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Elisabeth Walaas
Elisabeth Walaas (born 27 April 1956) is a Norwegian civil servant, diplomat and politician for the Labour Party.

She took her examen artium in 1975 in Tønsberg, and the cand.philol. degree in 1983 at the University of Bergen. She worked as a school teacher before and after graduating.

She served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Hordaland during the term 1989–1993. From 1983 to 1990 she was a member of Bergen city council. She was appointed a political advisor, from 1987 to 1989 in the Ministry of Culture and Science and from 1990 to 1992 in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In 1992 she was hired as a bureaucrat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1997 she was promoted to head of department, from 2001 to 2004 she was a diplomat in Brussels and in 2005 she was appointed Norwegian ambassador to Croatia. In September 2007, during the second cabinet Stoltenberg, Walaas was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Hordaland
Hordaland (Urban East Norwegian: [ˈhɔ̂rdɑlɑn] ⓘ) was a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland counties. Hordaland was the third largest county, after Akershus and Oslo, by population. The county government was the Hordaland County Municipality, which is located in Bergen. Before 1972, the city of Bergen was its own separate county, apart from Hordaland. On 1 January 2020, the county was merged with neighbouring Sogn og Fjordane county, to form the new Vestland county.
Blue Springs Village, Arkansas
Blue Springs Village is an unincorporated community in Brush Creek Township in northeastern Washington County, Arkansas, United States. The community is located east of Springdale, just north of U.S. Route 412 on the west bank of Beaver Lake.

Beaver Lake (Arkansas)
Beaver Lake is a man-made reservoir in the Ozark Mountains of Northwest Arkansas and is formed by a dam across the White River. Beaver Lake has some 487 miles (784 km) of shoreline. With towering limestone bluffs, natural caves, and a wide variety of trees and flowering shrubs, it is a popular tourist destination. Beaver Lake is the source of drinking water in Northwest Arkansas, which is managed, treated and sold by Beaver Water District, serving more than 450,000 customers. 1 out of 7 people in Arkansas get their drinking water from Beaver Lake.
Soucy (surname)
Soucy is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Brigitte Soucy (born 1972), Canadian volleyball player

Christian Soucy (born 1970), Canadian ice hockey player

Carson Soucy (born 1994), Canadian ice hockey player

Danny Soucy, Canadian politician

Fred E. Soucy (1922–1993), Canadian politician

Gaétan Soucy (1958–2013), Canadian novelist

Gene Soucy, American aviator

Jean-Pierre Soucy (born 1952), Canadian politician

Mike Soucy (born 1971), American drummer

Peter Soucy, Canadian comedian and actor

Robert Soucy (born 1933), American historian

Carson Soucy
Carson Soucy (born July 27, 1994) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Minnesota Wild, 137th overall, in the 2013 NHL entry draft.
State Highway 87 (Karnataka)
Bannerghatta Road (ಬನ್ನೇರುಘಟ್ಟ ರಸ್ತೆ, commonly known as BG Road) is an Indian State Highway in Karnataka. It connects Bangalore with the towns of Bannerghatta, Jigani, and Anekal. It extends for 49 kilometres (30 mi). It starts as a branch from Hosur Road near the Adugodi Christian Cemetery and ends at Anekal.

State highways in India
In India, this is the network of roads maintained by the state governments. These roads are constructed and managed by the states' Public Works Department. The state highways are usually roads that link important cities, towns and district headquarters within the state and connect them with National Highways or state highways of neighbouring states.

As of 31 March 2016, the total length of state highways was 176,166 km. As of 31 March 2016, Maharashtra had the largest share in the total length of SH roads (22.14%), followed by Karnataka (11.11%), Gujarat (9.76%), Rajasthan (8.62%) and Tamil Nadu (6.67%).
Battye
Battye is a surname, a variant of Batty. Notable people with the surname include:

Colin Battye (1936–2018), English rugby league footballer

Don Battye (1938–2016), composer

Ian Battye (1952–2007), rugby league footballer

James Battye (1871–1954), librarian

John Battye (1926–2016), football player

Malcolm Battye (born 1941), rugby league footballer

Margaret Battye (1909–1949), lawyer

Neil Battye (born 1963), rugby league footballer

Susan Battye (born 1950), New Zealand playwright

Don Battye
Donald Gordon Battye (29 September 1938 – 28 February 2016) was an Australian composer, writer and television producer, best known for his work with Crawford Productions and Reg Grundy Organisation (known then as Reg Grundy Productions).
Meteor Rain (album)
Meteor Rain  (Chinese: 流星雨; pinyin: Liú Xīng Yǔ) is the debut Mandarin studio album by Taiwanese boy band F4. It was released on August 28, 2001, by Sony Music Taiwan. The Hong Kong version of the album is an audio visual CD (AVCD) which includes two music videos.

The album's titular single served as the theme song for the 2001 Taiwanese drama series of the same title.

Meteor Rain
Meteor Rain (Chinese: 流星雨; pinyin: Liú Xīng Yǔ) is a 2001 Taiwanese drama starring Jerry Yan, Vanness Wu and Ken Chu of F4 and Rainie Yang. It is a supplementary miniseries of Meteor Garden which is based on the Japanese manga series Boys Over Flowers, written and illustrated by Yoko Kamio. It was produced by Comic Ritz International Production with Angie Chai being producer. It consists of three stand alone episodes that happened at different times before, during and after Meteor Garden itself. They are referred to as chapters focusing on each F4 members, except for Hua Ze Lei (Vic Chou).

The series was broadcast on free-to-air Chinese Television System (CTS) from September 2001 to January 2002 following the main series Meteor Garden, which was broadcast in April 2001. It was followed by the sequel Meteor Garden II, which was broadcast from 11 November to 25 December 2002.
Stay Gold (horse)
Stay Gold (ステイゴールド, Hong Kong name: 黃金旅程, March 24, 1994 – February 5, 2015) was a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse who had his greatest success in international races. He was sired by Sunday Silence and was out of the mare Golden Sash, a daughter of Dictus. He was famously known as a "Silver Collector", as he often placed second but was unable to win in major grade 1 races. He was later given the nickname of "Godolphin Killer" after he notably won both the Dubai Sheema Classic and Hong Kong Vase towards the end of his career. In both races, he defeated notable Godolphin horses, Fantastic Light and Ekraar respectively. He also became a successful sire in Japan after his retirement from racing.

Takarazuka Kinen
The Takarazuka Kinen (宝塚記念) is a Grade I flat horse race in Japan for Thoroughbreds aged three and over a distance of 2,200 metres (approximately 1+3⁄8 miles) at Hanshin Racecourse (阪神競馬場) in late June. It is one of the two "All-Star" races in Japanese horse racing; the other being the Arima Kinen (the Grand Prix) held in late December.

The Takarazuka Kinen was first run in 1960 with a distance of 1,800 metres. From 1961 to 1965 the race was run over 2,000 metres and since 1966 it has been run over its present distance.

The race is run on the turf and is named after the city of Takarazuka, Hyōgo, the location of Hanshin Racecourse, which is the venue of the race.

As with the Arima Kinen, the majority of the runners in the field are selected by a vote from racing fans, while the remainder are determined by the amount of prize money won.
Mattstedt
Mattstedt (German pronunciation: [ˈmatˌʃtɛt]) is a village and a former municipality in the Weimarer Land district of Thuringia, Germany. Since 31 December 2013, it is part of the municipality Ilmtal-Weinstraße.

Weimarer Land
Weimarer Land is a Landkreis (district) in the east of Thuringia, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from the northeast clockwise) the district Burgenlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt, the district Saale-Holzland and the district-free city Jena, the district Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, Ilm-Kreis, and the district-free city Erfurt. The district-free city Weimar is completely enclosed by the district.
Stanley Miarka
Stanley Vincent Miarka (February 8, 1932 – May 28, 2001) was one of the five white professional baseball players to be the first to join the Negro American League. He was signed to the Chicago American Giants in 1950 by Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe with the support of the team's owner, Dr. J.B. Martin, who was concerned about black players joining Major League teams. The other four young white players were Lou Chirban, Lou Clarizio, Al Dubetts and Frank Dyall.

He had a brief Minor League career, playing 27 games at third base for two teams in 1953.

He attended St. Ignatius College Prep in Chicago, Illinois.

1950 in sports
1950 in Sports describes the year's events in world sport.
Popular sports during the 1950s were badminton and soccer.  Also, 1950 was a huge year for horse racing – horse racing tripled in spectators and prize pools increased.
Tresham baronets
The Tresham Baronetcy, of Rushton in the County of Northamptonsire, was a title in the Baronetage of England.

It was created on 29 June 1611 for Lewis Tresham. He was the son of Sir Thomas Tresham, the great-grandson of Sir Thomas Tresham and the younger brother of Francis Tresham. As a member of a prominent Roman Catholic family, Lewis was fined for recusancy in the reign of James I.

The Treshams were Northamptonshire landowners, owning Lyveden New Bield at Aldwincle, and other manors at Great Houghton, Hannington, Pilton, Rushton and Sywell.

The title was inherited by Lewis' younger brother, William, who fought on the Royalist side in the English Civil War as Colonel of the English regiment in Flanders. The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in c. 1642.

Lyveden New Bield
Lyveden New Bield (sometimes called New Build) is an unfinished Elizabethan summer house in the parish of Aldwincle in North Northamptonshire, commissioned by Sir Thomas Tresham and now owned by the National Trust. It is a Grade I listed building, classing it as a 'building of exceptional interest.'
Henry R. Harmer
Henry Revell Harmer (13 November 1869 – 13 March 1966) was a British auctioneer and philatelist who was added to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1948.

Harmer was born in London and began collecting stamps as a young boy. He trained to be a chemist, but eventually left for a full-time career as a stamp dealer.

Harmer was the founder of the philatelic auctioneers H.R. Harmer and an expert in the philately of Venezuela.

He remained active with his business, never completely retiring. He died in 1966 and was survived by his widow (who turned 96 the week after his death), four sons and two daughters. After his death, two of his sons, Cyril and Bernard, continued with the firm.

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.
Dora Siliya
Dora Siliya (born October 8, 1970) is a politician in Zambia. She was the member of parliament for Petauke Central from 2006 to 2021. During her political tenure, she served as the Deputy Minister of Commerce, Minister of Transport, Minister of Education, Minister of Energy and Water Development, Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Information and Broadcasting Services.

Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry
The Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry (MCTI) is a cabinet level government ministry of Zambia. It is responsible for the development of a globally competitive, sustainable, commercial, trade and industrial base in Zambia with the objective of contributing to social and economic development in the country. The ministry is headed by the Minister Commerce, Trade and Industry.
Festival of British Popular Songs 1956
The Festival of British Popular Songs 1956 was a song contest organised by BBC Television and the inaugural edition of the Festival of British Popular Songs, which became the United Kingdom's national selection process the following year for the 1957 Eurovision Song Contest. Held from May to October, the contest featured 36 songs performed twice through 6 heats. The contest was made to promote British music, as an answer to claims that the BBC favoured American music.

The eventual winner was "Everybody Falls in Love With Someone", written and composed by Peter Hart and Norman Newell. Though not recorded by any of its performers at the contest, the winning song went on to be recorded by Matt Monro and Dickie Henderson. The contest is notable for inspiring changes in the Eurovision Song Contest, most notably introducing a scoreboard to the voting sequence.

Dennis Hale (vocalist)
Dennis Hale (born Dennis Godfrey Hoare; 24 May 1922 – 10 September 1960) was a British vocalist with a number of bands and performers, including the Oscar Rabin Band, Jack Parnell, Johnny Douglas, Teddy Foster (1945 to 1946), and Eric Winstone (1946 to 1948).

Hale left the army in 1945, where he had been a sergeant major. At the time, he was the youngest sergeant major in the Royal Artillery. In 1948 he set up his own orchestra and had a resident berth at the Brighton Aquarium ballroom. In 1955, he changed recording label from Parlophone to Decca Records.
Annibal Kennedy
Annibal Kennedy (born 1965) is an Indian politician from Puducherry. He is a member of the Puducherry Legislative Assembly from Oupulam Assembly constituency in Puducherry district. He won the 2021 Puducherry Legislative Assembly election representing the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.

Puducherry district
Puducherry district, also known by its former name Pondicherry district, is one of the four districts of the union territory of Puducherry in South India. The district occupies an area of 290 square kilometres (110 sq mi), spread over 12 non-contiguous enclaves lying on or near the Bay of Bengal within a compact area in the state of Tamil Nadu. According to the 2011 census, the district has a population of 950,289.
Common carotid plexus
The carotid plexus is a network of intersecting sympathetic nerves which run parallel to the carotid artery into the head. They branch out from the superior cervical ganglia of the sympathetic chain. The lesser petrosal nerve receives sympathetic innervation from the carotid plexus along with parasympathetics from the glossopharyngeal nerve (CN IX).

Glossopharyngeal nerve
The glossopharyngeal nerve (/ˌɡlɒsoʊfəˈrɪn(d)ʒiəl, -ˌfærənˈdʒiːəl/), also known as the ninth cranial nerve, cranial nerve IX, or simply CN IX, is a cranial nerve that exits the brainstem from the sides of the upper medulla, just anterior (closer to the nose) to the vagus nerve. Being a mixed nerve (sensorimotor), it carries afferent sensory and efferent motor information. The motor division of the glossopharyngeal nerve is derived from the basal plate of the embryonic medulla oblongata, whereas the sensory division originates from the cranial neural crest.
Heliopolite Nome
The Heliopolite, or Thirteenth Nome (Egyptian: ḥqꜣ-ꜥḏ, lit. "Prospering Scepter"), was a nome (province or district) of ancient Egypt. Its capital was Iunu, which was the Heliopolis of the Ptolemaic era and the modern Ayn Shams (a suburb of Cairo). The district formed part of Lower Egypt.

Ain Shams
Ain Shams (also spelled Ayn or Ein - Arabic: عين شمس, [ʕeːn ʃæms], Coptic: ⲱⲛ ⲡⲉⲧ ⲫⲣⲏ) is a district in the Eastern Area of Cairo, Egypt. The name means "Eye of the Sun" in Arabic, referring to the fact that the district contained the ruins of the ancient city of Heliopolis, once the spiritual centre of ancient Egyptian sun-worship, and settled since 3100 BCE following the Predynastic Period. However, administratively the  visible ruins today lie in the district of al-Matariya.
Poznań Croissant Museum
Rogalowe Muzeum Poznania is a museum of St. Martin's croissants, located in Poznań, at 41 Stary Rynek.

The museum is dedicated to the tradition of baking croissants, already 150 years old. Visiting the museum is interactive. During the show, visitors can learn how to produce a croissant according to the original recipe. The museum aims to promote Poznań culture and history, whose most characteristic elements are: Świętomarcińskie croissants, Poznań dialect and goats on the tower of the Town Hall. The Museum was founded by Szymon Walter.

Poznań Town Hall
Poznań Town Hall (Polish: ratusz w Poznaniu) is a historic city hall in the city of Poznań, Poland, located at the Poznań Old Town in the centre of the Old Market Square. It used to serve as the seat of local government until 1939, and now houses a museum. The town hall was originally built in the late 13th century following the founding of the medieval city in 1253; it was rebuilt in roughly its present-day form, in mannerist style, with an ornate loggia, by Giovanni Battista di Quadro from 1550–1560. The display of mechanical fighting goats, played out daily at noon above the clock on the front wall of the building, is one of the city's main tourist attractions.
Bozan, Iraq
Bozan (Arabic: بزان; Syriac: Beṯ Bōzi) is a village in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. It is located in the Tel Kaif District in the Nineveh Plains and mostly inhabited by Yazidis.

In the village, it is claimed that there are 360 Yazidi religious monuments, for which it is known as "Little Lalish" (Kurdish: Lalişa Piçuk).

Yazidism
Yazidism, or Yezidism  also known as Sharfadin, is a monotheistic ethnic religion. It developed through a complex historical process involving a pre-Islamic Kurdish religious substratum and the teachings of Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir. Scholars generally regard it as an independent religious tradition with deep roots in ancient Iranian beliefs, shaped by later Sufi influences. Its followers, called Yazidis, or Yezidis, are a Kurdish-speaking community.

Yazidism is based on belief in one God who created the world and entrusted its guardianship to seven self-emanated angels. Preeminent among these angels is Tawûsî Melek (lit. 'Peacock Angel'; also spelled Melek Taûs), who is the leader of the angels and has the greatest authority over the world.
Ventrilo
Ventrilo (or Vent for short) is proprietary VoIP software that includes text chat.

The Ventrilo client and server are both available as freeware for use with up to 8 people on the same server. Rented servers can maintain up to 400 people. The Ventrilo server is available under a limited license for Microsoft Windows and macOS and is accessible on FreeBSD Kopi, Solaris and NetBSD. The client is available for Windows and macOS.  However, the macOS client is still unable to properly use most servers because of a lack of support for the sparsely used GSM codec. Flagship Industries does not offer a Linux Ventrilo client. Third-party Ventrilo clients are available for mobile devices, such as Ventrilode for iPhone and Ventriloid for Android.

Ventrilo supports the GSM Full Rate codec and used to support the Speex codec, which Ventrilo 4.0.0 replaced with the Opus codec.

Proprietary software
Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing the software or modifying it, and—in some cases, as is the case with some patent-encumbered and EULA-bound software—from making use of the software on their own, thereby restricting their freedoms.

Proprietary software is a subset of non-free software, a term defined in contrast to free and open-source software; non-commercial licenses such as CC BY-NC are not deemed proprietary, but are non-free. Proprietary software may either be closed-source software or source-available software.
Fencamine
Fencamine (Altimina, Sicoclor), also known as methamphetaminoethylcaffeine, is a psychostimulant drug of the amphetamine class. It is closely related to fenethylline. It is a prodrug of amphetamine and/or methamphetamine. The drug also contains a caffeine moiety in its chemical structure.

Chemical structure
A chemical structure of a molecule is a spatial arrangement of its atoms and their chemical bonds. Its determination includes a chemist's specifying the molecular geometry and, when feasible and necessary, the electronic structure of the target molecule or other solid. Molecular geometry refers to the spatial arrangement of atoms in a molecule and the chemical bonds that hold the atoms together and can be represented using structural formulae and by molecular models; complete electronic structure descriptions include specifying the occupation of a molecule's molecular orbitals. Structure determination can be applied to a range of targets from very simple molecules (e.g., diatomic oxygen or nitrogen) to very complex ones (e.g., such as protein or DNA).
Mida Woremo
Mida Woremo (Amharic: ሚዳ ወረሞ) is one of the woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Semien Shewa Zone, Mida Woremo is bordered on the south by the Qechene River which separates it from Merhabiete, on the west by the Oromia Region, and on the north and east by the Debub Wollo Zone; the northern boundary is defined by the Walaqa River. The administrative center of this woreda is Meragna; other towns include Rema.

This woreda was originally named Weremo Wajetuna Midarema, which is the name used in the 1994 national census; it was changed before the Ethiopian Agricultural Sample Survey in October 2001, which used the present name.

As of 2008, 1000 households in Rema receive electricity from solar generation, free of charge. This project is funded by Stiftung Solarenergie, a German foundation promoting solar energy.

Amhara Region
The Amhara Region (Amharic: አማራ ክልል, romanized: Åmara Kilil), officially the Amhara National Regional State (Amharic: የአማራ ብሔራዊ ክልላዊ መንግሥት, romanized: yeämara bıħérawi kılılawi mengıct), is a regional state in northern Ethiopia and the homeland of the Amhara, Awi, Argobba, and Qemant people. Its capital is Bahir Dar which is the seat of the Regional Government of Amhara. Amhara is the site of the largest inland body of water in Ethiopia, Lake Tana (which is the source of the Blue Nile), Grand Renaissance Dam and Semien Mountains National Park (which includes Ras Dashan, the highest point in Ethiopia). Amhara is bordered by Sudan to the west and northwest and by these regions of Ethiopia: Tigray to the north, Afar to the east, Benishangul-Gumuz to southwest, and Oromia to the south. Towns and cities in Amhara include: Dessie, Gonder, Debre Birhan, Debre Tabor, Kombolcha, Weldiya, Debre Markos, Seqota, Kobo, and Metema. The Regions name is said to mean “noble” or “highland”.