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Don Steffes
Don Steffes (January 13, 1930 – May 24, 2018) was an American politician who served in the Kansas State Senate as a Republican from 1993 to 2000.

Steffes was born in Olpe, Kansas as the second of four children. He graduated high school in 1947 and served for 18 months in the U.S. Army before enrolling in Emporia State University, graduating in 1952. After graduation, he worked on oil pipeline construction and married Janie Steele in Gladewater, Texas.

He returned to Kansas and earned his master's degree at Emporia State, while working for various Chambers of Commerce in the state. In 1968, he became president of a bank in McPherson, Kansas. He became active in local Republican party politics, and in 1992 ran for a vacant seat in the Kansas Senate. He served two full terms in the Senate; after the 2000 elections, he retired and began splitting his time between Kansas and Arizona. He died in McPherson in 2018.

Gladewater, Texas
Gladewater is a city in Gregg and Upshur Counties in the U.S. state of Texas, with a 2020 census population of 6,134.

In the early 20th century, Gladewater was an oil boom town. In 1995, the Texas Legislature proclaimed it the "Antique Capital of East Texas".
Stephanie Macquarrie
Stephanie MacQuarrie is an organic materials chemist and a Professor of Chemistry at Cape Breton University. Her research has spanned many areas of chemistry, including organic synthesis, organometallic catalysis, and materials characterization. She has contributed to the use of biochar as a green material for use in various chemical processes, including collaboration with Professor Francesca M. Kerton. In 2021, she was elected as the Director for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for the Canadian Society for Chemistry. She was recognized by the Cape Breton University Alumni Award for Teaching Excellence in 2017. In 2023, she was named one of the inaugural NSERC Chairs for Inclusion in Science and Engineering. She was elected as a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada (FCIC) in 2024.

Cape Breton University
Cape Breton University (CBU) is a public university located in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is the only post-secondary degree-granting institution within the Cape Breton Regional Municipality and on Cape Breton Island. 
The university is enabled by the Cape Breton University Act passed by the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. Prior to this, CBU was enabled by the University College of Cape Breton Act (amended). The University College of Cape Breton's Coat of Arms were registered with the Canadian Heraldic Authority on May 27, 1995.

CBU is an ordinary (full) member of Universities Canada (UC), the Association of Atlantic Universities (AAU), the Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE), and Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan).
Hale Holden
Hale Holden (August 11, 1869 – September 23, 1940) was president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q) from 1914 to 1918 and 1920 to 1929, and chairman of the board of directors for Southern Pacific Railroad from 1932 to 1939. He was one of the lawyers working for James J. Hill's defense team in the Minnesota Rate Cases. In later years he served as a director for a number of large companies including American Telephone & Telegraph, New York Life Insurance Company and the Chemical Bank & Trust.

AT&T Corporation
AT&T Corporation, an abbreviation of its former name, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, was an American telecommunications company that provided voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to businesses, consumers, and government agencies.

During the Bell System's long history, AT&T was at times the world's largest telecommunications company, the world's largest cable television operator, and a regulated monopoly. At its peak in the 1950s and 1960s, it employed one million people and its revenue ranged between US$3 billion in 1950 ($42.6 billion in present-day terms) and $12 billion in 1966 ($120 billion in present-day terms).

In 2005, AT&T was acquired by "Baby Bell" and former subsidiary SBC Communications for more than $16 billion ($25.8 billion in present-day terms). SBC then changed its name to AT&T Inc., with AT&T Corporation continuing to exist as a long-distance calling subsidiary until its dissolution on May 1, 2024.
Bakhrabad Gas Field
Bakhrabad Gas Field (Bengali: বাখরাবাদ গ্যাসক্ষেত্র) is a natural gas field located in Comilla, Bangladesh. It was discovered in 1968 by the then Pakistan Shell Oil Company, and started gas production in 1981. Wells were drilled at depths between 1968 and 2838 meters from the surface. Gas production was 930 thousand cubic metres (33 million cubic feet) per day at that time. As of 2019, the production in Bakharabad Gas Field has declined, producing only 420 thousand m3 (15 million cu ft) of gas per day. It is a subsidiary of Bangladesh Gas Fields Company Limited (BGFCL).

Comilla
Comilla (Bengali: কুমিল্লা), officially spelled Cumilla, is a metropolis on the banks of the Gumti River in eastern Bangladesh. Comilla was one of the cities of ancient Bengal. It was once the capital of Tripura kingdom. Comilla Airport is located in the Dulipara area of Comilla city Although it is currently replaced with Comilla Export Processing Zone (EPZ). Comilla City is a division centered city district with surrounding districts coming to Comilla in more diverse areas of work. Bibir Bazar land port is located 5 km away from Comilla city. The area of Comilla City Corporation is 53.04 square kilometers, so the surrounding areas of the main city fall under the jurisdiction of the City Corporation. The urban areas falling outside the Comilla City Corporation are considered suburbs, forming part of the metro area, which was estimated at 691,000 in 2025- a 2.98% increase from 2024.
Gareth Henry
Gareth Andre Theodore Henry (born 10 August 1991) is a Jamaican badminton player. He competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games; and 2011 and 2015 Pan American Games. Henry was part of the national team that won the men's team bronze at the 2018 Pan Am Men's Team Championships. Partnered with Samuel O'Brien Ricketts, he clinched the men's doubles gold at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games.

Badminton at the 2015 Pan American Games
Badminton competitions at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto were held from July 11 to 16 at the Markham Pan Am Centre (Atos Markham Pan Am Centre) in Markham. Due to naming rights the arena was known as the latter for the duration of the games. A total of five badminton events will be held: two each for men and women, along with a mixed doubles event.
Carlos López Rivera
Carlos Alberto López Rivera (September 14, 1958 – October 17, 2025) was a Puerto Rican politician who was the mayor of Dorado. López was affiliated with the Popular Democratic Party (PPD) and served as mayor from 1987 until his death from liver cancer in 2025. López was first sworn in as mayor of Dorado on August 3, 1987 succeeding Alfonso López Chaar. He was then officially elected at the 1988 general elections. He was reelected in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024.

2000 Puerto Rican general election
General elections were held in Puerto Rico on November 7, 2000. Sila María Calderón of the Popular Democratic Party (PPD) was elected Governor, becoming the first woman to be elected for that office, whilst the PPD also won a majority of seats in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Voter turnout was between 80% and 82%.
Wilfried Sock
Wilfried Sock (born 2 July 1944) is a German former ice hockey player, who competed for SG Dynamo Weißwasser. He played for the East Germany national ice hockey team at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble.

Lausitzer Füchse
The Lausitzer Füchse (literally Lusatian Foxes; Upper Sorbian: Łužiske liški) is an ice hockey team based in Weißwasser, Saxony. They currently play in DEL2, the second level of ice hockey in Germany. Prior to the 2013–14 season they played in the 2nd Bundesliga. The Weißwasser U23 team, ES Weißwasser, currently plays in the Regionalliga East.
Primulales
Primulales was an order of flowering plants. This order was recognized in several systems with little variation in circumscription (see Bentham & Hooker, Engler and Wettstein system). In the classification system of Dahlgren the Primulales were in the superorder Primuliflorae (also called Primulanae). In the 1981 version of the Cronquist system it was an order placed in subclass Dilleniidae with the following circumscription:

order Primulales
family Myrsinaceae
family Primulaceae
family Theophrastaceae

The APG III system includes all the plants involved in the (expanded) order Ericales.

Engler system
One of the prime systems of plant taxonomy, the Engler system was devised by Adolf Engler (1844–1930), and is featured in two major taxonomic texts he authored or co-authored. His influence is reflected in the use of the terms "Engler School" and "Engler Era". Engler's starting point was that of Eichler who had been the first to use phylogenetic principles, although Engler himself did not think that he was.
Shao Mingli
Shao Mingli (Chinese: 邵明立; pinyin: Shào Mínglì; born October 1951) is the current head of the Chinese State Food and Drug Administration. He took over from Zheng Xiaoyu after his removal and execution in 2007.

Zheng Xiaoyu
Zheng Xiaoyu (Chinese: 郑筱萸; pinyin: Zhèng Xiǎoyú; December 10, 1944 – July 10, 2007) was the director of the State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China from 2003 to 2005.  He was sentenced to death for corruption and allowing possibly tainted products in mainland China in the first instance trial at Beijing No.1 Intermediate Court on May 29, 2007. He was executed on July 10, 2007.
Penedès DOP
Penedès (Catalan pronunciation: [pənəˈðɛs]) is a Spanish Denominación de Origen Protegida (DOP) (Denominació d'Origen Protegida in Catalan) for wines in Catalonia, (Spain). As of 2025 harvest, Penedès makes history as the first wine appellation with 100% certified organic production. Penedès DOP includes all of the Penedès region and municipalities of four other counties: Anoia, Alt Camp, Baix Llobregat and Tarragonès. The area is framed by the coastal hills of the Garraf Massif and the higher inland mountains which skirt the Central Depression.

Long considered one of the country's best wine-producing regions after the Rioja, it is also one of the most ancient viticultural areas in Europe. Perhaps better-known for its Cava production (a sparkling wine which has had its own Denominación de Origen since 1986) white grape varieties predominate, although the region also produces some highly regarded, oak-aged reds.

Garraf Massif
The Garraf Massif (Catalan: Massís del Garraf, IPA: [məˈsiz ðəl ɣəˈraf]) is a mountain range of the Catalan Coastal Range, Catalonia, Spain. Its cliffs reach the Mediterranean waters. Its highest point on the coastal side is La Morella, 593 metres above sea level and further inland rises the higher, although less conspicuous, Montau (657 m).
Club Day
Club Day, also known as Gala Day or Field Day, is an annual community celebration, common in rural communities in North West England, during which clubs, churches and other organizations process and gather for various activities such as competitions for fancy dress, arts and crafts, cooking, and produce.

Many of these events originated in processions of the churches and some have, or have had, a strong agricultural background.

Most villages hold club events on the same weekend each year to avoid conflicting with neighbouring villages.

The events often have at their centre a Rose or Field Day Queen. These are young girls, selected for the year, whose duties include the official opening of the event and a central role in any procession. In some villages, such as Ribchester, the Field Day Queen is responsible for opening other village events.

North West England
North West England is one of nine official regions of England and consists of the ceremonial counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. The North West had a population of 7,417,397 in 2021. It is the third-most-populated region in the United Kingdom, after the South East and Greater London. The largest settlements are Manchester and Liverpool. It is one of the three regions, alongside North East England and Yorkshire and the Humber, that make up Northern England.
Melicope degeneri
Melicope degeneri is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae known by the common names Kokee Stream melicope and Degener's pelea. It is endemic to Hawaii, where it is known only from the island of Kauai. It is a federally listed endangered species of the United States. Like other Hawaiian Melicope, this species is known as alani.

Rutaceae
The Rutaceae (/ruːˈteɪsiˌaɪ, -siːˌiː/) is a family, commonly known as the rue or citrus family, of flowering plants, usually placed in the order Sapindales.

Species of the family generally have flowers that divide into four or five parts, usually with strong scents. They range in form and size from herbs to shrubs and large trees.

The most economically important genus in the family is Citrus, which includes the orange (C. × sinensis), lemon (C. × limon), grapefruit (C. × paradisi), and lime (various). Boronia is a large Australian genus, some members of which are plants with highly fragrant flowers and are used in commercial oil production. Other large genera include Zanthoxylum, several species of which are cultivated for Sichuan pepper, Melicope, and Agathosma. The family Rutaceae contains about 160 genera.
NASCAR Cup Series at Michigan International Speedway
Stock car races events in the NASCAR Cup Series have been held annually at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan since 1969.

A second race at the track was also held until 2020; prior to 2021, the only other season where only one race was held at the track was in 1973.

Rod Osterlund
Rodney W. Osterlund (born November 19, 1934) is an American former racing team owner and businessman. He was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series car owner from 1977 to 1981, and then again from 1989 to 1991. Osterlund's first race as a car owner was at the 1977 Cam 2 Motor Oil 400 while his final race as a car owner was at the 1991 Daytona 500. He won the 1980 NASCAR Winston Cup Series as an owner with driver Dale Earnhardt.

In 2010, Osterlund was inducted into the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame.
2022 4 Hours of Portimao
The 2022 4 Hours of Portimão was an endurance sportscar racing event that was held on 16 October 2022, as the sixth and final round of the 2022 European Le Mans Series.

In LMP2, the race was won by the #9 Prema Racing run Oreca 07-Gibson, driven by Louis Delétraz,  Ferdinand Habsburg and Juan Manuel Correa.

In LMP3, the race was won by the #17 Cool Racing run Ligier JS P320, driven by Mike Benham, Malthe Jakobsen and Maurice Smith.

In LMGTE, the race was won by the #83 Iron Lynx run Ferrari 488 GTE Evo, driven by Sarah Bovy, Michelle Gatting and Doriane Pin.

Michelle Gatting
Michelle Sophie Gatting Brændstrup (born 31 December 1993 in Århus) is a racing driver from Denmark. An Iron Dame since the project's inception, she is a Porsche contracted driver currently competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship and the European Le Mans Series.
Tehreek-e-Nizam-e-Mustafa
Tehreek-e-Nizam-e-Mustafa (Urdu: تحریکِ نظامِ مصطفیٰ, lit. '"Movement of the system of the Prophet"') was a Barelvi organisation and religious movement based in Azad Kashmir. It was founded by  Islamic scholar Muhammad Alauddin Siddiqui from Sadhanoti.

In late 1980's organization's founder attempt to implement Islam at the Government level by negotiating with politicians. The politicians of Kashmir Muhammad Abdul Qayyum Khan and Sikandar Hayat Khan were also the members of this movement. Many gatherings and meetings were held in Nerian Sharif. The politicians themselves came and the objectives of the movement were explained, then they announced the support.

The aim and the purpose of the movement is to implement Sharia (or "Nizam-e-Mustafa",  meaning "the system of the Prophet Muhammad") in Pakistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

In November 2014, the movement held a convention in Muzaffarabad.

The group held a convention in Kotli in December 2016.

Muhammad Abdul Qayyum Khan
Sardar Muhammad Abdul Qayyum Khan (also known as ʻAbdul Qayyūm K̲h̲ān, Urdu: سردار محمد عبدالقيوم خان) was a Azad Kashmiri politician who also served as the president and prime minister of Azad Kashmir. He also remained President of All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference for over 20 years. He belonged to the Dhund-Abbassi Tribe.
Snowshoe Lake (Kimikong River, Ontario)
Snowshoe Lake is a lake in the Lake Huron drainage basin in Whitestone, Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada, about 11 kilometres (7 mi) north of the community of Maple Island, and 15 kilometres (9 mi) southeast of the community of Arnstein. It is about 2.1 kilometres (1.3 mi) long and 1.1 kilometres (0.7 mi) wide and lies at an elevation of 285 metres (935 ft). The lake drains via an unnamed creek to the Kimikong River and then via the Pickerel and French rivers into Lake Huron.

A second Snowshoe Lake in Whitestone, Snowshoe Lake (Magnetawan River, Ontario), lies 30 kilometres (19 mi) southwest and flows via the Magnetawan River or Harris and Naiscoot Rivers into Lake Huron.

French River (Ontario)
The French River (French: Rivière des Français, Ojibwe: Emitigoozhii-ziibi) is a river in Central Ontario, Canada. It flows 110 kilometres (68 mi) from Lake Nipissing southwest to Georgian Bay. The river largely follows the boundary between the Parry Sound District and the Sudbury District, and in most contexts is considered the dividing line between Northern and Southern Ontario. The French River was designated a Canadian Heritage River in 1986.
Alfred Hicks
Alfred Hicks (23 February 1860 – 6 September 1921) was an English-born Australian politician.

He was born in Saint Columb Major in Cornwall to agricultural labourer Richard Hicks and Phillippa Champion. He migrated to Victoria around 1881, and became a Methodist minister, preaching at Clunes, Creswick and Eaglehawk. Around 1889 he married Ada Hooper, with whom he had two children. He later left the ministry and became a grocer at Eaglehawk. From 1900 to 1906 he served on Eaglehawk Borough Council, and he was mayor from 1904 to 1905. In 1904 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for Bendigo Province. He served as a minister without portfolio from 1920 until his death in Eaglehawk in 1921.

Bendigo Province
Bendigo Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council 
. It was created in the redistribution of provinces in June 1904, North Central Province being abolished. Bendigo Province itself was abolished in 1988.
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William Gropper
William Victor Gropper (December 3, 1897 – January 3, 1977) was an American cartoonist, painter, lithographer, and muralist. A committed radical, Gropper is best known for the political work which he contributed to such left wing publications as The Revolutionary Age, The Liberator, The New Masses, The Worker, and Morgen Freiheit.

The Revolutionary Age
The Revolutionary Age was an American radical newspaper edited by Louis C. Fraina and published from November 1918 until August 1919. Originally the publication of Local Boston, Socialist Party, the paper evolved into the de facto national organ of the Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party which battled for control of the Socialist Party throughout the spring and summer of 1919. With the establishment of the Left Wing National Council in June 1919, the paper was moved from Boston to New York City gained status as the official voice of the nascent American communist movement. The publication was terminated in August 1919, replaced by the official organ of the new Communist Party of America, a weekly newspaper known as The Communist.
Artists in biographies by Filippo Baldinucci
Filippo Baldinucci's Notizie de' Professori del Disegno, Da Cimabue in qua, Secolo V. dal 1610. al 1670. Distinto in Decennali (or Notice of the Professors of Design, from Cimabue to now, from 1610–1670) was a major art biography of Baroque painters. The work covered 6 volumes, published between 1681 and 1728.

David de Coninck
David de Coninck or David de Koninck, also known as Rammelaer (ca. 1644, Antwerp – after 1701, probably Brussels) was a Flemish painter who specialised in still lifes and landscapes with animals and hunting scenes.  Recognised as a leading animal painter, de Coninck was able to develop an international career which caused him to work for extended periods in Paris, Rome and Vienna.
Gypsum Creek
Gypsum Creek is a stream in Saline County, Kansas and McPherson County, Kansas, in the United States.   Gypsum Creek is a tributary of the Smoky Hill River, runs south to north, and is approximately 40 miles (64 km) long. The Maxwell Wildlife Refuge, which has herds of bison and elk is located in the headwaters of the Creek in McPherson County.

Gypsum Creek was likely named from reports of deposits of gypsum discovered on the Coronado expedition.

Saline County, Kansas
Saline County is located in the U.S. state of Kansas.  Its county seat and largest city is Salina.  As of the 2020 census, the county population was 54,303.  The county was named after the Saline River.
Star Wars: Purge
Star Wars: Purge is a comic book one-shot released on December 28, 2005 by Dark Horse Comics.  The story was written by John Ostrander, and the art was done by Doug Wheatley. The events depicted take place in the Star Wars galaxy approximately one month after the events in Revenge of the Sith.

One-shot (comics)
In comics, a one-shot is a work composed of a single standalone issue or chapter, contrasting a limited series or ongoing series, which are composed of multiple issues or chapters. One-shots date back to the early 19th century, published in newspapers, and today may be in the form of single published comic books, parts of comic magazines/anthologies or published online on websites. In the marketing industry, some one-shots are used as promotion tools that tie in with existing productions, films, video games or television shows.
Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay
Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay is a performing arts centre located in the Downtown Core of Singapore near the mouth of the Singapore River. Named after the nearby Esplanade Park, it consists of two rounded structures: one housing a concert hall with about 1,600 seats; and the other a theatre with a capacity of about 2,000 for the performing arts. It is nicknamed "The Durian".

Performing arts center
Performing arts center/centre (see spelling differences), often abbreviated as PAC, is usually a complex housing performance spaces for various performing arts, including dance, music, and theatre. In some cases it refers to a single multi-use space, or alternatively, to a performing arts college.
Kaki King
Kaki King (born Katherine Elizabeth King, August 24, 1979) is an American guitarist and composer. King is known for her percussive and jazz-tinged melodies, energetic live shows, use of multiple tunings on acoustic and lap steel guitar, and her diverse range in different genres.

In February 2006, Rolling Stone released a list of "The New Guitar Gods", on which King was the sole woman and youngest artist (beating Derek Trucks in age by two months as the youngest on the list). Her career includes six LP and two EP albums, as well as several scores for television and film. She worked alongside Eddie Vedder and Michael Brook contributing music for the soundtrack to Sean Penn's Into the Wild, for which the trio received nominations for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
The Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score is a Golden Globe Award presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), an organization of journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are affiliated with publications outside North America, since its institution in 1947.