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2026 Council of the District of Columbia special election
The 2026 Council of the District of Columbia special election will be held on June 16, 2026, to elect one at-large member to the Council of the District of Columbia. Interim councilmember Doni Crawford was appointed to the position following the resignation of Kenyan McDuffie.

Elissa Silverman
Elissa Silverman (born 1972/1973) is an American politician and reporter from Washington, D.C.. She served as an independent at-large member of the Council of the District of Columbia from 2015 to 2023. Before 2015, she was a journalist at The Washington Post and Washington City Paper covering D.C. politics, and a policy analyst at the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute. She was re-elected in November 2018 for a four-year term, but lost her re-election bid in 2022.
Cathy Tyson
Catherine Tyson (born 12 June 1965) is a British actress. She won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film Mona Lisa (1986), which also earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globes and BAFTA Awards. She has starred in The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), Priest (1994), and Band of Gold (1995–1997). She won the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2022 for her performance in the film Help.

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress was an award given annually by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. It was first introduced in 1977 to reward the best performance by a supporting actress. In 2022, it was announced that the four acting categories would be retired and replaced with two gender neutral categories, with both Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress merging into the Best Supporting Performance category.
Jung Dae-young
Jung Dae-young (Korean: 정대영; Hanja: 鄭大永; born 12 August 1981) is a South Korean volleyball player. 
She was part of the South Korea women's national volleyball team.

She participated at the 2001 FIVB World Grand Prix, and at the 2010 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in Japan.

She was part of the silver medal winning team at the 2010 Asian Games.

She has twice represented South Korea at the Summer Olympics, being part of the teams that finished in 5th in 2004 and 4th in 2012.

Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament
The women's tournament in volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics was the eleventh edition of the event, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB in conjunction with the International Olympic Committee. It was held at the Peace and Friendship Stadium located at the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex between 14 and 28 August 2004.

The medals for the competition were presented by Henri Sérandour, France; Timothy Fok Tsun-ting, Hong Kong; and Els van Breda Vriesman, Netherlands; IOC Members, and the medalists' bouquets were presented by Jizhong Wei, People's Republic of China; FIVB 1st Vice-President, Cristobal Marte Hoffiz, Dominican Republic; FIVB Vice President, and Aleksandar Boričić, Serbia and Montenegro; FIVB Board-Administration Member.
Hybricon Corporation
Hybricon Corporation is a provider of systems packaging serving the military, aerospace, homeland security, medical and high-end Industrial markets and develops embedded computing systems using OpenVPX, VPX, VXS, VMEbus, VME64X, CompactPCI, rugged MicroTCA, and custom bus structures.

VXS
VMEBus Switched Serial, commonly known as VXS, is an ANSI standard (ANSI/VITA 41) that improves the performance of standard parallel VMEbus by enhancing it to support newer switched serial fabrics. The base specification (ANSI 41) defines all common elements of the standard, while "dot"-specifications (ANSI 41.n) define extensions which use specific serial fabrics (such as PCI Express, RapidIO, StarFabric from Dolphin Interconnect Solutions and InfiniBand) or additional functionality. VXS is backward compatible with VMEBus. It is defined by the VME International Trade Association (VITA) working group.
Ranan Lurie
Ranan R. Lurie (Hebrew: רענן לוריא; May 26, 1932 – June 8, 2022) was an Israeli-American political cartoonist and journalist, a senior associate at the CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies) since 1990, a member of the United Nations Correspondents Association, and founder and Editor-in-Chief of Cartoonews, a current events educational magazine.

United Nations Correspondents Association
The United Nations Correspondents Association (U.N. Correspondents Association), or UNCA,  was founded in New York City in 1948.  It has over 250 members today . It presents the annual UNCA Excellence in Journalism Awards.  The purpose of the awards "is to recognize and encourage excellence in reporting on the United Nations, its affiliated agencies, organizations and missions."

The 2013 Awards were reported in The New York Times:
Javelina (restaurant)
Javelina is a restaurant in Portland, Oregon, United States. Chef Alexa Numkena-Anderson and her husband Nicholas Numkena-Anderson launched the business as a pop-up in November 2023, initially serving meals at Morchella in northeast Portland's Sabin neighborhood. It began operating at Lil' Dame in January 2025. It is the city's only Native American restaurant as of 2023.

Pop-up restaurant
A pop-up restaurant is a temporary restaurant. These restaurants often operate from a private home, former factory, existing restaurants or similar space, and during festivals. Various other names have been used to describe the concept of setting up a restaurant without the typical level of up-front costs, such as guerrilla diners and underground supper clubs.
Palaivana Solai (2009 film)
Palaivana Solai (transl. Oasis) is a 2009 Indian Tamil-language buddy drama film directed by R. S. Dayalan, starring Nithin Sathya, Abhinay, V. Sanjeev, Sathyan, Chaams and Karthika Mathew. It is a remake of the 1981 Tamil film of the same name. The film failed to replicate the success of the original film.

Buddy film
The buddy film is a subgenre of adventure and comedy film in which two people go on an adventure, mission, or road trip. The two typically are males with contrasting personalities. The contrast is sometimes accentuated by an ethnic difference between the two. The buddy film is commonplace in Western cinema; unlike some other film genres, it endured through the 20th century with different pairings and different themes.
Broadbridge (surname)
Broadbridge is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Arthur Frederick Broadbridge (1915–2009), Canadian diplomat

Charles Broadbridge (1798–1841), English cricketer

Claire Broadbridge (1937–2017), Trinidadian conservationist and museum curator

Jem Broadbridge (1795–1843), English cricketer

John Broadbridge, English cricketer

Robert Broadbridge, English cricketer

Tom Broadbridge (born 1943), Australian film producer

Troy Broadbridge (1980–2004), Australian rules footballer

William Broadbridge (1790–1860), English cricketer

Murder of Claire Broadbridge
Claire Broadbridge (August 1937 – 2 September 2017) was a Trinidadian conservationist and museum curator who was murdered in 2017. The brutality of the crime brought attention towards violence against women and is one of the most high-profile crimes in the history of Trinidad and Tobago.
Jack's
Jack's Family Restaurants, LP (doing business as Jack's) is an American fast food restaurant chain, headquartered and based in Birmingham, Alabama.  Restaurants feature sit-down dining, drive-thrus and takeout service. The menu features primarily burgers, fried chicken, breakfast and various other fast food items including french fries and soft drinks.

As of November 2025, there were 280 Jack's restaurants in operation; all corporate owned. The company opens new locations at a rate of 20 per year.

Take-out
A take-out (US, Canada, Philippines) or takeaway (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) is a prepared meal or other food items purchased at a restaurant or fast food outlet with the intent to eat elsewhere. A concept found in many ancient cultures, take-out food is common worldwide, with a number of different cuisines and dishes on offer.
2021 Citrus Bowl
The 2021 Citrus Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 2021, with kickoff at 1:00 p.m. EST on ABC. It was the 75th edition of the Citrus Bowl, and was one of the 2020–21 bowl games concluding the 2020 FBS football season. Sponsored by Vrbo, a vacation rental marketplace owned by the HomeAway division of Expedia, the game was officially known as the Vrbo Citrus Bowl.

HomeAway
HomeAway was a vacation rental marketplace. It operated through 50 websites in 23 languages through which it offered rentals of cabins, condos, castles, villas, barns, and farmhouses.

Founded in February 2005 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company became a publicly traded company in 2011. Expedia Group acquired HomeAway on December 15, 2015 for $3.9 billion in cash and stock. In 2020 HomeAway and VRBO websites were rebranded as single Vrbo website.
Up and at 'Em
Up and at 'Em  is a 1922 American comedy romance silent film directed by William A. Seiter, written by Eve Unsell with a story by Lewis Milestone and William A. Seiter, and starring Doris May, Hallam Cooley, and J. Herbert Frank.

The film had theatrical release August 16, 1922. A print of this film exists in the holdings of FPA France.

Lewis Milestone
Lewis Milestone (born Leib Milstein; Russian: Лейб Мильштейн; September 30, 1895 – September 25, 1980) was a Russian-American filmmaker. Milestone directed Two Arabian Knights (1927) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), both of which received the Academy Award for Best Director. He also directed The Front Page (1931), The General Died at Dawn (1936), Of Mice and Men (1939), Ocean's 11 (1960), and received the directing credit for Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), though Marlon Brando largely appropriated his responsibilities during its production.
Harihara (poet)
Harihara (or Harisvara) was a noted Kannada poet and writer in the early 12th century. A native of Halebidu in modern Hassan district, he came from a family of accountants (Karnikas) and initially served in that capacity in the court of Hoysala King Narasimha I (r.1152–1173 CE). Later, he moved to Hampi and authored many landmark classics. Among his important writings, the Girijakalyana written in champu metre (mixed prose-verse) is considered one of the enduring classics of Kannada language.

Champu
Champu or Chapu-Kavya (Devanagari: चम्पू-काव्य) is a genre of literary composition in Indian literature. The word 'Champu' means a combination of poetry and prose. A champu-kavya consists of a mixture of prose (Gadya-Kavya) and poetry passages (Padya-Kavya), with verses interspersed among prose sections.

There is evidence of chapu-kavya right from the Vedic period. Ithareya Brahmans Harishchandropakyana is the main example of its origin from the Vedic period. Champu-kavya
is seen in 2nd century AD, on rock inscription of Rudradaman, at Junagadh. It is also seen in Ramayana, Mahabharata, Puranas, and the other Mahakavyas and was a later development in the style of writing.
Jelle Ribbens
Jelle Ribbens (born 17 March 1992) is a Belgian male volleyball player. He is part of the Belgium men's national volleyball team. On club level he played for Maxéville Nancy during 2014-2015. He plays for Nice Volley-Ball.

Belgium men's national volleyball team
The Belgium national volleyball team is a team of volleyball players that represents Belgium at international championships.
Belgium won the European League title for the first time in impressive in 2013 as they swept the Czech Republic and Croatia in the semifinal and gold medal match respectively. Belgium in 2014 was their first World Championship outing since 1978 and they have largely been restricted to competing at European level.
Uttara Lake
Uttara Lake is a man-made lake in Uttara Model Town, a neighborhood in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It flows from the area between sector 9 and 11 to the area between sector 3 and 5.

This 3-kilometer-long lake is divided into three sections and crosses the Sonargaon Janapath street, stretching north to Shaheed Monsur Ali Medical College and south to the area near Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

Sonargaon Janapath
Sonargaon Janapath is a street that joins House Building with Ashulia embankment situated in Uttara, Dhaka. It is a four-lane street.

This road passes between Sectors 8, 9, 11, 13 and 12 and merges with Mirpur Road in the west through Ahmed Sofa Sarani. Its Sector 11 intersection is said to be the gateway to the growing area in the west of Uttara.

Due to illegal encroachment from Sector 11 intersection to rubbish's intersection, the street has become narrow, causing difficulty in movement of vehicles and pedestrians.

In 2019, the Dhaka North City Corporation authority conducted an official eviction drive on the road.

In January 2020, before the mayoral election, Dhaka North's incumbent mayor Atiqul Islam promised to open the street for 3 hours in the morning every Friday for children to play.
Chesson
Chesson is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Surname

Frederick Chesson (1833–1888), English journalist and anti-slavery campaigner

Henry Chesson (1862–1948), Australian politician

James Chesson (born 1980), American racing driver

Jehu Chesson (born 1993), American football player

Lisa Chesson (born 1986), American ice hockey player

Nora Chesson (1871–1906), English poet

P. J. Chesson (born 1978), American race car driver

Thomas Chesson (1867–1943), Australian politician

Wes Chesson, American football player

Given name

Chesson Hadley (born 1987), American golfer

P. J. Chesson
Peter Lawrence Chesson Jr. (born December 9, 1978) is an American race car driver who most recently competed in the Indy Racing League IndyCar Series.

Chesson was born in Far Hills, New Jersey, and drove go-karts and motorbikes while growing up on a horse farm in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Wilson's Bridge
Wilson's Bridge is a bridge near Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, United States. It originally carried the Hagerstown and Conococheague Turnpike, the National Road, across Conococheague Creek 7 miles (11 km) west of Hagerstown. The five-arched structure, the longest of the county's stone bridges, is 210 feet (64 m) in length and is constructed of coursed local limestone. The bridge was erected in 1819 by Silas Harry, who had built similar bridges in Pennsylvania. The bridge was closed in June 1972 when it was damaged by floods which occurred during Tropical Storm Agnes.

Wilson's Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Washington County, Maryland
Washington County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. The population was 154,705 as of the 2020 census. Its county seat and largest city is Hagerstown. The county is part of the Western Maryland region of the state.

Washington County was the first county in the United States to be named for the Revolutionary War general (and later President) George Washington. Washington County is one of three Maryland counties recognized by the Appalachian Regional Commission as being part of Appalachia. The county borders southern Pennsylvania to the north, Northern Virginia to the south, and the Martinsburg Panhandle of West Virginia to the south and west. Washington County is included in the Hagerstown metropolitan area, which is also included in the Washington metropolitan area.
Karan (caste)
The Karan is a community found in the state of Odisha in India. The post of Karana used to be a professional designation that was occupied by literate peoples. They held Karanam posts in some parts of Andhra Pradesh, where they speak Odia and played a similar role in Odisha to that of the Kayasthas of West Bengal and Bihar. In the social hierarchy of Odisha they rank next to Brahmins. They exclusively served the ruling powers as their ministers, advisors, governors, military commanders, record keepers and dewans. They owned most Zamindaris in Odisha. They have the highest literacy caste-wise and are highly prosperous. Today they are a politically dominant community and have reigned over the politics of Odisha for more than 50 years.

Archivist
An archivist is an information professional who assesses, collects, organizes, preserves, maintains control over, and provides access to records and archives determined to have long-term value. The records that are maintained by an archivist can consist of a variety of forms, including but not limited to letters, diaries, logs, other personal documents, government documents, sound or picture recordings, digital files, or other physical objects.
Better Loosen Up
Better Loosen Up (foaled 29 August 1985 – died 15 March 2016) was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse that won the Japan Cup in 1990 and was named Australia's champion racehorse in 1991. He campaigned from two to seven years of age, and won 17 of his 45 starts, including eight Group One races.  In 2004, he was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame.

Better Loosen Up was a small bay gelding, by Loosen Up (USA) out of Better Fantasy by Better Boy (IRE). He was bred by Howard Martin and foaled in Berrigan, New South Wales. Loosen Up won the French Prix de l' Avre and was the sire of six stakes-winners in Australia with Better Loosen Up being the best one. Better Fantasy was the dam of 13 named foals, but Better Loosen Up was her only stakes-winner.

Berrigan, New South Wales
Berrigan /ˈbɛriɡən/ is a town on the Riverina Highway  in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Berrigan is in the Berrigan Shire local government area and contains the Berrigan Shire Council offices. At the 2021 census, Berrigan had a population of 1,264.
Cowan Lake (Saskatchewan)
Cowan Lake is a lake in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan in the Beaver River watershed. The primary inflow for the lake is Big River at the lake's southern end by the town of Big River and the outflow, located near the lake's northern end, is Cowan River at Cowan Lake Dam. The dam was originally built in 1937 and was upgraded in 1971. It is 4.2 metres (14 ft) high and the total volume of the reservoir created by the dam is 40,334 dam3 (32,699 acre⋅ft).

Highway 55 follows the length of the lake along its eastern shore and Highway 942 runs up most of the length of the western shore.

Saskatchewan Highway 942
Highway 942, also known as Cowan Lake Road, is a provincial highway in the north-west region of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It runs from Highway 55 near Bodmin until it downgrades into a local road bound for Roberts Lake. The highway passes near the town of Big River, and also intersects Highway 943. It is about 56 kilometres (35 mi) long.
2002–03 Biathlon World Cup
The 2002–03 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union.

The men's overall World Cup was won by Norway's Ole Einar Bjørndalen, while Martina Glagow of Germany claimed the women's overall World Cup.

Martina Beck
Martina "Molly" Beck (born Martina Glagow; 21 September 1979 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany) is a retired German biathlete. She now lives in Mittenwald in Bavaria. She was most successful in the 2002–03 season, when she was the first German to win the women's overall Biathlon World Cup. She is also a three-times world champion and three-times Olympic silver medalist.

She married the Austrian biathlete Günther Beck on 24 July 2008 and is now known as Martina Beck. She has one daughter named Hilde (born 1 April 2011).
Masuchi
Masuchi (written 増地), is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Chiyori Masuchi (増地 千代里, born 1970), Japanese judoka, wife of Katsuyuki

Katsuyuki Masuchi (増地 克之, born 1970), Japanese judoka

Chiyori Masuchi
Chiyori Masuchi (増地 千代里, Masuchi Chiyori, née Tateno Tateno (立野); born 25 June 1970 in Moriguchi, Osaka) is a retired judoka from Japan. She claimed a bronze medal in the Women's Lightweight (‍–‍56 kg) division at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. In the bronze medal match, she defeated Belgium's Nicole Flagothier.
Baileys Irish Cream
Baileys Irish Cream is a liqueur made of cream, cocoa and Irish whiskey emulsified together with vegetable oil. Baileys is made by Diageo at Nangor Road, in Dublin, Ireland, and in Mallusk, Northern Ireland. It is the original Irish cream, invented by a team headed by Tom Jago in 1971 for Gilbeys of Ireland; Diageo currently owns the trademark. It has a declared alcohol content of 17% by volume.

Vegetable oil
Vegetable oils, or vegetable fats, are oils extracted from seeds or from other parts of edible plants. Like animal fats, vegetable fats are mixtures of triglycerides. Soybean oil, canola oil, grapeseed oil, and cocoa butter are examples of seed oils, or fats from seeds. Olive oil, palm oil, and rice bran oil are examples of fats from other parts of plants. In common usage, vegetable oil may refer exclusively to vegetable fats which are liquid at room temperature. Vegetable oils are usually edible and are generally recognized as safe (GRAS) by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Tommi Vesala
Tommi Vesala (born 12 January 1986) is a Finnish football player currently playing for Finnish Veikkausliiga side HIFK. Vesala began his career as a junior in FC Kasiysi. During his senior career he played at Finnish second and third tiers, Ykkönen and Kakkonen, in FC Espoo, FC Hämeenlinna and FC Viikingit before joining Veikkausliiga side Myllykosken Pallo for the season 2011. He made his league debut on 12 May 2011.

After successful season in 2014, HIFK introduced Vesala as their new player with a contract length of one year.

HIFK Fotboll
HIFK Fotboll or IFK Helsingfors is the association football section of HIFK, a sports club based in Helsinki, Finland. The men's football team currently competes in the Kolmonen whereas the women's first team is in Naisten Kakkonen. Both teams use Väinämöisen kenttä in Töölö as their home ground.
A Lady with a Fan
A Lady with a Fan is an oil-on-canvas painting created c. 1645–1650 by the Golden age of Dutch art painter Ferdinand Bol. It is held in the National Gallery, in London, to which it was bequeathed by Miss A.M. Philips in 1946. The subject has not been identified, though her clothing allows the painting to be dated. The underdrawing of the painting includes several pentimenti, showing the artist changed the composition as he produced the work.

Pentimento
In painting, a pentimento (Italian for 'repentance'; from the verb pentirsi, meaning 'to repent'; plural pentimenti) is "the presence or emergence of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over".  Sometimes the English form "pentiment" is used, especially in older sources.
Kofi Genfi
Kofi Genfi  (born 1993 or 1994) is a Ghanaian entrepreneur and business executive. He is the co-founder of both Mazzuma and Utopia Technologies: two companies in the digital commerce space for emerging markets. He is the Director of Business Strategy for Mazzuma.

Organizational founder
An organizational founder is a person who has undertaken some or all of the formational work needed to create a new organization, whether it is a business, a charitable organization, a governing body, a school, a group of entertainers, or any other type of organization. If there are multiple founders, each can be referred to as a co-founder. If the organization is a business, the founder is usually referred as an entrepreneur. If an organization is created to carry out charitable work, the founder is generally considered a philanthropist.