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Mechiel Versluis
Mechiel Versluis (born 29 July 1987) is a Dutch representative rower. He is a three time Olympian, an Olympic bronze medallist and was a world and European champion in 2013 in the coxless four

He finished fifth in the coxless four at the 2012 Summer Olympics. At  the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro he was part of the men's eight team that won a bronze medal. He won a medal at the 2019 World Rowing Championships.

Rowing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's eight
The men's eight competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place at the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon. It was held from 8 to 13 August. There were 7 boats (63 competitors) from 7 nations. The event was won by Great Britain, the nation's first victory in the men's eight since 2000 and fourth overall (second to the United States' 12 wins). Defending champions Germany finished with silver this time. The Netherlands earned bronze.
Mona Steigauf
Mona Steigauf (born 17 January 1970 in Starnberg) is a retired German heptathlete.

Her personal best was 6546 points, achieved at the 1997 Summer Universiade in Catania. This ranks her ninth among German heptathletes, behind Sabine Braun, Sabine Paetz, Ramona Neubert, Anke Behmer-Vater, Heike Drechsler, Ines Schulz, Sibylle Thiele and Heike Tischler.

In 1997, Steigauf broke the unofficial women's decathlon world record twice. Her 7,885-point total is still a German record and the #4 all-time performance As of 2025.

Heike Tischler
Heike Tischler (born 4 February 1964 in Saalfeld, Thuringia) is a retired German heptathlete.

She won the silver medal for East Germany at the 1990 European Championships in Athletics in Split with a personal best score of 6572 points. This ranks her eighth among German heptathletes, behind Sabine Braun, Sabine Paetz, Ramona Neubert, Anke Behmer-Vater, Heike Drechsler, Ines Schulz and Sibylle Thiele. At that point, East Germany was already scheduled for reunification with West Germany as modern Germany and so this was this the last championship with separate East and West German teams. She entered the 1991 World Championships (competing for reunified Germany), but did not finish the competition.

Her daughter Sophie Weißenberg also competes in the heptathlon.
Pétur M. Jónasson
Pétur Mikkel Jónasson (18 June 1920 – 1 October 2020) was an Icelandic zoologist.

He was born in Reykjavík. He finished his secondary education in Reykjavík, before moving to Copenhagen in 1939 where he took a magister degree. He was employed at the freshwater biology laboratory at the University of Copenhagen from 1957, and held the rank of professor from 1979. He was known for ecological explorations of Suså, Esrum Sø, Mývatn and Þingvallavatn. He was a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and from 1986 a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

For his book about Þingvallavatn, he won the Icelandic Literary Prize for academic works in 2002, together with Páll Hersteinsson.

Icelandic Literary Prize
The Icelandic Literary Prize (Icelandic: Íslensku bókmenntaverðlaunin), or Icelandic Literary Award, is an award which is given to three books each year by the Icelandic Publishers Association. The prize was founded on the association's centennial in 1989. One award is for fiction or poetry, one for children's books and one for academic and non-fiction works. Five books are nominated in each category, and the year's nominations are publicized in the beginning of December, but the prize itself is not awarded until January. Because the year's nominations come in the middle of the Christmas book flood, these books receive a great deal of marketing. Once the books have been nominated, the Icelandic Publishers Association appoints a selection committee which chooses the winners.
Kleče (Ljubljana)
Kleče (pronounced [ˈkleːtʃɛ]; German: Kletsche) is a formerly independent settlement in the northern part of the capital Ljubljana in central Slovenia. It is part of the traditional region of Upper Carniola and is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Central Slovenia Statistical Region.

Upper Carniola
Littoral

Carniola: 2a Upper, 2b Inner, 2c Lower

Carinthia

Styria

Prekmurje

Upper Carniola (Slovene: Gorenjska pronounced [ɡɔˈɾèːnska]; Italian: Alta Carniola; German: Oberkrain) is a traditional region of Slovenia, the northern mountainous part of the larger Carniola region. The largest town in the region is Kranj, and other urban centers include Kamnik, Jesenice, Domžale and Škofja Loka. It has around 300,000 inhabitants or 14% of the population of Slovenia.
Deep branch of medial circumflex femoral artery
The deep branch runs obliquely upward upon the tendon of the obturator externus and in front of the quadratus femoris toward the trochanteric fossa, where it anastomoses with twigs from the superior gluteal artery and inferior gluteal artery. It primarily supplies blood to the posterior hip joint capsule and the adjacent musculature, and contributes to the trochanteric anastomosis.

External obturator muscle
The external obturator muscle or obturator externus muscle (/ˌɒbtjʊəˈreɪtər ɪkˈstɜːrnəs/; OE) is a flat, triangular muscle, which covers the outer surface of the anterior wall of the pelvis.

It is sometimes considered part of the medial compartment of thigh, and sometimes considered part of the gluteal region.

It is also considered to be part of the short external rotators of the hip, along with the gemellus superior and inferior, piriformis, and quadratus femoris.
Krishnan Raghavendran
Krishnan Raghavendran is Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School, Division Chief of Acute Care Surgery, Director of the Michigan Center for Global Surgery, and a trauma, critical care, and general surgeon.

University of Michigan Medical School
The University of Michigan Medical School is the medical school of the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was founded in 1850. It is part of the University of Michigan Medicine.
Nadia Hilou
Nadia Hilou (Arabic: ناديا حلو, Hebrew: נאדיה חילו‎; 5 July 1953 – 27 February 2015) was an Arab-Israeli social worker and politician, who served as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party between 2006 and 2009. She was the second female Israeli Arab MK after Hussniya Jabara, and also the first female Christian MK.

HaKibbutz HaMeuhad
HaKibbutz HaMeuhad (Hebrew: הקיבוץ המאוחד, lit. 'The United Kibbutz') was a union of kibbutzim. It had been formed in 1927 by the union of several kibbutz bodies and was associated with Ahdut HaAvoda party,it was also aligned with the Habonim youth movement. In 1980 it merged with Ihud HaKvutzot VeHaKibbutzim to form the United Kibbutz Movement which would later become part of the Kibbutz Movement.
Earl McCune
Earl W. McCune Jr. (May 30, 1956, San Francisco – May 27, 2020, Santa Clara, California) was an American electrical engineer, telecommunications engineer, inventor, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, and IEEE Fellow. He is known for his research on achieving "Green" communications systems that have optimal energy efficiency.

Santa Clara, California
Santa Clara (/ˌsæntə ˈklærə/ SAN-tə KLAR-ə; Spanish for 'Saint Clare') is a city in Santa Clara County, California. The city's population was 127,647 at the 2020 census, making it the eighth-most populous city in the Bay Area. Located in the southern Bay Area, the city was founded by the Spanish in 1777 with the establishment of Mission Santa Clara de Asís under the leadership of Junípero Serra.

Santa Clara is located in the center of Silicon Valley and is home to the headquarters of companies such as Intel, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and Nvidia. It is also home to Santa Clara University, the oldest private university in California; Levi's Stadium, the home of the National Football League's San Francisco 49ers; and California's Great America amusement park. Santa Clara is bordered by San Jose on almost every side, except for Sunnyvale and Cupertino to the west.
In Time (The Mavericks album)
In Time is the seventh studio album by the American band the Mavericks, released on February 26, 2013, on the Valory Music Group label, which is owned by Big Machine Records. The album was produced by Niko Bolas and Raul Malo. The album has achieved praise from the critics and according to Metacritic has garnered "universal acclaim".

The vinyl LP version of the record was pressed by United Record Pressing in Nashville, Tennessee.

The band released a video for the song "Back in Your Arms Again".

Raul Malo
Raul Francisco Martínez-Malo Jr. (August 7, 1965 – December 8, 2025) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer. He was both the lead singer and songwriter of country music band the Mavericks, co-writing many of their singles, as well as Rick Trevino's 2003 single "In My Dreams". After the disbanding of the Mavericks in the early 2000s, Malo pursued a solo career. He also participated from 2001 in the Los Super Seven supergroup. The Mavericks re-formed in 2012 and continued to tour extensively. In 2015, they won the Americana music award for duo/group of the year.
Alonzo D. Dick
Alonzo David Dick (1813 – October 9, 1872) was a Brothertown Indian farmer, tavernkeeper, and postmaster from Brothertown, Wisconsin, (then called "Manchester"). As a member of the Whig Party, he served one term in the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing Calumet County.

Brothertown, Wisconsin
Brothertown is a town in Calumet County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 1,328 at the 2020 census, slightly down from 1,329 at the 2010 census. The unincorporated communities of Brothertown, Charlesburg, Eckers Lakeland, Jericho, and Maple Heights are located in the town. The unincorporated community of Calumetville is also located partially in the town.
Kōtarō Nogami
Kōtarō Nogami (born 20 May 1967) is a Japanese politician who served as the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries from September 2020 to October 2021. He previously served as Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary from 2016 to 2019, and is also a member of the House of Councilors of Japan, winning his first election in 2001.

Nogami served in the House of Councilors for Toyama from 2001 to 2007, serving one term. After losing re-election, he ran again in 2010 and successfully won the seat. In 2013, he was named State Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and served in that position for a year. In 2016, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appointed him as Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, and he served in that position until 2019.

Toyama (city)
Toyama (富山市, Toyama-shi; Japanese pronunciation: [toꜜ.ja.ma, to.ja.maꜜ.ɕi]) is the capital city of Toyama Prefecture, Japan, located on the coast of the Sea of Japan in the Chūbu region on central Honshū, about 200 km (120 mi) north of the city of Nagoya and 300 km (190 mi) northwest of Tokyo. As of 1 June 2019, the city had an estimated population of 415,844 in 176,643 households, and a population density of 335 persons per km2. Its total area was 1,241.77 square kilometres (479.45 sq mi). The city has been designated an environmental model city by the national government for its efforts to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases.
Roman Vondráček
Roman Vondráček (born September 26, 1984) is a Czech professional ice hockey forward currently playing for Rapaces de Gap of the Ligue Magnus.

Vondrácek played in the Czech Extraliga for HC Sparta Praha, HC Plzeň and HC Kometa Brno. On November 8, 2013, he joined Rapaces de Gap of the Ligue Magnus. On May 10, 2015, he joined Brest Albatros Hockey where he played for one season before moving to Aigles de Nice on June 17, 2016. On December 15, 2018, Vondráček rejoined Rapaces de Gap.

HC Sparta Praha
Hockey Club Sparta Praha, commonly known as  HC Sparta Prague, is a Prague-based Czech professional ice hockey team playing in the Czech Extraliga. The club has won four Czech championships (most recently in 2007) and four Czechoslovak championships, as well as two Spengler Cups, making it one of the most successful hockey clubs in Czech history. The team HC Sparta Praha plays its home games at O2 Arena, the largest arena in the country.

Founded in 1903, Sparta is one of the oldest hockey teams in the world.
Mohammad Saba'aneh
Mohammad Saba'aneh (Arabic: محمد سباعنة, romanized: Muḥammad Sabāʿina; born 1978) is a Palestinian cartoonist and caricaturist from Jenin district, West Bank. He has been an active member in the Cartoon Movement since August 24, 2009.

Saba'aneh is a cartoonist for Al-Hayat al-Jadida, the official newspaper of the Palestinian Authority, and also works at the Arab American University in Jenin. He is a former political prisoner in Israel.

In September 2021, Saba'aneh released Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine, a book that later won the 2022 Palestine Book Award.

Arab American University (Palestine)
The Arab American University (Arabic: الجامعة العربية الأمريكية) or AAUP is the first private university in Palestine founded in 2000.

AAUP's main campus is located near Talfit in the south of the Jenin Governorate. It has another campus at Al-Reehan in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate.
Daniel Habesohn
Daniel Habesohn (born 22 July 1986) is an Austrian table tennis player. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2020 Summer Olympics. Habesohn competed in the 2017 World Table Tennis Championships, upsetting Japanese player and number 15 seed Kenta Matsudaira but he then went on to lose to number 33 seed Lin Gaoyuan. He teamed with Robert Gardos in the men's doubles event, losing in the first round in a close match with the Belarusian duo of Vladimir Samsonov and Pavel Platonov.

In the 2016 Summer Olympics, he competed as part of the Austrian team in the men's team event. Later, in the 2020 Summer Olympics, he participated in the men's singles event where he received a bye in the first round, defeated Clarence Chew in the second round, but eventually lost to Marcos Freitas in the third round.

2017 World Table Tennis Championships
The 2017 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Düsseldorf, Germany, from 29 May to 5 June 2017. The decision to host the event in Düsseldorf was announced by the ITTF in April 2015. They were the 54th edition of the competition, and the seventh time that it has been staged in Germany.
Wadi al-Far'a (river)
Wadi al-Far'a (Arabic: وادي الفارعه) or Tirzah Stream (Hebrew: נַחַל תִּרְצָה, romanized: Nahal Tirzah) is a stream in the northern West Bank that empties into the Jordan River south of Damia Bridge. It is the largest stream in the West Bank. Wadi al-Far'a is located in the rugged area of the West Bank and cuts east through the Jordan Valley, passing through the Palestinian village of Wadi al-Far'a. The Tirzah Reservoir is used to collect the floodwater of Wadi al-Far'a before it flows into the Jordan River at a point ESE of Yafit.

Damiyah Bridge
The Damiyah Bridge (Arabic: جسر الدامية, romanized: Jisr ed-Damieh, lit. 'Bridge of ed-Damieh'), known as Prince Muhammad Bridge in Jordan, and as Gesher Adam (Hebrew: גשר אדם, lit. 'Adam Bridge') in Israel, is a historical bridge that crosses the Jordan River and located between the Palestinian territories and the town of Damia in the Balqa Governorate in Jordan.

In 1918, during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War, it was captured by Imperial British forces. At the time it was used as part of the Nablus – Es Salt – Amman road.

After 1991 it was used only for goods transported by truck between Israel, the West Bank and Jordan until its closure for security reasons sometime between 2002 and 2005 during the Second Intifada. As of 2014, the Israeli side is part of a closed military area.
2006 Victory Shield
The Victory Shield 2006 was the 61st edition of the Victory Shield, an annual football tournament competed for by the Under 16 level teams of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. It was held from 13 October to 8 December 2006 and was won by England.

Irish Football Association
The Irish Football Association (IFA) is the governing body for association football in Northern Ireland. It organised the Ireland national football team from 1880 to 1950, which after 1954, became the Northern Ireland national football team.
Edifício São Vito
Edifício São Vito, popularly known as Treme-Treme (literally "Shiver-Shiver"), was a 112-metre (367 ft), 27-story former residential building, located in São Paulo, Brazil, finished in 1959. Throughout its existence, the building became deteriorated and earned a reputation of São Paulo's biggest vertical cortiço (slum). The city expropriated and evacuated the building in 2004.

Cortiço
Cortiço (pronounced [koʁˈtʃisu], [kuʁˈtʃisu]), or gueto (Portuguese language for "beehive" and "ghetto" respectively; tenements), is a common Portuguese term used in Brazil for an area of concentrated, high density urban housing where people live with poor sanitation and hygiene conditions. Cortiço houses are typically divided into small rooms that are rented. Cortiços exist in large cities, such as São Paulo, Salvador, Rio de Janeiro, and Recife. They originated in São Paulo, Brazil, during the late 1700s, and continue to exist in contemporary times in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Less common today, most cortiços are old buildings in the central, older parts of the cities.
Cricket at the 2023 African Games – Men's tournament
The men's cricket tournament at the 2023 African Games in Ghana took place from 17 to 23 March 2024. The matches were played in the Twenty20 International (T20I) format. Eight teams participated in the event, with all the matches held at the Achimota Oval grounds in Accra. Matches involving the South African team, which was composed of university players, were downgraded from T20I status on 19 March 2024, after the team had already played its first two matches. Zimbabwe were represented by an emerging side and their matches were also downgraded from T20I status.

Zimbabwe Emerging beat Namibia in the final, as Zimbabwe win the gold medal. Uganda beat Kenya in the bronze medal match.

Zimbabwe national cricket team
The Zimbabwe men's national cricket team, also known as the Chevrons, represents Zimbabwe in men's international cricket and is overseen by Zimbabwe Cricket. Zimbabwe has been a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1992. As of October 2025, Zimbabwe was ranked 11th by the ICC in all three formats of the game: Tests, One Day Internationals (ODIs) and Twenty20 internationals (T20Is).
2018 Sydney International
The 2018 Sydney International was a joint 2018 ATP World Tour and 2018 WTA Tour tennis tournament, played on outdoor hard courts in Sydney, New South Wales (NSW). It was the 126th edition of the tournament and took place at the NSW Tennis Centre in Sydney. It was held from 7 January through 13 January 2018 as part of the Australian Open Series in preparation for the first Grand Slam of the year. Venus Williams played the event for the first time in 17 years, 20 years after her maiden appearance.

2018 WTA Tour
The 2018 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the  2018 tennis season. The 2018 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments, supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF); the WTA Premier tournaments (Premier Mandatory, Premier 5, and regular Premier); the WTA International tournaments; the Fed Cup (organized by the ITF) and the year-end championships (the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Elite Trophy). Also included in the 2018 calendar is the Hopman Cup, which is organized by the ITF and does not distribute ranking points.
Bereg-Yurdya
Bereg-Yurdya (Russian: Берег-Юрдя; Yakut: Биэрэк Үрдэ, Bierek Ürde) is a rural locality (a selo), and one of three settlements in First Borogonsky Rural Okrug of Oymyakonsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, in addition to Oymyakon, the administrative center of the Rural Okrug and Khara-Tumul. It is located 605 kilometers (376 mi) from Ust-Nera, the administrative center of the district and 7 kilometers (4.3 mi) from Oymyakon. Its population as of the 2002 Census was 299.

Yakut language
The Yakut language (/jəˈkuːt/ yə-KOOT), also known as the Sakha language (/səˈxɑː/ sə-KHAH) or Yakutian, is a Siberian Turkic language spoken by around 450,000 native speakers—primarily by ethnic Yakuts. It is one of the official languages of the Sakha Republic, a republic in the Russian Federation.

The Yakut language has a large number of loanwords of Mongolic origin, a layer of vocabulary of unclear origin, as well as numerous recent borrowings from Russian. Like other Turkic languages, Yakut is an agglutinative language and features vowel harmony.
Encostas d'Aire DOC
Encostas d'Aire is a Portuguese wine region located on the limestone hills extending across the northern end of the wider Lisboa wine region into the southwestern corner of the Beiras region. The region was initially an Indicação de Proveniencia Regulamentada (IPR) region, but in 2005, it was elevated to Denominação de Origem Controlada (DOC) status, and at the same time the Alcobaça IPR was merged into Encostas d'Aire to form a subregion.

Despite similar names, the Encostas d'Aire DOC is quite distinct from the former Encostas da Nave IPR located in the northern half of the Beiras region, which is now part of Távora-Varosa DOC and no longer used on wine labels, reducing the risk of confusion.

Portuguese wine
Portuguese wine was mostly introduced by the Romans and other ancient Mediterranean peoples who traded with local coastal populations, mainly in the South. In pre-Roman Gallaecia-Lusitania times, the native peoples only drank beer and were unfamiliar with wine production. Portugal started to export its wines to Rome during the Roman Empire. Modern exports developed with trade to England after the Methuen Treaty in 1703. From this commerce a wide variety of wines started to be grown in Portugal. In 1758, one of the first wine-producing regions of the world, the Região Demarcada do Douro was created under the orientation of Marquis of Pombal, in the Douro Valley. Portugal has two wine-producing regions protected by UNESCO as World Heritage: the Douro Valley Wine Region (Douro Vinhateiro) and Pico Island Wine Region (Ilha do Pico Vinhateira). Portugal has a big variety of local kinds, producing a very wide variety of different wines with distinctive personality.
Sandun Mendis
Sandun Mendis (born 13 March 2001) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He made his List A debut on 22 December 2019, for Colombo Cricket Club in the 2019–20 Invitation Limited Over Tournament. He made his Twenty20 debut on 4 March 2021, for Chilaw Marians Cricket Club in the 2020–21 SLC Twenty20 Tournament.

Colombo Cricket Club
The Colombo Cricket Club (CCC) is a first-class cricket club in Sri Lanka.  It is the oldest in the country, having been formed in 1863, and is headquartered at 31 Maitland Crescent, Colombo 7, close to the headquarters of Sri Lanka Cricket.
Detroit Softball City
Detroit Softball City was a professional softball team that played during the 1982 season in the United Professional Softball League (UPSPL). Detroit Softball City played at and was named for a large recreational softball complex on the grounds of the Michigan State Fair in Detroit.

Eastpointe, Michigan
Eastpointe (formerly East Detroit) is a city in Macomb County in the U.S. state of Michigan. An inner-ring suburb of Detroit, Eastpointe borders Detroit to the south, roughly 11 miles (17.7 km) northeast of Downtown Detroit. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 34,318.