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December 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
December 17 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 19

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 31 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For December 18th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 5.

Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar describes and dictates the rhythm of the life of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Passages of Holy Scripture, saints and events for commemoration are associated with each date, as are many times special rules for fasting or feasting that correspond to the day of the week or time of year in relationship to the major feast days.

There are two types of feasts in the Orthodox Church calendar: fixed and movable. Fixed feasts occur on the same calendar day every year, whereas movable feasts change each year. The moveable feasts are generally relative to Pascha (Easter), and so the cycle of moveable feasts is referred to as the Paschal cycle.
Clan Graham
Clan Graham (Greumaich nan Cearc [ˈkɾʲeːmɪç nəŋʲ ˈkʲaɾʃc]) has two main families of Scottish clans, the Grahams of Menteith (descended from the Earl Of Menteith) and the Grahams of Montrose (descended from the Duke of Montrose).  Each have their own tartan patterns.  William Graham became the 7th Earl of Menteith in 1610 in what is now Perthshire, Scotland.  The Grahams of Montrose had territories in both the Scottish Highlands and Lowlands, and the chief of the clan rose to become the Marquess and later Duke of Montrose.

Scottish Lowlands
The Lowlands (Scots: Lallans or Lawlands, pronounced [ˈlɑːlən(d)z, ˈlo̜ːl-]; Scottish Gaelic: a' Ghalldachd, lit. 'place of the foreigners', pronounced [ə ˈɣauɫ̪t̪əxk]) is a cultural and historical region of Scotland.

The region is characterised by its relatively flat or gently rolling terrain as opposed to the mountainous landscapes of the Scottish Highlands. This area includes cities like Edinburgh and Glasgow and is known for its fertile farmland, historic sites, and urban centres. It is the more populous and industrialised part of Scotland compared to the sparsely populated Highlands.

Culturally, the Lowlands and the Highlands diverged from the Late Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland Scots replaced Scottish Gaelic throughout most of the Lowlands.
Streets of Heaven (song)
"Streets of Heaven" is a song by Australian country music artist Sherrié Austin. The track was penned by Austin, Paul Duncan, and Al Kasha and produced by Jeff Balding and Dann Huff. The song was released on June 2, 2003, as the lead single to Austin's fourth studio album of the same name via Broken Bow Records, her first single release under the label.

Al Kasha
Alfred Kasha (January 22, 1937 – September 14, 2020) was an American songwriter, whose songs include "The Morning After" from The Poseidon Adventure and "We May Never Love Like This Again" from The Towering Inferno.
Thomas H. Mudge
Thomas Hicks Mudge (1815–1862) was an American Methodist Episcopal clergyman, born at Orrington, Me., the nephew of Enoch Mudge.

He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1840 and from Union Theological Seminary in 1843. He then entered the ministry, joining the New England conference. After several pastorates in New England, he became professor of sacred literature in McKendree University, Lebanon, Illinois, serving from 1857 to 1859. Later, he held pastorates in Saint Louis, Missouri, and Baldwin, Kansas.

His papers are held at Boston University.

McKendree University
McKendree University (McK), formerly McKendree College, is a private university in Lebanon, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1828 as the "Lebanon Seminary", it is the oldest college or university in Illinois. The school was renamed McKendree University beginning in the 2007–08 academic year. McKendree enrolls approximately 1,960 students representing 25 countries and 29 states. In the undergraduate program, on average, there are 51% females and 49% males. The institution remains affiliated with the United Methodist Church.
Thiounn
Somdach Veang Thiounn (Khmer: ឧកញ៉ា វ៉ាង ជួន, romanized: Oknha Veang Thiounn, April 8, 1864–September 1946) was a Cambodian state official of the Khmer nobility during the French protectorate of Cambodia who had a lasting influence on Khmer historiography through the Cambodian Royal Chronicles. While he has been described as the shogun of the French protectorate and a "comprador feudalist", others have praised his long service to the Kingdom of Cambodia, as "the epitome of the colonial subject who quickly saw how to turn the new regime to an advantage":

Sisowath Monivong
Sisowath Monivong (Khmer: ស៊ីសុវត្ថិ មុនីវង្ស, Sisŏvôtthĕ Mŭnivôngs [ˈsiːsoʋat muˈniːʋɔŋ]; 27 December 1875 – 23 April 1941) was the King of Cambodia from 9 August 1927 until his death in 1941. During his reign, Cambodia was a French protectorate. Monivong was the grandson of the poet-king Ang Duong, grandfather of Norodom Sihanouk and the great-grandfather of the current king, Norodom Sihamoni. His full regnal title and style was Preah Bat Samdech Preah Serey Monivarman Krom Luang Chao Chakrabangsa Sisowath Monivong Ney Preah Reacheanachak Kampuchea (Khmer: ព្រះបាទសម្តេចព្រះសិរីមុនីវរ្ម័នក្រុមហ្លួងចៅចក្របាងស្ស ស៊ីសុវត្ថិ មុនីវង្ស នៃព្រះរាជាណចក្រកម្ពុជា) which can be literally translated from Khmerized Sanskrit as "His majesty, glorious lord scholar-protector; His highness, lord of land and sea, Sisowath Monivong of the Kingdom of Kampuchea". He is the most recent male monarch from the House of Sisowath, as all his successors are members of the House of Norodom.
Antilliaanse Feesten
Antilliaanse Feesten is a Caribbean music festival that takes place in every second weekend of August in Hoogstraten, Belgium. It had 38,000 attendees in 2016. The festival was first held in 1983, and has been repeated every year except 2000.

The artists presents music from different countries and genres:
Bachata, Champeta, Cumbia, Compas, Merengue, Dancehall, Reggae, Reggaeton, Salsa, Ska, Soca, Soukous, Timba, Vallenato and Zouk

Champeta
Champeta, also known as terapia, is a musical genre and dance that originated in the Caribbean coast of Colombia in the early 1980s. It developed from an earlier style termed chalusonga, which originated in Palenque de San Basilio in the mid-1970s. Chalusonga was a combination of Colombian chalupa and Afro-Cuban percussive music popularized by Estrellas del Caribe. When their music reached Cartagena de Indias, it evolved into champeta, which became a movement and identity among Afro-Colombians. It shows influences from African colonial settlements and from contemporary African culture, particularly from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Worms (2007 video game)
Worms is an artillery turn-based tactics video game developed by Team17 and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360. Team17 released the game for the PlayStation 3 and iOS platforms. The game is largely a port of 2006's Worms: Open Warfare.

Porting
In software development, porting is the process of adapting software to run in a different context. Often it involves modifying source code so that a program can run on a different platform (i.e. on a different CPU or operating system) or in a different environment (i.e. with a different library or framework). It also describes adapting a change or feature from one codebase to another – even between different versions of the same software.

Software is classified as portable if it can be hosted in a different context with no change to the source code. It might be considered portable if the cost of adapting it to a context is significantly less than the cost of writing it from scratch. The lower the cost of porting relative to the cost to re-write, the more portable it is said to be. The effort depends on several factors including the extent to which the original context differs from the new context, the skill of the programmers, and the portability of the codebase.
1977 Italian Open (tennis)
The 1977 Italian Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament that was played by men on outdoor clay courts at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy. The men's tournament was part of the Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix circuit while the women's tournament was part of the Colgate Series. The tournament was held from 16 May through 22 May 1977. The singles titles were won by eight-seeded Vitas Gerulaitis and fifth-seeded Janet Newberry who earned $21,000 and $6,000 first-prize money respectively. Gerulaitis competed despite being contracted to play for the Indiana Loves World Team Tennis (WTT) franchise and was fined $19,000 for failing to play Björn Borg in the weekend of the final.

Foro Italico
Foro Italico is a sports complex in Rome, Italy, on the slopes of Monte Mario. It was built between 1928 and 1938 as the Foro Mussolini (literally Mussolini's Forum) under the design of Enrico Del Debbio and, later, Luigi Moretti.  Inspired by the Roman forums of the imperial age, its design is lauded as a preeminent example of Italian fascist architecture instituted by Mussolini. The purpose of the prestigious project was to get the Olympic Games of 1940 to be organised by fascist Italy and held in Rome.
Ceratosoma amoenum
Ceratosoma amoenum, or the clown nudibranch, is a species of colorful dorid nudibranch, a sea slug, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.

Following the gender rules of International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, the spelling of Ceratosoma amoena has been changed into Ceratosoma amoenum.

Nudibranch
Nudibranchs (/ˈnjuːdɪbræŋk/) are a group of soft-bodied marine gastropod molluscs, belonging to the order Nudibranchia, that shed their shells after their larval stage. They are noted for their often extraordinary colours and striking forms, and they have been given colourful nicknames to match, such as "clown", "marigold", "splendid", "dancer", "dragon" , and "sea rabbit". About 3,000 species of nudibranchs are known.

The word nudibranch comes from the Latin nudus 'naked' and the Ancient Greek βράγχια (bránkhia) 'gills'.

Nudibranchs are often casually called sea slugs, as they are a family of opisthobranchs (sea slugs), within the phylum Mollusca (molluscs), but many sea slugs belong to several taxonomic groups that are not closely related to nudibranchs. A number of these other sea slugs, such as the photosynthetic Sacoglossa and the colourful Aglajidae, are often confused with nudibranchs.
Eilert Dahl
Eilert Dahl (15 September 1919 – 3 November 2004) was a Norwegian nordic skier who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won a bronze medal in the cross-country skiing 4 × 10 km relay at the 1950 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lake Placid, New York.

Dahl also finished sixth in the nordic combined event at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz.

St. Moritz
St. Moritz is a high Alpine resort town in the Engadine in Switzerland, at an elevation of about 1,800 metres (5,910 ft) above sea level. It is Upper Engadine's major town and a municipality in the administrative region of Maloja in the Swiss canton of the Grisons.

St. Moritz lies on the southern slopes of the Albula Alps below the Piz Nair (3,056 m or 10,026 ft) overlooking the flat and wide glaciated valley of the Upper Engadine and Lake St. Moritz. It hosted the Winter Olympics in 1928 and 1948.
Pass of Kilbride
Pass of Kilbride (Irish: Bealach Cille Bríde) is a townland in County Westmeath, Ireland. The townland is located on the border with County Offaly and is in the civil parish of the same name. The M6 motorway runs through the southern part of the townland, with the R400 regional road running through the middle. The Monagh River flows through the south of the area, with the Milltown River forming the western border as it meets the village of Milltownpass, and the Kinnegad River forming the eastern border. The Milltownpass Bog is in the northern part of the townland.

Monagh River
The Monagh River is a river in Ireland. The river flows through three counties: Westmeath, Offaly and Meath. The river is also connected to other rivers in the area including Milltown River in Westmeath, and the Yellow River on the Meath–Offaly border. The mouth of the river is 0.7 miles (1.12 km) south of Castlejordan while the head of the river is 0.2 miles (0.32 km) east of Smithstown.
Journal of Functional Analysis
The Journal of Functional Analysis is a mathematics journal published by Elsevier. Founded by Paul Malliavin, Ralph S. Phillips, and Irving Segal, its editors-in-chief are, as of April 2024, Guido De Philippis, Alexandru D. Ionescu and Stefaan Vaes.

It is covered in databases including Scopus, the Science Citation Index, and the SCImago Journal Rank service.

Ralph S. Phillips
Ralph Saul Phillips (23 June 1913 – 23 November 1998) was an American mathematician and academic known for his contributions to functional analysis, scattering theory, and servomechanisms. He served as a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. He made major contributions to acoustical scattering theory in collaboration with Peter Lax, proving remarkable results on local energy decay and the connections between poles of the scattering matrix and the analytic properties of the resolvent. With Lax, he coauthored the widely referred book on scattering theory titled Scattering Theory for Automorphic Functions. Phillips received the 1997 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement.
Paul Giesler
Paul Giesler (15 June 1895 – 8 May 1945) was a German Nazi Party politician and SA-Obergruppenführer. From 1941, he was the Gauleiter of Westphalia-South, and he was appointed to the same position for the Gau Munich-Upper Bavaria in 1942. From 2 November 1942 to 28 April 1945, he was also Ministerpräsident of Bavaria. He was responsible for multiple acts of brutality, which included killing opponents of the regime in southern Germany. Giesler was also named in Hitler's Political Testament as Interior Minister, replacing Heinrich Himmler, in the short-lived Goebbels Cabinet. He committed suicide together with his wife in the closing days of the war in Europe.

End of World War II in Europe
The end of World War II in Europe occurred in May 1945. Following the suicide of Adolf Hitler on 30 April, leadership of Nazi Germany passed to Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz and the Flensburg Government. Soviet troops captured Berlin on 2 May, and a number of German military forces surrendered over the next few days. On 8 May, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signed the German Instrument of Surrender, an unconditional surrender to the Allies, in Karlshorst, Berlin. This is celebrated as Victory in Europe Day, while in Russia, 9 May is celebrated as Victory Day.

Some fighting continued after the German surrender. Some battles continued on the Eastern Front such as the Courland Pocket in western Latvia surrendering on 10 May, and the Prague offensive in Czechoslovakia ending on 11 May. On 25 May 1945, the Battle of Odžak ended in a Yugoslav Partisan victory. Following the conclusion in the European theatre, the war continued in the Pacific theatre.
Ministry of Health (North Macedonia)
The Ministry of Health is a government body of the Republic of North Macedonia responsible for managing the country’s public health system. It oversees health care services, health insurance, disease prevention, and environmental health. As of 2025, the Minister of Health is Azir Aliu, a member of the Alliance for Albanians party, is serving under the leadership of Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski. The first Minister of Health of North Macedonia was Perko Kolevski.

Prime Minister of North Macedonia
The prime minister of North Macedonia (Macedonian: Премиер на Северна Македонија, romanized: Premier na Severna Makedonija, Albanian: Kryeministri i Maqedonisë së Veriut), officially the President of the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia (Macedonian: Претседател на Владата на Република Северна Македонија, romanized: Pretsedatel na Vladata na Republika Severna Makedonija, Albanian: Kryetari i Qeverisë së Republikës së Maqedonisë së Veriut), is the head of government of North Macedonia.

The prime minister is the head of the cabinet and is usually the leader of a political coalition in parliament.

The current prime minister is Hristijan Mickoski, who has been in office since 23 June 2024.
Adrian Birrell
Adrian Victor "Adi" Birrell (born 8 December 1960 in Grahamstown, Cape Province) is a South African cricket coach and former first class cricketer. A leg break bowler, Birrell took 75 wickets at 30.16 in his career for Eastern Province, before turning to coaching.

He was educated at St Andrew's College in Grahamstown.

He led Ireland in the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup where they reached the Super Eight Stage. In the tournament they beat two Test nations, Bangladesh and Pakistan as well as achieving a tie against Zimbabwe. He stepped down after the World Cup and was replaced as Ireland coach by Phil Simmons, but he continued to coach in Ireland. In 2013 he was appointed assistant national coach for South Africa. On 14 December 2018, Birrell was appointed first team manager at Hampshire County Cricket Club. In September 2025, he announced he would be leaving Hampshire at the end of that year's county season.

Zimbabwe national cricket team
The Zimbabwe men's national cricket team, also known as the Chevrons, represents Zimbabwe in men's international cricket and is overseen by Zimbabwe Cricket. Zimbabwe has been a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1992. As of October 2025, Zimbabwe was ranked 11th by the ICC in all three formats of the game: Tests, One Day Internationals (ODIs) and Twenty20 internationals (T20Is).
McKechnie
MacKechnie and McKechnie are Irish/Scottish surnames. They are Anglicised forms of the Irish/Scottish Gaelic MacEacharna, meaning "son of Eacharn". The Irish/Scottish Gaelic personal name Eacharn is composed of two elements. The first element, each, means "horse"; the second element, tighearna, means "lord". In Scotland, the Scottish Gaelic MacEacharna has usually been Anglicised as McEachern. The surnames MacKechnie and McKechnie can be represented in Scottish Gaelic by MacEachainn, and MacEacharna. The McKechnies are a Sept of the Macdonalds of Clanranald.

Tigerna
A tiarna (Irish), tighearna  from the Old Irish tigerna, is a lord in the Gaelic world and languages. An Ard Tiarna is a "high lord", approximately equal in rank to a count or earl, although many of such higher rank still happen to prefer the title on its own.

Tierney is an anglicised version of the Irish surname  Mac Tighearnáin or O'Tighearnaigh, derived from the word.

In later Gaelic sources, for example the Annals of the Four Masters, the term has also been frequently used to replace the title Rí (king) in cases where the authors or current tradition no longer regarded earlier regional and local dynasts as proper kings, even when they are styled such in contemporary sources. Thus when encountered the term is not always to be trusted. In fact this was part of a wider change in the understanding of kingship in the later Middle Ages, and even a living or recently deceased rí might find himself downgraded in certain sources.
Leishangthem Susindro Meitei
Leishangthem Susindro Meitei is an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a member of the Manipur Legislative Assembly, representing the Khurai constituency. On 16 April of 2022, he was sworn in as the Minister of Public Health Engineering Department, Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Department in the Second N. Biren Singh ministry.

In October 2022, Susindro gave monetary assistance of 20,000 INR to the religious committee that manages the shrine of the Meitei goddess Ima Ujao Lairembi in Adampur Konagao, to help with organizing the Lai Haraoba in Bangladesh. It was during his visit to meet the Meitei people in Bangladesh during their festival Ningol Chakkouba, as he was sent by Nongthombam Biren Singh, the then Chief Minister of Manipur.

Ningol Chakkouba
Ningol Chakkouba (Meitei: ꯅꯤꯉꯣꯜ ꯆꯥꯛꯀꯧꯕ, transl:  feast for married women), also known as Hiyangei Nini Paanba (Meitei for 'second day of the month of Hiyaangei'), is a traditional Meitei festival, celebrated on the second day of the lunar month of Hiyangei (October–November). It is a celebration of bond of love between married women and their paternal families. It is a major festival for the Meitei communities originated from Manipur State of India. It has been celebrated by Meities residing in neighboring states of Manipur like Assam as well as in Bangladesh and Myanmar. Other communities in Manipur also share the celebration and it's a public holiday.  Manipuri diasporas in many Indian cities outside Manipur, including to Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata,Mumbai, Pune, Shillong, and Silchar, as well as in other countries, like USA, Australia,Canada, as well as in South Korea, Japan and Taiwan hosted the festival.
Bílek
Bílek (feminine: Bílková) is a Czech surname. It was derived from the Czech word bílý ('white') and probably referred to the colour of the skin, hair or beard. Notable people with the surname include:

Alexander Bílek (1941–2017), Czech athlete

Dagmar Bílková (born 1967), Czech-Slovak sport shooter

František Bílek (1872–1941), Czech sculptor

Hynek Bílek (born 1981), Czech ice dancer

István Bilek (1932–2010), Hungarian chess grandmaster

Jaroslav Bílek (born 1971), Czech cyclist

Jiří Bílek (born 1983), Czech footballer

Marek Bílek (born 1973), Czech discus thrower

Marcela Bilek (born 1968), Australian physicist

Martin Bílek (1973–2000), Czech shot putter

Michal Bílek (born 1965), Czech football player and manager

Roman Bílek (born 1967), Czech race walker

Rosa Junck, born Růžena Bílková (1850–1929), Czech Esperantist and educator

Vítězslav Bílek (born 1983), Czech ice hockey player

Vítězslav Bílek
Vítězslav Bílek (born July 31, 1983) is a Czech professional ice hockey forward who plays for HK Kralupy nad Vltavou of the Czech 2.liga. He played with Rytíři Kladno in the Czech Extraliga during the 2010–11 Czech Extraliga season.
Theo Boshoff
Theo Boshoff (born (1998-08-31)31 August 1998) is a South African rugby union player for the Griquas in the Currie Cup. His regular position is fly-half.

Boshoff had previously represented the Blue Bulls XV in the SuperSport Rugby Challenge. He joined the Pumas ahead of the newly formed Super Rugby Unlocked competition in October 2020. Dimaza made his debut in Round 4 of Super Rugby Unlocked against the Sharks.

Griquas (rugby union)
Griquas (Afrikaans: Griekwas), known as the Suzuki Griquas for sponsorship reasons, are a South African professional rugby union team based in Kimberley in Northern Cape, that participates in the annual Currie Cup tournament. Their home ground is Griqua Park in Kimberley and they draw their players mostly from Northern Cape Province. They have won the Currie Cup four times – in 1899, 1911, 1970, and 2025 – and the Vodacom Cup a joint-record five times.
Junior Benjamin
Junior Benjamin (born 13 August 1992) is a professional football player from Antigua and Barbuda who plays for the Antigua and Barbuda national team.

He debuted on 1 April 2018 in a friendly match with Dominica in a 0–0 draw.

On 22 March 2019, Benjamin scored his first goal for Antigua and Barbuda in a 2–1 victory against Curaçao, resulting a qualification spot to League B of the CONCACAF Nations League.

Dominica national football team
The Dominica national football team represents Dominica in men's international football, which is governed by the Dominica Football Association founded in 1970. It has been an affiliate member of FIFA since 1994, an associate member of CONCACAF since 1990 and becoming a full member in 1994. Regionally, it is an affiliate member of CFU in the Caribbean Zone.

Dominica has never participated in the FIFA World Cup and the CONCACAF Gold Cup, but has participated twice in League B and twice in League C of the CONCACAF Nations League.