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2003 Challenge Bell
The 2003 Challenge Bell was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Club Avantage Multi-Sports in Quebec City in Canada that was part of Tier III of the 2003 WTA Tour. It was the 11th edition of the Challenge Bell, and was held from October 27 through November 2, 2003. Second-seeded Maria Sharapova won the singles title.

WTA Tier III tournaments
The WTA Tier III tournaments were Women's Tennis Association tennis third-level tournaments held from 1990 until the end of the 2008 season. The line-up of events varied over the years due to tournaments being promoted, demoted or cancelled.

From 2009, most Tier III and Tier IV tournaments from previous seasons became WTA International Tournaments owing to a category change. The main reason for the changes was to ease the pressure on players in terms of the number of tournaments that they were required to play.
Udon kiri
The udonkiri (うどん切), sobakiri (そば切 or 蕎麦切り包丁), and kashikiri are a group of specialized knives used in the Japanese kitchen to make udon and soba noodles respectively. The udonkiri is also sometimes called menkiribocho (麺切り包丁), and is distinguished from the Soba and Kashikiri knives by a blade that drops in to cover less than half of the length of the handle rather that reaching the end of the handle like the soba. The sobakiri is characterized by a long blade that spans down the full length of the handle whereas the blade of the Kashikiri only curves to meet the top of the handle. To make soba or udon the dough is flattened and folded, and then cut with the menkiribocho to produce long rectangular noodles. For this purpose the menkiribocho has a straight and long cutting edge to cut the noodles straight to the board. The knife is usually heavy to aid in the cutting of the noodles, usually with a slight forward motion.

Soba
Soba (そば or 蕎麦, "buckwheat") are Japanese noodles made from buckwheat flour, with varying amounts of wheat flour mixed in. 
It has an ashen brown color, and a slightly grainy texture. The noodles are served either chilled with a dipping sauce, or hot in a noodle soup. They are used in a wide variety of dishes.

In Japan, soba noodles can be found at fast food venues like standing-up-eating (立ち食いそば, tachigui-soba) to expensive specialty restaurants. Dried soba noodles are sold in stores, along with men-tsuyu, or instant noodle broth, to make home preparation easy.

The amino acid balance of the protein in buckwheat, and therefore in soba, is well matched to the needs of humans and can complement the amino acid deficiencies of other staples such as rice and wheat (see protein combining). The tradition of eating soba in ordinary people arose in the Edo period.
Opinion polling for the next Japanese general election
In the run up to the next Japanese general election, various organisations are carrying out opinion polling to gauge voting intention. Results of such polls are displayed in this article. The date range for these opinion polls is from the 2026 Japanese general election, held on 8 February, to the present day.

Opinion poll
An opinion poll, often simply referred to as a survey or a poll, is a human research survey of public opinion from a particular sample. Opinion polls are usually designed to represent the opinions of a population by conducting a series of questions and then extrapolating generalities in ratio or within confidence intervals. A person who conducts polls is referred to as a pollster.
Wanda Klaff
Wanda Klaff (6 March 1922 – 4 July 1946) was a Nazi concentration camp overseer. Klaff was born in Danzig to German parents as Wanda Kalacinski. After the war, she was executed for crimes against humanity.

Pruszcz Gdański
Pruszcz Gdański (pronounced [pruʂtʂ ˈɡdaj̃skʲi]; former Polish: Pruszcz; Kashubian: Pruszcz; German: Praust) is a town in Pomerania, northern Poland with 26,834 inhabitants (2010). Pruszcz Gdański is an industrial town neighbouring Gdańsk, part of the Tricity agglomeration. The Tricity Bypass begins in Pruszcz Gdański.

The capital of Gdańsk County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999, previously in the Gdańsk Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998. The town is served by a railway station.
Simola (surname)
Simola is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Seppo Simola (1936–2003), Finnish shot putter

Seija Simola (1944–2017), Finnish singer

Mika Simola (born 1985), Finnish racing cyclist

Seija Simola
Seija Saara Maria Simola (25 September 1944 – 21 August 2017), married name Franzén, was a Finnish singer.

Simola was born in Helsinki. She began her musical career in the mid-1960s, in the band Eero Seija & Kristian Trio, and her debut solo album, Seija Simola 1, was released in 1970. The 1970s would be her most successful decade.

In 1978, she represented  Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle) at the Eurovision Song Contest 1978. There she performed the entry  Anna rakkaudelle tilaisuus (Give love a chance), on 22 April 1978. The song finished in the 18th position with a total of two points. Despite this poor result, Simola continued a long and successful career in her native Finland. She died in Vantaa.
Ashley Hall, Cheshire
Ashley Hall is a country house north of the village of Ashley, Cheshire, England. It dates from the late 16th to the early 17th century, with additions made in the 18th and 19th centuries.  The house is historically important because it was here that the Cheshire gentlemen met in 1715 to decide whether to support the Stuarts or the Hanoverians. They decided on the latter and later commissioned a set of portraits, which now hang in Tatton Hall.  The house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.  Also listed at Grade II are the gate piers to the forecourt of the building, a carriage house in the forecourt, the kitchen garden wall, and the stable block. For the biographical drama film Tolkien (2019), 15 acres of the Tatton Estate were used to recreate the trenches of the First World War.

Tolkien (film)
Tolkien is a 2019 biographical drama film directed by Dome Karukoski and written by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford. It is about the early life of English professor and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit (1937), The Lord of the Rings (1954–55), and The Silmarillion (1977) as well as notable academic works. The film stars Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Colm Meaney, and Derek Jacobi.

Tolkien was released in the United Kingdom on 3 May 2019, and in the United States on 10 May 2019, by Fox Searchlight Pictures, and was the first feature film released after the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $9 million worldwide on a $20 million budget.
Barbushe
Barbushe was a hunter and pagan chief priest who was the most prominent leader of the indigenous animists of Dala, a place which would become the most important site in the history of the foundation of Kano, now a state in Northern Nigeria.

Dala, Nigeria
Dala is a densely populated Local Government Area in Kano State, Nigeria within Kano city created in May 1989 from the old Kano Municipal Local Government. It is located in the north-west part of the Kano metropolis. Its headquarter is in Gwammaja.
Chinese destroyer Changchun
Multiple ships of the Chinese Navy have been named after Changchun, the capital of Jilin province.

Chinese destroyer Changchun (103), a Gnevny-class destroyer sold to China

Chinese destroyer Changchun (150), a Type 052C destroyer

Soviet destroyer Reshitelny (1940)
Reshitelny was one of 29 Gnevny-class destroyers (officially known as Project 7) built for the Soviet Navy during the late 1930s. Originally named Pospeshny, she was renamed Reshitelny before completion in 1941, and was assigned to the Pacific Fleet. She was sold to People's Liberation Army Navy in 1955 and renamed Changchun. Currently she is preserved as a museum ship.
Mandhana, Bhiwani
Mandhana is a village in the Bhiwani district of the Indian state of Haryana. It was settled by Mandu Rishi of Kaushik Gautra in 1316. It lies approximately 17 kilometres (11 mi) north of the district main town Bhiwani. As of the 2011 Census of India, the village had 1,107 households with a population of 6,164 of which 3,305 were male and 2,859 female. Sh. Mangat Ram Sharma (I.A.S.), First Commissioned Officer in Indian Air Force Wing Commander Ramesh Kumar, Major Himanshu Kaushik, Flying Officer Anil Kaushik (Fighter pilot MiG-21), Captain Dharambir Singh M.TECH (EME), Captain Ishwar Singh (SM), S.A.O. Sh. Shubhash Kaushik, AGM Sanjeev Kumar Kaushik (IIT Delhi) are few personalities whose contribution is admirable in developing the nation.

Bhiwani
Bhiwani is a city and a municipal council in Bhiwani district in the state of Haryana. Besides being a seat of spiritual learning, the city is at the centre of regional politics and hometown of three former Haryana chief ministers: Bansi Lal, Banarsi Das Gupta and Hukum Singh. It is located 128 km west of national capital New Delhi.

The city has a conventional school of boxing, with almost all of the members of the Indian Boxing Squad coming from its Sports Authority of India (SAI) hostel. The late Capt. Hawa Singh, the legendary boxer, helped establish the boxing academy in Bhiwani.

Bhiwani is also known as Choti Kashi because of so many ancient Hindu temples in city like Kirorimal mandir, Khaki baba temple, Jogiwala mandir.
Aleko-Kyuyol
Aleko-Kyuyol (Russian: Алеко-Кюёль) or Ölöökö Küöl (Yakut: Өлөөкө Күөл) is a rural locality (a selo), the administrative center of, and one of two settlements in addition to Soyangi in Kangalassky 1-y Rural Okrug of Srednekolymsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located 218 kilometers (135 mi) from Srednekolymsk, the administrative center of the district. Its population as of the 2010 Census was 557; down from 654 recorded during the 2002 Census.

Yakut language
The Yakut language (/jəˈkuːt/ yə-KOOT), also known as the Sakha language (/səˈxɑː/ sə-KHAH) or Yakutian, is a Siberian Turkic language spoken by around 450,000 native speakers—primarily by ethnic Yakuts. It is one of the official languages of the Sakha Republic, a republic in the Russian Federation.

The Yakut language has a large number of loanwords of Mongolic origin, a layer of vocabulary of unclear origin, as well as numerous recent borrowings from Russian. Like other Turkic languages, Yakut is an agglutinative language and features vowel harmony.
Unemployment benefits in France
Unemployment insurance in France was first established in 1958. Benefits and contributions are set by the independent body called UNEDIC which is controlled equally by trade unions and employer associations. Unemployment benefits are paid only to those persons who fulfill certain requirements.

UNEDIC
UNEDIC is the acronym of "Union nationale interprofessionnelle pour l’emploi dans l’industrie et le commerce" (National Professional Union for Employment in Industry and Trade). It was created in 1958. Until 2009, it was an agency of the French government which provided unemployed people with social benefits. In 2009, it was merged with the ANPE into the newly created agency Pôle emploi, and was turned into an independent association.
Tyrell (novel)
Tyrell is a 2006 young adult novel by Coe Booth. The novel follows the titular character Tyrell, a 15-year-old African-American boy living in a roach-infested shelter in The Bronx. He dropped out of school to help care for his 7-year-old brother, and his mom wants him to sell drugs to help get them into an apartment, but Tyrell doesn't want to, especially because he doesn't want to go to prison like his dad. Instead, Tyrell plans a neighborhood party to help raise money.

Tyrell won the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel, and Time has included it on their list of the "100 Best YA Books of all Time". Despite these honors, the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom has indicated that Tyrell has been frequently banned and challenged in the United States.

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel, established in 1998, is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though they may be written originally in languages other than English.
Vijayadurga
Sri Vijayadurga is a Hindu goddess of varying importance in Indian culture and tradition. She is said to have intervened in a battle between Shiva and Vishnuthem, and gone to Shankwali to kill the demons harassing the Brahmins there. When she destroyed all the demons in Sancoale she earned the name of Vijaya and was given the name Vijayadurga. She is a form of the goddess Durga. The temple of Vijayadurga was once located in close proximity to Shri Shankleshwari Shantadurga and Shri Lakshminarsimha in Sancoale but moved to Kerim, Ponda Taluka - Goa.

Sancoale
Sancoale is a census town in South Goa district in the Indian state of Goa. It falls within the Sub-District of Mormugão and the Velhas Conquistas region. It is famous for being the hometown of Joseph Vaz, the patron saint of Sri Lanka.
Piotrowszczyzna
Piotrowszczyzna [pjɔtrɔfʂˈt͡ʂɨzna] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kleszczele, within Hajnówka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus.

Hajnówka County
Hajnówka County (Polish: powiat hajnowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-eastern Poland, on the border with Belarus. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Hajnówka, which lies 51 kilometres (32 mi) south-east of the regional capital Białystok. The only other town in the county is Kleszczele, lying 25 km (16 mi) south-west of Hajnówka.

The county covers an area of 1,623.65 square kilometres (626.9 sq mi). As of 2019 its total population is 42,851, out of which the population of Hajnówka is 20,580, that of Kleszczele is 1,250, and the rural population is 21,021.
Ithaca Central Railroad
The Ithaca Central Railroad (reporting mark ITHR) is a 48.8-mile-long (78.5 km) shortline railroad operating in New York and Pennsylvania, owned by Watco. The ITHR leases and operates the Norfolk Southern-owned Ithaca Secondary from Sayre, Pennsylvania (Norfolk Southern interchange), to Ludlowville, New York. The railroad began operations on December 8, 2018, serving its primary customer, the Cargill Cayuga Rock Salt Mine, in Lansing, New York. The railroad can haul various commodities such as salt, coal, plastics, and magnesium chloride.

The railroad uses two ex-Union Pacific EMD SD40-2 (SD45 carbody) locomotives, WAMX 4247 and WAMX 4248. On January 30, 2019, the ITHR received a third EMD SD40-2, WAMX 4241.

Shortline railroad
A shortline railroad is a small or mid-sized railroad company that operates over a relatively short distance relative to larger, national railroad networks. The term is used primarily in the United States and Canada. In the former, railroads are categorized by operating revenue, and most shortline railroads fall into the Class III or Class II categorization defined by the Surface Transportation Board.
Kanti Assembly constituency
Kanti is an assembly constituency in Muzaffarpur district in the Indian state of Bihar. The current sitting MLA (member of legislative assembly) is Mohammad Israil Mansuri who won as a RJD candidate defeating his nearest rival Ajit Kumar by 10000 votes.

Muzaffarpur district
Muzaffarpur district is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar state, India. Muzaffarpur district is part of and also the headquarters of Tirhut division. Muzaffarpur district is the financial and un-official capital of North Bihar Tirhut is the ancient name of all of northern Bihar.
Elke Roex
Elke Roex (born 29 June 1974) is a Belgian, Flemish politician and member of the Flemish Parliament for the Socialist Party – Different (Dutch: Socialistische Partij – Anders) (SP.A) since 2004 and a member of the City Council of Anderlecht. She lives in the architecturally unique district La Roue/Het Rad.

La Roue, Brussels
La Roue (French, pronounced [la ʁu]) or Het Rad (Dutch, pronounced [ət ˈrɑt]), meaning "The Wheel", is a district of Anderlecht, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium. Located in the south of Anderlecht, it is one of this municipality's largest districts of and one of Brussels' main garden cities. Mostly built in the 1920s, with its modest and picturesque houses, it offers a vision of an early 20th-century working-class neighbourhood. At its southern edge, it is also home to the Food and Chemical Industries Education and Research Center (CERIA/COOVI), as well as large department stores.

The district is crossed by the last end of the Chaussée de Mons/Bergensesteenweg in Brussels, and is bounded to the east by the Brussels–Charleroi Canal and to the south by the Flemish municipality of Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, in the Pajottenland. It is served by the metro stations Bizet, La Roue/Het Rad and CERIA/COOVI on line 5.
Sasaram subdivision
Sasaram subdivision is an administrative subdivision in Rohtas district of the Indian state of Bihar. The subdivision's administrative headquarters is the town of Sasaram, and it comprises six Community Development (CD) Blocks, forming one of the three subdivisions of Rohtas district.

Sheosagar
Sheosagar, also spelled Shiusagar or Shivsagar, is a village and corresponding community development block in Rohtas district of Bihar, India. As of 2011, the village of Sheosagar had a population of 2,065, in 345 households, while the entire block had a population of 176,080. The nearest major city is Sasaram, the capital of Rohtas district.
Ningchou
Ningchou is a village south of Ukhrul in the Ukhrul district, Manipur, India. The village falls under Kamjong sub division. Ningchou is connected by Ukhrul-Kamjong state highway. It is flanked by Patbung in the west, Nambisha in the south, Kongkan in the east and Kamjong in the north. Locally, the inhabitants speak the Ningchou dialect that belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language family. Some researchers believe that the dialect has some affinity to that of the Koireng tribe.

Ukhrul
Ukhrul (Tangkhul pronunciation:/ˈuːkˌɹəl or ˈuːkˌɹʊl/ is the headquarters of Ukhrul district, one of the hilly district in the state of Manipur, India. Ukhrul is the home of the Tangkhul Nagas. It is the administrative headquarter of the Ukhrul district. There are also four sub-divisions in the district for administering the villages in and around it. The villages, however, are governed by the 'village heads'. It is also famous for the Shirui Lily.
Murray-Hill riot
The Murray-Hill riot, also known as Montreal's night of terror, occurred during 16 hours of unrest in Montreal, Quebec when the city's police went on strike on 7 October 1969. Many stores were damaged and looted; 100 arrested. Sûreté Corporal Robert Dumas was killed during a violent confrontation between the Murray-Hill taxi company and angry Francophone taxi drivers and their supporters. The arrival of the Van-doos, a unit of the Canadian army, suppressed the rioting and re-established law and order after 16 hours without firm policing.

Jean-Jacques Bertrand
Jean-Jacques Bertrand (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ʒɑk bɛʁtʁɑ̃]; June 20, 1916 – February 22, 1973) was a Canadian politician and lawyer who served as the 21st premier of Quebec, from October 2, 1968, to May 12, 1970. He led the Union Nationale party.
Baaghi Sultana
Baaghi Sultana (English: Rebel) is a 1993 Hindi action film directed by R. Thakur. The film is produced by Raghunath Singh under the banner of Om Namah Shivay Productions. The star cast of the movie includes Anupam Kher, Kiron Kher, Shakti Kapoor, Puneet Issar, Raza Murad, Arif Khan, Vijay Saxena, Kirti Singh and Kiran Kumar. This film was released on 26 March 1993.

Kirron Kher
Kirron Anupam Kher (also Kiran or, Kiron, born 14 June 1952) is an Indian politician, actress, television personality, singer, and entertainment producer. She is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and was a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian Parliament, from Chandigarh, from 2014 to 2024. Through her film career, she is the recipient of two National Film Awards and a Lux Style Award, and has received four Filmfare Award nominations.
Scorsese (surname)
Scorsese is an Italian American surname (originally Scozzese in Italy, meaning Scotsman or Scottish). Notable people with the surname include:

Catherine Scorsese (1912–1997), American actress, mother of Martin

Charles Scorsese (1913–1993), American actor, father of Martin

Martin Scorsese (born 1942), American film director, writer, and producer

Domenica Cameron-Scorsese (born 1976), American actress, daughter of Martin

Francesca Scorsese (born 1999), American actress, daughter of Martin

Francesca Scorsese
Francesca Scorsese (born November 16, 1999) is an American actress, filmmaker, and TikTok creator known for co-starring in the HBO series We Are Who We Are and for making social media videos with her father, filmmaker Martin Scorsese.
Richard W. Hoffman
Richard William Hoffman (December 23, 1893 – July 6, 1975) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Hoffman was a veteran of the First World War. He engaged in the printing and publishing business. He owned and operated radio stations in Chicago, Illinois. He served as president of the board of education of J. Sterling Morton High School and Junior College 1933-1936 and 1939–1948.

Hoffman was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1957). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress.

He resumed former business activities. He resided in Riverside, Illinois. He died in Maywood, Illinois, July 6, 1975. He was interred in Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois.

81st United States Congress
The 81st United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from January 3, 1949, to January 3, 1951, during the fifth and sixth years of Harry S. Truman's presidency.

The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the 1940 United States census.

The Democrats won back the majority in both chambers, and with the election of President Harry S. Truman to his own full term in office, this gave the Democrats an overall federal government trifecta.
E-commerce
E-commerce (electronic commerce) refers to commercial activities including the electronic buying or selling products and services which are conducted on online platforms or over the Internet. E-commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. E-commerce is a part of retail. It is the largest segment of the electronics industry and is in turn driven by the technological advances of the semiconductor industry.

Online transaction processing
Online transaction processing (OLTP) is a type of database system used in transaction-oriented applications, such as many operational systems. "Online" refers to the fact that such systems are expected to respond to user requests and process them in real-time (process transactions). The term is contrasted with online analytical processing (OLAP) which instead focuses on data analysis (for example planning and management systems).