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Atapattu Walawwa
Atapattu Walawwa is a large colonial era manor house situated at 35 Lower Dickson Road, Walawwatta, Galle, Sri Lanka.

The walawwa was constructed by Mudaliyar Don Bastian Gooneratne in 1742. The two-storey 743 m2 (8,000 sq ft) building is located within a 0.6 ha (1.5 acres) garden, approximately 0.5 km (0.31 mi) from the centre of Galle. The Walawwa has been the ancestral home of Gooneratne family, who were administrators of the Dutch and British colonial governments. Notable past residents of Atapattu Walawwa includes Mudaliyar Edmund Rowland Gooneratne and his son Mark Gooneratne. It is currently being used as a small seven-room boutique hotel.

On 13 December 1998 the building was formally recognised by the Government as an Archaeological Protected Monument.

Mudaliar
Mudaliar (alternatively spelled: Muthaliar, Mudali, Muthali) is a Tamil title and surname. As title, it was historically given to high-ranking officers, administrators and their descendants during the rule of Imperial Cholas. The surname is most prevalent among Tamils from Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. Descendants of Tamil migrants also bears variants of the name in countries such as South Africa, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore and elsewhere in the Tamil diaspora.

The title is usually borne by the communities like the Kondaikatti Vellalar, Thuluva Vellalar, Senguntha Kaikolar for serving as ministers, military commanders and soldiers in Chola Empire.
Flying Leathernecks
Flying Leathernecks is a 1951 American Technicolor action war film directed by Nicholas Ray, produced by Edmund Grainger and starring John Wayne and Robert Ryan. The film details the exploits and personal battles of Marine Corps aviators, known as "leathernecks", during World War II.

Leatherneck
Leatherneck is a military slang term in the U.S. for a member of the United States Marine Corps. It is generally believed to originate in the wearing of a "leather stock" that went around the neck. Its original purpose was to protect the neck from slashing blades in battle but it also served to keep the head and the neck erect when the uniform was worn.
Siege of Gaza City
The siege of Gaza City was an engagement of the Gaza war that began on 2 November 2023, when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) surrounded Gaza City, amid the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip after the October 7 attacks. Gaza City is the most populated city in the Gaza Strip and the battle started on 30 October 2023, when Israel and Hamas clashed in Gaza City. According to Oxfam, about 500,000 Palestinians, along with 200 Israelis and other captives, were trapped in a "siege within a siege" in northern Gaza.

The siege ended on 19 January 2025 with the implementation of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas earlier that day, and with Hamas retaining control over Gaza City.

Jabalia refugee camp
Jabalia Camp (Arabic: مخيّم جباليا) is a Palestinian refugee camp in the North Gaza Governorate of the Gaza Strip, 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) north of Jabalia. Jabalia Camp was the largest refugee camp in Palestine, with more than 100,000 inhabitants. The camp only covers an area of 1.4 km2 (0.54 sq mi), making it one of the most densely populated areas in the Gaza Strip.

The camp was established in 1948 by the United Nations to house those displaced by the 1948 Palestinian expulsion. Originally composed of tents and other temporary structures, over time the population grew and the camp developed into a densely populated urban area with multi-story buildings.

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, the camp has been under Israeli occupation along with the rest of the Gaza Strip. Due to Israeli attacks during the Gaza war and Gaza genocide, the refugee camp has been mostly destroyed.
Samelson
Samelson is a surname. Notable people with this surname include:

Adolph Samelson (1817–1888), German Jewish ophthalmic surgeon

Franz Samelson (1923–2015), German-American psychologist

Hans Samelson (1916–2005), German-American mathematician

Klaus Samelson (1918–1980), German mathematician and physicist

Franz Samelson
Franz Samelson (September 23, 1923 – March 16, 2015) was a German-American social psychologist and historian of psychology.

Samelson was born on September 23, 1923, in Breslau, German Reich (today Wrocław, Poland). Prohibited by the laws of Nazi Germany from attending any German universities, he instead attended a photography school in Munich, where he later worked in a factory with prisoners of war. After World War II ended, he began working for the United States Army. He also enrolled at the University of Munich, where he received a diploma in psychology in 1952.

In 1952, he emigrated to the United States, following his older brother Hans. He went on to receive his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1956. He joined the faculty of Kansas State University in 1957, where he remained until retiring as Professor in 1990.

Samelson died on March 16, 2015, in Manhattan, Kansas.
The Big Splash (film)
The Big Splash is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Frank Pettingell, Finlay Currie and Marguerite Allan. A millionaire hires a man to play his double. It was made as a quota quickie at Beaconsfield Studios.

Look-alike
A look-alike, or double, is a person who bears a strong physical resemblance to another person, excluding cases like twins and other instances of family resemblance.

Some look-alikes have been notable individuals in their own right. Other notable look-alikes have been notable solely for resembling well-known individuals, such as Clifton James, who acted as a double for British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery during World War II.

Some look-alikes who have resembled celebrities have worked as entertainers, impersonating them on stage or screen, or at venues like parties and corporate functions. Professional look-alikes have often been represented by talent agencies specializing in celebrity impersonators.

Close physical resemblance between individuals is also a common plot point in works of fiction.
2014–15 Cyclo-cross Superprestige
The 2014–2015 Cyclo-cross Superprestige events and season-long competition took place between 5 October 2014 and 14 February 2015. This was the first season after Niels Albert gave a press-conference that he had to stop competitive cycling because of a heart condition. Meanwhile, Sven Nys was going this season for his 14th title in the Cyclo-cross Superprestige.

Niels Albert
Niels Albert (born 5 February 1986 in Bonheiden, near Antwerp, Belgium) is a former professional cyclo-cross racing cyclist who currently resides in Tremelo. He became World Champion twice, in 2009 and 2012.
Kansas City Bomber
Kansas City Bomber is a 1972 American sports drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Jerrold Freedman and starring Raquel Welch, Kevin McCarthy and Jodie Foster in her second appearance in a feature film.

Sports film
A sports film is a film genre in which any particular sport plays a prominent role in the film's plot or acts as its central theme. It is a production in which a sport or a sports-related topic is prominently featured or is a focus of the plot. Despite this, sport is ultimately rarely the central concern of such films and sport performs primarily an allegorical role. Furthermore, sports fans are not necessarily the target demographic in such movies, but sports fans tend to maintain a high following and esteem for such movies.
Nomonde Gogi-Gumede
Rear Admiral (junior grade) Nomonde Gogi-Gumede is a South African naval officer, currently serving as Director Maritime Intelligence.

She matriculated from Nyameko High School in Mdantsane in 1990. She joined the Navy and attended the SA Naval College before being appointed as a Public Relations Officer in January 1998.
In 2000 she completed the Junior Staff and Command course and in 2004 was promoted to commander and appointed as Staff Officer Affirmative Action at Defence Headquarters. She was promoted to captain and appointed as Senior Staff Officer Navy Transformation before serving as Acting Director Navy Transformation from January to September 2009.
In 2011 she was appointed as Director Maritime Intelligence and promoted to rear admiral (junior grade).

Mdantsane
Mdantsane is a South African urban township situated 15 km away from East London and 37 km away from Qonce in the Eastern Cape. It is the second largest township in Eastern Cape and 17th largest in the Top 20 largest townships in South Africa.

The name Mdantsane was derived from a stream that ran from the Nahoon River down to the Buffalo River. Some believe the stream was called Dontsane. Soon after the stream was named, a "white farm" which was at the entrance of Mdantsane (now known as Zone 1) was also named after the stream Dontsane or Umdanzani.

The township is part of the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality in the Eastern Cape. The Mdantsane township is the second largest township in the Eastern Cape, by population.
Antonio das Mortes
Antonio das Mortes (Portuguese: O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro, pronounced [u dɾaˈɡɐ̃w da mawˈdadʒi ˈkõtɾɐ u ˈsɐ̃tu ɡeˈʁe(j)ɾu]; lit. "The Dragon of Wickedness Against the Holy Warrior") is a 1969 Brazilian revisionist western film directed by Glauber Rocha. It features return of the character Antonio das Mortes, now as the protagonist, with Maurício do Valle reprising the role from Black God, White Devil. The original title is a reference to the tale of Saint George and the Dragon.

The film had its world premiere at the main competition of the 1969 Cannes Film Festival, where it was awarded the Best Director prize. It was selected as the Brazilian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 42nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.

It is often cited as the last installment of Rocha's film trilogy, preceded by Black God, White Devil and Entranced Earth.

Odete Lara
Odete Lara (born Odete Righi Bertoluzzi; 17 April 1929 – 4 February 2015) was a Brazilian film actress. She appeared in 37 films between 1954 and 1994, including two films shown at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1957 she was awarded with Prêmio Saci.
Sesel Zvidzai
Sesel Zvidzai was the Zimbabwe Deputy Minister of Local Government and Urban Development. He is the Member of House of Assembly for Chiwundura (MDC-T). He is MP for Gweru Urban. MDC-T is not currently in government. He is married with four children.

National Assembly of Zimbabwe
The National Assembly of Zimbabwe, previously the House of Assembly until 2013, is the lower house of the Parliament of Zimbabwe. It was established upon Zimbabwe's independence in 1980 as one of two chambers of parliament. Between the abolition of the Senate in 1989 and its reestablishment in 2005, the House of Assembly was the sole chamber of parliament.

Since the 2023 election, the National Assembly has had 280 members. Of these, 210 are elected in single-member constituencies. 60 seats are reserved for women, and are elected by proportional representation in 10 six-seat constituencies based on the country's provinces. The last 10 seats are reserved for youth and are also elected through proportional representation in 10 one-seat constituencies based on the provinces as well.

Jacob Mudenda has been Speaker of the National Assembly since September 2013.
Dhar (surname)
Dhar is an Indian surname. It is commonly found among the Hindu Bengali Kayastha and Baniks including Subarnabanik community in  Bengal region. Dhar or Dar is also used by some Kashmiri and Punjabi-Kashmiri clans and communities native to the Kashmir Valley and Punjab, and common today among Kashmiri Hindus and Kashmiri Muslims.

Kashmir Valley
The Kashmir Valley, also known as the Vale of Kashmir, is an intermontane valley in the northern part of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. The valley is surrounded by the ranges of the Himalayas, bounded on the southwest by the Pir Panjal Range and on the northeast by the Greater Himalayan Range. It is approximately 135 km (84 mi) long and 32 km (20 mi) wide, and drained by the Jhelum River. It falls entirely within the Kashmir Division of Jammu and Kashmir.
Suvisuddharamaya
Sri Suvisuddharamaya Temple (also listed as Sri Suvisuddharamaya) is a Buddhist temple in Manakkulama (Kakkapalliya area), in Sri Lanka’s North Western Province. Directory listings place it in the Puttalam District.

Buddhist temple
A Buddhist temple or Buddhist monastery is the place of worship for adherents of Buddhism. They include the structures called vihara, chaitya, stupa, wat, khurul and pagoda in different regions and languages. Temples in Buddhism represent the pure land or pure environment of a Buddha. Traditional Buddhist temples are designed to inspire both inner and outer peace.

Buddhist temples follow a set of architectural guides adhering to Buddhist architecture principal, with stylistic derivatives seen throughout South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia.
Catherine Ricafort
Catherine Ricafort is an American actress, singer, software engineer, and entrepreneur. Ricafort has appeared in several Broadway productions, including Allegiance, the 2013 production of Cinderella, Mamma Mia!, Disaster!  and Honeymoon in Vegas. Ricafort also appeared on NBC's The Sing-Off, in season 2, as part of the group, The Backbeats.

Although her family comes from the Philippines, Ricafort was born and raised in the United States. She graduated from Westlake High School (California), and was an active participant in the school's choir program. In 2009, she graduated from University of Southern California with a degree in Industrial and Systems engineering, and a minor in Musical Theatre. At USC, Ricafort participated in the a cappella group SoCal VoCals. As of 2017, Ricafort was appearing in a new Broadway production of Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn.  Ricafort appeared as Karen in SpongeBob SquarePants from June 19, 2018 up until its closure on September 16, 2018.

Westlake High School (California)
Westlake High School (also known as Westlake High, Westlake, or WHS) is a public high school in the Westlake neighborhood of Thousand Oaks, in Ventura County, California. Westlake High School serves grades 9–12 in the Conejo Valley Unified School District. Middle schools that feed into Westlake include Colina Middle School and Los Cerritos Middle School.

The first graduating class was the class of 1980. The first principal was William Albers. All students entering Westlake High School in 1979 signed a charter, which sits in the office today. Ron Lipari was the principal of WHS for 15 years. In 2015, Jason Branham was selected as the new principal.
Summer Streets
Summer Streets is an annual event organized during the month of August in the streets of New York City since 2008. During the mornings of the first three Saturdays in August, 20 miles (32.2 km) of streets (including Park Avenue and Lafayette Street in Manhattan between 109th Street and Brooklyn Bridge) are open for walkers, runners, and cyclists and closed for motor vehicles. The event attracted 300,000 people in 2022.

72nd Street (Manhattan)
72nd Street is one of the major bi-directional crosstown streets in New York City's borough of Manhattan. The street primarily runs through the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods. It is one of the few streets to go through Central Park via Women's Gate, Terrace Drive, and Inventors Gate, though Terrace Drive is often closed to vehicular traffic.
Duvier del Dago Fernandez
Duvier del Dago Fernandez (born 1976) is a Cuban visual artist. He is from Zulueta, in the central Cuban province of Villa Clara. He was a student of the famous contemporary artist René Francisco Rodriguez at Havana’s Cuban Institute of Art. He also participated in two Havana Biennial exhibitions (in 2000 and 2006).

Villa Clara Province
Villa Clara is one of the provinces of Cuba.  It is located in the central region of the island bordering on the Atlantic Ocean to the north, Matanzas Province to the west, Sancti Spiritus Province to the east, and Cienfuegos Province to the South. Villa Clara shares with Cienfuegos and Sancti Spiritus on the south the Escambray Mountain Range. Its main cities are Santa Clara (the capital), Remedios, Sagua La Grande, Camajuani, Caibarién, Ranchuelo, Placetas, and Manicaragua.
Steve Luke
Steve Luke (born September 4, 1953) is an American former professional football player who was a safety in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes and was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the fourth round of the 1975 NFL draft.

1975 NFL draft
The 1975 NFL draft was held January 28–29, 1975, at the New York Hilton at Rockefeller Center in New York City, New York. With the first overall pick of the draft, the Atlanta Falcons selected quarterback Steve Bartkowski.
Château of Mariemont
The Château of Mariemont (French: Château de Mariemont; Dutch: Kasteel van Mariemont) was a royal residence and hunting lodge for the governors of the Habsburg Netherlands. It is located in Mariemont, in today's village of Morlanwelz, Belgium.

The château's construction started in the 16th century by order of Queen Mary of Hungary and it became a favoured residence in the 17th and 18th centuries. It was rebuilt by Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine in neoclassical style. It was destroyed by French revolutionary troops in 1794, and today, only ruins remain.

On another location in the park, Nicolas Warocqué, a Belgian industrialist, constructed a new château in the 19th century, which was also destroyed by fire in the 20th century. In its place, a new building was constructed, the Musée royal de Mariemont. The museum and park are open for visitors.

Pavillon de chasse
A pavillon de chasse (French: [pavijɔ̃ d(ə) ʃas]; "hunting pavilion") in France is a building dedicated to venery. They are built in areas where hunts take place regularly. The history of pavillons de chasse is a part of the history of venery and hunting with hounds and its role in terms of leisure purposes or summit meetings, and more broadly in the stewardship of the hunt. They are sometimes referred to as rendez-vous de chasse.
Malko Gradishte
Malko Gradishte is a village in the municipality of Lyubimets, in Haskovo Province, in southern Bulgaria.

The village is located 14 km from the town of Lubimets, 18 km from Svilengrad, and 64 km from Haskovo. In the center of the village is a large square, in the center of which stands a marble monument honoring those who died in the wars. Around the square are the buildings of the town hall, a health care center, a community center, a cooperative, a bus station, and a restaurant with a large park .

Svilengrad
Svilengrad (Bulgarian: Свиленград; Greek: Σβίλενγκραντ; Ottoman Turkish: Cisr-i Mustafapaşa) is a town in Haskovo Province, south-central Bulgaria, situated at the tripoint of Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Svilengrad Municipality.
2023 GB Pro-Series Glasgow – Doubles
Freya Christie and Ali Collins were the defending champions but chose to compete with different partners. Collins partnered alongside Berfu Cengiz but lost in the first round to Alex Eala and Barbora Palicová.

Francisca Jorge and Maia Lumsden won the title, defeating Christie and Olivia Gadecki in the final, 6–3, 6–1.

Barbora Palicová
Barbora Palicová (Czech pronunciation: [ˈbarbora ˈpalɪtsovaː]; born 11 March 2004) is a Czech tennis player. She has a career-high WTA ranking of 171 in singles, achieved on 16 June 2025.

Palicová made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2021 Prague Open, where she received a wildcard into the doubles tournament. She made her singles main-draw debut at the 2022 Prague Open, losing in the first round to Lucie Havlíčková. Given a wildcard entry into the 2025 Prague Open, Palicová defeated Priscilla Hon for her first WTA Tour main-draw win, before losing to Jessika Ponchet in the second round.
Canton of Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche
The Canton of Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche is a French former canton, located in the arrondissement of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, in the Yvelines département (Île-de-France région). It had 36,148 inhabitants (2012). It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015.

Yvelines
Yvelines (French pronunciation: [ivlin] ⓘ) is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207. Its prefecture is Versailles, home to the Palace of Versailles, the principal residence of the King of France from 1682 until 1789, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979. Yvelines' subprefectures are Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Mantes-la-Jolie and Rambouillet.
Lisa Fischer (historian)
Lisa Fischer (born 27 May 1959 in Vienna) is an Austrian historian and social scientist specialising in women's history, best known for her biographies on Lina Loos, Herta Staub, Anna-Lülja Praun, and Margarete Depner.

Anna-Lülja Praun
Anna-Lülja Praun (née Simidoff; 29 May 1906, in Saint Petersburg – 28 September 2004, in Vienna) was an Austrian architect and designer. One of the first female architects to study architecture at Graz University of Technology, she received a Cross of Honour for Science and Art in 2001.
Žerovnica
Žerovnica (pronounced [ʒɛˈɾoːu̯nitsa]; in older sources also Žirovnica, German: Scheraunitz) is a village on the eastern shores of Lake Cerknica in the Municipality of Cerknica in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia.

Municipality of Cerknica
The Municipality of Cerknica (pronounced [ˈtseːɾknitsa] ⓘ; Slovene: Občina Cerknica) is a municipality in the Karst region of southwestern Slovenia, with a population of 11,350 in 2012. The seat of the municipality is the town of Cerknica. It belongs to the traditional region of Inner Carniola.

The best-known landmark of the municipality is Lake Cerknica, an intermittent lake and the largest lake in Slovenia, south of the town of Cerknica. Various watersports including windsurfing are popular on the lake.
Shōbayashi Shōrin-ryū
Shōbayashi Shōrin-ryu (少林流) (Shōrin-ryū) is a style of Okinawan Shorin-ryu karate founded by Eizo Shimabukuro.  Eizo Shimabukuro (1925-2017) dropped the Chatan Yara no Kusanku and the Oyadamari no Passai he learned from Chotoku Kyan and he added Kusanku Sho and Dai and Passai Sho and Dai of Yasutsune Itosu lineage.  It is said that Eizo Shimabukuro learned these Itosu kata as well as Pinan Shodan to Godan and Naihanchin Shodan to Sandan from Choshin Chibana.  However, in his book "Okinawa Karatedo Old Grandmaster Stories" Eizo Shimabukuro says that Chibana was too old to teach and so Chibana referred Shimabukuro to his senior student, Nakazato, for instruction.  Eizo Shimabuku also added two kata from his time in Goju-ryu with Chojun Miyagi. These kata being Seiyunchin and Sanchin (Eizo Shimabukuro used to call his version of Sanchin, Sanchu). At one time Shimabuku taught Shorin-ryu and Goju-ryu side by side.

Motobu Chōki
Motobu Chōki (本部 朝基; April 5, 1870 – April 15, 1944) was an Okinawan karate master and founder of Motobu-ryū. He was born into a branch of the Ryukyuan royal family, and at the age of 12, he and his older brother Motobu Chōyū were invited by Ankō Itosu to be taught karate.

Motobu also studied karate under Sakuma, Matsumura Sōkon, and Kōsaku Matsumora. He excelled especially in kumite and was already known throughout Okinawa in his twenties. As he grew up, he came to be regarded as the best in Okinawa in terms of practical karate techniques. He is reported to have been very agile, which gained him the nickname Motobu no Saru ("Motobu the Monkey").

Motobu later moved to mainland Japan, and at the age of 52, he beat a foreign boxer in Kyoto, Japan, and his name became instantly known throughout the country. He distanced himself from the modernization trend in karate, focusing only on kata Naihanchi and concentrating on kumite practice.