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The Surrogate's Courthouse Siaosi Sovaleni

is a historic building at the (pictured) is elected
northwest corner of Chambers as prime minister by
the Legislative
and Centre Streets in New
Assembly of Tonga.
York City. A seven-story,
steel-framed structure in the A fuel tanker truck
explodes in Cap-
Beaux Arts style, with a
Haïtien, Haiti, killing
granite facade and elaborate marble interiors, it was
at least 75 people. Siaosi Sovaleni
completed in 1907. John Rochester Thomas created
the original plans while Arthur J. Horgan and Vincent J. In Canadian football, the Winnipeg Blue
Bombers defeat the Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Slattery oversaw the building's completion. The exterior
to win the Grey Cup.
is decorated with fifty-four sculptures by Philip Martiny
and Henry Kirke Bush-Brown, as well as three-story In motor racing, Max Verstappen wins
the Formula One World Championship,
Corinthian-style colonnades on Chambers and Reade
while Mercedes win the constructors'
Streets. The building's basement houses the New York title.
City Municipal Archives. The fifth floor contains the
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listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a · Riccardo Ehrman
National Historic Landmark, and its facade and interior
are both New York City designated landmarks. On this day
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The Contrabandista is a two-act comic opera by Arthur Sullivan and F. C. Burnand. It premiered at
St.  George's Hall in London on 18  December 1867 under the management of Thomas German
Reed for a run of 72 performances; this poster was produced to advertise the original production.
There were brief revivals in Manchester in 1874 and the United States in 1880. In 1894, it was
revised into a new opera, The Chieftain, with a completely different second act. The work was the
first of Sullivan's full-length operas to be produced. It was not a great success, with Burnand's
libretto coming in for the most criticism, but its music exhibits many of the qualities and techniques
that Sullivan would employ in composing his twenty further comic operas, including the famous
series of fourteen Gilbert and Sullivan operas produced between 1871 and 1896.

Poster credit: Robert Jacob Hamerton; restored by Adam Cuerden

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