hotchpotch/wikipedia-multilingual-ir-related-lead-pairs huggingface dataset:
Anastasiya Verameyenka
Anastasiya Uladzimirawna Verameyenka (Belarusian: Анастасія Уладзіміраўна Верамеенка, Russian: Анастасия Владимировна Веремеенко, born 10 July 1987) is a Belarusian professional women's basketball player who plays for Horizont Minsk. Veremeyenka was part of the Belarus women's national basketball teams that won a bronze medal at EuroBasket Women 2007 and placed sixth at the 2008 Olympics. Her elder brother Vladimir Veremeenko is also a professional basketball player.

Women's basketball
Women's basketball is the team sport of basketball played by women. It was first played in 1892, one year after men's basketball, at Smith College in Massachusetts. It spread across the United States, in large parts via women's college competitions, and has since spread globally. As of 2020, basketball is one of the most popular and fastest growing sports in the world.

There are multiple professional leagues and tournaments for professional women basketball players. The main North American league is the WNBA. The FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup and Women's Olympic Basketball Tournament feature top national teams from continental championships. In the US, the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship is also popular. The strongest European women's basketball clubs participate in the EuroLeague Women.
Iman Zandi
Iman Zandi (Persian: ایمان زندی, born 19 September 1981 in Fooladshahr, Iran) is a professional Iranian basketball player. He last played for the Parsa of the Iranian Basketball Super League. He also played for the Iranian national basketball team. He is 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) in height.

Iran men's national basketball team
The Iran men’s national basketball team (Persian: تیم ملی بسکتبال مردان ایران) represents Iran in international basketball, and are governed by the Islamic Republic of Iran Basketball Federation (IRIBF).

Iran is one of Asia’s most successful federations. Since the turn of the century, they’ve won three FIBA Asia Cup tournaments, while also claiming a silver and two bronze medals at the competition. Iran has also qualified for every edition of the FIBA World Cup since 2010, and have participated in two Olympic Games (2008, 2020).
2023–24 UMass Lowell River Hawks men's basketball team
The 2023–24 UMass Lowell River Hawks men's basketball team represented the University of Massachusetts Lowell during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. They played their home games at the Costello Athletic Center in Lowell, Massachusetts, with two games being played at the Tsongas Center, and were led by 11th-year head coach Pat Duquette.

The River Hawks finished the season with a 22–10, including an 11–5 mark in America East play, to finish in a tie for second place. They defeated UMBC and Bryant, before falling to top-seeded Vermont in the America East tournament championship game.

2023–24 Vermont Catamounts men's basketball team
The 2023–24 Vermont Catamounts men's basketball team represented the University of Vermont during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Catamounts, led by 13th-year head coach John Becker, played their home games at the Patrick Gym located in Burlington, Vermont as members of the America East Conference.
Miss Earth 2010
Miss Earth 2010 was the 10th edition of the Miss Earth pageant, held at the Vinpearl Land Amphitheater in Nha Trang, Vietnam, on December 4, 2010.

Larissa Ramos of Brazil crowned Nicole Faria of India as her successor at the end of the event. She was the first Miss Earth from India.

Eighty-four contestants from various countries and territories competed for the Miss Earth 2010 title. The event was broadcast live by STAR World, VTV, ABS-CBN, Studio 23, The Filipino Channel, and other partner networks.

The Miss Earth winner serves as the spokesperson for the Miss Earth Foundation, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and other environmental organizations.

The event was hosted by Oli Pettigrew, host of AXN's Sony Style program, along with Marie Digby and Jennifer Pham with Boyzone lead singer Ronan Keating as the guest performer. Vietnamese singer Mỹ Linh performed during the show.

Jennifer Pham
Jennifer Pham (born on 3 July 1985, real name in Vietnamese: Phạm Vũ Phượng Hoàng) achieved fame by winning many beauty pageant titles. She was crowned Miss Vietnam USA runner-up 2004, Vietnamese American Top Model 2005, Miss Vietnam Southern California 2006 and Miss Asia USA 2006. She has been involved in numerous philanthropy works throughout the US and Asian countries.

On July 25, 2007, she married well-known Vietnamese singer Quang Dũng, with whom she co-starred in the film Leaves of Time (Những Chiếc Lá Thời Gian), at the Sofitel hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The couple celebrated their wedding in the United States on September 21, 2007, and are expecting their first child. However, she and Quang Dũng have been separated since 2009 and have been alternating care for their son, Bảo Nam (An Nam) who was 5 years old at the time of their separation.

In 2012, Pham got married with businessman Nguyen Duc Hai, with whom she has 3 children, the couple currently lives in Hanoi.
Piet Visagie
Petrus Jacobus Visagie (16 April 1943 – 22 December 2022) was a South African rugby union international.

Visagie, raised in the town of Reivilo, was a mine worker at Beeshoek and played for the local Ammosal rugby club. He went on to represent Griquas in provincial rugby and was a key member of the 1970 Currie Cup winning side.

A fly-half, Visagie was capped in 25 Test matches for the Springboks. He featured in series wins over Australia, the British & Irish Lions, France and New Zealand. The 43 points he amassed on Australia's four-Test 1969 tour of South Africa set a world record for a series. His career ended prematurely at the age of 28 due to a broken leg.

Visagie's younger brother Gawie was also a Springboks representative.

Griquas (rugby union)
Griquas (Afrikaans: Griekwas), known as the Suzuki Griquas for sponsorship reasons, are a South African professional rugby union team based in Kimberley in Northern Cape, that participates in the annual Currie Cup tournament. Their home ground is Griqua Park in Kimberley and they draw their players mostly from Northern Cape Province. They have won the Currie Cup four times – in 1899, 1911, 1970, and 2025 – and the Vodacom Cup a joint-record five times.
2021 New South Wales Liberal Party leadership election
The 2021 Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division) leadership election was a leadership vote held on 5 October 2021 to elect a new leader of the New South Wales Division of the Liberal Party of Australia and subsequently the Premier of New South Wales, following the resignation of Gladys Berejiklian. The election was conducted among the Liberal Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales and contested between Dominic Perrottet and Rob Stokes. Perrottet won the election 39 votes to 5. Stuart Ayres was elected unopposed as deputy party leader.

The leadership election was the first time Liberal Party parliamentary members had to vote for a leader in almost twenty years. The previous occurrence was in 2002, which was contested between incumbent Kerry Chikarovski and John Brogden.

A separate leadership election for the Liberal Party's coalition partner, the NSW Nationals, was held the following day.

Kerry Chikarovski
Kerry Anne Chikarovski AM (née Bartels; 4 April 1956) is an Australian former politician who served as leader of the Liberal Party in New South Wales and Leader of the Opposition between 1998 and 2002, the first woman to hold either role.

Chikarovski represented the electoral district of Lane Cove in the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales from 1991 to 2003. She variously served as Minister for Consumer Affairs, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Employment and Minister for Women in the Liberal-National Coalition governments of Premier John Fahey.
Wataru Ishijima
Wataru Ishijima (石島 渉, Ishijima Wataru, 1906–1980) was a paleontologist and geologist.
Ishijima was one of the most prolific researchers of fossil calcareous algae. After graduating from the Imperial Fisheries Institute (Tokyo; current Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology) in 1927, Ishijima joined the Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Faculty of Science, Tohoku Imperial University (Sendai) from 1927–1931. He then worked at the Institute of Geology, Taihoku Imperial University (Taipei) during 1942–1945 and then at the Rikkyo University (Tokyo) from 1945–1980. His doctoral dissertation was submitted to Tohoku University and was privately published by Yūhodō (Ishijima, 1954). He described a total of 139 taxa of fossil calcareous algae (Iryu, 2004) including at least 114 species of Corallinales, and he produced more than 45 publications on coralline algal taxonomy.

Tohoku University
Tohoku University (東北大学, Tōhoku daigaku) is a public research university in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. It is colloquially referred to as Tohokudai (東北大, Tōhokudai) or Tonpei (トンペイ, Tompei).

Established in 1907 as the third of the Imperial Universities, after the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University, it initially focused on science and medicine, later expanding to include humanities studies as well.

In 2016, Tohoku University had 10 faculties, 16 graduate schools and 6 research institutes, with a total enrollment of 17,885 students. The university's three core values are "Research First (研究第一主義)," "Open-Doors (門戸開放)," and "Practice-Oriented Research and Education (実学尊重)."
Lisa Dempster
Lisa V. Dempster (Nee Powell) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly in a by-election on June 25, 2013. She represents the district of Cartwright-L'Anse au Clair as a member of the Liberal Party.

Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly
The Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly (French: Chambre d'assemblée de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador) is the unicameral deliberative assembly of the General Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It meets in the Confederation Building in St. John's. Bills passed by the assembly are given royal assent by the lieutenant governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, in the name of the Sovereign.

The governing party sits on the left side of the speaker of the House of Assembly as opposed to the traditional right side of the speaker. This tradition dates back to the 1850s as the heaters in the Colonial Building were located on the left side. Thus, the government chose to sit near the heat, and leave the opposition sitting in the cold.
Clark Matis
Clark Arvo Matis (born July 1, 1946) is a retired American cross-country skier. He competed in the 30 km event at the 1972 Winter Olympics and finished 53rd.

Matis' mother was the first female member of the University of Colorado ski team, and his father, Arvo Matis, headed the Durango Ski Club. Clark won the 1968 and 1969 NCAA cross-country championships, and was a member of the national skiing team in 1969–72. After retiring from competitions he became an executive with Skis Rossignol. In 1981 he co-founded Merrell, an outdoor shoe company. Around that time he designed boots and received multiple patents on shoe and boot designs.

1972 Winter Olympics
The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially the XI Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Sapporo 1972, were a winter multi-sport event held from February 3 to 13, 1972, in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. It was the first Winter Olympic Games to take place outside Europe and North America.
Nanha
Rafi Khawar (Punjabi, Urdu: رفیع خاور) (4 August 1942 – 2 June  1986), popularly known as Nanha (Urdu: ننھا), was a Pakistani actor and comedian. He started his film career in 1966 and earned several awards including 3 Nigar awards.

Nigar Awards
The Nigar Awards (Urdu: نگارانعامات, romanized: Negār Inʿāmaʿat, lit. 'Picture Awards') were presented in an annual award show to recognize outstanding achievement in Pakistani cinema. The honors were awarded by Nigar Magazine founded in 1948. The Nigar Awards were Pakistan's version of the Academy Awards. The awards show had been discontinued for some 15 year, and a revival was planned in 2017.

The annual presentation ceremony featured performances by prominent artists. The first Nigar Awards ceremony was held in 1957, to honor the accomplishments of Pakistani cinema for the year 1956. In 2002, following the 46th Annual Nigar Awards, Nigar Magazine announced its discontinuation of the awards due to the collapse of the Pakistani cinema industry.

After a 15-year hiatus, with the revival of Pakistani cinema, the 47th Nigar Awards were announced to be held on 16 March 2017 in Karachi. They were eventually cancelled.
Revenge season 3
The third season of the ABC American television drama series Revenge premiered on September 29, 2013. Ashley Madekwe and Connor Paolo did not return as Ashley Davenport and Declan Porter, respectively, although Madekwe guest starred in the premiere to conclude her story. On July 12, 2013, it was confirmed that Justin Hartley would join the cast as Patrick Osbourne, Victoria Grayson's long lost son. This is also the first season not to have creator Mike Kelley as executive producer and showrunner. On May 3, 2013, Sunil Nayar was confirmed as Kelley's replacement. The premiere features a flashforward where Emily is shot and the first half of the season leads up to the shooting.

The season premiere was watched by 8.11 million viewers, achieving an adult 18–49 rating/share of 2.3/6.

Sunil Nayar
Sunil Nayar is an Indian American television writer and producer, most notable for his work on CSI: Miami. For its third season onward, Nayar has been appointed main-showrunner and executive producer of the ABC television series Revenge. He currently oversees two CBS Television Studios/Warner Bros. Television co-productions The Red Line and All Rise.
Christopher Norwood
Christopher Bonnewell Burton Norwood (17 December 1932 – 14 November 1972) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Norwood was educated at Whitgift School, Croydon and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, whence he graduated with a BA in 1953. Following university Norwood worked firstly as a management trainee, then assumed various positions at the National Coal Board (NCB) before finding employment in the economic projection section of the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB). Having previously contested Sutton Coldfield in 1955 and Bromsgrove in 1959, at the 1964 general election he was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich South, serving until he stood down in 1970. Norwood died suddenly two years later aged 39, leaving behind one son by his ex-wife Beryl.

National Coal Board
The National Coal Board (NCB) was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom. Set up under the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946, it took over the United Kingdom's collieries on "vesting day", 1 January 1947. In 1987, the NCB was renamed the British Coal Corporation, and its assets were subsequently privatised.
1995–96 Portland Pilots men's basketball team
The 1995–96 Portland Pilots men's basketball team represented the University of Portland during the 1995–96 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Pilots, led by tenth-year head coach Eric Reveno, played their home games at the Chiles Center and were members of the West Coast Conference. They finished the season 19–11, 7–7 in WCC play to finish in fifth place. They won the WCC tournamentby defeating Gonzaga in the championship game to receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament – the program's first appearance since 1959. Playing as No. 14 seed in the Midwest region, the Pilots were beaten by No. 3 seed Villanova, 92–58, in the opening round. To date, this is the most recent appearance in the NCAA tournament for the Portland men's basketball team.

1995–96 Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team
The 1995–96 Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Gonzaga University in the West Coast Conference (WCC) during the 1995–96 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Led by fourteenth-year head coach Dan Fitzgerald, the Bulldogs were 19–7 (.731) overall in the regular season (10–4 in WCC, tied for first),

and played their home games on campus at the Charlotte Y. Martin Centre in Spokane, Washington.

In November 1995, athletic director Fitzgerald announced this season would be his penultimate as head coach, with plans to promote longtime assistant Dan Monson in the spring of 1997.

Regular season co-champion, Gonzaga advanced to the final of the WCC tournament at Santa Clara, but fell to fifth seed Portland. Ten days later in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT), the Bulldogs traveled to south to Pullman and lost to Washington State by nineteen points to finish at 21–9 (.700).
Rendell McIntosh
Rendell Ian McIntosh is a New Zealand historian and former track athlete. He won three national athletics championship titles and represented his country at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in the 400 metres hurdles. He later instigated the running of the Auckland Marathon across the Auckland Harbour Bridge, and became the manager of the historic house Alberton in the Auckland suburb of Mount Albert.

Mount Albert, New Zealand
Mount Albert (Māori: Ōwairaka) is an inner suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, which is centred on Ōwairaka / Mount Albert, a local volcanic peak which dominates the landscape. By 1911, growth in the area had increased to the point where Mount Albert was declared an independent borough, which was later absorbed into Auckland. The suburb is located 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) to the southwest of the Auckland City Centre.
Pellaea nana
Pellaea nana, known as dwarf sickle fern, is a species of fern in the subfamily Cheilanthoideae of the family Pteridaceae.  It grows in eastern Australia, including Lord Howe Island, in rainforest or moist eucalyptus forest, often on rocks, cliffs and large boulders. The original specimen was collected by Allan Cunningham at the Brisbane River. In the state of Victoria, this plant is considered rare. The specific epithet nana is derived from the Latin word nanus meaning dwarf.

The fronds are usually 20 to 50 cm long. Each frond has between 25 and 65 pinnae (leaflets), which have a short stalk or no stalk, and are oblong to narrow-oblong in shape. Each pinna is 25 mm long and 2.5 to 7 cm wide. The fronds are dark green, paler below. The sori are about 1 mm wide.

Cheilanthoideae
Cheilanthoideae is one of the five subfamilies of the fern family Pteridaceae. The subfamily is understood to be monophyletic, but some of the genera as currently defined are not. Most species are xeric-adapted, and the subfamily is most diverse in dry areas.
Dimitry Pospielovsky
Dimitry Vladimirovich Pospielovsky (13 January 1935 – 12 September 2014) (Russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Поспеловский, transliterated academically as Dmítrij Vladímirovič Pospjélovskij) was a historian, a professor emeritus of history at the University of Western Ontario. He was a prominent researcher in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Pospielovsky was born in 1935 in Ryasniki, a village then in Poland, now in Rivne Oblast, Ukraine.

He also published a number of articles, in English and Russian, on other issues of Russian history, in particular,  on workers' movement at the times of Russian Revolutions and on Russian nationalism.

Pospielovsky died in London, Ontario, on 12 September 2014.

Rivne Oblast
Rivne Oblast (Ukrainian: Рівненська область, romanized: Rívnensʹka óblastʹ), also referred to as Rivnenshchyna (Ukrainian: Рівненщина, romanized: Rívnenščyna), is an oblast in northwestern Ukraine. Its administrative center is Rivne. The surface area of the region is 20,100 square kilometres (7,800 mi2). Its population is: 1,141,784 (2022 estimate).

Before its annexation by the Soviet Union during World War II, the region was part of the Second Polish Republic's Wołyń Voivodeship following the Polish–Soviet War. Previously it was part of the Volhynian Governorate.

The Rivne Nuclear Power Plant is located in the oblast, near the city of Varash.
Redeeming Love (2022 film)
Redeeming Love is a 2022 American Christian Western romance film directed by D.J. Caruso, who co-wrote the screenplay with Francine Rivers. The film is based on Rivers' 1991 novel of the same name, which was based on the Biblical story of Hosea, and is set in the American Old West during the California Gold Rush. It stars Abigail Cowen, Tom Lewis and Logan Marshall-Green.

The film was co-produced by Pinnacle Peak Pictures, Mission Pictures International, and Nthibah Pictures, and was filmed in Cape Town, South Africa. It was theatrically released by Universal Pictures on January 21, 2022, and received generally negative reviews from critics but was well-received by audiences. Redeeming Love was nominated for the GMA Dove Award for Inspirational Film/Series of the Year at the 2022 GMA Dove Awards.

Pinnacle Peak Pictures
Pinnacle Peak Pictures (formerly Pure Flix Entertainment until January 2021) is an American independent evangelical Christian film production and distribution studio founded by David A. R. White and Russell Wolfe. Pinnacle Peak produces Christian films, including God's Not Dead (2014), Do You Believe? (2015), Woodlawn (2015), The Case for Christ (2017), and Unplanned (2019). Since 2014, films produced and distributed by Pure Flix have collectively grossed over $195 million at the worldwide box office. The company has headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Mikhail Litvin
Mikhail Sergeyevich Litvin (Kazakh: Михаил Сергеевич Литвин; born 5 January 1996 in Petropavl) is a Kazakhstani sprinter specialising in the 400 metres. He won a bronze medal at the 2016 Asian Indoor Championships.

Petropavl
Petropavl (Kazakh: Петропавл (listenⓘ); Russian: Петропавловск, romanized: Petropavlovsk) is a city on the Ishim River in northern Kazakhstan close to the border with Russia. It is the capital of the North Kazakhstan Region. Population: 218,956. The city is also known in Kazakh as Kyzylzhar (Kazakh: Қызылжар, romanized: Qyzyljar, lit. 'Red cliff').

Petropavl is about 185 km (115 mi) from Kökşetau, 428 km (266 mi) northwest of the national capital Astana along the A1, and 261 km (162 mi) from Omsk.
Zdenka Vučković
Zdenka Vučković (Zagreb, 20 June 1942 - 7 March 2020) was a Croatian popular music singer with a career spanning 60 years. Her popularity peaked during the 1960s, when she was a teen pop star. She is best remembered for the songs Moja mala djevojčica ["My Little Girl"], best known by the line Tata, kupi mi auto ["Daddy, Buy Me a Car"], and Zagreb, Zagreb, which became an unofficial anthem of the Croatian capital. Her voice is made familiar by the song Zeko i potočić ["Bunny and the Stream"].

She announced the end of her career with the song Odrasla je djevojčica mala ["The Little Girl has Grown Up"] performed at the 1989 Zagreb Festival. However, in 1991, she performed the song "To Love Somebody" (a song by the Bee Gees in Croatian) in a duet with Severina.  In 2010, she performed the song "Veslaj" ["Row!"] with Luka Nižetić at the Split Festival.

In 1971, she married composer Krešimir Oblak.

Split Festival
The Split Festival (officially Festival zabavne glazbe Split or Splitski Festival) is a pop music festival held annually, in July, in Split, Croatia. It has been held since 1960. It is one of the premier Croatian music festivals.

Since its inception, the festival has had over 800 compositions by the country's most famous composers (Zdenko Runjić, Arsen Dedić, Milica Milisavljević Dugalić, Đelo Jusić, Nikica Kalogjera, Rajko Dujmić, Zrinko Tutić, Đorđe Novković, Alfi Kabiljo), performed by some of the nation's best singers (Oliver Dragojević, Tereza Kesovija, Kemal Monteno, Radojka Šverko, Ibrica Jusić, Miki Jevremović, Meri Cetinić, Tedi Spalato, Zorica Kondža, Matko Jelavić) and groups (Dubrovački trubaduri, Pro arte, Indexi, Teška industrija, Novi fosili, Magazin, 777), Đorđi Peruzović, and others.