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 whose stated aim was "to represent a great catastrophe to the world" and not "a doctrine", claimed he had no wish to engage in arguments with philosophers or naturalists concerning the particulars of this catastrophe. Diogenes Successful
In the New York Crystal Palace at the World's Fair—held in New York City in 1853—he showed Diogenes Successful (unlocated), wherein Diogenes had finally located his truly "honest man" in the person of George Washington. Boston Athenaeum, and the National Academy of Design
When <mask> first began to contribute paintings to the annual exhibitions held at the Boston Athenaeum and the National Academy of Design, New York, he showed only portraits. Probably the most notable of these is the depiction of Julia Gardiner Tyler (1820–1889), the second wife of the 10th U.S. President John Tyler. Portrait of a Child as Cupid

<mask>'s Portrait of a Child as Cupid—depicting William Paterson Van Rensselaer, Jr.—was painted in New York City and was commissioned by the subject's father, William Paterson Van Rensselaer, Sr. (1805–1872). The picture was lent by him in 1847 to the annual exhibition held by the Albany Gallery of Fine Arts, of which Van Rensselaer was an honorary member.The painting, which descended in the family, may have hung in the Rensselaer Manor House in Albany and almost certainly hung in both the Elk Street town house built by William Paterson Van Rensselaer, Sr., at the time of his first marriage in 1833 and then in Beverwyck, in Bath (now Rensselaer), New York, which Van Rensselaer built after inheriting the Rensselaerswyck estate

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 lands on the east bank of the Hudson river, following the death of his father, Major General Stephen Van Rensselaer III, on 26 January 1839. During the late 1830s, <mask> also painted portraits of William Paterson Van Rensselaer, Jr. (Private Collection); his sister, Euphemia White Van Rensselaer (1816–1888; Private Collection); and his sister-in-law, Mary Rebecca Tallmadge Van Rensselaer (1817–1872; Albany Institute of History and Art). <mask>'s records of other sitters suggest that he drew his patronage from New York State citizens of upper classes. In Portrait of a Child as Cupid, <mask> presents Van Rensselaer, Jr. in a spectacularly theatrical manner, revealed triumphantly by the parting of the heavy red draperies. The Empire period ormolu daybed—with its gold embroidery and tassels—bespeaks high-style furniture such as that produced concurrently by Charles-Honoré Lannuier, Joseph Meeks (1771–1868), and Antoine-Gabriel Quervelle (1789–1856). With the bow and quiver of arrows by the side of the bed, the artist identifies the child with Cupid as a symbol of love, a conceit similar to that chosen later by William Henry Rinehart (1825–1874) in his statue of Henry Elliot Johnston, Jr., Cupid with a Bow, 1874 (National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.). Death
Anelli died in 1878.His diary is on display at the Frick Art Reference Library in New York City. Gallery

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<mask> (31 March 1873 in Potsdam, Province of Brandenburg – 18 November 1926 in Berlin) was a war journalist, editor, author of several books and politician in the SPD. From 1912, <mask> was a member of the German Reichstag for the SPD, and in 1919 he became professor of economics at Berlin University. Life
Already in high school <mask> studied Hegel and Marx. After military service he studied economics in Berlin and Strasbourg. In 1900 in Strasbourg he received his doctorate in political science. He then worked as an editor for the newspaper Freie Presse für Elsaß-Lothringen (Free Press for Alsace-Lorraine). From 1902 he was associate editor of the Leipziger Volkszeitung and next to Rosa Luxemburg, Alexander Parvus, Franz Mehring and Karl Liebknecht he was spokesman for the Anti-revisionist Left in the SPD.From 1908 to 1913 he was editor of the Leipziger Volkszeitung. In 1912 he was the SPD candidate for the Saxon 22nd constituency (Reichenbach) and was elected to the Reichstag. In 1914 <mask> first opposed the SPD’s approval of war loans, but in 1915, together with Heinrich Cunow and Konrad Haenisch, he formed the Lensch-Cunow-Haenisch group within the SPD, which sought to reach agreement with the majority of the SPD through a defense of the war based on Marxist theory. They developed the theory of war socialism that was published in the Hamburger Echo and other SPD newspapers. From mid-1915 Die Glocke, a magazine founded by Alexander Parvus became the organ of the group. In October 1917 the SPD split. Lensch became a spokesman for the mainstream SPD, called MSPD (Mehrheits-SPD, "majority-SPD"), which was under the leadership of Friedrich Ebert who had supported the war from the start.In November 1918 <mask> became an important contact between the Council of the People's Deputies and the military leadership. Later he withdrew from party politics and became a professor at the University of Berlin. <mask> was also a member of the foreign policy staff of the conservative Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, a newspaper

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 belonging to Hugo Stinnes, a famous industrialist and politician. In 1922, after the merger of MSPD and what was left of USPD (moving SPD to the left), <mask> was expelled from the party. From June 1922 to November 1925 he was editor of the DAZ Lensch, and increasingly became more and more closely associated with conservative opponents of Social Democracy. In November 1926 <mask> died after a long illness in Berlin. Political ideas

War socialism
<mask> believed that World War I proved the failure of capitalism.Since capitalism, the system of a free market economy based on competition, relies on socialist economic regulatory measures (Lensch believed), the superiority and victory of the socialist principle is thus proved for Lensch. The state used a grain monopoly to ensure the nutrition of the population, and Bread cards would then be introduced. This is for Lensch the indication of a principle change in the economy towards a "democratic war socialism" (?). This lack of basic needs during the war is for Lensch basically godsend, because it allows the actions of government planning. Here he saw the revolutionary character of the war. To Lensch the state is an institution that stands above classes. The state does not regulate any specific class, but is driven by “objective interests”.The war effort showed this and thus reflects the interest of the whole people. According to Lensch socialism is thus not achieved through class struggle, but through national reconciliation. The cultural identity and the economy should be linked together – this is important for the thesis of a "world war as a world revolution". The thesis removes Lensch from the classical Marxist view, although Marxist methodology is still basically applied. Large national industries, a bureaucratically regulating state and a strong work force are for Lensch, the new socialist "Volksgemeinschaft" (unity of a people). World War is a World Revolution
The First World War was interpreted by <mask> as a world socialist revolution. It is the continuation of

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 wanted to keep these privileges from others and therefore supported the Government in the war, inferring from this that the victory of Germany would be a victory for international socialism. A British victory would on the other hand set Germany back for years, and mean the end of socialism. The ideas of socialism as imagined by <mask> differ from the traditionally Marxist. It is about the creation of a national solidarity, which is characterized by government and moral obligations. With this "positive" interpretation of the historical "exceptionalism" of Germany, in contrast to the liberal model country England, <mask> is not alone.Many authors emphasized at the time the superiority of the German "culture" against the "superficial individualistic-capitalist Western civilization" and Ideas of 1914 against the Ideas of 1789. The fact that <mask> mixed this with Marxist ideas, creating an authoritarian, nationalist model of socialism, is far from unique. There are similarities of this thinking with Ernst Niekisch idea of National Bolsheviks. Also famous is the work 1789 und 1914: Die symbolischen Jahre in der Geschichte des politischen Geistes by Johann Plenge. Other
Through the foundation of the Lensch-Cunow-Haenisch Group, Lensch also was close to Alexander Parvus and he was strongly influenced by Professor Johann Plenge, himself the Ph.D. advisor of Kurt Schumacher and the ancestor of the right-wing tendency in today's SPD known as Seeheimer Kreis. <mask> considered himself a Marxist and saw Germany as the 'revolutionary' side of the conflict, with England as the 'counter-revolutionary'. It is unclear whether <mask> left the SPD in 1920, after being accused of having supported the Kapp Putsch, or was expelled in 1922.Books
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<mask> (born 1946 in Abilene, Texas) is an ordained Christian minister, author, teacher, and chaplain, who leads workshops and conferences throughout the United States. She has authored nine books, three hymnbooks, a children’s musical, and a children’s songbook. She has also published many articles in publications such as Christian Feminism Today, The Journal of Pastoral Care, The Christian Ministry, and Patheos. She specializes in feminist theology and inclusive worship resources. Ordained in the Alliance of Baptists, she ministers in ecumenical and interfaith settings. She serves as co-chair of the national ecumenical, multicultural Equity for Women in the Church Community, on the council of Evangelical and Ecumenical Women’s Caucus-Christian Feminism Today; adjunct professor at Richland College in Dallas, Texas; and on the Dallas Workers’ Rights Board. Her diverse career includes serving as consultant in the internship programs at Perkins School of Theology in Dallas and Brite Divinity School; associate pastor, St. John's United Methodist Church in Waco, Texas; executive director, Waco Conference of Christians and Jews; Pastoral Counselor, Samaritan Counseling Center of Central Texas; chaplain, Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas and Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center in Waco; English professor, Dallas Baptist University.Feminist theology and inclusive language

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 justice, and peace. In her introduction to Changing Church: Stories of Liberating Ministers she writes: “My vision is for the Divine Feminine to shine forth in all Her glory in multicultural visual imagery and in the language of worship, supporting equal partnership of women and men. My vision is of a church where the Divine Feminine and women ministers don’t have to be defended or marginalized, but are fully and equally included throughout every worship service and every activity of the church. My vision is for the Sacred Feminine to be worshipped not only in Christian congregations, but in every religion all over the world, and for women to share equally in the leadership of every religion. My vision is for girls to believe they are equal to boys because they hear and see the Supreme Being worshipped as ‘She’ as well as ‘He. '”

Many traditionalists are critical of Aldredge-Clanton's views. Plumeline, a conservative Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) publication, criticizes the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) for Aldredge-Clanton’s leadership at a CBF annual gathering: “The SBC has no feminist theologian leaders calling for the worship of the ‘Christ-Sophia.’ But the CBF does.<mask> Aldredge-Clanton conducted a breakout session at the 1995 General Assembly and is a promoter of feminist theology. She is the cited ‘leader’ who espouses ‘Christ-Sophia.’”   Additionally The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, an evangelical organization opposing an egalitarian view of gender, takes the organization, Christians for Biblical Equality (CBE), to


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 toward both a more inclusive theology and a more inclusive worship style.” The review continues: “In a style well-suited for church discussion groups, <mask> Aldredge-Clanton affirms ‘the unlimited God’ of Scripture, explores the interaction of God-language and self-esteem in women, and proposes various models for change.”
 Counseling People with Cancer (Westminster John Knox, 1998). The Princeton Seminary Bulletin refers to the book as “compelling,” assisting people to reflect on their cancer experiences and “encouraging” them “to tell their stories” and to expand their images of the Divine. God, A Word for Girls and Boys (Glad River, 1993; Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2007).Sing and Dance and Play with Joy! Inclusive Songs for Young Children, with composer Larry E. Schultz (Lulu, 2009). References

External links
 Aldredge-Clanton’s website and blog
 Jann Aldredge-Clanton’s YouTube channel
 Evangelical & Ecumemical Women’s Caucus-Christian Feminism Today
 Equity for Women in the Church
 "Revolution Through Rituals," an article by <mask> Aldredge-Clanton, published in Feminism and Religion, December 12, 2014. Letha Dawson Scanzoni of Christian Feminism Today interviews <mask> Aldredge-Clanton
 “She Lives! Sophia Wisdom Works in the World,” teleconference sponsored by Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (WATER), May 4, 2015. “Expanding the Image of the Divine to Include the Feminine,” interview with Justine Willis Toms, New Dimensions Radio, November 15, 2015. “Why Inclusive Language Is Still Important,” an article by <mask> Aldredge-Clanton,

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 published on Christian Feminism Today, February, 2013.“God Is Not a Guy and Neither Am I,” an article by <mask> Aldredge-Clanton, published on Christian Feminism Today, May, 2013. Anne Leggett-Walker, “New Wineskins, Ancient Divine,” Moonlady.com, 2014. "Sing of Peace,” a description of the Christmas album with <mask> Aldredge-Clanton’s inclusive lyrics to familiar Christmas tunes, sung by Devi Vaani. "’Blessing Every Love Relation’: A Pride Month Hymn,” in Feminismxianity: Patheos, June 29, 2015. “At the Intersections: Justice and the Divine Female,” Feminismxianity: Patheos, October 21, 2014. 1946 births
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<mask> (September 10, 1869 – January 18, 1949) was the third president of the University of Oklahoma and eleventh president of the University of Missouri. Early life
<mask> was born in 1869 in Everett, Missouri. At the age of two, he and his parents moved to Michigan where his father, <mask>, was a Sheriff in Isabella Co. Michigan (1878–82)  <mask> graduated from Mt. Pleasant High School, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan class of 1887  <mask> was educated at the University of Michigan and held a master's degree from Harvard University. Prior to being appointed president of the University of Oklahoma, he served as the first superintendent of LaSalle-Peru Township High School (1898-1899), located in LaSalle, Illinois. Additionally, Dr. <mask> served as superintendent of Boston public schools.He also spent three months in 1906 as the superintendent of the Cleveland, Ohio public school system. University of Oklahoma
When <mask> was first being courted for the position of OU president in 1911, he at first did not want the position. It was seen as a fledgling university and many on the East Coast were "still in shock" at the summary discharge of former president <mask> Boyd. He wasn't approached again until 1912 while at a national superintendent's meetings in St. Louis, Missouri. He was approached by William A. Brandenberg who was a member of the new Oklahoma State Board of Education. Again, <mask> refused the job but Brandenberg continued to pursue telling him that the Board desired to keep politics out of the selection process. <mask> still refused but gave advice on how to keep politics out of the process by saying that only the university president could appoint faculty and that the Board should have nothing to do with the administration of the university.Eventually, the Board agreed to these guidelines and was able to convince <mask> to accept the position. <mask> later said that, "Whatever was accomplished during my eleven years as president of the University, was possible only because the Board of Education that appointed me, and its successors, never violated the basic principles set forth in that first conference." <mask> was inaugurated as president

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 of the university in the spring of 1912. He immediately set to rebuilding the university. He found that many of Oklahoma's own citizens (over 1,500) were sending their children to out of state colleges. He immediately went about strengthening the faculty but he did not fire one individual brought in because of political connections if he was a good teacher. At the university, <mask> established a permanent faculty salary, sabbatical leave, and permanent tenure.He also acquired land around the university where the stadium and armory now stand. <mask> had a great reputation with the Board of Education (now the Board of Regents) and the Oklahoma legislature. During his years as president, many building were constructed around campus. Accomplishments during WWI
<mask>' was also OU's first wartime president, have served during the duration of World War I. He made many efforts to see that the university was at the forefront of preparedness for all war needs. He imposed strict food regulations on the university and he established thirteen courses in seven different departments for the direct purpose of "training soldiers, training men who expect to become soldiers, and training people who take the place of soldiers in civil life." Some of these courses included: wire telegraphy, wireless telegraphy, stenography and shorthand, oxyacetylene welding, orthopedic surgery, military field engineering, and first aid courses.Students under 21 were required to take special courses in the Student Army Training Corps. Barracks, an infirmary, bathhouse, guardhouse, and canteen were constructed. By the latter part of 1918, the university was practically a military base. All in all, 30 faculty members, 500 alumni, and 1,875 students were in military service during the war. End of the line at OU
Brooks' situation changed dramatically after John C. ("Jack") Walton was elected Governor of Oklahoma in 1922. Gone was the close working relationship he had with previous governors. Walton felt that <mask> was not enthusiastic about promoting the new governor's political agenda.Some of Walton's political advisors felt that the university was a hotbed of anti-Walton

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 supporters. <mask>, the OU vice president, had openly supported Walton's rival in the primary. After both <mask> and the Board of Regents had written letters to the members of OU's faculty, cautioning them against taking part in the upcoming election campaign, <mask>r continued to take an active political role, making fiery speeches supporting Walton's rival for the governorship, Robert H. Wilson, the state superintendent of education. Walton, the Democratic nominee easily defeated Wilson, the Republican, in the general election of November, 1922, and was inaugurated in January, 1923. In May 1923, he abruptly dismissed four of the five existing regents from the board and replaced them with reliable supporters of himself and his agenda. The board quickly proceeded to terminate <mask>'s employment. Walton then retaliated against <mask>, whose son-in-law was then president of the Oklahoma School of Mines in Miami, Oklahoma.Although <mask> openly hoped the young man could remain undisturbed in that position, Walton abruptly replaced him with a supportive legislator from Ottawa County. Then, <mask> voted against Walton's nomination of another supporter to become superintendent of vocational agriculture. Walton became furious with <mask>, and again replaced the occupants of the state board. That day, the Daily Oklahoman printed the story with the headline, "<mask>' Neck Expected to Feel the Ax Next." Walton explained his action to the press, "...the educational system must be removed as far as possible from political maneuvering,...(T)he university organization has been used against me by Yankee republicans and I believe that it should be in democratic hands." University of Missouri
The University of Missouri (UM) previously had indicated to <mask> that it would like to have him take the job as president. He had previously rejected the interest, because he had become interested in continuing in Norman.Besides, his wife loved the place, and even told him once that that was the place where she hoped to be buried after death. Regarding Walton's replacement of the regents, <mask> realized that he had no future in Oklahoma without top-level political

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 support. He called UM and asked if the presidency was still open. The answer was, "Yes." He travelled to Missouri to meet with the school officials. The next day, he received a formal job offer with an annual salary of $12,500. He gave them his verbal acceptance.When he got home he wrote a one-sentence letter of resignation to one of the regents, which was immediately accepted. The <mask> family bade goodbye to Oklahoma. Within six months, the Oklahoma legislature had enough of Walton's arbitrary behavior and roughshod power plays. They passed articles of impeachment and removed him from the Governor's office. The budgetary problems <mask> faced at UM were much the same as those he left in Oklahoma. At least the school had not developed into quite as big a mess as OU had when he arrived in Norman. Still, a bizarre incident in 1931 derailed his career.Some sociology professors allowed release of a "sex survey" that most of the regents and ordinary citizens found offensive to their social views. <mask> saw the document, which he called "sewer psychology" and wanted to fire the faculty members who had authorized sending it out without his prior approval. The American Association of University Professors joined in the uproar. The regents then blamed <mask> for misleading them and creating a national scandal. Unable to defend himself, he resigned, and moved to Kansas City, so that UM could find a new leader. Later life and subsequent death
Looking for something very different to do, he accepted the job as president of the Order of DeMolay, a Masonic institution for young men. When his wife died in 1941, <mask> <mask> brought her body back to Norman for burial.He remained in Norman until his own death on January 18, 1949, after which, he was interred beside her. Notes

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<mask> (16 January 1860 – 25 March 1952) was a British social reformer and campaigner for women's suffrage. She was one of the first two women elected as Tunbridge Wells councillors. Early life

<mask> was born in Byfleet, Surrey on 16 January 1860, the fourth child of <mask> and his wife, Ellen (née Nicholls). Her father was Clerk to the Lord Chamberlain of London and the family were reasonably prosperous, employing in 1861 three servants, a housemaid, nursemaid and cook. By then they had moved to Southborough, near Tunbridge Wells, where <mask>’s youngest sister, Louisa, was born in 1862. <mask> died while his children were still young and their mother later remarried. By 1881 Louisa and <mask> were living with an aunt and their grandmother, the three of them being attended to by a cook and three maids.<mask>’s background was therefore comfortably middle class – her aunt and grandmother were described as ‘living on own means’ – although the family was not exactly wealthy. Her maternal grandmother was the widow of a clergyman and there is clear evidence of <mask>’s own religious belief and commitment. After their grandmother’s death <mask> and <mask> set up home together, living in several premises in the Tunbridge Wells area, before finally settling in Lansdowne Road where they lived with another sister, Florence. None of the woman married but they lived in respectable residences and could afford to employ one servant. Together with their siblings, they each inherited a share of their father’s estate and the sisters do not seem to have needed to take on paid work but budgets were necessarily tight as their income was limited. Social work
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texts: mothers’ meetings and teaching Sunday school classes. She had a strong, Anglican faith and in 1898 her book, Women of Sacred History, was published.In 1894 <mask> attended a conference of the National Union of Women Workers (NUWW) at Bristol. This event was an epiphany: ‘[i]n those days in Tunbridge Wells we lived in our own small, self-satisfied circles, both in religion, politics and class,’ she later recalled. ‘At Bristol I walked into a wholly different atmosphere, and it was an atmosphere where I would be’. Inspired by this conference, she formed an NUWW branch in Tunbridge Wells, holding the initial meeting in her own home and serving as its secretary for over thirty-five years. At the first meeting, the well-known workhouse reformer, Louisa Twining (who had retired to Tunbridge Wells) took the chair. Twining, who was a Poor Law Guardian (PLG) for the Tonbridge Union, must have encouraged <mask> to follow in her footsteps, as in 1901 <mask> was elected a PLG. <mask> also undertook social work training in London provided by the Charity Organisation Society (COS).In 1906 the Tunbridge Wells NUWW branch, under her direction, hosted the national NUWW conference in the town’s new Opera House. As a PLG <mask> not only regularly inspected the workhouse premises at Pembury but also visited people for whom the Union was responsible including those who had been sent to the County Asylum at Barming, near Maidstone. She served on the Union’s Finance Committee as well as the Children’s Committee, the House Committee and the Mental Deficiency Committee. Her career as a PLG continued until 1930 when the Board’s functions were transferred to the Kent County Council’s Public Assistance Committee. According to a semi-autobiographical work about the ending of the Poor Law entitled The Passing of a Great Dread, <mask> learnt a great deal from her experience as a

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 PLG, not least from her dealings with a female vagrant to whom she gave the pseudonym ‘Elspeth’. Her Poor Law work also opened her eyes to the needs of new mothers, both married, and unmarried; as well as those of young, sick and elderly workhouse inmates. Among the service improvements she championed was the construction of a proper mortuary, complete with space for the grieving relatives of the deceased.<mask>’s social activism focused primarily on the needs of young, working class women and mothers. Among her many local community projects was a hostel for working women, opened in Tunbridge Wells in 1913. Along with many NUWW activists, she had become concerned by the lack of housing provision for poor working class single women and children, other than mixed common lodging houses. The Tunbridge Wells NUWW branch raised funds to take over and refurbish a former inn and reopen it as the Crown Hostel for Women and Children. In 1931 it was reported to house 100 women and 50 children in a week. <mask>, together with her sister, Louisa and other local NUWW members also established a social club for working girls (particularly laundry workers) in Upper Grosvenor Road, Tunbridge Wells. Called the ‘Leisure Hour Club for Young Women in Business’, it opened its doors in 1900 and remained active for nearly twenty years.The club was supported by local philanthropists and ran excursions on bank holidays as well as holding club evenings. During the First World War it was joined by the ‘Comrades’ Club’, where young women were able to socialise with young soldiers, under the watchful eyes of the women volunteers. Women’s suffrage
Like many politically active women of her generation, <mask> became an avowed supporter of women’s suffrage. In 1905 the Tunbridge Wells NUWW branch held a discussion on the subject of votes for women and <mask> was among those who spoke

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 up in favour. At the 1906 NUWW annual conference in Tunbridge Wells a memorable, heated debate on women’s suffrage took place, chaired by the national suffrage leader, Millicent Fawcett. From 1908 <mask> was an official of Tunbridge Wells’ non-militant women’s suffrage society which was affiliated to the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), and which had a shop and offices in Crescent Road, Tunbridge Wells. <mask> took part in peaceful demonstrations for women’s suffrage, once carrying a banner from the Thames Embankment in London to the Royal Albert Hall.In 1913 she became involved in the non-militant suffrage ‘pilgrimage’ to London organised by the newly formed Kentish Federation of Women’s Suffrage Societies. She gave speeches en route, including at the Victoria Hall, Southborough. Her leaflet bag, emblazoned in the NUWSS colours of red and green, is now kept at the Women’s Library. <mask> supported suffrage because she believed that women should play a part in changing the law, especially with regard to morality. In other words, the vote was not for her an end in itself, but a means to an end. She told her audience at the Victoria Hall, ‘we women claim our right to political power in order that we may better carry it out.’ Furthermore, she expressed feminine solidarity: ‘the degradation of any woman is the degradation of all,’ she claimed. <mask>’s feminism was thus rooted in her experience as a social activist as well as her religious faith.‘Men and women TOGETHER form humanity’ she claimed, ‘in God our Creator there is neither male nor female... the distinction is purely physical, not spiritual.’

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 area. In 1915 at the request of a military commander, <mask> and her helpers opened a laundry service for washing and mending soldiers’ kits. At its height the laundry was dealing with up to 20,000 garments a week. Meanwhile, the former suffrage society offices were transformed into a depot for donations of clothing. After the war <mask> attended a Buckingham Palace garden party for women war workers on account of the soldiers’ laundry which she had managed from 1915 to 1918. Soon after the outbreak of war, as an influx of refugees from Belgium came to Britain, <mask> and <mask> both became members of the Tunbridge Wells committee set up to welcome and assist the refugees. The <mask> sisters and the other ladies on the committee must have been generous with their help for the refugees since in 1916 they were all presented with souvenir album autographed by members of the Belgian ‘colony’ in Tunbridge Wells.The album presented to <mask> and Louisa jointly as ‘Mesdemoiselles <mask>’ is preserved in the Women’s Library in London. <mask> was also awarded the Golden Palm of the Order of the Crown of Belgium by the King of Belgium for her help to the refugees. As well as the Armistice, 1918 saw the passage of the Representation of The People Act, which gave the parliamentary vote to some women. In December, these women got their first chance to vote in a general election and on polling day <mask> took part in a procession of women through Tunbridge Wells to the Town Hall. Post-war
In 1918 the NUWW became the National Council of Women (NCW). <mask> remained the local branch secretary and its members continued their active, local political campaigns. In addition, NCW women founded a Women’s Citizens’ Association, dedicated to the political education of newly enfranchised women.<mask> was a leading member of this new organisation. In 1919, <mask> and her

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 friend and colleague, Susan Power, became the first two women to be elected to the borough council of Royal Tunbridge Wells. <mask> received almost 40 per cent of the votes cast in her ward. As a councillor she campaigned for the appointment of women police, for better housing and for the provision of municipal services such as a museum and library. However <mask>’s main local, post-war campaign was for a maternity home, together with a hostel and day nursery for the children of widows, deserted wives and unmarried mothers. The project was intended as a thank offering for victory in the war. This was partially successful when in 1924 sufficient money had been raised to purchase two adjoining properties for the maternity home.By 1936 one-third of local mothers were delivered of their babies at the home and <mask> was still a member of its committee when it was absorbed into the National Health Service in 1948. National work
<mask>’s influence was not restricted to the local area. She regularly participated at NCW Annual Conferences and served on its national executive. She also established a national committee of the NCW, called the Public Service Committee, and was its secretary for 17 years. An early campaign of the committee’s was for safe lodging houses for women (see above). In 1919, when women were allowed to become Justices of the Peace (JPs) for the first time, the committee – previously just for women in local government – became the Public Service and Magistrates Committee (PSMC). Under its new name the committee - still convened by <mask> - campaigned for better treatment of women in police cells and for the employment of women JPs in juvenile courts.<mask> corresponded with many of the leading figures of the NCW including Louise Creighton (founding president and wife of a Bishop of London) and she worked closely with Florence Ada Keynes on

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 the PSMC. Her high-profile correspondents also included Beatrice Webb, Eleanor Rathbone MP, Millicent Fawcett (suffragist leader) and Clementine Churchill. <mask>’s national work showed the same interest in the care of vulnerable women and children as her local work. In 1918, together with other interested parties, the NCW established the National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child (later the National Council for One Parent Families) and <mask> was an early committee member. Unmarried mothers were, to say the least, a controversial cause in 1918, and her involvement reflects her care for those who were marginalised and stigmatised in society. Retirement
Around 1930 <mask> retired from most of her public activities. That year Boards of Guardians were abolished and the following year she stepped down as branch NCW secretary.However, her retirement was only partial and by 1932 she was back in charge of a Tunbridge Wells soup kitchen, opened to help the rising numbers of unemployed. Moreover, she remained Chairman of the hospital committee at Pembury. She also retained her interest in the care of refugees: in 1939 she signed a letter on behalf of the Tunbridge Wells Refugee Relief Committee appealing for help for refugees from Nazi Germany. In the 1940s <mask> wrote a memoir focused on the transformation of the old workhouse into a modern, almost National Health Service hospital (called Passing of the Great Dread), which was eventually published in parts in the journal of the Family Welfare Association (formerly the COS). She was fond of handicrafts, including needlework and weaving, and she hand-knitted articles for the Seamen’s Mission. She retained her interest in the local hospital and its patients’ welfare: only weeks before her death she sent some Christmas flowers to one of the hospital wards. References

1860 births
1952

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title: Charlie Swan (horse trainer)

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<mask> (born 20 January 1968) is a former top National Hunt jockey in Ireland in the 1990s. He is associated with the great Istabraq, on whom he won three Champion Hurdles. He was twice top jockey at the Cheltenham Festival and was champion National Hunt jockey in Ireland for nine consecutive years. After retiring as a jockey he spent several years a trainer, based in Modreeny near Cloughjordan, County Tipperary. First and only son to <mask>, a former British Army Captain, and his wife Teresa, <mask> was named after an ancestor who was the surgeon to the British King '<mask>'. He rode his first winner as a fifteen-year-old, on his father’s Final Assault, in a two-year-old maiden at Naas in March 1983, and, after a successful spell as an apprentice, he later turned his attention to the National Hunt scene. He won his first Irish jockeys' championship in 1989/90 and retained the title up to and including the 1997/98 season.He was only deposed as champion Irish rider after deciding to concentrate on his training career. <mask> holds the Irish records for the most winners in a season (147 in 1995/96) and the most in a calendar year. Away from Cheltenham, he has ridden numerous big-race winners, including Ebony Jane in the Irish Grand National and Ushers Island and Life Of A Lord in the Whitbread Gold Cup. Cheltenham

Swan's first Cheltenham festival winner was Trapper John in the Stayers Hurdle in 1990. He was twice leading jockey at the Cheltenham Festival, 1993 and 1994. He will always be associated with Istabraq, who won at the festival four years in a row, but other memorable wins were Danoli's Royal & Sun

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 Alliance Hurdle and Viking Flagship's Queen Mother Champion Chase. Istabraq

He will be forever associated with the legendary gelding Istabraq on which he rode to victory 23 times over hurdles including three consecutive renewals of the Champion Hurdle (1998 to 2000), four Irish Champion Hurdles (1998–2001) and big race wins at Aintree, Leopardstown and Punchestown.He won the 1997 Royal and Sun Alliance Hurdle when sent off a 6/5 fav. Istabraq sweated up badly before the race and <mask> rode a masterful race, getting him settled at the very back of a large field, then resisting the urge to make up ground going uphill before battling to victory by a length. In 1998 it was more straightforward as Istabraq won the Champion Hurdle going right away up the hill to win by 12 lengths. He confirmed his superiority by winning again in 1999 and 2000. He was the ante post favourite for the 2001 Champion Hurdle, but the Foot and Mouth outbreak caused the 2001 festival to be abandoned. Despite just one unconvincing run and plenty of rumours about Istabraq's fitness before Cheltenham, there was still a late flood of money for the great horse in 2002. But Istabraq was never right and <mask> had to pull him up in front of the stands.Nevertheless, both horse and rider were given a tremendous ovation by the crowd. Trainer

Based in Cloughjordan, <mask> took out a trainer's licence in 1998,
taking over from his father, <mask>. He operated as both jockey and trainer for a few years until having his final ride on Aintree Grand National Day in April 2003. In the last eight seasons or so, he has managed to notch up nearly 270 winners

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title: Oscar C. Pfaus

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<mask> (born <mask>; born January 30, 1901) was a German immigrant who became an American citizen through military service. He had a succession of jobs before becoming involved in pro-Nazi organizations in Chicago in the early 1930s and becoming a full-time Nazi propagandist there. He was also active in New York. He returned to Germany in 1938 to work in propaganda for the Deutscher Fichte-Bund with responsibility for Ireland, the United States, and Canada, attempting to cultivate ties in the U.S. through correspondence with Irish-Americans and anyone who might be sympathetic to German interests. His letters were extensively quoted in the proceedings of the Dies committee on Un-American Activities in 1939. He was recruited to the Abwehr, the German military intelligence agency, which sent him to Ireland in 1939 to make contact with the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and others who might help Germany. The Abwehr eventually sent an agent to the United States who arranged for the IRA to carry out acts of sabotage there, such as the 1940 attack on the Hercules Powder Company plant in New Jersey in which more than 100 people were killed or injured.<mask> was active in espionage in Paris in 1941 and 1943, and in 1944 he was at Stalag 357, a prisoner of war camp in Thorn, Poland, where he described his role as "camp leader and interpreter". He later served in Czechoslovakia. In 1949, he said he was anti-Nazi and described the Nazi regime as "the former Prussian regimes of terror". Early life
Oskar <mask> was born in Illingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, on January 30, 1901. He emigrated to the United States in 1924 and anglicised his name. In 1929, an <mask><mask> is recorded as having married Sybilla C. Grutler in Cook County, Illinois. In his letters, <mask> said he had served in the United States Army, in the Sixth Corps at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, and at Camp

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 Custer, Michigan.According to author Ladislas Farago, he had also been a hobo and had worked as a forester, a prospector, a cowboy, and a policeman in Chicago where he learned about undercover work in the fight with organized crime. At the time of the 1930 census, he was living in Chicago and working as a machinist. He had filed papers for naturalization as an American citizen and according to evidence later given in Congress, obtained it due to his military service. Activities in the United States

Pfaus became active in pro-Nazi activities in the early 1930s and at least initially was not an official agent of the German government which at that time was not interested in developing spies in the United States. According to Ladislas Farago, in Nazism he at last found a cause "worth fighting for" and he accompanied his devotion to it with the development of a philosophy of "Global Brotherhood" for which an acolyte was said to have nominated him for the 1932 Nobel Peace Prize. He does not appear, however, in the official list of nominations. In Chicago he was a member of the Germania Club of Chicago along with ardent Nazis Walter Kappe and Heinz Spanknöbel and was the Chicago leader of the Friends of New Germany that was founded by Spanknöbel in 1933.In New York, he joined Ignatz Griebl's not very secret cell of fledgling spies there in 1934 with Axel Wheeler-Hill and another man. The cell was created on the initiative of Grieb who had written to Joseph Goebbels in Germany offering his services as a spy. None of the members had access to secret information at that time and according to Ladislas Farago they were jokingly known among the wider circle of Nazi sympathisers as "Dr. Griebl's undercover boys", although Wheeler-Hill later became a member of the more significant Duquesne Spy Ring. <mask> also started a Nazi group in New York with the Swedish-born


title: Oscar C. Pfaus

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 Olov Edvin Tietzow, founder of The American Guard. He edited the Chicago Weckruf und Beobachter, a forerunner of the Deutscher Weckruf und Beobachter, the official newspaper of the German American Bund, the successor organization to the Friends of New Germany, and was a columnist for Pittsburgh's Der Sonntagsbote. Records of the NSDAP (Nazi Party) show that in 1936 he was an informant for the Reichspressestelle (Reich Press Office) on German matters in the United States. <mask> returned to Germany in 1938 at the suggestion of Tegeliss Tannhaeuser, the German consul in Chicago, to head the American-Canadian-Irish section of the Deutscher Fichte-Bund, the Nazi propaganda agency in Hamburg.Around the same time, he became an agent for the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, with the code name STIER ("bull"). Mission to Ireland, 1939

In 1939 and throughout the Second World War, Ireland was not a strategic priority for the Germans. Officially, the Abwehr had banned contact with anti-government groups in Ireland although in practice there had been some limited contact with the IRA and Irish nationalists from which the Abwehr had concluded that the IRA was too weak to form a credible partner against Britain. On January 12, 1939, the IRA set out to raise its profile with Germany and to establish a working relationship with the Nazis by sending an ultimatum to Lord Halifax, the British foreign secretary, that if British troops were not withdrawn from Ireland within days, further action would be taken. The IRA subsequently declared war on Britain and began a series of bomb attacks in England on January 16 under the S-Plan or Sabotage Campaign. Accordingly, in February 1939, Abwehr II, the department responsible for relations with discontented minorities, sent <mask> to Ireland under the cover of being a journalist for a German newspaper to make

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 Occupational Guilds (CCOG), but of interest to the Abwehr, and arranged for Walsh to visit Germany, where he promised to use the CCOG to back German interests. Another of Pfaus's contacts was Maurice O'<mask>, an Irish railway clerk who had visited Germany and was pro-Nazi and later took a significant role in the CCOG as it became more radical. O'<mask> drew up a pamphlet titled "Who is your enemy?" that was adapted from Pfaus's "We Accuse! ", originally published in Chicago.As a result of <mask>'s visit, the IRA established better connections with the Germans, but they never acquired the munitions and wireless equipment that they hoped for, while the Germans were never able to persuade the IRA to launch a full assault on Northern Ireland to divert British troops away from the mainland, meaning that there were few concrete results of the collaboration. The German agents that followed Pfaus into Ireland during the war proved ineffectual at best and incompetent at worst, such as Walter Simon, who was briefed by Pfaus and arrived in Ireland with a list of 2,400 people who the Abwehr thought might be good contacts. Soon after arrival, he got drunk and was arrested with the list, which the Irish used to round up potential subversives. <mask>'s visit and subsequent contacts with the IRA did, however, allow the Germans to become acquainted with IRA support and operations in the United States and in due course to send an agent, Karl Franz Rekowski, to the U.S. where he arranged for the IRA to carry out sabotage attacks such as the 1940 attack on the Hercules Powder Company plant in New Jersey, in which 52 people died and a further 50 were injured. Deutscher Fichte-Bund

Back in Germany, as part of his propaganda activities for the Deutscher Fichte-Bund (DFB), <mask> wrote ingratiating letters to contacts in the United States who he thought might be sympathetic

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 to Germany, adapting his approach according to their background and interests, such as being Irish-American and therefore perhaps not supportive of the British Empire, or anti-Semitic or anti-communist. His letters were extensively quoted from in the proceedings of the Dies committee of the U.S. Congress's House Un-American Activities Committee in September and October 1939:

 In March 1939 he wrote to one correspondent about a possible visit to the U.S. for the purpose of "studying Irish-American folklore" and seeking to be introduced to "influential Irish-Americans". In May he wrote to another about the threat to Christianity from the alliance of England and France with its "arch-enemy", "Red Russia", and the role that Irish-Americans could play in protecting American ideals from a "Jew-British-Red combination", a position that was soon undermined after Germany itself formed a pact with the Soviet Union.In June, he wrote asking for help to be put in contact with General George Moseley, his former commanding officer in the U.S. Army and a committed anti-Semite. In August 1939 he got married in Hamburg with Franz Fromme as best man. Second World War
In June 1941, <mask> was in Paris and visited the Anglo-Irish fascist sympathiser and broadcaster Susan Sweney (Mrs Susan Hilton) at her hotel with the head of the DFB Theodore Kessemeir to ask her to undertake undercover work in Ireland, the United States or Portuguese East Africa. Sweney refused, feeling the work too "dirty", but travelled to Berlin with <mask> and his colleagues where she made propaganda broadcasts to Scotland (as Ann Tower) and Ireland. In November 1943, Pfaus attempted to meet Irish citizens in Paris who might know about the preparations for the Allied invasion of France, possibly an Irish girl who would spy for the Germans in return for transit to Ireland. He achieved little however,

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 because his main source, the Irish priest, Father Monaghan of the Chapelle Saint-Joseph, had been an officer in the British Army during the First World War and was a chaplain to the British Expeditionary Force in 1940 with connections to MI6. When Susan Sweney was interviewed by MI5 in 1945, she said she had worked with Monaghan to smuggle British merchant seamen out of Paris.In 1944, <mask> was at Stalag 357 in Thorn, Poland, a camp for British and Commonwealth prisoners of war. He described his role there as "camp leader and interpreter" and said he had been transferred to Czechoslovakia because of his fraternisation with British prisoners. In 1950, a letter from <mask> was published in the Australian press in which he appealed for his former Australian "friends" from the camp to contact him as he had photographs of them that he had promised to pass on such as the 1944 Anzac Day commemoration ceremony held by the prisoners. He wrote, "I had many Australian friends in the camp and they were well aware of my anti-Nazi attitude." Later life
After the war, <mask> lived in Hamburg's Mülhäuser Straße in the British zone of occupation. He continued to write letters, having one published in a Canadian paper in 1949 in which he complained that "those who did away with the former Prussian regimes of terror" in Germany had failed to replace them with democracy and justice. The State Archives of Baden-Württemberg hold a collection of newspaper clippings relating to <mask>.See also
 George W<mask>
 <mask>n
 Irish Republican Army–Abwehr collaboration
 The enemy of my enemy is my friend
 Operation Green
 Tom Barry

References

1901 births
German emigrants to the United States
Nazi propagandists
Fascism in the United States
Abwehr
Year of death unknown
Naturalized citizens of the United States
United States Army soldiers
Spies
Irish Republican Army

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title: J. P. Calderon

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<mask> (born September 5, 1975) is an American professional volleyball player, model and  reality show personality. In 2006 he was a contestant on Survivor: Cook Islands, the 13th season of the CBS reality show. The following year he became a regular member of The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency. As part of his experience he was the February 2007 cover guy of Instinct magazine. He did so again in 2008, becoming the first man to be featured on their cover twice. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Santa Monica, California, the second son after his older brother <mask>, to Edwin and Xinia. He grew up in Marina del Rey, California in a Roman Catholic family, with a Costa Rican heritage.His mother died from breast cancer when he was nine. From a young age he wanted to be a model but got negative feedback from his dad, so he stuck to sports instead. His dad was won over when Calderon modeling career took off. Calderon attended  St. Bernard’s Catholic High School, then Santa Monica City College for two years, and then California State University, Long Beach, where he played for the school's nationally ranked men's volleyball team. His family is into soccer so it was a point of stress from his father that he played volleyball instead, until he started winning volleyball awards. He graduated with a degree in speech communication in 2000. <mask> is of Costa Rican descent.Career

Volleyball
<mask> was offered a pro volleyball opportunity in 1998 in Barcelona, Spain but decided instead to finish his degree. He was offered the assistant coach position for the Long Beach State University women's volleyball team. He did so for five years, first as a volunteer for three years, then paid for two more years. He credits the time as learning the differences between men's and women's volleyball styles. At the same time he got a local club coaching position at Mizuno Long Beach Volleyball Club, and began coaching for Junior Olympics. He began his professional volleyball career

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 in 2004 and became a nationally ranked Association of Volleyball Professionals player. <mask>'s dad died in 2005, right before the Survivor opportunity, and it let him feel free to express his emotions as he never had a good relationship with his dad.He was approached by a CBS recruiting coordinator to be on the show when he was having breakfast with some friends. On Survivor: Cook Islands (2006), <mask> started off as one of five members of the Hispanic "Aitutaki" tribe. After the tribes were merged on day eight he became a member of the "Rarotonga" tribe. In retrospect he faults himself for viewing the series more as a sports competition than for the social aspects that build alliances. <mask> was the fourth cast member voted off in a 7/2 split. He credits the show with opening his eyes than he controlled his choices and had options. The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency
In 2007, <mask> began his modeling career when he joined the cast of The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency.Stating that he had for a long time wished to model, <mask> came to an open casting call held in the first episode of Season 2. He said the process, and Dickinson, were fun, but they did have the models drop their modesty, and be naked, and in their underwear constantly. He was called back in episode 2 and eventually signed to the agency. The third episode saw Calderon being approached to appear on the cover of Instinct magazine, a publication that requires that its male cover models be openly gay. Although he had been "in and around gay people and nightlife", he had not publicly talked about his sexuality to the media. He knew he was gay since high school, and even worked as a bartender in a gay bar. There were rumors that he was gay but he avoided addressing them, as well as invitations to interview with gay publications like Instinct.<mask> came out as gay on his appearance in the February 2007 issue, their swimsuit edition, which included the cover, a photo spread, feature story and

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 interview. He said he wasn't pressured into the decision and was supported by Dickinson. "All of my fears, everything that I was scared of... it was the complete the opposite," he said. "It's been great. All of my friends, the volleyball world, absolutely everybody has been supportive. No one has shut me out." Dickinson, in particular, has been very supportive, and told him that her role models for being tough, driven and ambitious, were all gay men.He credits his coming out as helping him reprioritize his life. In 2009, he was also a cover model for the popular French gay magazine Têtu. It was announced during the 4th season finale of The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency that <mask> will head the male division of the agency when it moves to New York City. <mask> is also signed to KULT Model Agency in Germany. Other
In 2011, <mask> was cast as part of Logo TV's A-List; Los Angeles, as part of their A-List franchise, but no cast or scheduling information has been forthcoming

In 2012, <mask> modeled for the NOH8 Campaign created by celebrity photographer Adam Bouska, to oppose California Proposition 8 which attempted to change California's constitution to forbid same-sex marriage. Personal life
In October 2013, he became engaged to his longtime boyfriend, <mask> Heaney, in Hawaii. Heaney is a real estate agent.They have been together since 2007. References

External links

J.P<mask> biography for Survivor: Cook Islands at CBS.com

1975 births
American men's beach volleyball players
American people of Costa Rican descent
American volleyball coaches
American men's volleyball players
California State University, Long Beach alumni
Gay models
Gay sportsmen
Hispanic and Latino American male models
Hispanic and Latino American sportspeople
LGBT Hispanic and Latino American people
LGBT people from California
LGBT sportspeople from the United States
LGBT volleyball players
Living people
Male models from California
Sportspeople from California
Survivor (American TV series)

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title: Bal Thackeray

texts: <mask> (; 23 January 1926 – 17 November 2012), was an Indian politician who founded the Shiv Sena, a right-wing pro-Marathi and Hindu nationalist party active mainly in the state of Maharashtra. <mask> began his professional career as a cartoonist with the English-language daily, The Free Press Journal in Bombay (now Mumbai), but he left the paper in 1960 to form his own political weekly, Marmik. His political philosophy was largely shaped by his father <mask>, a leading figure in the Samyukta Maharashtra (United Maharashtra) movement, which advocated the creation of a separate linguistic state for Marathi speakers. Through Marmik, <mask> campaigned against the growing influence of non-Marathis in Mumbai. In 1966, <mask> formed the Shiv Sena party to advocate for the interests of Maharashtra in Indian political and professional landscape, and against certain segments of Mumbai's Muslim population. He had a large political influence in the state, especially in Mumbai. A government inquiry found that <mask> and Chief Minister of Maharashtra Manohar Joshi incited members of the Shiv Sena to commit violence against Muslims during the 1992–1993 Bombay riots.In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Thackeray built the Shiv Sena by with help of Madhav Mehere chief attorney for trade union of India, Babasaheb Purandare, historian for Govt of Maharastra and Madhav Deshpande Head Accountant for Shiv Sena, these three individuals to a large extent where responsible for the success of shiv Sena and stability of politics in Mumbai till 2000 to ensure it grows into an economic power Center. <mask> was also the founder of the Marathi-language newspaper Saamana. After the riots of 1992–93, he and his party took a Hindutva stance. In 1999, Thackeray was banned from voting and contesting in any election for six years on the recommendations of the Election Commission for indulging in seeking votes in the name of religion. Thackeray was arrested multiple times and spent a brief stint in prison, but he never faced any major

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 legal repercussions. Upon his death, he was accorded a state funeral, at which many mourners were present. Thackeray did not hold any official positions, and he was never formally elected as the leader of his party.Early life

<mask> was born on 23 January 1926 in Pune, the son of Keshav Sitaram <mask> (also known as 'Prabodhankar') and his wife Ramabai <mask>iya Kayastha Prabhu community. He got his surname <mask> from his father Keshav who was an admirer of India-born British writer William Makepeace <mask>, his father Keshav later changed his surname from Panvelkar to "Thackeray"  Bal was the eldest of eight siblings, three among them being brothers Shrikant <mask> (father of <mask>) and Ramesh <mask>, and five sisters (Sanjeevani Karandikar, Prabhavati (Pama) Tipnis, Sudha Sule, Sarla Gadkari and Susheela Gupte). <mask>'s father, Keshav <mask>, was a journalist and cartoonist by profession; he was also a social activist and writer who was involved in the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement of the 1950s, which argued for the creation of a unified state called Maharashtra for Marathi-speaking areas with Mumbai as its capital. <mask> <mask> was inspired by his father's political philosophy. Career
Thackeray began his career as a cartoonist in the Free Press Journal in Mumbai. His cartoons were also published in the Sunday edition of The Times of India.After <mask>'s differences with the Free Press Journal, he and four or five people, including politician George Fernandes, left the paper and started their own daily, News Day. The paper survived for one or two months. In 1960, he launched the cartoon weekly Marmik with his brother Srikant. It focused on issues of common "Marathi Manoos"( Marathi people or Marathi speaking people)  including unemployment, influx of migrants, retrenchment of Marathi workers and its office in Ranade Road became the rallying point for Marathi youth. <mask> <mask> later stated  "that not just a cartoon weekly but also the prime reason for the birth and growth of the Sena." It

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 was Marmik issue on 5 June 1966 which first announced the launch of membership for the Shiv Sena. Politics

1966–1998
The success of Maarmik prompted Thackeray to form the Shiv Sena on 19 June 1966.The name "Shiv Sena" (Shivaji's Army) was after the 17th century Maratha king. Initially, Thackeray said it was not a political party but an army of Shivaji Maharaj, inclined to fight for the Marathi manoos (person). It demanded that native speakers of the state's local language Marathi (the "sons of the soil" movement) be given preferential treatment in private and public sector jobs. The early objective of the Shiv Sena was to ensure their job security competing against South Indians and Gujaratis. In its 1966 party manifesto, Thackeray primarily blamed south Indians. In Marmik, Thackeray published a list of corporate officials from a local directory, many being south Indians, citing it as proof that Maharashtrians were being discriminated against. His party grew in the next ten years.Senior leaders such as Babasaheb Purandare, chief attorney for Trade Union of Maharashtra Madhav Mehere joined the party and chartered accountant Madhav Gajanan Deshpande backed various aspects of the party operations. In 1969, <mask> and Manohar Joshi were jailed after participating in a protest demanding the merger of Karwar, Belgaum and Nipani regions in Maharashtra. During the 1970s, it did not succeed in the local elections and it was active mainly in Mumbai, compared to the rest of the state. The party set up local branch offices and settled disputes, complaints against the government. It later started violent tactics with attacks against rival parties, migrants and the media; the party agitated by destroying public and private property. Thackeray publicly supported Indira Gandhi during the 1975 Emergency to avoid getting arrested; Thackeray supported the Congress party numerous times. Dr. Hemchandra Gupte, Mayor of Mumbai and the former family physician and confidant of <mask>, left Shiv Sena in 1976 citing

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 importance given to money, violence committed by the Shiv Sena members and Thackeray's support for Indira Gandhi and the 1975 emergency.Politically, the Shiv Sena was anti-communist, and wrested control of trade unions in Mumbai from the Communist Party of India (CPI). Local unemployed youth from the declining textile industry joined the party and it further expanded because of Marathi migrants from the Konkan region. By the 1980s, it became a threat to the ruling Congress party which initially encouraged it because of it rivalling the CPI. In 1989, the Sena's newspaper Saamna was launched by Thackeray. Because of Thackeray being against the Mandal Commission report, his close aide Chhagan Bhujbal left the party in 1991. Following the 1992 Bombay riots, Thackeray took stances viewed as anti-Muslim and based on Hindutva. Shiv Sena later allied itself with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).The BJP-Shiv Sena alliance won the 1995 Maharashtra State Assembly elections and were in power from 1995 to 1999. <mask> declared himself to be the "remote control" chief minister. <mask> and the Chief Minister Manohar Joshi were explicitly named for inciting the Shivsainiks for violence against Muslims during the 1992–1993 riots in an inquiry ordered by the government of India, the Srikrishna Commission Report. He had influence in the film industry. His party workers agitated against films he found controversial and would disrupt film screenings, causing losses. Bombay, a 1995 film on the riots was opposed by them. 1999–2012
On 28 July 1999, Thackeray was banned from voting and contesting in any election for six years from 11 December 1999 till 10 December 2005 and was not happy with this, on the recommendations of the Election Commission for indulging in corrupt practice by seeking votes in the name of religion.In 2000, he was arrested for his role in the riots but was released because the statute of limitations expired. In 2002, Thackeray issued a call to form Hindu suicide bomber squads to take on the menace of


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 after referring to Muslims as "green poison" during a Shiv Sena rally. On 27 March 2008, in protest to <mask>'s editorial, leaders of Shiv Sena in Delhi resigned, citing its "outrageous conduct" towards non-Marathis in Maharashtra and announced that they would form a separate party. Addressing a press conference, Shiv Sena's North India chief Jai Bhagwan Goyal said the decision to leave the party was taken because of the "partial attitude" of the party high command towards Maharashtrians.Goyal further said "Shiv Sena is no different from Khalistan and Jammu and Kashmir militant groups which are trying to create a rift between people along regional lines. The main aim of these forces is to split our country. Like the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, the Shiv Sena too has demeaned North Indians and treated them inhumanely." Political views
<mask> was criticised for his praise of Adolf Hitler. He was quoted by Asiaweek as saying: "I am a great admirer of Hitler, and I am not ashamed to say so! I do not say that I agree with all the methods he employed, but he was a wonderful organiser and orator, and I feel that he and I have several things in common...What India really needs is a dictator who will rule benevolently, but with an iron hand." In a 1993 interview, Thackeray stated, "There is nothing wrong" if "Muslims are treated as Jews were in Nazi Germany."In another 1992 interview, <mask> stated, "If you take Mein Kampf and if you remove the word 'Jew' and put in the word 'Muslim', that is what I believe in". Indian Express published an interview on 29 January 2007: "Hitler did very cruel and ugly things. But he was an artist, I love him [for that]. He had the power to carry the whole nation, the mob with him. You have to think what magic he had. He was a miracle...The killing of Jews was wrong. But the good part about Hitler was that he was an artist.He was a daredevil. He had good qualities and bad. I may also have good qualities and bad ones." Thackeray also declared that he was "not against every

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 linguistic barriers to see "a Hindustan for Hindus" and to "bring Islam in this country down to its knees." In 2008, following agitation against Biharis and other north Indians travelling to Maharashtra to take civil service examinations for the Indian Railways due to an overlimit of the quota in their home provinces, <mask> also said of Bihari MPs that they were "spitting in the same plate from which they ate" when they criticised Mumbaikars and Maharashtrians. He wrote: "They are trying to add fuel to the fire that has been extinguished, by saying that Mumbaikars have rotten brains." He also criticised Chhath Puja, a holiday celebrated by Biharis and those from eastern Uttar Pradesh, which occurs on six days of the Hindu month of Kartik. He said that it was not a real holiday. This was reportedly a response to MPs from Bihar who had disrupted the proceedings of the Lok Sabha in protest to the attacks on North Indians. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, upset with the remarks, called on the prime minister and the central government to intervene in the matter.A Saamna editorial prompted at least 16 MPs from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, belonging to the Rashtriya Janata Dal, Janata Dal (United), Samajwadi Party and the Indian National Congress, to give notice for breach of privilege proceedings against Thackeray. After the matter was raised in the Lok Sabha, Speaker Somnath Chatterjee said: "If anybody has made any comment on our members' functioning in the conduct of business in the House, not only do we treat that with the contempt that it deserves, but also any action that may be necessary will be taken according to procedure and well established norms. Nobody will be spared.'" In 2009, he criticised Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, a "Marathi icon", for saying he was an Indian before he was a Maharashtrian. Opposition to Caste Based Reservations
Thackeray firmly opposed caste based reservation and said - "There are only two castes in the world, the rich are rich and the poor is poor, make the poor


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 rich but don't make the rich poor. Besides these two castes I don't believe in any other casteism." The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) supported caste based reservations based on the Mandal commission.Thackarey, despite being warned that opposition to the reservations would be politically suicidal for the Shiv Sena party, opposed the BJP over this issue and said he would initiate "divorce proceedings against the BJP"  if the BJP supported caste based reservations. This also let to his conflict with Chhagan Bhujbal, an OBC, who later left the Shiv Sena. Views on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
Thackeray defended Vinayak Damodar Savarkar against criticism and praised him as a great leader. In 2002, when President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam unveiled a portrait of Savarkar in the presence of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Congress Party opposed the unveiling of the portrait and boycotted the function. Thackeray criticised the opposition and said "Who is [Congress president and Leader of the Opposition] Sonia Gandhi to object to the portrait? What relation does she have with the country? How much does she know about the history and culture of India?".Years later, when Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh made a statement that Savarkar was the first to suggest the two-nation theory that led to the partition, Thackeray defended Savarkar and accused Singh of distorting history. Support for Kashmiri Pandits
In 1990, the Islamic militant organisation Hizbul Mujahideen, through the columns of an Urdu daily Aftab, warned Kashmiri Pandits to leave the valley within 36 hours. <mask> Thackeray got seats reserved in engineering colleges for the children of these Kashmiri Pandits in Maharashtra. He was one of the first persons to help them after which Punjab also followed suit. At a meeting with them he supported the idea that the Kashmiri Pandits could be armed for their self-defence against the Jihadis. Personal life
Thackeray was married to Meena <mask> (née Sarla Vaidya) on 13 June 1948 and had three sons,

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 oldest son Bindumadhav, middle son Jaidev, and youngest son Uddhav. Meena died in 1995 and Bindumadhav died the following year in a car accident.Uddhav succeeded his father as the leader of Shiv Sena. Uddhav's son, Aditya wants to continue the family dynasty by getting active in the party. Raj is his brother Shrikant's son. Despite Raj's breakaway from the main party, Raj continues to maintain that Thackeray was his ideologue and relations between them improved during Thackeray's final years. Raj broke away from Shiv Sena to form his own political party called the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena. Sanjeevani Karandikar is <mask> <mask>'s sister. Thackeray drew cartoons for the Free Press Journal, the Times of India and Marmik besides contributing to Saamna till 2012.He cited the New Zealander cartoonist David Low as his inspiration. Death

Thackeray died on 17 November 2012, of cardiac arrest. Mumbai came to a virtual halt immediately as the news broke out about his death, with shops and commercial establishments shutting down. The entire state of Maharashtra was put on high alert. The police appealed for calm and 20,000 Mumbai police officers, 15 units of the State Reserve Police Force and three contingents of the Rapid Action Force were deployed. It was reported that Shiv Sena workers forced shops to close down in some areas. The then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for calm in the city and praised Thackeray's "strong leadership", while there were also statements of praise and condolences from other senior politicians such as the then-Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP leader and MP (Former Deputy Prime Minister of India), L. K. Advani.He was accorded a state funeral at Shivaji Park, which generated some controversy and resulted from demands made by Shiv Sena. It was the first public funeral in the city since that of <mask> Gangadhar Tilak in 1920. Thackeray's body was moved to the park on 18 November. Many mourners attended his funeral, although there were no official figures. The

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 range reported in media sources varied from around 1 million, to 1.5 million and as many as nearly 2 million. His cremation took place the next day, where his son Uddhav lit the pyre. Among those present at his cremation were senior representatives of the Maharashtra government and the event was broadcast live on national television channels.The Parliament of India opened for its winter session on 21 November 2012. <mask> was the only non-member to be noted in its traditional list of obituaries. He is one of few people to have been recorded thus without being a member of either the Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha. Despite having not held any official position, he was given the 21-gun salute, which was again a rare honour. Both houses of Bihar Assembly also paid tribute. The funeral expenses created further controversies when media reports claimed that the BMC had used taxpayers' money. In response to these reports, the party later sent a cheque of Rs.500,000 to the corporation. The Hindu, in an editorial, said regarding the shutdown that "Thackeray’s legion of followers raised him to the status of a demigod who could force an entire State to shut down with the mere threat of violence". Following his death, police arrested a 21-year-old woman who posted a Facebook comment against him, as well as her friend who "liked" the comment. Shiv Sena members also vandalised the clinic owned by the woman's relative. Legacy
Thackeray was called Hindu Hruday Samrat ("Emperor of Hindu Hearts") by his supporters. His yearly address at Shivaji Park was popular among his followers. In 2012, he instead gave a video-taped speech and urged his followers "to give the same love and affection to his son and political heir Uddhav as they had given him".Thackeray was known to convert popular sentiment into votes, getting into controversies and making no apologies for it though his son has tried to tone down the party's stance after his death. He was known for his inflammatory writings, was seen as a good orator who used cruel


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 humour to engage his audience. He had a large political influence throughout the state, especially in Mumbai. His party never had any formal internal elections nor was he ever formally elected as its chief at any point. Gyan Prakash said, "Of course, the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement had mobilized Marathi speakers as a political entity, but it was Thackeray who successfully deployed it as an anti-immigrant, populist force." He inspired <mask> Kashyap the leader of Bastar who often regarded as the Thackeray of Bastar. A memorial for him was proposed at Shivaji Park but legal issues and opposition from local residents continue to delay it.Thackeray is satirised in Salman Rushdie's 1995 novel The Moor's Last Sigh as 'Raman Fielding'. The book was banned by the Maharashtra state government. Suketu Mehta interviewed Thackeray in his critically acclaimed, Pulitzer-nominated, non-fiction 2004 book Maximum City. Thackeray previewed director Ram Gopal Verma's film Sarkar, which is loosely based on him, released in 2005. The 2011 documentary Jai Bhim Comrade depicted a speech by Thackeray at a public rally, in which he articulated "genocidal sentiments" about Muslims, stating that they were the "species to be exterminated." The documentary followed this by showing several Dalit leaders criticising Thackeray for his beliefs. In popular culture
A Bollywood biopic titled Thackeray, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and written by Shiv Sena politician Sanjay Raut was released on 25 January 2019.See also

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 Prabodhankar Thackeray
 Uddhav Thackeray
 Shiv Sena
 Marmik

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<mask> (March 10, 1938 – May 13, 2021) was an American mystery, fantasy, science fiction, and horror author, anthologist, and editor. He was also a noted magician and actor. <mask> was a World Fantasy Award winner and served as co-publisher and editor of Weird Tales Magazine. Early years
<mask> was born in Philadelphia, the son of Morris and Theresa (Baroski) <mask>. He received a Bachelor of Arts in liberal arts at Penn State in 1960, as well as a Master of Arts in English literature and theater in 1962. Career
<mask> served as a reporter for Grit Publishing Company from 1963 to 1965, an assistant managing editor for Business Travel Magazine in 1965 and a senior editor for Harcourt Brace Jovanovich from 1966 to 1970. In 1970, he went to work as a freelance writer.He was a lecturer at The New School for Social Research in New York City in 1975, taught at NYU as an Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing for many years beginning in 1976, and taught as an Adjunct Professor at Mercy College from 2001 to 2006. <mask> was a noted magician and mentalist, often performing under the stage name Count Emkay the Miraculous. His book, The Stein and Day Handbook of Magic is considered an essential part of any magician's library. He also wrote The Handbook of Mental Magic. In 1976, he was the magic instructor for the performing arts summer camp French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts, which he used as research for his book Catalog of Magic. As an actor, <mask> appeared on Broadway with Dame Edna, off-Broadway with Keir Dullea in the critically-acclaimed Strings and in many

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texts: shows with The Open Book, including the a cappella musical The Hoboken Chicken Emergency, which he adapted for the stage. He was an improvisational comedian, appearing periodically at Standup New York.He also performed regularly at the Jekyll & Hyde Club. He can be heard portraying several characters in The Open Book audiobook Take My Planet, Please! (Metamorphic Press/JestMaster Audio, 2021). In 1975, <mask> co-founded The Open Book, New York City's first and longest lived readers theatre company, along with his wife, Saralee, and other noted theatre professionals. <mask> also established The Open Book's educational outreach division and curriculum, as well as an annual national playwriting competition co-sponsored by Doubleday's Stage & Screen Book Club. <mask> wrote two books about readers theatre: Readers Theatre: What It Is, How to Stage It, published in 1995 by Wildside Press; and From Page to Stage: Selecting and Adapting Literature for Readers Theatre, published 1996 by Fireside Theatre. He also edited Frantic Comedy: 8 Plays of Knockabout Fun, published 1993 by Fireside Theatre.Several of the plays were presented by The Open Book under <mask>'s direction. The Open Book performed <mask>'s adaptation of his own novel, The Last Christmas Of Ebenezer Scrooge, annually for several years. <mask>'s final stage performances were in the revival of The Last Christmas Of Ebenezer Scrooge in a short run of the play, also directed by <mask>, in December 2019 at the Pushkin Hall Theater in NYC. <mask> authored nineteen novels including the science fiction cult

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 Thoroughly NONRACIST Novel" defending his decision to publish the excerpt.The essay and <mask>'s decision to publish the excerpt were criticized, particularly by N. K. Jemisin and Jim C. Hines, and the publisher subsequently announced that Weird Tales no longer had plans to run the excerpt. <mask> was also a regular columnist, writing "<mask>'s Nth Dimension" for Space and Time, a science fiction magazine. His column is exclusively on the Space and Time website. <mask> was a member of the Authors Guild, the Dramatists Guild of America, the Actors' Equity Association, The Broadway League, and The Sons of the Desert (of which he served as president from 1974 to 1976). He was also an honorary member of the Mark Twain Society. Personal life
<mask> married Saralee Bransdorf on August 4, 1963 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; they had one child, Terry Ellen <mask>. Saralee <mask> died July 12, 2006 of complications from endometrial cancer in New York City.The couple resided in New York. <mask> died of natural causes on May 13, 2021 in New York. He is buried in the Sanctuary of Abraham & Sarah Mausoleum in Paramus, New Jersey. Bibliography

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A Lively Game of Death (Saturday Review Press, 1972; reissued: Wildside Press, 1999)
The Grand Ole Opry Murders (Saturday Review Press/Dutton, 1974)
aka The Country Music Murders (Wildside Press, 2000)
Bullets for Macbeth (Saturday Review Press/Dutton, 1976; reissued: Wildside Press, 1999)
The Laurel & Hardy Murders (Dutton, 1977; reissued: Wildside Press, 2001)
The Soap Opera Slaughters (Doubleday, 1982; reissued:

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<mask> (20 August 1898 – 8 August 1973) was a Swedish journalist, author, playwright, historian, and debater. His literary career, spanning more than 45 years, is associated with his series The Emigrants. The four books, published between 1949 and 1959, deal with the Swedish emigration to the United States in the 19th century, and are the subject of two movie adaptations and a musical. Among other works are Raskens (1927) and Ride This Night (1941), a historical novel of a 17th-century rebellion in Småland acknowledged for its subliminal but widely recognised criticism of the Hitler regime. A prominent public intellectual and debater in Sweden, he was recognized for his vocal criticism of the Swedish monarchy (most notably after the Haijby affair), describing it as a servile government by divine mandate, and publicly supporting its replacement with a Swiss-style confederal republic. He spoke out aggressively against the policies of Nazi Germany, the Greek military junta, and the Soviet Union, and his works were among those destroyed in Nazi book burnings. In 1971, he scolded Prime Minister Olof Palme for refusing to present the Nobel Prize in Literature to its recipient Alexander Solzhenitsyn – who was refused permission to attend the ceremony in Stockholm – through the Swedish embassy in Moscow.<mask>'s suicide by self-inflicted drowning also drew much attention. He had had a long struggle with depression and writer's block. Early life
Karl Artur <mask> <mask> was born in 1898 on a farm outside of the town Emmaboda in the Parish of Algutsboda in Småland, in southern Sweden. He was the fourth child of six, of whom only three survived into adulthood. His forebears were soldiers and small farmers. He lived the first nine years of his life at the tenement

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Many of his works have been translated into English, and he is well-recognized in the English-speaking world among those interested in Scandinavian culture and history. In his autobiographical novel, A Soldier with a Broken Rifle (Swedish: Soldat med brutet gevär), he speaks to the importance of giving voice to the downtrodden,

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 illiterate classes of his forebears.This viewpoint also formed his History of the Swedish People, I-II (Swedish: Min svenska historia, berättad för folket, I-II), published in 1970–71 in both Swedish and English. He had intended the history to have more volumes, but he never finished it. As a playwright, <mask> wrote 38 works for the stage or for radio (1919-1973). Some were produced as lighter classics of the Swedish stage and television, or were adapted as feature films by directors such as Ingmar Bergman (Lea och Rakel/Leah and Rachel; Malmö City Theatre 1955) and Alf Sjöberg (Domaren/The Judge; 1960). Social themes
<mask> had become a member of a young Social Democrats club in 1913. In his works, he often expressed a republican (anti-royalist) point of view, much due to the facts that surfaced in the Kejne affair and Haijby affair, in which <mask> took an active part. From the 1950s, <mask> participated in debates about the Swedish monarchy, bureaucracy, and corruption, and devoted much time to help individual citizens who had suffered injustice.Much like others of his generation of Swedish authors from a working-class background, such as Ivar Lo-Johansson, Harry Martinson and Moa Martinson, <mask> depicted the life of the dispossessed, their traditions, customs, and everyday struggle. His novels are important documents of social history, and trace the influences of various social and political movements in Sweden. The Emigrants series

<mask>'s most famous work is The Emigrants series of four novels, written between 1949 and 1959, that describe one Swedish family's emigration from Småland to Chisago County, Minnesota in the mid-19th century. This was a destiny shared by almost one million Swedish people, including several of the author's relatives.

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 These novels have been translated into English: The Emigrants (1951), Unto a Good Land (1954), The Settlers (1961), and The Last Letter Home (1961). His literary portrayal of the Swedish-American immigrant experience is considered comparable to O.E. Rolvaag's work depicting that  of Norwegian-American immigrants.Films and musical
Swedish film director Jan Troell 1971-72 turned the books into two major feature films, The Emigrants and The New Land, starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann as Karl Oskar and Kristina. These were nominated for several Academy Awards and The New Land won Golden Globe Awards. The musical Kristina från Duvemåla (English title Kristina) (1995) by ex-ABBA members Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson is based on <mask>'s The Emigrants Series. Even several of the other works by <mask> have been turned into films and TV series in Sweden over the years. Moberg Room
Moberg donated his papers to the Swedish Emigrant Institute in Växjö, Sweden, It displays his original manuscripts, excerpts, notes, and photographs in The Moberg Room, in such a way that visitors get a feeling of meeting <mask> <mask> in his workshop. This unique collection of Moberg memorabilia includes Axel Olsson's sculpture entitled The Emigrants, which portrays the main characters featured in The Emigrants Series. The Vilhelm Moberg Society, headquartered in the Swedish Emigrant Institute, promotes publications, research and popular interest in <mask>'s works.Later life
<mask> struggled with severe depression in the last years of his life. He committed suicide by drowning himself in a lake outside his house. He left a note to his wife saying: "The time is twenty past seven; I go to seek in the lake the eternal sleep. Forgive me, I could not endure." <mask> was buried in

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