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Chloe Anderson

**Chloe Psyche Anderson** is a transgender woman volleyball player. She is the first transgender athlete in a California college or university. She met the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) 

Anderson grew up in Irvine, California. In preschool, she loved playing princesses and dressing up. Before her transition, she had always felt like she didn't belong with the boys, she felt like she belonged with the girls.  By one year into her treatments, she was much slower and less powerful than before. Her "male muscles...melted off her body." Anderson played for Santa Ana Community College for two years and then changed to playing for the University of California Santa Cruz Volleyball team.

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Germaine Coquillard

**Germaine Coquillard** (22 April 1894 - 22 January 1994) was a French swimmer. She won prizes in the 1900s, in the earliest women's French swimming history.

## Biography
Coquillard was born in 1894 in Joinville-le-Pont. She was trained by Loustalot. In 1906 on 15 August she took part in the first ever women's swimming competition in France "le prix Femina" during the world championships in Joinville-le-Pont. It was a 120 metre handicap-style race in the Marne. Coquillard finished second behind Alice Sadoux. In 1907 she competed at the international Ondines swimming festival in Joinville-le-Pont. Coquillard won the international 60 metre handicap-style race ahead of Gaston Tardiff and Georgette Jeanniot. She finished third at the national championship 100 metre race.

Coquillard died in Joinville-le-Pont on 22 January 1994, at the age of 99.

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Naoko Wowsugi

**Naoco Wowsugi**  is a Korean-Japanese artist who lives in Washington D.C., United States. Wowsugi won an award from the Smithsonian Museum, the National Portrait Gallery’s 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Much of her art is made by many people working together. She is a professor at American University. In 2023, Wowsugi changed the spelling of her first name from "Naoko" to "Naoco" to endorse U.S. representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 

## Early life and education 
Wowsugi was born and raised in Japan.  She is of South Korean descent. She then started expressing "contemporary social community" through art at Rockville, a city near Washington DC. Wowsugi got her Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University.

## Career 
Wowsugi brings people together with collective hands on art projects that give back to their community. 

Wowsugi moved to Minneapolis, MN, USA. She began doing haircuts as performance art.

She started creating community projects In 2019 in Charleston, she started a Community project called the *Fungus among us*.   Her work, "Thank Your for Teaching Me English," is many portraits of people who taught her a word in English.

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Robert Bakewell

**Robert Bakewell** may refer to:

* Robert Bakewell (farmer) (1725–1795), pioneering English farmer
* Robert Bakewell (ironsmith) (1682–1752), English wrought ironsmith
* Robert Bakewell (geologist) (1768–1843), English geologist
Robert Bakewell (farmer)

**Robert Bakewell** (23 May 1725 – 1 October 1795) was an English farmer, now seen as one of the most important figures in the  and a pioneer of modern agriculture. As well as his work in crop production and soil management, he is well-known as the first to put forward systematic selective breeding of livestock. His advancements not only led to specific improvements in sheep, cattle and horses, but contributed to general knowledge of artificial selection.

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Source bias

**Source bias** is a term from psychology. It means that when people select sources from where to get their information, they are more likely to pick either those sources that confirm what they already believe, or those that are very negative. This will then create so-called echo chambers for them. In news reporting, source bias affects how news organizations do news gathering in whom they choose to talk, and in news analysis, what they imply in the way they arrange facts collected.

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John Ball

**Jack**, **Johnny**, or **John Ball** may refer to:

## Clergymen
*John Ball (priest) ( 1338 – 1381), English radical priest and leader of 1381 Peasants' Revolt
*John Ball (minister) (1665–1745), English Presbyterian minister
*John Ball (clergyman) (before 1760 – after 1795), African-American minister from Nova Scotia
*John Ball (bishop) (1934–2016), British Anglican bishop

## Performers
*Johnny Ball (born 1938), English children's television presenter 
*John Ball (musician) (born 1990), American Christian musician

## Politicians
*John Ball (16th-century MP) (1518–1556), English Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich
*John Ball (assemblyman) (1756–1838), American soldier and politician
*John Thomas Ball (1815–1898), Irish barrister and politician, MP for Dublin University 1868–1875
*John Ball (naturalist) (1818–1889), Irish naturalist and politician, MP for County Carlow 1857–1880
*John Ball (pioneer) (1794–1884), American pioneer and state politician
*John Ball (Drogheda MP), MP for Drogheda in the Irish House of Commons

## Sportsmen
*John Ball (golfer) (1861–1940), English amateur golfer; winner of The Open Championship 
*Jack Ball (footballer, born 1900) (1900–1989), English footballer for Bury and England
*Jack Ball (footballer, born 1907) (1907–1976), English football forward
*Jack Ball (footballer, born 1923) (1923–1999), English football goalkeeper
*John Ball (footballer, born 1925) (1925–1998), English footballer for Bolton Wanderers
*John Ball (soccer, born 1972), American footballer for Rochester Rhinos

## Writers
*John Ball (Puritan) (1585–1640), English author and scholar
*John Ball (pioneer) (1794–1884), American explorer
*John Ball (geologist) (1872–1941), English geologist 
*John Ball (novelist) (1911–1988), American novelist
*Sir John M. Ball (born 1948), English mathematician 
*John Ball (cognitive scientist) (born 1963), American cognitive scientist
Border Song

"**Border Song**" is a 1970 song by Elton John. It is from his second studio album *Elton John*. It went to number 29 in the Netherlands, number 34 in Canada and number 91 in the United States and did not chart in the United Kingdom. It has been covered by Aretha Franklin and Willie Nelson.

## Format and track list
***1970 US/Canadian 7" single**
# "Border Song" 3:22
# "Bad Side of the Moon" 3:15

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Georgette Vidor

**Georgette Vidor Mello** (born 5 October 1958) is  a Brazilian gymnastics coach and politician.  She has worked as head of artistic gymnastics and as a coach at Clube de Rogatos de Flamengo.  Vidor worked with the Brazilian National Women's Team for 15 years. With her as coach, the Brazilian team won their first Pan American gold medals and their first world medal. Vidor had an accident that caused her to be paraplegic. She still went on to coach more top athletes.

In 2002, Vidor was elected State Representative, with 50,350 votes. She later became a Deputy and created the first permanent commission to help people with disabilities in State Legislative Assemblies in Brazil, She also created the accessibility seal and held seminars every year. Vidor was part of the party executive. She helped others to prepare for their jobs. As of January 2023,  Vidor was Head of Municipal Secretariat for People with Disabilities. She has held this position since May 2011. 

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Makiko Kudo

**Makiko Kudo** (Born in 1978 in Aomori, Japan) is a Japanese painter and currently lives and works in Kanagawa, Japan. When Kudo was young, most paintings showed real life things. She paints fiction. She grew up with stiff social structures and a failing economy. The child shows her generation’s worry about adulthood. She had another display at Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan in 2022. 

She painted a picture for the Metropolitan Opera of New York. The opera started an art gallery. Her painting was in the first exhibit. She painted Princess Yue-yang from *The New Emperor*.

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Lola Smallwood-Cuevas

**Lola Smallwood-Cuevas** is an American politician. She became a senator in the California Senate in 2022.  Smallwood-Cuevas represents District 28. The district is for South Los Angeles and Culver City, CA. She started the Black Worker Center at University of California, Los Angeles.  President Barak Obama liked the work Smallwood-Cuevas did for workers. She movedto California, with her mother, when she was young. Her mother wanted better jobs and schools. Smallwood-Cuevas graduated from California State University at Hayward. She is married. She has one daughter and one son. She wrote for the *Chicago Tribune*, the *Long Beach Press Telegram* and the Oakland Tribune. She reported on the lives of working families. She then worked as a researcher for United Service Workers West. Smallwood-Cuevas co-founded the LA Black Worker Center. She also works with the Center for the Advancement of Racial Equity at Work at UCLA.

### California State Senate 
Smallwood Cuevas became a California State Senator on December 5, 2022. She is part of the Democratic Party. She represents district 28 in Los Angeles California. She got 99,479 votes out of 140,996 total votes. She had 59.9% of the votes.  

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Dima Hattab

**Dima Hattab** (born Dec. 31, 1980) is a Jordanian ultramarathon runner and mountain climber. She runs races that are longer than 26 miles. She has competed in the Marathon des Sables and the Desert Cup, and other races. They aim to be the first twin sisters and the first Arab women to climb Earth’s tallest mountains. 

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Chamoli district

**Chamoli** is a district of the Uttarakhand state of India.It is bounded by the Tibet region to the north, and by the Uttarakhand districts of Pithoragarh and Bageshwar to the east, Almora to the south, Pauri Garhwal to the southwest, Rudraprayag to the west, and Uttarkashi to the northwest. The administrative headquarters of Chamoli district is in Gopeshwar.

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Modest fashion

**Modest fashion** is a style of fashion with less-revealing and private clothing. Some Muslim, Jewish, and Christian women wear modest fashion. In 2022, the modest fashion industry earned US $295 billion. It will earn US $402 billion industry by 2024. The countries with the highest spendings are Turkey, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. Muslims from other areas such as Indonesia also wear modest fashion. It can be worn to express a person’s identity. French and British colonizers encouraged women in the Middle East  to remove the hijab, so many see it as a sign of protest and pride.

## Modest fashion companies 
### Miss Ayşe by Ayşe Yıldırım 
Yildirim (Yıldırım) is a Turkish modest fashion designer running the brand Miss Ayshe (Ayşe) in Istanbul, Turkey. She focuses on making beautiful clothing while keeping it appropriate for Muslim women to wear. She is passionate about exposing luxury or big brands for targeting Muslim audiences but not admitting that they are. She makes fashionable shirts with hoods (called "hoodies") and hats called "beanies" that cover women's hair like hijabs. 

### The Frock by Simi Polonsky and Chaya Chanin 
Polonsky and Chanin are Jewish designers. They are sisters. Polonsky is a widow. Their clothing is popular with Jewish and Muslim women. Notik grew up in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  Hecht grew up in Seattle, Washington, USA. Modest clothes were expensive. Also they were not pretty. They make clothes that are for layering - for example, wearing a dress and pants and a jacket, or wearing two dresses.

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Danni Washington

**Daniell Washington** is an American marine biologist, science communicator, television host, and activist for ocean conservation. Washington was the first African American woman to host a television series about science. Washington is seen on STEM-related shows like *Mission Unstoppable, Science the $#*! Out of It, and Xploration Nature Knows Best.*

## Career 
Washington grew up in Miami, Florida. Her family is from Jamaica. She loved the ocean since she was six years old. She used the prize money to start the Art Sea Festival. The show lasted two seasons.

Washington co-hosted the series *Science the $#*! Out of It* with comedian Krystyna Hutchinson on Facebook Watch. In the series, they answered questions from the internet.  They will make public service announcements about conserving water. Washington was also named one of TheGrio's 100 in 2012.

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Elaine Denniston

**Elaine Denniston** (born 1939) was a punch card operator for the Apollo program.  She corrected a lot of computer code that made the rockets work better. Her job at MIT was to keypunch data that programmers wrote for the Apollo Project. 

Her job was to keypunch cards but she saw many mistakes the coders made. 

#### Hardships 
Denniston faced many hardships during her work on Apollo. Denniston was told to train a person so she did.  The company she worked for eventually reorganized the employee positions and the person that Denniston trained then became her boss because he had some college credits but also he was a man. She also had problems with the programmers. The programmers often made excuses as to why the code wasn’t finished so Denniston used her persistent attitude to make sure it was finished on time and able to run overnight. 

### Later career 
Denniston could not get a better job at MIT because she was a woman and she was Black.  She left MIT in 1968. Denniston went to study at Radcliffe College. She graduated in 1973.

Denniston then studied at Boston University Law School. She became a lawyer. Most of her work was for the government of the state of Massachusetts. Denniston retired in 2012.

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Kim Hamrock

**Kim Hamrock** (Born 1960) is an American surfer. She was awarded the “2005 Woman of the Year” by the Surfing Walk of Fame. Hamrock is nicknamed “Danger Woman” because she does not let male surfers bully her. The surfer was on television. She liked surfing from seeing it on television.  At age 13 she went to Hawaii with her grandmother. She surfed for the first time. 

## Career 
Hamrock went to school at La Serna High in Whittier, CA. She did not live near the ocean. At age 16 she was able to drive a car. Then, she could drive to the ocean to surf. She would surf even though men thought girls should not surf.  She would also get car rides to the ocean from Marty Hamrock. She married Marty Hamrock in 1979. She had children and did not surf very much. 

Hamrock became serious about surfing in 1990. She began winning competitions. 

### Awards 
During the mid-1990’s Hamrock won six national U.S. awards. She won four shortboards awards 1993-96 and two longboard awards in 1995-96. Hamrock began surfing professionally in 1998. She placed third in the Women’s Longboard World Championship in 1999. She placed fifth in 2000 and won the Women’s Longboard World Champion in 2002. In 2005 she was runner-up at the XXL Big Wave Awards.

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Nashwa El-Bendary

**Nashwa Mamdouh El-Bendary** is an Egyptian computer scientist. She researches climate change and its impact on agricultural crops. She also won the UNESCO **ALECSO Award** for creativity and technical innovation for young researchers in 2014.

## Education 
El-Bendary studied Computer and Data Science at Cairo University. She graduated in 2000. She then earned a MA in 2004 and PhD in 2008.

## Career 
El Bendary uses artificial intelligence to understand climate change. Computer science helps her understand how agricultural crops are impacted by climate.  She is interested in disease detection in crops. She is researching if artificial intelligence can help detect problems.

El-Bendary is a professor at the Arab Academy of Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport (AAST).  She is now the Dean of the College of Computing and Information Technology at the AASTMT (South Valley branch). She directs the China-Arab States Technology Transfer Center (CASTTC). 

She published over 80 research papers. She is also a member of the Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE).

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The Curse of Quon Gwon

***The Curse of Quon Gwon*** is a Chinese American silent film. It is the oldest known Asian American film. The producer of the film was Marion E. Wong. *The Curse of Quon Gwon* is a film about a family who are cursed for beginning to accept Western culture.

## The cast 
Wong and her family made up the cast of the movie. Wong played many parts in the making of the film. She was the director of the film, the main villain, costume designer, and the producer of *The Curse of Quon Gwon.*

## Release of the film 
*The Curse of Quon Gwon* used to have 7 reels, but only 2 survived. Because of this, the movie is 42 minutes long. On July 21, 2005, the reels were released.

## What happened to the film company 
The film company went bankrupt after making the movie.  

## References 
## Other websites
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Maria Branyas Morera

**Maria Branyas Morera** (4 March 1907 until her death in 2024. She was the 8th oldest undisputed person in history.

## Biography 
She was born in San Francisco, California.

In March 2020, she became the oldest person to recover from COVID-19. This record was later surpassed by Lucile Randon.

She lived in a nursing home located in Olot, Catalonia. She died in her sleep on 19 August 2024, at the age of 117 years and 168 days. After her death, Tomiko Itooka became the world's oldest living person.

## Ranking 
* 22 December 2019 - Josefa Santos Gonzalez died. Maria Branyas Morera, aged 112 years, 293 days, became the oldest living person in Spain.
* 28 June 2021 - Maria Branyas Morera, aged 114 years, 116 days, entered the Gerontology Research Group's list for Guinness World Records.
* 17 January 2022 - Thelma Sutcliffe died. Maria Branyas Morera, aged 114 years, 319 days, became the oldest living person who was born in the United States.
* 17 January 2023 - Lucile Randon died. Maria Branyas Morera, aged 115 years, 319 days, became the world's oldest living person.
* 4 March 2023 - Celebrated 116th birthday.
* 21 April 2023 - Maria Branyas Morera, aged 116 years, 48 days, finally surpassed Ana María Vela Rubio's final age and become the oldest person ever residing in Spain.
* 14 May 2023 - Maria Branyas Morera, aged 116 years, 71 days, surpassed Tekla Juniewicz's final age and become the oldest emigrant ever.
* 12 December 2023 - Tatsumi Fusa died, she became the only survivor born in 1907.
* 22 February 2024 - With the death of Edith Ceccarelli She became the only American born before 1909.
* 4 March 2024 - Celebrated 117th birthday. She is also the oldest person in Spain, reaching his 117th birthday.
* 1 April 2024 - Maria Branyas Morera(age 117 years, 27 days) beat Misao Okawa's record.
* 9 May 2024 - Maria Branyas Morera (117 years, 66 days) broke Delphia Welford's record.
* 24 May 2024 - Maria Branyas Morera (117 years, 81 days) broke Chiyo Miyako’s record.
* 20 July 2024 - Maria Branyas Morera surpassed the record by beating Emma Morano (117 years, 137 days).

## Related pages 
* List of American supercentenarians

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Herman Coessens

**Herman Coessens** (22 August 1943 –  9 January 2023) was a Belgian actor.

Coessens was most known as a stage actor at  where he played between the 1970s and 1990s. Coessens also played in many television series, including '**, **', *Ons geluk*, '**, **' and *Flikken*.

Coessens married to actress Lieve Moorthamer. He died from an illness in January 2023, at the age of 79.

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Fred Bellefroid

**Fred Bellefroid** (22 January 1945 – 13 January 2022) was a Belgian sculptor.

Bellefroid is the creator of the iconic  at the Oude Markt in Leuven.

Bellefroid died in  on 13 January 2022, at the age of 76.

## Gallery 

Leuven Oude Markt (Fred Bellefroid) de kotmadam 23-11-2013.jpg|*De kotmadam* at the Oude Markt, Leuven
1987, European year of the environment at Place Schuman by Fred Bellefroid and Herman Dottermans (DSCF7551).jpg|Monument to European Year of the Environment 1987-88

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Lama Hattab

**Lama Hattab** (born December 31, 1980) is a Middle Eastern ultramarathon runner from Jordan. Hattab and her twin sister, Dima Hattab are known for being the first females from the Middle East to run an ultramarathon. She is also a leader in "Generation of Peace" in Amman, Jordan. They grew up in Tabarbour, Jordan, near Amman. She studied Information Technology.  Men were not nice to them at the marathons. Hattab won the Dead Sea Marathon the first time she ran it.

Hattab and her sister together ran in the national team of Jordan. She and her sister wanted to be the first Arab women to be mountaineers in the Guinness Book of World Records. At work she learned about an organization called Generations for Peace.  The organization used sports and art to help young people make peace in places with war or other conflict..   

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Arjan Paans

**Arjan Paans** (1969 – 17 January 2023) was a Dutch journalist.

Paans started his journalist career at *Gooi- en Eemlander* where his mother worked. He became for *Algemeen Dagblad* deputy editor-in-chief. He was editor-in-chief interior and coordinator Rotterdam at NRC Handelsblad.  In 2016 he started working for the regional newspapers of the Telegraaf Media Groep and was among others editor-in-chief of *Leidsch Dagblad*, *Haarlems Dagblad* and *Gooi- en Eemlander*. Paans died from cancer on 13 January 2022, at the age of 53.

## References
Methine group

A **methine group** or methine bridge is a functional group . It consists of a carbon bound by one double bond and 2 single bonds, where one of the single bonds is to a hydrogen.

Chains of methine groups can form conjugated systems in polyenes. Polyacetylene is a polymer made out of methine groups.

## See also 
Other single hydrocarbon groups:
* Methyl group 
* Methylene bridge 
* Methylidene group
Hammond Pond Reservation

**Hammond Pond Reservation** is a woodland park in Newton, Massachusetts. Hammond Pond is located within the park. 

The park is a part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston. The first piece of land that would become the park was bought from John Lowell in 1916.  There are trails there that go to Webster Woods and Houghton Garden.  The MBTA Green Line (Riverside Branch) runs through the park from East to West, and the Hammond Pond Parkway runs through the park from North to South.

Hammond Pond is as a Massachusetts "Great pond".  The pond and reservation are named after the Hammond family, which settled in the area in the 17th century.

## Image gallery

File:Hammond Pond Reservation, Chestnut Hill MA.jpg|Walking trail
File:Hammond Pond P1100495.jpg|Rock climbing
File:Hammond Pond 20190710 202448.jpg|Sunset
File:Hammond Pond P1000707.jpg|MBTA Green Line train
File:Hammond Pond P1060152.jpg|Great Blue Heron
File:Hammond Pond P1150925.jpg|Hammond Pond and The Street at Chestnut Hill shopping center

## References
## Other websites
*Hammond Pond Reservation Department of Conservation and Recreation
*Webster Woods and Hammond Pond Newton Conservators
Alphons Panis

**Alphonsus Gerardus Martinus "Alphons" Panis** (25 January 1900 – 22 February 1975) was a Dutch politician.

Panis was the son of teacher Leonardus Waltherus Panis (1852-1933) and Anna Maria Cornelia van Roessel (1857-1914). He grew up in a large Catholic family. Several brothers became priests, including the titular bishop Walther Panis; one sister joined the Sisters of St. Francis. His brother Constant Panis became a known architect in Tilburg. He died in 1975 at the age of 75.

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Constant Panis

**Constantius Johan Willem "Constant" Panis ** (1891 – 1972) was a Dutch architect.

Panis is seen as one of the most important architects in the region of Tilburg. Many buildings that he designed became municipal or national monuments.

Panis was the brother Alphons Panis. He was mayor of Berkel-Enschot and Haaren.

## Designed buildings that became monuments 

Overzicht voorgevel klooster - Tilburg - 20344102 - RCE.jpg|Monastery  in Tilburg
Berkel-Enschot P1060994.JPG|Town hall Berkel-Enschot
Nieuwlandstraat 51-53 Tilburg.jpg|Nieuwlandstraat 51-53 in Tilburg

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Fons Panis

**Alphons Leo Walter Joseph Panis** (16 August 1932 – 15 January 2023) was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party and later Christian Democratic Appeal. Panis was mayor of Maartensdijk (1973–1978) and mayor of Leusden (1987–1997).

## Biography
Panis was born in Berkel-Enschot in 1932. His father Alphons Panis (1900–1975) was twice mayor of Berkel-Enschot and in between mayor of Haaren. His uncle was architect Constant Panis (1891-1972).

 at the opening of *De Vierstee* in Maartensdijk in 1978]]
Panis attended gymnasium in Tilburg. After completing his military service, he studied Dutch law at the University of Utrecht. After his graduation in 1960, he started his civil service career at the General Affairs department of the province of Utrecht. He later became secretary of the Midden-Utrecht circle. Subsequently he was acting secretary of the cooperation body agglomeration Eindhoven. In May 1973 he became mayor of Maartensdijk. During his term as mayor, new-build neighborhoods were established on the south side of the village of Maartensdijk, like the 'Kruidenbuil', as well as the new-build neighborhoods of Groenekan and Westbroek. Panis opposed the abolition of the municipality of Maartensdijk. In mid-1987 Panis became mayor of Leusden. He was the mayor of Leusen until 1997.

Panis died in Amersfoort on 15 January 2023, at the age of 90.

## References
OHRRPGCE

The **Official Hamster Republic Role Playing Game Construction Engine**, also known as OHRRPGCE, is a software made for creating video games. It was first shared with two different versions: a "crippled" version, which had the user be locked with only four maps to build with, and an "uncrippled" version, with sixteen maps to build with.

## Supported Platforms 
## References
Enriqueta Reyes González

**Enriqueta Reyes González** (October 10, 1920 – 2008) was the first female firefighter in Cuba and greater Latin America.  She joined the Ranchuelo fire department in 1954. Reyes González was promoted from treasurer to director to colonel. Her nickname was “The Colonel.” 

## Early life 
Reyes González was born in Camagüey. She spent her childhood in a Christian community. When she was  seventeen Reyes González moved to Ranchuelo. Her mother came with her. Her mother was sick. She only had five Pesos. She had a recommendation for a cigarette factory job. Later many of her neighbors' houses caught on fire. She decided to raise money for a fire department. In 1953 Reyes González hosted a fundraiser. Her town finally built a fire department.

## Career 
Reyes González was the first woman to become a firefighter in Cuba and greater Latin America. She started as the treasurer. Later she became a director. Then she finally became the head firefighter. 

## Personal life 
Reyes González had a daughter named María de los Ángeles González. Her family supported her work. Reyes González died in 2008 from a heart attack. She was 88 years old.

## References
Jan Theelen

**Jan Theelen** (29 August 1939 – 15 January 2022) was a Dutch musician, arranger and producer.

## Biography
Theelen played accordion when he was six years old. He started his professional music career as a pianist. He worked for a long time with Tom Manders, better known as Dorus. In the seventies he worked with the American Dutch singer , and also with  making the single ''*.

Theelen had had its own music studio since the 1960s, first in Venray and later in Munstergeleen. Later he had this studio named "Onger Os" together with his son. In Limburg he was particularly known as an arranger of carnival music. Much of this music was recorded in his studio, that closed in 2020.

In 2007, Theelen was the winner of the *Oeuvre-Priès van 't Limburgs Leed'' (translated: Oeuvre Prize of the Limburg Song).

Theelen died in Sittard on 15 January 2022, at the age of 82.

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Marie Korsaga

**Marie Korsaga** is an astrophysicist from Burkina Faso. She is the first female Burkinabe astrophysicist.

### Advocacy 
Korsaga works to get more girls from Burkina Faso interested in science. She also works to make Burkina Faso stronger in research about space. She wants her country to be the first African country to launch satellites into space.

## References
Wahida Amiri

**Wahida Amiri** (born in 1990) is an Afghan librarian and an activist for women’s rights.  Amiri runs a library. Since 2017, her library of over 5,000 books is open in Kabul to motivate women to read. In December 2021, Amiri made it on BBC’s list of the 100 most inspiring women. 

## Activism 
The Taliban said girls cannot go to school.

## References
Saeeda Etebari

**Saeeda Etebari** is an Afghani jewelry artist.  Etebari had meningitis when she was one, causing her to be deaf. One of Etebari’s more famous pieces is an emerald and gold necklace that she designed with British jeweler Pippa Small. This piece was displayed at the Smithsonian.
## References
Aiko Doden

**Aiko Doden** is a Senior Commentator at NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation. She is also chief producer at NHK World. Doden is a commentator about Asia and the world.  She knows the most about South East Asia and United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. 

She is on “NHK World Newsline In Depth.” She used to be on “NHK News at 9 PM”, “NHK World Network” and “NHK Asian Voices.”

Doden went to Columbia University for graduate school. She has a Master's degree in international relations. When she was little, Doden lived in London, England. 

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Romy Medeiros da Fonseca

**Romy Medeiros da Fonseca** ( July 1921 - 2013) was a Brazilian lawyer, publisher, and women's rights activist. She fought to make sure women had the right to be in the army. In 1977 she was a big part of making the law letting married people to break up. Da Fonseca was also part of the United Nations board for problems about making sure that women had the same rights as others. She also made the National Council of Women in Brazil. Da Fonseca was also a big help to make sure everyone had the same rights while Brazil was having a government problem in 1964.

## References
Junko Shimada

**Junko Shimada** (Japanese: 島田順子, born in 1941) is a Japanese fashion designer who created her own clothing brand. She designs clothes for Lady Gaga. Shimada also designed the Japanese team's outfits for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. Shimada's brand is called "Junko Shimada." She liked painting.

## Awards and honors 
Shimada received the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 2012.

## References
Nadege Doree

**Amelia Goldberg** (1862-1950) known as **Nadage Doree** (also spelled **Nadege**) was a Jewish American activist, actress, and writer. She fought for justice for Jews. Goldberg wrote books called: "Gèlta, Or, The Czar and the Songstress” and “Did Jesus Change? The Answer of the Jew to the Question of the Ages.” Goldberg was also a singer. She wrote patriotic songs. 

## Career 
Goldberg was an activist and author. She wrote her two books, “Gèlta, Or, The Czar and the Songstress” and “Did Jesus Change? The Answer of the Jew to the Question of the Ages.”Goldberg was also an opera singer and actress. She started writing patriotic songs, and producing plays. She was a model for Duke cigarette cards. She had a race horse named after her. She was an activist who fought against anti-semitism.

### Activism 
In 1905 during President Roosevelt's church service, she interrupted to try to convince Roosevelt to help Russia’s Jews. She got arrested.  She sued Roosevelt’s secretary (William Loeb Jr.) 50,000 for a false arrest. 
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Naomi Faik-Simet

**Naomi Faik-Simet** (b. 1977) is a Papua New Guinean dance researcher at the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies. She is the first PhD from Papua New Guinea to graduate from a dance studies program. and the first dance researcher ever employed by her country's government.

Faik-Simet works to preserve and create cultural traditions. Papua New Guinea is working to be modern, but Faik-Simet wants people to remember their culture and not just adopt other cultural traditions. She teaches about traditional and contemporary dance and music. She shows people that traditional and new arts can go together. 

## Early life 
Faik-Simet was born in Papua New Guinea. She grew up during the period after Papua New Guinea became independent from Australia. 

## Career 
### Education 
In 2001, Faik-Simet started working for the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies. In 2003 she returned to University of Papua New Guinea to complete her undergraduate college degree. She completed her degree in 2005. 

Soon, Faik-Simet realized she needed more education. First, she connected with experts who lived in New Zealand, Nicholas Rowe and Ralph Buck. In 2010 she got a scholarship from the University of Auckland to study a traditional dance called "gunge takwaku."

Between April 28, 2017 and December 29, 2020, Faik-Simet attended the University of Auckland. She studied the impact of colonialism on dance education in Papua New Guinea. She also studied how to use dance to pass down culture and knowledge. She graduated with a PhD in dance studies in November 2021.

### Today 
Faik-Simet is now the assistant director at the Institute of Papua New Guinea. She helps to organize conferences, like the 8th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance of Oceania. 

She received the Mineral Resource Development Co (MRDC) award in 2011 for making an impact in decolonising dance in Papua New Guinea. The award is a Westpac Public Sector award. It is part of the Westpac Outstanding Women Award.

## Personal life 
Faik-Simet and her husband have two children.

## References
Anna T. Nilsson

**Anna Alida Theresia Nilsson**  (April 27,1869 – December 11, 1947) was a Malmö drawing teacher, suffragist, peace activist, and women's rights activist. Nilsson became a drawing teacher in 1890. Her dad was Hans Petter Nilsson, who was a textile cottage industry promoter. 
## References
Lavenia Yalovi

**Lavenia Yalovi** is a Fijian sports commentator. Sports journalist Aaron Kearney recruited her to learn to be a sports commentator. He asked Yalovi to join the "Commentary for Good" program. That program worked with Women in news and sport. One of the goals of the program was to get more women reporting on sports. As a child, she was not allowed to play soccer because she was a girl. 

Yalovi was on three of Fiji's national teams. Yalovi is the national coordinator for the Get into Rugby PLUS program in Fiji. She works for the Fiji Football Association. She is in Australian government videos about international cooperation using sports. 

Yalovi commentates with Adele Willie and Jennesa Hinge Moli of Vanuatu. Kearney recruited them together. Willie and Moli have worked in media. Yalovi knows about sports. Together they can comment on games. Their first job together was at the Oceania Nations Cup. FIFA liked their work. FIFA invited them to come to France to work at the Women's World Cup.

## References
Riley Silverman

**Riley J. Silverman** is an American author, writer, and comedian. She has a best selling comedy album called “Intimate Apparel”.

## Career 
Silverman is an author of StarWars books. She has a science fiction podcast called "Bubble."

## Personal Life 
Silverman grew up in rural Ohio, near Columbus. As a child, Silverman wanted to be an inventor. Silverman is a transgender woman. She lives in Los Angeles, California. She is a life-long Star Wars fan. She likes cosplay.
## References
Susil Nelson-Kongoi

**Susil Nelson-Kongoi** is Papua New Guinean businessperson and is a leader in the country at helping working women get more responsibility and better work rights. She supports human rights. She helps indigenous women work for better jobs. She is the Senior Media and Communications Advisor at Exxonmobil PNG Limited. She works on public policy, helping the government of Papua New Guinea make good policies. She is Vice-Chariman of the Business Council of Papua New Guinea. Nelson-Kongoi won the Overall Westpac Outstanding Women Award in 2012 for helping Papua New Guinean women to join the workforce.  She is one of the only female oil executives in Papua New Guinea. She was featured in the "Pawa Meri" ("Power Women") film project that highlighted important women in Papua New Guinea.

## Early Life 
Nelson-Kongoi comes from East Sepik Province.  She is on the board of the Business Council of Papua New Guinea. She is the leader of that Network. She is a board member for the Incentive Fund, helping girls and women work in businesses.  She helps the Business Coalition For Women (BCFW) teach women about being business leaders. Nelson-Kongoi is the president of the Business and Professional Women's Club of Port Moresby, too.

## Awards 
Nelson-Kongoi won the Overall WOW Award (Westpac Outstanding Women Award) in 2012 for helping women in Papua New Guinea get jobs. She also earned a fellowship from the Australian Government's Fellowship program. She also fundraises for scholoarships for girls.

## References
Adriana Cerezo Iglesias

**Adriana Cerezo Iglesias** (born November 24, 2003) is a Spanish taekwondo artist. At only the age of 17, Cerezo had won a silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, making her one of the youngest Spanish olympic athletes to ever compete in taekwondo. 

## Early life 
Cerezo was born in Alcalá de Henares, Spain. She quickly moved her way up through the ranks, and ended up winning a gold medal during her first time at the European Taekwondo Championships.  
## References
Cornufer mediodiscus

The **Buka sticky-toed frog** (*Cornufer gigas*) is a frog. People have seen it on two islands of the Solomon Islands: Bougainville Island and Buka Island.  These two islands are in Papua New Guinea.  People saw the frog between 0 and 1230 meters above sea level.

## References
Ariane 6

**Ariane 6** is a European expendable launch system. The first launch was in 2024. It has been in development since the early 2010s by ArianeGroup. They were creating it for the European Space Agency (ESA). The system was built to replace the Ariane 5. The stated reason for Ariane 6 was that it would cost half as Ariane 5. The new system would also increase the maximum number of launches each year from six or seven to up to eleven. It can launch up to  into Geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) and  into LEO.
* **Ariane 64** has four P120 boosters. It will have a liftoff weight of about . This version is intended for commercial satellite launches. It can launch up to  into GTO and  into LEO. Like Ariane 5, it will be able to launch two geosynchronous satellites together.
## References
She's Got a Way

"'''She's Got a Way'*" is a 1971 debut single by Billy Joel and originally released from his debut studio album *Cold Spring Harbour*. It is better known as a live version from his 1981 album *Songs in the Attic''. It went to number 23 in the United States and number 46 in Canada in early 1982.

## References
Esmeralda Soria

**Esmeralda Soria** is an American politician. She is currently serving as a California State Assembly member. Soria's district covers Fresno, Madera, and Merced counties. She was sworn in on Monday, December 5th, 2022. She is a first generation American. Soria’s parents valued education and giving back to their community. Soria went to University of California, Berkeley for her undergraduate degree.

### Fresno Council 
Soria was elected to the Fresno City Council in 2014. She was the only woman on the council. Soria represented more than 72,000 people from her community. Soria was a member of the Fresno City Council until her win as a California State Assembly member in 2022.

### 2022 Election 
Soria ran for the California State Assembly in 2022. She ran against Mark Pazin. The election was on November 4, 2022. The vote was very close: 51% for Soria, 49% for Pazin. She took office on December 5th 2022. Right now, she is working with a board of other assembly members.

## References
Jocelyne Larocque

**Jocelyn Larocque** (born May 19, 1988) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defencewoman. She plays for PWHL Toronto of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL). She also plays for Canada in Olympic hockey. She was the first female indigenous woman to play on Team Canada at the Olympics. She is a part of the Métis Nation. She has won two Olympic gold medals, and one silver medal. In 2018, she won the Manitoba Female Indigenous Athlete of the Decade award. Larocque has won a total of 9 world championships. She has been a player on the Canadian National Hockey team since 2008. She has also won silver medals 5 times, and bronze once.

## References
Vincent Boot

**Vincent Boot** (24 April 1945 – 17 January 2022) was a Dutch judoka.

Boot was active as competitive judoka during the 1960s and 1970s. He became five times Dutch national champion. He was selected to represent the Netherlands at international competitions, including for the 1973 World Judo Championships and 1974 European Judo Championships. After his active career he founded his own judo school "Budo Stichting Boot" where he gave for many years judo lessons.

## References
Joop Worrell

**Marinus Johannes Christiaan "Joop" Worrell ** (18 June 1938 – 17 January 2022) was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party.

He served as a alderman of Woudrichem from 1971 to 1974 and as a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands from 1974 to 1989. Afterwards he became mayor of Woudrichem between 1989 and 2001.

Worrell died in Woudrichem on 17 January 2022, at the age of 83.

## References
Ab Blokker

**Albert "Ab" Blokker** (1945 – 15 January 2022) was a Dutch businessman. He was owner of Dutch retail chain .

Blokker built "Blokker Holding" together with his brother Jaap Blokker, with a series of important acquisitions in the 1980s and 1990s, including Bart Smit (1985), Leen Bakker, Casa (1988), Xenos (1989), Intertoys, Marskramer (1993) and Maxi Toys (1997). After the death of Jaap Blokker in July 2011, Ab remained the sole active family shareholder the Blokker group. However, he could not prevent the further decline of the chain and clashed with the innovative director Roland Palmer, who had to resign in 2015. In 2017, Ab Blokker stepped down as a member of the Supervisory Board.

Blokker died on 15 January 2022, at the age of 76.

## References
Jim Banks

**James Edward Banks** (born July 16, 1979) is an American politician who is the junior United States Senator from Indiana since 2025. He was a member of the U.S. representative for  from 2017 to 2025. He is a Republican.

In January 2023, Banks announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate in the 2024 election. He won the election in November 2024.

## References
Belk Hudson Lofts

**Belk Hudson Lofts** (also known as '''Fowler's Department Store** or the **Lowe-Kilgore Building''') is an apartment building in Huntsville, Alabama. Originally theere were two buildings. The first was built on the corner of Washington Street and Holmes Avenue in 1930, and had Fowler's Department Store inside. The second building, next to the first along Holmes Avenue, was built in 1936 as a farm supply store. Fowler's Department Store went bankrupt in 1938, and Belk Husdon purchased the corner building in 1940. Beginning in 1944, they also leased the Holmes building, and the two were joined.

After Belk Husdon left the downtown Huntsville area, the building was changed into offices in the 1980s. The Holme's building was destroyed by fire in 2007. It was later rebuilt as a loft apartment building. The original face of the building survived the fire. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

## References
List of programs broadcast by TBS/Current programming

This is a list of television programs currently broadcast by the cable television channel TBS in the United States.

## Current programming
### Original programming
#### Comedy
**Miracle Workers* (2019)

#### Animation
**American Dad!* (2014; moved from Fox, shared with Adult Swim)

#### Unscripted
##### Game show
**The Cube* (2021)
**Wipeout* (2021; moved from ABC)

##### Reality 
**Go-Big Show* (2021)
**Rat in the Kitchen* (2022)

##### Movie presentation
**Friday Night Vibes* (2021)

##### Sports
**Major League Baseball on TBS* (2008)
*''NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament* (2011)
**ELeague* (2016)
**NBA All-Star Game* (TNT simulcast, 2015–present; Players-only feed, 2019)
**AEW Dynamite* (2022; moved from TNT)
**NHL on TBS* (2022; Stanley Cup playoffs)

### Acquired programming
#### Comedy
**Family Matters* (1995–2003; 2020)
**Friends* (2001)
**Yes, Dear* (2004–2012; 2023)
**The Big Bang Theory* (2011)
**2 Broke Girls* (2015)
**Young Sheldon* (2021)

#### Animation
**Bob's Burgers* (2016; leaving in 2023)

#### Unscripted
**Wipeout'' (2008 version) (2013–14; 2020)

## References
Taline and Friends

**Taline and Friends** is an American-Armenian musical group. They are best known for playing music for children. The members if the group are Taline Bessos,  Tzagratzoo, Nabig, and Peeso. Alex Bessos is the songwriter and producer of the group. The most popular of the group's songs include “Im Kntag”, “Tzkneeg” and “Peesoee Bar”.

The  group has played a major role in developing Armenian language skills for children worldwide since the early 1990s. She moved to the United States at the age of 15. Taline has a BA degree in Early Childhood Education. In 1993. she and Alex rented a small studio. They released their first CD called *Hink Pokrig Patigner.* It included traditional Armenian songs from their childhood and original songs. In 1994, they released their second CD. The group started to gain more popularity when they made their first DVD *Let’s Sing & Dance*. They had their first concert in 2003 in New Jersey. The group had their first Armenian Children’s Christmas Concert in 2003 at the Alex Theatre in Glendale. Their first international performance was in 2004 in Canada. Since then, they have performed in many countries. These include Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Cyprus, France, Kuwait, Lebanon, the United Kingdom, Syria, Türkiye, United Arab Emirates and Uruguay.

The group has made 5 DVDs and 11 CDs. These include lessons on different topics, including animals, the Armenian alphabet, and being Armenian. Their YouTube videos get over 20,000 views each day.

## History of Songs from Taline and Friends 
* 3 Khozikner
* 5 Zkayaranner
* 12 Amisner
* ABC
* Aklor Aghpare
* Andarin Mech
* Antsrev Gouka
* Arev Arev
* Arakasdanav
* Ari Ari
* Ay Nabasdag
* Badik Jan Badik
* Bareelouys
* Bjlig Mjlig Sarte
* B-I-N-G-O
* Bouy Bouy Moukike
* Bananov Gargantagh
* Baydzar Arev
* Bzdig Kouyr
* Bzdig Oryortige
* Christmas Medley
* Daretarts e Aysor
* Diknike Orore
* Donadzare
* Dyadzan
* Dzenkele Menkele
* Dzidzernaki Pouyne
* Dzovap Biti Yertank
* Fait Do Do
* Gaghant Baba Shoud Ari
* Gaghant Baba Oush e Mnatser
* Ge Barenk
* Ge Hnchenk Zanke
* Ge Khaghank Miasin
* Gakavik
* To Be Continued

## References
## Other websites
* Taline and Friends YouTube Channel
* The entertainer, By Joyce Rudolph, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 6, 2007
Willibald Kirbes

**Willibald Kirbes** (29 June 1902 – 3 February 1990) was an Austrian footballer. He played as a forward for different teams from Vienna, mainly for SK Rapid, and the Austrian national football team.
## Career
The winger came to Rapid from the lower-class club Freiheit 14. He played his first games in the highest league in the 1922–23 season, in which the club also became Austrian champions. He had  a regular place in the team from 1925 onwards. The team won the 1927 Austrian Cup versus FK Austria Wien, where he scored a goal in the 3-0 win. In the 1928–29 season, Rapid became champion,in the cup final there was a close 2:3 against Vienna, despite a goal from Kirbes. 1932 he finally went to  FC Libertas Vienna, which he accompanied through their five first division years. 
## International
Kirbes made his debut for the Austrian national team on 6 May  1928  in a game against Hungary in Budapest. He scored a goal. The match was the only one he played for the national team.
## International statistics
:''Scores and results list Austria's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Kirbes goal.''

## Honours
*   1 × Mitropacup: 1930
*   1 × Mitropacup runner up: 1928
*   3 × Austrian Champion: 1923, 1929, 1930
*    1 × Austrian Cup: 1927
## References