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 front in northern Virginia. That summer, four more companies were added to the battalion, amounting to ten companies as required for a full regiment. The unit was designated, on September 3, 1862, the 32nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. The regiment became part of the V Corps in the Army of the Potomac. Over the course of 1862, <mask> commanded Company F in combat during the battles of Second Bull Run, Antietam and Fredericksburg. In 1863, he participated in the battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Mine Run.In 1864, still in command of a company in the 32nd Massachusetts, <mask> saw action in the Overland Campaign, a series of battles aimed at grinding down the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and taking the Confederate capital of Richmond. The Overland Campaign ended in a stalemate and resulted in the long Siege of Petersburg. Regimental command
Because several of the senior officers of the 32nd Massachusetts were killed or wounded in the course of the Overland Campaign and the Siege of Petersburg, <mask> was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the summer of 1864 and took command of the regiment at the end of September. He would command the regiment for the remainder of its service. In late March 1865, the Confederate army abandoned its siege lines at Petersburg and retreated towards western Virginia, bringing about the Appomattox Campaign and, ultimately, the end of the war. It was during this campaign, on April 2, 1865, that <mask> distinguished himself in the wake of the Battle of Five Forks. The battle, having taken place on April 1, 1865, forced the Confederates to begin their retreat from Petersburg and Richmond.That night, <mask> was placed in command of a brigade of skirmishers and ordered to lead the pursuit of the retreating Confederate army. Deploying his brigade under the eye of Major General Philip Sheridan, <mask> pushed his men rapidly westward, covering many miles of ground and overtaking hundreds of Confederates in the course of their retreat as well as significant amounts of Confederate supplies.

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 On January 18, 1867, President <mask> nominated <mask> for the award of the honorary grade of brevet brigadier general, United States Volunteers, to rank from April 1, 1865, for distinguished services during the campaign against Richmond, and for especial gallantry at the battle of Five Forks, Virginia, and the U.S. Senate confirmed the award on February 21, 1867. Over the next week, the Union cavalry and V Corps (including <mask>'s 32nd Massachusetts) pursued the Confederates, forcing their surrender at the Battle of Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Near the close of the battle, <mask> spotted through his field glasses a white flag of truce. Riding forward, <mask> ascertained that the flag was born by a Confederate staff officer who wished to communicate a message to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant that Confederate General Robert E. Lee wished to discuss terms of surrender. After the close of the war, <mask> was mustered out of service with the rest of the 32nd Massachusetts on June 29, 1865.Post-war life
Immediately after the war, Brevet Brig. Gen. <mask> dabbled in politics, serving briefly as a representative to the Massachusetts General Court in 1865. At the close of 1866, he accepted an appointment as Adjutant General of Massachusetts, becoming the commanding general of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. He succeeded the wartime adjutant general, William Schouler and served in that capacity until 1879. In 1882, <mask> became the superintendent of the Massachusetts Soldier's Home in Chelsea, a position he occupied for ten years until his death in Chelsea on July 17, 1892. He was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Gloucester, Massachusetts. See also

List of Massachusetts generals in the American Civil War
Massachusetts in the American Civil War

Notes

References

 Hunt, Roger D. and Brown, Jack R. Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue.Gaithersburg, MD: Olde Soldier Books, Inc., 1990. . External links

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People of Massachusetts in the American Civil War
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title: Junaid Khan (cricketer)

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<mask> (; born 24 December 1989) is a Pakistani international cricketer who bowls left arm fast. He is the first player from Swabi to qualify for the Pakistan national cricket team. His cousin, the leg-spinner Yasir Shah, followed his path later. After an injury to Sohail Tanvir on the eve of the 2011 World Cup, <mask> was called up as his replacement, with no experience in international cricket. <mask> did not play in the tournament, and later made his One Day International debut in April 2011. In June that year <mask> represented Lancashire County Cricket Club in English domestic cricket. In August 2018, he was one of 33 players to be awarded a central contract for the 2018–19 season by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).Career

Sighting
No cricketer had come from Swabi before and <mask> didn't take an interest in cricket initially. He played with tape-ball and was introduced to hard ball set up by his cousin. At age 16 he was measured as the fastest bowler in the NWFP Twenty/20 competition. <mask> said, "Some of my team mates suggested that I should go for the Under 17 trials Abbottabad. I was in two minds but afterwards I was relieved that I attended the trials, as Ehteshamuddin spotted me and told me that I had potential and that I should go to Lahore". Early domestic career
<mask> made his first-class debut on 24 January 2007 at the age of 17. Playing for Abbottabad against Multan, his first wicket was that of Majid Majeed.The match ended in a draw and <mask> finished with four wickets for 57 runs (4/57). For four years he took wickets consistently for his domestic team

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 Abottabad and he was the team's chief strike bowler. He also played for Abbottabad Falcons in the Faysal Bank Twenty20. In the 2008/09 season, <mask> represented the Khan Research Laboratories cricket team and played for them in the final of the 2008/09 Quaid-i-Azam Trophy; he took a single wicket in the match as his team lost to Sialkot. <mask> also played for Pakistan A. In the unofficial Test series between Pakistan A and Sri Lanka A in 2010, <mask> was his team's leading wicket-taker with ten from two matches. Selection into the Pakistan team

Following the recurrence of a knee injury to Sohail Tanvir, the uncapped <mask> was added in Pakistan's squad for the 2011 World Cup.He did not play a single match in the tournament and was forced to wait for his ODI debut. When Pakistan toured the West Indies for two Tests, five ODIs, and a T20I in April and May <mask> was included in the squad. On 21 April, <mask> made his T20I debut and went wicketless in the match. Two days later, <mask>, Mohammad Salman, and Hammad Azam made their ODI debuts against West Indies. Opening the bowling with Wahab Riaz, <mask> conceded 49 runs from 10 overs without taking a wicket. Pakistan won the series 3–2 and <mask> finished with three wickets from five matches, making him the team's fourth highest wicket-taker. His first ODI wicket was that of Marlon Samuels.In May, Pakistan toured Ireland for a two-match ODI series. <mask> was Man of the Match in the first fixture, taking four wickets for twelve runs to help Pakistan to a seven-wicket victory. Pakistan won the series 2–0 and <mask> finished as the

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texts: second-highest wicket-taker for the series with six at an average of 10.83. On the advice of former Pakistan and Lancashire all-rounder Wasim Akram, Lancashire signed <mask> on "modest terms" according to coach Mike Watkinson to play for them in the Friends Life t20 in June with the possibility of playing in the County Championship. Problems with his visa meant <mask>'s Lancashire debut was delayed and it was not until 27 June that he represented Lancashire for the first time in a twenty20 match. Later that month <mask> made his County Championship debut against Durham, stepping in for the injured Farveez Maharoof, Lancashire's other overseas player. While playing for Lancashire he took career best t20 bowling figures of 3/12 against the Derbyshire Falcons.During his spell with the club, <mask> received advice from Akram on how to bowl in English conditions. In August, <mask> was awarded a category C central contract with the Pakistan Cricket Board; six players were in category A, eight in B, and nine (including <mask>) in C. When Pakistan toured Zimbabwe in September for a Test three ODIs and two T20Is, the national selectors took the opportunity to give inexperienced players an opportunity. Frontline bowlers Wahab Riaz and Umar Gul were rested and <mask> was chosen as part of the squad. Although <mask> had helped Lancashire reach t20 finals days, international selection meant that <mask> would be unavailable to take part and would miss the end of the season with the club. On 1 September 2011, <mask> made his Test debut against Zimbabwe; Pakistan's fast bowlers in the match were

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texts: inexperienced, with just one Test cap between them. The coach, Waqar Younis, commented that though <mask> had a successful spell with Lancashire he still had a lot to learn as a Test bowler. <mask>'s sole wicket in the match, which Pakistan won, was that of batsman Craig Ervine caught and bowled.The following month, Pakistan played Sri Lanka in three Test, five ODIs, and a T20I. On the opening day of the Test series, on a pitch suited to batting, <mask> took his maiden five-wicket haul in Tests. Pakistan won the Test series 1–0, and <mask> contributed 12 wickets to the victory. During the fifth ODI he suffered the first injury of his career: a partial tear of the muscles in his abdomen. As a result, he was unable to play for six weeks and missed Pakistan's tour of Bangladesh in November and December. His match winning performance also came during a T20 match against England. <mask> was selected for the ODI squad for Australia's tour of Pakistan in UAE, August–September 2012, playing his first series against Australia.However he was excluded from the T20 side, hence being excluded from the T20 World Cup being held in Sri Lanka in September. This decision was criticised to be unjustified due to the selection of fast bowler Mohammad Sami and his recent performance against Sri Lanka. In December 2012, <mask> was again picked for the series against India and was given a chance in the ODI series and he performed superbly by picking up 4 wickets in the first match (clean bowled Sehwag, Kohli, Yuvraj) and helped in Pakistan win in first ODI and again performed superbly in the second ODI

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 and picked up three wickets including two top order vital wickets of Gambhir and Kohli. In November 2013, despite his injured shin, he successfully defended 9 runs off the final over in Port Elizabeth clinching Pakistan a 1 run win and Pakistan's first bilateral ODI series win against the Proteas. He was also named in the T20I XI by Cricinfo for his performances in 2013. He was also named as part of the 'Team of the Tournament' at the 2017 Champions Trophy by the ICC and Cricbuzz. <mask> also has an impressive record against Sri Lanka, having played 13 games, 7 Tests and 6 ODIs.He has taken all four of his Test five-wicket hauls against Sri Lanka, 2 in the UAE and 2 in SL. His best innings bowling figures of 5/38 was taken against them, as well as best match figures, 8/151. Also, 48 of his international wickets have come against this particular side. He picked up his 50th Test wicket in his 14 Tests by claiming Dinesh Chandimal's wicket in the first Test against them in the UAE, in the 2013/14 season. He was also the highest wicket-taker in the ODI leg of the same tour, having 13 scalps from 5 games. In April 2019, he was named in Pakistan's squad for the 2019 Cricket World Cup. However, on 20 May 2019, he was dropped from Pakistan's squad, after they announced their final team for the tournament.Later domestic career
In April 2018, he was named in Sindh's squad for the 2018 Pakistan Cup. He was the joint-leading wicket-taker for Sindh during the tournament, with six dismissals in three matches. In 2019, he was recalled to the Pakistan team. In September 2019, he was named in


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 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's squad for the 2019–20 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy tournament. Bowling style

<mask> modelled his bowling action on that of fellow left-arm fast-bowler Wasim Akram. He was also influenced by watched clips of Imran <mask> bowling. In his own words, <mask> is "a line and length bowler" and he believes that "if you try to be accurate and you bowl a tight line the wickets will follow."According to <mask>, he usually bowls around . He has the ability to swing the ball into and away from batsmen. <mask> stated that during his time with Lancashire County Cricket Club he learned how to bowl a yorker and how to use swing and seam. <mask> also bowls with an exaggerated skip and jump at the start of his run up. County cricket
<mask> played 8 T20 games for Lancashire in 2011, taking 12 wickets, including a 3–12 spell against Derbyshire. In early 2013, <mask> received offers from three county clubs: Lancashire, Surrey and Sussex. He said he would think about them after the Test series in South Africa, and getting clearance from the PCB.Later on, he turned down all offers to focus on the Champion's Trophy 2013. On 23 April 2014, Lancashire confirmed that <mask> would be returning to play in both the NatWest T20 blast and the Royal London One Day Cup. On 24 July 2015, it was announced by tribune.com.pk that Middlesex had signed <mask> for the 2015 Royal London One-Day Cup. References

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title: Eduard Dietl

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<mask> (21 July 1890 – 23 June 1944) was a German general during World War II who commanded the 20th Mountain Army. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords of Nazi Germany. Military career
Born in 1890, <mask> joined the army on 1 October 1909 as a Fahnenjunker in the 5th Infantry Regiment "Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse" of the Bavarian Army in Bamberg. In World War I, he was deployed on the Western Front and he was wounded October 1914 and October 1918. During the Weimar Republic, he joined the Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei, the precursor to the National Socialist German Workers Party, and the paramilitary group Freikorps of Franz Ritter von Epp in 1919. <mask> continued to serve in the German Army and, as a Generalmajor, he helped organise the 1936 Winter Olympics held at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. <mask> commanded the German 3rd Mountain Division that participated in the German invasion of Norway on 9 and 10 April 1940.Most of this division was landed at Narvik by a German naval force of ten destroyers, commanded by Commodore Friedrich Bonte, subsequently all ten destroyers that had ferried <mask>'s troops to Narvik were sunk in the First and Second Battles of Narvik. <mask>'s mountaineers withdrew into the hills and later retook the town when Britain abandoned her efforts to evict the Germans from Norway due to German success on the Western Front (the Franco-German border, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands). Outnumbered by British, French and Polish forces, his skilful defence utilized ammunition, food and sailors (re-drafted as infantrymen) from the sunken ships. This gained him the nickname "The hero of Narvik". <mask> subsequently commanded German forces in Norway and northern Finland and in Eastern Europe and rose to the rank of Generaloberst, commanding the 20th Mountain Army on the northern Eastern Front, where the results of the German Arctic campaign were disappointing. <mask> initially turned down his

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 promotion, but was convinced to accept the appointment by Generaloberst Alfred Jodl. Death
On 23 June 1944, the Ju 52 aircraft carrying <mask>, General der Infanterie Thomas-Emil von Wickede, General der Gebirgstruppe Karl Eglseer, Generalleutnant der Gebirgstruppe Franz Rossi and three other passengers crashed in the vicinity of the small village of Rettenegg, Styria.There were no survivors. Until 1997, the municipality of Ringelai in the Bavarian Forest honoured <mask> with a memorial plaque. In 1977, the site changed into one honoring World War I veteran Albert Leo Schlageter instead. The Bavarian town Freyung honoured <mask> by naming a street General-Dietl-Straße. Assessment
<mask> was sent to Finland designated to be the "Hero in the snow" (to be a counterpart to Rommel who would be the "Hero in the sun", also given a secondary theatre leaving the main stage to Hitler). A convinced National Socialist and one of Hitler's favourite generals, he was the first German soldier to receive, on 19 June 1940, the oak leaves cluster to the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. <mask> was also popular among his men and his Finnish allies.Klaus Schmider remarks that <mask> had too much political baggage to compensate for his admirable record as a mountain troops leader. As a young officer, he refused to assist the civil government in crushing the 1923 coup attempt. He was also a founding member of the NSDAP. What has led the Bundeswehr and the German federal government to reverse honours towards <mask>, though, is his recently discovered view on marriages between Scandinavian women and his soldiers, which was "extreme even by the standards of the Third Reich": after <mask> circulated an order that called Norwegian and Finnish women "racial flotsam", Himmler himself had to intervene to rescind it. Awards

 Prince Regent Luitpold Medal (Bavaria; 12 March 1911)
 Iron Cross (1914) 2nd class (16 September 1914) & 1st class (3 September 1916)
 General Honour Decoration (Hesse)

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title: Arthur Waldron

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<mask> (born December 13, 1948) is an American historian. Since 1997, <mask> has been the Lauder Professor of International Relations in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He works chiefly on Asia, China in particular, often with a focus on the origins and development of nationalism, and the study of war and violence in general. Early life
<mask> was born in Boston on December 13, 1948. <mask> studied at the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut and Winchester College in England. He attended Harvard College from which he graduated summa cum laude in 1971, receiving the Sophia Freund Prize, given to the student ranked academically highest in his class. In 1981 he received a Ph.D. in history, also from Harvard.<mask> is a founder and vice president of the International Assessment and Strategy Center in Washington DC. He is a former director of Asian studies with the American Enterprise Institute, a director of the American Association of Chinese Studies, a member of the Board of the Jamestown Foundation, Washington, D.C., and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to arriving at the University of Pennsylvania, <mask> taught at, the U.S. Naval War College, and Princeton University, and as adjunct professor of East Asian Studies at Brown University. In 2003-2004 he was Visiting Professor of History, at the  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. <mask> has lived and studied in China, Japan, Taiwan, France, England, and the former Soviet Union, where he earned a certificate in Russian language proficiency. He occasionally consults for the U.S. government, and was a founding member of the Congressional US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (2000-) as well as one of twelve outside experts on the top-secret Tilelli Commission (2000-2001) which evaluated the CIA’s China operations.He has represented the United States in “track two” meetings with Korea, Taiwan,

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 China, Japan and Russia. Research
<mask> studied Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) history at Harvard, during which he focused on why the relationship between the sedentary Ming and the nomadic Mongols who lived to the north often turned hostile. This led him to study the two debates over the recovery of the northwest loop of the Yellow River, known as the Ordos Loop. The debates are called in Chinese fu tao yi (復套議) and were the topic of his Ph.D dissertation. After additional research, mostly undertaken at Princeton, this thesis culminated in his first book, The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth, which drew upon extensive documentary research to show that although multiple walls had been built at various times, the Ming Wall had given rise to the idea of the "Great Wall"—which turned out to be a constantly evolving compound of fact and myth, as well in recent times as a potent patriotic symbol. According to <mask>'s book, actual wall building was best understood as an aspect of larger frontier strategy, never a single grand project in itself. Also while at Princeton <mask> began working on the history and diplomacy of the early Republican (pre-Nationalist) period in China.A major source was the papers of John Van Antwerp MacMurray, who served as U.S. minister to China in the 1920s until his 1929 resignation. In 1992, Waldron published MacMurray's memorandum of 1935, which foresaw the coming of conflict between the United States and Japan and was greatly esteemed by such later diplomats as George F. Kennan, with introduction and notes. Parallel research on China during the same period—that of the "Warlords" or junfa (軍閥), a term often taken as indigenous but that <mask> has demonstrated is borrowed from Japanese Marxist writings —produced his third book, From War to Nationalism, in 1995. This presents a novel argument showing how the large-scale but almost entirely unstudied Second Zhili-Fengtian War of

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 1924 (his was the first book in any language, Chinese included, to analyze the conflict) so utterly disrupted the existing political and power structures of China as to create a vacuum, along with the conditions for the emergence, in the following year, of the radical nationalist May Thirtieth Movement. That war brought the demise of much that had been standard in Chinese politics and international relations, often since the nineteenth century, while opening the way for the mass, strongly leftist, and nationalist politics (the phrase "Chinese nationalism" dramatically enters the English vocabulary in 1925) that becomes increasingly strong thereafter, ultimately bringing Communist rule in 1949. Building on his War College experience, <mask> has continued at the University of Pennsylvania to research and teach comparative warfare and strategic analysis, ranging the world and recorded history, while also, in keeping with Sinological training, offering seemingly more conventional courses on Asian and Chinese history and culture, often dealing with the complex webs of causes that produce nationalism and related phenomena. His most recent publications have dealt with issues of Chinese patriotism, national identity, and military tactics in the Second World War.<mask>'s research interests include twentieth century Chinese history, China's policies toward and conflicts with her neighbors, and Asian international relations. He is currently working on a study of the attempts to create a constitutional order in the aftermath of the Qing Dynasty. Political views
<mask> is a frequent commentator and critic of the Chinese government and American foreign policy towards China. He has called American China policy since 1978 "[o]ur greatest foreign policy failure." In 2000, he "oppose[d] the grant of permanent normal trade relations for the People’s Republic of China." He recommends that "[r]ather than search pointlessly

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 for understanding, win-win propositions, etc....it is time to hammer them in private on rights and military behavior." He co-signed an open letter to Donald Trump in support of the Trump Administration's China policy.He has compared China's foreign policy with that of Germany leading up to World War I, calling it a "Griff nach der Weltmacht, with Chinese characteristics." <mask> has claimed that in China "[t]he pollution might kill your infants; the hospitals are terrible, the food is adulterated, the system corrupt and unpredictable" and that the "disintegration of the People’s Republic of China is now under way.” During the Covid-19 pandemic, he suggested the possibility that the virus originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. As a deterrent against China, in 2021 he proposed the nuclear armament of China's neighbors: "I believe just as Britain and France have a nuclear deterrent independent of the U.S., so should Japan, Australia and perhaps Taiwan and South Korea, which also face direct nuclear threats." Personal life
<mask> is married; he and his wife have two sons. Bibliography
 The Great Wall of China: from History to Myth (1989); ebook edition
 The Modernization of Inner Asia (Ed. )(1991)
 Zhong-Xi wenhua yu jiaohui daxue 中西文化與教會大學 [Chinese and Western Culture and Denominational Colleges in China] (Ed.) (1991)
 How the Peace Was Lost: The 1935 Memorandum “Developments Affecting American Policy in the Far East” (1992)
 From War to Nationalism: China’s Turning Point 1924-1925 (1995); 2003 pbk edition
 Zhongguo jiaohui daxue shi luncong 中國教會大學史論叢 [Essays on the History of Denominational Colleges in China](Ed.)(1995)
 The People in Arms: Military Myth and National Mobilization since the French Revolution (Ed.) (2003); 2006 pbk edition
 The Chinese (forthcoming)

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University of Pennsylvania faculty
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title: Pat O'Connor (wrestler)

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<mask>'Connor (22 August 1924 – 16 August 1990), was a New Zealand amateur and professional wrestler. Regarded as one of the premier workers of his era, O'Connor held the AWA World Heavyweight Championship and NWA World Heavyweight Championship simultaneously, the latter of which he held for approximately two years. He was also the inaugural AWA World Heavyweight Champion. He is an overall two-time world champion. Early life
<mask>'Connor was born on 22 August 1924 in Raetihi, New Zealand, to parents John Frederick and Isabella. While he attended high school at Feilding Agricultural High School, he also helped tend to the sheep and cattle on his parents' farm. He later attended Massey Agricultural College, and later served for six months in the New Zealand Royal Air Force in 1945.Amateur wrestling career
Before entering the world of professional wrestling, O'Connor was an amateur wrestler. He trained under Dave Sparrow, and later Don Anderson, while working as a blacksmith to pay the bills. After a tournament in 1947, he joined the Wellington wrestling team and trained under Anton Koolmann. In 1948, he represented New Zealand in the Pan American games. O'Connor won the New Zealand Heavyweight Championship in amateur wrestling in both 1949 and 1950. The 1949 win earned him entry into the 1950 British Empire Games. At the Empire Games, O'Connor, once again representing New Zealand, won a silver medal winner in the (freestyle) heavyweight division.He later trained to be a professional wrestler under Len Levy. Professional wrestling career

National Wrestling Alliance

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 Moto for the World Wrestling Association's WWA World Tag Team Championship on 24 September 1968. They lost the title on 26 October to the same team. Late career
On 13 October 1970, O'Connor was introduced as Jim Crockett Promotions's first NWA Eastern States Heavyweight Champion as part of a storyline to introduce the title.The title was later awarded to the Missouri Mauler with the announcement that Mauler won it in New York. On 1 January 1982, O'Connor was part of the card that comprised promoter Sam Muchnick's last professional wrestling show, located in St. Louis. O'Connor was also one of the owners of the St. Louis Wrestling Club. O'Connor, along with Verne Gagne, Harley Race, and Bob Geigel purchased the territory from Sam Muchnick the day after Muchnick's retirement. On 18 September 1963, O'Connor was named as a co-conspirator in the monopoly that controlled professional wrestling in Missouri, Kansas, and Iowa. O'Connor filed a counterclaim. On 16 November 1987, O'Connor participated in a World Wrestling Federation "old-timers" battle royal, which was won by Lou Thesz.Death
O'Connor died of cancer on 16 August 1990. In December 1990, World Championship Wrestling held the <mask>'Connor Memorial International Cup Tag Team Tournament, an eight-team international tag team memorial tournament at Starrcade in honor of O'Connor. In 1996, he was inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame. In 2007, the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame inducted O'Connor. He is also a member of the Stampede Wrestling Hall of Fame. In 2016, O'Connor became a "Legacy" member of the WWE Hall


title: Ackim Musenge

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<mask> (born 7 October 1949) is a former Zambian footballer and coach. Renowned for his exceptional defensive ability and versatility, <mask> is rated as one of the finest defenders to have played for the Zambia national team, which he captained at the 1978 African Cup of Nations in Ghana. He later coached Mufulira Wanderers and several other club sides. Early life
<mask> was born on 7 October 1949 in Mufulira. His father Diamond Musenge was a carpenter while his mother Eness was a house-wife. He was the first born in a family of seven of which four were boys. His brother Japhen also played for Wanderers.He attended Mufulira Mine School and later Kantanshi Secondary School. Playing career

Butondo Western Tigers
At the age of 15 Musenge joined Zambian Division II side Butondo Western Tigers, one of the teams sponsored by Mufulira Division of Roan Copper Mines. He later formed part of the first Zambia School’s national team which was coached by John Green and managed by King George High School teacher Glyn Peters. During his time with Zambia Schools, Musenge played in high-profile friendly matches against English youth teams such as West Ham United, Ipswich Town and Derby County youth teams. At Tigers, <mask> who started off as an attacking midfielder and occasionally played on the right wing, was a regular goal scorer. In 1966, he helped the team gain promotion to Division I and went on to become captain. In 1969, he scored 18 goals in all competitions.In the early '70s, Samuel "Zoom" Ndhlovu, who was Wanderers' coach but would also double as Tigers coach from time to time since they shared the same sponsor, noticed some defensive qualities in <mask>'s play and converted him into a defender to shore up a leaky defence. In April 1975, <mask> was transferred to Wanderers along with Brines Mulenga and Gerald Mungule. This was a controversial move in that Tigers alleged that they were being victimised by mine management who ordered them to surrender the three players to Wanderers who in turn gave Tigers three reserve

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 players. Tigers officials protested to the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) to no avail, and labelled mine management "pro-Wanderers. Many have pointed to this forced transfer of Tigers' best players as what led to the decline in the team's fortunes. Mufulira Wanderers
His transition to Wanderers was seamless as <mask> held his own in a very successful team which had a bevy of stars. He made his debut on 20 April 1975 in a league match at Shinde Stadium against Ndola United which Wanderers won 2–0.His versatility was such that he could play right across the backline and that made him very popular with fans. He settled in the centre-back position and was a good reader of the game, unbeatable in the air and always calm. His first piece silverware was the 1975 Independence Cup when Wanderers beat Green Buffaloes 2–1. In December of that same year, confusion reigned when Buffaloes registered 'Ackim Musenge' for the following years' East and Central African Club championship and Wanderers were up in arms, accusing Buffaloes of poaching their player. It turned out that the player registered by Buffaloes was an 18-year-old cousin of the Wanderers star, who coincidentally shared the same name with him. Musenge won two league titles in 1976 and 1978 and was runner-up in 1975 and 1977 both times to Green Buffaloes. He also won the Heroes & Unity Cup in 1976, 2 Charity Shields in 1976 and 1977 and was a three-time winner of the Champion of Champions trophy in 1976, 1977 and 1978.One of the most disciplined players around, <mask> was appointed Wanderers captain in 1977, the same year in which he was named captain of the national team. In 1979, <mask> suffered a broken leg at that years' CECAFA tournament in a 2–2 draw with Tanzania, which would keep him out of action for more than a season. He attempted a comeback in 1981 but a nagging knee injury forced him to quit for good after being operated on. National team
<mask> was first called to the national team by John Green as a 19-year-old in 1968 and made his debut when

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 Zambia played a friendly match against Tanzania on 24 October 1968, in preparation for a World Cup qualifier against Sudan. Due to the superb pairing of Dickson Makwaza and Dick Chama at the heart of Zambia's defence, <mask> would spend some time as a squad player without seeing much action. In a CAN 1972 qualifier in Kinshasa in June 1971 which Zambia lost 3–0, <mask> replaced midfielder Richard Stephenson as a second-half substitute and when he did cement a regular spot in the team, it was as a left-back. He was in the team that beat Morocco 4–0 in October 1973 in a World Cup qualifier and was also in the Zambian team that defeated Nigeria 7–4 in aggregate after a 5–1 first leg victory in Lusaka, to qualify to CAN 1974.He featured at the tournament in March 1974 where Zambia reached the final only to lose to Zaire after a replay. After the retirement of first Makwaza and then Chama in the mid-'70s, <mask> assumed the central defence position and was named captain in January 1977. He led Zambia to the CAN 1978 where they were ejected in the first round. <mask> fractured his leg in November 1979 at that years' CECAFA tournament and this ended his national team career. After a long lay-off, he attempted a comeback in October 1981 but a knee injury, which required an operation brought down the curtain on his playing career. Coaching career
<mask> began coaching at a young age. He was player-coach during his time at Butondo as they did not have a coach so the players trained themselves and used the expertise of Ndhlovu from time to time.After his career-ending injury, <mask> returned to Butondo as a coach and was then appointed Wanderers assistant coach to Ndhlovu in 1983. He also coached the Zambia U-16 team in 1984 which featured a young Charles Musonda. The team fell by the wayside one match short of the World Youth Cup finals in China. <mask> attended a coaching course in East Germany in 1985 and when Ndhlovu was promoted to oversee all mine-sponsored football teams, <mask> became Wanderers head coach, winning

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 the Heroes & Unity Cup and the Champion of Champions Cup in his first season. In 1991, <mask> was appointed assistant national team coach to Ndhlovu, along with Freddie Mwila, Emmanuel Musakabantu and George Mungwa for the regional CECAFA tournament in Sudan which Zambia won after beating Kenya 2–0 in the final, despite not fielding any of their big name players. He was also part of the technical bench at CAN 1992 where Zambia lost in the quarter-finals to eventual winners Ivory Coast. The coaching team was dropped and a disillusioned <mask> packed his bags and headed for Botswana where he coached Nico United in Selebi Phikwe.He found other Zambian coaches there like Dick Chama at BDF and Freddie Mwila at Township Rollers. The Zambian coaches made such an impact there that the trio were included in the BFA technical committee. <mask> won the Independence Cup in his first season at Nico United and stayed with the team for 6 seasons with their best showing in the league being a second-place finish. He then moved to TAFIC of Francistown in 1998 and won the President's Cup in his first season. Two years later he moved to Army side Continental Aces and after two years, moved to Boteti Young Fighters of Orapa in 2003. The following year, he returned to TAFIC and after 13 years in Botswana decided to return to Zambia. He joined Zambia National Service-sponsored Young Green Eagles in Kafue and helped the team win promotion to Division I.In appreciation of this, the ZNS command transferred him to Green Eagles in Kabwe where he worked with coach Jim Mwale in guiding the team to the Super Division. After four years, Musenge parted company with Eagles in 2011 and retired to his farm in Nyimba. Personal life
Musenge is married to Christine and they have three children; Hector, Wendy and Diana. References

External links

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1949 births
Living people
Zambian footballers
Zambia international footballers
1978 African Cup of Nations players
Association football defenders
Zambian football managers
People from

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<mask> (born 16 January 1984) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a striker. He started his career with Celtic before moving on to West Bromwich Albion and Swansea City, where he had loan spells with several Football League clubs. He then had mostly short spells with Heart of Midlothian, St Johnstone, Barnet, Dundee, Ayr United, Stirling Albion, Edinburgh City and Elgin City. He gained seven caps for the Scotland national football team scoring once, and also represented the nation at U19, U21 and B levels. Club career

Youth career
<mask> trained with Heart of Midlothian at under-12 level before starting his career as a schoolboy with Rangers. After being released by manager Dick Advocaat, he joined Celtic. Celtic
During a Celtic under-19 pre-season friendly against prominent Irish side Derry City, <mask> scored all six goals in a 6–0 win.He went on to make his senior debut aged 19 on 6 August 2003, as a substitute in a UEFA Champions League qualifying round 1–0 victory against FBK Kaunas. He made his league debut on 16 August against Dundee United. In his debut season he made 17 appearances, including starting in the UEFA Cup match against Barcelona. After scoring four goals near the end of the 2004–05 season he was awarded a new three-year contract in July 2005. He started the 2005–06 season by becoming the first Scot since Gerry Creaney to score in three consecutive games for Celtic. He netted seven goals in the first three months of the season. He appeared as substitute in 43 games and had 22 starts which limited his Celtic career goal tally to 16.His last appearance for Celtic came in the Scottish Cup final against Dunfermline on 26 May 2007 in a 1–0 win. His last Celtic goal

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 came some months earlier against Aberdeen on 17 February 2007 in a 2–1 win. West Bromwich Albion
On 3 July 2007 <mask> signed a three-year contract with Championship side West Bromwich Albion for an initial fee of £1.25 million with an added £500,000 depending on performance-related add-ons. He scored his first hat-trick for the team on 4 August 2007 in a friendly against Dutch side SC Heerenveen. <mask> made his competitive Albion debut in a 2–1 defeat away at Burnley on 11 August, the opening day of the 2007–08 season. Three days later he scored his first competitive goal for the club, as Albion beat AFC Bournemouth 1–0 in the League Cup. In his debut season he made 26 appearances scoring four times, before going on loan to Preston in March 2008.On his return to West Brom he made his Premier League debut on 16 August 2008 against Arsenal as a substitute. West Brom manager Tony Mowbray stated that he would not stand in <mask>'s way should he seek a move away from the Hawthorns and after just three appearances he was sent out on loan to Crystal Palace. On his return <mask> scored his first Premier League goal on 28 December 2008, against Tottenham Hotspur. His return was brief and he was sent on loan to Sheffield United. His final game for West Brom came on 26 August 2009 in the League Cup scoring twice in their 4–3 win over Rotherham. In all he made 41 appearances scoring 7 times. Loan deals
<mask> moved to Preston North End on 4 March 2008, on loan until the end of the season.He made his Preston debut later that day in a 1–0 win away at Leicester City, but was substituted after 38 minutes due to a muscle injury, later revealed to be a double hamstring tear. <mask> returned to West Brom early in order to

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 receive treatment for the injury and was expected to miss the rest of the season. He made a rapid recovery however, and returned to Preston for the final two games of the loan spell, making one further appearance as a substitute. In September 2008, <mask> joined Crystal Palace on a month-long loan, making his debut on 27 September against Ipswich. He scored on his second appearance to give them a victory over Charlton Athletic in the South London derby. The loan was later extended until 28 December 2008, however due to an injury to Ishmael Miller and some goal-scoring success at Palace, <mask> was recalled by West Bromwnich Albion on 10 December. In all he made 15 appearances scoring five times.<mask> joined Sheffield United on a three-month loan in February 2009, making his debut a day later, appearing as a second-half substitute in a 2–2 draw away at Plymouth Argyle. <mask> made 16 appearances for United that season, all but three of them from the bench. He scored one goal in the process, netting the fourth in a 4–2 home win over Derby County in March. He played in all three of the team's play-off games at the end of the season, including the Final at Wembley Stadium, but with the club failing to clinch promotion he subsequently returned to his parent club. Swansea City
On 27 August 2009, <mask> joined Swansea City as a replacement for departed striker Jason Scotland signing a three-year contract for a £800,000 fee. He scored his first goal on 17 October 2009 against Ipswich Town. He scored in his next game for Swansea against previous club West Bromwich Albion on 20 October.he scored his third goal of the season with a free-kick against Scunthorpe United on 31 October. A year and a half after signing,

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 <mask> scored his first goal at the Liberty Stadium in a 2–1 defeat at the hands of Portsmouth on 26 November 2010. On 4 December 2010, he scored two goals against Ipswich Town. <mask> scored his fourth goal of the season with the winner against Middlesbrough after Swansea came back from 3–1 down to beat 'Boro 4–3. In October 2011 he was sent on loan to Watford to gain match time after recovering from an ankle injury. After his return Swansea announced on 20 January 2012 that <mask> had been released from his contract by mutual consent. Watford (loan)

On 24 October 2011 <mask> joined Championship side Watford on loan until 8 January 2012.He made his debut on 5 November as a substitute against Middlesbrough. After an injury hit start at Watford, <mask> started only one game which was a 2–2 draw against Bristol City. He scored Watford's second goal of the game heading in from close range past David James. In all he made four appearances for Watford scoring once and struggled to break into the side with Troy Deeney, Chris Iwelumo, Marvin Sordell and Joe Garner restricting his first team opportunities. Return to Scotland
Despite interest from other SPL sides and being poised to sign for Kilmarnock on 23 February 2012 he signed for Hearts until the end of the season. He chose the number 4 which is unusual for a striker. The vacant numbers were 4, 14, 16 and 37 which he wore at Celtic but he chose 4.Having not played a competitive game in two months he missed the game against Dundee United on 25 February as was not match fit. After scoring twice in a bounce game, he made his debut as a substitute on 3 March against Rangers in a 2–1 win at Ibrox. He scored his first goal for Hearts in a 2–2 draw with St Mirren


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 in the Scottish Cup 6th round at Tynecaste on 10 March. He had a second goal in the same match wrongfully ruled out for offside. In just his second league appearance for the club he scored his first league goal against local rivals Hibernian in a 2–0 win. This goal made it 2 goals in 3 games for <mask>. On 15 April 2012, he set up the first goal and scored the winning penalty in a 2–1 win over Celtic in the Scottish Cup Semi Final.After the goal <mask> got booked for taking his shirt off and his impromptu lap of honour. He went on to appear as a substitute as Hearts beat Hibernian 5–1 in the final. In his short spell he quickly became a fans favourite. The club offered him a new deal on lesser terms however he turned this down and on 6 July 2012, the club confirmed his departure. In all he made nine appearances, scoring three times. Upon leaving Hearts, <mask> had trial spells at South African side Bidvest Wits and Scottish Third Division side Rangers, who offered <mask> a contract however the deal fell through. On 10 August 2012, he signed a one-year contract with St Johnstone.On 29 September 2012, <mask> made his debut, coming on as a substitute, in a 3–1 win over Dundee. However, <mask> first team well down the pecking order at St Johnstone, with strikers like Grégory Tadé, Nigel Hasselbaink, Rowan Vine and Steve MacLean took his spot. In the January transfer window, <mask> was linked with a move to League One side Notts County going on trial but returned to St Johnstone after Keith Curle said his lack of fitness was the reason he could not offer a loan deal. On 24 January 2013, after only four appearances he left the club by mutual consent. Barnet
On 10 February 2013, <mask> signed for Football League

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 Two side Barnet. He made his debut on 16 February when he started in a 2–1 away win at York City. After five appearances and no goals, he was released at the end of the 2012–13 season.In the 2013–14 pre-season he went on trial with Alloa Athletic, and later with Scunthorpe United, scoring in a friendly against Frickley Athletic, but was not offered a contract. He also went on trial with Scottish Premiership side Partick Thistle in August. Dundee
Beattie signed for Scottish Championship side Dundee on 11 September 2013. Three days after signing for the club, <mask> made his debut for the club, in a 0–0 draw against Hamilton Academical. <mask> scored his first goal of the season, on 28 September 2013, in a 3–1 win over Greenock Morton. After making a good start, scoring three goals, <mask>, however, sustained a knee injury After an operation, it was announced that <mask> would be out for three months. After <mask> returned to action, new manager Paul Hartley said he thought Beattie would have a big role to play.He made his first appearance since his injury, coming on as a substitute, in a 1–0 win over Dumbarton. <mask> scored in his first start, a 3–0 win over Alloa on 26 April 2014. After helping the club gain promotion to the Scottish Premiership, <mask> expressed concerns over his future at Dundee. It was confirmed by the club in May 2014 that his contract would not be renewed. Malta and return to Scotland
<mask> signed for Maltese Premier League side Żebbuġ Rangers on 18 August 2014, on a one-year deal, with the option of a further year. In the beginning of September, after less than two weeks with Żebbuġ Rangers, <mask> signed for Scottish League One club, Ayr United. At the end of the 2014–15 season,

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 <mask> was released by The Honest Men.In what was described as a "shock move", <mask> subsequently signed for recently relegated Scottish League Two club Stirling Albion, however, <mask> departed at the end of the 2015–16 season, after 23 appearances and scoring six goals. In July 2016, <mask> became the highest profile summer signing for newly promoted Scottish League Two club Edinburgh City. <mask> spent two seasons with the Citizens before departing in May 2018. Shortly after leaving Edinburgh, he signed for Elgin City on a one-year deal. <mask> left the club in January 2019.

International career
<mask> made his full Scotland international debut as a 76th-minute substitute in a draw against Italy on 3 September 2005. He went on to score his first goal in a 2–1 victory against Georgia. In all he made seven appearances between 2005 and 2007, scoring once.Personal life
<mask> was born in Glasgow and attended Chryston High School. In April 2014, he was declared bankrupt after finding himself with debts of £70,000. His actions on his money problem resulted him being praised by his accountant. As of 2021 he had taken on an administrative role as 'Members Services Officer' at the footballers' union PFA Scotland. Career statistics

Club

International
Scores and results list Scotland's goal tally first, score column indicates score after <mask> goal. Honours
Celtic
 Scottish Premier League: 2003–04, 2005–06, 2006–07
 Scottish Cup: 2003–04, 2006–07

West Bromwich Albion
 Football League Championship: 2007–08

Hearts
 Scottish Cup: 2011–12

Dundee
 Scottish Championship: 2013–14

References

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1984 births
Living people
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Scottish footballers
Scotland youth international


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<mask> (和凝) (898 – July 23, 955), courtesy name Chengji (成績), formally the Duke of Lu (魯公), was an official of the five "dynasties" of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period (Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han, and Later Zhou) as well as the Khitan Liao state, serving as a chancellor during the reigns of both emperors of Later Jin (Shi Jingtang and Shi Chonggui), as well as during Liao's brief occupation of central China. Background
<mask>ng was born in 898, during the reign of Emperor Zhaozong of Tang. His family was from Xuchang (須昌, in modern Tai'an, Shandong). He claimed ninth-generation ancestry from <mask>o (), an imperial censor during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, early during Tang. However, his male-line ancestors were not in prominent governmental services after that, including his great-grandfather <mask> (), grandfather <mask>u (), and father <mask> (). <mask> was said to be a drinker who lacked adherence to social protocols, and was not learned, but was said to respect scholars such that he spent his wealth in receiving and aiding them. (This suggested that <mask> was a man of some wealth.)<mask>ng himself was said to be intelligent and dextrous in his youth, and also had a handsome appearance. He was also studious, and it was said that he read books quickly and could understand their basics even when reading quickly. During Later Liang
When <mask>ng was 16 (914) — by which time Tang had fallen, and <mask>ng's home territory

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texts: was under the rule of Tang's successor state Later Liang — he was set to submit to the imperial examinations in the Mingjing class. When he went to the capital Daliang to do so, however, he dreamed of a man who gave him a number of five-colored pens, and stating to him, "You, son, have such great talent; why do you not submit yourself for the Jinshi class?" (Jinshi was a more prestigious class of imperial examinations than Mingjing.) It was said that after that dream, <mask> became even more impressive academically, and in 916, at age 18, he passed the imperial examinations in the Jinshi class. After <mask> passed the imperial examinations, then-military governor (Jiedushi) of Xuanyi Circuit (宣義, headquartered in modern Anyang, Henan), <mask> (賀瓌 — note different surname despite their identical rendition), who had heard of him by reputation, invited him to serve on staff.While serving on staff, <mask>ng also became known for his capability in archery. As of late 918, <mask> was the supreme commander of the Later Liang troops against Later Liang's archrival to the north, Jin. Around new year 919, Jin's prince Li Cunxu, wanting to carry out a decisive attack to destroy Later Liang, crossed the Yellow River and tried to head for Daliang. <mask> tried to intercept him, and the armies engaged at Huliu Slope (胡柳陂, in modern Heze, Shandong). Both armies suffered tremendous losses during the battle. At one point during the battle, <mask>'s army had suffered a crushing defeat, and

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 no one was left to follow him other than <mask>ng. <mask>, believing doom to be coming, stated to <mask>ng, "Son, do not follow me.You should strive for yourself." <mask>ng wept and responded, "It is not my aspiration to be a man who was trusted by another but who then abandons him in disaster. I only would regret not dying in the right place." When a Jin cavalry soldier subsequently did try to chase <mask> down, <mask>ng first tried to scare him off but when the soldier persisted, <mask>ng fired an arrow and killed him. When they returned to headquarters the next day, <mask> told his sons, "Yesterday, but for Lord <mask>, I would not be here. Lord <mask> is capable in both civilian and military matters, and also has great ambition. He will surely be in an important position in the future.You should serve him carefully." <mask> thereafter gave <mask>ng a daughter in marriage, leading to <mask>ng's reputation becoming known. He later served three terms as secretary to military governors. During Later Tang
During the subsequent Tiancheng era (926-930), during the reign of Li Siyuan (Li Cunxu's adoptive brother) as emperor of Later Tang (as Li Cunxu's Jin state had been transformed into Later Tang, and then destroyed Later Liang), <mask>ng was recalled to the imperial government, then at Luoyang, to serve as an imperial censor with the title of Dianzhong Shi Yushi (), and then served successively as Yuanwailang () at the ministries of rites (禮部, Libu) and justice (刑部,

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 Xingbu). He later served as Zhuke Yuanwailang () at the ministry of rites but was also simultaneous put in charge of drafting edicts. Not long after, he was promoted to be an imperial scholar (翰林學士, Hanlin Xueshi) as well as the higher supervisory position of Zhuke Langzhong () at the ministry of rites. He was also put in charge of the imperial examinations.It had become custom at the office of the imperial examinations that on the day the results were announced, the doors would be tightly closed and protected by fences, to prevent rowdy examinees from charging the door. However, with <mask>ng in charge, he ordered that the fences be removed and the doors be opened; despite that, because the examinees were respectful of him, no disturbance occurred. It was said that he was discerning and selected a number of examinees who were capable. As a result, Li Siyuan respected him more. He was subsequently promoted to be Zhongshu Sheren (中書舍人, a mid-level official at the legislative bureau of government (中書省, Zhongshu Sheng)), and then deputy minister of public works (工部侍郎, Gongbu Shilang), while continuing to serve as imperial scholar. During Later Jin

During Shi Jingtang's reign
In 936, Li Siyuan's son-in-law Shi Jingtang, then the military governor of Hedong Circuit (河東, headquartered in modern Taiyuan, Shanxi), rose in rebellion against then-emperor, Li Siyuan's adoptive son Li Congke, and, with aid from Later Tang's northern rival Khitan Empire, defeated Later Tang armies


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texts: that Li Congke sent against him. Li Congke committed suicide, ending Later Tang, while Khitan's Emperor Taizong declared Shi the emperor of a new Later Jin state, which then took over the former Later Tang lands.<mask>ng initially continued to serve Shi as imperial scholar, and was in 937 given the greater title of imperial scholar at Duanming Hall (). After his promotion, he initially posted a notice on his door that he would no longer receive any guests (apparently to avoid people's making requests to him). A former low level official, Zhang Yi (), however, wrote him and pointed out that, in serving as the emperor's eyes and ears, if he cut himself off from the public, he would not be able to observe what was occurring in the public properly. <mask>ng was impressed, and recommended Zhang to the chancellor Sang Weihan. In addition to being imperial scholar at Duanming Hall, he was also put in charge of the imperial treasury. Not long after, when the Duanming Hall positions were abolished, he was made chief imperial scholar (翰林學士承旨, Hanlin Xueshi Chengzhi). It was said that Shi often consulted him on key decisions and found his advice helpful.In 940, <mask>ng was made Zhongshu Shilang (中書侍郎, deputy head of the legislative bureau) and chancellor, with the designation Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi (). In late 941, when Shi was preparing to depart then-capital Kaifeng to head to Yedu (鄴都, in modern Handan, Hebei) in anticipation of a rebellion by An Chongrong the

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 military governor of nearby Chengde Circuit (成德, headquartered in modern Shijiazhuang, Hebei) so that he could react quickly, <mask>ng pointed out to him that after he left Kaifeng, another rebellious military governor, An Congjin of Shannan East Circuit (山南東道, headquartered in modern Xiangyang, Hubei), would surely rebel as well, and that Shi should prepare for it. Shi asked him was his advice was. He advised Shi that Shi should leave a number of blank edicts with Shi's adoptive son (biological nephew) Shi Chonggui the Prince of Zheng, whom Shi left in charge of Kaifeng, so that when An Congjin did rebel, Shi Chonggui could react quickly and commission appropriate generals to counterattack. Shi Jingtang agreed. Subsequently, when An Congjin did rebel, Shi Chonggui was quickly able to mobilize a number of generals to command the imperial army against him, with Gao Xingzhou in overall command. An Congjin was quickly defeated and forced to return to Shannan East's capital Xiang Prefecture () to defend it, and later committed suicide when the city fell.During Shi Chonggui's reign
Shi Jingtang died in later 942. He was succeeded by Shi Chonggui. <mask>ng continued to serve as chancellor, and received the additional title of You Pushe (右僕射, one of the heads of the executive bureau (尚書省, Shangshu Sheng). In fall 945, <mask>ng was removed from his chancellor position and served only as You Pushe from this point on; he was replaced in the chancellorship by Feng Yu, the brother


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 of Shi Chonggui's wife Empress Feng, who was already serving as a chief of staff. He was shortly after given the slightly higher title of Zuo Pushe (). Contrary to Shi Jingtang's submissive posture toward Khitan (whose state's name had been changed to Liao by this point), Shi Chonggui took a confrontational stance against Liao, resulting in military confrontations between the two states. In late 946, Emperor Taizong made a major attack south, and, after forcing the surrender of the major Later Jin general Du Wei (Shi Jingtang's brother-in-law, Shi Chonggui's uncle), approached Kaifeng.Shi Chonggui, believing defeat to be inevitable, surrendered, ending Later Jin. Emperor Taizong entered Kaifeng. During the Liao occupation
Emperor Taizong claimed to be the emperor of China as well, and he took over the imperial administration structure left over from Later Jin, the territory of which largely submitted to him as emperor at that point. He commissioned <mask> as chancellor again with the titles of Zhongshu Shilang and Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi, serving along with Zhang Li, a formerly Later Tang imperial scholar whom he had captured during Later Tang's fall and who then served him after that point. However, the subsequent misrule by Emperor Taizong over the former Later Jin territory caused many rebellions to break out through the realm, and he decided to withdraw back Liao proper. He took many of the ethnically Han Chinese officials with him, including <mask>ng,

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texts: leaving his brother-in-law Xiao Han in charge of Kaifeng as the military governor of Xuanwu Circuit (宣武, headquartered at Kaifeng). However, Emperor Taizong fell ill on the way and would not reach Liao proper alive, dying near Heng Prefecture (恆州, Chengde's capital).In the aftermaths of Emperor Taizong's death, the Liao general Zhao Yanshou (also a son-in-law of Li Siyuan's, who was also captured by Emperor Taizong when Later Tang fell), to whom Emperor Taizong had previously promised the Chinese throne but then reneged on the promise, tried to take over <mask>ng and claim the title of regent over the southern court (i.e., the former Later Jin domain). The ethnically Khitan Liao generals, however, had already resolved to support Emperor Taizong's nephew Yelü Ruan the Prince of Yongkang, and they quickly tricked Zhao and arrested him. Yelü Ruan then took the throne (as Emperor Shizong) at Heng. Believing that his grandmother (Emperor Taizong's mother) Empress Dowager Shulü would not agree to his ascension (as she favored his uncle (Emperor Taizong's younger brother) Yelü Lihu), Emperor Shizong headed north to contend with her. Most of the ethnically Han officials accompanying Emperor Taizong were left at Heng, and he left Emperor Taizong's cousin Yelü Mada () in charge of Heng. Subsequently, Emperor Shizong sent an edict to <mask>ng, ordering <mask>ng and a number of other Han officials, including fellow chancellors Feng Dao and Li Song, to rendezvous with him for Emperor

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 Taizong's burial. However, at that time, a rebellion by the Han soldiers against Yelü Mada, led by the officers Bai Zairong () and Li Rong, broke out at Heng.Initially, Yelü Mada's Khitan soldiers had the upper hand in street battles, but a turning point came when the official Li Gu, asked <mask>, Feng, and Li Song to visit the battle scene to encourage the Han soldiers. When the soldiers saw the three senior chancellors, they were encouraged, and they fought harder, eventually expelling the Khitan soldiers out of the city. Subsequently, the soldiers supported Bai to be the acting military governor of Chengde, so that he could submit to Later Han and seek aid. Meanwhile, Bai, who was greedy, wanted to kill Li Song and <mask>ng to seize their wealth. Li Gu rebuked him, pointing out that if he did so, the new Later Han emperor would surely have him punished, so Bai did not do so. Bai subsequently submitted the region to the sovereignty of Liu Zhiyuan, a former Later Jin military governor of Hedong who had declared himself emperor of Later Han. During Later Han
<mask>ng, along with Feng Dao and Li Song, shortly after returned to Kaifeng.Liu Zhiyuan gave him the honorary title of Taizi Taibao (). Sometime later, <mask>ng was also created the Duke of Lu. During Later Zhou
After Later Han was later displaced by Later Zhou, <mask>ng was given the honorary title of Taizi Taifu (). He died in 955 after suffering an ulcer on his back. He was given posthumous honors. Personality

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 and literary/musical works
<mask>ng was said to be meticulous in details. Ever since he began to serve as a junior official, to the time that he served as a chancellor, he made sure that his wagons and clothes were all properly decorated such that they impressed the onlookers.He was also intent on helping junior officials, such that he dealt humbly with those in lower positions no matter how able or not they were. He wrote all his life, and was particularly good at writing short, exotic songs. He created a 100-volume collection of his works, and he personally wrote them out for the purpose of creating printing woodblocks. He printed several hundred copies and distributed them. References

Further reading
 Old History of the Five Dynasties, vol. 127. New History of the Five Dynasties, vol.56. Zizhi Tongjian, vols. 280, 281, 282, 285, 286, 287. 898 births
955 deaths
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Liao dynasty poets
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texts: <mask> (, ; born January 1, 1959), alternatively spelled Panayiotis Yiannakis or Yannakis, is a retired Greek professional basketball player and coach. As a player, he was primarily a point guard, but he could also play at the shooting guard position. During his playing career, <mask> was also widely-known under his nickname of "O Drákos" (), or "The Dragon" in English. A true floor general, <mask> began his club basketball playing career in Greece, with Ionikos Nikaias. After that, he before moved to the Greek club Aris Thessaloniki, where he spent the most important part of his pro playing career. In Thessaloniki, he helped to lead "The Yellows" (Aris) to three consecutive EuroLeague Final Four appearances between 1988 and 1990, as well as to a FIBA European Cup (later renamed to Saporta Cup) title in 1993. In the summer of 1993, he was transferred to the Greek club Panionios Athens, and finally a year later, to the Greek club Panathinaikos Athens, with whom he won a EuroLeague championship in 1996.On February 3, 2008, <mask> was chosen as one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors over the previous half-century by EuroLeague Basketball's Experts Committee. <mask> was, along with Nikos Galis, <mask> Fasoulas, and Fanis Christodoulou, one of the four main stars of the legendary late 1980s Greek National Team that put Greece on the world basketball map. He was Greece's team captain, when they won the gold medal at the EuroBasket of 1987, and were the silver-medalists at the same championship two years later. Furthermore, <mask> was also an important member of the Greek national team, when they reached the EuroBasket's semifinals in 1993 and 1995, as well as the FIBA World Cup's semifinals in 1994. After his playing career ended, <mask> was the head coach of the Athenian professional club team, Maroussi Athens, which he led to the forefront of the Greek League. <mask> was also the head coach of the Greek EuroLeague powerhouse Olympiacos Piraeus, which he led to the 2010 EuroLeague Final, and of

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 the senior Greek national team. Under <mask>' guidance, the Greek national team won the gold medal at the 2005 EuroBasket, and the silver medal at the 2006 FIBA World Cup in Japan, where Greece upset Team USA, by a score of 101–95.He was also the head coach of the senior Chinese national team. Early years
<mask> was born and raised in a poor neighborhood of Nikaia, Athens. Ηis parents, Dimitris, owner of a motorbike workshop, and Kalliope, a weaver, gave birth to five boys. Panagiotis was the youngest child of the family. <mask> started playing football around his neighborhood. He showed an early inclination to sports, and also tried the sport of basketball. He began watching the games of a local basketball club, and he was later approached by the head coach of the youth team of Ionikos Nikaias, who asked him to join their team.Club playing career

Ionikos Nikaias
<mask> began his club career with the youth teams of Ionikos Nikaias, in 1971. His first Head coach, George Vassilakopoulos, moved <mask> up to the club's senior men's first team, from the youth squad, in 1972, when he was at the age of just 13. The club was playing in the Greek 2nd Division at the time. In 1975, the club was promoted up to the top-tier level Greek First Division. <mask>' exceptional play with Ionikos Nikaias, at such a young age, drew the eyes of pro basketball experts on him. On January 24, 1981, Ionikos Nikaias, led by a then 22-year-old <mask>, played against Aris Thessaloniki, which was led by Nikos Galis. Aris won in a tight game, by a score of 114–113.The game is memorable in the history of Greek pro club basketball, because in the game, <mask> scored 73 points, and Galis scored 62 points, as they achieved the second and fourth most points ever scored in a single game of the Greek League basketball championship. Boston Celtics
In 1981, the American basketball coach Dick Dukeshire, who had coached <mask> with the senior Greek national team, asked <mask> to move to the USA, to play college basketball at the

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 Hellenic College. Dukeshire believed that <mask> was good enough to play in the NBA. At that time, the Boston Celtics used the facilities of the Hellenic College's campus in Brookline, Massachusetts, for their training camp and practices. Dukeshire believed that if Gianankis was training with the school's team at the same time that the Celtics were there, that he had a chance to make the Celtics roster. <mask> eventually agreed to move to the USA, and joined the Hellenic College Owls team. While at training at Hellenic College, <mask> was eventually noticed by the Celtics, and they invited him to join the team's 1981 summer league camp.However, during the summer training camp, <mask> suffered a career-threatening knee injury that required multiple knee surgeries, and a lot of rehab time. After recovering from his knee surgery, <mask> averaged 25 points per game with the Hellenic College Owls. <mask> then went back to Greece, where he finished the season with his previous club team Ionikos Nikaias, in order to help them avoid a league relegation. <mask> was ultimately selected by the Boston Celtics, in the 9th round of the 1982 NBA Draft, with the 205th overall draft pick. <mask> then took part in the team's 1982–83 preseason training camp. About a week before the start of the regular season, the Celtics traded center Dave Cowens to the Milwaukee Bucks, in exchange for point guard Quinn Buckner, and due to that, they no longer had the need for another point guard. The Celtics then asked <mask> to join their CBA affiliate team, as a way to test how he could adjust to the American style of basketball, with the chance for him to earn an NBA contract with the main team later on.However, <mask> declined the offer, and returned to Greece, where he would play for the rest of his career. Aris Thessaloniki
On August 3, 1984, <mask> transferred to the Greek club Aris Thessaloniki, after the club paid a transfer fee contract buyout to Ionikos Nikaias for his player rights, in the amount of 42 million Greek

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texts: Drachmas, which was considered a huge amount of money for a transfer buyout at that time. <mask> also personally received a BMW car, a sporting goods store, and an 8 million drachmas signing bonus from Aris. With Aris, <mask> teamed up with Nikos Galis, to form one half of an historic "tag-team", that took both Greek and European basketball by storm, for the years to come. From the 6th of March 1985, to the 5th of November 1988, the backcourt duo of Galis and <mask>, led Aris Thessaloniki to an 80-game  winning streak in the Greek League. <mask>' first season with Aris Thessaloniki, the 1984–85 season, was a great success. He won both the Greek League championship, and the Greek Cup title.In the final of the latter, <mask> made 8-out-of-12 three-pointers, and led his team to victory over Panathinaikos Athens. And that was only the beginning, as six more consecutive Greek League championships, and five more Greek Cup titles with Aris were to follow. With Aris Thessaloniki, <mask> also took part in three consecutive EuroLeague Final Fours. He played at the 1988 Ghent Final Four, at the 1989 Munich Final Four, and at the 1990 Zaragoza Final Four. Aris Thessloniki joined the elite of European basketball clubs at that time, but a European-wide title did not come for <mask> and his team until a few years later. In June of 1991, <mask> was chosen as a member of The Balkans Selection All-Star Team that played against The European Selection All-Star Team, at the 1991 FIBA Centennial Jubilee. The 1991 FIBA Jubilee event was held in order to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the creation of the sport of basketball in 1891, by the Canadian James Naismith.The FIBA Jubilee All-Star Game took place at the Peace and Friendship Stadium, in Piraeus, Athens, Greece, and it included numerous legends of European basketball. The Balkans' All-Star Selection won the game, by a score of 103–102. In the 1992–93 season, Aris and <mask> won the championship of the European-wide secondary-level FIBA European Cup

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 competition, which later became known as the FIBA Saporta Cup. Aris beat the Turkish Super League club Efes Istanbul, by a score of 50–48 in the final, which was held in Turin. By then, Nikos Galis had already previously left Aris Thessaloniki, and joined Panathinaikos Athens, and <mask> had become the de facto leader and franchise player of Aris. Panionios Athens
In 1993, after spending nine seasons with Aris Thessaloniki, <mask> moved to the Greek club Panionios Athens. With Panionios Athens, he averaged 14.0 points, 3.6 rebounds, 3.3 assists, and 1.4 steals per game, in the Greek Basket League's 1993–94 season.In that same season, he also competed with the club in the European-wide third level competition, the FIBA Korać Cup. During the Korać Cup season, he averaged 17.0 points, 3.7 rebounds, 3.4 assists, and 2.0 steals per game. Panathinaikos Athens
After spending a season with Panionios Athens, <mask> then moved to the Greek club Panathinaikos Athens, where he played from 1994 to 1996. It was with Panathinaikos Athens that he finished his club playing career. With Panathinaikos Athens, <mask> finally won the championship of the top-level European-wide club competition, the FIBA EuroLeague. Panathinaikos and <mask> won the title at the 1996 Paris Final Four. He also won the Greek Cup title with Panathinaikos Athens that same year.It was the seventh Greek Cup title that he had won in his playing career, to go along with his seven Greek League championships. <mask> ended his pro club playing career in 1996. During his club playing career he competed in a total of five EuroLeague Final Fours, as he played in three with Aris Thessaloniki, and two with Panathinaikos Athens. Overall, during his pro club career, <mask> scored a total of 9,291 points, in 493 games played in the Greek Basket League, for a career scoring average of 18.8 points per game. While in the EuroLeague, he scored a total of 1,514 points, in 119 games played, for a career scoring average of 12.7 points per game. National team

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<mask> led the Greek under-16 junior national team to the silver medal at the FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship of 1975. A year later, he debuted with the senior men's Greek national team, as a 17-year-old, versus the Czechoslovakian national team.With Greece's junior national teams, he also played at the 1976 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, and at the 1978 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship. <mask>' first appearance with Greece at a major FIBA international tournament, was at the 1979 EuroBasket. He won gold medals at the 1979 Balkan Championship, and at the 1979 Mediterranean Games. <mask> also represented Greece at the 1980 FIBA European Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the 1981 EuroBasket, the 1983 EuroBasket, the 1984 FIBA European Olympic Qualifying Tournament, and at the 1986 FIBA World Cup. With Greece, he won the gold medal at the 1986 Balkan Championship. <mask> was the team captain of the senior men's Greek national team that won the gold medal at the 1987 EuroBasket. He also played with Greece at the 1988 FIBA European Olympic Qualifying Tournament.He won the silver medal at the 1989 EuroBasket, and he also represented Greece at the 1990 FIBA World Cup. <mask> also represented Greece at the 1991 FIBA Centennial Jubilee, which commemorated the 100th anniversary of the creation of the sport of basketball, by the Canadian James Naismith. The Jubilee tournament took place at the Peace and Friendship Stadium, in Piraeus, Athens, Greece. In three games played during the tournament, <mask> averaged 14.3 points per game. Galis also played with Greece at the following major tournaments: the 1991 EuroBasket, the 1992 FIBA European Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the 1993 EuroBasket, the 1994 FIBA World Cup, and the 1995 EuroBasket. Gianankis retired from the Greek national team as a player, on August 2nd, 1996, after competing with Greece at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics. During his playing time with the senior Greek national team, <mask> participated in 29 official FIBA


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 international competitions, and in 40 official international competitions overall.<mask> holds the all-time career record for the most caps with the senior Greek national team, with 351. That is also the all-time career record for any European national team. He also holds the all-time career record for the most total points scored with the senior Greek national team, with 5,301 points. That is also the all-time career record for any European national team. Career as a head coach

National teams

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Unconventionally, the very next year after he retired from playing with the Greek national team, <mask> started his coaching career as the head coach of the senior Greek National Team, in 1997. He stayed the head coach of the Greek national team for two years. He led the team to a fourth-place finish at the 1997 EuroBasket, and to a fourth-place finish at the 1998 FIBA World Cup.<mask> returned to the head coach position of the Greek national team in 2004, for the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics, where he led the Greek team to a fifth-place finish. In the next year, under his coaching guidance, Greece won the 2005 EuroBasket gold medal, which marked the second time that Greece had won the EuroBasket title, and the first time they had won it since 1987. <mask> became the first person to win the EuroBasket, both as a player (1987), and as a head coach (2005). In 2006, he coached the national team of Greece to a second-place finish at the 2006 FIBA World Cup. In the World Cup's semifinals, which were held on September 1, 2006, <mask>' Greek team, beat the heavily favored Team USA, for the first time, by a score of 101–95. After 2006, <mask> no longer simultaneously coached on both the professional club and national team levels, as he decided to focus his full attention on the Greek national team only. <mask>' salary with the Greek national team, eventually reached an annual rate of €1.2 million net income.At the 2007 EuroBasket, <mask> led Greece to a fourth-place finish. At the 2008 Beijing Summer

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 Olympics, he led Greece to a fifth-place finish. In December 2008, <mask> ended his tenure as the head coach of Greece's senior national team. He was succeeded in that role by Jonas Kazlauskas. China
<mask> was also the head coach of the senior men's Chinese national team. He coached China at the 2013 FIBA Asia Championship. China finished the tournament in fifth place.Pro clubs
After starting his coaching career as the head coach of the senior Greek national team, <mask> also moved into coaching in the professional club level. He coached the Greek League club Panionios Athens, until 2002, when he was then named the head coach of the Greek club Maroussi Athens. He stayed with Maroussi Athens until 2006. During his time with Maroussi Athens, along with the help of his young star point guard, named Vassilis Spanoulis, whose playing style and player attributes were often compared to <mask>', he took the club from relative obscurity, and turned it into the third most prominent team in the Greek League, during that era. On 3 February 2008, <mask> signed on to be the head coach of the Greek EuroLeague power Olympiacos Piraeus. He signed a two-and-a-half year contract with the team, at an annual salary of €1.1 million net income. In June 2010, Olympiacos Piraeus announced that <mask> would not coach their team in the next season.During the two-and-a-half year period that he coached Olympiacos Piraeus, <mask> had led the team to the 2010 Greek Cup title, which was the team's first title won in eight years, and to three consecutive Greek League Finals appearances (2008, 2009, 2010). He also led the team to two consecutive EuroLeague Final Four appearances (2009 and 2010), which were the club's first EuroLeague Final Four appearances since the 1999 Final Four. Those two Final Four appearances also included a EuroLeague Finals appearance (2010). After that, <mask> worked as the head coach of the French League club Limoges, during the 2012–13 season. He became the head coach of the Greek club Aris


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 Thessaloniki, in 2017. Personal life
<mask> is married to Eugenia, and he has two children, Kalliope and Dimitris. In 2010, he lost his brother (all four of his brothers died during a 10-year span) before an Olympiacos Piraeus rivalry derby with Panathinaikos Athens.Awards and accomplishments
(As a player):

Club career
 Greek 2nd Division Champion: (1975)
 Greek League Top Scorer: (1980)
3× FIBA European Selection: (1980, 1987, 1990)
2× Greek Cup Finals Top Scorer: (1985, 1988)
Greek League MVP: (1987)
Greek League Assist leader: (1989)
 His personal best for points scored in a single game was 73 points scored, in 1981, as a player of Ionikos Nikaias (which ironically occurred against Aris, his future team). Selected by the NBA professional club the Boston Celtics, in the 1982 NBA draft. 7× Greek Cup Winner: (1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1996)
 7× consecutive Greek League Champion: (1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991)
 Along with Nikos Galis, he led Aris to an 80-game winning streak in the Greek League, in the 1980s. FIBA European Cup (Saporta Cup) Champion: (1993)
 EuroLeague Champion: (1996)
 In total, he won 16 first tier championships in his pro club career as a player. When he retired from his club playing career, he held the record for the most games played in the Greek League (493). He scored 9,291 points in the Greek Basketball Championship (counting all league formats since the 1963–64 season) (3rd all-time). Member of the Eurobasket.com website's European Basketball Hall of Fame, inducted as a player.EuroLeague's 50th anniversary 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors List: (2008)

Greek junior national team
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 caps, with 351, with the senior men's Greek National Basketball Team, which is also a record for any European player. He holds the record for total Greek national team caps, men's and boy's, with 402. He holds the record, with 5,301 points scored with the senior men's Greek National Team. He holds the record, with 6,202 points scored in total, with the Greek National Team (men's and boy's). (As a head coach):

Club career
2× Greek League Best Coach: (2004, 2006)
Greek Cup Winner: (2010)

Greek senior national team
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2× Best Sports Coach in Greece: (2005, 2006)
He is the only person to win the EuroBasket, both as a player (1987 EuroBasket), and as a head coach (2005 EuroBasket). See also
 List of FIBA EuroBasket winning head coaches

References

External links

Euroleague.net Head Coach Profile
FIBA Player Profile
FIBA Europe Player Profile
Greek Basket League Profile
Hellenic Basketball Federation Profile
Euroleague.net 50 Greatest Contributors
1982 NBA Draft Profile
Euroleague.net <mask> <mask> - The Greek Dragon
101 Greats: <mask> Giannakis
Τα “κανόνια” του ελληνικού Πρωταθλήματος: Παναγιώτης Γιαννάκης
Panagiotis Giannakis' career in a short video

1959 births
Living people
1986 FIBA World Championship players
1990 FIBA World Championship players
Aris B.C. players
Basketball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Boston Celtics draft picks
Competitors at the 1979 Mediterranean Games
FIBA EuroBasket-winning coaches
FIBA EuroBasket-winning players
Greece national basketball team coaches
Greek Basket League players
Greek basketball coaches
Greek men's basketball players
Ionikos Nikaias B.C.players
Limoges CSP coaches
Maroussi B.C. coaches
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Greece
Mediterranean Games medalists in basketball
Olympiacos B.C. coaches
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Panathinaikos B.C. players
Panionios B.C. coaches
Panionios B.C. players
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<mask> is an American restorationist, independent filmmaker and essayist. He is best known for his 2015 documentary Notfilm, his work with the Bruce Conner Family Trust and as Senior Film Restorationist at the UCLA Film & Television Archive, where he restored numerous independent and avant-garde works. Lipman was the 2008 recipient of Anthology Film Archives' Preservation Honors, and is a three-time winner of the National Society of Film Critics' Heritage Award. Lipman's essays on film history, technology, and aesthetics have been published in Artforum, Sight and Sound, and in numerous academic books and journals and his films have been screened internationally and have been collected by museums and archives. His 2015 feature-length documentary Notfilm about Samuel Beckett's Film was produced and distributed by Milestone Films and premiered at the BFI London Film Festival. The documentary was prompted by the discovery of long-missing footage from the original production of Film, which Lipman discovered amid reels of outtakes in the apartment of Grove Press publisher and Film producer, <mask>. Publications
Known for his contributions to the theory of film restoration, particularly the ethics involved in restoring independent and experimental film, <mask>an has contributed numerous essays on the subject, beginning with “Problems of Independent Film Preservation” in 1996 and consolidated in “The Gray Zone: A Restorationist’s Travel Guide” in 2009.Lipman's conceptualization of restoration theory has developed from years of practice within the field. His ideas have been controversial in acknowledging a subjectivity inherent in the process of restoration itself, a position once considered taboo from art

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 conservation orthodoxy, but gaining increasing credence in recent years as museum conservators have been confronted with the transient nature of many post-war and contemporary artworks. Lipman is also the author of several historical analytical essays, including a definitive history of John Cassavetes and his collaboration with Charles Mingus on the score for Shadows, as well as an analysis of the ground-breaking production techniques used in Kent Mackenzie's The Exiles (1961). Filmmaking and Performance Essays
<mask>'s early works span across a multiplicity of forms. Of his films, Doug Cummings of LA Weekly wrote, "Lipman's repertoire often highlights unique social groups with whom he has lived", and his earlier films frequently explore themes of cultural decay and renewal. With the completed prologue for the in-progress documentary feature Keep Warm, Burn Britain!, Lipman uses still images to remember squatters he encountered in Thatcherite mid-1980s London. His more recent films continue in this essayistic vein, integrating visual artwork and scholarship.<mask>an's performance essays are often concerned with the intersection of cinema history and lived experience. His best known performance is The Book of Paradise Has No Author, which premiered Aug. 2011 at the Inquiry Towards the Practice of Secular Magic, a cross-disciplinary event at piXel (+) freQuency, hosted by Los Angeles Filmforum and presented by the Disembodied Theater Corporation. The piece explores notions of "first encounters" with lost cultures, viewed through the prism of the Tasaday tribe, who were, according to a 1972 episode of 20/20, a primitive tribe that had only recently encountered contemporary civilization. The

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 performance essay The Exploding Digital Inevitable premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam in January 2017. The essay concerns the process of restoring Bruce Conner's classic avant-garde short Crossroads (1976 film), for which several versions existed. Restoration
<mask>an was mentored by and worked under Robert Gitt, well-known UCLA Film & Television Archive restorationist who restored or supervised the restoration of over 360 films. Lipman adapted and developed methods of applying these principles to the restoration of independent and experimental film, where the primary concept is that moving image restoration is a form of interdisciplinary art practice that differs from other visual art forms in its production for mass duplication.Lipman has theorized and elaborated on this concept in numerous publications. Restored Narrative Films
 Spring Night, Summer Night (1967) - J.L. Anderson
 Brandy in the Wilderness (1969) - Stanton Kaye
 Bless Their Little Hearts (1984) - Billy Woodberry
 Wanda (1970) - Barbara Loden
 The Connection (1961) - Shirley Clarke
 The Exiles (1961) - Kent Mackenzie
 Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) - Robert Altman
 A Woman Under the Influence (1974) - John Cassavetes
 Faces (1968) - John Cassavetes
 Shadows (1959) - John Cassavetes
 Matewan (1987) - John Sayles
 Lianna (1981) - John Sayles
 Return of the Secaucus Seven (1979) - John Sayles
 Killer of Sheep (1977) - Charles Burnett
 The Horse (1973) - Charles Burnett
 Several Friends (1969) - Charles Burnett
 Please! Don't Bury Me Alive! (1964) - Emile de Antonio
 USA Poetry: Allen Ginsberg (1965/75) - WNET
 USA Poetry: Anne Sexton (1965/75) - WNET
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<mask> (; born August 13, 1959) is an American mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. He is known for his work on nonlinear systems, including contributions to the study of synchronization in dynamical systems, for his research in a variety of areas of applied mathematics, including mathematical biology and complex network theory. <mask> is the host of Quanta Magazine's The Joy of x podcast, named after his book of the same name. Education
<mask> attended high school at Loomis Chaffee from 1972–1976. He then attended Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude with a B.A. in mathematics. Strogatz completed his senior thesis, titled "The mathematics of supercoiled DNA: an essay in geometric biology", under the supervision of Frederick J. Almgren, Jr. <mask> then studied as a Marshall Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1980–1982, and then received a Ph.D in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1986 for his research on the dynamics of the human sleep-wake cycle.He completed his postdoc under Nancy Kopell. Career
After spending three years as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard and Boston University, Strogatz joined the faculty of the department of mathematics at MIT in 1989. His research on dynamical systems was recognized with a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation in 1990. In 1994 he moved to Cornell where he is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, as well as a professor of mathematics. From 2004–2010, he was on the external faculty of the Santa Fe Institute. Research
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 and part off-the-beaten-path guide to calculus". His 2012 book, The Joy of x, won the 2014 Euler Book Prize. It grew out of his series of New York Times columns on the elements of mathematics. These columns were described by the Harvard Business Review as "a model for how mathematics needs to be popularized" and as "must reads for entrepreneurs and executives who grasp that mathematics is now the lingua franca of serious business analysis.". <mask>'s second New York Times series, "Me, Myself and Math" appeared in the fall of 2012. His most recent book, Infinite Powers, was shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize and was a New York Times Best Seller.Published in 2019, it "evocatively conveys how calculus illuminates the patterns of the Universe, large and small," according to a review in Nature. In 2020 Strogatz began hosting a podcast for Quanta Magazine called “The Joy of x” in which he chats “with a wide range of scientists about their lives and work.”

Awards
Strogatz is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the American Mathematical Society. Strogatz has been lauded for his ability as a teacher and communicator. In 1991 he was honored with the E. M. Baker Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, MIT's only institute-wide teaching award selected and awarded solely by students. He has also won several teaching awards at Cornell, including Cornell's highest undergraduate teaching prize, the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowship (2016). At the national level, Strogatz received the JPBM Communications Award in 2007. Presented annually, this award


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<mask> – <mask> ( – 16 October 1992) was a prominent Lithuanian traveler and anthropologist, as well as an active member of the Esperanto movement in Lithuania. He is best known for his journey to India in 1929–36. In India, he studied Sanskrit and received bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of Bombay and wrote his PhD thesis at the University of Calcutta on the Shina-speaking people but was unable to defend it. He interacted with India's intellectual elite and participated in anthropological expeditions. He met with Rabindranath Tagore and translated some of his works into Lithuanian. <mask> returned to Lithuania in 1936 and worked as a journalist. He was recognized as the Righteous Among the Nations for hiding three Lithuanian Jews during the Holocaust in Lithuania.After the Soviet takeover in 1945, he refused to destroy books deemed unacceptable to the Soviet regime and was imprisoned in a Gulag. Unable to return to Lithuania, <mask> later worked at several museums in Central Asia. He was allowed to return to Lithuania in 1959 and worked as a lecturer and journalist and continued his anthropological studies, but his past as a political prisoner prevented him from taking a more prominent position. By age 60, he had visited 75 countries and 120 nations. <mask> was a prolific writer contributing articles to Lithuanian and foreign press. His bibliography, published in 2006, has 3,756 entries, but his main work, the eight-volume Nuo Baltijos iki Bengalijos (From the Baltic Sea to the Bay of Bengal) on his experiences in India, was published only in 2002–12, a decade after his death. Biography

Early life

<mask> was born in 1903 in the family of farmers in northern Lithuania, in the village of Gripkeliai of Pasvalys district.His interest in Esperanto emerged as early as 1913, when he received his first Esperanto textbook as a gift. He learned the language independently and

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