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Viktor Ivanov (film director)
Viktor Mykhailovych Ivanov (Ukrainian: Віктор Михайлович Іванов; 31 January [O.S. 13 February] 1909 – 18 June 1981) was a Ukrainian Soviet film director who is known as the creator of the comedy film Chasing Two Hares. He was referred to be a one in a million director by Alexander Dovzhenko, and Sergei Eisenstein personally brought him to his creative workshop. Additionally, he is a recipient the Order of the Red Star, Honored Art Worker of Ukraine and the Oleksandr Dovzhenko State Prize.

Koziatyn
Koziatyn (also referred to as Kozyatyn; Ukrainian: Козятин, IPA: [koˈzʲɑtɪn] ⓘ; Polish: Koziatyn; Russian: Казатин) is a city in the Vinnytsia Oblast (province) in central Ukraine. It served as the administrative center of the Koziatyn Raion (district); the city itself was not a part of the district and was separately incorporated as the city of regional significance until 2020, when it was incorporated into Vinnytsia Raion. It is located 75 kilometres (47 mi) from the oblast capital, Vinnytsia (approximately 150 km (93 mi) from Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine). It became part of the Khmilnyk Raion in 2020. It lies on the banks of the Huiva River. The population is 22,241 (2022 estimate).
Wierzchocina
Wierzchocina [vjɛʂxɔˈt͡ɕina] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lipnica, within Bytów County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.

For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.

Gmina Lipnica
Gmina Lipnica (Kashubian: Gmina Lëpińce) is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Bytów County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the village of Lipnica, which lies approximately 17 kilometres (11 mi) south of Bytów and 90 km (56 mi) south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk.

The gmina covers an area of 309.57 square kilometres (119.5 sq mi), and as of 2006 its total population is 4,796.

Mayor of the municipality is Andrzej Lemańczyk.
Notok
NOTOK is the eighth single by Japanese rock band Hitorie. The digital version was released on November 6, 2024, with the CD releasing on November 27. It is the first release since their fourth studio album, HOWLS, to feature wowaka's vocals, due to his death two months after its release. The cover art was created by Fullkawa Honpo, a close friend of wowaka who also created the cover art for his debut vocaloid album, Unhappy Refrain. The song is included on the band's seventh album, Friend Chord, with Shinoda as the vocalist.

Japanese rock
Japanese rock (Japanese: 日本のロック, Hepburn: Nihon no Rokku), sometimes abbreviated to J-rock (ジェイ・ロック, Jei Rokku), is rock music from Japan. Influenced by American and British rock of the 1960s, the first rock bands in Japan performed what is called group sounds, with lyrics almost exclusively in English. Folk rock band Happy End in the early 1970s are credited as the first to sing rock music in the Japanese language. Punk rock bands Boøwy and The Blue Hearts and hard rock/heavy metal groups X Japan and B'z led Japanese rock in the late 1980s and early 1990s by achieving major mainstream success.

Rock bands such as B'z and Mr. Children are among the best selling music acts in Japan. Rock festivals like the Fuji Rock Festival were introduced in the late 90s with attendances reaching a peak of 200,000 people per festival making it the largest outdoor music event in the country.
HMS Gleaner (1809)
Gleaner, later HMS  Gleaner,  was a ketch launched in 1802. She initially served as a light vessel and survey vessel. She served the Royal Navy as the "hired ketch Gleaner" from 12 July 1808 until the Navy purchased her in 1809. As a Royal Navy vessel, she served in the Mediterranean Sea, on the North American station, and off the north coast of Spain, participating in the capture of several vessels. She was wrecked off the north coast of Spain in 1814.

Striking the colors
Striking the colors—meaning lowering the flag (the "colors") that signifies a ship's or garrison's allegiance—is a universally recognized indication of surrender, particularly for ships at sea. For a ship, surrender is dated from the time the ensign is struck.
Ioan
Ioan is a variation on the name John found in Aromanian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Russian, Welsh (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈjo.an]), and Sardinian. It is usually masculine. The female equivalent in Romanian and Bulgarian is Ioana. In Russia, the name Ioann is usually reserved for the clergy (when a person called Ivan becomes a priest or a monk, he becomes known as Ioann). In all Bulgarian and Welsh versions of the Bible, Ioan is the name used for individuals known as John in English translations, such as John the Evangelist and John the Baptist.

People with the name include:

John the Evangelist
John the Evangelist (c. 6 AD – c. 100 AD) is the name traditionally given to the author of the Gospel of John. Christians have traditionally identified him with John the Apostle, John of Patmos, and John the Presbyter, although there is no consensus on how many of these may actually be the same individual.
Heiko Zinke
Heiko Zinke is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the mid-1980s. At the 1985 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mechelen, Belgium, he won a complete set of medals with a gold in K-4 500 m, a silver in K-1 1000 m, and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events.

1985 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
The 1985 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Mechelen, Belgium.

The men's competition consisted of six canoe (single paddle, open boat) and nine kayak events. Three events were held for the women, all in kayak.

This was the nineteenth championships in canoe sprint.
Véronique Cloutier
Véronique Cloutier CQ (born December 31, 1974), also known as Véro, is a Canadian TV and radio personality. She is the daughter of Guy Cloutier and the sister of Stéphanie Cloutier. She has hosted various programs on Radio-Canada, including La Fureur, Véro and Paquet Voleur.  Her daily show Le Véro Show on [[Rouge FM My Heart ))is one of the most popular Quebec radio programs.

Ici Radio-Canada Télé
Ici Radio-Canada Télé (stylized as ICI Radio-Canada Télé, and sometimes abbreviated as Ici Télé) is a Canadian French-language free-to-air television network spunoff Ici Radio-Canada Première, owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (known in French as Société Radio-Canada [SRC]), the national public broadcaster. Its English-language counterpart is CBC Television.

Its headquarters are at the Nouvelle Maison Radio-Canada in Montreal, which is also home to the network's flagship station, CBFT-DT, as well as the master control facilities of all of its owned-and-operated stations nationwide. Until the 2012 closedown of the CBC / Radio-Canada rebroadcaster network, it was the only francophone network in Canada to broadcast terrestrially in all Canadian provinces.
Brenton Birmingham
Brenton Joe Birmingham (born November 29, 1972) is an American and Icelandic former professional basketball player who for the majority of his career played in the Úrvalsdeild karla. He won the Icelandic championship three times and was voted the Icelandic Basketball Player of the Year in 2006 and Úrvalsdeild domestic player of the year in 2007.

Icelandic Basketball Player of the Year
The Icelandic Basketball Player of the Year award was established in 1973 to recognize the best Icelandic basketball player of the year. The winners are basketball players who have Icelandic citizenship, and whose performances with its sports club and/or national team throughout the year has reached the highest level of excellence. All players with Icelandic citizenship, regardless of where they play in the world, qualify for the award. The winners are selected by the Icelandic Basketball Association. From 1973 to 1997 there was one award for both men and women. In 1998 the Icelandic Basketball Association decided to select both the men's and women's player of the year.
Nollaí
Nollaí (Welsh: Nolig) is a short Irish and Welsh animated Christmas film. Nollaig ("Nollaí" for short) is just an ordinary reindeer. Maybe he's a bit taller than the other reindeer but he's always been told he's just big-boned. Nollaí has a great life on the farm with his human family, until he finds out that there's a chance he is actually an Irish Elk! This sends Nollaí on an adventure of discovery to find out about his origins.

This is the first animated Christmas film ever to have been jointly commissioned by TG4, BBC NI, and S4C. It is a result of cultural collaboration between Ireland and Wales. Nollaí was first released on the same day by Cúla4, TG4, BBC 2 NI and S4C.

Irish elk
The Irish elk (Megaloceros giganteus), also called the giant deer or Irish deer, is an extinct species of deer in the genus Megaloceros and is one of the largest deer that ever lived. Its range extended across northern Eurasia during the Pleistocene, from Ireland (where it is known from abundant remains found in bogs) to Lake Baikal in Siberia. The most recent remains of the species have been radiocarbon dated to about 7,700 years ago in western Russia. Its antlers, which can span over 4.2 metres (13.8 ft) across, are the largest known of any deer. It is not closely related to either living species called the elk, with it being widely agreed that its closest living relatives are fallow deer (Dama).
National Institute of Kathak Dance
National Institute of Kathak Dance, also known as Kathak Kendra, is the premier dance institution for the Indian classical dance form of Kathak, and a unit of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama, situated in New Delhi. Established in 1964, the institution is primarily dedicated to Kathak, though it also offers courses in Hindustani classical music (Vocal) and Pakhawaj and Tabla.

Lachhu Maharaj
Pandit Bajinath Prasad also known as Pandit Lachhu Maharaj (1901–1978) was an Indian classical dancer and choreographer of Kathak dance. He came from a family of illustrious Kathak exponents in Lucknow, and also worked as film choreographer, Hindi cinema, most notably Mughal-e-Azam (1960) and Pakeezah (1972).
He was awarded the 1957 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, the highest award for performing artists, conferred by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama. He was paternal uncle of Pandit Birju Maharaj.
Balance shaft
Balance shafts are used in piston engines to reduce vibration by cancelling out unbalanced dynamic forces. The counter balance shafts have eccentric weights and rotate in the opposite direction to each other, which generates a net vertical force.

The balance shaft was invented and patented by British engineer Frederick W. Lanchester in 1907. It is most commonly used in inline-four and V6 engines used in automobiles and motorcycles.

Frederick W. Lanchester
Frederick William Lanchester (23 October 1868 – 8 March 1946), was an English polymath and engineer who made important contributions to automotive engineering and to aerodynamics, and co-invented the topic of operations research.

Lanchester became a pioneer British motor-car builder, a hobby which resulted in him building the first British car in 1895 and developing a successful car company.

Some of the innovations Lanchester developed have gone on to become widely adopted in the car industry.
Lokesh Productions
Lokesh Productions, based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, is an Indian production company best known for making non-fiction shows in the Kannada language. It was founded in 2013 by Girija Lokesh and Srujan Lokesh, wife and son of veteran Kannada actor Lokesh, son of Subbaiah Naidu, who was credited as the first hero of Kannada silent movies. The production house has produced several successful shows on television including Challenge, Chota Champion, and Kaasige Toss, all being reality shows. Currently, the house produces Majaa Talkies, a sketch comedy show which has been a huge hit among the Kannada audience.

Girija Lokesh
Girija Lokesh is an Indian theatre and film actress and occasional film producer who works in Kannada cinema. She is wife of actor Lokesh, and is the mother of actor and television presenter Srujan Lokesh and Pooja Lokesh. In recognition of her contribution towards Kannada cinema, she was honoured with Rajyotsava Award by the Government of Karnataka in 2013.
Tang–Tibet Treaty Inscription
The Tang - Tibetan Empire Treaty Inscription (Tibetan: གཙུག་ལག་ཁང་མདུན་གྱི་རྡོ་རིངས་, Wylie: gtsug lag khang mdun gyi rdo rings; simplified Chinese: 唐蕃会盟碑; traditional Chinese: 唐蕃會盟碑; pinyin: Táng-Bō Huìméng Bēi) is a stone pillar standing outside the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The inscription is written in both Tibetan and Classical Chinese, concerning the Changqing Treaty between the Tibetan Empire and Tang Empire in A.D. 821/823. Amy Heller's book Tibetan Art describes it as one of the most important treaties between the Tang and Tibetan Empire. Inscription states the relationship of Tang and Tibetan Empire as uncle and nephew of same family.

Lhasa
Lhasa, officially the Chengguan District of Lhasa City, is the inner urban district of Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region, Southwestern China.

Lhasa is the second most populous urban area on the Tibetan Plateau after Xining and, at an altitude of 3,656 metres (11,990 ft), Lhasa is one of the highest cities in the world. The city has been the religious and administrative capital of Tibet since the mid-17th century. It contains many culturally significant Tibetan Buddhist sites such as the Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple and Norbulingka Palaces. According to the census, the total resident population of the city by the end of 2024 will be 876,400.
Georgi Joseph
Georgi Joseph (born 23 November 1982) is a French professional basketball player for Aix Maurienne Savoie Basket of the LNB Pro B.

Joseph spent the 2019–20 season with the Levallois Metropolitans, averaging 3.2 points and 2.8 rebounds per game. He signed with ESSM Le Portel on 23 September 2020. In 2021, Joseph joined Tours Métropole Basket and averaged 5.4 points, 5.4 rebounds, and 1.9 assists per game. On 3 March 2022, he signed with Aix Maurienne.

Tours Métropole Basket
Tours Métropole Basket (English: Tours Metropolis Basketball) is a French professional basketball club based in the city of Tours in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France.

Founded in 1925, its heyday was in the 1970s under the name ASPO Tours, with two league titles in 1976 and 1980 and a European Cup Winners' Cup final in 1976.

After going through financial strife and successive reorganisations, Tours Métropole Basket is now the heir of the bankrupt club. As recently as the 2017–18 season, it had played in the fourth-tier Nationale 2, but earned promotion to Nationale 1 for 2018–19, and returned to the professional ranks by earning promotion to LNB Pro B for 2021–22.
A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles
A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (MEG) is a seven-volume reference grammar of Modern English, largely written by Otto Jespersen. The first volume ("part"), Sounds and Spellings, was published in 1909; two through five were on syntax; six was on morphology; and seven returned to the topic of syntax. It took until 1949 for all seven to be completed.

Syntax
In linguistics, syntax (/ˈsɪntæks/ SIN-taks) is the study of how words and morphemes well-formed combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns with syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure (constituency), agreement, the nature of crosslinguistic variation, and the relationship between form and meaning (semantics). Diverse approaches, such as generative grammar and functional grammar, offer unique perspectives on syntax, reflecting its complexity and centrality to understanding human language.
Rajouria
Rajouria, named after the Rajouri district in the Indian province of Jammu and Kashmir, is an extinct raoellid artiodactyl from the middle-upper Eocene (early Lutetian). There is only a single species of Rajouria, Rajouria gunnelli, which is named after Dr. Greg Gunnell. Rajouria is known from relatively little remains, with only mandibular and maxillary fragments with their respective teeth being preserved. Rajouria is the newest member of Raoellidae, having been named in 2021.

Rajouri district
Rajouri district is a district in the Jammu division of Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, in the larger disputed Kashmir region. The Line of Control, between the Indian- and Pakistani-administered Jammu and Kashmir,  lies to its west, Poonch to its north, the Reasi district to the east and the Jammu district to its south.  Rajouri is famous for its "Kalari" (made from milk). Representing an ancient principality, Rajouri was a joint district, along with Reasi, at the time of princely state's accession to India in 1947. The two tehsils were separated and Rajouri was merged with the Poonch district. Rajouri again became a separate district along with Reasi in 1968 till 2006 when both were separated again.
The Rajouri district comprises 13 tehsils (boroughs). The land is mostly fertile and mountainous. Maize, wheat and rice are the main crops of the area and the main source of the irrigation is the river Tawi that originates from the mountains of Pir Panjal.
Alice Fong Yu
Alice Fong Yu (Chinese: 尤方玉屏; 2 March 1905 - 19 December 2000) was an American schoolteacher and community organizer. The first Chinese American to teach at a public school, she was a founding member and first president of the Square and Circle Club (方圓社), and was a prominent leader in the San Francisco Chinatown community.

Vallejo, California
Vallejo (/vəˈleɪ(h)oʊ/ və-LAY-(h)oh; Spanish pronunciation: [baˈʎexo] ⓘ) is a city in Solano County, California, United States, and the second largest city in the North Bay region of the Bay Area. Located on the shores of San Pablo Bay, the city had a population of 126,090 at the 2020 United States census. Vallejo is home to the California Maritime Academy, Touro University California and Six Flags Discovery Kingdom.

Vallejo is named after Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, the famed Californio general and statesman. The city was founded in 1851 on General Vallejo's Rancho Suscol to serve as the capital city of California, which it was from 1852 to 1853, after which the Californian government moved to neighboring Benicia, named in honor of Vallejo's wife Benicia Carrillo de Vallejo. The Mare Island Naval Shipyard was founded in 1854, and defined Vallejo's economy until the turn of the 21st century.
Club Mercedes
Club Mercedes is an Argentine sports club located in the city of Mercedes in Buenos Aires Province. Having been established in 1875, the club is regarded as the oldest association football club still in existence in Argentina.

The football team plays in Primera C, the fourth division of the Argentine football league system. Until then, it had played in Torneo Federal C, a now defunct regionalised 5th. division, where Mercedes participated in the 2017 season.

At regional level, Mercedes also played in the "Liga Mercedina", the league where clubs from Mercedes and other cities around (such as San Antonio de Areco, Luján or Zárate among others) participate.

Apart from football, other sports practised at the club are basketball, roller skating, swimming, and tennis.

Roller skating
Roller skating is the act of travelling on surfaces with roller skates. It is a recreational activity, a sport, and a form of transportation. Roller rinks and skate parks are built for roller skating, though it also takes place on streets, sidewalks, and bike paths.

Roller skating originated in the performing arts in the 18th century. It gained widespread popularity starting in the 1880s. Roller skating was very popular in the United States from the 1930s to the 1950s, then again in the 1970s when it was associated with disco music and roller discos. During the 1990s, inline outdoor roller skating became popular. Roller skating has often been a part of Black and LGBT history in particular.

Sport roller skating includes speed skating, roller hockey, roller derby, figure skating and  aggressive inline skating.
Motortown Revue
The Motortown Revue was the name given to the package concert tours of Motown artists in the 1960s. Early tours featured Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Mary Wells, The Marvelettes, Barrett Strong, and The Contours as headlining acts, and gave then-second-tier acts such as Marvin Gaye, Martha & The Vandellas, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, The Four Tops, Gladys Knight & the Pips and The Temptations the chances to improve their skills.

Barrett Strong
Barrett Strong Jr. (February 5, 1941 – January 28, 2023) was an American singer and songwriter known for his recording of "Money (That's What I Want)", which was the first hit single for the Motown record label. He is also known for his songwriting work in association with producer Norman Whitfield; together, they penned such songs as "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", "War", "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)", and "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone".

In 2004, Strong was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame alongside Whitfield.
KBRO
KBRO in Bremerton and KNTB in Lakewood, both Washington, are a pair of simulcasting radio stations serving the Puget Sound region. KBRO broadcasts at 1490 kHz with 1,000 watts full-time while KNTB broadcasts at 1480 kHz with 1,000 watts day and 111 watts night. Both stations are owned by Iglesia Pentecostal Víspera del Fin.

Lakewood, Washington
Lakewood is a city in Pierce County, Washington, United States. The population was 63,612 at the 2020 census. It is the second-largest city in the county, behind Tacoma, and is a suburban bedroom community. Lakewood is adjacent to the McChord AFB portion of Joint Base Lewis–McChord, a major military installation for the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force.
Luke Haines
Luke Michael Haines (born 7 October 1967) is an English musician, songwriter and author. He has recorded music under various names and with various bands, including The Auteurs, Baader Meinhof and Black Box Recorder. He is married to British journalist, author, illustrator and artist Siân Pattenden.

David Peace
David Peace (born 1967) is an English writer. Best known for his UK-set novels Red Riding Quartet (1999–2002), GB84 (2004), The Damned Utd (2006), and Red or Dead (2013), Peace was named one of the Best of Young British Novelists by Granta in their 2003 list. His books often deal with themes of mental breakdown or derangement in the face of extreme circumstances. In an interview with David Mitchell, he stated: "I was drawn to writing about individuals and societies in moments that are often extreme, and often at times of defeat, be they personal or broader, or both. I believe that in such moments, during such times, in how we react and how we live, we learn who we truly are, for better or worse."
Beitbridge, South Africa
Beitbridge (Afrikaans: Beitbrug) is a town in Musina Local Municipality in the Limpopo province of South Africa.

Beitbridge is a border crossing on the Limpopo River, located just south of Beitbridge in Zimbabwe. It is the busiest border post in the region, handling as many as 500 trucks each day. The bridge was named the Alfred Beit Road Bridge, after mining financier Alfred Beit, who provided funds for its construction.

Musina Local Municipality
Musina Municipality (Venda: Masipalawapo wa Musina) is a local municipality within the Vhembe District Municipality, in the Limpopo province of South Africa. It is the northernmost local municipality in South Africa. It borders Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The seat is Musina.