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2020 MAC men's basketball tournament
The 2020 Mid-American Conference men's basketball tournament was the post-season men's basketball tournament for the Mid-American Conference (MAC). The tournament's first-round games were held on campus sites at the higher seed on March 9. The remaining rounds were to be held at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland on March 12, 13, and 14, 2020 and the champion was to receive the MAC's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Just prior to the scheduled game on March 12 between top-seeded Akron and eighth-seeded Ohio, the conference announced that the remainder of the tournament, and the remainder of the women's tournament, were canceled in response to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic.

2020 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
The 2020 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament was a planned single-elimination tournament of 68 teams to determine the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's college basketball national champion for the 2019–20 season. The 82nd edition of the tournament would have begun on March 17, 2020, and concluded with the championship game on April 6 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.

On March 12, the tournament, as well as all other NCAA championships for the remainder of the academic year, were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, just five days before it was set to begin. It was the first time the tournament had been canceled since its creation in 1939. Four years later in 2024, Atlanta successfully bid for the right to host the 2031 tournament in lieu of the canceled event.
1930 Austrian legislative election
Parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 9 November 1930. The Social Democratic Workers' Party emerged as the largest faction in the National Council, with 72 of the 165 seats, but the Christian Social Party (with 66 seats) formed a new coalition government with Otto Ender as Chancellor. Voter turnout was 90%.

This was the last parliamentary election to take place in the period of the First Austrian Republic. A series of socialist-fascist clashes in 1934 was followed by the authoritarian Federal State of Austria and eventual Anschluss in 1938 with Nazi Germany.

Christian Social Party (Austria)
The Christian Social Party (German: Christlichsoziale Partei, CS or CSP) was a major conservative political party in the Cisleithanian crown lands of Austria-Hungary and under the First Austrian Republic, from 1891 to 1934. The party was affiliated with Austrian nationalism that sought to keep Catholic Austria out of the State of Germany founded in 1871, which it viewed as Protestant and Prussian-dominated; it identified Austrians on the basis of their predominantly Catholic religious identity as opposed to the predominantly Protestant religious identity of the Prussians.
Order of the Leopard (Bophuthatswana)
The Order of the Leopard is a merit order of the former Republic of Bophuthatswana. The Order was instituted in order to recognise service to the people of the Republic of Bophuthatswana. It was instituted by the President of the Republic of Bophuthatswana by official Warrant on 28 December 1979.

Order of the Star of South Africa
The Order of the Star of South Africa was a South African National Order that consisted of seven decorations in two military and five non-military classes. The order was discontinued on 2 December 2002.
Kevin Quinn (sportscaster)
Kevin Quinn (born January 23, 1958) is a Canadian sportscaster who was formerly the television play-by-play voice of the Edmonton Oilers on Sportsnet.

Quinn attended the University of Western Ontario and obtained a degree in psychology. He started his career as an anchor for CKVR Television in Barrie, Ontario, also doing play-by-play for an Ontario Hockey League game every week. Quinn was hired by CTV Sportsnet in 1998, and was a co-anchor for SportsCentral. Following Jim Robson's retirement in 1999, Quinn became the backup play-by-play voice of Vancouver Canucks and Calgary Flames games. He was then the primary play-by-play voice of the Oilers from 2001 to 2020. He also did play-by-play at the 2010 Winter Olympics for women's hockey.

Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament
The women's tournament in ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics was held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from February 13 to 25. Eight teams competed, seeded into two groups. Canada won the final by a score of 2–0 over the United States, who were awarded silver. The bronze medal game was won by Finland with a 3–2 victory over Sweden in overtime.

The tournament consisted of 20 games: 12 in the preliminary round (teams play the other teams in their own group); 4 final classification games; 2 semifinal games; 1 bronze medal game; and 1 final.

The tournament had a total attendance of 162,419, an average of 8,120 spectators per game, making it the most attended IIHF-run women's hockey tournament of all-time.
Yılmaz Güney
Yılmaz Güney (né Pütün; 1 April 1937 – 9 September 1984) was a Kurdish film director, screenwriter, novelist, actor and communist political activist. He quickly rose to prominence in the Turkish film industry. Many of his works were made from a far-left perspective and devoted to the plight of working-class people in Turkey. Güney won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1982 for the film Yol (The Road) which he co-directed with Şerif Gören. He was at constant odds with the Turkish government over the portrayal of Kurdish culture, people and language.

After being convicted of killing judge Sefa Mutlu in 1974 (a charge which he denied), Güney fled the country and was later stripped of his citizenship. A year before his death in 1983, he co-founded the Kurdish Institute of Paris together with the Kurdish poets Cegerxwîn and Hejar among others.

Kurdish population
The Kurdish population is estimated to be between 30 and 45 million. Most Kurdish people live in Kurdistan, which today is split between Iranian Kurdistan, Iraqi Kurdistan, Turkish Kurdistan, and Syrian Kurdistan.
Sherni (2021 film)
Sherni (/ʃeɪrni/ transl. Tigress) is a 2021 Indian Hindi-language thriller film directed by Amit V. Masurkar and produced by T-Series and Abundantia Entertainment.  The film stars Vidya Balan in the leading role of an Indian Forest Service officer, alongside Sharat Saxena, Vijay Raaz, Ila Arun, Brijendra Kala, Neeraj Kabi and Mukul Chaddha in supporting roles. The film premiered on Amazon Prime Video on 18 June 2021.

The film deals with human–wildlife conflict and wildlife conservation. The title of the film is a bit of a misnomer, as in Hindi sherni properly refers to a lioness, while the formal word for a tigress is baghin. However the word sherni is also frequently used to refer to tigresses. Sherni received positive reviews from the film critics for raising awareness about the importance of wildlife conservation and Balan's performance.

Brijendra Kala
Brijendra Kala is an Indian film and theatre actor known for his realistic portrayals of everyday characters in Hindi cinema. He has appeared in many notable films and web series since the early 2000s, often in supporting roles that have received praise from critics and audiences alike for their natural style and subtle humor. He gained attention for his small roles in mainstream cinema.
Delaware Coast Line Railroad
The Delaware Coast Line Railroad (reporting mark DCLR) was a short-line railroad located in Sussex County, Delaware. The company operated two lines on track owned by the State of Delaware: one running from Ellendale east to Milton and another running from Georgetown east to Cool Spring. The railroad interchanged with the Delmarva Central Railroad in Ellendale and Georgetown. It was owned by Dan Herholdt.  Part of the rail lines were taken over by the Delmarva Central Railroad.

Ellendale, Delaware
Ellendale is a town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. The population was 487 at the 2020 census, an increase of 27.8% since the 2010 census, and a 48.9% increase since the year 2000. It is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. Ellendale is the "Gateway to Delaware's Resort Beaches" because it is the town located on U.S. Route 113, the resort area's westernmost border, and Delaware Route 16, the resort area's northernmost border with the eastern border being the Delaware Bay and Atlantic Ocean and the southern border being the state line with Maryland.
Lily Sullivan
Lily Sullivan is an Australian actress. She played Coral in the 2012 film Mental and Miranda in the 2018 television series Picnic at Hanging Rock. She plays leading roles in two 2023 feature films, the Australian sci-fi thriller Monolith and the American horror film Evil Dead Rise.

Antipodean Film Festival
The Antipodean Film Festival (French: Rencontres internationales du cinéma des Antipodes), variously referred to as Festival des Antipodes, Antipodes International Film Festival, Antipodes Film Festival Saint Tropez, Saint Tropez Film Festival and other variations, is a film festival showcasing New Zealand and Australian  films, held annually in St Tropez in France since 1999.

Most of the events take place at the Renaissance Cinema on Place des Lices in Saint Tropez. The event, which runs for three days, includes a Junior Antipodes section and a feature film competition.

The 2021 edition was given the label "Australia Now France 2021-2022", making it part of a celebration of many aspects of Australia in France which includes projects and collaborations throughout the country.
National Advisory Committee on SARS and Public Health
The National Advisory Committee on SARS and Public Health (NACSARS) was the body that the federal government of Canada commissioned to do a post-mortem inquiry on the SARS epidemic that hit Ontario in March 2003.

The NACSARS report offered 77 recommendations, including that the federal government establish a subdivision that eventually became known as the Public Health Agency of Canada. It called "for the creation of a Canadian agency that would be the equivalent of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and operate at arm's length from Health Canada." Here is the first Canadian mention of a Chief Public Health Officer. It earned the approval of Health Minister Anne McLellan. It also called for the Agency to be given a budget of $700 million by the year 2007.

Minister of health
A health minister is the member of a country's government typically responsible for protecting and promoting public health and providing welfare spending and other social security services.

Some governments have separate ministers for mental health.
Working Students
Working Students is a black and white photograph by German photographer August Sander, taken in 1926. The photograph depicts a group of four students, who also worked for a living, from the Weimar Republic. It was included in his photography landmark book Antlitz der Zeit  (1929), and became one of the most famous pictures that Sander took back then.

August Sander
August Sander (17 November 1876 – 20 April 1964) was a German portrait and documentary photographer. His first book Face of our Time (German: Antlitz der Zeit) was published in 1929. Sander has been described as "the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century". Sander's work includes landscape, nature, architecture, and street photography, but he is best known for his portraits, as exemplified by his series People of the 20th Century. In this series, he aims to show a cross-section of society during the Weimar Republic.
LGBTQ rights in New South Wales
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people in the Australian state of New South Wales have the same rights and responsibilities as heterosexual individuals and couples. LGBTQ rights in New South Wales enjoy bipartisan support. Since April 4, 2025 conversion therapy practices have been criminally banned within New South Wales.

Anti-Discrimination Act 1977
The New South Wales Anti–Discrimination Act 1977 is an Act of the NSW Parliament, relating to discrimination in employment, the public education system, delivery of goods and services, and other services such as banking, health care, accommodation and night clubs.

The Act prohibits unlawful racial, sexual and other types of discrimination in certain circumstances and promotes equality of opportunity for all people.

The Act covers the following types of discrimination:

Sex (including breastfeeding, pregnancy and sexual harassment)

Disability (including past, present, future or perceived and actual disability)

Actual or perceived HIV/AIDS status

Race

Actual or perceived Homosexuality

Marital or domestic status

Age

Transgender status

Carer’s responsibilities (but only within employment).
Lukáš Chalupa
Lukáš Chalupa (born December 28, 1993) is a Czech professional ice hockey player. He is currently playing for SK Horácká Slavia Třebíč of the Chance Liga.

Chalupa has previously played in the Czech Extraliga for HC Slavia Praha, HC Plzeň and Piráti Chomutov.

Czech Extraliga
The Czech Extraliga (Czech: Extraliga ledního hokeje, ELH) is the highest-level ice hockey league in the Czech Republic. It was created in 1993 following the peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia midway through the 1992–93 Czechoslovak Extraliga season (which all Slovak and Czech teams played to completion). The league's season usually takes place between September and April and features 14 teams.

Teams from the ELH participate in the IIHF's annual European tournament in the CHL. During the 2022–23 CHL season, the ELH was ranked the No. 5 league in Europe, allowing them to send their top three teams to compete in the CHL.
Central Power Purchasing Agency
Central Power Purchasing Agency-Guarantee (CPPA-G)  is the market operator in Pakistan and is facilitating the power market transition from the current single buyer to a competitive market.

It was established in 2015 and was separated from the National Transmission & Despatch Company.

Central Power Purchasing Agency (CPPA-G) is a Company incorporated under the Companies Ordinance, 1984 and wholly owned by the Government of Pakistan (the “GOP”). Since June 2015, CPPA-G has assumed the business of National Transmission and Dispatch Company (the “NTDC”) pertaining to the market operations and presently functioning as the Market Operator in accordance with Rule-5 of the NEPRA Market Operator (Registration, Standards and Procedure) Rules, 2015 (the “Market Rules”).

National Transmission & Despatch Company
National Grid Company of Pakistan Limited (NGC) {formerly known as National Transmission & Despatch Company (NTDC)} is a power transmission company managed by the Ministry of Energy of Pakistan. On 10 November 2024, Federal Energy Minister Awais Leghari said the NTDC was dissolved into three bodies.
Jet's Pizza
Jet's America, Inc., doing business as Jet's Pizza, is an American chain of fast food pizza restaurants. Founded in Sterling Heights, Michigan in 1978, Jet's has more than 400 locations across 25 U.S. states, primarily franchised.

Pizzeria
A pizzeria (Italian: [ˌpitːseˈriːa]), also called a pizza parlor, is a restaurant focusing on pizza. It may offer take-away, where the customer orders their food either in advance or at the restaurant and then takes the prepared food with them in a pizza box. A pizzeria may deliver food to the customer's home.
INS Kadmatt
INS Kadmatt is the name of the following ships of the Indian Navy, named for Kadmat Island:

INS Kadmatt (P78), a Arnala-class corvette in commission 1968–1992

INS Kadmatt (P29), a Kamorta-class corvette commissioned in 2016

INS Kadmatt (P29)
INS Kadmatt (P29) is the second of four anti-submarine warfare corvettes built for the Indian Navy by the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, of Kolkata, under Project 28. She was inducted into the Eastern Naval Command of the Indian Navy.

INS Kadmatt has been named after Kadmat Island in India's Lakshadweep Islands, and carries on the legacy of her predecessor Kadmatt (P78), which served the Indian Navy for 24 years, from 23 December 1968 to 30 November 1992.
Robbie Laing
Robert Alan Laing (born March 5, 1958) is an American college basketball coach, currently an assistant at the University of Central Florida. He had been the head men's basketball coach at Campbell University from 2003 to 2013. In March 2013, Laing was fired as head coach at Campbell, finishing with a 114–185 record. He was hired as an assistant under Michael Curry at Florida Atlantic in May 2014.

Campbell University
Campbell University is a private Christian university in Buies Creek, North Carolina, United States. Campbell's main campus in Buies Creek is home to its College of Arts & Sciences, College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Divinity School, School of Education, Lundy-Fetterman School of Business, and the School of Engineering. Nearby is the Health Sciences Campus, home to the Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine and the Catherine W. Wood School of Nursing. Campbell also operates a Raleigh Campus in downtown Raleigh, which is home to the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law as well as other programs. It maintains additional satellite campuses in Fort Bragg/Pope Air Force Base and at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, and provides online classes through adult and online education. The university's athletic teams are named the Fighting Camels; there are 20 NCAA Division I varsity programs.
New York Apple Core
The New York Apple Core are a Tier II Junior A ice hockey team from Brewster, New York, playing in the Eastern Hockey League. The team plays home games at the Brewster Ice Arena. The Apple Core organization is based out of Long Beach, New York, on Long Island, however, their top level junior team has played in Brewster since the start of the 2011–12 season.

The Apple Core organization also fields a Tier III team in the Eastern Hockey League-Premier Division, as well as youth hockey select teams at the Bantam, Peewee, and Squirt and other various levels.

Brewster, New York
Brewster is a village and the principal settlement within the town of Southeast in Putnam County, New York, United States. The population was 2,508 at the 2020 census. The village, which is the most densely populated portion of the county, was named for two early farmer landowners, Walter and James Brewster, who donated land for the Brewster railroad station in 1848.
Tarkhanawali
Tarkhanawali  is a village in Kapurthala district of Punjab State, India. It is located 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) from Kapurthala, which is both district and sub-district headquarters of Tarkhanawali. The village is administrated by a Sarpanch who is an elected representative of village and the home of the loyal family.

Kapurthala
Kapurthala (Punjabi pronunciation: [kə.puːɾ.t̪ʰə.läː]) is a city in the Punjab state of India. It is the administrative headquarters of the Kapurthala District. It was the capital of the Kapurthala State, a princely state in British India. It is an immediate neighbour of Jalandhar city proper, and a part of the Jalandhar Metropolitan Region. The aesthetic mix of the city, with its prominent buildings based on French and Indo-Saracenic architecture self-narrate its princely past. And for this reason, it has often been referred to as the “Paris of Punjab”. It is also known as the 'City of Palaces & Gardens'. According to the 2011 census, Kapurthala is the least populated city in India.
Route 36 (bar)
Route 36 is an illegal after-hours lounge in La Paz, Bolivia, and, according to The Guardian, the world's first cocaine bar.  Although cocaine, an addictive stimulant derived from the coca plant, is illegal in Bolivia, political corruption and affordability of locally produced cocaine have resulted in Route 36 becoming a popular destination for thousands of drug tourists each year.  Many customers learn about the bar's existence through travel websites and by word of mouth promotion.  To avoid complaints from nearby business owners or residents, Route 36 does not operate in the same location for more than a few weeks at a time. Its location can only be found by word of mouth information.

Bar (establishment)
A bar, also known as a saloon, a tavern or tippling house, or sometimes as a pub or club, is a retail business that serves alcoholic beverages, such as beer, wine, liquor, cocktails, and other beverages such as mineral water and soft drinks. Bars often also sell snack foods, such as chips (crisps) or peanuts, for consumption on their premises. Some types of bars, such as pubs, may also serve food from a restaurant menu. The term "bar" refers both to the countertop where drinks are prepared and served and also by extension to the entirety of the establishment in which the bar is located.

The term derives from the metal or wooden bar (barrier) that is often located along the length of the "bar". Over many years, heights of bars were lowered, and high stools added, and the brass bar remains today.
Ba Tri district
Ba Tri is a rural district (huyện) of Bến Tre province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2004 the district had a population of 201,802. The district covers an area of 351 km2. The district capital lies at Ba Tri. In 2019, the population decreased to 184,734 people with a mean density of 530 people per square kilometer.

The district is in the east of Bến Tre Province. It is bordered to the east by the South China Sea, to the north by the Ba Lai River, to the south by the Hàm Luông river and to the west by Giồng Trôm district.

In the capital of Ba Tri lies the final resting place of the famed 19th-century poet Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, known for his patriotic anti-colonial writings. It has been visited by dignitaries including Nông Đức Mạnh.

The commune of Bảo Thạnh is the home of Phan Thanh Giản, a leading mandarin of Tự Đức who was also the first southerner to gain a PhD in the imperial court examinations.

The commune of Bảo Thuận among others is known for tourism.

Ba Lai River
The Ba Lai River (Vietnamese: Sông Ba Lai) is a river in the Mekong Delta region, Vietnam, in Ben Tre Province, flowing between An Hoa Island and Bao Island. It is a direct tributary of the Tien River at the boundary of Phu Duc and Tan Phu Communes. At the beginning of the 20th century, the flow from Tien River began to diminish. The water source of the Ba Lai River now comes mainly from the My Tho River. The Ba Lai River has also begun to diminish and the Ba Lai estuary is now filling with sediment and becoming blocked. In 2002, an irrigation dam was built across the River to stop the infiltration of salt water and preserve fresh water for 100,000 hectares of farmland in Bến Tre.
Bertrand Township, Michigan
Bertrand Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 2,611.

Bertrand Charter Township was established in 1836, and named for Joseph Bertrand, a pioneer citizen.

Charter township
A charter township is a form of local government in the U.S. state of Michigan. While all townships in Michigan are organized governments, a charter township has been granted a charter, which allows it certain rights and responsibilities of home rule that are generally intermediate between those of a city (a semi-autonomous jurisdiction in Michigan) and a village. Unless it is a home-rule village, a village is subject to the authority of any township in which it is located.

Of Michigan's 1,240 townships, 143 are charter townships. A number of charter townships are among the most populous municipalities in Michigan. For example, Clinton Township and Canton Township, both in Metro Detroit, were respectively the 8th and 9th most populous municipalities in Michigan at the 2020 census. The most recent township to become a charter township is Brady Township in Kalamazoo County, which adopted charter status on January 3, 2024.