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USS Rochester (CA-124)
The third USS Rochester (CA-124), an Oregon City-class heavy cruiser, was laid down 29 May 1944 by Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, Massachusetts; launched 28 August 1945; sponsored by Mrs. M. Herbert Eisenhart, wife of the president of Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., Rochester, New York; and commissioned 20 December 1946 at the Boston Navy Yard.

Rochester departed Provincetown, Mass., 22 February 1947 for shakedown out of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. By the end of April, she was at Philadelphia, ready to commence nine extended naval reserve training cruises which took her north to Casco Bay and south to the Caribbean.

Mare Island Naval Shipyard
The Mare Island Naval Shipyard (MINSY or MINS) was the first United States Navy base established on the Pacific Ocean and was in service 142 years from 1854 to 1996. It is located on the peninsula of Mare Island, which is part of the city of Vallejo, on San Pablo Bay in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, 23 miles (37 km) northeast of San Francisco. MINSY made a name for itself as the premier U.S. West Coast submarine port as well as serving as the controlling force in San Francisco Bay Area shipbuilding efforts during World War II.

The naval base was closed on 31 March 1996, with more than 7,500 civilians on its payroll, and has gone through several redevelopment phases. It was registered as a California Historical Landmark in 1960, and parts of it were declared a National Historic Landmark District in 1975.
Kiche, Republic of Dagestan
Kiche (Russian: Киче; Rutul: Хьичед) is a rural locality (a selo) in Rutulskoye Rural Settlement, Rutulsky District, Republic of Dagestan, Russia. Population:  441 (2010 Census); 363 (2002 Census); 296 (1989 Soviet census). There is 1 street.

Rutul language
Rutul or Rutulian is a language spoken by the Rutulians, an ethnic group living in Dagestan (Russia) and some parts of Azerbaijan. It is spoken by 30,000 people in Dagestan (2010 census) and 17,000 (no date) in Azerbaijan. The word Rutul derives from the name of a Dagestani village where speakers of this language make up the majority.

Rutulian is endangered in Russia and classified as "definitely endangered" by UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.
Simone Richardson
Simone M. Richardson (born 6 May 1972) is a Dutch sports director and politician from the VVD. She stood for election to the House of Representatives in the 2021 general election and entered parliament in 2022 serving until the 2023 general election. She returned for five months in 2025.

2021 Dutch general election
General elections were held in the Netherlands from 15 to 17 March 2021 to elect all 150 members of the House of Representatives. Following the elections and lengthy coalition formation talks, the sitting government remained in power.

The elections had originally been scheduled to take place on 17 March; however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the government decided to open some polling stations two days in advance to ensure safe voting for elderly and immunocompromised citizens. Citizens aged 70 years or older were also given the opportunity to vote by post.
Francesco Scaratti
Francesco Scaratti (19 February 1939 – 16 August 2013) was an Italian professional football player.

He played for 7 seasons in the Serie A for SPAL 1907, A.C. Mantova and A.S. Roma.

He scored a dramatic last-minute-of-extra-time equalizer in the return leg of the semifinal of the 1969–70 European Cup Winners' Cup for A.S. Roma against Górnik Zabrze. Roma eventually lost to Górnik on a coin toss (the last time it was used as a tiebreaker in European football). A.S. Roma was a winner of a coin toss earlier in the tournament.

SPAL
Ars et Labor Ferrara, formerly known as SPAL (Italian pronunciation: [spal]), is a professional football club based in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. During the 2024–25 season the team played in Serie C, the third tier of the Italian football league system.

Founded in 1907, since 1928 they have played their home matches at Stadio Paolo Mazza, named after Paolo Mazza (chairman of the club between  1946 and 1977).

In total, SPAL have participated in 24 top-tier, 28 second-tier, 43 third-tier, 7 fourth-tier and 1 fifth-tier league seasons. The club's best finish was when they came fifth in the 1959–60 Serie A; they also reached the 1961–62 Coppa Italia final.

The club was chaired by the American lawyer and businessman Joe Tacopina and the manager was Francesco Baldini until the 2025 liquidation, after which the team's legacy is carried on by Ars et Labor Ferrara.
Stergiou
Stergiou is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Antonia Stergiou (born 1985), Greek high jumper

Leonidas Stergiou (born 2002), Swiss footballer

Nicholas Stergiou (born 1965), Greek-American biomechanic

Vladimir Petrović-Stergiou (born 1977), Serbian-Greek basketball player

Vladimir Petrović-Stergiou
Vladimir "Vlado" Petrović-Stergiou (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир "Владо" Петровић-Стергиоу, Greek: Βλάντιμιρ "Βλάντο" Πέτροβιτς–Στεργίου; born January 27, 1977) is a Serbian-Greek former professional basketball player. At 6 ft 6 1⁄2 in (1.99 m) tall, he played at the shooting guard and small forward positions. He is also known as Vlantimir Stergiou, which is his Greek-form name.
P. Santhosh Kumar
P. Sandosh Kumar is a member of the Rajya Sabha, from the state of Kerala and a leader of the Communist Party of India.
P. Sandosh Kumar was born to K P Prabhakaran and P V Radha in 1971 at Padiyoor in Irikoor, Kerala. He is serving as Communist Party of India, as the role of an national executive member. He was also the former AIYF national general secretary and president.

P. Sandosh Kumar also served as the CPI Kannur District Secretary and the syndicate member of Kannur University

All India Youth Federation
The All India Youth Federation (AIYF) is a nationwide youth organisation of Communist Party of India founded on May 3, 1959. AIYF is affiliated to World Federation of Democratic Youth and member of general council of WFDY.
Jiří Fischer
Jiří Fischer (born 31 July 1980) is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman in the National Hockey League (NHL) who played his entire career with the Detroit Red Wings. He currently serves as Detroit's Director of Player Evaluation.  Fischer was selected in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft in the first round, 25th overall, by the Red Wings, and was a part of the team that won the 2002 Stanley Cup.

Fischer's playing career ended after he went into cardiac arrest in a November 2005 game, and narrowly escaped death due to the immediate action of doctors and other arena personnel. He subsequently retired due to his heart problems.

He also served as the assistant coach for the Czech Republic during the 2012 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championships.

1998 NHL entry draft
The 1998 NHL entry draft was the 36th NHL entry draft. It was held on June 27 at the Marine Midland Arena in Buffalo, New York. A total of 258 players were drafted.

The last active players in the NHL from this draft class were Francois Beauchemin, Mike Fisher and Brian Gionta, who all retired after the 2017–18 season.
1972 Tour de Suisse
The 1972 Tour de Suisse was the 36th edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 15 June to 23 June 1972. The race started in Zürich and finished in Olten. The race was won by Louis Pfenninger of the Rokado team.

Olten
Olten (German pronunciation: [ˈɔltn̩]; High Alemannic: Oute) is a town in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland and capital of the district of the same name.

Olten grew into a town during the Middle Ages at the location of a bridge over the Aare. After a period of decline, it grew rapidly as a railway town in the 19th century. Its railway station is a major rail hub of Switzerland, located at the junction of lines to Zurich, Basel, Bern, and Lucerne, all of which are within 30 minutes by train, and the town is also home to a depot for Swiss Federal Railways.
Ana Beatriz Silva
Ana Beatriz Silva Correia (born (1992-02-07)7 February 1992) is a Brazilian female volleyball player, playing as a middle blocker. She was part of the Brazil women's national volleyball team.

She participated in the 2010 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup.

2010 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup
The 2010 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup was the ninth edition of the annual women's volleyball tournament, played by eleven countries from 18–26 June 2010 in Rosarito and Tijuana, Mexico. The intercontinental event served as a qualifier for the 2011 FIVB World Grand Prix and 2010 Final Four.
1961 All-Ireland Junior Football Championship
The 1961 All-Ireland Junior Football Championship was the 40th staging of the championship since its establishment by the GAA in 1912.

The competition format saw the four provincial champions compete in two 'Home' semi-finals, the winners of which then contested the All-Ireland 'Home' final at Croke Park.

Louth, having accounted for Meath, Longford and Offaly in the Leinster preliminary rounds and Dublin in the provincial final, went on to defeat Kerry and Galway in the All-Ireland Series to emerge as 'Home' champions.

In the last stage of the competition, the victorious 'Home' finalists then met the champions of Britain
to determine who would be crowned overall All-Ireland Junior Football Champions for 1961.

The title match was played on 8 October in Leeds. The 1961 British champions Yorkshire provided the opposition for Louth. A tight game ended in victory for the Wee County side by three points.

Longford GAA
The Longford County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Irish: Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Coiste Chontae an Longfort) or Longford GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Longford. The county board is also responsible for the Longford county teams.

The county football team won its only National Football League title in 1966 with a one-point victory over Galway in the Home Final and an aggregate win over New York in the Final. The team won its only Leinster Senior Football Championship title in 1968, with a 3-9 to 1-4 win over Laois.
Urimai Por
Urimai Por (transl. War for rights) is a 1998 Indian Tamil-language crime film directed by Raja Rajendran. The film stars Arun Pandian and Ranjitha, with Anandaraj, Mansoor Ali Khan, Ponnambalam, Ajay Rathnam and Vinu Chakravarthy playing supporting roles. It was released on 19 October 1998 as one among many Diwali releases.

Ajay Rathnam
Ajay Rathnam is an Indian actor who has worked predominantly in Tamil films and serials apart from few Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi and Kannada films. He is known for his supporting and negative roles and has acted in over 300 movies. Standing at 6 ft 4 in (193 cm), Rathnam is one of the tallest actors in Tamil cinema.
Attapol Rithiwattanapong
Attapol Rithiwattanapong (born 4 May 1980) is a Thai former professional tennis player.

Born in Chonburi, Rithiwattanapong represented Thailand at the 2002 Asian Games, 2003 Summer Universiade and in multiple editions of the Southeast Asian Games.

Rithiwattanapong was a member of the Thailand Davis Cup team in 2003, featuring as a doubles player in ties against South Korea and Uzbekistan, both times partnering Narathorn Srichaphan.

Thailand Davis Cup team
The Thailand men's national tennis team represents Thailand in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Lawn Tennis Association of Thailand.

Thailand currently compete in the Asia/Oceania Zone of Group II.  They have never competed in the World Group, but reached the Play-offs on four occasions.
Veglie
Velhe (Salentino: Eje) is a town and comune in the Italian province of Lecce in the Apulia region of south-east Italy.  Veglie is 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of Lecce and 12 kilometres (7 mi) east of the sea, the Gulf of Taranto. It is bounded by the comuni of Campi Salentina, Carmiano, Leverano, Nardò, Novoli and Salice Salentino.

Salentino dialect
Salentino (salentinu; salintinu; salentino) is an Extreme Southern Italian dialect (italiano meridionale estremo in Italian), spoken in the Salento peninsula, situated in the south of the Apulia region of Italy.
S. B. Yalegama
Manamperi Mudiyanselage Samararatna Bandara Yalegama (16 October 1925 – 28 May 1988) was a Sri Lankan politician. He was the member of Parliament of Sri Lanka from Rattota representing the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.

He was elected to parliament from Rattota in the 1965 general election, defeating Chandrasena Munaweera and retained his seat in the 1970 general election, but lost it in the 1977 general election.

He was assassinated on 28 May 1988 by an unknown gunman during the 1987–1989 JVP insurrection. Five days following his death, he won the 1988 central provincial council election obtaining 12068 votes in the Matale district.

Rattota Electoral District
Rattota electoral district was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between March 1960 and February 1989. The district was named after the town of Rattota in Matale District, Central Province. The 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka introduced the proportional representation electoral system for electing members of Parliament. The existing 160 mainly single-member electoral districts were replaced with 22 multi-member electoral districts. Rattota electoral district was replaced by the Matale multi-member electoral district at the 1989 general elections.
Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and Saint John
Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and Saint John is an oil on panel painting, later transferred to canvas, attributed to the Master of the Grimacing St John, a senior member of the workshop of Jan van Eyck. It was long attributed to Jan's brother Hubert, based on stylistic similarities to portions of the "Adoration of the lamb" passage in the Ghent Altarpiece. 'The Master of the Grimacing St John' is one of only two assistants of van Eyck's whose hand can be identified across several works. He takes his notname from an imitation stone statue in a grisaille diptych wing panel of St. John the Baptist, opposite a Virgin and Child, and is also associated with a pen and pencil drawing of St Paul in Vienna.

The Master of the Grimacing St John's panel has been in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin since 1897.

Transfer of panel paintings
The practice of conserving an unstable painting on panel by transferring it from its original decayed, worm-eaten, cracked, or distorted wood support to canvas or a new panel has been practised since the 18th century. It has now been largely superseded by improved methods of wood conservation.

The practice evolved in Naples and Cremona in 1711–1725 and reached France by the middle of the 18th century. It was especially widely practiced in the second half of the 19th century. Similar techniques are used to transfer frescos. Oil paintings on canvas often receive additional support or are transferred to a new backing.
Glenn Hansen
Glenn R. Hansen (born April 21, 1952) is an American former professional basketball player. He was born in Devils Lake, North Dakota.

Hansen, a 6-foot-4-inch (1.93 m) and 205 pounds (93 kg) guard, played college basketball for Louisiana State University and Utah State University.  As an underclassman he was selected in the 1974 ABA Draft in the ninth round by the Kentucky Colonels, but he stayed in college.  The following year, he was selected in the second round of the 1975 NBA draft by the Kansas City Kings and in the fourth round of the 1975 ABA Draft by the Memphis Sounds.

Hansen signed with the Kansas City Kings and played for them in the 1975–76 and 1976–77 NBA seasons, averaging 6.5 points per game and 2.8 rebounds per game as a rookie.  He played in two games the 1977–78 NBA season with the Chicago Bulls.

Devils Lake, North Dakota
Devils Lake is a city in and the county seat of Ramsey County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 7,192 at the 2020 census, and was estimated to be 7,314 in 2024. It is named after the nearby lake called Devils Lake. The first house built by a Euro-American settler was in 1882. It was surveyed in 1883 and named Creelsburg and later Creel City, after the surveyor, Heber M. Creel. In 1884 it was renamed Devils Lake.

The local paper is the Devils Lake Journal. Devils Lake Municipal Airport serves the city. Devils Lake is home to Lake Region State College and the North Dakota School for the Deaf.
Nowy Styl
Nowy Styl sp. z o.o. is a Polish office furniture  company. Founded in 1992 in Krosno in Poland as Nowy Styl (English: New Style). At that time it specialized mainly in office chairs. Today, the company sells products related to interior design, furniture and stadium seatings. With time, the company developed new brands and in 2003 Nowy Styl changed its name to the Nowy Styl Group. In 2007, the Group had PLN 930 million of sales and PLN 70 million of net income.

In February 2011 the Nowy Styl Group acquired German seating manufacturer Sato Office. In 2013, they acquired Rohde & Grahl GmbH, another German office furniture manufacturer.

Krosno
Krosno [ˈkrɔsnɔ] ⓘ (in full The Royal Free City of Krosno, Polish: Królewskie Wolne Miasto Krosno) is a historical city and county in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in southeastern Poland. As of 2014, the estimated population of the town was 47,140, and an urban area comprising 115,000 inhabitants.

Krosno is a medieval fortified town, a former Royal Free Town and centre of cloth, linen, canvas, baize and Hungarian wine trade. Nicknamed Parva Cracovia ("Little Kraków"), Krosno contains a preserved old town with architecture in various styles, including Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque and several museums. It is also notable for its glassmaking traditions, which became known as the Krosno Glassware. It is a centre of  motorcycle speedway racing.
The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform
The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia is a 1998 book by Adeeb Khalid, published by the University of California Press. The work is part of the Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies series.

Adeeb Khalid
Adeeb Khalid (born February 17, 1964) is associate professor and Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies and History in the history department of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. His academic contributions are highly cited.
George Gore (priest)
The Hon.George Gore (25 February 1774 – 27 August 1844) was an Anglican priest  in Ireland during the late 18th century.

Gore was the son of Arthur Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran and his second wife Anne Knight. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was Dean of Killala from 1817 until his death.

Arthur Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran
Arthur Saunders Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran, KP, PC (Ire) (25 July 1734 – 8 October 1809), styled The Honourable Arthur Gore from 1758 to 1762 and Viscount Sudley from 1762 to 1773, was an Irish peer and politician.
Madhur Temple
Madhur Srimad Anantheshwara-Siddhivinayaka Temple is a popular Shiva and Ganapathi temple located 7 km (4.3 mi) from Kasaragod town, on the banks of Mogral river, locally known as Madhuvahini. Though the main deity of this temple is Lord Shiva known as Madanantheshwara, meaning the god who killed Kama, the god of desires, more importance is given to Lord Ganapathi, who is installed facing south in the main sanctum itself. Priests of this temple belong to the Shivalli Brahmin community. Kashi Vishwanatha, Dharmasastha, Subrahmanya, Durga Parameshwari, Veerabhadra and Gulika are the sub-deities of this temple. There is also presence of Goddess Parvati inside the main sanctum.

Shivalli Brahmins
The Shivalli Brahmins are a Tuluva Brahmin community mainly in Tulunad region of southwest India. They are divided into two groups: the first follows the Dvaita philosophy founded by the Vaishnava saint Madhvacharya of Udupi and its members are called Shivalli Madhva Brahmins, and the second follows the Advaita philosophy of Adi Shankara whose members are known as Shivalli Smartha Brahmins. The majority of Shivalli Brahmins (Shivalli Brahmana's) are Madhvas and only a few of them are Smarthas.
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
The Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (Slovak: Symfonický orchester Slovenského rozhlasu; SOSR), previously known as Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and CSR Symphony Orchestra, is a symphony radio orchestra based in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Founded in 1929 to serve Slovak Radio, the orchestra became particularly associated with the music of Slovak composers, notably Alexander Moyzes, Eugen Suchoň and Ján Cikker.

Its first chief conductor was František Dyk, and the successive chief conductors of the orchestra have included Krešimir Baranović, Ľudovít Rajter, Ladislav Slovák, Václav Jiráček, Otakar Trhlík, Bystrík Režucha, Ondrej Lenárd (1977–90), Róbert Stankovský (1990–2001), Charles Olivieri-Munroe (2001–03), Oliver von Dohnányi (2006–07), Mario Košik. and Peter Valentovič.
In 2019, Ondrej Lenárd came back as the chief conductor.

The orchestra has become well known abroad through its broadcasts and recordings, particularly for the Naxos Records label.

Krešimir Baranović
Krešimir Baranović (25 July 1894 –  17 September 1975) was a Croatian composer and conductor. He was director and conductor of the Zagreb Opera, Belgrade Opera and professor at the Belgrade Music Academy. In the spirit of a kind of Slavic expressionism, also seen in the works of Janáček and some of the 19th century Russian masters, Baranović was better than any other Croatian composer of his time in overcoming the discrepancy between the national and the universal to be seen in Croatian interwar music.
Landenberg Junction (Delaware)
Landenberg Junction is a railroad junction in Elsmere, New Castle County, Delaware.

The junction is situated at the southern end of CSX Transportation's Philadelphia Subdivision Wilsmere Yard in the eastern terminus of the Wilmington and Western Railroad, which originally ran to Landenberg, Pennsylvania. Both lines were formerly owned by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O).

The Wilmington and Western Railroad once ran from Elsmere to Landenberg, Pennsylvania, but the B&O shortened it to Southwood in the 1940s and later to Hockessin in the 1950s. The current Wilmington and Western Railroad operates tourist trains between Greenbank and Hockessin.

New Castle County, Delaware
New Castle County is the northernmost of the three counties of the U.S. state of Delaware (New Castle, Kent, and Sussex). As of the 2020 census, the population was 570,719, making it the most populous county in Delaware, with nearly 60% of the state's population of 989,948. The county seat is Wilmington, which is also the state's most populous city. New Castle County is included in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county is named after William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (c. 1593–1676). New Castle County has the highest population and population density of any Delaware county, and it is the smallest county in the state by area. It has more people than the other two counties, Kent and Sussex, combined. It is also the most economically developed of the three.
Salem (supertanker)
Salem was a supertanker which was scuttled off the coast of Guinea on 17 January 1980, after secretly unloading 192,000 tons of oil at Durban, South Africa. The oil was delivered in breach of the South African oil embargo, and the ship was scuttled to fraudulently claim insurance.

Disinvestment from South Africa
Disinvestment from South Africa was first advocated in the 1960s in protest against South Africa's system of apartheid, but was not implemented on a significant scale until the mid-1980s. A disinvestment policy the U.S. adopted in 1986 in response to the disinvestment campaign is credited with playing a role in pressuring the South African government to embark on negotiations that ultimately led to the dismantling of the apartheid system.