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Colony of British Columbia
The Colony of British Columbia refers to one of two colonies of British North America, located on the Pacific coast of modern-day Canada:

Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866)

Colony of British Columbia (1866–1871)

Colony of British Columbia (1866–1871)
The Colony of British Columbia was a British Crown Colony that resulted from the 1866 merger of two British colonies, the Colony of Vancouver Island and the mainland Colony of British Columbia. The united colony existed until its incorporation into Canadian Confederation in 1871 as the Province of British Columbia.
Outline of Prague
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Prague:

Prague – capital and largest city in the Czech Republic. With about 1.3 million residents within an area of 496 km2 (192 sq mi), it has the status of a statutory city. Prague is classified as a "Beta+" global city according to GaWC studies, and is the fifth most visited European city after London, Paris, Istanbul and Rome.

Troja Palace
Troja Palace (Czech: Zámek Troja) is a Baroque palace located in Troja, Prague's north-west borough (Czech Republic). It was built for the Counts of Sternberg  from 1679 to 1691. The palace is owned by the city of Prague and hosts the 19th century Czech art collections of the City Gallery.
Jack Payne (rugby union)
Jack Payne (born 13 September 1994) is an Australian rugby union player. Now retired, he finished his career playing for Newcastle Falcons in the English Premiership Rugby.

Payne previously played for the Scarlets regional team in Wales and is Welsh qualified. He also previously represented the Australia U20s rugby team. He started his career at flaker / second row. and moved to tighthead prop in 2016, where he eventually finished his career.

Payne made his debut for the Scarlets regional team in 2014 having played for Brothers Old Boys and Queensland Reds U20s side.

He joined Darlington Mowden Park in 2016 and caught the eye of Dean Richards. Payne then joined Newcastle Falcons at the beginning of the 2017–18 season.

He retired from professional rugby in 2019 due to head injuries.

Darlington Mowden Park R.F.C.
Darlington Mowden Park is a professional rugby union club, based in Darlington, County Durham, England. They currently compete in National League 2 North, at the fourth tier of the English rugby union system, following relegation from the 2024–25 National League 1.

The club's former name, Darlington Grammar School Old Boys, was changed when they moved to Yiewsley Drive, which was located in Mowden. They relocated to The Darlington Arena, a 25,000 all-seater stadium in Darlington, purchasing the previously-vacated ground for £2 million; Yiewsley Drive had previously been sold to a housing estate company, and the Arena was previously owned by Darlington Football Club. They played their first game at the arena on 2 February 2013, in front of a crowd of over 1,000, comprehensively defeating Bromsgrove 62–7 in a National League 2 North league game.
Railway Gazette Group
The Railway Gazette Group is a family of print and online business publications for the world rail transport industry. Based in Sutton, London, it is part of DVV Media Group, and forms part of the Hamburg-based Deutsche Verkehrs Verlag international publishing group.

Railway Gazette International: English-language business magazine for railway, metro and light rail operators and suppliers.

Railway Gazette International Chinese Edition – articles from Railway Gazette International translated into  Mandarin in association with the Institute of Scientific & Technical Information of China.

Metro Report International: developments in the urban rail sector, ranging from tram and light rail to metro and suburban railway networks.

Rail Business UK: news from the UK railway industry.

Railway Directory: an annual catalogue of industry references and contacts.

Rail Business Intelligence: fortnightly newsletter which reported on the privatised UK railway industry.

Transport in the United Kingdom
Transport in the United Kingdom is facilitated by road, rail, air and water networks. Some aspects of transport are a devolved matter, with each of the countries of the United Kingdom having separate systems under separate governments.

A radial road network totals 29,145 miles (46,904 km) of main roads, 2,173 miles (3,497 km) of motorways and 213,750 miles (344,000 km) of paved roads. The National Rail network of 10,072 route miles (16,116 km) in Great Britain and 189 route miles (303 km) in Northern Ireland carries over 18,000 passenger and 1,000 freight trains daily. Urban rail networks exist in all cities and towns with dense bus and light rail networks. There are many regional and international airports, with Heathrow Airport in London being one of the busiest in the world and busiest in Europe. UK ports handled 486 million tons of goods in 2019.
1946 Colombian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Colombia on 5 May 1946, pitching the Colombian Conservative Party against two different Colombian Liberal Party candidates. The Liberals received more votes combined, but due to their division the result was a victory for Mariano Ospina Pérez of the Conservative Party, who received 41.4% of the vote. One of the Liberal candidates, Gabriel Turbay, was also supported by the Social Democratic Party.

Two years after the election, the second Liberal Party candidate, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala, was assassinated. This in turn sparked a ten-year civil war known as La Violencia.

Gabriel Turbay
Gabriel Turbay Abinader (10 January 1901 – 17 November 1947) was a Colombian politician of Lebanese descent. He was a Congressman, Senator, and Foreign Minister in the 1930s. He served as Colombia's Ambassador to the United States from 1939 to 1945. He was an unsuccessful candidate for president in 1946.
Hrachia Acharian
Hrachia Acharian (Armenian: Հրաչեայ Աճառեան, reformed spelling: Հրաչյա Աճառյան; pronounced [həɾɑt͡ʃʰˈjɑ ɑt͡ʃɑrˈjɑn]; 8 March 1876 – 16 April 1953) was an Armenian linguist, lexicographer, etymologist, and philologist.

An Istanbul Armenian, Acharian studied at local Armenian schools and at the Sorbonne, under Antoine Meillet, and the University of Strasbourg, under Heinrich Hübschmann. He then taught in various Armenian communities in the Russian Empire and Iran before settling in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1923, working at Yerevan State University until his death.

A polyglot, Acharian compiled several major dictionaries, including the monumental Armenian Etymological Dictionary, extensively studied Armenian dialects, compiled catalogs of Armenian manuscripts, and authored comprehensive studies on the history of Armenian language and alphabet. Acharian is considered the father of Armenian linguistics.

Armenians in Istanbul
Armenians in Istanbul (Armenian: Պոլսահայեր, romanized: Bolsahayer; Turkish: İstanbul Ermenileri) are a major part of the Turkish Armenian community and historically one of the largest ethnic minorities of Istanbul, Turkey. The city is often referred to as Bolis (Պոլիս) by Armenians, which is derived from the ending of the historical name of the city Constantinople.

Today, most estimations put the number of Armenian-Turkish citizens in Istanbul at 50,000, 60,000 or 70,000. They constitute the largest Christian and non-Muslim minority in Istanbul, as well as in Turkey. They are not considered part of the Armenian Diaspora by the Ministry of Diaspora, since they have been living in their historical homeland for more than four thousand years.

In addition to local ethnic Armenians who are Turkish citizens, there are also between 10,000 and 30,000 recent illegal immigrants from Armenia in Istanbul.
Vladimir Loginov (ice hockey)
Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Loginov (Russian: Владимир Вячеславович Логинов; born January 1, 1981) is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman for PSK Sakhalin of Asia League Ice Hockey (ALIH).

Loginov previously played in the Russian Superleague and Kontinental Hockey League with Krylya Sovetov Moscow, Salavat Yulaev Ufa, HC Dynamo Moscow, HC Sibir NovosibirskYugra Khanty-Mansiysk, Metallurg Novokuznetsk and Amur Khabarovsk.

Amur Khabarovsk
Hockey Club Amur (Russian: Хоккейный клуб Амур), commonly referred to as the Amur Khabarovsk, is a professional ice hockey club based in Khabarovsk, Russia. It is a member of the Chernyshev Division in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Located in the Russian Far East, the team takes its name from the Amur River, and plays its home games at the Platinum Arena.
Aigrette
The term aigrette (pronounced /eɪɡrɛt/; from the French for egret, or lesser white heron) refers to the tufted crest or head-plumes of the egret, used for adorning a headdress. The word may also identify any similar ornament, in gems.

Egret
Egrets (/ˈiːɡrəts/ EE-grəts) are herons, generally long-legged wading birds, that have white or buff plumage, developing fine plumes (usually milky white) during the breeding season. Egrets are not a biologically distinct group from herons and have the same build.
Miroslav Abelovský
Miroslav Abelovský (born June 6, 1948) is a Slovak politician.

Born in Zvolen, Miroslav Abelovský was elected to the National Council of the Slovak Republic in the parliamentary elections in 2002 for the People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia. He was re-elected in the 2006 Slovak parliamentary election.

Zvolen
Zvolen (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈzʋɔlen] ⓘ; Hungarian: Zólyom; German: Altsohl) is a city in central Slovakia, situated on the confluence of Hron and Slatina rivers. It is famous for several historical and cultural attractions. It is surrounded by Poľana mountain from the East, by Kremnické vrchy from the West, and by Javorie and Štiavnické vrchy from the South.

The population numbers approximately 40,000, which makes it the twelfth-largest city in Slovakia by population, thirteenth by size. It is the center of the Podpoľanie historical region and the seat of a county (Zvolen District). It is also an important transportation hub in Slovakia, being one of the four central train stations in Slovakia (others are Bratislava, Košice, and Žilina).
Dianne Kahura
Dianne Kahura (born 1 May 1969) is a former rugby union player for the Black Ferns. She debuted in 1998 and played 12 tests for New Zealand. She played in the 1998 and 2002 Women's Rugby World Cup.

Kahura was a member of the first official New Zealand women's sevens team, who took part in the 2000 Hong Kong Sevens. She was also in the squad that won the 2001 Hong Kong Women's Sevens.

2002 Women's Rugby World Cup
The 2002 Women's Rugby World Cup was the second World Cup fully sanctioned by the sports governing body the International Rugby Board (IRB). The tournament was held in Barcelona, Spain. The format was the same as the previous tournament and again 16 nations competed.

For the first time a pre-tournament qualification match took place to decide Asia's second representative but other than that all competitors took part by invitation. 14 of the 16 teams taking part were the same as in 1998 but two lowest ranked European teams (Sweden and Russia) were replaced by teams from Asia (Japan) and Oceania (Samoa).

The competition was won by defending champions, New Zealand.
1996 Granada–Dakar Rally
1996 Dakar Rally, also known as the 1996 Paris-Dakar Rally, was the 18th running of the Dakar Rally event. It began on 29 December 1995 with a prologue stage in Granada, Spain - the second successive year the event began away from the traditional starting point of Paris - and ended in the Senegalese capital of Dakar on 14 January 1996. Pierre Lartigue won the car class for the third year in succession for Citroën and Edi Orioli won his fourth motorcycle title for Yamaha. Viktor Moskovskikh secured the first trucks class title for the Russian Kamaz marque.

Edi Orioli
Edi Orioli (born 5 December 1962 in Udine) is an Italian rallying motorcycle racer.

Many consider Orioli to be one of the best motorcyclists in rallying, with four victories in the Dakar Rally, and one victory in the Pharaoh Rally, and was considered a great motorcyclist before commencing a career in automobile racing.
Woh Bhi Din The
Woh Bhi Din The is a 2024 Hindi-language coming of age romantic comedy film written by Sajid Ali, Saurabh Swamy and directed by Sajid Ali. The film was produced by John Abraham, Shoojit Sircar, Ronnie Lahiri, and Sheel Kumar under the banner of JA Entertainment, Kino Works, and Rising Sun Films. The film features Rohit Saraf, Adarsh Gourav, Sanjana Sanghi and Charu Bedi as lead characters.

Rohit Saraf
Rohit Saraf (born 8 December 1996) is an Indian actor who primarily works in Hindi films and television. He began his career on television and made his film debut with the comedy drama Dear Zindagi (2016). Saraf is best known for the comedy drama Hichki (2018), the biopic The Sky Is Pink (2019), the dark comedy Ludo (2020), and the romantic comedy Ishq Vishk Rebound (2024) and Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari (2025). He is widely recognized with his portrayal of Rishi in the Netflix Romantic Drama series Mismatched (2020–2024). In 2025, Saraf was placed by Forbes Asia in their 30 Under 30.
Dewey, South Dakota
Dewey is an unincorporated community near the southwest corner of Custer County, South Dakota, United States, less than one mile from the Wyoming border in a prairie region of the Black Hills.  There are approximately five or six homes in town. Dewey has a volunteer fire department in the Edgemont city district.

Dewey lies just to the southwest of the Elk Mountains, a small range that is part of the Black Hills. South Dewey Road leads into Fall River County southeast 6.1 miles (9.8 km) to Burdock and then to Edgemont—23 miles (37 km) from Dewey. Northwest of Dewey 30 miles (48 km) is Newcastle, Wyoming.

Fall River County, South Dakota
Fall River County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,973. Its county seat is Hot Springs. The county was founded in 1883. It is named for the Fall River which runs through it.
Basil Fawlty
Basil Fawlty is the main character of the 1970s British sitcom Fawlty Towers, played by John Cleese. The proprietor of the hotel Fawlty Towers, he is a cynical and misanthropic snob, desperate to attract hotel guests from the British upper class. His inept attempts to run an efficient hotel, however, usually end in farce. Possessing a dry, sarcastic wit, Basil has become an iconic British comedy character who remains widely known in the United Kingdom.

Cleese would receive the 1980 British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance. In a 2001 poll conducted by Channel 4, Basil was ranked second (to Homer Simpson) on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters. Known for his quotable rants, the character was inspired by Donald Sinclair, an eccentric, inhospitable, and boorishly impolite hotel owner whom Cleese had encountered when he stayed at his hotel (Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay, Devon) along with the rest of Monty Python in May 1970.

British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance
The British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance is an award given out by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts at their annual BAFTA Television Awards ceremony.

This category has had minor name changes:

From 1958 to 1962 it was presented as an individual award named Best Light Entertainment Artist.

From 1963 to 1965 it was awarded as Best Light Entertainment Personality

From 1967 to 1999 it was awarded as Best Light Entertainment Performance.

Since 2000  the award has been known as Best Entertainment Performance.

Prior to the 1994 ceremony, acting performances in comedy roles were included in this category. Since 1994 they have been recognised in the Best Comedy Performance category.
Kurudere, Bismil
Kurudere (Kurdish: Sadiyê; Syriac: Sa'diyyah) is a village in the municipality and district of Bismil, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Barava tribe and had a population of 643 in 2022.

Kurdish tribes
Kurdish tribes are tribes of Kurdish people, an Iranian ethnic group from the geo-cultural region of Kurdistan in Western Asia.

The tribes are socio-political and generally also a territorial unit based on descent and kinship, real or putative, with a characteristic internal structure. They are naturally divided into a number of sub-tribes, and each of these sub-tribes again are divided into smaller units: clans, lineages and households.
Hiren Bhattacharyya
Hiren Bhattacharyya (28 July 1932 – 4 July 2012), popularly known as Hiruda, was an Indian poet and lyricist best known for his works in the Assamese literature. He had innumerable works published in Assamese and achieved many prizes and accolades for his poetry including Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for his anthology of poems 'Saichar Pathar Manuh'. He has been also known as 'Sugandi Pakhilaar Kobi'.

Lyricist
A lyricist is a writer who writes lyrics (the spoken words), as opposed to a composer, who writes the song's music which may include (but is not limited to) the melody, harmony, arrangement and accompaniment.
Cancañiri Formation
The Cancañiri Formation, also named as Cancañiri Tillite, is a Katian to Hirnantian geologic formation of central Bolivia. The pebbly, argillaceous sandstones, shales and siltstones of the up to 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) thick formation, were deposited in a glacial foreshore to deep water turbiditic environment. The formation is named after Cancañiri, a mining town close to Llallagua, where a local legend of a possessed woman is believed. The formation overlies the San Benito Formation in Cochabamba and the Amutara Formation in other parts. The Cancañiri Formation is overlain by the Uncía Formation.

Turbidite
A turbidite is the geologic deposit of a turbidity current, which is a type of amalgamation of fluidal and sediment gravity flow responsible for distributing vast amounts of clastic sediment into the deep ocean.
Tarmola
Tarmola (Finnish: [ˈtɑrmolɑ]; Swedish: Östermalm) is a district in Porvoo, Finland. It is located in the northeastern part of the downtown area along the Regional Road 170, a few kilometers south of the Highway 7 (E18). The old town of Porvoo is 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from Tarmola.

Services in the area include the grocery stores K-Supermarket and Lidl, the Alko store, the Tokmanni discount store, the Rinta-Jouppi car dealership and the Veikon Kone electronics store. Other significant places also include the chocolate and bakery stores of the Brunberg Factory and Pieni Suklaatehdas. Tarmola is also home to the Kaupunginhaka business and industrial area, and the local Padel hall.

Old town
In a city or town, the old town is its historic or original core. Although the city is usually larger in its present form, many cities have redesignated this part of the city to commemorate its origins. In some cases, newer developments on the periphery of the original settlement may have become the town's principal commercial and/or residential hub, leaving the historic "old town" as a secondary focus. There are many places throughout the world referred to as the old town (sometimes construed as a proper noun and capitalized). This is a list of some famous old towns:
Volta (TV series)
Volta is a Philippine television series on ABS-CBN, which was broadcast from January 26 to March 15, 2008. The series is a serialization of the 2004 film, Volta, produced by Star Cinema. It was a regional semi-finalist for the 2008 International Emmy Awards under the Comedy Program category.

This series was streaming on Jeepney TV YouTube Channel every 7:00 pm and was replaced by Princess Sarah.

Jeepney TV
Jeepney TV is a Philippine pay television channel owned and operated by Creative Programs, a subsidiary of ABS-CBN Corporation. Its programming features classic television programs produced by ABS-CBN, as well as extended versions of some with scenes that were not originally aired on the main network. The channel was named after the jeepney, a vehicle widely used for public transportation in the Philippines.

A video-on-demand service for Jeepney TV programs is also available worldwide via iWant and TFC IPTV.
Hermitage of Santo Cristo de Miranda
The Hermitage of Santo Cristo de Miranda is a religious building in Santa María de las Hoyas (Province of Soria, Spain).

The hermitage was built in the 13th century, but only the door of the hermitage is original. The rest of the current structure dates to the 18th century. Inside the hermitage is a 14th-century polychrome carving titled El Santo Cristo de Miranda.

Province of Soria
The Province of Soria (Spanish: Provincia de Soria) is a province of central Spain, in the eastern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. Most of the province is in the mountainous Sistema Ibérico area. It is bordered by the provinces of La Rioja, Zaragoza, Guadalajara, Segovia, and Burgos.

With a population of 90,183, it is the least populous province of Spain, as well as the least densely populated with a density of less than 9 inhabitants/km2, one of the lowest in the European Union.
Rezin Hammond
Colonel Rezin Hammond (1745–1809) was a United States revolutionary patriot and politician from Anne Arundel County, Maryland. He represented his county as a delegate at the Maryland Convention and later in the Maryland House of Delegates. Hammond served as a Colonel in the Anne Arundel County Militia during the American Revolution, and was known for his radical revolutionary views. He advocated publicly for extending voting privileges to all free men, regardless of their landholdings. Despite his progressive stance on voting rights, Hammond was a wealthy plantation owner who owned slaves.

Maryland Gazette
The Gazette, founded in 1727 as The Maryland Gazette, is one of the oldest newspapers in America. Its modern-day descendant,  The Capital, was acquired by The Baltimore Sun Media Group in 2014.  Previously, it was owned by the Capital Gazette Communications group, which published The Capital, Bowie Blade-News, Crofton-West County Gazette, and Capital Style Magazine.

The Gazette and their sister publications have been composed and printed in numerous locations, all in the Annapolis area, for more than 270 years. The company has moved headquarters seven times, including from 3 Church Circle to 213 West St. in 1948, to 2000 Capital Drive in 1987 and to Bestgate Road in September 2014.

As of 2021, the newspaper posts to its website daily and publishes print editions on Wednesdays and Sundays.
Terris (surname)
Terris is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Archibald Terris (1873–1938), Canadian politician in Nova Scotia

John Terris (1939–2026), New Zealand politician

Harold A. Terris (1916–2001), Canadian politician in New Brunswick

Malcolm Terris (1941–2020), English actor

Milton Terris (1915–2002), American physician

Norma Terris (1904–1989), American theater performer

Sid Terris (1904–1974), American lightweight boxer

John Terris
John James Terris QSO (19 June 1939 – 2 February 2026) was a New Zealand politician, Anglican priest and broadcaster who represented the Labour Party in the New Zealand parliament from 1978 to 1990. He was Chairman of Committees of the House of Representatives from 1984 to 1990. From 1995 to 2004, he was mayor of Lower Hutt.
Jordan Lake (Utah)
Jordan Lake is lake on the northern edge of Duchesne County, Utah, United States.

The lake is located in the Naturalist Basin, at the eastern foot of Mount Agassiz, within the High Uintas Wilderness in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. The lake was named for David Starr Jordan, a noted biologist, authority on fish, and a student of Louis Agassiz (for whom the nearby mountain was named).

Duchesne County, Utah
Duchesne County (/duːˈʃeɪn/ doo-SHAYN) is a county in the northeast part of the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 19,596. Its county seat is Duchesne, and the largest city is Roosevelt.