Gaelic games (organised under the convening bodies of the GAA and, for womens' leagues, LGFA & The Camogie Association) are a set of sports played widely throughout Ireland and include Gaelic football, hurling & camogie, Gaelic handball, and rounders. 
Gaelic games are Ireland's most popular sport. Players and supporters represent their clubs first (which are often tied to traditional parishes) and later their counties.
Players, even at the highest level, do not receive payment for playing and the volunteer ethos remains an important aspect of Gaelic Games, however, managers and directors are often paid at both a club and inter-county level.

The Ka'bah is the cube-shaped holy pilgrimage site for muslims located in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. One of the five pillars of Islam states that a Muslim must complete the pilgrimage to the Ka'bah once in their lifetime during a specific time of year, called the 'Hajj.' Many Muslims also complete the pilgrimage at other times should they wish; this is called the 'Umrah.' Currently, the jurisdiction of the Ka'bah (including routes to the Ka'bah) belongs to Saudi Arabia.

Franklin's Expedition was a British-led Arctic Explanation that departed England in May 1845 aboard two ships; HMS Erebus & HMS Terror. It's mission was to cross the last sections of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic.

The ships were provisioned for a journey of three years, which could be strictly rationed to last 5 years. In September 1846, the ships were approximately half-way through the passage when the waters of the passage froze shut, stopping the ships from making any progress.

For the purpose of this debate, it is now April 1848. The ships have been frozen in place for a year and a half. The crew decides to divide into two. One group will take half the rations, most of the cold weather gear, and camping supplies and they will attempt travel South through Canada on foot. The remaining group will remain on one of the ships and wait out the cold weather till, hopefully, an opportunity to sail through the remainder of the passage opens up.

The polling for the next German election, set to happen on the 23rd of February, currently shows the conservative CDU leading with 29%, the far right AfD at 21%, the socialist SPD at 16% and the Greens at 13%. Up until now, no party has entered a coalition with the AfD, citing their nationalist anti immigration policies as unsupportable.

BRICS is an intergovernmental organization founded in 2009 by Brazil, Russia, India, and China, and joined a year later by South Africa. 

Some BRICS initiatives include the New Development Bank (a development bank owened in equal parts by the five founding BRICS members),  the BRICS Contingent Reserve Arrangement (a lender of last resort for National Central Banks), and BRICS Pay (a payment system which will allow BRICS members to recieve and make payments in their own local currencies).

In 2024, Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates were invited to join the BRICS. Argentina declined the invitiation, Saudi Arabia is still assessing it and all the other countries agreed to join. In 2025 Indonesia became the 10th member state of BRICS.

The hunters of Artemis are a group of women devoted to the goddess Artemis who travel with her as her hunting party. They are immortal and have to swear to abstain of men for the rest of their lives.