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Bambasi (woreda)
Bambasi (also spelled Bambeshi) is a woreda in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Asosa Zone, it is bordered by the Mao-Komo special woreda on the southwest, Asosa in the northwest, Oda Buldigilu in the northeast, and by the Oromia Region in the southeast.

This woreda and its only town, Bambasi, are named for the tallest point in this zone, Mount Bambasi. Rivers include the Dabus, which originates in this woreda.

Bambasi
Bambashi (also known as Abba Moti) is a town in western Ethiopia. The town is named after the highest point in the Assosa Zone of the Benishangul-Gumuz Region, Mount Bambashi. Bambashi has a longitude and latitude of 9°45′N 34°44′E﻿ / ﻿9.750°N 34.733°E﻿ / 9.750; 34.733 with an elevation of 1668 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Bambashi woreda and town administration.

Bambashi is located on the Gimbi-Assosa road, making the town one of the few in the Region accessible by motor vehicle with the rest of Ethiopia.
Curtis Palidwor
Curtis Palidwor (born January 16, 1973, in New Westminster, British Columbia) is a former goaltender for the Calgary Roughnecks in the National Lacrosse League. In 2004 he was named MVP (Most Valuable Player) of the NLL's Champions Cup game, backstopping the Roughnecks to a 14–11 victory over the Buffalo Bandits.

Palidwor was awarded "Player of the Month" honors in March of the 2008 NLL season.

During the 2009 season, Palidwor was traded from the Colorado Mammoth to the Toronto Rock for a second round pick in the 2010 entry draft. In his first and only game as a member of the Rock, he made 16 saves and allowed 10 goals in 45 minutes as the Rock lost 18–10 to Rochester. A week later, the trade was reversed as Palidwor was traded back to the Mammoth for the same draft pick.

Calgary Roughnecks
The Calgary Roughnecks are a Canadian professional box lacrosse team based in Calgary, Alberta, that competes in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The team plays its home games at Scotiabank Saddledome. The team name is derived from the roughnecks who work drilling rigs in Alberta's oil and gas industry.  The team is affectionately known by fans as the Riggers.

The Roughnecks were founded in 2001, their first season was 2002, and they have qualified for the post-season every year from 2003 to 2016.  They have won three division championships (2005, 2009, 2011) and have captured the NLL Cup as NLL champions three times.  Calgary won all three titles on their home floor, defeating the Buffalo Bandits in 2004, the New York Titans in 2009, and the Bandits again in 2019.
David Bull (art restorer)
David Bull (March 5, 1934 – December 28, 2024) was an English conservator of old master paintings, and an author. He worked with the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. Bull stepped in as director of the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California 1980–1981, and served as visiting director at the Timken Museum of Art in San Diego in 2014–2015.

David Bull was born in Bristol, England, the son of a banker, and studied art and design at the West of England College of Art. Bull worked for the National Gallery, London, and in 1981 founded his own conservation firm, Fine Art Conservation & Restoration Inc. with his wife, the conservator Teresa Longyear. In 1984 he moved to Washington to lead the department of painting conservation at the National Gallery of Art through 1999.

Bull notably performed conservation treatment on Raphael's Madonna of the Pinks.

Madonna of the Pinks
The Madonna of the Pinks (c. 1505 – 1506, Italian: La Madonna dei garofani) is an early devotional painting usually attributed to Italian Renaissance master Raphael. It is painted in oils on yew [Taxus baccata] wood, a first for a Raphael or any currently known Italian Renaissance painting, and now hangs in the National Gallery, London.
Kulaksız, Beyoğlu
Kulaksız is a neighborhood (mahalle) in the Beyoğlu District of Istanbul, Turkey. Its population is 9,706 (2019). Much of the neighborhood's land is taken up by the large Kulaksız and Zindan Arkası Cemeteries and the smaller Eminefendi Cemetery.

The neighborhood is bordered on the north by the Keçeci Piri neighborhood, on the east by the Kaptanpaşa and Küçük Piyale neighborhoods, on the south by the Kadı Mehmet and Camiikebir neighborhoods, and on the west by the Camiikebir and Keçeci Piri neighborhoods.

Mahallah
A mahalla (Arabic: مَحَلَّة, romanized: maḥalla, also transliterated as mahallah, etc.) is an Arabic word that comes from the root ḥ-l-l (ح ل ل), and originally denoted a place where one makes a halt. It has been variously translated as district, quarter, ward, or neighborhood in many parts of the Arab world, the Balkans, West and Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and nearby nations. In the Maghreb, it referred to a military formation or campaign for tax collection in the service of the sultan and his makhzen.
Mary of Lusignan, Queen of Naples
Mary of Lusignan (1381 - 4 September 1404) was a Queen consort of Naples, married to King Ladislaus of Naples.

She was born in Genoa. Mary was a daughter of James I of Cyprus and his Queen consort Helvis of Brunswick-Grubenhagen.

On 12 February 1403, Mary married Ladislaus of Naples. He had divorced his previous wife, Constance of Clermont, in 1392 while struggling for the throne against Louis II of Naples. He had no legitimate heirs of his own.

Mary died childless in Naples the following year. Ladislaus went on to marry Mary of Enghien.

Queen consort
A queen consort  is the wife of a reigning king, and usually shares her spouse's social rank and status. She holds the feminine equivalent of the king's monarchical titles and may be crowned and anointed, but historically she does not formally share the king's political and military powers, unless on occasion acting as regent.  In polygynous societies, a (male) monarch has a principal or senior wife.

In contrast, a queen regnant is a female monarch who rules suo jure (Latin for, "in her own right") and usually becomes queen by inheriting the throne upon the death of the previous monarch.

A queen dowager is a widowed queen consort, and a queen mother is a queen dowager who is the mother of the current monarch.
Mezey
Mezey is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Gustav Mezey, Austrian artist

György Mezey (1941–2025), Hungarian footballer and coach

Naomi Mezey, American legal scholar and law professor

Paul Mezey, New York-based independent producer and founder of Journeyman Pictures

Robert Mezey (1935–2020), American poet, critic, and academic

Naomi Mezey
Naomi Jewel Mezey is an American legal scholar and is a professor of law at Georgetown University.  Mezey contributes significantly to the field of law and culture, with additional scholarly interests in legal theory (jurisprudence) and translation and statutory interpretation.

Mezey in 1987 earned a B.A. (with high honors) from Wesleyan University, in 1992 a M.A. (American Studies, with distinction) from the University of Minnesota, and in 1995 a J.D. (with distinction) from Stanford Law School, where she served as an articles editor for the Stanford Law Review.  She served as a law clerk for Judge Marilyn Hall Patel of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and as a legislative aide to Senator Alan Cranston.  Mezey has served on the faculty at Georgetown Law since 1996. In 2013, she was named Professor of the Year for GULC.

Mezey is admitted to practice in California and the District of Columbia.
Spoor (surname)
Spoor is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Ben Spoor (1878–1928), British politician

George Kirke Spoor (1871–1953), American film producer and executive

Leslie Spoor (1910–2011), Scottish politician and activist

Nathan Spoor, American artist and writer

Newcomb Spoor (1852–1935), American politician

Rudolf Spoor (1938–2024), Dutch television director

Ryk E. Spoor, American author

Simon Spoor (1902–1949),Dutch military officer

Winanda Spoor (born 1991), Dutch cyclist

Rudolf Spoor
Rudolf Michiel Spoor (16 August 1938 – 23 May 2024) was a Dutch television director.

Spoor worked as a television director for the Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) for over forty years and made many TV programs about historical events. The most famous moments were the moon landing of Apollo 11 in 1969 and the 2002 wedding ceremony of Prince Willem-Alexander and Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam including the famous shot of Máxima's 'tear'.

Spoor died on 23 May 2024, at the age of 85. Many people responded to his death, including the Dutch King, the Dutch Queen and the Dutch former Queen.
Azov-Don Commercial Bank
The Azov-Don Commercial Bank or Azovsko-Donskoi Commercial Bank (Russian: Азовско-Донской коммерческий банк), often referred to simply as the Azov-Don Bank, was one of the largest joint-stock commercial banks in the late Russian Empire. It was founded in 1871 in the city of Taganrog on the shores of the Sea of Azov, to which its name refers as well as the Don River. In 1903, it relocated its head office to Saint Petersburg. In late 1917 following the Russian Revolution, like all other commercial banks in Russia, it was absorbed into the State Bank with no compensation to its shareholders.

Ganja, Azerbaijan
Ganja (/ˈɡændʒə/; Azerbaijani: Gəncə [ɟænˈdʒæ] ⓘ) is Azerbaijan's second largest city, with a population of around 335,600. The city has been a historic and cultural center throughout most of its existence. It was the capital of the Ganja Khanate until 1804; after Qajar Iran ceded it to the Russian Empire following the Treaty of Gulistan in 1813, it became part of the administrative divisions of the Georgia Governorate, Georgia-Imeretia Governorate, Tiflis Governorate, and Elizavetpol Governorate. Following the dissolution of the Russian Empire and the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic, it became a part of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, followed by the Azerbaijan SSR, and, since 1991, the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Nava Telangana
Nava Telangana (lit. 'New Telangana') is a daily Telugu language newspaper in the Indian state of Telangana owned by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)). It is published in Karimnagar, Khammam, Hyderabad, and Ranga Reddy.

The party launched the newspaper on 21 March 2015 as a counterpart to their Andhra Pradesh-based newspaper Prajasakti after the formation of Telangana the year prior. A ceremony was held t mark the launch with various political figures from "all political parties" in attendance. The paper recorded a drop of 67% in government advertising fees from the Telangana state government, a major source of newspaper funds, from 2016 to 2018.

Ranga Reddy district
Ranga Reddy district is a district in the Indian state of Telangana. The district headquarters is located at Kongara Kalan Village, Ibrahimpatnam Mandal. The district was named after the former deputy chief minister of the United Andhra Pradesh, K. V. Ranga Reddy. The district shares boundaries with Nalgonda, Yadadri, Hyderabad, Medchal–Malkajgiri, Nagarkurnool, Mahabubnagar, Sangareddy and Vikarabad districts.
Weitnauer
Weitnauer is a surname, derived from the Bavarian town of Weitnau. Notable people with this name include:

Albert Weitnauer (1916–1984), Swiss diplomat

Alfred Weitnauer (1905–1974), German writer and historian

Emil Weitnauer (1905–1989), Swiss ornithologist

Hermann Weitnauer (1910–1999), German jurist

Jürg Weitnauer (born 1955), Swiss rower

Mary Ann Weitnauer, American electrical engineer

Wolfgang Weitnauer (born 1954), German jurist

Weitnau
Weitnau (German pronunciation: [ˈvaɪtnaʊ]; Low Alemannic: Witne) is a municipality in the rural district Oberallgäu in Bavaria/Germany. Together with the neighboring municipality of Missen-Wilhams, Weitnau shares an administrative unit.
2016 Maine Senate election
The 2016 Maine State Senate election was held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, with the primary election being held on June 14, 2016, to elect the 128th Maine Senate. Voters in all 35 districts of the Maine State Senate will elect their senators. The election coincided with the elections for other offices, including for President, U.S. House and the Maine House of Representatives.

Maine Senate
44°18′26″N 69°46′54″W﻿ / ﻿44.307138°N 69.781586°W﻿ / 44.307138; -69.781586

The Maine Senate is the upper house of the Maine Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maine. The Senate currently consists of 35 members representing an equal number of districts across the state, though the Maine Constitution allows for "an odd number of Senators, not less than 31 nor more than 35". Unlike the lower House, the Senate does not set aside nonvoting seats for Native tribes.  Because it is a part-time position, members of the Maine Senate usually have outside employment as well.

The Senate meets at the Maine State House in Augusta. Members are limited to four consecutive terms with each term being two years but may run again after a two-year wait.
Li Jingjing (canoeist)
Li Jingjing (born February 1, 1985, in Changle, Fuzhou) is a Chinese slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 2002 to 2013. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she was eliminated in the qualifying round of the K1 event, finishing in 18th place. Four years later in Beijing, Li was eliminated in the semifinals of the same event. She was classified in 13th place. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London she was once again eliminated in the semifinal of the K1 event, finishing in 11th place.

Changle, Fuzhou
Changleⓘ (simplified Chinese: 长乐; traditional Chinese: 長樂; pinyin: Chánglè, Foochow Romanized: Diòng-lŏ̤h) is one of 6 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian Province, China. It occupies a land area of 648 square kilometers (250 sq mi) and a sea area of 1,327 square kilometers (512 sq mi). Changle was established in the sixth year of Emperor Wude (AD 623) during the Tang dynasty, was a capital of the succeeding Min Kingdom, and became a county-level city on February 18, 1994. The district faces the East China Sea and is connected to Mawei district by the Min River. Due to an increase in businesses, the province is now one of the richest provinces in China. The city was upgraded to a district in August 2017 by a government proposal.

Located 30 kilometers (19 mi) outside downtown Fuzhou, Changle has a total population of 680,000 and is the hometown of more than 700,000 overseas Chinese.
2003 Tippmix Budapest Grand Prix – Doubles
Catherine Barclay and Émilie Loit were the defending champions, but Loit did not compete this year. Barclay teamed up with Ruxandra Dragomir Ilie and lost in the first round to Evgenia Kulikovskaya and Silvija Talaja.

Petra Mandula and Elena Tatarkova won the title by defeating Conchita Martínez Granados and Tatiana Perebiynis 6–3, 6–1 in the final.

Catherine Barclay
Catherine Barclay (born 12 June 1973) is a former professional tennis player from Australia.

Barclay's parents were the owners of a tennis facility in Sydney, and she began playing tennis at the age of eight.

In her junior career, she was a winner of the Wimbledon girls' doubles.

In her professional career, she won three ITF titles in singles and thirty in doubles. She was a quarterfinalist in the Wimbledon women's doubles and mixed doubles. In the 2002 season, she won two double titles on the WTA Tour.

On 30 August 2000, she was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for her strong commitment to tennis.

Catherine Barclay retired in 2004.

In 2003, she married field hockey player Christopher Reitz of Germany, and they reside in Sydney, Australia.
Biramdih railway station
Biramdih railway station is a railway station on Purulia–Tatanagar line of Adra railway division of Indian Railways' South Eastern Railway zone. It is situated at Biramdih, Balarampur in Purulia district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Total 12 trains stop at Biramdih railway station.

Balarampur, Purulia
Balarampur is a census town in the Balarampur CD block in Purulia Sadar subdivision of the Purulia district in the state of West Bengal, India. Before Indian independence in 1947, it was the capital of an expensive zamindari of Barabhum in British India.
Zhitkov
Zhitkov (Russian: Житков) is a Russian masculine surname; its feminine counterpart is Zhitkova. The surname originates either from an adjective zhidkii, which meant weak, poor in old Russian, or from zhitkii, meaning nimble, frisky. Notable people with the surname include:

Boris Zhitkov (1882—1938), Russian writer

Boris Mikhailovich Zhitkov (1872–1943), Russian and Soviet biogeographer, explorer, and writer

Pavel Zhitkov (born 1984), Kazakhstani ice hockey goaltender

Pavel Zhitkov
Pavel Zhitkov (born June 4, 1984) is a Kazakhstani retired ice hockey goaltender who last played for Kulager Petropavl in the Kazakhstan Hockey Championship league. He participated at the 2010 IIHF World Championship as a member of the Kazakhstan men's national ice hockey team, appearing in one game. After retiring as a player, Zhitkov transitioned into a managerial role in hockey.
Blass
Blass is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Andreas Blass, American mathematician

Bill Blass (1922–2002), American fashion designer

Dave Blass, American production designer

Friedrich Blass (1843–1907), German classical scholar

Moses Blass (born 1937), Brazilian Olympic basketball medallist

Richard Blass (1945–1975), Canadian gangster and a multiple murderer

Simcha Blass, (1897–1982), Israeli water engineer, inventor of drip irrigation systems

Steve Blass, baseball player and announcer

Tatiana Blass (born 1979), Brazilian artist

Valentin Blass, (born 1995) German basketball player

Valérie Blass (born 1967), Canadian artist

William Joel Blass, Mississippi attorney, educator, and politician

Wolf Blass, East German-born Australian winemaker

Richard Blass
Richard Blass (24 October 1945 – 24 January 1975) was a Canadian gangster and a multiple murderer. Born in Montreal, he was nicknamed Le Chat, French for The Cat, because of his luck in evading death after surviving at least three assassination attempts and a police shootout, and escaping from custody twice. Blass is also known for his involvement in the Gargantua bar attack, in which 13 people died.
Tjøme (island)
Tjøme is an island in Færder Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The 24.5-square-kilometre (9.5 sq mi) island lies immediately south of the large island of Nøtterøy, between the Ytre Oslofjord (to the east) and the Tønsbergfjorden (to the west). The smaller island of Veierland lies west of the island and Hvasser lies to the east. The island of Tjøme is connected to the islands of Nøtterøy and Hvasser by bridges and the island of Nøtterøy is connected to the mainland by the Tønsberg Canal Bridge.

The island was part of Tjøme Municipality from 1838 until 2018 when it became part of the newly-created Færder Municipality. The main population centre on the island is the village of Tjøme in the central part of the island.

Ytre Oslofjord
Ytre Oslofjord (lit. 'Outer Oslofjord') is part of a fjord in eastern Norway. The Ytre Oslofjord is the outer part of the Oslofjord which is south of point where the Hurumlandet peninsula splits the fjord between the Drøbak Sound (the strait where the fjord narrows between Drøbak and Hurum) to the east and the Drammensfjorden to the west. North of this point, the Oslofjord is referred to as the Indre Oslofjord (inner Oslofjord). The Ytre Oslofjord stretches south to the Færder Lighthouse.
Aker Holding
Aker Holding is a holding company that owns 40.27% of Aker Solutions. It manages the ownership of four major owners in the company, through a common agreement to insure negative control over the company.

Ownership:

Aker ASA (60.0%)

Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry (30.0%)

SAAB (7.5%)

Investor (2.5%)

Investor AB
Investor AB is a Swedish investment and holding company, often considered a de facto conglomerate. One of Sweden's largest companies, Investor AB serves as the investment arm of the prominent Swedish Wallenberg family; the family's companies are involved in a variety of industries, of which the primary industries are pharmaceuticals, telecommunications and industry.

Investor AB is Sweden's most valuable publicly traded company; it has major or controlling holdings in several of Sweden's other largest companies. It has numerous investments worldwide through Patricia Industries and EQT AB.
Willesden Green (ward)
Willesden Green is an electoral ward in the London Borough of Brent. The ward was first used in the 1964 elections. It elects three councillors to Brent London Borough Council. It is part of the constituency of Brent East.

London Borough of Brent
Brent (/brɛnt/ ⓘ) is a borough in west and north-west London, England; it forms part of Outer London. It is known for landmarks such as Wembley Stadium, the Swaminarayan Temple and the Kiln Theatre. It also contains the Welsh Harp reservoir and the Park Royal commercial estate. The local authority is Brent London Borough Council.

Brent's population was estimated to be 339,800 as at 2021. Major districts are Kenton, Kilburn, Willesden, Wembley and Harlesden, with sub-districts Stonebridge, Kingsbury, Kensal Green, Neasden, and Queen's Park. Brent has a mixture of residential, industrial and commercial land. It includes many districts of inner-city character in the east and a more distinct suburban character in the west, part of which formed part of the early 20th century Metroland developments.
Suzanne Lalique-Haviland
Suzanne Lalique (born 4 May 1892 – 16 April 1989) was a French painter, interior designer and creator of costumes and sets for the Comédie-Française. With her famous father, she created the interior design of the first-class lounges of the SS Paris ocean liner in 1921, and for the Côte d'Azur Pullman Express, in 1929.

Haviland & Co.
Haviland & Co. is a manufacturer of Limoges porcelain in France, begun in the 1840s by the American Haviland family, importers of porcelain to the US, which has always been the main market.  Its finest period is generally accepted to be the late 19th century, when it tracked wider artistic styles in innovative designs in porcelain, as well as stoneware and sometimes other ceramics.
Prior Jones
Prior Erskine Waverley Jones (6 June 1917 – 21 November 1991) was a West Indian cricketer who played in nine Test matches from 1947–48 to 1951–52.

A fast bowler, Jones played first-class cricket for Trinidad from 1940–41 to 1950–51. He toured India with the West Indian team in 1948–49, England in 1950, and played his last first-class matches on the tour to Australia and New Zealand in 1951–52. His best Test figures were 5 for 85 against India at Bombay in 1948–49. His best first-class figures were 7 for 29 against Yorkshire in 1950; and his best match figures were 10 for 62 (4 for 39 and 6 for 23) against Ceylon in 1948–49.

Jones also captained Trinidad at soccer.

Trinidad and Tobago national cricket team
The Trinidad and Tobago national cricket team is the representative cricket team of the country of Trinidad and Tobago. The team competes under the franchise name, Trinidad and Tobago Red Force in the Cricket West Indies' Professional Cricket League which comprises both the Regional Four Day Competition and the Regional Super50. Trinidad has also won a sum of 13 regional one day titles, which is the most in the history of West Indies cricket.

The most prominent T&T cricketers include Jeffrey Stollmeyer, Sonny Ramadhin, Deryck Murray, Charlie Davis, Larry Gomes, Rangy Nanan, Gus Logie, Ian Bishop, Brian Lara, Mervyn Dillon, Daren Ganga, Ravi Rampaul, Dwayne Bravo, Denesh Ramdin and Samuel Badree.