Glenelly was one of the three district electoral areas in Strabane, Northern Ireland which existed from 1985 to 2014. The district elected five members to Strabane District Council, and formed part of the West Tyrone constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.

It was created for the 1985 local elections, replacing Strabane Area B which had existed since 1973, and contained the wards of Artigarvan, Dunnamanagh, Plumbridge, Slievekirk and Victoria Bridge. It was abolished for the 2014 local elections and replaced with the Sperrin DEA.

West Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency)
West Tyrone is a parliamentary constituency in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The current MP is Órfhlaith Begley, a member of Sinn Féin, who has represented the constituency since the 2018 by-election.
Runner Runner (album)
Runner Runner is the debut studio album by American pop rock band Runner Runner. It was originally scheduled for a September 28, 2010 release, but was pushed back until 2011. The album was released on February 15, 2011, through David Letterman's record label, Clear Entertainment/C.E. Music of Capitol Records. It peaked at number 185 on the Billboard 200 and number 3 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers.

The album's lead single, "So Obvious", was released on May 18, 2010, and has since become a moderate success, peaking at number 37 on the Billboard Pop Songs chart. The album has since spawned two more singles: "Unstoppable" and "Hey Alli".

Pop Airplay
Pop Airplay (also called  Mainstream Top 40, Pop Songs, and Top 40/CHR) is a 40-song music chart published weekly by Billboard magazine that ranks the most popular songs of pop music being played on a panel of Top 40 radio stations in the United States. The rankings are based on radio airplay detections as measured by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems (Nielsen BDS), a subsidiary of the United States' leading marketing research company. Consumer researchers, Nielsen Audio (formerly Arbitron), refers to the format as contemporary hit radio (CHR).
The current number-one song on the chart is "Opalite" by Taylor Swift.
Bella Thorne filmography
American actress, singer, and director Bella Thorne has appeared in a variety of films, television shows, video games, and music videos throughout the duration of her career. Beginning her career in the film industry, Thorne has appeared in 35 films (including two documentaries and four films as a voice actor), three television films, and two short films. Additionally, she has directed one film and executive produced another.

Thorne has had leading roles on several television shows including My Own Worst Enemy (2008), Little Monk (2009), Big Love (2010), Shake It Up (2010–2013), and Famous in Love (2017–2018).

Outside of film and television, Thorne has lent her voice to three video games, appeared in one stage play, and directed a series of music videos for herself and other musicians.

My Own Worst Enemy (TV series)
My Own Worst Enemy is an American drama television series that aired on NBC from October 13, 2008 and ended on December 15, after 9 episodes, with its cancellation announcement after the fourth episode.
Harold H. Anthony House
The Harold H. Anthony House is a historic house located on Gardner's Neck in Swansea, Massachusetts. Built in 1922 to a design by R. Clipston Sturgis, it is a high quality local example of Georgian Revival architecture, unusual in the town for its use of brick. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 12, 1990.

Swansea, Massachusetts
Swansea is a town in Bristol County in southeastern Massachusetts, United States.
It is located at the mouth of the Taunton River, just west of Fall River, 47 miles (76 km) south of Boston, and 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Providence, Rhode Island. The population was 17,144 at the 2020 census. The villages of Hortonville, Barneyville and Ocean Grove are located in the town.

Swansea is a part of the South Coast region of Massachusetts which encompasses the cities and towns that surround Buzzards Bay (excluding the Elizabeth Islands, Bourne and Falmouth), Mount Hope Bay and the Sakonnet River.
Soldano SLO-100
The SLO-100 (short for Super Lead Overdrive 100) is a guitar amplifier made by Soldano Custom Amplification.  Released in 1987, the SLO-100 was hand-built and pushed the boundaries of guitar distortion during an era of mass-produced amps that were insufficient for increasingly heavy music without modifications.  Hard rock and metal guitarists like Eddie Van Halen, George Lynch, and Mick Mars helped popularize the SLO-100 and its high-gain sound, while the amp's clean and lower-gain tones attracted players like Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, and Warren Haynes.  The SLO-100 is considered one of the industry's benchmark amps and its success helped establish the boutique amplifier market.

Eddie Van Halen
Edward Lodewijk Van Halen (/væn ˈheɪlən/ van HAY-lən, Dutch: [ˈɛtʋɑrt ˈloːdəʋɛik fɑn ˈɦaːlə(n)]; January 26, 1955 – October 6, 2020) was an American musician. He was the guitarist, keyboardist, backing vocalist and one of the primary songwriters of the rock band Van Halen, which he founded with his brother Alex Van Halen in 1972.

Van Halen is widely regarded as one of the greatest guitarists in rock history, and was well-known for popularizing the tapping guitar technique, allowing rapid arpeggios to be played with two hands on the fretboard. Eddie Van Halen was voted number one in a Guitar World Magazine poll for "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" poll. Rolling Stone ranked Van Halen 4th in its list of the "250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" in 2023.

Van Halen dealt with numerous health issues beginning in the 1990s. On October 6, 2020, Van Halen died of a stroke at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California at the age of 65.
Maji Desu ka Ska!
"Maji Desu ka Ska!" (まじですかスカ!, Maji Desu ka Suka!; Seriously, Ska!?) is the 45th single of the Japanese group Morning Musume, released on April 6, 2011 on the Zetima record label. The single sold 33,698 copies in its first week, charting at #5 on the weekly Oricon singles charts and peaking at #7 on the Japan Billboard Hot 100.

Reina Tanaka
Reina Tanaka (田中 れいな, Tanaka Reina; born November 11, 1989) is a Japanese singer and musical actress. She is the leader of the Japanese rock band Lovendor. From 2002 to 2013, she was one of the main vocalists of the girl group Morning Musume and participated in other music acts under the Hello! Project name.
Katihar Junction railway station
Katihar Junction railway station serves Katihar city in Katihar district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is an A1 Category railway station of Katihar Division. The Katihar Junction railway station is connected to most of the major cities in India by the railway network. It is amongst the top 100 booking stations of Indian Railways.

Katihar lies in between Barauni–Katihar section of Barauni–Guwahati lineKatihar–Siliguri line which serves the city with numerous trains to Guwahati, Kolkata, Delhi, Muzaffarpur, Patna, Gorakhpur, Lucknow and with many other cities. It is ISO certified ISO 14001:2015 for its clean and green environment throughout the station premises.

Gorakhpur
Gorakhpur is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, along the banks of the Rapti river in the  Purvanchal region. It is situated 272 kilometres east of the state capital, Lucknow. It is the administrative headquarters of Gorakhpur district, North Eastern Railway Zone and Gorakhpur division. The city is home to the Gorakhnath Math, a Gorakhnath temple. The city also has had an Indian Air Force station since 1963. Gita Press, the world's largest publisher of Hindu religious texts like Ramayana and Mahabharata, has been established here since 1926.
New Zealand Idol
New Zealand Idol, also known as NZ Idol, is the New Zealand version of the Idol series which originated in the United Kingdom as Pop Idol. New Zealand first saw the Idol format when TV2 aired American Idol 2, which garnered impressive ratings. After Australian Idol also received good ratings in New Zealand, TVNZ decided to order the first season of NZ Idol, which was broadcast on TV2. After the third season in 2006, TVNZ made a decision not to fund or broadcast a fourth season.

NZ Idol was produced by South Pacific Pictures in association with Grundy Television and developed by Fremantle Media.

Fremantle (company)
FremantleMedia Limited, trading as Fremantle (/ˈfriːmæntəl/; formerly FremantleMedia), is a British multinational television production and distribution company based in London. The company was founded as Pearson Television in 1993 when publishing and education company Pearson acquired the former British ITV franchisee Thames Television. Fremantle takes its name from Fremantle International, which was acquired by predecessor company All American Television in 1994. Pearson Television and Bertelsmann's CLT-UFA merged in 2000 to form the RTL Group, with Pearson Television itself being renamed FremantleMedia on 20 August of the following year.

Fremantle owns non-scripted formats, including the British talent shows Idols, Got Talent and The X Factor; all of which have been sold globally. Since 1994, Fremantle has distributed American game shows locally in the United States and globally.
Harp Lake (Ontario)
Harp Lake is an oligotrophic, single-basin lake in Ontario, Canada. The lake covers over 710,000 m2 and has a depth of 37.5 m. Harp Lake does have dimitic stratification and is a temperate lake. Additionally, Harp Lake does not have anaerobic conditions in the water column because it is a relatively deep lake. The water in Harp Lake has a pH of 6.3 (slightly acidic). This pH is caused by the presence of acids and the lack of alkaline bases.[3] Slightly acidic lakes normally have a granite or siliceous bedrock and they are poorly buffered. Also, these lakes commonly have calcium-poor soils or thin soils.

It is one of the "Dorset lakes" near Dorset, Ontario, a small community located on the boundary between the Algonquin Highlands Township in Haliburton County, Ontario and Lake of Bays Municipality in Muskoka District, Canada.

Dorset, Ontario
Dorset is a small community located on the boundary between the Algonquin Highlands Township in Haliburton County, Ontario and Lake of Bays Municipality in Muskoka District, Canada. Dorset was originally called Cedar Narrows.  In 1859 Francis Harvey became the first European settler here. Zachariah Cole mapped out the area for the government around 1860. The community name was chosen by some of the settlers that came from Dorset, England.

As of 2009, Dorset has a local permanent population of approximately 400 although these numbers increase more than tenfold in the summer months due to cottagers and vacationers.
MILO (bootloader)
In computing, a MILO, or the Alpha Linux Mini Loader, is a firmware replacement for early Alpha AXP hardware that allows the system to boot the Alpha version of the Linux operating system. It is capable of running Linux device drivers and reads available filesystems rather than looking for boot blocks. Newer Alpha hardware uses aboot.

Computing
Computing is any goal-oriented activity that requires, benefits from, or creates computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic processes, and the development of both hardware and software. Computing encompasses scientific, engineering, mathematical, technological, and social aspects. Major computing disciplines include computer engineering, computer science, cybersecurity, data science, information systems, information technology, and software engineering.

The term computing is also synonymous with counting and calculating. In earlier times, it was used in reference to the action performed by mechanical computing machines, and before that, to human computers.