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 innings and gave up eight hits and six earned runs to the Detroit Tigers. After the Tigers game, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons announced that <mask> had been designated for assignment.<mask> was reported to be willing to accept an assignment to Triple-A Buffalo and was outrighted to Buffalo on July 5. <mask> was added to the Blue Jays roster again on August 24, and designated for assignment on August 26. After clearing waivers, he was again outrighted to the Buffalo Bisons. He became a free agent on October 1. Return to the minor leagues
On December 19, 2013, <mask> signed a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training with the Cincinnati Reds. He began the 2014 season with the Louisville Bats of the International League, but opted out of his deal on July 13. <mask> signed a minor league contract with the White Sox on July 17, and pitched for the Charlotte Knights of the International League.During the 2014–15 offseason, <mask> signed a minor league contract with the Atlanta Braves. The Braves assigned <mask> to the Gwinnett Braves of the International League. In 10 starts and one relief appearance, <mask> had a 2–6 record with an ERA of 6.10, while surrendering the most hits in Triple-A up to the month of June. He was released on June 19. <mask> signed with the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, and independent baseball league, on June 24. He made three starts for the Blue Crabs, winning all three and pitching to a 2.49 ERA. On July 12, 2015, <mask> signed a minor league contract with the Seattle Mariners.They assigned him to the Tacoma Rainiers of the Triple-A Pacific Coast League. Kansas City


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On January 7, 2016, <mask> signed a minor league contract with the Kansas City Royals. After a strong spring training, he made the Royals' opening day roster for the 2016 season as a relief pitcher. On April 9, 2016, <mask> threw a scoreless ninth inning in a 7–0 victory against the Minnesota Twins. This was his first major league game since August 25, 2013. <mask> pitched for the Royals 38 times for  innings over the year, going 6–0 with a 4.22 ERA. He went on the disabled list with right biceps tendinitis on August 31 and was designated for assignment on September 17, 2016.He was released on September 22. National baseball team

<mask> pitched for the Chinese Taipei national baseball team in the 2002 Asian Games. In 2004, as the ace of the staff, <mask> led Taiwan to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Against Australia, he allowed just three hits with no walks, and at one point retired nine batters in a row, to earn the win. He also limited Japan to just five hits in the first six innings. After being called up to the American major leagues, <mask> was idolized in Taiwan where all of his games were televised nationwide, many on public big screens to large audiences. Because of this popularity, he was named one of the Time 100 for 2007.At the 2013 World Baseball Classic, <mask> started for the Taiwan team's opener against Australia and threw 6 shut out innings for the win. In the second round, <mask> pitched six impressive scoreless innings against Japan, but was left with a no-decision when Japan rallied to win in the 10th inning. Coaching career
<mask> joined the Fubon Guardians of Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League in June 2018 as a guest

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 coach. He remained with the team through the 2019 season. In 2020, <mask> became the pitching coach for the CTBC Brothers, and focused particularly on pitching prospects on the Brothers' farm team. During the offseason in 2021, the Brothers announced that <mask> had signed a new contract, and agreed to remain with the team as coach for three years. Scouting report
During his prime, <mask> was a finesse pitcher with a power pitcher's velocity.In this period, he primarily relied on his power sinker along with the occasional four-seam fastball, slider, changeup, and splitter. His sinker, which was responsible for his elevation to ace status before his foot injury, had very impressive lateral movement and was thrown at greater than average velocity, sitting in the 91–94 mph range. Before his first shoulder injury, he also had a curveball until he was encouraged to opt for a sinker instead. By 2016, after a long recovery process, <mask>'s sinker had returned to the 89-93 mph range, with a top speed of 95 mph. His strikeout pitch is an average slider that closely resembles the fastball coming out of his hand, thus getting batters to swing ahead of the pitch. <mask> also throws a split-finger fastball, though he only uses the pitch sparsely when in need of a strikeout or double play. <mask>'s pitching style is characterized by efficiency, command of the strike zone, few walks, few home runs allowed but also records very few strikeouts.<mask> works quickly and uses his ground-ball inducing sinker to produce many double plays. This efficiency often allows <mask> to maintain a low pitch count deep into games. In Taiwan and the minor leagues, <mask> threw a more


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 conventional assortment of pitches, including a four-seam fastball, a changeup, and far more splitters. The sinker, which has become <mask>'s signature pitch, was developed during his minor league career with advice from Neil Allen, his Triple-A pitching coach, and his Triple-A catcher, Sal Fasano. Prior to the 2008 season, <mask> relied on his sinking fastball about 90% of the time. However, after occasional bad outings, especially during the 2007 ALDS, <mask> has worked to fully incorporate a slider and changeup into his repertoire. Through his first three starts of 2008, <mask> used his slider roughly 20% of the time and his changeup around 8%.Personal life
In a 2006 The New York Times interview, <mask> revealed that he is the biological child of the man he formerly thought was his uncle. Due to the media frenzy created in Taiwan over this, he briefly refused to give interviews to Taiwanese media. <mask> has also been taught basic English. He has resided in Fort Lee, New Jersey and Edgewater, New Jersey. <mask> is married to Chia-Ling Wu. The couple has two sons, J.J., born 2009, and Wellington, born 2013. On April 23, 2012, <mask> admitted to having an extramarital affair while he was recovering from a shoulder injury in 2009.In the summer of 2011, <mask>'s biological maternal grandfather, a man surnamed Huang, 82, committed suicide in a park in Tainan, Taiwan by hanging himself with a piece of electrical cord, according to a news report in the Taipei Times. <mask> often visited this maternal grandfather when he returned to Taiwan from time to time. A documentary about <mask>, Late Life: The Chien-<mask> Story, debuted in theaters in October 2018. See also

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<mask>, King of Lochlann was a key figure in the emergence of Norse influence in Scotland and one of the early Kings of the Isles and of that dominated the Irish Sea and environs in the Early Middle Ages. Very little is known of him, including his origins and the nature of his kingdom, although his descendants are well attested in the Irish annals. Speculative connections between these historical figures and characters from the Norse sagas have also been made. Life
The Fragmentary Annals of Ireland record of Amlaib Conung that in 871 he:went from Erin to Lochlann to wage war on the Lochlanns, and to aid his father <mask>h, for the Lochlanns had made war against him, his father having come for him.Ó Corráin (1998), p. 34. Frustratingly, the text continues:

 Since it would be lengthy to tell the cause of their war, and since it has so little relevance to us, although we have knowledge of it, we forego writing it, for our task is to write about whatever concerns Ireland, and not even all of that; for the Irish suffer evils not only from the Norwegians, but they also suffer many evils from themselves. These annals also note that in 849:  the sixth year of the reign of Máel Sechlainn, Amlaib Conung, son of the king of Lochlann, came to Ireland, and he
brought with him a proclamation of many tributes and taxes from his father, and he departed suddenly. Then his younger brother Imar came after him to levy the same tribute.This source is then clear that Amlaib is the son of <mask>, king of Lochlann, although the location of "Lochlann" is the subject of some dispute. This word is often translated as "Norway" although Ó Corráin (1998) argues that Lochlann "is Viking Scotland and

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 probably includes Man" at this time and suggests an early date for an organised Kingdom of the Isles. The Fragmentary Annals record little else about <mask>'s life but report of 873:Ég righ Lochlainne .i. Gothfraid do tedmaimm grána opond. Sic quod placuit Deo. (The death of the king of Lochlann i.e. Gothfraid of a sudden and horrible fit.So it pleased God.) However, according to Downham (2007) "none of these details can be relied upon" as "there is no contemporary evidence to support the statement that [Amlaib's] father was called <mask>", the Fragmentary Annals having been compiled at an uncertain date, possibly as early as the 11th century. Neither is the dating of the Annals definitive. Nonetheless, Ó Corráin (1998) argues of 873 that "this is no chronological impossibility: his sons first appeared in Ireland 25 years before, very likely in their twenties or younger, and we may infer from this that he may have been in his sixties when he died." He also states that "it is likely that the father of Amlaíb (Óláfr) and Ímar (Ívarr) is Gothfraidh (Guðrøðr) and that he is a historical person and dynastic ancestor." Predecessors
The Fragmentary Annals note of a date c. 871–872 that "In this year, i.e. the tenth year of the reign of Áed Findliath, Imar son of Gothfraid son of Ragnall son of Gothfraid Conung son of <mask>id and the son of the man who left Ireland, i.e.Amlaib, plundered from west to east, and from south to north." This suggests an ancestry for <mask>id but according to Ó Corráin this reference to "his genealogical ascent is a construct without historical value" and attempts to link the Kings of Lochlann with historical figures in Norway have not proven to be

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 satisfactory. Alfred Smyth identifies Amlaib as Olaf Geirstad-Alf of Vestfold, which would make <mask>id identical to Gudrød the Hunter, grandfather of Harald Fairhair. However Ó Corráin maintains that there is "no good historical or linguistic evidence to link Lothlend/Laithlind with Norway, and none to link the dynasty of Dublin to the shadowy history of the Ynglings of Vestfold." Descendants

In addition to Amlaib Conung, <mask>id had at least two other children, Amlaib's brothers Ímar, the eponymous founder of the Uí Ímair, and Óisle. The Annals of Ulster also note that there was a king of "Laithlinne" whose heir, Thórir, brought an army to Ireland in 848 and who died there in battle. Although there is no specific suggestion that this king was <mask>id this is only the year before the Fragmentary Annals first record of Amlaib as the king's son.According to the Fragmentary Annals c. 867: There was an encounter between Óisle, son of the king of Norway, and Amlaib, his brother. The king had three sons: Amlaib, Imar, and Óisle. Óisle was the least of them in age, but he was the greatest in valor, for he outshone the Irish in casting javelins and in strength with spears. He outshone the Norwegians in strength with swords and in shooting arrows. His brothers loathed him greatly, and Amlaib the most; the causes of the hatred are not told because of their length. The two brothers, Amlaib and Imar, went to consult about the matter of the young lad Óisle; although they had hidden reasons for killing him, they did not bring these up, but instead they brought up other causes for which they ought to kill him; and afterwards they decided to kill him. When Óisle visited Amlaib the former

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 said: 'Brother, if your wife, i.e.the daughter of Cináed, does not love you, why not give her to me, and whatever you have lost by her, I shall give to you.' When Amlaib heard that, he was seized with great jealousy, and he drew his sword, and struck it into the head of Óisle, his brother, so that he killed him. After that all rose up to fight each other (i.e. the followers of the king, Amlaib, and the followers of the brother who had been killed there); then there were trumpets and battle-cries on both sides. In 870 Dumbarton was besieged by Amlaib Conung and Ímar, "the two kings of the Northmen", who "returned to Dublin from Britain" the following year with numerous captives. <mask>id may have been succeeded briefly by Ímar who also died in 873. His death is recorded in the Annals of Ulster: Imhar rex Nordmannorum totius Hibernię & Brittanie uitam finiuit (Ímar king of the Norwegian Vikings of the whole of Ireland and Britain ended his life.)Amlaíb died either the following year campaigning in Scotland,Ó Corráin (1998), p. 35. or perhaps prior to 872. The matter of <mask>id's descendants and antecedents is subject to some ambiguity based on differing interpretations of these siblings and their connections to legendary figures from the Norse sagas. Ímar
The descendants of Ímar include his grandson Ragnall ua Ímair, who was a ruler of Northumbria and Mann (and who may have been the historical prototype of Rognvald Eysteinsson of the Orkneyinga Saga), Sitric Cáech (d. 927) who was a King of Dublin and of York, his successor Amlaíb Cuarán and probably the later Crovan dynasty of Mann and thus of Clann Somhairle, the rulers of Argyll and their descendants the Clan Donald Lords of

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 Scotland or Scandinavia?" in Ó Flaithearta, Mícheál (ed.) (2007) Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica. University of Uppsala. Fragmentary Annals of Ireland. CELT.Translation by Joan Newlon Radner (c.1977). Retrieved 15 November 2011. Ó Corráin, Donnchadh (Mar 1979) "High-Kings, Vikings and Other Kings". Irish Historical Studies 22 No. 83 pp. 283–323. Irish Historical Studies Publications.Ó Corráin, Donnchadh (1998) Vikings in Ireland and Scotland in the Ninth Century CELT. Retrieved 15 November 2011. Ó Corráin, Donnchadh "General: The Vikings in Ireland" (pdf) CELT. Retrieved 21 December 2008. Published in Brink, Stefan (ed.) (2008) The Viking World. London.Routledge. O'Donovan, John (translator) Annals of Ireland. (1860) Three fragments, copied from ancient sources by Dubhaltach MacFirbisigh; and edited, with a translation and notes, from a manuscript preserved in the Burgundian Library at Brussels. Dublin Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society. Retrieved 15 November 2011. Smyth, Alfred P., (1989) Warlords and Holy Men: Scotland 80–1000 AD. Edinburgh University Press.Todd, James Henthorn (translator) (1867) Cogad Gaedel re Gallaib: The War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill. London: Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer. Woolf, Alex (2005) "The origins and ancestry of Somerled: <mask> mac Fergusa and The Annals of the Four Masters" (pdf) in Mediaeval Scandinavia 15'''. Woolf, Alex "The Age of the Sea-Kings: 900–1300" in Omand, Donald (ed.) (2006) The Argyll Book''. Edinburgh. Birlinn.9th-century births
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<mask> (born 21 September 1962) is an English television presenter, writer and musical artist. He is best known for his presenting roles on the BBC, including game shows Who Dares Wins (2007–2019), Break the Safe (2013–2014) and 5-Star Family Reunion (2015–2016). <mask> presents the DIY series DIY SOS (1999–present) for BBC One and co-presented the daytime series Real Rescues (2007–2013). Early life
<mask> was born in Southall, Middlesex. At the age of 11, <mask> moved to Mildenhall in Suffolk, attending St Louis Middle School and moved again, attended Gunnersbury Catholic School for Boys. After another family move, he attended the Skinners' School in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Leaving school at 16, he had a variety of dead-end jobs, labouring on building sites, working in a petrol station and selling shoes and carpets.He played in bands from the age of 14 and was constantly writing music, poetry and comedy, until he submitted a script to a BBC2 programme that invited children to make a video. Career

Television
<mask> began as a runner in television production, before moving into presenting. <mask> was a reporter for TVS in the South East, reporting on the nightly news programme Coast To Coast, mostly covering upbeat reports, until TVS lost its contract in 1992. In the early 1990s, he presented a show called Ridge Riders for ITV. This featured a celebrity and another one or two guests riding classic motorcycles along off-road tracks around the UK. The viewer was treated to historic and local information about the locality as well as informal chats with the celebrity. <mask> appeared as a member of Channel 5's  chat show 5's Company between 1997 and 1999.He is principally known as the main host of DIY SOS, a home renovation series broadcast on BBC One since 1999, and has presented the BBC factual show Real Rescues since 2007. <mask> has also hosted several entertainment programmes for the BBC since signing an exclusive contract with them,

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texts: including Who Dares Wins, Last Choir Standing, Guesstimation, Secret Fortune and Perfection. <mask> has also presented programmes with a wildlife theme. In 2007, he fronted Mission Africa, in which a team of volunteers constructed a game reserve in Kenya. During this project, <mask> fell from a Land Rover, dislocating his shoulder. He flew back to the UK to receive emergency treatment. In the same year, he reported on the plight of orphaned orangutans for an edition of Saving Planet Earth.In 2009, <mask> co-presented the BBC reality TV series Wildest Dreams with James Honeyborne, in which novice candidates had to complete a set of challenging tasks filming wild animals in Africa. The winner joined the BBC Natural History Unit on a one-year placement. From 2011 to 2015, <mask> was the presenter of the BBC game show Perfection, in which the candidates must achieve absolute perfection to win the jackpot, aired weekdays on BBC One. From 2013 to 2014, he presented the BBC National Lottery game show Break the Safe. In 2015, <mask> began presenting a new BBC One National Lottery game show 5-Star Family Reunion, which returned for a second series in 2016. In May 2016, <mask> presented Invictus: The Road to the Games, a one-off programme for the BBC. <mask> earned between £300,000 and £349,999 as a BBC presenter for the financial year 2016–2017.In 2018 he participated in the eighteenth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!, finishing in sixth place, after being voted out on 6 December. In May 2021, it was reported that <mask> was holding talks with the BBC regarding his role as the main host of DIY SOS due to his appearance in a Shreddies TV advert which violated BBC's commercial agreements and guidelines. A week later, the BBC announced that they had resolved the issue and <mask> will return to his DIY SOS role with filming to resume in the coming months and is expected to be back on screens in 2022. During August-September 2021,

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 <mask> will present the Channel 5 series <mask>' Big House Clearout. Film
<mask> was a co-writer on the film Golden Years, which stars Simon Callow, Virginia McKenna and Una Stubbs. The film was released in the UK on 28 April 2016. Music
He released his first and last music album, Every Kind Of People, on 3 November 2017.The album entered UK Albums Chart at No. 92. Personal life
<mask> married his first wife in the 1990s. After separating from her, he lived with presenter Suzi Perry until September 2003, after meeting on set whilst shooting City Hospital for the BBC in 2000. He dated his second wife Jessica Rose Moor from 2009 and they married in September 2012. In November 2013, <mask> and his wife Jessica opened an antiques shop and home design consultancy in Eton, Berkshire. <mask> plays rugby.He has been a vegan for a number of years, and, in 2016, became involved with a Shrewsbury-based vegan restaurant called O'Joy. The restaurant closed in November 2017. <mask> has four children. His brother has a record company and his three sisters all became dancers. In 2018 <mask> was reported to be living in Spain. In June 2019, <mask> was issued with a six-month driving ban and fined £1,480 for speeding and using a mobile phone whilst driving. Speaking outside the court in Cheltenham, he said: "For me, this was a wake-up call, and putting my phone in the boot of my car now stops the temptation."<mask> has been a regular supporter of the children's anti-bullying charity Act Against Bullying. He sang "Addicted to Love" for Children in Need 2008. Filmography

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is a Japanese curler from Kitami, Hokkaido. As a skip, she has won the Japanese national championship six times. Fujisawa skipped the bronze medal-winning Japanese team at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games and the silver medal-winning team at the 2022 Winter Olympics. She is currently the skip of the Loco Solare curling team. Career
<mask>'s junior career began with a championship at the 2008 Pacific Junior Curling Championships over China's Sun Yue. This qualified her and her Japanese team for the 2008 World Junior Curling Championships, where they finished seventh with a 3–6 record. Fujisawa defended her Pacific Junior title by winning the 2009 Pacific Junior Curling Championships defeating China's Liu Jinli in the final.At the 2009 World Junior Curling Championships, she skipped Japan to a last place (10th) finish and a 2–7 record. In 2011, Fujisawa played in her first non-junior international event, skipping for Japan at the 2011 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships. She placed fourth at the event, finishing with a 2–6 record. Fujisawa won her first World Curling Tour event in 2012 by winning the 2012 Shamrock Shotgun over the South Korean national team, skipped by Kim Eun-jung. Later that year, she skipped Japan to a silver medal at the 2012 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships. Later in the season, she skipped the Japanese women's team to a seventh place finish at the 2013 World Women's Curling Championship. In September 2013, <mask> and her Karuizawa-based rink, who had won the last three straight national championships, participated in the national trials for the 2013 Olympic Qualification Event.They lost the best-of-seven final of the trials to Ayumi Ogasawara's Sapporo-based rink in six games, which eliminated their chances of competing at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. Fujisawa left the team and joined Mari Motohashi's rink as skip in May 2015, moving from Karuizawa back to Kitami, where she had grown up and played juniors until 2009. Half a year later, <mask> and her new team represented Japan at the 2015 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, where she led

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texts: Japan to its first gold medal since 2005 by winning the final match against South Korea's Kim Ji-sun. Later that season, Fujisawa with third Chinami Yoshida, second Yumi Suzuki, lead Yurika Yoshida and alternate Mari Motohashi also competed for Japan at the 2016 World Women's Curling Championship in Swift Current, Canada. In the round-robin stage of the event, they finished second with a 9–2 record and advanced to the playoffs. They lost the 1 vs. 2 game to Binia Feltscher from Switzerland, and then rebounded with a semifinal win over Russia's Anna Sidorova to earn a berth into the gold medal match. There, Fujisawa's rink was defeated by the Swiss team again but secured silver, which was Japan's first-ever podium finish at a world championship.<mask> skipped the Japanese rink at the 2016 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships. After posting a 6–1 round robin record, tied with China and South Korea, her team would lose to China's Wang Bingyu in the semifinal. This meant that she would not be able to defend her silver medal at the World Championships, as she had to make it to the finals to qualify Japan for the 2017 Worlds. <mask> began the 2017–18 season by winning the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic. The team won the 2017 Japanese Olympic Curling Trials in September 2017, defeating the Chiaki Matsumura rink three games to one in a best-of-five series. The team then went on to win a silver medal at the 2017 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships. After finishing in third after the double round robin with a record of 6–4, they upset China in the semifinal, before losing to Korea in the final.The next month, she won her second tour event of the season, the 2017 Karuizawa International Curling Championship. <mask> skipped the Japanese team that won the 2018 Olympics women curling bronze medal. <mask> again represented Japan at the 2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships. She led her team to an undefeated 6–0 record in the round robin, but lost to the Koreans (skipped by Kim Min-ji in the final. The next month, she represented Japan in the second leg of the 2018–19 Curling

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 Championship Grand Slam events, which were played in a "curling bubble" in Calgary, Alberta, with no spectators, to avoid the spread of the coronavirus. The team had quarterfinal finishes at both events, losing out to Rachel Homan at the Champions Cup and Anna Hasselborg at the Players'.Mixed doubles
After the 2018 Olympics, <mask> was awarded a wild-card spot in the 2018 Japan Mixed Doubles Curling Championship with fellow Olympian Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi. Despite having never teamed together and having very little mixed doubles experience overall, <mask> and Yamaguchi went undefeated to win the championship and the right to represent Japan at the 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, where they would finish fifth overall. <mask> and Yamaguchi successfully defended their title in 2019, and represented Japan at the 2019 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship. There, they made it to the quarterfinal, where they lost to Australia. Personal life
Fujisawa graduated from Hokkaido Kitami Hokuto High School in Kitami City in 2010. From then to early 2015, residing in Nagano Prefecture, she was employed as a curler and office worker for Chubu Electric Power, which has owned a competitive women's curling team based in Karuizawa, Nagano since 2009. Since returning to Kitami, she has been an employee of one of the local companies sponsoring her present team.She is currently an insurance agent. Grand Slam record

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Naeem Juwan, better known by his stage name Spank <mask>, is an American rapper and songwriter from Baltimore. He rose to fame with his 2006 album YoYoYoYoYo, which was produced by former group member Alex Epton (XXXChange). A harbinger of post-millennial alternative rap, the duo became known for its mixing of disparate hip hop and club genres, including Baltimore club, Miami bass, electro music and rock. In 2007, Epton left the group to pursue his own production while Juwan went on to release the Bangers & Cash EP (2007) with pop producer Benny Blanco. After a five-year contract struggle with his label Downtown Records, Juwan released his sophomore album, Everything Is Boring and Everyone Is a Fucking Liar, with a range of producers including Boys Noize, Le1f, XXXChange, and Squeak E. Clean. Biography
Juwan grew up in West Baltimore in a row home alongside five sisters and two brothers. As a teenager, Juwan frequented clubs such as Paradox, where DJs played Baltimore club music.In high school, his older sister introduced him to Brooklyn-based producer J. Period, known for producing records by underground rappers Mos Def and Artifacts. J. Period mentored Juwan and helped him improve his skills as a rapper for some time. After moving to Philadelphia and dropping out of college, Juwan met fellow Baltimore native Alex Epton, who had studied composition at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and learned studio production as an intern at the DFA Records studio in New York. Juwan and Epton started performing under the name Spank Rock together in Philadelphia and Phoenixville, where their reputation quickly increased. They later toured with


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texts: Hollertronix and M.I.A.They also toured with Beck in 2006. Spank Rock's debut studio album, YoYoYoYoYo, was released in 2006 on the Big Dada record label. It was nominated for the 2006 Shortlist Music Prize. In 2007, Alex Epton (XXXChange) left Spank Rock to pursue his own production while Naeem Juwan signed a deal with Downtown Records. Spank Rock's first Downtown Records release came in the form of fall 2007's Bangers & Cash EP, a 2 Live Crew-inspired collaborative EP with Benny Blanco. In 2010, MC Spank <mask> was featured along with The View's Kyle Falconer on "The Bike Song" by Mark Ronson, which featured on Ronson's 2010 album Record Collection. He was also the touring rapper on the album's 2010 UK tour.In 2011, <mask> <mask> released his second studio album, Everything Is Boring and Everyone Is a Fucking Liar, on his own label, Bad Blood Records. Pitchfork premiered the first single from the album, titled "Energy," produced by Boys Noize, and later selected the single "Nasty" as Best New Track. Rolling Stone premiered the album in September 2011 on their website. The album featured production from Boys Noize, XXXChange, Sam Spiegel, and Le1f, as well as appearances by Santigold and Big Freedia. After the release of his album, <mask> <mask> was one of the faces of Alexander Wang's 2011 T collection, along with Santigold. In 2012, Spank <mask> released a second EP, E. I. B.A. E. I. A. F. L. Remixes, a collection of various producers' remixes of tracks from his second LP. In 2012, Naeem Juwan co-wrote the Boys Noize-produced track "Look at These Hoes" from Santigold's album Master of My Make-Believe. In 2014, <mask> <mask> released his third EP,

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 The Upside, on Bad Blood Records and Boysnoize Records, with production contributions from Kid Kamillion, Boys Noize, and Damian Taylor. The EP premiered on December 9, 2014 following a premiere stream of the entire EP on Dazed & Confused. Lead single "Gully" was remixed by Brodinski and Switch, and has received extensive play on BBC Radio 1. In 2016, Spank <mask> began appearing in concerts as MC with Australian electronic music group The Avalanches.His first appearance was at a Splendour in the Grass lead-up event at The Northern Hotel in Byron Bay on July 21, 2016, followed by their featured performance at Splendour in the Grass on July 22. He subsequently appeared in featured performances at Coachella and Vivid Sydney in 2017, as well as the group's headline tours in 2017 and 2018. Under the Naeem moniker, Juwan released his solo studio album, Startisha, in 2020. It features contributions from Justin Vernon, Francis and the Lights, Ryan Olson, Swamp Dogg, Velvet Negroni, Amanda Blank, and Micah James. Discography

Studio albums
 YoYoYoYoYo (2006)
 Everything Is Boring and Everyone Is a Fucking Liar (2011)
 Startisha (2020)

Mixtapes
 Couche Tard (2006)

DJ mixes
 FabricLive.33 (2007)

EPs
 Bangers & Cash (2007)
 E. I. B. A. E. I.A. F. L. Remixes (2012)
 The Upside (2014)

Singles
 "Put That Pussy on Me" (2005)
 "Rick Rubin" (2006)
 "Sweet Talk" (2006)
 "Bump" (2006)
 "Energy" (2011)
 "Car Song" (2011)
 "I Know a Place" (2014)
 "Gully" / "Vertigo" (2014)
 "Gully (Brodinski Remix)" (2014)
 "Assassin" / "Back Up" (2014)

Guest appearances
 DJ Kentaro - "Free" from Enter (2007)
 Justice - "D.A.N.C.E. (Remix)" (2007)
 Shy Child - "Kick Drum" from


title: Alfred Zucker

texts: <mask>. R. E<mask> (January 23, 1852 – August 2, 1913) was a German-American architect, who worked in Galveston, Texas, Mississippi, New York City, and Buenos Aires. <mask> was born on January 23, 1852, in the town of Freiburg, Silesia, Prussia (since 1945 Świebodzice, Poland). He was educated at the Hannover Polytechnische Schule and the Bauakademie. He worked briefly for the government before immigrating to the United States in 1872, arriving at New York. From 1873 to 1876 he worked in the Office of the Supervising Architect, in Washington, D.C. In 1877, <mask> relocated to the coastal city of Galveston. There, he became the partner of John Moser (1832-1904), an architect who moved there from Toledo, Ohio.<mask> married Moser's daughter, Augusta ("Gussie") Emilia Moser. She died in 1878 in the yellow fever epidemic in Vicksburg, Mississippi, just three months after their marriage. <mask> had left to establish a branch office of the firm in Vicksburg. The partnership lasted until 1880, when Moser relocated to Atlanta. By virtue of the firm's design for the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College at Starkville, <mask> was appointed State Architect of Mississippi. Due to his poor health, <mask> resigned from his position in 1882 and returned to Europe. The following year, he returned to New York and found work in the office of noted architect Henry Fernbach.Upon Fernbach's death that same year, <mask> founded the firm of Alfred Zucker & Company, with John R. Hinchman as his partner. This association lasted until 1889, after which both <mask> and Hinchman practiced alone. From 1891 to 1893 Zucker employed

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title: Alfred Zucker

texts:
 John H. Edelmann as a designer in his office. Edelmann is known to have designed full buildings for Zucker, most prominently the Decker Building. Edelmann left after 1893, but his work inspired <mask>'s later designs until at least 1901. After 1896, there was less and less work in <mask>'s office. As a cost-saving measure, in 1897 he made several employees partners in the firm.These former employees received a fraction of the payments from each design executed, relieving Zucker of the worries of regular wages. Near the end of his American career, Zucker was associated with J. Riely Gordon, a noted architect of public buildings. Gordon was the probable designer of <mask>'s Wilkinson County Courthouse in Woodville, Mississippi, which follows Gordon's standard plan. It was his association with Gordon that ended Zucker's American career. In 1904 he fled with his family to Buenos Aires. His goal was to avoid a "$100,000 suit filed by Gordon, who alleged fraud and misrepresentation". He would have a successful practice in Buenos Aires, dying there in 1913.He would remarry, to Jennie Nace Brooke (1861-1959). He is buried in the Cementerio de la Chacarita, in the British section. Works

 Clara Lang Building, 2109 Strand St., Galveston, Texas (1877) – originally four stories, but the upper two were destroyed in the Hurricane of 1900
 Galveston Cotton Exchange Building, 2102 Mechanic St., Galveston, Texas (1878) – demolished in 1940
 Herman Marwitz & Co. Building, 306 22nd St., Galveston, Texas (1878)
 Old Main, Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, Starkville, Mississippi (1879–80) – burned in 1959

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title: Balachandran Chullikkadu

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<mask> (born 30 July 1957) is an Indian poet, orator, lyricist and actor in Malayalam-language. Early life
<mask> was born in Paravur, Ernakulam, Kerala, India. He completed his graduation in English literature from the Union Christian College, Aluva (first two years) and Maharajas College, Ernakulam. he spent 9 years in Parasala as a hotel cook, and he worked 3 years in a petrol pump in Coimbatore. After that, he came back to poems and he worked 1 year in politics by Anna Dravida Munneta Kazhakam. He became the Parasala Unit President of AIDMK in 1998. Career

His collection of poems published are Pathinettu Kavithakal, Amaavaasi, Ghazal, Maanasaantharam, Dracula etc.A collection of his complete poems, Balachandran Chullikkadinte Kavithakal (The Poems of Balachandran Chullikkad, 2000) was published by DC Books, Kottayam, Kerala, India. They have also published the book of his memoirs, Chidambarasmarana (2001). He has participated in many national literary seminars organised by Central Academy of Letters, India. He was one among the ten members of a cultural delegation of India to Sweden in 1997 invited by Nobel Academy and Swedish Writers Union. He represented Indian poetry in the international bookfair in Gotenborg, Sweden in November 1997. Chullikkad is also an actor in Malayalam films and serials. As an actor, he is best known for G. Aravindan's Pokkuveyil (1981) in which he played a young artist who lives with his father, a radical friend and a music-loving young

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title: Balachandran Chullikkadu

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 woman.The film is about how his world collapses when his father dies, the radical friend leaves him and her family takes the woman away to another city. In 2018, he criticised the state education department for their incompetency in teaching Malayalam language, he urged it to remove his poems from curricula in schools, colleges and universities. <mask> alleged that marks were being given in abundance for papers containing mistakes without proper evaluation, and the appointment of Malayalam teachers are not on the basis of qualifications, but caste, religion, political influence and nepotism. He said research work on Malayalam literature lack quality and that doctoral degrees were conferred on even those works which contain mistakes. Personal life
Chullikkad is married to Vijayalakshmi, a known Malayalam poet and they have a son named Appu. He retired from Kerala State Government service on 31 July 2013. In 2000, he took Buddhism as his religion.He says that this cannot be called a conversion from Hinduism because he was never a follower of that religion. "I have not converted because I have not been a believer though I was a Hindu. I have now embraced Buddhism, not converted to Buddhism. The problem with Hinduism is that it is a religion of social status and set-ups. Your value in Hinduism depends on the family in which you were born," he says. Political views
In a 2000 interview, <mask> revealed that he was a sympathizer of the Naxalite movement during his teenage. He

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title: Armada (gamer)

texts:
 Inkling in the former and Peach and Pit in the latter. Lindgren has been nicknamed the Swedish Sniper, in reference to his precision with Pit's arrows in Project M and Peach's turnips in Melee. Gaming career

Competitive Smash Bros. career
Lindgren started his gaming career in 2003 competing in the Swedish Nintendo Championship.<mask> came to prominence in 2007 finishing 4th at The Renaissance of Smash 4, his first national tournament. Seven months later, he finished 3rd at Epita Smash Arena 2, the largest tournament in Europe at the time, defeating top ranked Japanese player, Masashi, before losing to Ryota "Captain Jack" Yoshida. In 2009, Lindgren had firmly established himself as the strongest player in Europe and decided to enter GENESIS, a tournament held in Antioch, California which was attended by the best players in the larger and more prominent American community. Many Americans did not expect <mask> to do well, but he shocked the country by reaching the finals of the tournament, upsetting top American players such as Mew2King and Mang0. Armada would eventually lose in Grand Finals to Mang0, but GENESIS established Armada as a legitimate contender for best in the world and was the start of a prolific rivalry between Armada and Mang0. Each passing year, Lindgren was ranked progressively higher. In July 2011, Armada won the major tournament at the time, GENESIS 2, defeating number one ranked player, Mang0.Lindgren remained undefeated worldwide for two years until EVO 2013 where he lost the title and 1st rank back to Mang0. After Apex 2013, <mask> announced his retirement from competitive Melee although he did return to compete in EVO 2013, where he placed 4th, losing to PPMD 0–2 in winners' bracket and being eliminated by

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title: Armada (gamer)

texts: Mang0 0–2 in losers' semis. He returned to the scene a year later, with B.E.A.S.T, a tournament held in his hometown of Gothenburg which he helped to organize, as his first tournament back. Lindgren also had a fairly short-lived, but very successful career in Project M, winning Apex 2014's Project M title by defeating Mew2King in grand finals. On 6 November 2014 he left Empire Arcadia and became sponsored by professional gaming team Alliance. Lindgren initially showed some interest in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U stating that he found it considerably different from Melee and felt that he needed to spend more time playing it, but has not publicly practiced or competed in the game since a short time after its release. Since 2015, Armada has switched from using only Peach to both Peach and Fox in tournaments.He cites Fox's ability to put mental pressure on opponents as a reason for this change. <mask> faced PPMD in the Grand Finals of Apex 2015, while coming from the losers bracket, but eventually lost after forcing a bracket reset. <mask> was the EVO 2015 Melee champion after defeating Hungrybox in the Finals. By winning EVO, Lindgren received the largest single prize ever awarded in a Melee tournament at that time. After winning EVO 2015, Melee It On Me (MIOM) ranked <mask> as the best Melee player for the 2015 Summer SSBMRank, ahead of Leffen and Mang0. At The Big House 5 in Dearborn, Michigan, <mask> and his Europe crew lost to SoCal, placing 2nd. In doubles, <mask> won with his brother Android, beating Mew2King and Hungrybox in Grand Finals.In Singles, he beat Hungrybox 3–2 in Grand Finals to win the tournament. <mask> was ranked the number one player in the world on the Melee it On Me (MIOM) year end SSBMRank for 2015. <mask>

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title: Armada (gamer)

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 continued his tournament success in 2016 and 2017, winning events such as GENESIS 3, Dreamhack Winter 2016, GENESIS 4, and EVO 2017 as well as a multitude of doubles events with his teammate and brother Android. In addition, <mask> won the first four iterations of the highly prestigious invitational tournament series Smash Summit. In doing so, <mask> became the first Melee player to win the same major tournament series three and four times consecutively. <mask>'s lowest placing in his entire Melee career, excluding tournaments which he forfeit or did not seriously compete, is 5th place at both Paragon Orlando 2015 and Get On My Level 2016. <mask> retired from competing in Melee singles on 18 September 2018.Speedrunning career

Armada began speedrunning the 70 star category of Super Mario 64 in 2020 and is currently ranked 15th in the world. Personal life
Lindgren has 10 siblings, two of whom, Alexander "Aniolas" and Andreas "Android", also play Melee competitively. Lindgren formerly worked as a substitute teacher in Gothenburg, but now dedicates his time fully to competing, producing YouTube videos, and streaming on Twitch. Armada is one of the subjects of the sequel of the documentary The Smash Brothers by producer Travis "Samox" Beauchamp, and its sequel entitled Metagame, which was released on 11 December 2020. The project raised over 30,000 on Kickstarter. Notable tournament placings

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Project M

Super Smash Bros. for 3DS

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

References

External links

1993 births
Living people
Swedish esports players
Super Smash Bros. Melee players
Twitch (service) streamers
Video game speedrunners
People from Gothenburg
Alliance (esports) players
Empire Arcadia players
Team Razer

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title: John of Montecorvino

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<mask>o or <mask> in Italian (1247–1328) was an Italian Franciscan missionary, traveller and statesman, founder of the earliest Latin Catholic missions in India and China, and archbishop of Peking. Biography

<mask> was born at Montecorvino Rovella, in what is now Campania, Italy. As a member of a Latin Catholic religious order which at that time was chiefly concerned with the conversion of non-Catholics, he was commissioned in 1272 by the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos to Pope Gregory X, to negotiate for the reunion of the 'Greek' (Orthodox) and Latin churches. Commissioned by the Holy See to preach Christianity in the Nearer and Middle East, especially to the Asiatic hordes then threatening the West, he devoted himself incessantly from 1275 to 1286. In 1286 Arghun, the Ilkhan who ruled Persia, sent a request to the pope through the Nestorian monk, Rabban Bar Sauma, to send Catholic missionaries to the Court of the Great Khan (Mongol emperor) of China, Kúblaí Khan (1260–94), who was alleged to be well disposed toward Christianity. Pope Nicholas IV received the letter in 1287 and entrusted <mask> with the important mission to Farther China, where about this time Venetian lay traveller Marco Polo still remained. In 1289 <mask> revisited the Papal Court and was sent out as papal legate to the Great Khan, the Ilkhan of Persia, and other leading personages of the Mongol

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title: John of Montecorvino

texts: Empire, as well as to the Emperor of Ethiopia.He started on his journey in 1289, provided with letters to Arghun, to the great Emperor Kúblaí Khan, to Kaidu, Prince of the Tatars, to the King of Armenia and to the Patriarch of the Jacobites. His companions were the Dominican Nicholas of Pistoia and the merchant Peter of Lucalongo. He reached Tabriz (in Iranian Azerbeijan), then the chief city of Mongol Persia, if not of all Western Asia. From Persia they moved down by sea to India, in 1291, to the Madras region or "Country of St Thomas" where he preached for thirteen months and baptized about one hundred persons; his companion Nicholas died. From there <mask> wrote home, in December 1291 (or 1292), the earliest noteworthy account of the Coromandel Coast furnished by any Western European. Travelling by sea from Nestorian Mailapur in Madras, he reached China in 1294, appearing in the capital "Cambaliech" or Khanbaliq (now Beijing), only to find that Kúblaí Khan had just died, and Temür (1294–1307) had succeeded to the Mongol throne. Though the latter did apparently not embrace Christianity, he threw no obstacles in the way of the zealous missionary.Very soon, <mask> won the confidence of the Yuan dynasty ruler in spite of the opposition of the Nestorians who had already settled there under the name of Jingjiao/Ching-chiao (景教). In 1299 <mask> built a church at Khanbaliq (now

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title: John of Montecorvino

texts: Beijing) and in 1305 a second church opposite the imperial palace, together with workshops and dwellings for two hundred persons. He gradually bought from heathen parents about one hundred and fifty boys, from seven to eleven years of age, instructed them in Latin and Greek, wrote psalms and hymns for them and then trained them to serve Mass and sing in the choir. At the same time he familiarized himself with the native language, preached in it, and translated the New Testament and the Psalms into the Uyghur used commonly by the Mongol ruling class in China. Among the six thousand converts of <mask> of Montecorvino was a Nestorian Ongut prince named George, allegedly of the race of Prester <mask>, a vassal of the great khan, mentioned by Marco Polo. <mask> wrote letters of 8 January 1305 and 13 February 1306, describing the progress of the Latin mission in the Far East, in spite of Nestorian opposition; alluding to the Latin Catholic community he had founded in India, and to an appeal he had received to preach in "Ethiopia" and dealing with overland and oversea routes to "Cathay," from the Black Sea and the Persian Gulf respectively. After he had worked alone for eleven years, the German Franciscan Arnold of Cologne was sent to him (1304 or 1303) as his first colleague.In 1307 Pope Clement V, highly pleased with the missionary's success, sent seven Franciscan bishops who were

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texts: commissioned to consecrate <mask>vino archbishop of Peking and summus archiepiscopus 'chief archbishop' of all those countries; they were themselves to be his suffragan bishops. Only three of these envoys arrived safely: Gerardus, Peregrinus and Andrew of Perugia (1308). They consecrated <mask> in 1308 and succeeded each other in the episcopal see of Zaiton (Quanzhou), which <mask> had established. In 1312 three more Franciscans were sent out from Rome to act as suffragans, of whom one at least reached East Asia. For the next 20 years the Chinese-Mongol mission continued to flourish under his leadership. A Franciscan tradition that about 1310 <mask> of Montecorvino converted the new Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, also called Khaishan Kuluk (he was also the third Emperor of the Yuan dynasty; 1307–1311) is disputed. His mission unquestionably won remarkable successes in North and East China.Besides three mission stations in Peking, he established one near Amoy harbour, opposite Formosa island (Taiwan). <mask>o translated the New Testament into Uyghur and provided copies of the Psalms, the Breviary and liturgical hymns for the Öngüt. He was instrumental in teaching boys the Latin chant, probably for a choir in the liturgy and with the hope that some of them might become priests. He converted Armenians in China and Alans to Latin Catholicism in China. <mask>vino died about 1328

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 in Peking. He was apparently the only effective European bishop in medieval Peking. Even after his death, the mission in China endured for the next forty years.Legacy
Toghun Temür, the last Mongol (Yuan dynasty) emperor of China, sent an embassy to the French Pope Benedict XII in Avignon, in 1336. The embassy was led by a Genoese in the service of the Mongol emperor, Andrea di Nascio, and accompanied by another Genoese, Andalò di Savignone. These letters from the Mongol ruler represented that they had been eight years (since <mask>'s death) without a spiritual guide, and earnestly desired one. The pope replied to the letters, and appointed four ecclesiastics as his legates to the khan's court. In 1338, a total of 50 ecclesiastics were sent by the Pope to Peking, among them <mask> of Marignolli. In 1353 <mask> returned to Avignon, and delivered a letter from the great khan to Pope Innocent VI. Soon, the Chinese rose up and drove the Mongols from China, thereby establishing the Ming Dynasty (1368).By 1369, all Christians, whether Latin Catholic or Syro-Oriental, were expelled by the Ming rulers. Six centuries later, Montecorvino acted as the inspiration for another Franciscan, the Blessed Gabriele Allegra to go to China and complete the first translation of the Catholic Bible into Chinese in 1968. See also
 Religion in China
 Christianity in China
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 Odoric of Pordenone
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References

Bibliography
 Sir Henry Yule (ed.) Cathay and the Way Thither, London: Hakluyt Society, 1914, Vol. III, pp. 45-58. Contains two letters by Montecorvino.Jackson, Peter (2005). The Mongols and the West: 1221-1410. Longman. . This article incorporates text from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia article "<mask> of Montecorvino" by Otto Hartig, a publication now in the public domain. The manuscripts of <mask>'s Letters exist in the Laurentian Library, Florence (for the Indian Epistle) and in the National Library, Paris, 5006 Lat.-viz. the Liber de aetatibus, fols. 170, v.-172, r. (for the Chinese).They are printed in Wadding, Annales minorum (A.D. 1305 and 1306) vi. 69–72, 91-92 (ed. of 1733, &c.), and in the Münchner gelehrte Anzeigen (1855), No. 22, part in. pp. 171175. English translations, with valuable comments, are in Sir H. Yule's Cathay, i.197–221. See also Wadding, Annales, v. 195–198, 199–203, vi. 93, &c., 147, &c., 176, &c., 467, &c.; C. R. Beazley, Dawn of Modern Geography, iii. 162–178, 206–210; Sir H. Yule, Cathay, i. 165–173. (C. R. B.)Attribution

Further reading
 Pacifico Sella, Il Vangelo in Oriente. Giovanni da Montecorvino, frate minore e primo vescovo in terra di Cina (1247-1328), Assisi: Edizioni Porziuncola, 2008

External links
 Medieval Sourcebook: <mask> of Monte Corvino: Report from China 1305.

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title: George V. Denny Jr.

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<mask><mask>. (1899–1959) was the long-time moderator of one of radio's first talk shows, America's Town Meeting of the Air, as well as the executive director of the League for Political Education/Town Hall, which produced the program. <mask> moderated America's Town Meeting of the Air from 1935 to 1952 and had a major role in choosing weekly topics. Biography

Early life and education
<mask> was born August 29, 1899, in Washington, North Carolina, graduating from the University of North Carolina (UNC) in 1922. Early career and the League for Political Education
<mask> was a professor of drama production at UNC from 1924–1926, and then moved to New York, working as an actor on Broadway for one season. He managed the W. B. Feakins lecture bureau for a year, and then became the director of Columbia University's Institute of Arts and Sciences from 1928–1930. In 1931, <mask> became the associate director of the League for Political Education, becoming full director in 1937. America's Town Meeting of the Air
In his role, by 1935 <mask> worried that an uninformed public was bad for democracy; and that American society had become so polarized that the average person didn't listen to other points of view.His goal was to create a new kind of educational program, one that would be entertaining as well as mentally challenging, while exposing listeners to various perspectives on the issues of the day. He wanted to create a program that would replicate the town meetings that were held in the early days of the United States. He believed that a radio town meeting could enhance the public's interest in current events. Explaining the rationale behind a radio town meeting, <mask> wrote that it was "... a device which is designed to attract [the average American's] attention and stimulate his [sic] interest in the complex economic, social and political problems which he must have a hand in solving." Originally carried by the NBC Blue Network, America's Town Meeting of the Air began as a six-week experiment, and NBC itself didn't expect much from it. Broadcast live from

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 New York City's Town Hall (the League for Political Education's headquarters), America's Town Meeting of the Air debuted on Thursday May 30, 1935, and only 18 of NBC's affiliates carried it. The topic for that first show was "Which Way America: Fascism, Communism, Socialism or Democracy?”

As <mask> had hoped, listeners not only enjoyed hearing famous newsmakers engaging in discussion but they also enjoyed hearing members of the audience challenging these newsmakers.It wasn't long before <mask> was receiving fan mail: much to his surprise, his first broadcast received about 3,000 letters. By the 1937-8 season, mail averaged between 2,000 and 4,000 letters a week, an amazing number for an educational program. It also inspired listeners to form "listener clubs," where members would listen as a group and then discuss the topic themselves. America's Town Meeting became so popular in the public discourse that during the late 1930s and into the early 40s, <mask> wrote a monthly column for Current History magazine, in which he gave summaries of the major points made by some of his Town Meeting guests, and then gave readers news quizzes. And educators found it so useful that <mask> and NBC put program listings and what the speakers had said into booklet form, which was disseminated to public school civics teachers. Over the years, America's Town Meeting became known for its interesting guests, many of whom were important newsmakers. <mask> did not shy away from controversy:  his panelists included Socialist presidential candidate Norman Thomas, American Communist Party leader Earl Browder, and civil libertarian Morris Ernst.The topics were meant to inspire discussion, and <mask> tried to select subjects that would get people talking long after the show was over. Among them were discussions about whether America truly had freedom of the press (and whether censorship was sometimes necessary); whether the United States should enter World War II or remain neutral; and why the United States public schools weren't doing a better job. But during World War II, <mask>

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texts:
 repeatedly encountered what he had most sought to avoid: angry audience members who didn't want to listen to other viewpoints and who wanted to criticize, rather than debate. Worse still, some audience members expressed isolationist and anti-Semitic views. <mask> struggled to maintain the show's openness and objectivity, but it became increasingly difficult to do so. The 1930s were definitely the heyday of America's Town Meeting, although it remained on the air throughout the 1940s and sometimes still inspired the kinds of passionate discussions <mask> had hoped for. But Town Meeting underwent a number of time changes during the 1940s.Some were the result of changes at NBC — the network that had been called the NBC Blue Network was sold in 1943, and it first became known as the "Blue Network," and then was re-named the American Broadcasting Company in late 1945. Some of the programs on the new network were shifted around, and not only did Town Meeting get a new timeslot—it was moved from 9:30pm to 8:30pm—but by 1944, it even got a sponsor—Reader's Digest. At times, the show was 60 minutes, sometimes 45 minutes and sometimes only a half-hour. And when television came along, interest in <mask>'s radio program gradually faded. <mask> resigned his position at the League for Political Education (then known as Town Hall, Inc.) in 1951; by 1952, he had been replaced as moderator — the show was finally canceled on July 1, 1956. Later life and death
<mask>, who continued to believe in educational media, joined an organization that planned international seminars, and he hoped to create an international version of Town Meeting. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage on November 11, 1959, at the age of 60.Personal life
<mask> was married to Mary Traill Yellott 12 from June 1924 until their 1943 divorce. They had three children. In April 1944 he married the former Jean Sarasy; they remained married until his death. References

1899 births
1959 deaths
American radio personalities
University of North Carolina alumni
Peabody Award winners
People from Washington, North

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title: Alison Fraser

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<mask> (born in Natick, Massachusetts) is an American actress, voice actress and singer who has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in television and film. In concert, she has performed at such venues as Carnegie Hall, The White House, Town Hall, The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, The Tisch Center for the Arts, The Folger Shakespeare Library, The Wilma, The Emelin, Joe's Pub, 54 Below, and Symphony Space. <mask> is a two-time Tony Award nominee for The Secret Garden and Romance/Romance,
 a Drama Desk Award nominee for both The Secret Garden, and First Daughter Suite and a Carbonell Award winner for Romance/Romance. <mask> is a Callaway Award-winner for Heartbreak House. She played "Tessie Tura" in the New York City Center and Broadway productions of Gypsy starring Patti LuPone under the direction of Arthur Laurents. She was the first ever recipient of Philadelphia's Barrymore Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of "The Blonde" in Marion Adler, Scott Wentworth and Craig Boehmler's film noir musical, Gunmetal Blues under the direction of Jiri Zizka. She reprised the role of "The Blonde" in Gunmetal Blues opposite Patrick Quinn at the George Street Playhouse.She returned there to play "Diana" in Lend Me a Tenor, directed by David Saint. She was the original "Trina" (Marvin's ex-wife) in William Finn's March of the Falsettos and In Trousers (Playwrights Horizons). She also did vocal orchestrations for both shows. She played "Miss Drumgoole" in Todd Rundgren's adaptation of Joe Orton's Up Against It (New York Shakespeare Festival), "Uta" in Charles Busch and Rusty Magee's The Green Heart (Manhattan Theatre Club), "Connie"/"Petula"/"Brenda" in Beehive at the Village Gate, and "Marion Ames" in Swingtime Canteen. In

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texts: 1988, she appeared on Broadway in Romance/Romance, a musical starring herself and Quantum Leap star, Scott Bakula. For her dual-role as Josefine/Monica, <mask> received her first Tony Award Nomination. In 1991, <mask> appeared in The Secret Garden, a musical based on the children's story by Frances Hodgson Burnett.For originating the role of Martha, <mask> earned a second Tony Award Nomination. The Secret Garden also featured Mandy Patinkin, Daisy Eagan, John Cameron Mitchell and Rebecca Luker. <mask> stars in the one-woman show A Tennessee Williams Songbook conceived and directed by David Kaplan with musical direction by Allison Leyton-Brown. The show premiered at The Tennessee Williams Festival in Williams' birthplace of Columbus, Mississippi and went on to great acclaim at the annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival. An original cast album titled Tennessee Williams: Words and Music was released on Sh-K-Boom Records in 2013. <mask> portrayed the flamboyant but clueless "Babs Caplan" on the award-winning PBS series, Between the Lions. She has appeared on the TV series Gotham, High Maintenance, Smash, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Happy!, and Third Watch.She played the recurring roles of "Aunt Heidi" in the award-winning web-series Jack in a Box, written and produced by Michael Cyril Creighton, and "Veronica Bailey" on Wesley Taylor and Mitchell Jarvis’s It Could Be Worse (the latter web series was broadcast on Pivot and was later picked up by Hulu). Her feature films include Socks and Bonds, Family Games, Blowtorch, Commentary, Jack and His Friends (with Sam Rockwell), Me and Him, Mixing Nia, In the Blood, The Mice War, Tommy Battles the Silver Sea Dragon, and The Thing About My Folks. She can

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texts: also be seen in the Bright Eyes music video for their song, First Day of My Life, directed by her Secret Garden co-star, John Cameron Mitchell. She authored an interview with Anthony Newley which was published in Time Out. <mask> also appeared in video games Grand Theft Auto IV, Grand Theft Auto V and Mafia III. She has made three solo albums, A New York Romance, Men in My Life and Tennessee Williams: Words and Music. In 2004, <mask> sang the National Anthem at Fenway Park.In 2009, Arthur Laurents cast <mask> in an original play, Come Back, Come Back, Wherever You Are which premiered at the George Street Playhouse. The play was directed by Laurents himself and featured Tony-winning actress, Shirley Knight. Also with Knight, <mask> appeared in the 2012 world premiere of Tennessee Williams' final full-length play In Masks Outrageous and Austere. In 2010, playwright and performer Charles Busch cast <mask> in his new comedy, The Divine Sister, a play satirizes the cinematic portrayal of nuns. <mask> played Sister Walburga. <mask> then originated the role of Arsinoe in David Ives' comedy The School For Lies at Classic Stage Company. On December 16, 2013, <mask> joined the First National Tour of Wicked in the role of Madame Morrible.In 2015, <mask> appeared in four episodes of the Showtime television series Happyish as both Ma Keebler and Boots. From October 6 to November 22, 2015, <mask> performed in the world premiere of Michael John LaChiusa's musical First Daughter Suite at the Public Theater, in the roles of Nancy Reagan and Betty Ford. For her performance, <mask> received nominations for both the Lucille Lortel Award and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical. In the fall of 2017,

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 <mask> performed a limited run of playwright Aaron Mark's new play Squeamish. The one woman show was presented by All For One Theater (AFO) at Theatre Row's Beckett Theatre. Squeamish ran October 6 – November 11, 2017. For Squeamish, <mask> received a 2018 Outer Critics Circle nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance.In April 2021, AudioFile named <mask> a recipient of its Earphones Award for her audiobook narration of Alexander Nemerov's novel, Fierce Pose. Personal life
<mask> graduated summa cum laude in spring 2010 from Fordham University, where she now teaches a musical theatre course. <mask> is the widow of composer and performer Benjamin Rush "Rusty" Magee, with whom she has one son, <mask> Magee, who is an editor in New York City. Theatre credits
 In Trousers
 March of the Falsettos
 Falsettos
 Lady in the Dark
 Lips Together, Teeth Apart
 Lend Me a Tenor
 Tartuffe
 The Mystery of Edwin Drood
 Secret Garden
 Up Against It
 The Green Heart
 Beehive
 Honk! – Mrs. Claws
2018: Gotham – Gertrude Haverstock (Episode ""That's Entertainment")

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2008: Grand Theft Auto IV – Gertrude Leneau, The Crowd of Liberty City
2013: Grand Theft Auto V – Additional Voices
2016: Mafia III – Additional Voices

References

External links
 Official website

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<mask> (born 1977), alias for <mask>, is a British psychological crime thriller author. Her novels include In a Dark, Dark Wood (2015), The Woman in Cabin 10 (2016), The Lying Game (2017), The Death of Mrs Westaway (2018), The Turn of the Key (2019), and One By One (2020). Both In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10 were on the U.K.'s Sunday Times and The New York Times top ten bestseller lists. She is represented by Eve White of the Eve White Literary Agency. She switched to <mask> to distinguish her crime novels from the young adult fantasy novels published under her name, <mask>. Personal life
<mask> was born in 1977 and grew up in Lewes. She studied English at Manchester University, where she developed a fascination with Old English and Middle English texts.Before her writing career, <mask> worked as a waitress, a bookseller and a publicist. She also spent time in Paris, teaching English as a foreign language. <mask> now lives near Brighton. Early career
Before embarking on her writing career as <mask>, <mask> wrote five young adult fantasy novels under the alias <mask>, all of which were published by Hodder's Children Books. A Witch Alone (2013) 978-1444904710
 A Witch in Winter (2013) 978-1444904697
 A Witch in Love (2013) 978-1444904703
 Witch Finder (2014) 978-1444914467
 Witch Hunt (2014) 978-1444914481

Writing style
In her crime books, <mask>'s writing style is often compared to that of Agatha Christie. <mask> has admitted to being unconsciously influenced by Christie and other mystery novelists of that time. <mask>'s protagonists are usually ordinary women who find themselves in dangerous situations involving a crime.The first two of <mask>'s novels feature a murder mystery with a group of people trapped, or otherwise restricted from immediately escaping the dangerous environment. Christie was famously known for utilizing this plot device, in novels such as Murder on the Orient Express. <mask> and Christie both choose settings and situations that foster the sense of dread that propels their

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 characters to paranoia and often they react violently as a result. These environments create a sense of isolation for the events to unfold in. <mask>'s settings play a key role in drawing in the reader and are just as essential and integral to her story as the characters. Works

<mask> has written six psychological thrillers, as of 2020:

In a Dark, Dark Wood  (2015) is about a woman who attends a bachelorette party (hen do) of a childhood friend whom she hasn't heard from in years. The party takes place in an isolated glass house in the woods and takes a turn for the worse.By the end of the weekend someone is dead and everyone is a suspect. The Woman in Cabin 10 (2016) is about Laura "Lo" Blacklock, a travel journalist who goes on the maiden voyage of the Aurora Borealis, a luxury cruise ship, for an assignment in the Norwegian fjords. Lo is on the trip to further her career, but everything changes when she witnesses what she believes to be woman being thrown overboard, yet all the passengers remain accounted for and no one believes her. The Lying Game (2017) revolves around four girls named Kate Atagon, Fatima Chaudhry (née Qureshy), Thea West, and Isa Wilde who attend a private boarding school called Salten House. At the school, they form a bond from a game of telling lies. The poor actions of the girls' boarding school days resurface years later when they receive a mysterious text from Kate asking them to return to the mill where they hung out as teenagers. The Death of Mrs Westaway (2018) is about Hal, a young tarot card reader, who receives a mysterious and large inheritance.When Hal attends the funeral of the deceased it becomes clear that she was not the intended recipient of the inheritance and that she has become involved in a dangerous mystery. The Turn of the Key (2019) is about a nanny and four children, written as if updating Henry James's The Turn of the Screw in a 21st-century setting. One by One (2020) revolves around the directors and shareholders of a hot new technology company on a corporate retreat

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 at an exclusive ski resort to decide the future of the company. Tensions run high approaching a possible billion-dollar buyout as an avalanche cuts the chalet off from help, and one board member goes missing. Film and television adaptations
Three of <mask>'s books have been optioned for screen. In a Dark, Dark Wood (2015): New Line Cinema has acquired film rights. Reese Witherspoon's Pacific Standard is attached to produce.The Woman in Cabin 10 (2016):  CBS has acquired film rights, and is set to produce the film with the Gotham Group. Screenwriter Hillary Seitz is attached. The Lying Game (2017): Entertainment One has acquired television rights to The Lying Game. Accolades
<mask>'s novels have won or been nominated for a number of awards and end-of-year lists:
 In a Dark, Dark Wood (2015)
 A BEA Buzz Panel selection
 An NPR best book of 2015
 RT Reviewer's Choice Award for Best Suspense Novel
 The Woman in Cabin 10 (2016)
 Nominated for the 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards Best Mystery & Thriller
 2016 Book of the Year Finalist selected by Book of the Month
 One by One (2020)
 Shortlisted for the 2021 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award at the Crime Writers Association Awards

Critical reception
Reviews of <mask>'s psychological crime thrillers have been generally positive. The Independent named In A Dark, Dark Wood as "this year's hottest crime novel". The Guardian praised In A Dark, Dark Wood'''s "excellent characterisation" and called the book's ending "mesmerising".The Independent described The Lying Game as "gripping enough to be devoured in a single sitting," in a four-star review. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews''' writer said "cancel your plans for the weekend when you sit down with this book, because you won’t want to move until it’s over."References

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<mask> (April 24, 1871 – January 13, 1961) was an American singer and actress in Broadway theatre productions, musicals, and Hollywood motion pictures. She was best known for her rendition of "In the Good Old Summer Time." Early life and family
<mask> was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to James H<mask> and Wilhelmena F<mask>. She came from show business stock. Her father was a comedian for 30 years and her grandfather James H<mask>, was a leading comedian of the Boston Museum company. Her great-great-grandfather, Charles Fisher, was also an actor and came to the United States from England. His wife was Josephine H. Shaw who was also an actress.He journeyed with theatrical caravans as far west as the Mississippi River. Her grandmother was Julie Fisher, a celebrated actress of her time. Her heritage was English-Irish-Scottish. In total, four generations of her ancestors were Shakespearean actors. <mask> was one of 5 daughters and one son born to the Rings. Several of <mask>'s siblings were in the entertainment business and quickly became recognizable names in the industry. In fact, they often performed together or on the same playbill.Two of the <mask> sisters, Grace and Sarah, were not performers. <mask>'s sister <mask> became a stage actress. Julie married Albert H. Sutherland, a theatrical agent and former British actor. They had a son, A. Edward Sutherland, who became a film director in the United States. Albert H. Sutherland was a Theatrical and Vaudeville Agent in New York City. Julie's second marriage was to actor James Norval on November 9, 1914. They frequently appeared on stage together.She died in 1957. Her sister <mask> was married in 1909 to Thomas Meighan, the popular stage and later silent film actor. The <mask> sisters' younger brother, <mask>, was a freelance actor. He was the first husband of actress Charlotte Greenwood. He later married Ziegfeld Follies girl Molly Green in 1923;

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 they had two daughters. Theater

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Miss <mask> made her debut at age 16 in A Parisian Romance in 1887 with Shakespearean actor Richard Mansfield's theatrical company. Later she acted with Nat Goodwin and Chauncey Olcott.Her version of "In the Good Old Summertime" in 1902 was an instant hit. She followed this with another hit song "The Belle of Avenue A", performed in Tommy Rot, which was staged at Mrs. Osborn's Playhouse in New York City. <mask> left the US for a tour of Europe including London, returning to America in 1904 where she became even more established as a favorite performer appearing at three notable venues belonging to vaudeville impresario F.F. Proctor including Proctor's Twenty-third Street Theater, Newark Theater and Fifth Avenue Theater. "I've Got Rings On My Fingers" was introduced when <mask> performed in The Midnight Sons in 1909. Her recording of the song for Victor Records is listed as one of Billboard's top hits of that year, along with her recordings of "Yip-I-Addy-I-Aye" and "The Billiken Man." Will Rogers spoke his first lines on stage in <mask>'s play The Wall Street Girl.In 1910, she recorded "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine" after introducing it in a Broadway show, and the song became one of her biggest hits. Among her other songs of note are "Bedelia" and "I'd Leave My Happy Home for You". The former was featured in The Jersey Lilly. During World War I, the singer was popular with "They're All Out of Step But Jim". <mask> possessed a talent for mime. This helped her advance in musical revues and she was billed as "America's Favorite Singing Comedienne" as of 1918. Her impersonations were paired with those of Charles Winninger in the Passing Show of 1919, performed at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City.1930s
<mask> appeared as Mrs. Grace Draper in Strike Up the Band (1930) and she played Josie Huggins in Right This Way (1938). Dramas
On the dramatic

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<mask> went to Hollywood in 1916 to star in the silent film The Yankee Girl. She has a brief role in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. She acted in the motion picture It's the Old Army Game (directed by her nephew Eddie Sutherland) with W.C. Fields in 1926. In 1940, <mask> appeared as one of the featured vaudeville greats in the Bing Crosby picture, If I Had My Way (1940).Personal life

Marriages
The singer's personal life was tumultuous and not without scandal. In all, <mask> was married five times and by her own admission she separated from several of her husbands for various reasons. All of <mask>'s marriages ended in divorce. Walter F. MacNichol - <mask> had one son, Gordon Eliot MacNichol, by her first marriage to MacNichol, a theatrical manager. James Walker Jr. - <mask> separated from Walker in 1898 and the couple divorced in 1904. Walker was from Somerville, Massachusetts and worked for the railroad. Edward Wentworth
 Frederick Edward McKay, her theatrical manager
 Charles Winninger - <mask> first met Winninger a fellow actor in 1908 and they later appeared in "Broadway Whirl" together.The couple married in 1912 when <mask> was 41. The couple separated in 1928; Winninger and <mask> were not formally divorced until 1951. In the summer, <mask> gravitated to nearby Westchester County for golf and the beaches. She liked to entertain fellow thespians and was known for throwing house parties attended by the likes of Douglas Fairbanks and Eddie Foy Sr..
At one time, <mask> shared a home in Rye, New York with Winninger  at 30 Oakland Beach Avenue where she remained until at least 1935. Previous to living in Rye, <mask> had a country home in Mamaroneck  across from the actress Ethel Barrymore

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 and another in Larchmont at 28 Oak Avenue. <mask> left New York in 1959 to live in Hollywood with her brother, Cyril. In May 1960 she attended a reunion of former Ziegfeld Follies girls.<mask> was an honorary member of the Ziegfeld Club, though she never worked for Flo Ziegfeld. Legacy

<mask> died in a nursing home in Santa Monica, California in 1961, aged 89. She had been in poor health for two years following a stroke in 1958. Her interment was in Holy Cross Cemetery, following a rosary which was recited in the Church of the Good Shepherd, in Beverly Hills, California. <mask>'s nieces and nephews followed the family's tradition for careers in theater and music. Her great-niece is conductor <mask> Frank. Note
In the film Somewhere in Time (1980), Christopher Reeve plays a journalist who researches a fictional Edwardian actress in a hotel's library, and finds some theatrical photos.Reeve pulls out a photo of three little girls together. The girls are <mask> and her sisters Julie and Frances. The same photo appears under <mask>'s biography in Daniel Blum's book Great Stars of the American Stage (1954). References

External links

 Collected Recordings of <mask> Ring

Photo of <mask> at Moviecard
Blanche Ring on the cover of THE THEATRE magazine September 1910
<mask>; Victor discography, complete Catalog
with sister Julie, 1951(Wayback Machine)
<mask> posing in or driving her Darracq motorcar circa 1910
<mask> at the Discography of American Historical Recordings

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<mask> (22 February 1913 - 21 October 1935) was a German resistance activist during the Hitler years. She committed suicide by throwing herself from the third floor of a stairwell following a particularly brutal interrogation session at the Security Services' Main Office in Berlin. Life

Provenance and early years
Margarete "<mask>" <mask> was born in Berlin, the second of her parents' three daughters. Her father was a coach driver. Her mother worked as a domestic servant. Later her father was able to set himself up in business with a little dairy. Money was tight and the work running the dairy was hard, but while they were young, the girls' mother was able to focus on their upbringing.She ensured that the girls attended school regularly and prepared for secure futures. Grete attended a business-focused secondary school (...Handelsschule) and trained for office work. She was still only 15 when she took her first job in 1928, starting out with the Berlin wholesale foods operation of the venerable foods conglomerate, Kathreiner AG. <mask> <mask> appears to have inherited her politics from her mother:  two of her maternal uncles were metal workers and, like many working in that sector, Communist Party members. There are strong indications that her father, by contrast, was either uninterested in politics or else that, in common with many "small businessmen", his political views tended in a very different direction from those of his wife and her brothers. 1928, the year during which she took her first job, was also the year in which <mask> <mask> joined the Young Communists. She eagerly participated in the creation of a  Young Communist cell at her work place:  the focus for the group, inevitably, was on recruiting the youngest in the workforce, including apprentices.<mask> also applied her enthusiasm and writing skills in "Die Kathreiner Mühle", a news sheet distributed to colleagues which did not hesitate to criticise the company's methods. The publication appears to have

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 been a team effort, but she certainly contributed both to the texts and to its production and distribution. The extent to which management were aware of her involvement only became apparent a little later. The backwash from the Wall Street Crash arrived with great force in western Europe:  in Germany, in particular, industrial demand slumped and unemployment surged. In 1930 Kathreiner AG imposed job cuts. The energetic young communist was among the first to be lose her job. The (political) opportunities of unemployment
<mask> experienced great difficulty in her search for another job.There are suggestions that she had been informally blacklisted. She did, however, find herself with more time on her hands for political activities. She undertook "communist youth work" in Berlin-Neukölln, the city quarter in which she lived. She was an enthusiastic singer and pianist, and particularly loved to play with the workers' children belonging to the Young Spartacus League,  In 1930, two years after joining the Young Communists (with which she would continue to engage actively), <mask> <mask> joined the Communist Party itself, apparently without daring to tell her parents that she had done so. Her political talents and commitment had, however, been noticed elsewhere. She received and happily accepted an invitation passed on the by Young Communists' Central Committee that she should spend a year in Moscow. During 1930/31 <mask> <mask> spent a year in Moscow, attending the International Lenin School and seeing for herself the first country in the world where a genuine attempt to build a true socialist society was under way.She returned to Neukölln in the summer of 1931 and became a member of the Young Communists district leadership team ("Bezirksleitung"). The economic situation had deteriorated further, with millions unemployed, and mass-poverty an intensifying problem. Politics were spilling onto the streets and becoming ever more polarised. With uniformed National Socialist

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 populists an increasing presence on the city streets, and <mask> <mask>'s own political involvement apparently no secret to anyone, it remained impossible for her to find paid employment. Her youthful political career progressed, however:  she was soon recruited onto the  Young Communists regional leadership team for Berlin, while continuing her work with children. It was, according to one source, a reflection of her positivity and joyous energy that the children called her "Pferdchen" ("Little Horse"). Neukölln was known as a district in which many Communists and Socialists were living:  during 1932 it was increasingly on the receiving end of visits from gangs of National Socialist paramilitaries.Fights were not infrequent. With her comrades <mask> <mask> was successful in ensuring that working class youngsters in the area were not excessively influenced by the fascists. It became evident early in 1933 that her involvement had nevertheless been noted. 1933
At the start of 1933 <mask> was herself elected to membership of the Young Communist Central Committee, becoming its youngest member. At the same time the Hitler government, exploiting the political polarisation and parliamentary deadlock which the National Socialists had done much to exacerbate, took power and lost no time in transforming Germany into a one-party dictatorship. Political activity in support of the Communist Party immediately became dangerous and after a few weeks also illegal. But <mask> continued to distribute (illegal) publications including "Die Kathreiner-Mühle" and "Rotes Kabel".A rapid wave of arrests took place on 27/28 February 1933, the night of the Reichstag Fire and during the ensuing 24 hours. <mask> <mask> was among those rounded up, becoming one of the first women in Berlin to be arrested by the security services following the Hitler take-over. The questioning lasted for a number of days: the beatings becoming increasingly violent and the complementary tortures ever more brutal. Her

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 interrogators wanted names: <mask> remained silent. Following her release her mother spent several days treating her cuts and bruises with compresses. Kabelwerk Oberspree
Several weeks after her release <mask> <mask> finally found a job, employed as a winder ("Wicklerin") at the Oberspree Cables and Leads factory ("Kabelwerk Oberspree" - at that time was still owned by the AEG conglomerate). She very soon teamed up with co-workers to organise anti-government resistance.Their activities included the setting up of an illegal youth group which at slightly irregular intervals produced and distributed a version of the "Rotes Kabel" newspaper. The authors of the newspaper repeatedly highlighted government lies and hypocrisies. The destruction by government of political and social rights together with democratic liberties was constantly condemned. <mask> also campaigned on behalf of colleagues dismissed from the factory because they had been identified as Jewish. She was one of those who carefully distributed copies of the "communist company newspaper" in the lockers and to the work stations of colleagues. It is impossible to know how much the company knew of <mask>'s illegal political activities in the factory, or how uniform the attitudes of individual company managers would have been to the extent of whatever they did know. The security services clearly had their suspicions from somewhere, and during June 1934 they re-arrested her.Again, they wanted the names of fellow activists:  they also wanted to know more about <mask>'s own activities. Thanks to the loyal discretion of her comrades and her own refusal to succumb to their interrogation techniques, they were unable to prove anything against her, however, and she was again released. According to at least one source she was arrested several times during 1934, and badly tortured. Her sister Lisa later testified movingly to her physically broken state when she returned home following one of these interrogation sessions, but

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 in terms of divulging what the security services wished to hear, she never broke, and once released she would return to her "illegal [political] work". Conscription for farm work
Early in 1935 <mask> was conscripted for farm work and sent to Wahlendow (Anklam), a remote village a couple of kilometers inland, along the coastal flatlands of Pomerania. Her fellow farm girl conscripts elected her as their "Vertrauensmädchen", an informal representational role which evidently involved presenting the concerns of the young people to those in a position to do something about them. She secured management compliance by management with working hours regulations, adequate food and reasonable accommodation.Her effectiveness as an impromptu negotiator was enhanced by her experience in antifascist resistance groups. <mask> succeeded in keeping in touch with contacts in Berlin and abroad, although the modalities underpinning these networking activities are unclear. It has become evident that her correspondence was monitored to the police, and she evidently remained the object of suspicion on the part of the authorities. Arrest and suicide
It is not clear whether <mask> <mask>'s co-workers on the farm knew about her Communist connections:  she certainly made no secret of her rejection of Germany's recently installed fascist government. Obviously one of those with whom she shared these opinions was a spy, who passed on details of <mask>'s opinions to the security services. <mask> <mask> was arrested again on 9 October 1935, and immediately conveyed back to Berlin. On the afternoon of 21 October 1935, as Grete's sister Johanna wrote, "a police official ... appeared before my mother and delivered a telegramme: 'Daughter <mask> arrested and committed suicide'".The next morning Lisa and Johanna, the two surviving sisters, visited the vast court complex at Berlin-Moabit, in order to try and find out more. It turned out that during the twelve days between her arrest and her suicide <mask>

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 <mask> had been subjected to intensive and sustained torture by the security services:  although details remain sketchy it was inferred that it was torture that drove <mask> <mask>, still aged only 22, to commit suicide. Another source spells out the conclusion that it was the terror that she might be forced, through torture, to betray resistance activist comrades, that drove Grete <mask> to take her own life. According to another source, it remains unknown whether she was actually tortured during those twelve days, but on 21 October 1935 records indicate that she had made a partial confession a few hours before fatally launching herself from the third floor during a break in her interrogation. Public celebration after 1945
During the twelve Hitler years <mask> <mask>'s fate was little known, but her family preserved her memory. It is a tribute to her sisters' courage in finding out as much as they did about what had happened that after 1945 her story became more widely known. By this time the western two thirds of Germany was divided into four military occupation zones.Berlin was surrounded by a large region administered as the Soviet occupation zone which in October 1949 was relaunched as the Soviet sponsored German Democratic Republic (East Germany), a new kind of German one-party dictatorship. <mask> <mask> was a well documented larger than life attractive young woman, barely more than a child, widely loved and admired during her lifetime, which had been topped off with a heroic death triggered by the abusive conduct of the Nazi security services. There is a "Grete-Walter-Straße" ("Grete Walter Street") in Milz and another in Cottbus. Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg has a "Margarete-Walter-Straße". A relatively recent residential development in Schleibnitz, a village in the Wanzleben-Börde administrative district, a short distance to the west of Magdeburg, also includes a "Grete-Walther-Straße", complete with the erroneous insertion of an "h" in the name "Walt(h)er". Between

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 1949 and 1989 seven East German Polytechnic Secondary Schools were named after Grete <mask>, in Berlin-Weissensee, Geising, Georgenthal, Greifswald, Schwarzheide, Schwepnitz and Wustrow

  In the school yard at the Polytechnic Secondary School in Greifswald-Eldena a memorial stone was also placed, bearing the inscription "The antifascist resistance fighters", which on 4 February 1978 was formally "consecrated" to the honoured memory of the woman after the school had been named. The memorial was removed when the old school buildings were controversially torn down and replaced with a shopping centre, following reunification, however.There are children's care institutions named after <mask> <mask> in Wismar and Polvitz, along with a youth hostel in Stralsund and a children's holiday centre in Sebnitz. In the "VEB Kabelwerk Oberspree", which occupied the space taken by the vast AEG Cable factory when <mask> <mask> worked there during 1933-1935, a  State Youth Organisation (FDJ) branch was installed and named after her. Werk für Fernsehelektronik, the huge television manufacturer in Berlin-Oberschöneweide, had a company holiday complex in Dierhagen-Neuhaus on the North Sea coast that was named after Grete <mask>. An Artur Becker type feeder trawler was recently named after her. In a little ceremony that took place on 14 November 2009, in response to an initiative by the  VVN-BdA, the Cologne-based artist and Stolperstein ambassador, Gunter Demnig, fixed a Stolperstein memorial in the pavement/sidewalk outside the house at Fuldastraße 12 in Berlin-Neukölln which was <mask> <mask>'s home at the time of her final arrest. In the Burg the "Jugendwerkhof", during the German Democratic Republic era, there was a group named after her. Notes

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title: Chester Gillette

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<mask> (August 9, 1883 – March 30, 1908), an American convicted murderer, became the basis for the fictional character Clyde Griffiths in Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy, which was the basis of the 1931 film An American Tragedy and the 1951 film A Place in the Sun. Background
<mask> was born in Montana, but spent part of his childhood in Spokane, Washington. His parents were financially comfortable, but deeply religious, and eventually renounced material wealth to join The Salvation Army. The family traveled around the West Coast of the United States and to Hawaii during his adolescence. <mask> never took to the religious aspects of his upbringing. He attended Oberlin College's preparatory school on the generosity of a wealthy uncle, but left after two years in 1903. After leaving school, he worked at odd jobs until 1905 when he took a position at another uncle's skirt factory in Cortland, New York.Murder of Grace Brown

At the factory, Gillette met Grace Brown, another employee. <mask> and Brown soon began a sexual relationship, with Brown assuming Gillette would marry her. In the spring of 1906, Brown revealed that she was pregnant. She continued to pressure Gillette to marry her, often writing him pleading letters. Brown then returned to her parents' home for a time, but returned to Cortland when she discovered that Gillette had been courting other girls. One popular story involved Miss Harriet Benedict, a wealthy acquaintance of <mask> who the newspapers later speculated was the "other woman" for whom <mask> had left Grace. Harriet heatedly denied this, going so far as to issue a formal press release proclaiming: "I have never been engaged to <mask><mask> ... Our acquaintance was of ... a limited duration, and ... not a word or suggestion was ever made between us [about an engagement]."As the spring and summer of 1906 progressed, others noticed an increasing frequency of <mask>'s raised voice and Brown's tears at the factory or at each other's homes. Brown continued to press <mask> for some kind of decision, and

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