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New Taipei City Government
The New Taipei City Government (NTPC; Chinese: 新北市政府; pinyin: Xīnběi Shìzhèngfǔ) is the municipal government of New Taipei City, a special municipality in Taiwan. The New Taipei City Hall is located in Banqiao District.

Special municipality (Taiwan)
A special municipality, historically known as a Yuan-controlled municipality, is a first-level administrative division unit in Taiwan. It is the highest level of the country's administrative structure and is equivalent to a province. After the suspension of the provincial governments of 2018, the special municipalities along with provincial cities and counties have all governed directly under the central government.

Currently total six cities are designated as special municipalities: Taipei, Taoyuan, New Taipei, Taichung, Tainan, and Kaohsiung, all located in the most densely populated regions in the western half of the island. These special municipalities encompass five most populous metropolitan areas in Taiwan, accounting for more than two-thirds of the national population.
Leandro Moldes
Leandro Moldes is a Swiss former singer, born 26 May 1986 in Spain to Rita and Manuel. He has a sister, Riwana.

In 2000, Leandro released a CD titled Leandro and a 6-track maxi single titled Girl, under the BMG Berlin label.

He currently (2014) serves as the managing director of Moldes International Commodity Trading (Moldes ICT) located in Wabern bei Bern. He lives near Bern, Switzerland.

Wabern bei Bern
Wabern (Swiss Standard German pronunciation: [ˈvaːbərn] ⓘ), or Wabern bei Bern (pronounced [ˈvaːbərn baɪ ˈbɛrn], lit. 'Wabern near Bern'), is a village in the municipality of Köniz in the Swiss canton of Bern. Situated some 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) from the centre of the city of Bern, it can be considered a suburb of that city.

Wabern is served by Wabern bei Bern railway station, on line S3 of the Bern S-Bahn, and by Bern tramway route 9. It is also the gateway to the Gurten, the nearest mountain to Bern, to which it is linked by the Gurten Funicular.
Kshetrapala
Kshetrapala (Sanskrit: क्षेत्रपाल, romanized: Kṣetrapāla) is a guardian deity featured in Indian religions. In Hindu belief, a kshetrapala is the guardian deity of consecrated land or farmland. Kshetrapala became a generic name applied to deities associated with a piece or parcel of land, or a particular region (Sanskrit: Kṣetra).

Devanagari transliteration
Devanagari transliteration is the process of representing text written in Devanagari script—an Indic script used for Classical Sanskrit and many other Indic languages—in the Latin script, preserving pronunciation and spelling conventions. There are several methods of transliteration from Devanagari to the Latin script (i.e., romanisation), including the IAST notation. Romanised Devanagari is also called Romanagari.
Large-eye conger
The large-eye conger (Ariosoma marginatum) is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). This fish also goes by the name puhi. Ariosoma marginatum and other conger eels are also called White Eels in the Hawaiian Islands. It was described by Léon Vaillant and Henri Émile Sauvage in 1875, originally under the genus Congrogadus. It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from the northwestern and eastern central Pacific Ocean, including Hawaii and the Ladd Seamount.

Léon Vaillant
Léon Louis Vaillant (French pronunciation: [leɔ̃ lwi vajɑ̃]; 11 November 1834 – 24 November 1914) was a French zoologist. He is most famous for his work in the areas of herpetology, malacology, and ichthyology.

After graduating from the College d'Arras in 1854, he studied medicine and zoology in Paris. He received his medical doctorate in 1861, then continued his zoological studies with Henri Milne-Edwards (1800–1885), earning his degree in natural sciences in 1865. He became a professor at the Museum of Natural History, Paris, in 1875.

Vaillant held a special interest involving the systematics and anatomy of turtles and crocodiles, but he also made significant contributions through his investigations of reptilian physiology and behavior. Of his 200-plus scientific writings, 90 of them are based on herpetological subjects.

He participated in French naval expeditions on the Travailleur in 1880, 1881 and 1882, and on the Talisman in 1883.
Club Foot Orchestra
The Club Foot Orchestra is a musical ensemble known for their silent film scores. Their influences include Eastern European folk music, impressionism, and jazz fusion; The New Yorker described their style as "music that bubbles up from the intersection of aesthetics and the id."

Their performance venues have included Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Symphony Space, the Smithsonian Institution, the Winter Garden Atrium, the SFJAZZ Center, and San Francisco's Castro Theatre, considered their home base.

Winter Garden Atrium
The Winter Garden Atrium is a 120 ft (37 m), 10-story glass-vaulted pavilion on Vesey Street in New York City's Brookfield Place (formerly World Financial Center) office complex. Designed by Diana Balmori, the Atrium was originally constructed in 1988, and substantially rebuilt in 2002, after it was damaged by the collapse of the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks. The Atrium houses various plants, trees, flowers, and shops. The rear of the building opens onto the World Financial Center Plaza and the North Cove Marina on the Hudson River. Over the years, the Atrium has become home to various exhibits and holiday displays.
All-Ireland Drama Festival
The All-Ireland Drama Festival, known for sponsorship reasons as the "RTÉ All-Ireland Drama Festival", is an amateur theatre competition organised by the Amateur Drama Council of Ireland. It takes place in the Dean Crowe Theatre, Athlone, County Westmeath each May. Amateur drama groups from across the island are chosen from a long-list to present a production in the venue, and the best production is awarded the grand prize.

A fringe festival includes a short-film competition. A playwrighting competition for secondary school students is also included in the festival.

Fringe theatre
Fringe theatre is theatre that is produced outside of the main theatre institutions, and that is often small-scale and non-traditional in style or subject matter. The term comes from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In London, the fringe are small-scale theatres (often referred to as the London Fringe and not included as West End theatres), and the equivalent of off-Broadway and Off-off-Broadway theatres in New York City, as well as Europe's "free theatre" groups.

In unjuried theatre festivals, also known as fringe festivals or open-access festivals, all submissions are accepted, and sometimes the participating acts may be chosen by lottery, in contrast to juried festivals in which acts are selected based on their artistic qualities. Unjuried festivals (such as the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Adelaide Fringe, and Fringe World) permit artists to perform a wide variety of works.
Cédric Vial
Cédric Vial (French pronunciation: [sedʁik vjal]; born 25 March 1978) is a French politician who has served as a Senator for Savoie since 2020. A former member of The Republicans (LR), which he left in 2017, he sits with the Senate Republicans. Since 2018 and the resignation of Patrick Mignola, he has also been a member of the Regional Council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

Previously, Vial held the mayorship of Les Échelles from 2008 to 2020, after one term as deputy mayor (2001–2008). From July to October 2020, he briefly presided over the Communauté de communes Cœur de Chartreuse.

Senate Republicans (France)
The Senate Republicans (formally The Republicans group; French: Groupe Les Républicains, also Les Républicains du Sénat), formerly the Union for a Popular Movement group (Groupe Union pour un mouvement populaire), is a parliamentary group in the French Senate including representatives of The Republicans (LR), formerly the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). It is currently the largest group in the Senate. Its president has been Bruno Retailleau since 2014.
Breiðablik (women's basketball)
The Breiðablik women's basketball team, commonly known as Breiðablik, is the women's basketball department of the Breiðablik multi-sport club. It is based in Kópavogur, Iceland. As of 2018–2019 season its plays in the Icelandic top-tier Úrvalsdeild kvenna.

Kópavogur
Kópavogur (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈkʰouːpaˌvɔːɣʏr̥] ⓘ) is a town in Iceland that is the country's second-largest municipality by population.

It lies immediately south of Reykjavík and is part of the Capital Region. The name literally means seal pup inlet. The town seal contains the profile of the church Kópavogskirkja with a seal pup underneath.

Kópavogur is largely made up of residential areas, but has commercial areas and much industrial activity as well. The tallest building in Iceland, the Smáratorg Tower, is located in central Kópavogur.
1990 Tokyo Indoor
The 1990 Tokyo Indoor, also known by its sponsored name Seiko Super Tennis, was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan that was part of the 1990 ATP Tour and was an ATP Championship Series event, today known as the ATP World Tour 500 series. The tournament was held from 8 October through 14 October 1990. Matches were the best of three sets. Third-seeded Ivan Lendl won the singles title.

ATP International Series Gold
ATP International Series Gold (known from 1990 to 1999 as the ATP Championship Series) was a series of professional tennis tournaments held internationally between 2000 and 2008 that were part of the ATP Tour. The tournaments were positioned below the ATP Masters Series, and above the ATP International Series in terms of prize money and ranking points available.

International Series Gold tournaments offered players cash prizes (purses from $755,000 to $1,426,250 as of 2008) and the ability to earn ATP ranking points. See Association of Tennis Professionals#ATP rankings for more details.

Effective in 2009, this series of tournaments became the ATP Tour 500, incorporating many of the same tournaments. The "500" represents the number of ATP ranking points earned by the winner of each event in the series.
Sheridan College
Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, formerly Sheridan College of Applied Arts and Technology, is a public polytechnic institute partnered with private Canadian College of Technology and Trades operating campuses across the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada. It is known colloquially as Sheridan College or simply Sheridan.

Founded in 1967, it is known for academic programs in creative writing and publishing, animation and illustration, film and design, business, applied computing, and engineering technology, among others. Sheridan operates the Davis Campus in Brampton, the Trafalgar Campus in Oakville, and the Hazel McCallion Campus in Mississauga.

In 2024 Sheridan College's dependence on International student enrollment was blamed for the cancellation of 40 programs and major layoffs.

Design studies
Design studies can refer to any design-oriented studies but is more formally an academic discipline or field of study that pursues, through both theoretical and practical modes of inquiry, a critical understanding of design practice and its effects in society.
President Gari Pellam
President Gari Pellam (transl. President's wife) is a 1992 Indian Telugu-language film directed by A. Kodandarami Reddy and produced by V. Doraswamy Raju under VMC Productions. It stars Nagarjuna and Meena, with music composed by M. M. Keeravani. The movie was later dubbed into Tamil as Thalaivar Pondatti. This film recorded as a super hit.

VMC Productions
Vijaya Maruti Creatives Private Limited (VMC Productions or VMC Combines) is a company established by V. Doraswamy Raju which has produced and distributed several Telugu films. Its head office is situated in Hyderabad, Telangana. Its films Seetharamayya gari Manavaralu and Annamayya won the Filmfare Award for Best Film - Telugu.
Ghamot National Park
The Ghamot National Park also spelt Gumot is a national park in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. It is located in Neelam District of AJK and it was established in 2004. Conservation efforts in the Gumot National Park are funded by the Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme and implemented by the Himalayan Wildlife Foundation. The national park is significant as it hosts a connected population of the threatened Himalayan Brown Bear of Pakistan, connected through a network of national parks in northern Pakistan including the Deosai National Park and Musk Deer National Park. The park also hosts a population of the threatened musk deer.

Himalayan brown bear
The Himalayan brown bear (Ursus arctos isabellinus), also known as the Himalayan red bear or isabelline bear, is a subspecies of the brown bear occurring in the western Himalayas. It is the largest mammal in the region, males reaching up to 2.2 m (7 ft 3 in) long, while females are a little smaller. It is omnivorous and hibernates in dens during the winter.
What Remains (novella)
What Remains (German: Was bleibt) is a novella written by Christa Wolf. It was written in 1979 but was not published until 1990, after the Berlin Wall fell. It was translated into English in by Martin Chalmers for Granta in 1990, and later released in a new translation as part of a collection of her stories in 1993.

Martin Chalmers
Martin Chalmers (11 November 1948 – 22 October 2014) was a British translator, particularly of works in German. He was awarded the Schlegel-Tieck Prize by the Society of Authors. He was married to the German author Esther Kinsky.
Justin Hicks (politician)
Justin Hicks is an American politician and lawyer who served as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from 2023 to 2025, representing the 108th district. Elected in November 2022, he assumed office on January 4, 2023. Hicks began a 2024 campaign to represent Missouri's 3rd congressional district, though suspended his run after a competitor was endorsed by then-former president Donald Trump.

Missouri House of Representatives
The Missouri House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the Missouri General Assembly, the upper chamber being the Missouri Senate. It has 163 members, representing districts with an average size of 37,000 residents. House members are elected for two-year terms during general elections held in even-numbered years.

Missouri's house is the fourth largest in the United States even as the state ranks 18th in population. The only states with a larger lower house in the United States are New Hampshire (400), Pennsylvania (203), and Georgia (180). Republicans have controlled the State House since 2003.

The next election will be held in 2026.
Taftanaz Air Base
Taftanaz Air Base is an airbase located 1.7 miles (2.7 km) south of Taftanaz, Idlib Governorate and 1.8 miles (2.9 km) east of Ta'um, Idlib Governorate, Syria.

Taftanaz was home to two squadrons of Mil-8/17 Hip helicopters until its capture by the Syrian Opposition.

Led by fighters from the Al-Nusra Front and an Ahrar al-Sham battalion, Syrian rebels overran Taftanaz during the second week of January 2013.

On 6 February 2020, the Turkish Armed Forces constructed a military installation on the premises of the airbase, as Ba'athist Syrian forces advanced toward it during the 2020 Northwestern Syria offensive. It was targeted with airstrikes by the Syrian Air Force just hours after being constructed.

On 2 March 2020, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported a Syrian Government attack on Taftanaz Airbase leaving one Turkish soldier dead and three wounded.

Mil Mi-8
The Mil Mi-8 (Russian: Ми-8, NATO reporting name: Hip) is a family of medium twin-turbine helicopters, originally designed by the Soviet Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI) in the 1960s and introduced into the Soviet Air Force in 1968. Russian production of the aircraft model still continues as of 2024. In addition to its most common role as a transport helicopter, the Mi-8 is also used as an airborne command post, armed gunship, and reconnaissance platform.

The Mi-8 is the world's most-produced helicopter, with over 17,000 units used by over 50 countries. As of 2015, when combined with the related Mil Mi-17, the two helicopters are the third most common operational military aircraft in the world.
Yarkand River
The Yarkand River (also spelled Yarkent River) is a river in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of western China. It originates in the Siachen Muztagh in a part of the Karakoram range and flows into the Tarim River, with which it is sometimes identified. However, in modern times, the Yarkand river drains into the Midstream Reservoir and exhausts its supply without reaching the Tarim river. The Yarkand River is approximately 1,332.25 km (827.82 mi) in length, with an average discharge of 210 m3/s (7,400 cu ft/s).

A part of the river valley is known to the Kyrgyz people as Raskam Valley, and the upper course of the river itself is called the Raskam River. Another name of the river is Zarafshan.  The area was once claimed by the ruler of Hunza.

Ahmad Hasan Dani
Ahmad Hassan Dani (Urdu: احمد حسن دانی) FRAS, SI, HI (20 June 1920 – 26 January 2009) was a Pakistani archaeologist, historian, and linguist. He was among the foremost authorities on Central Asian and South Asian archaeology and history. He introduced archaeology as a discipline in higher education in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Throughout his career, Dani held various academic positions and international fellowships, apart from conducting archaeological excavations and research. He is particularly known for archaeological work on pre-Indus civilization and Gandhara sites in northern Pakistan.
Waldo, Florida
Waldo is a city in Alachua County, Florida, United States. It is part of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of 2020 census, the population was 846, down from 1,015 at the 2010 census.

American Automobile Association
American Automobile Association (AAA) is a federation of motor clubs throughout North America. AAA is a privately held not-for-profit national member association and service organization with over 60 million members in the United States and Canada. AAA provides services to its members, including roadside assistance and others. Its national headquarters are in Heathrow, Florida.
McCamey Independent School District
McCamey Independent School District is a public school district based in McCamey in Upton County, Texas (USA).

In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency.

Upton County, Texas
Upton County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 3,308. Its county seat is Rankin. The county was created in 1887 and later organized in 1910. It is named for two brothers: John C. and William F. Upton, both colonels in the Confederate Army.
John C. Brown
John Calvin Brown (January 6, 1827 – August 17, 1889) was a Confederate Army officer and an American politician and businessman.  Although he originally opposed secession, Brown fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War, eventually rising to the rank of major general.  He later served as the 19th Governor of Tennessee from 1871 to 1875, and was president of the state's 1870 constitutional convention, which wrote the current Tennessee State Constitution.

A leader of the state's Bourbon Democrats, Brown dedicated much of his time as governor to solving the state's mounting debt issues.  Following his gubernatorial tenure, he advocated railroad construction, briefly serving as president of the Texas & Pacific Railroad in 1888, and as president of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company in 1889.

Texas and Pacific Railway
The Texas and Pacific Railway Company (known as the T&P) was created by federal charter in 1871 with the purpose of building a southern transcontinental railroad between Marshall, Texas, and San Diego, California. However its lines never went west of El Paso, near where in 1881 it connected to the Southern Pacific line to California.
Lũng Cú
Lũng Cú is a commune of Tuyên Quang Province, Vietnam. It is located at the northmost end of Vietnamese territory. It is also very close to the Tropic of Cancer as of 2024. Administratively, this sector includes nine villages. It also includes the Lung Cu Flag Tower, marking the border between China and Vietnam.

Tuyên Quang province
Tuyên Quang (Vietnamese: [tʷiə̄n kʷāːŋ]) is a province in the northeastern part of Vietnam, at the centre of Lô River valley, a tributary of the Red River. Its capital is Minh Xuân Ward. The province had a population of 1,865,270 in 2025, with a density of 137 persons per km2 over a total land area of 13,795.50 square kilometres (5,326.47 mi2). Tuyên Quang Province is bordered to the northeast by Cao Bằng Province, to the east by Thái Nguyên Province, to the south by Phú Thọ Province, to the west by Lào Cai Province, and to the north by Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province and Baise City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China.
Polis Evo 2
Polis Evo 2 (also known as Police Evo for Indonesian release) is a 2018 Malaysian Malay-language buddy cop action film Co-produced and distributed by Astro Shaw, the film was directed by Joel Soh and Andre Chiew, starring Zizan Razak and Shaheizy Sam reprise their respective roles, with Indonesian actress Raline Shah joined them as the main cast. It revolves Malaysian and Indonesian police to crippled a group of terrorists attacking a hostile village and detaining residents as hostages.

The film was released on 22 November 2018 and is a sequel to the 2015 film of the same title. In December 2018, Polis Evo 2 was listed by the local Malaysian newspaper Harian Metro as among the top 10 local films in Malaysian history. A third sequel of the film was released in May 2023 with Syafiq Yusof took the role as the director.

Buddy cop
Buddy cop is a film and television genre with plots involving two people of very different and conflicting personalities who are forced to work together to solve a crime or defeat criminals, often learning from each other in the process. The two are normally either police officers (cops) or secret agents, but some films or TV series that are not about two officers may still be referred to as buddy cop films/TV series. It is a subgenre of buddy films and crime fiction. They can be either comedies or action-thrillers.
Olentzero
Olentzero (Basque pronunciation: [olents̻eɾo], sometimes Olentzaro or Olantzaro and Olenchero) is a character in Basque Christmas tradition. According to Basque traditions, Olentzero comes to town late at night on 24 December to drop off presents for children. In some places he arrives later, for example in Ochagavía – Otsagabia on the 27th and in Ermua on the 31st.

Lesaka
Lesaka is a town and municipality in the province and  autonomous community of Navarre, in Spain. It is situated in the merindad of Iruña, in the region of Bortziriak (Five Villas) and to 75 km of the capital of the community, Iruña/Pamplona. The population in 2014 was of 2742 inhabitants.

The population centres in Lesaka are the following: Alkaiaga, Auzoberri, Biurrana, Kaztazpegi, Endara, Endarlaza, Frain, Izotzaldea, Lesaka centre, Navaz, Otsango Auzoa, Zala, and Zalain.