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Astara, Iran
Astara (Persian: آستارا; pronounced [ɒstaɾɒ] ⓘ) is a city in the Central District of Astara County, Gilan province, Iran, serving as the capital of both the county and the district. It lies on the border with the Republic of Azerbaijan and on the Caspian Sea.  It is an important border trade center between Iran and the Caucasus Region.

Azerbaijan–Iran border
The Republic of Azerbaijan–Iran border (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Respublikası–İran sərhədi, Persian: مرز آذربایجان و ایران) is 689 km (428 mi) in length and consists of two non-contiguous sections separated by the 44-km long Armenia–Iran border.
Oil on Canvas
Oil on Canvas is a live album by the English band Japan, released in June 1983 by Virgin Records. It was released six months after the band had broken up, and became their highest charting album in the UK, peaking at number 5. It has been certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry for sales in excess of 100,000 copies.

Mick Karn
Andonis Michaelides (Greek: Αντώνης Μιχαηλίδης; 24 July 1958 – 4 January 2011), better known as Mick Karn, was a Greek Cypriot musician who rose to fame as the bassist for the art rock and new wave band Japan. His distinctive fretless bass guitar sound and melodic playing style were a trademark of the band's sound.
John Macready (British Army officer)
Brigadier John Macready (1887–27 February 1957) was a British Army officer who served with the Bedfordshire Regiment in Europe in World War I and in India. His father was Jonathan F. Macready, a son of the celebrated Victorian actor-theatre  manager W.C.Macready.

Brigadier (United Kingdom)
Brigadier (Brig) is a senior rank in the British Army and the Royal Marines. Brigadier is the superior rank to colonel and subordinate to major-general. It corresponds to the rank of brigadier general in many other nations, although it is not considered to be a general officer rank in the United Kingdom.

The rank has a NATO rank code of OF-6, placing it equivalent to the Royal Navy commodore and the Royal Air Force air commodore ranks and the brigadier general (1-star general) rank of the United States military and numerous other NATO nations.
Michel Trenchant
Michel Trenchant (born 1 February 1945) is a French retired slalom canoeist who competed in the 1960s and 1970s. He won a bronze medal in the C-1 team event at the 1969 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Bourg St.-Maurice. Trenchant also finished 12th in the C-1 event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

Canoeing at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's slalom C-1
These are the results of the men's C-1 slalom competition in canoeing at the 1972 Summer Olympics. The C-1 (canoe single) event is raced by one-man canoes through a whitewater course.  The venue for the 1972 Olympic competition was in Augsburg.
Germanicus (opera)
Germanicus is an opera by Georg Philipp Telemann, to a libretto in German by the poet Christine Dorothea Lachs, fourth daughter of Nicolaus Adam Strungk of Dresden. The opera was written in 1704 and revised in 1710. It was performed in 1704, and then again Hamburg in 1706, the opera written during his time in Leipzig as a student. The plot centers around the love triangle between the Germanic tribal leader Arminius, Agrippina the Younger, and Claudius.

It is supposedly one of the twenty operas that Telemann wrote for the opera house in the Oper am Brühl in Leipzig.

The opera was believed lost until 45 arias were discovered in a Frankfurt archive by Michael Maul. The opera was premiered with spoken text between arias at the Bachfest Leipzig 2007 and at the 2010 Magdeburg Telemann Festival under conductor Gotthold Schwarz. A recording was released by cpo in 2011.

Michael Maul
Michael Maul (born 1978) is a German musicologist noted for his work on Johann Sebastian Bach. Maul was born in Leipzig, and is still based in the city, although his work at the Bach Archive has involved travel to archives and libraries elsewhere to explore sources relating to Bach. He is also artistic director of Leipzig's annual Bach festival.
Bennetts Associates
Bennetts Associates is a British firm of architects. It was founded in 1987 by Denise Bennetts and her partner Rab Bennetts, who had previously worked for Ove Arup & Partners. The total shareholding of Bennetts Associates was transferred to an Employee Ownership Trust in 2016.

National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C467/103) with Rab Bennetts in 2012-13 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library.

National Life Stories
National Life Stories (NLS) is an independent charitable trust and limited company (registered as the "National Life Story Collection") based within the British Library Oral History section, whose key focus and expertise is oral history fieldwork.  Since 1987 National Life Stories (NLS) has initiated a series of innovative interviewing projects funded almost entirely from sponsorship, charitable and individual donations.

Each NLS project is archived at the British Library and comprises recorded in-depth interviews, plus content summaries and (if funds allow) transcripts to assist users.  Alongside the British Library's oral history collections, which stretch back to the beginning of the twentieth century, NLS recordings form a unique and invaluable record of people's lives in Britain today.
Tellise Nature Reserve
Tellise Nature Reserve is a nature reserve which is located in Jõgeva County, Estonia.

The area of the nature reserve is 238 ha.

The protected area was founded in 2005 to protect valuable habitat types and threatened species in Võtikvere village (former Torma Parish).

Jõgeva County
Jõgeva County (Estonian: Jõgeva maakond or Jõgevamaa) is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is located in the eastern part of the country, and it borders Ida-Viru County to the northeast, Lake Peipus to the east, Tartu County to the south, Viljandi County to the southwest, Järva County to the northwest, and Lääne-Viru County to the north.
Radu Negru
Radu Negru, also known as Negru Vodă ("The Black Voivode"), was a legendary voivode of Wallachia. He is a folk hero and the central figure behind the founding of Wallachia, which he would have ruled around 1290. His character and authenticity is typically regarded to be a blend of truth and fable, as many other similar and contemporary historical figures share his traits.

Câmpulung
Câmpulung (also spelled Cîmpulung, Romanian pronunciation: [kɨmpuˈluŋɡ], German: Langenau, Hungarian: Hosszúmezőcode: hun promoted to code: hu , or Câmpulung Muscel) is a city in Argeș County, Muntenia, Romania. It is attested on the Fra Mauro map from 1450 as Campo longo. It is situated among the outlying hills of the Southern Carpathians, at the head of a long well-wooded glen traversed by the river Târgului, a tributary of the river Argeș.
Brokers Exchange
The Brokers Exchange in Tonopah, Nevada, also known as the Tonopah Divide Mining Company was built in 1905 during Tonopah's mining boom.  Originally a two-story building, it housed a brokerage, real estate office, and the offices of  Tonopah lawyer (later United States Senator) Patrick McCarran. A fire destroyed the upper floor in 1912. The Tonopah Divide Mining Company, controlled by George Wingfield and Cal Brougher, purchased the property for use as an office in 1919.  The ruined top story was removed and the first floor was re-roofed and capped with a decorate plaster frieze.

The building occupies a corner lot, with four storefront bays facing Brougher Avenue and a diagonal entrance at the corner of St. Patrick Street.

George Wingfield
George Wingfield (August 16, 1876 – December 25, 1959) was a Nevada cattleman and gambler  who became a financier, investor and one of the state's most powerful economic and political figures during the period from 1909 to 1932. With future senator George S. Nixon as his mentor after he settled in Winnemucca in 1899, and fellow gambler John Hennessy as his partner in the mining boomtown of Tonopah after 1901, Wingfield rose from faro-dealer to become richest man in Nevada in less than five years.
Acymatopus
Acymatopus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is distributed in Japan and China, and lives exclusively on marine coasts. It is similar in appearance to the genus Conchopus, which is also found in marine coasts.

Sadao Takagi
Sadao Takagi (高木 貞夫, Takagi Sadao; born 1932, Toyama Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese entomologist who has specialised in the scale insects (Coccoidea), particularly the armoured scale insects of the Diaspididae.

Takagi studied at Hokkaido University, where he received his bachelor's degree, his master's and his doctorate in agriculture. He specialized in studying the armoured scale insects.  After graduation, he remained at Hokkaido University and taught, first as an associate professor and then as a full professor.

Takagi's morphological insights have been proven correct by subsequent molecular analysis.  Among other things, he demonstrated the polyphyletic nature of the now-obsolete Rugaspidiotini using morphology.

Takagi retired from teaching in 1996, but continues to publish.
Subahdar
Subahdar was one of the designations of a governor of a Subah (province) during the Khalji dynasty of Bengal, Mamluk dynasty, Khalji dynasty, Tughlaq dynasty, and the Mughal era who was alternately designated as Sahib-i-Subah or Nazim. The word, Subahdar is of Persian origin. The Subahdar was the head of the Mughal provincial administration. He was assisted by the provincial Diwan, Bakhshi, Faujdar, Kotwal, Qazi, Sadr, Waqa-i-Navis, Qanungo and Patwari. The Subahdars were normally appointed from among the Mughal princes or the officers holding the highest mansabs (ranks).

Mamluk dynasty (Delhi)
The Mamluk dynasty (lit. 'Slave dynasty'), or the Mamluk Sultanate, is the historiographical name or umbrella term used to refer to the three dynasties of Mamluk origin who ruled the Ghurid territories in India and subsequently, the Sultanate of Delhi, from 1206 to 1290 — the Qutbi dynasty (1206–1211), the first Ilbari or Shamsi dynasty (1211–1266) and the second Ilbari dynasty (1266–1290).

Before the establishment of the Mamluk dynasty, Qutb al-Din Aibak's tenure as a Ghurid dynasty administrator lasted from 1192 to 1206, a period during which he led forays into the Gangetic plain and established control over some of the new areas. The last ruler, Shamsuddin Kayumars, an infant, was murdered by Jalal-ud-Din Khalji, a nobleman who then established the Khalji dynasty.
Early Buddhism
The term Early Buddhism can refer to at least two distinct periods in the History of Buddhism, mostly in the History of Buddhism in India:

Pre-sectarian Buddhism, which refers to the teachings and monastic organization and structure, founded by Gautama Buddha.

The Early Buddhist schools, into which pre-sectarian Buddhism split during or after the reign of Ashoka

Pre-sectarian Buddhism
Pre-sectarian Buddhism, also called early Buddhism, the earliest Buddhism, original Buddhism, and primitive Buddhism, is Buddhism as theorised to have existed before the various early Buddhist schools developed, around 250 BCE (followed by later subsects of Buddhism).

The contents and teachings of this pre-sectarian Buddhism must be deduced or re-constructed from the earliest Buddhist texts, which by themselves are already sectarian. The whole subject remains intensely debated by scholars, not all of whom believe a meaningful reconstruction is possible.

"Early Buddhism" may also be used for considerably later periods.
Marc Bentley
Marc Bentley (1968 – November 23, 2020) was an American actor who appeared on television during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The epitome of those sun-blonded surf and sun kids of the era, he was a keen skateboarder.

Bentley grew up in Southern California. Heappeared in such shows as The Young and the Restless, Lou Grant, Fantasy Island and CHiPs. He also starred in the TV-Movies Terror Among Us and The Seduction of Miss Leona, as well as the feature films Hambone and Hillie and Valentine.

Bentley was shortlisted in the Young Artist Awards in 1981 (the first year the awards were made) as best young actor in a daytime series for his part as Chucky Roulland in CBS's The Young and the Restless.

Young Artist Award
The Young Artist Award (originally known as the Youth in Film Award) is an accolade presented by the Young Artist Foundation, an American nonprofit organization founded in 1978 to honor excellence of youth performers, and to provide scholarships for young artists who may be physically disabled or financially unstable.

First presented in 1979, the Young Artist Awards was the first organization established to specifically recognize and award the contributions of performers under the age of 18 in the fields of film, television, theater, and music.

The 1st Youth In Film Awards ceremony was held in October 1979, at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Hollywood to honor outstanding young performers of the 1978/1979 season.
Antonić
Antonic or Antonić is a Slavic surname according to Slavic naming customs. Notable people with this name include the following:

Borislav Antonić (born 1964), Serbian politician

Dejan Antonić (born 1969), Serbian footballer

Goran Antonić (born 1990), Serbian footballer

Jovica Antonić (born 1966), Serbian basketballer

Slobodan Antonić (born 1959), Serbian political scientist, sociologist and university professor

Stefan Antonić (born 2001), Indonesian footballer of partial Serbian descent

Vasilije Antonić (1860–1929), Serbian army officer, diplomat and politician

Voja Antonić (born 1952) Serbian inventor, journalist and writer

Dejan Antonić
Dejan Antonić (Serbian Cyrillic: Дејан Антонић, Chinese: 狄恩; born 22 January 1969) is a Serbian football manager and former player. He is currently the head coach of Super League club Semen Padang.

He is the father of Stefan Antonić, who plays football professionally in Hong Kong.
Corinne Peters
Corinne Peters (née Laliberte; born 1960) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is the twin sister of Connie Laliberte, with whom she played on the Canadian and World championship team of 1984. She was also known as Corrine Webb and played as alternate for Laliberte at the 1993 Scott Tournament of Hearts.

Peters was inducted into the Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame in 2001.

1993 Scott Tournament of Hearts
The 1993 Scott Tournament of Hearts, the  Canadian women's national curling championship, was held from February 27 to March 6, 1993 at the Keystone Centre in Brandon, Manitoba. The total attendance for the week was a then-record 88,022, which broke the previous mark set in 1991 by over 15,000.

Team Saskatchewan, who was skipped by Sandra Peterson won the event after defeating the hometown rink Manitoba 7–6 in the final in an extra end after Peterson hit a Manitoba rock biting the rings and rolled into the house. It was Saskatchewan's first title since 1980 and ninth overall and the first of three titles skipped by Peterson (later Schmirler). The Peterson rink would go onto represent Canada in the 1993 World Women's Curling Championship held in Geneva, Switzerland, which they also won.
Kiełtyki
Kiełtyki [kʲɛu̯ˈtɨki] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Mała Wieś, within Płock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. A 2021 census conducted by the Główny Urząd Statystyczny concluded that the population of Kiełtyki is 165.

Płock County
Płock County (Polish: powiat płocki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat is the city of Płock, although the city is not part of the county (it constitutes a separate city county). The county contains three towns: Gąbin, 17 km (11 mi) south of Płock, Drobin, 29 km (18 mi) north-east of Płock, and Wyszogród, 39 km (24 mi) south-east of Płock.

The county covers an area of 1,798.71 square kilometres (694.5 sq mi). As of 2019, the total country population is 110,987, out of which the population of Gąbin is 4,125, that of Drobin is 2,872, that of Wyszogród is 2,601, and the rural population is 101,389.
Ottone
Ottone, re di Germania ("Otto, King of Germany", HWV 15) is an opera by George Frideric Handel, to an Italian–language libretto adapted by Nicola Francesco Haym from the libretto by Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino for Antonio Lotti's opera Teofane.  It was the first new opera written for the Royal Academy of Music (1719)'s fourth season and had its first performance on 12 January 1723 at the King's Theatre, Haymarket in London. Handel had assembled a cast of operatic superstars for this season and the opera became an enormous success.

The story of the opera is a fictionalisation of some events in the lives of Adalbert of Italy, his mother Willa of Tuscany (called "Gismonda" in the opera), Otto II, and the Byzantine Princess Theophanu, who became the wife of Otto II in a state marriage intended to form an alliance between the Byzantine Empire and the Holy Roman Empire.

Händel-Werke-Verzeichnis
The Händel-Werke-Verzeichnis (abbreviated as HWV) is the Catalogue of Handel's Works. It was published in three volumes (in German) by Bernd Baselt between 1978 and 1986, and lists every piece of music known to have been written by George Frideric Handel. The catalogue also includes the first few bars of each piece and large amounts of factual information including manuscript sources, early prints, photographs, spurious works, etc. The catalogue does not include the full scores of Handel's works (for the full scores, see Händel-Gesellschaft and Hallische Händel-Ausgabe).
Tetu (comics)
Tetu is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and artist Brian Stelfreeze, the character first appeared in Black Panther vol. 6 #1 (April 2016). Tetu, initially motivated by a desire to punish the wealthy elite who exploited the less fortunate, formed the rebellious Wakandan group known as the People and attempted to overthrow the king of Wakanda, Black Panther. Despite this defeat, has returned numerous times, continuously gathering new allies to challenge T'Challa once again. His increasing reliance on violence led him to forge increasingly dangerous alliances, drawing in organizations like Hydra, with figures such as Baron Zemo among his collaborators.

First appearance
In comic books and other stories with a long history, first appearance refers to the first issue to feature a fictional character. These issues are often highly valued by collectors due to their rarity and iconic status.
Okoroji House Museum
The Okoroji House Museum or Okoroji House, (Igbo: Ulo Nta Okoroji, Ogbuti Okoroji), is a historic house and museum located in Ujari, a village in Arochukwu, Abia State, Eastern Nigeria. The house was declared a national monument in 1972 by the National Commission for Museums and Monuments.

Arochukwu
Arochukwu Listenⓘ Local Government Area, sometimes referred to as Arochuku or Aro Oke Igbo is the third largest local government area in Abia State (after Aba and Umuahia) in southeastern Nigeria and homeland of the Igbo subgroup, Aro people. Arochukwu is in the Abia North senatorial district of Abia State, Nigeria.

It is composed of five clans namely Abam, Aro, Ihechiowa, Ututu and Isu. Arochukwu is a principal historic town in Igbo land. It was also one of the cities in the Southern protectorate targeted by the British colonial government. Several historic tourist sites exist in the city. The mystic Ibini Ukpabi shrine, the slave routes and other relics of the slave trade era are frequently visited by tourists. It is also in the food belt of Abia state where most of the staple foods are produced.
Queens of Panguru
Queens of Panguru is a New Zealand reality television mini series that airs on Māori Television. The show focused on the personal lives of three cousins Jay Tewake, Ramon Te Wake and Maihi Makiha. They are from the LGBT community in Auckland, but they returned home to their small town of Panguru. Its premise originated with Mika X, who also served as an executive producer. The series debuted on March 22, 2017, with only five episodes in the series. All three drag queens are related through notable tribe leader Heremia Te Wake, who was the father of respected kuia (Māori elder), Dame Whina Cooper.

Panguru
Panguru is a community in the northern Hokianga harbour, in Northland, New Zealand. The Whakarapa Stream flows from the Panguru Range in the Warawara Forest to the west, through Panguru and into the Hokianga.
Gard's 3rd constituency
The 3rd constituency of Gard is a French legislative constituency in the Gard département.  It consists of the cantons of  Bagnols-sur-Cèze, Roquemaure and Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, and the communes of Aramon and Remoulins.

Remoulins
Remoulins (French pronunciation: [ʁəmulɛ̃]; Occitan: Remolins) is a commune in the Gard department in southern France.

The town lies on the River Gardon or Gard, and is a short distance downstream of the Roman aqueduct Pont du Gard, in nearby Vers-Pont-du-Gard.

The current bridge over the Gardon in the town itself was completed in 1994, the successor to two previous suspension bridges. The remains of the first, built in 1830 by the Seguin brothers, are visible on the left bank.
Locorotondo
Locorotondo (Barese: U Curdunne) is a town and municipality of the Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia, southern Italy, with a population of about 14,000. It is situated between Martina Franca and Alberobello in the Valle d'Itria, a green stretch of countryside dotted with the famous whitewashed cone-roofed trulli houses. Locorotondo is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy") and it has been awarded the Orange Flag of the Touring Club of Italy due to the harmony of its shapes and the accessibility of the old town, as it can be easily visited on foot. It is an intricate network of little streets lined with old buildings and it is known for its typical houses called "Le Cummerse", which have a regular geometric shape and a sloping roof made of two different layers of limestone slabs. These dwellings have nowadays been renovated and offered to visitors in the form of scattered hotels.

Bandiera arancione
The Bandiera arancione (Italian pronunciation: [banˈdjɛːra aranˈtʃoːne]; "Orange Flag") is a recognition of quality awarded by the Touring Club Italiano to small towns (population 15,000 or less) in Italy for excellency in tourism, hospitality and the environment.

This recognition was established in 1998 in Liguria, in response to a regional institution's demand to foster and promote the Italian hinterland. The Touring Club Italiano (TCI) developed an analytical model to identify the first towns recognized with the Bandiera arancione. Later the recognition was adopted on nationwide scale to identify sites of excellence in all regions of Italy.

This is the only Italian project of its kind to be listed by the World Tourism Organization among successful programs for the sustainable development of tourism around the world.
Southernmost House
The Southernmost House is a historic mansion in the U.S. city of Key West, in Monroe County, Florida. Five U.S. Presidents have stayed there. The house is located in the Upper Duval district and has been converted into a bed and breakfast.

Monroe County, Florida
Monroe County is the southernmost county of the state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 82,874. Its county seat is Key West. Monroe County includes the islands of the Florida Keys and comprises the Key West-Key Largo Micropolitan Statistical Area. Over 99.9% of the county's population lives on the Florida Keys. The mainland, which is part of the Everglades, comprises 87% of the county's land area and is virtually uninhabited with only 17 people recorded in the 2020 census.