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City Opera of Vancouver
City Opera of Vancouver is a professional chamber opera company in Vancouver, Canada, founded in 2006. Its past productions include the Vancouver premiere of Nigredo Hotel by Ann-Marie MacDonald and Nic Gotham; commission and premiere of 'Missing', by librettist Marie Clements and composer Brian Current, given in co-production with Pacific Opera Victoria; the premiere of a 'new' Mozart chamber opera, 'The Lost Operas of Mozart'; the world premiere of Pauline, a chamber opera with an original libretto by Margaret Atwood; the commission and workshop premiere of 'Fallujah', with music by Tobin Stokes and libretto by Heather Raffo, and supported by the Annenberg Foundation of Los Angeles; the Canadian event premiere of Sumidagawa and Curlew River in double bill; and, the British Columbia premiere of Viktor Ullmann's The Emperor of Atlantis.

Pacific Opera Victoria
Pacific Opera Victoria is a professional Canadian opera company in Victoria, British Columbia. It designs, builds, and stages original opera productions at the Royal Theatre with the Victoria Symphony. The company also presents smaller scale works and community programming at the Baumann Centre.
Squaric acid
Squaric acid or quadratic acid (so named because its four carbon atoms approximately form a square) is a diprotic organic acid with the chemical formula C4O2(OH)2.

The conjugate base of squaric acid is the hydrogensquarate anion HC4O−4; and the conjugate base of the hydrogensquarate anion is the divalent squarate anion C4O2−4. This is one of the oxocarbon anions, which consist only of carbon and oxygen.

Squaric acid is a reagent for chemical synthesis.  Derivatives are dyes and biochemical agents.

Acetylenediol
Acetylenediol, or ethynediol, is a chemical substance with formula HO−C≡C−OH (an ynol).  It is the diol of acetylene.  Acetylenediol is unstable in the condensed phase, although its tautomer glyoxal (CHO)2 is well known.
Statue of Robert Falcon Scott, London
The statue of Captain Robert Falcon Scott is a Grade II listed statue on Waterloo Place in London. The sculpture is by Scott's wife, Kathleen Scott.

Robert Falcon Scott was an Antarctic explorer. He and his crew would die during the Terra Nova Expedition, having been beaten to the South Pole by Roald Amundsen.

Funds for the monument were raised by officers of the Navy. Originally, the design of the memorial would be a symbolic grouping with Courage and Patriotism. Kathleen's design of the statue would represent her husband in Antarctic gear. The monument was unveiled in 1915 by Arthur Balfour and a plaque in 1923 would be added commemorating Scott alongside Wilson, Bower, Oates and Evans of his company.

A marble replica stands in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Waterloo Place
Waterloo Place is a short but broad street in the St James's area of the City of Westminster, London. It forms a plaza-like space and is a southern extension of Lower Regent Street. Towards the northern end it is crossed by Pall Mall and at the southern end, by Carlton House Terrace, where it ends at the Duke of York Steps which lead down to The Mall. Located on the Place are several 19th and 20th century monuments to royalty, explorers and military people.
Talayan
Talayan, officially the Municipality of Talayan (Maguindanaon: Ingud nu Talayan; Iranun: Inged a Talayan; Tagalog: Bayan ng Talayan), is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao del Sur, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 34,156 people.

Talayan was created through Presidential Decree No. 1009 by then President Ferdinand Marcos on September 22, 1976. It was carved from the municipalities of Datu Piang and Dinaig (now Datu Odin Sinsuat).

Datu Udzag Midtimbang was the first appointed mayor of entire Talayan now divided into 4 municipalities, Talitay, Datu Anggal Midtimbang, Talayan and Guindulungan. followed by a younger brother Datu Antao, and now Datu Ali. With these leaders, Talayan now and then remains as a place for everybody. Many projects now serve the public like concrete roads and lights in every home. A new public market is now being constructed under the leadership of Mayor Hadji Datu Ali.

Datu Piang, Maguindanao del Sur
Datu Piang, officially the Municipality of Datu Piang (Maguindanaon: Inged nu Datu Piang, Jawi:داتوڤياڠ
ايڠد نو; Tagalog: Bayan ng Datu Piang), is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao del Sur, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 28,380 people.

It is formerly known as Dulawan.
Parole (United States immigration)
Parole, in the immigration laws of the United States, generally refers to official permission to enter and remain temporarily in the United States, under the supervision of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), without formal admission, and while remaining an applicant for admission.

Parole has been used since 1956 by presidents of both parties to respond to humanitarian and refugee crises.

Temporary protected status
Temporary protected status (TPS) is given by the United States government to eligible nationals of designated countries, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security, who are present in the United States. In general, the Secretary of Homeland Security may grant temporary protected status to people already present in the United States who are nationals of a country experiencing ongoing armed conflict, an environmental disaster, or any temporary or extraordinary conditions that would prevent the foreign national from returning safely and assimilating into their duty. Temporary protected status allows beneficiaries to live and, in some cases, work in the United States for a limited amount of time. As of March 2022, there were more than 400,000 foreign nationals in Temporary Protected Status.
S. Y. Quraishi
Shahabuddin Yaqoob Quraishi (born 11 June 1947) is a retired IAS officer who served as 17th Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India. He was appointed as the CEC as the successor to Navin Chawla on 30 July 2010.

He has also served as a Secretary in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.

Chief Election Commissioner of India
The chief election commissioner of India (CEC) heads the Election Commission of India, a body constitutionally empowered to conduct free and fair elections. An election commissioner is appointed by the president of India on the recommendation of a three-member selection committee headed by the prime minister and consisting of the leader of the opposition and a Union Cabinet minister.

The term of a CEC can be a maximum of six years or until they attain sixty-five years of age. The chief election commissioner is usually a member of the Indian Civil Service and mostly from the Indian Administrative Service.

The chief election commissioner is placed at 9A position in the order of precedence in India along with the chairperson of Union Public Service Commission and the comptroller and auditor general of India.
Gaianus of Tyre
Gaianus of Tyre (Greek: Γαϊανός ό Τύριος) was the consular governor of Phoenicia in 362. Pagan Hellene rhetorician Libanius' Epistulae with Gaianus lists his achievements after his graduation from the Law school of Berytus.

As a rule, Roman governors were chosen from provinces other that the ones they were appointed to; Libanius' epistula 799 relates that the Emperor made an exception to that rule and allowed  Gaianus, a Tyrian, to rule over his home province of Phoenice.

Phoenice (Roman province)
Phoenice (Latin: Syria Phoenīcē Latin: [ˈsʏri.a pʰoe̯ˈniːkeː]; Koinē Greek: ἡ Φοινίκη Συρία, romanized: hē Phoinī́kē Syría Koinē Greek: [(h)e pʰyˈni.ke syˈri.a]) was a province of the Roman Empire, encompassing the historical region of Phoenicia. It was officially created in 194 AD and after c. 392, Phoenice Syria was divided into Phoenice proper or Phoenice Paralia, and Phoenice Libanensis, a division that persisted until the region was conquered by the Muslim Arabs in the 630s.
Parola railway station
The Parola railway station (Finnish: Parolan rautatieasema, Swedish: Parola järnvägsstation) is located in the municipality of Hattula, Finland, in the urban area and municipal seat of Parola. It is located along the Riihimäki–Tampere railway, and its neighboring stations are Iittala in the north and Hämeenlinna in the south.

Hattula
Hattula (Finnish: [ˈhɑtːulɑ]) is a municipality of Finland. It is part of the Kanta-Häme region and until 2010 it was located in the province of Southern Finland. Hattula is almost completely surrounded by Hämeenlinna, only in the north it shares the border with Valkeakoski and Pälkäne on the Pirkanmaa region side.
Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1985
Germany was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 with the song "Für alle", written by Hanne Haller, and performed by the band Wind. The German participating broadcaster on behalf of ARD, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), selected their entry through a national final. This was the first of three appearances by Wind at Eurovision; they would also represent Germany in 1987 and 1992.

Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987
Germany was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1987 with the song "Laß die Sonne in dein Herz", composed by Ralph Siegel, with lyrics by Bernd Meinunger, and performed by the band Wind. The German participating broadcaster on behalf of ARD, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), selected their entry through a national final. This was the second of three appearances by Wind at Eurovision; they had previously finished second for Germany in 1985 and would return to the contest in 1992. The Eurovision performance included future Milli Vanilli member Rob Pilatus.
Cocoa Expos
Cocoa Expos was an American soccer team, founded in 1993. The team was a member of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, until 2007, when the team left the league and the franchise was terminated.

The team played its home matches at the Cocoa Municipal Stadium in Cocoa, Florida, approximately 45 miles from Orlando. The team's colors were blue and white.

The team also had a sister organization, the Cocoa Expos Women, which played in the women's USL W-League, but also folded at the end of 2007.

Brevard County Cocoa Expos
Brevard County Cocoa Expos is an American women's soccer team, founded in 1993. The team is a member of the Women's Premier Soccer League, the third tier of women's soccer in the United States and Canada. The team plays in the Sunshine Conference.

The team plays its home games at the Cocoa Municipal Stadium in Cocoa, Florida. The club's colors are blue and white.

The team used to play in the USL W-League as the Cocoa Expos Women, and were associated with the now defunct men's USL team, Cocoa Expos.
Ayabe Station
Ayabe Station (綾部駅, Ayabe-eki) is an interchange passenger railway station located in the city of Ayabe, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). The station serves limited expresses "Kinosaki", Maizuru" and Hashidate".

Ayabe, Kyoto
Ayabe (綾部市, Ayabe-shi) is a city located in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 March 2022, the city had an estimated population of 31,082 in 13,660 households and a population density of 90 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 347.10 square kilometres (134.02 sq mi).
James Massey
James Lee Massey (February 11, 1934 – June 16, 2013) was an American information theorist and
cryptographer, Professor Emeritus of Digital Technology at ETH Zurich. His notable work includes the application of the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm to linear codes, the design of the block ciphers IDEA (with Xuejia Lai, based on the Lai-Massey scheme) and SAFER, and the Massey-Omura cryptosystem (with Jim K. Omura).

Xuejia Lai
Xuejia Lai (simplified Chinese: 来学嘉; traditional Chinese: 來學嘉; pinyin: Lái Xuéjiā) is a cryptographer, currently a professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His notable work includes the design of the block cipher IDEA based on the Lai-Massey scheme, the theory of Markov ciphers, and the cryptanalysis of a number of cryptographic hash functions. His book On the Design and Security of Block Ciphers (ISBN 978-3891915738) is frequently cited in cryptography papers.

Lai received a B.Sc. in electrical engineering in 1982 and an M.Sc. in mathematics in 1984 at Xidian University (then known as Northwest Institute of Telecommunication Engineering). About 1982 he met James Massey, who was visiting the university to give lectures in cryptography. Lai served as interpreter for these lectures. He later became one of Massey's doctoral students at ETH Zurich, where he received his Ph.D. in 1992. Together they designed the IDEA cipher.
Pitcairnia loki-schmidtiae
Pitcairnia loki-schmidtiae is a plant species in the genus Pitcairnia. This species is endemic to Mexico.

The species is named after Hannelore "Loki" Schmidt, wife of former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Mrs. Schmidt discovered the species during a 1985 educational journey to Mexico.

Pitcairnia
Pitcairnia is a genus of plants in the family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Pitcairnioideae. It was named after William Pitcairn, Scottish physician and gardener (1711–1791). Pitcairnia ranks as the second most species-rich genus in the family Bromeliaceae, after Tillandsia. They are most abundant in Colombia, Peru and Brazil, but can also be found in areas from Cuba and Mexico south to Argentina. One species, Pitcairnia feliciana, is found in tropical West Africa, and is the only member of the family Bromeliaceae not native to the Americas.

Almost all Pitcairnias are terrestrial or saxicolous, and prefer moist areas. However, many are found growing epiphytically in trees.
Dutch–Ahanta War
The Dutch–Ahanta War was a conflict between the Netherlands and the Ahanta between 1837 and 1839. Beginning with a mere economic dispute between the Ahanta and the Dutch, who were based at the Dutch Gold Coast, the conflict ended with the hanging of Ahanta king Badu Bonsu II and the reorganization of the Ahanta state, establishing a Dutch protectorate over the Ahanta.

Treaty of Butre
The Treaty of Butre between the Netherlands and Ahanta was signed at Butre (historical spelling: Boutry), Dutch Gold Coast on 27 August 1656. The treaty regulated the jurisdiction of the Netherlands and the Dutch West India Company over the town of Butre and the surrounding country of Upper Ahanta, creating a Dutch protectorate over the area, and permitting the establishment of Fort Batenstein. The treaty lasted until the Dutch departure from the Gold Coast in April 1872.
Bulgarograsso
Bulgarograsso (Comasco: Bulgor [ˈbylɡur]) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 35 kilometres (22 mi) northwest of Milan and about 10 kilometres (6 mi) southwest of Como. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,283 and an area of 3.8 square kilometres (1.5 sq mi).

Bulgarograsso borders the following municipalities: Appiano Gentile, Cassina Rizzardi, Guanzate, Lurate Caccivio, Villa Guardia.

Villa Guardia
Villa Guardia (Brianzöö: [ˈʋila ˈɡwaːrdja]) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 35 kilometres (22 mi) northwest of Milan and about 6 kilometres (4 mi) southwest of Como.

Villa Guardia borders the following municipalities: Bulgarograsso, Cassina Rizzardi, Colverde, Grandate, Luisago, Lurate Caccivio, Montano Lucino.
Smyadovo Cove
Smyadovo Cove (Bulgarian: залив Смядово, romanized: zaliv Smyadovo, IPA: [ˈzalif ˈsmʲadovo]) is a 900-meter wide cove indenting for 850 m the west coast of Rugged Island off the west coast of Byers Peninsula of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.  Entered north of Ugain Point and south of the southwest extremity of the small peninsula forming Cape Sheffield.  Part of the cove's interior and entrance is occupied by Toledo Island and Prosechen Island.

The cove is named after the town of Smyadovo in northeastern Bulgaria.

Toledo Island
Toledo Island (Bulgarian: остров Толедо, romanized: ostrov Toledo, IPA: [ˈɔstrof toˈlɛdo]) is the southern of two rocky islands in Smyadovo Cove on the west coast of Rugged Island in the South Shetland Islands.  The feature is 320 m (1,050 ft) long in east–west direction and 110 m (360 ft) wide.  It is separated from Rugged Island to the southeast and Prosechen Island to the north by 40 and 60 m (130 and 200 ft) wide passages respectively.  The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.

The island is named after Joaquín de Toledo y Parra (1780–1819), Captain of the Spanish warship San Telmo that sank with 644 men on board off the north coast of Livingston Island in September 1819.
Plantation Revue
Plantation Revue was a 1922 revue put together by Lew Leslie, featuring some of the more popular musical numbers and comedy acts that he had hired at Harlem's Plantation Club.

The original revue underwent other versions, with minor or major changes to the cast: Dover Street to Dixie (pairing-up with a British production in London); Dixie to Broadway (pairing-up with a one-act white revue) and Dixie to Paris.

Ulysses "Slow Kid" Thompson
Ulysses "Slow Kid" Thompson (August 28, 1888 – March 17, 1990) was a comedian, singer, tap and acrobatic dancer whose nickname was inspired by his ability to perform a comical, and incredibly slow, dance routine. His career included work in circus, medicine shows, minstrel shows, vaudeville, and Broadway.
Bregnano
Bregnano (Comasco: Bregnan [breˈɲãː]) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Como in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 25 kilometres (16 mi) northwest of Milan and about 13 kilometres (8 mi) south of Como.

Bregnano is divided in the frazioni of Mengardo, Puginate, Gesiolo, San Giorgio, San Michele and San Rocco. It borders the municipalities of Cadorago, Cermenate, Lazzate, Lomazzo and Rovellasca.

Churches in the town include San Michele, San Giorgio and Santi Ippolito e Cassiano.

Rovellasca
Rovellasca is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 25 kilometres (16 mi) northwest of Milan and about 15 kilometres (9 mi) south of Como.

Rovellasca borders the following municipalities: Bregnano, Lazzate, Lomazzo, Misinto, Rovello Porro.

Physician and zoologist Giovanni Battista Grassi was born in Rovellasca.
Gumal (West Syriac diocese)
Gumal (also known as Goghmal, Gomel and Marga) was a diocese of the Syriac Orthodox Church.  Bishops of Gumal are attested between the sixth and tenth centuries, but the diocese may have persisted into the thirteenth century.

Dioceses of the Syriac Orthodox Church
In the period of its greatest expansion, in the tenth century, the Syriac Orthodox Church had around 20 metropolitan dioceses and a little over a hundred suffragan dioceses. By the seventeenth century, only 20 dioceses remained, reduced in the twentieth century to 10. The seat of Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch was at Mardin before the First World War, and thereafter in Deir Zaʿfaran, from 1932 in Homs, and finally from 1959 in Damascus.
William Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding CBE FRSL (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), Golding published another 12 volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, Golding was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. Golding was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.

As a result of his contributions to literature, Golding was knighted in 1988. He was also a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

Envoy Extraordinary (novella)
"Envoy Extraordinary" is a 1956 novella by British writer William Golding, first published by Eyre & Spottiswoode as one third of the collection Sometime, Never, alongside "Consider Her Ways" by John Wyndham and "Boy in Darkness" by Mervyn Peake. It was later published in 1971 as the second of three novellas in Golding's collection The Scorpion God.

The story concerns an inventor who anachronistically brings the steam engine to ancient Rome, along with three of the Four Great Inventions of China (gunpowder, the compass, and the printing press).

Golding later adapted "Envoy Extraordinary" into a play called The Brass Butterfly, first performed in Oxford in 1958 starring Alistair Sim and George Cole.

Leighton Hodson compares it to "The Rewards of Industry" from Richard Garnett's 1888 collection The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales, in which three Chinese brothers bring printing, gunpowder and chess to the West, but only chess is accepted.
Government of Cristina Cifuentes
The government of Cristina Cifuentes was formed on 26 June 2015, following the latter's election as President of the Community of Madrid by the Assembly of Madrid on 24 June and her swearing-in on 25 June, as a result of the People's Party (PP) emerging as the largest parliamentary force at the 2015 Madrilenian regional election. It succeeded the González government and was the Government of the Community of Madrid from 26 June 2015 to 22 May 2018, a total of 1,061 days, or 2 years, 10 months and 26 days.

The cabinet comprised members of the PP and a number of independents. It was automatically dismissed on 28 April 2018 as a consequence of Cifuentes's resignation as president, but remained in acting capacity until the next government was sworn in.

Government of Ignacio González
The government of Ignacio González was formed on 28 September 2012, following the latter's election as President of the Community of Madrid by the Assembly of Madrid on 26 September and his swearing-in on 27 September, as a result of the resignation of the former president, Esperanza Aguirre, out of personal motives. It succeeded the third Aguirre government and was the Government of the Community of Madrid from 28 September 2012 to 26 June 2015, a total of 1,001 days, or 2 years, 8 months and 29 days.

The cabinet comprised members of the PP and a number of independents. It was automatically dismissed on 25 May 2015 as a consequence of the 2015 regional election, but remained in acting capacity until the next government was sworn in.
Ruomu
Ruomu (Chinese: 若木; pinyin: Ruòmù; lit. 'Treelike') was a figure in Chinese mythology.

In the Records of the Grand Historian, Sima Qian's account of the origins of the House of Ying makes him the son of Fei the Great and the brother of Lian the Great. His mother was said to be a 'jade lady of the Yao clan. Ruomu was the great-great-grandfather of Feichang.

Bo Yi (legendary leader)
Yi (Chinese: 益; pinyin: Yì; fl. 2nd millennium BCE) was a tribal leader of Longshan culture and a culture hero in Chinese mythology who helped Shun and Yu the Great control the Great Flood; he served afterwards as a government minister and a successor as ruler of the empire. Yi is also credited with the invention of digging wells (although Shennong is also credited with this). He was the ancestor of the ruling houses of the Zhao, Qin, Xu and Liang states.