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Pacific Northwest Ballet
Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB) is an American ballet company based in Seattle, Washington. It is said to have the highest per capita attendance in the United States, with 11,000 subscribers in 2004. The company consists of 49 dancers and hosts more than 100 performances throughout the year; it is especially known for its performance of the Stowell/Maurice Sendak Nutcracker, which it presented from 1983 through 2014 and produced as a feature film in 1986.

In 2006, the company was chosen to perform at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and New York City Center's Fall for Dance Festival.

PNB performs at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall in the Seattle Center.

New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein.  Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. Léon Barzin was the company's first music director.  City Ballet grew out of earlier troupes: the Producing Company of the School of American Ballet, 1934; the American Ballet, 1935, and Ballet Caravan, 1936, which merged into American Ballet Caravan, 1941; and directly from the Ballet Society, 1946.
Patrice Servelle
Patrice Servelle (born 20 July 1974, in Monaco) is a Monégasque Olympic bobsledder who has competed in the 2002, 2006, and the 2010 Winter Olympics. Servelle's placed 12th overall at the 2006 Winter Olympics, and was Monaco's flag bearer during the Opening Ceremony. He also finished the two-man Bobsleigh World Cup in second place, which was Monaco's first, and only World Cup medal.

Servelle's best finish at the FIBT World Championships was tenth in the four-man event at St. Moritz, Switzerland in 2007.

St. Moritz
St. Moritz is a high Alpine resort town in the Engadine in Switzerland, at an elevation of about 1,800 metres (5,910 ft) above sea level. It is Upper Engadine's major town and a municipality in the administrative region of Maloja in the Swiss canton of the Grisons.

St. Moritz lies on the southern slopes of the Albula Alps below the Piz Nair (3,056 m or 10,026 ft) overlooking the flat and wide glaciated valley of the Upper Engadine and Lake St. Moritz. It hosted the Winter Olympics in 1928 and 1948.
Sainte-Croix, Quebec
Sainte-Croix (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t kʁwa] ⓘ) is a municipality in and the seat of Lotbinière Regional County Municipali in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region had a population is 2,352 as of 2021. The new constitution dates from 2001, after the amalgamation of the Parish of and the Village of Sainte-Croix.

Its name refers to the True Cross but had been in use well before its foundation in 1713. In fact, the seigneurie of Sainte-Croix was granted in 1637 to the Company of One Hundred Associates at a point named Platon Sainte-Croix (Holy Cross Flats in English), at the mouth of the Jacques-Cartier River. It had been named as such by Jacques Cartier, who had spent the winter of 1535-1536 there. Samuel de Champlain explained in 1613 that there had been a mistake and was not the place that Cartier had wintered, which was a point that is now called Pointe Platon ("Plato (or Flat) Point").

Jacques Cartier
Jacques Cartier (Breton: Jakez Karter; 31 December 1491 – 1 September 1557) was a French maritime explorer from Brittany. Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named "The Country of Canadas" after the Iroquoian names for the two big settlements he saw at Stadacona (Quebec City) and at Hochelaga (Montreal Island).

Jacques Cartier, author of now-lost maps and accounts of his voyages, was the first European to describe and name this region and its inhabitants—at a time when the Spanish had already settled in the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America, and were beginning their conquest of Peru.
Scoparia emmetropis
Scoparia emmetropis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Turner in 1915. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales.

The wingspan is 20–22 mm. The forewings are whitish, irrorated with pale grey and with a few scattered dark fuscous scales. The markings are blackish. The hindwings are grey-whitish, with a weakly indicated grey subterminal. Adults have been recorded on wing in January.

Alfred Jefferis Turner
Alfred Jefferis Turner (3 October 1861 in Canton – 29 December 1947 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) was a pediatrician and amateur entomologist. He was the son of missionary Frederick Storrs-Turner. He introduced the use of diphtheria antitoxin to Australia in 1895, and resided in Dauphin Terrace, Highgate Hill, Brisbane.

The Jefferis Turner Centre for mothercraft was opened in 1952 as part of the Queensland Government's Maternal and Child Welfare program. In 1986, its role was changed to provide short-term respite care for intellectually disabled children. It is located in the heritage building Fairy Knoll in Ipswich.
2024 Tokyo Marathon
The 2024 Tokyo Marathon was the 17th edition of the annual marathon race in Tokyo, held on Sunday, 3 March 2024.  A Platinum Label marathon, it was the first of six annual World Marathon Majors events to be held in 2024. With over 37,000 competitors, new course records were set in both the men's and women's races.

World Marathon Majors
The World Marathon Majors (WMM) is a championship-style competition for marathon runners that started in 2006. A points-based competition founded on seven major marathon races recognised as the most high-profile on the calendar, the series comprises annual races for the cities of Tokyo, Boston, London, Sydney, Berlin, Chicago and New York.

In addition, the World Marathon Majors includes the results of any major global championship marathon held in that year. These races are the biennial World Athletics Championships Marathon, and the quadrennial Olympic Games Marathon.
Ontario Highway 667
Secondary Highway 667, commonly referred to as Highway 667, is a provincially maintained secondary highway located in the Sudbury District of the Canadian province of Ontario. Roughly 35 kilometres (22 mi) in length, the route connects Highway 129 to the town of Sultan and to Wakami Lake Provincial Park. East of the town, the route continues as the Sultan Industrial Road, a privately maintained but publicly accessible logging road, towards Highway 144. Highway 667 was established in 1977 and has remained unchanged since then.

Wakami Lake Provincial Park
Wakami Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park in the Canadian province of Ontario. Located in the Sudbury District near the towns of Chapleau and Sultan, the park was established in 1969.

The park includes camping and boating facilities. Events at the park have included an annual Woodsmen's Day to educate visitors on the work and lifestyles of traditional lumberjacks.

In the 1980s and 1990s, four employees of the park—Mark Despault, Mike Bernier, Rob Hollett and Jeff Allen—formed the band The Wakami Wailers. The band recorded several albums of traditional folk music and toured throughout North America at venues including Expo 86 and Disney World.
11th Infantry Division (India)
The 11th Infantry Division is an infantry division of the Indian Army. It was raised as a part of the Indian Army during World War II. It formed part of Indian III Corps in the Malaya Command during the Battle of Malaya. The division was re-raised on 1 April 1965 and is presently part of the XII Corps of Southern Command. It is presently responsible for safeguarding the borders with Pakistan along Southern Rajasthan and Gujarat.

Jaisalmer district
Jaisalmer district is the largest district in the Indian state of Rajasthan, and the third largest district in India. Located in Marwar (Jodhpur Division), the city of Jaisalmer is the administrative headquarters of the district. It is around 289 km (180 mi) from the city of Jodhpur, and around 559 km (347 mi) from Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan. As of the 2011 population census, it is the least populous district out of all 50 districts in Rajasthan. Jaisalmer district is located in western part of the state.
Brown Derby (actor)
Brown Derby (5 May 1914 – 17 July 2000) was a Scottish stage, film and television actor. He made his film debut as Edith Evans's footman in Thorold Dickinson's classic The Queen of Spades (1949). He played Sergeant Roberts, too, in Suspended Alibi. Derby had a regular role as Scott-Erskine in the BBC's The Omega Factor, and also starred in Dr. Finlay's Casebook, Z-Cars, The Saint, Sutherland's Law, Play for Today, Take The High Road and many other British television shows.

Thorold Dickinson
Thorold Barron Dickinson CBE (16 November 1903 – 14 April 1984) was a British film director, screenwriter, film editor, film producer, and Britain's first university professor of film. Dickinson's work received much praise, with fellow director Martin Scorsese describing him as "a uniquely intelligent, passionate artist... They're not in endless supply."
Augusta Louise zu Stolberg-Stolberg
Countess Louise Augusta zu Stolberg-Stolberg (7 January 1753 in Bramstedt, Duchy of Holstein – 30 May 1835 in Kiel) was a German noble who was known for her lively correspondence with the poet and thinker Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; she is known as Goethes Gustchen in the history of literature. By birth she was member of the House of Stolberg and by marriage member of House of Bernstorff.

Bernstorff
The Bernstorff family is the name of an old and distinguished German-Danish noble family which originated from Mecklenburg, Germany. Members of the family held the title of Count/Countess, granted to them on 14 December 1767 by King Christian VII of Denmark.
Alexandru Ioan Morțun
Alexandru Ioan Morțun (born July 16, 1951) is a Romanian physician, politician, and Member of the European Parliament (MEP). He is a member of the National Liberal Party (PNL), which was part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe until 2014, and became an MEP on January 1, 2007, with the accession of Romania to the European Union. Between 1996 and 2000, and again from 2000, he represented Mehedinți County in the Romanian Senate.

Senate of Romania
The Senate (Romanian: Senat) is the upper house in the bicameral Parliament of Romania. It has 136 seats (before the 2016 parliamentary election the total number of elected representatives was 176), to which members are elected by direct popular vote using party-list proportional representation in 43 electoral districts (the 41 counties, the city of Bucharest plus 1 constituency for the Romanians living abroad), to serve four-year terms.
Marrakesh-Tensift-El Haouz
Marrakesh–Tensift–El Haouz (Arabic: مراكش تانسيفت الحوز) was formerly one of the 16 regions of Morocco from 1997 to 2015. It was situated in central Morocco. It covered an area of 31,160 km² and had a population of  3,576,673  (2014 census). The capital is Marrakesh. In 2015, the region annexed Safi and Youssoufia Provinces (both formerly from the Doukkala-Abda Region) to become the Region of Marrakesh-Safi.

Safi Province
Safi Province (Arabic: إقليم آسفي, romanized: qlīm asfī) is a province of Morocco, in the region of Marrakesh–Safi. The province takes its name from its capital Safi. Its population in 2024 is 719,299.

The major cities and towns are:

Bouguedra

Hrara

Jamaat Shaim

Laâkarta

Safi

Sebt Gzoula
Aix-en-Othe
Aix-en-Othe (French pronunciation: [ɛks ɑ̃.n‿ɔt] ⓘ, lit. 'Aix in Othe') is a former commune in the Aube department in the Champagne-Ardennes region of north-central France (now Grand Est region). On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Aix-Villemaur-Pâlis. It is the seat of Aix-Villemaur-Pâlis, and of the canton of Aix-Villemaur-Pâlis.

The commune has been awarded three flowers by the National Council of Towns and Villages in Bloom in the Competition of cities and villages in Bloom.

Champagne-Ardenne
Champagne-Ardenne (French pronunciation: [ʃɑ̃paɲaʁdɛn]) is a former administrative region of France, located in the northeast of the country, bordering Belgium. Mostly corresponding to the historic province of Champagne, the region is known for its sparkling white wine of the same name.
Falls of Niagara
Falls of Niagara is a 1774 landscape painting by the British artist Richard Wilson. It depicts a view of Niagara Falls.  Wilson had never visited North America, but based this scene on a sketch produced by an officer of the Royal Artillery. It was likely commissioned by the engraver William Byrne who planned to make a print based on the picture. It is strikingly different from many of Wilson's paintings, more obviously reflecting the Sublime that would become such a feature during the Romantic movement.

The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1774 held in Pall Mall in London. Today it is in the collection of the Wolverhampton Art Gallery which acquired it in 1884.

Commission (art)
In art, a commission is the act of requesting the creation of a piece, often on behalf of another. Artwork may be commissioned by private individuals, by the government, or businesses. Commissions often resemble endorsement or sponsorship.

In classical music, ensembles often commission pieces from composers, where the ensemble secures the composer's payment from private or public organizations or donors.
Jameh Mosque of Ardestan
The Jāmeh Mosque of Ardestan (Persian: مسجد جامع اردستان, romanized: Masjid-e Jāmeh Ardestan) is a congregational mosque (Jāmeh) in Ardestan, Isfahan province, Iran.

The oldest parts indicate a pre-Seljuk building, and it is possible the mosque was built on the site of a Chahartaq. The structure was incorporated in a Seljuk kiosk mosque in the 12th century CE, and further expanded to the classical four-iwan plan. The stucco decoration of the mihrab was altered during the Ilkhanate.

The mosque was added to the Iran National Heritage List on 9 July 1932, administered by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts.

Mihrab
Mihrab (Arabic: محراب, miḥrāb, pl. محاريب maḥārīb) is a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the qibla, the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca towards which Muslims should face when praying. The wall in which a mihrab appears is thus the "qibla wall".

The minbar, which is the raised platform from which an imam (leader of prayer) addresses the congregation, is located to the right of the mihrab.
Vegas Showdown (basketball)
The Vegas Showdown, formerly known as the Wooden Legacy, is an annual early-season men's college basketball competition that began in 2013. It was formerly named in honor of basketball coach John Wooden, whose UCLA Bruins teams won 10 national championships over the 12 seasons from 1964 to 1975.

UCLA Bruins men's basketball
The UCLA Bruins men's basketball program represents the University of California, Los Angeles, in the sport of men's basketball as a member of the Big Ten Conference. Established in 1919, the program has won a record 11 NCAA titles. Coach John Wooden led the Bruins to 10 national titles in 12 seasons, from 1964 to 1975, including seven straight from 1967 to 1973. UCLA went undefeated a record four times (1964, 1967, 1972, and 1973). Coach Jim Harrick led the team to another NCAA title in 1995. Former coach Ben Howland led UCLA to three consecutive Final Four appearances from 2006 to 2008. As a member of the AAWU, Pacific-8 and then Pacific-10, UCLA set an NCAA Division I record with 13 consecutive regular season conference titles between 1967 and 1979 which stood until tied by Kansas in 2017. UCLA departed the Pac-12 Conference and joined the Big Ten Conference on August 2, 2024.
South of Scotland (European Parliament constituency)
Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European elections in England, Scotland and Wales. The European Parliament constituencies used under that system were smaller than the later regional constituencies and only had one Member of the European Parliament each.

The constituency of South of Scotland was one of them.

Dumfriesshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Dumfriesshire was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of Great Britain (at Westminster) from 1708 to 1801 and in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (also at Westminster) from 1801 until 2005. It was known as Dumfries from 1950.
Actinopus guajara
Actinopus guajara is a species of mygalomorph spider in the family Actinopodidae. It is currently known from the municipality of Guajará-Mirim in Rondônia, Brazil. The specific name guajara refers to its type locality.

The holotype, a male, measures 7.9 mm (0.3 in) in total length.

Actinopodidae
Actinopodidae is a family of mygalomorph spiders found in mainland Australia and South America usually in open forest. Species are most common in Queensland, Australia. It includes mouse spiders (Missulena species), whose bites, though rare, are considered medically significant and potentially dangerous.
Chía (goddess)
The goddess Chía (from the Chibcha language *[ʂia] "the one who is like the moon"), is a triple lunar deity in the religion of the Muisca who inhabited the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in pre-Columbian times. Of central importance to the pantheon, she was worshipped across various Muisca lands.

In one of her many functions, Chía was considered to be the patron deity of the Zipa ruler, who governed the territory encompassing what is now Bogotá. Her ceremonial center was located in or around the city of Chía, Cundinamarca, which was aptly named after the goddess.

The chyquys; priests of the sacred calendar, were in charge of the ceremonies dedicated to the goddess, which included offerings of gold and ceramic artwork.

Altiplano Cundiboyacense
The Altiplano Cundiboyacense (Spanish pronunciation: [altiˈplano kundiβoʝaˈsense]) is a high plateau located in the Eastern Cordillera of the Colombian Andes covering parts of the departments of Cundinamarca and Boyacá. (Do not confuse with The Altiplano or the Altiplano Nariñense, both further south.) The altiplano corresponds to the ancient territory of the Muisca. The Altiplano Cundiboyacense comprises three distinctive flat regions; the Bogotá savanna, the valleys of Ubaté and Chiquinquirá, and the valleys of Duitama and Sogamoso. The average altitude of the altiplano is about 2,600 metres (8,500 ft) above sea level but ranges from roughly 2,500 metres (8,200 ft) to 4,000 metres (13,000 ft).
First Inspectorate-General (Turkey)
The First Inspectorate-General (Turkish: Birinci Umumi Müfettişlik) refers to a former regional administrative area in Turkey. The First Inspectorate-General span over the provinces Hakkâri, Siirt, Şırnak, Mardin, Şanlıurfa, Bitlis, Elazığ and Van.

Siirt Province
Siirt Province, (Turkish: Siirt ili, Kurdish: Parêzgeha Sêrtê; Armenian: Սղերդ զավառ) is a province of Turkey, located in the southeast. The province borders Bitlis to the north, Batman to the west, Mardin to the southwest, Şırnak to the south, and Van to the east. Its area is 5,717 km2, and its population is 331,311 (2022). Its capital is Siirt. It encompasses 12 municipalities, 280 villages and 214 hamlets.

The province is considered part of Turkish Kurdistan and has a Kurdish majority. The current Governor of the Siirt province is Kemal Kızılkaya.
Robert VanderLaan
Robert "Robbie" VanderLaan (c. 1930-November 1, 2015) was a former majority leader of the Michigan State Senate. A Republican, he ran to replace Gerald Ford as representative for Michigan's 5th congressional district in a 1974 special election, but was defeated by Democrat Richard Vander Veen. It was seen as a stunning upset; VanderLaan had previously never lost an election and the district had long been considered a Republican stronghold. He served in the Senate for 20 years in total; after retirement he joined Democrat Bobby Crim in forming a lobbying firm; he also had a career as a lawyer.

Michigan's 5th congressional district
Michigan's 5th congressional district is a United States congressional district in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. It includes all of Branch, Cass, Hillsdale, Jackson, Lenawee, Monroe (except for the city of Milan), and St. Joseph counties, southern Berrien County, most of Calhoun County, and far southern Kalamazoo County. The district is represented by Republican Tim Walberg.

From 1873 to 1993, the 5th was based in the Grand Rapids area of Western Michigan.  Its most notable member was Gerald Ford, who in 1974 became the 38th president of the United States upon the resignation of Richard Nixon, at the height of the Watergate Scandal.

In 1993, this district essentially became the 3rd district, while the 5th was redrawn to take in Bay City, Saginaw and the Thumb, the core of the old 8th district. After the 2000 census, this district was extended to Flint, previously the core of the 9th district; however, it was geographically and demographically the successor of the 9th.
Kunimoto
Kunimoto is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Keisuke Kunimoto (Lee Gyeong-Woo; born 1989), Japanese/Zainichi Korean race car driver

Kiichi Kunimoto (born 1981), Japanese mixed martial artist

Michelle Kunimoto, Canadian astronomer

Takahiro Kunimoto (born 1997), Japanese football player

Takeaki Kunimoto (born 1962), Japanese video game composer

Takeharu Kunimoto (1960–2015), Japanese shamisen player and rōkyoku singer

Yuji Kunimoto (born 1990), Japanese racing driver

Michelle Kunimoto
Michelle Kunimoto (born 1992 or 1993 (age 31–32)) is a Canadian astronomer from Abbotsford, British Columbia, and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Kunimoto had discovered four exoplanet candidates as a UBC undergraduate, using Kepler space telescope data, becoming one of the youngest people to do so in 2016. She was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2017. In 2020, she discovered 17 more.

Kunimoto was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and led MIT's planet search team for NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Mission. She leads the TESS Faint Star Search. As of 2025, she has uncovered more than 3,600 planet candidates, including over 100 confirmed exoplanets. Her discoveries include the HD 101581 and HD 260655 planetary systems.
Anheteromeyenia
Anheteromeyenia is a genus of freshwater sponge. It has been recorded in the Nearctic, the Neotropics. This taxon was initially a subgenus of Heteromeyenia when K. Schöder circumscribed it in 1927, but W. M. de Laubenfels made it a genus in its own right in 1936.

As of 2018, WoRMS recognizes the following species:

Anheteromeyenia argyrosperma (Potts, 1880)

Anheteromeyenia cheguevarai Manconi & Pronzato, 2005

Anheteromeyenia diamantina Calheira & Pinheiro, 2018

Anheteromeyenia ornata (Bonetto & Ezcurra de Drago, 1970) Volkmer-Ribeiro, 1996

Anheteromeyenia vitrea Buso & Volkmer-Ribeiro, 2012

Nearctic realm
The Nearctic realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface.

The Nearctic realm covers most of North America, including Greenland, Central Florida, and the highlands of Mexico. The parts of North America that are not in the Nearctic realm include most of coastal Mexico, southern Mexico, southern Florida, coastal central Florida, Central America, Bermuda and the Caribbean islands. Together with South America, these regions are part of the Neotropical realm.
Antsi language
The Antsi (Anchi) language or Mag-antsi (also Mag-Anchi Ayta) is a Sambalic language with around 4,200 speakers. It is spoken within Philippine Aeta communities in the Zambal municipalities of Botolan, San Marcelino, and Castillejos; in the Tarlaqueño municipalities of Capas and Bamban; in Mabalacat, Pampanga; and in Angeles City. The use of the language is declining as its speakers are shifting to Kapampangan or Ilocano. The language is mutually intelligible with Mag-Indi Ayta (77%) and Ambala Ayta (65%).

Castillejos
Castillejos, officially the Municipality of Castillejos (Ilocano: Ili ti Castillejos; Tagalog: Bayan ng Castillejos), is a municipality in the province of Zambales, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 70,105 people.