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2008 Stanley Cup playoffs
The 2008 Stanley Cup playoffs of the National Hockey League (NHL) began on April 9, 2008, after the 2007–08 regular season. The 16 teams that qualified, eight from each conference, played best-of-seven series for conference quarterfinals, semifinals and championships, then the conference champions played a best-of-seven series for the Stanley Cup.

The Buffalo Sabres became the second team to miss the playoffs after winning the Presidents' Trophy in the prior season. This would not happen again until 2015.

The Finals ended on June 4, 2008, with the Detroit Red Wings defeating the Pittsburgh Penguins in six games to win their eleventh championship and their fourth in eleven seasons. Red Wings winger Henrik Zetterberg was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoffs' Most Valuable Player. Sidney Crosby and Zetterberg led the tournament with 27 points.

Presidents' Trophy
The Presidents' Trophy (French: Trophée des présidents) is an award presented by the National Hockey League (NHL) to the team that finishes with the best record (i.e., most points) during the regular season. The Presidents' Trophy has been awarded 37 times to 18 different teams since its inception during the 1985–86 NHL season.

The trophy winner is guaranteed home-ice advantage for the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, but winning the award does not assure playoff success, as only eight winners have gone on to win the Stanley Cup; three Presidents' Trophy winners have been defeated in the Stanley Cup Final. However, the team winning the trophy has won the Cup more than any other playoff seed. The most recent team to win both the trophy and the Stanley Cup in the same season is the 2012–13 Chicago Blackhawks; the only team to accomplish this feat more than once is the Detroit Red Wings (2002 and 2008).
Žilys
Žilys (or Zilis) is a Lithuanian surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Žilys:
Birutė Žilytė-Steponavičienė (1930–2024), Lithuanian graphic artist
Juozas Žilys (1942–2024), lawyer, judge of the Constitutional Court of Lithuania
Vincas Žilys (1898–1972), Lithuanian general

Zilis:
Shivon Zilis (born 1986), Canadian technology executive

Juozas Žilys
Juozas Žilys (7 September 1942 – 7 September 2024) was a Lithuanian lawyer and judge. He served in the Constitutional Court from 1993 to 1999.

Žilys died in Vilnius on 7 September 2024, his 82nd birthday.
The Bride Price
The Bride Price is a 1976 novel by Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta. It was first published in the UK by Allison & Busby, and in the US by George Braziller. Centered on women during the Nigerian postcolonial era, Emecheta dedicated the book to her mother, Alice Ogbanje Emecheta.

George Braziller
George Braziller (February 12, 1916 – March 16, 2017) was an American book publisher and the founder of George Braziller, Inc., a firm known for its literary and artistic books and its publication of foreign authors.
Finland at the 1928 Winter Olympics
Finland competed at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.  Finland took home 4 medals, all in speed skating.  These were won by Clas Thunberg, Julius Skutnabb, and Jaakko Friman.  Finland also took second place in the Military Patrol, at that time classed as a demonstration event with no medals.

Jaakko Friman
Jaakko Johannes Friman (January 13, 1904 – February 17, 1987) was a former speed skater from Finland, who represented his native country at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. There, he won the bronze medal in the men's 500 metres. He was born and died in Tampere, Finland.
Erik Benzelius the Younger
Erik Benzelius the younger (27 January 1675 in Uppsala – 23 September 1743) was a priest, theologian, librarian, Bishop of Linköping, 1731–1742 and Archbishop of Uppsala, Sweden, 1742–1743. He was a highly learned man and one of Sweden's important Enlightenment figures.

Archbishop of Uppsala
The Archbishop of Uppsala (spelled Upsala until the early 20th century) has been the primate of Sweden in an unbroken succession since 1164, first during the Catholic era, and from the 1530s and onward under the Lutheran church.
Redshift conjecture
In mathematics, more specifically in chromatic homotopy theory, the redshift conjecture states, roughly, that algebraic K-theory  has chromatic level one higher than that of a complex-oriented ring spectrum R.
It was formulated by John Rognes in a lecture at Schloss Ringberg, Germany, in January 1999, and made more precise by him in a lecture at the Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics, Germany, in September 2000. In July 2022, Robert Burklund, Tomer Schlank and Allen Yuan announced a solution of a version of the redshift conjecture for arbitrary -ring spectra, after Hahn and Wilson did so earlier in the case of the truncated Brown-Peterson spectra .

Schloss Ringberg
Schloss Ringberg (Ringberg Castle) is located in the Bavarian Alps, 50 km south of Munich, on a foothill overlooking the Tegernsee. Not open to the general public, it is a property of the Max Planck Society and used for conferences.
Dakeoceras
Dakeoceras is a genus of simple cyrtoconic ellesmeroceratid cephalopods in the fossil record.  All known species come from the Lower Canadian epoch (Gasconadian) of North America.

The Dakeoceras shell is an endogastric cyrtocone with the siphuncle on the concave, ventral, side; moderately curved and expanded in the juvenile stages which become reduced in the adult.

Forms in which the cross section is broadened, with the venter becoming flattened, are separated as Paradakeoceras.  Quebecoceras is also similar but for its circular cross section and more persistent rate of expansion and curvature.  Levisoceras is more compressed, more strongly curved, and has a higher rate of expansion especially in the vertical plane.

Gasconadian Stage
The Gasconadian Stage is the 1st stage of the Ordovician geologic period in North America and of the Lower Ordovician Canadian Epoch, coming immediately after the Late Cambrian Trempealeauan and preceding the middle Canadian Demingian Stage. The Gasconadian is equivalent to the European Tremadocian and roughly to the Skullrockian of the Ibexian series.

The Gasconadian is named for the Gasconade Formation of Missouri, named in turn for the Gasconade River, and is represented by the Tribes Hill Formation in New York state and by the upper Bliss Fm and the Sierrite Ls of the El Paso Group in southern New Mexico and west Texas.

The Gasconadian is a common term in the paleontological and stratigraphic literature of the previous century, whether used simply for a span of time or for strata laid down during that time.
Erta
Erta is a women's World Cup giant slalom ski course on Piz de Plaies mountain in Kronplatz (Plan de Corones), Italy.

It is also used for men's Europa Cup slalom contests and With average incline at 40%, this course is considered as the most demanding giant slalom in Women's World Cup circuit.

American ski legend Mikaela Shiffrin won record three women's giant slaloms on this course.

Slalom skiing
Slalom is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline, involving skiing between poles or gates. These are spaced more closely than those in giant slalom, super giant slalom and downhill, necessitating quicker and shorter turns.  Internationally, the sport is contested at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, and at the Olympic Winter Games.
Günther Eger
Günther Eger (born 7 September 1964 in Tegernsee) is a German bobsledder who competed in the early 1990s. He won the bronze medal in the two-man event at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France.

Tegernsee
Tegernsee (German pronunciation: [ˈteːɡɐnˌzeː] ⓘ) is a town in the Miesbach district of Bavaria, Germany. It is located on the banks of Lake Tegernsee, which is 747 m (2,451 ft) above sea level. A spa town, it is surrounded by an alpine landscape of Upper Bavaria, and has an economy mainly based on tourism.

The town is home to a former Benedictine monastery, the Tegernsee Abbey. Today the building is a Schloss. The northern wing of the abbey contains a brewery that produces the famous Tegernsee Lager Beer.
Pollution of Lake Karachay
Lake Karachay was a small natural lake in central Russia. It is best known for its use as a dumping ground by the Soviet Union's Mayak nuclear weapons laboratory and fuel reprocessing plant. A string of accidents and disasters at the Mayak facility has contaminated much of the surrounding area with highly radioactive waste. In the 1960s, the lake began to dry out and its area had dropped from 0.5 km2 in 1951 to 0.15 km2 by the end of 1993. In 1968, following a drought in the region, the wind carried 185 PBq (5 MCi) of radioactive dust away from the dried bed of the lake, irradiating half a million people. Lake Karachay has been described as the "most polluted spot on Earth" by the Worldwatch Institute.

Becquerel
The becquerel (/ˌbɛkəˈrɛl/ ⓘ; symbol: Bq) is the unit of radioactivity in the International System of Units (SI). One becquerel is defined as an activity of one per second, on average, for aperiodic activity events referred to a radionuclide. For applications relating to human health this is a small quantity, and SI multiples of the unit are commonly used.

The becquerel is named after Henri Becquerel, who shared a Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre and Marie  Curie in 1903 for their work in discovering radioactivity.
Reedswood Park
Reedswood Park is a public park situated in Walsall, West Midlands, England. It is surrounded by the residential areas of Birchills and Beechdale, and is about half a mile west of Walsall town centre.

Historically, the park had an outdoor public swimming pool dating from 1888, and updated in 1931; it was demolished some time after 1993.

The modern park has a skating ramp, children's play area, outdoor gym, fishing pond, a basketball court and football pitches.

In 2013, there was a semi-wild conservation area. In May 2023, there were plans to restore the park's ponds to create a wildlife habitat. The park was awarded Green Flag status in July 2023.

52°35′36″N 2°00′11″W﻿ / ﻿52.5933°N 2.0030°W﻿ / 52.5933; -2.0030

Green Flag Award
The Green Flag Award is an international accreditation given to publicly accessible  parks and open spaces, managed under licence from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, a UK Government department, by Keep Britain Tidy, who also administers the scheme in England.
Karl Ipsberg
Karl Ipsberg (3 January 1870 in Suure-Kambja Parish (now Kambja Parish), Kreis Dorpat – 27 June 1943 in Vjatka Camp, Kirov Oblast, Russian SFSR) was an Estonian politician. He was a member of the Estonian National Assembly and of the I and II Riigikogu, representing the Farmers' Assemblies.

1921-1922 he was Minister of Roads.

He was taken prisoner by the Soviets for his resistance against the incorporation of Estonia into the Soviet Union, and was shot in prison in Vyatka in 1943. He is memorialised on a plaque in Stenbock House, Estonia's seat of government.

1st Riigikogu
The 1st Riigikogu was the first legislature of the Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu). The legislature was elected after 1920 elections (held on 27–29 November 1920). It sat between 20 December 1920 and 30 May 1923, before the next round of elections were held.
Gigi Rüf
Christian 'Gigi' Rüf (9 October 1981 in Au, Austria) is an Austrian professional snowboarder known for his unique style and creativity. He is most famous for his film segments, having filmed extensively with Absinthe films, Kingpin productions and The Pirates. He was part of the old Burton UNINC crew, but left Burton after the rest of the team was disbanded, and his outerwear sponsors Volcom offered to provide him with pro model board sponsorship as well.  After a long stint with Volcom  as his main sponsor, he has now set up his own snowboard brand called Slash and has announced that Nike will be expanding his boot sponsorship to include outerwear as well.

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.
Norman Barrett
Norman Rupert Barrett CBE FRSA (16 May 1903 – 8 January 1979) was an Australian-born British thoracic surgeon who is widely yet mistakenly remembered for describing what became known as Barrett's oesophagus.

Thorax
The thorax (pl.: thoraces or thoraxes) or chest is a part of the anatomy of mammals and other tetrapod animals located between the neck and the abdomen.

In insects, crustaceans, and the extinct trilobites, the thorax is one of the three main divisions of the body, each in turn composed of multiple segments.

The human thorax includes the thoracic cavity and the thoracic wall. It contains organs including the heart, lungs, and thymus gland, as well as muscles and various other internal structures. The chest may be affected by many diseases, of which the most common symptom is chest pain.
Ádám Borics
Ádám Borics (born July 7, 1993) is a Hungarian mixed martial artist who competes in the Featherweight division of the Professional Fighters League. He previously competed for Bellator MMA, where he was a Featherweight title challenger. As of January 27, 2026, he is #4 in the PFL featherweight rankings.

PFL Rankings
Professional Fighter League (PFL) rankings, which were introduced in January 2026, are generated by a voting panel made up of media members. These media members are asked to vote for whom they feel are the top fighters in the PFL by weight class and pound-for-pound. A fighter is only eligible to be voted on if they are of active status in the PFL. A fighter can appear in more than one weight division at a time. The champion and interim champion are considered to be in top positions of their respective divisions and therefore are not eligible for voting by weight class. However, the champions can be voted on for the pound-for-pound rankings.
Randall House (Mayville, Michigan)
The Randall House built in 1870 by William Randall is an historic octagon house located at 5927 Treasurer Road in Mayville, Michigan.  On  November 7, 1976, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It remains a private residence.

Octagon house
Octagon houses are eight-sided houses that were popular in the United States and Canada mostly in the 1850s. They are characterized by an octagonal (eight-sided) plan and often feature a flat roof and a veranda that encircles the house. Their unusual shape and appearance, quite different from the ornate pitched-roof houses typical of the period, can generally be traced to the influence of amateur architect and lifestyle pundit Orson Squire Fowler. Although there are other octagonal houses worldwide, the term octagon house usually refers to octagonal houses built in North America during this period, and up to the early 20th century.
Kamuo Ichihime
Kamuō Ichihime is a Japanese goddess. She is a daughter of Ōyamatsumi.

She is referenced in the Kojiki as the second wife of Susanoo-no-Mikoto, and the aunt of his first wife Kushinadahime.

According to the Kojiki she and Susanoo are the parents of Ukanomitama, and Toshigami who is often identified with Inari.

She is also known by the name Ohtoshimioya-no-Mikoto (大歳御祖命). and worshipped at Shizuoka Sengen Shrine as a market goddess

Ukanomitama
Ukanomitama (宇迦之御魂神 – Mighty Soul of Sustenance - Kojiki) (倉稲魂命 - Nihongi) is a kami in classical Japanese mythology, associated with food and agriculture, often identified with Inari, the deity of rice.
Arthur W. Adamson
Arthur Wilson Adamson (August 15, 1919 – July 22, 2003) was an American chemist who is considered a pioneer in inorganic photochemistry. His research made significant contributions to the understanding of physical adsorption and contact angle phenomena, and the thermodynamics of surfaces and irreversible adsorption.

Photochemistry
Photochemistry is the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of light. Generally, this term is used to describe a chemical reaction caused by absorption of ultraviolet (wavelength from 100 to 400 nm), visible (400–750 nm), or infrared radiation (750–2500 nm).

In nature, photochemistry is of immense importance as it is the basis of photosynthesis, vision, and the formation of vitamin D with sunlight. It is also responsible for the appearance of DNA mutations leading to skin cancers.

Photochemical reactions proceed differently than temperature-driven reactions. Photochemical paths access high-energy intermediates that cannot be generated thermally, thereby overcoming large activation barriers in a short period of time, and allowing reactions otherwise inaccessible by thermal processes.  Photochemistry can also be destructive, as illustrated by the photodegradation of plastics.
Wilfred Andrews
Wilfred Andrews (1892-1975) was Chairman of the Royal Automobile Club (RAC) and the first British President of FIA.

He was instrumental in securing the use of RAF Silverstone as a motor-racing venue: Silverstone Circuit.

He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 27 June 1966.

He had two children, Roy and Barbara; Barbara married Kenneth Large from Goudhurst, Kent.

RAF Silverstone
Royal Air Force Silverstone or more simply RAF Silverstone is a former Royal Air Force (RAF) station, built during the Second World War, and used by the RAF from 1943 until 1947. It straddles the Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire border 10 miles (16 km) south west of Northampton, and is named after the nearby village of Silverstone.

In 1948, the Royal Automobile Club hosted the first British Grand Prix at this location, and the site is now Silverstone Circuit.
Belvedere Garden
Belvedere Garden (Chinese: 麗城花園) is one of the largest-scale private housing estates in Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong, located at the seaside of Tsuen Wan West.

Developed by Cheung Kong Holdings, it comprises 6,016 flats in 19 high rise residential towers developed in 3 phases. It was designed to be a self-contained community and was designed with a shopping arcade and a wet market.

Cheung Kong Holdings
Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited is a multinational conglomerate, based in Hong Kong. It was one of Hong Kong's leading multi-national conglomerates. The company merged with its subsidiary Hutchison Whampoa on 3 June 2015, as part of a major reorganisation, to become part of CK Hutchison Holdings.

The Chairman of Cheung Kong Holdings was Li Ka-shing, while his elder son, Victor Li, was managing director and deputy chairman. Li Ka-shing founded Cheung Kong Industries in the 1950s as a plastics manufacturer. Eventually the company evolved into a property investment company. Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited was established in 1971.

The Cheung Kong Group develops residential, office, retail, industrial and hotel properties in Hong Kong, with a history of property development and residential estates. As part of a reorganisation, a new company composed of the group's property assets was spun-off in June 2015 as Cheung Kong Property Holdings.
Col de Menté
The Col de Menté (elevation 1,349 m (4,426 ft)) is a mountain pass in the central Pyrenees in the department of Haute-Garonne in France. It is situated on the D44 road between Saint-Béat and the D618 (at the bottom of the Col de Portet d'Aspet) and connects the Ger and Garonne valleys.  Le Mourtis ski-station is located 1 km. south of the col.

A stele in memory of Serge Lapébie (son of Guy) is situated at the summit.

Haute-Garonne
Haute-Garonne (French pronunciation: [ot ɡaʁɔn]; Occitan: Nauta Garona, pronounced [ˈnawto ɡaˈɾuno]; Upper Garonne) is a department in the southwestern French region of Occitanie. Named after the river Garonne, which flows through the department. Its prefecture and main city is Toulouse, the country's fourth-largest. In 2019, it had a population of 1,400,039.
Dixit Maria
Dixit Maria (Mary said [to the angel]) is a motet for four voices by Hans Leo Hassler. It is part of his collection Cantiones sacrae published in 1591. It sets a verse from the narration of the annunciation in Latin. Hassler based a mass on the motet, Missa super Dixit Maria.

Choral Public Domain Library
The Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL), also known as ChoralWiki, is an online community and repository for choral and vocal music. Its contents primarily include sheet music in the public domain or otherwise freely available for printing and performing (such as via permission from the copyright holder).

It is a 501(c)(3), tax-deductible organization, whose contents are published under one of multiple types of specific copyright licenses. Editing articles or contributing scores is allowed only for contributors who create a free account. The CPDL stands with IMSLP, Musopen and the Wind Repertory Project as among the most prominent online music repertoire databases.
Ziva (dish)
Ziva (Hebrew: זיוה) is an Israeli dish made of puff pastry topped with  sesame seeds, and stuffed with cheese and olives. Ziva is served at home and in restaurants. Ziva is cooked in a style similar to the Yemenite Malawach but its ingredients more closely resemble börek, both of which are also common in Israel. Ziva is usually served alongside a hot sauce (skhug), eggs and Israeli salad.

Ziva is thought to have been invented by chef Neri Avneri's wife at the Nargilla restaurant in 1989. TasteAtlas listed it as the third lowest-rated Israeli snack.

Puff pastry
Puff pastry, also known as pâte feuilletée, is a light, flaky pastry, its base dough (détrempe) composed of wheat flour and water. Butter or other solid fat (beurrage) is then layered into the dough. The dough is repeatedly rolled and folded, rested, re-rolled and folded, encasing solid butter between each resulting layer.

This produces a laminated dough. During baking, gaps form between the layers left by the fat melting; the pastry is leavened by steam from the water content of the fat as it expands, puffing the separate layers. The pastry layers crisp as the heated fat is in contact with its surfaces.
Letenye District
Letenye (Hungarian: Letenyei járás) is a district in south-western part of Zala County. Letenye is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Western Transdanubia Statistical Region.

Western Transdanubia
Western Transdanubia (Hungarian: Nyugat-Dunántúl [ˈɲuɡɒt ˈdunaːntuːl]) is a subdivision of Hungary as defined by the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS). It is one of the eight classified NUTS-2 statistical regions of Hungary. The region incorporates the -western parts of the country, and encompasses an area of 11,209 km2 (4,328 sq mi). It incorporates three counties – Zala, Vas, and Győr-Moson-Sopron. It has a population of about one million, and the seat of the region and the largest city is Győr.
D2B
D2B can mean:

D2B (band), a Thai pop group

D²B, a low-speed IEC serial bus standard for home automation applications

Domestic Digital Bus (automotive), a high-speed isochronous ring network technology for automotive applications

Dual 2-back, a variation of the n-back mental exercise

IBM Db2, a database

Domestic Digital Bus (automotive)
Domestic Digital Bus, D2B, is an isochronous ring-based fibre-optic communications technology, with a bandwidth of 12 Mbit/s, specified by the Optical Chip Consortium for use in automotive applications. D2B was previously used by Mercedes-Benz in some of their models, before being replaced by MOST.