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# West Bay Opera

West Bay Opera is an opera company located in Palo Alto, California. Established in 1955, West Bay Opera is the second oldest continuously running opera company in California (after San Francisco Opera).
José Luis Moscovich is the current general director of West Bay Opera.

## History

West Bay Opera was founded in 1955 by Henry Holt who had recently completed his training in piano performance and conducting at Vienna, and after a successful career in Europe where his final performance was as a soloist with Arturo Toscanini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic. The opera company was established first as an opera workshop named the "Little Opera Guild" with operatic works were performed with piano as the accompaniment. These workshops quickly evolved into full staged productions with major singers from the San Francisco Bay Area in the principal roles and local residents as the chorus.
After Henry Holt's passing in 1969, West Bay Opera was led by Henry's wife, Maria Holt, as the general director of the company until the late 1990s. During this time, West Bay Opera grew significantly with more major productions featuring world-class singers professional singers, directors, and artists, as well as the West Bay Opera Orchestra which was established in 1974. The opera company is housed at the Holt Building (in Palo Alto) which provides the company with its administrative offices as well as facilities for rehearsals, a consume shop, and set and properties storage.

## Productions

West Bay Opera offers three productions per season, one each in October, February, and May. Its programming includes standard popular operas as well as known but less often performed masterpieces.
Recent major production accomplishments include Bellini's Norma, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin (in the original Russian), Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer, and Verdi's La Forza del Destino. More recently, West Bay Opera has taken on productions that are often performed in Europe but are less frequent in the United States, such as Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice and von Weber's Der Freischütz, both with formidable reviews.
All productions include projected supertitles in English.
# Vjekoslav Vrančić

Vjekoslav Vrančić (25 March 1904 – 25 September 1990) was a high-ranked Croatian Ustaše official who held different positions in the Independent State of Croatia during World War II in Yugoslavia. After the proclamation, he served as the Under Secretary of the Ustaše Foreign Affairs Ministry. In 1942, he was Pavelić's envoy to the Italian Second Army. In this role he entered into negotiations with Chetnik representatives Jevđeviċ, Grđiċ and Kraljeviċ. Then he served as Under Secretary in the Ustaše Interior Ministry, the "body directly responsible for concentration camps and repressive political apparatus". Vrančić was "decorated by Hitler in honor of his planning skills at the work of mass deportation".

## Career

He was a confidant of Ante Pavelić and a delegate to important political and military events in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Vrančić was an Ustaša who wrote directives denying Muslims as a nation and claiming that Bosnian Muslims were Croats of Islamic faith. Contrary to Pavelić's confidence in Vrančić, Eugen Dido Kvaternik, a high-ranked Ustaša, wrote that Vrančić was "a blind instrument of Pavelić's personal intrigues".
Vrančić, as Pavelić's representative, was in charge of facilitating the establishment of the "Kroatische Waffen-SS Freiwilligen Division" with the SS high-ranked officers in Zagreb on 5 May 1943. He reached the rank of Major in the Ustaša forces. More significantly, he held the government posts of Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and later Minister of Labour of the Independent State of Croatia.
To facilitate the Ustaše regime surrender to the Western Allies, Pavelić sent Vrančić (with Andrija Vrkljan as interpreter) to the Allied supreme commander in Italy. Vrančić and Vrkljan were interned in a POW camp.
Vrančić was allowed to escape to protective custody of the Vatican with the help of United States Intelligence. He fled Italy to Argentina under false papers obtained with the help of Msgr. Krunoslav Draganović. He was active in the Croatian community of Argentina, and became vice-president of the Croatian so-called "government in exile" under Ante Pavelić. He was involved in terrorist activities with extreme right-wing Argentine political groups. For his activities among exiled Ustaše, Vrančić was barred from entering Australia in 1974. In Argentina, he founded a weekly newspaper, Hrvatski narod (Croatian People).
At the Croatian National Council's parliament in 1980, Vrančić claimed the new Croatian nation could not rely on the tradition of the Independent State of Croatia, and would have to minimize that tradition as much as possible.

## Death

He lived in Buenos Aires until his death in 1990.
# Visitation (Ghirlandaio)

The Visitation is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, dating from 1491. It now is in the Louvre Museum, Paris, France.
The work was commissioned by Lorenzo Tornabuoni for the church later known as Santa Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi.

## Description

The Visitation refers to the meeting between St. Mary and St. Elizabeth described in the Gospel of Luke, Luke 1:39–56. The subject was set by Ghirlandaio with a large classical arch in the background featuring a landscape in the centre. Elizabeth, wearing a wide yellow vest, is paying homage to Mary and kneeling.
The painting features numerous details, including the refraction effects of the light, which Ghirlandaio studied from Flemish paintings at Florence. Others include: the frieze decorated with pearls and shells (allusions to Mary's purity), the light veil of the Madonna, the gilt brooch decorated with pearls and a ruby in the centre (this a hint to Jesus’ future Passion) which holds her cloak. The Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe of the Uffizi houses a preparatory drawing of Mary's cloak.
The two women at the sides are, as described by the inscriptions on the arch, Mary, mother of James, and Mary Salome. In the Medieval context, the two were thought to be daughters of St. Anne and thus the sisters or half-sisters of Mary. In the Gospel narrative, they are not present at the Visitation; but in some interpretations of the crucifixion narrative, they are said to have been present at the foot of the cross, and their inclusion in the painting may be intended as a reference to the crucifixion. Salome's dress is a citation of Filippo Lippi's Bartolini Tondo, which was the inspiration for numerous similarly graceful figures in works by Ghirlandaio, Botticelli and others.
Stylistic differences in the figures testifies the work of workshop assistants, perhaps Sebastiano Mainardi. On the lower right of the arch is the date MCCCCLXXXXI (1491). The city in the misty background could be a re-elaboration of Rome, as it includes a triumphal arch and the Pantheon.

## Sources

* Micheletti, Emma; Ghirlandaio, Domenico (2004). Pittori del Rinascimento. Florence: Scala. ISBN 88-8117-099-X.
* Quermann, Andreas (1998). Ghirlandaio. Cologne: Könemann.
# Charles Jones (composer)

Charles Jones (June 21, 1910 – June 6, 1997) was a Canadian-born music educator and composer of contemporary classical music who lived and worked mainly in the United States.

## Early life and education

Jones was born in Tamworth, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada. He moved to Toronto at the age of ten, eventually traveling to New York City in 1928. He studied at The Juilliard School, where his primary instructor was Bernard Wagenaar.

## Career

By 1937 Jones had composed a number of classical works; that year a concert by Francis James and his string quartet, consisting entirely of Jones' compositions, was held in Toronto at the Eaton Auditorium.
Jones began teaching at Mills College in California from 1939 to 1944, and at the Music Academy of the West in 1949 and 1950. From 1951 on he taught at the Aspen Festival, where he met and worked with Darius Milhaud. He taught at the Juilliard School between 1954 and 1960, and again in 1973. During the 1970s he taught composition at the Mannes College of Music, starting in 1972. His works have been performed by the New York Philharmonic and the National Symphony Orchestra.
The music critic Tim Page and composer Walter Buczynski were among Jones's notable students.

## Discography

* Charles Jones: New & Historial Recordings, 2005, Albany Music Distribution
# Woodford (1815 ship)

Woodford was launched in 1815 at Whitby as a West Indiaman. Between 1816 and 1817 she made two voyages to the Indian Ocean or the East Indies, sailing under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). She was wrecked at Laeso in November 1837.

## Career

Woodford first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1815 with Brady, master, Chapman, owner, and trade London–West Indies.
Still, in 1813 the EIC had lost its monopoly on the trade between India and Britain. British ships were then free to sail to India or the Indian Ocean under a license from the EIC. Woodford's owners applied on 1 December 1815 for a licence, which they received three days later.
On 23 December 1815 Woodford, Brady, master, arrived at Portsmouth, from London, bound for the Cape of Good Hope and Isle of France (Mauritius). on 22 April 1816 she sailed from the Cape for Mauritius. From Mauritius Woodford sailed to Batavia She was there on 3 September, shortly after the Dutch had resumed control of the Dutch East Indies. By 3 and 4 January Woodford, Brady, master, was back in England in the Downs where the gales of those dates caught her, costing her her anchor and cables. By 14 January she was at Gravesend.
Woodford sailed to Mauritius a second time. On 30 November 1817 Woodford, Brady, master, arrived at Hull, having left Isle of France on 23 August, and Saint Helena on 9 October. She arrived at Gravesend on 2 December.
| Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source & notes |
| 1820 | Eltringham | Chapman | London–Jamaica | LR |
| 1825 | Lamborn | Fletcher & Co. | London–Jamaica | LR |
| 1830 | Last | Fletcher & Co. | London–Jamaica | LR; small repairs 1826 |
| 1837 | Sanderson | Lawson & Co. | London–Quebec | LR; large repair 1835 |
In May 1835 Woodford underwent repairs at the dock of Henry and George Barrick, Whitby. She was then surveyed on 13 May.

## Fate

Woodford, Sanderson (or Saunderson), master, was driven ashore on Læsø on 22 November 1837 and wrecked; her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Riga to Plymouth.

## Citations

* 1 2 'Woodford.
* ↑ Hackman (2001), p. 323.
* 1 2 House of Commons (1816).
* ↑ Weatherill (1908), p. 128.
* ↑ LR (1815), Supple. pages "W", Seq.№W89.
* ↑ Hackman (2001), p. 247.
* ↑ Lloyd's List (LL) 26 December 1815, №5034, Ship arrival and departure (SAD) data.
* ↑ LL 3 January 1817, №5140.
* ↑ LL 7 January 1817, №5141.
* ↑ LL 2 December 1817, №5234, SAD data.
* ↑ "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury (18357). Edinburgh. 14 December 1837.
* ↑ "Ship News". Morning Post (20909). London. 27 December 1837.
# Megachile planula

Megachile planula is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. It was described by Vachal in 1908.
# Mary Cutting

Mary Cutting may refer to:
* Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting (1851–1924), American author
* Mary Stewart Cutting Jr. (1879–1928), her daughter, American author and suffragist
# West New Goshen, Indiana

West New Goshen is an unincorporated community in Fayette Township, Vigo County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
The community is part of the Terre Haute Metropolitan Statistical Area.

## Geography

West New Goshen is located at 39°34′15″N 87°28′50″W﻿ / ﻿39.57083°N 87.48056°W﻿ / 39.57083; -87.48056.
# Vittorio Sanseverino

Vittorio Sanseverino (September 29, 1917 – November 30, 2010) was an Italian pilot. Besides his combat experience in World War II, he is known for having test-flown a large part of the aircraft built by FIAT for the postwar Italian Air Force, including the Fiat G.91, the Fiat G.222, the North American F-86D Sabre and the F-104 Starfighter.

## Biography
### Early training

After leaving the Gymnasium he was admitted into the "Nunziatella" Royal Military Academy and into the Sparviero (Sparrow) course of the Royal Italian Air Force Academy in Caserta. He was trained to fly on Breda Ba.25s and I.M.A.M. Ro.41s at Capua airfield. He first flew solo on 7 February 1938.
Having committed an act of indiscipline in flight, he was moved to the Malpensa Bombardment School as a punishment measure. There he flew Fiat BR.20s and Savoia-Marchetti S.M.81s. In 1940 he was assigned to 65 Squadriglia, 31 Gruppo of 18 Stormo based at Aviano airfield.

### World War II

During the Second World War he received his baptism of fire on 8 April 1941 in Yugoslavian skies, at the controls of a BR.20. He became the commander of a bomber squadron and also flew Fiat CR.42s and CANT Z.1007s. After the Armistice between Italy and Allied armed forces (8 September 1943) he sided with the Allies and was an instructor on both Martin 187 Baltimores and Lockheed P-38 Lightnings. On 24 August 1944 he witnessed the death of torpedo bomber ace Carlo Emanuele Buscaglia, who crashed on take-off from Campo Vesuvio airfield with a Baltimore bomber.

### Post-World War II

At the end of the war he was assigned to the Reparto Sperimentale Volo (Experimental Wing) of the re-established Italian Air Force based at Guidonia. On 23 July 1952 he flew the first Italian de Havilland DH.100 Vampire, built under licence by Fiat and Macchi. In 1953 he left the Air Force with the rank of Colonnello (Colonel), and was hired by Fiat Aviazione where he worked as a test pilot for Vittorio Valletta and Giuseppe Gabrielli. He tested the first all-Italian jet aircraft, the Fiat G.80, and later the Fiat G.82 and the licence-built North American F-86K. He also flew the Aeritalia G-91Y for the first time, as well as all the Italian-made F-104 Starfighters. On 18 July 1970 he participated in the maiden flight of the Aeritalia G.222 prototype with co-pilot Pietro Paolo Trevisan. He remained in service until 1977 when the early tests of the Panavia Tornado began.
# Brizendine Brothers Nature Park

Brizendine Brothers Nature Park is a natural park in Greenville, Kentucky.

## About the park

This park measures up to 12 acres of woodland and is located south of Morgan Memorial Park. The parking lot and the trail head is located at the intersection of Pritchett Drive and Chatham Lane.
As visitors begin the half mile through the park grounds, they observe that a chainsaw sculptured bear marks the trail head.
The trail contains a small man-made brook, three footbridges, and a meadow. The man-made brook introduces a new water feature for the local wildlife. The park contains picnic tables, benches, and signs depicting the species of native bushes and trees.

### Park feature: Uncle Lum's Well

This well is found in the park at the end of a trail, overlooking the parking lot. "This well was named in honor of African American Christopher Columbus Martin... reportedly the longest living citizen of Muhlenberg County. He was born into slavery in 1844 and he died in 1956 at the ripe old age 112. Among the many places he lived in the county this area was one of them. He endeared himself to everyone with his fiddle and folk songs" (Brizendine Bro.s Nature Park sign).

### Founder

Thomas Swearer Brizendine was the founder of Brizendine Brothers Nature Park. Brizendine had a passion for outdoor recreation, including sailing, hiking, canoeing, and bird watching. He loved his community of Greenville, Kentucky and showed his appreciation to his town thorough the park. Brizendine was a benefactor of the Brizendine Brothers Nature Park in 2011 and made large contributions to the History Annex of the Muhlenberg County Library. T.S. Brizendine died at 96 years old, at the Hospice House in Bowling Green on February 8, 2016.

### Flora

The species of trees that are found in the park are the typical native trees found in Western Kentucky. Each individual tree has an individual plaque to indicate the species of flora. For example, one plaque could have a typical tree found in Western, Ky. These species include Red Maple, River Birch, Hickory, Redbud, Yellowwood, Flowering Dogwood, American Beech, American Holly, Eastern Red Cedar, Sweetgum, Tulip Tree, Tulip Poplar, Blackgum, American Hophornbeam, Oak, and Carolina Buckthorn.

### Trails of Greenville

Brizendine Brothers Nature Park was Rated #2 in trip advisor of things to do in Greenville.
# Charles Jones (Lancashire cricketer)

Charles Langton Jones (27 November 1853 – 2 April 1904) was an English cricketer. Jones was a right-handed batsman, though his bowling style is unknown. He was born in Litherland, Lancashire.
Jones played his club cricket for Sefton between 1871 and 1903, being captain from 1893 to 1902, and made his debut in first-class cricket for Lancashire against Nottinghamshire at Old Trafford in 1876. His next appearance for the county came in 1882 against Yorkshire at Bramall Lane, Sheffield. Later in 1882, he made his first-class debut for Liverpool and District against the touring Australians at Aigburth. He would next appear in first-class cricket for Liverpool and Districts against Yorkshire in 1887, before playing four first-class matches for Lancashire in 1888. He made two further first-class appearances for Liverpool and District in 1889 against Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, before making a first-class appearance for the team against Yorkshire in 1890. Jones made five first-class appearances for Lancashire, scoring 52 runs at an average of 5.77, while for Liverpool and Districts he made six first-class appearances, scoring 113 runs at an average of 9.41.
He died at Toxteth Park, Liverpool, Lancashire, on 2 April 1904. His brother, Frederic, also played first-class cricket for Liverpool and District.
# Woodford (1819 ship)

Woodford was launched at Bristol in 1819. She made one voyage as an "extra ship" for the British East India Company (EIC). She also made two voyages transporting convicts from England to Van Diemen's Land. She sank in February 1829 off Madagascar.

## Career

Woodford entered Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1820 with Chapman, master, Chapman, owner, and trade London-India.
EIC voyage (1820-1821): Captain Alfred Chapman sailed from the Downs on 12 April 1820 bound for Madras. Woodford reached Madras on 31 July. She left on 9 October, reached Saint Helena on 18 December, and arrived at the Downs on 4 February 1821. The EIC had chartered her for the one voyage at a rate of £10 19s 6d per ton.
First convict voyage to Van Diemen's Land (1826): Woodford, Edward Chapman, master, and James Dickson, surgeon, left London on 5 August 1826 and arrived Hobart Town on 22 November. She embarked 100 male convicts, one of whom died on the voyage. On Christmas Day Woodford arrived at Sydney from Hobart. She was carrying passengers and 13 convicts who would be transhipped to Norfolk Island. Woodford left Sydney on 26 January 1827 for Calcutta. Among her passengers were Colonel Cameron and part of the 3rd Regiment of Foot.
Boats from a Woodford rescued the crew of John in July 1827. John wrecked on Western Sea Reef (21°17′36″N 87°45′32″E﻿ / ﻿21.29333°N 87.75889°E﻿ / 21.29333; 87.75889) on 30 June 1827 as she was sailing from Calcutta to England. Windsor may also have participated in the rescue.
Also Lloyd's List reported on 30 November 1827 that lightning had struck Woodford at Kedgeree.
Second convict voyage to Van Diemen's Land (1828): Woodford, John Milbank, master, and William Petrie, surgeon, sailed from Portsmouth on 2 May 1828 and arrived at Hobart Town on 25 August. She embarked 184 male convicts, none of whom died on the voyage. A detachment of troops from the 26th, 39th, and 57th Regiments of Foot provided the guard. Woodford left Sydney on 25 September for Batavia with a cargo of oil.

## Fate

Woodford left Soorabaya for Cowes on 12 December 1828. She was carrying rice, sugar, pepper, and so forth. She foundered some 500 miles off the coast of Madagascar on 14 February 1829.
A hard gale on 13 February swamped her, and caused leaks that overwhelmed the pumps. On the 14th Milbank and the crew were able to get the boat out and put aboard seven gallons of rum, 200 pounds of bread, and 20 pieces of pork. The 35 crew and four passengers then boarded the boat at a location that Milbank estimated as 29°2′S 51°20′E﻿ / ﻿29.033°S 51.333°E﻿ / -29.033; 51.333. On the morning of the 15th Milbank steered for Cape St Mary, Madagascar, which he estimated as being 450 miles away.
On the 18th, after the boat had been at sea for 64 hours, the survivors encountered Scipio, Petrie, master, which took all 39 crew and passengers aboard. Scipio, which had been sailing from Singapore back to Liverpool, took them to the Cape of Good Hope. The survivors expressed their thanks to Petrie and a Mr. Counter, a passenger on Scipio, for the "assiduous care" that the survivors had received.
# William Leggo

William Augustus Leggo (25 January 1830 – 21 July 1915) was a Canadian inventor, engraver and businessperson. He is noted for co-inventing the half-tone engraver with George-Édouard Desbarats. He had several patents to his name, including leggotyping and granulated photography.

## Early life

Leggo was born in Quebec City on January 25, 1830, to William Augustus Leggo, a bookbinder and engraver, and Margaret Grant. After graduating from Quebec High School, he apprenticed as an engraver, first to his father and then to Cyrus A. Swett in Boston.

## Career

Leggo worked with his brothers Thomas, Edward, and Henry in the family engraving business before partnering with George-Paschal Desbarats and Stewart Derbishire as Wm. A Leggo and Company on January 21, 1863. George-Paschal's son, George-Édouard Desbarats, joined the partnership when Derbishire died in March 1863, and became sole partner when his father died in November 1964. The two patented "Leggotyping", a type of photomechanical reproduction for letterpress printing, on February 27, 1865.
Leggo and Desbarats founded Leggo and Company in Montreal on January 21, 1868. Desbarats' newspapers, Canadian Illustrated News (est. October 1869) and L'Opinion publique (est. January 1870), both made use of Leggotyping. In 1873, the pair formed the Union Art Publishing Company and founded the New York Daily Graphic, the first daily illustrated newspaper. While it was a pioneering effort, it was not a financial success, and Desbarats returned to Montreal soon after. The paper ran until 1889, but by 1879 Leggo was also back in Montreal, where he began a business partnership with William H. Guillebaud as Leggo and Company.
Leggo died in 1915 at Lachute, Quebec.

## Publications

* Un art nouveau, la leggo-typie: procédé photo-électrotypique, breveté au Canada, aux États-Unis, en Angleterre, en France et en Belgique (in French). Ottawa: W. A. Leggo et Compagnie. 1867.
# Ellen Desailly

Ellen "Nellie" Desailly (23 December 1857 – 31 October 1939) was a pioneer of the Free Kindergarten movement in Sydney, Australia.

## History

Desailly was the second daughter of George Peter Desailly (c. 1823 – 10 September 1876) and Emma Jane Desailly (c. 1833 – 29 March 1892) of Coree and Mossgiel Station, N.S.W.
She was the first general secretary of the Kindergarten Union of New South Wales (founded 1895), a position she held for 22 years.

## Family

Dr (Julian) Gilbert Desailly, married to Frances Esme Desailly, M.B.E., J.P., née Tangye, of Camperdown, was a brother.

## Recognition

The Ellen Desailly kindergarten (founded 1928) at North Sydney was named for her. When it closed down, the Wentworth Park kindergarten at Glebe was renamed Ellen Desailly kindergarten.
Harriet A. Dumolo, principal of the Kindergarten Training College, paid a tribute to her work and influence.