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 claimed he exited the hotel and gave other men the signal to enter just seconds before gunshots were heard.Livecchi was charged with first degree murder. Other suspects included Thomas Licavoli, Ted Pizzino, Mike Morgany, and Frank Cammarata. Thomas Licavoli was buried just 100 feet away from <mask>. Testimonies from Robert Jackson, the hotel’s night porter, and Fred Tara, a shady police informant, identified Pizzino, Bommarito, and Livecchi as the three men who killed <mask>. At one point, Tara refused cross examination and fought with news reporters, claiming that a photo of him would mean his death. Tara was held in contempt, and his testimony was stricken from the record. Upon resuming his testification later in the trial, the judge reinstated his earlier testimony.Other witness testimonies contradicted the accounts of Jackson and Tara- an auto salesman who had been in the lobby and claimed to have seen the killers testified that none of the three that were identified by Jackson and Tara were there. An electrician who was across the street testified that he had seen the murderers enter the building, and that none of the men on trial were the men he saw. William Adams, a bellboy who was also in the lobby, was not able to identify any of the men. W.S. Martin, a WMBC radio engineer who had disappeared after the murder, resurfaced a week before the trial and stated that he was willing to testify and that he would recognize the killers, but that they were not Pizzino, Bommarito, and Livecchi. Although henchmen belonging to Detroit mobster James "Blackie" Licavoli's gang were arrested, no convictions were secured for the killing. See also
 Detroit Partnership
List of journalists killed in the United States
 Censorship in the United States

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1930 deaths
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texts: <mask> (born August 31, 1973) is a Canadian former ice hockey defenceman and current special assignment coach of the Anaheim Ducks. He played 18 seasons and over 1,000 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New Jersey Devils and Anaheim Ducks. <mask> is a four-time Stanley Cup champion and played in five NHL All-Star Games. He won the James Norris Memorial Trophy in 2003–04 as the NHL's top defenceman and the Conn Smythe Trophy in 2007 as the most valuable player of the playoffs. In 2017, <mask> was named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history. As a junior, <mask> was a member of a Kamloops Blazers team that won two Western Hockey League championships and was voted the most valuable player of the 1992 Memorial Cup, leading the Blazers to the Canadian Hockey League championship. The third overall selection at the 1991 NHL Entry Draft by New Jersey, <mask> played the majority of his professional career with the Devils before moving to Anaheim in 2005.Internationally, <mask> played with Team Canada on several occasions. He is a member of the Triple Gold Club, having won the Stanley Cup as well as a World Championship (2004) and Olympic gold medals (2002, 2010). <mask> also played for the Memorial Cup champions, and championship teams at the 1991 World Junior Championships and the 2004 World Cup of Hockey, making him and Corey Perry the only players in history to have ever won each of the six major North American and international competitions available to players. He was introduced in to the IIHF All-Time Canada Team in 2020. Regarded as one of the greatest defencemen in NHL history, <mask> has earned numerous

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 accolades throughout his career. He was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2012 and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in November 2013. The New Jersey Devils, Anaheim Ducks, and Kamloops Blazers have all retired his uniform number.Early life
<mask> was born in Edmonton, Alberta, but spent the first three years of his life in Cassiar, British Columbia before his family settled in Cranbrook, British Columbia. His father, Bob, was a doctor in Cassiar and then Cranbrook, and his mother Carol was a teacher. He has a younger brother, Rob. <mask> and his brother were inseparable when they were younger and often played hockey together. While their father was often their team doctor, their mother taught them to skate. She enrolled them in figure skating to aid their skills development and taught power skating classes in Cranbrook in exchange for ice time for her sons. An offensive defenceman, <mask> led his Cranbrook midget team in scoring with 55 goals and 92 points in 1988–89.Playing career

<mask> played three seasons of junior hockey with the Kamloops Blazers of the Western Hockey League (WHL) between 1989 and 1992. He recorded 69 points in 64 games in his first season, 1989–90, and helped the Blazers win the President's Cup as WHL champions. The Blazers advanced to the 1990 Memorial Cup as the top ranked team in Canada, but disappointed in the tournament by losing all three games. <mask> earned several accolades in 1990–91. He scored 26 goals and 82 points in 57 games to earn a place on the Western Conference All-Star Team. Additionally, he was named the recipient of the Daryl K. (Doc) Seaman Trophy as the WHL's

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 scholastic player of the year and won the Canadian Hockey League Scholastic Player of the Year award. A top prospect for the 1991 NHL Entry Draft, <mask> was selected in the first round, third overall, by the New Jersey Devils.He began the 1991–92 season with New Jersey as the team wanted him to experience the NHL before being returned to Kamloops. After sitting out the Devils first five games, <mask> made his NHL debut on October 16, 1991, against the New York Rangers. He appeared in four games with the Devils, recording one assist, before he was sent back to junior. Though he appeared in only 35 games in the 1991–92 WHL season, <mask>'s 39 points were enough to earn him a second berth on the West All-Star Team. After losing in the Western Conference Final the previous season, the Blazers rebounded to win their second WHL championship in three years in 1992. <mask> tied for third place in playoff scoring with 23 points. At the 1992 Memorial Cup, he scored seven points in five games to lead the Blazers to the national championship.He was voted the recipient of the Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy as the most valuable player of the Memorial Cup. New Jersey Devils
<mask> joined the Devils full-time in 1992–93. He scored his first NHL goal on November 8, 1992, against goaltender Brian Hayward in a 6–1 victory over the San Jose Sharks. Overall, <mask> appeared in 80 games, scoring 11 goals and 40 points and was named to the NHL All-Rookie Team on defence. <mask> improved to 48 points in 1993–94, and added 4 points in 20 playoff games as the Devils reached the Eastern Conference Final against the New York Rangers, a series they lost in

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texts: seven games. The Devils made another long playoff run in the lockout-shortened 1994–95 season, reaching the Stanley Cup Final for the first time in franchise history. <mask> scored 11 points in 20 playoff games, including a key goal in game two of the Final as the Devils won the Stanley Cup with a four-game sweep of the Detroit Red Wings.A 33-point season followed for <mask> in 1995–96, but the Devils became the first defending champion in 26 years to miss the playoffs. After a 35-point season in 1996–97, <mask>'s best statistical season in New Jersey came in 1997–98 with a 14-goal, 57-point campaign. He played in his first NHL All-Star Game, scoring a goal, and was named to the NHL's Second All-Star Team at the season's end. After finishing second in league scoring amongst defencemen, despite playing in New Jersey's stifling defensive system that suppresses offence, <mask> demanded a significant raise. He rejected an offer that would have paid him a base salary of $3.25 million and, unable to come to terms before the start of the 1998–99 season, began the year as a holdout. As the dispute dragged into the season, he joined the Utah Grizzlies of the International Hockey League (IHL). After missing the first month of the NHL season, <mask> and the Devils finally agreed to a multi-year contract, the terms of which were not released.He appeared in 71 games with the Devils that season, recording 46 points. Late in the 1999–2000 season, <mask> was involved in a violent incident with Peter Worell of the Florida Panthers. After being elbowed by Worell, <mask> responded by swinging his stick at his opponents head. Worell suffered a


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texts: concussion and missed six games, while <mask> was suspended for ten games – nine in the regular season, and New Jersey's first playoff game. After returning from his ban, <mask>'s steady defensive contributions in the playoffs helped the Devils win their second Stanley Cup by defeating the Dallas Stars in six games in the 2000 Stanley Cup Final. While celebrating his day with the Cup, <mask> took the trophy to Fisher Peak, overlooking his hometown of Cranbrook and was famously pictured hoisting it over his head. The expiration of his contract following the season resulted in another lengthy dispute with the Devils.While he wanted a contract similar to the $5.3 million per season average the top ten paid defencemen in the league made, the Devils offered a deal with a base salary of $3.5 million. He was again a holdout at the start of the 2000–01 season, and missed nearly two months of play before finally agreeing to a four-year, $16 million contract. <mask> recorded 35 points in 57 games and played in his second All-Star Game. Late in game four of New Jersey's first round playoff series against the Toronto Maple Leafs, <mask> was knocked unconscious by a vicious elbow from Toronto's Tie Domi. <mask> later claimed that Domi had threatened to retaliate against him over a previous hit earlier in the series. Domi apologized for the incident, calling it a "stupid reaction", but was suspended for the remainder of the 2001 Stanley Cup playoffs. New Jersey reached the 2001 Stanley Cup Final, but lost the series to the Colorado Avalanche in seven games.<mask> missed several games early in the 2001–02 season due to back pain, and his 33 points


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texts: on the season was his lowest in six seasons. <mask> and the Devils reached their fourth Stanley Cup Final in 2002–03. The series was a family affair, as <mask>'s brother Rob was a member of the opposing Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. When asked, their mother admitted she was hoping Rob's Mighty Ducks would win as <mask> already had two championships to his name. <mask> dashed his brother and mother's hopes, recording two assists in the deciding seventh game to lead the Devils to a 3–0 victory, and win his third Stanley Cup. <mask> cemented his reputation as an elite NHL defenceman in 2003–04, earning praise from both teammates and opponents for his play throughout the season. Injuries to fellow defencemen <mask> and Brian Rafalski resulted in <mask> averaging over 25 minutes of ice time per game, sometimes topping 30, and he temporarily inherited the Devils' captaincy from Stevens.Offensively, <mask> posted his second career 50-point season, finishing with 14 goals and 40 assists. He played in his third All-Star Game and was named a First Team All-Star for the first time. After finishing second in league scoring amongst defencemen, recording a plus-minus rating of +20 and leading the Devils to a modern NHL record low 164 goals against, <mask> was voted the winner of the James Norris Memorial Trophy as the league's top defenceman. Upon the expiration of his previous contract, <mask> was again a restricted free agent, and he again endured a difficult negotiation with the Devils, even after he changed agents. Initially demanding a five-year, $45 million contract, <mask> chose to go to arbitration. He was awarded a one-year contract for the

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 2004–05 season, and the $7 million salary he was given tied John LeClair's award in 2000 as the highest ever given in arbitration. However, the contract was wiped out when the entire season was cancelled as a result of the 2004–05 NHL lockout.Anaheim Ducks

As an unrestricted free agent in the summer of 2005, Niedermayer was in considerable demand; 14 teams contacted his agent on the first day they were allowed to talk to him. The Devils offered him a five-year contract that would have paid him $7.8 million per season, the maximum allowed under the new salary cap, but <mask> chose instead to sign a four-year contract worth $6.75 million per season with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. He chose to take the shorter term and lower salary to play and try to win a Stanley Cup with his brother. The Ducks immediately named <mask> the team's captain. In his first season in Anaheim, 2005–06, <mask> scored 63 points and was named a First Team All-Star for the second time. In the playoffs, the Ducks reached the Western Conference Final, but were eliminated by the Edmonton Oilers. Joined on Anaheim's blueline by Chris Pronger, <mask> helped the Ducks set franchise records in 2006–07 for most wins (48) and points (110).Both were named finalists for the Norris Trophy, but lost to Detroit's Nicklas Lidström. Individually, <mask> played his 1,000th career game, against the Edmonton Oilers on November 28, 2006. He set career highs of 15 goals, 54 assists and 69 points during the regular season and was named a First Team All-Star. He added 11 points in the 2007 Stanley Cup playoffs, and was named recipient of the Conn Smythe Memorial Trophy as the most

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 valuable player of the post-season after leading Anaheim to the franchise's first championship in a five-game series victory over the Ottawa Senators in the final. As team captain, <mask> was the first player given the chance to hoist the Stanley Cup. He passed the trophy to his brother; it was Rob's first championship victory. Of the moment, <mask> stated: "You don't really dream of passing it to your brother.I never have. To be able to do that is definitely a highlight of my career." Coming off his fourth championship, the 34-year-old <mask> contemplated retirement. Remaining undecided on his future as the 2007–08 season began, he failed to report to the team and was suspended by the Ducks as a formality. Pronger replaced him as captain, and <mask> remained undecided until early December when he finally chose to return. He appeared in only 48 games that season, scoring 25 points, but played in his fourth All-Star Game. After the Ducks were eliminated in the first round of the 2008 playoffs, he again contemplated retirement, but quickly made the decision to return for the 2008–09 season.He regained captaincy of the Ducks, and played in his fifth All-Star Game during the season in which he scored 59 points in 82 games. In what proved to be his final season, 2009–10, <mask> scored 48 points in 80 games. He announced his retirement as a player on June 22, 2010, but remained with the Ducks organization as a consultant to general manager Bob Murray. He turned to coaching in 2012–13 season, serving as a special assignment coach with the Ducks. International play
<mask> enjoyed a long and successful international career, winning

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texts: championships at all levels. He made his international debut as a 17-year-old with the Canadian junior team at the 1991 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. He appeared in three games as Team Canada used a late goal by John Slaney in the final game of the tournament, against the Soviet Union, to win the gold medal.He returned for the 1992 tournament, one which The Sports Network described as one of the most disappointing in Canadian history, as the team finished sixth in the eight team event. Four years later, in 1996, <mask> first joined the senior team at the inaugural World Cup of Hockey. He had a goal and three assists in eight games, but Canada lost the championship final to the United States. <mask> next made his Olympic debut in 2002. He appeared in six games, and helped Canada defeat the United States, 5–2 in the final as the country won its first Olympic gold medal in hockey in 50 years. Gold medal victories followed in 2004 as <mask> scored five points in nine games at the World Championship then added two points in six games at the World Cup of Hockey. In the latter event, <mask> scored a goal in the championship game, a 3–2 victory over Finland.He was set to make his second Olympic appearance in 2006, however a knee injury suffered during NHL play that required surgery forced him to withdraw from the tournament. <mask>'s final international competition came at the 2010 Olympics, four months before his retirement as a player. He was named captain of the team for the tournament that was held in his home province, in Vancouver. He led Canada to the gold medal, culminating in a 3–2 overtime win over the United States.

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 Playing style

An offensively-minded defenceman, <mask> was best known for his skating ability and drew comparison's to the game's offensive greats from the time he broke into the NHL. He was compared to Paul Coffey for his ability to take the puck from his own goal line and convert a defensive situation into an offensive rush. He often chafed at playing within the Devils' defence-oriented system, feeling it restricted his offensive creativity, but also admitted that he learned to place greater emphasis on his defence and develop his overall game.<mask> earned a reputation for inconsistency early in his career. He often played his best games against top opposition, but his failure to consistently apply his skills against all opposition occasionally frustrated his teammates and left his coaches lamenting that he was a player capable of being dominant but often was not. By the end of his career however, and following his Norris Trophy win in 2004, <mask> was regarded as one of the top offensive defencemen of his generation and as one of the game's greatest winners. <mask> and former Ducks teammate Corey Perry are the only players in hockey history to win every major contemporary North American and International Competitive titles: the Memorial Cup, World Junior championship, Stanley Cup, World Championship, World Cup and Olympic Games. <mask> has been honoured on several occasions. The New Jersey Devils retired his jersey number 27 in 2011, and the Kamloops Blazers retired the number 28 he wore in junior in 2013. He has been inducted into the BC Hockey Hall of Fame and Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.<mask> was elected to the Hockey Hall

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 of Fame as part of its 2013 class, and was inducted on November 11, 2013. Personal life
<mask> and his wife Lisa have four sons. The family resides in Penticton, British Columbia, but often returns to Cranbrook, where they spent the off-seasons while he was playing. <mask> and Lisa are active in the community. They serve as honorary co-chairs of the Walk for Kids, a charity event that supports the Ronald McDonald House of Orange County, while <mask> and his brother Rob operate a hockey school in Cranbrook and established a fund that offers grants to community associations. An active environmentalist, <mask> has also joined with WWF-Canada to speak out in favour of efforts to maintain British Columbia's natural wilderness. Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

Awards and honours

See also
List of family relations in the NHL

References
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Note: <mask> served as the Devils captain for the latter half of the 2003–04 NHL season.<mask> was injured and out of the lineup during that time. 1973 births
Living people
Anaheim Ducks coaches
Anaheim Ducks players
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Hockey Hall of Fame inductees
Sportspeople from Cranbrook, British Columbia
Sportspeople from Edmonton
Ice hockey players at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey players at the 2010 Winter Olympics
James Norris Memorial Trophy winners
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Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics
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Mighty Ducks of Anaheim players
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<mask>v (born 1956 SR Macedonia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a sculptor and environmental installations artist, who lives in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Education and career

He graduated at the Belgrade Art Academy with an M.A. <mask>v has participated in eighteen one-man exhibitions and in more than 100 group exhibitions in many countries, including the Venice Biennale, in Italy. Artist style
He creates site-specific works, paintings and drawings, religious and eco-art with organic materials. From the beginning of his career, Stefanov treated sculpture as an object or an installation of objects situated in space. In 1988, narrative aspects of his work shifted from mythology to religion. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he produced a series of objects and installations, in the form of angels' wings and discs, executed in straw and boards or tree trunks and branches.

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<mask> (born 10 May 1967) is a Welsh journalist, author, and filmmaker whose works include Them: Adventures with Extremists (2001), The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004), and The Psychopath Test (2011). He has been described as a gonzo journalist, becoming a faux-naïf character in his stories. He produces informal but sceptical investigations of controversial fringe politics and science. He has published nine books and his work has appeared in publications such as The Guardian, City Life and Time Out. He has made several BBC Television documentary films and two documentary series for Channel 4. Early life
<mask> was born in Cardiff on 10 May 1967. He attended Cardiff High School and later worked for CBC Radio (since renamed Capital South Wales) in Cardiff before moving to London to study for a media degree at the Polytechnic of Central London (since renamed the University of Westminster).Career

Writing

<mask>'s first book, Clubbed Class (1994), is a travelogue in which he bluffs his way into a jet set lifestyle, in search of the world's finest holiday. His second book, Them: Adventures with Extremists (2001), chronicles his experiences with people labelled as extremists. Subjects in the book include David Icke, Randy Weaver, Omar Bakri Muhammad, Ian Paisley, <mask>, and Thom Robb. <mask> also follows independent investigators of secretive groups such as the Bilderberg Group. The narrative tells of <mask>'s attempts to infiltrate the "shadowy cabal" fabled, by these conspiracy theorists, to rule the world. The book was described by Louis Theroux as a "funny and compulsively readable picaresque adventure through a paranoid shadow

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 interviews people in facilities for the criminally insane as well as potential psychopaths in corporate boardrooms. The book's findings have been rejected by The Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy and by Robert D. Hare, creator of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist. Hare described the book as "frivolous, shallow, and professionally disconcerting".Lost at Sea: The <mask> Mysteries (2012) is <mask>'s sixth book and is a collection of previously published articles by him. <mask>'s book So You've Been Publicly Shamed (2015) concerns the effects of public humiliation in the internet age. Radio
Ronson's main radio work is the production and presentation of a BBC Radio 4 programme, <mask> on... The program has been nominated for a Sony award four times. In August 2008, Radio 4 aired "Robbie Williams and <mask>son Journey to the Other Side", a documentary by <mask> about pop star Williams' fascination with UFOs and the paranormal. In the early 1990s, <mask> was offered the position of sidekick on Terry Christian's Show on Manchester radio station KFM. <mask> also co-presented a KFM show with Craig Cash, who went on to write and perform in The Royle Family and Early Doors.<mask> contributes to Public Radio International in the United States, particularly the program This American Life. , he has contributed segments to 13 episodes including "Them" (#201), "Naming Names" (#211), "Family Physics" (#214), "Habeas Schmabeas" (#310), "It's Never Over" (#314), "The Spokesman" (#338), "Pro Se" (#385), "First Contact" (#411), "The Psychopath Test" (#436), "Secret Identity" (#506), "Tarred and Feathered" (#522), "To Be Real" (#620),

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 "Beware the Jabberwock" (#670). <mask> hosted and wrote the podcast The Butterfly Effect, which was released in November 2017 by Audible and was made subsequently available on other podcasting platforms. The show focuses on internet pornography, and Fabian Thylmann and PornHub's effect on the industry. <mask> subsequently also hosted and wrote the podcast The Last Days of August, released in January 2019. It focuses on the 2017 death of pornographic actress August Ames. <mask> returned to the BBC in 2021 with Things Fell Apart: a podcast on the Culture Wars for BBC Sounds in a similar format to his previous efforts for Amazon.Music
In the late 1980s, <mask> replaced Mark Radcliffe as the keyboard player for the Frank Sidebottom band for a number of performances. <mask> was the manager of the Manchester indie band Man From Delmonte. Television
<mask> presented the late nineties talk show For the Love of..., in which each week he would interview a gathering of guests and experts on different phenomena and conspiracy theories. <mask> has also appeared as a guest on various shows, including Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled. Films
<mask> sold the film rights to The Men Who Stare at Goats, and subsequently a film of the same name was released in 2009 as a comedy war film directed by Grant Heslov and written by Peter Straughan. According to <mask>'s DVD-commentary, the journalist-character Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) did experience some elements of <mask>'s self-recounted story from the book. However, unlike <mask>, Wilton was an American from Ann Arbor.Also, unlike <mask>, Wilton went to Iraq. In the process of visiting the set during

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 the shoot, <mask> began a collaborative writing project with Straughan. This was the screenplay for Frank, a fictitious feature film inspired by <mask>'s time in Frank Sidebottom's band. <mask> co-wrote, with Bong Joon-ho, the screenplay for the 2017 Netflix film Okja. Personal life
<mask> and his wife Elaine have one son. <mask> is Jewish and calls himself a "distinguished supporter" of Humanists UK. He is a fan of the football team Arsenal FC and has spoken of his "adoration" of the club.Works

Books
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! Date first published !! Title !! Reverend Death (2008) Channel 4, about George Exoo, an advocate of euthanasia. Stanley Kubrick's Boxes (2008)
 Revelations (2009)
 Escape and Control (2011)
 Frank (2014)
 Okja (2017)
 Comrade Detective (2017) as Himself

 References

 External links

 Picador UK publisher's author page
 <mask> On... radio programme
 Ronson's Column Archive, The Guardian

 In Depth interview with <mask>, 3 May 2015. Interviews
 My friend the extremist: Omar Bakri, This American Life, 7 December 2001
 Interview, Joanna Smith Rakoff, Salon.com, 14 March 2002
 Interview, Andrew Lawless, threemonkeysonline.com, February 2005
 Interview, rinf.com, February 2005
 Biographical Interview, Anthony Brockway, ntlworld.com, May 2005
 Video interview, Robert Llewellyn on Carpool, blip.tv <mask> audio interviews (2005–2009), littleatoms.com''

1967 births
Living people
20th-century Welsh writers
21st-century Welsh writers
Alumni of the University of Westminster
British documentary filmmakers
The Guardian journalists
Journalists from Cardiff
Welsh humanists
Welsh Jews
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<mask> (March 9, 1915 – July 10, 2000), was a Puerto Rican poet, critic, and essayist who in 1977 was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. His books were rooted in three major literary movements in Latin America: Romanticism, Modernism, and Postmodernism. <mask> was also a Secretary General of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and a Puerto Rican patriot. In 1950 he was imprisoned for having a Puerto Rican flag in his home, and for speaking on behalf of Puerto Rico's independence. Early years
<mask> was one of nine siblings born and raised on the family farm in the town of Lares, a town which is historically known for El Grito de Lares, Puerto Rico's first rebellion for independence. His mother died in 1930 when he was 15 years old. The death of his mother compelled him to write his first collection of poems, titled Signario de Lágrimas, which was published in 1931.<mask> <mask> received his primary and secondary education in his hometown. In high school he dedicated most of his time to reading classical literature. It was during his youth that he met Pedro Albizu Campos and became inspired to join the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party in its struggle for Puerto Rico's independence. In 1933, <mask> <mask> met fourteen-year-old Lolita Lebrón, during the celebration of her baptism into the Catholic faith. Soon, <mask> <mask> became Lebron's first boy friend and they would often write letters to each other where they exchanged the poetry that they wrote. <mask> Paolí's family opposed their relationship because they considered Lebrón a jíbara (peasant). Her father also opposed

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 this relationship and ordered her to stop writing to <mask>.However, they both continued to write to each other until he moved to San Juan to continue his education. <mask> <mask> enrolled at the Polytechnical School of the University of Puerto Rico and earned his bachelor's degree in education with a major in Spanish. Lebrón, who became a nationalist herself and led the 1954 attack against the United States House of Representatives, moved to San Juan, where she studied sewing and continued her romantic relationship with <mask> <mask>. The relationship ended when  <mask> <mask> continued his postgraduate studies in the UPR and moved to Paris, France, for a year to study comparative literature at the Sorbonne. In 1937, he published his second collection of poems titled Cardo Labriego. During this time he met Isabel Freire Meléndez, a fellow independence advocate who in 1942 became his wife. After he earned his master's degree in Spanish literature, he returned to Puerto Rico and in 1943 began a professorship in the Humanities Department of his alma mater, the University of Puerto Rico.He also became involved in spiritualism and founded a spiritualist center called Luz y Progreso (Light and Progress). Nationalist and poet
<mask>'s political activities and beliefs influenced his literary work. On May 21, 1948, a bill was introduced before the Puerto Rican Senate which would restrain the rights of the independence and nationalist movements on the archipelago. The Senate, which at the time was controlled by the Partido Popular Democrático (PPD) and presided by Luis Muñoz Marín,

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title: Francisco Matos Paoli

texts: approved the bill. This bill, which resembled the anti-communist Smith Act passed in the United States in 1940, became known as the Ley de la Mordaza (Gag Law, technically "Law 53 of 1948") when the U.S.-appointed governor of Puerto Rico, Jesús T. Piñero, signed it into law on June 10, 1948. Under this new law it became a crime to print, publish, sell, or exhibit any material intended to paralyze or destroy the insular government; or to organize any society, group or assembly of people with a similar destructive intent. It made it illegal to sing a patriotic song, and reinforced the 1898 law that had made it illegal to display the Flag of Puerto Rico, with anyone found guilty of disobeying the law in any way being subject to a sentence of up to ten years imprisonment, a fine of up to US$10,000 (), or both, for each offence.According to Dr. Leopoldo Figueroa, a non-PPD member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, the law was repressive and was in violation of the First Amendment of the US Constitution which guarantees Freedom of Speech. He pointed out that the law as such was a violation of the civil rights of the people of Puerto Rico. In 1949, the Nationalist Party held an assembly in the town of Arecibo and named <mask> Secretary General of the party. Some of his duties as Secretary General of the party included the presentation of patriotic speeches. Due to the Gag Law, these duties placed <mask> on a collision course with the U.S. government. In September 1950, <mask> traveled to the towns of Cabo Rojo, Santurce, Guánica and Lares, where he participated in Nationalist

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title: Francisco Matos Paoli

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 activities. On October 30, the Nationalists staged uprisings in the towns of Ponce, Mayagüez, Naranjito, Arecibo, Utuado (Utuado Uprising), San Juan (San Juan Nationalist revolt), and Jayuya (Jayuya Uprising).On November 2, 1950, the police arrived at <mask>'s home in Río Piedras and searched for guns and explosives. The only thing they found was a Puerto Rican flag but, due to the Gag Law, this enabled them to arrest and accuse <mask> of treason against the United States. The evidence used against him was the Puerto Rican flag in his home, and four speeches he'd made in favor of Puerto Rican independence. On the basis of this "evidence" <mask> was fired from his professorship at the University of Puerto Rico, and sentenced to a twenty-year prison term, which was later reduced to ten years. In jail, he shared his cell with Pedro Albizu Campos. Campos suffered from ulcerations on his legs and body caused by radiation, and Paoli tended to his needs. Political prisoner
While in prison, <mask> edited a newspaper which included news of political prisoners, poems, patriotic songs and drawings.During his confinement he suffered from hallucinations which resulted in a mental breakdown and he was sent to a Psychiatric hospital. After his recovery, he wrote Canto a Puerto Rico (I Sing to Puerto Rico), and resumed his involvement with spiritual mysticism and Christianity. In 1951, he published a collection of poems in a book which he titled Luz de los Héroes (The Light of Heroes), which spoke about the Puerto Rican independence movement. <mask>'s poetry also covered other aspects of human

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title: Francisco Matos Paoli

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 existence such as religion, mystic and spiritual experiences, love, death, solitude, social justice, suffering, freedom, the landscape, and his fellow Puerto Ricans. <mask> was released on probation on January 16, 1952. Nationalists attack the U.S. House of Representatives

On March 1, 1954 Lolita Lebrón, together with three other members of the Nationalist Party, entered the visitor's gallery above the chamber in the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. Lebron stood up and shouted "¡Viva Puerto Rico Libre!" ("Long Live a Free Puerto Rico!")and unfurled the flag of Puerto Rico. Subsequently, the group opened fire with semi-automatic pistols. The U.S. government ordered the wholesale arrest of Nationalist Party members including <mask>, who was not involved in the incident. Upon his incarceration in Rio Piedras prison without any visitor's privileges, <mask> initiated a hunger strike. On May 26, 1955, after ten months in jail and in poor health, <mask> was finally pardoned by Puerto Rican Governor Luis Muñoz Marín. Written works
<mask> was named resident poet of University of Puerto Rico and served as lecturer. In 1977, the Department of Hispanic Studies at the UPR campus in Mayagüez nominated him for the Nobel Prize in literature in recognition of his substantial contribution to world literature.His critics consider his books rooted in three major literary movements in Latin America: Romanticism, Modernism, and Postmodernism. Amongst his published works are the following:

Canto a Puerto Rico (1952) "I Sing to Puerto Rico"
Luz de los Héroes (1954) "Light of


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 Heroes"
Criatura de Rocío (1958) "Creature of Mist"
Canto a la Locura (1962) "Song to the Madness"
El Viento y la Paloma (1969) "The Wind and the Pigeon"
Cancionera (1970) "Song Book"
La Marea Sube (1971) "The Raising Waves"
Cancionero II (1972) "Song Book Pt.2"
Rostro en la Estrella (1973) "A Face in the Star"
Isla para los Niños (1981) "Island for Children"
Hacia el Hondo Vuelo (1983) "Towards the Deep Flight"
Decimario de la Virgen (1990) "A Vigil for the Virgin"

Later years

<mask> and Lebron remained lifelong friends and he wrote the foreword to one of her books of poems. In July 1982, <mask> was selected as one of fifty poets to attend the Sixth World Congress of Poets held in Madrid, Spain. He also attended, by invitation, the eighth World Congress of Poets in Athens, Greece in 1985. Among the magazines which published his essays were Asomante, Puerto Rico Ilustrado, and Alma Latina. In 1989, the Manati Foundation of Art and Culture of the town of Manatí, dedicated their annual Juegos Florales (Poetry Pageants) to <mask>. <mask> lived with his wife Isabel Freire de Matos (1915–2004), herself an educator and journalist, in San Juan.He became ill and was hospitalized at the Hospital del Maestro in Hato Rey, where he died on July 10, 2000. See also

Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the 1950s
List of Puerto Rican writers
List of Puerto Ricans
Puerto Rican literature

References

Further reading
"War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony"; Author: Nelson Antonio Denis; Publisher: Nation Books (April 7, 2015); . 1915 births
2000

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title: Jonathan Clements

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<mask> (born 9 July 1971) is a British author and scriptwriter. His non-fiction works include biographies of Confucius, Koxinga and Qin Shi Huangdi (the First Emperor of China), as well as monthly opinion columns for Neo magazine. He is also the co-author of encyclopedias of anime and Japanese television dramas. Background
Clements speaks both Chinese and Japanese, and many of his works relate to East Asia. He wrote his Master's degree at the University of Stirling on manga and anime exports, predicting the rise of several trends in the international industry including back-to-front printing, direct American investment in anime, and the proliferation of attempts to substitute non-Japanese products. Subsequently, he translated over 70 anime and manga works for British distributors, and worked as a voice director and actor. He wrote his PhD at the University of Wales on the industrial history of Japanese animation, later published by the British Film Institute as Anime: A History.He served two years at Titan Books in London as the editor of Manga Max magazine, an experience he would later fictionalise as the Judge Dredd adventure Trapped on Titan. In 2000, he received the Japan Festival Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Understanding of Japanese Culture, specifically for his work on Manga Max. Broadcast work
Shortly after leaving the editorship of Manga Max magazine, he became a presenter on the Sci-Fi Channel's Japan-themed magazine show Saiko Exciting. He has been a consultant and talking head on numerous TV shows, including New Secrets of the Terracotta Warriors (Channel 4), Koxinga: Sailing into History (National Geographic), China's Jade Empire (Channel 4), and Chinese Chariot Revealed (PBS).


title: Jonathan Clements

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 (2004, expanded 2nd ed. 2017)
 A Brief History of the Vikings (2005)
 The First Emperor of China (2006, 2nd ed. 2015)
 Wu (2007, 2nd ed. 2014)
 Beijing: The Biography of a City (2008, 2nd ed. as An Armchair Traveller's History of Beijing, 2016)
 Mannerheim: President, Soldier, Spy (2009)
 A Brief History of the Samurai (2010)
 Admiral Togo: Nelson of the East (2010)
 A Brief History of Khubilai Khan (2010)
 Sun Tzu's Art of War: A New Translation (2012)
 An Armchair Traveller's History of the Silk Road (2013)
 Anime: A History (2013)
 An Armchair Traveller's History of Finland (2014)
 Christ's Samurai: The True Story of the Shimabara Rebellion (2016)
 A Brief History of the Martial Arts (2016)
 A Brief History of Japan Samurai, Shōgun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun (2017)
 The Emperor's Feast: A History of China in Twelve Meals (2021)

In 2011, he became a contributing editor to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction 3rd edition, with special responsibility for Chinese and Japanese entries. References

External links
 Schoolgirl Milky Crisis blog—<mask>s' blog of essays and news
 Muramasa Industries—The official web site of <mask>s via the Internet Archive

 Entry in  The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
 Keynote address: "Wrong About Anime" at Anifest 2012, Czech Republic

1971 births
Alumni of the University of Leeds
Alumni of the University of Stirling
Anime and manga critics
English biographers
English book editors
English non-fiction writers
English radio writers
English science fiction writers
Living people
English male novelists
English male non-fiction writers
Alumni of the University of Wales
British Japanologists
British sinologists
British historians
Male

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title: Ernest Hecht

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<mask>  (21 September 1929 – 13 February 2018) was a British publisher, producer, and philanthropist. In 1951, he founded Souvenir Press Ltd, one of the very few remaining independently owned major publishing houses in Great Britain. In 2003 he set up the Ernest Hecht Charitable Foundation. Described by The Bookseller as "one of a number of émigrés who changed the face of British publishing after the Second World War alongside George Weidenfeld, Paul Hamlyn and André Deutsch", <mask> has been called "the last of the great publishers". He was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to Publishing and Charity in June 2015. In August 2015, he was honoured by the President of Brazil with the Order of Rio Branco, which was presented to <mask> at a ceremony by the Brazilian Ambassador in London. Early life
Born in 1929 in Czechoslovakia, the son of clothing manufacturers Richard and <mask>, <mask> arrived in Britain as a Kindertransport (Jewish refugee) child in 1939; he recalls: "On the train to England as a young man, I remember throwing up on one of the Gestapo.My mother must have been terrified but the man said it was ok because he had children of his own." He was evacuated to Wiltshire, then to Minehead, Somerset. In the mid-1940s he attended Quintin School in Regent Street, London (later to become Quintin Kynaston School in Swiss Cottage), and went on to read Economics and Commerce at Hull University College. Publishing

<mask> started Souvenir Press in 1951 in his bedroom at his parents' flat with a loan of £250, "a bed, a desk, a typewriter and a phone in the hall", his first book being "a paperback on cricket entitled Len Hutton: The World's Greatest Batsman, written by a college friend and retailing at two shillings (ten pence)." <mask> successfully built the business up and ran the company for more than six

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title: Ernest Hecht

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 decades. Producing an eccentric list of titles ("His authors have ranged from Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara to comic chronicler of the British upper classes, PG Wodehouse, from Norwegian Kon Tiki adventurer Thor Heyerdahl to tap dance legend Fred Astaire...") from a notoriously untidy office in Bloomsbury, <mask> was quoted as saying: "Anyone can create a high-class literary list of prestige titles. It's better to have a balanced list, comprising books that make money and those perhaps more worthy titles that don't.My adage is that a publisher’s first duty to an author is to remain solvent." Nevertheless, characterised as a risk-taker, he also expressed the view that, as a publisher: "You have the freedom, and I'd be inclined to say, the duty, to publish books of a minority interest and titles whose time may not yet have arrived or ideas that challenge received wisdom." As he said in an interview with Matthew Engel: "The rule of independent publishing is that there are no rules." Souvenir Press had more than 500 titles in print by the time of <mask>'s death in 2018 and had number-one bestsellers on both sides of the Atlantic. Book series published by Souvenir included Condor Books, Human Horizons and Independent Voices. <mask> celebrated the company's 65th anniversary in April 2016. He published five Nobel laureates, including Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun and the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.<mask> received the British Book Awards Lifetime Achievement award in 2001 and was a chairman of the Society of Bookmen. Music and theatre
<mask>cht and Souvenir Press also produced concerts and presented many theatrical productions, including Uproar in the House, with Brian Rix, Joan Sims, and Nicholas Parsons; Sign Here Please by Valentin Kataev, adapted by Marty Feldman, with Terry Scott, Peter Jones and Ambrosine Phillpotts; and most recently

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title: Ernest Hecht

texts:
 English-speaking world, through publishing some of Brazil's most notable writers, such as Jorge Amado, Fernando Sabino and Carolina Maria de Jesus. In April 2016 <mask> was awarded the London Book Fair Simon Master Chairman's Award. Personal life
<mask> lived and worked in London, where he was a long-standing supporter of Arsenal Football Club: he took his Arsenal hat with him to Buckingham Palace when accepting his OBE from Prince Charles. <mask> was the literary agent of Brazilian footballer Pelé and found the time to attend nine of the past 11 World Cup finals by 2002. In 2016 <mask> dismissed suggestions of an autobiography with the words: "Publishers' books never sell." He died in hospital in London after a short illness, on 13 February 2018. Unmarried and without children or heir, <mask> was reported as having said: "I’m not unduly worried what happens to Souvenir when I’m not here for the simple reason that I won’t be here."References

External links
 Souvenir Press website. The Ernest Hecht Charitable Foundation. Michael Allen, "<mask> and the Souvenir Press", Grumpy Old Bookman, 12 September 2007. John Gulliver, "The freedom to publish and the duty to challenge", Camden New Journal, 27 October 2011. Matthew Engel, "Nobel prize winners and stocking fillers – 65 years in the murky waters of London publishing", The Guardian, 2 April 2016. Obituaries
 "Obituary: <mask>", The Times, 15 February 2018. Liz Thomson, "<mask>cht obituary", The Guardian, 19 February 2018."<mask>, independent publisher – obituary", The Telegraph, 28 February 2018. 1929 births
2018 deaths
British book publishers (people)
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Alumni of the University of Hull
Kindertransport refugees
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom
Czechoslovak emigrants to the United Kingdom
Literary agents
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title: Rumina Sato

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(, kanji for given name: 留美奈) is a Japanese retired mixed martial artist, famous for his career in the Shooto organization. In the past he fought mostly in the 155 lb division, but he moved down to the 145 lb division. Mixed martial arts career
After graduating from high school, <mask> had to spend a year as a ronin and started to train in shoot wrestling under Noboru Asahi and Noriaki Kiguchi in the Kiguchi Dojo, partnered with the Shooto promotion. He later moved to amateur wrestling after being admitted in the Nippon Sport Science University, and after graduating in 1994 and competing in the All Japan Amateur Shoot Championships, he joined professionally the company. Shooto
After honing his submission skills under <mask>, <mask> made his professional debut in MMA on December 7, 1994, winning over Michael McAuliffe with a calf slicer, the first time the move had been used in mixed martial arts. He ascended fastly in the roster by winning 10 straight matches, becoming a fan favourite for his aggressive and spectacular style of grappling. As soon as his fourth match, he submitted his opponent with a flying inverted triangle choke, and at his seventh, he gained worldwide fame by submitting the

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title: Rumina Sato

texts: Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt Ricardo Botelho, taking advantage of his guard usage to attack him with leglocks and submit him with a heel hook.<mask> also defeated another big name of the art when he beat John Lewis, who he submitted in revenge for a match at the Vale Tudo Japan which ended in a draw. <mask> would become a usual fighter for this event, representing Shooto in six out of the nine years it had place. <mask>'s winning streak finally broke in 1998 when he lost a highly publicized match to Canadian Jiu-Jitsu Champion Joel Gerson by a surprising armbar in the first round of a non-title event in 1998. <mask> avenged his defeat in the next Canadian Jiu-Jitsu open tournament the same year, where he faced Gerson again at the finals and submitted him with an ankle lock. After returning to Japan, <mask> got also which is thought to be the fastest submission victory in MMA history when he submitted Charles Diaz in a mere five seconds with a flying armbar. At Vale Tudo Japan 1998, <mask> went against André Pederneiras of the Nova União in a vale tudo rules match. <mask> suffered the first takedown, but he almost caught Pederneiras with a persistent armbar.The two exchanged minor strikes in

masks: Sato Sato Sato Sato Sato Sato Sato


title: Rumina Sato

texts: <mask>'s guard before the Brazilian grappler decided to stand-up, and the match seemed to go stall from their respective positions. However, suddenly Pederneiras sidestepped <mask> and landed a soccer kick to the head, following with heavy punches to the face for the doctor stoppage. On May 29, 1999, he would fight former trainee Caol Uno for the vacated Shooto Welterweight Championship. <mask> captured Uno's back mere two minutes into the match and pursued the rear naked choke, but despite threatening to lock the hold at several points, Uno managed to escape free. Going into the second round, <mask> controlled the stand-up, opening a cut on the right side of his opponent's face and scoring a takedown, but he found himself having to defend from his guard while Uno capitalized to land ground and pound. At the third round, Uno started controlling the wrestling game and solidifying his assault to <mask>'s guard, and ultimately, when a clearly tired Rumina attempted a takedown, Caol took his back and locked a rear naked choke for the tap out. <mask> returned to Vale Tudo Japan in 1999 fighting Rafael Cordeiro, founder and instructor for the famed Chute Boxe team.The match was short, as <mask> scored

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title: Rumina Sato

texts: a belly to belly suplex and right after locked a kneebar, making Cordeiro tap out. <mask> rematched Uno in December 2000 for the title. In a cautious and tentative affair, <mask> captured the back of his opponent while standing and attempted to lock a choke while Uno defended with a Kimura lock threat, but none was successful. However, when <mask> finally released him, Uno capitalized on his bad position and landed a knee strike to the face and a right punch to the temple, knocking <mask> out. After his second defeat to Uno, <mask> faced Marcio Ramos Barbosa of Barbosa Jiu-Jitsu, who had submitted Caol before the rematch. <mask> won the fight by unanimous decision. In December 2001, <mask> faced rising star Takanori Gomi for the vacated Shooto World Lightweight Championship.Playing clinch to avoid his foe's dangerous striking, <mask> led the fight to the mat and besieged Gomi with submissions attempts, including armbars both from and against the guard, toeholds from inverted positions and an omoplata that almost finished the fight, but Takanori was consistently able of getting out of them. The second round saw Gomi landing damaging punches, as well as <mask> utilizing an active guard to

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title: Rumina Sato

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 counterattack, and the striker eventually bypassing his defenses and controlling the pace. Come the third and final, Gomi landed the last punches against the guard before winning the bout by unanimous decision. Despite PRIDE Fighting Championships and Ultimate Fighting Championship being both interested in signing him up, Rumina famously vowed to never compete in any other organization than Shooto (unless representing Shooto in special matches) until he won a title there. He won the Shooto Pacific Rim Lightweight Tournament on March 11, 2005, from Makoto Ishikawa, but still remained in the promotion until his retirement in May 2014. On July 10, 2009, <mask> competed in a grappling super fight at the UFC 100 Fan Expo Grappler's Quest against Ulysses Gomez, winning by submission with an inverted triangle choke/wrist lock combination. Fighting style
<mask> was primarily a grappler whose main strength was found in his offensive skills.He would attempt submissions relentlessly from unusual positions and entries, and was prone to try and often accomplish low percentage moves, among them flying holds, intrincated leglocks, and several variations of triangle chokes, which he utilized to set up ground and

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title: Rumina Sato

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 pound and other submissions. His technique was praised by Rickson Gracie, labelling it as "excellent." Though later years showed a weakened chin as his main weak spot, <mask> was also an aggressive striker, sometimes indulging in moves like spinning backfists and axe kicks. Championship
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| Marcio Ramos Barbosa
| Decision (unanimous)
| Shooto: To The Top 7
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| Osaka, Japan
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| Loss
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| Caol Uno
| KO (punch)
| Shooto: R.E.A.D. Final
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 2:21
| Chiba, Japan
| For Shooto World Welterweight (154 lbs.) Championship
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| Win
| align=center| 17–3–1
| Takuya Kuwabara
| Technical Decision (unanimous)
| Shooto: R.E.A.D. 9
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| align=center| 5:00
| Kanagawa, Japan
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| Win
| align=center| 16–3–1
| Yves Edwards
| Submission (rear-naked choke)
| SB 17: SuperBrawl 17
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| align=center| 0:18
| Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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| Rafael Cordeiro
| Submission (kneebar)
| VTJ 1999: Vale Tudo Japan 1999
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| Chiba, Japan
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title: Richard Negri

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<mask> (27 June 1927, London – 17 April 1999, Fakenham, Norfolk) was a British theatre director and designer. Early life

<mask> was born on 27 June 1927 in Stamford Hill, London to parents of Italian origin: <mask> and Teresa Manattini. The family moved to Chingford in Essex where he was educated. He served in the Royal Navy as a radio engineer at the end of the Second World War and afterwards studied Art under David Bomberg at Borough Polytechnic (later to become part of South Bank University). In 1951 he attended the Old Vic Theatre School to study theatre design. The director of the school, Michel Saint Denis, was especially influential on Negri's thinking and development as a theatre designer as was the designer Margaret (Percy) Harris (of the renowned all female design group Motley), the design tutor at the school. Career

After leaving the Old Vic he spent a year designing for the Oldham Coliseum before founding the Piccolo Theatre company with director Frank Dunlop (a contemporary at the Old Vic Theatre School) in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester (which only survived for a year) and designing the productions.In 1957, at the Royal Court 'Nekrassov' by Jean-Paul Sartre directed by George Devine with Robert Helpmann heading a distinguished cast including Ronald Barker, Roddy McMillan, James Villiers, Bernard Kay and Harry H. Corbett. He also designed Chekhov's 'Platonov' directed by George Devine and John Blatchley at the Royal Court in 1960 with Rex Harrison as well as James Bolam, Peter Bowles, Ronald Barker, Rachel Roberts and Graham Crowden. Also, Peter Shaffer's double bill 'The Private Eye' and 'The

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title: Richard Negri

texts: Public Ear' with Maggie Smith and Kenneth Williams at the Globe, in the West End directed by Peter Wood. Shakespeare's 'King Richard II' at London's Old Vic in 1959, directed by Val May with Maggie Smith as the Queen to John Justin's <mask>. George Baker, John Woodvine and Joss Ackland were also in the cast. 'Lady at the Wheel' a musical comedy directed by Wendy Toye in 1958, costumes by Motley and lighting by <mask>w with Bernard Cribbins at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. 'Masterpiece' in 1961, a play by Larry Ward and Gordon Russell, directed by Harry Kaplan, lighting by <mask>w at the Royalty Theatre.Anton Walbrook and Margaret Johnston headed a strong cast that included Peter Sallis, Patrick Magee, Robert Eddison and Arnold Marlé. At the Bristol Old Vic he designed a production of Joseph O'Conor's early play, 'The Iron Harp'. With Peter O'Toole in the lead role (alongside O'Conor) the play also gave a first important role to <mask>. <mask> also had a six-month spell as a television designer and his work at that time included designs for Ibsen's 'John Gabriel Borkman', which marked Laurence Olivier's television debut in the title role and 'Hay Fever' with Edith Evans and Maggie Smith, both directed by Casper Wrede. Also: 'The Living Room' with Dorothy Tutin, Ring Round The Moon' with Yvonne Arnaud, 'Touch of the Sun' with Michael Redgrave all directed by Lionel Harris. Working with director Peter Wood, Negri also designed 'Sunday out of Season' with Alec McCowan and Maggie Smith. In 1959 he started to design for the  59 Theatre Company, based at the Lyric Theatre.The company was run by Michael Elliott and

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title: Richard Negri

texts: Casper Wrede, a friend from the Old Vic and, although short-lived, the company achieved considerable success with productions of Brand (designed by <mask>), Little Eyolf and Danton's Death. When Wrede and Elliott went on to run a season of plays at the Old Vic in 1961 <mask> joined them as designer. In 1962 <mask> began teaching as a part-time lecturer at Wimbledon School of Art in the Theatre Department teaching on the theatre design course; by the end of 1963 he had become Head of Department on Peter Bucknell's (former head of the Theatre Department) promotion to Principal. The formation of the 69 Theatre Company by Wrede, Elliott, and Braham Murray in Manchester led to Negri designing many of the productions at the University Theatre including Peer Gynt and The Tempest. Based upon the success of the Company the group started to look for a permanent theatre in Manchester and eventually a new theatre was built inside the disused Royal Exchange with Negri as the designer of the theatre and one of the founding artistic directors. The design incorporated the ideas of the founding group; Wrede, Elliott, Murray, the actor James Maxwell and Negri himself. According to Murray, Negri's design was based upon a beehive and meant that no one would be seated more than thirty feet from the stage."The audience would be suspended between the world of the gods in the outer hall and the stage where the actors who entered from that world would act out their drama." The architects, Levitt Bernstein Associates, observed "the beginning for us was a small paper and wire model sitting in the middle of a table with <mask> striding

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 round it talking about the form of a rose. How, we wondered, would we ever bring this man down to earth? Fortunately we never did." The theatre opened on 15 September 1976 and <mask> remained as an artistic director until 1983. He directed a number of productions in addition to his design work. He had resigned from Wimbledon in 1974 to concentrate all his efforts on the Royal Exchange but returned in 1982 to continue his lecturing.He finally retired in 1988. His legacy remains both in the theatre he designed and in the students he taught. Johanna Bryant one of key designers for the Royal Exchange was one of his students. National Life Stories conducted a series of interviews (C1173) with theatre designers, directors and actors in the 2000s about their memories of Nengri for its An Oral History of Theatre Design collection held by the British Library. Personal life
<mask> married Jill Adams on 27 September 1956 in Bury St Edmunds. They had two sons and six daughters

Productions directed at The Royal Exchange

 The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder. Directed by <mask> and James Maxwell with Olive McFarland and Lee Montague (1977)
 The Golden Country by Shusaku Endo.European premiere with Wolfe Morris, Geoffrey Bateman and Ian Hastings (1977)
 The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco with Gwen Nelson and Frank Thornton (1980)
 The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neill with Pete Postlethwaite and Albie Woodington (1980)
 The Caretaker by Harold Pinter with Charlie Drake, Jonathon Hackett and Tim McInnerny (1983)

References

Bibliography

1927 births
1999 deaths
British theatre directors
Artistic directors
Alumni of London South

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texts: <mask> (March 16, 1932 – April 13, 2005), nicknamed Blazer, was an American professional baseball second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals (1955–1959), San Francisco Giants (1960–1961), Cincinnati Reds (1961–1963), Washington Senators (1963–1966), and Kansas City Athletics (1966). Blasingame threw right-handed, batted left-handed and was listed as  tall and . Born and raised in Corinth, Mississippi, <mask> signed with the Cardinals in 1953 after a stint in the United States Army. He made his debut for the team in September 1955 and took over the second base job from Red Schoendienst in 1956. In 1957, he finished twelfth in National League Most Valuable Player Award voting, and he reached his only All-Star Game in 1958. He played one more season for the Cardinals in 1959 before getting traded to the Giants.With San Francisco, <mask>'s batting average was significantly lower than it had been with St. Louis, and he lost the second base job in 1961, then was traded early in the season to the Reds. He made it to the World Series with the Reds during his first year and batted .281 for them in 1962. In 1963, he lost the second base role to Pete Rose and was traded to the Senators midseason. Blasingame served as Washington's second baseman until 1966, platooned with Chuck Cottier for the first half of that year, then went to the Athletics and spent a month with them as a pinch hitter to finish his major league career. After that, <mask> went to Japan. He spent three seasons playing with

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 the Nankai Hawks, then coached the team for several years. From 1979 to 1980, he managed the Hanshin Tigers, and from 1981 to 1982, he managed Nankai.Returning to the U.S., he served as a minor league coordinator for the Philadelphia Phillies afterward. In his later years, he lived in Scottsdale, Arizona. Early life
Blasingame was born and raised in Corinth, Mississippi. He was the third boy and fourth child of Chester Henry "Doc" and Ottie <mask>. Doc was a butcher in West Corinth at a local meat market. <mask> attended Corinth High School and excelled playing baseball for them and for American Legion Post 6 in Corinth. He helped Corinth High win the state championship in 1949.The Houston Buffaloes of the Class AA Texas League tried him out during 1951 spring training, but he went off to serve in the United States Army for two years during the Korean War. Once his military service ended, he signed with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1953. Blasingame went to David Lipscomb College in his offseasons between 1952 and 1953 and again between 1953 and 1954. The college was located in Nashville, Tennessee. Minor league career
<mask>'s first professional team was the Winston-Salem Cardinals of the Class B Carolina League. He had 141 hits in 131 games, along with seven home runs and a .290 batting average. For the following season, he went to spring training with the Buffaloes.He suffered two injuries in spring training, burning his hand by grabbing a light bulb in a hotel room, then tripping over a base the day before the season,

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 causing him to miss the first two weeks. However, he impressed the team enough to make their roster. “Can you imagine what a favorite he’ll be if he keeps on looking like he does now?” manager Dixie Walker asked. Blasingame batted .315 in 144 games (575 at bats) with Houston in 1954, racking up 181 hits, five home runs, and 51 runs batted in (RBI). He demonstrated great speed with the team, stealing 34 bases and earning the nickname "<mask>lazing-game." Eventually shortened to "Blazer," the nickname would follow him for the rest of his career. Walker said, "He wears the dirtiest uniform on the club.That's the highest tribute I can pay him." Houston won the Texas League pennant and played the Atlanta Crackers in the Dixie Series after the season. Though he had played shortstop these seasons, Blasingame was moved to second base during winter ball in Cuba after the 1954 season, groomed to replace Red Schoendienst at the position once his tenure with the Cardinals ended. He played 132 games (497 at bats) with the Omaha Cardinals of the Class AAA American Association, batting .302 with 150 hits, three home runs, 46 RBI, and 17 stolen bases, earning a September call-up to the St. Louis Cardinals. Major league career

St. Louis Cardinals
Blasingame made his major league debut at age 23 on September 20, 1955 in a 2–0 Cardinals win over the Chicago Cubs. Starting at second base and batting leadoff, his first career at bat resulted in his first hit, a single off Sam Jones, and he scored on a Solly Hemus home run. He appeared in


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 Defensively in 1957, Blasingame led  NL second basemen in assists and double plays.He tied for 12th in NL Most Valuable Player Award voting after the season, with Ed Bouchee of the Philadelphia Phillies. In 1958, Blasingame batted .276 in the first half of the season, getting named to the National League All-Star team for the only time in his career. Bill Mazeroski played the whole game for the NL at second, but Blasingame did make an appearance, flying out when he pinch-hit for Warren Spahn in the fourth inning. He had four hits and two RBI in an 8–7 victory over the San Francisco Giants on August 6. Sports Illustrated reported he was "hurt a lot" that year, but he still appeared in 143 of 154 games. He batted .274 with 71 runs scored, 19 doubles, 10 triples (a career high), two home runs, and 20 steals. Blasingame only hit one home run in 1959, in a 5–3 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers, but it was against Sandy Koufax.He had three hits, scored three times, and drove in two runs during a June 9 12–3 victory over Milwaukee. On July 19, he had four hits and scored twice in a 9–5 victory, also over Milwaukee. He finished the season with a .289 batting average and 26 doubles, both career highs. While he only had 24 RBI, he scored 90 runs. He stole 15 bases but was caught a league-leading 15 times as well. San Francisco Giants and Cincinnati Reds
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 New York Mets in the 1961 Major League Baseball (MLB) expansion draft, leaving Blasingame without competition for the Reds' second base job in 1962.On April 18, he had three hits, four runs, and two RBI in a 14–0 victory over the Dodgers. On May 24, he had four hits, including a double and a triple, in a 5–0 victory over the Houston Colt .45's. He had five hits against the Cubs in a 7–5 victory over them in Game 1 of a doubleheader held on September 5. In 141 games (494 at bats), Blasingame had 139 hits, scored 77 runs, had two home runs, and drove in 35. Once again, he stole four bases. His extra-base hit totals were down, as he had nine doubles and seven triples. By 1963, Blasingame's defense was no longer what it had been.Sports Illustrated noted that he was "competent" but said he had "trouble making the double play." The Reds had a new second base prospect in spring training that year named Pete Rose; Blasingame was the only member of the team who thought he would make the roster. Rose went on to win Rookie of the Year honors that year. Though Rose won the second base job, he lost it temporarily to Blasingame after batting .130 in the first six games of the year. Blasingame played the next eight games there but batted .160 and lost the job to Rose again. Seldom used after that, Blasingame was traded to the Washington Senators on July 1 for Jim Coates. Washington Senators and Kansas City Athletics
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 only played 129 games (403 at bats) for the Senators in 1965, batting .223 with 90 hits, 47 runs scored, eight doubles, eight triples, one home run, and 18 RBI, stealing five bases. In 1966 Blasingame began platooning with Hamlin at second base.The left-handed hitting Blasingame would start games against right-handed pitchers, while the right-handed hitting Hamlin would start against left-handers. <mask>'s only home run of the year came against Dave Wickersham, a solo shot in a 4–3 loss to the Detroit Tigers on June 13. In the first game of a doubleheader against Boston on July 4, he struck out a season-high three times but had two RBI in Washington's 6–4 win over the Red Sox. He batted .218 with 43 hits, 18 runs scored, 11 RBI, and nine doubles in 68 games (200 at bats) through the end of July. On August 2, the Kansas City Athletics purchased his contract. <mask> was mainly used as a pinch-hitter with Kansas City, only starting three games. He played 12 games for the Athletics, getting three hits in 19 at bats.Following the September call-ups, the Athletics released him on September 7. In 68 games his final year, Blasingame batted .210. He finished his time in the major leagues as a .258 career hitter with 1,366 hits, 178 doubles, 62 triples, 21 home runs, and 308 RBI in 1,444 games (219 at bats), stealing 105 bases. The only hit
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 July 13, 1962: Cubs pitcher Cal Koonce one-hit the Reds, giving up a single to Blasingame in a 1–0 Cubs victory. August 6, 1963: Stan Williams of the Yankees one-hit the Senators, giving up a double to Blasingame in a 1–0 Yankee win. August 20, 1963: Moe Drabowsky of the Athletics allowed one hit, a single by Blasingame, in the first game of a doubleheader as the A's won 9–0.September 25, 1965: Mudcat Grant of the Twins one-hit the Senators in the first game of a doubleheader to win, 5–0. <mask>'s double in the third inning was the only hit for Washington. Playing style
Blasingame was a speedy contact hitter, usually the leadoff man for his team. He never hit more than eight home runs in a season but had a .350 on-base percentage in his years with the Cardinals. He also had a reputation for being one of the game's best bunters and spray hitters. In an era where stolen bases were not common, Blasingame finished in the Top 10 in the NL in steals four times despite never stealing more than 21 in a season. His nickname, "Blazer," was a result of his flashy style of play and his swiftness at running the bases.His defense was highly regarded in his days with the Cardinals; retroactively he led the NL in fielding wins (a modern metric that attempts to predict how many more wins a team would have because of the fielding of one of its players) each year from 1956 through 1959. In 1958, Sports Illustrated wrote that Blasingame helped give St. Louis "the tightest defensive play in the league." Later in his career, his


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 defensive abilities apparently declined; Sports Illustrated noted he had trouble making the double play by 1963. At the end of his final season, Blasingame had grounded into fewer double plays per times at bat than any other major leaguer. Only <mask> has since had a lower rate. Player and manager in Japan
Opting to continue his playing career in Japan, Blasingame joined the Nankai Hawks in 1967. The Japanese referred to him by his nickname, "Blazer," because "Blasingame" was tough to pronounce and Blazer fit better in box scores."It sounds snappy and even seems to evoke a spiritually stirring acoustic effect," said a publicity agent for the Hawks. "We ran over obstacle courses for a week and swung hammers and axes and ran up the side of a mountain,” Blasingame described spring training with Nankai. Playing second base for Nankai, he batted .268 with 61 runs scored, 128 hits, 18 doubles, six triples, five home runs, and 28 RBI, stealing five bases but getting caught nine times in 128 games (478 at bats). Next season, he played 134 games (513 at bats) with Nankai, batting .275 with 64 runs, 141 hits, 13 doubles, seven triples, four home runs, and 39 RBI, stealing three bases and getting caught five times. His final season with Nankai, he batted .279 with 46 runs scored, 102 hits, 10 doubles, one triple, six home runs, and 19 RBI in 104 games (365 at bats). Blasingame was surprised to find that the Japanese would actually shove umpires during games (without getting ejected), and he noted they were a lot more casual than


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 180–208–28 (Japanese baseball allows for ties). Post-career
After his time in Japan, Blasingame served as the field coordinator for player development for the Phillies until 1998.He returned to Japan in 1984 and 1991 for old-timer's games. When he retired, he moved to the Scottsdale, Arizona area. Personal life
In 1960, Blasingame married Sara Cooper, a flight attendant for Ozark Air Lines who in 1957 was Miss Missouri. Dancing the Charleston, she won the Talent portion and was a finalist (top 10) in the Miss America Pageant. Sara was the daughter of Walker Cooper, a teammate of Blasingame's on the Cardinals in 1956 and 1957. Cooper said of the marriage, "You know you are getting too old when your daughter marries one of your teammates." Blasingame and his wife had five children: Kent, Brett, Gregg, Dawn, and Cindy. Kent played minor league baseball for three seasons, including two seasons in the Phillies' organization.Gregg was a professional indoor soccer player with the Louisville Thunder of the American Indoor Soccer Association (AISA) from 1984–85, the Tacoma Stars of the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) from 1985–89, and the Atlanta Attack of the AISA in 1989–91 (the league changed its name to National Professional Soccer League in Gregg's final season). While <mask> was in Japan, the family divided the year living there and in the United States. All the kids became fluent in Japanese, which helped Kent out later on when he was a scout in Asia for the Colorado Rockies. Blasingame died at age 73 on April 13, 2005,


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<mask> (January 11, 1807 – October 30, 1889) was a Confederate States Army brigadier general during the American Civil War. Before the war, he was a farmer, produce wholesaler, miller, manufacturer and transporter of goods by wagon and boat. After the war, he was a tenant farmer in Virginia until he regained some of his property in Tennessee. Early life
<mask> was born on January 11, 1807, in Davidson County, Tennessee. He attended Washington College (presumably Washington College Academy, a predecessor of Tusculum College, both of which were founded by Samuel Doak) and Greeneville College, now Tusculum College. After college he became a farmer and merchant of produce and manufactured wares. He distributed those goods from North Carolina to the Mississippi River through an extensive transportation network of wagons and boats that he established.American Civil War
<mask><mask> began his Confederate States Army service as a major on September 11, 1861. Taking advantage of his experience, he served as quartermaster on the staff of Brigadier General Felix Zollicoffer until Zollicoffer was killed at the Battle of Mill Springs <mask> and his Confederate troops spent most of the war pursuing guerrillas and pitching small battles in East Tennessee, eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia and western North Carolina. <mask> served as a paymaster during the Confederate military occupation of Knoxville, Tennessee under the command of then Major General E. Kirby Smith. <mask>'s original appointment as a brigadier general on October 29, 1862, was canceled. He was promoted to brigadier general on February 9, 1863. In April 1863 <mask> was given command of a brigade in the Department of East Tennessee . The brigade had both cavalry troopers and infantry soldiers and the men in the brigade were rotated in and out at various times.In May 1863, <mask>'s brigade briefly was attached to the Army of Tennessee. It took part in several minor battles and skirmishes, pursued deserters, raided into eastern Kentucky and southwestern

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 Virginia, attacking both Union loyalist civilians and perceived bushwackers. General Braxton Bragg, former commander of the Army of Tennessee, criticized <mask> in a May 1864 report because his men were in "miserable order." <mask>'s brigade returned to east Tennessee and was active during Burnside's Knoxville campaign. September 8th it captured 240 men of the 100th Ohio Infantry at the Battle of Telford's Station, at present-day Telford, Tennessee. On 20 September 1863 it was among the Confederates forces attacked in a three-day battle along the area of the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, running from Jonesboro (present day Jonesborough, Tennessee) to a railroad bridge crossing the Watauga River at Carter's Depot (present day Watauga, Tennessee. (After the end of the Civil War, the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad was consolidated with East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad to become the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway).<mask> supported Brigadier General John S. Williams in his retreat after the Battle of Blue Springs on October 10th. Later he helped guard the winter quarters of Lieutenant General James Longstreet's Corps northeast of Knoxville at Russellville, Tennessee during that Corps' detachment to the western theater of the war. <mask>'s brigade was assigned to Major General Robert Ransom Jr's. division between October 1863 and February 1864, Brigadier General Bushrod R. Johnson's division in  February and March 1864, and Major General Simon Buckner's division in April and May 1864. All in the Confederate Trans-Allegheny Department. From September 30, 1864 <mask> and his brigade assisted in the defense of Saltville, Virginia, in the Confederate Department of East Tennessee and West Virginia, successor to the Trans-Allegheny Department, . On November 23, 1864 <mask> was assigned to light staff duty under Major General John C. Breckinridge in the same department .Historian John Stanchak states that this implies the 57-year-old <mask> was in poor health. Postwar years
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 war, <mask> was impoverished and rented land in Washington County, Virginia, which he cultivated with his own hands. President Andrew Johnson granted <mask> a special pardon on November 16, 1865, because of kindness shown by <mask> to Johnson's family in East Tennessee during the war. Because of the pardon, <mask> gradually regained enough of his property to return to Jonesboro, Tennessee. <mask> <mask> died October 30, 1889, at Jonesboro, Tennessee, and is buried there. Nickname controversy
There is a controversy about the nickname Mudwall. While fellow Confederate General William Lowther <mask> from West Virginia (no family relation) has been known as such for a long time it was found by noted historian Garry W. Gallagher that the nickname was originally given to <mask>.It seems the two were mixed up in the Southern Historical Society Papers in 1906 and the error was involuntarily repeated afterwards. Sometimes the name is even attributed to another (likewise not related) Confederate Brigadier, John K<mask>. It is also possible that at times the name was attributed to several of the <mask>s simultaneously. See also

List of American Civil War generals (Confederate)

Notes

References
 Boatner, Mark Mayo, III. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: McKay, 1988. . First published 1959 by McKay. <mask>, John H., and David J<mask>, Civil War High Commands.Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. .
 Sifakis, Stewart. Who Was Who in the Civil War. New York: Facts On File, 1988. .
 Stanchak, John E. "<mask>, <mask>" in Historical Times Illustrated History of the Civil War, edited by Patricia L. Faust. New York: Harper & Row, 1986. .
 Warner, <mask>. Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959. .
 Will the Real "Mudwall" Please Stand Up? (pdf)

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He was born at Boston, Lincolnshire, on 30 January 1819, was son of the Rev. <mask>, minister of a Baptist congregation. In 1834, he was apprenticed to his maternal uncle, a London solicitor; but although he was not inattentive to the duties of the office after obtained a fair knowledge of law, literature and the theatre had much greater attractions for him. His evenings were devoted to the theatre and becoming acquainted with Heraud, Francis Barham, and other members of the group which gathered around James Pierrepont Greaves. He contributed to Heraud's magazine The Sunbeam, and himself became editor of a mystical periodical entitled The Psyche. Among its chief supporters were some wealthy ladies near Cheltenham, Through them he made the acquaintance of Eleanor Jane Potts, eldest daughter of the proprietor of Saunders's News-Letter, who had retired to Cheltenham.She was not, as has been stated, a member of the Earl of Mayo's family. A warm and durable attachment on both sides was the consequence, which resulted in marriage in May 1840, notwithstanding the strongest opposition on the part of the lady's family. <mask> idealised and inverted his love story in his first play, the Patrician's Daughter (1841, 8vo), performed in December 1842. <mask> had already produced a little volume entitled Gerald, a Dramatic Poem, and other Poems (1842, 12mo), respectable, like everything he wrote. Bulwer and Knowles had ceased to write, and for many years Marston was almost the only acted dramatist who wrought with any elevation of purpose. The Heart and the World (1847) was a failure,

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texts: but in 1849 <mask>, laying his theories aside for a time, appeared with a historical drama, Strathmore, which obtained great success, and which he himself regarded as his best work. It has fine literary qualities, although the author's inability to think himself into the age he exhibits constitutes a grave defect.The same may be said of Philip of France and Marie de Meranie (1850), 'a stirring tragedy, of which the verse has an appropriate martial ring,' and in which Helen Faucit produced a great impression. It is based to some extent on G. P. R. James's novel Philip Augustus. In the interim (1862) had appeared Anne Blake, another domestic drama, clever, but marred by such situations and denouements as only occur on the stage. In A Life's Hansom (1857) the domestic and historical elements are in some measure blended, the action being laid at the revolution of 1688. Such a piece might be easily produced by a man of Mareton's literary ability, but his next tragi-comedy, A Hard Struggle (1858), required genuine feeling in the author and great command over the resources of the stage. Being written in prose, it produces a greater impression of reality than his more ambitious efforts; it drew tears and enthusiastic praise from Dickens, and obtained a greater success than any of his pieces, owing in part to the powerful acting of Dillon. After his marriage, Marston lived entirely in London, except for occasional visits to France and short lecturing tours in Scotland and Lancashire.He had become well known in London literary society, especially to Dickens and his circle, and had taken a part in Bulwer's comedy of Not so bad as we seem, acted for the benefit of


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texts: the Guild of Literature and Art. About the same time a tragedy on the history of Montezuma, which would have afforded ample scope for scenic display, was written for and purchased by Charles Kean, but never produced. In 1837, <mask> undertook the editorship of the National Magazine in conjunction with <mask>. The early numbers had excellent contributions from Sydney Dobell, Mrs. Crowe, and other writers of mark, and illustrations after young artists of genius like Arthur Hughes and W. L. Windus, and with adequate capital the enterprise would probably have succeeded. Relinquishing it, and also renouncing vain attempts in fiction, for which, strangely enough, he did not appear to possess the slightest qualification, <mask> returned to the theatre, and produced successively The Wife's Portrait (1862) and Pure Gold (1863), prose dramas of little account; Donna Diana (1863), the best of all his plays, but mainly taken from Moreto's masterpiece, El Desden con el Desden; and The Favourite of Fortune (1866). It achieved a conspicuous success upon its production. The same remark applies to A Hero of Romance, adapted from Octave Feuillet in 1867, and Life for Life (1869), written for Miss Neilson.Broken Spells followed in 1873, but with his last play, Under Fire (1885), he experienced a mortifying failure. The piece was the weakest he ever wrote, and he had entirely lost touch with the time. From about 1863, <mask> contributed much poetical criticism to the Athenæum. The celebrated review of Atalanta in Calydon was written by him. Criticism, indeed, seemed rather his forte than original composition. His theoretical knowledge of the histrionic art was also profound;

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 but though he showed little disposition to cultivate it practically, he was an excellent mimic, and Miss Neilson, like many other actors and actresses, owed much to his tuition. No one judged an actor more accurately, and the admonitions of few were more valuable.He proved his power as a critic of acting in his Our Recent Actors: Recollect ions of late distinguished Performers of both Sexes, 1888. From 1860 to about 1874, Marston's circumstances were prosperous, and his house near the Regent's Park was a favourite meeting-place for poets, actors, and literary men. The latter years of his life were clouded by calamity, especially the successive deaths of his wife in 1870, of his two daughters, Eleanor, wife of Arthur O'Shaughnessy, in February 1879, and Cicely in July 1878, and of his gifted and only son, Philip Bourke <mask>. His circumstances also became much impaired; but his friend Mr. Henry Irving generously organised (1 June 1887) a special performance of Werner for his benefit at the Lyceum Theatre. The full receipts, amounting to £928 16s., were paid to Marston; all the expenses being borne by Mr. Irving. Marston died at his lodgings in the Euston Road, 5 January 1890, after a long illness, and was interred with his wife and children on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery (plot no.28199). References

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<mask> (born Marilyn Adele Dunlap; March 5, 1924 – February 11, 2011) was an American actress, model, and writer who appeared in numerous motion pictures and television programs over four decades. A Hollywood glamour girl in the early part of her career, she is best known today for her work in B-pictures, particularly  film noir and Westerns. Early life and career
<mask>'s mother was silent-film actress Carol Price. <mask> entered show business when she was 16 as a dancer  with the Earl Carroll Revue. Her film debut came in A Night at Earl Carroll's (1940), after which she appeared in Ziegfeld Girl (1941), Raiders of Red Gap (1943), Up in Arms (1943), and Show Business (1944). She began making dramatic appearances in several Western films with Hoot Gibson and Bob Steele, and later had a supporting role with Van Johnson in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944). Following a move to RKO Studios in 1949 she starred opposite Ronald Reagan in The Girl from Jones Beach and later secured a recurring role in The Falcon film series opposite Tom Conway.She also had parts in such films as The Spiral Staircase (1945), The Locket (1946), Step by Step (1946), Fighting Father Dunne (1948), Guns of Hate (1948), The Lost Tribe (1949), Destination Murder (1950), and Reunion in Reno (1951). She was a familiar face in film noir, playing glamour girls, gold diggers, and “tough broads” in such well-regarded pictures as Nocturne (1946), The Locket (1946), and The Strip (1951), including a featured role as a femme fatale in the 1951 B-picture Destination Murder. <mask> later became a household name in television appearing on such programs as Gang Busters, Lux Video Theatre, Crusader, Dragnet, The Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Maverick, Pete and Gladys, Batman, Hazel, The Donna Reed Show, and The Texan. Her last film appearance was in Buddy Buddy (1981) as well as an uncredited appearance in

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