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Ulla Werbrouck
Ulla Werbrouck (born 24 January 1972 in Izegem) is a Belgian former politician and judoka.

At the 1996 Summer Olympics, Werbrouck won the gold medal in the women's half-heavyweight category.

In January 2007, Werbrouck joined the right-liberal List Dedecker party, newly established by her former trainer Jean-Marie Dedecker.
In the June 2007 federal elections, she was elected member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives (2007–2009). At the 2009 Regional elections she was elected a member of the Flemish Parliament. In 2014, she was no longer up for reelection.

Belgians
Belgians (Dutch: Belgen [ˈbɛlɣə(n)] ⓘ; French: Belges [bɛlʒ] ⓘ; German: Belgier [ˈbɛlɡi̯ɐ] ⓘ) are people identified with the Kingdom of Belgium, a federal state in Western Europe. As Belgium is a multinational state, this connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural rather than ethnic. The majority of Belgians, however, belong to two distinct linguistic groups or communities (Dutch: gemeenschap; French: communauté) native to the country, i.e. its historical regions: Flemings in Flanders, who speak Dutch, West Flemish and Limburgish; and Walloons in Wallonia, who speak French or Walloon. There is also a substantial Belgian diaspora, which has settled primarily in the United States, Canada, France, and the Netherlands.
Cain's Tears (1981 film)
Cain's Tears or The Devil Refused (Russian: Каїнові сльози - И чёрт отказался) is a Soviet Ukrainian short film released by Kievnauchfilm in 1981, based on a poem of the same name by Yaroslav Korolevich.

Kobza (band)
Kobza is a vocal and instrumental ensemble of Ukraine from the 1970s and 1980s. VIA "Kobza" was the first of the bands of the former Soviet Union to go on a commercial tour on the American continent (1982). The original band leader was Oleksandr Zuev. One of the songwriters and current bandleader is Yevhen Kovalenko.
Jak oni śpiewają season 2
The 2nd season of Jak oni śpiewają, the Polish edition of Soapstar Superstar, started on September 8, 2007, and ended on December 15, 2007. It was broadcast by Polsat. Katarzyna Cichopek and Krzysztof Ibisz as the hosts, and the judges were: Edyta Górniak, Elżbieta Zapendowska and Rudi Schuberth.

Katarzyna Cichopek
Katarzyna Cichopek (born 7 October 1982 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish actress.

She is best known to the Polish audience as Kinga Zduńska, starring in the series M jak miłość (L for Love) which is watched by nearly 10 million people. She is the winner of the popular TV show Taniec z Gwiazdami (Polish Dancing with the Stars). She was the host of Jak oni śpiewają? (Polish version of Soapstar Superstar).
Mag TV Na, De Aton Este!
Mag TV Na, De Aton Este was a weekly entertainment show of ABS-CBN Zamboanga in Zamboanga Peninsula and part of the brand regional magazine or talk show Mag TV Na. The Zamboangueño version of this show usually featured important events around the city as well as the region. However, Mag TV Na, De Aton Este focused mostly on scenic spots around mainland Zamboanga City, Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga del Sur and the island provinces (Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi) around it. Hosted by Kathy Daculan, Mag TV was seen on Sundays before Matanglawin on ABS-CBN TV-3 Zamboanga.

Zamboanga del Sur
Zamboanga del Sur (Cebuano: Habagatang Zamboanga; Subanen: S'helatan Sembwangan/Sembwangan dapit Shelatan; Maguindanaon: Salatan Sambuangan, Jawi: سلاتن سامبواڠن; Filipino: Katimugang Zamboanga), officially the Province of Zamboanga del Sur, is a province in the Philippines located in the Zamboanga Peninsula region in Mindanao. Its capital is the city of Pagadian.

Statistically grouped with Zamboanga del Sur is the highly urbanized City of Zamboanga, which is geographically separated and a chartered city and governed independently from the province and also its largest city.

The province borders Zamboanga del Norte to the north, Zamboanga Sibugay to the west, Misamis Occidental to the northeast, and Lanao del Norte to the east. To the south is the Moro Gulf.
What Happened at Hazelwood
What Happened at Hazelwood is a 1946 detective novel by the British writer Michael Innes. It is a standalone novel from the author who was best known for his series featuring the Golden Age detective John Appleby. In this novel his role is fulfilled by Inspector Cadover who also appeared later in an Appleby novel A Private View. It takes the form of a country house mystery. Ralph Partridge writing in the New Statesman observed "Michael Innes may be a Professor of English in disguise but What Happened at Hazelwood would never win him a Chair of Detection. I suppose we should be grateful that it is not a surrealist thriller, and that Inspector Appleby is off duty."

Ralph Partridge
Reginald Sherring Partridge, MC & Bar (1894 – 30 November 1960), generally known as Ralph Partridge, was a member of the Bloomsbury Group. He worked for Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf, married Dora Carrington and then Frances Marshall, and was the unrequited love of Lytton Strachey.
Cardonald railway station
Cardonald railway station is located in the Cardonald district of Glasgow, Scotland, also serving parts of the Drumoyne neighbourhood located on the opposite side of the M8 motorway which runs adjacent to the railway. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Inverclyde Line.

ScotRail
ScotRail Trains Limited, trading as ScotRail (Scottish Gaelic: Rèile na h-Alba), is a Scottish train operating company that is publicly owned by Scottish Rail Holdings on behalf of the Scottish Government. It has been operating the ScotRail franchise as an operator of last resort since 1 April 2022.
We Believed
We Believed (Italian: Noi credevamo) is a 2010 Italian drama film directed by Mario Martone, based on a screenplay by Martone and Giancarlo De Cataldo inspired by events around the 19th-century Young Italy political movement and based on the novel of the late art historian Anna Banti. Nominated for the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice International Film Festival, the film was released in Italy on 12 November 2010.

Golden Lion
The Golden Lion (Italian: Leone d'oro) is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is widely regarded as one of the film industry's most prestigious and distinguished prizes. In 1970, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement was introduced, an honorary prize for people who have made an important contribution to cinema.

The prize was introduced in 1949 as the Golden Lion of Saint Mark, which was one of the best known symbols of the ancient Republic of Venice. In 1954, the prize was permanently named the Golden Lion.
Burslem Park
Burslem Park is a public park in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, operated by Stoke-on-Trent City Council. It was opened in 1894, and is essentially unchanged from the original layout. It is listed Grade II* in Historic England's Register of Parks and Gardens.

The park received a Green Flag Award in July 2023.

Green Flag Award
The Green Flag Award is an international accreditation given to publicly accessible  parks and open spaces, managed under licence from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, a UK Government department, by Keep Britain Tidy, who also administers the scheme in England.
Alexander Sladkovsky
Alexander Sladkovsky (born 20 October 1965) is a Russian conductor. He is the chief conductor and artistic director of the Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra. He was selected as the People's Artist of Russia and People's Artist of Tatarstan, and won the third International Prokofiev Competition in 1999.

People's Artist
People's Artist is an honorary title in the Soviet Union, Union republics, in some other Eastern bloc states (and communist states in general), as well as in a number of post-Soviet states, modeled after the title of the People's Artist of the USSR.
South Oroville, California
South Oroville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Butte County, California, United States. The population was 3,235 at the 2020 census, down from 5,742 at the 2010 census.

For all practical purposes, South Oroville is tied to Oroville proper. South Oroville contains a negligible number of businesses, and all residents are dependent on the commercial centers of Oroville, and sometimes Chico if they choose. In fact, there is no clear divide between South Oroville and the Oroville city limits. This also applies to Thermalito, Oroville East, and Palermo. Las Plumas High School is located in South Oroville, and most high school students go to school there.

Las Plumas High School
Las Plumas High School (LP) is located in the north valley in Oroville, California, United States, about 70 miles north of Sacramento. The school was established in the autumn of 1961. The class of 1965 was the first class to go from freshmen to seniors at the school. Its main sports rival is Oroville High School.
Tissot Arena
Tissot Arena is a combined multi-purpose stadium and arena in Biel/Bienne, Canton of Bern, Switzerland. It consists of a football stadium, an ice hockey arena, an outdoor ice skating rink and a curling hall. It is currently used by Swiss Promotion League football club, FC Biel-Bienne and National League A ice hockey club, EHC Biel.

Promotion League
The Promotion League, named the Hoval Promotion League for sponsorship reasons, is the third tier of the Swiss football league system. Eighteen clubs compete in the league, playing each other twice over course of the season. The champions are promoted to the second tier, the Challenge League, while the bottom two teams are relegated to the 1st League Classic.

The league forms the semi-professional bridge to amateur football.
Kokhanok Airport
Kokhanok Airport (IATA: KNK, ICAO: PFKK, FAA LID: 9K2) is a state-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) southwest of the central business district of Kokhanok, in the Lake and Peninsula Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 1,166 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, a decrease of 33.9% from the 1,765 enplanements in 2007. This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, which categorizes it as a general aviation facility.

Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska
Lake and Peninsula Borough is a borough in the state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,476, down from 1,631 in 2010. The borough seat of King Salmon is located in neighboring Bristol Bay Borough, although is not the seat of that borough. The most populous community in the borough is the census-designated place of Port Alsworth. With an average of 0.017 inhabitants per square kilometre (0.044 inhabitants/mi2), the Lake and Peninsula Borough is the least densely populated organized county-equivalent in the United States; only the unorganized Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area has a lower density.
Mr. Popper's Penguins (film)
Mr. Popper's Penguins is a 2011 American comedy film starring Jim Carrey, loosely based on the 1938 children's book. Produced by Davis Entertainment Company and Dune Entertainment and distributed by 20th Century Fox, it was directed by Mark Waters and written by Sean Anders, John Morris and Jared Stern. The film was originally slated for a release on August 12, 2011, but was moved up to June 17, 2011. The film received mixed reviews from critics and earned $187.3 million on a $55 million budget.

Mr. Popper's Penguins
Mr. Popper's Penguins is a children's book written by Richard and Florence Atwater, with illustrations by Robert Lawson, originally published in 1938. It tells the story of a poor house painter named Mr. Popper and his family, who live in the small town of Stillwater in the 1930s. The Poppers unexpectedly come into possession of a penguin, Captain Cook.  The Poppers then receive a female penguin from the zoo, who mates with Captain Cook to have 10 baby penguins. Before long, something must be done, lest the penguins eat the Poppers out of house and home.
Anthony Ramos
Anthony Paul Ramos Martinez (born November 1, 1991) is an American actor and singer. After graduating in musical theater from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, Ramos began performing in stage musicals. In 2015, he originated the dual role of John Laurens and Philip Hamilton in Hamilton, for which he won a Grammy Award. He received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role in a Limited Series or Movie for his performance in the 2020 stage recording.

Ramos played a supporting role in A Star Is Born (2018), and starred in the musical film In the Heights (2021), earning him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, the action film Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023), and the disaster film Twisters (2024). He also voiced Piranha in the animated films The Bad Guys (2022) and The Bad Guys 2 (2025).

Piranha
A piranha (/pɪˈrɑːnjəˌ -ræn/, or /pɪˈrɑːnə/; Portuguese: [piˈɾɐ̃ɲɐ]) is any of a number of freshwater fish species in the subfamily Serrasalminae, of the family Serrasalmidae, in the order Characiformes. These fish inhabit South American rivers, floodplains, lakes and reservoirs. Although often described as extremely predatory and mainly feeding on fish, their dietary habits vary extensively, and they will also take plant material, leading to their classification as omnivorous.
1971 Dutch Open (tennis)
The 1971 Dutch Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament staged at 't Melkhuisje in Hilversum, Netherlands. It was a non–tour event, i.e. not part of one of the main tennis circuits, the Grand Prix or World Championship Tennis circuit. The tournament was played on outdoor clay courts and was held from 26 July through 1 August 1971. It was the 14th edition of the tournament and was part of the 1971 Grand Prix circuit. Gerald Battrick and Evonne Goolagong won the singles titles.

Christina Sandberg
Christina Sandberg (born 11 January 1948) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. She reached the quarterfinals of the 1970 Australian Open in both the singles and doubles. She played for Sweden in the Federation Cup in 25 matches, and she notably defeated Virginia Wade in the first round of the 1968 Wimbledon Championships.
Intimate – Recordings at Abbey Road Studios
Intimate – Recordings at Abbey Road Studios is the seventh official greatest hits compilation by the Italian singer Elisa, released by Universal Music Group on 8 December 2023.

The recording project included the rearrangement and vocal re-modeling of several songs from the singer-songwriter's discography, as well as the inclusion of Christmas music tracks, including a cover of "Silent Night" and two previously unreleased tracks "Quando nevica" and "Buon Natale anche a te".

Silent Night
"Silent Night" (German: "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht") is a popular Christmas carol, composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria. It was declared an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2011. The song was first recorded in 1905 and has remained a popular success, appearing in films and multiple successful recordings, as well as being quoted in other musical compositions. It is one of the most recorded Christmas songs, with more than 137,000 known recordings.
Sissonville, West Virginia
Sissonville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States, along the Pocatalico River. The population was 4,084 at the 2020 census (slightly up from 4,028 at the 2010 census). Sissonville is located within 14 miles of Charleston, the state capital.

West Virginia Senate
The West Virginia Senate is the upper house of the West Virginia Legislature.
There are seventeen senatorial districts. Each district has two senators who serve staggered four-year terms. Although the Democratic Party held a supermajority in the Senate as recently as 2015, Republicans now dominate in the chamber, and hold 32 seats to the Democrats' two seats.
Luke O'Reilly (cricketer)
Luke O'Reilly (born 9 July 1977) is an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler who played for Hertfordshire. He was born in Westminster.

O'Reilly, who played two matches for Middlesex Second XI in the 1998 AON Risks Trophy, made four List A appearances between 1999 and 2001. Despite bowling for 30 overs, he never made an appearance as a batsman.

O'Reilly made one further C&G Trophy appearance, in 2001 for Middlesex CB.

As of 2008, O'Reilly still plays cricket in the Essex Cricket League for Woodford Wells, alongside such names as former Essex player Robert Leiper.

Hertfordshire County Cricket Club
Hertfordshire County Cricket Club is one of twenty minor county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Hertfordshire.

The team is currently a member of the Minor Counties Championship Eastern Division and plays in the MCCA Knockout Trophy. Hertfordshire played List A matches occasionally from 1964 until 2004 but is not classified as a List A team per se.

The club is based at Balls Park, Hertford and also plays matches around the county at Cricket Field Lane in Bishop's Stortford, Long Marston, Brunton Memorial Ground in Radlett and North Mymms.
Sarangadhara (1937 film)
Sarangadhara (Telugu: సారంగధర, lit. beautiful-body-carrier) is a 1937 Telugu-language film directed by P. Pullayya under Star Combines. Banda Kanakalingeswara Rao and Santha Kumari donned the lead roles supported by Addanki Srirama Murthy as Rajaraja Narendra. It is based on the epic of the same name by Gurajada Apparao. The movie was a runaway hit, and in the aftermath of its success Pullayya married Santha Kumari.

Sarangadhara
Sarangadhara is an epic story about the reign of Rajaraja Narendra, an Eastern Chalukya king. Gurajada Apparao wrote the story in long poetic form in English and published it in "Indian Leisure Hour" in 1883. It is a popular Telugu drama and made into South Indian films.
Watch the Birdies (TV series)
Watch the Birdies was a 1966 British television mini-series based on a screenplay by Peter Yeldham that aired on the BBC. The series was a five-part thriller series about a detective who gets involved in the London underworld through investigation of the world of fashion photography. All five episodes were wiped and are believed to be lost.

Rolf von Sydow directed in 1969 a West German remake of it named Bitte recht freundlich, es wird geschossen.

Lost television broadcast
Lost television broadcasts are television programs that were not preserved after their original airing, rendering them permanently unavailable for both public and private screening. Because of this, they are considered a form of lost media, particularly affecting television shows or films that aired before the widespread use of home video recording and digital archiving. A significant portion of early television programming was never recorded, largely because recording equipment was unavailable or the content was considered to have little monetary or historical value.
Naoki Hoshino
Naoki Hoshino (星野 直樹, Hoshino Naoki; 10 April 1892 – 26 January 1978) was a Japanese politician who served as Chief Cabinet Secretary under Prime Minister Hideki Tojo from 1941 to 1944. He served in the Ministry of Finance during the Taishō and early Shōwa period, and was a senior official in the Empire of Manchukuo.

After World War II he was prosecuted for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal of the Far East and sentenced to life imprisonment, but he was released in 1958.

Taishō era
The Taishō era (大正時代, Taishō jidai; [taiɕoː dʑidai] ⓘ) was a period in the history of Japan dating from July 30, 1912 to December 25, 1926, coinciding with the reign of Emperor Taishō. The new emperor brought on the shift in political power from the old oligarchic group of elder statesmen (or genrō) to the Imperial Diet of Japan and the democratic parties. Thus, the era is considered the time of the liberal movement known as Taishō Democracy; it is usually distinguished from the preceding chaotic Meiji era and the following militaristic-driven first part of the Shōwa era.
Landen railway station
Landen is a railway station in the town of Landen, Flemish Brabant, Belgium. The station opened on 2 April 1838 and is located on lines 21 and 36. The train services are operated by National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS).

Landen used to be located on 127 (to Statte) and 147 (to Tamines).

On 19 February 2016 a train ran away from a platform at Landen railway station after the driver left the cabin to inspect the train's mechanics. The train started moving in the direction of Tienen railway station and was stopped 30 minutes and 12 km later by a driver who jumped in the train's cab. No passengers were on the train during the incident.

National Railway Company of Belgium
The National Railway Company of Belgium (Dutch: Nationale Maatschappij der Belgische Spoorwegen, NMBS; French: Société nationale des chemins de fer belges, SNCB; German: Nationale Gesellschaft der Belgischen Eisenbahnen) is the national railway company of Belgium. The company formally styles itself using the Dutch and French abbreviations NMBS/SNCB. The corporate logo designed in 1936 by Henry van de Velde consists of the linguistically neutral letter B in a horizontal oval.
1992 North Carolina gubernatorial election
The 1992 North Carolina gubernatorial election was held on  November 3, 1992. Incumbent Governor James G. Martin was unable to run for a third consecutive term due to term limits, and his Lieutenant Governor, Jim Gardner, was chosen to replace him as the Republican nominee. Gardner had also been the nominee in a previous gubernatorial election twenty four years earlier. Former Governor Jim Hunt decided to seek his third term as the Democratic nominee. The race became one of the nastiest and most talked about races in the country, with Hunt winning a third term easily over Gardner and Libertarian nominee Scott McLaughlin.

James G. Martin
James Grubbs Martin (born December 11, 1935) is an American chemist and politician who served as the 70th governor of North Carolina from 1985 to 1993. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served six terms as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 9th congressional district from 1973 to 1985.

Martin was the third Republican elected governor of North Carolina after Reconstruction, the second since the 1900 North Carolina gubernatorial election, and the fifth overall. As of 2026, he was also the only Republican to serve two full terms as governor of the state. Since the passing of Jim Hunt in 2025, Martin is North Carolina's oldest surviving governor and last surviving governor to have served in the 20th century.
Khalid Al-Dakhil
Dr. Khalid Al-Dakhil (Arabic: خالد الدخيل) is a Saudi Arabian assistant professor of political sociology at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia. He has been a columnist for London's Al-Hayat newspaper (صحيفة الحياة) and is now a columnist for the Al-Ittihad newspaper (صحيفة أبو ظبي). He is widely published in Arabic journals. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles.

During his four-month tenure at the Carnegie Endowment, his research and outreach focused on Saudi politics, history, and reform as well as the country's relations with the United States.  His contribution augmented the Middle East Political Reform Initiative of Carnegie's Democracy and Rule of Law Project.  He has also called for demphasizing Wahhabism in Saudi history, which he believes is given ahistorical weight.  "We've written the state history improperly, which is why most Saudis don’t know the history of the Saudi state or the Arabian Peninsula, unfortunately".

Al-Ittihad (Emirati newspaper)
Al-Ittihad (Arabic: الإتحاد, lit. 'The Union') is an Arabic language newspaper published daily in the United Arab Emirates. It is part of the Abu Dhabi Media group, a state-owned organization. The paper is the first regular publication of the country.