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Irvine South (ward)
Irvine South is one of the nine electoral wards of North Ayrshire Council. Created in 2017, the ward elects three councillors using the single transferable vote electoral system and covers an area with a population of 10,887 people.

The area has been politically split with each election returning one Scottish National Party (SNP), one Labour and one Conservative councillor.

North Ayrshire
North Ayrshire (Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Àir a Tuath, pronounced [ˈʃirˠəxk aːɾʲ ə ˈt̪ʰuə]) is one of 32 council areas in Scotland. The council area borders Inverclyde to the north, Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire to the northeast, and East Ayrshire and South Ayrshire to the east and south respectively. The local authority is North Ayrshire Council, formed in 1996 with the same boundaries as the district of Cunninghame, which existed from 1975 to 1996.

Located in the west central Lowlands with the Firth of Clyde to its west, the council area covers the northern portion of the historic county of Ayrshire, in addition to the islands of Arran and The Cumbraes from the historic county of Buteshire. North Ayrshire had an estimated population of 134,010 in 2024. Its largest towns are Irvine and Kilwinning. From 1975 to 1996 under the name Cunninghame it was one of nineteen local government districts in the Strathclyde region.
Ross Wightman
David Ross Wightman (10 August 1929 – 11 January 2012) was a New Zealand rugby union player. Primarily a centre or wing, Wightman represented Otago, Auckland, and Waikato at a provincial level. He was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, on their 1951 tour of Australia, playing in four games although he did not appear in any of the three test matches.

1951 New Zealand rugby union tour of Australia
The 1951 New Zealand tour rugby to Australia was the 18th tour by the New Zealand national rugby union team to Australia.

The last tour of "All Blacks" in Australia was the 1947 tour, then in 1949 were the Australians to visit New Zealand.

All Blacks won all the three test matches and won the Bledisloe Cup, lost in 1949.
Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan
Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan is an Indian-born UK mining and restructuring executive. He is the chairman of Endeavour Mining. He joined Weir Group in January 2021, and BlackRock World Mining Trust in August 2021 both as a non-executive director.

He previously was CEO of Vedanta Resources plc between 2018 and 2020 and was CEO of AngloGold Ashanti Limited between 2013 and 2018, having previously been chief financial officer of the business from 2005, and of Ashanti Goldfields Corporation from 2000.

He is a chartered accountant and commerce graduate from the University of Madras, India.

Endeavour Mining
Endeavour Mining plc is a multinational mining company that owns and operates gold mines in Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Senegal. The company is headquartered in London, England, and is listed on the London Stock Exchange. It is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
The Marriage-Hater Matched
The Marriage-Hater Matched is a comedy play by the English writer Thomas D'Urfey. It was first staged by the United Company at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in January 1692. The original cast included John Bowman as  Brainless, William Mountfort as Sir Philip Freewit, Samuel Sandford as Limber, John Hodgson as  Darewell, Anthony Leigh as Myn Here Van Grin, George Bright as Bias, Thomas Doggett as Solon, William Bowen as Callow, Colley Cibber as Splutter, Elizabeth Barry as  Lady Subtle, Katherine Corey as Lady Bumfiddle, Anne Bracegirdle as Phoebe, Charlotte Butler as La Pupsey and Abigail Lawson as Margery.

John Bowman (actor)
John Bowman (1651–1739) was a British stage actor. He began his career in the Duke's Company at the Dorset Garden Theatre. In 1692, he married Elizabeth Watson, who acted under the name Elizabeth Bowman. He later switched to act at the Drury Lane Theatre. He is also referred to as John Boman.
Brazzaville Foundation
The Brazzaville Foundation is an independent, non-profit organisation based in London. Its goal is to develop initiatives, primarily in Africa, in the fields of conflict prevention and resolution, development, the environment and conservation and to bring countries together in peaceful cooperation. It was first registered in the United Kingdom with the Charity Commission in 2015 and granted special consultative status by the UN Economic and Social Council in 2018.

Jean-Yves Ollivier
Jean-Yves Ollivier (born 8 October 1944 in Algiers, Algeria) is a French businessman who works primarily in the commodities sector in emerging markets.

In addition to his business ventures, Jean-Yves Ollivier is active as a parallel diplomat, using his personal relationships with heads of states to facilitate mediation and peace processes in Africa.

He is the President of the Brazzaville Foundation.
Kongō-zue
The kongō-zue or kongō-jō (金剛杖, 'vajra staff') is a wooden staff carried by yamabushi and pilgrims on the Shikoku Pilgrimage in Japan. The kongō-zue is said to represent the body of Kūkai and to support the pilgrim along the way; as such it is treated with respect, having its "feet" washed and being brought inside at the end of each day's journey. It is inscribed with the chant Namu-Daishi-Henjō-Kongō and Dōgyō-Ninin or "We two pilgrims together". By another tradition, it is carried aloft when crossing a bridge so that it does not touch the ground and wake Kōbō Daishi. Pilgrims leave their kongō-zue at Ōkubo-ji, the final temple, upon completion of the circuit. There is an occasional funerary practice in Shikoku and other parts of Japan whereby the decedent is dressed as a pilgrim and placed in the casket along with a staff and pilgrim's stamp book (nōkyōchō) for their final journey.

Shikoku
Shikoku (四国, Shikoku; pronounced [ɕi̥ꜜ.ko.kɯ, ɕi̥.koꜜ.kɯ] ⓘ, lit. 'four provinces') is the smallest of the four main islands of Japan. It is 225 kilometres (140 miles) long and between 50 and 150 kilometres (30 and 95 miles) wide. It has a population of 3.8 million, the least populated of Japan's four main islands. It is south of Honshu and northeast of Kyushu. Shikoku's ancient names include Iyo-no-futana-shima (伊予之二名島), Iyo-shima (伊予島), and Futana-shima (二名島), and its current name refers to the four former provinces that make up the island: Awa, Tosa, Sanuki, and Iyo.
Hessel (surname)
Hessel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Bernd Hessel (born 1961), West German sprint canoeist

Franz Hessel (1880–1941), German author, translator and lecturer

Katja Hessel (born 1972), German politician

Lasse Hessel (1940–2019), Danish doctor and inventor

Johann F. C. Hessel (1796–1872), German physician and mineralogist

Mats Hessel (born 1961), Swedish ice hockey player

Phoebe Hessel (1713–1812), woman who disguised herself as a man in order to serve in the British Army

Stéphane Hessel (1917–2013), French Resistance fighter, diplomat, and writer

Stéphane Hessel
Stéphane Frédéric Hessel (born Stefan Friedrich Kaspar Hessel; 20 October 1917 – 26 February 2013) was a French diplomat, ambassador, writer, concentration camp survivor, Resistance member and BCRA agent. Born German, he became a naturalised French citizen in 1939. He became an observer of the editing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. In 2011 he was named by Foreign Policy magazine in its list of top global thinkers. In later years his activism focused on economic inequalities, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and protection for the post–World War II social vision. His short book Time for Outrage! sold 4.5 million copies worldwide. Hessel and his book were linked and cited as an inspiration for the Spanish Indignados, the Arab Spring, the American Occupy Wall Street movement and other political movements.
2009 Sony Ericsson Open – Women's doubles
Katarina Srebotnik and Ai Sugiyama were the defending champions, but Srebotnik chose not to participate this year due to injury.

Ai Sugiyama partnered with Daniela Hantuchová, but lost in the first round to Petra Martić and Coco Vandeweghe.

Petra Martić
Petra Martić (Croatian pronunciation: [pêtra mâːrtitɕ]; born 19 January 1991) is a Croatian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 14, achieved in January 2020. Martić has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour, one singles and one doubles tournament on the WTA Challenger Tour, plus four singles and five doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
Sir Thomas White, 2nd Baronet
Sir Thomas Woollaston White, 2nd Baronet, of Tuxford and Wallingwells (3 October 1801 – 7 August 1882), was 16 years old when he succeeded his father Sir Thomas White, 1st Baronet, in his titles and estates. Being a minor when he succeeded, he was cared for by two guardians, Sir Frederick Gustavus Fowke, Bt., of Lowesby Hall in the County of Leicestershire, and his cousin Henry Gally Knight of Langold. Gally Knight was a well-known archaeologist and the author of Ecclesiastical Architecture of Italy and Normandy, amongst others.

White attended Rugby School in Warwickshire, before joining the 16th Lancers.

3rd The King's Own Hussars
The 3rd (The King's Own) Hussars was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, first raised in 1685. It saw service for three centuries, including the First and the Second World Wars, before being amalgamated with the 7th Queen's Own Hussars, to form the Queen's Own Hussars in November 1958.
Jan Šimbera
Jan Šimbera (born 3 November 1951) is a Czech former professional tennis player who competed for Czechoslovakia during the 1970s. He has served as team captain of the Czech Republic Fed Cup team, which included an appearance in the semi-finals in 2000.

Šimbera won the Scandinavian Championships in 1975 and qualified for two grand slam singles main draws during his career. He debuted at the 1977 French Open, where he lost his first round match to Pavel Huťka in five sets. At the 1978 Wimbledon Championships he beat former quarter-finalist Charlie Pasarell during his qualifying run, then won his first round match over Andrew Jarrett.

1977 French Open
The 1977 French Open was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. The tournament ran from 23 May until 5 June. It was the 76th staging of the French Open, and the second Grand Slam tennis event of 1977.
Robert Terry (cricketer)
Robert Jenkin Terry (January 1829 – 23 February 1908) was an English amateur cricketer who played in four first-class cricket matches between 1858 and 1860.

Terry was christened at Lydd in Kent in January 1829. He played for the Gentlemen of Kent cricket team, making three of his first-class appearances as well as playing in at least two minor matches for the team. In 1860 he made a single first-class appearance for Kent County Cricket Club during Canterbury Cricket Week.

Terry, a farmer, suffered bankruptcy in 1862. He died at Ramsgate in Kent in February 1908 aged 79.

Lydd
Lydd is a town and electoral ward in Kent, England, lying on Romney Marsh. It is one of the larger settlements on the marsh, and the most southerly town in Kent. Lydd reached the height of its prosperity during the 13th century, when it was a corporate member of the Cinque Ports, a "limb" of Romney. Located on Denge Marsh, Lydd was one of the first sandy islands to form as the bay filled in and evolved into what is now called Romney Marsh.

The parish of Lydd comprises the town of Lydd, Dungeness, Lydd-on-Sea and parts of Greatstone-on-Sea.

Notable buildings in Lydd include the Gordon house longhall, a guildhall, and a medieval courthouse. Chamberlains and churchwardens' accounts of the 15th century survive alongside the town charters.

Lydd lies to the southwest of New Romney and east of Rye.
2025 CAFA U-17 Women's Championship
The 2025 CAFA U-17 Women's Championship was the third edition of the CAFA U-17 Women's Championship, the biennial international women's youth football championship organised by Central Asian Football Association (CAFA) for the women's under-17 national teams of Central Asia. It took place in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, from March 4 to 8, 2025. A total of four teams, including host Tajikistan, took part in the tournament.

Uzbekistan were two-time defending champions having won the first two editions of the tournament. and successfully defended their title.

Uzbekistan women's national under-17 football team
The Uzbekistan women's national U-17 football team (Uzbek: Oʻzbekiston ayollar milliy futbol terma jamoasi) is the female age of under-17 team representative football team for Uzbekistan. It has played in two AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup but has not yet qualified for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.
Kyburg (castle)
47°27′31″N 8°44′37″E﻿ / ﻿47.4585°N 8.7435°E﻿ / 47.4585; 8.7435

Kyburg Castle (German: Schloss Kyburg) is a castle in Switzerland, overlooking the Töss river about 3 km south-east of Winterthur, in Kyburg municipality, canton of Zürich.  It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance
The Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance (German: Schweizerisches Inventar der Kulturgüter von nationaler und regionaler Bedeutung; French: Inventaire suisse des biens culturels d'importance nationale et régionale; Italian: Inventario dei beni culturali svizzeri d'importanza nazionale e regionale) is a register of cultural property in Switzerland. It was established according to article 5 of the second protocol to the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, which provides for the establishment of national registers of cultural property.
Steve Foucault
Steven Raymond Foucault (born October 3, 1949) is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher from 1973 to 1978 for the Texas Rangers, Detroit Tigers, and Kansas City Royals. Foucault attended Miami Coral Park Senior High and South Georgia College He was traded from the Rangers to the Tigers for Willie Horton on April 12, 1977.

For his career, he compiled a 35-36 record, with a 3.21 ERA, 307 strikeouts and 52 saves in 277 appearances.  In 2007 Foucault was hired as pitching coach for the Newark Bears of the independent Atlantic League, helping lead the team to the 2007 Atlantic League championship. In 2009-10 He was the pitching coach for the Evansville Otters. Currently he is the pitching coach for the Long Island Ducks.

For a period of time in the 1980s he was a police officer in Arlington, Texas.

Steven Foucault's parents are Betty J Foucault and Raymond Foucault.

Evansville Otters
The Evansville Otters are a professional baseball team based in Evansville, Indiana.  They compete in the Frontier League (FL) as a member of the Central Division. Since their relocation from Lancaster, Ohio in 1995, the Otters have played at Bosse Field, which originally opened in 1915. The Otters are the oldest current team in the Frontier League and have reached the postseason fourteen times, winning Frontier League championships in 2006 and 2016.
Alberto Blanco (weightlifter)
Alberto Blanco Fernández (born 17 February 1950) is a Cuban weightlifter. He competed in the middle heavyweight and First heavyweight class, representing Cuba at international competitions. He won the bronze medal at the 1977, 1979 and 1980 World Weightlifting Championships. He won the bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in the 100 kg event. He also participated at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He won the gold medal at the 1979 Pan American Games in the Sub-Heavyweight class (357.5 kg).

Weightlifting at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 kg
These are the results of the Men's Heavyweight I Weightlifting Event (– 100 kg) at the 1980 Olympic Weightlifting competition in Moscow. A total of 18 men competed in this event, limited to competitors with a maximum body weight of 100 kilograms.

Each weightlifter had three attempts for both the snatch and clean and jerk lifting methods. The total of the best successful lift of each method was used to determine the final rankings and medal winners. Competition took place on 28 July in the Izmailovo Sports Palace.
The Saint (film series)
The Saint (film series) refers to eight B movies made by RKO Radio Pictures between 1938 and 1941, based on some of the books in British author Leslie Charteris' long-running series about the fictional character Simon Templar, better known as The Saint.

Leslie Charteris
Leslie Charteris (/ˈtʃɑːrtərɪs/; born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin; 12 May 1907 – 15 April 1993), was a British-Chinese author of adventure fiction, as well as a screenwriter. He was best known for his many books chronicling the adventures of his hero Simon Templar, alias "The Saint".
Rivière des Rochers
Rivière des Rochers (French for "River of Rocks") is a river in Alberta in the Peace–Athabasca Delta and Wood Buffalo National Park. It is the main outflow of Lake Athabasca and flows northward, around many islands, and meets with the Peace River to form the Slave River.  During high water level periods in the late spring and summer, the flow of the Rivière des Rochers can sometimes reverse, with water flowing from the Peace River system back into Lake Athabasca.

Peace–Athabasca Delta
The Peace–Athabasca Delta, located in northeast Alberta, is the largest freshwater inland river delta in North America. It is located partially within the southeast corner of Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada's largest national park, and also spreads into the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, west and south of the historical community of Fort Chipewyan. The delta encompasses approximately 321,200 hectares (794,000 acres), formed where the Peace and Athabasca rivers converge on the Slave River and Lake Athabasca. The delta region is designated a wetland of international importance and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  The region is large enough that it is considered one of twenty distinct natural subregions of Alberta by the provincial government's Natural Regions Committee.
Ponte dell'Olio
Ponte dell'Olio (Piacentino: Al Pont da l'Oli [ɐl ˈpoŋt dɐ ˈlɔli]) is a comune (municipality) in the province of Piacenza, in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, located about 22 kilometres (14 mi) south of Piacenza, about 85 kilometres (53 mi) south of Milan and about 160 kilometres (99 mi) northwest of Bologna. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 4,917 and an area of 44.0 square kilometres (17.0 sq mi).

Among the sites is the Castello di Riva located next to the river Nure. The castle is privately owned and undergoing restoration.

The municipality of Ponte dell'Olio contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Folignano, Torrano, Zaffignano, Castione, Sarmata, Monte Santo, Biana, and Cassano.

Ponte dell'Olio borders the following municipalities: Bettola, Gropparello, San Giorgio Piacentino, Vigolzone.

Bettola
Bettola (Piacentino: La Bëtla [lɐ ˈbətlɐ] or Bétula [ˈbetulɐ]) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Piacenza in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 140 kilometres (87 mi) west of Bologna and about 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of Piacenza.
Zalifa Bente Salim
Zalifa Bente Salim is a Malagasy politician and the Queen of the Sakalava-Analalava kingdom.

She had been a daughter of the queen Augustine  Soazara and of the governor Salimo Ben Issa and was born in 1958.

Sakalava people
The Sakalava are an ethnic group primarily found on the western edge of Madagascar, ranging from Toliara in the south to the Sambirano River in the north. They constitute about 6.2 percent of the total population of Madagascar, or about 2,079,000 in 2018.

The origin of the word Sakalava is not fully known. The most common explanation is that their name means "people of the long valleys", or a similar modern Malagasy translation of long ravines, which denotes the relatively flat nature of the land in western Madagascar. Another theory is that the word is possibly from the Arabic saqaliba (which is in turn derived from Late Latin sclavus), meaning slave.
Mata Redonda Wildlife Refuge
The Mata Redonda Wildlife Refuge is a Wildlife refuge of Costa Rica, part of the Tempisque Conservation Area, which protects tropical forest and wetlands near the Tempisque River and the town of Rosario, Guanacaste.

It consists of seasonal palustrine wetland and contains habitats suitable for over 60 species of resident and migratory water birds, including black-bellied whistling ducks and jabiru.

Black-bellied whistling duck
The black-bellied whistling duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis), formerly called the black-bellied tree duck, is a whistling duck that before 2000 bred mainly in the southernmost United States, Mexico, and tropical Central to south-central South America. It can be found year-round in much of the United States. It has been recorded in every eastern state and adjacent Canadian province. Since it is one of only two whistling duck species native to North America, it is occasionally just known as the "whistling duck" or "Mexican squealer" in the southern USA.
General Assembly of Aberdeen
The disastrous General Assembly of Aberdeen was held in 1605. A few ministers of the Presbyterian party met in defiance of royal authority as the general assembly was prohibited by royal proclamation. There was doubt about the legality of the sederunt and the cancelling or the prorogation of the assembly; several of the ministers denied that the king had the authority in what they regarded as a purely spiritual matter. The king disagreed and several who met were tried at Linlithgow for high treason and exiled. They were: John Forbes of Alford; John Welch of Ayr, (the son-in-law of John Knox); Andrew Duncan; Robert Dury, Anstruther; Alexander Strachan, Creich; and John Sharp, Kilmany. After the assembly King James gave more power to his bishops.

Creich, Fife
Creich (Scottish Gaelic: Craoich,  pronounced [kʰɾɯːç]; OS: Criech), is a hamlet in Fife, Scotland.

The local parish is named after Creich. The ruins of Creich Castle are located nearby. The ruins of Parbroath Castle are also in Criech parish.

The civil parish has a population of 190 (in 2011).

The name of the village derives from Scottish Gaelic but is obscure in its current form. It may derive from creachann meaning a rocky, treeless summit.
Central Casting
Central Casting is an American casting company that specializes in the casting of extras, body doubles, and stand-ins. It was founded in Los Angeles in 1925, with additional offices opening in New York City, New Orleans, and Atlanta in the 21st century.

In popular usage, a person may be said to be "straight out of central casting" if their demeanor is felt to be stereotypical in nature, typically for their vocation or other attributes.

Casting (performing arts)
In the performing arts industry such as theatre, film, or television, casting, or a casting call, is a pre-production process for selecting a certain type of actor, dancer, singer, or extra to land the role of a character in a script, screenplay, or teleplay. This process may be used for a motion picture, television program, documentary film, music video, play, or advertisement intended for an audience.
Miraculin
Miraculin is a taste modifier, a glycoprotein extracted from the fruit of Synsepalum dulcificum. The berry, also known as the miracle fruit, was documented by explorer Chevalier des Marchais, who searched for many different fruits during a 1725 excursion to its native West Africa.

Miraculin itself does not taste sweet. When taste buds are exposed to miraculin, the protein binds to the sweetness receptors. This causes normally sour-tasting acidic foods, such as citrus, to be perceived as sweet. The effect can last for one or two hours.

Xylose
Xylose (cf. Ancient Greek: ξύλον, xylon, "wood") is a common monosaccharide, i.e. a simple sugar. Xylose is classified as aldopentose type, which means that it contains five carbon atoms and includes an aldehyde functional group, at least in its open-chain form.  It is abundant in biomass, and is one of the most abundant sugars in nature.  It is a white, water-soluble solid.