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Sameer Bandekar
Sameer Bandekar (born 29 October 1964) is an Indian cricket umpire who currently represents the United States. The first international match that Bandekar officiated in was a women's One Day International (ODI) in 1997. He stood in his first men's ODI match in 2002. He later emigrated to the United States, and was elected to the ICC Associates and Affiliates Umpire Panel in 2015. He stood in matches in the 2015 ICC Americas Twenty20 Division One tournament. He umpired in his first men's Twenty20 International (T20I) on 22 December 2021, between United States and Ireland.

In January 2022, Bandekar was named as one of the on-field umpires for the 2022 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup in the West Indies.

Umpire (cricket)
In cricket, an umpire (from the Old French nompere meaning not a peer, that is, not a  member of one of the teams, impartial) is a person who has the authority to make decisions about events on the cricket field according to the Laws of Cricket. Besides making decisions about legality of delivery, appeals for wickets and general conduct of the game in a legal manner, the umpire also keeps a record of the deliveries and announces the completion of an over.

The umpires in cricket are not to be confused with the referee who usually presides only over international matches and makes no decisions affecting the outcome of the game.
Tell Halula
Tell Halula is a large, prehistoric, Neolithic tell, about 8 hectares (860,000 sq ft) in size, located around 105 kilometres (65 mi) east of Aleppo and 25 kilometres (16 mi) northwest of Manbij in the Raqqa Governorate of Syria.

Raqqa Governorate
Raqqa Governorate (Arabic: مُحافظة الرقة, romanized: Muḥāfaẓat ar-Raqqah; Kurmanji Kurdish: Parêzgeha Reqayê) is one of the fourteen governorates of Syria. It is situated in the north of the country and covers an area of 19,618 km2. The capital is Raqqa.
The Gentlemen (2024 TV series)
The Gentlemen is an action comedy television series created by Guy Ritchie for Netflix. It is a spin-off of Ritchie's 2019 film. The series stars Theo James in the lead role and premiered on March 7, 2024. In August 2024, the series was renewed for a second season, which is set to premiere in 2026.

Joely Richardson
Joely Kim Richardson (born 9 January 1965) is a British actress. She is notable for her roles as Julia McNamara in the FX drama series Nip/Tuck (2003–2010), Katherine Parr in the Showtime series The Tudors (2010), and Ethel Cripps in the Netflix series The Sandman (2022). Her film credits include Drowning by Numbers (1988), King Ralph (1991), 101 Dalmatians (1996), Event Horizon (1997), The Patriot (2000), Anonymous (2011), the Hollywood film adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Endless Love (2014), Red Sparrow (2018), The Turning (2020), and Little Bone Lodge (2023).
Firefly Lane
Firefly Lane is an American drama television series created by Maggie Friedman for Netflix. The series is based on the novel of the same name by Kristin Hannah. The series premiered on February 3, 2021, and navigates the lives of two teenage girls in the 1970s, all the way through to their adulthood in the mid 2000s. In May 2021, the series was renewed for a second season. In October 2022, it was announced that the second season would be its final season and would consist of 16 episodes, split into two parts. The first part of the second season was released on December 2, 2022, and the second part was released on April 27, 2023.

Jon-Michael Ecker
Jon-Michael William Ecker (born March 16, 1983) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Aaron Morales in Popland!, Pablo Peralta in the telenovela Corazón valiente, Nicolás de la Vega in Gossip Girl: Acapulco, Marlon Brando in the film Cantinflas and Güero Dávila in Queen of the South.

He is the son of Brazilian-born American actor Guy Ecker.
Carla Carli Mazzucato
Carla Carli Mazzucato (born 2 November 1935) is a 20th-century Italian artist whose contributions to the world of contemporary art helped define the "modern expressionist" movement. Known for her unique style and bold color palette, her paintings are described by critics as “dynamic,” “graceful”, “timeless,” and have been compared to the masterworks of Chagall, Renoir, Monet and Van Gogh.

Mazzucato's art is part of numerous collections in Europe, North America and Asia.  Her commissioned work, "Evening at the Opera" hangs in the Detroit Opera House and the artist's fourteen-painting contemporary interpretation of the Passion of Christ is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese collection installed in the church of Corpus Domini in Bolzano, Italy. Mazzucato was recognized as a leading contemporary artist by the SoHo Fine Arts Institute in New York City in 2000.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (/rɛnˈwɑːr/; French: [pjɛʁ oɡyst ʁənwaʁ]; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. It has been said that, as a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau."

He was the father of the actor Pierre Renoir (1885–1952), the filmmaker Jean Renoir (1894–1979) and the ceramic artist Claude Renoir (1901–1969). He was the grandfather of the filmmaker Claude Renoir (1913–1993), son of Pierre.
The Fantastic Golem Affairs
The Fantastic Golem Affairs (Spanish: El fantástico caso del Golem) is a 2023 Spanish absurdist science fiction comedy film written and directed by Burnin' Percebes (Fernando Martínez and Juan González) which stars Brays Efe. It also features Bruna Cusí, Luis Tosar, Anna Castillo, Javier Botet, Tito Valverde, Roger Coma, Nao Albet, and Roberto Álamo.

The plot follows Juan (Efe), a guy trying to unravel the mystery behind his best friend being shattered into pieces as if he were made of porcelain after falling from a roof.

The film world premiered at the 26th Málaga Film Festival on 15 March 2023 ahead of its Spanish theatrical release on 16 June 2023.

Tito Valverde
Fernando García Valverde (born 26 April 1951), better known as Fernando Valverde or Tito Valverde, is a Spanish actor. Born in Ávila, he became very popular to a television audience for his performance as Pepe in the 1995 comedy television series Pepa y Pepe. He has later starred as Gerardo Castilla in the television series El comisario.
Accident Man (comic strip)
Accident Man is a series of comic strips written by British comic writers Pat Mills and Tony Skinner and co-created with artist Martin Emond. The stories were initially printed in Toxic! in the early 1990s. A film adaptation was released in 2018, and its sequel in 2022.

Accident Man
Accident Man is a 2018 martial arts action thriller film directed by Jesse V. Johnson, based on characters created by Pat Mills and Tony Skinner. The film stars Scott Adkins, Ray Stevenson, David Paymer, Michael Jai White, and Ashley Greene. The film was released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on 6 February 2018 in the United States, and on 16 April 2018 in the United Kingdom, where it received positive reviews from critics and audiences with praise for cast performances and action sequences.

A sequel, Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday, was released on 14 October 2022.
Chandan River
24°55′42″N 86°54′39″E﻿ / ﻿24.92833°N 86.91083°E﻿ / 24.92833; 86.91083

The Chandan River also known as Chanan River flows in the districts of Munger, Bhagalpur and Banka in the state of Bihar, and Deoghar in the state of Jharkhand, India. It has been identified as probably being the river on whose banks was located the ancient city of Champa, capital of the Anga Mahajanapada. It would have then also been a border between Anga and its neighbour, Magadha.

Banka district
Banka district (/ˈbɑːŋkə/) is a district in the southeastern region of the Indian state of Bihar. It is a part of Bhagalpur division. The district headquarters of Banka is situated in Banka town. The district was established on 21 February 1991.
Maguindanao kulintang ensemble
The Maguindanao kulintang ensemble, called basalen or palabunibuniyan is the traditional gong chime ensemble of the Maguindanao. Other forms of the kulintang ensembles are played in parts of Southeast Asia especially in the eastern parts of Maritime Southeast Asia — southern Philippines, eastern Indonesia, eastern Malaysia, Brunei and Timor. There are mainly five instruments on the ensemble: Kulintang, agung, gandingan, babendil and dabakan.

Agung
The agung is a set of two wide-rimmed, vertically suspended gongs used by the Maguindanao, Maranao, Sama-Bajau and Tausug people of the Philippines as a supportive instrument in kulintang ensembles. The agung is also ubiquitous among other groups found in Palawan, Panay, Mindoro, Mindanao, Sabah, Sulawesi, Sarawak and Kalimantan as an integral part of the agung orchestra.
Thai–Myanmar Friendship Bridge
The Thai–Myanmar Friendship Bridge is a bridge over the Moei river, which connects the city of Mae Sot in Tak Province in Thailand with the city of Myawaddy in Kayin State in Myanmar. This international bridge is 420 m (1,380 ft) long and 13 m (42 ft 8 in) wide. The bridge forms an important link on Asian Highway 1 of Asian Highway Network. Another bridge to the north of the first, called the Second Thai–Myanmar Friendship Bridge was opened in 2019, and serves as another connection between Mae Sot and Myawaddy. The bridges are part of the East-West Economic Corridor connecting Burma, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam.

Moei River
The Moei River (Thai: แม่น้ำเมย, RTGS: Maenam Moei, IPA: [mɛ̂ːnáːm mɤːj]), also known as the Thaungyin River (Burmese: သောင်ရင်းမြစ်; S'gaw Karen: သူမွဲကျိ) Eastern Pwo Karen Phlone:ယှုံမွဲခၠေါဟ် a tributary of the Salween River. Unlike most rivers in Thailand, the Moei River flows north in a northwest direction. It originates in Phop Phra District, Tak Province, flowing then from south to north across Mae Sot, Mae Ramat, and Tha Song Yang Districts, finally entering the Salween River within the limits of Sop Moei District of Mae Hong Son Province. The river is 327 kilometres (203 mi) long.

The Yuam River joins its left bank only 7 kilometres (4 mi) before its confluence with the Salween. Many fish species inhabit its waters, including the giant river catfish.
Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde
Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde (lit. transl. My heart slipped and lost) is a 2013 Indian Telugu-language romantic comedy film directed by debutant Vijay Kumar Konda and written by Harsha Vardhan. Produced by N. Nikitha Reddy under the banner of Shresht Movies, The film stars Nithiin, Nithya Menen, and Isha Talwar. Anup Rubens composed the music while I. Andrew and Prawin Pudi handled the cinematography and editing respectively.

The film's title is inspired by a lyric from the song "Dil Se" from Gabbar Singh (2012). The film was a Blockbuster at the box office, emerging as a consecutive successful film for Nithiin after Ishq (2012), which also starred Nithya Menen. The film was dubbed and released in Hindi and Malayalam as Heart Attack 2 in 2018 and Magic Love respectively. In 2015, It was remade in Kannada as Khushi Khushiyagi and in Meitei as Nungshi Feijei.

Harsha Vardhan
Harsha Vardhan is an Indian actor and screenwriter who works in Telugu films and television shows.

He is known for his performance in television shows such as Ruthuragalu and Amrutham and has appeared in more than seventy five films in a variety of roles.
Astyanacinus
Astyanacinus is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acestrorhamphidae, the American characins. The only species in the genus is Astyanacinus moorii which is found in the Upper Paraguay River basin in Bolivia and Brazil. The specific name honours the English botanist Spencer Moore who collected the holotype.

Acestrorhamphidae
Acestrorhamphidae, the American tetras, are a diverse family of freshwater fish in the order Characiformes. They are native to North and South America, from the southwestern United States south to temperate Argentina, with a few species introduced to other parts of the world. It includes many genera previously placed in the family Characidae, which was split into multiple families in 2024. It contains many of the most famous ornamental aquarium fish that are popularly known as tetras.
Breton Ballads
Breton Ballads is an academic monograph by Mary-Ann Constantine, published in 1996. The book includes examples of the Breton ballad known as the gwerz, and follows their history, and that of scholarship on the genre, into the 19th and 20th centuries. It was awarded the Katharine Briggs Prize by The Folklore Society in 1996.

Gwerz
Gwerz (Breton: [ɡʷɛ̞ʀz], "ballad", "lament", plural gwerzioù) is a type of folk song of Brittany. In Breton music, the gwerz tells a story which can be epic, historical, or mythological.  The stories are usually of a tragic nature.  The gwerz is characterised by an often monotonous melody and many couplets, all in the Breton language.  Though historically sung unaccompanied, some modern musicians use limited instrumentation with the gwerz.

Some of the most famous performers in current gwerzioù are Érik Marchand, Yann-Fañch Kemener, and Denez Prigent.
Chandrasekhar Gadkari
Lt. Col. Chandrasekhar Vaman Gadkari pronunciationⓘ (3 February 1928 – 11 January 1998) was an Indian Test cricketer and army officer.

Gadkari was an attacking batsman, medium-pace bowler and a great fielder. He made a fine impression as a fielder in the 1952/53 tour to West Indies in an Indian side that was noted for its fielding. He made 50 not out in the Georgetown Test, which remained his highest Test score. His other tour was to Pakistan in 1954/55. Gadkari co-holds the Test record with Shafiq Ahmed for the most matches played in a career without either winning or losing – 6.

Gadkari was commissioned into the army in 1949 and rose to become a lieutenant colonel. He represented Services in the Ranji Trophy thereafter. Army duties restricted his appearances in first-class cricket. He died in 1998 after a brief illness.

Bourda
Bourda, or officially Georgetown Cricket Club Ground, is a cricket ground in Georgetown, Guyana, used by the Guyanese cricket team for matches with other nations in the Caribbean as well as some Test matches involving the West Indies. The ground is one of the two cricket stadiums in the South American mainland and is uniquely surrounded by a moat for flood-prevention and drainage purposes.
Future Spa
Future Spa is a solid state, wide body, pinball machine produced in 1979 by Bally Manufacturing. It was Bally's first machine with continuous background sound and in-line drop targets.  Notable game features include: Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (5), Slingshot (1), Spinning targets (2), Kick-out hole (1), Star rollover (1), 4-in-line drop targets, Left kicker lane, Left out-lane detour gate.

It was unique in the fact that it had recessed back-box lighting and prismatic diffuser behind the "Future Spa" logo for a holographic effect.  The holographic effect was an idea of Norm Clark. He wanted to do this already on Magic Town / Magic City while working at Williams but it was regarded to be too expensive.  The marketing slogan from the Bally flyer read: "Future Spa will awaken your pinball senses"

Bally Manufacturing
Bally Manufacturing, later renamed Bally Entertainment, was an American company that began as a pinball and slot machine manufacturer, and later expanded into casinos, video games, health clubs, and theme parks. It was acquired by Hilton Hotels in 1996.

Its brand name, and mid-20th century pinball and slot machine logo, are still used by several businesses with various acquired trademark rights, most notably slot machine maker Bally Technologies and casino operator Bally's Corporation.
Mandali Mendrilla
Mandali Mendrilla (born Maja Mendrila, on 1 February 1976) is an American fashion designer, who mainly works in Europe, the US, and India. She is also known for having translated the Hindu epics from Sanskrit into Croatian.

China Art Museum, Shanghai
China Art Museum, Shanghai (Shanghai Art Museum) is a municipal art museum of Shanghai City. It is a public welfare institution funded by the Shanghai City Culture and Tourism Bureau.

The museum is housed in the China Pavilion building, formerly of the Expo 2010 Shanghai China.
Derek Malawsky
Derek Malawsky (born September 6, 1973) is a retired Canadian lacrosse player, formerly with the Edmonton Rush in the National Lacrosse League. Derek's brother Curt also plays in the NLL, and the two have played together in Rochester, San Jose, and again in Arizona.

National Lacrosse League
The National Lacrosse League (NLL) is a professional box lacrosse league in North America. The league comprises 14 teams – 7 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The NLL is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The NLL ranks third in average attendance for pro indoor sports worldwide, behind only the National Hockey League (NHL) and National Basketball Association (NBA). Unlike other box lacrosse leagues, which play in the summer, the NLL plays its games in the winter and spring, from December to June. Each year, the playoff teams battle for the National Lacrosse League Cup. The NLL has averaged between 8,900 and 10,700 spectators per game each year since 2004.
Hans Rudolf Herren
Hans Rudolf Herren (born November 30, 1947) is a Swiss American entomologist, farmer and development specialist. He was the first Swiss to receive the 1995 World Food Prize and the 2013 Right Livelihood Award for leading a major biological pest management campaign in Africa, successfully fighting the cassava mealybug and averting a major food crisis that could have claimed an estimated 20 million lives.

Herren is the president and CEO of the Washington-based Millennium Institute and co-founder and president of the Swiss foundation Biovision. He co-chaired the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) published 2008, and was Director General of International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) in Nairobi, Kenya from 1994 to 2005. He was involved in the preparations of the United Nations' Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development with Biovision Foundation and Millennium Institute.

International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development
The International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) was a three-year international collaborative effort (2005–2007) initiated by the World Bank in 2002,  which evaluated the relevance, quality and effectiveness of agricultural knowledge, science, and technology, and the effectiveness of public and private sector policies and institutional arrangements.

The project involved 900 participants and 110 countries with co-sponsorship of the FAO, Global Environment Facility, UNDP, UNEP, UNESCO, the World Bank and WHO. 
It assessed agricultural knowledge, science, and technology with respect to development and sustainability goals of reducing hunger and poverty, improving nutrition, health, rural livelihoods, and facilitating social and environmental sustainability.

The results of the project were reviewed and ratified during the intergovernmental plenary meeting held 7–12 April 2008, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Twan Poels
Antonius Johannes Petrus Poels (born 27 July 1963 in Oeffelt) is a retired Dutch professional cyclist.

In 1984, Poels rode the road race in the 1984 Summer Olympics as a member of the Dutch team, but did not finish.

Poels became a professional cyclist in 1985 for the Kwantum–Decosol–Yoko team. He stayed with this team (that became Superconfex–Kwantum–Yoko–Colnago in 1987 and Buckler–Colnago–Decca in 1990) until he retired in 1992. He rode the Tour de France five times, finishing every time. After his professional career, he became an estate agent.

Oeffelt
Oeffelt is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant, about 5 km north of Boxmeer town and 6 km west of the border with the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Oeffelt lies on the west bank on the Meuse river with Gennep in the province of Limburg on the east bank. The villages are connected by a bridge in the N264 road.
Gabriella Meister
Gabriella Meister is a German billionaire businesswoman, and the widow of Rational AG founder Siegfried Meister, who died in 2017. As of October 2021, her net worth is estimated at US$3 billion.

She was married to Siegfried Meister, and they lived in Landsberg am Lech, Germany. He died on 28 July 2017.

Siegfried's 63% stake in Rational AG was inherited by four family members, including Gabriella and their daughter Franziska Wuerbser.

Billionaire
A billionaire is a person whose net worth is at least one billion units of a given currency, typically USD. It is a sub-category of the concept of the ultra high-net-worth individual. The American business magazine Forbes produces a global list of known U.S. dollar billionaires every year and updates an internet version of this list in real time. The American oil magnate John D. Rockefeller became the world's first confirmed billionaire in 1916.

Nineteen individuals had attained the status of centibillionaires, each with a net worth of at least $100 billion, as of January 2026. As of March 2025, there are 3028 billionaires worldwide, with a combined wealth of over $16.1 trillion, up nearly $2 trillion over 2024.
2026 Men's T20 World Cup Europe Sub-regional Qualifier A
The 2026 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Europe Sub-regional Qualifier A will be a cricket tournament that will form part of the qualification process for the 2028 Men's T20 World Cup. It will be hosted by Cyprus in May 2026.

The winner of the tournament will advance to the regional final, where they will be joined by Italy, Netherlands and Scotland who were given a bye after having participated in the previous T20 World Cup, and four other teams from sub-regional qualifiers B and C.

Italy national cricket team
The Italy men's national cricket team is the team that represents Italy in men's international cricket. They have been an associate member of the International Cricket Council since 1995, having previously been an affiliate member since 1984. The Italy national cricket team is administered by the Italian Cricket Federation.
Olgierd (given name)
Olgierd is a Polish masculine given name.  Individuals with the name Olgierd include:

Olgierd Ciepły (1936–2007), Polish hammer thrower

Olgierd Darżynkiewicz (1923–2000), Polish sports shooter

Karol Olgierd Borchardt (1905–1986), Polish writer and captain of the Polish Merchant Marines

Olgierd Geblewicz (born 1972), Polish politician

Olgierd Łukaszewicz (born 1946), Polish film actor

Olgierd Moskalewicz (born 1974), Polish soccer player

Olgierd Porebski (1922–1995), Polish-born British fencer

Olgierd Stański (born 1973), Polish discus thrower

Olgierd Straszyński (1903–1971), Polish conductor

Olgierd Zienkiewicz (1921–2009), British academic, mathematician and civil engineer

Olgierd Geblewicz
Olgierd Geblewicz (born 15 October 1972) is a Polish politician, the marshal of the West Pomeranian voivodeship (from 2010). In the years 2008–2010 he was a chairman of the West Pomeranian Regional Assembly.