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Phil Ryan (sheriff)
Phillip R. Ryan (August 10, 1945 – February 25, 2026) was an American Texas Ranger and the three-term sheriff of Wise County, Texas.  He entered law enforcement in 1966 at the age of 21, initially serving as a police officer in Pasadena in Harris County, Texas. He later joined the Texas Department of Public Safety as a highway patrolman assigned to Houston and Cleveland, Texas. In 1976, he was promoted to highway patrol sergeant, which took him to Humble, Texas. He applied for and was accepted to service in the Texas Ranger Division and served as a Ranger in Decatur, which also covered Jack, Montague, and Clay counties.

As a Texas Ranger, Ryan worked many cases that made him well known not only throughout the state, but throughout the nation.  He is most notable for his arrest of serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, but also was the Texas Ranger assigned to the Ricky Lee and Sharon Green case, two of the most notorious serial killers in Wise County, Texas history.

Jack County, Texas
Jack County is a county located in the north-central part of the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 8,472. Its county seat is Jacksboro. The county was created in 1856 and organized the next year. It is named for Patrick Churchill Jack and his brother William Houston Jack, both soldiers of the Texas Revolution.
1st Standing Committee of the Workers' Party of North Korea
The 1st Standing Committee of the Workers' Party of North Korea (WPNK)(1차 북조선로동당 상무위원회) was elected at the 1st WPNK Congress held in August 1946. It consisted of 13 members and remained active until the election of the 2nd Standing Committee by the 1st Plenary Session of the 2nd Central Committee on 30 March 1948. In between sessions of the Standing Committee, the Political Committee met in its place.

Chu Yong-ha
Chu Yong-ha (Korean: 주영하; Korean pronunciation: [tsu.jʌŋ.ɦa]; 1908 – ?) was a North Korean politician and diplomat. Chu was elected into several posts in the Workers' Party of North Korea, the predecessor of the Workers' Party of Korea, in its early days. Chu was the target of plots ensuing from factional strife within the party. As a member of the Domestic faction, Chu was opposed by the Guerrilla, Soviet and Yan'an factions.

During the Korean War, Chu was North Korea's ambassador to Moscow. After the war, a fictitious plot against Kim Il Sung was "uncovered" in a show trial. Among the claims against the defendants was overthrowing Kim Il Sung and making Pak Hon-yong the new premier, and Chu one of his vice-premiers.
Alessandro Hämmerle
Alessandro Hämmerle (born 30 July 1993) is a Swiss-born Austrian snowboarder, and Olympic gold medalist in the snowboard cross.

Hämmerle competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Austria. In the snowboard cross, he finished 2nd in his 1/8 round race, advancing to the quarter-finals, where he placed 5th, not advancing, and ending up 17th overall.

As of September 2014, his best showing at the World Championships was 6th, in the 2013 snowboard cross.

Hämmerle made his World Cup debut in December 2010. As of September 2014, he had one World Cup victory, coming at Sochi in 2012–13. His best overall finish was 4th in 2012–13.

He has won the gold medal in snowboard cross at the 2022 Beijing and 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics.

2012–13 FIS Snowboard World Cup
The 2012–13 FIS Snowboard World Cup was a multi race tournament over a season for snowboarding. The season started on 28 August 2012 and ended on 27 March 2013. The World Cup was organised by the FIS which also runs world cups and championships in alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, ski jumping, Nordic combined, and freestyle skiing. The FIS Snowboarding World Cup consisted of the parallel slalom, snowboard cross and the halfpipe. The men's side of the world cup also consisted of a big air competition.
Kweku Flick
Andy Osei Sarfo (born 16 May 2001), professionally known as Kweku Flick is a Ghanaian musician and songwriter from Abrepo. His path to stardom was paved by the release of his track titled "Money" in 2020.

Strongman (rapper)
Osei Kwaku Vincent, also known as Strongman, Strongman Burner or Strong Gee is a Ghanaian rapper. He was recognized for winning the maiden edition of the Next Big Thing in GH Rap music which was a rap competition in Ghana.
Kachaks
Kachaks (Albanian: kaçak, Serbian: качаци / kačaci) is a term used for the Albanian rebels active in the late 19th and early 20th century in northern Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo and Macedonia, and later as a term for the militias of Albanian revolutionary organizations against the Kingdom of Serbia (1910–18) Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–24), called the "Kachak Movement".

Bajram Curri
Bajram Curri (16 January 1862 – 29 March 1925) was an Albanian chieftain, politician and activist who struggled for the independence of Albania, later struggling for Kosovo's incorporation into it following the 1913 Treaty of London. He was posthumously given the title Hero of Albania.
Omashaka massacre
The Omashaka massacre was a mass murder that occurred in Omashaka, a village five miles north of Ondangwa in Ovamboland, South West Africa on March 27, 1981, when a black soldier killed eight people and wounded twelve others, two of them seriously, before being arrested.

The 18-year-old soldier, a member of the 101 Battalion, was reported to have shot at shoppers in a trading or liquor store, and at people sitting in front of their huts with an assault rifle, killing three soldiers and five women, and wounding two other soldiers and ten civilians.

Ovamboland
Ovamboland, also referred to as Owamboland, was a Bantustan and later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority of the Ovambos, in South West Africa (present-day Namibia).

The apartheid government stated that the goal was for it to be a self-governing homeland for the Ovambo people. Practically, however, it was intended by the apartheid government as a reservation that forced them into cheap labour by limiting movement; Ovambo men were not allowed outside Ovamboland unless they signed as a contract labourer for 16 months, while women were not allowed out at all.

The term originally referred to the parts of northern Namibia inhabited by the Ovambo ethnic group: namely, the area controlled by the traditional Ovambo kingdoms in pre-colonial and early colonial times, such as Ondonga, Ongandjera, and Oukwanyama. Its endonym is Ovambo ~ Owambo.
Bryan Nickson Lomas
Bryan Nickson Lomas (born 30 June 1990 in Kuching, Sarawak) is a former Malaysian diver. Lomas was the youngest Malaysian athlete to qualify for 2004 Summer Olympics when he was 14. He became the country's first world junior diving champion after winning gold at the 3 m springboard event in the World Junior Championships held at Belém, Brazil in 2004. He trained under the coaching of Yang Zhuliang. Lomas is named after the footballer Bryan Robson by his father.

In September 2023, he was appointed as Malaysia Swimming Federation (MAS) technical director.

Malaysia Swimming Federation
Malaysia Swimming Federation (Malay: Persekutuan Renang Malaysia) is the national governing body of swimming, water polo, synchronised swimming, diving and open water in Malaysia. Founded as the Amateur Swimming Union of Malaysia (ASUM) (Malay: Persatuan Renang Amatur Malaysia), the body adopted its current name in July 2020. It is charged with selecting Malaysia Olympic Swimming team and any other teams which officially represent Malaysia, as well as the overall organization and operation of the sport within the country. The national headquarters is located at the National Aquatic Centre, National Sports Complex in Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur.
Jack Sterrett
John E. "Cactus Jack" Sterrett (1901 – 1984) was an American football and basketball coach.  He served as the head football coach at Bemidji State University from 1931 to 1934 and at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota from 1935 to 1936, compiling a career college football coaching record of 16–26–4. Sterrett was also a head basketball coach at a number of different schools, including Bemidji State, Saint Louis University, and Wichita State University.

Saint Louis University
Saint Louis University (SLU) is a private Jesuit research university in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1818 by Louis William Valentine DuBourg, it is the oldest university west of the Mississippi River and one of the oldest Jesuit universities in the United States. The university is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.

In the 2023–2024 academic year, SLU had an enrollment of 15,204 students. The student body included 8,502 undergraduate students and 6,702 graduate students that represent all 50 states and 96 countries.  The university is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very High Spending and Doctorate Production".

For more than 50 years, the university has maintained the Saint Louis University Madrid Campus in Spain. SLU's athletic teams compete in the NCAA Division I as a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference.
My Name Is Rachel Corrie
My Name Is Rachel Corrie is a play based on the diaries and emails of activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an Israeli soldier when she was aged 23. It was jointly edited by journalist Katharine Viner and actor Alan Rickman, who also directed it.

Rachel Corrie (10 April 1979 – 16 March 2003) was an American Evergreen State College student and member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) who travelled to the Gaza Strip during the Second Intifada. She was killed in the Gaza Strip by a Caterpillar D9R armoured bulldozer operated by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) while protecting the family home of local pharmacist Samir Nasrallah from demolition by the IDF.

Caterpillar D9
The Caterpillar D9 is a large track-type tractor designed and manufactured by Caterpillar Inc. It is usually sold as a bulldozer equipped with a detachable large blade and a rear ripper attachment.

The D9, with 354 kW (474 hp) of gross power and an operating weight of 49 short tons (44 t), is in the upper end of Caterpillar's track-type tractors, which range in size from the D2 69 kW (92 hp), 9 short tons (8.2 t), to the D11 698 kW (935 hp), 104 short tons (94 t).

Its size, durability, reliability, and low operating costs have made the D9 one of the most popular large track-type tractors in the world.

As the size, power, and weight of the larger track-type tractors dictate that they are used primarily for major projects, the D9 is most commonly found in construction, demolition, forestry, mining, waste, and quarry operations.
Black Dossier (film)
Black Dossier (French: Le Dossier noir, Italian: Fascicolo nero) is a 1955 French-Italian crime drama film directed by André Cayatte and starring Jean-Marc Bory, Danièle Delorme and Lea Padovani. It was shot at the Boulogne Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.

André Cayatte
André Cayatte (French: [kajat]; 3 February 1909 – 6 February 1989) was a French filmmaker, writer and lawyer, who became known for his films centering on themes of crime, justice, and moral responsibility.
Swiss-German Sign Language
Swiss-German Sign Language (German: Deutschschweizer Gebärdensprache, abbreviated DSGS) is the primary deaf sign language of the German-speaking part of Switzerland and of Liechtenstein. The language was established around 1828. In 2011 it was estimated that 7,500 deaf and 13,000 hearing people use DSGS. There are six dialects which developed in boarding schools for the deaf in Zürich, Bern, Basel, Lucerne, and St. Gallen, as well as in Liechtenstein.

St. Gallen
St. Gallen is a Swiss city and the capital of the canton of St. Gallen. It evolved from the hermitage of Saint Gall, founded in the 7th century. Today, it is a large urban agglomeration (with around 167,000 inhabitants in 2019) and represents the center of eastern Switzerland. Its economy consists mainly of the service sector. The city is home to the University of St. Gallen, one of the best business schools in Europe.

The main tourist attraction is the Abbey of Saint Gall, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Abbey's renowned library contains books from the 9th century. The official language of St. Gallen is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of Alemannic Swiss German. The city has good transport links to the rest of the country and to neighbouring Germany and Austria. It also functions as the gate to the Appenzellerland.
Jacob Nix (1822)
Jacob Nix (July 17, 1822 - January 13, 1897) was a German revolutionary, German Turner, assessor, and municipal clerk of the city of New Ulm, Minnesota. Nix was one of the commanders of the militia forces alongside Charles Eugene Flandrau during the Battles of New Ulm during the Dakota War of 1862 where he was severely wounded.

New Ulm, Minnesota
New Ulm (/ˈnjuː ˈʌlm/ ⓘ NEW ULM) is a city and the county seat of Brown County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 14,120 at the 2020 census. New Ulm is on the triangle of land formed by the confluence of the Minnesota River and the Cottonwood River.

New Ulm is home to the Hermann Heights Monument, Flandrau State Park, the historic August Schell Brewing Company, and the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame. The city is known for its German heritage and its historical sites and landmarks dating to the US-Dakota War of 1862.

New Ulm is the episcopal see of the Diocese of New Ulm and home to the Handmaids of the Heart of Jesus. The Dakota called New Ulm the "Village on the Cottonwood" or Wachupata.
Robert Hardwicke
Robert Hardwicke FLS (born 2 October 1822 in Dyke, Lincolnshire; died 8 March 1875) was a British surgeon and publisher of medical and natural history literature, including Hardwicke's Science-Gossip, Popular Science Review, the Journal of Botany, and the Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club. His obituary in the American magazine Popular Science Monthly read: "What Charles Knight was to general literature, Robert Hardwicke was to science."

Quekett Microscopical Club
The Quekett Microscopical Club is a learned society for the promotion of microscopy. Its members come from all over the world, and include both amateur and professional microscopists. It is a registered charity and not-for-profit publisher, with the stated aims of promoting the understanding and use of all aspects of the microscope.
Oregon Route 238
Oregon Route 238 is an Oregon state highway which runs between the cities of Grants Pass, Oregon and  Medford, Oregon, and through the historic town of Jacksonville.  It is known as the Jacksonville Highway No. 272 (see Oregon highways and routes), and is 39 miles (63 km) long.  It lies in Jackson and Josephine County.

Jacksonville, Oregon
Jacksonville is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States, approximately 5 miles (8 km) west of Medford. It was named for Jackson Creek, which flows through the community and was the site of one of the first placer gold claims in the area. It includes Jacksonville Historic District, which was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1966. As of the 2020 census, Jacksonville had a population of 3,020.
Elijah (2024 film)
Elijah is a 2024 American short drama film produced, written, and directed by Razid Season.

It is a narrative film by Season, inspired by true characters. The film follows a Bengali Muslim yellow cab driver who faces mounting pressure in New York City from financial hardship and fading dreams, as well as his daughter's coming out as transgender, forcing him to reexamine the limits of his love and understanding.

The film had its initial release in the festival circuit in November 2024 and has been screened at numerous film festivals. The film stars Asian American actors as well as American actors. Harvey Brownstone, the first openly gay judge in Canada, is the film's executive producer. Piotr Kajstura and Richard Kwolek are the producers.

The film was screened at several Asian American Pacific Islander Film Festivals in May 2025 as part of AAPI Heritage Month.

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (as of 2025, officially changed from Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Month) is an annually observed commemorative month in the United States. It is celebrated during the month of May, and recognizes the contributions and influence of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islander Americans to the history, culture, and achievements of the United States. This demographic group is collectively referred to as Asian Pacific Americans (APA) or Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPI).

On January 20, 2025, the Trump administration's Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions eliminated federal recognition of the month. The White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders was subsequently dissolved. Nonetheless, on May 16, 2025, the proclamation was issued after all.
The Lakeview Review
The Lakeview Review was an American literary journal published in the Fingerlakes area of Upstate New York by founding editor Tanya Babcock. The print journal was established in 2008 and was published quarterly: January, April, July and October. The magazine is headquartered in Wayland, New York.

In late 2009, The Lakeview Review ceased publication, but it was decided to resurrect the project as an online literary journal in 2010. The online version is published bi-annually, and accepts submissions for the Review's continuing writing contests. The Lakeview Review also has an online writing community that includes blogs and a book club.

Wayland, New York
Wayland is a town in Steuben County, New York, United States. The population was 3,733 at the 2020 census.

The Town of Wayland contains a village called Wayland.  The town is in the northern part of the county, northwest of Bath.
Mykhailo Bilyi
Mykhailo Ulyanovych Bilyi (Ukrainian: Михайло Улянович Білий; 12 November 1922 – 5 August 2001) was a Ukrainian and Soviet physicist and politician, who served as the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1972 to 1980. Since 1969 he was a Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (then the Academy of Sciences of Ukrainian SSR).

Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada
The chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Голова Верховної Ради України, romanized: Holova Verkhovnoi Rady Ukrainy) is the presiding officer of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's unicameral parliament. The chairman presides over the parliament and its procedures. Chairmen are elected by open voting from the parliament's deputy ranks.

Ruslan Stefanchuk is the current chairman since being confirmed on 8 October 2021.
Fanwalk
Fanwalk or fan walk, is the practice of association football fans walking as a large group to and from the stadium. In European football, they are often escorted by police and security personnel to prevent violent incidents involving ultras. Dutch football fans are particularly well known for their fanwalks. Notable examples at Euro 2024 include the fanwalk by supporters of the Netherlands national football team in Leipzig, which drew between 20,000 and 25,000 fans wearing orange jerseys and hats.

The concept of the fanwalk became popular during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. The pedestrian route from central Cape Town to the Cape Town Stadium at Green Point, referred to as the Fanwalk, was carefully designed to promote local businesses while promoting crowd safety and creating a festive atmosphere. An estimated 580,000 people experienced the fan walk at the 2010 World Cup.

Green Point, Cape Town
Green Point (Afrikaans: Groenpunt) is a predominantly affluent, mixed-use suburb in the Atlantic Seaboard region of Cape Town, South Africa, located to the north west of Cape Town CBD. The suburb stretches from the coast to the bottom of Signal Hill, with Three Anchor Bay to its west and the V&A Waterfront to its east.

The area is home to Cape Town Stadium, a major sporting and events venue, and the largest of its kind in the Western Cape. The Sea Point Promenade, a coastal pathway, runs through the suburb, connecting it to nearby Three Anchor Bay and Sea Point. Somerset Road forms the main thoroughfare in Green Point, and is lined by restaurants, cafés, delis, boutiques, and nightclubs, and other commercial establishments.
2023–24 St. Thomas (Minnesota) Tommies men's basketball team
The 2023–24 St. Thomas Tommies men's basketball team represented the University of St. Thomas in the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Tommies, led by 13th-year head coach John Tauer, played their home games at Schoenecker Arena in Saint Paul, Minnesota as members of the Summit League. They finished the season 20–13, 9–7 in Summit League play, to finish in  fourth place.

This season marked St. Thomas's third year of a five-year transition period from Division III to Division I, an incredibly rare and historic jump that bypasses Division II altogether. As a result of this transition, the Tommies were not eligible for NCAA postseason play until 2026–27. The Tommies participated in their second-ever Summit League men's basketball tournament, defeating North Dakota State in the quarterfinals before falling to top-seeded South Dakota State in the semifinals.

2024 Summit League men's basketball tournament
The 2024 Summit League men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Summit League for the 2023–24 season. All tournament games were played at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from March 8–12, 2024.
WUPN (FM)
WUPN (95.1 MHz) is an American FM radio station licensed to serve the community of Paradise, an unincorporated community in Whitefish Township, Chippewa County, Michigan. The station is owned by Timothy S. Ellis, through licensee TSE Broadcasting LLC. WUPN broadcasts a classic hits format to the Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, area.

Whitefish Township, Michigan
Whitefish Township is a civil township of Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 474 at the 2020 census.

With a land area of 241.50 square miles (625.48 km2), Whitefish Township is the sixth-largest municipality in the state by land area and among the least-densely populated.  Located along Whitefish Bay on the shores of Lake Superior, the township contains Whitefish Point Light and the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, as well as portions of Tahquamenon Falls State Park.
2018 Pasamayo bus crash
Around 12:00 (17:00 UTC) on 2 January 2018 a Peruvian bus carrying 57 passengers from Huacho to Lima went over a cliff after being struck by a tractor trailer near Pasamayo, Peru, killing 51 people and injuring at least 5 others. It is the deadliest road accident in Peruvian history, tied with the 2013 Peru bus disaster. The crash occurred near the 'Devil's Curve' highway, a precariously nicknamed route that is known for fatal traffic accidents.

Huacho
Huacho (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈwatʃo]) is a city in Peru, capital of the Huaura Province and capital of the Lima Region. Also is the most populated city of the Lima Region and Norte Chico. It is located 223 feet (68 metres) above sea level and 148 km north of the city of Lima. The city is located on the Pan-American Highway and it is close to the Lachay National Reserve, so it has extensive vegetation and wildlife.