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The Passenger (opera)
The Passenger (Russian: Пассажирка, romanized: Passazhirka) is a 1968 opera by Mieczysław Weinberg to a Russian libretto by Alexander Medvedev.  Medvedev's libretto is based on the 1959 Polish radio play Pasażerka z kabiny 45 (Passenger from Cabin Number 45) by concentration-camp survivor Zofia Posmysz. The opera, scheduled for the Bolshoi Theatre in 1968, was not premiered until 2006, when musicians of the Stanislavsky Theatre presented a semi-staging conducted by Wolf Gorelik in the Svetlanov Hall of the Moscow International House of Music on 25 December. Medvedev's libretto was reworked in 2010 for the first staged performance of the opera at the Bregenzer Festspiele into German, English, Polish, Yiddish, French, Russian and Czech. It has then been performed internationally.

Bregenzer Festspiele
Bregenzer Festspiele (German pronunciation: [ˌbreːɡɛntsɐ ˈfɛst.ʃpiːlə]; Bregenz Festival) is a performing arts festival which is held every July and August in Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria.
It features a large floating stage which is situated on Lake Constance.
2018 Super DIRTcar Series
The 2018 Super DIRTcar Series is the 46th season of Big Block Modified racing sanctioned by DIRTcar Northeast & World Racing Group. The season will begin with the DIRTcar Nationals at Volusia Speedway Park on February 12 (featuring 5 non-points races) while the first points scoring race of the season will be the Highbank Holdup at Can-Am Speedway on April 13 The season will end with the Can-Am World of Outlaws World Finals at The Dirt Track at Charlotte on November 9. Matt Sheppard enters the 2019 season as the defending series champion.

The 2019 season will continue to feature qualifier races for NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week. Any qualifier race winner will have a guaranteed provisional starting spot in the 200 lap event at Oswego Speedway on October 13.

Volusia Speedway Park
Volusia Speedway Park (formerly known as Volusia County Speedway and Barberville Speedway) is an auto racing facility located near Barberville in Volusia County, Florida.  It currently operates as a 1/2-mile dirt oval and a 1/5-mile dirt oval for karts.
Leighton, Cheshire
Leighton is a scattered settlement and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, which lies immediately north west of Crewe. The parish also includes the village of Barrows Green (at SJ687579), which lies on the northern outskirts of Crewe, 1½ miles from the centre. Nearby villages include Bradfield Green and Worleston. The total population of the civil parish was 4,883 at the 2011 Census.

Worleston
Worleston is a village (at SJ658564) and civil parish in Cheshire, England, 2+1⁄2 miles north of Nantwich and 3 miles west of Crewe. The civil parish, which also includes Beambridge, Rease Heath, Mile End and Rookery, had a population at the 2011 Census of 452.
2025 Olongapo local elections
Local elections were held in Olongapo on May 12, 2025, as part of the 2025 Philippine general election. Olongapo voters will elect a mayor, a vice mayor, and 10 out of 12 councilors of the Olongapo City Council.

Olongapo
Olongapo ([ʔoˌloːŋ.ɡɐˈpo]), officially the City of Olongapo (Filipino: Lungsod ng Olongapo; Ilocano: Siudad ti Olongapo; Sambal: Siyodad nin Olongapo; Kapampangan: Lakanbalen/Ciudad ning Olongapo), is a highly urbanized city situated in the Central Luzon region of the Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 264,903 people.

It is geographically situated and grouped under the province of Zambales by the Philippine Statistics Authority but governed independently and is also its largest city. Portions of the city also form part of the Subic Special Economic and Freeport Zone.

Along with the municipality of Subic, it comprises Metro Olongapo, one of the twelve metropolitan areas in the Philippines.
Mary Williams (professor)
Mary Williams (1883-1977) was a distinguished Welsh academic of modern languages. She was one of the first woman appointed to a professorial title at a British university.

Known by her peers as a pioneer in the field of comparative medieval literature, more especially the origin and rise of the Arthurian Romances, she was awarded the Officier d’Academie and Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur by the French government in 1934.

Ordre des Palmes académiques
The Ordre des Palmes académiques (French pronunciation: [ɔʁdʁ de palm(z‿)akademik]; French for 'Order of Academic Palms') is a national order bestowed by the French Republic on distinguished academics and teachers and for valuable service to universities, education and science.

Originally established in 1808 by Emperor of the French Napoleon as a decoration to honour eminent members of the University of Paris, it was changed into its current form as an order of merit on 4 October 1955 by President René Coty, making it one of the oldest civil honours bestowed by the French Republic.
Mary Jane Russell
Mary Jane Russell (July 10, 1926 – November 20, 2003) was a New York City-based American photographic fashion model active from 1948 to 1961. She often worked with Louise Dahl-Wolfe and Irving Penn, and appeared on many covers for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar during the course of her modelling career. Her husband was Edward Russell, who became president of the advertising agency Doyle Dane Bernbach.

Irving Penn
Irving Penn (June 16, 1917 – October 7, 2009) was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes.  Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake and Clinique.  His work has been exhibited internationally and continues to inform the art of photography.
Virgin Bhanupriya
Virgin Bhanupriya is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language comedy drama film directed by Ajay Lohan and produced by Shreyans Mahendra Dhariwal. The film stars Urvashi Rautela in the lead role, with Gautam Gulati, Archana Puran Singh, Chaitanya Kanhai and Rumana Molla playing supporting roles. The film is a family comedy that explores relationship between youngsters and their families. The film was scheduled for theatrical release in India and received negative reviews, but has moved to release on 16 July 2020 through ZEE5 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Archana Puran Singh
Archana Puran Singh Sethi (born 26 September 1962) is an Indian actress and television personality. She is known for her comedy roles in several Hindi films and as a judge in the comedy shows The Kapil Sharma Show and Comedy Circus. She is widely remembered for her supporting roles in several films, best known for playing Miss Braganza in the romance Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998). Archana Puran Singh has been featured in more than 100  films and television series.
Sean Patrick Maloney
Sean Patrick Maloney (born July 30, 1966) is an American attorney and politician who served as the U.S. ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development from 2024 to 2025. He previously served five terms as the U.S. representative from New York's 18th congressional district from 2013 to 2023.

Maloney campaigned as a moderate and was a member of the centrist New Democratic Coalition while serving in Congress. He is the first openly gay person elected to Congress from New York State. He served as chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee from 2021 to 2023. In 2022, he lost re-election in New York's 17th congressional district to Republican Mike Lawler.

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is the Democratic Hill committee for the United States House of Representatives, working to elect Democrats to that body.  The DCCC recruits candidates, raises funds and organizes races in districts  expected to yield politically notable or close elections. The committee consists of the chairperson (who according to Democratic Caucus rules is a fellow member of the caucus appointed by the party leader in the House), their staff, and other Democratic members of Congress in various executive roles.

The chairperson of the DCCC is the sixth-ranking position among House Democrats, after the speaker, the majority leader, the majority whip, the assistant Democratic leader, and the Democratic Caucus chairperson. The current chair is Suzan DelBene of Washington, who assumed the position in 2023.
Igitkin Island
Igitkin Island (Aleut: Igitxix̂; Russian: Игиткин остров) is a small island located in an area between Adak Island and Atka Island among other small islands. The island belongs to the Andreanof Islands of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska.

The island measures 3.8 kilometres (2.4 mi) long and 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) wide.

Adak Island
Adak Island (Aleut: Adaax, pronounced [ˈaðɑχ]; Russian: Адак) or Father Island is an island near the western extent of the Andreanof Islands group of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. Alaska's southernmost city, Adak, is located on the island.  The island has a land area of 274.59 square miles (711.18 km2), measuring 33.9 miles (54.5 km) long and 22 miles (35 km) wide, making it the 25th largest island in the United States.

Due to harsh winds, frequent cloud cover, and cold temperatures, vegetation is mostly tundra (grasses, mosses, berries, low-lying flowering plants) at lower elevations. The highest point is Mount Moffett, near the northwest end of the island, at an elevation of 3,924 feet (1,196 m). It is snow covered the greater part of the year. Adak is its largest and principal city.

The word Adak is from the Aleut word adaq, which means "father".
Aidan Walsh (boxer)
Aidan Walsh (born March 28, 1997) is an Irish boxer.

Walsh trains at Holy Family ABC, Belfast. His sister is Olympic boxer Michaela Walsh.

In 2015, Aidan won gold at light welterweight at the Commonwealth Youth Games.

At welterweight, Aidan won silver at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Aidan also competed in the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham where he won Gold alongside his sister Michaela Walsh, who is also a champion amateur boxer.

Walsh competed in the men's welterweight competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and won a bronze medal.

He lost in the first round at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, going down 4:0 to Makan Traoré from France.

Makan Traoré (boxer)
Makan Traoré (born 8 October 2000) is a French boxer. He competed at the 2023 European Games, winning the bronze medal in the men's light middleweight. He also competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the men's 71 kg event, but was defeated in the round-of-16 by Nikolai Terteryan.
Progabide
Progabide, sold under the brand name Gabrene, is a GABA receptor agonist which is used in the treatment of epilepsy. It is an analogue of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and acts both via a metabolite and as a prodrug of GABA, in turn behaving as an agonist of the GABA receptors.

GABA receptor
The GABA receptors  are a class of receptors that respond to the neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), the chief inhibitory compound in the mature vertebrate central nervous system. There are two classes of GABA receptors: GABAA and GABAB. GABAA receptors are ligand-gated ion channels (also known as ionotropic receptors); whereas GABAB receptors are G protein-coupled receptors, also called metabotropic receptors.
June 2013 Nantou earthquake
The 2013 Nantou earthquake struck central Taiwan with a moment magnitude of 6.2 on 2 June at 1:43 p.m. local time. The epicenter was located in mountainous terrain in Ren'ai Township, Nantou County, Taiwan, not far from Sun Moon Lake, close to the epicentre of another large earthquake a little over two months earlier. News reports indicate that five people were killed; three in Nantou County and two in neighbouring Chiayi County. The earthquake could be felt in Hong Kong, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong, China.

March 2013 Nantou earthquake
The 2013 Nantou earthquake struck central Taiwan with a moment magnitude of 5.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of V (Moderate) on March 27 at 10:03 a.m. local time. The epicenter was located in mountainous terrain in Ren'ai Township, Nantou County, Taiwan, not far from Sun Moon Lake.
Appoline Schrader
Appoline Wilhelmine Schrader (1874–1929), known as "Mina" or "Minna" among other names,  was a French artist, sculptor, and anarchist.

Born into a working-class family, she joined French artistic and anarchist circles. Schrader interacted with and inspired a number of artists, such as Rodin and Willy. She was targeted in 1894 as an anarchist and arrested by authorities, before being released a few days later, after which she continued her artistic activities.

Schrader died in 1929, interned at the Évreux hospital. Her police mugshot is part of the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in New York.

According to 21st-century historians, she might be the "policeman in a skirt" mentioned by Auguste Liard-Courtois, describing an anarchist activist who was a police informant and very knowledgeable about the anarchist movement.

Henry Gauthier-Villars
Henry Gauthier-Villars (8 August 1859 – 12 January 1931), known by the pen name Willy [vili], was a French fin de siècle writer and music critic who is today mostly known as the first husband of Colette. Other pseudonyms used by Gauthiers-Villars are: Henry Maugis, Robert Parville, l’Ex-ouvreuse du Cirque d’été, L’Ouvreuse, L’Ouvreuse du Cirque d’été, Jim Smiley, Henry Willy and Boris Zichine.
Situ Lembang Park
Situ Lembang Park (Indonesian: Taman Situ Lembang) is a park located at Menteng, Jakarta, Indonesia. Situ means lake,  while Lembang is the name of the road adjacent the park. The park is nestled within houses of Menteng residential area and located close to another park Taman Suropati.

The park is one of the oldest parks in Jakarta, which has a lake. There are fishing facilities, running tracks and children's playgrounds in the park. There are also plenty of mobile food stall that sells variety of food and drink.

Taman Suropati
Taman Suropati or Suropati Park is a public park located in Menteng, Jakarta, Indonesia. The park is located in the center of Menteng and is the meeting point of three streets: Teuku Umar Street, Diponegoro Street, and Imam Bonjol Street.
Association of British Commuters
The Association of British Commuters (ABC) is a UK passenger lobby group for people who commute. It was formed in September 2016 by a group of passengers, disaffected by Govia Thameslink Railway's service on the Southern routes of the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise, after months of delays, cancellations, overcrowded conditions, and strikes.

In 2016, lawyers for ABC launched legal action against the UK Department for Transport for decisions made by the government in their handling of Govia's train service. The Department for Transport refused to release documents relating to Southern's franchise agreement, including information about a remedial plan agreed with Govia in February 2016.

Stephen Joseph, executive director of Campaign for Better Transport, believes that ABC represents "a new type of passenger lobby group organised by young professionals who are adept at using social media."

Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise
Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern (TSGN) is a management contract  for the provision of passenger services on the Thameslink and Great Northern routes to Bedford, Luton, Peterborough, King's Lynn, Cambridge, London King's Cross, London Moorgate, Sutton, Wimbledon and Brighton, as well as the whole Southern network (including the Gatwick Express) and the jointly operated First Capital Connect Southeastern services (for example the Kentish Town –  Sevenoaks via Catford), which were added to the franchise on 25 July 2015, with the Southern and Gatwick Express brands retained.

The TSGN franchise is operated by Govia Thameslink Railway, owned by Govia, and is the largest railway franchise in the United Kingdom.
Byrd Lynn
Byrd "Birdie" Lynn (March 13, 1889 – February 5, 1940) was an American Major League Baseball catcher from 1916 to 1920. During that time, he played for the Chicago White Sox and was the back-up to Hall of Fame catcher Ray Schalk.

In 116 career games, Lynn had 211 at-bats, with 50 hits, for a .237 batting average. He won American League pennants with the White Sox in 1917 and 1919. Lynn had just one at-bat in each of those year's World Series and did not get a hit.

Ray Schalk
Raymond William Schalk (August 12, 1892 – May 19, 1970) was an American professional baseball player, coach, manager and scout. He played as a catcher in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox for the majority of his career. Known for his fine handling of pitchers and outstanding defensive ability, Schalk was considered the greatest defensive catcher of his era. He revolutionized the way the catching position was played by using his speed and agility to expand the previously accepted defensive capabilities for his position. Schalk was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955.
Laggam
Laggam (transl. Marriage) is a 2024 Telugu-language emotional drama film directed by Ramesh Cheppala and produced by T. Venugopal Reddy under the banner of Subishi Entertainments. The film stars Sai Ronak, Rajendra Prasad, Pragya Nagra, Rohini, Vadlamani Srinivas, Raghu Babu, LB Sriram, Saptagiri, Krishnudu, and Raccha Ravi in key roles. The film explores traditional Telangana wedding culture, its values, and the emotional journey of the main characters.

Saptagiri (actor)
Venkata Prabhu Prasad (born 1 May 1989), professionally known as Saptagiri, is an Indian actor and comedian who works in Telugu films. He received Nandi Award as Best Male Comedian for his role in Express Raja (2016). He received Santosham Allu Ramalingaiah Smarakam Award at 15th Santosham Film Awards in 2017.
Kobayr
41°00′21″N 44°38′12″E﻿ / ﻿41.00583°N 44.63667°E﻿ / 41.00583; 44.63667

Kobayr (Armenian: Քոբայր), previously known as Kober kayarani gyugh (Քոբեր կայարանի գյուղ), is a village in the Tumanyan Municipality of the Lori Province of Armenia. Kobayr Monastery is near the village.

Lori Province
Lori (Armenian: Լոռի, Armenian pronunciation: [lɔˈri] ⓘ) is a province (marz) of Armenia. It is located in the north of the country, bordering Georgia. Vanadzor is the capital and largest city of the province. Other important towns include Stepanavan, Alaverdi, and Spitak. It is home to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Haghpat and Sanahin monasteries and the well-preserved Akhtala monastery.

The province was heavily damaged during the 1988 Armenian earthquake.

The province is served by the Stepanavan Airport.
Sylvia Coleridge
Sylvia Coleridge (10 December 1909 – 31 May 1986) was a British stage, film, radio and television actress.  Her credits included  Tess (1979), The Avengers, Dixon of Dock Green, The Onedin Line, Survivors, Blake's 7, The Tomorrow People, Z-Cars, Doctor Who,  Shoestring, Angels, Rumpole of the Bailey, and the BBC's adaptation of Bleak House in 1985.

Rumpole of the Bailey
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, a middle-aged London barrister who defends a broad variety of clients, often underdogs. The popularity of the TV series led to the stories being presented in other media, including books and radio.

The "Bailey" of the title is a reference to the Central Criminal Court, the "Old Bailey".
Daphne Caine
Daphne Hilary Penelope Caine (born 1969) is an English-born Manx politician and former civil servant. She was elected to the House of Keys representing Garff in 2016 and re-elected for the same constituency in 2021. Following the 2021 election, she was elected as Deputy Speaker of the House of Keys. She previously worked on the Isle of Man as a journalist and civil servant.

Garff
Garff (Manx: Garff) is one of the six sheadings of the Isle of Man.

It is located on the east of the island (part of the traditional South Side division) and consists of the two historic parishes of Lonan and Maughold. Before 1796 it also included the parish of Onchan.

Administratively, since May 2016 the sheading of Garff has been covered by a single Garff local authority, a parish district, formed by merging the former village district of Laxey with the parish districts of Lonan and Maughold.

The town of Ramsey, which is administered separately, covers areas of two historic parishes (Maughold, and Lezayre in the sheading of Ayre). It is treated as part of Garff for some purposes, e.g. the coroner.

Other settlements in the sheading include Baldrine and Ballabeg (both in the parish of Lonan), and Ballure in the parish of Maughold.
The Journey: A Voyage
The Journey: A Voyage (Chinese: 信约：唐山到南洋; lit. 'A Journey: Tangshan to Nanyang', 'also known as A Voyage') was the first season of MediaCorp Channel 8's nation-building trilogy, The Journey. The season is based on first-generation Chinese immigrants who set foot on the island of Singapore to seek their fortunes and future.

It premiered on 25 November 2013 and concluded on 7 January 2014. A total of 31 episodes aired during the period. It stars first generation casts, Li Nanxing, Elvin Ng, Desmond Tan, Jeanette Aw, Joanne Peh, Tong Bing Yu and Pierre Png as the cast of the first installment of the series.

Li Nanxing
Li Nanxing (born Jonathan Lee Nam Heng on 7 November 1964) is a Singaporean actor who has been referred to as "Ah-Ge" (阿哥, "big brother") of Caldecott Hill. He is also a businessman and filmmaker.

Li has acted in many Chinese-language television dramas produced by MediaCorp Channel 8. He has won the Best Actor awards three times in the Star Awards, an annual acting awards in Singapore.
Francis Knyvett McNamara
Francis Knyvett McNamara (30 April 1912 – 7 January 1992) was an English cricketer. McNamara was a right-handed batsman who bowled left-arm medium pace. He was born at Mussoorie in the British Raj, and was educated at Marlborough College.

McNamara made a single first-class appearance for the Free Foresters against Cambridge University at Fenner's in 1952. In a match which Cambridge University won by an innings and 89 runs, he made scores of 16 opening the batting in the Free Foresters first-innings, before he was dismissed caught and bowled by John Warr, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for 2 runs by Charles Kenny. This was his only first-class appearance.

He died at Worthing, Sussex on 7 January 1992.

Charles Kenny (cricketer)
Charles John Michael Kenny (19 May 1929 – 9 September 1996) was an English cricketer active from 1950 to 1962 who played for Cambridge University and Essex.

Kenny was born in Wallington, Surrey and died in Chiddingfold. He appeared in 40 first-class matches as a right arm fast medium bowler who batted right-handed in the tail. He took 117 wickets with a best performance of seven for 45, and scored 75 runs with a highest score of 16.