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Omar (opera)
Omar is an American opera, composed by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, with a libretto by Giddens. It had its world premiere at the Spoleto Festival USA in 2022. It had its West Coast premiere at Los Angeles Opera in October 2022. It was performed at Carolina Performing Arts in February 2023, and had its New England premiere at Boston Lyric Opera in May 2023.

The opera's plot loosely follows the life of Omar ibn Said, and is based on his autobiography A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar ibn Said, written in 1831, mostly in Arabic. It is the only known memoir written by a slave in America in Arabic. The work was translated into English by Ala Alryyes and published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2011.

Omar won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Music.

Los Angeles Opera
The Los Angeles Opera, originally called the  Los Angeles Music Center Opera and now styling itself as LA Opera, is an American opera company in Los Angeles, California. It is the fourth-largest opera company in the United States. The company's home base is the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, part of the Los Angeles Music Center.
Gato-class submarine
The Gato class of submarines were built for the United States Navy and launched in 1941–1943. Named after the lead vessel of the class, USS Gato, they were the first mass-produced U.S. submarine class of World War II.

The Gatos, along with the closely related Balao and Tench classes that followed, accounted for most of the Navy's World War II submarines; they destroyed much of the Japanese merchant marine and a large portion of the Imperial Japanese Navy. In some references, the Gatos are combined with their successors, especially the Balao class.

Gato's name comes from a species of small catshark. Like most other U.S. Navy submarines of the period, boats of the Gato class were given the names of aquatic creatures.

USS Gato (SS-212)
USS Gato (hull number SS-212)  was the lead ship of her class of submarine in the United States Navy. She was the first Navy ship named for the common name used for a number of species of catshark. She was commissioned only days after the declaration of war and made thirteen combat patrols during World War II. She survived the war and spent the post-war period as a training ship before being sold for scrapping in 1960.
R-Point
R-Point (Korean: 알 포인트) is a 2004 South Korean psychological horror war film written and directed by Kong Su-chang. Set in Vietnam in 1972, during the Vietnam War, it stars Kam Woo-sung and Son Byong-ho as members of the South Korean Army in Vietnam. Most of the movie was shot in Cambodia. Bokor Hill Station plays a prominent part of the movie, in this case doubling as a French colonial plantation. In 2011, Palisades Tartan re-released this film on DVD under the title Ghosts of War.

Kong Su-chang
Kong Su-chang (Korean: 공수창; born 1961) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Kong started as a screenwriter and is behind hits such as White Badge (1992), The Ring Virus (1999) and Tell Me Something (1999). He debuted with the military-themed R-Point (2004), and then The Guard Post in 2008.
Tianshi Xiang
天使想 (py. Tiānshǐ Xiǎng, jp. Tenshi Sou, en. Angel Dreaming) is an album by Taiwanese singer/actress/model Vivian Hsu, released April 10, 1996 on the Toshiba-EMI label. It was her first full-length album, and was later reprinted, with two extra tracks, as 想 New Edition in 1998.

Although it was her first album, it is not sung in her native language, but in Japanese. Half of the tracks are from her first two singles, and the other half are originals.

Vivian Hsu
Vivian Hsu (Atayal: Bidai Syulan; Chinese: 徐若瑄; born March 19, 1975) is a Taiwanese actress, model, and singer. In 1990, at 15, she won first place in a talent show in Taiwan and formed Girl's Team (1991–1993). At 19, she moved her career to Japan, where she became active on variety shows and formed the band Black Biscuits. In 1998, she performed on Japan's NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen. Since 2003, she has refocused her career in Greater China.
1931 UCI Road World Championships
The 1931 UCI Road World Championships was the eleventh edition of the UCI Road World Championships.

The championship took place on Wednesday, August 26 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Unusually, the race was not run as a traditional road race, but rather as an individual time-trial.

17 professional cyclists, with a maximum of 3 for each country, started from 7 am.

The amateur road race started after the professional road race. The winner was ultimately the Dane Henry Hansen, who was three minutes faster than the world champion among the professionals. But due to organizational irregularities, that time may not be reliable.

The 1931 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held in the velodrome of Ordrup, near Copenhagen, from 21 to 30 August 1931.

1931 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
The 1931 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Copenhagen, Denmark from 21 to 30 August 1931. Three events for men were contested, two for professionals and one for amateurs.
Orange, New South Wales
Orange is a city in the Central Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia. It is 254 km (158 mi) west of the state capital, Sydney [206 km (128 mi) on a great circle], at an altitude of 862 metres (2,828 ft). Orange had an urban population of 41,920 at the 2021 Census, making the city a significant regional centre. A significant nearby landmark is Mount Canobolas with a peak elevation of 1,395 m (4,577 ft) AHD and commanding views of the district. Orange is situated within the traditional lands of the Wiradjuri tribe.

Orange was the birthplace of poets Banjo Paterson and Kenneth Slessor, although Paterson lived in Orange for only a short time as an infant. Walter W. Stone, book publisher (Wentworth Books) and passionate supporter of Australian literature, was also born in Orange. The first Australian Touring Car Championship, known today as the Supercars Championship, was held at the Gnoo Blas Motor Racing Circuit in 1960.

Kenneth Slessor
Kenneth Adolphe Slessor OBE (27 March 1901 – 30 June 1971) was an Australian poet, journalist and official war correspondent in World War II. He was one of Australia's leading poets, notable particularly for the absorption of modernist influences into Australian poetry. The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is named after him.
The Rotterdam Session
The Rotterdam Session is a studio album by American jazz saxophonist Clifford Jordan recorded together with Philly Joe Jones on drums and James Long on bass in the Netherlands in 1985. This album is a rare Dutch session from the trio and one of the last recordings including Philly Joe Jones before his death in August 1985.

Clifford Jordan
Clifford Laconia Jordan (September 2, 1931 – March 27, 1993) was an American jazz tenor saxophone player and composer. Originally from Chicago, Jordan later moved to New York City, where he recorded extensively in addition to touring across both Europe and Africa. He recorded and performed with Art Farmer, Horace Silver, Max Roach, J.J. Johnson, and Kenny Dorham, among others. In later years, performed with Cedar Walton's quartet Eastern Rebellion, and led his own groups, including a big band.
High School Musical: el desafío (2008 Argentine film)
High School Musical: el desafío is a spin-off film to the High School Musical franchise. It is one of three feature film adaptations of a script written by Pablo Lago and Susana Cardozo and based on the book Battle of the Bands. The film stars the finalists of the Argentine reality television High School Musical: La Selección competition series, and features Andrea del Boca, Adriana Salonia, Peter McFarlane, and Liz Solari.

Principal photography commenced in February 2008, and is notable for being the first Disney-branded feature film made in Latin America. The film was developed for theatrical release in the Argentina market. Eight new songs have been produced exclusively for the film. In addition to these songs, Alejandro Lerner also composed the main theme, which he performed.

High School Musical: el desafío was released in Argentine theaters on July 17, 2008, reaching in its debut week second place in the national box-office charts.

Andrea del Boca
Andrea del Boca (born 18 October 1965 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine actress and singer. She began her career as a child actress and subsequently became popular in the 1980s and 1990s for her roles in telenovelas, such as Estrellita mía, Celeste, Antonella and Perla negra. She has also appeared in numerous films and several theatre productions. Del Boca has won three Martín Fierro Awards.
Orlando Irizarry
Orlando Irizarry Camacho (born September 27, 1985) is a professional male beach volleyball player from Puerto Rico who currently competes on the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit. He competes with Roberto Rodríguez.

He also played at the AVP Young Guns 2009 at Fort Lauderdale  finishing in the 7th place.

At his college University of the Sacred Heart where he plays indoor volleyball as a setter, he was awarded for academic excellence.

Roberto Rodríguez (volleyball)
Roberto "Rafu" Rodríguez-Bertrán (born August 8, 1986) is a professional beach volleyball player from Puerto Rico who currently competes on the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit. He competes with Orlando Irrizarry.

Representing his home country at the Swatch FIVB World Tour during the 2006 season, playing with Christopher Underwood, they accumulated 30 points.

He also played at the AVP Young Guns 2009 at Fort Lauderdale finishing in 7th place.
Mary Given Sheerer
Mary Given Sheerer (1865–1954) was an American ceramicist, designer, and art educator, best known for her affiliation with the Newcomb Pottery project at H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, now part of Tulane University.

Newcomb Pottery
Newcomb Pottery, also called Newcomb College Pottery, was a brand of American Arts & Crafts pottery produced from 1895 to 1940. The company grew out of the pottery program at H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, the women's college now associated with Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.  The Pottery was a contemporary of Rookwood Pottery, the Saturday Evening Girls, North Dakota pottery, Teco and Grueby.
Gur Shelef
Gur Shelef (Hebrew: גור שלף; born January 10, 1974) is an Israeli former professional basketball player. Standing at 201 cm (6 ft 7 in) he played at the small forward and power forward positions. His father, Ami Shelef, and brother, Uri Shelef, were also basketball players.

Ami Shelef
Ami Shelef (Hebrew: עמי שלף; September 20, 1936 – December 24, 1988) was an Israeli basketball player and coach. He played the center position. He played in the Israel Basketball Premier League, and for the Israeli national basketball team.
Louisa Horton
Louisa Fleetwood Horton (September 20, 1920 – January 25, 2008) was an American film, television and stage actress, who used her given name, Louisa Horton, professionally. She was the former wife of the late The Sting director, George Roy Hill, with whom she had four children.

George Roy Hill
George Roy Hill (December 20, 1921 – December 27, 2002) was an American film director. His films include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and The Sting (1973), both starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Both films also earned him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director; he won for the latter.

Hill also directed The World of Henry Orient (1964), Hawaii (1966), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), The Great Waldo Pepper (1975), Slap Shot (1977), A Little Romance (1979), The World According to Garp (1982) and his final film Funny Farm (1988). According to one obituary "few directors achieved such fame and success... even fewer enjoyed such eminence for such a short period of time."
Al-Ishy
Al Ishy (Arabic: آل عيشي)  is a village in the sub-governorate of Bariq in  the province of Asir, Saudi Arabia. It is located at an elevation of 420 metres (1,380 ft) and has a population of up to 1,000.

Bareq
Bareq (Arabic: بارق; also transliterated as Bāriq), is a governorate located in the Asir Province of Saudi Arabia in the north-west of the province, 120 km (75 mi)  north of Abha. It occupies a distinct location  midway between Tihamah and Asir, 412 m (1,352 ft) above sea level. With an estimated population of 75,351, it is well off economically; the city has grown rapidly and has many government services and public utilities available. It is one of Asir's winter resorts because of its natural environment and mild winter weather. Bareq has valleys.
Maundy Thursday (film)
Maundy Thursday (Korean: 우리들의 행복한 시간; RR: Urideurui haengbokhan sigan; lit. 'Our Happy Time') is a 2006 South Korean romantic drama film directed by Song Hae-sung. Based on a bestselling novel by Gong Ji-young, it stars Lee Na-young and Gang Dong-won. the film is about a convicted murderer awaiting execution, and the bond he forms with a suicidal young woman who starts visiting him in jail every Thursday.

With 3,132,320 admissions, Maundy Thursday is the seventh-highest-grossing Korean film of 2006.

Gang Dong-won
Gang Dong-won (Korean: 강동원; born January 18, 1981) is a South Korean actor. He debuted as a model and rose to stardom through the film Temptation of Wolves (2004). He is subsequently known for starring in the films Maundy Thursday (2006), Jeon Woo-chi: The Taoist Wizard (2009), Secret Reunion (2010), Kundo: Age of the Rampant (2014), The Priests (2015), A Violent Prosecutor (2016), Master (2016), and Peninsula (2020).
Krishnarao Shankar Pandit
Gaan Maharishi Pt. Krishnarao Shankar Pandit (1894–1989) was an Indian musician, considered by many as one of the leading vocalists of the Gwalior gharana. He authored several articles and 8 books on music and was the founder of Shankar Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, a music college based in Gwalior. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 1973, for his contributions to music. He was also a recipient of several other honors, including the 1959 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and the 1980 Tansen Award of the Government of Madhya Pradesh.

Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (IAST: Saṅgīta Nāṭaka Akādamī Puraskāra), also known as the Akademi Puraskar, is an award given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama. It is the highest Indian recognition given to people in the field of performing arts.

In 2003, the award consisted of Rs. 50,000, a citation, an angavastram (a shawl), and a tamrapatra (a brass plaque). Since 2009, the cash prize has been increased to ₹1,00,000. The awards are given in the categories of music, dance, theatre, other traditional arts and puppetry, and for contribution/scholarship in performing arts.
Sebastian Roché
Sebastian Roché (born 4 August 1964) is a French-American actor. He is known for his roles as Kurt Mendel in Odyssey 5, Jerry Jacks in General Hospital, Thomas Jerome Newton in Fringe, Balthazar in Supernatural, Mikael in both The Vampire Diaries and The Originals, and Reichsminister Martin Heusmann in The Man in the High Castle.

Roché has appeared in the films The Last of the Mohicans (1992); The Peacemaker (1997); 15 Minutes (2001); Earthsea (miniseries) (2004); Sorry, Haters (2005); The Namesake (2006); New York City Serenade (2007); Beowulf (2007); Happy Tears (2009); Safe House (2012); Wer (2013); A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014); and We Love You, Sally Carmichael! (2017). He also starred in the Broadway plays Salome (1992) and The Green Bird (2000).

New York City Serenade (film)
New York City Serenade is a 2007 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Frank Whaley and starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Chris Klein and Jamie-Lynn Sigler alongside Heather Bucha, Alexander Chaplin and Wallace Shawn. The film takes its title from the Bruce Springsteen song of the same name from 1973, and follows two childhood friends (Prinze and Klein) who attend a film festival in Kansas amidst their separate personal crises.

New York City Serenade premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival on September 13, 2007, and was released direct-to-video by Anchor Bay Entertainment on March 24, 2009. The film was panned by critics.
Aspect ratio (image)
The aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of its width to its height. It is expressed as two numbers separated by a colon, in the format width:height. Common aspect ratios are 1.85:1 and 2.39:1 in cinematography, 4:3 (originally) and 16:9 in television, and 3:2 in still photography. The 1:1 aspect ratio is used for square images, often seen on social media platforms like Instagram, and 21:9 is an "ultrawide" aspect ratio popular for gaming and desktop monitors.

Letterboxing (filming)
Letter-boxing is the practice of transferring film shot in a widescreen aspect ratio to standard-width video formats while preserving the film's original aspect ratio. The resulting video-graphic image has mattes of empty space above and below it; these mattes are part of each frame of the video signal.
Pete Donohue
Peter Joseph Donohue (November 5, 1900 – February 23, 1988) was an American right-handed starting pitcher with a 12-year career from 1921 to 1932. He played for the Cincinnati Reds, New York Giants, both of the National League, and the Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox of the American League. His interment was located at Fort Worth's Greenwood Memorial Park along with Tom Baker and Jackie Tavener.

During a start on June 12, 1928, Donohue pitched 6+1⁄3 innings and allowed 11 earned runs on 14 hits. However, thanks in part to his own home run, he was credited with the win. As of 2022, his game score of 1 is the lowest for a winning pitcher since the earned run became an official statistic in 1913.

Donohue was a very good hitting pitcher in his major league career, posting a .246 batting average (180-for-732) with 44 runs, 6 home runs, 87 RBI and drawing 21 bases on balls.

Tom Baker (1930s pitcher)
Thomas Calvin Baker (June 11, 1913 – January 3, 1991), nicknamed "Rattlesnake", was an American Major League Baseball player. He was a pitcher for four seasons (1935–38) with the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants.

Baker died in 1991 and was interred at Greenwood Memorial Park in Fort Worth, Texas along with Pete Donohue and Jackie Tavener.
Erin's Own GAA (Cork)
Erin's Own GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in Glounthaune, County Cork, Ireland. The club fields teams in hurling, Gaelic football, camogie and ladies football. The club is part of the Imokilly division.

Glounthaune
Glounthaune (Irish: An Gleanntán, meaning 'the small glen') is a village in County Cork, Ireland, some 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) east of Cork city, on the north shore of Cork Harbour, the estuary of the River Lee.
Entre tinieblas
Dark Habits (Spanish: Entre Tinieblas) is a 1983 Spanish black comedy film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar and starring Julieta Serrano, Marisa Paredes and Chus Lampreave. The plot follows a cabaret singer who finds refuge in a convent of eccentric nuns, while the film is an exploration of the anachronistic situation of institutionalized religion in contemporary Spanish society.

Chus Lampreave
María Jesús Lampreave Pérez (11 December 1930 – 4 April 2016), known professionally as Chus Lampreave, was a Spanish character actress  who starred in more than 70 films. 
She is known internationally for her roles in films by Pedro Almodóvar.
Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision
Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision is one of the paintings that was made as a part of the Stuckism art movement, and is recognized as a "signature piece" for the movement. It was painted in 2000 by the Stuckism co-founder Charles Thomson, and has been exhibited in a number of shows since, as well as being featured on placards during Stuckist demonstrations against the Turner Prize.

It depicts Sir Nicholas Serota, Director of the Tate Gallery, and chairman of the Turner Prize jury. "Emin" satirises Young British Artist Tracey Emin's installation My Bed, consisting of her bed and objects, including knickers, which she exhibited in 1999 as a Turner Prize nominee.

Nicholas Serota
Sir Nicholas Andrew Serota CH (born 27 April 1946) is a British art historian and curator. He has been chairman of Arts Council England since February 2017.

Serota was director of the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, then director of the Whitechapel Gallery, London,  and then director of the Tate from 1988 to 2017. He was also chairman of the Turner Prize jury until 2007.
Liberty Counsel
Liberty Counsel is a nonprofit, tax-exempt Christian ministry that engages in strategic litigation to promote evangelical Christian values and limit LGBTQ protections. Founded in 1989 by its chairman Mathew Staver and its president Anita L. Staver, who are both attorneys that are married to each other, Liberty Counsel has been classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-LGBT hate group, a designation the group has disputed.

Liberty Counsel has been directly involved in several high-profile legal cases, including representing clients in litigation around abortion, religious expression, same-sex marriage and free speech.

Mathew Staver
Mathew D. "Mat" Staver is an American lawyer and former pastor of several Seventh-day Adventist churches who became a Southern Baptist. He is a former dean of Liberty University's law school. In 1989, he founded the nonprofit organization Liberty Counsel, where he serves as chairman. ProPublica called him "a leading Christian legal theorist."
Brunner, Ontario
Brunner is a community in the Township of Perth East, Perth County, Ontario, Canada. It lies 17 kilometres (11 mi) north of Stratford on Perth County Road 119. Topping is the nearest community, 4 kilometres (2 mi) east, and Milverton is 5 kilometres (3 mi) north. The Stratford and Huron Railway, later part of Canadian National Railway, passes through the community.

Perth East, Ontario
The Township of Perth East is a municipality in Perth County, Ontario, Canada,  situated north of Stratford. It was created in 1998 when the Ontario government amalgamated the village of Milverton with the surrounding former townships of Ellice, Mornington, North Easthope and South Easthope.

Milverton is the largest community of the township, where the municipal administration is based. The mayor is Rhonda Ehgoetz. The population in 2016 was 12,595, with 4,266 occupied private dwellings, in a land area of 711.93 km2 (275 sq. mi.).
James Alexander Scott
James Alexander Scott CIE OBE (2 December 1895 – 20 January 1983), was a British member of the Indian Police Force from 1915 to 1947.

In 1915 Scott joined the Indian Police Force. He then became attached to the 93rd Burma Infantry and completed three years of service with the Indian Army. Subsequently he was posted to the provinces of Punjab and Delhi. In October 1928, he was superintendent of police in Lahore, when the Simon Commission visited. There, he ordered the dispersal of protesters by the charging with batons, resulting in severe injuries to the Indian revolutionary Lala Lajpat Rai. Rai's death a fortnight later led to Scott becoming the target of an assassination by members of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army, and the subsequent Lahore Conspiracy Case.

Documents related to Scott, including his thoughts penciled in the margins of a copy of Alfred Draper's book titled Amritsar: The Massacre that Ended the Raj (1981), are kept in the British Library.

Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA), previously known as the Hindustan Republican Army and Hindustan Republican Association (HRA), was a left-wing Indian revolutionary organization, founded by Sachindranath Sanyal. After changes in Bhagat Singh's ideology and the influence of the Russian Revolution, they held meetings in Feroz Shah Kotla Maidan and added the word socialist to their name. Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan, Sachindra Nath Bakshi, Sachindranath Sanyal and Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee were the leaders of the group at the time. HSRA's manifesto titled The Revolutionary and written constitution were produced as evidence in the Kakori conspiracy case of 1925.