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Loena Hendrickx
Loena Hendrickx (Dutch: [ˈlunaː ˈɦɛndrɪks]; born 5 November 1999) is a Belgian figure skater. She is a two-time World medalist (2022, 2023), the 2024 European champion, a three-time European medalist (2022, 2023, 2026), a two-time ISU Grand Prix Final medalist (2022–23, 2023–24), a two-time Grand Prix gold medalist, and a five-time Belgian national champion (2017–2019, 2022–2023).

Hendrickx has finished within the top ten at five European Championships (2017–2018, 2022–2023) and five World Championships (2018, 2021–2024). She represented Belgium at three Winter Olympics (2018, 2022, 2026) finishing sixteenth, seventh, and fourteenth respectively. The most successful Belgian women's skater in history, she is the first-ever World, European, and Grand Prix medalist from Belgium in that discipline.

Japan Open (figure skating)
The Japan Open is an annual senior international figure skating team competition organized by the Japan Skating Federation. From 1997 until 2001, Japan Open was an individual competition in all four figure skating disciplines. The current format, a team competition, was established in 2006. The competition is held every autumn in Japan. Invited skaters compete in men's and women’s singles. Skaters perform a free program but no short. Individual results are combined for a team standing.
Ray Ratkowski
Raymond James Ratkowski (born November 10, 1939) was a professional American football halfback. He played football at the University of Notre Dame. He was drafted in the 20th round of the 1961 NFL draft and played for the Boston Patriots of the American Football League (AFL) during the 1961 AFL season.

Ratkowski later served in the Marine Corps and worked for the FBI.  Upon retirement to Cape Cod he developed an interest in expressionist painting.  He died on April 30, 2012.
Ray was an all-city running back at St. Francis Prep in Brooklyn.

1961 NFL draft
The 1961 NFL draft took place at the Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia on December 27–28, 1960. The league would later hold an expansion draft for the Minnesota Vikings expansion franchise. This draft was also the first regular draft for the Dallas Cowboys as they had only participated in the 1960 NFL expansion draft that year.

The Cowboys held the worst record in the NFL the previous season, but selected second in this draft because the expansion Vikings were awarded the first overall pick. The Vikings used that pick to select running back Tommy Mason.
André Alvarez
André Alvarez (26 May 1923 – 27 August 2005) is a French former international rugby union player.

Born in Bayonne, Alvarez was a grandson of 1912 Olympic rower Pierre Alvarez, who hailed originally from Asturias in Spain. He took up rugby during World War II, when his favoured sport of association football ceased to be played.

Alvarez featured in the Aviron Bayonnais side which won the French Championship in 1943. He was capped 20 times for France from 1945 to 1951, as a fullback and occasional fly–half. During his Five Nations career, Alvarez appeared in France's first ever wins on English and Welsh soil. He also played for Racing Club of France and US Tyrosse.

Aviron Bayonnais
Aviron Bayonnais (AB, Basque: Baionako Arrauna), commonly called Bayonne, is a French rugby union club from Bayonne (Baiona in Basque) in Pyrénées-Atlantiques which competes in the Top 14, the top tier of the French league system.
Founded in 1904, they play at the Parc des Sports, also known as Stade Jean-Dauger, in Bayonne. 
The club mascot is a pottok pony called pottoka. They have ties to the French Basque community.
Benjamin Shaw (MP)
Benjamin Shaw (c 1770 – 6 November 1843) was an English politician.

He was elected at the 1812 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the rotten borough of Westbury in Wiltshire, but was not re-elected in 1818.

Rotten and pocket boroughs
A rotten or pocket borough, also known as a nomination borough or proprietorial borough, was a parliamentary borough or constituency in England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom before the Reform Act of 1832 which had very few voters. They could be used by a patron to gain disproportionate influence within the House of Commons. The Reform Act of 1832 abolished the majority of these rotten and pocket boroughs.

The same terms were used for similar boroughs represented in the 18th-century Parliament of Ireland.
Van Veen grab sampler
The Van Veen grab sampler is an instrument to sample sediment in water environments. Usually it is a clamshell bucket made of stainless steel. Up to 20 cm deep samples of roughly 0.1 m2 can be extracted with this instrument. It can be light-weight (roughly 5 kg) and low-tech. The smallest version even fits into hand luggage. The sampler was invented by Johan van Veen (a Dutch engineer) in 1933.

A draw-back of the use of this sampler is that it tends to disturb the sediments more than a box corer does.

Square metre
The square metre (international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures) or square meter (American spelling) is the unit of area in the International System of Units (SI) with symbol m2. It is the area of a square with sides one metre in length.

Adding and subtracting SI prefixes creates multiples and submultiples; however, as the unit is exponentiated, the quantities grow exponentially by the corresponding power of 10. For example, 1 kilometre is 103 (one thousand) times the length of 1 metre, but 1 square kilometre is (103)2 (106, one million) times the area of 1 square metre, and 1 cubic kilometre is (103)3 (109, one billion) cubic metres.

Its inverse is the reciprocal square metre (m−2), often called "per square metre".
Thomas Lloyd (bishop)
Christianity portal

Thomas Lloyd (1857 – 14 March 1935) was a Welsh bishop in the Anglican Church.

He was educated at Ystrad Meurig School and St David's College, Lampeter, and ordained in 1882. He began his career as a curate in Denbigh. He held incumbencies at Bala, Abergele and Rhyl.

He was Archdeacon of St Asaph from 1910 and the only Bishop of Maenan (a suffragan bishop to A. G. Edwards, Bishop of St Asaph and Archbishop of Wales) from 1928, holding both posts until his death on 14 March 1935. He was ordained and consecrated a bishop on St Andrew's day (30 November) 1928 at St Asaph Cathedral, by Edwards as Archbishop of Wales.

Maenan
Maenan is a rural settlement in Conwy, Wales, located approximately 4 miles to the north of Llanrwst and 3 miles to the south of the village of Eglwysbach. The population of the area is approximately 300 people, and more than 75% of the population are Welsh speakers. Maenan shares a community council with the nearby village of Llanddoged.  The A470 trunk road passes through Maenan.  The 2001 census  shows that the villages of Llanddoged and Maenan had a combined population of 574.
Kawa, Sudan
Kawa, known as Gematon ("Aten is perceived") in ancient Egyptian texts and as Patigga or Patinga during Greco-Roman times, is a town and archaeological site in Sudan, located between the third and fourth cataracts of the Nile on the east bank of the river, across from Dongola. In ancient times it was the site of several temples to the Egyptian god Amun, built by the pharaohs Amenhotep III and Tutankhamun, and by Taharqa and other kings of Kush.

Westerners became aware of the site in the late 19th century. Small digs were carried out in 1929 and 1930 and an extensive excavation began 22 November 1930. A new era of exploration at the site began in 1997.

Cataracts of the Nile
The Cataracts of the Nile are shallow lengths (or whitewater rapids) of the Nile river, between Khartoum and Aswan, where the surface of the water is broken by many small boulders and stones jutting out of the river bed, as well as many rocky islets. In some places, these stretches are punctuated by whitewater, while at others the water flow is smoother but still shallow.
Moral economy
Moral economy is a way of viewing economic activity in terms of its moral, rather than material, aspects. The concept was developed in 1971 by British Marxist social historian and political activist E. P. Thompson in his essay, "The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century". He referred to a specific class struggle in a specific era, seen from the perspective of the poorest citizens—the "crowd".

People's history
A people's history is a type of historical narrative devised in the United States of America which attempts to account for historical events from the perspective of common people rather than leaders. There is an emphasis on disenfranchised, the oppressed, the poor, the nonconformists, and otherwise marginal groups. Arising in America in response to the development of social history in Europe, authors typically have a Marxist model in mind.
Bojan Udovič
Bojan Udovič (22 July 1957 – 11 July 2015) was a Slovene cyclist. He competed in the individual road race and team time trial events at the 1980 Summer Olympics, where three of the four members of the Yugoslav cycling team were Slovenes. Together with a fellow cyclist, Udovič was killed by a drunk driver near Medvedjek on 11 July 2015 while cycling.

Medvedjek, Trebnje
Medvedjek (pronounced [mɛˈdʋeːdjɛk]; in older sources also Medvešček, German: Bärnberg) is a settlement east of Veliki Gaber in the Municipality of Trebnje in eastern Slovenia. The area is part of the historical region of Lower Carniola. The municipality is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.
Kaoru Takamura
Kaoru Takamura (髙村 薫, Takamura Kaoru, born 1953) is a Japanese writer from Osaka. She has won numerous Japanese literary awards, including the Mystery Writers of Japan Award, the Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize, the Naoki Prize, the Yomiuri Prize, and the Noma Literary Prize, and her work has been adapted for film and television.

Wowow
Wowow (Wauwau; pronounced [waɯwaɯ], stylized in all-uppercase in Japanese) is a satellite broadcasting and premium satellite television station owned and operated by Wowow Inc. (株式会社WOWOW). Its headquarters are located on the 21st floor of the Akasaka Park Building in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo. Its broadcasting center is in Koto, Tokyo.
Abner Pratt
Abner Pratt (May 22, 1801 – March 27, 1863) was an American lawyer, politician, diplomat, and jurist.

Born in Springfield, Otsego County, New York, Pratt studied law and was admitted to the New York bar. Pratt served as district attorney in Rochester, New York. In 1839, Pratt moved to Marshall, Michigan and continued to practice law. In 1844 and 1845, Pratt served in the Michigan State Senate. From 1850 until 1857, Pratt served on the Michigan Supreme Court and served as chief justice of the court. In 1857, President James Buchanan appointed Pratt consul to the Kingdom of Hawaii serving until 1862. Pratt returned to Marshall, Michigan and built his home Honolulu House. In 1863, Pratt served in the Michigan House of Representatives and served as mayor of Marshall, Michigan. Pratt died in Marshall, Michigan in 1863.

Michigan Senate
The Michigan Senate is the upper house of the Michigan Legislature. Along with the Michigan House of Representatives, it composes the state legislature, which has powers, roles and duties defined by Article IV of the Michigan Constitution, adopted in 1963. The primary purpose of the Legislature is to enact new laws and amend or repeal existing laws.

The Michigan Senate is composed of 38 members, each elected from a single-member district with a population of between approximately 212,400 to 263,500 residents. Legislative districts are drawn on the basis of population figures, provided by the federal decennial census. In January 2023, Democrats took the majority with 20 seats to Republicans' 18 seats. The Senate chamber is located in the State Capitol building.
Microphyes
Microphyes is a genus of flowering plants in the carnation family, Caryophyllaceae. It includes three species of annuals native to northern and central Chile and northeastern Argentina.

Microphyes litoralis Phil. (1860) – northern Chile

Microphyes minima (Miers ex Colla) Briq. – northern and north-Central Chile, Jujuy Province of northeastern Argentina

Microphyes robustus Ricardi – north-central Chile (Coquimbo Region)

Jujuy Province
Jujuy [xuˈxuj] is a province of Argentina, located in the extreme northwest of the country, at the borders with Chile and Bolivia. The only neighboring Argentine province is Salta to the east and south.
André Nunes
André Luis Correia Diogo Nunes (born 14 April 1984) is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a striker.

André Nunes previously played for Zagłębie Lubin in the Polish Ekstraklasa before moving to 2007–08 UEFA Champions League qualifying opponent in early 2008, Steaua București for 100,000€. He made no appearances for the Romanian side before being loaned to fellow Liga I team, Gloria Buzău.

2007–08 UEFA Champions League
The 2007–08 UEFA Champions League was the 16th season of UEFA's premier European club football tournament, the UEFA Champions League, since it was rebranded in 1992, and the 53rd tournament overall.

The final was played on 21 May 2008 at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, where Manchester United played against Chelsea, making it an all-English final for the first time in the history of the European Cup. Manchester United won the match 6–5 on penalties, following a 1–1 draw after extra time.

Milan were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Arsenal in the first knockout round.
Connie Young Yu
Connie Young Yu (born June 19, 1941) (Chinese: 虞容儀芳; pinyin: Yú Róng Yífāng)  is a Chinese American writer, activist, historian, and lecturer.

She has written and contributed to many articles and books, notably including Profiles in Excellence: Peninsula Chinese Americans, Chinatown San Jose, U.S.A., and Voices from the Railroad: Stories by Descendants of Chinese Railroad Workers. Through her work, she uncovers forgotten or hidden facets of Chinese and Asian American history.

Yu played a central role in getting the Angel Island Immigration Station designated a National Historic Landmark, therefore preserving the detention barracks that had Chinese poems carved on the walls.

Chinese Historical Society of America
The Chinese Historical Society of America (simplified Chinese: 美国华人历史学会; traditional Chinese: 美國華人歷史學會; pinyin: Měiguó Huárén Lìshǐ Xuéhuì; Jyutping: Mei5gwok3 Waa4jan4 Lik6si2 Hok6wui6; abbreviated CHSA) is the oldest and largest archive and history center documenting the Chinese American experience in the United States. It is based in the Chinatown neighborhood of San Francisco, California.
The Man Who Played Square
The Man Who Played Square is a lost 1924 American action film directed by Alfred Santell and written by John Stone. The film stars Buck Jones, Wanda Hawley, David Kirby, Ben Hendricks Jr., Hank Mann, and Howard Foster. The film was released on November 23, 1924, by Fox Film Corporation.

Buck Jones
Buck Jones (born Charles Frederick Gebhart; December 12, 1891 – November 30, 1942) was an American actor, known for his work in many popular Western movies. In his early film appearances, he was credited as Charles Jones.
Michael Sklar
Michael Joel Sklar (July 12, 1944 – March 5, 1984) was an American actor, writer, songwriter, and fashion retailer. He was best known as a Warhol superstar, starring in several films by Warhol and Paul Morrissey.

From his obituary in the New York Times:

Mr. Sklar wrote comedy for the television show Laugh-In and appeared on that show and on the Sha Na Na show. He acted in two Andy Warhol films, Trash and L'Amour, and appeared in the Broadway production of Scarpino. In the early 1970's, he founded a company called Childstar, for which he designed jewelry. He also designed greeting cards and was an importer of Japanese textiles and antiques.

Sklar died of lymphoma at the New York University Medical Center on March 5, 1984, and was survived by his mother, Bertha Sklar, a sister, Carol Wueste, and a brother, Norman Sklar.

Warhol superstars
Warhol superstars were a clique of New York City personalities promoted by Andy Warhol during the 1960s and 1970s. They spent time with Warhol at his studio the Factory, appeared in his films, and accompanied him in public around New York. They were known for casual sex, public nudity, and flaunting homosexuality. They came to symbolize the sexual revolution of the time.
Ocean Star Cruises
Ocean Star Cruises is a Mexican cruise line based in Mexico City. It was founded in 2010, the first Mexican cruise line. The first ship in its fleet was the MV Ocean Star Pacific (launched on 9 July 1970 for RCCL), purchased in December 2010 to become the first ship in the fleet. It officially entered service on April 10, 2011. The cruise ship sailed the waters of the Mexican Riviera, with embarkation ports at Acapulco and Manzanillo. The company planned to expand its fleet to include six additional newly built vessels in the next 5 years. Ocean Star Cruises no longer operates any cruise ships as of 2012.

Manzanillo, Colima
Manzanillo (/ˌmænzəˈniːoʊ/, /ˌmɑːn-/; Spanish pronunciation: [mansaˈniʝo]) is the most populous city in the Mexican state of Colima and seat of Manzanillo Municipality. The city, located on the Pacific Ocean, contains Mexico's busiest port, responsible for handling Pacific cargo for the Mexico City area. It is the largest-producing municipality for the business sector and tourism in the small state of Colima.

The city has been referred to as the "sailfish capital of the world". Since 1957, it has hosted national and international fishing competitions, such as the Dorsey Tournament. Manzanillo has developed as a destination for international tourism.
Katrin Wagner-Augustin
Katrin Wagner-Augustin (born 13 October 1977) is a German canoe sprinter who has competed since the late 1990s. She is 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall, and weighs 161 pounds (73 kg).

Competing in four Summer Olympics, Wagner has six medals with four golds (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 500 m: 2000, 2004, and 2008), one silver (K-4 500 m: 2012) and one bronze (K-1 500 m: 2008).

Wagner-Augustin also won 26 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 1000 m: 2005, K-1 4 × 200 m: 2009, 2010; K-4 200 m: 1997, 2005, 2007, 2009; K-4 500 m: 1997, 2005, 2007), fourteen silvers (K-1 500 m: 2009, K-1 1000 m: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006; K-2 200 m: 2006, K-2 500 m: 2002, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2010), and two bronzes (K-1 500 m: 2007, K-4 200 m: 2002).

2003 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
The 2003 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held September 10–14, 2003 in Gainesville, Georgia, United States at Lake Lanier. Located north of Atlanta, this was also where the canoe sprint and rowing events for the 1996 Summer Olympics took place.

The men's competition consisted of nine Canadian (single paddle, open boat) and nine kayak events. Women competed in nine events, all in kayak.

This was the 33rd championships in canoe sprint.
Tomitaro Makino
Tomitaro Makino (牧野 富太郎, Makino Tomitarō; 24 April 1862 – 18 January 1957) was a pioneer Japanese botanist noted for his taxonomic work. He has been called "Father of Japanese Botany", having been one of the first Japanese botanists to work extensively on classifying Japanese plants using the system developed by Linnaeus. His research resulted in collecting more than 500,000 specimens, many of which are represented in his Makino's Illustrated Flora of Japan. Despite having dropped out of grammar school, he eventually attained a Doctor of Science degree, and his birthday is remembered as Botany Day in Japan.

Kōchi Prefecture
Kōchi Prefecture (高知県, Kōchi-ken; Japanese pronunciation: [koꜜː.tɕi, koː.tɕi̥ꜜ.keɴ], locally [koː.tɕi]) is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Kōchi Prefecture has a population of 669,516 (1 April 2023) and has a geographic area of 7,103 km2 (2,742 sq mi). Kōchi Prefecture borders Ehime Prefecture to the northwest and Tokushima Prefecture to the northeast.

Kōchi is the capital and largest city of Kōchi Prefecture, with other major cities including Nankoku, Shimanto, and Kōnan. Kōchi Prefecture is located on Japan's Pacific coast surrounding a large bay in the south of Shikoku, with the southernmost point of the island located at Cape Ashizuri in Tosashimizu. Kōchi Prefecture is home to Kōchi Castle, considered the most intact Japanese castle, and the Shimanto River, one of the few undammed rivers in Japan.
Canada national under-20 rugby union team
The Canada under 20 rugby team is the junior national rugby union team from Canada. It replaced the two former age grade teams, the under 19s and under 21s, in 2008. The team competed at the IRB Junior World Championship in 2008 and 2009 but were relegated to the IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy for 2010. The team has yet to make their way back to the top competition.

2008 IRB Junior World Championship
The 2008 IRB Junior World Championship was the first annual international rugby union competition for Under 20 national teams. All players who were twenty years of age or under on 1 January 2008 were eligible for selection.

This competition replaced the now defunct Under 19 Rugby World Championship and Under 21 Rugby World Championship. The event, organised by rugby's governing body, the International Rugby Board (IRB), was contested by sixteen men's under-20 national teams.

The tournament was held in June and hosted by Wales, at four separate venues, and won by New Zealand.
Halas (food)
Halas (Arabic: حلص, romanized: Ḥlṣ) is a Yemeni food  made of halaṣ leaf. The food is eaten during drought periods in Yemen.

The halaṣ leaves have a very bitter taste but they are boiled in water until the taste is gone. It is then added to traditional buttermilk known as ḥaqin.

Ḥalaṣ is often confused with halqa or ghulaf (Cyphostemma digitatum (Forssk.)), which, according to Lisan al-Arab, is a plant that grows in Yemen whose leaves are similar in shape to vine leaves. It is roasted and dried, then used over meat. Halqa is used in traditional Yemeni ethnomedicine.

In 2018,  people of the Yemeni town of Tihamah have survived by eating halaṣ due to the famine in that area.

Peter Forsskål
Peter Forsskål, sometimes spelled Pehr Forsskål, Peter Forskaol, Petrus Forskål or Pehr Forsskåhl (11 January 1732 – 11 July 1763) was a Swedish explorer, orientalist, naturalist, and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.
1955 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships
The 1955 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships were organized by the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) and served as the national championships in indoor track and field for the United States.

The men's edition was held at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York, and it took place February 19. The women's meet was held separately at the Henry Crown Field House in Chicago, Illinois, taking place February 5.

The women's meeting served as a qualifier for the U.S. team at the 1955 Pan American Games. Because of this, the discus throw and javelin throw were contested at the meet for the first time.

National championship
A national championship(s) is the top achievement for any sport or contest within a league of a particular nation or nation state. The title is usually awarded by contests, ranking systems, stature, ability, etc. This determines the best team, individual (or other entity) in a particular nation and in a particular field. Often, the use of the term cup or championship is just a choice of words.