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Yuri Pines
Yuri Pines (Hebrew: יורי פינס; Russian: Юрий Анатольевич Пинес; born 1964) is a Ukrainian-born Israeli sinologist and the Michael W. Lipson Professor of Chinese Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Pines was born in Kiev, Ukraine and immigrated to Israel in 1979.  He studied under Lothar von Falkenhausen at UCLA and under Liu Zehua at Nankai University in Tianjin,  earning a PhD at Hebrew University in 1998. He also earned his M.A. and B.A. in East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University in 1994 and 1989, respectively.

Pines attributes the endurance of the unified Chinese state, in both the imperial and contemporary periods, "to the fact that philosophers of the Warring States period, whatever their other differences, agreed on the principle of unification under a powerful ruler, and this principle became the basis of Chinese political thought."

Sinology
Sinology, also referred to as China studies, is a subfield of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on China. It is an academic discipline that focuses on the study of the Chinese civilization primarily through Chinese language, history, culture, literature, philosophy, art, music, cinema, and science. Its origin "may be traced to the examination which Chinese scholars made of their own civilization."

The academic field of sinology often refers to Western scholarship. Until the 20th century, it was historically seen as equivalent to philology concerning the Chinese classics and other literature written in the Chinese language. Since then, the scope of sinology has expanded to include Chinese history and palaeography, among other subjects.
Louisiana Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of Louisiana (French: Cour suprême de Louisiane; Spanish: Corte Suprema de Luisiana) is the highest court and court of last resort in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The modern Supreme Court, composed of seven justices, meets in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

The Supreme Court, and Louisiana state law, are historically based in the colonial governments of France and Spain during the 18th century. The current Supreme Court traces its roots back to these beginnings.

St. James Parish, Louisiana
St. James Parish (French: Paroisse de Saint-Jacques) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Convent. The parish was created in 1807. St. James Parish is a part of the New Orleans–Metairie, Louisiana metropolitan statistical area, sitting between New Orleans and Baton Rouge on the Mississippi River. According to the 2020 United States census, the population was 20,192.
Korea Scout Association
The Korea Scout Association (Korean: 한국스카우트연맹) is the national Scouting association of South Korea.

Scouting was founded in Korea in 1922 while under Japanese rule, and sent representatives to the first Far East Scouting competition in Beijing in 1924.  However, it was banned by the occupation authorities from 1937 until August 15, 1945.  It existed in all areas of the Korean peninsula prior to the Korean War in 1950.  World Organization of the Scout Movement recognition came in 1953. The total membership in 2011 was 201,455 registered Scouts.

Dr. Kim Yong-woo, the first Tiger Scout and former Minister of National Defense was awarded the Bronze Wolf Award, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting, in 1975.

Korean Children's Union
The Korean Children's Union (KCU; Korean: 조선소년단) is a North Korean organization to which all North Korean children aged seven to fourteen belong. A pioneer movement, it is a political organization linked to the Workers' Party of Korea. Its uniformed branch, which admits children ages 9 through fifteen, is known as the Young Pioneer Corps.
Unto a Good Land
Unto a Good Land (Swedish: Invandrarna, 1952) is a Swedish novel by Vilhelm Moberg. It is the second of his four-novel The Emigrants series.

It was translated into English in 1954 and was also published in other languages. Together with the first novel, it was adapted as a film The Emigrants (1971), directed by Jan Troell. A sequel based on the third and fourth novels was released in 1972.

Jan Troell
Jan Gustaf Troell (born 23 July 1931) is a Swedish filmmaker, screenwriter, author, and cinematographer. His realistic films, with a lyrical photography in which nature is prominent, have placed him in the first rank of modern Swedish film directors along with Ingmar Bergman and Bo Widerberg.
North Brother
North Brother is a mountain located in Baxter State Park, Piscataquis County, Maine.  North Brother is flanked to the northeast by Fort Mountain, and to the southwest by South Brother; collectively the two are called "The Brothers."

The south and east sides of North Brother drains into a swampy area called "The Klondike", then into Wassataquoik Stream, the East Branch of the Penobscot River, and into Penobscot Bay.  The north and west sides of North Brother drain into Little Nesowadnehunk Stream, Nesowadnehunk Stream, and the West Branch of the Penobscot River.

The Appalachian Trail, a 2,170 mi (3,490 km) National Scenic Trail from Georgia to Maine, reaches its northern terminus, on the summit of Mount Katahdin, 5 miles (8.0 km) to the southeast of The Brothers.

West Branch Penobscot River
The West Branch Penobscot River is a 117-mile-long (188 km) tributary of the  Penobscot River through the North Maine Woods in Maine.  The river is also known as Abocadneticook (Abenaki for  "stream narrowed by mountains"), Kahgognamock, and Kettegwewick (Abenaki for "place of the great stream").
Kian Tajbakhsh
Kian Tajbakhsh is an Iranian-American scholar, social scientist, and urban planner. He has taught at both American and Iranian universities. Tajbakhsh is an international expert in the areas of local government reform, urban planning, civil society capacity building, and international public policy research collaboration. He has also directed international projects in the areas of public health and social policy.

Tajbakhsh was one of the Iranian-American dual citizens arrested and detained for years in Iran for allegedly engaging in activities against national security. He was one of five Iranian-Americans held in Iran, including Jason Rezaian, whose release was negotiated by the Obama administration as part of the Iran Nuclear Deal. He was finally permitted to leave on Implementation Day on January 16, 2016.

Lee Bollinger
Lee Carroll Bollinger (born April 30, 1946) is an American attorney and academic administrator who served as the 19th president of Columbia University from 2002 to 2023, as the 12th president of the University of Michigan from 1997 to 2001, and as 14th dean of the University of Michigan Law School from 1987 to 1994.

Bollinger is currently the Seth Low Professor and a faculty member at Columbia Law School. He is a legal scholar of the First Amendment and freedom of speech. While serving as President of the University of Michigan, he was at the center of two notable United States Supreme Court cases regarding the use of affirmative action in admissions processes. He also served as chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York board of directors in 2011, and was a member of the board from 2006 to 2012.
Pauli Gerrei trilingual inscription
The Pauli Gerrei trilingual inscription is a trilingual Greek-Latin-Phoenician inscription on the base of a bronze column found in San Nicolò Gerrei (known in Sardinian as Pauli Gerrei) in Sardinia in 1861. The stele was discovered by a notary named Michele Cappai, on the right side of the Strada statale 387 del Gerrei that descends towards Ballao.

Giovanni Spano, who originally published the inscription in 1862, later donated the inscription to the Museum of Turin. The inscription currently resides in the Turin Archaeology Museum. Turin had been the first capital of the unified Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1865 and Spano subsequently obtained the nomination as Senator of the Kingdom. On 10 October 2009 the then mayor of Pauli Gerrei, Silvestro Furcas requested that the inscription be returned to the town.

It is also known as KAI 66 and CIS I 143.

Senate of the Kingdom of Italy
The Senate of the Kingdom of Italy (Italian: Senato del Regno d'Italia) was the upper house of the bicameral parliament of the Kingdom of Italy, officially created on 4 March 1848, acting as an evolution of the original Subalpine Senate. It was replaced on 1 January 1948 by the present-day Senate of the Republic. All of its members were appointed by the King.
Forest Sami
The forest Sámi (Swedish: Skogssamer) are Sámi people who lived in the woods and who, unlike the reindeer-herding Sámi people (the "fell Sámi"), did not move up into the fells during the summer season. Historically, there have been forest Sámi in Sweden in the area ranging from northern Ångermanland to the far north. In the early 1600s the term granlapp was also used to refer to the Sámi people who paid taxes only to Sweden, compared to the semi-nomadic fell Sámi, who, since they worked in the fells that straddled the Swedish-Norwegian border, had to pay taxes to both countries. When Ernst Manker studied the life of the forest Sámi in the early 20th century, nearly all of their habitations had been abandoned. Only one forest Sámi village remained, in Malå in Västerbotten, an area known as Stenundslandet in Anundsjö. There is a modern-day group who consider themselves forest Sámi in Finland, but they are not part of the Sámi parliament, for example.

Åsele
Åsele (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈǒːsɛlɛ]) is a locality and the seat of Åsele Municipality in Västerbotten County, province of Lapland, Sweden with 1,798 inhabitants in 2010. Its elevation is 313 m (1027 ft).
Fuso (company)
The Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (Japanese: 三菱ふそうトラック・バス株式会社, Hepburn: Mitsubishi Fusō Torakku・Basu Kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese manufacturer of trucks and buses. It is headquartered in Kawasaki, Kanagawa and  owned by Germany-based Daimler Truck.

Fuso derives from the ancient Chinese term fusang (扶桑), for a sacred tree said to grow at the spot in the east where the sun rises, and has been used to refer to Japan itself. The actual fuso tree is a hibiscus.

Hibiscus
Hibiscus is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. The genus is quite large, comprising several hundred species that are native to warm temperate, subtropical and tropical regions throughout the world. Member species are renowned for their large, showy flowers and those species are commonly known simply as "hibiscus", or less widely known as rose mallow. The genus includes both annual and perennial herbaceous plants, as well as woody shrubs and small trees.

Several species are widely cultivated as ornamental plants, notably Hibiscus syriacus and Hibiscus × rosa-sinensis.
Vince Jobo
Vincent Thabiso Jobo (born 1 February 1991 in Krugersdorp, South Africa) was a former South African rugby union player, and former American Major League Rugby side New Orleans Gold. His regular position was flanker or number eight.

Stormers
The Stormers (known for sponsorship reasons as the DHL Stormers) is a South African professional rugby union team based in Cape Town in the Western Cape that competes in the United Rugby Championship, a trans-hemispheric competition that also involves sides from Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales and the domestic Currie Cup competition as the Western Province. They competed in the Super Rugby competition until 2020. They have won one major international championship, the 2021-22 United Rugby Championship, and seven South African 'conference' titles, five in the South African Conference of Super Rugby, and two in the URC equivalent, the South African Shield, while in the Currie Cup having won the competition on a record 34 occasions.
Torra d'Ancone
The Tower of Ancone or Tower of Palmentoggio (Corsican: Torra d'Ancone) is a ruined Genoese tower  located in the commune of Calcatoggio (Corse-du-Sud) on the west coast of the Corsica. The tower sits near the sea on the Punta di Palmentoju to the south of the Golfu di a Liscia.

The construction of the Tour d'Ancone began in 1581. It was one of a series of coastal defences constructed by the Republic of Genoa between 1530 and 1620 to stem the attacks by Barbary pirates.

In 2007 the tower was added to the Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel maintained by the French Ministry of Culture. It is privately owned.

Corse-du-Sud
Corse-du-Sud (French pronunciation: [kɔʁs dy syd] ⓘ; Corsican: Corsica suttana [ˈkorsiga zutˈtana],  Pumonte [puˈmɔntɛ] or Pumonti [puˈmɔnti]; English: Southern Corsica) is (as of 2019) an administrative department of France, consisting of the southern part of the island of Corsica. The corresponding departmental territorial collectivity merged with that of Haute-Corse on 1 January 2018, forming the single territorial collectivity of Corsica, with territorial elections coinciding with the dissolution of the separate council. Although its administrative powers were ceded to the new territorial collectivity, it remains an administrative department in its own right. In 2019, it had a population of 158,507.
2024 in Thailand
Following is a list of events and scheduled events in the year 2024 in Thailand. The year 2024 is the 243rd year of the Rattanakosin Kingdom of Thailand. It was the ninth year in the reign of King Vajiralongkorn (Rama X), and reckoned as year 2567 in the Buddhist Era, the Thai calendar.

Bhumjaithai Party
Bhumjaithai Party (BJT; Thai: พรรคภูมิใจไทย; RTGS: Phak Phumchaithai, lit. 'Thai Proud Party') is a major conservative populist political party in Thailand. It was founded on 5 November 2008, in anticipation of the 2 December 2008 Constitutional Court ruling that dissolved its de facto predecessor, the Neutral Democratic Party (PMT), along with the People's Power Party (PPP) and the Thai Nation Party. After those dissolutions, former members of the PMT and the Friends of Newin Group (KPW) faction of the PPP switched to this party. It currently heads a minority government.

Bhumjaithai has a populist platform, with some policies drawn from Thaksin Shinawatra's populist Thai Rak Thai party and its second incarnation, the PPP. The party has a strong base in Buriram Province.
Cultural depictions of amphibians
Culture consists of the social behaviour and norms in human societies transmitted through social learning. Amphibians have for centuries appeared in culture. From the fire-dwelling salamander to the frogs (and occasionally toads) of myth and fairytale and the rare use of a newt in literature, amphibians play the role of strange and sometimes repulsive creatures. Frogs however have symbolised fertility, as in Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, while in Ancient China they were associated with healing and good fortune in business.

Toad
Toad (also known as a hoptoad) is a common name for certain frogs, especially of the family Bufonidae, that are characterized by dry, leathery skin, short legs, and large bumps covering the parotoid glands.

In popular culture (folk taxonomy), toads are distinguished from frogs by their drier, rougher skin and association with more terrestrial habitats. However, this distinction does not align precisely with scientific taxonomy.
Kip (surname)
Kip is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Arthur F. Kip (1910–1995), American physicist

Hendrick Hendricksen Kip (1600–1685), Dutch magistrate in New Amsterdam

Ismaël Kip (born 1987), Dutch professional racing cyclist

Jan Kip  (1652/3–1722), Dutch artist active in England

Leonard Kip (1826–1906), American writer

Ricardo Kip (born 1992), Dutch footballer

William Ingraham Kip (1811–1893), American Episcopal bishop

George Goelet Kip (1845-1926), a prominent American lawyer

Arthur F. Kip
Arthur Frederic Kip (27 September 1910, Los Angeles – 2 December 1995, Berkeley, California) was an American experimental physicist, specializing in solid-state physics. He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1958–1959.
Tactical Air Support
Tactical Air Support, Inc. (Tactical Air) is an American defense contractor headquartered in Reno, Nevada at Reno-Stead Airport. Some of its employees are former fighter weapons school and operational commanders, instructors, and/or test pilots that specialize in advanced tactical air support. Tactical Air provides consulting and commercial air services (including JTAC training, UAV chase, flight training, maintenance, logistics, and adversary support) to U.S. and allied forces in a manner similar to the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center (NSAWC) and the USAF Weapons School. TacAir Global, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tactical Air Support, Inc., focuses on international training. In 2013, Tactical Air began providing F-5 refresher training to the Botswana Defence Force.

Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center
The Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center (NAWDC), formerly known as Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center (NSAWC) is the center of excellence for naval aviation training and tactics development, located at Naval Air Station Fallon in Fallon, Nevada. NAWDC provides service to aircrews, squadrons and air wings of the United States Navy through flight training, academic instructional classes, direct operational and intelligence support.

The name was changed from NSAWC to NAWDC in June 2015 to align with the naming convention of the Navy's other Warfighting Development Centers, including Naval Surface and Mine Warfighting Development Center (SMWDC), Naval Information Warfighting Development Center (NIWDC), and the Undersea Warfighting Development Center (UWDC).
Konstantin Shostak
Konstantin Dmitriyevich Shostak (Russian: Константин Дмитриевич Шостак; born 28 March 2000) is a Belarusian professional ice hockey player currently playing for Severstal Cherepovets in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), and the Belarusian national team. He has also formerly played with JYP in the Liiga

Shostak joined Dinamo Minsk on loan from Severstal for the 2022–23 season on 1 June 2022. He represented Belarus at the 2021 IIHF World Championship.

HC Dinamo Minsk
Hockey Club Dinamo Minsk or HC Dinamo Minsk (Russian: Дина́мо-Минск; Belarusian: Дынама-Мінск, Dynama-Minsk) is a professional ice hockey club based in Minsk, Belarus. It is a member of the Tarasov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).

Dinamo has qualified for the KHL playoffs (Gagarin Cup) nine times: in the 2010–11, 2011–12, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24 and 2024–25 KHL seasons. The team has not won a single round in the Gagarin Cup playoffs, losing in all nine series in a combination of 2nd round and 1st round losses.
Kate Faasse
Kate Louis Faasse (born June 4, 2004) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for the Houston Dash of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). She played college soccer for the North Carolina Tar Heels, winning the Hermann Trophy as a junior after leading the nation in goals and winning the 2024 national championship.

TopDrawerSoccer
TopDrawerSoccer.com (TDS) is an American soccer website that is dedicated to youth soccer in the United States. Specifically, the website focuses on Academy soccer, high school soccer, and college soccer in the United States. The website was launched by Robert Ziegler in 2003.
Craven Basin
The Craven Basin is a sedimentary basin in northern England, having the shape of a southerly-tilted graben which was active during the Carboniferous period.  It is one of a series of such basins which developed across northern England in this period separating upstanding blocks which were typically underlain by buoyant granites. The basin trends roughly east–west and is bounded by the Lake District block to the northwest, the Askrigg Block to the northeast and the Central Lancashire High to the south. One distinct section of the basin is a half graben which contains over 3km thickness of late Devonian to Courceyan strata and is referred to as the Bowland Sub-basin. These basins resulted from the crust of the region being subjected to a north–south lateral tension regime which began in the late Devonian and lasted through until the Visean.

Craven Group
The Craven  Group is a lithostratigraphical term referring to the succession of mudstone and limestone rock strata which occur in certain parts of northern and central England and northeast Wales in the United Kingdom within the Chadian to Yeadonian sub-Stages of the Carboniferous Period. Other lithologies including sandstones, siltstones and chert occur within the group. The Group is subdivided into numerous formations, some of which previously enjoyed group status. In stratigraphic order (uppermost/youngest at top), these are:

Bowland Shale Formation (mudstone and siltstone)

Pendleside Limestone Formation (interbedded limestone and mudstone, conglomerate)

Hodderense Limestone Formation

Hodder Mudstone Formation (limestone and mudstone)

The Craven Group unconformably overlies the Bowland High Group and elsewhere the Clwyd Limestone Group. It is succeeded (overlain) by the Millstone Grit Group
MV Juno (1974)
MV Juno was a passenger and vehicle ferry operated by Caledonian MacBrayne on the Firth of Clyde, Scotland between 1974 and 2007. She was the middle of three vessels nicknamed "streakers", the first in the Calmac fleet to be fitted with Voith Schneider Propellers . Juno left service in early 2007 and was laid up at Rosneath for 4 years. On 18 May 2011, she was beached there for scrapping and was gone by the end of July.

Rothesay
Rothesay (/ˈrɒθsi/ ⓘ ROTH-see; Scottish Gaelic: Baile Bhòid [ˈpalə ˈvɔːtʲ]) is the principal town on the Isle of Bute, in the council area of Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It lies along the coast of the Firth of Clyde. It can be reached by a Caledonian MacBrayne ferry from Wemyss Bay, which also offers an onward rail link to Glasgow Central Station. At the centre of the town is the 13th-century ruin Rothesay Castle, unique in Scotland for its circular plan.
Lisandro Aristimuño
Lisandro Aristimuño is a musician and singer-songwriter from Argentina. His music combines rock, pop and electronica with traditional genres like Argentinian folk music. His father was a theatre director and his mother was an actress. He was born in Viedma, capital of the province of Río Negro. His childhood was spent in Viedma and in Luis Beltrán, another town in this north Patagonian province.

Viedma, Río Negro
Viedma (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbjeðma]) is the capital and fourth largest city of the Río Negro Province, in northern Patagonia, Argentina. The city has 57,341 inhabitants (2022 Census - final result), and is located on the southern margin of the Negro River, about 30 kilometres off the Atlantic Coast, and 960 km from the city of Buenos Aires on the National Route 3.
Robert Barber (seaman)
Robert Barber (1749 in Kilkenny, Ireland – 1783) was a quartermaster on HMS Adventure during Captain Cook's Second Voyage 1772–1775. On 1 January 1773 he became an able seaman.

Barber is known to have been master of HMS Mercury on 29 December 1779, HMS Jupiter on 12 October 1780, and HMS Princessa on 29 November 1780 which was the flagship of the blue squadron on 12 April 1782 at the Battle of the Saintes. He died in 1783 (aged 33–34)    while still in the navy.

HMS Adventure (1771)
HMS Adventure was a barque that the Royal Navy purchased in 1771. She had been the merchant vessel Marquis of Rockingham, launched in 1770 at Whitby. In naval service she sailed with Resolution on James Cook's second expedition to the Pacific in 1772–1775. She was the first ship to circumnavigate the globe from west to east. After her return she served as a store ship until 1779. The navy sold her in 1783 and she resumed a civilian career, but retaining the name Adventure. She was lost in May 1811.