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Patrick Lau Lai-chiu
Patrick Lau Lai-chiu SBS, JP (劉勵超; born 1950/51) is a former career civil servant in the Hong Kong Government.  He retired in 2007 as Director of Lands, head of the Lands Department.

Lau joined the civil service in 1972, spending 15 years in the Trade Department, followed by positions in the Industry Department, the Hong Kong Government Office in London, the City and New Territories Administration, the Administrative Services and Information Branch, Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Washington, and the Civil Service Branch.

Lau was Deputy Secretary for the Civil Service (1995-1997), Deputy Secretary for Planning, Environment and Lands (1997-2001), and Deputy Head of the Central Policy Unit (March 2001 to May 2002).

He became Director of the Lands Department in May 2002 and held the post until his retirement in June 2007.

Lands Department (Hong Kong)
The Lands Department is a government department under the Development Bureau responsible for all land matters in Hong Kong. Established in 1982, it comprises three functional offices: the Lands Administration Office (LAO), the Survey and Mapping Office (SMO) and the Legal Advisory and Conveyancing Office (LACO).
Laurie baronets of Maxwelton (1685)
The Laurie baronetcy, of Maxwelton in the County of Dumfries, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 27 March 1685 for Robert Laurie. He was the son of John Laurie, shire commissioner for Dumfriesshire.

The 4th Baronet represented Dumfries in the House of Commons; while the 5th Baronet sat for Dumfriesshire. The title became extinct on the death of the 6th Baronet in 1848.

Dumfriesshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Dumfriesshire was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of Great Britain (at Westminster) from 1708 to 1801 and in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (also at Westminster) from 1801 until 2005. It was known as Dumfries from 1950.
Orang Kaya Indera Shahbandar
Orang Kaya Indera Shahbandar ('Mighty Noblemen Shahbandar', Jawi: اورڠ كاي ايندرا شهبندر) is a nobility title in Pahang Sultanate and one of the four highest-ranking nobles below the monarch — equivalent to Duke in some European peerage. The title traces its origin from the times of the Old Pahang Sultanate, and was historically known simply as Shahbandar ('harbourmaster'). The territory under the jurisdiction of the Shahbandar was the royal capital, Pekan, and its surrounding area stretching from Bebar river to Kuala Lepar, which mostly lies within the Pekan constituency.

During the reign of Raja Bendahara Tun Ali, the title was renamed with the additional prefixes Orang Kaya Indera ('Mighty' or 'powerful nobleman'), thus it was later known as 'Orang Kaya Indera Shahbandar'. The title is the fourth most influential among the four major chiefs, because the Shahbandar lived in the vicinity of the capital, and tended to become the monarch's minister or chief executive officer.

Tun Ali of Pahang
Sri Paduka Dato' Bendahara Sri Maharaja Tun Ali ibni Almarhum Dato' Bendahara Paduka Raja Tun Koris (c. 1782 – October 1858) was the 23rd and the last Bendahara of the Johor Sultanate, and the fourth Raja Bendahara of the Pahang Kingdom reigning from 1806 to 1857.

In 1853, Tun Ali declared his autonomy from the sultanate, paving the way for an independent Pahang, after two centuries of union with the crown of Johor. He was able to maintain peace and stability during his reign, but his death in 1857 precipitated a civil war between his sons.
Zain Retherford
Zain Allen Retherford (/ˈrɛðərfərd/ REDH-ər-fərd; born May 21, 1995) is an American freestyle wrestler and graduated folkstyle wrestler who competes at 70 kilograms. In freestyle, he is a gold and silver medalist at the World Championships, as well as a Pan-American champion.

One of the most successful Penn State Nittany Lion wrestlers of all time, Retherford was a two-time Dan Hodge Trophy winner and a three-time NCAA Division I National champion.

2022 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 70 kg
The men's freestyle 70 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Belgrade, Serbia on 15 and 16 September 2022.

This freestyle wrestling competition consists of a single-elimination tournament, with a repechage used to determine the winner of two bronze medals. The two finalists face off for gold and silver medals. Each wrestler who loses to one of the two finalists moves into the repechage, culminating in a pair of bronze medal matches featuring the semifinal losers each facing the remaining repechage opponent from their half of the bracket.
Endymion Wilkinson
Endymion Porter Wilkinson (born 15 May 1941) is a British sinologist and diplomat who served as the European Union Ambassador to China and Mongolia from 1994 to 2001. He is particularly noted for Chinese History: A New Manual, an authoritative guide to Sinology and Chinese history covering topics, primary sources, and scholarship from earliest times to 1976. The Manual has been continuously in print from its first appearance in 1973 to the Seventh edition (2025). The Third edition won the Prix Stanislas Julien in 2014 and in 2016 Peking University Press published a three-volume Chinese-language edition. The current edition is digitally published in EPUB format, making it easy for the author to update and for readers to consult on different screen sizes from smartphones to desktop computers.

Sinology
Sinology, also referred to as China studies, is a subfield of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on China. It is an academic discipline that focuses on the study of the Chinese civilization primarily through Chinese language, history, culture, literature, philosophy, art, music, cinema, and science. Its origin "may be traced to the examination which Chinese scholars made of their own civilization."

The academic field of sinology often refers to Western scholarship. Until the 20th century, it was historically seen as equivalent to philology concerning the Chinese classics and other literature written in the Chinese language. Since then, the scope of sinology has expanded to include Chinese history and palaeography, among other subjects.
Dulcamara, or the Little Duck and the Great Quack
Dulcamara, or the Little Duck and the Great Quack, is one of the earliest plays written by W.S. Gilbert, his first solo stage success. The work is a musical burlesque of Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore, and the music was arranged by Mr. Van Hamme. It opened at the St James's Theatre on 29 December 1866, the last item in a long evening, following a farce and Dion Boucicault's new play Hunted Down. Dulcamara ran for a successful 120 nights.

The popularity of the piece encouraged further commissions for opera burlesques from Gilbert, who wrote four more between 1867 and 1869. Dulcamara and its successors all comply with the burlesque traditions of the day, with dialogue in rhyming couplets, convoluted puns throughout, and an array of attractive actresses in tights or short skirts, playing male roles, a practice Gilbert renounced as soon as he was sufficiently influential in the theatre.

Dion Boucicault
Dionysius Lardner "Dion" Boucicault /ˈdaɪˌɒn ˈbuːsɪˌkoʊ/ (né Boursiquot; 26 December 1820 – 18 September 1890) was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas.  By the later part of the 19th century, Boucicault had become known on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the most successful actor-playwright-managers then in the English-speaking theatre. The New York Times hailed him in his obituary as "the most conspicuous English dramatist of the 19th century"; he and his second wife, Agnes Robertson Boucicault, applied for, and received, American citizenship in 1873.
Heckendorf
Heckendorf is a toponymic surname of German origin from an unidentified location, a combination of the Middle Low German elements hecke, meaning "hedge fence", and dorf, meaning "hamlet village". Notable people with the surname include:

Franz Heckendorf (1888–1962), German painter

Keith Heckendorf (born 1981), American football coach

Kole Heckendorf (born 1985), American football coach and player

Keith Heckendorf
Keith Heckendorf (born April 23, 1981) is an American football coach who is currently the quarterbacks coach at Iowa State University. He was previously the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Arkansas State University as well as the quarterbacks coach and pass game coordinator at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Zaton neighbourhood
Zaton neighbourhood is a neighbourhood of the city of Ufa, capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia. It is bordered by the Belaya River on the east and Volga Highway on the north and Milovka village on the south conditional. It is a residential area, containing the park, the Zaton TEC-combined heat and power plant, ship-repair plant. The population of the district is approximately 50000 people. Inors is also a former the Kirzhackij or Starickij Zaton village.

Zaton neighbourhood is connected by Zaton bridge with the rest of Ufa. Zaton neighbourhood will have been connected by Ufa Eastern Toll Road with the Ural highway, and by that fact with all Ural.

Ufa Eastern Toll Road
Eastern Exit (Bashkir: Көнсығыш сығыу юлы, Russian: Восточный выезд) is a road-construction project in Ufa, Bashkortostan, a toll transport corridor connecting the Ufa city centre to the M-5 federal highway.

It is Bashkortostan's largest road project and third-largest in Russia, consisting of a tunnel, a bridge, a bypass road, and a connector to a federal highway. Construction began in 1992, but due to the intermittent financing the work was constantly interrupted. The project is expected to be completed by 2022. Funding comes from several sources: 20 billion - the federal component, 10 billion - a loan of VTB Bank and almost 5 billion allocates by the Republic of Bashkortostan.
Teresin massacre
On 29 August 1943, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and some Ukrainian peasants killed 207 Polish inhabitants of the colony of Teresin, located in Włodzimierz County, Wołyń Voivodeship, as part of a larger campaign against the Poles in the region, considered as a genocide.

Teresin, inhabited by about 300 Poles and a few Ukrainian families, was attacked by UPA members and Ukrainian peasants from Kohylno and Gnojno, Włodzimierz County. The attackers broke into houses and murdered the Polish residents using axes, bayonets, and other tools. They also looted the victims' property.

Vladimir-Volynsky Uyezd
Vladimir-Volynsky Uyezd (Russian: Владимир-Волынский уезд) was an administrative subdivision (an uyezd) of Volhynian Governorate in the Russian Empire. It was created in 1795 as Vladimirsky Uyezd within Volhynian Viceroyalty soon after the annexation of eastern Poland by Russia. Its seat was located in Volodymyr (Vladimir-Volynsky).

The uyezd was located at the western end of the governorate. To its south and southwest it bordered the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of Austria-Hungary, to the west - Lublin Governorate of Congress Poland (Russian Empire), to the northwest the uyezd bordered Siedlce Governorate, to the north - Grodno Governorate. Its eastern borders were mutual with three other uyezds of the Volhynian Governorate - Kovelsky Uyezd (northeast), Lutsky Uyezd (east), Dubensky Uyezd - southeast.

The uyezd was subdivided into 23 volosts which were further subdivided into 337 obshchinas (communes).
Al-Hashemiya SC (Jordan)
Al-Hashemiya Sports Club (Arabic: نادي الهاشمية الرياضي) is a Jordanian football club based in Al-Hashimiya, Jordan. It currently competes in the Jordanian First Division League, the second tier of Jordanian football.

Jordanian First Division League
The Jordanian First Division League (Arabic: الدوري الدرجة الأولى الأردني) is the second-level football competition in Jordan. It ranks directly below the Jordanian Pro League and above the Jordanian Second Division League.
November 2022 Great Lakes winter storm
In November 2022, a severe lake-effect winter storm impacted parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York, causing high accumulations of snow across the Great Lakes region, including snowfall accumulations upwards of 50 in (130 cm) in several locations. In Hamburg, New York, 81.2 in (206 cm) fell, while Orchard Park, New York recorded 80 in (200 cm) of snow. At least four fatalities occurred, with three in New York and one in Indiana, and several highways closed after heavy snowfall. A travel ban was also issued for New York by governor Kathy Hochul, and thundersnow occurred across areas impacted by the winter storm.

Winter storm
A winter storm (also known as snow storm) is an event in which wind coincides with varieties of precipitation that only occur at freezing temperatures, such as snow, mixed snow and rain, or freezing rain. In temperate continental and subarctic climates, these storms are not necessarily restricted to the winter season, but may occur in the late autumn and early spring as well. A snowstorm with strong winds and low visibility is called a blizzard.
5th U.S. Artillery, Battery A
The 5th U.S. Artillery, Battery A was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The unit fought at Yorktown, the Seven Days, Antietam, and Fredericksburg in 1862. The battery fought at Norfleet House and Suffolk in 1863 and at Bermuda Hundred, Cold Harbor, the Petersburg assault, Chaffin's Farm, the Petersburg siege, and the Appomattox campaign in 1864–1865.

Battle of Chaffin's Farm
The Battle of Chaffin's Farm and New Market Heights, also known as Laurel Hill and combats at Forts Harrison, Johnson, and Gilmer, was fought in Virginia on September 29–30, 1864, as part of the siege of Petersburg in the American Civil War.
National Cycle Route 71
National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 71 is a Sustrans National Route that runs from Whitehaven and Workington on the Cumbrian coast to Kirby Knowle in North Yorkshire to join NCN Route 65. The route is fully open and signed in both directions.

National Cycle Route 72
National Route 72 of the National Cycle Network, in Northern England is also called "Hadrian's Cycleway". It starts at Kendal and makes its way around the Cumbrian coast via Barrow-in-Furness and Whitehaven to Silloth, and then across the country through Carlisle via Newcastle upon Tyne to Tynemouth at the northern shore or to South Shields at the Tyne's south shore, where the cycleway ends at Arbeia Roman Fort. Much of its route is very close to Hadrian's Wall.

Kendal to Barrow in Furness is mapped on the Walney To Wear map. Ravenglass to Tynemouth is open and mapped on the Hadrian's Cycleway map, though some sections between Ravenglass and Silloth are using interim routes.
WSFI
WSFI (88.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve the community of Antioch, Illinois. The station is owned by BVM Helping Hands, and airs a Catholic radio format.

The station was assigned the WSFI call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on December 17, 2010.

WSFI briefly had airtime on AM 750 WNDZ from 2021 until 2024. On July 16, 2025, BVM Helping Hands purchased 88.7 WCHQ in Indian Creek, which had been broadcasting an alternative/Christian rock format, from the Call Communications Group for $300,000. On September 16, 2025, the callsign for 88.7 changed to WSFV.

Indian Creek, Illinois
Indian Creek is a village in Vernon Township, Lake County, Illinois, United States. It is part of the Chicago metropolitan area. Per the 2020 census, the population was 536. Police services are provided by Lake County Sheriff and fire/EMS services by the Countryside Fire Protection District.
Folco Portinari
Folco Portinari (died 31 December 1289) was an Italian banker and several times the prior of Florence. He was the father of Beatrice Portinari, the woman largely identified as the character loved by Dante Alighieri and mentioned in his works.

Portinari was born at Portico di Romagna, near Forlì. He donated a large part of his assets to found the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence in 1288. His residence in Florence was the future Palazzo Portinari-Salviati. He was buried in the nearby church of Santa Margherita de' Cerchi.

Prior (ecclesiastical)
Prior (or  prioress) is an ecclesiastical title for a  superior in some religious orders. The word is derived from the Latin for "earlier" or "first". The office may head a local house, a region of houses (prior provincial), or the entire order (prior general). Its earlier generic usage referred to any monastic superior. In abbeys, a prior would be lower in rank than the abbey's abbot or abbess.
Stuart Williams
Stuart Williams is the name of:

Stuart Williams (cricketer) (born 1969), West Indian cricketer

Stuart Williams (cyclist) (born 1967), New Zealand cyclist

Stuart Williams (footballer) (1930–2013), Wales international footballer

Stuart Williams (ten-pin bowling)

Stuart Williams (ten-pin bowling)
Stuart Williams (born 28 June 1981 in Ellesmere Port) is an English professional ten-pin bowler who has won titles in nine countries. He is one of the most active touring players in the sport. He is known to his followers by the nickname "Beef Stu". While in England, Williams, along with store owner and father Dave, ran MCS Bowling, a pro shop at Chester Megabowl. Williams now resides in Pflugerville, Texas, USA. He is a member of the Roto Grip pro staff and is also sponsored by Turbo Grips inserts.
Monseigneur Schrijnen Retreat House
The Monseigneur Schrijnen Retreat House was designed by the famed architect Frits Peutz (best known for the Glaspaleis) in 1932, and named after the 18th bishop of Roermond Laurentius Josephus Antonius Hubertus Schrijnen (Venlo 30 July 1861 – Roermond 26 March 1932). It is located at the top of one of the steepest hills in Heerlen next to the Molenberg and surrounded by the Aambos (a forest). It is one of the biggest buildings designed by Peutz.

It was designated a state monument (Dutch: Rijksmonument) in 1999.

Diocese of Roermond
The Diocese of Roermond (Latin: Dioecesis Ruremundensis)  is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church, located in the Netherlands. The diocese is one of the seven suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Utrecht. The territory of the diocese covers the Province of Limburg.

Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathedral of St. Christopher in Roermond.

Its main pilgrimage sites are Kapel in 't Zand and Valkenburg.

The Dean of Roermond is responsible for the parishes in that city and a few other municipalities in the diocese.
Aqua5
Aqua5 (often stylized as AQUA5) was a J-pop group affiliated with the Takarazuka Revue. When the group was formed, all five members were otokoyaku (performers of male roles) in the Revue's Snow Troupe. They made their debut on August 25, 2007, at the opening ceremony of the IAAF World Championships in Osaka, Japan.

The group has officially disbanded since April 2010 and their last appearance together was on the show Tokyo Friend Park 2 on 5 April 2010. It was noted on the show itself that it was to be their final appearance as a group. It was also mentioned in the Takarazuka Graph April 2010 issue in an interview with the five member that the article would be AQUA5's last job.

The group's name is based on part of Natsuki Mizu's name (水夏希), which translates to "water".

On June 9, 2009, the group had their first live concert, performing for 1300 fans in Akasaka, Tokyo. However, only four of the members participated, as Kaname Ouki had been recently injured in rehearsals.

Akasaka, Tokyo
Akasaka (赤坂) is a residential and commercial district of Minato, Tokyo, Japan, located west of the government center in Nagatachō and north of the Roppongi district.

Akasaka (including the neighboring area of Aoyama) was a ward of Tokyo City from 1878 to 1947, and maintains a branch office of the Minato City government.
Udakishunganj (community development block)
Udakishunganj is a community development block in the Udakishunganj subdivision of Madhepura district in the Indian state of Bihar. It forms an important administrative unit within the subdivision and consists of several panchayats and villages. The block headquarters are located about 35 kilometres (22 mi) from the district headquarters at Madhepura. Udakishunganj plays a key role in local governance and rural development programmes implemented under the Panchayati raj system in Bihar.

Udakishunganj subdivision
Udakishunganj is an administrative subdivision of Madhepura district in the state of Bihar, India. It serves as a local administrative centre and has a Sub-Divisional Officer (SDO) based at the subdivision headquarters.
Earl Jolly Brown
Edwin Earl "Jolly" Brown (October 18, 1939 – August 26, 2006) was an American actor.

Brown's best known role was as Whisper, a henchman in the 1973 James Bond film Live and Let Die. Other film appearances include Black Belt Jones (1974), Truck Turner (1974) and Linda Lovelace for President (1975). He was also active on television, with credits including Perry Mason, The Odd Couple, and Laverne and Shirley.

The Odd Couple (1970 TV series)
The Odd Couple is an American sitcom television series broadcast from September 24, 1970, to March 7, 1975, on ABC. It ran for five seasons and has become one of the most acclaimed sitcoms of its era. The show, which stars Tony Randall as Felix Unger and Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison, was the first of several sitcoms developed by Garry Marshall for Paramount Television. The series is based on the 1965 play The Odd Couple, written by Neil Simon, which was also adapted into a 1968 film. The story examines two divorced men, Oscar and Felix, who share Oscar's Manhattan apartment, and whose contrasting personalities inevitably lead to conflict and laughter.

In 1997, the episodes "Password" and "The Fat Farm" were ranked numbers 5 and 58, respectively, on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. The show received three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series.
Ľuboš Križko
Ľuboš Križko (born August 9, 1979) is an Olympic swimmer from Trenčín, Slovakia who competes in men's 100 meter backstroke. He finished 13th at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and tied for 27th at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

At the 2010 European Aquatics Championships, Križko tested positive for tamoxifen and has been banned for two years (retroactive September 22, 2010).

Backstroke
Backstroke or back crawl is one of the four swimming styles used in competitive events regulated by FINA, and the only one of these styles swum on the back. This swimming style has the advantage of easy breathing, but the disadvantage of swimmers not being able to see where they are going. It also has a different start from the other three competition swimming styles. The swimming style is similar to an upside down front crawl or freestyle. Both backstroke and front crawl are long-axis strokes. In individual medley backstroke is the second style swum; in the medley relay it is the first style swum.
SS 433
SS 433 is a microquasar or eclipsing X-ray binary system, consisting of a stellar-mass black hole accreting matter from an A-type companion star.422–4 SS 433 is the first discovered microquasar. It is at the centre of the supernova remnant W50.

SS 433's designation comes from the initials of two astronomers at Case Western Reserve University: Nicholas Sanduleak and Charles Bruce Stephenson. It was the 433rd entry in their 1977 catalog of stars with strong emission lines. Its emission lines were studied by Mordehai Milgrom in 1979.

Accretion (astrophysics)
In astrophysics, accretion is the accumulation of particles into a massive object by gravitationally attracting more matter, typically gaseous matter, into an accretion disk. Most astronomical objects, such as galaxies, stars, and planets, are formed by accretion processes.