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The Emperor's Shadow
The Emperor's Shadow is a 1996 Chinese historical film directed by Zhou Xiaowen and starring Jiang Wen, Ge You, Xu Qing and Ge Zhijun. It was the most expensive Chinese film produced at the time of its release.

Zhou Xiaowen
Zhou Xiaowen (simplified Chinese: 周晓文; traditional Chinese: 周曉文; pinyin: Zhōu Xiǎowén; born 1954 in Beijing) is a Chinese filmmaker.  He graduated from the Cinematography Department of the Beijing Film Academy in 1975 and is part of the so-called Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers.

Zhou's thrillers received commercial success. Due to government censorship several of his films were prevented from being released. Very few people outside China knew about Zhou before the 1994 release of Ermo.
Rianne Donders-de Leest
M.J.D. "Rianne" Donders-de Leest (born 22 July 1960, in Eindhoven) is a Dutch politician for the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).

Donders-de Leest started her career as a teacher at a primary school. She was elected into the municipal council of Etten-Leur in 1990. Till 2002 she was a councillor, among others as leader of the CDA fraction.

In 2000 she also became an alderman, dealing with spatial planning, traffic, transportation, housing and sports.

From 1 September 2004 to 9 January 2015 she was mayor of the municipality of Geldrop-Mierlo. Since 30 January 2015 she has been mayor of Roermond.

Municipal executive
In the Netherlands, the municipal executive (Dutch: college van burgemeester en wethouders, oftentimes abbreviated to college van B en W; lit. 'college of mayor and aldermen') is the executive board of a municipality. It plays a central role in municipal politics in the Netherlands, similar to the communal college in Belgium. It consists of the mayor and the members of the municipal executive (aldermen).
Port Crescent State Park
Port Crescent State Park is a public recreation area on Lake Huron five miles (8.0 km) southwest of Port Austin in Huron County at the tip of The Thumb of Michigan. The state park covers 640 acres (260 ha) along state route M-25 in Hume Township. The park occupies the site of Port Crescent, a ghost town which once stood at the mouth of the Pinnebog River. The park was designated a Michigan "dark sky preserve" in 2012.

Dark-sky preserve
A dark-sky preserve (DSP) is an area, usually surrounding a park or observatory, that restricts or reduces light pollution or maintains and protects naturally dark night skies. Different terms have been used to describe these areas as national organizations and governments have worked independently to create programs. DarkSky International (DarkSky) uses "International Dark Sky Reserve" (IDSR) and "International Dark Sky Park" (IDSP) among others when certifying Dark Sky Places.
Don't Bite the Sun
Don't Bite the Sun is a 1976 science fiction novel by Tanith Lee set in a utopian world which the main character comes to reject. The main character and her friends are wild, crazy "Jang" teenagers whose lifestyle is full of reckless behaviour, promiscuous sex, repeated suicide (upon dying, they are reborn), and a constant search for thrills. Over the course of the story, the nameless narrator fails to relate to her seven Jang friends but finds herself, feels emotion, and learns love.

Brian Froud
Brian Froud (born 1947) is an English fantasy illustrator and conceptual designer. He is most widely known for his 1978 book Faeries with Alan Lee, and as the conceptual designer of the Jim Henson films The Dark Crystal (1982) and Labyrinth (1986). According to Wired, Froud is "one of the most pre-emiminent visualizers of the world of faerie and folktale".

Most recently, Froud developed the 2019 streaming television series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.
George Shoch
George Quintus Shoch (January 6, 1859 – September 30, 1937) was an American baseball player. A utility member of the Washington Nationals from 1886 through 1889, he also played for the Milwaukee Brewers (1891), Baltimore Orioles (1892) and Brooklyn Grooms/Brooklyn Bridegrooms (1893–97).

Milwaukee Brewers (1886–1892)
The Milwaukee Brewers (sometimes called the Creams or the Cream Citys) of 1886–1892 were an American professional baseball team and a member of (in order): the Northwestern League, Western Association, American Association, and Western League. Of those leagues, the American Association was considered a major league, while the others were considered minor league.
2021–22 North Texas Mean Green men's basketball team
The 2021–22 North Texas Mean Green men's basketball team represented the University of North Texas during the 2021–22 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team was led by fifth-year head coach Grant McCasland, and played their home games at UNT Coliseum in Denton, Texas as a member of the West division of Conference USA. They finished the season 25-7, 16-2 in C-USA Play to finish as regular season champions. They defeated Rice in the quarterfinals of the C-USA tournament before losing in the semifinals to Louisiana Tech.  As a No. 1 seed who didn’t win their conference tournament, they received an automatic bid to the National Invitation Tournament where they defeated Texas State in the first round before losing in the second round to Virginia.

2021–22 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs basketball team
The 2021–22 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs basketball team represented Louisiana Tech University during the 2021–22 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team were led by seventh-year head coach Eric Konkol, and played their home games at Thomas Assembly Center in Ruston, Louisiana as a members of the West Division of Conference USA.
2022 Split Open – Doubles
Szymon Walków and Jan Zieliński were the defending champions but chose not to defend his title.

Nathaniel Lammons and Albano Olivetti won the title after defeating Sadio Doumbia and Fabien Reboul 4–6, 7–6(8–6), [10–7] in the final.

Jan Zieliński
Jan Zieliński (Polish: [ˈjan ʑɛˈliɲskʲi]; born 16 November 1996) is a Polish professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. He has an ATP career-high doubles ranking of world No. 7, which he attained on 19 June 2023. His highest ranking in singles has been No. 769, achieved on 20 September 2021. His best results at Grand Slam events are winning the 2024 Australian Open and the 2024 Wimbledon Championships in mixed doubles with partner Hsieh Su-wei. He also reached the final of the 2023 Australian Open doubles with Hugo Nys.
Kaburgediği, Tarsus
Kaburgediği is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Tarsus, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 156 (2022). It is situated in the Taurus Mountains. Its distance to Tarsus is 37 kilometres (23 mi) and its distance to Mersin is 61 kilometres (38 mi). The village is inhabited by Tahtacı.

Tahtacı
Tahtacı (Turkish: Tahtacılar, lit. 'woodworkers') are a subgroup of ethnic Turkish people living mainly in the forested areas of Aegean and Mediterranean regions of Turkey.

Historically engaged in woodworking since the Ottoman period, they trace their origins to the Üçok Turkomans. Due to their Alevi faith, they often lived in secluded areas, preserving a unique blend of Tengrism and Alevi-Bektashi traditions. Their cultural heritage is reflected in their craftsmanship, rituals, and way of life, which remain closely tied to nature.
Ángel Casero
Ángel Luis Casero Moreno (born 27 September 1972 in Albalat dels Tarongers, Province of Valencia) is a retired Spanish road bicycle racer who raced professionally between 1994 and 2005.

His first win was at the 1995 Clásica a los Puertos de Guadarrama, followed by the 1997 Vuelta a Castilla y León. In 1998 and 1999, he was the Spanish national champion; in 1999, he finished fifth in the Tour de France. He finished second in the Vuelta a España in 2000 and won it in 2001. His name was later tied to the Operation Puerto doping case.

Province of Valencia
The province of Valencia (Spanish: Provincia de Valencia, /vəˈlɛnsiə/ və-LEN-see-ə or /vəˈlɛnʃ(i)ə/ və-LEN-sh(ee-)ə, Spanish: [baˈlenθja] ⓘ), officially València (Província de València, Valencian: [vaˈlensia]), is a province of Spain, in the central part of the Valencian Community. Of the province's 2.7 million people, almost one-third live in the capital, Valencia, which is also the capital of the autonomous community and the 3rd biggest city in Spain, with a metropolitan area of 2,522,383 people it is also one of the most populated cities of Southern Europe. There are 266 municipalities in the province.
Mark Nolte
Mark Nolte is an American politician who was elected member of the Missouri House of Representatives for the 51st district in 2024.

Nolte graduated from the University of Missouri in December 1981 and later attending the University of Missouri School of Law.

Nolte is a land surveyor and public servant.

Missouri House of Representatives
The Missouri House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the Missouri General Assembly, the upper chamber being the Missouri Senate. It has 163 members, representing districts with an average size of 37,000 residents. House members are elected for two-year terms during general elections held in even-numbered years.

Missouri's house is the fourth largest in the United States even as the state ranks 18th in population. The only states with a larger lower house in the United States are New Hampshire (400), Pennsylvania (203), and Georgia (180). Republicans have controlled the State House since 2003.

The next election will be held in 2026.
Grimston Warren Pit
Grimston Warren Pit is a 6.6-hectare (16-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of King's Lynn in Norfolk, England. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

This former quarry is described by Natural England as "a nationally important site for dating the constituent facies of the Lower Cretaceous in north Norfolk". It has yielded ammonites which date to the Hauterivian age around 130 million years ago.

The site is private land with no public access.

Facies
In geology, a facies (/ˈfeɪʃɪ.iːz/ FAY-shih-eez, US also /ˈfeɪʃiːz/ FAY-sheez; same pronunciation and spelling in the plural) is a body of rock with distinctive characteristics. The characteristics can be any observable attribute of rocks (such as their overall appearance, composition, or condition of formation) and the changes that may occur in those attributes over a geographic area. A facies encompasses all the characteristics of a rock including its chemical, physical, and biological features that distinguish it from adjacent rock.

The term "facies" was introduced by the Swiss geologist Amanz Gressly in 1838 and was part of his significant contribution to the foundations of modern stratigraphy, which replaced the earlier notions of Neptunism.
Gregor Vietz
Gregor Vietz (born 26 June 1890 in Berlin, date of death unknown) was a German track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

In 1912, he finished 27th in the individual cross country event. In the 5000 metres competition as well as of the 10000 metres event he was eliminated in the first round. He was also a member of the German team which was eliminated in the first round of the 3000 metres team race by Sweden.

Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres
The men's 10,000 metres was a track and field athletics event held as part of the Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme.  It was the debut of the event, which along with the 5000 metres replaced the 5 mile race held at the 1908 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on Sunday, July 7, 1912, and on Monday, July 8, 1912. Thirty runners from 13 nations competed. NOCs could enter up to 12 athletes.
Santhanuthalapadu Assembly constituency
Santhanuthalapadu is a Scheduled Caste reserved constituency in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh that elects representatives to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in India. It is one of the seven assembly segments of Bapatla Lok Sabha constituency.

B. N. Vijay Kumar is the current MLA of the constituency, having won the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from Telugu Desam Party. As of 2019, there are a total of 211,326 electors in the constituency. The constituency was established in 1962, as per the Delimitation Orders (1962).

Prakasam district
Prakasam district named in honour of Tanguturi Prakasam is in the coastal Andhra region of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It was reorganised on 4 April 2022 and 31 December 2025. The headquarters of the district is Ongole.  It is bounded by Bapatla, Palnadu, Markapuram, Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore districts and Bay of Bengal.
Kay Hubbell
Katharine Hubbell (April 29, 1921 – April 22, 2017) was an American tennis player.

Hubbell, originally from Dedham, Massachusetts, trained on grass at the Longwood Club in Boston. Her family had clay courts on their vacation home in Chocorua, New Hampshire, which gave her exposure to another surface. While studying physics at Vassar College she won the national intercollegiate singles and doubles titles every year from 1940 to 1942. She was a women's doubles semi-finalist at the 1954 Wimbledon Championships with Heather Brewer, losing to Louise Brough and Margaret duPont. In 1955 she won the U.S. Women's Indoor Championship singles title.

Chocorua, New Hampshire
Chocorua is an unincorporated community within the town of Tamworth in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States.  It is located in the general area where Routes 16 and 113 meet, south of Mount Chocorua and Chocorua Lake.
Postal Palace, Timișoara
The Postal Palace, known locally as Poșta Mare (Main Post Office), is a historical building in Timișoara, Romania, housing the local branch of Poșta Română, the national operator of postal services and express courier services.

Poșta Română
CN Poșta Română SA is the national operator in the field of postal services in Romania. It is the sole supplier of universal service in any point on the Romanian territory.

Poșta Română is active on the free market of value added postal and press services, as competitor, and performs collateral activities, required for performing in profitable terms the main objects of activity thereof, namely the external trade, supply, research and technological and information design, medical services, education and social-cultural services, etc.
Instytut Kultury (Minsk Metro)
Instytut Kultury (Belarusian: Інстытут Культуры [instɨˈtut kulʲˈturɨ]; Russian: институт Культуры; lit. 'Institute of Culture') is a station of the Minsk Metro, in Minsk, the capital of Belarus.

Instytut Kultury station was opened on 26 June 1984, in the first stage of the Minsk Metro. Until November 2012, this was the southwestern terminus on the Maskoŭskaja line. This station is between Ploshcha Lyenina and Hrušaŭka stations.

This station is of the vaulted type, made from monolithic and precast concrete.

Exits of this station lead to trains to Orsha, Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President of the Republic of Belarus and Belarusian University of Culture.

Maskoŭskaja line
The Maskoŭskaja line (also referred to as Maskowskaya line or Moskovskaya line) (Belarusian: Маскоўская лінія; Russian: Московская линия, romanized: Moskovskaya liniya; lit: "Moscow line") is a line of the Minsk Metro that serves Minsk, the capital of Belarus. The line was opened along with the Metro in 1984 with the original eight station segment, and crosses the city on a northeast–southwest axis. Currently, it comprises 15 stations and 19.1 km (11.9 mi) of track.
Marie-France Larouche
Marie-France Larouche (born June 5, 1980, in Lévis, Quebec) is a Canadian curler. She is currently the alternate on Team Laurie St-Georges. In 2022 she won the World Mixed Curling Championship playing third for skip Jean-Michel Ménard.

Lévis
Lévis (French pronunciation: [levi] ⓘ) is a city in eastern Quebec, Canada, located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, opposite Quebec City. A ferry links Old Quebec with Old Lévis, and two bridges, the Quebec Bridge and the Pierre-Laporte Bridge, connect western Lévis with Quebec City.

The population in 2021 was 149,683. Its current incarnation was founded on January 1, 2002, as the result of a merger among ten cities, including the older city of Lévis founded in 1861.

Lévis is also the name of a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) and census division (CD) of Quebec, coextensive with the city of Lévis. Its geographical code is 25 as a census division, and 251 as an RCM-equivalent territory.
Dzongree FC
Dzongree Football Club is a professional football club from Thimphu, Bhutan. They finished as the runners-up of the A-Division in 2003, but have spent most of their history either in mid-table in the A-Division or playing in the B-Division.

2012–13 Bhutan National League
The 2012–13 Bhutan National League was the first season of the Bhutan National League. It was organized by the Bhutan Football Federation and sponsored by Coca-Cola. The National League replaced the A-Division as the country's premier football competition and would provide Bhutan's entrant to the 2013 AFC President's Cup. the A-Division continues as a football competition, but is now merely a qualifying round for Thimphu-based teams. The top three teams in the A-Division progressed to the national league where they were joined by three other teams representing other districts within Bhutan. The A-Division was won by Druk Pol, but were beaten to the national title by fellow A-Division competitors Yeedzin who won the inaugural competition, their fifth top flight title overall.
François Ouzilleau
François Ouzilleau (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa uzijo]; born 18 September 1984) is a French politician who has served as mayor of Vernon since 2015. He has also served as a vice president of Seine Normandie Agglomération since 2020. He has been a member of the Regional Council of Normandy since 2016.

In the 2022 legislative election, Ouzilleau was a candidate for the National Assembly in Eure's 5th constituency under the banner of La République En Marche! (LREM), but was defeated in the second round by Timothée Houssin of the National Rally (RN), with 49.3% of the vote.

Regional Council of Normandy
The Regional Council of Normandy (French: Conseil Régional de Normandie) is the executive body for the French Region of Normandy since its creation on January 1, 2016.

Hervé Morin has served as the president of the Regional Council since January 4, 2016. The Regional Council has its offices in Caen at the former Abbey of Sainte-Trinité, where the now-defunct Regional Council of Lower Normandy was located until 2016, and in Rouen.
Mahood
Mahood is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Alan Mahood (born 1973), Scottish football player

Alex B. Mahood (1888–1970), American architect from West Virginia

Beverley Mahood (born 1974), Northern Irish/Canadian country music singer

George Mahood (born 1979), British author and adventurer

Hattie Mahood (1860–1940), British Baptist deacon and women's suffragist

Kim Mahood, Australian writer and artist

Marguerite Mahood, Australian visual artist and art historian

Mike Mahood (born 1975), Canadian field hockey player

Molly Mahood (1919–2017), British literary scholar

Mike Mahood
Michael Mahood (born November 11, 1975, in North Vancouver, British Columbia) is a retired field hockey goalkeeper from Canada, who earned his first international senior cap for the Men's National Team in 1995 against India in Italy.  He went on to appear in 196 international matches including two Olympic Games (Sydney 2000, Beijing 2008) and the 1998 World Cup in Utrecht, Holland.  In 1999 he was named to the World XI as part of the FIH 75th Anniversary celebrations in Alexandria, Egypt.

He attended Handsworth Secondary School.  In his retirement Mahood has become a men's tailor in Vancouver, BC.
2006 Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts – Doubles
Elena Likhovtseva and Magdalena Maleeva were the defending champions, but none competed this year. Likhovtseva competed in Auckland at the same week, while Maleeva retired from professional tennis in October 2005.

Dinara Safina and Meghann Shaughnessy won the title by defeating Cara Black and Rennae Stubbs 6–2, 6–3 in the final.

Meghann Shaughnessy
Meghann Shaughnessy (born April 13, 1979) is an American former professional tennis player. She achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 11 in 2001 and won six titles on the WTA Tour. Her best doubles ranking was world No. 4, and she won 17 career doubles titles, including the WTA Championships in 2004. She is best known for her serve, which was one of the most powerful on tour, and has produced as many as 22 aces in a match.

Shaughnessy was coached and managed by Rafael Font de Mora for most of her career. She is the niece of Dan Shaughnessy, a Boston Globe sports columnist.
T. K. Carter
Thomas Kent Carter (December 18, 1956 – January 9, 2026) was an American actor best known for his roles in the films Corvette Summer (1978), Southern Comfort (1981), The Thing (1982), Doctor Detroit (1983), Runaway Train (1985), Space Jam (1996) and The Corner (2000), as well as for the TV series Just Our Luck (as the series' lead), Punky Brewster, The Sinbad Show, Dave, and Good Morning, Miss Bliss, also known as Saved by the Bell: The Junior High Years. He was also the voice of the animated character Anthony Julian from 1985-1988 on the series Jem.

Corvette Summer
Corvette Summer is a 1978 American adventure comedy film directed by Matthew Robbins. It was Mark Hamill's first screen appearance after the unexpected success of Star Wars the previous year. Hamill stars as a California teenager who heads to Las Vegas to track down his beloved customized Corvette Stingray. Co-star Annie Potts, playing the quirky young woman he meets along the way, was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in her first film role.

Corvette Summer was a box office success, making about $36 million at the worldwide box office, on a relatively small budget (for that era) of $1.7 million. The film however, received a divided response from critics.
Loricariichthys derbyi
Loricariichthys derbyi, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Loricariidae, the mailed catfishes, and the subfamily Loricariinae, the armoured suckermouth catfishes. This catfish is endemic to Brazil, where it occurs in the northeast of the country, in the states of Ceará, Maranhão, Piauí, Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte in the basins of the Itapecuru, Jaguaribe, Maracaçumé, Parnaíba and Pindaré-Mearim. This species reaches a maximum standard length of 24.6 cm (9.7 in), a weight of 161 g (5.7 oz) and is thought to be a facultative air breather. The specific name, derbyi, honours the collector of the holotype, a Mr C. F. Derby.

Maranhão
Maranhão (/ˌmɑːrəˈnjaʊn/, MAH-rə-NYOWN; Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [maɾɐˈɲɐ̃w] ⓘ) is a state in Brazil. Located in the country's Northeast Region, it has a population of about 7 million and an area of 332,000 km2 (128,000 sq mi) and it is divided into 217 municipalities. Clockwise from north, it borders on the Atlantic Ocean for 2,243 km and the states of Piauí, Tocantins and Pará. The people of Maranhão have a distinctive accent within the common Northeastern Brazilian dialect. Maranhão is described in literary works such as Exile Song by Gonçalves Dias and Casa de Pensão by Aluísio Azevedo.

The dunes of Lençóis are an important area of environmental preservation. Also of interest is the state capital of São Luís, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Another important conservation area is the Parnaíba River delta, between the states of Maranhão and Piauí, with its lagoons, desert dunes and deserted beaches or islands, such as Caju island, which shelters rare birds.