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Culture of Germany
The culture of Germany has been shaped by its central position in Europe and a history spanning over a millennium. Characterized by significant contributions to art, music, philosophy, religion, science, and technology, German culture is both diverse and influential. Historically, Germany was not a unified nation for long periods, leading to a wide variety of regional customs and traditions. From the medieval Holy Roman Empire to the modern Federal Republic, German culture has absorbed influences from across the continent and beyond. Key aspects include a strong emphasis on education and craftsmanship, a long literary tradition featuring figures like Goethe and Schiller, a musical heritage from Bach to Beethoven, and a philosophical legacy including Kant and Marx. Germany is also known for its numerous festivals, regional cuisines, and a commitment to preserving its historical heritage while embracing contemporary trends in art, architecture, and popular culture.

Nena
Gabriele Susanne Kerner (born 24 March 1960), better known by her stage name Nena, is a German singer who rose to international fame in 1983 as the lead vocalist of the band Nena with the Neue Deutsche Welle song "99 Luftballons". In that same year, the band re-recorded this song in English as "99 Red Balloons". Nena's re-recording of some of the band's old hit songs as a solo artist, produced by the co-composer of most of them, her former Nena band colleague and keyboard player Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen, rekindled her solo career in 2002. Combined with the success of the Nena band years, she has sold over 25 million records, making her the most successful German pop singer in chart history.
Abdylas Maldybaev
Abdylas Maldybaevich Maldybaev (Kyrgyz: Абдылас Малдыбаевич Малдыбаев; July 7, 1906 – June 1, 1978) was a Soviet and Kyrgyz composer, actor, and operatic tenor singer. Maldybaev was one of the composers of the state anthem of the Kirghiz SSR and is still renowned for his operatic composition. He helped popularize Kyrgyz music by skillfully using Western European techniques. The Kyrgyz one som banknote pictures him.

Maldybayev provided folk melodies and composed music which was organized and prepared by Russian composers Vladimir Vlasov and Vladimir Fere into six Soviet state operas and other works. Their first full opera was Ai-churek. The collective is usually hyphenated as Vlasov-Fere-Maldybayev, which also composed the Kirghiz national anthem.

Kyrgyz people
The Kyrgyz people are a Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia. They primarily reside in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, China, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. A Kyrgyz diaspora is also found in Russia, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan. They speak the Kyrgyz language, which is the official language of Kyrgyzstan.

The earliest people known as "Kyrgyz" were the descendants of several Central Asian tribes, first emerging in western Mongolia around 201 BC. Modern Kyrgyz people are descended in part from the Yenisei Kyrgyz that lived in the Yenisey river valley in Siberia. The Kyrgyz people were constituents of the Tiele people, the Göktürks, and the Uyghur Khaganate before establishing the Yenisei Kyrgyz Khaganate in the 9th century, and later a Kyrgyz khanate in the 15th century.
Lunas, Hérault
Lunas (French pronunciation: [lynas]; Occitan: Lunaç) is a former commune in the Hérault department in southern France. On 1 January 2025, it was merged into the new commune of Lunas-les-Châteaux.

It is situated on the D35 between Lodève and Bédarieux.

Hérault
Hérault (French pronunciation: [eʁo]; Occitan: Erau, [eˈɾaw]) is a department of the region of Occitania, Southern France. Named after the Hérault River, its prefecture is Montpellier. It had a population of 1,175,623 in 2019.
Whom Gods Destroy (band)
Whom Gods Destroy is an American progressive metal supergroup, formed in 2023 by former Sons of Apollo members, Derek Sherinian (keyboards) and Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (guitar), alongside Croatian vocalist Dino Jelusick, bassist Yas Nomura and drummer Bruno Valverde (Angra). Sherinian and Thal started writing music together in 2020, but the project was not officially formed until after Sons of Apollo split up in 2023, with the project's debut album finished in June that year.

The band was announced on Facebook on November 21, 2023, with Jelusick being announced on November 26, Nomura on December 3, and Valverde on December 6. On December 12, they signed to German prog label InsideOut Music.

Their debut album, Insanium, was released on March 15, 2024. The first single from the album, "In The Name Of War", was released January 12, 2024, with an accompanying video directed by Vicente Cordero of Industrialism Films. Their second single was “Over Again”, on February 7.

Angra (band)
Angra is a Brazilian power metal band formed in 1991. They have released ten regular studio albums, six EPs, and seven live CD/DVDs to date. Led by Rafael Bittencourt, the band has gained a degree of popularity in Japan and Europe.

On 2 April 2015, guitarist Kiko Loureiro left Angra to join American thrash metal band Megadeth.
Integral Equations and Operator Theory
Integral Equations and Operator Theory is a journal dedicated to operator theory and its applications to engineering and other mathematical sciences. As some approaches to the study of integral equations (theoretically and numerically) constitute a subfield of operator theory, the journal also deals with the theory of integral equations and hence of differential equations. The journal consists of two sections: a main section consisting of refereed papers and a second consisting of short announcements of important results, open problems, information, etc.  It has been published monthly by Springer-Verlag since 1978.  The journal is also available online by subscription.

The founding editor-in-chief of the journal, in 1978, was Israel Gohberg. Its current editor-in-chief is Christiane Tretter.

Operator theory
In mathematics, operator theory is the study of linear operators on function spaces, beginning with differential operators and integral operators. The operators may be presented abstractly by their characteristics, such as bounded linear operators or closed operators, and consideration may be given to nonlinear operators. The study, which depends heavily on the topology of function spaces, is a branch of functional analysis.

If a collection of operators forms an algebra over a field, then it is an operator algebra. The description of operator algebras is part of operator theory.
KKSD
KKSD (104.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits format. Licensed to Milbank, South Dakota, United States, the station serves the Watertown area.  The station is owned and operated by Connoisseur Media.

Watertown, South Dakota
Watertown is a city in and the county seat of Codington County, South Dakota, United States. Watertown is home to the Redlin Art Center, which houses many of the works of Terry Redlin, one of the nation's most popular wildlife artists. Watertown is between Pelican Lake and Lake Kampeska, from which Redlin derived inspiration for his artwork.

The population was 22,655 at the 2020 census, making Watertown South Dakota's 5th-most populous city. It is also the principal city of the Watertown Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Codington County. It is home to the Bramble Park Zoo. Watertown's residential real estate is considered the most expensive in South Dakota for cities of its size; the median price for a home in Watertown was approximately $200,000 as of 2013.
Too Late to Die Young (film)
Too Late to Die Young (Spanish: Tarde para morir joven) is a 2018 Chilean drama film directed by Dominga Sotomayor Castillo. She became the first woman ever to win the Leopard for Best Direction at the Locarno Festival.

Locarno Film Festival
The Locarno International Film Festival is a major international film festival held annually in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, short, avant-garde, and retrospective programs. The Piazza Grande section is held in an open-air venue that seats 8,000 spectators.

The top prize of the festival is the Golden Leopard, awarded to the best film in the International Competition. Other awards include the Leopard of Honour for career achievement, and the Prix du Public, the public choice award.
Kwang-hoon
Kwang-hoon is a Korean given name.

People with this name include:

Jeon Kwang-hoon (born 1956), South Korean pastor and politician

Kim Kwang-Hoon (born 1982), South Korean weightlifter

Kim Kwang-Hoon (footballer) (born 1961), South Korean footballer

Lee Gwang-Hoon (born 1993), South Korean footballer

Lee Kwang-hoon (born 1959), South Korean film director

Shin Kwang-Hoon (born 1987), South Korean footballer

Lee Gwang-hoon
Lee Gwang-hoon  (Korean: 이광훈，李光勋; born 26 November 1993) is a South Korean footballer who plays as a forward for Suwon FC in K League Classic. Internationally, he represented South Korea in 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
Alexander Sims (racing driver)
Alexander George Oliver Sims (born 15 March 1988, in London) is a British professional racing driver, currently competing in the IMSA SportsCar Championship for Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports. He previously drove for Whelen Engineering Racing in IMSA where he won the 2023 IMSA SportsCar Championship. Previously Sims has driven in the ABB FIA Formula E Championship for Mahindra Racing and BMW i Andretti Motorsport, winning one race in Diriyah.

Sims was the winner of the 2008 McLaren Autosport BRDC Award for promising young British drivers.

Pratt Miller Motorsports
Pratt Miller Motorsports is an American auto racing team that currently competes in the LMP2 and the GTD Pro classes of the IMSA SportsCar Championship. It was founded as a division of Pratt Miller Engineering by Gary Pratt and Jim Miller in 1989.

The team is best known as service provider for many of General Motors' motorsports programs, including the operation of the Corvette Racing team.
Shelkov
Shelkov (feminine: Shelkova) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Mikhail Shelkov (born 1968), 21st century Russian oligarch

Vladimir Shelkov (1895–1980), Seventh-day Adventist preacher in the former Soviet Union

Mikhail Shelkov
Mikhail Shelkov (born March 30, 1968) is a Russian billionaire and the majority owner of VSMPO-AVISMA, a Russian titanium firm, through his ownership of Industrial Investments LLC.

VSMPO stands for VerkhneSaldinskoye Metallurgicheskoye Proizvodstvennoye Ob'yedineniye (Верхнесалдинское металлургическое производственное объединение, Metal-producing company of Verkhnyaya Salda; and AVISMA for AVIatsionnyye Spetsial'nyye MAterialy or AVIation Special MAterials).
Julia (play)
Julia: or, The Italian Lover is a 1787 tragedy by the Irish writer Robert Jephson.

It premiered at Drury Lane with a cast featuring John Philip Kemble as Mentevole, John Palmer as Marcellus, Robert Bensley as Durazzo, James Aickin as Manoa, John Whitfield as Camillo, John Hayman Packer as Duke of Genoa, Priscilla Kemble as Olympia, Charlotte Tidswell as Nerina and Sarah Siddons as Julia.

Sarah Siddons
Sarah Siddons (née Kemble; 5 July 1755 – 8 June 1831) was a Welsh actress, the best-known tragedienne of the 18th century. Contemporaneous critic William Hazlitt dubbed Siddons as "tragedy personified".

She was the elder sister of John Philip Kemble, Charles Kemble, Stephen Kemble, Ann Hatton, and Elizabeth Whitlock, and the aunt of Fanny Kemble. She was most famous for her portrayal of the Shakespearean character Lady Macbeth, a character she made her own.

The Sarah Siddons Society, founded in 1952, continues to present the Sarah Siddons Award annually in Chicago to a distinguished actress.
OMusic TV
oMusic TV was a British music television channel. It was a classical/chill out music channel, and was available free-to-air on satellite. On 1 September 2010, oMusic TV was replaced by Vintage TV, a channel that plays music from the 1940s to the 1990s.

The channel consisted of classical, opera, chillout, ambient, vaporwave & world music.

The selection of the music videos played on oMusic were aided by interactive service (via the Green Button) technology and an SMS polling system.

Some oMusic programming later reappeared as a programming block within Open Access 3 before the channel's closure on 4 April 2011.

Chill-out music
Chill-out (shortened as chill; also typeset as chillout or chill out) is a loosely defined form of popular music characterized by slow tempos and relaxed moods. The definition of "chill-out music" has evolved throughout the decades, and generally refers to anything that might be identified as a modern type of easy listening.

The term "chill-out music" – originally conflated with "ambient house" – came from an area called "The White Room" at the Heaven nightclub in London in 1989. There, DJs played ambient mixes from sources such as Brian Eno and Pink Floyd to allow dancers a place to "chill out" from the faster-paced music of the main dance floor. Ambient house became widely popular over the next decade before it declined due to market saturation.
Wadi al-Haramiya shooting
On 7 January 2024, a Palestinian gunman opened fire on a civilian vehicle moving along "The British Police cross section" between Route 60 and Route 465 near Wadi al-Haramiya. He targeted a vehicle with an Israeli license plate, killing a 30-year-old Arab-Israeli man from East Jerusalem. A woman, also a resident of East Jerusalem, was severely injured, and died from her wounds two weeks later.

Highway 60 (Israel–Palestine)
Highway 60 or (Hebrew: כביש שישים, Kvish Shishim; Arabic: الطريق السريع ستين at-Tariq as-Sarie Sitiin) is a south–north intercity road in Israel and the Palestinian West Bank that stretches from Beersheba to Nazareth.
Yaegashi
Yaegashi (written: 八重樫) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Akira Yaegashi (八重樫 東, born 1983), Japanese boxer

James Yaegashi, American actor

Shigeo Yaegashi (八重樫 茂生, 1933–2011) Japanese footballer

Takehisa Yaegashi (born 1943), Japanese engineer and designer

Akira Yaegashi
Akira Yaegashi (八重樫 東, Yaegashi Akira; born February 25, 1983) is a Japanese former professional boxer who competed from 2005 to 2019. He is a three-weight world champion, having held the World Boxing Association (WBA) mini-flyweight title from 2011 to 2012, the World Boxing Council (WBC) and Ring magazine flyweight titles from 2013 to 2014, and the International Boxing Federation (IBF) light-flyweight title from 2015 to 2016. He is an alumnus of the Takushoku University.
Joel Gisler
Joel Gisler (born 25 February 1994 in Bürglen) is a Swiss freestyle skier, specializing in halfpipe.

Gisler competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Switzerland. He placed 18th in the qualifying round in the halfpipe, failing to advance.

Gisler made his World Cup debut in March 2011. As of April 2014, his best World Cup finish is 16th, at Sierra Nevada in 2012–13. His best World Cup overall finish in halfpipe is 34th, in 2010–11.

Competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics, again for Switzerland, he experienced a video recorded crash on par with that of Vinko Bogataj.

Freestyle skiing
Freestyle skiing is a  skiing discipline comprising aerials, moguls, cross, half-pipe, slopestyle and big air as part of the Winter Olympics. It can consist of a skier performing aerial flips and spins and can include skiers sliding rails and boxes on their skis. Known as "hot-dogging" in the early 1970s, it is also commonly referred to as freeskiing, jibbing, and many other names, around the world.
Gahmar railway station
Gahmar railway station is a small railway station in Ghazipur district, Uttar Pradesh. Its code is GMR. It serves largest village of India  Gahmar village and locality. Gahmar is the nearest rail station to Maa Kamakhya Dham Temple.

The station consists of two platforms with a foot overbridge. The platform is now well sheltered, well furnished. It consists basic facilities including water and sanitation, waiting room, rain shades, a canteen, water cooler,  fan and lighting. The station lies on Patna–Mughalsarai section.

Gahmar
Gahmar is a village in India, located near the Ganges river in the Ghazipur district in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The village is 38 km from Ghazipur. The village has 
two post offices, and one Panchayat Bhawan. Gahmar is also known as the "Village of Soldiers". The Gahmar village is also recognised as the most populated or among the most populated villages in India.
Elite (video game series)
Elite is a space trading and combat simulation video game series created by David Braben and Ian Bell in 1984. The Elite series has been revolutionarily innovative, genre defining, and the longest running space sim series in history. The series was met with commercial success, favorable reviews and near-universal acclaim.

Space flight simulation game
Space flight simulation is a genre of flight simulator video games that lets players experience space flight to varying degrees of realism. Common mechanics include space exploration, space trade and space combat.
Ahmed El Merghany
Ahmed El Merghany (born 24 May 1988, in Cairo;Arabic: أحمد المرغني) is an Egyptian footballer. He currently plays as a defensive midfielder for Dikernis.

In 2016, Merghany was suspended after describing the President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, as a “failure” on Facebook.

Dekernes SC
Dekernes Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي دكرنس للألعاب الرياضية), is an Egyptian football club based in Dekernes, Egypt. The club currently plays in the Egyptian Second Division, the second-highest league in the Egyptian football league system.
Joachim Schoonmaker Farm
Joachim Schoonmaker Farm, also known as Saunderskill Farm, is a historic home and farm and national historic district located at Accord, Ulster County, New York. The farmstead was established about 300 years ago and has been owned by the same family since then. It includes a two-story, five-bay, brick-fronted stone house built in 1787 with two rear frame wings. It has a side gable roof and interior gable end chimneys. Also on the property are the contributing stone smokehouse, 1+1⁄2-story wagon house, wood frame smokehouse, granary, barn (c. 1870, 1929), powerhouse (c. 1900), two poultry houses, a section of the Delaware and Hudson Canal (1828), a two-story wood-frame house (1929), and a 1+1⁄2-story tenant house.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

Smokehouse
A smokehouse (North American) or smokery (British) is a building where meat or fish is cured with smoke. The finished product might be stored in the building, sometimes for a year or more. Even when smoke is not used, such a building—typically a subsidiary building—is sometimes referred to as a "smokehouse".  When smoke is not used, the term meathouse or meat house is common.
Ante Topić Mimara
Ante Topić Mimara (7 April 1898 in Korušce – 30 January 1987 in Zagreb) was a Croatian art collector and philanthropist. He donated his collection of more than 3,700 artifacts, ranging from the prehistoric to the 20th century periods, to the National Museum of Serbia in Belgrade and the museum named after him - Mimara Museum in Zagreb. Most masterpieces of the Italian Collection and Dutch Collection in the National Museum of Serbia had been donated by Mimara.

In post-war years, Mimara was a consultant to the Yugoslav military mission in Berlin and Munich, where he worked on returning plundered works of art to Yugoslavia. In 1963, he sold the Cloisters Cross to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and is vividly described by Thomas Hoving, who made the acquisition, in his book on the work.

Private collection
A private collection is a privately owned collection of works (usually artworks) or valuable items.  In a museum or art gallery context, the term signifies that a certain work is not owned by that institution, but is on loan from an individual or organization, either for temporary exhibition or for the long term. This source is usually an art collector, although it could also be a school, church, bank, or some other company or organization. By contrast, collectors of books, even if they collect for aesthetic reasons (fine bookbindings or illuminated manuscripts for example), are called bibliophiles, and their collections are typically referred to as libraries.
Lauk Shein
Lauk Shein (Burmese: လောက်ရှိန်, pronounced [laʊ̯ʔ ʃèɪɰ̃]; also Lauk Na-Rein, Mon: လိုက်နရိန်, Burmese: လောက်နရိန်; died 1390) was governor of Bassein (Pathein), at least from the 1380s to 1390. A son of Viceroy Laukpya of Myaungmya, Shein actively participated in his father's rebellion against King Razadarit of Hanthawaddy, and fought in the subsequent Ava–Hanthawaddy War (1385–1391) on the Ava side.

Though he successfully defended Bassein in 1389, Shein decided to evacuate the port city when his father's provincial capital Myaungmya unexpectedly fell in 1390. His caravan of elephants carrying loads of treasures soon found their path to Ava territory blocked by a Hanthawaddy battalion, and were forced to make a detour to Sandoway in Arakan. However, the governor of Sandoway gave him up to the pursuing Hanthawaddy troops. Shein was brought back to Bassein where he was executed on Razadarit's order.

Launggyet dynasty
The Launggyet dynasty (Burmese: လောင်းကြက်မြို့ ; 1251–1406) was the final Arakanese kingdom of Le-Mro period which was located in present-day northern Rakhine State of western Myanmar. According to the Arakanese chronicle Rakhine Razawin Thit, the Launggyet dynasty was founded on April 22, 1251. It succeeded the Vesali kingdom and preceded the rise of the Mrauk U dynasty.

Launggyet prospered as a trade nexus between South Asia and Southeast Asia. Exports included rice, ivory, and lacquerware, while imports featured Bengal textiles and spices.

The capital, Launggyet, was strategically situated in the Kaladan River valley, providing fertile lands and access to maritime trade routes. Its defensive position against invasions from the east (Burma) and west (Bengal) made it a political and economic hub.
Jô
João Alves de Assis Silva (born 20 March 1987), known as Jô (Brazilian Portuguese: [ʒo]) or João Alves, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a forward.

He has previously played for Corinthians, CSKA Moscow, Manchester City, Everton, Galatasaray, Internacional, Atlético Mineiro and Nagoya Grampus. Jô made his full international debut for Brazil in 2007, and was in the squads which took bronze at the 2008 Olympics and won the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, and also played at the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

2017 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
The 2017 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A was the 61st season of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the top level of professional football in Brazil, and the 15th edition in a double round-robin since its establishment in 2003. The season began on 13 May 2017 and ended on 3 December 2017. The top six teams qualified to Copa Libertadores and the last four were relegated to Série B of 2018.

Corinthians won their seventh title and was the first team in the history of the tournament, since the double round-robin system was established in 2003, to finish the first round undefeated.