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Khoo Teck Puat Hospital shooting | 75,686,089 | Response | The shooting incident, which shocked the nation, prompted a discussion in the Parliament of Singapore. Home Affairs Minister Teo Chee Hean responded during the session that an independent review panel to investigate the Khoo Teck Puat Hospital shooting, and he assured that the police were adhering to the escort procedures. There were also proposals to review the safety and security protocols of policemen escorting suspects to hospital, and the Singapore Police Force's Internal Affairs Office also investigated for possible negligence of duty by the officers involved in the incident. Second Minister for Home Affairs Masagos Zulkifli similarly expressed that the investigations of the shooting could help identify any problems and the corrective actions required in the future. |
Khoo Teck Puat Hospital shooting | 75,686,089 | Response | The shooting case also led to national newspaper The Straits Times to interview former and current policemen about the general procedures of drawing firearms in situations similar to Iskandar's case. The case also attracted huge public attention, and Mothership also clarified public misconceptions that Iskandar would not face the death penalty, stating that while there was a possibility that Iskandar's charge could be modified, he would be sentenced to the mandatory death penalty under the Arms Offences Act if found guilty of the original charge, a fate which Iskandar ultimately evaded. |
Khoo Teck Puat Hospital shooting | 75,686,089 | Response | The Khoo Teck Puat shooting also recalled several past cases of suspects who snatched the guns of policemen while resisting arrest, as well as some high-profile gun crimes that occurred over the previous few years in Singapore, where gun violence was extremely rare. |
2024 HSR Prototype Challenge | 75,686,095 | The 2024 HSR Prototype Challenge is a planned motor racing championship, set to be the inaugural season of the HSR Prototype Challenge sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association. |
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2024 HSR Prototype Challenge | 75,686,095 | Background | The HSR Prototype Challenge was created by a collaboration between IMSA and HSR. HSR is set to operate the events, with oversight from IMSA. Cars will include both current and previous generation LMP3 cars. A minimum starting field of 20 cars is required for standalone events. If this is not achieved, LMP3 cars will be integrated into the HSR Group 6 (Prototype) races. All events will required a timed pitstop. |
2024 HSR Prototype Challenge | 75,686,095 | Calendar | The provisional 2024 calendar was released on October 28, 2023, featuring six rounds. |
Mount Hamilton (New Zealand) | 75,686,099 | Mount Hamilton is a 3,025 metres (9,925 ft) mountain of the Southern Alps, located in the South Island of New Zealand. |
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Mount Hamilton (New Zealand) | 75,686,099 | Geography | Mount Hamilton rises within the Malte Brun Range just a few kilometers northeast of the eponymous 3199 m high Malte Brun. Apart from this, it is the only three-thousander in the range. The mountain is glaciated, for example the Wheeler Glacier lies on its southeast flank. |
Mount Hamilton (New Zealand) | 75,686,099 | History | Mount Hamilton was named by Noel Brodrick, after a Sydney man who climbed in this part of the New Zealand Alps in the 1890s. Today it is part of the Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park. |
Mount Hamilton (New Zealand) | 75,686,099 | Geology | The rock consists primarily of variants of sedimentary rocks of sandstone and mudstone. Basalt, limestone and chert also occur. The age of the mountain is estimated between 201 and 273 million years. |
Mount Yukla | 75,686,120 | Mount Yukla is a 7,569-foot (2,307 m) mountain summit in Alaska, United States. |
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Mount Yukla | 75,686,120 | Description | Mount Yukla is located 25 miles (40 km) east of Anchorage in the western Chugach Mountains. It ranks as the highest peak in the Eagle River drainage, and fourth-highest peak within Chugach State Park. Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains to Knik Arm via the Eagle River. Although modest in elevation, topographic relief is significant as the summit rises approximately 6,870 feet (2,094 m) above the river in 1.8 miles (2.9 km). |
Mount Yukla | 75,686,120 | History | The name "Yukla" was applied by Walter Curran Mendenhall in 1898 as the Denaʼina name for the Eagle River. "Yuklahina" or "Yukla" means "Eagle River." The mountain's toponym was proposed in 1963 by members of the Mountaineering Club of Alaska, and officially adopted in 1964 by the United States Board on Geographic Names. The first ascent of the summit was made on July 15, 1964, by John Bousman and Arthur Davidson via the East Face and Northeast Ridge. |
Mount Yukla | 75,686,120 | Climate | Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Yukla is located in a tundra climate zone with long, cold, snowy winters, and cool summers. Weather systems coming off the Gulf of Alaska are forced upwards by the Chugach Mountains (orographic lift), causing heavy precipitation in the form of rainfall and snowfall. Winter temperatures can drop below −10 °F with wind chill factors below −20 °F. This climate supports the Icicle Glacier on the east and north slopes. |
List of state leaders in 2024 | 75,686,144 | This is a list of heads of state, heads of governments, and other rulers in the year 2024. |
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Lam Nam Kok National Park | 75,686,161 | Lam Nam Kok National Park (Thai: อุทยานแห่งชาติลำน้ำกก, RTGS: Utthayan Haeng Chat Lam Nam Kok) is a national park in upper northern Thailand's Chiang Rai province. The national park covers an area of 634.87 square kilometres (245.12 sq mi) and was planted in 2002, occupies an area of four districts of Chiang Rai including Mueang Chiang Rai, Mae Chan, Mae Lao and Mae Suai. The head office is based in Doi Hang subdistrict, Mueang Chiang Rai district. |
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Lam Nam Kok National Park | 75,686,161 | Attractions | The national park has beautiful landscape and lots of natural tourism destinations. Its name is based on the Kok river, the current that flows through the area. The river is 130 km (80.8 mi) long, its origin is on a mountain in Myanmar and flows along the borderline between Myanmar and Thailand. Then it flows on Thai ground at Tha Ton subdistrict, Mae Ai district in Chiang Mai province, then confluence Mekong river at Ban Sob Kok village in Chiang Saen district in the area of province of Chiang Rai. Cruise down the river is an interesting activity for visitors. |
Lam Nam Kok National Park | 75,686,161 | Attractions | Wat Phuttha Utthayan Doi Insi is Buddhist monastery located in the area of the national park. The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) permitted Buddhist monks to stay in the forest for their dharma practicing legally. According to that monks and forest project, Buddhist monks are allowed to do their dharma practicing under a condition that they would help to look after the forest. The highlight is 15.1 m (49.5 ft) high Buddha image in meditation posture and a 10 m (32.8 ft) tall cetiyas (pagodas) to be the centre of faith of Buddhist. |
Lam Nam Kok National Park | 75,686,161 | Attractions | Huai Kaeo Waterfall is the beautiful three-tier waterfall, the highest and most beautiful tier is the third tier, is the highlight. At the first tier, the water downs from 20 m (65.6 ft) high cliff. The second tier is more beautiful than the first tier as the water flows from 30 m (98.4 ft) high cliff. On the third tier at a height of 40 m (131.2 ft), there is a bamboo bridge to facilitate visitors to walk closer the waterfall conveniently. All tiers have their own basins so visitors can swim. However, visitors have to strictly follow the officer's advice. The waterfall has water all year round. |
Lam Nam Kok National Park | 75,686,161 | Attractions | Phasoet Hotspa is an one important tourist destinations of the national park. It is a natural hot mineral water source that is available to visitors. There is a main well that pumps water to another well and cool down the water. Such well is on the other side. Hot mineral water will be piped to the pool or bathtub where users can adjust the temperature themselves. This place provides both private and shared bathing room and also provides Thai massage services as well. The hot mineral water source is 20 km (12.4 mi) from city of Chiang Rai. |
Sivagiri Hills | 75,686,171 | Sivagiri Hills is a hill situated in the Sivagiri region of Varkala municipality of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. It Hosts the tomb of the prominent philosopher and spiritual leader Sree Narayana Guru. |
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Maxová | 75,686,174 | Maxová is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: |
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Doeberitz | 75,686,223 | Doeberitz or Döberitz may refer to: |
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Sama'ila Dahuwa | 75,686,254 | Sama'ila Dahuwa is a Nigerian politician and a senator representing Bauchi North Senatorial District under the platform of PDP. |
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Insane 2 | 75,686,273 | Insane 2 (stylized as In2ane) is an off-road racing game developed by Targem Games and published by Game Factory Interactive. It is the sequel to the 2000 game Insane by Invictus Games, and was released for Windows in 2011. Players take control of an assortment of motor vehicles and drive across terrain in locations on most continents of the world, completing objectives in one of ten different game modes. |
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Insane 2 | 75,686,273 | Development of the game started in 2009, when Codemasters, who owned the Insane trademark, licensed it to Targem Games. Invictus had no known input in the team's creative process, and so the latter relied on the details of the game to be succeeded and the reviews published at the time of its release. Notably, the team altered the game mechanics so as increase the dynamics of the gameplay at the expense of some physical realism. Critical reception of the game was mixed. The multiplayer mode was often praised, but many critics pointed out the absence of online servers near launch. The variety of the game modes was also praised, although some individual modes received criticism. Reviewers were divided on the artificial intelligence, level design, and graphics, but tended to be more unfavorable toward the sound and musical score. Publications from Hungary—where the series was born—reviewing the game considered it inferior to its predecessor. |
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Insane 2 | 75,686,273 | Gameplay | Like the original Insane, Insane 2 is a racing game where players drive on terrain, vying to be the first to complete objectives. The races are set in fictional locations on four continents of Eurasia, North America, Africa, and Antarctica, and the maps permit a considerable amount of open world exploration and are wrapped around so that vehicles exiting one side of the map reappear on the opposite. Up to eight players drive in one of 18 four-wheeled motor vehicles divided into six classes: 4×4s, SUVs, pickups, trucks, monster trucks, and prototypes. |
Insane 2 | 75,686,273 | Gameplay | There are as many as ten game variations, most of which return from the original Insane. Besides traditional off-road racing, they are Capture the Flag, Gate Hunt, Jamboree, Pathfinder, and Return the Flag. The remaining four are new to the series: Greed, Pursuit, Knockout, and Zone Patrol. In Capture the Flag, racers score points by carrying a flag by picking it up from the ground or stealing it from the racer carrying it, scoring extra points by carrying it to the active checkpoint. In Gate Hunt, players attempt to deactivate as many gates as possible before their opponents. Jamboree is another gate-based mode where one gate is active until a player crosses it, awarding them a point and activating another at random. A few gates are lit in yellow to indicate which one will activate next. In Pathfinder, players seek to become the first to cross all gates. Return the Flag is another flag-based mode wherein a flag is placed at random points of the map and players return it to the base before others do. As for the new game modes, in Greed, packages colored gold, silver, and bronze are parachuted from the sky, and a certain number of points are awarded to whoever collects them, with gold being worth the most and bronze the least. Pursuit involves a helicopter traveling above the playing field and beaming down a cone of light in which racers strive to remain the longest. Knockout is an elimination race game where the racer in last place drops out after an amount of time, usually 15 to 30 seconds, and the process repeats until only one player is left. Zone Patrol is a new variation of Gate Hunt where one can pass gates claimed by an opponent and "recolor" it, diverting their point to one's score. |
Insane 2 | 75,686,273 | Gameplay | Insane 2 is both a single-player and multiplayer game. In single-player, the player can opt for career mode or a quick race. The former spans 170 races grouped into four championships, which are further divided into events, each governing the rules and required vehicular class. At the start of career mode, only two off-road races and a single car with a basic configuration are available, but more vehicles, races, and other game modes are unlocked by completing races. The only means of progression is by placing in the top three, which also awards the player points for purchasing three different kit upgrades for a vehicle's five attributes of speed, acceleration, boost ability, off-roading, and durability, as well as tickets for buying a paint job. Placing better rewards more prize money. The boost ability for each vehicle is used to increase its speed. The boost gauge replenishes itself automatically. In the flag modes, carrying the flag disables the booster. Some of the In Quick Race mode, the player sets the location and rules and enters a race with those settings. |
Insane 2 | 75,686,273 | Gameplay | In multiplayer, a second player can join the first in split-screen (located in the single-player menu), provided the former has a gamepad controller, the only one supported being the Xbox 360 controller. In addition, one can connect to a server online with up to seven other human players or set up their own, where settings such as map, mode, required car class, and number of AI-controlled bots are defined by the host. |
Insane 2 | 75,686,273 | Development | The first Insane game was created by Invictus Games, a video game company based in Debrecen, Hungary. It was published for Microsoft Windows by Codemasters on November 24, 2000, as the launch title for its online service, the Codemasters Multiplayer Network, coinciding with the European launch of the PlayStation 2. Invictus had indicated in an interview with Hungarian online magazine PC Dome the possibility of a sequel by stating that it would continue using the game's style for future racing games. By 2007, Invictus had laid out ideas for the second game, but Codemasters, who owned the license to the Insane trademark, decided not to request the project yet. |
Insane 2 | 75,686,273 | Development | Plans to release Insane 2 were first announced in February 2009, when Codemasters licensed the Insane trademark to Russian developer Targem Games to develop the sequel. Codemasters also granted publishing rights to Game Factory Interactive for the upcoming title. The game's designer, Nikolai Seleznev, was interviewed by several Russian outlets. In one with Russian game magazine Igromania, he revealed that dynamics was factored in Targem's development. To increase the dynamics, the company decided to add the boost ability after much deliberation and changed the damage system so that parts would fly off and the only impact on a vehicle's performance is wheel loss. He also revealed that the levels were designed in a way that shorter routes would contain more obstacles. The obstacles include road trains, rail road transport, rhinoceroses, and stray lightning bolts that threaten to strike the racer's vehicle. In another interview with km.ru, Seleznev continued that the developers strove for a balance between dynamics and realistic car physics. In a third interview, he told GameScope that he was not able to contact Invictus Games for creative input, so his team instead examined the original game in detail and read contemporaneous reviews. An in-house proprietary game engine was chosen for the convenience of the development environment, and tracks were ordered from youth musical groups. The original announcement stated that the game was to be released in 2010, but it was moved to a year later since that year the team was coordinating the vehicles' appearance and doing further work on multiplayer mode. |
Insane 2 | 75,686,273 | Development | Insane 2 was first published in retail on September 30, 2011, being soon distributed through GamersGate on October 6. It was subsequently released on the digital platform Steam on January 24, 2012. |
Insane 2 | 75,686,273 | Reception | Critic reviews of Insane 2 were mixed. The Czech division of Eurogamer generally praised the artificial intelligence and was impressed with the game setting low hardware requirements and still delivering a level of graphics the publication deemed sufficient, but felt that the vehicles were lightweight and the sound effects and music unimpressive, and criticized the lack of a speedometer or rear-view mirror in the user interface and the presence of only two camera angles. It concluded that the shift to an action-packed and arcade-like formula might repel fans of the original Insane, recommending that it be purchased only at a discount from the introductory price of €28. GameStar lauded the risk-versus-reward aspect of the maps' open nature, the split-screen multiplayer mode, and also the AI, but considered the driving to be unchallenging and the maps to be missing landmarks or sights. |
Insane 2 | 75,686,273 | Reception | One of the most positive reviews came from the Romanian edition of Level, which praised the vast expanses of wrapped land and varied selection of vehicles, graphics and soundtrack, game modes such as Capture The Flag, and local and online multiplayer. However, it also criticized the AI, an unpolished user interface, the potential for the music to turn repetitive, and the lack of local area network support, and also noted a dearth of servers at the time of the review, but the magazine concluded that "Insane remains at least as fun as its venerable predecessor and brings crazy, fun racing back to PC that is hard to put down." Another rather positive review is by the Italian magazine The Games Machine, which praised the level design and variety of game modes, despite missing one called "freeride". |
Insane 2 | 75,686,273 | Reception | Igromania found the program easy to learn, but otherwise thought that the game lacked originality and should have run on Codemasters' own Ego engine. 4Players praised the Pursuit game mode, described the scenery as "idyllic", and noted fast menus and short loading times, but grew bored of single-player mode after about 20 rounds and was not immersed into the game by the handling. gram.pl [pl] summarized the production of Insane 2 as uneven. It characterized the game modes as varied but repetitive and lacking randomness, the locations as large but with scarce elements in between areas, the car tuning as modest, and career mode as lengthy but too easy. It also criticized the audiovisual department overall as substandard, but praised the weather effects. |
Insane 2 | 75,686,273 | Reception | Hungarian sources were also mixed, who expressed their preference for the first Insane game. While praising the size and visibility of the locations and lighting, PC Guru criticized the maps for their smooth surfaces and damage modeling of the vehicles, though not the vehicular models themselves, observed bugs in the AI in game modes demanding its capabilities, noted only slight improvements in vehicles with upgrades purchased, and concluded, "Unfortunately, Insane 2 became an uninteresting sequel that terribly lacks the physical modeling and AI system put together by Invictus, which turned the [original] game into such lovable entertainment." The Hungarian edition of GameStar also praised the vehicles, along with the graphics, which it described as "really average, but in a rather positive way," but found that, after three races, the game gradually turned boring and annoying, reporting many instances of the AI-controlled racers quickly appearing in areas in physically impossible ways and that the AI in Pursuit mode had an upper hand of knowing the course of the helicopter's spotlight in the first lap. PC Dome praised the music and diversity of terrain, but thought the sound department was weak, in part due to the lack of a commentator (who was given a voice for the Hungarian localization of the original game), criticized the lack of a track generator, and negatively compared the vehicular physics to Burnout Paradise as an aberration from the quasi-realistic physics of the original game. Conversely, Game Channel, which disliked the idea of a non-Hungarian studio taking up development of a sequel to a native game, disparagingly called the music "peasant disco" and likened the visuals to a Need for Speed title from around 2005. It also found the speed of cars to be middling even with the use of nitro and the physics inconsistent and at odds with the arcade style of the game, due to the topography of the maps, but it did praise the Pursuit mode and the progression system. |
Fernanda Farias de Albuquerque | 75,686,275 | Fernanda Farias De Albuquerque also known by her pseudonym Princesa, (22 May 1963 – 13 May 2000), was a Brazilian trans woman and author. |
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Fernanda Farias de Albuquerque | 75,686,275 | Biography | She was born Alagoa Grande in the Brazilian countryside, and grew up without her father in a family in economic difficulty. At the age of seven she was sexually abused and, shortly thereafter, ran away from her maternal home. After a brief job as a chef's assistant, she entered into sex work in Brazil's cities under the pseudonym Princesa. In 1988, following a short stay in Spain, she moved to Italy. She continues her sex work the streets of Milan and becomes addicted to heroin. She later moved to Rome. In 1990, he attacked a procurer who allegedly stole money from her and who reported her for attempted murder. She is arrested and interned in Rebibbia prison, where she learns that she is HIV positive. In prison, she met Giovanni Tamponi, a Sardinian shepherd sentenced to life imprisonment. The two exchange notebooks, written in a mixture of Portuguese, Sardinian and Italian. |
Fernanda Farias de Albuquerque | 75,686,275 | Biography | At Tamponi's suggestion, she begins to write her story to the director and journalist Maurizio Iannelli [it], who was also detained in the same prison, and promoter of some literary projects among the prisoners. With his help, he writes his own autobiographical novel Princesa [it]. In 1994 the book was published by Sensibili alle foglie [it], a publishing co-operative of Renato Curcio, a former member of the Red Brigades militant group. The presentation of her books at at the Turin GLBT Film Festival [it] and the presence of Curcio at the festival was opposed by the relatives of those killed by the Red Brigades, which led to De Albuquerque not attending the festival. The book was re-published by Club degli Editori [it] and Marco Tropea Editore [it] and subsequently translated into Portuguese, Spanish, German and Greek. The novel also inspired the song of the same name by Fabrizio De André (Princesa) in his final album Anime salve (1996) written with Ivano Fossati. |
Fernanda Farias de Albuquerque | 75,686,275 | Biography | For a short time, De Albuquerque was hired as a secretary in the Sensitivi alle Foglie publishing co-operative, but left her job "to go back to the sidewalk because that is my fun, my freedom, my victory". She also spent a very short period as a guest of the Community of San Benedetto at the Port of Genoa, directed by the streetwise priest Don Andrea Gallo. |
Fernanda Farias de Albuquerque | 75,686,275 | Biography | In 1997, she was the subject of the documentary film Le Strade di Princesa – ritratto di una trans molto speciale ("The Streets of Princesa – a portrait of a very special trans woman") by Stefano Consiglio. The documentary was selected at the Venice Film Festival and subsequently broadcast on Rai 2 and Telepiù [it]. |
Fernanda Farias de Albuquerque | 75,686,275 | Biography | After being expelled and repatriated to Brazil, she returned to Italy for a short period, until she died by suicide in Iesi in May 2000. |
Fernanda Farias de Albuquerque | 75,686,275 | Biography | In 2001, the film Princesa was released at the cinema, directed by Henrique Goldman [wikidata] and based on the autobiographical book by De Albuquerque. |
Louis Stephenson (footballer) | 75,686,332 | Louis Stephenson (born 10 October 2005) is a professional footballer who plays as a defender for National League side Hartlepool United. |
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Louis Stephenson (footballer) | 75,686,332 | Career | Stephenson began his playing career at Hartlepool United and made his first appearance an FA Cup second round victory over Harrogate Town on 26 November 2022. |
Louis Stephenson (footballer) | 75,686,332 | Career | On 12 December 2023, Stephenson scored his goal in professional football in a 5–1 win in the FA Trophy away to City of Liverpool. Later that month, he made his league appearance against Oldham Athletic. He followed this up by signing his first professional contract with the club on 29 December 2023. |
Kowsar Ali | 75,686,388 | Kowsar Ali (Bengali: কাওসার আলী; born 20 November 1958) is a former Bangladeshi national football and hockey player and coach. |
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Kowsar Ali | 75,686,388 | Early life | Kowsar Ali is a graduate from Jashore Zilla School. |
Kowsar Ali | 75,686,388 | Career | Ali began his football career with the Jessore District team in 1974 and continued to represent the team for twelve consecutive years, helping them win the National Football Championship in 1976. He made debuted in the Dhaka League with Wari Club in 1975. He also joined Bangladesh's biggest club at the time, Mohammedan SC in 1977. |
Kowsar Ali | 75,686,388 | Career | After representing Bangladesh U19 in the 1977 and 1978 editions of the AFC Youth Championship, he was included in the senior national squad for the 1978 Asian Games, in Bangkok. In the following year, he was part of the team which finished group runners-up in the 1980 AFC Asian Cup qualifiers on home soil to qualify for the 1980 AFC Asian Cup in Kuwait. In the main tournament he made his only appearance as a substitute against Iran during a 7–0 defeat. |
Kowsar Ali | 75,686,388 | Career | Ali enjoyed his most successfull year in 1979, as he helped Team BJMC lift the Dhaka League title. During the season, his midfield partnership with Milon Karmakar Basu was heavily applauded as one of the main factors in the club's success. He eventually served as the football and hockey coach of Wari Club from 1985 to 1987 following his retirement. |
Kowsar Ali | 75,686,388 | Career | Ali represented Dhaka University in the National Hockey Championship under its sports quota from 1977 to 1979. He previously began his hockey career alongside football in 1974 with the Jessore District team. In 1977 he played for the Bangladesh national field hockey team during three test matches against visiting Sri Lanka. Ali was also a runner-up in the National Championship with Jessore in 1982. In the domestic league, he represented three runner-up Wari Club teams in the First Division Hockey League. |
Kowsar Ali | 75,686,388 | Career | In 1986, he joined BKSP as a hockey coach, during which he also served as the coach of Dhaka District and Patuakhali District various times in the National Hockey Championship. He won the National Championship a total of eighteen times as a coach and later served as the head coach of the entire BKSP hockey division. |
Kowsar Ali | 75,686,388 | Career | In domestic hockey, he found success with both Mohammedan and Abahani Limited, winning the 2010 Dhaka Premier Division Hockey League with the latter. In 2005, he served as the head coach of the Myanmar national under-21 hockey team for two months. Under his guidance, the Bangladesh youth national team qualified for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, and previously, his BKSP team lifted India's prestigious Nehru Hockey tournament title in 2005. |
Kowsar Ali | 75,686,388 | Career | Ali was also a member of the Bangladesh Hockey Federation in 2013. He served as a member of the federation's Development Committee, a coaches course coordinator, and the president of the coaching committee. In addition to this, Ali has served as a member of the development and education committee and as part of the governance panel of the Asian Hockey Federation. On 19 November 2017, he concluded his 31-year-long career as the chief hockey coach of BKSP. |
Kowsar Ali | 75,686,388 | Honours | Jessore District |
Kowsar Ali | 75,686,388 | Honours | Team BJMC |
Kowsar Ali | 75,686,388 | Honours | Bangladesh Navy |
Kowsar Ali | 75,686,388 | Honours | Mohammedan SC |
Kowsar Ali | 75,686,388 | Honours | Abahani Limited Dhaka |
Dialogi | 75,686,389 | Dialogi (Slovene: Dialogues) is a bimonthly cultural magazine which has been in circulation since 1965. The magazine is based in Maribor, Slovenia. |
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Dialogi | 75,686,389 | History and profile | Dialogi was established in Maribor in 1965. The founding company was Obzorje Publishing House. The magazine covered both literary work and culture-oriented articles until 1994 when the Aristej Publishing House began to publish it. Since then Dialogi has included materials addressing both Slovenian and international readers. Its content mostly contain articles on civil society and culture. The magazine features thematic issues in addition to original and translated fiction. It also publishes poems. The summary of the articles are given in English. |
Dialogi | 75,686,389 | History and profile | Dialogi appeared on a monthly basis from 1994, and later, its frequency was switched to bimonthly. As of 2018 Emica Antončič was the editor-in-chief of the magazine which has been a member of the Eurozine since April 1999. |
Cecil Timmins | 75,686,405 | Cecil Morley Joseph Barry Timmins 6 May 1926 – January 2004) was an English first-class cricketer and an officer in the British Indian Army. |
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Cecil Timmins | 75,686,405 | Timmins was born at Falmouth in May 1926, one of nine children of Cecil Timmins senior and his wife, Violet. They were the proprietors of the Star and Garter public house in Falmouth. Timmins served in the latter stages of the Second World War as a private with the Queen's Royal Regiment, prior to gaining a commission as a second lieutenant in British Indian Army in August 1945, a month prior to the end of the war. Following the end of the war, Timmins played in a first-class cricket match in December 1945 for the Europeans cricket team against the Indians at Madras in the Madras Presidency Match. Following Indian Independence in 1947, Timmins remained in India. He made a second appearance in first-class cricket in the 1952–53 Ranji Trophy for Travancore-Cochin against Mysore at Trivandrum. Timmins struggled across both of his first-class matches, scoring 12 runs from four innings, with a highest score of 5. Timmins later returned to England, where he died at Falmouth in January 2004. |
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2018 NCAA Division I women's soccer championship game | 75,686,419 | The 2018 NCAA Division I women's soccer championship game (also known as the 2018 NCAA Division I Women's College Cup) was played on December 8, 2018, at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina, and determined the winner of the 2018 NCAA Division I women's soccer tournament, the national collegiate women's soccer championship in the United States. This was the 37th. edition of this tournament organised by the NCAA. |
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2018 NCAA Division I women's soccer championship game | 75,686,419 | The match featured Florida State (20–4–3), which played its 4th. final, and University of North Carolina (21–4–2), which made its 25th. appearance in the final. Florida State defeated North Carolina 1–0 to win its second NCAA women's soccer title, with a goal scored by Dallas Dorosy in the 60th minute after an assistance by Deyna Castellanos. |
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2018 NCAA Division I women's soccer championship game | 75,686,419 | Road to the final | The NCAA Division I women's soccer tournament, sometimes known as the College Cup, is an American intercollegiate soccer tournament conducted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and determines the Division I women's national champion. The tournament has been formally held since 1982, when it was an twelve-team tournament. |
2018 NCAA Division I women's soccer championship game | 75,686,419 | References | cha final Category:2018 in sports in North Carolina Category:December 2018 sports events in the United States Category:2018 in American women's soccer Category:Florida State Seminoles women's soccer Category:North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer |
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African Dominion | 75,686,438 | African Dominion | African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa focuses on the regions surrounding the Middle Niger Valley. It can be thought of as tracing the rise and fall of empire as a form of local political organization in West Africa, culminating in the Songhay Empire; thus it primarily covers the millennium from the mid-sixth century to 1591 CE, when Songhay came under Moroccan rule. |
African Dominion | 75,686,438 | African Dominion | The book was the subject of the first "review round table" to be published by The American Historical Review, in which four different reviews of the book were published in the same volume, along with a response from the author. Another round table discussing the book was held during the November 2019 African Studies Association conference, where discussants were Bruce Hall, Chouki El Hamel, Ousmane Kane and Jan Jansen; the Association awarded the book a prize in the same year. |
African Dominion | 75,686,438 | Summary | The book comprises fourteen chapters, plus a prologue and epilogue. |
African Dominion | 75,686,438 | Summary | Chapter 1, "The Middle Niger in Pre-antiquity and Global Context", argues that the academic discipline of World History has overlooked Africa and instead presents the Middle Niger region as one whose history is an important component of the medieval World System through its interactions with North Africa and the Middle East. |
African Dominion | 75,686,438 | Summary | Concisely surveying prehistory back to around 7000 BCE, the chapter presents the region "as an archetypical riverain geopolitical core for the complex panoply of events to follow", and takes its story to the emergence of the Ghana Empire around 300 CE. |
African Dominion | 75,686,438 | Summary | Chapter 2, "Early Gao", challenges an existing grand narrative that has focused on a succession of three empires: Ghana, Mali and Songhay. While agreeing with much past research on Gao, Gomez argues that the Gao Empire was more important than researchers have recognised, that Gao was West Africa's first city-state, and that it provided the model for the Ghana Empire. The chapter focuses on archaeological evidence (alongside the writing of al-Yaʾqūbī), and uses the settlement of Jenne-Jeno as a case-study from the geographical heartland of the Middle Niger for tracing trade networks and political links between the Sahel, the Savannah, and the Middle East. |
African Dominion | 75,686,438 | Summary | Chapter 3, "The Kingdoms of Ghana: Reform Along the Senegal River", positions Ghana not as an empire but as one strong kingdom with tributary kingdoms. It brings written sources to the fore, and argues that this dominion was probably integrated into the societies and economies of the Mediterranean basin already in the early Middle Ages. Gomez argues that the emergence of the Almoravid dynasty, their eleventh-century conquest of northern part of Africa's Atlantic coast, and the rise of the state of Takrur are indicative of a wave of Sunni, fundamentalist Islam in the Middle Niger. A traditional dominance of gold as a medium of trade persisted in the west of the empire, but the east saw the emergence of a major trade in slaves by a now Muslim Sahelian elite, partly via Kanem and the Fezzan. |
African Dominion | 75,686,438 | Summary | Chapter 4, "Slavery and Race Imagined in Bilād as-Sūdān", "situates West Africa within the wider context of racial thought, both within the region and externally, and of regional slavery". Gomez positions the eleventh century as a turning point in the identity of what in Arabic was called Bilād al-Sūdān, and in Arabic conceptions of race and its relationship with slavery. Gomez defines race for his purposes as "the culturally orchestrated, socially sanctioned disaggregation and reformulation of the human species into broad, hierarchical categories reflecting purported respective levels of capacity, propensity, and beauty, and in ways often tethered to phenotypic expression". The term Bilād al-Sūdān, literally "country of the Sūdān", that is sub-Saharan Black people, was adopted by medieval Arab geographers very early. Gomez contends that the rise of trans-Saharan trade was accompanied by a concomitant process associating the Sūdān ever more closely with slaves, arguing that the notion of Bilād al-Sūdān was a "racialization of space". |
African Dominion | 75,686,438 | Summary | This part of the book examines the development of the Mali Empire, viewed by Gomez as an urban empire that went on to conquer neighbouring regions. Gomez "analyzes the relationship between central authority and provinces, emerging relationships with Islam, social transformations among the freeborn, caste groups and slaves, and new gender dynamics. He suggests that these elements became the backbone of 'a model of statecraft that was both hierarchical and evolving'". |
African Dominion | 75,686,438 | Summary | Chapter 5, "The Meanings of Sunjata and the Dawn of Imperial Mali", focuses on Mali's legendary dynastic founder Sunjata. The chapter marks the entry of oral-derived sources into the study, relying to a significant extent on the oral-derived Epic of Sunjata. |
African Dominion | 75,686,438 | Summary | Chapter 6, "Mansā Mūsā and Global Mali", focuses on Mansā Mūsā and his famous pilgrimage to Mecca, which generated an extensive body of primary sources commenting on Mali from outside that empire, not least by Ibn Khaldūn. Gomez positions this as the moment when Mali "went global". |
African Dominion | 75,686,438 | Summary | Chapter 7, "Intrigue, Islam, and Ibn Baṭṭūṭa", contemplates the eyewitness account of Mali by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, and in particular the workings of dynastic succession and elite ligitimation within the Mande community of Mali. Gomez argues that both Islam and slavery became progressively more embedded in imperial Mali's culture and economy, facilited by the introduction of cowrie currency. |
African Dominion | 75,686,438 | Summary | Chapter 8, "Sunni ʿAlī and the Reinvention of Songhay", explores the rise of Songhay, and particularly the violence and terror of Sunni ʿAlī, its founder. It argues that key economic and political structures of the Mali Empire were perpetuated by Songhay, with Gao re-emerging as a political centre. |
African Dominion | 75,686,438 | Summary | Chapter 9, "The Sunni and the Scholars: A Tale of Revenge", focuses on the Arabic-language West-African writing which constitutes the key source material for Songhay rests, and the Muslim holy men who created it. This chapter analysis of two of Gomez's key primary sources, the West-African chronicles Tārīkh al-Sūdān (c. 1652, by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿImrān al-Saʾdī) and Taʾrīkh al-fattāsh (c. 1519–1665, attributed to Maḥmūd Kaʾti), which focus on the rise and fall of imperial Songhay. |
African Dominion | 75,686,438 | Summary | Chapter 10, "Renaissance: The Age of Askia al-Ḥājj Muḥammad", focuses on the Songhay Empire at its height, arguing that during this period people began to identify ethnically with the Songhay state over other group identities". According to Amir Syed, Gomez argues that whereas Sunni ʿAlī "'would embark upon a strategy of attacking one community of scholars associated with his political nemesis, while embracing an alternative group of more neutral elites'", Askia al-Ḥājj Muḥammad was part of a "'renaissance' that reestablished the importance of urban centers, and 'reconnections with polities and luminaries in the central Islamic lands'". |
African Dominion | 75,686,438 | Summary | Chapter 11, "Of Clerics and Concubines", revises previous readings of well known primary sources to emphasise the importance of holy men of Mori Koyra at the expense of Jenne and Timbuktu, a reading of the competing interests of religion, politics, and commerce that emphasises the power of the state and of spirituality at the expense of the learned clerisy. The chapter explores the concubinage practices of the elite and the role of the increasingly large number of eunuchs in imperial service. |
African Dominion | 75,686,438 | Summary | Chapter 12, "Of Fitnas and Fratricide: The Nadir of Imperial Songhay" focuses on the twenty years of civil strife and chaos following the toppling of Askia al-Ḥājj Muḥammad's reign. |
African Dominion | 75,686,438 | Summary | Chapter 13, "Surfeit and Stability: The Era of Askia Dāwūd", focuses on the last successful ruler of Songhay, Askia Dāwūd, who reigned for thirty-four years. In the summary of Amir Syed, |
African Dominion | 75,686,438 | Summary | while this ruler brought a modicum of peace, Gomez also suggests that he significantly expanded domestic slavery (334). He argues that even though slavery was significant throughout West African history, it is only under Askia Dāwūd that Songhay became a 'slave society in every sense of the concept' (354). Here Gomez details the transfiguration of social relationship and power of slave holders over slaves. This intensification of slavery, however, also created space for servile groups close to ruling elites to gain and wield significant power (350–351). |
African Dominion | 75,686,438 | Summary | Chapter 14, "The Rending Asunder: Dominion's End", concludes Gomez's chronological history with the Moroccan invasion of Songhay in 1591 and the associated internal divisions within Songhay. Gomez positions the collapse of the empire as the end of a millennium-long period of empire in West Africa. |
African Dominion | 75,686,438 | Summary | The reviewer Ousmane Kane noted "the absence of a conclusion. [...] The fourteenth and last chapters of the book address the collapse of the Songhay Empire following the Saadian invasion. An unexpected epilogue of three pages or so starts with a discussion of the Malian crisis of 2012, without a clear indication of how this is connected to a history of empires ending with the collapse of the Songhay Empire". |
African Dominion | 75,686,438 | Reception | Surveying responses to the book, Hadrien Collet found that "il est possible d’observer deux tendances globalement parallèles quant à la réception du livre. D’un côté, le milieu des chercheurs spécialistes du Moyen Âge africain s’est montré assez sévère, d’un autre côté, la critique historienne états-unienne, africaniste ou plus généraliste, a salué un livre nécessaire et indispensable" ("it is possible to observe two generally parallel trends in the reception of the book. On the one hand, the community of researchers specializing in the African Middle Ages has been quite severe; on the other, American, Africanist, and more generalist historical criticism has praised a necessary and indispensable book"). Collet found the book unusual in presenting a grand narrative for a large region over a long period, despite the extremely patchy evidence, an approach which he thought perhaps inevitably led to overlooking some recent secondary literature and subtleties of source criticism; Georgi Asatryan even compared the book's approach to Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. |
African Dominion | 75,686,438 | Reception | A key criticism from specialists was what they viewed as Gomez's insufficiently rigorous source criticism, particularly regarding the Taʾrīkh al-fattāsh, and cursory use of epigraphic evidence, concerns which formed the main part of Gomez's response to the American Historial Review coverage of the book. |
African Dominion | 75,686,438 | Reception | Reviewers also noted the limitations of the book's scope. Adam Simmons observed that "perhaps inevitably for a book that forms only about 60 per cent of what Gomez intended to be a two-volume work (p. vii), the book does omit some significant material. While it does not claim to be an imperial history ‘of’ West Africa, readers should be aware that its focus largely excludes expansive and specialised discussion of the surrounding regions of the Middle Niger Valley—unless seen from the viewpoint of a Middle Niger polity". The scope of the study is political, with relatively little attention to religion as such or to art. |
African Dominion | 75,686,438 | Reception | Ghislaine Lydon viewed Gomez's emphasis on women one of the work's most important historiographical contributions. |
The Best Ten | 75,686,493 | The Best Ten (ザ・ベストテン, Za Besuto Ten), was a Japanese music television program. Broadcast live weekly on Thursday on TBS Television from 1978 until 1989. During its broadcast history, air time and day has changed only once and in total 4 male presenters, remaining from the beginning until the end one and only female presenter, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi. The program is also colloquially known as Best Ten (ベストテン, Besuto Ten). |
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The Best Ten | 75,686,493 | During its broadcast time since 1978, numerous of music television programs, including Fuji TV's music program Yoru no Hit Studio (夜のヒットスタジオ, Yoru no Hitto Sutajio) which started broadcast 10 years earlier, in 1968, were already popular and well known by the all over Japan. The popularity and view ranting ship raised very quickly. |
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The Best Ten | 75,686,493 | In May 2010, Oricon Style published the results of the national survey of "Music programs that I would like to see revived", The Best Ten placed first place. In November 2023, news website Shunkan Josei Prime published the same survey, The Best Ten placed to first place, regaining on the same place as in 2010 survey charts. The surveyors answered the reason behind revival for "excitement of the weekly new charts, its original ranking system, entertaining presenters and memorable outdoor performances". |
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The Best Ten | 75,686,493 | The program has been re-broadcast on the cable television channel TBS Channel 2 in 2020 and 2022. The order of broadcasting was chosen based on the high view ranting and popularity. According to the article published on news website Sponichi in 2020, one of the reasons for the re-broadcast decision was for the younger generation having interest in Kayoukyoku music, referring to the japanese phenomenon "Kayoukyoku Boom" (歌謡ブーム). Partial reason was the Kayokyoku special episode of Matsuko no Shiranai Sekai hosted by Matsuko Deluxe, which broadcast on the same year. |
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