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The 7th Hong Kong Awards ceremony, honored the best films of 1987 and took place on 10 April 1988 at Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Wan Chai, Hong Kong. The ceremony was hosted by Lydia Shum and Paul Chung, during the ceremony awards are presented in 14 categories. The ceremony was sponsored by City Entertainment Magazine.

Christopher Watt Purves (born 11 October 1961) is an English bass-baritone.

The New Year Honours 1974 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced on 1 January 1974 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1974.

Rubobostes was a Dacian king in Transylvania, during the 2nd century BC.

Jean-René Saulière (also René Saulière) (Bordeaux, 6 September 1911 – 2 January 1999) was a French anarcho-pacifist, individualist anarchist and freethought writer and militant who went under the pseudonym André Arru.

Vilen Mitrofanovich Strutinsky (Russian: Вилен Митрофанович Струтинский; 16 October 1929 – 28 June 1993) was a Soviet nuclear physicist.

Constance of Sicily (floruit 1220) was a Sicilian Princess and the Dogaressa of Venice 1213–1229 by marriage to the Doge Pietro Ziani (r. 1205–1229).

Eva Rothschild RA (born 1971) is an Irish artist based in London.

Lloyd Jeffry Schwartz (born May 2, 1946) is an American television producer and writer.

"Rio Grande" is a nineteenth-century sea shanty, traditionally popular amongst American and British crews. Some people believe the title refers to the Rio Grande river, which forms much of the border between Mexico and the United States; but the shanty talks about the Brazilian state Rio Grande do Sul and its chief port of the same name. Like many other shanties, there are a variety of different lyrics. It was included in the 1894 work Studies in Folk-Song and Popular Poetry by Alfred Williams.

The Battle of Hiraan was fought on March 3, 1913 in Beledweyne between the Italian Somaliland and the Dervish movement. The Italians never attacked again leaving the Dervish to rule over the south freely.

Karusasaurus, commonly known as Karusa lizards or Karusa girdled lizards, is a genus of lizards in the family Cordylidae.

India Catalina (1495 – May 11, 1538) was an Indigenous child of Mokaná ethnicity from the Colombian Atlantic coast, who was kidnapped by Pedro de Heredia to be an interpreter and intermediary, playing a role in the Spanish conquest of Colombia.

Prem Nath Bazaz (13 July 1905 – 1984) was a Kashmiri politician, scholar, and author born in Budgam, Kashmir. He was a secularist and a democrat. He was born to a Kashmiri Hindu family. He was a Kashmiri politician who founded two political parties, Kashmir Socialist Party, and Kisan Mazdoor Conference. He was the architect of the famous slogan "Kashmir belongs to Kashmiris", and was an ardent supporter of the Kashmir freedom movement till the end.

Nadr ibn al-Harith ibn Alqama ibn Kalada ibn Abd al-Manaf ibn Abd al-Dar ibn Qusayy (Arabic: نضر بن الحارث, romanized: Naḍr ibn al-Ḥārith) was an Arab physician who is considered one of the greatest Qurayshi opponents to the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was captured after the Battle of Badr as one of the pagan fighters and flag-bearers. He was sentenced to death for his participation and persecution of Muhammed and Muslims in Mecca. The execution was conducted by Ali by beheading him in front of Muhammad and his companions at as-Safra' before they had returned to Medina from the battle.

Fattah-2 (Persian: فتاح‑۲, lit. 'Conqueror‑2') is an Iranian hypersonic missile project unveiled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in November 2023 and still under development. It is introduced as a successor of Fattah‑1, with a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) designed to reach high speed and maneuverability.

Annie Bélis (born 1951) is a French archaeologist, philologist, papyrologist and musician. She is a research director at the French CNRS, specialized in music from classical antiquity, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.

Arvid Fredrik Taube (19 January 1853 – 14 October 1916) was a Swedish aristocrat who served as the foreign minister between 1909 and 1911 and also, held various diplomatic posts.

Shapur "Sakanshah" was a Sasanian prince who served as the governor of Sakastan under his brother king (shah) Shapur II (r. 309–379).

Sindhi nationalism (Sindhi:سنڌي قومپرستي‎) is an ideology that claims that the Sindhis, an ethnolinguistic group native to the Pakistani province of Sindh, form a separate nation. After Bangladesh became independent in 1971, G.M. Syed gave a new direction to nationalism and founded the Jeay Sindh Mahaz in 1972 and presented the idea of Sindhudesh; a separate homeland for Sindhis. G.M. Syed is considered as the founder of modern Sindhi nationalism. However, Sindhi nationalists stand divided upon the idea of a separate country or autonomy within Pakistan, ultimately resulting in the weakening of Sindhi nationalism. Sindhu Desh ji Dharti Todhe (To you, O land of Sindhu desh) is the Anthem of Sindhi nationalists.

Joaquín Antonio Balaguer Ricardo (1 September 1906 – 14 July 2002) was a Dominican politician, scholar, writer, and lawyer who was the 41st, 45th and 49th president of the Dominican Republic serving three non-consecutive terms from 1960 to 1962, 1966 to 1978, and 1986 to 1996. He previously served as the 24th vice president under President Héctor Trujillo from 1957 to 1960.

The Battle of Purandar was fought between the Mughal Empire and the Marathas in 1665.

Antonio Banchieri (19 May 1667 - 16 September 1733) was an Italian cardinal.

Alfred Guillou (12 September 1844, Concarneau – 1926, Concarneau) was a French painter of Breton heritage.

The Golan Wheeled Armored Vehicle (Hebrew: גולן) is a prototype Israeli MRAP made by the Israeli Rafael Advanced Defense Systems jointly with Protected Vehicles Incorporated.

The Hong Kong Film Award for Best Editing is an award presented annually at the Hong Kong Film Awards for best editing in a Hong Kong film. As of 2018 the current holder is Li Ka Wing for Chasing The Dragon.

Performance is a 1970 soundtrack album to the film Performance by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg. It features music from Randy Newman, Merry Clayton, Ry Cooder, Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie, The Last Poets and Mick Jagger.

An Officer and a Spy (French: J'accuse) is a 2019 historical drama film directed by Roman Polanski about the Dreyfus affair, with a screenplay by Polanski and Robert Harris based on Harris's 2013 novel of the same name. The French title has its origins in the J'Accuse...! open letter Émile Zola wrote in 1898 in which the author accused many people of France of continuing to support the increasingly blatantly erroneous accusations against Dreyfus.

This is a summary of the electoral history of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, an Iranian Principlist politician who was President of Iran (2005–2013) and Mayor of Tehran (2003–2005).

Muhammad ibn al-Sabbagh (fl. 1640), also known as Dan Marina, was a 17th-century Islamic scholar from Katsina, Nigeria. He is regarded as one of the three patron saints of Katsina, alongside Dan Masanih, and Dan Tukum. Even today, Muslims, primarily from Katsina, continue to pilgrimage to his tomb for ziyara. In the1820s, the Sokoto scholar Abd al-Qadir dan Tafa visited his tomb for ziyara while in his 1812 work Infaq al-maysur, Muhammad Bello, first Sultan of the Sokoto described him as al-ustadh ('the teacher'), al-mukashaf ('the one illuminated') and dihliz al-ilm ('the hall-way of learning'). His most well known work is his commentary of the book Ishriniyyat written by Abdul Rahman bn Yakhftan al-Fazazi.

The Tsung Tsin Mission of Hong Kong or TTMHK (Chinese: 基督教香港崇真會) is one of the eight Lutheran bodies in Hong Kong. It currently has approximately 10,600 members.

Baha al-Din Sam I (Persian: بهاء الدین سام), was the king of the Ghurid dynasty who reigned briefly in 1149. He was the brother and successor of Sayf al-Din Suri.

Eduard Heinrich Graeffe or Gräffe (27 December 1833, Zurich – 23 April 1916 Ljubljana) was a Swiss zoologist and naturalist. As an entomologist, he specialised in Hymenoptera, Diptera and Hemiptera.

The Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, founded in 1866, is a local historical, antiquarian, archaeological and text publication society and registered charity covering the modern county of Cumbria.

The Siege of Salmeniko was the last stronghold where Mehmed II encountered resistance during his second campaign in Morea. It was the final center of resistance for the Byzantine Empire. After a year-long siege, the fortress fell, marking the complete collapse of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Eugen Felix Prosper Bracht (German pronunciation: ; 3 June 1842 – 15 November 1921) was a German landscape painter.

The diocese of Hierapolis, was a Christian bishopric in Phrygia (modern central Turkey).

Peter of Jerusalem was the Patriarch of Jerusalem from 524 to 544. He held to the Chalcedonian belief.

Penny Baker (born October 5, 1965) is an American model and actress. After being interviewed in Chicago, she was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month for January 1984, the 30th Anniversary Playmate. Her photos were shot by Arny Freytag in New York City, Buffalo, and Los Angeles when she was 17, with written permission from her parents. Her pictorial was titled "Lucky Penny" and it reported her age as 18.

The Plantagenet Alliance was a small grouping of individuals claiming to be descendants of the House of Plantagenet. The Alliance was formed in 2013 shortly after the discovery and identification of the remains of Richard III, the last Plantagenet king of England who died in 1485, in order to advance their views on the location of Richard's reburial. Reports of the number of members of the Alliance varied between fifteen and around forty.

Thomas Lewis (1689–in or after 1737) was an English cleric, noted as a vitriolic High Church writer of the Bangorian controversy.

The Italian National Society (Italian: Società Nazionale Italiana) was an Italian nationalist political organization created in 1857 by Daniele Manin and Giorgio Pallavicino. The National Society was created to promote and spread nationalism to political moderates in Piedmont and raised money, held public meetings, and produced newspapers. The National Society helped to establish a base for Italian nationalism amongst the educated middle class. By 1860, the National Society influenced dominant liberal circles in Italy and won over middle-class support for the union of Piedmont and Lombardy.

Lienzo Seler II (also known as Coixtlahuaca II) is a 16th-century indigenous pictorial manuscript from the northern part of the Mixteca Alta region of Oaxaca, Mexico. Painted on a large sheet of woven cotton measuring approximately 383 × 442 cm, the lienzo represents one of the most complex colonial-period pictorial documents from the region of Coixtlahuaca and one of the most significant indigenous cartographic-historical sources from Mesoamerica.

Leonard Robert Palmer (5 June 1906, Bristol – 26 August 1984, Pitney, Somerset) was author and Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford from 1952 to 1971. He was also a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. Palmer made some significant contributions to the study of Classical languages, and in the area of historical linguistics.

Brian Whelan (born 3 May 1957) is a British-born Irish painter, author and playwright.

Fredegond Cecily Shove ( FRED-i-gond SHOHV) (née Maitland; 1889–1949) was an English poet. Two collections of her poetry were published in her lifetime, and a small selection also appeared after her death.

There were many imperial interregna in the history of the Holy Roman Empire, when there was no emperor. Interregna in which there was no emperor-elect (king of the Romans) were rarer. Among the longest periods without an emperor were between 924 and 962 (38 years), between 1250 and 1312 (62 years), and between 1378 and 1433 (55 years). The crisis of government of the Holy Roman Empire and the German kingdom thus lasted throughout the late medieval period, and ended only with the rise of the House of Habsburg on the eve of the German Reformation and the Renaissance. The term Great Interregnum is occasionally used for the period between 1250 (death of Frederick II) and 1273 (accession of Rudolf I).

Pongpol Adireksarn (Thai: ปองพล อดิเรกสาร, pen name Paul Adirex; born March 23, 1942) is a Thai novelist, documentarist and former politician.

The Maclean Mission (MACMIS) was a World War II British mission to Yugoslav partisans HQ and Marshal Tito organised by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in September 1943. Its aim was to assess the value of the partisans' contribution to the Allied cause and the means to increase it. It was led by a recently promoted Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean and was the first such mission with full authorization and a personal message from Winston Churchill. His memoir of these years forms the final third of Eastern Approaches (1949). The mission and the wider British wartime policies were reviewed at a London conference in July 1973, with recently released official records and recollections of some of the participants.

The Krummedige-Tre Rosor feud was a feud that took place from 1448 to 1502 between the Norwegian noble families, Krummedige and Tre Rosor. The feud ended with the extinction of the male Tre Rosor line in Norway, and a stronger monarchy in Norway.