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David Bakeš
David Bakeš (born 2 August 1982, in Prague) is a Czech snowboarder, specializing in snowboard cross.

Bakeš competed at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics for the Czech Republic. In the 2010 snowboard cross, he qualified 32nd, failing to advance, and ending up 32nd overall. In the 2014 snowboard cross, he finished 4th in his 1/8 round race, failing to advance, and ending up 25th overall.

As of September 2014, his best showing at the World Championships is 29th, in the 2011 snowboard cross.

Bakeš made his World Cup debut in February 2007. As of September 2014, his best finish is 4th, at Telluride in 2009–10. His best overall finish is 20th, in 2007–08.

FIS Snowboard World Cup
The FIS Snowboard World Cup is an annual snowboarding competition, arranged by the International Ski Federation (FIS) since 1994. Since its inauguration, different disciplines have been added and removed, along with categories used to group them.

Currently disciplines contested in the World Cup are parallel giant slalom and parallel slalom (grouped into the "parallel" category); the halfpipe, big air, and slopestyle (grouped into the "AFU" category); and the discipline-category of snowboard cross. Most of these disciplines have been contested on and off throughout the years. The only discipline contested in every season of the World Cup is the halfpipe (and from 1996–97 season onward the snowboard cross).

There was an "overall" classification until the 2009–10 season. Since then, the World Cup has been divided into the three categories described above.
Zinzi Rabe
Zinziswa Ursula "Zinzi" Rabe is a South African politician who has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature since 2019. She was elected to her legislative seat in the 2019 general election, ranked 34th on the ANC's provincial party list. In 2022, ahead of the ANC's 55th National Conference, the ANC Youth League endorsed Rabe as a candidate for election to the party's National Executive Committee.

Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature
The Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature is the primary legislative body of the South African province of Eastern Cape. It is unicameral in its composition, and elects the premier and the provincial cabinet from among the members of the leading party or coalition in the parliament.

At the commencement of the 7th provincial legislature on 14 June 2024, the number of seats allocated to the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature increased from 63 to 72.
Jbita, Hama
Jbita (Arabic: جبيتا)  is a Syrian village located in Wadi al-Uyun Nahiyah in Masyaf District, Hama. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Jbita, Hama had a population of 687 in the 2004 census.

Masyaf District
Masyaf District (Arabic: مصياف Maṣyāf)  is a district (mantiqah) administratively belonging to Hama Governorate, Syria. At the 2004 Census it had a population of 169,341. Its administrative centre is the city of Masyaf.
Matale Municipal Council
The Matale Municipal Council (Sinhala: මාතලේ මහ නගර සභා mātalē maha nagara sabhāva) is the local council for Matale. It is a large regional city located in the heart of island's central hills, it is the capital and largest city in Matale district.

The council was formed in 1963 under the Municipalities Ordinance Act of 1865. It has 21 elected representatives, comprising ten seats held by the United National Party, four seats by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and six by Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna.

Sri Lanka Freedom Party
The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP; Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය, romanised: Śrī Laṁkā Nidahas Pakṣaya; Tamil: இலங்கை சுதந்திரக் கட்சி, romanised: Ilaṅkai Cutantirak Kaṭci) is a centre-left political party in Sri Lanka. Founded by S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike in 1951, the party was one of Sri Lanka's two main parties from the 1950s to the 2010s, serving as the main rival of the centre-right United National Party. Following a split in the late 2010s and subsequent electoral losses, the influence of the party has since diminished.

The party is generally considered as having a democratic socialist or progressive economic agenda and is often associated with Sinhalese nationalist parties. The party follows a non-aligned foreign policy but has historically had close ties to socialist nations.
Trese (TV series)
Trese  (Tagalog: [ˈtrɛsɛ]) is an anime-influenced television series based on the Filipino comic series of the same name by Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo. An international co-production of Singapore and the United States, the series was released on June 10, 2021 on Netflix in the United States, which was followed by a global release the next day.

Tania Gunadi
Tania Gunadi (born 29 July 1983) is an Indonesian actress. She moved to Los Angeles when she was a teenager.

She is best known for playing Emma Lau / Dark Tamera on Aaron Stone, Miko Nakadai on Transformers: Prime, Sashi Kobayashi on Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero, Sakti Deon / Techno on MyMusic, and Pliny on StuGo.
Ion Predescu
Ion Predescu (2 October 1927 – 12 October 2020) was a Romanian politician and judge who served as a Social Democratic Senator, Minister of Justice, and member of the Constitutional Court of Romania.

Predescu was born in Optași-Măgura, Olt County. He studied at the Radu Greceanu High School in Slatina and received his law degree from the University of Bucharest. He started practicing law in 1952, and taught at the Law Schools of the University of Craiova and  Spiru Haret University in Bucharest. In May 1990 he was elected to the Senate and in 1991 he participated in the drafting of the Constitution of Romania. He served as Minister of Justice from 3 to 12 December 1996 in the Văcăroiu Cabinet. He was awarded the Order of the Star of Romania, Knight rank and the National Order of Faithful Service. He died in Craiova in 2020.

Olt County
Olt County (Romanian pronunciation: [olt]) is a county (județ) of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in the historical regions of Oltenia and Muntenia (the regions are separated by the Olt river). The capital city is Slatina.
Isaieve
Isaieve (Ukrainian: Ісаєве) is a village in Berezivka Raion, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine. The village is related to Andriievo-Ivanivka rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.

The village was founded by general Ivan Isayev in 1792 uunder the name Isayevka. After 1861 the lands of general Isayev were owned by Giżycki family. Later, Lyubov Giżycka was married Ivan Kuris, whose song, Oleksandr Kuris, built a palace  in the village in 1905.

Pyotr Leshchenko, a singer in the Russian Empire, and later Romania was born in the village.

Berezivka Raion
Berezivka Raion (Ukrainian: Березівський район) is a raion (district) in Odesa Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Berezivka. Population: 104,969 (2022 estimate).

On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Odesa Oblast was reduced to seven, and the area of Berezivka Raion was significantly expanded. Three abolished raions, Ivanivka, Mykolaivka, and Shyriaieve Raions, as well as part of Lyman Raion, were merged into Berezivka Raion. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 32,760 (2020 est.).
Rudecindo Alvarado
Rudecindo Alvarado (March 1, 1792 – June 22, 1872) was an Argentine general. He fought in the military campaigns of Manuel Belgrano, and in the Army of the Andes. He was governor of Mendoza. He left the country during the rule of Juan Manuel de Rosas, and returned in 1852 after Rosas' defeat at the battle of Caseros.

Battle of Caseros
The Battle of Caseros (Spanish: Batalla de Caseros; Portuguese: Batalha de Caseros) was fought near the town of El Palomar, Argentina, on 3 February 1852, between forces of the Argentine Confederation, commanded by Juan Manuel de Rosas, and a coalition consisting of the Argentine provinces of Entre Ríos and Corrientes, the Empire of Brazil, and Uruguay.

The allied forces, known as the Grand Army (Ejército Grande), defeated Rosas, who fled to the United Kingdom. This defeat marked a sharp division in the history of Argentina. After the battle, Justo José de Urquiza, a caudillo and governor of Entre Ríos, became the provisional Director of the Argentine Confederation and sponsored the creation of the country's constitution in 1853, later becoming the first constitutional president of Argentina in 1854.
Zverin Monastery
The Zverin Monastery is a monastery in Veliky Novgorod, located on the left bank of the Volkhov River, north of the Kremlin. This is one of the oldest Russian monasteries, founded before the 12th century.

The Zverin Monastery is on the World Heritage list as a part of object 604 Historic Monuments of Novgorod and Surroundings. The building was designated an architectural monument of federal significance (#5310024000).

Veliky Novgorod
Veliky Novgorod (/vəˈliːki ˈnɒvɡərɒd/ ⓘ və-LEE-kee NOV-gə-rod; Russian: Великий Новгород, IPA: [vʲɪˈlʲikʲɪj ˈnovɡərət]; lit. 'Great Newtown'), also known simply as Novgorod (Новгород), is the largest city and administrative centre of Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It is one of the oldest cities in Russia, being first mentioned in the 9th century. The city lies along the Volkhov River just downstream from its outflow from Lake Ilmen and is situated on the M10 federal highway connecting Moscow and Saint Petersburg. UNESCO recognized Novgorod as a World Heritage Site in 1992. The city has a population of 224,286 (2021 census).

At its peak during the 14th century, the city was the capital of the Novgorod Republic and was one of Europe's largest cities. The "Великий" (Veliky) part was added to the city's name in 1999.
Fred Sefton
Frederick Stanley Sefton (August 7, 1888 – March 11, 1976) was an American college football, college basketball, and college baseball coach and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the University of Akron for nine seasons, from 1915 to 1923, compiling a record of 33–34–4. Sefton also coached the men's basketball team at Akron for a total of 11 seasons, nine from 1916 to 1924 and two more from 1925 to 1927, tallying a total mark of 103–42. He played college football at Colgate University.

Sefton died on March 11, 1976, at Akron General Medical Center in Akron, Ohio.

Colgate University
Colgate University is a private college in Hamilton, New York, United States. A liberal arts college, it was founded in 1819 as the Baptist Education Society of the State of New York and operated under that name until 1823, when it was renamed Hamilton Theological and Literary Institution, often called Hamilton College (1823–1846), then Madison College (1846–1890), and its present name since 1890.

Colgate enrolls approximately 3,200 students in 56 undergraduate majors that culminate in a Bachelor of Arts degree. The student body is 54% female and 46% male. Students participate in over 200 clubs and organizations. While Colgate offers an almost entirely undergraduate program, it also has a small graduate program leading to the Master of Arts in Teaching. The college competes in NCAA Division I sports and is part of the Patriot League athletic conference and ECAC Hockey.
Reserva Natural Punta Cucharas
Reserva Natural Punta Cucharas (Punta Cucharas Nature Reserve) is a nature reserve in Barrio Canas, Ponce, Puerto Rico. It consists of both a land area component as well as an offshore marine area. The land component has an area of 698 cuerdas (678 acres) while the marine component has an expanse of 3,516 cuerdas (3,415 acres), for a total area of 4,214 cuerdas (4,093 acres). The Reserve consists of mangrove ecosystems, coastal sand dunes, a saline lagoon known as Laguna Las Salinas, open water, and a century-old local community. The lagoon occupies and area of 347,898 m2 (86 acres) Ecological protection is managed and enforced by the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources. Eight activities are allowed at the Reserve: scuba diving, boating, fishing, hiking, sun bathing, photography, bird watching and canoeing. Activities prohibited are: Camping, crabbing/trapping, horseback riding, water crafting, and hunting. Pets, ATVs, and fireplaces are also prohibited.

Puerto Rican spindalis
The Puerto Rican spindalis (Spindalis portoricensis) is a bird endemic to the island of Puerto Rico, where it is commonly known as reina mora or cigua puertorriqueña. The species is widely distributed throughout the island and is an important part of the Puerto Rican ecosystem because of its help in seed dispersal and plant reproduction.
Connie J. Engel
Connie J. Engel was one of the first female pilots to serve in the Air Force and the Air Force Reserves.

Engel graduated in 1977 at the top of her 50-person undergraduate pilot training class in Felcon AeroLab. She was the top student of the class. During her career, she served at Edwards Air Force Base piloting chase planes.  She has retired as a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel.

In 2016, Engel was inducted into the Women in Aviation's Pioneers Hall of Fame.   In 2020, Air Education and Training Command renamed the Martin Hall Conference Room, the Trailblazer Room, in honor of her class.

As of 2021, she continued to pilot commercial aircraft.

Air Education and Training Command
The Air Education and Training Command (AETC) is one of the nine Major Commands (MAJCOM) of the United States Air Force (USAF), reporting to Headquarters, United States Air Force. It was established 1 July 1993, with the realignment of Air Training Command and Air University.

AETC is headquartered at Randolph Air Force Base, Joint Base San Antonio, Texas. AETC is the primary training and professional education command in the Air Force.

More than 48,000 active duty and Air Reserve Component members and 14,000 civilian personnel make up AETC. The command has responsibility for approximately 1,600 aircraft.

AETC's mission is to "recruit, train and educate Airmen to deliver air power for America."
Ernie Stewart (umpire)
Ernest Draper Stewart (July 28, 1909 – November 15, 2001) was an American professional baseball umpire who worked in the American League from 1941 to 1945. Stewart umpired 687 regular-season games in the major leagues during his five-year career. He also umpired in the 1942 All-Star Game.

On July 17, 1941, Stewart was umpiring at third base when Ken Keltner made two sharp defensive plays to help end Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak.

Ken Keltner
Kenneth Frederick Keltner (October 31, 1916 – December 12, 1991) was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a third baseman from 1937 to 1950, most prominently as a member of the Cleveland Indians where he was a seven-time All-Star player and was a member of the 1948 World Series winning team. He played his final season for the Boston Red Sox.

Keltner was notable for being one of the best fielding third basemen in the 1940s and for helping to end Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak on July 17, 1941. He was inducted into the Cleveland Guardians Hall of Fame in 1951. In 2001, he was voted one of the 100 greatest players in Cleveland Indians' history by a panel of veteran baseball writers, executives and historians.
Merope (Messenia)
Merope (Ancient Greek: Μερόπη) was a Queen of Messenia in Greek mythology, daughter of King Cypselus of Arcadia and wife of Cresphontes, the Heraclid king of Messenia. After the murder of her husband and her two older children by Polyphontes (another Heraclid), Merope was forced to marry the  murderer, but she managed to save her youngest son Aepytus, whom she sent secretly to Aetolia. Several years later, when Aepytus grew up, he killed Polyphontes with the collaboration of Merope, and he took revenge for the murder of his relatives and the insult to his mother.

Messenia (ancient region)
Messenia (Ancient Greek: Μεσσηνία) was an ancient district of the southwestern Peloponnese, more or less overlapping the modern Messenia region of Greece. It occupied the peninsular region usually called by the same name along with some of the mainland. To the north it had a border with Elis along the Neda river. From there the border with Arcadia ran along the tops of Mount Elaeum and Mount Nomia and then through foothills of Taygetus. The eastern border with Laconia went along the Taygetus ridge up to the Koskaraka river, and then along that river to the sea, near the city of Abia. The Ionian Sea forms the peninsula's western border, and the peninsula and mainland sections enclose the Messenian Gulf to the south.

Ancient Messenia existed continuously without change of name and with little change of territory to the modern Regional Unit of Greece of the same name.
Ed Decarie
Edmond Julien Decarie (August 8, 1883 – February 1, 1942) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player from Hawkesbury, Ontario. He played with the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey Association during the 1910 season.

He also played with the Canadian Soo and Calumet Miners of the International Professional Hockey League (IPHL), with the Pittsburgh Athletic Club of the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League (WPHL), and with the Brantford Indians of the Ontario Professional Hockey League (OPHL).

Calumet Miners
The Calumet Miners, also known as the Calumet-Laurium Miners and the Calumet Wanderers, was a professional ice hockey team from Calumet and Laurium, Michigan. The team played for three seasons in the International Professional Hockey League, the first fully professional hockey league in North America, from 1904 to 1907. The league was formed in November 1904 and consisted of five teams; three from Michigan, one from Pennsylvania and one from Ontario in Canada.

Calumet Miners had its best season in the IPHL in its first year, the 1904–05 season, when the team won the championship with 37 points in 24 games, five points in front of the Portage Lakes Hockey Club.
Drepanaspis
Drepanaspis (from Greek: δρεπάνη drepánē 'sickle' and Greek: ἀσπίς aspís 'shield') is an extinct genus of heterostracan armoured jawless fish from the Early Devonian (approximately 416 - 397 mya). Drepanaspis are assumed to have lived primarily in marine environments and is most commonly characterized by their ray-like, heavily armoured bodies, along with their lack of paired fins and jaws.

Gemünden, Rhein-Hunsrück
Gemünden (German pronunciation: [ɡəˈmʏndn̩] ⓘ) is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality) in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kirchberg, whose seat is in the town of-Kirchberg.
Reynoldsville, Illinois
Reynoldsville is an unincorporated community in Union County, Illinois, United States. The community is along Illinois Route 3 and 146, just north of McClure and across the Mississippi River from Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

The unincorporated community has a major railroad passing through. A fishing lake, Lyerla Lake, is just to the east. Kornthal Church from 1852 is located in the community and Old Cape Road connects with Illinois Route 127.

Illinois Route 3
Illinois Route 3 (IL 3) is a 187.44-mile-long (301.66 km) major north–south arterial state highway in southwestern Illinois. It has its southern terminus at Cairo Junction (about four miles (6.4 km) north of Cairo) at the intersection of U.S. Route 51 (US 51) and Illinois Route 37, and its northern terminus in Grafton at IL 100.
Beerta
Beerta (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbeːrtaː]; Gronings: (De) Beert(e) [də ˈbɪːdə]) is a village and former municipality with a population of 2,205 in the municipality of Oldambt in the province of Groningen in the Netherlands. In the 20th century, Beerta was a communist stronghold. In 1933, the municipal council was dismissed by the government, and was ruled by a government commissioner until 1935. Between 1982 and 1990, Beerta was the only municipality with a communist mayor.

Gronings dialect
The Gronings (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɣroːnɪŋs] ⓘ) (or Groninger) dialects or language, known in Gronings itself as Grunnegs or Grönnegs, are some of the Low Saxon dialects spoken in the province of Groningen and around the Groningen border in Drenthe and Friesland. Gronings and the strongly related varieties in East Frisia have a strong East Frisian influence and take a remarkable position within West Low German. Its typical accent and vocabulary differ strongly from the other Low Saxon dialects.
Philippines at the 1966 Asian Games
The Philippines participated in the 1966 Asian Games held in Bangkok, Thailand from December 9 to December 20, 1966. Ranked 10th with 2 gold medals, 15 silver medals and 25 bronze medals with a total of 42 over-all medals.

1966 Asian Games
The 1966 Asian Games, also known as the V Asiad or Bangkok 1966, were a continental multi-sport event that was held from 9 to 20 December 1966, in Bangkok, Thailand. A total of 142 events in 16 sports were contested by athletes during the games. Taiwan and Israel returned to the Asian Games, reversing the decision taken by Indonesia in the previous Asiad to debar the two countries. A total number of 2,500 athletes and officials from 18 countries, were involved in this Asiad.

The 5th Asiad was the first one where women's volleyball was played.
Green Acres Mall
Green Acres Mall is an indoor shopping mall located in South Valley Stream, New York, off Sunrise Highway in Nassau County near the border of New York City and the Incorporated Village of Valley Stream.

As of 2026, the mall currently features two Macy's locations, and Primark. The mall also features many staples like Express, H&M, and Uniqlo. The mall has a gross leasable area (GLA) of 2,069,000 square feet (192,200 m2). The mall is the 18th largest in the United States and is extremely popular in Nassau County and in the neighboring New York City borough of Queens. The mall is accessible by many Nassau Inter-County Express routes as well as three MTA New York City Bus routes, the Q5, Q87 and Q89, that cross the city border.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is a public benefit corporation in New York State responsible for public transportation in the New York City metropolitan area. The MTA is the largest public transit authority in North America, serving 12 counties in Downstate New York, along with two counties in southwestern Connecticut under contract with the Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT), carrying over 11 million passengers on an average weekday systemwide, and over 850,000 vehicles on its seven toll bridges and two tunnels per weekday.
Main Street Historic District (Rockland, Maine)
The Main Street Historic District encompasses the historic commercial heart of Rockland, Maine.  Located on several blocks of Main Street (United States Route 1), the district has a well-preserved collection of commercial architecture dating from the mid-19th to early 20th centuries, the period of the city's height as a shipbuilding and industrial lime processing center.  The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and enlarged in 2012.

Rockland, Maine
Rockland is a city in and the county seat of Knox County, Maine,  United States. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 6,936. The city is a popular tourist destination. It is a departure point for the Maine State Ferry Service to the islands of Penobscot Bay: Vinalhaven, North Haven and Matinicus.
Baron Lloyd
Baron Lloyd, of Dolobran in the County of Montgomery, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1925 for the Conservative politician Sir George Lloyd. He was succeeded by his only son, the second Baron. He was also a Conservative politician. He had no surviving male issue and on his death in 1985 the barony became extinct.

Sampson Samuel Lloyd, grandfather of the first Baron, was Member of Parliament for Plymouth and Warwickshire South.

Sampson Lloyd (MP)
Sampson Samuel Lloyd (10 November 1820 – 3 March 1889) was a British banker and Conservative Party politician. He became chairman of Lloyds Bank and held a seat in the House of Commons for six years between 1874 and 1885.