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From the previous featured list (Friday, June 12)
There are 230 constituencies of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly, the unicameral legislature of Madhya Pradesh, a state in Central India. The seat of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly is at Bhopal, the state capital. The state legislative assembly's 230 members are directly elected from single-seat constituencies and sit for a term of five years, unless it is dissolved early. Madhya Pradesh is the second-largest state in India and its sixth-most populous, with a population of 72.6 million. Since the independence of India, the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) have been given reservation status, guaranteeing political representation, and the Constitution of India lays down the general principles of positive discrimination for STs and SCs. The STs have been granted a reservation of 47 seats, while 35 constituencies are reserved for candidates of SCs. (Full list...)
From today's featured list (Monday, June 15)
Twenty-one different managers have won the FIFA World Cup, and all winning managers led their own country's national team. The FIFA World Cup is considered to be the most prestigious association football tournament in the world. The role of the manager is to select the squad for the World Cup and develop the tactics of the team. Alberto Suppici led the Uruguay national team to victory in the inaugural tournament in 1930. Vittorio Pozzo (pictured) led Italy to win the 1934 and 1938 World Cups, becoming the only manager to have won the World Cup twice. Five other managers have finished as winners once and runners-up once: Helmut Schön, Franz Beckenbauer, Carlos Bilardo, Mário Zagallo, and Didier Deschamps. Three men have won the tournament both as a player and as a manager: Zagallo, Beckenbauer, and Deschamps. (Full list...)
From the next featured list (Wednesday, June 17)
The Orkney archipelago, located 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) north of mainland Scotland, comprises over 70 islands and skerries, of which 20 are permanently inhabited. In addition to the Orkney Mainland there are three groups of islands. The North and South Isles lie respectively north and south of Mainland. The Pentland Skerries are a group of small islands in the Pentland Firth, a dangerous stretch of water between mainland Scotland and the larger islands of Orkney, through which run the strongest tidal streams in Britain. The islands of South Ronaldsay, Burray, Lamb Holm and Glimps Holm are connected to the Orkney Mainland by a series of causeways known as the Churchill Barriers. Most of the islands have bedrock formed from Old Red Sandstone, which is about 400 million years old, and was laid down in the Devonian period. The archipelago has been continuously inhabited for thousands of years, and is home to the World Heritage Site of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney. The islands all fall within the Orkney Islands Council area and have a total population of 21,958 (as of 2022). (This list is part of a featured topic: Islands of Scotland.)