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Railway electrification in the Soviet Union
While the former Soviet Union got a late (and slow) start with rail electrification in 1926 it eventually became the world leader in electrification in terms of the volume of traffic under the wires.  During its last 30 years the Soviet Union hauled about as much rail freight as all the other countries in the world combined and in the end, over 60% of this was by electric locomotives.  Electrification was cost effective due to the very high density of traffic and was at times projected to yield at least a 10% return on electrification investment (to replace diesel traction).  By 1990, the electrification was about half 3 kV DC and half 25 kV AC 50 Hz and 70% of rail passenger-km was by electric railways.

Kilowatt-hour
A kilowatt-hour (unit symbol: kW⋅h or kW h; commonly written as kWh) is a non-SI unit of energy equal to 3.6 megajoules (MJ) in SI units, which is the energy delivered by one kilowatt of power for one hour. Kilowatt-hours are a common billing unit for electrical energy supplied by electric utilities. Metric prefixes are used for multiples and submultiples of the basic unit, the watt-hour (3.6 kJ).
2007–08 Davidson Wildcats men's basketball team
The 2007–08 Davidson Wildcats men's basketball team represented Davidson College in NCAA men's Division I competition during the 2007–08 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

Coached by 2008 NABC Coach of the Year Bob McKillop and led by consensus Second Team All-American guard Stephen Curry, the Wildcats completed an undefeated season in the Southern Conference and reached the 2008 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament Elite 8, upsetting Gonzaga, Georgetown, and Wisconsin before falling to eventual national champion Kansas 59–57. This marked the first time that Davidson won a tournament game since the 1969 season, when the Wildcats reached the Elite Eight under then-coach Lefty Driesell.

2007–08 Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team
During the 2007–08 season, the Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team, from Gonzaga University in Washington state, played in the West Coast Conference and the Great Alaska Shootout. The team won 25 matches and lost 8, but lost in the first round of the 2008 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
Mike Pellicciotti
Michael John Pellicciotti (born July 17, 1978) is an American attorney and politician who has served as the 24th Washington State Treasurer since 2021. He previously served as a Democratic member of the Washington House of Representatives for the 30th legislative district, which includes Federal Way, Algona, Auburn, Pacific, Milton, and Des Moines from 2017 to 2021.

Auburn, Washington
Auburn is a city in King County, Washington, United States (with a small portion crossing into neighboring Pierce County). The population was 87,256 at the 2020 Census, and was estimated at 85,513 in 2024. Auburn is a suburb in the Seattle metropolitan area, and is currently ranked as the 15th most populous city in the state of Washington.

The Muckleshoot Indian Reservation lies to the south and southeast.
Sonae Indústria
Sonae Indústria is a manufacturer of engineered wood products, founded and headquartered in Maia, Portugal.  Present in five countries within three continents, Sonae Indústria has a wide range of products, from simple board to complete construction systems, a large range of wood-based products and materials for furniture, construction and decoration.

George Howarth
Sir George Edward Howarth (born 29 June 1949) is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Knowsley until 2024. He also served the seat's predecessors since being elected in a by-election in 1986, firstly as the MP for Knowsley North (until 1997) and then Knowsley North and Sefton East (1997–2010).
2022–23 Northern Premier League
The 2022–23 season was the 55th season of the Northern Premier League. The league consists of four divisions, the Premier Division at Step 3 of the National League System, and the West, East and Midlands divisions at Step 4. The NPL continued this season with main sponsors Entain's Pitching In.

The allocations for Step 4 this season were announced by The Football Association (FA) on 12 May 2022.

National League System (football)
The National League System comprises the six levels of the English football league system immediately below the level of the English Football League. It comes under the jurisdiction of the Football Association. The National League System has a hierarchical format with promotion and relegation between leagues at different levels. For details of leagues above and below the National League System, see the English football league system.

The system underwent a rearrangement from 2004 to 2008 and was rearranged again in 2018. Phase one went into operation in 2004–05. At the start of the 2006–07 season, phase two was introduced, and a further phase three started from 2007–08 with the starting of a second Step 4 league in the north of England. Phase four took effect in 2018–19. Ahead of the 2020–21 season, Step 7 was abolished, being replaced by feeder leagues overseen by local county FAs.
Lalit Mohan Banerjee
Lalit Mohan Banerjee was an Indian surgeon, medical academic and the first medical professional to receive the degree of Master of Surgery from the University of Calcutta. He was a professor of surgery at R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital of the Calcutta University and the personal surgeon to the President of India. He was one of the founders of the Association of Surgeons of India and was its third president (1941–1942). It was during this period, he had an opportunity to operate on Rabindranath Tagore, the renowned poet and Nobel Laureate. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 1955, for his contributions to medical science. A road in Sodepur has been named after him as Dr. L. M. Banerjee Road.

India portal

Medicine portal

Sodepur
Sodepur (also known as Sodpur) is a neighbourhood in Panihati of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA).
2006–07 Toto Cup Leumit
The 2006–07 Toto Cup Leumit was the 18th time the cup was being contested. The final was played at Kiryat Eliezer Stadium on 13 February 2007.

The winners were Ironi Kiryat Shmona, beating Bnei Sakhnin on penalties in the final after a 1–1 after 120 minutes.

Bnei Sakhnin F.C.
Bnei Sakhnin F.C. (Arabic: اتحاد أبناء سخنين, romanized: Ittiḥād ’Abnā’ Saḫnīn, Hebrew: איחוד בני סכנין, romanized: Iḥud Bnei Sakhnin, lit. 'Sons of Sakhnin United') is an Israeli professional football club based at the Doha Stadium in Sakhnin. They are the most successful club among the Arab-Israeli clubs in the country, having won the State Cup in 2004.
2021 World Athletics Relays – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay
The men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2021 World Athletics Relays has been held at the Silesian Stadium on 1 and 2 May.

Only 18 teams participated of 24 possible qualifiers, with the USA (CR), Jamaica (WR), Canada, Great Britain, Trinidad and Tobago, and China (WL) not entering.
On the 19 teams qualified by entry standard (38.80), Thailand and Chinese Taipei also declined to participate, same as Australia, first of the following top list. The 10 best placed teams will qualify for the 2022 World Championships in Eugene.

5 nations which made the men’s 4x100m final at the 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha are entered – Brazil, France, Japan, the Netherlands and South Africa – their qualification for Tokyo is also already secured. The 8 finalist teams will join them if different ones.

Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification
For the athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics competitions, the following qualification systems were in place. Qualification ended on 29 June 2021, but for marathon and 50 km race walking, it ended on 31 May 2021. Some 1900 athletes, from 196 countries, competed. 103 countries qualified also through Universality places (initially 101, 61 men and 40 women).
Leônidas (footballer, born 1913)
Leônidas da Silva (Portuguese pronunciation: [leˈõnidɐz dɐ ˈsiwvɐ]; 6 September 1913 – 24 January 2004) was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward. He is regarded as one of the most important players of the first half of the 20th century. At the height of his career, Leônidas was very popular amongst the people of Brazil and Rio de Janeiro. Leônidas played for Brazil national team in the 1934 and 1938 World Cups, and was the top scorer of the latter tournament. He was known as the "Black Diamond" and the "Rubber Man" due to his agility.

Campeonato Brasileiro de Seleções Estaduais
The Campeonato Brasileiro de Seleções Estaduais was a Brazilian football tournament contested by state teams. It was Brazil's most important football competition until the 1950s. Its last edition was played in 1987, when the CBF tried to revive the competition.
Saint Georges Road
Saint Georges Road is the nineteenth studio album by Australian blues rock band, The Black Sorrows. The album was released on 10 September 2021. The album sees the band reunite with English producer Peter Solley, who produced Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons' 1979 album, Screaming Targets, which featured Joe Camilleri's first Top 40 hits "Hit and Run"  and "Shape I'm In".

The album will be supported with Australian Livin' Like Kings tour.

Shape I'm In (Jo Jo Zep & the Falcons song)
"Shape I'm In" is a pop song written by Joe Camilleri, Jeff Burstin and Tony Faehse and recorded by Australian blues, rock and R&B band Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons. The song was released in October 1979 as the second single from the band's fourth studio album Screaming Targets (1979).

The song peaked at number 22 on the Kent Music Report in Australia.
Chuck Boerio
Charles M. Boerio (March 9, 1930 – September 30, 2011) was an American football player who played the linebacker position. He played at the college football at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was named All-American and All-Big Ten Conference in 1951. He was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the twentieth round of the 1952 NFL draft and was a member of the team that season.

Boerio later served two years in the United States Air Force where he played football for the Bowling Air Force Base at Washington D.C. In the late 1950s, he became a football coach, including as an assistant for the Colorado Buffaloes and the Cincinnati Bearcats.

1952 NFL draft
The 1952 NFL draft was held on January 17, 1952, at Hotel Statler in New York. Selections made by New York Yanks were assigned to the new Dallas Texans.

This was the sixth year that the first overall pick was a bonus pick determined by lottery, with the previous five winners (Chicago Bears in 1947, Washington Redskins in 1948, Philadelphia Eagles in 1949, Detroit Lions in 1950, and New York Giants in 1951) ineligible from the draw; it was won by the Los Angeles Rams, who selected quarterback Bill Wade.

The Washington Post sportswriter Mo Siegel later claimed that Washington Redskins owner George Preston Marshall let him choose a late-round pick. Siegel, he said, chose Tennessee Tech's Flavious Smith to force the first black player onto the all-white Redskins. If true, Marshall likely persuaded NFL Commissioner Bert Bell to remove the choice from the official records. (Smith, who did not hear the story until years later, was white.)
Huang Qibin
Huang Qibin OLY (Chinese: 黄齐滨, born July 5, 2006) is a Chinese Formula Kite professional sailing athlete.  He became the Asian & Oceania champion In 2023.

In August 2023, Huang qualified for the Paris Olympics by finishing 7th overall and entering the men's medal series at the 2023 Sailing World Championships. In December 2023, he secured the bronze medal in the men's category at the Zhuhai Grand Final of the 2023 Kitefoil World Series. On June 2, 2024, Huang was selected for the China National Sailing and Windsurfing Team to compete in the Paris Olympics.

In August, 2024, Huang placed 10th place in the Olympic Men's Kite category.

OLY
OLY (/ˌoʊɛlˈwaɪ/ OH-el-WY) are post-nominal letters granted by the World Olympians Association (WOA) to registered athletes who have participated in the Olympic Games. The initiative was launched in 2017, and in 2022, post-nominal title PLY was introduced for Paralympic participants.
Natalya Medvedeva (actress)
Natalya Pavlovna Medvedeva (Russian: Наталья Павловна Медведева, 18 December 1915 – 12 August 2007) was a Soviet film and stage actress.

Medvedeva's mother was an actress, whereas her father, Pavel Nikolaevich Medvedev, was a literary scholar and President of St. Petersburg Union of Writers; he was executed in 1938 and rehabilitated in 1957. Medvedeva studied acting at the Saint Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy (1939–1943). She was already married by then, and when her husband was sent to Sverdlovsk, she followed him there and in 1943–1944 acted at the Sverdlovsk drama theater. Next year the family moved to Moscow, where Medveva worked in drama theaters and since 1952 acted in films and TV series. She retired in 1979 and focused on raising her daughter Galina.

Russian State Institute of Performing Arts
The Russian State Institute of Performing Arts (Russian: Российский государственный институт сценических искусств), formerly known as St Petersburg Theatre Arts Academy, formerly Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music, and Cinema (LGITMiK), is a theatre school in Saint Petersburg. It is the oldest Russian state theatre school, being founded in 1779, and has incorporated several mergers of other institutions during its history, including the Ostrovsky Leningrad Theatre Institute and the Leningrad Institute of Art History.

It is located at 34 Mokhovaya Street.
Pisore Khand
Pisore Khand is a Town Panchayat (T.P.) in the Shrigonda taluka block of the Ahmednagar district in the Indian State of Maharashtra. The original name of the village was Pisore, but this name was changed to Pisore Khand to distinguish it from another village in the same block. A historical palace remains, built by Ahilyabai Holker of the Holker Family of King Pan Pohi.

Ahmednagar district
Ahmednagar district (Marathi pronunciation: [əɦ(ə)məd̪nəɡəɾ]), officially Ahilyanagar district, is the largest district of Maharashtra state in western India. The historical city of Ahmednagar is the headquarters of the district. Ahmednagar and Sangamner are the largest cities in the district. It was the seat of the Ahmednagar Sultanate of late medieval period (1496–1636 CE). This district is known for the towns of Shirdi associated with Sai Baba, Meherabad associated with Meher Baba, Shani Shinganapur with Shanidev, and Devgad with Lord Dattatreya. Ahmednagar district is part of Nashik Division. The district is bordered by Aurangabad district to the northeast, Nashik district to the northwest, Thane and Pune districts to the southwest, Solapur district to the south and Beed district to the southeast.
Ha'ir
Ha'ir (Hebrew: העיר, lit The City) is a weekly local newspaper published in Tel Aviv, Israel. The tabloid-sized newspaper was first published in October 1980. Since April 2005 when there was a major shakeup in the business structure of newspaper's publisher, Schocken Group, it has been distributed for free.

Ha'ir is published on a Thursday evening, and is distributed throughout the metropolitan area of Tel Aviv through newspaper stands.

One of Ha'ir's supplements is Akhbar Ha'ir (Hebrew: עכבר העיר, lit. City Mouse), a Tel Aviv entertainment guide.

In December 2009, distribution of Ha'ir was stopped to residents of Holon and Petah Tikva after research with focus groups found that residents are not interested in the content that is seen as more relevant to Tel Avivians.

Petah Tikva
32°05′20″N 34°53′11″E﻿ / ﻿32.08889°N 34.88639°E﻿ / 32.08889; 34.88639

Petah Tikva (Hebrew: פתח תקווה, pronounced [ˈpetaχ ˈtikva] ⓘ), also spelt Petah Tiqwa and known informally as Em HaMoshavot (lit. 'Mother of the Moshavot, or colonies'), is a city in the Central District of Israel, 10.6 km (6.6 mi) east of Tel Aviv. It was founded in 1878, mainly by Haredi Jews of the Old Yishuv, and became a permanent settlement in 1883 with the financial help of Edmond Rothschild.

In 2023, the city had a population of 267,196, thus being the fourth-largest city in Israel. Its population density is approximately 6,277 inhabitants per square kilometre (16,260/sq mi). Its jurisdiction covers 35,868 dunams (~35.9 km2 or 15 sq mi). Petah Tikva is part of the Gush Dan metropolitan area.
Paula Gopee-Scoon
Paula Gopee-Scoon (born 18 April 1958) is a Trinidad and Tobago politician. She was MP for Point Fortin in the House of Representatives and a government minister. Formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs for Trinidad and Tobago from 2007 to 2010, she was appointed the Minister of Trade and Industry on September 11, 2015. She was reappointed August 19, 2020, following the 2020 Trinidad and Tobago general election. She attended the University of the West Indies, where she received a B.Sc, and after that the University of London. She has three children, one of whom was a squash player at Princeton University.

2020 Trinidad and Tobago general election
General elections were held in Trinidad and Tobago on 10 August 2020, to elect 41 members to the 12th Trinidad and Tobago Republican Parliament. It was the 14th election since gaining independence from the United Kingdom in 1962 and the 22nd national election in Trinidad and Tobago. The result was a victory for the incumbent People's National Movement, which received 49.05% of the vote and won 22 of the 41 seats in the House of Representatives.
Murphy Brown Lied to Us
"Murphy Brown Lied to Us" is the eighteenth episode of the sixth season of the American television comedy series 30 Rock, and the 121st overall episode of the series. It was directed by John Riggi, and written by Robert Carlock and Vali Chandrasekaran. The episode originally aired on NBC in the United States on April 19, 2012.

In the episode, Liz (Tina Fey) reconsiders her decision to not have a child; Jenna (Jane Krakowski) stages a celebrity breakdown to bring Paul back to her; and Jack (Alec Baldwin) runs into production problems at his new couch factory.

John Riggi
John Riggi is an American television writer, producer, director, and actor who has worked on various television shows.  He is from Cincinnati, Ohio.  He attended high school at Elder High School, in Cincinnati, OH, and graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1978 with a degree in biology.

He has worked as a writer on the NBC comedy series 30 Rock. He was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedy Series at the February 2009 ceremony for his work on the third season of 30 Rock.
Kenneth Brown (playwright)
Kenneth Brown is a playwright, actor, director and producer (born 20 January 1954) who has been active in theatre since 1971.   He is an author or co-author of the following plays:

Bombs!

Letters in Wartime

Life After Hockey (1985)  (There is also a film version)

My Father's House

Nightlight

North of America (There is a German radio play version of this, called Nach Manitoba which was translated by Werner Richter for Westdeutscher Rundfunk and went on air for the first time in 1993)

Sparks

The Adventures of Joseph Andrews (1998)

The Bridge

2 Balance (2000)

Be A Man (with Ribbit Productions, 2001)

Lewis Lapham Live

Spiral Dive Trilogy (2008)

Cowboy Gothic (2011)

The Gambling Show (with Ribbit Productions, 2010)

Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (pronounced [ˈvɛstˌdɔʏtʃɐ ˈʁʊntfʊŋk ˈkœln]; "West German Broadcasting Cologne"), shortened to WDR (pronounced [ˌveːdeːˈʔɛʁ] ⓘ), is a German public-broadcasting institution based in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office in Cologne. WDR is a constituent member of the consortium of German public-broadcasting institutions, ARD. As well as contributing to the output of the national television channel Das Erste, WDR produces the regional television service WDR Fernsehen (formerly known as WDF and West3) and six regional radio networks.
2014 Nürnberger Versicherungscup
The 2014 Nürnberger Versicherungscup was a professional women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the second edition of the tournament, and part of the WTA International tier of the 2014 WTA Tour. It took place at the Tennis-Club 1. FC Nürnberg in Nuremberg, Germany, from 18 May until 24 May 2014. Second-seeded Eugenie Bouchard won the singles title.

Montserrat González
Montserrat González Benítez (Latin American Spanish: [monseˈrat ɣonˈsales βeˈnites]; born 1 July 1994) is a Paraguayan former tennis player.

In her career, González won eleven singles titles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 12 September 2016, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 150. On 19 June 2017, she peaked at No. 170 in the doubles rankings.

Playing for the Paraguay Fed Cup team, González has a win–loss record of 42–20.

She announced her retirement from professional tennis in 2021.
2025 European League of Football season
The 2025 ELF season is the fifth season of the European League of Football, a professional American football league based in Europe. Sixteen teams from nine countries will participate. The season started on May 17, 2025, and will conclude with the ELF Championship Game in the MHPArena Stuttgart, Germany on September 7, 2025.

Vienna Vikings
The Vienna Vikings is a professional American football club based in Vienna, Austria. Founded in 1983, the Vikings are known as one of Europe's most dominant clubs, having won the Eurobowl title five times (2004–2007 and 2013), as well as being the runner-up five times (2001, 2003, 2008, 2010 and 2012). In the national championship, the Vikings hold the record of 16 Austrian Bowl victories. Since the 2022 season, they’ve been members of the European League of Football. The second team is still part of the Austrian Football League (AFL).
Ko Tin-lung
Ko Tin-lung (1954 – 23 June 2022) was a Hong Kong actor, director and playwright. He became the first Chinese artistic director for Chung Ying Theatre Company.

Over his career of nearly four decades, he helped produce hundreds of plays, most notably One of the Lucky Ones (1990), I Have a Date With Spring (1992) and The Mad Phoenix (1993). He won four Hong Kong Drama Awards in the categories Best Actor and Best Director. He died in June 2022 in his sleep at the age of 69.

The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. A merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan taken out on behalf of his dear friend, Bassanio, and provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock, with seemingly inevitable fatal consequences.

Although classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is most remembered for its dramatic scenes, and it is best known for the character Shylock and his famous demand for a "pound of flesh".

The play contains two famous speeches, that of Shylock, "Hath not a Jew eyes?" on the subject of humanity, and that of Portia on "the quality of mercy". Debate exists on whether the play is antisemitic, with Shylock's insistence on his legal right to the pound of flesh being in opposition to his seemingly universal plea for the rights of all people suffering discrimination.