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<mask>, 1st Earl of Kilmuir,  (29 May 1900 – 27 January 1967), known as Sir <mask> from 1942 to 1954 and as Viscount Kilmuir from 1954 to 1962, was a British Conservative politician, lawyer and judge who combined an industrious and precocious legal career with political ambitions that took him to the offices of Solicitor General, Attorney General, Home Secretary and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. One of the prosecuting counsels at the Nuremberg Trials, he subsequently played a role in drafting the European Convention on Human Rights. As Home Secretary he led a crackdown against homosexuals in the UK in the 1950s, and refused to commute Derek Bentley's death sentence for the murder of a police officer. His political ambitions were ultimately dashed in Harold Macmillan's cabinet reshuffle of July 1962. Early life
Born in Edinburgh, the only son of William Thomson Fyfe, Headmaster of Aberdeen Grammar School, by his second wife Isabella Campbell, daughter of <mask>, of Dornoch, co. Sutherland, he was educated at George Watson's College and Balliol College, Oxford, where, perhaps owing to his interest in politics, he achieved a third-class degree in Greats. Whilst at Oxford, he was a member of the Stubbs Society. His academic education was paused during his service in the Scots Guards in 1918–19, at the end of the World War I.After graduation, he worked for the British Commonwealth Union as political secretary to Sir Patrick Hannon MP, studying law in his spare time. He entered Gray's Inn and was called to the bar in 1922. He became a pupil of George Lynskey in Liverpool then joined his chambers to

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 practise. Not pausing before beginning his political career in earnest, he stood as a Conservative for Wigan in 1924, an unwinnable parliamentary seat. He cultivated the more winnable Spen Valley until 1929 when the party resolved not to oppose sitting Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) Sir John Simon while he was absent on the Simon Commission in India. <mask> was eventually elected to Parliament in Liverpool West Derby in a by-election in July 1935. Meanwhile, <mask>'s legal career had prospered.In 1934 he became King's Counsel. He was Recorder of Oldham from 1936 to 1942. Early political career
<mask>, along with Patrick Spens, Derrick Gunston and others, backed the National Government over the Hoare–Laval Pact, and he supported Neville Chamberlain over the Munich Agreement. However, after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939, <mask> joined the Territorial Army and, at the outbreak of World War II in September, he was deployed to the Judge Advocate-General's department with rank of major. He was badly injured in an air raid in September 1940. In May 1941 <mask> became deputy to Rab Butler's chairmanship of a Conservative Party committee to analyse forthcoming post-war problems, taking over from Butler in July 1943. Into government and on to Nuremberg

In March 1942, Sir Winston Churchill, on the advice of Brendan Bracken, appointed <mask>yfe Solicitor-General.At the same time he was knighted and sworn of the Privy Council. He applied himself to his work in the wartime coalition government with enormous industry and began some of the thinking and planning about how the leaders of the Nazi

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 regime in Germany might be brought to account after the war. As part of his duties, on 8 April 1945, he attended an Anglo-American discussion over the war crimes trial, at which, says the historian Richard Overy, "he presented the standard British argument for summary execution." Whether <mask> believed such executions were the best method of dealing with the Nazis may be doubted, in view of his later work at the Nuremberg Trials; at the time, however, as a member of the government he had little choice but to follow the lead of the Prime Minister, Churchill, who repeatedly urged that summary justice be visited upon the Nazi leaders. When the war in Europe ended and the coalition was dissolved in May 1945, <mask> was briefly Attorney-General in Churchill's caretaker government. The Labour Party won a landslide victory in the United Kingdom general election of 1945 and Sir Hartley Shawcross became Attorney General and took responsibility as Britain's chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials. Shawcross, to emphasise the non-partisan nature of the trials, appointed <mask> his deputy.Shawcross was largely committed to his political duties in Westminster and played little part other than delivering the opening and closing speeches. <mask> took on most of the day-to-day responsibilities as "capable lawyer, efficient administrator and concerned housemaster". There were misgivings in some quarters as to how Fyfe would perform, cross-examination not being regarded as one of his strengths. However, his cross-examination of Hermann Göring was one of the most noted cross-examinations in history. Opposition
After

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 Europe. Eden always rejected this and considered a libel action against <mask>.Return to government

Home Secretary
Shortly before the United Kingdom general election of 1951, <mask> caused a stir when he appeared to hint in a radio interview that a Conservative government might legislate to curb the power of trade unions. When the Conservative Party was returned to power in the election, Churchill thought it unwise to appoint him Minister of Labour, and <mask> became both Home Secretary and cabinet minister for Welsh affairs. He was responsible for guiding several complicated pieces of legislation through the Commons, in particular those that established commercial television. He gained a reputation as a hard-working, thorough and reliable cabinet member. In 1952, the Director General of MI5 (DG) was made directly answerable to the Home Secretary rather than the Prime Minister. Given this novel responsibility, <mask> issued the Maxwell Fyfe Directive which became the de facto constitution of the Security Service until the Security Service Act 1989 set it on a statutory basis. When Sir Percy Sillitoe resigned as DG in 1953, <mask> delegated the shortlisting of a successor to a committee of civil servants chaired by Sir Edward Bridges.The committee put forward Dick White and Sir Kenneth Strong. <mask> endorsed the committee's preference for White, observing to Churchill that an internal appointment would be good for the morale of the service. Fyfe's assumption of office as Home Secretary heralded a reign of fear for male homosexuals. A stern advocate of existing legislation criminalising homosexual acts, he

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 Sir Robert Boothby, who was known in parliamentary circles to be bisexual, that it was not his intention to legalise homosexuality: "I am not going down in history", he told Boothby, "as the man who made sodomy legal." During his tenure as Home Secretary, he was embroiled in the controversy surrounding the hanging of Derek Bentley.<mask> had controversially refused to grant a reprieve to Bentley despite the written petitions of 200 MPs and the claim that Bentley was mentally retarded allegedly having a mental age of only 11. However, on most issues he was on the progressive wing of the Conservative Party, opposing the proposals in 1953 for the re-introduction of corporal punishment. Lord Chancellor
<mask> remained ambitious and a Daily Mirror opinion poll in 1954, on the popular favourite to succeed Churchill as Party leader and prime minister, had him behind Eden and Butler but well ahead of Macmillan. However, once it was clear that Eden was to be Churchill's successor, he sought the office of Lord Chancellor. On 19 October 1954 he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Kilmuir, of Creich in the County of Sutherland, and moved to the House of Lords and the "woolsack". Lord Kilmuir was a political Lord Chancellor, not restricting himself to his judicial role. He worked on many government issues including the constitution of Malta, which he wanted to become part of the UK, and the creation of the Restrictive Practices Court.In his eight years in the post he only sat as a judge on 24 appeals to the House of Lords. Lord Kilmuir opposed Sydney Silverman's 1956 private member's bill to abolish capital punishment.

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 whom pre-deceased him. Lalage Fyfe (b. 1926, d. 1944) and <mask> Fyfe (b. 1928) later Wigram in 1950, then 26 October 1957 Blackmore. His brother-in-law was the actor Sir Rex Harrison. Kilmuir was a formidable parliamentary presence on behalf of his party, and his remarkable memory compensated for a dull speaking style, though he was capable of passion when the circumstances were right. In appearance, "His body was pear-shaped, and beneath a large square bald head there were dark heavy eyebrows and a face of middle-eastern pallor and swarthiness".As Home Secretary, he often travelled to Wales, and in the valleys of South Wales he was nicknamed Dai Bananas, Fyffes being, then as now, one of Britain's major importers of the fruit. Honours
Among his honours were:
 King's Counsel (KC) (1934)
 Knighthood (Kt) (1942)
 Privy Councillor (PC) (1945)
 Viscount Kilmuir (1954)
 Earl of Kilmuir (1962)
 Knight Grand Cross in the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) (1953);
Honorary degrees including:
University of Oxford;
University of Manitoba (LL.D) 1954. University of Edinburgh  (LL.D) 1955. University of Wales;
University of Ottawa (LL.D) 16 September 1960. Visitor of St Antony's College, Oxford (1953); and
Rector of the University of St Andrews (1956). Portrayal in drama
<mask> Fyfe has been portrayed by the following actors in film, television and theatre productions;
 Iain Cuthbertson in the 1991 British/French film Let Him Have It
 Christopher Plummer in the 2000 Canadian/U.S. TV production Nuremberg
Julian Wadham in the 2006 British television docudrama Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial
Mel Smith in the 2007 British television

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John Warnaby in Nicholas de Jongh's stage play, Plague Over England (London, 2009)
There is also a film being made about him called Under an English Heaven by his grandson Tom Blackmore.Zdzisław Mrożewski in polish film Epilog norymberski

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Bibliography
Obituaries:
The Times, 28 January 1967
The Guardian, 28 January 1967

Dutton, D. J. (2004)"Fyfe, <mask> <mask>, Earl of Kilmuir (1900–1967)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, accessed 4 Aug 2007

Lord Kilmuir (1964) Political Adventure

Tusa, A. & Tusa, J. (1983) The Nuremberg Trial

External links

The Papers of Lord Kilmuir held at Churchill Archives Centre

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Air Commodore <mask>, DFC, AFC, FRAeS (17 November 1891 – 21 April 1963) was a senior engineer and aviator in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). He accompanied Henry Wrigley on the first trans-Australia flight from Melbourne to Darwin in 1919, a feat that earned both men the Air Force Cross. <mask> later played a leading role in military aircraft maintenance and production. A veteran of World War I, <mask> served first as a mechanic and then as a pilot with the Australian Flying Corps. Based in the Middle East, he flew with No. 1 Squadron and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. <mask> was the first airman on the RAAF's strength when it formed in 1921, and rose to the rank of temporary air commodore during World War II, commanding No.1 Aircraft Depot and, later, No. 4 Maintenance Group. He was also the RAAF's first Inspector of Air Accidents. A fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, <mask> retired from the military in 1946, and died in 1963 aged seventy-one. Early life and World War I

<mask> was born 17 November 1891 in Kew, a suburb of Melbourne, to joiner and engineer Charles Hubert <mask> and his wife Mary. Educated at Melbourne High School and Footscray Technical School, he spent five years with Austral Otis Engineering as an apprentice. Having been employed at various engineering firms, <mask> joined the Australian Army's Aviation Instructional Staff at Central Flying School Point Cook in 1914 to train as an air mechanic.By February 1916, he had risen to the rank of sergeant and volunteered for the Australian Imperial Force to serve overseas. Transferring to the Australian Flying Corps, <mask> was allocated to No. 1

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 Squadron—also known until 1918 as No. 67 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps (RFC)—as a warrant officer. He departed Melbourne aboard HMAT A67 Orsova on 16 March, bound for Egypt. Based in the Sinai Desert and Palestine, <mask> was initially responsible for No. 1 Squadron aircraft maintenance; his achievements saw him mentioned in despatches in 1917.He then trained as a pilot with the RFC in Egypt, where he obtained a temporary commission as a second lieutenant on 24 October. He flew with the RFC before returning to No. 1 Squadron in Palestine. During 1918, <mask> saw combat over Jordan, operating Bristol Fighters. On 12 August, he and his observer were selected to join Colonel T. E. Lawrence and his irregular Arab army in the Hejaz near Daraa, providing air cover and reconnaissance. Credited with bringing down two enemy aircraft while supporting Lawrence's troops, <mask> was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his "keenness, reliability and boldness". Between the wars

<mask>'s temporary commission was terminated after the war and he reverted to the rank of sergeant to remain in the Army, returning to Australia on 5 March 1919.Later that year he took part in the first transcontinental flight across Australia, from Melbourne to Darwin, Northern Territory, accompanying pilot and former schoolmate, Captain Henry Wrigley. The pair departed Point Cook on 16 November and arrived in Darwin on 12 December, having travelled  in forty-seven flying hours. They flew in a single-engined Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 with no radio, over unmapped and often hazardous terrain, and surveyed seventeen potential landing grounds along the journey. <mask> and

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 workshops. Towards the end of 1935, he was responsible for specially modifying a Westland Wapiti and a de Havilland Gipsy Moth for Antarctic conditions, to enable an Air Force team led by Flight Lieutenant (later Group Captain) Eric Douglas and Flying Officer (later Air Marshal Sir) Alister Murdoch to rescue explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, who was presumed lost on a journey across the continent. In 1936, <mask> was selected to join Wackett on a mission to investigate aircraft production overseas with a view to setting up local construction plants. The team determined that the North American NA-16 was most suitable for Australian conditions and manufacture; following testing of a prototype, designated the NA-33, the design went into production in January 1939 as the CAC Wirraway. <mask> was promoted to wing commander in November 1936 and appointed commanding officer of No.1 Aircraft Depot in January 1938. World War II and retirement

<mask> continued to play a leading role in aircraft maintenance and production during World War II. In 1939 he helped set up the Government Aircraft Factories and local manufacture of the Bristol Beaufort torpedo bomber. Completing his tour as CO of No. 1 Aircraft Depot, he was promoted to group captain and appointed Inspector of Air Accidents in June 1940. The newly created position reported directly to the Chief of the Air Staff. <mask>'s deputy was Flying Officer (later Sir) Henry Winneke, who found his boss's companionship "exhilarating".<mask> was, according to Winneke, "a product of the old school of airmen who could not only fly a plane but also pull it apart and put it together again", generally "amiable" but


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 who "could act gruffly when the occasion demanded". The inspectorate was small but succeeded in reducing the number of accidents even as training expanded rapidly with Australia's participation in the Empire Air Training Scheme. <mask> led the investigation into the Canberra air disaster of August 1940, and the Brocklesby mid-air collision that occurred the following month. The RAAF formed No. 4 Maintenance Group in September 1942 to co-ordinate the efforts of maintenance units in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. <mask> was appointed its commander, and held the post until the end of the war. He was promoted to temporary air commodore in July 1943.By 1945, he had passed the statutory retirement age for his substantive rank of wing commander, and was summarily retired from the RAAF along with several other senior staff and veterans of World War I including Wrigley and <mask>, to make way for the advancement of younger and equally capable officers. Discharged from the Air Force on 10 January 1946, <mask> was later elected a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He died of heart disease in Essendon, Melbourne, on 21 April 1963 at the age of seventy-one. Survived by his children, <mask> was cremated at Fawkner, Victoria. Notes

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<mask> (February 29, 1944 – July 22, 2013) was an American actor, television presenter and former police officer. Often typecast as a mobster or police officer, he is known for roles such as FBI Agent Jack Crawford in Manhunter, mobster Jimmy Serrano in the comedy Midnight Run, Ray "Bones" Barboni in Get Shorty, and Cousin Avi in Snatch. He starred on television as Lieutenant Mike Torello on Crime Story and as NYPD Detective Joe Fontana on Law & Order. From 2008 to 2010, he hosted and narrated the television program Unsolved Mysteries on Spike TV. His last major television role was in HBO's Luck, which premiered on January 29, 2012. Early life
<mask> was born on a Leap Day (February 29, 1944) in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood, the fourth son and youngest of the seven children of Joseph and <mask>. <mask>'s father, who was from Villalba, Sicily, was a Chicago-area doctor, and his mother a homemaker.They raised their children in a North Avenue home in Old Town, a working-class neighborhood with a broad ethnic mixture, with Italians and Germans the predominant ethnicities. Before becoming an actor, <mask> served three years in the United States Army during the Vietnam Era, followed by 18 years in the Chicago Police Department (1967 to 1985), during which he advanced from patrolman to detective. Show business career
<mask> began working for director Michael Mann as a police consultant, which led Mann to cast him in a small role in the 1981 film Thief. <mask> worked with Mann again, as mobster Albert Lombard, in several episodes of Miami Vice. He moonlighted as an actor in Chicago-based films (like Code of Silence, a 1985 Chuck Norris film) and theater before Mann chose him for his Crime Story series, which aired on NBC from 1986 to 1988. He later starred as the title character in Buddy Faro, a short-lived 1998 private detective series on CBS. <mask> played mob

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texts: with Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher. His role of Detective Lt. Mike Torello on Crime Story was as a Chicago police officer, assigned to the U.S. Justice Department. <mask>'s Law & Order character, Detective Fontana, worked for Chicago Homicide before his transfer to the NYPD.Fontana shared a number of other characteristics with the actor who played him since they came from the same Chicago neighborhood, attended the same parochial school and had the same tastes in clothes and music and were fans of the Chicago Cubs. He appeared in two television network miniseries' based on Joe McGinniss's true-crime books, Blind Faith (1990) and Cruel Doubt (1992). He made a rare western, portraying legendary lawman Charlie Siringo in a 1995 television movie, Bonanza: Under Attack, a followup to the hit 1960s series. In October 2008, he became the new host of Unsolved Mysteries when it returned to television with a new five-season, 175-episode run on Spike TV. <mask> replaced Robert Stack, who had hosted the series for its prior 15-year run. This version featured re-edited segments from previous incarnations on NBC, CBS and Lifetime. He played the title role in a 2011 independent film, The Last Rites of Joe May, written and directed by Joe Maggio, shot on location in Chicago.He was among the stars of a 2014 release, Authors Anonymous, playing a wannabe novelist with a fantasy of becoming another Tom Clancy. Again on television, <mask> co-starred in the 2012 HBO horse-race gambling series Luck, with Dustin Hoffman, directed by Michael Mann. He had a recurring guest role in 2013 in the television comedy series New Girl, though his character was killed off prior to his death. <mask>'s last film role was as an aging Italian playboy in a film version of the Off-Broadway musical Lucky Stiff co-starring Dominic Marsh, Nikki M. James and Jason Alexander. The film, released

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 posthumously in 2014, was dedicated to his memory. Personal life

<mask> was married to <mask> from 1970 until their divorce in 1980. They had three sons, <mask>., Michael and Joseph (whom is also an actor); two granddaughters, Brianna and Olivia; and four grandsons, Michael, Tyler, Matthew and Eric.He lived with his longtime girlfriend Marianne Cahill in Chicago and Scottsdale, Arizona. A lifelong Chicago Cubs fan, he played a Cubs fan in a 1988 revival of the successful 1977 Organic Theater Company stage play Bleacher Bums, written by and starring fellow Chicago actors Joe Mantegna and <mask>. <mask> was arrested on May 11, 2008 for carrying a loaded .22-caliber pistol through Los Angeles International Airport security. He was taken to the Los Angeles Police Department's Pacific Division and booked on suspicion of carrying a concealed weapon, with bail set at $25,000. He claimed he had simply forgotten the weapon was still in his briefcase and never intended to take it on a plane. After police determined the weapon was unregistered, the charges were upgraded to a felony and bail was increased to $35,000. After reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors, he pleaded no contest and was sentenced to two years' probation on July 17, 2008.Death
<mask> died on July 22, 2013, in a Scottsdale, Arizona hospital from a pulmonary embolism. He was buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery at Hillside, Illinois. Filmography

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<mask> or <mask> (25 November 182423 October 1890) was a Belgian painter, watercolorist, engraver (printmaker), art educator and director of the Antwerp Academy. He painted many subjects and was particularly known as an animalier and portrait painter. He also created Orientalist works, genre scenes, including a number of singeries, religious compositions and still lifes. He was a professor of drawing and director of the Antwerp Academy when Vincent van Gogh spent a brief period as a student at the Academy in 1886. The two men got into arguments about van Gogh's unconventional style of drawing. Life
He was born in Antwerp as the son of a manufacturer of soap, oil and soda. His mother arranged for the young <mask> to get his first drawing classes from the Dutch sculptor Johannes Antonius van der Ven, who was then studying at the Antwerp Academy.From an early age he lived for art. He left formal school education at the early age of fourteen and was accepted together with Godfried Guffens to take lessons at the private studio located in the Vleeshuis of Nicaise de Keyser. De Keyser was one of the key figures in the Belgian Romantic-historical school of painting. At the time de Keyser had about 30 pupils including some who came to prominence such as Edouard Hamman, Jan Swerts, Joseph Lies and Johan Bernard Wittkamp. At the same time he followed the courses at the Antwerp Academy where he studied, among others with Gustave Wappers and Josephus Laurentius Dyckmans. He started participating in the salons of his time and send in 1843 his first important picture, Pippin the Short Killing a Lion to the Antwerp triennial salon. His first paintings were inspired by the Belgian Romantic school and treated important events from Belgian history.He also gradually started to paint animal scenes as well as genre scenes. In 1849 he painted his first religious composition which was intended for the St Gummarus church in Lier. He participated in the Prix de Rome of Belgium in 1847 but was not successful, possible as the result of his partial incapacitation due to a broken arm. Fortunately, a

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texts: wealthy relative called Albert Marnef van Wespelaer provided him in 1849 with a stipend that allowed him to continue his studies for four years. He left for Paris in 1850 and studied there first in the studio of the Dutch painter Ary Scheffer. Later he studied with Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin at the Académie des Beaux-Arts. From 1852 he had his own studio in Paris.He gained commissions from religious and official institutions in Belgium including the commission from the Antwerp city government for the large historical composition Godefroid de Bouillon during the assault on Jerusalem (1854, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium). In 1855 he won a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle at Paris with his Tiger Attacking a Herd of Buffaloes. He gradually came under the influence of the Realism of Gustave Courbet. This resulted in his 1857 work Coup de collier (now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp) showing two horses struggling to pull a heavy cart loaded with bricks while being whipped by their handlers. Despite its vivid depiction and dynamic form, the large-scale work failed to achieve the success its creator had hoped for. When he exhibited it at the 1857 Paris Salon the work was mocked in the French magazine Le Charivari with a cartoon showing men helping to push a very heavy cart out of the Salon and the text "Le public poussant à la roue pour aider la charrette à sortir de l’Exposition de peinture" (The public pushing the wheel to help the cart leave the painting exhibition). The work was also sharply criticized by Le Figaro'''s art critic Jean Rousseau who wrote that the work only was good enough for use as a shop sign for a removal company.<mask> took revenge by painting a monkey shaving itself while wiping its feet on the copy of the newspaper in which the criticism had been published. He returned for a year to Antwerp to return the next year to work in his studio in Paris. During this time he started to establish a reputation as an animal painter. He also painted religious subjects and his Pietà of 1866 was so successful that it earned him the distinction of


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texts: being appointed a knight in the French Legion of Honour. In 1869 he left Paris to take up the invitation of <mask>, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach to establish a painting class at the Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School set up by the Grand Duke. Max Liebermann was one of his students in his painting class. He was very appreciated by the Grand Duke and taught art classes to the daughters of the Grand Duke.He became later the acting head of the Art School. The Grand Duke also bestowed on him the Order of the White Falcon. During this period he was active as a portrait painter. He moved in the cultural circles of Weimar and was friends with Franz Liszt whose portrait he painted. They would stay in touch and later <mask> would be instrumental in Liszt's visit to Antwerp in 1881. In August 1875 <mask> left his official positions in Weimar and traveled to Cairo where he stayed for six months. He then moved on to Jerusalem where he would reside for two years.He traveled throughout Palestine and painted the people, animals and landscapes. He seems to have been motivated by a desire to study the real life of the people who formed the subjects of his religious paintings. His major creations during this time included large-scale religious compositions Vox populi (1876, St. Lawrence Church, Alkmaar), Vox Dei (1877, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp), The Tomb of Christ and The Flight into Egypt. <mask> returned to Antwerp in 1877. He exhibited the paintings he created in Palestine in various locations, including in Weimar, Antwerp, Brussels and London. They were also sent to the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1878. The works were received with enthusiasm.He had been called to Antwerp to take up the position of professor of painting at the Antwerp Academy which had become vacant with the death of Jozef Van Lerius. He was also offered a seat on the board of the Academy to replace Nicaise de Keyser upon his retirement. When Nicaise de Keyser resigned in 1879, <mask> decided to let his old teacher Joseph Geefs take up the role. As a result, <mask> only became a member of the board in 1885.

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texts: His students during this period included Edward Arthur Fellowes Prynne, the British Pre-Raphaelite painter, whose early works are clearly influenced by <mask>. In 1881 <mask> was made Commander in the Order of Leopold. At the time, panoramic paintings, large artworks that show a wide, all-encompassing view of a particular subject such as a landscape, military battle or other historical event, were all the rage in Europe.<mask> also created a few panoramic paintings. In Antwerp he first created the Battle of Waterloo in 1881. This work was 120 meters wide and 10 meters high. The whole scene also included plaster figures that enlivened the experience. The next year he created for a Russian organisation another panorama showing a Review of the Russian soldiers after the signing of the Treaty of San Stefano before Constantinopel. He executed this work with the assistance of his pupils. In 1883 he was commissioned with decorating the stairwell of the Antwerp City Hall.Of the four historical paintings he planned to install only one showing The Duke of Alva's statue dragged through the streets of Antwerp was finished at the time of his death. During this period he made many portraits, animal paintings, religious compositions and decorations for the palace of Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders in Brussels. In January 1886 the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh matriculated in painting and drawing at the Antwerp Academy. He started to attend drawing classes after plaster models at the Antwerp Academy on 18 January 1886. He quickly got into trouble with <mask>, the then director of the Academy and teacher of a painting class, because of his unconventional painting style. Van Gogh had also clashed with the instructor of the drawing class Franz Vinck. <mask> organised for van Gogh to attend the drawing classes after antique plaster models given by Eugène Siberdt.Soon Siberdt and van Gogh also came into conflict and there was a confrontation between the two men when van Gogh made a drawing after the Venus of Milo making her look like the limbless, naked torso of a Flemish peasant woman. Van

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 Gogh ceased to attend classes after the confrontation. On 31 March 1886, which was about a month after the confrontation with Siberdt, the teachers of the Academy decided that 17 students, including van Gogh, had to repeat a year. The story that van Gogh was expelled from the Academy by Siberdt is therefore unfounded. <mask> taught many other international pupils at the Academy including the illustrator Joseph Finnemore, Joseph Malachy Kavanagh and John Duncan.Gallery of Original Art featuring Joseph Malachy Kavanagh

Although he was hard-working and his works commanded a high price in the market, <mask> became indebted because of the high costs of organizing exhibitions of his works, the creation of the panorama's and a big loss on the Russian panorama, which was never paid. As a result, he was pursued by his creditors and had to pawn his works despite the financial assistance of his powerful friends. <mask> also became involved in the reorganisation of art education in Antwerp and the establishment of the Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten (Higher Institute for the Arts) which was to take over some of the tasks of art education in Antwerp.It had the effect of diminishing the role of the Academy of Antwerp and of its director <mask>. He tried to maintain a more important role for the Academy but was only partially successful. In the controversy that ensued, he made many enemies. All of these troubles were a serious burden on the artist. His health declined and in 1890 he had a stroke which partially paralysed him. Unable to regain his strength he died in Antwerp on 23 October 1890. He was buried two days later on the Kielkerhof and a bust created by his friend Jules Pecher was placed on the tomb.Work
<mask> was a versatile artist who practised painting, watercolor and etching. He also was an avid draughtsman. His subject matter was wide-ranging and included animal paintings, portraits, religious compositions, Orientalist works, genre scenes, including a number of singeries, and some still lifes. He was initially influenced by the professors of the Antwerp Academy who were


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 important proponents of the Belgian Romantic school and preached a return to the glorious Flemish Baroque style to treat important events in Belgium's history. He was later influenced by other contemporary art movements: the German Idealists whom he knew through Ary Scheffer in Paris and the Realism of Gustave Courbet. During his stay in Palestine his palette became muted and lost its Flemish bluster. Despite these many influences, his main inspiration was the work of the Flemish Baroque masters Rubens, van Dyck and Jordaens.He regained his more colorful palette after his return to Antwerp. During his lifetime he was recognised as an important animal painter. He was able to render animals in a lively and Realist manner. One of his early animal works was acquired by the English animal painter Edwin Landseer. One of the best known examples of his art in this area is The defense of the herd (1878, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp). Painted during his Palestine residence it has the muted palette that he adopted during this period. It shows the kind of dynamic representation of animals only interactions that can be seen in the animal paintings of earlier Flemish animaliers such as Frans Snyders.<mask> painted many works in the genre of the singeries'', i.e. humoristic renderings of monkeys engaging in human activities. The monkeys in the scenes are often dressed in costumes which adds comedy to their 'aping' of a specific human action (often a vice such as smoking or gambling) or occupation such as art critic, dentist, painter, musician etc. He created some original etchings in the early 1880s, including a self-portrait. He worked directly on the plate without other preparation which gives these works a spontaneous feel. References

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<mask> (born 6 August 1971) is an Irish playwright, screenwriter and director of stage and film. In recognition of his contribution to world theatre, <mask> was awarded a doctorate of Literature, Honoris Causa, in June 2013 by the University College Dublin. Early life
<mask> was born in Dublin. He was educated at University College Dublin and began writing his first plays there as a member of UCD Dramsoc, the college's dramatic society, and went on to found Fly by Night Theatre Company which produced several of his plays. He is considered one of the best contemporary Irish playwrights; his plays have attracted good reviews, and have been performed internationally (notably in the West End and on Broadway). Career
The Weir opened at the Royal Court before transferring to the West End and Broadway. It won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play for 1999.His 2001 play, Port Authority tells of three interwoven lives. The play was first produced by the Gate Theatre of Dublin but premiered at the New Ambassadors Theatre in London in February 2001, before moving to the Gate Theatre in April of that year. The production was directed by <mask> himself. New York's Atlantic Theater Company staged a production of the play in spring of 2008, starring Brian d'Arcy James, and Tony Award winners John Gallagher Jr. and Jim Norton. The New York Times critic Ben Brantley said, "I found myself holding on to what these actors had to say as if I were a five-year-old at bedtime being introduced to The Arabian Nights." <mask> also directed his play, Dublin Carol, at the Atlantic Theater Company, New York, in 2003. His 2004 play Shining City opened at the Royal Court and prompted The Daily Telegraph to describe him as "the finest dramatist of his generation".A meditation on regret, guilt and confusion, the play is set entirely within the Dublin offices of a psychiatrist who himself has psychological secrets. Whilst

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texts: much of the play takes the form of monologues delivered by a patient, the everyday stories and subtle poignancy and humour make it a riveting experience. It subsequently opened on Broadway in 2006 and was nominated for two Tony Awards, including Best Play. In September 2006, to great critical acclaim, <mask> made his National Theatre debut as both author and director with The Seafarer at the Cottesloe auditorium, starring Karl Johnson and Jim Norton, with Ron Cook as their poker-playing, Mephistophelean guest. Norton won an Olivier Award for his performance while <mask> was nominated for both the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Play. In October 2007 The Seafarer opened on Broadway, keeping with it most of its creative team, including <mask> as director and both Jim Norton and Conleth Hill in their respective roles, with David Morse taking over as Sharky, and Ciarán Hinds portraying Mr. Lockhart. The production on Broadway received some positive reviews including such statements as "<mask> is quite possibly the finest playwright of his generation" from Ben Brantley at The New York Times and "Succinct, startling and eerie, and the funniest <mask> play to date" from The Observer.Norton's performance as Richard Harkin in The Seafarer at the National Theatre won the 2007 Best Supporting Actor Laurence Olivier Award, and he won a Tony Award in 2008 for Best Featured Actor in a play. <mask> wrote and directed a stage adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's story The Birds, which opened in September 2009 at the Gate Theatre in Dublin. In 2011 the National Theatre London premiered his play The Veil at the Lyttleton. Described by The Times as "a cracking fireside tale of haunting and decay" it is set in 1822 and marked <mask>'s first foray into period drama. This vein continued with a striking new translation of August Strindberg's The Dance of Death premiered at the Trafalgar Studios in London at

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 the end of 2012. His version was described as "a profoundly seminal work" by The Guardian which also managed, The Times said, to be "Shockingly funny". The Donmar Warehouse mounted a season of <mask>'s work in 2013 with a revival of The Weir and the world premiere of The Night Alive.The Weir was hailed once again as "A modern classic" by The Daily Telegraph" and "A contemporary classic" by The Guardian while The Night Alive was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Play and described as "Another triumph" by The Independent on Sunday and "A masterstroke" by Time Out. The Financial Times said "sees the Irish playwright at his compassionate best. "The Night Alive transferred to the Atlantic Theatre New York, where it was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play 2014, and also received Best Play nominations from the Drama Desk and Lucille Lortell Awards

<mask>'s play Girl from the North Country, where the dramatic action is broken up by 20 songs by Bob Dylan, opened at London's The Old Vic on 26 July 2017. The play is set in a hotel in 1934 in Duluth, Minnesota, the birthplace of Dylan. The project began when Dylan's office approached <mask> and suggested creating a play using Dylan songs. The drama received favorable reviews. Screenplays
The film of his first screenplay, I Went Down, was critically acclaimed and a great commercial success.His first feature film as a director, Saltwater, won the CICAE award for Best Film at the Berlin Film Festival. His second feature film was The Actors, which he wrote and directed. He is the director and co-writer of The Eclipse, a film which had its world premiere at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. It was picked up for distribution by Magnolia Pictures and was released in US cinemas in spring 2010. The film subsequently won the Melies D'Argent Award for Best European Film at Sitges in Spain – the world's premier horror and

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 fantasy genre festival. At The 2010 Irish Film and television Awards The Eclipse won the awards for Best Film and Best Screenplay. Ciarán Hinds won the Best Actor Award at the Tribeca Film Festival for his portrayal of Michael Farr.In 2013, he wrote the last episode of Quirke. In 2020, he co-wrote the feature film adaptation of the Artemis Fowl books by Eoin Colfer. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was released digitally worldwide on Disney+ on June 12, 2020. Influences
<mask> has cited James Joyce and Stanley Kubrick as two of his "heroes". Girl from the North Country (2017)
 Uncle Vanya (adaptation) (2020)

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 Further reading
Allen Randolph, Jody. "<mask>." Close to the Next Moment: Interviews from a Changing Ireland.Manchester: Carcanet 2010. Grunert, Andrea. "The Eclipse" in: Enzyklopädie des Phantastischen Films'', Meitingen: Corian Verlag, 90 (June 2010):1–8, . Chambers, Lilian & Jordan, Eamonn. "The Theatre of <mask>: Right Beside the Beyond". Carysfort Press 2012. Wolfe, Graham."Staging Everyday Ghosts: <mask>’s Shining City." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 24.2 (2013): 118–211. Wolfe, Graham. "Really Existing Ghosts: A Spectral Reading of <mask>'s The Veil." Performance Research 23.3 (2018): 113-123. External links
 Interview with <mask> for The Eclipse, IFC.com

 Comprehensive Playography
 Article on The Birds, by Andréa Grunert, objectif-cinema.com, November 2009
 Interview with <mask>, by Andréa Grunert, March 2010
 Review: THE ECLIPSE, by Andréa Grunert, February 2011
 <mask> at Doollee

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<mask> (January 9, 1918 – May 30, 2005) was an infielder and pitcher who played from  through  in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at , 125 lb., <mask> batted and threw right-handed. <mask> was one of the best all-around players in the early years of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Noted for her enthusiastic, high-spirited personality and great knowledge of the game, Ziegler excelled at second base, where her range and acrobatic plays impressed baseball fanatics and experts. In addition, she later developed as a leading overhand pitcher. A member of three championship teams and three all-star squads, she spent 11 years in the circuit, being named to the Player of the Year and Pitching Champion awards in the same season. Regarded as a disciplined hitter and a daring base runner, she posted a career 2.57 walk-to-strikeout ratio (641-to-249) and utilized her stunning speed to snatch 387 stolen bases.As a pitcher, she had a 42–21 record for a .667 percentage and collected a solid 1.32 earned run average. Early life

A native of Chicago, Illinois, the diminutive Ziegler was the daughter of <mask> and Mae (née Connal) <mask>. At a very early age, she played baseball in Chicago. In 1933 her family had to relocate to the Los Angeles, California, due to the economic depression. Her father had been a linotype operator in Chicago, but went into different work after moving to California, while her mother was a housewife and an avid bridge player. Ziegler had a brother, Frank, who was three years older than she. At that time in California girls were not allowed to participate in interscholastic sports, except tennis.As expected, Ziegler expressed disappointment over very little organized women's school sport in her new home,

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 but she recalled that various girls athletic associations in the Los Angeles area provided compensation, as her hectic later teenage years involved memberships on several softball, basketball and speedball teams. In the late 1930s, she joined the Goodrich Silvertown, a prestigious softball club sponsored by B. F. Goodrich Company, one of the largest tire and rubber manufacturers in the world. In 1939 she helped her team win another Southern California Championship. Playing career

Milwaukee Chicks

By 1944 the AAGPBL added two teams,  the Milwaukee Chicks and the Minneapolis Millerettes. Ziegler attended a tryout for the AAGPBL arranged by scout Bill Allington, who would join the league for the upcoming season as manager of the Rockford team. Ziegler was one of six girls from Los Angeles who traveled to Peru, Indiana for the tryout. The girls passed the test and were rewarded with a contract to play in the league.<mask> joined the Chicks, along with Thelma Eisen, while Faye Dancer, Annabelle Lee, Lavonne Paire and Dorothy Wiltse were allocated to the Millerettes. In 1944 <mask> played second base for the debuting Milwaukee Chicks, a well balanced squad managed by Max Carey that counted with talented players as Josephine Kabick, Merle Keagle and Connie Wisniewski. <mask> hit a modest .191 average in 115 games, including 51 runs and 25 RBI, but she established as a flashy defender who made outstandings plays routinely. The Chicks led the league in runs scored (492), batting average (.207), stolen bases (739) and tied for first in home runs (12). The best offensive support came from Keagle, who hit .264 with 47 runs batted in, and led the AAGPBL hitters with seven home runs and 145 total bases. The one-two pitching staff was led by Kabick, who posted a 26–19

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 ball introduced the previous year. That season she posted a pitching record of 19–7 with a solid 1.38 ERA, leading all pitchers in winning percentage (.732). She also tossed 43 straight shutout innings, and finished second in ERA behind the stellar South Bend hurler Jean Faut (1.12), who won the Pitcher of the Year Award after going 21–9 (.700 W%). The Chicks finished fourth with a 59–53 record and advanced to the playoffs, but lost to Fort Wayne in the first round, three to two games. For her heroics, Ziegler was named AAGPBL Player of the Year and joined the All-Star Team.In 1951 Ziegler continued her torrid pitching, ending with a 14–8 (.636) record and topping the league with a 1.26 ERA. She narrowly surpassed Faut, who finished 15–7 (.682) with a 1.33 ERA. As an added bonus, Ziegler hit .191 with 51 runs and a career-high 35 RBI in 115 games and served as the interim manager for the Chicks late in the season. Her team won the first half (40–13) and finished fourth in the second half (31–22), to collect the second-best overall record (71–35) and a ticket to the playoffs, but was swept by South Bend during the first round in just two games. For the next two years Ziegler was plagued by nagging injuries, which slowed her production and development. In 1952, she hit .197 with 20 runs and 16 RBI in a career-low 85 games, and earned her second All-Star berth. The Chicks finished fourth (50–60) and lost to South Bend in the first round of the playoffs in only two games.AAGPBL title

The Chicks clinched the AAGPBL title in 1953, led by the strong pitching of Eleanor Moore, who won 17 games to tie Faut for the league lead. <mask>, who moved to shortstop, contributed with a .168 average in 96 games and made the All-Star Team again. Grand Rapids, with Woody English


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texts: at the helm, finished second in the regular season (62–44) and faced Rockford in the first round of the playoffs in a best-of-three series. In Game 1 of the playoffs, Rockford scored early and defeated the visiting Chicks, 9–2. The Peaches lined 13 hits off pitchers Eleanor Moore and Mary Lou Studnicka. The action shifted to Grand Rapids home ballpark for Game 2, and Earlene Risinger silenced the Peaches' bats to just two measly hits en route to a complete game, 2–0 shutout. Her clutch performance was backed by timely hitting by <mask>, who hit a RBI single in the seventh inning to give her a 1–0 lead, and Dolores Moore, who drove in the game's final run with a sacrifice fly in the eight.In Game 3, Grand Rapids starter Dorothy Mueller pitched well enough to beat Rockford, 4–3, and the Chicks advanced to the Championship Series to face the Kalamazoo Lassies, managed by Mitch Skupien, who have eliminated Fort Wayne in the other playoff contention. In the final series, Grand Rapids swept Kalamazoo in the best of three game set, by the scores of 5–2 and 4–1. In Game 1, Studnicka started for Grand Rapids and allowed only two runs in eight innings of work. With the score tied 2–2 going into the fourth inning, the Chicks scored three runs off Lassies’ pitcher Gloria Cordes. With the bases loaded, <mask> drove home one run with a sacrifice fly to put the score in favor of Grand Rapids, 3–2. Another sacrifice fly by Inez Voyce and a RBI single by Joyce Ricketts extended the lead to 5–2. When the Lassies first two batters reached base in the final inning, manager English brought Eleanor Moore to the rescue.She promptly retired the next three batters in order, striking out Isabel Alvarez, retiring Dorothy Schroeder with a pop fly to shortstop <mask>, and inducing June


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 Peppas on a sharp grounder to the mound throwing to Voyce at first base for the final out of the game. In Kalamazoo, with cold weather around 40 degrees and windy, both teams’ managers agreed to play the Game 2 in just seven innings. Risinger started for the Chicks and pitched one of the best games of her career. Grand Rapids gave her a one-run lead in the second inning, and wrapped up the scoring by producing three runs in the sixth, keyed by a two-run double off the bat of Ricketts. Risinger gave up a RBI single to Jean Lovell, and yielded only one extra-base hit, a solo home run by Doris Sams during Kalamazoo's two-run rally in the sixth inning. In the bottom of the seventh, the Lassies tried to rally again. Fern Shollenberger opened with a single, but Risinger retired the next two batters.Nevertheless, she lost her control temporarily and issued back-to-back walks to Schroeder and Peppas. With the bases loaded, Woody English was on the verge of yanking Risinger, but he instead sent Ziegler to the pitching mound. Pulling off her glove, the  Ziegler looked up at the tall Risinger. Okay, Beansie, can you get her out? she asked. Blowing on her hand to keep her fingers warm against the fast-chilling night, the pitcher replied, I don't know Ziggy. Snapping the brim of her cap in place, the diminutive Ziegler energetically ordered, Well do it!As a result, Risinger faced the dangerous Sams and struck out her on three straight fastballs. She fanned nine Lassies batters and walked four in completing her pitching gem. Later career

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 the All-Star Team. The Chicks finished in third place (46–45) and advanced to the playoffs to face regular-season champ Fort Wayne (54–40). But a dispute erupted before the two teams had played the opening game at Grand Rapids ballpark.Due to an injury to Fort Wayne's regular catcher, the league voted to allow the Daisies to add Rockford All-Star Ruth Richard to the roster. The Chicks, claiming that using a new player was unfair, played the first game under protest, which won by an 8–7 score. Attempting to resolve the matter the next game in Fort Wayne, Chicks manager English and Daisies pilot Allington ended up fighting at home plate. After tempers calmed, the entire Fort Wayne team voted not to play, so the Chicks forfeited, allowing Fort Wayne to advance to the championship round. In the end, the Kalamazoo Lassies won the last AAGPBL Championship Series by defeating the Daisies three to two games. First in Milwaukee, and later in Grand Rapids, the Chicks made the playoffs every year of their existence. <mask> was the only player to be on the team during its eleven-year history.Personal life

Following her baseball career, Ziegler went back to California and worked as a court reporter. Ziegler, who never married, had two nieces and two great-nieces. After retiring she became an avid golfer, was devoted to her family and her cats, and helped out the elderly as an active participant in the Meals on Wheels program. <mask> was a longtime resident of Los Osos, California, where she died at the age of 87. Statistics
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<mask> (March 17, 1927October 19, 2008), known as <mask>, was an American comedian, singer, actor, and film producer. He created the character Dolemite, the pimp from the 1975 film Dolemite and its sequels, The Human Tornado and The Return of Dolemite. The persona was developed during his early comedy records. The recordings often featured <mask> delivering profanity-filled rhyming poetry, which later earned <mask> the nickname "the Godfather of Rap." Actor and comedian Eddie Murphy portrayed <mask> in the 2019 film Dolemite Is My Name. Early life
<mask> was born and raised in and lived in the Johnson House on 1400 North 12th Street Fort Smith, Arkansas, and eventually moved to Akron, Ohio, and then Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In Milwaukee, he preached in churches and worked as a nightclub dancer.He returned to Akron, working in clubs as a singer, dancer, and comedian, often appearing in character as Prince DuMarr. He joined the US Army and served in an entertainment unit in Germany, where he was nicknamed the Harlem Hillbilly for singing country songs in an R&B style. He developed an interest in comedy in the Army after expanding on a singing performance for other servicemen. After his honorable discharge he lived in Seattle, Washington and then Los Angeles, where he continued to work in clubs and was discovered by record producer Dootsie Williams. He recorded rhythm and blues songs for the Federal, Cash, Ball, Kent, and Imperial labels between 1955 and 1962, and released his first comedy

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 albums, Below the Belt (1959), The Beatnik Scene (1962), and A Comedian Is Born (1964). Career

Dolemite records and wider acclaim
By his own account, he was working at the world famous Dolphin's of Hollywood record store in Los Angeles, California in 1970 when he began hearing obscene stories of "Dolemite" recounted by a local man named Rico. <mask> recorded a number of street poets, including Big Brown who, before he moved to Los Angeles, had been an influence on Bob Dylan, among other artists, while living in Greenwich Village.(Dylan said Brown's poetry was the best poetry he had ever heard.) In 1973, <mask> produced Brown's album, The First Man of Poetry, Big Brown: Between Heaven and Hell. According to <mask>, there was a wino named Rico, and <mask> heard him on the street corner doing all these raps and rhymes:

<mask> began recording the stories, and assumed the role of "Dolemite" in his club act and on recordings. In 1970–71 he recorded three albums of material, Eat Out More Often, This Pussy Belongs To Me, and The Dirty Dozens, where "with jazz and R&B musicians playing in the background, [<mask>] would recite raunchy, sexually explicit rhymes that often had to do with pimps, prostitutes, players, and hustlers." <mask> was influenced by more mainstream comedians such as Redd Foxx and Richard Pryor, as well as by traditions such as the Dozens. The recordings were usually made in <mask>'s own house, with friends in attendance to give a party atmosphere. The album covers and

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 contents were often too racy to be put on display in record stores, but the records became popular through word of mouth and were highly successful in Black American communities, where his "warped wit and anti-establishment outlook" were embraced.Dolemite movie and later success

<mask> spent most of his earnings from the records to finance the movie Dolemite, which appeared in 1975 and has been described as "one of the great blaxploitation movies" of the 1970s. The character was "the ultimate ghetto hero: a bad dude, profane, skilled at kung-fu, dressed to kill and hell-bent on protecting the community from evil menaces. He was a pimp with a kung-fu-fighting clique of prostitutes and he was known for his sexual prowess." The film was successful and was followed by The Human Tornado, The Monkey Hustle, and Petey Wheatstraw: The Devil's Son-in-Law. <mask> continued to release albums that appealed to his enduring fanbase through the 1970s and 1980s, but little of his work reached a white audience. His "rapid-fire rhyming salaciousness exceeded the wildest excesses" of Foxx and Pryor, and his highly explicit style kept him off television and major films. At the same time, <mask> often spoke in his church and regularly took his mother to the National Baptist Convention.He said that: "I wasn't saying dirty words just to say them... It was a form of art, sketches in which I developed ghetto characters who cursed. I don't want to be referred to as a dirty old man, rather a ghetto expressionist."

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 Later career
In 1990, <mask> appeared on Big Daddy Kane's album Taste of Chocolate. In 1990, <mask> appeared in Eric B. & Rakim's In The Ghetto music video. In 1994, <mask> appeared 2 Live Crew's album Back at Your Ass for the Nine-4.In 1995, <mask> appeared in an episode of Martin titled "The Players Came Home". In 1997, <mask> reprised his Dolemite character for a voiceover in the intro of Busta Rhymes' platinum album When Disaster Strikes.... In 1999, <mask> reprised his Dolemite character in an appearance on Snoop Dogg's album No Limit Top Dogg. In 2000, <mask> starred in Big Money Hustlas, a movie created by and starring the rap-rock group Insane Clown Posse, in which he played Dolemite for the first time in over 20 years. In 2001, <mask>mes' platinum selling album Genesis. In 2006, <mask> voice-acted in the show Sons of Butcher, as <mask> in season 2. In 2008, <mask> reprised the character Petey Wheatstraw on the song "I Live for the Funk", which featured Blowfly and Daniel Jordan.It marked the first time Blowfly and <mask> collaborated on the same record together, as well as the 30-year anniversary of the movie Petey Wheatstraw; it was also the final recording <mask> made before his death. Personal life
<mask> never married. His long-time manager, Donald Randall, said in 2012 that <mask> had both female and male lovers. Entertainer Stanton Z. LaVey, a friend of <mask>'s, said in 2019 that <mask> was "very much bisexual, if not gay", and that his Dolemite persona helped cover it up.

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 Death
On October 19, 2008, <mask> died in Akron, Ohio, of complications from diabetes. His mother, two brothers, a sister, a daughter, and grandchildren survived him. Legacy
He came to be regarded as a major influence by many later rap stars.Snoop Dogg said that "without <mask> <mask>, there would be no Snoop Dogg, and that's for real." On June 7, 2018, it was announced that Craig Brewer would direct Dolemite Is My Name from a script by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski with Netflix producing and distributing and Eddie Murphy starring as <mask>. Later that month, the rest of the principal cast was announced. In July 2018, Chris Rock and Ron Cephas Jones joined the cast. Principal photography began on June 12, 2018. In August 2019, the trailer was released. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2019, and received a limited release on October 4, 2019, before digital streaming on October 25, 2019.Discography

Albums
Below the Belt (1959)
Beatnik Scene (1962)
A Comedian Is Born (1964)
Let's Come Together (1970, recorded 1967)
Eat Out More Often (1970) (Kent KST 001)
This Pussy Belongs to Me (1970) (Kent KST 002) - with "The Signifying Monkee"
Dolemite for President (1972)
Merry Christmas, Baby
The Cockpit - with "Petey Wheatstraw - The Devil's Son-in-Law"
Return of Dolemite (featuring The Grunts & Groans of Love)
The Sensuous Black Man - by "The Prince"
Zodiac
I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing
Jokes by Redd Foxx
Live in Concert
The Player—The

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 Hustler
House Party: Dirty Dozens Vol. 1
The Streaker
Dolemite Is Another Crazy Nigger
Sweet Peeter Jeeter
The Turning Point
Close Encounter of the Sex Kind
Good-Ole Big Ones
Hip-Shakin' Papa
Greatest Hits (1995)
When Disaster Strikes... - Busta Rhymes (<mask> appears on "Intro" track) (1997, Elektra 62064-1)
This Ain't No White Christmas
Raw, Rude, and Real—More Greatest Hits
Phantom Surfers - XXX Party (2000)
21st-Century Dolemite (2002)
Hully Gully Fever
Genius of <mask> <mask>
Reconnect: Vol. 1B - various (2007, Acacia Records ACACIA CD-1B) (<mask> appears on the two "Godfather of Rap" tracks)
Dolemite for President — Special Edition (2008)
50 Years of Cussing (2009)
50 Years of Cussing, Vol. 2 (2019)

Singles
"Step It Up and Go" (King Records)
"Below the Belt" (Dooto)
"The Roosevelt" (Dooto)
"Let's Come Together"
"My Soul" - The Seniors (Ball 001)
"Rally in the Valley" (Vermont 105-45)
"Hully Gully Papa" (Case Records 1006)

Filmography

References

External links

 <mask> Ray Moore official Web site

 Dolemite Records
 Sweet Peter Jeeter, audio of LP
 <mask> Ray Moore Record Label
 Zolten, Jerry, "'I Ain't Lyin'!' The Unexpurgated Truth about Rudy Ray Moore." Living Blues # 157, May/June 2001. ZZZlist.com 2007 interview with Rudy Ray Moore
 Rudy Ray Moore dies at the age of 81
 MTV Obituary

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2008 deaths
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African-American male comedians
20th-century African-American male singers
American male comedians
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<mask> IV (June 14, 1945 – August 13, 2014) was an American music and history expert, writer, and lecturer. His expertise was sought after and beloved throughout Mississippi. Activities
<mask> IV was a Mississippi historian and native writer. <mask> lived in Tupelo, Mississippi, where he was a history and technology consultant. He reviewed Tupelo Symphony Orchestra concerts for the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal in addition to writing a local history column. He constantly researched topics about science, architecture, and Mississippi history for the purpose of presenting lecture topics to Mississippi historical groups, museums, and Universities. Early background
<mask> spent his childhood in Ripley, Mississippi, graduated from high school in Tupelo, Mississippi, and received a bachelor's degree from the University of Mississippi.He previously served his country in the United States Air Force and then went on to pursue a career as a representative for the community concerts division of Columbia Artists Management in New York City for 19 years. <mask> also worked as a computer specialist and systems manager of Kraft Foods, Inc. Historical writings and lectures
During 2004, <mask> published a book, Madness and the Mississippi Bonds, about the famous Mississippi bond scandal. The scandal became a worldwide cause célèbre in the decades immediately preceding the Civil War. For several years, he has led a walking tour of historic William Faulkner sites during Ripley, Mississippi's annual Faulkner Festival. Last summer, he led a similar tour of Ripley and New Albany for visiting scholars at the University of Mississippi's Faulkner-Yoknapatawpha Conference in Oxford, Mississippi. <mask>'s father (<mask> <mask>, III) was the special prosecutor appointed by Mississippi Governor J.P. Coleman in the Emmett Till case.<mask>, along with his brother Jak <mask> (an attorney in Tupelo), retain their fathers papers from the Emmett Till trial. Historical presentations
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 was a renowned historian about all aspects of Mississippi history, specializing in the life of William Faulkner and William Faulkner's grandfather, Col. William Clark Falkner. His ability to lecture extemporaneously upon any topic related to Mississippi social life and family backgrounds is engaging to all historical societies and museums. <mask> presented two history programs on William Johnson (the Barber of Natchez) on February 13, 2010, at the Natchez Trace Parkway Visitor Center near Tupelo, with a program entitled "William Johnson: Witness to a Vanished Natchez World." He presented readings directly from the diary of William Johnson. <mask> focused on Johnson by examining his life as a free black barber and diarist who, while living in Natchez, Mississippi, during the antebellum period, became a successful business man. William Johnson was a free man of color (although born a slave) in a town cosmopolitan enough to admire his business ability and integrity, but unable to grant him full citizenship or social equality.As a result, Johnson made the best of the half-world in between, unburdening himself in page after page of priceless Old South observations while graciously passing his days with family, servants, and his trusty violin, living in a comfortable Natchez townhouse. The talks by <mask> combined authentic images from the 1800s, with Johnson's own lively words, to revive the very human side of life in this famous African-American's vanished Natchez life. Musical activities
His scholarly knowledge of classical music derives from his degree in piano at the University of Mississippi, along with the 19 years of work with Columbia Artists Management, during which he traveled the United States for concert scheduling with symphony orchestras. His knowledge of music history and music literature is encyclopedic, as acknowledged by the Tupelo Symphony Orchestra, for which he presents pre-concert program lectures in collaboration with conductor Steven Byess.

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 Additionally, he has reviewed classical music concerts for the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. An example of his mastery of English prose is shown in this excerpt of a review:
"In a memorable performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 with Steven Byess and the Tupelo Symphony, pianist Alexander Schimpf rekindled the kind of shimmering musical radiance and elation that obviously won him first prize in the famous Cleveland International Piano Competition less than nine months ago.About 237 years earlier, during a hectic week in late March, 1795, another young man was grappling with the same piece of music. It was 25-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven, and he was rushing to complete the all-important concerto that he hoped would launch his own budding career skyward towards fame and fortune in hyper-musical Vienna. A few days later, at Beethoven's first performance before the Viennese public, it spectacularly did. And here lies Concerto No. 2's dual charm. It's both the ambitiously crafted tool of an impatient piano virtuoso and musical genius eager to find his place in the sun, and it’s also a scintillating work of art, intermingling witty Mozartean grace with Beethoven’s own revolutionary new ideas about harmony and rhythm." Latest writings
<mask> was equally adept at in-depth knowledge of quantum mechanics and physics, including deep space astronomy and gravitational waves.His recent writing includes the fusion of poetry and physics to explore the meaning of the universe. Educational activities
<mask> was also involved in teaching classes during the evening as a part of the curriculum at the University of Mississippi at the Tupelo campus. Death
<mask> died in a car accident on August 13, 2014 at the age of 69. His legacy was commemorated in an editorial by a close friend and contributor to the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. References

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title: Gates Brown

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William James "<mask>" <mask> (May 2, 1939 – September 27, 2013) was an American Major League Baseball left fielder who spent his entire career with the Detroit Tigers (1963–1975). He batted left-handed and threw right-handed. Early life
<mask> was born in 1939 in Crestline, Ohio. He attended Crestline High School and played tailback for the school's football team. <mask> also played baseball in Pony League, American Legion, sandlot and high school competition. He played at the catcher position, a position his father had also played. After his sophomore year, <mask> "got in with the wrong crowd" and spent his junior year at the Boys Industrial School for juvenile offenders in Lancaster, Ohio.He returned to Crestline High for his senior year, but he was not permitted to compete in sports. At age 18, he was arrested and convicted of burglary. He was sentenced to prison at the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio, where he was confined for 22 months from 1958 to 1959. He was encouraged by a prison guard who also coached the reformatory's baseball team to join the squad as a catcher. The coach contacted several major-league teams after being impressed by <mask>'s batting ability. Tigers scouts Frank Skaff and Pat Mullin helped <mask> get paroled a year early and signed him for US$7,000. He chose to join the Tigers despite interest from other teams such as the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians.He explained, "The primary reasons I signed with Detroit is because they didn't have any black players and eventually I figured they would, plus, I had been

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 told about the short right porch at Tiger Stadium." Baseball career

Minor leagues
After signing with the Tigers, <mask> spent four years in the team's farm system. He began his professional baseball career in 1960 with the Class C Duluth-Superior Dukes of the Northern League. In his first season, he played in the outfield, compiled a .293 batting average with 10 home runs and 68 RBIs, and was selected for the All-Star team. He also ranked among the Northern League's leaders with 13 triples (first), 30 stolen bases (second), and 105 runs scored (second). He also played winter league ball at Tampa in 1961. In 1961, <mask> was promoted to the Class-B Durham Bulls of the Carolina League.He appeared in 118 games with Durham, compiling a league-best .324 batting average with 15 home runs and 72 RBIs. He was promoted late in the season to the Class-A Knoxville Smokies of the South Atlantic League. He was selected to the All-Carolina League team, received a "Player of the Month" award in August 1961, and was named the "Most Popular Smoky". He played winter ball at Dunedin in 1962. In 1962, he was promoted to the Class-AAA Denver Bears of the American Association. He appeared in 139 games with Denver, hitting .300 and scored 73 runs. He hit only four home runs in Denver.After the season, <mask> noted that he was swinging just as hard as ever, but "the ball just didn't get up in the air for me." He began the 1963 season with the Class-AAA Syracuse Chiefs of the International League. He hit .257 with 13 home runs and 43 RBIs in 60 games. He was described in The

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 Post-Standard as one of "the most crowd-pleasing players ever to play for the Syracuse Chiefs. Detroit Tigers

1963 and 1964 seasons
<mask> was called up from Syracuse on June 17, 1963. Two days later, on June 19, <mask> hit a pinch-hit home run deep into the right field seats at Fenway Park in Boston,  becoming the 11th American League batter to hit a home run in his first at bat. He was the third player in American League history to hit a pinch-hit home run in their first at bat.In his second appearance, he hit a clutch single to drive in the winning run in the ninth inning of a game against the Kansas City Athletics. He appeared in 55 games for the Tigers in 1963, including 12 starts in left field and the remainder as a pinch hitter. In 1964, <mask> spent his first full season in the major leagues, appearing in 123 games, including 101 games as the Tigers' starting left fielder. He compiled a .262 batting average with 43 extra-base hits. He posted career-highs in home runs (15), RBIs (54), runs (65), hits (116), doubles (22), triples (6), stolen bases (11) and at bats (426) in 123 games. 1965–1967
In 1965, <mask> started 44 games at left field, but eventually lost the starting spot to 21-year-old Willie Horton who tallied 29 home runs and 104 RBIs in his first full season in the majors. He also totaled 43 RBIs in 227 at bats, an impressive average of an RBI for every 5.7 appearances.Frustrated with the lack of playing time, <mask> said early in spring training in 1966 that he wished the Tigers would let him go. Horton tallied over 100 RBIs and held

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 the left field spot for the second straight year; <mask> was limited to 33 games as the starting left fielder in 1966 and was used primarily as a pinch hitter. He compiled a .266 overall batting average but excelled with a .325 average in the pinch-hitting role. As the 1967 got underway, <mask> again expressed disappointment at his role sitting on the bench for the past two seasons. In an interview with Joe Falls, <mask> said:
When I was in the minors I used to say that I'd do anything to get to the majors. Even if it meant sitting on the bench, I didn't care. But now I'm here, I've been here five years, and I guess you change in time.Now I'm not content to sit any more. I want to play. I want to help the team, and I want to help myself. . . . I get down a lot. I guess that's only human. But I made up my mind from the very beginning that if I ever played on a team where a player caused dissension, that player would never be me. With injuries to Horton early in the 1967 season, <mask> was called on to start 17 games early in the 1967 season.However, in June, <mask> dislocated a bone in his left wrist crashing into the outfield wall while trying to field a fly ball. He remained on the injured list until the final month of the season. On the season, he appeared in only 51 games, and his batting average dropped to a career-low .187 in 91 at bats. 1968 season

<mask> had an outstanding season in 1968, helping the Tigers win the American League pennant and the World Series. While 1968 was called the Year of the Pitcher, <mask> tallied a batting average of

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texts: .370 — 140 points higher than the American League average of .230. <mask> started only 17 games that season, but appeared in 49 more as a pinch hitter. He also achieved a .442 on-base percentage and a .685 slugging average and struck out only four times in 104 at bats.As a pinch hitter, <mask> hit for a .450 batting average, the eighth-highest single season batting average for a pinch hitter (minimum 30 at bats) in major league history. His pinch hits were key in leading the Tigers to the pennant. By early June, he had registered eight hits in 12 pinch at bats. He hit especially well against the rival Boston Red Sox. On April 11, he had a pinch-hit home run in the ninth inning to lead the Tigers to a 4-3 victory over the Red Sox. He hit another pinch-hit home run against the Sox on August 10. <mask>'s master of the Sox peaked in an August 11 double-header before a crowd of 49,087 at Tiger Stadium.In the first game, he hit a game-winning home run in the 14th inning to deliver a 5-4 victory. In the second game, he again had the game-winning RBI in the ninth inning. <mask> also won over fans with his "every man" charisma. On August 7, 1968, after grabbing two hot dogs from the clubhouse, <mask> was ordered by manager Mayo Smith to pinch hit. He notoriously stuffed the hot dogs in his jersey to hide them from his manager. "I always wanted to get a hit every time I went to the plate. But this was one time I didn't want to get a hit.I'll be damned if I didn't smack one in the gap and I had to slide into second — head first, no less. I was safe with a double.


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 But when I stood up, I had mustard and ketchup and smashed hot dogs and buns all over me. The fielders took one look at me, turned their backs and damned near busted a gut laughing at me. My teammates in the dugout went crazy." After fining <mask> $100, Smith said, "What the hell were you doing eating on the bench in the first place?" <mask> replied, "I decided to tell him the truth.I said, 'I was hungry. Besides, where else can you eat a hot dog and have the best seat in the house'"

In August 1968, Detroit Free Press columnist Joe Falls wrote:
"<mask>. Everybody's favorite. Anyone who has to struggle in life -- and that's just about all of us -- can relate to this guy. Because nobody has reached the top through a more trying route than <mask>. And nobody is happier to be here than <mask>.He waddles out to leftfield. That's you playing softball.He stumbles in for a fly ball, lunges and catches it at the last moment. That's you, all right. He rips a triple over the centerfielder's head and raced to third like a runaway fire hydrant. It could be the moment in the office picnic." Los Angeles Times sportswriter Jim Murray wrote in September 1968 that <mask> had "the most level swing since Joe DiMaggio and added:
He's batting .459 as a pinch hitter. He hits the "A" pitches farther than some guys hit the batting practice pitches. He strikes out so seldom that pitchers are convinced he could get wood on a cultured pearl, or a machine gun bullet."California Angels manager Bill Rigney said: "When I think of <mask>, I think of loud noises and line drives.

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 When my pitchers ask me what to do with him, I say, 'Duck'!" Later years
In 1969, <mask>'s batting average dropped by more than 160 points to .204 in 100 at bats. His slump continued in 1970 as he hit .226 in 124 at bats. From 1971 to 1973 <mask> hit 33 home runs with 110 RBIs in 571 at-bats, including a .338 average in 1971 (66 for 195). He retired at the end of the 1975 season. <mask> holds the American League record for the most pinch-hit at bats in a career, with 414.In his career, <mask> collected 107 pinch hits  including 16 pinch homers - both are also American League career records - and also twice led the AL in pinch hits (1968 and 1974). In a 13-season career, <mask> was a .257 hitter with 84 home runs and 322 runs batted in in 1,051 games played. Coaching career
After retiring as a player, <mask> became a scout and rookie league instructor for the Tigers. He returned to majors in 1978 as the Tigers' hitting coach. He continued in that position through the 1984 season. Family and later life
<mask> moved to Detroit in 1960. He married Detroiter Norma Jean Sterling in July 1962.In 2009, Crestline High School renamed its baseball field as <mask> Brown Field and established a scholarship fund in <mask>'s honor. At the time, <mask> said: "You dream about something like this, but you don't ever think it's going to happen. I didn't want no fanfare when I was with the Tigers, but this is quite an honor." <mask> died of a heart attack on September 27, 2013 at a nursing home, aged 74. He had been in failing health for the last years of his life. See

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title: Frederick G. Clausen

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<mask> "Fritz" (<mask><mask> (1848–1940) was a Danish-born architect who came to the United States in 1869 and founded an architectural practice in Davenport, Iowa. The firm that he founded, presently named Studio 483 Architects, is still in business today, the oldest firm in continuous practice in the state of Iowa. <mask> has been termed the "premier 19th century architect" of Davenport, Iowa. Personal life

F. G<mask> was born in Eckernförde, Schleswig, Denmark on 13 February 1848 or 1 May 1848. His official name in Eckernförde was: <mask>. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1869, but put his emigration request in Germany (Kreis Eckernförde) until 1871. He was a Fellow of the Western Association of Architects (WAA) from 1885 to 1889.Following the incorporation of WAA into the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1889, he became a Member of AIA, continuing that membership until his retirement in 1914. In addition to his architecture practice, <mask> was an alderman of the city of Davenport, and was instrumental in setting up the Davenport paid fire department in 1882, with three new fire appliances. Company history
After his arrival in America, <mask> initially worked as a draftsman for Thomas W. McClelland a local architect of some note. He opened his own firm - F.G. Clausen - in

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 Davenport in 1871, working alone until 1896, and then partnered with Parke Burrows until 1904. When Burrows left, <mask>'s son Rudolph J<mask>, joined the company, which then became known as Clausen & Clausen. <mask> retired in 1914, and his son continued in business as Clausen & Kruse with Walter O. "Stub" Kruse; and from 1925 with Carrol Klein as the head of interior design, forming Clausen, Kruse & Klein.Notable buildings

1871-1896 (F.G. Clausen)

Davenport Crematorium, 3902 Rockingham Rd. Davenport, IA (1891) NRHP-listed
The Forrest Block, 401 Brady St. Davenport, IA (1875) NRHP-listed
Hibernia Hall, 421 Brady St, Davenport, IA (1891) NRHP-listed
Henry Lischer House, 624 W. 6th St., Davenport, IA (1871) Italianate style design, built for the publisher of Der Demokrat and vice president of the German Savings Bank. Contributing property in the Hamburg Historic District
Dr. <mask>cLelland Middleton House and Garage, 1221 Scott St. Davenport, IA (1903) NRHP-listed
 Christian and Elfrieda Mueller home, 530 Ripley St. Davenport, IA (c. 1885) Designed by <mask> and built for a local dry goods merchant as an anniversary present for his wife. Contributing property in the Hamburg Historic District
Northwest Davenport Turner Society Hall, 1602 Washington St. Davenport, IA (1882)

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J.H.C. Davenport, IA (1912) NRHP-listed
Hillside, 1 Prospect Dr. Davenport, IA (1906) NRHP-listed
J.H.C. Petersen's Sons' Wholesale Building, 122-124 W. River Dr. Davenport, IA (1910) NRHP-listed
One or more houses in the Riverview Terrace Historic District, Roughly Riverview Terrace, Clay and Marquette Streets, Davenport, IA NRHP-listed
Schick's Express and Transfer Co., 118-120 W. River Dr. Davenport, IA (1905) NRHP-listed
John Schricker House, 5418 Chapel Hill Rd. Davenport, IA (1910) NRHP-listed

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These buildings were designed by Rudolph J. Clausen after Frederick's retirement:
One or more buildings in the Crescent Warehouse Historic District, portions of E. 4th St., E. 5th St., Iowa St. and Pershing Ave. Davenport, IA (Clausen & Kruse), NRHP-listed
One or more buildings in the Davenport Motor Row and Industrial Historic District, River Dr., 2nd & 3rd Sts.between Perry & Iowa Sts. Davenport, IA (Clausen & Kruse), NRHP-listed
Dr. Kuno Struck House, 1645 W. 12th St. Davenport, IA (1911; Clausen & Kruse), NRHP-listed
Building at 202 W. Third Street, Davenport, IA (1916; Clausen & Kruse), NRHP-listed
Democrat Building, 407-411 Brady St. Davenport, IA (1923: Rudolph J. Clausen), NRHP-listed
Lend-A-Hand Club, 105 Main St. Davenport, IA (1922; <mask>. Clausen),


title: Niven Busch

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<mask> (April 26, 1903 – August 25, 1991) was an American novelist and screenwriter of movies such as the acclaimed The Postman Always Rings Twice. His novels included Duel in the Sun (1944) and California Street (1959). He was married to actress Teresa Wright for ten years beginning in 1942. Early career
Born in New York City, <mask> began his writing career in the early twenties, when he went to work for Time Magazine (co-founded by <mask>'s cousin, Briton Hadden). Before departing for Hollywood a decade later, <mask> had risen to editor at the weekly, working simultaneously for The New Yorker, where he contributed profiles on famous Americans. (These articles were collected into his first book, the non-fiction Twenty-One Americans.) In 1932, realizing he had gone as far as he was likely to go as a New York-based magazine writer/editor, <mask> re-connected with agent Myron Selznick, whom <mask> knew through his father, an executive who had worked for Myron's father Lewis in the teens and early twenties.Myron Selznick soon secured work for <mask> at Warner Bros. Pictures, and <mask> decamped to Los Angeles to write his first film, Howard Hawks's The Crowd Roars. One of four writers on the production, <mask>'s name was misspelled in the credits. Film career
Through the rest of the thirties, <mask> worked for most of the major Hollywood studios, scripting mostly B-movies like The Big Shakedown.

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title: Niven Busch

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 In 1938 he was nominated for an Academy Award for In Old Chicago, which was based on his story We the O'Learys, but failed to win. In 1940 he co-wrote The Westerner for director William Wyler and producer Samuel Goldwyn. Soon thereafter he went to work as Goldwyn's story editor, recommending Pride of the Yankees, in which Gary Cooper and <mask>'s soon-to-be wife Teresa Wright co-starred. Settling in the hills of Encino with his growing family, <mask> began writing novels.The Carrington Incident, published in 1941, was followed by the best-seller Duel in the Sun, which Lewis Selznick's other son David purchased and turned into the 1946 blockbuster of the same title. He now alternated between the writing of screenplays and novels, most of which became best-sellers. They Dream of Home, a tale of returning veterans, was followed by The Furies (1950), which became a film that starred Barbara Stanwyck. Another notable film of the period — for which <mask> wrote the original screenplay — was Pursued starring Robert Mitchum and Teresa Wright, one of the first psychological Westerns with "noir" overtones. Around the same time, <mask> also adapted the noir thriller The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Later career
In the early fifties, <mask> and Wright divorced, and <mask> left Hollywood for northern California, where he devoted himself to cattle ranching and the full-time

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