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a one-hour documentary for TVOntario and CPAC called The Drop: Why Young People Don't Vote. Before that he was responsible for several documentary films, including: as producer, co-writer of Raw Opium, which examines the failure of the War on Drugs through the lives of people involved in the international opium trade (TVO, ZDF Arte, SBS); as director/writer/producer of Return to Nepal, in which musician Bruce Cockburn travels to the remote Humla district of Northwestern Nepal (CBC documentary); as co-writer / director, producer of Almost Home: a Sayisi Dene Journey, an intimate portrait of a Canadian aboriginal community in transition for CBC Nature of Things and APTN; as director/producer of River of Sand, which explores the ancient culture, popular music, and current struggles of the people of Mali, West Africa for Vision TV and TVO; as producer/co-director of Separate Lives, the Gemini-winning documentary which follows the lives of conjoined twins from Pakistan and the pioneering operation that gave them a chance at a new life for Discovery; as director/co-producer of The Biggest Little Ticket, a children’s musical fantasy special for CTV which won several awards and Mariposa: Under a Stormy Sky, a documentary music special for CTV. He has produced many interactive digital projects over the years, from River of Sand interactive website (1998), to The Sacred Balance online (2003), Diamond Road interactive documentary (2007), Museum Secrets Interactive (2011), ScopifyROM, a mobile app to enhance the museum experience at the Royal Ontario Museum (2013) and Risk Navigator mobile app (2017). <mask> was recipient of the Queen's Gold Jubilee Medal in 2002, was named North American Trailblazer of the Year by MIPDOC in 2009 and his work in film and television has garnered many national and international awards (see Awards section below for details). He's also been active in the production community as a founding member of the Documentary Organization of Canada, as a board member for The Real News since 2007 and as the founder of the Hot Docs CrossCurrents Fund in
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<mask> (born 5 December 1940) is a Swedish author and former director and screenwriter of short films. He has received prizes for several of his books and films, as well as for his entire work. From 1966 until his retirement in 2005, he was lecturer in Numerical analysis at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Biography
<mask> was born on 5 December 1940 in Hamburg, Germany. He lost his father during World War II and moved to Sweden with his mother in 1945, where he started school in 1947. He went to the Södra Latin gymnasium in Stockholm until 1959. During this period, he engaged in medium-distance running, with good results, but he quit running when he was 19 years old.From his 15th until his 30th (1970), <mask> was part of the schools summer camp at Värmdö and later at Blidö. This period of his life is described in the books that form the Rainbow Series and are of particular influence of his other books. He studied mathematics and physics and was a research assistant at the Swedish National Defence Research Institute for several years, starting in 1963. <mask> soon returned to university in order to graduate at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, where he received his doctorate in Numerical analysis in 1975. He became a lecturer in Numerical analysis and wrote several textbooks on this subject. <mask> started filming in 1980 and won various prizes for his work. His writing career started in 1983 and two years later he published his first and most successful book, translated in English as Johnny, My Friend.Since then, he has
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published () 26 works of fiction. He retired as a lecturer in 2005. Director
Before he published his first book, <mask> created a number of short films. Most of them were published in the 1980s and many have won various prizes, from, among others, the Union Internationale du Cinéma, Swedish short film and video, and Nordic short film. <mask> has made a number of short films, mainly in the 1980s. Filmography
Nyckeln (The key), 1981, 15 minutes. It has been awarded several prizes:
Viktor (1st prize in amateur category) from Svensk Smalfilm och Video (now Sveriges Film- och Videoförbund, SFV), 1982.Silver medal and editing prize (klippningspriset) at Nordisk Smalfilm, 1982. 1st prize in the category Fantasy and 5th prize in all categories, short film contest, Argentina, 1982. Du har ju mej! (But you have me! ), 1982, 20 minutes. Won the bronze prize and the actor prize at Svensk Smalfilm och Video in 1982. Medan nålen vandrar, 1982, 18 minutes.Visiten (The visit), 1982, 12 minutes. Alla klockor stannar (All clocks stop), 1983, 27 minutes. Resan till havet (The journey to the sea), 1984, 23 minutes. The contents are similar to those in his book Havet inom oss (the sea inside us). Bronze medal at Svensk Smalfilm och Video, 1986. Muntlig tentamen (Oral exam), 1984. Bronze medal at Svensk Smalfilm och Video, 1984.Bronze medal at Union Internationale du Cinéma (UNICA), European short film contest in the German Democratic Republic, 1984. Stipendiet (The scholarship), 1985, 20 minutes. Director prize and prize for best female actor, Sandy gala, Västerås, 1987.
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Silver medal and actor prize at Svensk Smalfilm och Video, 1988. Ja, jag kommer! (Yes, I'm coming! ), 1986, 16 minutes.Gunga flöjt. Bronze medal at Svensk Smalfilm och Video, 1989. Det blir bättre nästa gång (It will be better next time), 1989, 20 minutes. Silver medal and actor prize at Svensk Smalfilm och Video, 1991. Silver medal at Nordisk Smalfilm
Gold medal and prize for best film at UNICA, European short film contest in Switzerland, 1991. Änglar behövs dom? (Angels, are they needed?), 1990. This film was made after his book Glittras Uppdrag (Glittras assignment)
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<mask> has published a total number of 35 books: 9 textbooks and 26 works of fiction. He is primarily known for his works of fiction. His fiction is mostly drama, but also includes two works of poetry, a book with fairy tales and a "picture book without pictures" that defies categorisation. In most of his books, children and teenagers are the main characters. He considers this to be the most important period of a life. Typical themes are loneliness, betrayal, lies, a longing for friendship, death.On his website, he writes that he does so because it is reality for many adults, youths and kids, and it would be a shame to be silent about that. Of his drama, two books were translated into English: Johnny, My Friend about a mysterious new boy in the neighborhood, and I miss you, I miss you! about the loss of a twin sister. In total, 13 of his books have been translated into 13 languages, mostly in Norwegian, Danish and German, but more recently also in languages such as Estonian and Polish.
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Among the books he published in the first four years of his writer career are three of the autobiographical books that form the rainbow series. Those are true and about his own life
Those start with Regnbågen har bara åtta färger (The rainbow has only eight colours). In this book, <mask> described his early childhood, starting immediately after he moved to Sweden, until he was eight years old.The story takes place between 1945 and 1948. It is followed by Medan regnbågen bleknar (While the rainbow is fading), covering the period 1949 – 1952. Vilja växa (Want to grow up) described the period 1952 – 1958. The fourth book, Vi kallar honom Anna, he describes one year, particularly one summer, where he, part of the summercamp organisation, observes how a teenage boy is severely bullied. This book was published before Medan regnbågen bleknar and Vilja växa, just shortly after Regnbågen har bara åtta färger, and received a lot of attention and prizes. The final book in the series is Klara papper är ett måste, which starts in 1966. Additionally, the book De Stora Penslarnas lek, which <mask> describes as a starting point for his writing, contains fairy tales, based on the fairy tales from the grandfather in Regnbågen har bara åtta färger.Other books, such as I miss you, I miss you! and Sekten are based on true stories that came to him directly or indirectly. Some of his books were originally published as adult literature, but later recategorised as books for youth. <mask> does not consider himself an author of primarily youth literature. However, some books were
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written for children. Examples are Glittras uppdrag, a fairy tale about an angel that protects a six-year-old boy, and Malins kung Gurra, written for a contest organised by publisher Rabén & Sjögren. Bibliography
Textbooks
Linjära differensekvationer med konstanta koefficienter; Liber, 1976
Numeriska Metoder (with Gerd Eriksson and Germund Dahlquist); THS, 1977
220 ± 30 Exempel i Numeriska Metoder (with Gerd Eriksson); THS, 1978
Introduktion till BASIC-programmering; THS, 1979
Analytiska och Numeriska Metoder (with Eike <mask>); KTH, 1984
Elementära Numeriska Metoder; THS, 1991
Problem och Exempel i Numeriska Metoder; THS, 1992; Print on Demand 1997
Grunderna i Numeriska Metoder; THS, 1995; NADA, KTH 1999
Grundkurs i numeriska metoder; Liber, 2005.Fiction
Janne, min vän (Johnny, My Friend), 1985. Translations: Danish (Min bedste ven, 1987), Norwegian (Janne min venn, 1988), German (Jan, mein Freund, 1990), Dutch (Jan, mijn vriend, 1991), English (Johnny, My Friend, 1991, translated by Laurie Thompson), French (Jan, mon ami, 1995), Italian (Il mio amico Jan, 1996 and 2005), Estonian (Janne, mu söber, 1997), Japanese (1997), Icelandic (Janni vinur minn, 1997), Low German (Jan, mien Fründ, 2000). Prizes:
Litteraturfrämjandets debutantpris (prize for first appearance), 1985;
Nils Holgersson Plaque 1986;
Honorary list, 11th edition of the Premio Europeo di Letteratura Giovanile (European Prize for Youth Literature), Pier Paolo Vergerio, Padova, Italy, 1987
Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German youth literature prize), 1990. Kulturskylt, Stockholm
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kolor, 2002. Translations: Norwegian (Tusind kugler, 2004), , 2005
Sekten (The sect), 2005. Nu heter jag Nirak (Now my name is Nirak), 2007. Anton, jag gillar dig! (Anton, I love you! ), 2008.Not published yet. Number of translations per language
(Swedish) 26, soon 27
; ; ; ; ; English, Finnish, ; French, Italian, Low German, Slovenian, ; Total 13 books have been translated into at least one language. In total, the books have been translated to 13 different languages. References
External links
Website <mask> (Swedish)
Full bibliography
Partial list of translations
1940 births
Living people
German emigrants to Sweden
Swedish male writers
Swedish-language writers
Swedish children's writers
Swedish writers of young adult literature
KTH Royal Institute of Technology faculty
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Lieutenant General Sir <mask>, (10 January 1915 – 8 March 1994) was a senior officer in the Australian Army who served as Chief of the General Staff from 1971 to 1973. A 1935 graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, where he was the Corps Sergeant Major and was awarded the Sword of Honour, and of the University of Sydney, where he earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree, Brogan served in the Second World War on the staff of New Guinea Force during New Guinea Campaign, and as an observer with the British Army during the Western Allied invasion of Germany. After the war he was commandant and chief instructor at the School of Military Engineering during the 1949 Australian coal strike, and, as Director of Military Training, reopened the Land Warfare Centre at Canungra in 1954. When he was appointed the Chief of the General Staff in 1971, he was the first occupant of that position to possess a university degree. He presided over the withdrawal of Australian troops from the Vietnam War, the ending of the National Service scheme, and the consequent reduction of the size of the Army, and sweeping organisational changes. Early life
<mask> was born in Crows Nest, New South Wales, on 10 January 1915, the son of <mask> and his wife Hilda. He had an older brother, Bernard Alwyn, who later became a wing commander in Royal Australian Air Force.Upon receiving his leaving certificate, he was awarded a scholarship to study at the Sydney Technical College; but as part of the Combined Schools team, he played rugby against the Royal Military College, Duntroon, which had moved from Canberra to the Victoria Barracks, Sydney, due to the Great Depression, and decided to
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Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General (DAQMG) of New Guinea Force. He became Assistant Quartermaster General (AQMG) of I Corps and New Guinea Force with the temporary rank of lieutenant colonel on 2 August 1943, and AQMG of New Guinea Force on 27 August 1943. He was involved in organising the air supply in support of the Salamaua–Lae campaign, for which he was mentioned in despatches on 23 December 1943, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 27 April 1944.He was GSO1 of the Military Training Branch at Allied Land Forces, South West Pacific Area (LHQ) from 5 January 1944 to 6 November 1944. He represented the ACT in rugby in 1941 and 1944. In 1945, <mask> was sent as an observer with the British Army during the Western Allied invasion of Germany. Soon after he arrived, he came down with malaria, a legacy of his service in New Guinea, to the surprise of the doctors, who were not used to seeing a tropical disease in North West Europe. Post-war
<mask> remained in Europe until 1947, when he returned to Australia to become commandant and chief instructor at the School of Military Engineering. He assisted in organising Royal Australian Engineers to mine coal during the 1949 Australian coal strike. He then went back to Britain as a student at the Joint Services Staff College there from 1950 to 1952.In 1954, he became Director of Military Training. In the years since the Second World War, the Australian Army had lost most of its expertise in jungle warfare, as it concentrated on Australia's commitment to the Korean War, and plans to support the British Army in the Middle East. Brogan reopened the Land Warfare Centre at Canungra,
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incorporating lessons from the British Army's experience in the Malayan Emergency. Brogan served as a brigadier on the staff of the British Army's Far East Land Forces from 1956 to 1958, and went back to Britain once more to attend the Imperial Defence College in 1959. He then became the commandant of the Australian Staff College. He was General Officer Commanding Northern Command from 1962 to 1965, and was upgraded to a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1963 Birthday Honours. In 1965 he was an Australian Representative on the Military Committee of the South East Asia Treaty Organisation.He was Director of Joint Service Plans from 1965 to 1966, when he became the Quartermaster-General and Third Member of the Military Board. In December 1968, he became General Officer Commanding Eastern Command, vice Sir James Harrison, who had been appointed Governor of South Australia. He was made a Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1970 New Year Honours. Chief of the General Staff
On 19 May 1971, <mask> reached the pinnacle of his career when he was appointed as the Chief of the General Staff (CGS) with the rank of lieutenant general. He was the first occupant of that position to possess a university degree. He was upgraded to a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his service in that role in the 1972 Birthday Honours. Australian troops were serving in the Vietnam War at that time, but the commitment was winding down.In response to the American Vietnamization policy, the 8th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment was withdrawn in 1970 and not replaced. The last infantry battalion, the 4th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, was
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withdrawn in December 1971, and the 1st Australian Logistic Support Group followed. With the election of the Whitlam Government in December 1972, the last troops, the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam were withdrawn. It fell to Brogan to implement sweeping changes. The Whitlam government swiftly terminated the National Service scheme, causing the manpower of both the Australian Regular Army and the CMF to rapidly shrink. The number of battalions in the Royal Australian Regiment was reduced from nine to six, but Brogan clung to the divisional structure, which would remain until the 1990s. The Department of the Army was abolished, replaced by the new Department of Defence.The old regional commands were abolished, replaced by four functional commands, and the number of bodies reporting to Army Headquarters was reduced from 140 to just four. Brogan revived the position of Vice CGS, appointing Major General Francis Hassett, who would become his successor, to the post. <mask>'s term as CGS ended on 19 November 1973. He retired in January 1975. He was Colonel Commandant of the Royal Australian Engineers from 1974 to 1978, and Honorary Colonel of the University of New South Wales Regiment from 1975 to 1980. He died in Sydney on 8 March 1994. Notes
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<mask>'Sullivan (; born 6 December 1950) is a former Irish Labour Party politician who served as Minister for Education and Skills from 2014 to 2016 and as a Minister of State from 2011 to 2014. She served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Limerick City constituency from 2011 to 2020, and previously from 1998 to 2011 for the Limerick East constituency. Personal life
O'Sullivan was born in Clonlara, County Clare, in 1950. She was educated at Villiers Secondary School, Limerick, where her father was a journalist. After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, she took a Higher Diploma in Education at University College Cork. After working as a teacher for a short period of time, she studied as a Montessori teacher while living in Canada. After returning to Ireland, in the late 1970s, O'Sullivan helped to run Limerick's family planning clinic.A member of the Church of Ireland, she married Paul O'Sullivan, a Catholic and a GP; they have one daughter and one son. She spent time at home while having her children and once they were in school she ran a playgroup in the mornings, spent time with the children in the afternoon and did political work in the evenings. Political career
Democratic Socialist: 1982–1990
In 1982, O'Sullivan joined the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP), a small party founded by Limerick TD Jim Kemmy, who had previously been a members of the Labour Party. There had been no political tradition in her family – her parents had supported different parties – and her choice of party was based on her support for Kemmy's anti-nationalist stance on Northern Ireland, and his advocacy of family planning services and a pro-choice approach to abortion.
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patronage, and announced new multi-denominational schools under the patronage divesting process. In March 2015, the government, with O'Sullivan the minister responsible, confirmed it would lock away for 75 years any statements it received from victims of child sexual abuse (almost twice the normal length). This decision was criticised by survivors.Opposition: 2016–2020
O'Sullivan retained her seat in the Dáil, following the 2016 general election in February, one of only seven Labour TDs to be elected. The party did not enter government, though O'Sullivan retained her position as Minister for Education and Skills until talks on government formation had concluded and the formation of a new government on 6 May 2016. She lost her seat at the 2020 general election. References
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<mask>'Sullivan's page on the Labour Party website
1950 births
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Alumni of University College Cork
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Democratic Socialist Party (Ireland) politicians
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Members of the 29th Dáil
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<mask> (<mask>, born 1953) is a Norwegian artist. She works across painting, film, sound, sculpture and interventions in public space. Recurring themes in her production are the representation of natural forces and their resonance with human sensibilities. Her work alternates between the monumental and the minimal, the universal and the intimate. Interpersonal relations and interactions are central to her practice, and many of her performance-based works involve collaborations with other people. She lives in Kvalnes, Norway. Life and work
Dolven was born and grew up in Oslo but left early to Lofoten, and then on to France in 1972 to study art at École des Beaux-Arts in Aix-en-Provence, and then École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.She went on to study at the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo. She lived between Berlin and Lofoten from 1987 to 1997 after receiving the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs grant to Künstlerhaus Bethanien. From 1997 to 2017, she worked between London and her home in Lofoten; in 2005 she established her Atelier Kvalnes, the base for her international practice. Dolven's photo and video work often shows motifs from this and other places north of the Arctic Circle. She has received media attention for her public sculpture projects and was the initiator of the outdoor sculpture project Artscape Nordland. She was awarded the German Fred-Thieler Prize in 2000 and the Swedish Prince Eugen Medal in 2005. OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China.(2019) The Quebec City Biennial: Small Between the Stars, Large Against the Sky, Québec, Canada
(2018) The Thailand Biennale: Edge of the Wonderland, Krabi, Thailand
(2017) Dreamers Awake, White Cube, London
(2016) this is a political (painting), Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway
(2016) The Shadow Never Lies, 21st Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
(2015) Art/Nature, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Germany
(2014) PLAY, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
(2013) Desire Lines, ACCA The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art,
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<mask> "D. J.<mask> (pronounced Benga; born December 30, 1980) is a Belgian-Congolese former professional basketball player. He has also played for the Belgian national basketball team as he is a dual citizen of both his native countries. Early life
<mask> was born and raised in Kinshasa, Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where his father was a government employee. When a new regime took over power, it sought out everyone who worked for the previous leader. As unrest in the country escalated, <mask> and his family were imprisoned.While his father was eventually unable to save himself, he did manage to negotiate on behalf of his wife and son, as <mask> and his mother escaped the nation and were given asylum in Belgium. While living in a refugee center, he was discovered by Belgian basketball legend Willy Steveniers, who eventually served as Mbenga's personal basketball mentor. Professional career
Spirou Gilly (2001–2002)
In 2001, <mask> joined Spirou Gilly of the Belgian Division II league where he made his professional debut in 2001–02. Leuven Bears (2002–2003)
In 2002, <mask> joined the Leuven Bears of the Belgian Basketball League for the 2002–03 season where in 21 games he averaged 8.1 points per game. Spirou Charleroi (2003–2004)
In 2003, <mask> joined Spirou Charleroi also of the Belgian Basketball League for the 2003–04 season where he played both league games and ULEB Cup games. Dallas Mavericks (2004–2007)
On July 14, 2004, <mask> signed a two-year, $3.4 million contract with the Dallas Mavericks and joined them for the 2004 NBA Summer League. In an injury-riddled first season with the Mavericks in 2004–05, he managed just 15 games while averaging just one point per game.In July 2005, <mask> re-joined the
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Dallas Mavericks for the 2005 NBA Summer League, and went on to play in 43 regular season games for the franchise in 2005–06. During the 2006 Western Conference Finals against the Phoenix Suns, <mask> was suspended for six games for going into the stands, after he saw the wife of coach <mask> being harassed by fans. He went on to manage seven playoff games in the Mavericks' playoff run that ended in Game 6 of the NBA Finals where they lost to the Miami Heat. On June 30, 2006, the Mavericks extended a qualifying offer to Mbenga in order to make him a restricted free agent. After again playing for the Mavericks in the 2006 NBA Summer League, <mask> re-signed with the franchise to a three-year, non-guaranteed contract on July 13, 2006. However, he managed just 21 games in 2006–07 after suffering a torn right ACL on February 7, 2007. He returned to the court on October 23, 2007 in the Mavericks' preseason finale against the Chicago Bulls where he recorded 5 rebounds, 2 blocks and 1 assist in 12 minutes of action.A week later, he was waived by the Mavericks. Golden State Warriors (2007–2008)
On November 17, 2007, <mask> signed with the Golden State Warriors. On January 6, 2008, he was waived by the Warriors. Los Angeles Lakers (2008–2010)
On January 21, 2008, <mask> signed a 10-day contract with the Los Angeles Lakers. On February 1, 2008, he signed a second 10-day contract with the Lakers. On February 11, 2008, he signed with the Lakers for the rest of the 2007–08 season. On September 24, 2008, he re-signed with the Lakers.On March 6, 2009, <mask> recorded a then career high 10 points on 4–5 shooting, along with 4 rebounds and 5 blocks, in a 110-90 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves. The Lakers went on to win the 2009 NBA championship after
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they defeated the Orlando Magic 4 games to 1 in the 2009 NBA Finals. With starting forward Pau Gasol and center Andrew Bynum injured, <mask> made his first start for the Lakers on November 6, 2009 in a 114-98 win over the Memphis Grizzlies. Two days later, <mask> recorded his first career double-double with 10 points and 12 rebounds, in addition to 4 blocks, in a 104-88 win over the New Orleans Hornets. On April 9, 2010, he recorded a career high 11 points in a 97-88 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves. <mask> went on to win his second NBA championship after the Lakers defeated the Boston Celtics 4 games to 3 in the 2010 NBA Finals. New Orleans Hornets (2010–2011)
On October 13, 2010, <mask> signed a one-year deal with the New Orleans Hornets.Qingdao Eagles (2012)
In July 2012, <mask> joined the Milwaukee Bucks for the 2012 NBA Summer League. On September 27, 2012, he signed with the Dallas Mavericks. However, he was later waived by the Mavericks on October 2, 2012. In November 2012, <mask> signed with Qingdao Eagles of the Chinese Basketball Association. On December 12, 2012, he played his final game for Qingdao before being replaced in the line-up by <mask>. Barako Bull Energy (2013)
On April 3, 2013, <mask> signed with the Barako Bull Energy of the Philippine Basketball Association. On October 8, 2014, <mask> signed with the New York Knicks.However, he was later waived by the Knicks on October 24, 2014. In 2005, Mbenga started the Mbenga Foundation with the goal to help children in the Democratic Republic of Congo and refugees in Belgium. See also
List of European basketball players in the United States
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D. J. <mask>rou Charleroi players
Sportspeople from Kinshasa
Undrafted National Basketball Association
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<mask> (born October 10, 1991) is an Italian Welterweight kickboxer, fighting out of Pro Fighting Roma in Rome, Italy. He recently won an 8-man tournament in Paramaribo in Surinam called "Soema Na Basi" beating more experienced and quoted fighters from the Netherlands and Surinam. Biography and career
Born in Rome, Italy, he started to train Kickboxing at the age of 10 and after a while he decided to practice Muay thai. He trained at Pro Fighting Roma followed by Alessio Smeriglio. He had his first fight at the age of 16. He has an older brother : <mask>, which fights too into the -61 Weight division and is currently K-1 Italian National Champion and is more active into the Amateur Tournaments, where he earned a Silver medal in Baku, Azerbaijan during the Wako European Amateur Championship. <mask> is a full-time Studend and he practice as a professional fighter when he's not at school.<mask> won against Fabio Pinca via unanimous decision in a tournament reserve bout at Glory 3: Rome - 2012 Middleweight Slam Final 8 to be held on November 3, 2012 in Rome,
After Glory World Series he changed Trainer and moved with Mr. Riccardo
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Lecca and Invictus team. He also is being followed on specific boxing trainer by the professional Italian boxer Mr. Marco Scafi . He lost to Andy Riste via unanimous decision at Glory 6: Istanbul on April 6, 2013. He lost to Jingreedtong by decision in the semi-finals of the four man tournament at MAX Muay Thai 4 in Sendai, Japan on October 6, 2013. Campagna won against Hamza Imane via unanimous decision at Fight Clubbing: The European Edition, in Pescara, Italy on October 25, 2015, and became the new FIGHT1 PRO ITALIAN NATIONAL CHAMPION 73 kg
Campagna lost to Enriko Gogokhia via first-round TKO at Oktagon Legend 3 in Milan, Italy on April 5, 2014, the first time he had been stopped. <mask>na after his victory against the superstar Marco "The Sniper" Pique, decides to begin his new career as an amateur boxer ( current amateur boxer Elite 81 kg ) and then move in the future on professional boxing. Championships and accomplishments
Italian F.I.K.B.K-1 National K1 Champion 2009
OKTAGON 2011
Oktagon Italian selections winner 2011 with a total of 4 matches and 4 wins
Oktagon prestige fight winner 2011
Soema Na basi 2011- 8 Man
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Tournament winner in Paramaribo, Surinam
WAKO Pro K-1 Rules World Welterweight Champion +66.8 kg
Ranked N.21 from Glory World Series Professional Rankings Lightweight Division -
Fight1 PRO Italian Champion 73 kg 2015 in Pescara, Italy
Sponsorship
<mask> is currently sponsored by the Italian Brand LEONE1947, one of the most important fighters brand that sponsor also Top fighters like Giorgio Petrosyan, Artur Kyshenko, Gago Drago and a lot of notable fighters all over the globe. Kickboxing record
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<mask> (July 17, 1925 – June 12, 2014), known professionally as <mask> or <mask>, was an American jazz vocalist known for his high natural contralto voice and his sensitivity on ballads and love songs. After success in the 1940s and 1950s, <mask>'s career faltered in the early 1960s. He slid into obscurity before a comeback in the 1990s. His unusual singing voice was due to Kallmann syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that limited his height to until the age of 37, when he grew by . The syndrome prevented him from reaching classic puberty and left him with a high voice and unusual timbre. Early life
<mask> was born on July 17, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The son of <mask> (born Chester Stewart) and Justine <mask>, he was the third child in a family of 10.As a child he got his first singing experience by his mother's side at the family piano and later in church choir. At 13, he was orphaned when his mother was killed by a drunk driver. Career
Lionel Hampton gave him the nickname "<mask> <mask>" because he looked young and was short and of slight build. His phrasing made him a favorite of artists including Billie Holiday, Ray Charles, Frankie Valli, Dinah Washington, and Nancy Wilson. He rose to prominence as <mask> <mask> in the Lionel Hampton band as lead singer on "Everybody's Somebody's Fool", recorded in December 1949. It became a top ten R&B hit in 1950. Credit on the label went to "Lionel Hampton and vocalists"; <mask> received no credit on any of the songs. A similar event occurred several years later when his vocal on "Embraceable You" with Charlie Parker, on the album One Night in Birdland, was credited to the female vocalist Chubby Newsom.In 1963 his girlfriend, Mary Ann Fisher, who sang with Ray Charles, helped him sign with Tangerine, Charles's label, and record the album Falling in Love is
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Wonderful. The album was withdrawn while <mask> was on his honeymoon because he had signed a contract with Herman Lubinsky; it would be 40 years before the album was reissued. <mask> disputed the contract he had with Lubinsky, who had loaned him to Syd Nathan at King for 45 recordings in 1957–58. Another album, The Source, was recorded in 1969, released in 1970, but due to another Lubinsky threat of breach of contract, it was not promoted by Atlantic and quickly went out of print. (It was reissued in 2001). <mask>'s career faded by the late 1960s, and he returned to his native Cleveland to work as a hospital orderly, shipping clerk, and elevator operator. He returned to music in 1989 when manager Alan Eichler arranged for him to share a late-night bill with Johnnie Ray at New York's Ballroom.When <mask> sang at the funeral of his friend, songwriter Doc Pomus, the event further renewed his career. <mask> performed the song "Sycamore Trees" in the climactic final episode of the original Twin Peaks in 1991; and Lou Reed invited him to sing backup on the song "Power and Glory" on Reed's 1992 album Magic and Loss. Also in attendance at Pomus's funeral was Seymour Stein, founder and operator of Sire, which released <mask>'s 1992 album All the Way, produced by Tommy LiPuma and featuring Kenny Barron, Ron Carter, and David "Fathead" Newman. <mask> was nominated for a Grammy Award for the album. <mask> released Dream in 1994 and the album Heaven in 1996. His next work, an album of pop and rock interpretations entitled Holding Back the Years (1998), was produced by Gerry McCarthy and Dale Ashley. Released in the US by Artists Only in October 1998, it peaked at No.14 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart. In Japan, it won the Swing Journal Award for Best Jazz Album of the Year (2000). The title track marked the first time in his
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career that <mask> overdubbed his harmony vocal tracks. Holding Back the Years features cover art by Mark Kostabi, liner notes by Lou Reed, and includes versions of "Nothing Compares 2 U" (written by Prince), "Jealous Guy" (John Lennon), "Almost Blue" (Elvis Costello), "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" (Elton John & Bernie Taupin) and title track Holding Back the Years. In 1999, <mask>'s early recordings for Decca were released on CD, as were all of his recordings with Savoy from 1952 to 1975 in a three-disc box set. In 2000, <mask> signed with Milestone and recorded four albums, each produced by Todd Barkan with guests such as Wynton Marsalis, Renee Rosnes, Bob Kindred, Eric Alexander, Lew Soloff, George Mraz, Lewis Nash, and <mask>'s touring and recording band, The Jazz Expressions. He released two live albums recorded in Japan.During 2003–04, PBS aired If You Only Knew, a documentary produced and directed by Matthew Buzell that won film festival awards and the Independent Lens award. <mask> and his wife Jeanie lived in Las Vegas, Nevada, after purchasing a house in 2006, having previously lived in Euclid, Ohio, for 10 years. On May 10, 2014, <mask>'s final recording session took place in the living room of his home. The track was recorded for Grégoire Maret's album Wanted and was a song Maret wrote for him titled "The 26th of May". <mask> died in his sleep at his home in Las Vegas on June 12, 2014, at the age of 88. He was buried in Knollwood Cemetery in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. Awards & Honors and Later Life
<mask> performed at the inaugurations of Presidents Eisenhower (1953) and Clinton (1993).On both occasions, <mask> sang "Why Was I Born?". Later, he appeared with the lounge music group Pink Martini and continued to perform until his death. He received the NEA Jazz Masters award (2007) from the National
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Endowment for the Arts, the Living Legend Award from the Kennedy Center, the Pioneer Award from NABOB (National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters), and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Jazz Foundation of America (2010). <mask>'s recording of "If I Ever Lost You" can be heard in the opening credits of the HBO movie Lackawanna Blues. He was also mentioned on The Cosby Show (season 2, episode 25), when Clair and Cliff Huxtable bet on the year in which "An Evening in Paradise" was recorded. On August 17, 2013, at Cleveland State University, he was inducted into inaugural class of the R&B Music Hall of Fame. <mask> and his wife Jeanie lived in Las Vegas, Nevada, after purchasing a house in 2006, having previously lived in Euclid, Ohio, for 10 years.On May 10, 2014, <mask>'s final recording session took place in the living room of his home. The track was recorded for Grégoire Maret's album Wanted and was a song Maret wrote for him titled "The 26th of May". <mask> died in his sleep at his home in Las Vegas on June 12, 2014, at the age of 88. He was buried in Knollwood Cemetery in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. The following month, a portion of East 101st Street in Cleveland was renamed <mask> Way in his honor. Discography
Very Truly Yours (Savoy, 1955)
If You Only Knew (Savoy, 1956)
The Fabulous Songs of <mask> (Savoy, 1960)
Falling in Love Is Wonderful (Tangerine, 1963)
The Source (Atlantic, 1970)
Can't We Begin Again (Savoy, 1976)
Doesn't Love Mean More (J's Way, 1990)
Regal Records Live in New Orleans (Specialty, 1991)
All the Way (Sire, 1992)
Dream (Sire/Warner Bros., 1994)
Heaven (Warner Bros., 1996)
Holding Back the Years (Artists Only!, 1998)
Everybody's Somebody's Fool (Decca, 1999)
Mood Indigo (Milestone, 2000)
Over the Rainbow (Milestone, 2001)
But Beautiful (Milestone, 2002)
Moon Glow
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(Milestone, 2003)
Filmography
Documentary
The Ballad of Little <mask> (DVD) (PBS, 1987) Featuring NY Times Bestselling Author Nathan C. Heard as Narrator
Why Was I Born: The Life and Times of Little <mask> (TV) (Bravo Profiles Jazz Masters, Bravo, 1999)
<mask>: If You Only Knew (DVD) (Independent Lens, PBS, 2003–2004)
Appearances
Soul! (PBS, June 1971)
Lounge-A-Palooza: "Love Will Keep Us Together" (1997)
Scotch & Milk (1998)
Twin Peaks, "Episode 29" (TV) (1991)
Chelsea Walls (2002)
Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen (TV) (2002)
I Love Your Work (2005)
Be Kind Rewind (2005)
Passion Play (2011)
Further reading
Ritz, David (2002).Faith in Time: The Life of <mask>. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo. .
Deffaa, Chip (2006), Six Lives in Rhythm and Blues, Da Capo Press. Eidsheim, Nina Sun (2019), The Race of Sound, Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music, Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. References
External links
Sufjan Stevens, "<mask>: A Voice from Another World", The Guardian, January 23, 2010. John Fordham, "<mask>: Five Great Performances from the Jazz Legend", The Guardian, June 14, 2014. Radio interview with <mask> by Duncan Hamilton
Shirley Halperin, "<mask>'s Death Stops — and Starts — Doc", Billboard, June 28, 2014, p. 14. 1925 births
2014 deaths
20th-century American singers
21st-century American singers
African-American jazz musicians
20th-century African-American male singers
American contraltos
American jazz singers
Decca Records artists
American male jazz musicians
Musicians from Cleveland
Savoy Records artists
Singers from Ohio
Swing singers
Traditional pop music singers
Burials at Knollwood Cemetery
Jazz musicians from Ohio
20th-century American male singers
21st-century American male singers
Tangerine Records artists
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<mask> (born February 10, 1993) is a German-American professional baseball outfielder for the Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2015. Before signing with the Twins, he played for Buchbinder Legionäre Regensburg of Bundesliga. He bats and throws left-handed. He holds the record for home runs hit in a career by a German-born player. Early life
<mask> was born in Berlin, Germany. His parents, <mask> and Marek Różycki, were both professional ballet dancers; they met when they performed in the same ballet company in Berlin.His mother is from San Antonio, Texas, while his father is from Poland. He has one sister. At the age of six, <mask> started baseball at the Little League level with the John F. Kennedy School in Berlin. Though he received a scholarship at age seven to the Steffi Graf Tennis Foundation, he decided to choose baseball. <mask> attended John F. Kennedy School, and the St. Emmeram Academy in Regensburg in 2008, where he was able to train in baseball more than the average American teenager. He played association football with Hertha BSC, and played baseball for Buchbinder Legionäre Regensburg of the Bundesliga, the highest baseball league in Germany. Minor leagues
Andy Johnson, an international scout working for the Minnesota Twins of MLB, first noticed <mask> when he played in a junior national tournament at the age of 14.At 16, he signed with the Twins in 2009 for US$800,000, the largest signing bonus given by an MLB franchise to a European-born player. <mask> made his American debut in the rookie level in 2010 Gulf Coast League (GCL) with the GCL Twins. He was promoted to the Elizabethton Twins of the Rookie-Advanced Appalachian League in 2011. He was assigned to
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Elizabethton for the 2012 season. An elbow injury delayed the start of <mask>'s 2013 season, when he was assigned to the Cedar Rapids Kernels of the Class A Midwest League. Following the regular season, the Twins assigned <mask> to the Glendale Desert Dogs of the Arizona Fall League. After the 2013 season, the Twins added <mask> to their 40-man roster, and he was invited to spring training.<mask> played for the Fort Myers Miracle of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League in 2014, and opened the 2015 season with the Chattanooga Lookouts of the Class AA Southern League. <mask> was selected to represent the Twins at the 2015 All-Star Futures Game, though a sore shoulder prevented him from playing. <mask> finished the 2015 season with a .327 batting average, nine home runs, and 18 stolen bases. He was named Southern League Player of the Year. MLB career
The Twins promoted <mask> to the major leagues on September 21, 2015, the night after the Lookouts won the Southern League championship. He made his major league debut on September 27, 2015 and recorded his first hit on October 4, 2015. After Donald Lutz, <mask> is the second German-developed player to play in modern MLB.The Twins assigned <mask> to the Rochester Red Wings of the Class AAA International League to start the 2016 season. After playing in two games for Rochester, the Twins promoted him to the major leagues to replace the injured Danny Santana on April 10, 2016. Fifteen days later, <mask> was optioned to Rochester. On June 1, 2016, <mask> was recalled to replace the injured Miguel Sanó, and he began getting regular starts for the Twins in right field. The next day, <mask> had his first multiple-hit game, and on June 12, <mask> swatted his first major
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league home run, a walk-off three-run shot in the 10th inning off of Matt Barnes of the Boston Red Sox. On August 1 against the Cleveland Indians, <mask> became the first European-born MLB player to hit three home runs in one game and the fifth Twins player to do so after Bob Allison, Harmon Killebrew, Tony Oliva, and Justin Morneau. On August 8, 2016, <mask> was named co-American League Player of the Week, his first time receiving that honor, alongside teammate Joe Mauer.<mask> started opening day 2017 against the Kansas City Royals, and collected a hit in his first at bat. In a game against the Chicago White Sox on August 31, <mask> came up to bat in the bottom of the ninth with the bases loaded. Opposing pitcher Juan Minaya threw a slider inside and <mask> got hit by the pitch and became the second player in Twins history to have a walk-off hit-by-pitch. It gave the Twins their 20th win in August. <mask> finished the year with career highs in games played, with 147, batting average of .243, home runs with 19, and 69 RBIs. In 2018, <mask> had a batting average of .224 and hit 20 home runs with 58 RBIs in 156 games. His 20 home runs and 156 games played were both career highs.<mask> signed a 5-year, $35 million contract on February 14, 2019. He won his second American League Player of the Week award for the week of May 26th, he led the MLB that week in batting average, on-base percentage, and slugging percentage with a line of .571/.600/1.190. He had his second career three-home-run game against the Cleveland Indians on June 6; all three home runs came against starting pitcher Trevor Bauer. In a game against the Indians on July 13, <mask> hit two home runs in his first two at bats against opposing starting pitcher
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Trevor Bauer, those two home runs were the fourth and fifth straight home runs hit against Bauer in consecutive at bats. This was the first time in MLB history that a batter hit a home run in five consecutive at bats against the same pitcher during a single season. On August 16, 2019 <mask> hit his 33rd home run of the season, setting an MLB record for home runs in a single season by a European-born player, passing former Giants outfielder Bobby Thomson. He batted .252/.336/.519, and set career highs in home runs, runs, and hits, and he also led the major leagues in pull percentage (53.4%), and finished 20th in MVP voting.<mask> started 2020 by hitting a home run on the first pitch of the season against the Chicago White Sox, following that with another home run in his second at bat. He became the second player to hit a home run in the first two innings in a season following Ted Kluszewski of the Angels (April 11, 1961). Overall, <mask> finished with a .228 average with 9 home runs and 23 RBI in 48 games during the 60-game season. In 2021, he batted .157 against left-handers, the lowest batting average in the major leagues. Personal life
He was previously in a relationship with American soccer player Abby Dahlkemper. References
External links
1993 births
Living people
Cedar Rapids Kernels players
Chattanooga Lookouts players
Elizabethton Twins players
Fort Myers Miracle players
German expatriate baseball players in the United States
German people of American descent
German people of Polish descent
Glendale Desert Dogs players
Gulf Coast Twins players
Major League Baseball outfielders
Major League Baseball players from Germany
Minnesota Twins players
Rochester Red Wings players
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<mask> (born 1939) is a Belgian painter and writer, living in Uccle (Brussels), who has held exhibitions in Paris, New York City, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Amsterdam, London, Brussels and Antwerp. Life
Pevernagie has his background in Brussels, a bilingual city where Latin and Germanic cultures mix. He is the son and pupil of the expressionist painter, <mask> (1904–1970). From the start, he was interested in the Anglo-Saxon and Germanic cultural heritage and became a Master in Germanic Philology at the Free University of Brussels (1961). He took a postgraduate degree at Cambridge University (UK) and became a Professor at Erasmus University. A Master's degree Leisure Agogics (1971) motivated him to create a social & cultural non-profit located on two boats in Brussels Port: "Ric's River Boat" and "Ric's Art Boat", which allowed him to meet remarkable characters in the art world. He became an associated academician of Accademia Internazionale del Verbano di Lettere, Arti, Scienze.Work
The artist seems to get his inspiration from several aspects of the social fabric. Communication and in-communication are recurring central themes in his work. Topics like alienation, seclusion, unrest, insecurity appear to be starting points for visual productions. Viewing a painting becomes a semiotic experience, and words, titles, sentences, and graffiti should be extensions and elucidations of a visual effect. The creation of a work is, at the same time, plastic and literary. If "details" add to the structure of the work, the small items of life seem to be the cornerstones through which the viewer can comprehend the world. While
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particular events from the collective memory are translated into the canvas, the artistic approach consists of hiding the subject in a singular environment.The whole work is practically unclassifiable, as various currents seem to culminate in it. While the characters are integrated into their environment, through geometric lines and compositional planes, figuration and abstractionism are forced to a compromise, visibly with a view to generating a range of emotions and reflections. As the material on the canvas and the color process play an essential role, sand and metal filings are used to give a distinctive texture. The artist obviously has a dialectical approach towards "presence" and "absence," and towards the "painted" and "non-painted" matter in art, which seems to create a kind of tension, visually and mentally. Quotes
"<mask> is primarily known for combining both figurative and abstract elements in his works. Starting with a simple geometric sketch or "graffiti", he builds the surface with materials such as ashes, sand or metal chips." (Doyle New York)
"'Man' stands in the heart of his work: man integrated in his natural environment, sometimes even absorbed by it.On the other hand, he seems to deny it, as Pevernagie introduces graffiti in his paintings. So doing he gives evidence of the solitude of the human being, his alienation in the urban texture." (Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Paris)
"Bridging the gaps between generations, social strata and nationalities is a tricky business. However <mask> may have hit upon a workable formula to ease the alienation. " (International Herald Tribune)
"By denying
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figurative manner. The material is omnipresent in <mask>'s paintings and give to his work all the intensity of the messages he tries to transmit. Metal, aluminium, sand. The ruggedness of his canvasses is perfectly in tune with the long vanishing lines and the sharp angles of his paintings." (M. Ladaveze)
"Typical exponent of the contemporary artist who combines abstract and figurative elements in his work. He starts from an idea and expresses that idea in a plastic way. Thus he depicts a world which has become confused and insecure and asks questions which can be interpreted by the spectator."(Paul Piron, Brussels)
"Mixes figuration and abstraction with a poetic and philosophical key. Important are the framing, the intersections, the balance of the surfaces. Introduces extraneaous substances (ashes, sand, grit etc) which gives an aspect of strangeness and ruggedness as if he leaves traces of the past." (Arto)
"Always listening to the world around him <mask>nagie grants to our fellow man a dominating place in his paintings. The individual is replaced in his environment, which is sometimes evoked by graffiti, and seems to be absorbed, dissolved by the elements surrounding him. The subtle touches of color, the half-abstract, half-figurative shapes, and the specific framing lead to the dissolution of the individual whose life seems to be but superficiality. Pevernagie invites us to go beyond the superficial barriers in order to discover the mystery behind his characters who are in perpetual tension as if they were waiting for something else, for another life."(LeVif/l'Express)
"Always starting from an event of the
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collective memory Pevernagie paints a very insecure world in his very particular way. Half figurative, half abstract he mixes elements of earth, sand, metal cuttings on his canvas in sober beige, grey, velvet red tones. He starts with a simple graffiti, a sketch of a person or a detail from daily life. These are used as a pretext for a network of pure and well structured geometrical lines covering the whole surface of the canvas in order to bring about emotion. The titles are like twinklings in the eye.They are to be interpreted as one feels it. In the first degree or in the second degree. Astonishing in this work is the message that is brought to life.The artist asks questions. Life is seen by Pevernagie in different ways and painting is a way to express them. The paint brush is a means of evasion and the color a gate to reflexion." (Rey-Berthot)
"The figures of <mask>nagie are absorbed, integrated in their environment by the color, the lines and by the" idea", which is most important in his work. He starts from an idea and then he paints it. With him we find the problems which keep him busy, which haunt us and which he depicts. He paints the alienation, the loneliness, the unrest, the uncertainty.<mask> paints for a generation. Our world has been decomposed, fallen into pieces, become uncertain and unseizable. But art and poetry are ultimate recourses. <mask>'s work is a thrilling work. With him we enter a totally different universe than the recognizable and readable reality. It's a universe we can interpret.In his art questions are put. He has a vision on man and the world.This artist is captivating by his
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topics and by the way he is painting them. He brings about a change in our way of looking at the world. " (Professor W. Toebosch)
"For me it's even more the shape that one perceives than the idea of the painter which astonishes and alienates me. The painter obviously starts from a situation in everyday life. The shape, the structure impose themselves and create some disturbance. The canvas is almost empty. No cumbersome details.No technical tricks. I understand that it's the " details ", the small objects of the life which surround us and which form the framework through which we perceive the world, which stimulate and encourage the thought. These are the objects which often replace the interior world with many people." (L. Krasnova)
Bibliography
The Dictionary of International Biography, Melrose Press Ltd, Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK, 20
Dictionnaire de Référence, Bénézit, Paris, Gründ,1999
Le Delarge, Le Dictionnaire des arts plastiques modernes et contemporains, 2009–2012
Le Dictionnaire des artistes plasticiens en Belgique 1800-2002, Arto, 2003
Dictionnaire des artistes plasticiens belges, P. Piron, 2003
Beeldend Benelux, Petrus Maria Josephus Emiel Jacobs, Encyclopédie: (Le-Po), Tilburg, 2000, p. 603
Guida Internazionale delle Belle Arti, 2015, MP PROGETTI, p. 109
Belgian Journal of Philology and History 1962, Volume 40 - 40-2 Number pp. 540–692. <mask>nagie: Ivy Compton-Burnett "The children in her works"
Goodreads: <mask>nagie Quotes
Literary Quotes Pevernagie
Erik Pevernagie: "Words of Wisdom" - 12 March 2020, ISBN139798611994962
About the philosophy of the Painting of Pevernagie
"Let Us Say
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More And Speak Less" - <mask>nagie, Kindle Edition-ASIN B08PNX1NTR Published 3 December 2020,
"Stilling our Mind" - Erik Pevernagie, Independently published-ISBN13: B09BYDNP5H Published 4 August 2021,
References
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Erik Pevernagie Revisited
Erik Pevernagie philosophy
Artist's quotes
Belgian painters
1939 births
Living people
Free University of Brussels (1834–1969) alumni
Erasmus University Rotterdam
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<mask> (born 1943) is an American author, Professor Emeritus of Management, Entrepreneurship, and General Business at Hofstra University, and Leader Emeritus of the Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island. Prior to his career, <mask> served two years in the Peace Corps with his wife, Lyn, in Kenya. There he was in charge of the educational component of the Kisii District office of the Department of Cooperative Development. He has maintained his interest in Kenya since, having returned with his family and having led educational safaris to Kenya for Adelphi University School of Social Work. He has published two novels, a collection of short stories and a book of poems all set in Kenya. He and Lyn direct the Kenya Project, a program that provides funding for an elementary school in Kisii. Education
<mask> graduated attended the City College of New York graduating with a BA in History in 1964, received an MA from NYU in 1974, received a DSW from Adelphi University in 1988, and was a graduate of the Ackerman Family Institute's program in family therapy.Career
Upon returning home from Africa in 1967, <mask> joined the Ethical Movement and in 1968 became the Leader of the Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island and served in that position until 2001. Dobrin joined Hofstra University's faculty as an adjunct Associate Professor of Social Sciences in 1989 and taught classes in African literature, social work, moral education, religion and human rights in the New College. He joined the faculty of the School for University Studies as a full-time Professor of Humanities in 1989 and taught in the freshmen program. He retired from full professorship in December 2012. He teaches courses in business ethics in the MBA program in School of Business and journalism ethics in the School of Communication as an adjunct professor. Dobrin has also been a
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visiting scholar at Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China; Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; Kisii College, Kisii, Kenya; the Gusii Technical College, Kisii, Kenya; and Claflin University in South Carolina. Dobrin was the co-founder of Amnesty International USA Group #74, the co-founder of the Long Island Interracial Alliance for a Common Future, and the director of the Encampment for Citizenship in Montana and Arizona.He is a member of the Ethics Committee at Winthrop-University Hospital and the Garden City Clergy Fellowship. He is also a member of the Nassau County District Attorney's Faith Leaders Advisory Council and the Nassau County Police Commissioner's Community Council. He is a member of the bioethics committee NYU Langone Hospital – Long Island (formerly Winthrop University Hospital) since 1997. Dobrin currently lives in Westbury, New York with his wife, Lyn. He has three children - Eric, Kori, and Millie - and three grandchildren - MacKenzie, Ryan, and Jordan. Author
<mask> has authored, co-authored and edited more than 20 books, including books in ethics and children's books including Spelling God with Two O's, Ethics for Everyone: How to Improve Your Moral Intelligence, and Business Ethics: The Right Way to Riches. He is also the author of more than 100 poems and articles that have appeared in journals, magazines and newspapers.He is also an expert and has a weekly blog on Psychology today called Am I right which explores thoughts and opinions on how to live an ethical life. Together with his wife Lyn, they also write about honeymoons and romantic travel. Awards
He is the recipient of Hofstra University's Scholar's Incentive Award, Hofstra University, Allison Kim Levy Continuing Acts of Kindness Memorial Award of the Psychology Department, and the Peter E. Herman Award, for creative work in the literary
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<mask> (also named Constantia and Constantiana; ; b. after 307/before 317 – d. 354), later known as Saint Constance, was the eldest daughter of Roman emperor Constantine the Great and his second wife Fausta, daughter of Emperor Maximian. Constantina may have received the title of Augusta by her father, and is venerated as a saint, having developed a medieval legend wildly at variance with what is known of her actual character. Life
Some time before mid 320s, <mask> was born to the emperor Constantine and empress Fausta. She was sister to Constantine II, Constans, Constantius II, Helena and half-sister to Crispus. In 335, <mask> married her cousin Hannibalianus, son of Flavius Dalmatius, whom Constantine I had created Rex Regum et Ponticarum Gentium, "King of Kings and Ruler of the Pontic Tribes". After Constantine died, great purges of the imperial family occurred and her husband was executed in 337. For the second time, Constantius II gave Constantina to Hannibalianus' cousin, and her own half cousin Gallus.Gallus was created a Caesar of the East and his name changed to Constantius Gallus to further his legitimacy around 349/350, which also presumably was the time of their marriage. Gallus was twenty-five or twenty-six at the time, whereas <mask> was substantially his senior. Her second marriage produced a daughter Anastasia, whose full name and fate are unknown. <mask> and Constantius Gallus were then sent from Rome to Syria at Antioch to govern that portion of the Eastern Roman Empire. She would not return to Rome until her death. In AD 354, when Constantius called for Gallus, the caesar sent Constantina to her brother, with the purpose to mitigate his position in Constantius'
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nobleman. In ancient historical sources, she was generally perceived as a cruel and violent but politically dynamic figure. When, after receiving the complaints of the Anthiocheans, Constantius II summoned both Gallus and Constantina, but according to Ammianus <mask>, in her last attempt at using her political power, journeyed ahead to meet with her brother the emperor to try to pacify him in his conflict with her husband Constantius Gallus, during which she died from illness.Character assessment
According to Ammianus Marcellinus, <mask> appeared to be extremely cruel and violent. He portrayed her as full of pride and disturbingly violent, "her pride was swollen beyond measure; she was a Fury in mortal form, incessantly adding fuel to her husband's rage, and as thirsty for human blood as he". Later in the 18th century, Edward Gibbon, influenced by Ammianus Marcellinus' rhetoric, likened Constantina to one of the infernal furies tormented with an insatiate thirst of human blood. The historian said that she encouraged the violent nature of Gallus rather than persuading him to show reason and compassion. Gibbon stated that her vanity was accentuated while the gentle qualities of a woman were absent in her makeup when she would have accepted a pearl necklace in return for consenting to the execution of a worthy nobleman. Medieval legend
In the Middle Ages, Constantina developed a legend, connected with the life of Agnes of Rome; the origins of this are unclear, though she was certainly buried in a mausoleum, Santa Costanza, attached to the large Constantinian basilica over the catacomb where Agnes is buried. The mausoleum survives largely intact, but now only parts of the wall of the basilica
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survive.In the version told by the Golden Legend, she caught leprosy, and was then miraculously cured when praying at Agnes' tomb, which is supposed to be at the site of the later Basilica of Sant'Agnese fuori le mura alongside the earlier basilica. (The Ethiopian Synaxarium describes Constantine I sending his sick daughter to Abu Mena to be cured, and credits her with finding Menas' body, after which Constantine ordered the construction of a church at the site.) Constantina took a vow of chastity, and converted her fiancé Gallicanus, and eventually left her wealth to her servants John and Paul for them to spend on Christian works. The story, with considerable elaborations, survives in various literary forms, and as a figure from the life of Agnes, <mask> appears in the late 14th enamelled scenes on the Royal Gold Cup in the British Museum. Cult and recognition of her holiness
Her relics were placed by Pope Alexander IV under a new altar. Today, the grave of Constantina is in the church of Santa Costanza, Rome. It was only in the 16th century that Constantina, Attica, and Artemia were placed for the first time in martyrologies.The feast day of <mask> is 18 February. Attica and Artemia are venerated, in addition, on 28 January and 17 February. Together, they are venerated on 25 February and 25 June. Notes
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Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae Libri XXXI. Secondary sources
Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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<mask> (October 14, 1859 – January 19, 1882) was a midshipman in the United States Navy and early player of American football. Born and raised in Central Virginia, he was appointed to the United States Naval Academy at the age of 16. At the academy, Cabaniss retained average-level grades and was a member of the school's first-ever football team. He graduated in 1880 and was appointed to the USS Swatara. Cabaniss was killed in an accident on the Swatara in 1882 which received coverage throughout much of the Eastern United States. Life
At the Naval Academy
<mask> was born on October 14, 1859 in Petersburg, Virginia. He grew up in Central Virginia until he was appointed to the United States Naval Academy at the age of sixteen years and eight months.He began classes at the academy on June 21, 1876 and was the only member of his class from Virginia. Cabaniss was an average student while at the Naval Academy; he finished 40th in his class of 69 in his second year, earning near-top marks in drawing and mathematics but very low marks in history and French language. He also spent the mandatory two months and eighteen days at sea. Cabaniss had the fewest demerits of any member of his sophomore class and earned a spot on the academy's summer cruise on the USS Constellation. Cabaniss's academic rankings remained generally the same in his following year at the academy. His scores in drawing, mathematics, and physics were above average, while his merits in French language and history were among the worst. He finished 33rd in the class of 66.He maintained his spot as the most
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a positive reputation with other sailors. Crew mates described him as always being happy, with an intimidating, six-foot-tall physique but a personality that did not match. His disciplined nature remained; he reportedly was one of the best-behaved sailors, who spent all of his time either carrying out his duties or practicing to be a better officer. Cabaniss was never admonished for shore misconduct, a considerable issue for most other new officers and sailors. He was reportedly a favorite of the superior officers stationed in Kobe, and was appointed to a spot on the admiral's staff as a reward for his conduct. Cabaniss was preparing for an examination for promotion early in February 1882. [[File:<mask>s death New York Times.jpg|thumb|left|The New York Times''' article about Cabaniss' death|alt=A short, one paragraph article written in old type font]]
Cabaniss was killed in an accident on board the Swatara on January 19, 1882.An official report of the incident was released on March 25 of that year. According to the report, before-noon exercises on board the ship had just been completed when an order was made to prepare rifles for target practice. At around ten in the morning, Cabaniss was assisting in the instruction of the ship's second group of sailors when he broke off and entered the ship's engine room to instruct a sailor on his duties. An experienced sailor, Ensign James P. Parker, was explaining to new sailors how to properly load their guns. He showed them how to load and discharge the weapons using a practice round. He then reloaded his gun with live
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<mask> (born June 30, 1950) is an American politician, activist, and radio talk show host in the state of New York. <mask> is a former Democratic New York State Assemblyman representing Brooklyn's Assembly district 48, having held this position for 35 years – from January 1983 until December 2018. Background and family
<mask> grew up in a Haredi Jewish family in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, his father being a devout follower of the Vizhnitz Hasidic dynasty. He has a BA from Queens College, and a MA from Brooklyn College. <mask> is married, and has three children: Yoni, Shmuel, and Deena. Yoni and Shmuel both work as social workers in the Jewish community in Brooklyn. Politics
<mask> endorsed Michael Bloomberg the first two times he ran for mayor of New York City, then switched his endorsement to the challenger Bill Thompson in the 2009 election.<mask> had broken ranks with his party before, most notably in his endorsement of Republican candidates George Pataki for governor in 1994, George W. Bush, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Donald Trump for president, and Inna Vernikov for New York City Council. Described by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and The New York Times as a conservative Democrat, <mask> believes that the national party has moved too far to the left, particularly on social issues, for the liking of many of his constituents. His district had long been one of the most conservative districts in New York City. For instance, it gave Donald Trump 69 percent of the vote in 2016, his second-best showing in the entire state; only the Staten Island-based 62nd Assembly District gave him a higher percentage of the vote. In 2012, it gave Romney 75 percent of the vote, his best showing in the state. <mask> expressed interest in the special election for the New York's 9th congressional
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district seat vacated by Anthony Weiner; <mask> did not expect the Democrats to nominate him, and considered running as a Republican. In 2017, <mask>'s son Yoni ran for the City Council in District 44 against Kalman Yeger, David Greenfield's hand-picked successor who was on the Democratic party line; in order to avoid a primary, the younger <mask> collected petitions to run on his own party line called "Our Neighborhood".In 2018, <mask> retired from the New York State Assembly, proclaiming support for his successor Simcha Eichenstein. <mask> hosts a weekly radio talk show in New York City. Views on issues
<mask> is a pro-Israel activist. In the 1980s he was a member of the Jewish Defense League, and a follower of Meir Kahane. In an interview with Robert I. Friedman, <mask> stated that he supported forming a group of "intelligent professionals" to assassinate Nazis and Arab-American supporters of the Palestine Liberation Organization. In 2001, he argued that the Madame Tussauds New York wax museum should remove its wax statue of the Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat, saying that he was a terrorist whose image should not be in New York. Profiling
<mask> has advocated for the profiling of Muslims of Middle Eastern and South Asian background as a response to terrorism.In 2005, he sponsored a bill to allow police to focus on Middle-Eastern men in subway bag searches. At a news conference, holding up photos of Muslim men, he said: "The individuals involved [in terrorism] basically look like this. Why must police think twice before examining people of a particular group?" He has described this as "terrorist profiling". Civil rights groups opposed <mask>'s proposal, and the New York City Police Department released a statement against it, saying that "Racial profiling is illegal,
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of doubtful effectiveness, and against department policy". Following the attempted bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 in December 2009, <mask> introduced a similar bill that would allow law enforcement agencies to consider race and ethnicity as "one of many factors" in selecting persons for anti-terrorism stops and searches. Subway security
<mask> was instrumental in arranging for the allocation of $1.2 million in a project that helped to install 120 closed-circuit television security cameras in nine South Brooklyn subway stations that are located in Jewish neighborhoods such as Borough Park, Midwood, Kensington, and Parkville.He stated that the project was prompted by "concerns that the Jewish community would be targeted" by terrorists. <mask> encouraged politicians to do the same in other subway stations, which now lag behind those of his community. The New York Times revealed that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority had granted close to $600 million in funds for security to stations in New York City in late 2002; however, only a small fraction of it had been used productively by 2005. The Passion of the Christ
In 2003, <mask> and a group of supporters protested Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ. He led about 50 Jewish leaders and supporters to the Fox News offices in Manhattan in a demonstration, chanting, "The Passion is a lethal weapon against Jews." <mask> was vocal in his anger against the movie, stating: "It will result in anti-Semitism and bigotry. It really takes us back to the Dark Ages ... the Inquisition, the Crusades, all for the so-called sin of the Crucifixion of Jesus."<mask> has commented about "The Passion of the Christ" that, "This is unhealthy for Jews all over the world." United Nations
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state legislators that has consistently attempted to block plans to renovate the headquarters of the United Nations, calling the UN anti-American and anti-Israel. <mask> criticized President Barack Obama for abstaining on UN Security Council Resolution 2234, which criticized Israeli settlement activity in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, calling the UN a "cesspool". Same-sex marriage
After voting against a same-sex marriage bill in the New York State Assembly, <mask> claimed that same-sex marriage can lead to the acceptance of incest, maintaining that, "If we authorize gay marriage in the state of New York, those who want to live and love incestuously will be five steps closer to achieving their goals as well." On June 15, 2011, after the New York State Assembly passed a bill to legalize gay marriage, <mask> said gay marriage is wrong in the eyes of God. David Irving letter
On October 20, 2009, at the insistence of <mask> and twelve other New York State and City officeholders in a letter to American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault, the company rescinded its Merchants Agreement with prominent Holocaust denier David Irving. Holocaust high school assignment
In response to what he deemed a "stab in the back to Holocaust survivors", <mask> called for the resignation of New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia on April 3, 2017, for her support of an Oswego High School assignment that asked students to put themselves in Adolf Hitler's shoes to argue for or against the "Final Solution".Elia had defended the assignment as one that allegedly fostered "critical thinking". Incidents involving Hikind
Corruption allegations
In 1997, <mask> was indicted by the U.S. Attorney for allegedly receiving $40,000 in funding from the Council of Jewish Organizations of Borough
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Park (COJO) in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in state grant money. <mask> was acquitted, while his co-defendant, an official of the organization, Rabbi Elimelech Naiman, was found guilty. The former operations director of COJO, Paul Chernick, pled guilty in a plea agreement. In 2013, <mask> was alleged to have routinely failed to disclose payments he received from Maimonides Hospital for advertising on his syndicated show. The payments were subsequently investigated by Governor Andrew Cuomo's aborted Moreland Commission. <mask> was accused of arranging jobs in government for friends and family members.In response, <mask> told the New York Daily News that "I help strangers, and I certainly don't discriminate against members of my family". Blackface
<mask> wore blackface during the 2013 Purim celebration. He initially defended his costume decision, but eventually apologized. Lawsuit against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
<mask> filed a lawsuit against U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for blocking him on Twitter. On November 4, 2019, it was announced that they settled the lawsuit, with Ocasio-Cortez issuing a statement apologizing for the block. References
External links
Assemblyman <mask> <mask>'s Official blog
"Same as the Old Dov"
"Hikind Stands By Call To Employ Racial Profiling In Subway Searches"
"Opinion Article About Israelis In School Paper Is Denounced"
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20th-century American politicians
21st-century American politicians
American Orthodox Jews
American talk radio hosts
American Zionists
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<mask> (August 11, 1888 – July 13, 1955) was a Professor of Biology at the University of Pennsylvania and an important figure in the history of plant physiology and plant cell biology. Personal life
<mask> was born on August 11, 1888 outside of Washington, D.C. to <mask> M.D. and his wife, both of whom emigrated from Germany in 1887. After <mask> died, <mask>' mother ran a boarding house for scientists from the United States Department of Agriculture. This association with botanists led the young <mask> to pursue the study of botany. After graduating McKinley Technical High School in 1907 as valedictorian, he worked as a laboratory assistant in the United States Department of Agriculture, working on experimental electroculture. After working as a laboratory assistant for three years, he spent one year as a practical student in a shipyard in Bremen, Germany.After returning to America, he spent one year studying law at Georgetown University. Realizing that science would be a worthwhile way for him to accomplish his life's work, he entered The Johns Hopkins University where he was awarded a B.S. honoris causa in 1917 and earned a Ph.D. in botany in 1920. After graduation, <mask> went to Geneva, Switzerland to study cell physiology with Robert Hippolyte Chodat. He continued to do research at Imperial College London and King's College London in England. Then <mask> joined Herbert Freundlich at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute to learn the techniques he would need to understand the physical properties of protoplasm. <mask> spent time with Ernest Rutherford, Jacobus van't Hoff, Svante
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Arrhenius, Niels Bohr, Max Planck, Walther Nernst and Max von Laue.In 1932 when he was head of the University of Pennsylvania botanical laboratories, he led an expedition to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains in Colombia to collect and study flora there. <mask> held 'Philosophical Meetings' at his home Seifriziana to which he invited artists, musicians, scientists, medical doctors, psychologists, and other intellectuals. He loved animals and kept birds, monkeys, donkeys, cats, rabbits, peacocks and a dog. He also collected French porcelain and Italian bronze. He did not have a telephone. <mask> married Myra George when he was 64. <mask> died on July 13, 1955 while collecting botanical specimens near the Chesapeake Bay.<mask> was an Associate Editor for the journal Protoplasma from its founding in 1926 to his death in 1955. He was also an Associate Editor of Journal of Colloid Science and Biodynamica. University life
<mask> was a Seessel Fellow at Yale University from 1922 to 1923. He became an instructor at the University of Michigan in 1923 and came to the University of Pennsylvania as a National Research Fellow in 1924 and became a professor of protoplasmatology and plant geography in 1925. Research
<mask> was a naturalist and a laboratory scientist who studied the viscoelastic properties and microscopic structure of protoplasm. Using a micromanipulator and microdissection, <mask> showed that protoplasm was non-Newtonian, thixotropic and elastic. <mask> proposed that the physical properties of protoplasm were a consequence of long chain molecules attached to one
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another like a brush heap.<mask> studied the streaming protoplasm of the slime mold Physarum polycephalum and coined the word, protoplasmatologist for someone who studies the properties of living protoplasm. <mask>' expertise ranged from physics to philosophy. <mask>'s work appeared in Time Magazine. In a review of <mask>' book, Protoplasm, E. O. Kraemer wrote, "Professor <mask> is a versatile scientist. His work on emulsions, gels, and other colloid topics is well known among chemists and physicists, but they may not be aware that Professor <mask> is a member of a botany department and is an active investigator in botany and biology. Professor <mask>'s general attitude toward science, and, in particular, his point of view in his book is typified by the quotation from Descartes with which he introduces his preface: If, therefore, anyone wishes to search out the truth of things in serious earnest, he ought not to select one special science; for all the sciences are conjoined with each other and interdependent." In a review of <mask>' book, The Structure of Protoplasm, C. A. Shull described it as "One of the most important summaries of protoplasmic structure in the English language."Noburô Kamiya worked with <mask>, According to Time Magazine, "Unobtrusively last year into Dr. <mask>' laboratory glided a fragile, gracious, 27-year-old Japanese scientist, Noburo Kamiya. This gifted young man had done postgraduate work in botany at Tokyo's Imperial University, was studying at Giessen in Germany in the fateful summer of 1939. When Germany invaded Poland, the Japanese Government
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ordered Kamiya to get out. Not stopping for books or clothing, he left posthaste for the U. S. by way of Hamburg and Bergen. He wrote to Dr. <mask>, asking if he could go to work in his laboratory. <mask> welcomed him. "First thing I did," <mask> recalls, "was to lend him a raincoat."Kamiya still has it". Teaching
In his lectures in Physics and Chemistry of Protoplasm, <mask> gave not only the facts, but the background of the subject and the lines of thought by which the discoveries have come about. When he lectured on Plants and Climates, he showed slides of photographs that he took while on his many botanical trips throughout the world. Books
<mask>, <mask> (1936) Protoplasm. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, NY
<mask>, <mask> (1938) The Physiology of Plants. John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY
<mask>, <mask>, ed. (1942) A Symposium on the Structure of Protoplasm: A Monograph of the American Society of Plant Physiologists.Iowa State College Press, Ames IA
Film
Seifriz used cinematography to make a movie entitled, Seifriz on Protoplasm, which won prizes at several film festivals and was shown on television. Honors
Chamaedorea seifrizii, the Victorian Parlor Palm, was named after <mask>ifriz. References
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Chamaedorea seifrizii is a palm native to Mexico and Central America. The specific epithet honors the collector of the type, <mask>. Seifriz on Protoplasm 1954
Protoplasm at Biodiversity Library
Protoplasm at archive.org
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<mask> (born 20 July 1964) is an Italian retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. During a 21-year professional career, he appeared in 346 Serie A games, most notably representing A.C. Milan (12 seasons) with which he won 12 major titles, including five national championships and the 1994 Champions League. Career
Cesena
<mask> joined his hometown's club, A.C. Cesena, in 1979, at the age of 15. In 1982–83, on loan, he made his senior debuts with A.C. Forlì in the Serie C1, being backup in a relegation-ending season. After two more loans, <mask> returned to Cesena for the 1986–87 campaign, only missing five games as the Emilia-Romagna club promoted to Serie A, and retaining first-choice status in the following three top division seasons, with the team finishing 12th in 1989–90; he made his debut in the competition on 13 September 1987, in a home match against S.S.C. Napoli. Milan
After his first season in Italy's top flight, <mask> was noticed by A.C. Milan, and joined the Rossoneri (also dubbed the Dream Team) that dominated Italian football for much of the 1990s.In his debut campaign he backed up Andrea Pazzagli, but the veteran left for Bologna F.C. 1909 in the ensuing summer. <mask> then briefly battled for starting duties with Francesco Antonioli, before becoming Milan's undisputed first-choice goalkeeper, being part of a defensive line that included, amongst others, Mauro Tassotti, Franco Baresi, Alessandro Costacurta and Paolo Maldini, regarded as one of the greatest defensive units of all time. However, unlike the
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aforementioned defenders, <mask> wasn't selected to represent Italy in the 1994 FIFA World Cup, since former Milan coach Arrigo Sacchi, who was the commissioner of the Italian national team during this time, assigned the three goalkeeping spots to Gianluca Pagliuca, Luca Marchegiani and Luca Bucci. Under Sacchi, <mask> received two international call-ups by the end of 1994, but failed to make a single appearance for his country, although several pundits regarded him as a viable alternative to the then first-choice keeper Pagliuca; he still managed to have a successful club career under the tutelage of Fabio Capello, as the Invincibles went on a 58-match unbeaten run and won four Scudetti in five seasons, as well as the UEFA Champions League in 1994. Following their 1996 Scudetto victory, Milan sharply declined thereafter, finishing 11th in 1997 and tenth in 1998, as <mask>'s own career declined and saw him battling Massimo Taibi for the top spot. During round 17 of the 1998–99 season, Milan were leading A.C. Perugia Calcio 2–0 when they conceded a late penalty.After Hidetoshi Nakata converted it, teammate Cristian Bucchi was struck from behind by <mask> while retrieving the ball from the back of the net. <mask> was sent off and later was punished with a five-match ban. After beating out newcomer Jens Lehmann (who would leave after playing only five matches) for the number-one jersey in 1998–99, <mask> was ultimately usurped by upstart Christian Abbiati, who had replaced him in the Perugia match. Perugia and retirement
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campaign <mask> moved to Perugia, who were facing a goalkeeper crisis at the time. He contributed relatively as the team retained its top level status, then retired at the end of that sole campaign at the age of 39. <mask> made one final appearance for Milan at the San Siro, in a testimonial match for Demetrio Albertini, his teammate for eleven seasons. Subsequently, he worked as goalkeeper coach in the club's youth department.Style of play
<mask> was a tall, aggressive and physically strong goalkeeper, who was known mainly for his confidence and command of the area, as well as his handling and ability to come off his line to collect crosses and high balls, due to his height and goalkeeping technique. He was also known for his vocal presence in goal, and his ability to organise his defence. Due to his good reactions, agility, athleticism and solid positioning, he was also an effective shot-stopper, and, despite his height, was gifed acrobatically and capable of getting to ground quickly to parry shots, which made him adept at saving penalties. Despite his talent, he was at times criticised for his volatile, arrogant and controversial character, however, which led him to pick up several cards throughout his career, as well as his tendency to commit occasional costly mistakes, which, along with his height and athleticism, earned him the nickname "l'ascensore umano" (the human lift). Despite not being the most naturally gifted goalkeeper with the ball at his feet, <mask> possessed solid ball skills as well as a deep goal kick, and was also
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known for his distribution, as well as his pace when rushing off his line, which made him extremely effective in Milan's zonal marking system, and enabled his team to maintain a high defensive line. Records
<mask> held the record for the longest streak without conceding a goal in Serie A history. In an 11-match span, from 12 December 1993 to 27 February 1994, he kept a clean sheet for 929 consecutive minutes before being beaten by a long-range strike by U.S. Foggia's Igor Kolyvanov; he surpassed the previous mark set by Dino Zoff in 1972–73 by 26 minutes, and his own record of longest consecutive minutes without conceding was surpassed by Gianluigi Buffon on 20 March 2016, by 45 minutes.<mask> also holds the record for the fewest goals conceded by a goalkeeper during a single 34-match Italian league season, with 11. With 330 appearances for Milan, he is the club's second-most capped keeper of all time, behind only Christian Abbiati (380). Career statistics
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Milan
UEFA Champions League: 1993–94
UEFA Super Cup: 1990, 1994
Intercontinental Cup: 1990
Serie A: 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1998–99
Supercoppa Italiana: 1992, 1993, 1994
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Stats at Lega Serie A
Tutto Calciatore profile
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Italian footballers
Association football goalkeepers
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<mask> (in Ukrainian: Ярослав Олександрович Галан, party nickname Comrade Yaga; 27 July 1902 – 24 October 1949) was a Ukrainian Soviet anti-fascist writer, playwright, publicist, member of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine since 1924, killed by nationalist insurgents in 1949. Biography
Early life
<mask> was born on 27 July 1902 in Dynów to the family of <mask>, a minor post-office official. As a child he lived and studied in Przemyśl. He enjoyed a large collection of books gathered by his father, and was greatly influenced by the creativity of the Ukrainian socialist writer Ivan Franko. At school, <mask>'s critical thoughts brought him into conflict with priests who taught theology. At the beginning of the First World War his father, along with other "unreliable" elements who sympathized with the Russians, was placed in the Thalerhof internment camp by the Austrian authorities. Eventually Galitzia was taken by the Russians.During the next Austrian offensive, in order to avoid repressions, his mother evacuated the family with the retreating Russian army to Rostov-on-Don, where <mask> studied at the gymnasium and performed in the local theatre. Living there, <mask>
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witnessed the events of the October Revolution. He became familiar with Lenin’s agitation. Later these events formed the base of his story Unforgettable Days. While in Rostov-on-Don, he discovered the works of Russian writers such as Leo Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, Vissarion Belinsky, and Anton Chekhov. <mask> often went to the theatre. Thus his obsession with this art was born, which in the future determined his decision to become a playwright.Student years
After the war <mask> returned to Galitzia (annexed by Poland), where in 1922 he graduated from the Peremyshl Ukrainian Gymnasium. He then studied at the Triest Higher Trade School in Italy, and in 1922 enrolled in the University of Vienna. In 1926 he transferred to the Jagiellonian University of Kraków, from which he graduated in 1928 (according to some sources he didn't pass the final exams). <mask> then began working as a teacher of the Polish language and literature at a private gymnasium in Lutsk. However, ten months later he was banned from teaching due to political concerns. In his student years <mask> became active in left-wing politics. While at the University of Vienna he became a member of the workers' community
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Einheit (Unity), overseen by the Communist Party of Austria.From 1924 he proactively participated in the underground national liberation movement, which in the Ukrainian lands of the Second Polish Republic (except of Glitzia being under OUN influence) was headed by the Communist Party of Western Ukraine (CPWU). He joined the CPWU when he was on vacation in Peremyshl. Later, while studying in Kraków, he was elected a deputy chairman of the legal student organization Życie (Life) ruled by the Communist Party of Poland. Creativity and political struggle in Poland
In the 1920s, <mask>'s creative activity also began. In 1927 he finished work on his first significant play, Don Quixote from Ettenheim. For the first time he revealed the venality of nationalistic and chauvinistic parties in his play 99% (1930). The theme of class struggle and condemning segregation were actualized in the plays Cargo (1930) and Cell (1932), calling for united actions and class solidarity of Ukrainian, Jewish and Polish proletarians.<mask>'s play 99% was staged by the semi-legal Lviv Workers’ Theatre. On the eve of the premiere, Polish authorities launched a campaign of mass arrest against Western
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Ukrainian communists, sending them to the Lutsk prison. As the theatre's director and one of the key actors were arrested, the premiere was on the verge of failure. Despite risks of being arrested, the workers continued rehearsing, so that the play was presented with a delay of only one day. About 600 workers attended the premiere; for them, it was a form of protest mobilization against repression and nationalism. <mask> was one of the founders of the Ukrainian proletarian writers’ group Horno. From 1927 to 1932, along with other communist writers and members of the CPWU, he worked for the Lviv-based Ukrainian magazine Vikna, being a member of its editorial board, until it was closed by government censors.Living in the Polish-controlled city of Lviv, <mask> frequently had to earn money by translating novels from German into Polish. In 1932 he moved to Nyzhniy Bereviz, the native village of his wife, located in the Carpathian mountains, close to Kolomyia, and kept working on his own plays, stories and articles there. In the village he spread communist agitation among peasants, creating cells of the International Red Aid and the Committee for Famine Relief. Without
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opportunities to find work, he lived in the countryside until June 1935, when he was summoned by the CPWU to return to Lviv. <mask> was denied Soviet citizenship in 1935. In 1935, <mask> traveled extensively around Prykarpattia, giving speeches to peasants. He became an experienced propagandist and agitator.Addressing the city workers, <mask> explained to them the main points of Marxist theory. In particular, he held lectures on Friedrich Engels's Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, and Karl Marx's Wage Labour and Capital. Together with the young communist writer Olexa Havryliuk, <mask> organized safe houses, wrote leaflets and proclamations, and transferred illegal literature to Lviv. Throughout his political career the writer was repeatedly persecuted, and twice imprisoned (for the first time in 1934). He was one of the organizers of the Lviv Anti-Fascist Congress of Cultural Workers in May 1936. <mask> also took part in a major political demonstration on 16 April 1936 in Lviv, in which the crowd was fired on by Polish police (in total, thirty workers were killed and two hundred injured). <mask> devoted his story Golden Arch to the memory of fallen comrades.Participation in
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the Anti-Fascist Congress forced him to escape from Lviv to Warsaw, where he eventually found work at the left-wing newspaper Dziennik Popularny, edited by Wanda Wasilewska. In 1937, the newspaper was closed by the authorities, and on 8 April <mask> was accused of illegal communist activism and sent to prison in Warsaw (later transferred to Lviv). Released in December 1937, <mask> lived in Lviv under strict supervision by the police, and remained unemployed until 1939. In 1937, his elder brother, a member of the CPWU, died in Lviv. After the Communist Party of Poland and the Communist Party of Western Ukraine, as its autonomous organization, were dissolved by the Comintern on trumped-up accusations of spying for Poland in 1938, <mask>'s first wife Anna Henyk (also a member of the CPWU), who was studying at the Kharkiv Medical Institute, USSR, was arrested by the NKVD and executed in the Great Purge. In the Soviet Lviv
After the USSR annexed Western Ukraine and Western Belarus in September 1939, <mask> <mask> worked for the newspaper Vilna Ukraina, directed the Maria Zankovetska Theatre, and wrote more than 100 pamphlets and articles on changes taking place in the reunified
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lands of Western Ukraine. «A group of writers such as <mask> <mask>, Petro Kozlaniuk, Stepan Tudor and Olexa Havryliuk [...] treated the liberation of Western Ukraine [by the Red Army] as a logical conclusion of the policy of the Communist Party, which fought for the reunification of the Ukrainian people.In this, they actively helped the party in word and deed. In return, they have already had experience with Polish prisons and oppression from their fellow countrymen. Now [after it happened] they could breathe a sigh of relief. That is why their smiles were so sincere and celebratory.»
Petro Panch, Lviv, Kopernyka str., 42, Vitchyzna, 1960, issue No 2, 172
In November 1939 <mask> went to Kharkiv to try to locate his vanished wife Anna Henyk. Together with the writer Yuri Smolych he came to the dormitory of the Medical Institute, and asked the porter for any information about her fate. The porter only gave him back a suitcase with Anna's belongings and said that she had been arrested by the NKVD, in response to which <mask> burst into tears. In June 1941, being a journalist of the newspaper Vilna Ukraina, he took his first professional vacation, in Crimea, but didn't manage
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to rest for long, as on 22 June Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.War period
When the war on the Eastern Front began, <mask> arrived in Kharkiv and went to the military commissariat having a big desire to become a volunteer of the Red Army and to go to the frontline but was denied. He was evacuated to Ufa. In September 1941, Alexander Fadeyev summoned him to Moscow for working at the Polish-language magazine Nowe Horyzonty. In the days of the Battle for Moscow, on 17 October, he was evacuated to Kazan. Later the writer arrived in Saratov, where he served as a radio host at the Taras Shevchenko Radio Station. Then he was a special front-line correspondent of the newspaper Sovietskaya Ukraina, and then Radianska Ukraina. «The majority of his radio-comments have been born spontaneously.He listens to the enemy's radio shows, thinks for a while, then goes to the studio with an open microphone and without any preparations responds, expressing everything what he feels. That was a true radio-battle with all Hitler's propagandists starting from Goebbels, Dietrich, and others. The opportunity to fight like this – immediately, without paper [and censorship] – demonstrates a high
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confidence given to him by the Government and the Central Committee of the CPSU(b).»
Volodymyr Beliayev, Literaturna Ukraina, 1962In 1943, in Moscow, he met his future second wife Maria Krotkova, who was an artist. In October 1943, the publishing house Moscovskiy Bolshevik released the collection of 15 Halan's war stories Front on Air. At the end of the year, <mask> moved to the recently liberated Kharkov and worked there on the frontline radio station Dnipro. During and after the war he was sharply condemning the Ukrainian nationalists – banderivtsi, melnykivtsi, bulbivtsi – as accomplices of the Nazi occupiers. Post-war times
In 1946 <mask> <mask> as a correspondent of the Radianska Ukraina newspaper represented the USSR at the Nuremberg trial of Nazi military criminals.<mask> <mask> wrote much about Ukrainian nationalists. In his story What Has No Name he described the OUN crimes:
«Fourteen-years-old girl can’t calmly look at meat. She trembles if someone is going to cook cutlets in her presence. A few months ago, on Easter Night, armed people came to a peasant house in a village close to the town of Sarny, and stabbed its inhabitants with knives. The girl having the
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eyes widened of fear was looking at the agony of her parents. The girl with horror in her eyes was looking at the agony of her parents. One of the gangsters put a knife blade to the child’s neck, but at the last moment a new “idea” came to his mind: “Live in glory to Stepan Bandera!And to avoid you being starved to death we will leave you some food. Guys, slice pork for her!" The "guys" liked such a proposal. In a few minutes a mountain of meat made from the bleeding father and mother grew up in front of the horror-struck girl...»
In <mask>'s tragedy Under the Golden Eagle (1947) the writer harshly criticizes the American occupation administration in Western Germany for its rude attempts to prevent Soviet soldiers interned in special camps to return to their homeland. In his play Love at Dawn (1949, published in 1951) he described the triumph of Socialism in the rural areas of Western Ukraine. Often he was focused on counteracting the nationalistic propaganda. Nevertheless, <mask> complained that these "Augean stables" were not his vocation but it had to be done by someone:
«I understand: the asenisation work is a necessary and useful work, but why only me?Why should I be
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the only cesspool cleaner? The reader of our periodicals will involuntarily have the thought that there is only "maniac" <mask>, who has clung to Ukrainian fascism like a drunk clings to the raft, [while] the vast majority of the writers ignore this issue. It isn't needed to be explained what further conclusions the reader will make from this.»
From Halan's letter to his friend Yuri Smolych, on 2 January 1948. In his last satirical pamphlets <mask> <mask> criticized the nationalistic and clerical reaction (particularly, the Greek Catholic Church and the anti-Communist doctrine of the Holy See): Their Face (1948), In the service of Satan (1948), In the Face of Facts (1949), Father of Darkness and His Henchmen (1949), The Vatican Idols Thirst for Blood (1949, in Polish), Twilight of the Alien Gods (1948), What Should Not Be Forgotten (1947), The Vatican Without Mask (1949) etc. When the Vatican had discovered that <mask> is going to publish his new anti-clerical pamphlet Father of Darkness and His Henchmen, in July 1949 the Pope Pius XII excommunicated him. In response to this, <mask> wrote a pamphlet I Spit on the Pope, that caused a significant resonance within the Church
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discriminated against at the university and seeking his help. When Lukashevych gave a signal, Stakhur attacked the writer with the axe. After Stakhur was convinced that <mask> was dead, they tied up the housekeeper and escaped.The Ministry of the State Security (MGB) accused the Ukrainian nationalists of his murder, while the OUN claimed that it was a Soviet provocation in order to start a new wave of repressions against locals. Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Ukrainian SSR at that time, took personal control of the investigation. In 1951, the MGB agent Bohdan Stashynsky infiltrated into the OUN underground network and managed to find Stakhur, who himself bragged about the assassination of <mask>. He was arrested on 10 July, and afterwards fully admitted his responsibility for the crime during the trial. According to Stakhur, he did that because of the writer's critical statements on the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the Vatican. On 16 October 1951 the military tribunal of the Carpathian Military District sentenced Mykhailo Stakhur to death by hanging: the court hall applauded the announcement of the verdict. The verdict was
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enforced on the same day.Some contemporary Ukrainian historians and journalists put forward the hypothesis that <mask> was killed by the Soviets. However, nowadays the fact of the OUN guilt proved with the numerous pieces of evidence is widely recognized by the vast majority of historians. The assassination of <mask> caused tightening of measures against the nationalist Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which continued insurgent activities against the Soviet power in Western Ukraine. All the leadership of the MGB arrived in Lviv, Pavel Sudoplatov himself worked there for several months. One of the consequences of the murder of <mask> was the elimination of the UPA leader Roman Shukhevych four months later. Evaluations by contemporaries
«<mask> <mask> is a talented publicist, was a progressive writer in the past. Nowadays he still is the most advanced one among [local] non-party writers.But he's infected with the Western European bourgeois "spirit". Has little respect for Soviet people. Considers them not civilized enough. But just inwardly. In general terms, he understands the policy of the party, but in his opinion, the party makes great mistakes with regards to peasants in
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Western Ukraine. <mask> places responsibility for these mistakes on the regional committee of the CPSU(b), local institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the local Soviet authorities. Believes in Moscow.Doesn't want to join the party (he was advised to) due to being an individualist, and also in order to keep his hands, mind, and words free. He thinks if he joins the party, he will lose this [freedom].»
Extract from the report of the literary critic G. Parkhomenko to the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine, 15 December 1947. In 1962, in Toronto, Olexandr Matla, aka Petro Tereschuk, a pro-nationalist historian from the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada, published the brochure History of a Traitor (Yaroslav Halan), in which he accused Halan of being an informer of both Polish and Soviet intelligence services, and of helping them to oppress nationalists and even some pro-Soviet writers from Western Ukraine such as Anton Krushelnytsky, who moved from Lviv to Kharkiv in the 1930s and was killed during the Great Terror. «[<mask>] has used his undeniable publicistic talent to serve the enemy, thereby placing himself outside the Ukrainian people.
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He has directed his energy and creative mind against his own people and their interests. An outrageous egoist, egocentrist, money lover, slanderer, cynic, provocator, agent of two intelligence services, misanthrope, falsificator, speculator, and an informer are all the characteristics of <mask> <mask>.»
Petro Tereschuk, History of a Traitor (Yaroslav Halan), Canadian League for Ukraine's Liberation, Toronto, 1962. «<mask> is an erudite, artist, polemicist, politician and undoubtedly an international-level journalist.I was amazed at his knowledge of the languages: German, French, Italian, Polish, Jewish, Russian. Picking up any newspaper or document he leafs through, reads it and writes something down. I was also surprised by his efficiency in work, interest in everything, an exceptional ability to "seek" and "raise" topics, problems, his persistent work on processing the material.»
Yuri Yanovsky, a Ukrainian Soviet writer, who worked with <mask> at the Nuremberg Trial in 1946. «In 1949 I witnessed an unusual event. On October 2 <mask> <mask> spoke in Lviv University. It turned out to be his last speech. We condemned him but his presentation surprised me.He spoke as an
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intelligent person defending Ukrainian culture. It had nothing to do with the series of his pamphlets “I spit on Pope!” <mask> turned out to be a totally different man. Several days later he was killed.»
Mykhailo Horyn, a Ukrainian anti-Communist dissident. Homage
In 1954, the movie It Shouldn't Be Forgotten, based on <mask> <mask>'s life events, with Sergei Bondarchuk in the main role was filmed. In 1973, another movie based on the biography of <mask> Until the Last Minute with Vladislav Dvorzhetsky in the main role was released. In 1969, the studio Ukrkinokhronika filmed the documentary Yaroslav Halan about the life of the writer. The Dovzhenko Film Studios, in 1958, filmed <mask>'s work Under the Golden Eagle, but the film wasn't released as "too anti-American".Writer's work The Mountains are Smoking was filmed in 1989 by the Ukrtelefilm studio. In 1962, 1970 and 1976, the USSR Post issued postal envelopes with a portrait of <mask> <mask>. A huge monument to <mask> <mask> was installed in Lviv in 1972. Besides, the square where the monument was situated was named after <mask>. In 1992, on the eve of the Vatican officials’ visit, the local authorities demolished the
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monument, and its metal was used for constructing a monument to the Prosvita, a nationalist organization which Halan fought with. There was another monument to the writer in the city Park of Culture installed in 1957 and demolished in the 1960s. A monument to Halam also existed in Drohobych, Lviv Region.Demolished in the 1990s. In 1960, <mask>'s personal apartment at Hvardiyska street, 18, where he lived in 1944-1949, was turned into his personal museum. The museum stored writer's personal belongings, documents, and materials about his literary and social activity, publications of his works. In the 1990s, it was under threat of closure, but eventually, it was transformed into the museum Literary Lviv of the First Half of the XX Century. From 1964 to 1991, the Yaroslav Halan Prize was awarded by the Writers' Union of Ukraine for the best propagandistic journalism. In 1979, the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR established the Yaroslav Halan Scholarship for talented students of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University and Ivan Franko Lviv State University. In the 1970s, in Lviv Region, there was a network of 450 atheist clubs named after <mask> <mask>.<mask>'s works
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in three volumes were published in Kyiv in 1977–1978. From 1967 to 1987, the Lviv-based publisher Kameniar issued the anti-fascist and anti-clerical almanac Post Named After <mask> <mask>. In total, 22 issues were published. The streets named after <mask> <mask> existed in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Kryvyi Rih, Odesa, Chernihiv, Dnipro, Lviv, Khmelnytskyi, Poltava, Cherkasy, Chernivtsi, Kalush, Nikopol, Uzhgorod, Mukachevo, Berzhany, Korosten, and Novograd Volynskyi but they were renamed within the campaign against the Soviet memorial legacy. In Soviet times, in Saratov, the name of <mask> <mask> was given to the street where he worked at the Taras Shevchenko Radio Station. After the USSR collapsed, the street recovered it historical name Proviantskaya. In Donetsk, Luhansk, Enakievo, Torez, Shostka, and Rostov-on-Don, there are still the streets bearing the name of Halan.The Lviv Regional Theatre of Drama (Drohobych) and Kolomyia Regional Theatre of Drama (Kolomyia) received the name of <mask> <mask>. Renamed in the 1990s. The Ternopil Pedagogical Institute and Lutsk Pedagogical College received the name of Yaroslav Halan. Renamed in the 1990s. The Lviv Regional Library for Adults,
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established by the Soviet authorities in the Besyadetski Palace building, and Kyiv Regional Library for Youth received the name of <mask> <mask>. Renamed in the 1990s. One of the district libraries in Kharkiv still bears the writer's name.In 1954, the Yaroslav Halan Cinema was built in Lychakiv district, Lviv. Renamed in the 1990s, nowadays abandoned. Halan's name was given to kolkhozes in the following villages: Vuzlove (Radekhiv Raion, Lviv Oblast), Dytiatychi (Mostyska Raion, Lviv Region), Mistky (Pustomyty Raion, Lviv Oblast), Turynka (Zhovkva Raion, Lviv Oblast) Volodymyrivka (Domanivka Raion, Mykolaiv Oblast), Seredniy Bereziv (Kosiv Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast), Hnylytsi (Pidvolochysk Raion, Ternopil Oblast). The name of Yaroslav Halan was given to a passenger steamer of the Belsky river shipping company, which operated on the Moscow-Ufa line. Currently out of use. In 2012, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the resolution About the celebration of the 110th anniversary of the birth of the famous Ukrainian anti-fascist writer <mask> Oleksandrovych <mask>. Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1975
Reports from Nuremberg.Kyiv: Dnipro Publishers, 1976
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Favorites. Lviv: Kameniar. 1987.Azerbaijani
Ukrainian Stories. Azərnəşr. 1954
External links
(English translation) <mask>, <mask>. Reports from Nuremberg. Kyiv: Dnipro Publishers, 1976
(English translation) <mask>. <mask>. I Spit on the Pope!<mask> <mask> on the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine
<mask> <mask> on the IMDb
<mask> <mask> on the WorldCat Identities – books publication statistics and other data
<mask> <mask> (as <mask> Galan) on the Google Books Ngram Viewer – frequency of mention in English-language books
Bibliography
Беляев В., Ёлкин А. Ярослав Галан. – М.: Молодая гвардия, 1971. – (Жизнь замечательных людей)
Галан Ярослав: Енциклопедія історії України: Т. 2. Редкол. : В. А. Смолій (голова) та ін. НАН України.Інститут історії України. – Київ 2004, "Наукова думка". .
Терещенко Петро. Історія одного зрадника (Ярослва Галан). Торонто: Канадаська ліга за визволення України, 1962. Галан Ярослав, Спогади про письменника, Львiв, вид-во "Каменяр", 1965. Вальо М. А. Ярослав Галан (1902—1949): до 80-річчя з дня народження. Бібліографічний покажчик.– Львів, 1982. Про Ярослава Галана: Спогади, статті. – К., 1987. Ярослав Галан – борець за правду і
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<mask> (born Florence Brunet; May 27, 1890 – September 28, 1943) was an American actress. Early years
<mask> was born Florence Brunet in Savannah, Georgia, although some sources list her birthname as Florence Simone. She was educated in New York City. Career
Brunette made her film debut in the 1912 short A Waiter of Weight, followed by The Joy Ride (1912), and His Neighbor's Wife (1912). Brunette appeared in films such as Unto Those Who Sin (1916), in which she played a working girl of squalor, lured by wealth and luxury, The Woman Thou Gavest Me (1919), While Satan Sleeps (1922), Bells of San Juan (1922), and Camille of the Barbary Coast (1925). In the 1930s and 1940s, Brunette mainly acted in uncredited roles, with her final screen appearance being in You're Telling Me (1942). Personal life
Brunette was the third wife of William Robert Daly, a silent film actor and director.Daly, who died around 1935, directed <mask> in many films. After Daly's death, she married Louisville, Kentucky, real estate operator John E. Kley. They resided at 712 North Mansfield Avenue in Los Angeles, California. Brunette possessed one of the most detailed wardrobes in the movie industry. She wore eighteen gowns in Unto Those Who Sin. Death
<mask> died after an extended illness at the Motion Picture Country Home at the age of 53 in 1943. Funeral services were conducted from Pierce Brothers Hollywood Chapel, 5959 Santa Monica Boulevard.She was cremated. Filmography
The Joy Ride (1912) (as Miss <mask>)
His Neighbor's Wife (1912) (as Miss Fritzie)
For the Good of All (1912) (as Miss <mask>)
Babies Three (1912)
Mates and Mis-Mates (1912) .... Mabel Wentworth
Her
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Life's Story (1912) .... Lucy Allen
Dora (1912) .... Mary
As the Wind Blows (1912) .... The Summer Girl
Two Women (1912) .... The Wife
On the Danger Line (1912)
Was Mabel Cured? (1912)
It Happened Thus (1912) .... (1917) .... Kate Taylor
And a Still Small Voice (1918) .... Mary Singleton
The City of Purple Dreams (1918) .... Esther Strom
The Still Alarm (1918) .... 1]
This Is the Life (1935) (uncredited)
San Francisco (1936) (uncredited)
Maid of Salem (1937) (uncredited) ....Bit Part
Way Out West (1937) (uncredited) .... Audience at saloon
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) (uncredited) .... Bit Role
Souls at Sea (1937) (uncredited) .... Bit Role
Wells Fargo (1937) (uncredited) .... Pioneer Woman
Disbarred (1939) (uncredited) .... Maid
Persons in Hiding (1939) (uncredited) .... Automobile Passenger
Stagecoach (1939) (uncredited) .... Bit part
The Star Maker (1939) (uncredited)
Honeymoon in Bali (1939) .... Secretary
$1000 a Touchdown (1939) (uncredited) .... McGlen Wife
Edison, the Man (1940) (uncredited)
Meet John Doe (1941) (uncredited) ....Bit part
You're Telling Me (1942) (uncredited)
References
Fort Wayne, Indiana Journal-Gazette, Jack O' Diamonds Best On The Card, Tuesday Morning, May 12, 1914, Page 13. Lima, Ohio Times-Democrat, <mask> <mask> Makes Debut Soon, Thursday Evening, March 2, 1916, Page 7. The Los Angeles Times, <mask> <mask>, September 30, 1943, Page A12. The New York Times, <mask> Brunette, September 30, 1943, Page 21. External links
1890 births
1943 deaths
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American film actresses
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<mask> (born September 22, 1952) is an American archaeologist and paleoanthropologist. He is a Professor in the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University and is a founder and co-director of the Stone Age Institute. Toth's archaeological and experimental research has focused on the stone tool technology of Early Stone Age hominins who produced Oldowan and Acheulean artifacts which have been discovered across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. He is best known for his experimental work, with Kathy Schick, including their work with the bonobo (“pygmy chimpanzee”) Kanzi who they taught to make and use simple stone tools similar to those made by our Early Stone Age ancestors. Early life and education
Toth was born and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Brooklyn High School in 1970 and in 1974 earned a B.A. with distinction in Liberal Arts and Anthropology from Western College in Oxford, Ohio.Toth attended Oxford University, England where he obtained a Post-graduate Diploma with distinction in Prehistoric Archaeology in 1975. From there he went on to study at the University of California, Berkeley, where he obtained an M.A. in Paleoanthropology in 1978, and a Ph.D. in Paleoanthropology in 1982. While at Berkeley he studied with professors Glynn Isaac, J. Desmond Clark, F. Clark Howell, Tim White, Garniss Curtis, and Richard Hay. Toth completed the Flintknapping Field School at Washington State University in 1978, attended the Lithic Microwear Workshop at the University of Chicago in 1980, and received training in Forensic Science at the University of California in 1981. In 1983 he obtained a certificate in Scanning Electron Microscopy from the Royal Microscopial Society, Cambridge University, England. In 2004 Toth completed a course in start-up companies through the Kelly School of Business at Indiana
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University/Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and in 2005 he obtained a certificate from the Fundraising School at IUPUI.Marriage to Kathy Schick
In the summer of 1976, <mask> met Kathy Schick while the two were working together on an archaeological dig in Ohio. With similar interests and both attending graduate school in Anthropology, they soon began collaborating on their research. <mask> and Schick went on to attend graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley and were married during that time. Their marriage was followed by extended periods of fieldwork at Koobi Fora (East Lake Turkana), Kenya where they conducted research for the next four years under the direction of Berkeley professor Glynn Isaac and Richard Leakey of the National Museum of Kenya. This period was the beginning of a long-term research collaboration between <mask> and Schick which has continued for decades. Academic career
Between 1981 and 1984 Toth served as a visiting professor in the Anthropology Departments at Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Capetown, South Africa. From 1982 to 1986 he was a post-doctoral research scientist at the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley, Ca., directed by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson.From 1986 to the present he has been a faculty member in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University, Bloomington, in the Anthropology Department and the Cognitive Science Program, and has served as an adjunct professor in the Biology Department and the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science. In 1986 he co-founded, with Kathy Schick, the Center for Research into the Anthropological Foundations of Technology (CRAFT) at Indiana University, and together they continue as co-directors of CRAFT. In 2003, the couple founded the Stone Age Institute, a
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non-profit education and research facility located in Indiana and dedicated to research into human origins. <mask> and Schick continue as co-directors and executive board members of the Stone Age Institute. Over the course of his career Toth has participated in public education programs which help provide children and adults access to educational materials and related media on subjects such as human evolution, archaeology, anthropology, and big history. One such program is a big history project with Kathy Schick titled "Origins: From the Big Bang to the World Wide Web" which began in 2010 with a multi-year museum installation at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures as well as the permanent, multifaceted educational website which has been running since 2010. Another example of Toth's public education projects are the video courses he created for the Big History Project, which is a public education program created by Bill Gates and David Christian.Toth's courses for the project include one titled Introduction to Archaeology and another titled Making Stone Tools, both of which can be viewed free of charge on YouTube or Khan Academy. In addition to participation in programs such as these, Toth and Schick, as directors of the Stone Age Institute, have made pdf files of the research volumes published by the Stone Age Institute Press available as free downloads. Field and laboratory research
Toth has engaged in field and laboratory research since the late 1970s, resulting in scientific publications on a variety of topics including human evolution, African prehistory, Paleolithic studies, the evolution of human intelligence, lithic technology, raw materials of antiquity, experimental archaeology, microscopic approaches to archaeology, faunal analysis, and taphonomy, geoarchaeology, ethnoarchaeology, primate studies, history of
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evolutionary thought, and Big History (studying and teaching history from the Big Bang to recent times). Toth has conducted archaeological field research and studied the lithic assemblages from Oldowan and Acheulean sites including Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia, Gona in Ethiopia, Middle Awash in Ethiopia, Nihewan Basin in China, Lake Natron in Tanzania, Ambrona in Spain, and Koobi Fora in Kenya. During investigations at Gona, Ethiopia in 1999, Toth discovered the fossil cranium of a Homo erectus individual which dates to about 1.2 million years ago. In his decades of experimental research into the manufacture and use of early stone tools, Toth has replicated thousands of Oldowan and Acheulean artifacts, many of which he has used in controlled experiments involving such things as cutting through thick hides and the butchering of large animals (all animals used in these studies had died of natural causes, no animals were killed for the purposes of this research). This research revealed that the most important tools to the early stone tool makers may have been the sharp-edged flakes that were removed from the choppers and pebble tools, rather than the choppers and pebble tools themselves, as had been previously supposed.Flake assemblages had been a largely ignored part of archaeological collections from sites of this time period because they were thought to have been a by-product of the manufacture of the more formal choppers and other pebble tools. <mask>’s research supported the idea that these flakes were the simple, highly effective base of early stone tool technology. Research with Kanzi
In 1990, <mask> began a long-term collaborative research project, along with Kathy Schick and psychologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, to observe the bonobo Kanzi as he learned to make and use stone tools. Over
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the course of this research, <mask> and Schick worked together to teach Kanzi, by example, to flake stone and use the sharp flakes produced to cut a length of rope that would allow access to a desired food reward. The goal of this research was to compare the products of human tool makers to those of our prehistoric counterparts (which we can see archaeologically through the tools they produced), as well as to those of non-human primates who have not evolved to make stone tools. This research would allow the scientists to investigate what, if any, cognitive and biomechanical adaptations required for stone tool technology may be present in modern day primates. Given a supply of chert for flaking and stone to use as a hammerstone, Kanzi was able to learn to flake stone, yielding sharp flakes that he was able to use to cut through rope and obtain his edible reward.The flakes and cores produced by Kanzi’s efforts were less sophisticated than the earliest stone tools recognized by archaeologists, suggesting that there is probably an earlier stone tool technology that is not recognized archaeologically. Olduvai Gorge Coring Project
In 2014, Toth, along with three other principal investigators including Kathy Schick, Jackson Njau, and Ian Stanistreet, began the Olduvai Gorge Coring Project to extract geological cores around the gorge in order to increase our knowledge of the geological history of the Olduvai Gorge area. This coring project is the first of its kind to take place at Olduvai and the project has resulted in the extraction of more than 600 meters of geological cores from 3 different locations around the gorge, with the deepest core resulting in 236 meters of recovered core material. This project more than doubles the known stratigraphic sequence at Olduvai, adding 400,000 years of deposits dating as far back as 2.4
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million years ago. The coring project is ongoing, with further coring planned and a variety of researchers analyzing the extracted core material. Honors and distinctions
In 1990, <mask>, Kathy Schick, and J. Desmond Clark became the first foreign archaeologists invited to excavate in China since the Peking Man excavations in the 1930s. Toth received Indiana University's annual Outstanding Faculty Award in 1997.Toth was honored with the invitation to deliver the annual Memorial Lecture for the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation in San Francisco in 2001. In 2003 Toth became an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 2019 Toth received an Honorary Doctorate from Tbilisi State University, Republic of Georgia for his contributions to Georgian archaeology. Bibliography
Broadfield, D., Yuan, M., Schick, K., & Toth, N. (Eds.). (2010).The Human Brain Evolving: Paleoneurological Studies in Honor of Ralph L. Holloway. Stone Age Institute Press. .
Schick, K. D., & Toth, N. P. (Eds.). (2008). The cutting edge: new approaches to the archaeology of human origins. Stone Age Institute Press. .
Pickering, T. R., Schick, K. D., & <mask>, N. P. (Eds.).(2007). Breathing life into fossils: taphonomic studies in honor of CK (Bob) Brain. Stone Age Institute Press. .
Toth, N. P., & Schick, K. D. (Eds.). (2006). The Oldowan: case studies into the earliest stone age. Stone Age Institute Press. .
Schick, K. D., & <mask>, N. P. (1994).Making silent stones speak: Human evolution and the dawn of technology. Simon and Schuster. .
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Major General <mask> (18 August 1869 – 17 July 1936) was a United States Marine Corps general who last served as commanding general of the Department of the Pacific. <mask> served during the Spanish–American War (3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry), the occupation of Veracruz (1914) and in World War I, where he was in command of all troops during the Battle of Belleau Wood. Biography
<mask> was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, on August 18, 1869; he received a B.A. in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1892. He married Katherine Cordner on February 14, 1907. During the Spanish–American War, he was the captain of Company F, 3rd Kentucky Infantry, from May 31, 1898, until May 16, 1899, when he was honorably mustered out. By virtue of his previous military experience, he was appointed directly to the rank of first lieutenant in the Marine Corps on 1 July 1899.<mask> was promoted to captain, 3 March 1903; to major, 29 August 1916; to lieutenant colonel, 26 March 1917; to colonel 1 July 1918; to brigadier general, 9 March 1919; and to major general, 1 October 1931. In the grades of lieutenant and captain he served with Marine Detachments on , Massachusetts, Indiana, Minnesota, and Montana. Prior to World War I he had more than eight years of foreign duty including service in Panama in 1904 and in 1911; expeditions to Guantanamo Bay in 1904, 1911, 1912, and 1913; San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1904; service with the Army of Cuban Pacification in 1906; service in Santo Domingan waters in 1912; Culebra in 1914; and the occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico, in 1914. His home service was equally varied and included duty at Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C., League Island (Philadelphia), Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, Norfolk, and New York; instruction in submarine mining at the Torpedo Station, Narragansett Bay; teaching in the School of Application, Annapolis, and the Advanced Base School, New London, Connecticut; observation of Army artillery practice
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at Fortress Monroe, Virginia; the supervising of construction of new barracks at Annapolis; and recruiting in New York. World War I
Feland was attached to the 5th Marine Regiment for service in France in World War I and was among the first contingent of American forces which went overseas with General John J. Pershing in May 1917. On his arrival in France, <mask> was made executive officer (XO) of the 5th Marines. When the unit, as part of the 4th Marine Brigade, was thrown into the breach to stem the German advance at Château-Thierry in May 1918, Feland was, as ever, in the thick of the fighting.At Belleau Wood in June 1918 when the halt in the German advance was turned into a retreat, <mask> was given command of all troops in the Wood. For his conspicuous valor on this occasion, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. After his promotion to colonel, <mask> became commanding officer (CO) of the 5th Marine Regiment after the former CO, Wendell Cushing Neville, was promoted to command the 4th Marine Brigade. As such, he led it in the Battles of Soissons, Blanc Mont Ridge and in the Argonne. For his outstanding exploits in the War, <mask> was awarded, in addition to the Distinguished Service Cross mentioned above, the Distinguished Service Medals of both the Army and the Navy, Officer's rank in the Legion of Honor, the Croix de Guerre with bronze star, gold star, and four palms, and was cited in dispatches six times. Upon his return to the United States in May 1919, <mask> was stationed at Headquarters Marine Corps until December when he was detached to command the 2nd Brigade in Santo Domingo. Returning to the United States the following fall, he again joined Headquarters in the capacity of Director of the Division of Operations and Training.He held that post for two years after which he was Assistant to the Major General Commandant for another two years. From November 1926 to February 1927 he was called from his command of the Marine Expeditionary
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Force at Quantico to head the Eastern Section of the U.S. Mail Guard. In April 1927, <mask> took command of the 2nd Brigade in Nicaragua. After four months in Nicaragua he was transferred to the command of Marine Barracks, Parris Island, South Carolina, which post he held from September 1927 to January 1928. He then returned to Nicaragua and assumed command of the Brigade for a second time, serving there until March 1929. For this second tour in Nicaragua, <mask> was awarded another Distinguished Service Medal. Following a short period at Headquarters after his return from Nicaragua, <mask> was assigned as commanding general of the Department of the Pacific in July 1929.He was serving in that position when he was detached on 25 February 1933. He retired from the Marine Corps on 1 September 1933. <mask> died at Columbus, Ohio, on 17 July 1936. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Awards and honors
<mask> is the recipient of the following awards:
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The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Colonel <mask>, U.S. Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism in action during the operations at Bois de Belleau, June 6–14, 1918. Colonel <mask> distinguished himself by his energy, courage, and disregard for personal safety in voluntarily leading troops into action through heavy artillery and machine-gun fire. His efforts contributed largely to our successes at this point.See also
Battle of Belleau Wood
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1869 births
1936 deaths
Burials at Arlington National Cemetery
MIT School of Architecture and Planning alumni
United States Marine Corps generals
Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United States)
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Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)
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<mask> ( ; ; born 7 August 1975) is a South African and American actress and producer. One of the world's highest-paid actresses, she is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award. In 2016, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. <mask> came to international prominence in the 1990s by playing the leading lady in the Hollywood films The Devil's Advocate (1997), Mighty Joe Young (1998), and The Cider House Rules (1999). She received critical acclaim for her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003), for which she won the Silver Bear and Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first South African to win an Oscar in an acting category. She received another Academy Award nomination for playing a sexually abused woman seeking justice in the drama North Country (2005). <mask> has since starred in several commercially successful action films, including The Italian Job (2003), Hancock (2008), Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), Prometheus (2012), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017), Atomic Blonde (2017), and The Old Guard (2020).She also received praise for playing troubled women in Jason Reitman's comedy-dramas Young Adult (2011) and Tully (2018), and for portraying Megyn Kelly in the biographical drama Bombshell (2019), receiving a third Academy Award nomination for the last. Since the early 2000s, Theron has ventured into film production with her company Denver and Delilah Productions. She has produced numerous films, in many of which she had a starring role, including The Burning Plain (2008), Dark Places (2015), and Long Shot (2019). Theron became an American citizen in
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2007, while retaining her South African citizenship. She has been honoured with a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Early life
Theron was born in Benoni, in Transvaal Province (Gauteng Province since 1994) of South Africa, the only child of road constructionists Gerda (née Maritz) and <mask> (27 November 1947 – 21 June 1991). Second Boer War military leader Danie <mask> was her great-great-uncle.She is from an Afrikaner family, and her ancestry includes Dutch as well as French and German. Her French forebears were early Huguenots in South Africa. "Theron" is an Occitan surname (originally spelled Théron) pronounced in Afrikaans as . She grew up on her parents' farm in Benoni, near Johannesburg. On 21 June 1991, Theron's father, an alcoholic, threatened both teenaged Charlize and her mother while drunk, physically attacking her mother and firing a gun at both of them. Theron's mother retrieved her own handgun, shot back and killed him. The shooting was legally adjudged to have been self-defense, and her mother faced no charges.Theron attended Putfontein Primary School (Laerskool Putfontein), a period during which she has said she was not "fitting in". She was frequently unwell with jaundice throughout childhood and the antibiotics she was administered made her upper incisor milk teeth rot (they had to be surgically removed) and teeth did not grow until she was roughly ten years old. At 13, Theron was sent to boarding school and began her studies at the National School of the Arts in Johannesburg. Although Theron is fluent in English, her first language is Afrikaans. Career
1991–1996: Early work
Although seeing herself as a dancer, at age 16 Theron won a one-year modelling contract at a local
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competition in Salerno and moved with her mother to Milan, Italy. After Theron spent a year modelling throughout Europe, she and her mother moved to the US, both New York City and Miami. In New York, she attended the Joffrey Ballet School, where she trained as a ballet dancer until a knee injury closed this career path.As <mask> recalled in 2008:
In 1994, <mask> flew to Los Angeles, on a one-way ticket her mother bought for her, intending to work in the film industry. During the initial months there, she lived in a motel with the $300 budget that her mother had given her; she continued receiving cheques from New York and lived "from paycheck to paycheck" to the point of stealing bread from a basket in a restaurant to survive. One day, she went to a Hollywood Boulevard bank to cash a few cheques, including one her mother had sent to help with the rent, but it was rejected because it was out-of-state and she was not an American citizen. Theron argued and pleaded with the bank teller until talent agent John Crosby, who was the next customer behind her, cashed it for her and gave her his business card. Crosby introduced Theron to an acting school, and in 1995 she played her first non-speaking role in the horror film Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest. Her first speaking role was Helga Svelgen the hitwoman in 2 Days in the Valley (1996), but despite the movie's mixed reviews, attention drew to Theron due to her beauty and the scene where she fought Teri Hatcher's character. Theron feared being typecast as characters similar to Helga and recalled being asked to repeat her performance in the movie during auditions: "A lot of people were saying, 'You should just hit while the iron's hot'[...] But playing the
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same part over and over doesn't leave you with any longevity.And I knew it was going to be harder for me, because of what I look like, to branch out to different kinds of roles". When auditioning for Showgirls, <mask> was introduced to talent agent J. J. Harris by the co-casting director Johanna Ray. She recalled being surprised at how much faith Harris had in her potential and referred to Harris as her mentor. Harris would find scripts and movies for <mask> in a variety of genres and encouraged her to become a producer. She would be <mask>'s agent for over 15 years until Harris's death. 1997–2002: Breakthrough
Larger roles in widely released Hollywood films followed, and her career expanded by the end of the 1990s. In the horror drama The Devil's Advocate (1997), which is credited to be her break-out film, <mask> starred alongside Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino as the haunted wife of an unusually successful lawyer.She subsequently starred in the adventure film Mighty Joe Young (1998) as the friend and protector of a giant mountain gorilla, and in the drama The Cider House Rules (1999), as a woman who seeks an abortion in World War II-era Maine. While Mighty Joe Young flopped at the box office, The Devil's Advocate and The Cider House Rules were commercially successful. She was on the cover of the January 1999 issue of Vanity Fair as the "White Hot Venus". She also appeared on the cover of the May 1999 issue of Playboy magazine, in photos taken several years earlier when she was an unknown model; Theron unsuccessfully sued the magazine for publishing them without her consent. By the early 2000s, Theron continued to steadily take on roles in films such as Reindeer Games (2000), The Yards (2000), The Legend of
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Bagger Vance (2000), Men of Honor (2000), Sweet November (2001), The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001), and Trapped (2002), all of which, despite achieving only limited commercial success, helped to establish her as an actress. On this period in her career, Theron remarked: "I kept finding myself in a place where directors would back me but studios didn't. [I began] a love affair with directors, the ones I really, truly admired.I found myself making really bad movies, too. Reindeer Games was not a good movie, but I did it because I loved [director] John Frankenheimer." 2003–2008: Worldwide recognition and critical success
<mask> starred as a safe and vault "technician" in the 2003 heist film The Italian Job, an American homage/remake of the 1969 British film of the same name, directed by F. Gary Gray and opposite Mark Wahlberg, Edward Norton, Jason Statham, Seth Green, and Donald Sutherland. The film was a box office success, grossing US$176 million worldwide. In Monster (2003), <mask> portrayed serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a former prostitute who was executed in Florida in 2002 for killing six men (she was not tried for a seventh murder) in the late 1980s and early 1990s; film critic Roger Ebert felt that <mask> gave "one of the greatest performances in the history of the cinema". For her portrayal, she was awarded the Academy Award for Best Actress at the 76th Academy Awards in February 2004, as well as the Screen Actors Guild Award and the Golden Globe Award. She is the first South African to win an Oscar for Best Actress.The Oscar win pushed her to The Hollywood Reporter's 2006 list of highest-paid actresses in Hollywood, earning up to US$10 million for a film; she ranked seventh. AskMen also named her
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the number one most desirable woman of 2003. For her role as Swedish actress and singer Britt Ekland in the 2004 HBO film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, <mask> garnered Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award nominations. In 2005, she portrayed Rita, the mentally challenged love interest of Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman), on the third season of Fox's television series Arrested Development, and starred in the financially unsuccessful science fiction thriller Aeon Flux; for her voice-over work in the Aeon Flux video game, she received a Spike Video Game Award for Best Performance by a Human Female. In the critically acclaimed drama North Country (2005), <mask> played a single mother and an iron mine worker experiencing sexual harassment. David Rooney of Variety wrote: "The film represents a confident next step for lead <mask> <mask>. Though the challenges of following a career-redefining Oscar role have stymied actresses, Theron segues from Monster to a performance in many ways more accomplished [...] The strength of both the performance and character anchor the film firmly in the tradition of other dramas about working-class women leading the fight over industrial workplace issues, such as Norma Rae or Silkwood."Roger Ebert echoed the same sentiment, calling her "an actress who has the beauty of a fashion model but has found resources within herself for these powerful roles about unglamorous women in the world of men." For her performance, she received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actress. Ms. magazine also honoured her for this performance with a feature article in its Fall 2005 issue. On 30 September 2005, <mask> received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2007,
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Theron played a police detective in the critically acclaimed crime film In the Valley of Elah, and produced and starred as a reckless, slatternly mother in the little-seen drama film Sleepwalking, alongside Nick Stahl and AnnaSophia Robb. The Christian Science Monitor praised the latter film, commenting that "Despite its deficiencies, and the inadequate screen time allotted to <mask> (who's quite good), Sleepwalking has a core of feeling". In 2008, <mask> starred as a woman who faced a traumatic childhood in the drama The Burning Plain, directed by Guillermo Arriaga and opposite Jennifer Lawrence and Kim Basinger, and also played the ex-wife of an alcoholic superhero alongside Will Smith in the superhero film Hancock.The Burning Plain found a limited release in US theaters, but grossed $5,267,917 outside the US. Moreover Hancock made US$624.3 million worldwide. Also in 2008, <mask> was named the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman of the Year, and was asked to be a UN Messenger of Peace by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. During this time she began appearing in J'adore Commercials. 2009–2011: Career hiatus and return to acting
Her film releases in 2009 were the post-apocalyptic drama The Road, in which she briefly appears in flashbacks, and the animated film Astro Boy, providing her voice for a character. On 4 December 2009, <mask> co-presented the draw for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in Cape Town, South Africa, accompanied by several other celebrities of South African nationality or ancestry. During rehearsals she drew an Ireland ball instead of France as a joke at the expense of FIFA, referring to Thierry Henry's handball controversy in the play-off match between France and Ireland.The stunt alarmed FIFA enough
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for it to fear she might do it again in front of a live global audience. Following a two-year hiatus from the big screen, <mask> returned to the spotlight in 2011 with the black comedy Young Adult. Directed by Jason Reitman, the film earned critical acclaim, particularly for her performance as a depressed divorced, alcoholic 37-year-old ghostwriter. Richard Roeper awarded the film an A grade, stating "<mask> <mask> delivers one of the most impressive performances of the year". She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and several other awards. Roger Ebert called her one of the best actors working today. In 2019, <mask> spoke about her method of working on roles.Creating a physical identity together with the emotional part of the character, she said, is "a great tool set that adds on to everything else you were already doing as an actor. It's a case-by-case thing, but there is, to me, this beautiful thing that happens when you can get both sides: the exterior and interior. It's a really powerful dynamic". When preparing for a role, "I almost treat it like studying. I will find space where I am alone, where I can be focused, where there's nobody in my house, and I can really just sit down and study and play and look at my face and hear my voice and walk around and be a fucking idiot and my dogs are the only ones who are seeing that". 2012–present: Resurgence and further acclaim
In 2012, <mask> took on the role of villain in two big-budgeted films. She played Evil Queen Ravenna, Snow White's evil stepmother, in Snow White and the Huntsman, opposite Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth, and appeared as a crew member with a hidden agenda in Ridley Scott's Prometheus.Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle
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found Snow White and the Huntsman to be "[a] slow, boring film that has no charm and is highlighted only by a handful of special effects and <mask> <mask>'s truly evil queen", while The Hollywood Reporter writer Todd McCarthy, describing her role in Prometheus, asserted: "<mask> is in ice goddess mode here, with the emphasis on ice [...] but perfect for the role all the same". Both films were major box office hits, grossing around US$400 million internationally each. In 2013, Vulture/NYMag named her the 68th Most Valuable Star in Hollywood saying: "We're just happy that <mask> can stay on the list in a year when she didn't come out with anything [...] any actress who's got that kind of skill, beauty, and ferocity ought to have a permanent place in Hollywood". On 10 May 2014, <mask> hosted Saturday Night Live on NBC. In 2014, Theron took on the role of the wife of an infamous outlaw in the western comedy film A Million Ways to Die in the West, directed by Seth MacFarlane, which was met with mediocre reviews and moderate box office returns. In 2015, Theron played the sole survivor of the massacre of her family in the film adaptation of the Gillian Flynn novel Dark Places, directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, in which she had a producer credit, and starred as Imperator Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), opposite Tom Hardy. Mad Max received widespread critical acclaim, with praise going towards <mask> for the dominant nature taken by her character.The film made US$378.4 million worldwide. <mask> reprised her role as Queen Ravenna in the 2016 film The Huntsman: Winter's War, a sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman, which was a critical and commercial failure. In 2016, <mask> also starred as a physician and
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activist working in West Africa in the little-seen romantic drama The Last Face, with Sean Penn, provided her voice for the 3D stop-motion fantasy film Kubo and the Two Strings, and produced the independent drama Brain on Fire. That year, Time named her in the Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. In 2017, <mask> starred in The Fate of the Furious as the main antagonist of the entire franchise, and played a spy on the eve of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 in Atomic Blonde, an adaptation of the graphic novel The Coldest City, directed by David Leitch. With a worldwide gross of US$1.2 billion, The Fate of The Furious became Theron's most widely seen film, and Atomic Blonde was described by Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times as "a slick vehicle for the magnetic, badass charms of <mask> <mask>, who is now officially an A-list action star on the strength of this film and Mad Max: Fury Road". In the black comedy Tully (2018), directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody, <mask> played an overwhelmed mother of three.The film was acclaimed by critics, who concluded it "delves into the modern parenthood experience with an admirably deft blend of humor and raw honesty, brought to life by an outstanding performance by <mask> <mask>". She also played the president of a pharmaceutical in the little-seen crime film Gringo and produced the biographical war drama film A Private War, both released in 2018. In 2019, Theron produced and starred in the romantic comedy film Long Shot, opposite Seth Rogen and directed by Jonathan Levine, portraying a U.S. Secretary of State who reconnects with a journalist she used to babysit. The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest in March
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2019, and was released on 3 May 2019, to positive reviews from film critics. <mask> next starred as Megyn Kelly in the drama Bombshell, which she also co-produced. Directed by Jay Roach, the film revolves around the sexual harassment allegations made against Fox News CEO Roger Ailes by former female employees. For her work in the film, <mask> was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, and BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.That year, Forbes ranked her as the ninth highest-paid actress in the world, with an annual income of $23 million. <mask> produced and starred in The Old Guard directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, opposite KiKi Layne for Netflix, which was released in July 2020. She next reprised her role as Cipher in F9, originally set for release on 22 May 2020, before its delay to June 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was announced in February 2021 that she will be playing Lady Lesso in upcoming film The School for Good and Evil (2022). Other ventures
Activism
The Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project (CTAOP) was created in 2007 by <mask>, who the following year was named a UN Messenger of Peace, in an effort to support African youth in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The project is committed to supporting community-engaged organizations that address the key drivers of the disease. Although the geographic scope of CTAOP is Sub-Saharan Africa, the primary concentration has mostly been Charlize's home country of South Africa.By November 2017, CTAOP had raised more than $6.3 million to
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support African organizations working on the ground. In 2008, <mask> was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. In his citation, Ban Ki-Moon said of <mask> "You have consistently dedicated yourself to improving the lives of women and children in South Africa, and to preventing and stopping violence against women and girls". She recorded a public service announcement in 2014 as part of their Stop Rape Now program. In December 2009, CTAOP and TOMS Shoes partnered to create a limited edition unisex shoe. The shoe was made from vegan materials and inspired by the African baobab tree, the silhouette of which was embroidered on blue and orange canvas. Ten thousand pairs were given to destitute children, and a portion of the proceeds went to CTAOP.In 2020, CTAOP partnered with Parfums Christian Dior to create Dior Stands With Women, an initiative that includes Cara Delevingne, Yalitza Aparicio, Leona Bloom, Paloma Elsesser, and others, to encourage women to be assertive by documenting their journey, challenges and accomplishments. <mask> is involved in women's rights organizations and has marched in pro-choice rallies. <mask> is a supporter of same-sex marriage and attended a march and rally to support that in Fresno, California, on 30 May 2009. She publicly stated that she refused to get married until same sex marriage became legal in the United States, saying: "I don't want to get married because right now the institution of marriage feels very one-sided, and I want to live in a country where we all have equal rights. I think it would be exactly the same if we were married, but for me to go through that kind of ceremony, because I have so many friends who are gays and lesbians who would so badly want to get
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married, that I wouldn't be able to sleep with myself". <mask> further elaborated on her stance in a June 2011 interview on Piers Morgan Tonight. She stated: "I do have a problem with the fact that our government hasn't stepped up enough to make this federal, to make [gay marriage] legal.I think everybody has that right". In March 2014, CTAOP was among the charities that benefited from the annual Fame and Philanthropy fundraising event on the night of the 86th Academy Awards. <mask> was an honoured guest along with Halle Berry and keynote speaker James Cameron. In 2015, <mask> signed an open letter which One Campaign had been collecting signatures for; the letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women as they serve as the head of the G7 in Germany and the AU in South Africa respectively, which will start to set the priorities in development funding before a main UN summit in September 2015 that will establish new development goals for the generation. In August 2018, she visited South Africa with Trevor Noah and made a donation to the South African charity Life Choices. In 2018, she gave a speech about AIDS prevention at the 22nd International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam, organized by the International AIDS Society. Since 2008, <mask> has been officially recognized as a United Nations Messenger of Peace.Endorsements
Having signed a deal with John Galliano in 2004, Theron replaced Estonian model Tiiu Kuik as the spokeswoman in the J'Adore advertisements by Christian Dior. In 2018, she appeared in a new advertisement for Dior J'adore. From October 2005 to December 2006, Theron earned US$3 million for the use of her image in a worldwide print media advertising
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campaign for Raymond Weil watches. In February 2006, she and her production company were sued by Weil for breach of contract. The lawsuit was settled on 4 November 2008. In 2018, Theron joined Brad Pitt, Daniel Wu and Adam Driver as brand ambassadors for Breitling, dubbed the Breitling Cinema Squad. Personal life
In 2007, Theron became a naturalised citizen of the United States, while retaining her South African citizenship.She lives in Los Angeles. <mask> has adopted two children: a daughter, Jackson in March 2012 and another daughter, August, in July 2015. She has been interested in adoption since childhood, when she became aware of orphanages and the overflowing numbers of children in them. In April 2019, <mask> revealed that Jackson, then seven years old, is a transgender girl. She said of her daughters, "They were born who they are[,] and exactly where in the world both of them get to find themselves as they grow up, and who they want to be, is not for me to decide". She is inspired by actresses Susan Sarandon and Sigourney Weaver. She has described her admiration for Tom Hanks as a "love affair" and watched many of his movies throughout her youth.Hollywood actors were never featured in magazines in South Africa so she never knew how famous she was until she moved to the United States, which has been inferred as a factor to her "down-to-earth" attitude to fame. After filming for That Thing You Do! finished, <mask> got Hanks' autograph on her script. She later presented him his Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2020, in which Hanks revealed that he had a mutual admiration for <mask>'s career since the day he met her. <mask> said in 2018 that she went to therapy in her thirties because of anger, discovering that it
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