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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays
"Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays" is a song by American boy band NSYNC. It was released on November 29, 1998 as the first and only single from their second studio album, Home for Christmas and was also featured on the end credits of the 1998 Disney Christmas movie I'll Be Home For Christmas. The song charted at #37 on the Top 40 Mainstream chart. The single was also the second from NSYNC's European seasonal album, The Winter Album. A cappella group Pentatonix covered the song in their 2016 Christmas album, A Pentatonix Christmas. The song has also been covered by American singer David Archuleta for the deluxe version of his album Winter in the Air in 2019, and by singer-songwriter Betty Who for Spotify Singles in 2020. In 2021, popular Christian singer Tauren Wells covered "Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays" as a non album single.

Home for Christmas (NSYNC album)
Home for Christmas is the only Christmas album and second studio album by American boy band NSYNC. The album was released, exclusively in the United States, on November 10, 1998, by RCA Records following the success of their self-titled debut album. On October 27, 1999, Home for Christmas was certified Double Platinum by the RIAA for shipment of two million copies in the United States. Home for Christmas was released on September 30, 2002, in the United Kingdom as The Meaning of Christmas on Ariola Express with an altered track listing.

"Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays" was released as a single in the United States, and in Germany as well, due to its inclusion on the group's German seasonal album, The Winter Album. As of December 2014, Home for Christmas has sold 2.8 million copies in the United States, making it the fifteenth best-selling Christmas/holiday album in the U.S. since Nielsen SoundScan started tracking music sales in 1991.
Alexandru Hălăucă
Alexandru Hălăucă (born August 12, 1957) is a former Romanian ice hockey player. He played for the Romania men's national ice hockey team at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, and the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid.

Romania men's national ice hockey team
The Romanian men's national ice hockey team is the national men's ice hockey of Romania, and a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation. They are currently ranked 27th in the 2019 IIHF World Rankings and currently compete in Division IA. They have competed in four Olympic ice hockey competitions, the most recent being in 1980.
Peruvian retablo
A Peruvian retablo, in the context of Peruvian folk art, is a home altar with figures of saints or religious scenes, arranged on shelves inside a portable box altar, made to be shuttered closed with hinged doors to protect the content.

It is also called retablo ayacuchano in Spanish-language scholarship, referring to its origins in the  Ayacucho region of the Central Peruvian highlands, though it is now manufactured in the peripheral departments or elsewhere in Peru.

National Museum of Ethnology (Japan)
The National Museum of Ethnology (国立民族学博物館, Kokuritsu Minzoku-gaku Hakubutsukan), also known as the Minpaku (民博), is the largest ethnographic museum in Japan. It is Japan's largest research institute in the academic disciplines of humanities and social sciences. It is located within the Expo Commemoration Park, which is on the former grounds of Expo '70, in Suita, Osaka Prefecture.
Franz Joseph Damian Junghanns
Franz Joseph Damian Junghanns (29 November 1800, in Stocksberg castle – 3 December 1875, in Baden-Baden) was a  Jurist and leader in the Baden Revolution of 1848.

Junghanns studied from 1819 to 1823 at the University of Heidelberg and University of Göttingen.

In 1846, he was elected to the 12th season of the Second Chamber of Baden state parliament. He wasn't reelected in the 13th season, but took the place of his elected brother in 1847 and served until 1848.

In May 1849 he took part in the Offenburg Assembly and the Baden uprising. He was part of the provisional national committee during this time.  Junghanns also served in the provisional German parliament at this point.

After the revolution collapsed Junghanns took refuge in Elsass, Belgium, and Switzerland, while in 1850 he was sentenced in absence to nine years in prison. He returned to Baden in 1859. After this he practiced law at Bühl and Rastatt.

Rastatt
Rastatt (German pronunciation: [ˈʁaʃtat] ⓘ) is a town in the district of Rastatt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located in the Upper Rhine Plain, on the Murg River, 6 km (3.7 mi) above its junction with the Rhine. It has a Baroque core and a population of around 51,000 (2022). Rastatt was an important place during the War of the Spanish Succession (Treaty of Rastatt) and the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states.
Claudia Palacios
Claudia Isabel Palacios Giraldo (born October 1, 1977 in Cali) is a Colombian journalist and newscaster.  She is best known as the weekend news anchor on CNN en Español, a position she held from 2004 through 2012.  She is currently both a news anchor on CM& Television in Colombia and a journalist for the Colombian magazine El Pueblo.

Cali
Santiago de Cali (Spanish pronunciation: [sanˈtjaɣo ðe ˈkali]), or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with an estimated 2,280,522 residents in 2023. The city spans 560.3 km2 (216.3 sq mi) with 120.9 km2 (46.7 sq mi) of urban area, making Cali the second-largest city in the country by area and the third most populous. Cali is the main urban and economic center in the south of the country, and has one of Colombia's fastest-growing economies. The city was founded on 25 July 1536 by the Spanish explorer Sebastián de Belalcázar.

As a sporting center for Colombia, it was the host city for the 1971 Pan American Games. Cali also hosted the 1992 World Wrestling Championships, the 2013 edition of the World Games, the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in 2014, the World Youth Championships in Athletics in 2015 as well as the inaugural Junior Pan American Games in 2021 and the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships.
Sparnodus
Sparnodus is an extinct genus of prehistoric perciform fish in the family Sparidae. Species of this genus were nektonic carnivores. These fishes lived in the Cenozoic Era, in the Oligocene and Paleocene (55.8 to 23.03 Ma).

Perciformes
Perciformes (/ˈpɜːrsɪˌfɔːrmiːz/), also called the Acanthopteri, is an order or superorder of ray-finned fish in the clade Percomorpha. Perciformes means "perch-like". Among the well-known members of this group are perches and darters (Percidae), and also sea basses and groupers (Serranidae). This order contains many familiar freshwater temperate and tropical marine fish groups, but also extremophiles that have successfully colonized both the North and South Poles, as well as the deepest depths of the ocean.
Lazio Ducks
The Lazio Marines established in 2000, are an American football team that plays in Italian Football League. The Marines are located in Rome the capital of Lazio region. The Lazio football was founded in 1991, under the name of Marines Ostia, by the current president Fabio Pacelli. On October 31, 2021, the Ducks won the IFAF Winter Championship.

International Federation of American Football
The International Federation of American Football (IFAF) is the international governing body of American football associations. The IFAF oversees the organization and promotion of all international competitions across both contact and non contact versions of the game, including the IFAF World Championship, which is held every four years. The IFAF became a provisionary member of SportAccord in 2003, and became a full SportAccord member in 2005. In 2023, IFAF was officially recognized as an Olympic IF (International Federation) by the IOC. In 2023, IFAF marked a historic new streak, with flag football being selected as one of the five new sports for the LA 2028 Olympic Summer Games. The organization's head office relocated to Lausanne, Switzerland in 2026.
Lady Leng Memorial Chapel
Lady Leng Memorial Chapel (also known as Vicarsford Cemetery Chapel) is a church building in Leuchars, Fife, Scotland. Built between 1895 and 1897, to a design by Thomas Martin Cappon, it is now a Category A listed building. Historic Environment Scotland describes it as "a fine and rare example of a small ecclesiastical building type".

The building is also one of the few non-denominational chapels in Scotland. It was built by politician John Leng as a memorial to his wife, Lady Emily Leng, with the Saint-Chapelle, Paris, being the inspiration.

The adjacent Vicarsford Cemetery is Category B listed.

Leuchars
Leuchars (pronounced /ˈluːxərs/ ⓘ or /ˈluːkərz/; Scottish Gaelic: Luachar "rushes") is a town and parish near the north-east coast of Fife in Scotland.

The civil parish has a population of 5,754 (in 2011)  and an area of 13,357 acres (5,405 hectares).
Ishmael Kipkurui
Ishmael Rokitto Kipkurui (born 10 February 2005), also spelled Ishmael Kipkirui, Ishmael Kirui, or Ismael Kipkurui, is a Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner. He was the individual winner of the 2023 World Cross Country Championships U20 race, leading his Kenyan team to a gold medal finish. He is also the Kenyan under-20 record-holder in the two miles run after his runner-up performance to Jakob Ingebrigtsen at the 2023 Meeting de Paris.

2023 Meeting de Paris
The 2023 Meeting de Paris was the 28th edition of the annual outdoor track and field meeting in Paris, France. Held on 9 June at the Stade Sébastien Charléty, it was the fourth leg of the 2023 Diamond League – the highest level international track and field circuit. This was the fourth time the meeting was held on the stadium's renovated blue running track.

The meeting was considered one of the greatest single-day athletics competitions in history, as world records were broken in the men's 3000 m steeplechase, women's 5000 m, and men's two miles.
Harry W. Child
Harry W. Child (1857–1931) was an entrepreneur who managed development and ranching companies in southern Montana. He was most notable as a founder and longtime president of the Yellowstone Park Company, which provided accommodation and transportation to visitors to Yellowstone National Park from 1892 to 1980. Child was, with park superintendent and National Park Service administrator Horace Albright, singularly responsible for the development of the park as a tourist destination and for the construction of much of the park's visitor infrastructure.

La Jolla
La Jolla (/lə ˈhɔɪə/ la HOY-uh, Latin American Spanish: [la ˈxoʝa]) is a hilly, seaside community planning area in San Diego, California, occupying 7 miles (11 km) of curving coastline along the Pacific Ocean.

La Jolla is located 12 miles (19 km) north of downtown San Diego and 45 miles (72 km) south of the Orange County line. The neighborhood's border borders Pacific Beach to the south and extends along the shoreline north to include Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve ending at Del Mar.

La Jolla is home to the University of California, San Diego, the Birch Aquarium, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Scripps Research, and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
Nipponbashi
Nipponbashi (日本橋, Japanese pronunciation: [ɲip.po(ꜜ)m.ba.ɕi],) is a shopping district of Naniwa Ward, Osaka, Japan.  The area is centered along Sakaisuji Avenue, extending from the Ebisu-chō Interchange of the Hanshin Expressway in the south, to Nansan-dōri (just east of Nankai Namba Station) in the north. Known colloquially as "Den-Den Town," Nipponbashi is known for its many shops which specialize in furniture, tools, and "otaku" interests such as electronics, anime, manga, and collectibles. Nipponbashi is often compared to Akihabara Electric Town, its equivalent (in terms of focus) in Tokyo.

Although written with the same kanji 日本橋 in Japanese, Nihonbashi in Chūō, Tokyo is a different place and has a different pronunciation.

Nankai Electric Railway
Nankai Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (南海電気鉄道株式会社, Nankai denki tetsudō kabushiki gaisha) is a private railway in Japan, founded in 1884. The name Nankai (which means "South Sea") comes from the company's routes along the Nankaidō, the old highway that ran south from the old capital, Kyoto, along the sea coast. Nankai predates all the electric railways in the Tokyo region.

The Nankai network branches out in a generally southern direction from Namba Station in Osaka. The Nankai Main Line connects Osaka to Wakayama, with an important spur branching to Kansai International Airport. The rapi:t α express connects Kansai International Airport to Namba in 34 minutes, while the rapi:t β takes 39 minutes with two additional stops. The Koya Line connects Osaka to Mt. Koya, headquarters of the Buddhist Shingon sect and a popular pilgrimage site. IC cards (PiTaPa and ICOCA) are accepted.
T. J. Shorts
Timothy Neocartes "T. J." Shorts II (born October 15, 1997) is an American-born naturalized North Macedonian professional basketball player for Panathinaikos of the Greek Basketball League (GBL) and the EuroLeague. Standing at 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m), Shorts plays at the point guard position.

Shorts played college basketball for UC Davis where he was named the Big West Player of the Year. He started his professional career in Europe in 2019 with Ventspils and went on to play several one-year stints for different clubs. Shorts gained praise at the continent, winning the MVP award for the Basketball Champions League in 2023, and for the EuroCup in 2024.

Born in Irvine, California, Shorts became a citizen of North Macedonia and made his debut for the North Macedonia men's national basketball team in 2022.

UC Davis Aggies men's basketball
The UC Davis Aggies men's basketball team  represents University of California, Davis in Davis, California, United States. The team currently competes in the Big West Conference.

The team is led by head coach Jim Les, who is in his 14th season at the helm during the 2024-25 season. During his tenure with the Aggies, the men's basketball team earned its first Big West championship and first NCAA Men's Basketball Division I Tournament. That appearance in the 2017 Tournament marked the thirteenth overall NCAA postseason appearance including its time in Division II.

Before it became a full-fledged Division I program on July 1, 2007, UC Davis won an NCAA Division II national championship in 1998.
Lauren Ervin
Lauren Rochelle Ervin (born March 24, 1985) is an American women's basketball player with Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She attended the University of Kansas as a freshman, then Mt. San Antonio College for her sophomore year, before transferring to the University of Arkansas for her junior and senior year. She was drafted by the Connecticut Sun in the third round of the 2008. Due to her ACL injury, she did not join the Sun until the 2009 season.
She played six months in the Swedish Women's Basketball League 2008/09, before heading back to the US. She made the 11-woman opening day roster but was cut when Sandrine Gruda reported to the team in July. The Washington Mystics signed Ervin to a training camp contract in 2010.

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.
1989 Super Cup
There have been several super cups organized in 1989. These include, and are not limited to:

1989 Albanian Supercup, the Albanian soccer match, and first Albanian Supercup for association football

1989 Bulgarian Supercup, the Bulgarian soccer match, and first Bulgarian Supercup for association football

1989 DFB-Supercup, the West German soccer match, and third DFB Supercup for association football

1989 European Super Cup, the UEFA soccer match, and 14th European Super Cup for association football

1989 FIBA European Super Cup, the European basketball match, and 2nd European Super Cup for basketball

1989 Israel Super Cup, the Israeli soccer match, and 18th Israel Super Cup for association football

1989 ADAC Supercup, the West German sports car racing season organized by ADAC and officially called SAT 1 Supercup '89

1989 ADAC Supercup
The SAT 1 Supercup '89 was the fourth and final season of the Supercup, a West German auto racing series organized by the ADAC and sponsored by SAT 1 television.  Held over five events in West Germany and Great Britain, the driver's championship was won by Frenchmen Bob Wollek; his team Joest Racing won the team's championship. The series was canceled following the 1989 season, ending a yearly series of German sports car championships dating back to 1972.
Ray Harris
Ray Harris (September 7, 1927 – November 13, 2003) was an American rockabilly musician and songwriter.  He formed a band with Wayne Powers, and wrote the songs "Come On, Little Mama" and "Greenback Dollar, Watch and Chain". He eventually recorded these at Sun Records with Sam Phillips. He also produced artists at Hi Records.  Like others such as Sonny Burgess, Hayden Thompson, Billy Lee Riley and Warren Smith, chart success largely eluded him.

Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Harris died in November 2003 in Mooreville, Mississippi, at the age of 76.

Sun Records
Sun Records is an American independent record label founded by producer Sam Phillips in Memphis, Tennessee on February 1, 1952. Sun was the first label to record Elvis Presley, Charlie Rich, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash. Prior to that, Sun had concentrated mainly on African-American musicians because Phillips loved rhythm and blues and wanted to bring it to a white audience.

On January 28, 2021, Sun Records was acquired by Primary Wave for $30 million.
Karnataka Sampark Kranti Express (via Ballari)
The 12649 / 12650 Karnataka Sampark Kranti SF Express of Karnataka is a Superfast Express train service of Sampark Kranti  Express series in India, which runs between Yesvantpur in Bangalore to Hazrat Nizamuddin in Delhi. In addition another Karnataka Sampark Kranti started which runs between Chandigarh and Yeshvantapur. It provides a  substitute to the Karnataka SF Express and also of superfast express category. The frequency of these trains in compilation of all the Sampark Kranti is daily. These trains provide an alternative link between KSR Bengaluru  and New Delhi stations. It is the India's first Sampark Kranti SF Express train started by railways which started in 2004

Bengaluru City railway station
Bengaluru City Railway Station, officially Krantivira Sangolli Rayanna Bengaluru Station pronunciationⓘ, also known as Bangalore City Railway Station, KSR Bengaluru Station, or Majestic Railway station (station code: SBC), is the main railway station of Bengaluru, serving the city of Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. It is the busiest railway station in the South Western Railway zone of Indian Railways, and is the only NSG1 category railway station in the South Western zone.

It is located across the Kempegowda Bus Station. The station has 10 platforms and three entrances.
James Wesley Jobling
James Wesley Jobling (1876–1961) was an American physician who was a longtime professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and second president of the American Association of Immunologists.

American Association of Immunologists
The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) is an international scientific society dedicated to furthering the study of immunology. AAI provides its members with a variety of platforms in which to exchange ideas and present the latest immunological research, including the AAI annual meeting and The Journal of Immunology. In 2017, AAI launched an open-access journal, ImmunoHorizons. AAI is a founding member society of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB).  It is considered the world's oldest continuously operating professional society specifically dedicated to the field of immunology, with 27 of its members having been awarded a Nobel Prize, mostly in Physiology or Medicine.
Berglöf
Berglöf is a Swedish surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Erik Berglöf (born 1957), Swedish economist

Erik Berglöf (curler) (born 1953), Swedish harness racer and curler

Roy Berglöf (1924–2017), Swedish curler

Roy Berglöf
Roy Holger Berglöf (April 24, 1924 – July 27, 2017) was a Swedish curler.

He was a two-time Swedish men's curling champion (1968, 1971) and played for Sweden in two World championships. He was also a 1970 Swedish mixed curling champion.

In 1972 he was inducted into the Swedish Curling Hall of Fame.

He was also a bandy player, winning a bronze medal at the 1957 Bandy World Championship.
C. Sukirthan
Chandralingam Sukirthan (Tamil: சந்திரலிங்கம் சுகிர்தன்) is a Sri Lankan Tamil politician and provincial councillor.

Sukirthan contested the 2013 provincial council election as one of the Tamil National Alliance's candidates in Jaffna District and was elected to the Northern Provincial Council. After the election he was appointed to assist the Minister of Fisheries, Transport, Trade and Rural Development on co-operative banks. He took his oath as provincial councillor in front of Chief Minister C. V. Vigneswaran at Veerasingam Hall on 11 October 2013.

Northern Provincial Council
Northern Provincial Council (Tamil: வட மாகாண சபை Vaṭa Mākāṇa Capai; NPC) is the provincial council for the Northern Province in Sri Lanka. In accordance with the Sri Lankan constitution, NPC has legislative power over a variety of matters including agriculture, education, health, housing, local government, planning, road transport and social services. The constitution also gives it powers over police and land but successive central governments have refused to devolve these powers to the provinces. NPC has 38 members elected using the open list proportional representation system.
Martin Leonard
Christianity portal

Martin Patrick Grainge Leonard DSO was an Anglican suffragan bishop from 1953 until his death.

Leonard was born at Torpenhow, near Cockermouth, Cumberland, on 5 July 1889.  He was educated at Rossall, Fleetwood, Lancashire and Oriel College, Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiastical career including service as a World War I chaplain.  Afterward, Leonard occupied a similar post at Cheltenham College.  He spent 14 years with the Toc H organisation.  Leonard subsequently became Rector of Hatfield, Rural Dean of Hertford, and Provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow. He was a Bishop of Thetford, and a lifelong supporter of the Boy Scout movement.

He died on 21 July 1963.

Cumberland
Cumberland (/ˈkʌmbərlənd/ KUM-bər-lənd) is an area of North West England which was historically a county. The county was bordered by Northumberland to the north-east, County Durham to the east, Westmorland to the south-east, Lancashire to the south, and the Scottish counties of Dumfriesshire and Roxburghshire to the north. The county included the city of Carlisle, part of the Lake District and North Pennines, and the Solway Firth coastline.

Cumberland had an administrative function from the 12th century until 1974, when it was subsumed into Cumbria with Westmorland as well as parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire. It gives its name to the unitary authority area of Cumberland, which has similar boundaries but excludes Penrith.