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Parvaneh Pourshariati
Parvaneh Pourshariati (born 1959) is an Iranian-born American historian of Middle Eastern studies, scholar, and educator. She is an associate professor of history at New York City College of Technology (CUNY), and former president of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies. She specializes in the late antique, early medieval and modern histories of Iran and the Middle East.

Iranian Americans
Iranian-Americans, also known as Persian Americans, are United States citizens or nationals who are of Iranian ancestry or who hold Iranian citizenship. According to the National Organization for Civil Registration, an organization of the Ministry of Interior of Iran, the United States has the greatest number of Iranians outside the country.

Most Iranian-Americans arrived in the United States after 1979 in the wake  of the Iranian Revolution and the fall of the Iranian monarchy. Over 40% of them settled in California, specifically Los Angeles, where they formed distinct ethnic enclaves, such as the Angelino community of "Tehrangeles" in Westwood, Los Angeles.

Research by the Iranian Studies Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004 estimated the number of Iranian-Americans at 691,000, about half of whom live in  California.
Mathew Kalarickal
Mathew Samuel Kalarickal (6 January 1948 – 18 April 2025) was an Indian cardiologist widely known as the father of angioplasty in India. He specialised in coronary angioplasty, carotid stenting, coronary stenting and rotablator atherectomy.

Atherectomy
Atherectomy is a minimally invasive technique for removing atherosclerosis from blood vessels within the body. It is an alternative to angioplasty for the treatment of peripheral artery disease, but the studies that exist are not adequate to determine whether it is superior to angioplasty. It has also been used to treat coronary artery disease, albeit without evidence of superiority to angioplasty.
The Return of the Dancing Master
The Return of the Dancing Master is a 2000 novel by Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell. It was translated into English in 2003 by Laurie Thompson, and won the 2005 Gumshoe Award for Best European Crime Novel, presented by Mystery Ink.

The book was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller.

The central character of the book is Stefan Lindman, a young police officer with cancer, who investigates the murder of a retired officer.  The plot explores the relationship between the German Nazi movement and the Neo-Nazis in modern Sweden.

A Swedish television adaptation was produced in 2004 starring Swedish actor Jonas Karlsson as Stefan Lindman. A German TV-film as well was produced same year, starring actor Tobias Moretti as Lindman and Maximilian Schell.

Gumshoe Awards
The Gumshoe Awards were an American award for popular crime fiction literary works. The Gumshoe Awards were awarded annually by the American Internet magazine Mystery Ink (not to be confused with Mystery Inc.) to recognize the best achievements in crime fiction. The nominated books were chosen from those published for the first time in the United States in English (or English translation). They were awarded in several categories:

Best Mystery

Best Thriller

Best First Novel

Best Crime Fiction Website

Lifetime Achievement Award

In 2005 a new award category was introduced: Best European Crime Novel.
Loddefjord Church
Loddefjord Church (Norwegian: Loddefjord kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Bergen Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the Loddefjord neighborhood in the city of Bergen. It is the church for the Loddefjord parish which is part of the Bergen domprosti (arch-deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white, stone church was built in a long church design in 1926 using plans drawn up by the architect Ole Landmark. The church seats about 250 people.

Loddefjord
Loddefjord is an urban settlement in the borough of Laksevåg in Bergen Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) southwest of the centre of the city of Bergen. Loddefjord consists mainly of high- and low-rise flats revolving around the local shopping mall.

Informally, the area is sometimes referred to as "Loddikken".
Maromokotra
Maromokotra is a rural municipality in northern Madagascar. It is situated at the unpaved  Route nationale 5a halfway between Ambilobe (80km) and Daraina, near the Saharenana River. It belongs to the district of Vohemar, which is a part of the Sava Region. The population of the municipality was estimated to be approximately 4,000 in the 2001 commune census.

Only primary schooling is available. The majority (94%) of the population of the commune are farmers.  The most important crop is rice, while other important products are banana, maize and seeds of catechu.  Services provide employment for 1% of the population, and fishing employs the remaining 5% of the population.

Route nationale 5a (Madagascar)
Route nationale 5a (RN 5a) is a secondary highway in Madagascar of 406 km, running from Ambilobe to Antalaha. It crosses the regions of Diana and Sava.

The section from Ambilobe to Vohemar was completely unpaved and in very bad condition until 2020 when important road works had been undertaken. This part of the route had been paved in September 2022.
From Vohemar to Antalaha the road is paved and in good condition.
Kakadu (Sculthorpe)
Kakadu (1988) is a composition for orchestra by Peter Sculthorpe. It is one of the broad landscape compositions for which the composer is best known. Sculthorpe used his knowledge of the World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park from studying photographs and listening to recordings of Northern Australian Aboriginal music.

Cor anglais
The cor anglais (UK: /ˌkɔːr ˈɒŋɡleɪ/, US: /- ɑːŋˈɡleɪ/ or original French: [kɔʁ ɑ̃ɡlɛ]; plural: cors anglais), or English horn (mainly North America), is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family. It is approximately one and a half times the length of an oboe, making it essentially an alto oboe in F.

The cor anglais is a transposing instrument pitched in F, a perfect fifth lower than the oboe (a C instrument). This means that music for the cor anglais is written a perfect fifth higher than the instrument sounds. The fingering and playing technique used for the cor anglais are essentially the same as those of the oboe, and oboists typically double on the cor anglais when required.  The cor anglais normally lacks the lowest B♭ key found on most oboes, and so its sounding range stretches from E3 (written B♮) below middle C to C6 two octaves above middle C. Some versions have a Low B♭ key to extend the range down one more note to sounding E♭3.
Blagoveshchensky District, Altai Krai
Blagoveshchensky District (Russian: Благове́щенский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the fifty-nine in Altai Krai, Russia. It is located in the west of the krai. The area of the district is 3,700 square kilometers (1,400 sq mi). Its administrative center is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Blagoveshchenka. Population:  30,783 (2010 Census); 34,878 (2002 Census); 44,849 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Blagoveshchenka accounts for 37.8% of the district's total population.

Altai Krai
Altai Krai (Russian: Алтайский край, IPA: [ɐlˈtajskʲɪj kraj]) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai). It borders, clockwise from the west, Kazakhstan (East Kazakhstan Region, Abai Region and Pavlodar Region), Novosibirsk and Kemerovo, and the Altai Republic. Its administrative centre is the city of Barnaul. As of the 2021 Census, the population of the krai was 2,163,693.
Clare in the Community
Clare in the Community is a British radio comedy series, broadcast on  BBC Radio 4, starring Sally Phillips as Clare. It was adapted from the comic strip of the same name which appeared in The Guardian newspaper, written by Harry Venning. The title is a play on words relating to care in the community.

Clare is a social worker who likes to sort out other people's problems while ignoring her own. She is white, middle class and heterosexual, but does not like to be reminded of it. She is a control freak but both her personal and professional lives are out of control.

Control freak
Control freak is a colloquialism for a person who feels a psychological need to constantly be in charge of things and people around them. A control freak can become distressed when they feel things are going out of control. The feel of the need to control is often attributed to the underlying fear of losing control over their lives.

This expression was introduced around the 1960s and it is not a clinical one.
Cindy Brown (basketball)
Cynthia Louise "Cindy" Brown (born March 16, 1965) is an American former women's basketball player, at the college, Olympic and professional levels. Brown was a member of the USA Basketball team which went on to win a gold medal at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1987, and the gold medal at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. She was also a member of the gold medal-winning team for the US at the 1985 World University Games, and the 1986 World Championship team.

Women's basketball
Women's basketball is the team sport of basketball played by women. It was first played in 1892, one year after men's basketball, at Smith College in Massachusetts. It spread across the United States, in large parts via women's college competitions, and has since spread globally. As of 2020, basketball is one of the most popular and fastest growing sports in the world.

There are multiple professional leagues and tournaments for professional women basketball players. The main North American league is the WNBA. The FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup and Women's Olympic Basketball Tournament feature top national teams from continental championships. In the US, the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship is also popular. The strongest European women's basketball clubs participate in the EuroLeague Women.
Ike Harris
Isaiah "Ike" Harris (born November 27, 1952) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the St. Louis Cardinals (1975–77) and the New Orleans Saints (1978–81).

Harris played college football for Iowa State Cyclones. In 1974, he played for the Southern California Sun of the World Football League (WFL).  He next joined the NFL, where he caught 211 passes in his career for 16 touchdowns.

Harris was President of BellSouth Enterprises and was named one of the 75 Most Powerful African-Americans in Corporate America by Black Enterprise Magazine.

Harris has been a member of the board of directors of CIGNA Corporation since 2005, and has been named to take over as non-executive chairman of the board on January 1, 2010.

Southern California Sun
The Southern California Sun were an American football team based in Anaheim, California, that played in the World Football League in 1974 and 1975. Their records were 13–7 in 1974 and 7–5 in 1975. Their home stadium was Anaheim Stadium. They were coached by former Rams great and Hall of Famer Tom Fears and owned by trucking magnate Larry Hatfield.

Former USC greats Anthony Davis and Pat Haden played for the Sun in 1975, along with former Oakland Raiders QB Daryle Lamonica, also known as the "Mad Bomber."

The Sun won the 1974 Western Division title but lost their playoff game against the Hawaiians when three of their best players–Kermit Johnson, James McAlister, and Booker Brown—sat out the game.  The three players were owed back pay and claimed the missed checks breached their contracts.  A year later, they were leading the West when the league folded on October 22, 1975, in midseason.
John Nicholson (Northamptonshire cricketer)
John Simmonds Nicholson  (1903–1950) was an English cricketer active from 1924 to 1928 who played for Northamptonshire. He appeared in 64 first-class matches as a right-handed batsman who bowled right arm medium pace. Nicholson was born in Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire on 30 April 1903 and died in Bedford on 18 March 1950. He scored 778 runs with a highest score of 45 and took 93 wickets with a best performance of five for 40.

Seam bowling
Seam bowling is a bowling technique in cricket, in which the ball is deliberately bowled to hit the ground on its seam, to cause a random deviation when it bounces. A bowler who uses this technique is called a seam bowler or seamer.

Seam bowling is a form of fast bowling, although seam can also be a factor in medium-pace bowling. Although there are specialist seamers that make deliberate use of off cutter and leg cutter at the expense of bowling slower than regular fast bowlers, most bowlers employ the seam to some effect and so the terms "seamer" and "fast bowler" are largely synonymous. This was far less the case in the past, even the recent past. Bowlers such as Tom Cartwright and Derek Shackleton bowled seamers at a pace in the low 70mphs and were very successful due to their mastery of control and variation.
Bolon Kʼawiil II
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Bolon Kʼawiil II was a Maya king of Calakmul (>771-789?>). His monuments are Stelae 57 and 58 in his city.

Stele 88, an AD 751 monument of the just-previous ruler apparently depicting his queen, carries a mention of Bolon Kʼawiil; the same name appears on a block of hieroglyphic stairway recently recovered from Structure 13, dating to just after 751. This is apparently the same Bolon Kʼawiil who erected Stelae 57 and 58 on the east side of Structure 13 to mark 9.17.0.0.0—the end of the seventeenth kʼatun—in 771.

Monument
A monument is a type of structure created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, historical, political, technical or architectural importance.  Examples of monuments include statues, (war) memorials, historical buildings, and cultural assets. If there is a public interest in its preservation, a monument can for example be listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Tianjin Grand Theatre
Tianjin Grand Theatre, also known as the Tianjin Cultural Centre Grand Theatre, is located on the east side of the Tianjin Cultural Centre, Hexi District, Tianjin City, People's Republic of China. It is the largest venue in the Tianjin Cultural Centre. Designed by German GMP architectural company, the theatre adopts the style of modernist architecture. The construction of the Tianjin Grand Theatre started in 2009 and was completed and put into use on April 22, 2012. Its total construction space amounts to 105,000 m2. The theatre can seat 3,600 people, and costs 1.533 billion RMB in total.

Operas, dances, musicals, symphonies, Chinese modern dramas, and Chinese operas are all performed in the Tianjin Grand Theatre. The number of various performances staged in a year reaches 300.

Symphony
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often for orchestra. Although the term has had many meanings from its origins in the ancient Greek era, by the late 18th century the word had taken on the meaning common today: a work usually consisting of multiple distinct sections or movements, often four, with the first movement in sonata form. Symphonies are almost always scored for an orchestra consisting of a string section (violin, viola, cello, and double bass), brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments which altogether number about 30 to 100 musicians. Symphonies are notated in a musical score, which contains all the instrument parts. Orchestral musicians play from parts which contain just the notated music for their own instrument. Some symphonies also contain vocal parts (e.g., Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, or Mahler's Second Symphony).
Lamon (Crete)
Lamon (Ancient Greek: Λάμων) was a town on the south coast of ancient Crete. According to the Stadiasmus Maris Magni, it had a harbour and was located 150 stadia from Psychea and 30 stadia from Apollonia.

The site of Lamon is tentatively located near modern Ag. Georgios, Plakias.

Plakias
Plakias (Greek: Πλακιάς) is a village on the south coast of the Greek island of Crete, in the Rethymno regional unit, about 21 kilometres south of the city of Rethymno. It is part of the municipality Agios Vasileios, and of the municipal unit Foinikas. It is surrounded by mountains to the north and the Libyan Sea to the south.
Deaths in April 1998
The following is a list of notable deaths in April 1998.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

Ice hockey at the 1936 Winter Olympics
The men's ice hockey tournament at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, was the fifth Olympic Championship, also serving as the tenth World Championships and the 21st European Championships.

The British national ice hockey team pulled off a major upset when they won the gold medal, marking a number of firsts in international ice hockey competition.  Great Britain made history as the first team ever to win an Olympic, World, and European (its second) Championships and the first to win all three in the same year.  They were the first team to stop Canada from winning the Olympic ice hockey gold, following Canada's four consecutive gold medals.
Worlds Apart (Jude Cole song)
"Worlds Apart" is a song by American singer-songwriter Jude Cole. It was issued by Reprise Records as the third and final single from Cole's third studio album, Start the Car. It was written by Cole and Ron Aniello. This was Cole's last single released on Reprise.

It peaked at No. 37 on the Adult Contemporary chart and No. 23 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.

Start the Car
Start the Car is the third solo album by American singer-songwriter Jude Cole, released by Reprise Records on August 25, 1992. A follow-up to A View from 3rd Street, the album found Cole shifting from pop into a heartland rock sound.

The album peaked at number 177 on the US Billboard 200, number 46 on Australia's ARIA Singles Chart, and number 24 in Sweden. Its lead single of the same name peaked at number 71 on the Billboard Hot 100, number six on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart, number 24 in Canada, and number 59 in Australia.
Location model (economics)
In economics, a location model or spatial model is any monopolistic competition model that demonstrates consumer preference for particular brands of goods and their locations. Examples of location models include Hotelling's Location Model, Salop's Circle Model, and hybrid variations.

Location
In geography, location or place is used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface. The term location generally implies a higher degree of certainty than place, the latter often indicating an entity with an ambiguous boundary, relying more on human or social attributes of place identity and sense of place than on geometry. A populated place is called a settlement.
Blue Stars (Lebanon)
Blue Stars, also known as Jamhour Blue Stars, was a Lebanese professional basketball team based in Jamhour, Baabda District. They competed in the Lebanese Basketball League (LBL). Founded in 2001, they competed in the FIBA Asia Champions Cup 2007, finishing in 5th place. In May 2009, after the club’s president suspended the financial sponsorship of the club, the administrative committee met and decided to dissolve the basketball team and officially give the players who signed the club’s statements books of dispensation, and decided to participate in the second division next season.

2007 FIBA Asia Champions Cup
The FIBA Asia Champions Cup 2007 was the 18th staging of the FIBA Asia Champions Cup, the basketball club tournament of FIBA Asia. The tournament was held in Tehran, Iran. Saba Battery of Tehran, Iran won the tournament after beating Al-Jalaa of Aleppo, Syria
William Cotesworth
William Cotesworth (1665–1730), of St James Clerkenwell, Middlesex, was a Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby 10 January – 6 March 1701, December 1701 – 1702, 1705–1710 and 1713–1715, and for Boston 20 December 1711 – 20 March 1712 and 2 April 1712 – 1713.

Boston (UK Parliament constituency)
Boston was a parliamentary borough in Lincolnshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1547 until 1885, and then one member from 1885 until 1918, when the constituency was abolished.
Marta Bērzkalna
Marta Bērzkalna (born 1985) is a Latvian fashion model.  She has modeled for Anna Sui, Balenciaga, Chanel, Chloé, Christian Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Donna Karan, Dries van Noten, Emilio Pucci, Givenchy, Hermès, Lanvin, Louis Vuitton, Salvatore Ferragamo, Versace, John Galliano, and others.

Salvatore Ferragamo (company)
Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A. (Italian: [salvaˈtoːre ferraˈɡaːmo]), doing business as Ferragamo, is an Italian luxury fashion house focused on apparel, footwear, and accessories headquartered in Florence, Italy. It specializes in designing and manufacturing footwear and leather goods, which together account for over 86% of its revenue. The remaining products include ready-to-wear, silk products, fashion accessories, and licensed eyewear, watches, and perfumes. It operates 447 mono-brand stores worldwide as of September 2022.

The company was founded in 1927 by Salvatore Ferragamo in Florence. It went public on the Italian stock exchange in 2011, but the Ferragamo family has remained majority shareholders with approximately 65% stakes in the company. British designer Maximilian Davis has been the creative director of Ferragamo since March 2022.
Luo Tianyi
Luo Tianyi (Chinese: 洛天依; pinyin: Luò Tiānyī) is a Chinese Vocaloid developed formerly by Bplats, Inc. under the Yamaha Corporation, and was created in collaboration with Shanghai Henian Information Technology. She was released for the Vocaloid 3, Vocaloid 4 and Vocaloid 5 engines. Her voice is provided by the Chinese voice actress Shan Xin. Considered China's most popular virtual idol, she held a joint concert with pianist Lang Lang at the Shanghai's Mercedes-Benz Arena in March 2019.

Shan Xin
Shan Xin (Chinese: 山新; pinyin: Shān Xīn, literal meaning The New Mountain, born 1 January 1989), also known as Wang Youji or Wang Shuang, is a Chinese singer, voice actress and a core member of the TrioPen Studio (北斗企鹅工作室) and Drama Times (声创联盟).

Her stage name is derived from Kappei Yamaguchi (Japanese: 山口勝平) and Kudo Shinichi (Japanese: 工藤新一).
Siege of Bourbon (761)
The siege of Bourbon was a Frankish siege of the Aquitanian fortress of Bourbon in 761 during the Aquitanian War. The Frankish army under King Pepin the Short invested, stormed and burned the fortress, taking the garrison prisoner.

Bourbon-l'Archambault
Bourbon-l'Archambault (French pronunciation: [buʁbɔ̃ laʁʃɑ̃bo]) is a spa town and a commune in the Allier department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in central France. It is the place of origin of the House of Bourbon.
Creatures of the Night (comics)
Creatures of the Night is a graphic novel by Neil Gaiman which reprints two different short stories ("The Price" and "Daughter of Owls") from his collection Smoke and Mirrors with elaborate illustrations by artist Michael Zulli.

Smoke and Mirrors (Gaiman book)
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions is a collection of short stories and poems by English writer Neil Gaiman. It was first published in the United States in 1998, and in the United Kingdom in 1999. The UK edition included five stories not in the US edition, four of which were included in the US edition of the other collection Fragile Things.

Many of the stories in this book are reprints from other sources, such as magazines, anthologies, and collections (including ten stories and poems from Gaiman's earlier small press miscellany Angels and Visitations).