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Matin (surname)
Matin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Abdul Karim Matin, Pashtun politician

Abdul Matin (actor) (born 1980), Nepali actor

Abdul Matin (language activist) (born 1926), Bangladeshi language activist

Abdul Matin (poet), Indian poet

Abdul Matin (politician), Bangladeshi politician

Abdul Matin (Taliban leader), Afghan Taliban leader

Ahmad Matin-Daftari (1897–1971), Iranian Prime Minister

M. A. Matin (officer), Bangladeshi army officer

M.A. Matin (politician) (died 2012), Bangladeshi politician

Abdul Karim Matin
Abdul Karim Matin (Pashto: عبدالکريم متين) is an ethnic Pashtun politician who served as the governor of Paktika Province from 2014 to 2015, and of Ghazni since 2016. Matin went to Gazi High School and studied at Kabul University. He was a Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development official for Urban Rainwater Harvesting and the Regional Coordinator for Southern Region of Afghanistan. In 2015, Mateen has escaped unharmed from an armed attack from Taliban when he was visiting security check posts in the outskirts of Sharana.

In 2016, he was appointed as the governor of Ghazni Province.

He speaks Pashto, Dari and English.
Sorin Bottez
Sorin Bottez (born Sorin-Mircea Bottez; 2 June 1930 – 31 July 2009) was a Romanian politician who stemmed from the National Liberal Party (PNL). During the post-war period, he was vice-president of the National Liberal Youth (Romanian: Tineretul Național Liberal).

Post-war
A post-war or postwar period is the period immediately following the end of a war. The term usually refers to a varying period of time after World War II, which ended in 1945. A post-war period can become an interwar period or interbellum, when a war between the same parties resumes at a later date (such as the period between World War I and World War II). By contrast, a post-war period marks the cessation of armed conflict entirely.
Robert Bonner (politician)
Lieutenant Colonel Robert William Bonner QC CD (10 September 1920 – 12 August 2005) was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and corporate executive. He pursued his career working in the British Columbia government and in B.C.-based companies, including as member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in the 1950s and 1960s as a Social Credit member, and as cabinet minister under Premier W. A. C. Bennett.

Executive Council of British Columbia
The Executive Council of British Columbia (the Cabinet) is the Cabinet of the Canadian province of British Columbia. Almost always composed of members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, the Cabinet is similar in structure and role as the federal Cabinet of Canada is to the Canadian House of Commons.

Executive power is vested in the Crown: the lieutenant governor of British Columbia, as representative of the Crown, exercises executive power on the advice of the Cabinet as the lieutenant governor in Council. Members of the Cabinet are selected by the premier of British Columbia, who chairs the Cabinet.
Papa Was a Good Man
"Papa Was a Good Man" is a song written by songwriter Hal Bynum.

Released in September 1971 as a single (Columbia 4-45460, with "I Promise You" on the opposite side) by Johnny Cash, the song reached #16 on U.S. Billboard's country chart and #104 on Billboard's Bubbling Under the Hot 100.

Both "I Promise You" (which is "a promise of devotion to June") and "Papa Was a Good Man" are part of Johnny Cash's 1972 album A Thing Called Love.

June Carter Cash
Valerie June Carter Cash (June 23, 1929 – May 15, 2003) was an American country singer, songwriter, comedienne, actress, and author. A five-time Grammy Award winner, she was a member of the Carter Family and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash. Before her marriage, she performed as June Carter, a name she continued to use professionally, including on songwriting credits. She played guitar, banjo, harmonica, and autoharp, and acted in several films and television shows. In 2009, she was posthumously inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame, and in 2025, she was named a posthumous inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Nymphalis antiopa
Nymphalis antiopa, known as the mourning cloak in North America and the Camberwell beauty in Britain, is a large butterfly native to Eurasia and North America. The immature form of this species is sometimes known as the spiny elm caterpillar. Other older names for this species include grand surprise and white petticoat. A powerful flier, this species is sometimes found in areas far from its usual range during migration.

These butterflies have a lifespan of 11 to 12 months, one of the longest lifespans for any butterfly. It is the state insect of the U.S. state of Montana, adopted in 2001.

L. Hugh Newman
Leonard Hugh Newman, (3 February 1909 - 23 January 1993) was a British entomologist, author and broadcaster.  He wrote many popular books on insects, especially butterflies and moths.  With Peter Scott and James Fisher, he was a resident member of the team who presented "Nature Parliament" on BBC radio's Children's Hour in the 1950s.  He ran a butterfly farm in Kent (which he inherited from his father), supplying among others Sir Winston Churchill, who bought many butterflies for his house at Chartwell.  A collection of Newman's entomological photographs is held by the library of the Natural History Museum in London.
Rejoice Mabudafhasi
Rejoice Thizwilondi Mabudafhasi (born 23 May 1943) is a South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 1994 until her resignation in April 2017. She was appointed as South Africa's Ambassador to Zimbabwe in 2021.

Mabudafhasi previously served as Deputy Minister for Environmental Affairs and Tourism from 1999 to 2009 under President Thabo Mbeki and then, under President Jacob Zuma, as Deputy Minister for Water and Environmental Affairs from 2009 to 2014 and as Deputy Minister for Arts and Culture from 2014 to 2017. She resigned from Parliament after Zuma fired her from the latter position in 2017. A former trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist, she also served on the ANC's National Executive Committee between 2007 and 2022.

Trade unions in South Africa
Trade unions in South Africa has a history dating back to the 1880s. From the beginning unions could be viewed as a reflection of the racial disunity of the country, with the earliest unions being predominantly for white workers. Through the turbulent years of 1948–1991 trade unions played an important part in developing political and economic resistance, and eventually were one of the driving forces in realising the transition to an inclusive democratic government.

Today trade unions are still an important force in South Africa, with 3.11 million members representing 25.3% of the formal work force. The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is the largest of the three major trade union centres, with a membership of 1.8 million, and is part of the Tripartite alliance with the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP).
Piat Joseph Sauvage
Piat Joseph Sauvage or Pieter Joseph Sauvage (19 January 1744 in Tournai – 11 June 1818 in Tournai) was a painter, sculptor, printmaker and academic lecturer from the Southern Netherlands. He was known for his decorative paintings of interiors, grisailles and miniatures using trompe l'oeil effects as well as his small-scale portrait carvings. He often used precious materials such as marble, porcelain and ivory as the support for his paintings.  He was a court painter to the governor of the Southern Netherlands, the Prince de Condé and the French king Louis XVI and a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.

Trompe-l'œil
Trompe-l'œil (French for 'deceive the eye'; /trɒmpˈlɔɪ/ tromp-LOY; French: [tʁɔ̃p lœj] ⓘ) is an artistic technique that creates a highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface. Trompe-l'œil, which is most often associated with painting, tricks the viewer into perceiving painted objects or spaces as real. Forced perspective is a related illusion in architecture, and Op art a modern style mostly dealing with geometric patterns.
Karge meri
Karge meri (The Harsh Sea) is a novel by the Estonian author August Gailit. It was first published in 1938.

In 1981 the novel was adapted into a film of the same name, directed by Arvo Kruusement and starring Merle Talvik, Tõnu Kark, Mikk Mikiver, Ita Ever, Raine Loo, Rein Aren, Aarne Üksküla, Lembit Ulfsak, Ines Aru, Margus Oopkaup, Salme Reek, Silvia Laidla, and Arvi Hallik.

Ita Ever
Ita Ever (born Ilse Ever; 1 April 1931 – 9 August 2023) was an Estonian film, radio, theatre, and television actress. She has been described as a Grand Old Lady of Estonian theatre.

Ever began her career in 1953 as a stage actress, and appeared in numerous Estonian and Russian film productions. She was formerly married to Estonian actor Eino Baskin and is the mother of director and actor Roman Baskin.

In 1983, she starred as Miss Marple in Secret of the Blackbirds (Russian: Тайна «Чёрных дроздов», Tayna chyornykh drozdov), the Russian language film adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel A Pocket Full of Rye.

Ever appeared in stage and film productions based on the works of Oskar Luts, A. H. Tammsaare, Mats Traat, Agatha Christie, Nikolai Gogol, William Shakespeare, John Steinbeck, Henrik Ibsen, and Anton Chekhov.

Ever died on 9 August 2023, at the age of 92.
Home for Orphans
Home for Orphans is a compilation album by the Reigning Sound. It was released in 2005 on Sympathy for the Record Industry. The album features the original Reigning Sound lineup of Greg Cartwright on lead vocals and guitar; Alex Greene on organ, piano, guitar, and backing vocals; Jeremy Scott on bass, and backing vocals; and Greg Roberson on drums. . This album mainly consists of slower, moodier outtakes from the Too Much Guitar recording sessions, as well as a some covers, including "Without You," a Gene Clark cover. An alternate version of "If Christmas Can't Bring You Home" (originally released on a 45rpm by Norton Records), a Reigning Sound original holiday song, also appears.

Gene Clark
Harold Eugene Clark (November 17, 1944 –  May 24, 1991) was an American singer-songwriter and founding member of the folk rock band the Byrds. He was the Byrds' principal songwriter between 1964 and early 1966, writing most of the band's best-known originals from this period, including "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better", "She Don't Care About Time", "Eight Miles High" and "Set You Free This Time".

Although he did not enjoy commercial success as a solo artist, Clark was in the vanguard of popular music during much of his career, prefiguring developments in such disparate subgenres as psychedelic rock, baroque pop, newgrass, country rock, and alternative country. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 as a member of the Byrds.
Goodenia lineata
Goodenia lineata, commonly known as Grampians goodenia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the Grampians in Victoria. It is an erect perennial herb with lance-shaped, more or less toothed leaves with the narrower end towards the base and racemes of yellow flowers.

Goodeniaceae
Goodeniaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Asterales. It contains about 404 species in twelve genera. The family is distributed mostly in Australia, except for the genus Scaevola, which is pantropical. Its species are found across most of Australia, being especially common in arid and semi-arid climates.
Marakka Mudiyuma?
Marakka Mudiyuma? (transl. Can I Forget?) is a 1966 Indian Tamil-language drama film produced and directed by Murasoli Maran, and written by his uncle M. Karunanidhi. A remake of the Telugu film Santhanam (1955), it stars S. S. Rajendran, Devika, R. Muthuraman and Kanchana, with Cho, S. V. Sahasranamam Major Sundarrajan and S. A. Natarajan in supporting roles. The film was released on 12 August 1966.

Cho Ramaswamy
Srinivasa Iyer Ramaswamy, better known as Cho Ramaswamy (5 October 1934 – 7 December 2016), was an Indian actor, comedian, editor, political commentator, satirist, playwright, film director and lawyer from Tamil Nadu. He was a popular comedian in the 1960s and 1970s, and had acted with all the top stars in that period.
Komodo International Airport
Komodo International Airport (IATA: LBJ, ICAO: WATO), formerly known as Mutiara II Airport, is an international airport serving the town of Labuan Bajo, the capital of West Manggarai Regency, located on the western tip of Flores Island in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. Named after the Komodo dragon—an iconic species endemic to the nearby Komodo National Park—the airport functions as the primary gateway to the park and other surrounding tourist destinations. In response to growing passenger demand and the region's increasing popularity as a tourist destination, the airport has expanded its route network. It now offers regular flights to major Indonesian cities such as Jakarta, Surabaya, and Denpasar (Bali), as well as international connections to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, and Singapore. The airport also supports regional air travel within Flores, with services to towns including Bajawa, Ende, and Maumere.

Ende (town)
Ende is the seat capital of the Ende Regency, East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia. Ende is located on the southern coast of Flores Island. The town had a population of 87,269 residents at the 2020 census, divided administratively between four districts (kecamatan) of the regency – Ende Selatan, Ende Timur, Ende Tengah, and Ende Utara. Note that this does not include Ende District (which is a mainly rural district outside the town limits) or Pulau Ende District (the offshore Ende Island). The official estimate as at mid 2024 was 89,519.
WLCF-LD
WLCF-LD (channel 45) is a low-power television station in Decatur, Illinois, United States, owned and operated by the Christian Television Network (CTN). The station's transmitter is located north of Oreana, Illinois. WLCF-LD offers 24-hour religious programming, much of which is produced either locally or at the CTN home base in Clearwater, Florida.

CTN acquired WLCF from another religious broadcaster, Believers Broadcasting Corporation, in February 2008.

Christian Television Network
Christian Television Network, Inc. (CTN) is an American non-profit broadcast television network of small owned-and-operated stations (O&O) that broadcasts religious programming. It is based in Largo, Florida (with a mailing address of Clearwater), and the flagship station is WCLF channel 22, which signed on the air in the Tampa Bay region in 1979. It is now available on DirecTV channel 376, Dish Network channel 262, and Glorystar channel 117. The channel was started to produce and broadcast programming to teach and encourage Christian living. It was founded by Robert D'Andrea, who died in January 2022.
Rubroshorea sagittata
Rubroshorea sagittata (called, along with some other dipterocarp species, light red meranti) is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree endemic to western and central Sarawak in northern Borneo. It is an emergent tree growing up to 45 metres tall in lowland and hill mixed dipterocarp forest up to 900 metres elevation.

The species was first described as Shorea sagittata by Peter Shaw Ashton in 1967. In 2022 Ashton and Jacqueline Heckenhauer placed the species in genus Rubroshorea as R. sagittata.

Peter Shaw Ashton
Peter Shaw Ashton (born 27 June 1934) is a British botanist and forest ecologist. He worked as the Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry at Harvard University from 1991 to 2005 and served as director of the Arnold Arboretum from 1978 to 1987.
Naval Base, Western Australia
Naval Base is a coastal southwestern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Kwinana. It is a traditional industrial suburb in the Perth metropolitan region and contains a significant amount of heavy industry. It is named after Henderson Naval Base, partially constructed in 1913−1920 before being cancelled and eventually replaced by HMAS Stirling in 1978.

The Naval Base campus of South Metropolitan TAFE houses the Western Australian Defence Industry Workforce Office and the Naval Shipbuilding College.

Rockingham railway station, Perth
Rockingham railway station is a railway station in Rockingham, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. It is on the Mandurah railway line, which is part of the Transperth commuter rail network. It has two side platforms, linked by a pedestrian overpass accessed by stairs, a lift, and escalators. Services run every 10 minutes during peak, and every 15 minutes between peak. The journey to Perth railway station is 43.2 kilometres (26.8 mi), and takes 34 minutes. The journey to Mandurah railway station is 27.6 kilometres (17.1 mi), and takes 17 minutes. The station has a bus interchange with twelve bus stands, and 14 regular bus routes.

The station opened on 23 December 2007, along with the rest of the Mandurah line.
Ferati
Ferati is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Arianit Ferati (born 1997) German footballer

Beg Ferati (born 1986), Swiss footballer

Besnik Ferati (born 2000), Macedonian footballer

Fadil Ferati (1960–2010), Kosovar political leader

Jasin Ferati (born 2003), Swiss racing driver

Sadri Ferati (born 1957), Politician in Kosovo

Sadri Ferati
Sadri Ferati (born 10 June 1957) is a politician in Kosovo. He was minister of local government in the Republic of Kosovo government from 2008 to 2010 and served in the Assembly of Kosovo from 2011 to 2017. Ferati is a member of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK).
Fall Brook Gorge
Fall Brook Gorge is located in the Town of Geneseo in Livingston County, New York, outside the Village of Geneseo. It is an excellent example of Upper and Middle Devonian rock formations.

It was designated a National Natural Landmark in January 1970.  It is on private land.

Livingston County, New York
Livingston County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 61,834. Its county seat is Geneseo. The county is named after Robert R. Livingston, who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and negotiated the Louisiana Purchase. The county is part of the Finger Lakes region of the state.

Livingston County is part of the Rochester, New York metropolitan area.
The Beat (Boney James album)
The Beat is the 14th studio album by Boney James released on April 9, 2013. At the 56th Annual Grammy Awards (held on January 26, 2014), The Beat lost out to Steppin' Out performed by Herb Alpert in the Best Pop Instrumental Album category.

Herb Alpert
Herb Alpert (born March 31, 1935) is an American musician who led the band Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass (sometimes called Herb Alpert and the TJB) in the 1960s. During the same decade, he co-founded A&M Records with Jerry Moss.

Alpert has recorded 28 albums that have appeared on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, five of which reached No. 1; he has been awarded 14 platinum albums and 15 gold albums. Alpert is the only musician to have reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 as both a vocalist ("This Guy's in Love with You", 1968) and as an instrumentalist ("Rise", 1979).

Alpert has sold an estimated 72 million records worldwide. His awards  have included a Tony Award and eight Grammy Awards, as well as the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2006, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Alpert was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Barack Obama in 2012.
Andrew Stewart, 2nd Lord Ochiltree
Andrew Stewart, 2nd Lord Ochiltree (c. 1521–1591) fought for the Scottish Reformation. His daughter married John Knox and he played a part in the defeat of Mary, Queen of Scots at the battle of Langside.

Ochiltree
Ochiltree is a conservation village in East Ayrshire, Scotland, near Auchinleck and Cumnock. It is one of the oldest villages in East Ayrshire, with archaeological remains indicating Stone Age and Bronze Age settlers. A cinerary urn was found in 1955 during excavation for a new housing estate.
Alaa Abdul-Zahra
Alaa Abdul-Zahra Khashen Al-Azzawi (Arabic: علاء عبدالزهرة خشَن العزاوي , born 22 December 1987), is an Iraqi football player who plays as a forward for Iraq Stars League club Al-Talaba and for the Iraq national team.

He can be deployed as an attacking midfielder or a second striker, and since 2016 plays as a striker. He is the third-most capped player in the history of the Iraqi national team.

2022–23 Iraqi Premier League
The 2022–23 Iraqi Premier League was the 49th season of the Iraqi Premier League, the highest tier football league in Iraq, since its establishment in 1974 and the last season under the name Iraqi Premier League. The season started on 9 October 2022 and ended on 21 July 2023.

Al-Hudood, Karbala and Duhok joined as the promoted clubs from the 2021–22 Iraqi First Division League, replacing Amanat Baghdad, Al-Minaa and Samarra who were relegated.

Al-Shorta were crowned Iraqi Premier League champions for the second time in a row, securing the title with a 3–0 win away to Naft Maysan in the penultimate round of the season.
Andy's Handy Store
Andy's Handy Store, colloquially known as Handy Andy's, is a historic building in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. Located at 367 Main Street, at its junction with Elm Street in the town's Upper Village, part of the building dates to 1891. It has been the home to over thirty businesses. As of 2025, restaurant Salsa occupies the entire building.

The first phone call between Yarmouth and Portland, Maine's largest city, was made from the premises.

Elm Street (Yarmouth, Maine)
43°48′13″N 70°11′38″W﻿ / ﻿43.80364°N 70.19377°W﻿ / 43.80364; -70.19377

Elm Street is a prominent street in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It runs for about 2.7 miles (4.3 km) from North Road in the north to Portland Street in the south. The street's addresses are split between "West Elm Street" and "East Elm Street", the transition occurring at Main Street in the Upper Village. Several of its buildings are homes dating to the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

The street is named for the proliferation of American elms that once stood in the area. In 1834, the town gave "Herbie", formerly the town's most prominent elm, some company by planting rows of elm trees along East Elm Street. From 1957 onward, however, most of them succumbed to Dutch elm disease. As of 2003, only twenty of Yarmouth's original 739 elms had survived.
British Library Philatelic Department Photograph Collection
The British Library Philatelic Department Photograph Collection is a collection of photographs of philatelic material not in the British Library Philatelic Collections. Mostly composed of material donated by philatelic auctioneers, the collection is an important resource for researchers.

Philately
Philately (/fɪˈlætəli/; fih-LAT-ə-lee) is the study of postage stamps and postal history. It also refers to the collection and appreciation of stamps and other philatelic products. While closely associated with stamp collecting and the study of postage, it is possible to be a philatelist without owning any stamps. For instance, the stamps being studied may be very rare or reside only in museums.
Zuzana Maděrová
Zuzana Maděrová (Czech pronunciation: [ˈzuzana ˈmaɟɛrovaː]; born 20 September 2003) is a Czech snowboarder specializing in parallel slalom and parallel giant slalom disciplines. She represented the Czech Republic at the 2022 and 2026 Winter Olympics.

Snowboarding
Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive activity that involves descending a snow-covered surface while standing on a snowboard that is always attached to a rider's feet. It features in the Winter Olympic Games and Winter Paralympic Games.

Snowboarding was developed in the United States, inspired by skiing and skateboarding, which itself was inspired by surfing. Snowboarding became popular around the world in the late 20th century and was introduced as a Winter Olympic Sport at Nagano in 1998 and featured in the Winter Paralympics at Sochi in 2014. As of 2015, its popularity (as measured by equipment sales) in the United States peaked in 2007 and has been in a decline since.