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2024 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine
The 2024 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine were held on November 5, 2024, to elect both U.S. representatives from the state of Maine, one from each of the state's congressional districts. These elections coincided with five referendum questions, including a referendum to change the state flag, as well as the presidential election, a U.S. Senate election, and various other state, county and local elections. Primary elections were held on June 11, 2024.

Chellie Pingree
Chellie Marie Pingree (/ˈʃɛli ˈpɪŋɡriː/ SHELL-ee PING-gree; born Rochelle Marie Johnson; April 2, 1955) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Maine's 1st congressional district since 2009. Her district includes most of the southern part of the state, centered around the Portland area.

A member of the Democratic Party, Pingree was a member of the Maine Senate from 1992 to 2000, serving as majority leader for her last four years. She ran for the United States Senate in 2002, losing to incumbent Republican Susan Collins. From 2003 until 2006, she was president and CEO of Common Cause. She is the first Democratic woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Maine.
Saperda quercus
Saperda quercus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Charpentier in 1825. It is known from Turkey, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jordan, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, Syria, and possibly Hungary. It feeds on Quercus coccifera.

Quercus coccifera
Quercus coccifera, commonly known as kermes oak, holly oak, or Palestine oak, is an evergreen oak shrub or tree in section Ilex of the genus. It has many synonyms, including Quercus calliprinos. It is native to the Mediterranean region and Northern African Maghreb, south to north from Morocco to France and west to east from Portugal to Cyprus and Turkey, crossing Spain, Italy, Libya, the Balkans, and Greece, including Crete. The Kermes oak was historically important as the food plant of Kermes scale insects, from which a red dye called crimson was obtained. The etymology of the specific name coccifera is related to the production of red cochineal (crimson) dye and derived from Latin coccum which was from Greek κόκκος, the kermes insect. The Latin -fera means 'bearer'.
Harmeet Singh Kalka
Harmeet Singh Kalka (born 23 August 1968) is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Kalka is a former member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly from the Kalkaji constituency of South Delhi.

He is currently serving as President of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee.

Delhi Legislative Assembly
The Legislative Assembly of the National Capital Territory of Delhi is the unicameral legislature of the union territory of Delhi in India. Delhi Legislative Assembly is the legislative arm of the Government of Delhi. At present, it consists of 70 members, directly elected from 70 constituencies. The tenure of the Legislative Assembly is five years unless dissolved sooner.

The seat of assembly is the Old Secretariat building, which is also the seat of the Government of Delhi.
Conrad Rucker
Conrad Robert Rucker (born November 15, 1954) is an American former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Southern Jaguars. Rucker played in the NFL for the Houston Oilers from 1978 to 1979 and for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Los Angeles Rams in 1980.

Southern Jaguars football
The Southern Jaguars are the college football team representing Southern University. The Jaguars play in NCAA Division I Football Championship as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). The Jaguars started collegiate football in 1916, and played in the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference before joining the SWAC in 1934.

Every late November they play their last regular season game against in-state rival Grambling in the Bayou Classic in New Orleans, Louisiana. Another notable football rivalry, dubbed the "BoomBox Classic", is played against Jackson State yearly.
Sister (2021 film)
Sister, also known as My Sister (Chinese: 我的姐姐), is a 2021 Chinese coming-of-age drama film directed by Yin Ruoxi and written by You Xiaoying.  It stars Zhang Zifeng in the titular lead role, with Xiao Yang, Zhu Yuanyuan, Duan Bowen, and Connor Leong as the other cast  members. It was released in China on 2 April 2021. The film grossed US$52.8 million in its opening weekend, replacing Godzilla vs. Kong as the top film at the weekend Chinese box office.

The film has received positive reviews, with acclaim for Zhang's performance, and has sparked discussion about gender roles and traditional values in modern Chinese society.

Connor Leong
Liang Jingkang (Chinese: 梁靖康; pinyin: Liáng Jìngkāng; born 4 January 1994), also known as Leon Leong, formerly  Connor Leong, is a Chinese actor and model. He is best known for his role as Feng Meizuo in the television series Meteor Garden (2018), which propelled him to fame in China and Asia.
Tax Free
Tax Free was a Dutch band from Amsterdam. It was founded by singer Wally Tax in 1969 after disbanding of The Outsiders. The group also featured David Oliphant (guitar), Jody Purpora on vocals, guitar and keyboards and Leendert "Buzz" Busch (drums). 
At the beginning of 1970, the band travelled to New York, where they recorded their eponymous debut album. It was produced by Lewis Merenstein and featured violist/multi-instrumentalist John Cale, with whom Merenstein collaborated on number of projects including his debut album Vintage Violence. Bassist Richard Davis also played on this album. It was released in March 1971 and soon after broke up.

Richard Davis (bassist)
Richard Davis (April 15, 1930 – September 6, 2023) was an American jazz bassist. Among his best-known contributions to the albums of others are Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch!, Andrew Hill's Point of Departure, and Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, of which critic Greil Marcus wrote (in The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll), "Richard Davis provided the greatest bass ever heard on a rock album."
2023–24 Liga 3 North Sulawesi
2023–24 Liga 3 North Sulawesi is the sixth edition of Liga 3 North Sulawesi organized by Asprov PSSI North Sulawesi.

Followed by 18 clubs. The winner of this competition will advance to the national phase representing North Sulawesi Province to advance to Liga 2.

Persmin is the defending champion after winning it in the season 2021.

Liga Nusantara
Liga Nusantara (English: Archipelago League), officially known as PNM Liga Nusantara for sponsorship reasons, is the third-tier of the football competition system in Indonesia, organized by the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI). The competition started in 2014 after PSSI merged the previous competitions, Liga Indonesia Second Division and Liga Indonesia Third Division. The competition was previously organized in two phases, with the provincial phase operated by PSSI Provincial Associations, where each province held its own regional competition, followed by the national phase operated by PSSI, where the top teams from each province competed at the national level.

Starting from the 2024–25 season, the competition is organized on a national level with teams divided into several groups based on geographical factors and is now operated by the I-League.
Sykamore
Jordan Ostrom, known professionally as Sykamore, is a country singer-songwriter from Carseland, Alberta, Canada. She released her first EP, Self + Medicine, in January 2018.  In 2015 she was nominated for the Canadian Country Music Association Discovery Award. Her debut album Pinto was released in 2022.

Carseland
Carseland is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Wheatland County. It is located on Highway 24, approximately 23 km (14 mi) south of Cheadle and 26 km (16 mi) south of Strathmore.

It is within Census Division No. 5.
Rakwana Electoral District
Rakwana electoral district was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between March 1960 and February 1989. The district was named after the town of Rakwana in Ratnapura District, Sabaragamuwa Province. The 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka introduced the proportional representation electoral system for electing members of Parliament. The existing 160 mainly single-member electoral districts were replaced with 22 multi-member electoral districts. Rakwana electoral district was replaced by the Ratnapura multi-member electoral district at the 1989 general elections.

Rakwana
Rakwana is a town in the Ratnapura District, Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka, a notable centre of Ceylon tea plantations and industry. Additionally, Rakwana is said to have gem resources. Rakwana is locally administered by Godakawela Pradeshiya Sabha. The town of Rakwana including its northern and southern part and Kottala has 10,513 in population according to the census carried out in 2010.

Located at an elevation of 464 m (1,522 ft), north of Sinharaja Mountains, on the A17 highway.  It is 12 km (7.5 mi) from Rakwana-Deniyaya on the way to Galle. It also has roads leading to Embilipitiya and Kalawana. Rakwana acts as one of the gateways for the famous Sinharaja Forest reserve.
Oudon (river)
The Oudon (French pronunciation: [udɔ̃] ⓘ) is a 103.2 km (64.1 mi) long river in the Mayenne and Maine-et-Loire départements, western France. Its source is near La Gravelle. It flows generally south east. It is a right tributary of the Mayenne into which it flows between Le Lion-d'Angers and Grez-Neuville.

Its main tributary is the Verzée.

Mayenne
Mayenne (French: [majɛn] ⓘ) is a landlocked department in northwest France named after the river Mayenne. Mayenne is part of the administrative region of Pays de la Loire and is surrounded by the departments of Manche, Orne, Sarthe, Maine-et-Loire, and Ille-et-Vilaine.

Mayenne is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. The northern two thirds correspond to the western part of the former province of Maine. The southern third of Mayenne corresponds to the northern portion of the old province of Anjou. The inhabitants of the department are called Mayennais. It had a population of 307,062 in 2019.
Balkhash minnow
The Balkhash minnow (Phoxinus poljakowii) is a species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, chubs, true minnows and related fishes. This small fish, with a maximum total length of 10 cm (3.9 in), is found in Xinjiang in China and in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

Chub
Chub is a common fish name.  It pertains to any one of a number of ray-finned fish in several families and general. In the UK, the term chub usually refers to the species Squalius cephalus. In addition, see sea chub.
1925 Boston mayoral election
The Boston mayoral election of 1925 occurred on Tuesday, November 3, 1925. Malcolm Nichols, a former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Massachusetts Senate, defeated nine other candidates to be elected mayor.

Many votes were split between three Democratic candidates (Glynn, O'Neil, Coakley), which was a factor in the election of Nichols, a Republican. While municipal elections in Boston have been nonpartisan since 1910, Nichols is the most recent Republican to be elected Mayor of Boston as of 2026.

In 1918, the Massachusetts state legislature had passed legislation making the Mayor of Boston ineligible to serve consecutive terms. Thus, incumbent James Michael Curley was unable to run for re-election.

Nichols was inaugurated on Monday, January 4, 1926.

Massachusetts Senate
The Massachusetts Senate is the upper house of the Massachusetts General Court, the bicameral state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Senate comprises 40 elected members from 40 single-member senatorial districts in the state. All but one of the districts are named for the counties in which they are located (the "Cape and Islands" district covers Dukes, Nantucket, and parts of Barnstable counties). Senators serve two-year terms, without term limits. The Senate convenes in the Massachusetts State House in Boston, the state capital.
SBC Senior Open
The SBC Senior Open was a golf tournament on the Senior PGA Tour from 1989 to 2002. It was played in several different cities, mostly in the Chicago area.

The purse for the 2002 tournament was US$1,450,000, with $217,500 going to the winner. The tournament was founded in 1989 as the Ameritech Senior Open.

Hale Irwin
Hale S. Irwin (born June 3, 1945) is an American professional golfer. He was one of the world's leading golfers from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He is one of the few players in history to win three U.S. Opens, becoming the oldest ever U.S. Open champion in 1990 at the age of 45. As a senior golfer, Irwin ranks second all-time in PGA Tour Champions victories. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in Champions Tour history. He has also developed a career as a golf course architect.
That's Life (Frank Sinatra album)
That's Life is a 1966 album by Frank Sinatra, supported by a studio orchestra arranged and conducted by Ernie Freeman. The album is notable for its title song, "That's Life", which proved to be a top five hit for Sinatra at a time when rock music dominated the music charts. That's Life was released on CD in October 1986.

Studio orchestra
A studio orchestra is an orchestra that exists only for the purpose of studio recording.  That is, it does not perform in public concerts or for audiences generally.  Studio orchestras are typically run by movie and television studios to produce film and television soundtrack recordings.  Nearly all easy listening orchestras are studio orchestras.  Some famous easy listening studio orchestras are the 101 Strings, the Living Strings, and the Hollyridge Strings. In pop music of the 1960s, studio orchestras were commonly assembled by record producers and songwriters like Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, and Burt Bacharach.
Van Helsing (video game)
Van Helsing is an action-adventure video game for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and Game Boy Advance, which is based on the 2004 action horror film of the same name by Stephen Sommers. Hugh Jackman and Richard Roxburgh reprise their roles from the film. The game is one of the few games on PlayStation 2 that can run in 480p.

Whilst the console ports of the game received generally mixed reviews, the Game Boy Advance version of the game was near-universally panned, becoming one of the lowest rated games for the platform on Metacritic.

Richard Roxburgh
Richard Roxburgh (born 23 January 1962) is an Australian actor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of a number of accolades across film, television, and theatre, including several AFI and AACTA Awards, Logie Awards, and Helpmann Awards.

He began his career working with the Sydney Theatre Company. He went on to appear in Australian and international productions such as Baz Luhrmann's films Moulin Rouge! (2001) and Elvis (2022), the ABC series Rake (2010–2018), and the action films Mission: Impossible 2 (2000), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), and Van Helsing (2004).
Shabdavedhi
Shabdavedhi is a 2000 Kannada-language action drama film directed by S. Narayan and produced by Sri Bhargavi Arts Combines. The film, based on a novel of same name by Vijay Sasanur, stars Dr. Rajkumar, Jayapradha, K. S. Ashwath, Sowcar Janaki and Umashree. The music was composed by Hamsalekha, while the cinematography and editing were handled by R. Giri and S. Manohar. The film marked the last acting venture of Dr. Rajkumar.

Shabdavedhi was released on 10 February 2000 to mixed reviews from critics and became a commercial success at the box office.

K. S. Ashwath
Karaganahalli Subbaraya Ashwathanarayana (25 March 1925 – 18 January 2010) was an Indian veteran actor who appeared in Kannada films. He appeared in over 370 films during his five-decade-long career. His memorial is in the Kengeri satellite town, Bengaluru. Memorial name - "K. S. Ashwath Memorial Children's Park".
Canton of Plestin-les-Grèves
The canton of Plestin-les-Grèves is an administrative division of the Côtes-d'Armor department, northwestern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Plestin-les-Grèves.

It consists of the following communes:

Plestin-les-Grèves
Plestin-les-Grèves (French pronunciation: [plɛstɛ̃ le ɡʁɛv]; Breton: Plistin) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in north-western France.

Plestin-les-Grèves is situated on the north coast of Brittany, with a sailing club in Stefflam and Loquirec. There are a few riding schools.
Plestin-les-Grèves is twinned with Launceston in Cornwall, United Kingdom
2008 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election
The 2008 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election was held on 11 November 2008 to choose the twelfth Leader of the New Zealand Labour Party. Phil Goff, who had served continuously as an MP since the 1993 election, unanimously won the election with no other MPs putting themselves forward. Annette King became the Deputy Leader. She was first elected to parliament in the 1984 election, three years after Goff.

1984 New Zealand general election
The 1984 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the composition of the 41st New Zealand Parliament. It marked the beginning of the Fourth Labour Government, with David Lange's Labour Party defeating the long-serving Prime Minister, Robert Muldoon, of the National Party. It was also the last election in which the Social Credit Party won seats as an independent entity. The election was also the only one in which the New Zealand Party, a protest party, played any substantial role.

A snap election, Muldoon called for it a month prior. When doing so he was both live on television and visibly drunk, leading to the election being dubbed the "schnapps election".
Augustus Stoneman
Augustus Frederick Stoneman (April 2, 1832 – April 10, 1905) was a merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Yarmouth County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1900 to 1903 as a Liberal member.

He was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, the son of Joseph Stoneman and Mary Lewis. In 1859, he married Maria D. Richan. Stoneman was a justice of the peace and served as mayor of Yarmouth in 1899. Stoneman was elected to the provincial assembly in a 1900 by-election held after William Law resigned his seat. He was named to the province's Legislative Council in 1903 and served until his death in Yarmouth at the age of 73.

Nova Scotia Liberal Party
The Nova Scotia Liberal Party (officially the Liberal Association of Nova Scotia) is a centrist provincial political party in Nova Scotia, Canada and the provincial section of the Liberal Party of Canada. The party currently holds two seats in the Legislature, under the interim leadership of Iain Rankin. The party was in power most recently from the 2013 election until the 2021 election.

The party is the only party in the province with uninterrupted presence in the legislature since confederation. It has formed the Government of Nova Scotia for 90 of the approximately 160 years since it became a province of Canada. It won 25 of the province's 42 elections, but was supplanted by the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party as the official opposition for three consecutive elections in 1999, 2003 and 2006, and again in the most recent election in 2024.
Mah-e-Tamaam
Mah-e-Tamaam (Urdu: ماہ تمام, lit. 'The Full Moon') is a 2018 Pakistani drama produced by Momina Duraid under the banner MD Productions. It is directed by Syed Ahmed Kamran and written by Amna Riaz, based on an eponymous novel by her. The series starred Naveen Waqar, Emmad Irfani, Ramsha Khan and Wahaj Ali in lead roles.

Mah-e-Tamaam received praise for Khan and Ali's pairing and performance. It aired on Hum Pashto 1 in Pashto language under the same title.

Hum Pashto 1
Hum Pashto 1 is a Pakistani Pashto satellite television station in Pakistan. The channel broadcasts 24 hours a day, providing variety of shows, dubbed Urdu Hum TV dramas to Pashto language and entertainment programs to the Pashtun population of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Hum Pashto 1 delivers first run musical shows with the purpose of entertainment as well as hunting the talent.

The main office of Hum Pashto 1 is located in Islamabad, Pakistan. It also has smaller regional offices in Peshawar and Quetta.
Robinson v. Shell Oil Co.
Robinson v. Shell Oil Company, 519 U.S. 337 (1997), is US labor law case in the United States Supreme Court in which the Court unanimously held that under federal law, U.S. employers must not engage in workplace discrimination such as writing bad job references, or otherwise retaliating against former employees as a punishment for filing job discrimination complaints.

Workplace deviance
Workplace deviance, in group psychology, may be described as the deliberate (or intentional) desire to cause harm to an organization – more specifically, a workplace. The concept has become an instrumental component in the field of organizational communication. More accurately, it can be seen as "voluntary behavior that violates institutionalized norms and in doing so threatens the well-being of the organization".
El Piñón
El Piñón is a town and municipality of the Colombian Department of Magdalena. Officially founded in 1760 by Francisco Sayas, Ignacio Crespo, Vicente De la Hoz and others. On April 20, 1915 was proclaimed a municipality. Its economy is based on agriculture and farming. Its main tourist attraction is the Iglesia San Pedro Mártir (Saint Peter the Martir Church) and the Ave Maria Monument. The town celebrates carnivals, the Saint Peter of Verona Day in April, El Milagroso in September, the Unedited Song Festival and the Decimates Festival.

Departments of Colombia
Colombia is a unitary republic made up of thirty-two administrative divisions referred to as departments (Spanish: departamentos, sing. departamento) and one Capital District (Distrito Capital). Departments are country subdivisions and are granted a certain degree of autonomy. Each department has a governor (gobernador) and an Assembly (Asamblea Departamental), elected by popular vote for a four-year period. The governor cannot be re-elected in consecutive periods.

Departments are formed by a grouping of municipalities (municipios, sing. municipio). Municipal government is headed by mayor (alcalde) and administered by a municipal council (concejo municipal), both of which are elected by popular vote for four-year periods.
Locust Grove (Page County, Virginia)
Locust Grove, also known as the Old Jacob Brubaker House is a historic house in rural Page County, Virginia.  It is located about 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Luray, at 6601 Ida Road (Virginia State Route 269).  It is set on the south side of the road, just west of Chub Run.  It is a 2+1⁄2-story brick house, with a gable roof, and a single-story side ell.   Built about 1830, it is a good local example of Federal period style, retaining original interior floors, woodwork, and fireplace mantels.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

Luray, Virginia
Luray is the county seat of Page County, Virginia, United States. It is in the Shenandoah Valley and found within the northwestern part of the Commonwealth. The population was 4,831 at the 2020 census.

The town was founded by William Staige Marye in 1812, a descendant of a family native to Luray, France.