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The Phoenix Suns are an American professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. They compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA), as a member of the league's Western Conference Pacific Division. The Suns are the only team in their division not to be based in California, and play their home games at the Footprint Center. The franchise began play in 1968 as an expansion team, and their early years were shrouded in mediocrity, but their fortunes changed in the 1970s after partnering Dick Van Arsdale and Alvan Adams with Paul Westphal; the team reached the 1976 NBA Finals, in what is considered to be one of the biggest upsets in NBA history. However, after failing to capture a championship, the Suns would rebuild around Walter Davis for a majority of the 1980s, until the acquisition of Kevin Johnson in 1988. Under Johnson, and after trading for perennial NBA All-Star Charles Barkley, and combined with the output of Tom Chambers and Dan Majerle, the Suns reached the playoffs for a franchise-record thirteen consecutive appearances and remained a regular title contender throughout the 1990s, and reached the 1993 NBA Finals. However, the team would again fail to win a championship, and entered into another period of mediocrity until the early part of the 2000s. In 2004, the Suns signed free agent Steve Nash (who had blossomed for the Dallas Mavericks after being traded from Phoenix six years earlier), and returned into playoff contention. With Nash, Shawn Marion, and Amar'e Stoudemire, and under head coach Mike D'Antoni, the Suns became renowned worldwide for their quick, dynamic offense, which led them to tie a franchise record in wins in the 2004–05 season. Two more top two Conference placements followed, but the Suns again failed to attain an NBA championship, and were forced into another rebuild. After ten consecutive seasons without a playoff berth, the Suns reached the 2021 NBA Finals after acquiring Chris Paul, forming a trio with their young core Devin Booker and Deandre Ayton. The Suns own the NBA's seventh-best all-time winning percentage, and have the second highest winning percentage of any team to have never won an NBA championship. 10 Hall of Famers have played for Phoenix, while two — Barkley and Nash — won NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) while playing for the team.

The Koma language is a language cluster belonging to the Duru branch of Savannas languages of Cameroon. Blench (2004) includes three varieties separated in Ethnologue, Koma Ndera, Gɨmne, and Gɨmnɨme; within Koma Ndera, speakers of the marginal dialects, Gomnome and Ndera, can scarcely understand one another, though both understand the central dialect, Gomme.

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The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is an unrecognized Islamic state that was first established in September 1996 by the Taliban, a Deobandi Islamist militant organization that began its governance of Afghanistan after the 1996 fall of Kabul. The group stayed in power until 2001, when it was toppled by a United States-led military coalition that invaded the country after the September 11 attacks, sparking the 20-year-long War in Afghanistan. The Taliban returned to power and re-established the Islamic Emirate after the 2021 fall of Kabul and has since had de facto control over most of the country. The original 1996–2001 Taliban-led government existed as a partially recognized state, being recognized only by Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. It operated as a theocracy ruled by a Deobandi interpretation of Islamic religious law (Sharia) in accordance with the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence and the religious edicts of the group's founding leader, Mohammed Omar. Opposition to liberal democracy, secularism, and the Western world—particularly to the United States and Israel—was strongly promoted. Several cultural and recreational activities were banned as haram. Women and girls were forbidden to attend schools and universities and largely banned from working; they were also required to observe the practice of purdah and to be accompanied by mahram male relatives at all times if outside of their households. If women broke certain rules, they would be punished through whippings or execution. The five obligatory Islamic daily prayers (salah) were made compulsory and enforced by law for all Muslims, and those who did not abide were arrested. Non-Sunni Muslim minorities such as Christians, Shia Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs and Hindus faced widespread religious discrimination and cultural genocide as well as other forms of persecution during this period. The Taliban also destroyed numerous monuments and historical artifacts, such as the 1,500-year-old Buddhas of Bamiyan. Following the declaration of a "War on Terror" by the United States after the September 11 attacks by al-Qaeda in 2001, international opposition to the Taliban regime running the Islamic Emirate drastically increased, and the only remaining diplomatic recognition by Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates was rescinded under growing pressure. The 2001 United States-led invasion of Afghanistan occurred after the Taliban refused to comply with the Bush administration's ultimatum that demanded the group extradite al-Qaeda leader and September 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden. The end of the Battle of Tora Bora on 17 December 2001 marked the effective overthrow of the Islamic Emirate by the Northern Alliance, which had been greatly bolstered by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) that was established after the American invasion two months prior; this led to the Taliban's withdrawal from much of the country and the eventual formation of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Despite operating as an insurgency, the Taliban continued to refer to itself as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in all of its official communications from its overthrow in December 2001 until its return to power in August 2021. During the 2021 scheduled withdrawal of American and NATO troops, the Taliban launched a massive military offensive in May 2021, and rapidly took back control over Afghanistan in the following three and a half months; the Afghan Armed Forces quickly disintegrated in the wake of the Taliban advance, and the Islamic Republic collapsed entirely on 15 August 2021, when Taliban forces entered and seized the capital and largest city of Kabul. Members of the Afghan government surrendered and most of the Afghan leadership fled the country. The rapid collapse of the government in the face of Taliban forces was widely interpreted to be indicative of broader trends globally; including the rising influence and power of Islamism in the Middle East, the growing draw of illiberal models of governance, and supposed American decline. Many people became trapped in the wake of the rapid and unexpected collapse of the Afghan government, triggering a massive evacuation crisis, with tens of thousands of American citizens and other allies left stranded inside Taliban-controlled regions. On 17 August, the leader of the Taliban-affiliated Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin party, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, met with both Hamid Karzai, the former President of Afghanistan, and Abdullah Abdullah, the chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation and former Chief Executive, in Doha, Qatar, with the aim of forming a government (though it is unclear whether either Karzai or Abdullah will be directly involved in any such government). President Ashraf Ghani, having fled the country during the Taliban advance to either Tajikistan or Uzbekistan, emerged in the United Arab Emirates and said that he supported such negotiations and was in talks to return to Afghanistan. Although no government has recognized the re-established Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan as of 18 August 2021, the governments of China, Pakistan, Russia and Saudi Arabia have stated that they may recognize a Taliban government. The United Kingdom and Canada have stated that they will not recognize Taliban rule over Afghanistan.
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Pin Ups (also referred to as Pinups and Pin-Ups) is the seventh studio album by English musician David Bowie, released in October 1973 by RCA Records. It is a covers album, featuring songs by bands such as the Pretty Things, the Who, the Yardbirds and Pink Floyd. Like his two previous albums, it was produced by Bowie and Ken Scott and features contributions from two members of Bowie's backing band the Spiders from Mars – Mick Ronson and Trevor Bolder; Mick Woodmansey was replaced by Aynsley Dunbar on drums. It was recorded in July and August 1973 at the Château d'Hérouville in Hérouville, France. Preceded by his cover of the McCoys' song "Sorrow", Pin Ups peaked at number one on the UK Albums Chart, bringing the total number of Bowie albums concurrently on the UK chart to six. However, since its release, the album has received generally unfavorable reviews from music critics, many of whom criticised the songs as generally inferior to their original counterparts. It was remastered in 2015 as part of the box set Five Years (1969–1973).

In 2020 and 2021, several protests were held in the U.S. city of Minneapolis that coincided with judicial proceedings and the criminal trial of Derek Chauvin. As an officer with the Minneapolis Police Department, Chauvin was charged with the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed African American man who died during an arrest incident on May 25, 2020. A bystander's video captured Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck for over nine minutes while Floyd struggled to breathe, lost conscious, and died. Local government officials surrounded a downtown Minneapolis courthouse building that was the venue for the proceedings with a temporary concrete barrier, metal fencing, and barbed wire in anticipation of civil disorder. Demonstrations grew in size during Chauvin's criminal trial that commenced on March 8

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Vanganoor, also known as Vanganur, is a panchayat in Pallipattu taluk, Tiruvallur district, Tamil Nadu, India.

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Preppie! is an action video game for the Atari 8-bit family published by Adventure International in 1982. Developer Russ Wetmore's name is prominently displayed on the box cover. Leaning on the preppy trend of the early 1980s, the game follows prep schooler Wadsworth Overcash as he navigates the hazards of a country club to retrieve golf balls. Preppie! borrows heavily from Konami's Frogger, with lanes of traffic in the bottom half of the screen and a river at the top. Alligators are an element from both Frogger and preppy fashion; an open-mouthed gator is the icon of shirt brand Izod. Reviewers recognized the game as derivative, but called the music and visuals some of the best for Atari 8-bit computers.

Leonardo Bonucci (Italian pronunciation: [leoˈnardo boˈnuttʃi]; born 1 May 1987) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Serie A club Juventus and the Italy national team. After beginning his career with Inter Milan in 2005, Bonucci spent the next few seasons on loan at Treviso and Pisa, before moving to Bari in 2009. His technique, ball-playing ability and defensive performances alongside fellow Italian centre-back Andrea Ranocchia earned him a move to Juventus the following season, where he later became a key member of the club's three-man defensive line, alongside Giorgio Chiellini and Andrea Barzagli, establishing himself as one of the best defenders in world football. Among other titles, he went on to win six consecutive Serie A titles with the team between 2012 and 2017, having also played two UEFA Champions League finals in 2015 and 2017. In 2017, he moved to AC Milan, and one season later returned to Juventus, winning two more consecutive league titles. At international level, Bonucci has made over 100 caps since his senior debut in 2010, representing Italy at two FIFA World Cups (2010 and 2014), three European Championships (2012, 2016 and 2020), and a FIFA Confederations Cup (2013); he won Euro 2020, earned a runners-up medal at Euro 2012, and a third-place medal at the 2013 Confederations Cup. Bonucci has also won several individual honours for his performances: he was named to the UEFA Europa League Squad of the season during the 2013–14 and 2017–18 seasons, and is a four-time member of the Serie A Team of the Year. He was named the Serie A Footballer of the Year in 2016, and was also included in the UEFA Team of the Year in the same season. In 2017, he was also included in the FIFA FIFPro World11 and the IFFHS Men's World Team, as well as the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League Team of the Season and the 2016–17 ESM Team of the Year.

Euro Shopper
Euro Shopper is a discount brand of everyday commodities developed and marketed by . It was introduced to the market in 1996 and branded products have been sold by some of the AMS members in different countries in Europe ever since. In all stores owned by the Dutch Ahold group, all Euro-Shopper products are completely phasing out to become AH Basic. Most Euro Shopper products are commodities with long shelf life. There are both national products, sold in only one country, and international products, sold in all countries. On 10 December 2012, sales of Euro Shopper products hit £150m.

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This is a list of famous and notable people from Goa, India. This list includes Goans and persons of Goan origin who are known to a large number of people, and not based on the extent of their popularity. Neither is the list viewed from the context of the present. Their fame could be brief; what matters is that they were well known during the peak of their popularity. The names are arranged in alphabetical order in their respective categories.

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Victor of Hesse-Rotenburg (Victor Amadeus; 2 September 1779 – 12 November 1834) was the last Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg and the Prince of Corvey from 1815 and Duke of Ratibor from 1821. His namesake was his second cousin King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia.

Preppie! is an action video game for the Atari 8-bit family published by Adventure International in 1982. Developer Russ Wetmore's name is prominently displayed on the box cover. Leaning on the preppy trend of the early 1980s, the game follows prep schooler Wadsworth Overcash as he navigates the hazards of a country club to retrieve golf balls. Preppie! borrows heavily from Konami's Frogger, with lanes of traffic in the bottom half of the screen and a river at the top. Alligators are an element from both Frogger and preppy fashion; an open-mouthed gator is the icon of shirt brand Izod. Reviewers recognized the game as derivative, but called the music and visuals some of the best for Atari 8-bit computers. Preppie! was followed by a maze game, Preppie! II, from the same author in 1983. In January 2016, Russ Wetmore released the source code for both games.

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Leonardo Bonucci (Italian pronunciation: [leoˈnardo boˈnuttʃi]; born 1 May 1987) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Serie A club Juventus and the Italy national team. At international level, Bonucci has made over 100 caps since his senior debut in 2010, representing Italy at two FIFA World Cups (2010 and 2014), three European Championships (2012, 2016 and 2020), and a FIFA Confederations Cup (2013); he won Euro 2020, earned a runners-up medal at Euro 2012, and a third-place medal at the 2013 Confederations Cup.

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The Phoenix Suns are an American professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. They compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA), as a member of the league's Western Conference Pacific Division. The Suns are the only team in their division not to be based in California, and play their home games at the Footprint Center.

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Pin Ups (also referred to as Pinups and Pin-Ups) is the seventh studio album by English musician David Bowie, released in October 1973 by RCA Records. It is a covers album, featuring songs by bands such as the Pretty Things, the Who, the Yardbirds and Pink Floyd. Like his two previous albums, it was produced by Bowie and Ken Scott and features contributions from two members of Bowie's backing band the Spiders from Mars – Mick Ronson and Trevor Bolder; Mick Woodmansey was replaced by Aynsley Dunbar on drums. It was recorded in July and August 1973 at the Château d'Hérouville in Hérouville, France.

The Star of Life is a blue, six-pointed star, outlined with a white border and usually featuring the Rod of Asclepius in the center. The Star of Life symbol is currently governed by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Transportation (DOT). It is now a recognized symbol of Emergency Medical Services in multiple countries.

February 26 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - February 28 All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 12 (March 11 on leap years) by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For February 27th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 14.

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is an unrecognized Islamic state that was first established in September 1996 by the Taliban, a Deobandi Islamist militant organization that began its governance of Afghanistan after the 1996 fall of Kabul. The group stayed in power until 2001, when it was toppled by a United States-led military coalition that invaded the country after the September 11 attacks, sparking the 20-year-long War in Afghanistan. The Taliban returned to power and re-established the Islamic Emirate after the 2021 fall of Kabul and has since had de facto control over most of the country.

Max Borenstein (born June 20, 1981) is an American screenwriter. He is best known for his work on the MonsterVerse film series featuring classic Kaiju of Toho's Godzilla mythos, including writing Godzilla (2014) and Kong: Skull Island (2017), and contributing to the story of Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) and Godzilla vs. Kong (2021).

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In 2020 and 2021, several protests were held in the U.S. city of Minneapolis that coincided with judicial proceedings and the criminal trial of Derek Chauvin. As an officer with the Minneapolis Police Department, Chauvin was charged with the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed African American man who died during an arrest incident on May 25, 2020. A bystander's video captured Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck for over nine minutes while Floyd struggled to breathe, lost conscious, and died. Local government officials surrounded a downtown Minneapolis courthouse building that was the venue for the proceedings with a temporary concrete barrier, metal fencing, and barbed wire in anticipation of civil disorder. Demonstrations grew in size during Chauvin's criminal trial that commenced on March 8, 2021, and concluded on April 19, 2021. The court announced a guilty verdict on April 20, 2021, and several marches and rallies took place afterwards.
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Euro Shopper is a discount brand of everyday commodities developed and marketed by . It was introduced to the market in 1996 and branded products have been sold by some of the AMS members in different countries in Europe ever since. In all stores owned by the Dutch Ahold group, all Euro-Shopper products are completely phasing out to become AH Basic. Most Euro Shopper products are commodities with long shelf life. There are both national products, sold in only one country, and international products, sold in all countries. On 10 December 2012, sales of Euro Shopper products hit £150m. From April 2013 to 2014, Both ICA Sweden and Ahold are currently phasing out Euro Shopper branded products replacing them with their own brands, ICA Basic in Sweden and AH Basic in all countries where they have stores.

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